Below is a list of selected publications in English from CVAP-associated researchers. For a list including publications in Danish and other Scandinavian languages, see here.
Otjes, S. and Rasmussen, A. (2015) 'The Collaboration between interest groups and political parties in multi-party democracies: Party system dynamics and the effect of power and ideology', Party Politics, OnlineFirst.
Kasper Møller Hansen & Karina Kosiara-Pedersen. Cyber-Campaigning in Denmark: Application and Effects of Candidate Campaigning. In Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 2014, Issue 11, pages 206-219.
Hansen, Kasper M. (2011): The Effect of Political Campaigns - Overview of the research Online Panel of Electoral Campaigning (OPEC). Paper prepared for the XV NOPSA Conference, University of Tromsø, 6-9 August 2008.
Hansen, Kaper M. & Pedersen, R. T. (2011): Efficiency of different recruitment strategies for web panels. International Journal of Public Opinion Research. doi:10.1093/ijpor/edr020, pp. 1-12.
Bhatti, Yosef & Erikson, R.S. (2011): ' How Poorly are the Poor Represented in the US Senate? ', i PK Enns & C Wlezien (eds.) , Who Gets Represented? , New York: Russell Sage Foundation, pp. 223-246.
Bhatti, Yosef & Hansen, Kasper Møller (2011): ' Who 'marries' whom? The influence of societal connectedness, economic and political homogeneity, and population size on jurisdictional consolidations ', European Journal of Political Research , vol 50, no. 2, pp. 212-238 .
Bhatti, Yosef (2010): ' What Would Happen if we Were Better Informed? Simulating Increased Knowledge in European Parliament (EP) Elections ', Representation , vol 46, no. 4, pp. 391-410.
Bille, Lars (2010): ' Denmark ', European Journal of Political Research , vol 49, no. 7-8, pp. 947-954.
Hansen, Kasper Møller (2010): ' The Equality Paradox of Deliberative Democracy: Evidence from a National Deliberative Poll ', in MR Wolf,, L Morales & K Ikeda (eds.) , Political Discussion in Modern Democracies , vol. 61, Routledge/ECPR studies in European political science, vol. 61, London: Routledge, pp. 26-43.
Hoff, Jens Villiam (2010): ' Review of Stephen Coleman & Jay G. Blumler: The Internet and Democratic Citizenship: Theory, Practice and Policy. Cambridge University Press, 2009 ', Information, Communication & Society , vol 13, n0. 8, pp. 1230-1232.
Hoff, Jens Villiam (2010): ' The Danish eID Case: Twenty years of Delay ', Identity in the Information Society , vol 3, no. 1, pp. 155-174.
Hoff, Jens Villiam (2010): ' Election Campaigns on the Internet: How are Voters Affected? ', International Journal of E-Politics, IJEP , vol 1, no. 1, pp. 22-40.
Hoff, Jens Villiam (2010): Local climate protection programmes in Australia and New Zealand: results, dilemmas and relevance for future actions, CIDEA Project report no. 1, Copenhagen: Det Samfundsvidenskabelige Fakultets ReproCenter.
Theories of Fascism Reconsidered: Populist Right-Wing Extremism in Europe 1980-2008. Bryder, Tom. Konferencepapir for American Political Science Association Annual Conference, 2009, 30 sider.
Exit, collective action and polycentric political systems. Kurrild-Klitgaard, Peter. I: Public Choice, vol. 143, nr. 3-4, 2010: s. 339-352.
Changing Patterns in the Impact of Information on Party Choice in a Multiparty System. Kasper M. Hansen. I: International Journal of Public Opinion Research, vol. 21, 2009, s. 525-546.
Lindberg, B., Rasmussen A. and Warntjen, A. (2008) 'Party Politics as Usual? The role of political parties in EU legislative decisionmaking', Journal of European Public Policy 15(8).
