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15 News Stories From 2015 You Should Have Heard About But Probably Didn't

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Submitted by Carey Wedler via TheAntiMedia.org,
In 2015, the iron fist of power clamped down on humanity, from warfare to terrorism (I repeat myself) to surveillance, police brutality, and corporate hegemony. The environment was repeatedly decimated, the health of citizens was constantly put at risk, and the justice system and media alike were perverted to serve the interests of the powers that be.

However, while 2015 was discouraging for more reasons than most of us can count, many of the year’s most underreported stories evidence not only a widespread pattern that explicitly reveals the nature of power, but pushback from human beings worldwide on a path toward a better world.

 1. CISA Pushed Through the Senate, Effectively Clamping Down on Internet Freedom: For years, Congress has attempted to legalize corporate and state control of the internet. In 2011, they attempted to pass PIPA and SOPA, companion bills slammed by internet and tech companies and ultimately defeated after overwhelming public outcry. Then they passed  CISPA — which the president threatened to veto, having caught wind of the public’s opposition to heavy regulation of the internet (earlier this year, Obama reversed his position). However, corporate interests, like Hollywood’s studio monopoly, kept lawmakers’ tenacity afloat.

In October, Congress passed CISA, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, but as the Electronic Freedom Foundation explained: “CISA is fundamentally flawed. The bill’s broad immunity clauses, vague definitions, and aggressive spying powers combine to make the bill a surveillance bill in disguise. Further, the bill does not address problems from the recent highly publicized computer data breaches that were caused by unencrypted files, poor computer architecture, un-updated servers, and employees (or contractors) clicking malware links.” Just before Christmas, Congress went even further, adding an amendment to the annual omnibus budget bill that strips CISA’s minimal privacy provisions even more. That budget bill was approved, though Representative Justin Amash of Michigan has vowed to introduce legislation to repeal the CISA provisions when Congress reconvenes.

But CISA wasn’t the only attack on citizens’ privacy this year. Though lawmakers touted the USA Freedom Act as a repeal of the mass surveillance state, in reality, it simply added a bureaucratic step to the process by which government agencies obtain private information. Further, a hack on Italian security firm, aptly called Hacker Tools, revealed that various agencies — including the DEA, NSA, Army, and FBI — possess software that enables them to, as Anti-Media reported, “view suspects’ photos, emails, listen to and record their conversations, and activate the cameras on their computers…” At the same time, the United Kingdom and France moved to tighten their already comprehensive surveillance apparatuses in the wake of multiple terrorist attacks. Though governments claim systematic surveillance is necessary to protect citizens — and Snowden’s leaks endangered that safety — the United States government has been unable to produce sufficient evidence the programs work. Instead, the documents the Department of Defense released this year as proof of the alleged endangerment were entirely redacted.

2. CIA Whistleblower Sent to Prison for Revealing Damning Information to a Journalist: While the government has no problem invading the privacy of its citizens, it offers swift backlash for those who attempt to violate its own clandestine operations. Jeffrey Sterling, a former CIA agent, had his first altercation with the CIA when he sued for racial discrimination in 2001. He was subsequently fired. Years later, the CIA filed espionage charges against him for speaking with New York Times journalist, James Risen. Sterling had revealed a botched CIA scheme, Operation Merlin, to infiltrate Iranian intelligence that ultimately worsened the situation, gave Iran a nuclear blueprint, and was deemed by some to be espionage, itself. Rather than acknowledge the woeful misstep, the CIA arrested him, charged him, and ultimately sentenced him to 42 months in prison. The trial was reportedly biased, but nevertheless, was severely underreported by the media. Sterling’s conviction reflects the ongoing war on whistleblowers, which Obama has successfully expanded during his presidency. Sterling joins the ranks of Edward Snowden, Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning, and others, including a whistleblower who worked for OSHA’s Whistleblower Protection Program and was fired for exposing dysfunction and incompetence within the ranks.

3. Press Freedom Continued to Deteriorate: An annual report from the World Press Freedom Index saw the United States slip 29 spots from last year, landing 49th out of 180 total. In January, journalist Barrett Brown was sentenced to five years in prison for exposing the findings of hacker Jeremy Hammond. Brown was charged with obstructing justice, aiding and abetting, and separate charges of allegedly threatening the FBI in a rant. Hammond, who exposed severe violations of privacy on the part of Stratfor, a CIA contractor, was sentenced to ten years in prison. Brown’s experience was not an isolated incident. Journalists around the world, like several journalists who were killed while investigating ISIS in Turkey, faced increased danger. One small-town journalist in India was burned alive after exposing a corrupt politician.

4. Multiple Activists Arrested, Charged with Felonies for Educating Jurors About Their Rights: In an ongoing trend, otherwise peaceful, non-violent individuals were harassed by police and courts — not for exposing secret information, but for providing information to potential jurors about their rights in the courtroom. One Denver jury nullification activist, followed by another, was charged with multiple felonies for handing out pamphlets that explain a juror’s right to vote “not guilty” in a verdict, even if the defendant is clearly guilty. This right was established to allow jurors to vote with their conscience and question the morality of laws, from the 19th century’s Fugitive Slave Act to Prohibition, both of alcohol in the 1920s and of marijuana today. The Denver activists are awaiting trial, while more recently, a former pastor was charged with a felony for the same reason.

In other unjust convictions and failings of the “justice” system, an African-American man was sentenced to seven years in prison for barking at a police dog, a Kansas mother faces decades in prison for using marijuana to treat her debilitating Crohn’s disease, and a mentally ill man died in jail after being held for stealing five dollars worth of snacks from a convenience store. He had inexplicably been waiting months to be transferred to a medical facility. Ross Ulbricht, founder of the dark web marketplace, the Silk Road, was sentenced to life in prison in spite of the fact that he committed no violent crimes — though the FBI attempted to paint a false picture that he did, albeit without filing formal charges. The prosecution was rife with corruption and scandal; two FBI agents involved in the case were charged with stealing Bitcoin during the investigation. In July, one admitted to stealing $700,000 worth of the digital currency.

5. Six-Year-Old Autistic Boy Killed by Police: 2015 established not only that the justice system remains broken, but the the enforcement class — police officers — continues to terrorize citizens. In one underreported case, a six-year-old boy was fatally caught in the crossfire of a police shootout against his father, who was unarmed. In another case, an African-American motorist was shot and killed by University of Cincinnati police over a missing front license plate. While high-profile cases of misconduct, including Freddie Gray and Sandra Bland, rightly dominated the news cycle, many more cases of police brutality received little attention. In fact, in 2015, it was revealed not only that the media-propagated “War on Cops” in America was a myth, but that American police kill exponentially more people in weeks than other countries’ police kill in years. On the bright side, many police officers did face charges — and even prosecution — in 2015, including one repeat rapist who recently cried upon being convicted of his crimes. The officers involved in the shooting of the six-year-old boy were also charged with murder.

