Forum: Societal Issues & News

Or, as I like to call it, The Sins Against Capitalism (Rabid Capitalism, as is customarily referred to as, The Moderate Middle.) Ladies and Gentlemen, in the blue corner, we have the rabid capitalists who identify as Democrats, and in the red corner, we have the rabid capitalists who identify as...

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2019/11/16/trump-grants-clemency-to-troops-in-three-controversial-war-crimes-cases/ What's tRump's message here? Anyone want to guess? I suppose if a society is going to raise murderers, don't be surprised when they murder, even though it...

That was the chant that tRump met with at last nights world series game in Washington, DC. Sports fans in the US tend to be on the conservative side, so, I'd surmise that this suggests tRump is facing an uphill climb to reelection. Pick your video....

I will often check-in with Politico (ties to the Clintons) or whatever I can access of the NYT or WaPo, not really to read their content, but rather, so I can learn what they are not informing their readers of, and it is significant. The corporate media is biased toward candidates who they can...

THAT'S HOW THEY GET YOU A general read which is well put together , if you have the attention span to last more than a couple of paragraphs . I am only the messenger though I support the piece 100% 'What You Think' Is Controlled By 'What You Watch', And 'What You Watch' Is Controlled By...

Last Wednesday, U.S. Attorney General William Barr issued a memorandum to all U.S. attorneys, law enforcement agencies and top ranking Justice Department officials announcing the imminent implementation of a new “national disruption and early engagement program” aimed at detecting potential mass...

There's a news article on the consequence of legalizing discrimination on the grounds of "sincerely held religious beliefs or moral convictions". So, was this the intended consequence of the Mississippi legislators when they brought it in three years ago? I have very little doubt at all....

This is just plain heroic, there's no better word for it. What a guy. Europe went borderless within the majority of its area, I'd be delighted if Mr Zhakata's vision comes about in Africa too. It's a matter of justice that the principle of open borders extends fully across the planet but...

The BBC has started making reference to the LGBTQIA+ community (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-48730483). This is beyond unsayable. I have tried reeding the passage aloud and whether I use the letters or the full text (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex or...

I think - I may be wrong, it's only a suggestion - that if you handed round a questionnaire asking what aspects of eighteenth century life were moral outrages on a scale way past any other, the most common answer would be slavery. My other suggestion is that if you ask the same question about...

No, no, this belongs in 'political discussions'. Give it a moment. Just after I finished reading this article (https://consortiumnews.com/2018/10/24/facebook-censorship-of-alternative-media-just-the-beginning-warns-top-neocon-insider/) a certain song popped into my head. This isn't necessarily...

I don't believe we should have ever had troops in either Afghanistan or Iraq. We should have bombed Saudi Arabia instead. "Recently, the crimes of the Saudi government managed to pierce the Trump-all-the-time-Kanye-West-sometimes media-entertainment complex due to Riyadh’s likely murder of...

Donald Trump said he would donate one million dollars to a charity of her choice if Elizabeth Warren would take a DNA test proving she had Native American lineage. She did, she does, and now he doesn't want to pay up claiming he never said it.

Has anyone here been following the events regarding the US Supreme Court hearings? After watching both Ford and Kavanaugh, I find it difficult to imagine Kavanaugh on the SCOTUS. Kavanaugh's behavior strikes me as that of a guilty person, and also that of an alcoholic. Also, the antics of...

"The idea of “whistleblowing” has been in the news a great deal. Is the anonymous author of a recent New York Times op-ed eviscerating the president a whistleblower? Is the victim of an alleged sexual assault by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh a whistleblower? I’m fortunate to...

Robert Sheer of Sheer Intelligence interviews Lori Wallach on the changes made by the Trump NAFTA negotiations. I found it informative. "Championed by Ronald Reagan and ultimately enacted by Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, the pact has hollowed out the manufacturing industry,...

Heh heh. Always knew it to be the case. Dogs are much smarter than cats, international team of researchers conclude | The Independent (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/dogs-more-brain-power-cats-pets-scientists-study-a8084746.html)

Several popular themes in modern entertainment fiction cover the idea people being controlled by outside forces. The Zombies notion has been very popular. The Invaders from Mars, or a recent mini series, "Brain Dead" covered the notion that alien elements had taken over the minds of people. ...

There are 6 innocent British Veterans being held in jail in India. They could be there for another 4 or more years. This video has been compiled by Yvonne Machugh from Glasgpw, along with other wives, to try to bring this awful injustice more into the general public's eye. What I'd like to...