Critical Theory in a Swing: Political Consumerism between Politics and Policy. Bang, Henrik. I: Governance, Consumers and Citizens : Agency and Resistance in Contemporary Politics. red. Mark Bevir ; Frank Trentmann. Houndmill, Basingstoke : Palgrave, 2008. s. 191-231.
Denmark. Pedersen, Karina. I: Encyclopaedia of European Elections. red. Yves Déloye ; Michael Bruter. Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave, Macmillan, 2008. s. 71-76.
National level electoral thresholds: problems and solutions. Bischoff, Karina S. I: Electoral Studies, 2008, vol. 28, nr. 2: 232-239.
The History of Parliamentary Democracy in Denmark in Comparative Perspective. Jakobsen, Uffe. I: The Politics of Democratization in Europe, eds. Kari Palonen et.al., Ashgate, 2008, s. 301-316.
Negative Campaigning in a Multiparty System. Kasper M. Hansen. I: Scandinavian Political Studies, vol. 31, nr. 4, 2008, s. 408-427.
Expert Citizens in Celebrity Publics. Jørgensen, Signe Kjær; Bang, Henrik. I: New Publics without Democracy. red. Henrik Paul Bang ; Esmark Anders. Frederiksberg : Samfundslitteratur, 2007. s. 173-208.
Denmark. Bille, Lars. I: European Journal of Political Research. 2007 ; vol. 46, nr. 7-8, Oxford: s. 938-942.
The Xenophobic Theme in the Danish Politics 2001-2005. Bryder, Tom. I: Extrême droite et pouvoir en Europe - The extreme right parties and power in Europe. red. Pascal Delwit ; Philippe Poirier. Bruxelles : Editions de l'Université de Bruxelles, 2007. s. 291-308 (Science Politique).
Electioneering in Cyberspace. Pedersen, Karina. I: The Baubles of Office : The New Zealand General Election of 2005. red. Stephen Levine ; Nigel S. Roberts. Wellington, New Zealand : Victoria University Press, 2007. s. 236-248.
The Impact of Party Organisational Changes on Democracy. Pedersen, Karina; Allern, Elin H.. I: West European Politics. 2007 ; vol. 30, nr. 1, s. 68-92.
How deliberation makes better citizens : The Danish Deliberative Poll on the euro. Hansen, Kasper Møller; Normann Andersen, Vibeke. I: European Journal of Political Research. 2007 ; vol. 46, nr. 4, s. 531-556.
The Effects Of Incentives, Interview Length, and Interviewer Characteristics on Response Rates in a CATI-Study. Hansen, Kasper Møller. I: International Journal of Public Opinion Research. 2007 ; vol. 19, nr. 1, Spring. s. 112-121.
The Sophisticated Public : The Effect of Competing Frames on Public Opinion. Hansen, Kasper Møller. I: Scandinavian Political Studies. 2007; vol. 30, nr. 3, s. 377-396.
Local Political Culture and Use of Local Media: Is There a Relationship? Hoff, Jens Villiam. 2007. 28 s. Konferencen: Annual Conference of The European Group of Public Administration, Madrid, Spanien, 19. september 2007 - 22. september 2007.
A Model for the Strictest Scrutiny?: The Danish European Affairs Committee in a Party Group Perspective. Jensen, Henrik S. I: Democratic Governance and European Integration: Linking Societal and State Processes of Democracy, red. Ronald Holzhacker; Erik Albæk. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2007. s. 207-228.
E-democracy in Denmark: black clouds on a blue sky? Hoff, Jens Villiam. I: Internet, governance and democracy: democratic transitions from Asian and European perspectives. red. Jens Hoff. Copenhagen : NIAS Press. Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, 2006. s. 1-19.
Assessing strength and weakness in legislatures: the case of Denmark. Damgaard, Erik and Henrik S. Jensen. In: Journal of Legislative Studies, 2006; vol. 12, nr. 34, s. 426-442.