6. Earth Enters Sixth Mass Extinction: 2015, like many years before, was disastrous for the environment. Researchers from Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, and Princeton determined Earth is entering its sixth mass extinction, reporting that species are disappearing at a rate 100 times faster than the normal rate between mass extinctions. Further, thanks, in part, to the widespread use of Monsanto’s glyphosate-based Roundup herbicide, populations of bees and Monarch butterflies dwindled — though, happily, the Monarchs appear to have bounced back. Polar bears also met continued endangerment.

The much-anticipated Paris Climate Conference yielded what many environmental activists deemed weak, if not fraudulent, solutions. Meanwhile, man-made environmental catastrophes endangered humans. In Flint, Michigan, lead levels in the water led to increased rates of contamination in children’s blood, prompting the mayor to declare a state of emergency. A massive methane gas leak in the San Fernando Valley, located just north of Los Angeles, has sickened residents and forced countless families to relocate. Authorities have been unable to stop the leak.

Thankfully, some measures to help the environment were taken in 2015, including creative solutions to stop animal poaching, the first flight of a solar-powered plane, the launch of a solar-powered airport in India, and Costa Rica’s successful effort to draw 99% of its energy from renewable sources.

7. Civilian Casualties in Western Wars Continue: Though ISIS and other terrorist groups were rightly condemned for killing civilians in 2015, the West pointed fingers while committing the same crimes. In fact, one U.N. report released in September found U.S. drone strikes have killed more civilians in Yemen than al-Qaeda. Another analysis released this year concluded Obama’s ongoing drone wars have killed more people than were murdered during the Spanish Inquisition. Though the U.S. military’s bombing of a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital received global attention and outrage, many other incidents went underreported. In May, one U.S. airstrike on Syria killed 52 civilians in one fell swoop. Additionally, U.S.-backed coalitions have bombed civilian populations, like in Yemen, where Saudi Arabia killed at least 500 children, not to mention two thousand more adult civilians. In other egregious misdeeds, it was revealed that the U.S. military sanctions pedophilia in Afghanistan.

8. Insurrection at the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency Over Misleading Reports on ISIS: Over the summer, dissent grew within the ranks of the DIA, the Pentagon’s internal intelligence agency. In September, news broke that 50 intelligence analysts filed a report with the Department of Defense’s Inspector General to expose their superiors’ alleged manipulation of intelligence. The intention of the coverup was reportedly to downplay the threat of ISIS and the U.S.’s losing effort to fight it, all to maintain the Obama administration’s narrative the bombing campaigns have been successful.

Similar mishandlings of foreign affairs plagued 2015. It was revealed that the Pentagon had no idea what it did with $8.5 trillion, lost track of $500 million worth of weapons and equipment, and spent $43 million on a single gas station in Afghanistan. A DIA report released in June intimated the military was aware of the rising threat of ISIS, and not only allowed it, but welcomed it. The program to train moderate rebels in the fight cost half a billion dollars but yielded only four or five fighters. Further, multiple generals spoke out this year about the U.S. military’s role in creating ISIS. Additionally, news broke in 2015 that one ISIS recruiter had previously been trained by infamous Iraq War profiteer, Blackwater.

9. Activists Inch a Small Step Closer to Exposing the Actors Behind 9/11: Though few Americans heard about it, in August, a New York judge allowed a trial to move forward that could expose a potential government cover-up in the notorious terrorist attack. The ruling was tepid, allowing a 60 to 90 day window for the case to be dismissed or proceed. A later ruling hindered the effort, citing a lack of evidence; but activists have not stopped fighting for the release of 28 redacted pages from the 9/11 commission report that allegedly implicate Saudi Arabia (a majority of the hijackers on 9/11 were of Saudi origin).

Whatever the truth may be, 2015 witnessed growing doubts about the Saudi government, which beheaded more people than ISIS this year. It also sentenced a poet to beheading for writing poetry about his experience as a refugee from Palestine, sentenced a young man, Ali al-Nimr, to crucifixion for participating in anti-government protests, attempted to issue 350 lashings to a British man in possession of wine (though the U.K. intervened on his behalf, and that of al-Nimr; neither will be punished), and initiated a punishment of 1,000 lashings for a pro-democracy blogger, Raif Badawi.

10. The FDA Approved OxyContin for Use in Children: Though the approval of the powerful, addictive painkiller for use in 11-year-olds and younger children was unsurprising to those who follow the agency’s track record, the FDA’s justification was shocking. After lawmakers wrote a letter expressing concern to the FDA, the agency’s spokesperson, Eric Pahon, said the news was, in fact, not that serious because it was already standard practice. It’s important to stress that this approval was not intended to expand or otherwise change the pattern of use of extended-release opioids in pediatric patients,” Pahon said. “Doctors were already prescribing it to children, without the safety and efficacy data in hand with regard to the pediatric population.

However disturbing, the FDA’s decision comported with other related events this year: President Obama appointed a pharmaceutical lobbyist Deputy Commissioner of medical and tobacco products, a study found swaths of heroin users graduate from prescription painkillers, and similarly, 75% of high school students who used heroin had previously abused pharmaceuticals.

In other stories regarding the misconduct of agencies tasked with keeping people safe, the FDA continued to allow meat companies to use a pharmaceutical additive banned in 150 countries, while whistleblowers at the USDA revealed several plants were producing pork products filled with fingernails, hair, bile, and feces.

11. The Federal Government Admitted Cannabis May Help Fight Brain Cancer: Though the government has long known about the medical benefits of cannabis — it holds patents on several medicinal qualities — the National Institute on Drug Abuse made waves this year when it published a document acknowledging the healing properties of cannabidiol, a non-psychoactive endocannabinoid. In particular, it noted “[e]vidence from one animal study suggests that extracts from whole-plant marijuana can shrink one of the most serious types of brain tumors.” Though more research is needed, the government’s admission was unexpected, albeit welcomed by many cannabis enthusiasts. Other studies this year suggested cannabis may help heal broken bones and is associated with lower rates of obesity.

Though many Americans still faced criminal prosecution for treating themselves and their children with cannabis, 2015 demonstrated the long-term trend of decriminalization and legalization will not be reversed. Nations around the world, from Ireland to Costa Rica to Canada laid groundwork to legalize marijuana to various degrees, while a majority of Americans now support legalization.

12. Nestle Paid $524 to Plunder the Public’s Water Resources: This year, Anti-Media reported on the insidious relationship between Nestle and the Forest Service in California. The investigation found not only that Nestle was using an expired permit to turn exponential profit on 27 million gallons of water, but that a former Forest Service official went on to consult for the company.

While corporate exploitation ran rampant in 2015, many countries around the world fought back. India sued Nestle after finding one of its products contained lead, while nations around the world banned Monsanto and GE products. Scotland, Denmark, and Bulgaria, among others, all moved to ban GE crops, while multiple lawsuits, highlighted the serious potential health consequences of the widespread use of pesticides (though the EPA disputed that glyphosate, the key ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup, was an endocrine disrupter in June, in November, news broke that the majority of studies the EPA used to make its decision were funded by industry). Though corporate power remains all but monolithic, 2015 saw humans across the world rise up to resist it. Most recently (and comically), a proposed initiative in California is about to enter the next phase — signature gathering — to place it on the 2016 ballot. If placed on the ballot and passed, it will force California legislators to wear the logos of their top ten donors while they participate in legislative activities. The effort has drawn widespread praise and enthusiasm.

