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June 22, 2016
Open Thread 2016-22
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I am sorry rufus, but neither you nor any American (including Chomsky) can vote in such a way as to resolve the horror of present circumstances, in this election nightmare. You cannot think it away; and it cannot simply be willed away. It’s checkmate– and multi-dimentional checkmate, at that. We have been had. rufus @98: “I didn’t break a sweat.” Posted by: Jackrabbit | Jun 25 2016 18:57 utc | 103 in re 103 — Posted by: rufus magister | Jun 26 2016 7:31 utc | 104 @102 copeland Posted by: jfl | Jun 26 2016 12:35 utc | 105 Ok guys. Posted by: Alexander Grimsmo | Jun 26 2016 13:20 utc | 106 This may have been posted in another thread. It’s an article by John Helmer, via Xymphora, called Hello Rapallo; The Inevitability of new German Treaty on Economic cooperation with Russia (june 24). According to Helmer, Merkel is toast and Germany isn’t the only EU country which feels that US/EU sanctions on Russia are harming the sanctioners just as much as the target. Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Jun 26 2016 13:47 utc | 107 @rufus: “weak” Posted by: Jackrabbit | Jun 26 2016 19:25 utc | 108 in re 108 — Posted by: rufus magister | Jun 26 2016 21:25 utc | 109 The Israelis attack al Aqsa Mosque again …
… we won’t read any of this in the corporate media either. ‘Settlers’ is the term of art for the Israeli Sturmarbeitlung. Posted by: jfl | Jun 26 2016 21:59 utc | 110 further to 103 — Posted by: rufus magister | Jun 27 2016 2:42 utc | 111 @rufus:
Your comments have consistently been pro-Hillary over many months. Posted by: Jackrabbit | Jun 27 2016 3:15 utc | 112 rufus @111 Posted by: Jackrabbit | Jun 27 2016 3:34 utc | 113 Oh, my, God… Reality is apparently pro-Clinton. Posted by: rufus magister | Jun 27 2016 5:42 utc | 114 Rather like the WaPo is not the WSJ, “constant” isn’t quite the same as “consistent.” Nor is anti-Trump the same has pro-Clinton. Posted by: rufus magister | Jun 27 2016 5:45 utc | 115 @rufus Posted by: Jackrabbit | Jun 27 2016 9:57 utc | 116 in re 116 — Posted by: rufus magister | Jun 27 2016 12:36 utc | 117 @rufus Posted by: Jackrabbit | Jun 27 2016 13:31 utc | 118 Turkey apologize to Russia? Posted by: Robz | Jun 27 2016 14:26 utc | 119 @111
Posted by: crone | Jun 27 2016 14:53 utc | 120 101 Posted by: denk | Jun 27 2016 16:20 utc | 121 I wish I had terrorists like that on my side. The kind that bomb the UN in Baghdad, the day after the UN say that US forces should leave Iraq. The kind that bomb a Bali nightclub, the week 250,000 Australians took to the streets to protest the war. The kind that bomb a Riyadh compound full of Arabs, when Saudi Arabian citizens are beginning to become increasingly vociferous in their condemnation of the Iraq invasion and occupation. Posted by: denk | Jun 27 2016 16:29 utc | 122 in re —
You don’t really do rational debate when questioned. You’ll take a short stab at it, and then start name calling and rehashing my supposed moral and political failings. Posted by: rufus magister | Jun 28 2016 2:36 utc | 123 on bali bombings 2002 Posted by: denk | Jun 28 2016 4:27 utc | 124 @rufus Posted by: Jackrabbit | Jun 28 2016 5:11 utc | 125 I’ve previously address your ill-found critique, I won’t rehash the rehash of the rehash. Is Trump going to restore democracy, or put the boot in? Sure, it’s a reaction. A negative one, like Reaganism being a bad reaction to the Sixties. Posted by: rufus magister | Jun 28 2016 5:21 utc | 127 Fairly irrelevant … but on the subject of rampant nit-picking and the PAL engine fire at Changi Airport yesterday, MSM waste of space Channel 7 in Oz has found an “expert” who thinks Changi’s Emergency Crew (who had the fire extinguished within 5 minutes and got everyone off the plane uninjured) woulda coulda shoulda evacuated the passengers Before the fire was extinguished. Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Jun 28 2016 6:26 utc | 128 124 Posted by: denk | Jun 28 2016 7:02 utc | 129 129 Posted by: denk | Jun 28 2016 7:30 utc | 130 Hoarsewhisperer 128 Posted by: denk | Jun 28 2016 7:33 utc | 131 Les Leopold rightly argues Bernie’s Next Big Task: Build a Large-Scale, National Progressive Movement. It’s everyone’s task, actually.
And don’t forget — trying to prevent even more overseas intervention in defense of oil supplies. Posted by: rufus magister | Jun 28 2016 11:56 utc | 133 @ 132 Posted by: Alexander Grimsmo | Jun 28 2016 13:18 utc | 134 LOL US propaganda gets worse, accuse russian agents of harassing them all over the world! Posted by: Ted | Jun 28 2016 14:17 utc | 135 130 Posted by: denk | Jun 28 2016 16:13 utc | 136 be careful what u wish for…. Posted by: denk | Jun 28 2016 16:52 utc | 137 Our Dear First Lady and … Posted by: D | Jun 30 2016 3:58 utc | 138 136 Posted by: denk | Jun 30 2016 15:12 utc | 139 139 Posted by: denk | Jun 30 2016 16:42 utc | 140 There was a minor escalation of hostilities in the Donbas. The UAF made a short (4km) advance around Debaltsevo. It was the loss of the town to the DPR in Feb. 2015 that secured the present de factoindependence of Novorossiya and produced the present stale.
This area and nearby Avdeevka saw heaving fighting in Spring 2015.
If it is the start of a new offensive, it seems that the Ukrainians have committed a minor war crime to mark the occasion, seizing a DNR sapper team which was coordinating with the OSCE mission in the Donbas. They alleged that the mine clearance operation was “sabotage,” shelled the group and detained the survivors.
And so in the Donbas, The Struggle Continues. Posted by: rufus magister | Jul 1 2016 3:52 utc | 141 140 Posted by: denk | Jul 1 2016 6:53 utc | 142 |
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