Europeanisation of executive-legislative relations: Nordic perspectives. Damgaard, Erik and Henrik S. Jensen. In: The europeanisation of parliamentary democracy. red. Katrin Auel; Arthur Benz. London : Routledge, 2006. s. 92-109.


Ah! Those who celebrate or sell their crafts I'm sure you know just how I feel, because the holiday season is fully upon us and I hope you're all prepared. I know that I started months ago, getting the gifts for my relatives together. See, I'm one of those people who gets so behind that people have been known to receive Groundhog Day gifts from me. Yep, I've been that far behind before. It also doesn't help that I don't live near family so I don't feel the pressure to stick to a time table. I'm great with deadlines, as long as they exist.
Not this year, though. I'm on top of things. However, my mother just wanted a gift card, which is nice because that's super easy. I can't send just a gift card, though, can I? What kind of crocheter would I be? Only kidding. I wanted her to feel special though so I sad down last week and worked out a design for this candy cane inspired gift card drawstring bag. It's pretty easy, once you get the color changing down. Or you could do it one color, or alternate rows of colors. I think when I get a chance I'm going to make this into a huge bag. Who doesn't love a large drawstring bag for, I don't know… yarn?
This pattern is worked in the round, from the bottom up in 2 sections (the Base and Sides), with a slip st into the first st of a rnd.
The ch-1 at the beginning of the rnds does not count as a stitch.
Color A is red/ green and color B is white in the photos.
All of the stitches in this pattern are single crochets. The directions will only tell you what color (ie: Color A, Color B, etc…) and the number in the parentheses will tell you how many single crochets to make.
I know the pictures don't show it, but the card actually fits down inside the bag and you can cinch it closed.
Rnd 6 is worked into the back loop only all the way around. Rnds 7 – 21 are not.
Every stitch in the Sides section is a single crochet, because of this the directions will only tell you what color (ie: Color A, Color B, etc…) and the number in the parentheses tells you how many single crochets to make.
Fasten off with both colors. Weave in all your ends.
Ch 65 and fasten off. Pull tight on the final ch and create a knot.
Weave this through the ch 1 spaces on row 21. I created a bow, by just tying the ch but you can add pom poms or tassels if you'd like. It's up to you!
love the stripe! too awesome 🙂 thanks for the pattern!


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Leslie E. Silverman is a shareholder at Fortney & Scott, LLC where she counsels and advises clients on complying with workplace laws, dealing with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, other government agencies and Congress, and on a wide range of workplace issues, including harassment, pay equity, disability discrimination, employment screening, and diversity and inclusion. Ms. Silverman represents clients before the EEOC and other government agencies and conducts high-level investigations. She is currently serving as an consent decree monitor in connection with EEOC sexual and racial harassment and disability discrimination class action settlements and on a Fortune 50 company's external diversity advisory board.
Ms. Silverman served as the Vice Chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission until September 2008, and as a Member of the Commission starting in 2002. As a Member of the EEOC, Ms. Silverman oversaw the development and approval of enforcement policies, authorized litigation, and issued Commissioner's charges of discrimination.
While at the Commission, Ms. Silverman initiated and led the EEOC's Systemic Task Force, which examined the EEOC's efforts at combating systemic discrimination. In April 2006, the Commission unanimously adopted the Task Force recommendations. Ms. Silverman also helped spearhead the Commission's examination of discrimination against workers with caregiving responsibilities, and this effort culminated in the issuance of EEOC enforcement guidance. During her tenure on the Commission, Ms. Silverman led an effort to expand and enhance the EEOC's mediation program in partnership with the American Bar Association.