13. Establishment Caught Manipulating News to Fit Narratives: Following the death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore, contentious protests broke out, eventually resulting in limited rioting and looting. However, while the media attempted to paint protesters as aggressive, it failed to report officers’ prolonged prohibition of their physical movement, to say nothing of the riot gear police showed up wearing. After being unable to move, a brick was thrown, but the media failed to report the instigation and discrimination law enforcement imposed that ultimately led the students and protesters to grow unruly.

In other manipulations, it was revealed that one Fox News contributor lied about his experience as a CIA agent; he had never been employed at the agency, and only obtained later national security jobs by lying about his CIA experience. Further, CBS edited out comments from Muslims, who discussed U.S. foreign policy as a driver of Islamic extremism during a televised focus group.

A study by fact checker, Politifact, revealed that all the major outlets surveyed — Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC— consistently report half-truths and lies. It is little wonder, then, that another survey found only 7% of Americans still harbor “a great deal of trust” in the mainstream media.

Still, it wasn’t just the media that lied. On multiple occasions, government employees were caught attempting to distort facts. In March, news emerged that an IP address linked to the NYPD had attempted to edit the Wikipedia page on Eric Garner. Computers inside Britain’s parliament were linked to attempted edits on pages detailing sex scandals, among other transgressions. In a related story, the FBI reported it had foiled yet another terrorist plot, and once again, it was revealed the culprits were provided support from an informant working for the bureau. Further, in August, Wikileaks released cables that showed an American lobbyist for Saudi Arabia organized a $6 million ad campaign against the president’s nuclear deal with Iran, all through a well-funded group called the “American Security Initiative.” The lobbyist, Norm Coleman, is a former Republican senator.

14. TPP: In one of the most widely-contested pieces of legislation in recent memory, the Trans-Pacific Partnership moved forward, often in secret. The TPP has been condemned as a corporate power grab that ensures profit for pharmaceutical companies, among many other loathed industries. From clamping down on internet freedom to effectively sanctioning sex trafficking, TPP signals an ominous fate for the future of freedom.

15. Sharp Uptick in Islamophobia: Amid the carnage of the Paris terror attacks, the recent shooting in San Bernardino, and the surge in Syrian refugees seeking asylum in Western nations, attacks against Muslims skyrocketed in 2015. In the United States, Muslims have been attacked for praying in public, wearing traditional head scarves, and for simply being out in public. Sikhs have been caught in the crossfire for the crime of being brown and wearing cloth on their heads — and thus being confused with Muslims — while at least one Christian has been terrorized as a result of the unmitigated hate currently permeating modern society. Many European nations and U.S. states have rejected the influx of refugees from war-torn Syria.

Amid the increased hate against Muslims, however, has come an outpouring of love and tolerance. Muslim groups across the world have condemned terror attacks, raised money to help the families of victims, and promoted programs to discourage extremism. At the same time, citizens across Europe, Canada, and even parts of the United States have welcomed Syrian refugees with open arms.

2015 was a year of chaos, violence, hate, and an ongoing struggle of freedom versus oppression. In many ways, it was like the years, decades, and even centuries and millenia that came before. But amid the conflict and often discouraging headlines, humanity has continued to persevere, offering resistance to seemingly all-powerful forces and paving the way for, if nothing else, potential peace, freedom, and respect for human life.

 

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Thu, 12/31/2015 - 18:53 | 6983743 nmewn
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Another one hardly no one has heard about, the Hammond family in Oregon...

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2015/12/ranch...

...apparently, federal "authorities" don't even know what the definition of arson is or they do and are being the tyrannical assholes they are.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 19:29 | 6983828 Ignatius
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It seems like our ranchers are the new "Indians" reaping a simular fate with the BLM makin' war.

meat & potatoes starts @3:10:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zvrrQbjepc

Just sickening and where is the animal rights crowd??

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 19:50 | 6983908 Stuck on Zero
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One news story that never made it to the MSM: "Merkel Says Multiculturalism Is a Failure."

 

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 21:04 | 6984123 FireBrander
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Late news from Paris!

 

The French President was walking the streets today to instill confidence that Paris is a safe place:)

He was surround by a dozen SWAT dudes, in full body armor with automatic weapons as he walked with "confidence" through Paris...yeah, I'd feel safe too!

Fucking asshole...how about walking around like the average Pierie? Unarmed, and if anything goes wrong, just hide until the police arrive.

NO GUNS FOR YOU!

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 21:57 | 6984258 chumbawamba
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You're right, the French are probably too stupid to make that connection themselves.

I am Chumbawamba.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 21:47 | 6984234 doctor10
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Basically the state of indebtedness of the Western Social Welfare Democracies, and the limits of human opportunity those debts impose upon their citizens, is a marker of the destructiveness and uselessness those 20th century legacy governments.

Their gradual morphing into worldwide fascism is their only hope to continue a semblence of their current structure, and yet that serves merely to propagate the deficiencies of 19th-20th century burocratic heirerarchy well into the 21st century.

Artificially created and encouraged conflict is staged around the world to attempt to justify the status quo, and remains the greatest anchor around the neck of 21st century humanity.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 00:22 | 6984548 STP
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Good comment, but it is not an 'anchor around the neck', I will digress to George Orwell, it is the prospect of a boot stamping on your face forever.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 08:18 | 6984865 HardAssets
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The 'debt' is an illusion, made up out of thin air.

It is no more valid than an ancient Egyptian pharaoh's decree on parchment that he is a god, and everyone else is his property of slaves.

Humanity has allowed itself to be fooled and enslaved by mental illusions for many thousands of years.

When will Humanity step up and choose to free themselves ? When will Humanity stop providing the brainwashed jailers (military & police) for their own imprisonment ?

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 02:50 | 6984248 Rusty Shorts
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Fri, 01/01/2016 - 01:10 | 6984606 Lyman54
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Who were the fags that gave 6 thumbs down for your post nmewn?

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 19:01 | 6983766 blindman
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https://beta.prx.org/stories/167933
AUDIO STORY
A Shortcut Through 2015
peter bochan

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 19:03 | 6983769 Reaper
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"Everything the government says is a lie" ~ Nietzsche. Trust is the opiate of fools.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 19:22 | 6983816 Escrava Isaura
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Too simplistic. Naive. And superficial.

“Deception, machination and mendacity lie at the core of human intelligence, like worms coiled at the core of a apple” -- Mark Rowlands

 

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 19:41 | 6983882 Ignatius
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Too complicated.

"Say 'what' one more time."

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 20:31 | 6984049 Escrava Isaura
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What about by writing a real post. Then, substantiating it.

 

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 21:45 | 6984227 TheReplacement
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A duck walks into a 7-11 and asks the cashier, "Got any gwapes?"

The cashier responds that no, he does not have any grapes.