Ms. Silverman served on the Society for Human Resource Management's Labor Experts Panel from 2009-2014. She has also served as an EEO expert in a number of private-sector diversity initiatives, including the Center for Worklife Law's Family Responsibilities Discrimination Management Brain Trust; the Center for Work-Life Policy's "Hidden Brain Drain" Task Force; the Society for Human Resource Management's 2008 Leadership Summit on Diversity and Inclusion Issues in the 21st Century; and the World Diversity Leadership Summit. Ms. Silverman served on a special expert's panel charged with addressing gender diversity at the United Nations, and in 2008, Ms. Silverman was a member of the U.S. Delegation to the United Nations' Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in Geneva.
Immediately prior to joining the EEOC, Ms. Silverman served for five years as Labor Counsel to the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee under Chairman James M. Jeffords and Ranking Member Judd Gregg. As Labor Counsel, Ms. Silverman was responsible for the oversight of the EEOC and the Department of Labor and for handling all employment discrimination, Fair Labor Standards Act, and Family Medical Leave Act legislation on behalf of the Committee.
Ms. Silverman is a frequent speaker on EEO law and the EEOC, both in the United States and abroad.


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Ondersnijden is een techniek bij het kanovaren waarbij de voor- of achterpunt tijdens het draaien onderwater geduwd wordt.

Het ondersnijden is ontstaan vanuit de kanoslalom. Aanvankelijk werd slalom gevaren in kano's met veel volume waarbij de gehele kano door het poortje moest zijn voordat er gedraaid kon worden; de palen mogen immers niet aangeraakt worden. Iemand ontdekte dat als zowel de voor- als de achterpunt van de kano zeer laag (plat) zijn gemaakt, het draaien al mogelijk is voordat de kano door het poortje is gevaren, de punt draait dan onder de paal door. Op deze manier kan er een kortere route gevaren worden, bovendien is de kans op het aanraken van de poortjes kleiner.

Om te ondersnijden is een kano nodig met een platte punt. De kano wordt bij het draaien enigszins schuin gehouden, de lage kant naar de draairichting toe. Wanneer de kanovaarder ook met zijn gewicht een beetje naar de kant leunt waar de kano onderwater geduwd moet worden "hapt" de kano daar als het ware in het water. Als een mes dat schuin door het water beweegt snijdt de punt nu steeds dieper het water in.

Tegenwoordig wordt het ondersnijden voornamelijk gebruikt om kort te kunnen draaien. Omdat de achterpunt onderwater komt en de kano schuin in het water komt te staan wordt de draaicirkel van de kano kleiner, op deze manier kunnen snellere en kortere bochten gemaakt worden. Bovendien geeft de kano bij het horizontaal komen weer enige kracht in de voorwaartse richting.

Ondersnijden wordt ook gebruikt bij andere kano onderdelen zoals: kanopolo en freestyle.

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Filmpje met een demonstratie van ondersnijden

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Steve WaiChing Sun
The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Associate Professor of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
wsun@columbia.edu
https://www.poromechanics.org/
Center Affiliations
Sense, Collect and Move Data Affiliated Member
Materials Discovery Analytics Affiliated Member
Professor Sun's research interests are in the mechanics and physics of geological and porous materials such as soil, rocks, concrete and salt. His work mainly focuses on computational poromechanics and geomechanics for a wide spectrum of applications ranging from field scale applications such as geological storage of carbon dioxide, hydraulic fracture, geological disposal of nuclear waste, vehicle-soil-water interaction to micro-scale simulations of the 3D printing processes and fragmentation and fracture of a single crystal grain. Sun's research group specializes in the creation, derivation, implementation, verification and validation of theoretical and computational models for engineering applications. His research group acts as a bridge among mathematical science, theoretical mechanics and engineering industry. The research group's representative works include but not limited to the development of solution techniques for predicting brittle-ductile transition of porous media, coupled deformation-diffusion in non-isothermal saturated and unsaturated porous media, formulations of stabilized mixed-field finite element model for large deformation multiphysics problems, modeling and homogenization of mechanical and hydraulic properties of porous media from CT images, digital rock and granular physics, modeling freezing and thawing of geological materials under the changing climate, and interdisciplinary innovative of mathematics concepts and ideas, such as graph theory, Lie algebra, and data-driven and machine learning approach for computational mechanics and geophysics problems.