The next day the duck walks into the 7-11 and asks the cashier, "Got any gwapes?"

The cashier responds that no, he still does not have any grapes.

The next day the duck walks into the 7-11 and asks the cashier, "Got any gwapes?"

The cashier responds that no, he still does not have any grapes and, "If you come in here again and ask if we have any grapes I'm going to nail your feet to the floor."

The next day the duck walks into the 7-11 and asks the cashier, "Got any nails?"

Surprised, the cashier responds that he does not have any nails.

"Good.  Got any gwapes?" asks the duck.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 19:06 | 6983770 KesselRunin12Parsecs
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 "15 News Stories From 2015 You Should Have Heard About But Probably Didn't"

 

Begs the question.

 

1. What demographic mathematically/impossibly controls the press [WORLDWIDE]?

2. What demographic mathematically/impossibly controls Hollywood?

3. What demographic mathematically/impossibly controls "K" St"?

4. What demographic mathematically/impossibly controls "Wall St"?

5. What demographic mathematically/impossibly controls "THE FED"?

6. What demographic mathematically/impossibly controls "The ECB"?

7. What demographic mathematically/impossibly controls the UN?

 

But I'm sure, most people probably only heard about the EVIL Putin & Assad...

 

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 19:15 | 6983796 knukles
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Registered Democrats?
         scratching nuts

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 19:34 | 6983858 KesselRunin12Parsecs
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Not what I had in mind, but, at face value, not a bad offering! You get a (+1) for thinking!

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 19:50 | 6983906 Winston Churchill
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Vintage Nuits St.Knuckles ?

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 20:32 | 6984053 Wulfkind
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Deez Nuts

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 19:28 | 6983832 logicalman
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What's a silver dollar made of?

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 20:00 | 6983937 A Lunatic
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What's the difference between Hillary Clinton and an onion? Nobody cries when you chop up Hillary Clinton.......

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 19:29 | 6983840 runswithscissors
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mathmatically/impossibly is common core

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 19:58 | 6983925 curbjob
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"What demographic ..."

hmmm ... are you alluding to the conspiracy theory that Jehovah Witnesses run the world ?

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 19:05 | 6983772 Spiritof42
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The next mass extinction won't be for the reasons cited. That's bullshit fearmongering.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 19:35 | 6983869 css1971
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Next? It's in progress. Has been for thousands of years.

Lots of species require very specific environment to survive. We survive by altering our environment to suit us.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 19:57 | 6983927 logicalman
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Trouble is the decisions made are based on what makes money for a few, not what keeps the environment in good shape.

Humans have been around for about 1-2 million years, depending on how you define 'human'

Less than the blink of an eye in terms of the length of time life has existed on earth.

Looks like we are destined to be one of evolution's less successful experiments.

 

 

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 20:39 | 6984075 Spiritof42
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During the last mass instinction,  the cold came so fast that mammoths were literally flash frozen; their meat was edible. It's probably what killed off the Neanderthals.

Mass extinctions are cosmic events that alter earth's climate in a dramatic way. They kill off most of the old and produce new species by genetic mutation. The kind of extinctions you are describing are not abnormal.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 20:57 | 6984113 MassDecep
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Evolutionary brainwashing. Give evidence of anything that has evolved the last 15,000 years. We are always in a state of degradation, never evolving. 

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 21:20 | 6984161 Spiritof42
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You are correct only because earth's climate has been relatively stable for about 15,000 years. The evidence points toward sudden evolutionary change, not slow evolutionary change. Every so often earth's magnetic field goes into reversal. When they come, earth is briefly exposed to cosmic radiation. IMO that's what it takes to change lifeforms by genetic mutation.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 14:10 | 6985627 psychobilly
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No, he's not even remotely correct.  See below.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 03:28 | 6984717 armageddon addahere
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New breeds of dogs, horses, cattle, and domestic plants have evolved thanks to human interference or selective breeding and grafting of plants. It is possible similar evolution is happening in the wild, in response to human activity but we don't notice. O ya I remember one, American deer are smaller and mature faster than 200 years ago.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 14:53 | 6985609 psychobilly
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"Give evidence of anything that has evolved the last 15,000 years.  We are always in a state of degradation, never evolving."

Humans, whose evolution has been recent, extensive and regional.  Just think of the phenomenal changes in human civilization and technological advancement that have occurred in that time frame.  Are you nuts?

14% of the human genome has changed under recent selective pressure occurring within the last 30,000 to 5,000 years ago.  [Joshua M. Akey, “Constructing Genomic Maps of Positive Selection in Humans: Where Do We Go from Here?” Genome Research 19 (2009): 711– 22.]

As far as global populations go, the evolutionary changes that have occurred within the last 30,0000 to 5,000 years ago occurred after the splitting of the three major races (Africans, East Asians and Europeans), and has mostly occurred independently within each race (the five continental populations), meaning a different set of genes within each population has been modified by natural selection ... which is exactly what would be expected given the differences in environments and their respective selective pressures.  This of course gives "progressive" nitwits hissy fits because they insist that race is simply a social as opposed to biological construct, as if human evolution just magically came to a complete halt when human populations that resulted in the major races first separated geographically from each other beginning ~60,000 years ago.

For example, a genome-wide scan was conducted at the University of Chicago in 2006, looking for genes under selection in the three major races — Africans, East Asians and Europeans.  An extensive genetic database was analyzed that had been collected on each race as part of the HapMap project, which was undertaken by the National Institutes of Health to explore the genetic roots of common disease.  Each race was found to have about 200 genetic regions under selection (206 in Africans, 185 in East Asians and 188 in Europeans). However, it was a different set of genes under selection for each race, with only very minor overlaps. [Benjamin F. Voight, Sridhar Kudaravalli, Xiaoquan Wen, Jonathan K. Pritchard, "A Map of Recent Positive Selection in the Human Genome," PLoS Biology 4, no. 3 (Mar. 2006): 446– 53.]

There has been enough evolution in humans, including recently, to result in 15% genetic variation between the races -- more than enough, scientifically speaking, for the different races to be considered subspecies.  This is according to Sewell Wright, one of the three founders of the field of population genetics, and inventor of the fixation index named after him.  He has stated that if differences of 10 - 15% were seen in any other than the human species, they would be considered subspecies. [As quoted by Henry Harpending and Alan R. Rogers, "Genetic Perspectives in Human Origins and Differentiation," Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics 1 (2000): 361-85]

Because of political correctness and feelings, and no other valid reason, a perfectly legitimate scientific term (subspecies) is considererd verboten when discussing human biodiversity.  Am I to believe that humans that have been living a tribal, stone age existence out in the bush of Papuan New Guinea or Sub-Saharan Africa are under the same selective genetic pressures as humans that have been living in the modern, technologically advanced, "first world"?  In the case of the former, we are talking about populations of humans who, when first discovered by Europeans, hadn't even managed to master the wheel.  Or written language.  Or a calendar.  Or mechanical devices.  Or multi-story buildings.  Or anything beyond minimal-subsistence agriculture. 

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 21:09 | 6984144 FireBrander
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New record warm December around here!

We Broke the old record from....what the fuck? 1878? "Global Climate Change" was burning up the planet in 1878 too?

We also set a record for rain in Dec because of "Global Climate Change" and all the "warmth"...old record was 1932?

Time and again, when we break weather records, we don't beat them by much and the records we break are a century old or more.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 19:06 | 6983774 shovelhead
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Islamaphobia is a big worry?

I guess some chick complained about being gang-raped again.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 19:17 | 6983804 knukles
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And the blonde got really pissed because they messed up her makeup cutting her head off.    Whatever 
                                         (curling hair on finger)

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 19:26 | 6983821 City_Of_Champyinz
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Islamaphobia?  How about common fucking sense. Only one religion is committing thousands and thousands of barbaric acts of terrorism and murder year in and year out in the name of a war mongering child rapist douchebag.  This has been going on basically since the religion of pieces (read body parts) was founded.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 19:32 | 6983855 logicalman
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How many millions have supposedly Christian types murdered in the same period?

Try looking around a bit and being honest with yourself.

You will notice I used the word 'supposedly'

Likewise, supposedly Muslims have done for a fair few.

Religion is just cover for psychopathy and most humans fall for it.

I guess you are one of those who does.

 

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 19:42 | 6983888 City_Of_Champyinz
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Straw man.  Of course Christians killed in the name of their religion.  Big difference is that there has been a reformation in Judaism and Christianity.  The old testament has all kinds of crazy shit in it that nobody follows literally.  Nothing of the sort has occurred in Islam.  Just since 9/11 there have been a minimum of over 26,000 terrorist attacks perpetrated by Muslims.  Here is the running list for 2015: http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/attacks-2015.htm.  Read the FAQ as to how this information is compiled.

"I guess you are one of those who does". - Didn't you learn that you should never make assumptions?  You do not know a damn thing about me friend...

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 19:50 | 6983907 xrxs
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Kony 2016

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 20:05 | 6983951 TheFutureIsThePast
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Is there a link between the increased number of terror attacks and America's adventures in the Middle East? How many terror attacks occurred in Iraq, Libya or Syria before America came to liberate them?

https://youtu.be/7TRVcnX8Vsw?t=15s

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 20:12 | 6983969 McMolotov
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I believe his point was that most Americans who are supposedly Christian have little to no problem with the wanton violence done in their name by the United States government. For instance, the 500,000 Iraqi children who died as a result of sanctions (according to Madeleine Albright, "the price [was] worth it.").

And while such actions may not be done explicitly in the name of the Christian religion, they are done in the name of American Exceptionalism, which might as well be considered a religion of its own at this point.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 20:25 | 6984026 TheFutureIsThePast
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I know Christians who talk about "loving one another" "peace" and being Christ-like. And then with the same breath, cheer on Israel and its treatment of the Palestinians.

"But the Palestinians shoot rockets into Israel!" they say. So when you ask them what Jesus would do, they shut up. Wonder why that is?

Logicalman is right, organized religion is an excuse for the psychopathic.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 20:25 | 6984027 A Lunatic
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I'll just be glad when people stop confusing 'supposedly Christian' with Christianity......

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 21:12 | 6984150 Sweet Cheeks
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Is anyone here NOT sick of war and waste of blood and treasure. We were warned about the military industrial complex. Yet, it continues unabated.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 21:12 | 6984151 Sweet Cheeks
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Is anyone here NOT sick of war and waste of blood and treasure. We were warned about the military industrial complex. Yet, it continues unabated.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 21:32 | 6984195 FireBrander
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.

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"American Exceptionalism" is something that all brainless idiots can get behind.

"Christian Exceptionalism" is a much smaller pool of brainless idiots.

You win National elections with the first, lose badly with the second.

Proof? Ben Carson. Once he went full Religious Nutjob, even the other Religious Nutjobs went "WHOA!" and switched over to less crazy Cruz.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 12:22 | 6985268 Lordflin
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Gentlemen,

I am getting a little tired of the naieve attacks on my Christian faith.

Is the intent to turn this web site towards religious debate? Or is it that many of you feel the need to justify yourselves?

It would be a wonderful thing were you to express you opinions with respect. A trait this site was known for, and a primary reason I was attracted to it to begin with... that, and the high level of education and intelligence exhibited by what is apparently a dwindling portion of its subscribers...

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 12:40 | 6985328 FireBrander
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Sir,

If you are "tired of naive attacks" on your Christian faith, then why not reply to them with an educated response?

No Bible quotes please.

Educate me on the "Christian Faith" and how God impregnated a Virgin, then watched his son die, then sat around, for 2000+ years, and watched his "children" butcher each other over which God is the "True God". Then explain to us why your "God" told Goerge Bush and Obama to kill all those "False God" worshipers?

"Of course they (Muslim Terrorists) pray to a false God, otherwise, they wouldn't be killing innocent lives" - Goerge W. Bush.

 

Christianity has become a mental illness and it's not alone in it's psychosis.

Oh, and please, don't blame the Devil...God Created the Devil...and if all else fails in removing Evil, then why not just hit the reset button, destroy the universe and try again?

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 23:59 | 6987170 Lordflin
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I don't reply because the instigators of said attacks are not interested in reasoned debate, and because this does not seem to me the proper forum.

As to defending my faith, nothing gives me greater pleasure...

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 05:40 | 6984783 August
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>>>American Exceptionalism, which might as well be considered a religion of its own at this point.

Yep. 

Without the regularly repeated liturgies of American Exceptionalism, there would be many, many fewer Americans stupid enough to assume, and actually believe, that the US government has a mandate to stabilize and control - just for starters - the relationships between China and Japan, Russia and Gemany, Sunni and Shia, and Israel and everybody else. 

This will not end well, but I still pray that it will end soon.  Death to the Empire.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 20:17 | 6983995 hal10000
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Islam has a very, very, very, very long way to go to catch up to the missionary zeal Christians had in killing people.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 20:52 | 6984107 MassDecep
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Not Christians, wolfs in sheep’s clothing. Mainly Catholics murdering whom would not follow their god, the popes. Look it up yourselves.
Millions of true Christians died under this guise. 

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 20:44 | 6984090 logicalman
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I made no assumptions. I based my opinion on what you typed.

I'd love to know where you come up with your numbers and find it almost amusing that you would refer to 9/11 The ultimate fucking false-flat thag is a perfect example of state-sponsored terrorism - aginst its own people.

I guess you missed the millions George Bush and his 'Christian' buddies are responsible for.

How many Palestinians have died at the hands of your 'reformed' Jews?

Religion is a tool used against you. Wake the fuck up.

 

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 08:37 | 6984881 HardAssets
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Watch the sci-fi classic 'They Live'.

In one scene the real religion of America is revealed, and it isn't Christianity.

'This is your god' is printed in secret, invisible ink . . .

on a stack of FRNs.