Sun obtained his B.S. from UC Davis (2005); M.S. in civil engineering (geomechanics) from Stanford (2007); M.A. degree from Princeton (2008); and Ph.D. in theoretical and applied mechanics from Northwestern (2011). Prior to joining Columbia, he was a senior member of technical staff in the mechanics of materials department at Sandia National Laboratories (Livermore, CA). He is the recipient of the John Argyris Award (2020), NSF CAREER Faculty Development Award in 2019, ASCE EMI Leonardo da Vinci Award in 2018, the Zienkiewicz Numerical Methods in Engineering Prize in 2017, US Air Force Young Investigator Program Award in 2017, the Dresden Fellowship in 2016, US Army Young Investigator Program Award in 2015, and the Caterpillar Best Paper Prize in 2013, among others. Sun's research group has been sponsored by National Nuclear Security Administration, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative, Army Research Office, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, Sandia National Laboratories, and Columbia University, among others.

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This morning in New York City, Amazon will unveil a brand new, color screen reader or tablet. At least that's the current thinking. It may be called the Amazon Kindle Color, The Kindle 4 or, simply, Amazon Fire (in keeping with Amazon's love of pyrotechnic metaphors).
Amazon's reps aren't saying what the product will be called. In fact, they're not even acknowledging the existence of a product. Regardless, the Seattle-based online retail giant does not summon the media to the Big Apple for a software update or new offers program on its Kindle e-ink reader.
No matter what Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos finally unveils at 10 a.m. ET, Mashable will be there, doing this live blog, giving you the play-by-play. Christina Warren and I will report about what we see onstage and on the floor, and editors in the home office will add color commentary. [Note: If you'd prefer to only view Mashable's comments in the live blog below, click on the Options button in the live blog widget, then turn comments off.] Where possible, we'll show you what we're seeing with photos. All of us will do our best to answer your questions. So sit back and enjoy, and don't forget to tell us in the comments if you want what Bezos is selling.


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Stranger Things' Bob Returned For Bizarre Netflix Video, And We're Confused
By Corey Chichizola
While Netflix has a ton of original content for its subscribers, there are a few shows that stand out among the rest. Perhaps the biggest flagship property in the streaming service is The Duffer Brothers' Stranger Things, which became a surprise hit when it premiered back in Summer of 2016. The show's second season hit this past fall, greatly expanding the world of Hawkins and overall scope of the conflict. Stranger Things 2 also introduced a handful of new characters, the best of which being Sean Astin's sweetheart Bob Newby. Good news for the fans: Bob is back... kinda. Netflix released a quirky new clip with Sean Astin, while also bringing back Dustin's cat Mews-- which got eaten by Dart. You really have to see it to believe it.
Well, ok then. This funky digital short saw Sean Astin and Mews watching their respective death scenes. It was quirky and unexpected, although you don't have to ask me twice to have Sean Astin do basically anything. That includes giving peer therapy to a cat about its fictional death.
The video opens with Seasn Astin and Mews on the couch, gearing up to work through their shared emotional trauma. Astin pats the kitty's paw, helping to comfort it when watching Dart kill and eat it onscreen. Mews was Season 2's first fatality, and proved that Dustin was way over his head with the growing demodog Dart.
While this interaction was cute enough, the video got a little more bizarre when Sean Astin watched Bob's horrifying death from Stranger Things' second season. He had a hard time watching Bob be brutally ripped apart at Hawkins Lab, but luckily Mews is there to help him. The cat pats his hand gently with its paw, mirroring the previous image of the two departed characters.