Americans in uniform kill on a massive scale worldwide, to maintain the dominance of a private (foreign) group's debt instruments. The uniformed ones were brainwashed since childhood (in 'schools' and by media, especially t.v.) to think they were killing and dying for all sorts of nice sounding words. They never were taught to look & see if the pretty words match reality.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 10:48 | 6985022 gg allin
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i always find it amusing when christians love to point out the bullshit that is islam while they ignore all the stories in the bible that condone murder, slavery and rape.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 21:27 | 6984163 FireBrander
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I upvoted you Logical...wish I could give you a 1000.

"Exceptional" White Christian USA, via Bush and Obama, has killed a STAGGERING number of those "False God" worshiping brown people....in an effort to spread "Freedom and Democracy" while simultaneously stamping out "terror".

'I am driven with a mission from God'. God would tell me, 'George go and fight these terrorists in Afghanistan'. And I did. And then God would tell me 'George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq'. And I did." "And now, again, I feel God's words coming to me, 'Go get the Palestinians their state and get the Israelis their security, and get peace in the Middle East'. And, by God, I'm gonna do it." - Goerge W. Bush. 

 So,   Goerge, let me see if i've got this right, God urged you to go kill people?

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

On the application for President, one question should be: Does God talk to you?

 

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 23:20 | 6984456 Loucleve
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the musselmans kiled 40 million Hindus in India.

They dont call it the Hindu Kush - the killer of hindus - for nothing.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 13:23 | 6985492 Lorca's Novena
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There are no real christians you speak of, only hypocrites and people who say they are just to fit in. I believe that Jesus is the son of god. Does that make me a christian? I didnt think so.... 

 

Fuck the pope, and the catholic church.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 19:56 | 6983917 SgtShaftoe
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Wait, I thought it was the US and "willing coalition" that absolutely DECIMATED several entire countries in the Middle East? You know being a lowly Army LT at the time sometimes you miss some details of the news.  Maybe I shouldn't believe what I saw with my own fucking eyes. 

 

Seriously dude, get your facts straight. 

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 20:07 | 6983959 City_Of_Champyinz
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No shit, are you insinuating that I am saying none of that happened??  Try and stay on topic, my comment dealt exclusively with point #15 in the article, and point #15 only.  All you have to do is look at history, Islam has been at war with everyone who is not a Muslim since it was founded. 

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 20:16 | 6983991 McMolotov
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As I pointed out the other day, the US has been involved in some sort of war for 222 out of its 239 years of existence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_United_States

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 20:50 | 6984101 logicalman
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Decimation......

A word that is so commonly mis-used.

It means to destroy a tenth!

There's a big clue in the 'deci' part.

The Romans would take one of ten from an underperforming legion and execute them - To encourage the others to do better!

I try not to be a member of the language police, but this one always gets to me!

Anyway, all the best for '16

 

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 21:08 | 6984139 Sweet Cheeks
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Actually, the meaning of decimated has changed over the years from meaning a tithe, to a tenth, to killing off a whole lot of somethings. http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2012/09/does-decimate-mean-destroy-on...

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 19:26 | 6983825 runswithscissors
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Rape is just the way the peaceful followers of islam express thier love...that and sawing off heads.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 19:34 | 6983867 logicalman
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Can you get to the falling ON scissors bit and do the world a favour?

 

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 20:38 | 6984070 Wulfkind
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Hey asshole......we're sick and tired of your kind spouting off about Christianity's past bloodlettig and somehow giving a pass to the Muzzies.  This is the present, douchenozzle.  The Crusades were a LONG LONG time ago.  The Muzzies are blood letting animals now.

Now here's a New Year's Resolution for you.  Fuck off.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 20:50 | 6984102 Sweet Cheeks
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Wulfkind,
Thanks. This crap about excusing Muslims because of what Christians did hundreds of years ago is so typical of those who love anyone except their own country, history, or government is babble from academia.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 04:43 | 6984758 Adahy
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The destruction of Iraq, lybia, and others; as well as the use of drone terrorism by us was 100 years ago?
You sure?

Not excusing their evil behavior, but not excusing ours either.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 05:02 | 6984766 Otrader
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4 million dead civilians since the fake war on terror started, financed by the worst clan the world has to offer - The CB's.  MMMMM, Progaganda. It's what's for dinner.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 20:56 | 6984112 logicalman
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I'm not giving anyone a pass.

ALL religions are bullshit control mechanisms used to divide and control people.

Who the fuck would base anything on books based on centuries old heresay?

Might as well try fixing your 2015 vehicle using a manual from 1965.

Here's a resolution for you, in all sincerity.

Try to think how you would react if you were on the side being fucked over.

Wishing you a more informed New Year.

 

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 12:51 | 6985378 Government need...
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When you wake up in Hell, make sure to tell Satan he doesn't exist. . . right before he takes you to browntown.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 23:10 | 6984079 Miffed Microbio...
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Can you show me a 100% Muslim nation where people love peacefully with one another? Personally if I were given a choice to live in a 100% Christian nation vs a Muslim I wouldn't need long to decide.

Miffed

Edit: Darn, I was hoping to be pleasantly surprised! And my cynicism continues unabated. Oh well, I didn't think that New Years resolution was going to work anyway.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 23:26 | 6984465 Earl Slaughter-...
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There is no 100% muslim nation on Earth. But muslim-majority living peacefully (as in terms of less violence than USAwith one another )?

 

OK, I'm game...

 

Morroco, Tunisia, Iran, Mauritania, Tajikistan, Jordan, Mayotte, Azerbaijan, Maldives, Nijer, Comoros, Algeria, Djibouti, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Senegal, Gambia, Turkmenistan, Mali, Banglidash, Kyrgyzstan, Oman, Kuwait, Guinea, Indonesia, Albania, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Malaysia, Burkina Faso, Kazakistan, Chad, Brunai...  ...you get the idea.

 

It's still a big, beautiful and mostly-peacful world out there-- easy to forget when we get sucked into the toxic and immediate swill that surrounds us like quicksand.

 

Sometimes I hear the alley-cats fight beneath the window of my apartment. Mostly I let them go, figuring "Fuck 'em. They'll sort it out-- they're cats." But every so often, when I'm grouchy and they're keeping me awake, I'll fill a pot with water and chuck the contents in their direction.

 

I don't doubt that there are many in this world who feel the same about America and its enemies.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 00:33 | 6984564 Cornfedbloodstool
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Do you float or sink in water, your life and soul depend on it.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 10:41 | 6985013 gg allin
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i can say that in my own personal experience, the nicest people i've met were in morocco.

and the shittiest people were in colombia....where about 90% of the population claim to be catholic.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 19:11 | 6983785 ThrowAwayYourTV
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As a dog lover all I can say is that. "We need a big ole Alpha Dog to run the pack, not some skiddish metro dog running around with its tail beween its hind legs.

Every strong healthy pack has a big ole Alpha Male in charge.

I dont think the one we have is working out. And I don't think Hillerbeast will make a good Male Alpha Dog either.

Watch the pack! Learn from the pack! They don't let just anyone in the pack and anyone dog that doesnt pull his share had better find a new pack.

It isnt fair, but its natural.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 19:29 | 6983844 css1971
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Not to put too fine a point on it but humans are not dogs.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 19:32 | 6983854 FredFlintstone
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Never been to MENA?

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 21:04 | 6984126 Sweet Cheeks
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FredF,
MENA. Middle East North Africa where after 50 generations of inbreeding, the average IQ is 81.
There is no negotiating with those folks.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 08:23 | 6984869 SmedleyButlersGhost
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Or did FredF refer to Mena Ark? Same inbreeding problem though

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 19:33 | 6983860 Ralph Spoilsport
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Obviously a massive metaphor malfunction. Or a dog breeder starting NYE early.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 20:36 | 6984063 Sweet Cheeks
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Css1971,
Check out r/K reproductive strategies in Evolutionary Psychology Behind Politics by anonymous conservative. Bill Whittle does a great video explaining the difference between liberals and conservatives.

The tax dollars of the workers support the offspring of the whelpers. Conservatives see a scarcity of resources and EBT card holders feel they live in the land of plenty. Both can't be right.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 20:59 | 6984120 ThrowAwayYourTV
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But we are still pack animals.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 20:02 | 6983942 TheFutureIsThePast
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Not saying you're wrong but be careful what you wish for. That big 'ole alpha might turn on you, instead of working for your interests like you seem to hope for.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 21:06 | 6984136 ThrowAwayYourTV
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No me! Because I pull my own weight and always have in one way or another. If I cant bring down a deer then I will butcher the deer. If I cant butcher the deer than I will clean up after everyone is gone.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 20:23 | 6984018 Sweet Cheeks
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ThrowAway...
Clover munchers breed indiscriminately, invest almost nothing in parenting, and welcome all migrants to the clover patch because there's plenty for every one.
The pack headed by an alpha sees a scarcity of resources, invests heavily in parenting, and allows no breeding without a successful challenge to the alpha. Migrants are unwelcome because they are lethal to the pack's survival.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 19:24 | 6983820 runswithscissors
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2015 will be remembered as the year the boot began to "stamp on" the human face

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 19:26 | 6983824 km4
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16. Russia security paper designates Nato as threat http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35208636

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 13:30 | 6985518 GreatUncle
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The way Turkey behaves I am not surprised ...

Boycotted Turkey this year, had chicken instead for Xmas dinner much more appealing

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 19:28 | 6983833 BandGap
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Just enough truth in an article loaded with crap. Just like a lot of "stories" we got in 20-15.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 19:42 | 6983886 logicalman
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Here's a few more stories that need covering, but won't be.

Congresscritters are bought-and-paid-for, corrupt arseholes doing the bidding of the rich, at the expense of the rest of the people.

Income tax is just protection money.

The present banking system is BASED on fraud.

Fukushima is the worst environmental disaster humans have ever caused.

Hitlery is a multiple felon.

I can think of more, but likely most on here can, so I don't want to bore anyone to death.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 20:00 | 6983933 lunaticfringe
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I think fucking Hillary read this and gave ya the down arrow. 

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 20:20 | 6984008 Tom Servo
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That's what I thought when I read it too... polar bears?

 

FFS...

 

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 19:30 | 6983847 Ralph Spoilsport
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RE: Item 5 - How can cops be involved in a shootout with an unarmed man? Oh, never mind.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 19:48 | 6983904 logicalman
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If a cop 'believes' you may shoot at him, it would appear that it's OK for him to murder you.

The judge will likely agree.

 

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 20:10 | 6983968 TheFutureIsThePast
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Try that to the cop though and you'll be sitting in prison for decades.

Only in the Land of the Free.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 19:34 | 6983865 GeoffreyT
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And #16 - some goodish news for a change, from November: the UN General Assembly's 6 strident (but for the moment, meaningless) draft resolutions on the occupation of Palestine by some Eurotrash and their anchor babies.

Even the UK voted in favour this time (rather than abstaining). The 'nay' and 'abstain' crowd is down to the US, Australia, Canada, and a bunch of shitholes entirely dependent on US and Australian aid (which of course includes the aforementioned Eurotrash occupiers).

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 19:50 | 6983910 Laddie
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"In one underreported case, a six-year-old boy was fatally caught in the crossfire of a police shootout against his father, who was unarmed. In another case, an African-American motorist was shot and killed by University of Cincinnati"

Hmmm Mr Wedler left out something quite important. The boy and his father were both WHITE, the father was shot while holding both his hands up and they were EMPTY hands.
The shooters were BLACK COPS.

Some other news that is UNDERREPORTED or not reported at all:
Indianapolis Playground Beating: Girl and Her Little Brother Brutally Attacked in Park March 15, 2015
The Indianapolis playground beating may have been racially motivated. The victim and her brother were white and the attackers appeared to be black. As the victim was asking why she was being attacked, one of the boys in the group appeared to answer, “You white, bitch.”
Young Girl and Little Brother attacked
Video posted on (and removed from) facebook of brutal attack on a female and her little brother
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b10_1426395873

To think this is some rare case just read this website for a month or so, it has been up since 1995 and save for being TERRORIZED into a shutdown by the owner due to real and serious threats to the safety of his wife and children a couple of years ago by the hackers ANONYMOUS, a brave White gentleman by himself took it over. It is INVALUABLE and PROVES beyond a reasonable doubt the GUILT of the Tribe in DECEIVING their victims: THE WHITES of America. http://newnation.org/

And how does this happen? How do 90% of Whites NOT know what is going on?

This is how:
http://www.kevinmacdonald.net/chap4.pdf
We have seen that a common component of Jewish intellectual activity since the Enlightenment has been to criticize gentile culture. Freud’s ideas have often been labeled as subversive. Indeed, “[Freud] was convinced that it was in the very nature of psychoanalytic doctrine to appear shocking and subversive. On board ship to America he did not feel that he was bringing that country a new panacea. With his typically dry wit he told his traveling companions, ‘We are bringing them the plague’ ” (Mannoni 1971, 168).

Mannoni, O. (1971). Freud, trans. R. Belice. New York: Pantheon Books.

"If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, is it not possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing about it?"

"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ...We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized."

Edward L. Bernays
1 Wall Street
New York City

Edward L. Bernays
7 Lowell St.
Cambridge, Mass.

He was descended from the Chief Rabbi of Hamburg (late 18th-early 19th century) and was a nephew, on both sides, of that quintessence of FILTH, Sigmund Freud.

And as to 9-11:
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=3115

Not that anyone is interested in this but just for historical purposes:

Rabbi Dov Zakheim, dual citizen of Israel and US, former Bush appointee as Pentagon Comptroller from May 4, 2001 to March 10, 2004. At that time he was unable to explain the disappearance of $1 trillion dollars. Actually, nearly three years earlier, Donald Rumsfeld announced on September 10, 2001 that an audit discovered $2.3 trillion was also missing from the Pentagon books. That story was buried under 9-11’s rubble. The two sums disappeared on Zakheim’s watch.