Bob was one of the most highly anticipated aspects of Season 2, and audiences were eager to find out the character's true allegiance. While some fans theorized he could be a mole for Hawkins Lab, he turned out to be a regular old Radioshack employee and overall sweetheart. He eventually risks his life to save Joyce and the others, and meets his grisly end in front of her eyes. It was the most heartbreaking moment of Season 2, and certainly harkened back to Barb's death in Season 1. Funny enough, the Duffer Bothers had previously teased that Bob would be the new Barb of the show, we just didn't know how literally it would all go down.
It's currently unclear when Stranger Things will return for its third season. The Mindflayer is coming, and this time it's not going to kid around. In the meantime, check out our summer premiere list to plan your next binge watch. Plus our superhero premiere list and Amazon premiere list to ensure you don't miss a single episode.
Corey Chichizola
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Corey was born and raised in New Jersey. Double majored in theater and literature during undergrad. After working in administrative theater for a year in New York, he started as the Weekend Editor at CinemaBlend. He's since been able to work himself up to reviews, phoners, and press junkets-- and is now able to appear on camera with some of his famous actors... just not as he would have predicted as a kid.
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People were subject to arbitrary arrest and detention by police, and prolonged detention without trial. Excessive use of force by police was reported. Appalling conditions in prisons led to riots.
On 8 March a shoot-out between police in Nampula city and about 300 members of the opposition Mozambique National Resistance (Resistência Nacional Moçambicana, Renamo) resulted in the deaths of a police officer and a Renamo member, and injuries to several others, both police and Renamo. Police had raided the Renamo headquarters where the men had set up camp since December 2011, apparently awaiting orders from the party leader, Afonso Dhlakama, to stage anti-government protests. At the end of October Afonso Dhlakama moved with about 800 men to the Renamo former base in Gorongosa, Sofala province, threatening to return to war unless the government agreed to meet them. In November a government commission was set up to begin dialogue with Renamo. In December, four Renamo members were convicted and sentenced to nine months and 11 days' imprisonment in connection with the March shoot-out. They were released immediately as they had spent that time in pre-trial detention.
On 11 May parliament elected former Minister of Justice, José Abudo, as the first Justice Ombudsman. On 5 September, 11 commissioners of the new National Human Rights Commission were sworn in.
In September President Guebuza was re-elected Frelimo president at the party's 10th congress.
Between February and November, over 20 Asian businessmen and family members were kidnapped in the capital Maputo and held for ransom. The Asian business community alleged that the police were involved in the kidnappings. In September individuals suspected of involvement were arrested and released, apparently due to lack of evidence. Others were arrested in November; no further information was available by the end of the year.
In April the Commander General of Police acted in defiance of a court decision and reportedly stated that he was not bound by the decision of the judiciary with regard to police discipline.
In March, five police officers in Nacala, Nampula province, including the Nacala Police Commander, were arrested in connection with the alleged illegal storage of arms. A judge ordered their conditional release pending investigation, but they were re-arrested and detained by police before again being released after intervention by lawyers. The Commander General of Police stated that police had acted in accordance with the Police Disciplinary Regulation of 1987 and were not bound by the decision of the court. In September the Constitutional Council determined that the provision of the Regulation which the Commander General had relied on had already been revoked.
Police carried out arbitrary arrests and detentions, a number of which were politically motivated. Some detainees were released without charge. None appeared to have received compensation and no police officers appeared to have been held criminally responsible.
Police arrested members of the War Veterans Forum, including its spokesperson, Jossías Alfredo Matsena, who was arrested on three separate occasions. On 10 January he was arrested and released without charge after a few hours. On 19 January he was again arrested, and charged with fraud and threats against a Frelimo district representative. He was tried for fraud and acquitted in March; the charges relating to the alleged threats were dropped in June. On 14 February he was arrested without a warrant while on his way to the offices of the Mozambique Human Rights League. He was held in Machava police station in Maputo province for some hours and transferred to the 1st Police station in Inhambane for two days before being taken to the Inhambane maximum security prison. He was charged with concealment of arms and incitement to violence and held for four months before being released pending trial.