He was Corporate VP at System Planning Corporation, a major player in the "Homeland Security" industry. One of the products that SysPlan sells is the Command Transmitter System, a remote control system for planes, boats, missiles and other vehicles. It's highly customable and configurable to interface with an almost limitless number of vehicle types.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 20:01 | 6983928 PacOps
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zTpdnGh1AI

One more for the list.

Saudi Prince attacked by a American Police man

 

Running over his foot was not a good idea.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 20:10 | 6983974 WarPony
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Fool me once, shame on you.  Fool me (at least) 15 times, WTF!  

"We tyrannized some bitches."

Follow your heart to the next (spiritual) Revolution.  And, bring your best game and lots of ammo.  ... thinking next SOTU Addr. Isn't there a park just across the river?

Don't be bitches - next year anyway.

 

 

 

 

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 20:38 | 6984069 Never One Roach
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High Prices of Drugs Leave Even the Insured And Affluent Struggling

 

 

http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/high-prices-of-drugs-leave-even-t...

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 20:43 | 6984086 Flying Wombat
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Not to nitpick, but the declaration that we have entered a period of mass extinction was declared over two decades ago.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 20:55 | 6984106 sunkeye
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The Barrett Brown case is a travesty.

 

That he is behind bars is a shameful but not surprising indication of the depths to which corrupt government officials - and by that I mean those with a fiduciary duty to US citizens but who instead use the power that comes with their position for personal agendas - will sink to desecrate not just the constitution but their own character.

 

The Barret Brown case is a persecution not a prosecution and he should be released immediately. Paroled today and pardoned in the due course of judicial justice.

FREE BARRETT BROWN.

 

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 20:58 | 6984117 Ralph Spoilsport
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I agree with you, he's a political prisoner, but he should have known what would happen by taunting the FBI. But he's not really a low profile kind of guy either. His writing style is great and I'm surprised the prison system allows some of those monographs to get out to the public. I doubt I'll live long enough to see him out on parole the way he's going.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 21:05 | 6984131 RabbitOne
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The big story for me was medical in 2015. In 2008 my wifes MS drug betaseron cost $1100. Last year at this time it was $4000. Last month it was $5500. This month it increased $300 and was $5800. This is what Obamacare has done to the cost of the drug. I am willing to bet that they majority of that cost of that drug goes back to bribe congress. Without insurance we would be toast... 

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 22:20 | 6984308 WarPony
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Exactly, the military-industrial-banking-pharmaceutical-media complex is in charge.  There isn't one commercial during the "news" that (hardly) isn't pharmaceutical.  So, who finances this?  Answer: the "side-effect" crowd.  And, NO, 0-care hasn't helped anyone other than the powers that be.  Time to reign in the enabling Administration.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 10:26 | 6984985 truthalwayswinsout
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You cannot get justice and capitalism when every crony National Socialist in the world has their hand in your pockets.

It starts with the $billion approvals at the FDA, the morons who force patients and doctors to deal with insurance companies, to the licensing boards for every profession in the world, to the lawyers who prey on mistakes with laws that are pure insanity as far as justice is concerned..... and on and on and on.

That $5800 represents $5600 in the cronies who have their hands in your pockets.

Such a Progressive National Socialist system can be fixed but look at the monetary headwinds that will try to stop anyone from getting into their payday.

 

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 21:05 | 6984132 nc551
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Polar bears are evolutionarily speaking brand spanking new from our last iceage.  Good riddance.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 22:23 | 6984236 joego1
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Islamophobia is a PC fable. Do you see in the MSM

http://pamelageller.com/2015/12/houston-man-charged-with-setting-christm...

Muslims will generate their own Islamophobia to promote their "victim" card.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 22:05 | 6984283 Full Nelson
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16. Joos ruin everything.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 23:18 | 6984451 Loucleve
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an African-American man was sentenced to seven years in prison for barking at a police dog.....

WRONG.  the man was an Oakland Raiders linbacker, who barked at the dog pre-game in Pittsburgh.  No charges apparently filed.

Thu, 12/31/2015 - 23:22 | 6984459 Clashfan
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Good piece. :)

Did you forget this one, or was it not important enough?
 http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/01/gray-state-fema-camp-movie-writer-foun...

 

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 01:02 | 6984601 noless
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So I didn't read the article, but decreased biodiversity is a compensation mechanism for altered resource distribution.

 

Many species die, then of few become many again, but the base structure  of their survival must adhere to the standards that exist.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 01:35 | 6984635 Lyman54
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The internet censorship has really started in Canada.  Say any thing negative about the liberal party=banned.  Say anything about the lesbian bitch Ontario has for a premier or the pedophile that wrote the sex ed course=banned.  I can't log into yahoo at all now.

 

The morons do not realize if they restrict the internet too much a lot of people will drop it.  Google is totaly useless as a search engine now and they are the main search engine you end up with.  Any government agency that asks for my e-mail address I tell them we don't have internet now.  Fuck them, they can post a letter. 

If they kill off the internet the only people they will monitor are the selfie generation showing their latest tattoo on face book.  I have a few months left before my contract expires and once it does the dish, router and modem are going to the dump.

 

It was good while it lasted though!

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 05:22 | 6984772 22winmag
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We have met the ememy and he is us.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 07:27 | 6984833 MiTasol
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The Federal Government Admitted Cannabis May Help Fight Brain Cancer

 

Irie mon.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 08:10 | 6984861 peterZ
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Sharp Uptick in Islamophobia:

I hope so

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 13:24 | 6985499 GreatUncle
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Starting to distinguish between the two main factions myself during 2015.

It does seem shia muslims are not as bloodthirsty as the sunni in Saudia Arabia and Turkey.

What faction is ISIS, sunni or shia.

It is becoming to general a concept to cast all of islam the same way that is just like the US government considering all its citizens as criminals and enacting legislation to treat them that way.

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 01:46 | 6987316 Joe A
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A phobia is an irrational fear of something. Fear of Islam is not irrational.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 12:16 | 6985257 SmittyinLA
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Jamie Gorelick committed high treason for 6 years and wasn't prosecuted for any crimes.

http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/schlumberger-oilfield-holdings-ltd-agrees-...

Jamie was a Bush appointee at the time.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 13:18 | 6985475 GreatUncle
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The middle east just becomes more of a US quagmire of failed states.

Droning civilians in Yemen, you just can't get enough civilian kills can you? You can see it in the op room, oooh toast the child crossing the road like some gamers on a computer game. Now it is for real!

Also this backing Saudi Arabia, the wahhabi sunni muslim radicals jihadists sect to take over new territory just like Turkey is becoming more and more counterproductive and to me shows how moderate as a shia islamic nation Iran actually is.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 13:36 | 6985538 AmazonNemesis
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"Costa Rica’s successful effort to draw 99% of its energyfrom renewable sources."

 

yet another total and absolute lie by the Climate Hustle crowd

 

http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=650430&CategoryId=23558

Nobel-prize official: "“Natural gas is the cleanest hydrocarbon, and it will help us in the transtion toward a really sustainable energy mix in the country,” Castro said, adding that

"natural gas emits less CO2 than other fuels when burned."


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