On 18 April, 38 members of the opposition Democratic Movement of Mozambique (Movimento Democrático de Moçambique, MDM) were arrested during mayoral by-elections in the province of Inhambane. They were initially released without charge, but in August were accused of illegal campaigning at polling stations. The detainees said they were distributing food and water for the MDM polling station monitors. On 5 October they were convicted of alleged electoral offences and sentenced to two months' imprisonment without the option of a fine. Seven were tried in their absence.
In July the Maputo Administrative Court ordered the state to pay 500,000 meticais (about US$17,000) in compensation to the mother of an 11-year-old boy who was killed by a stray bullet fired by police during violent demonstrations in Maputo in September 2010. No officer was held accountable. There were further cases of excessive use of force by the police during the year.
In July police shot and killed a 19-year-old man, known only as António, in the city of Nampula. António and a friend were reported to have driven a car into a police vehicle parked outside the 2nd police station in Nampula and failed to stop. Police pursued them and fired, hitting António, who died later. Police authorities told Amnesty International delegates in November that an investigation was being carried out. No further information was available at the end of the year.
In August, the district Police Commander in Ilha de Moçambique, Nampula province, beat a pregnant woman, resulting in her hospitalization. Police authorities said that the Commander had beaten her in his personal capacity during a private dispute. They stated that a disciplinary procedure had been instituted and that an investigation was being carried out. No further information was available at the end of the year.
In at least three prisons in Maputo and two in Nampula, hundreds of people were held without trial, some without charge, for longer than the time legally allowed. Thousands of people remained similarly detained throughout the country.
On 16 February a joint delegation of Amnesty International and the Mozambique Human Rights League found José Capitine Cossa (also known as Zeca Capetinho Cossa) detained without charge or trial in Machava Maximum Security prison. He had been held for over 12 years; the authorities claimed they did not know why he was there. In September the Attorney General informed Amnesty International that José Capitine Cossa had been released on 4 September as his detention had been irregular and that an investigation was being carried out. By the end of the year no one had been held responsible and José Capitine Cossa had not received compensation for unlawful arrest and detention.
Prisoners in Nampula Central Prison and Beira Central Prison rioted in March and September respectively in protest against overcrowding, poor food and health conditions. The Rapid Intervention Force used excessive force during the riots at Nampula Central Prison, which was condemned by the Minister of Justice. Conditions at Nampula Central Prison were harsh, with extreme overcrowding, insanitary conditions, nutritionally inadequate food and poor medical facilities. Similar conditions were recorded in other prisons.
Amnesty International delegates visited Mozambique in February and November.


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The Battle of Algiers is a 1967 Hungarian vintage Pop Art movie poster designed by Arpad Darvas.
The Battle of Algiers (Italian: La battaglia di Algeri; Arabic: معركة الجزائر; French: La Bataille d'Alger) is a 1966 Italian-Algerian historical war film co-written and directed by Gillo Pontecorvo and starring Jean Martin and Saadi Yacef. It is based on events during the Algerian War (1954–62) against the French government in North Africa; the most prominent being the titular Battle of Algiers, the capital of Algeria.
It was shot on location and the film's score was composed by Ennio Morricone. The film, which was shot in a Roberto Rossellini-inspired newsreel style—in black and white with documentary-type editing—is often associated with Italian neorealism cinema.
The film has been critically celebrated and often taken, by insurgent groups and states alike, as an important commentary on urban guerrilla warfare. It occupies the 48th place on the Critics' Top 250 Films of the 2012 Sight & Sound poll as well as 120th place on Empire magazine's list of the 500 greatest movies of all time.
Algeria gained independence from the French, a matter which Pontecorvo portrays in the film's epilogue. The film concentrates on the years between 1954 and 1957 when the guerrilla fighters regrouped and expanded into the Casbah, the citadel of Algiers, which was met by French paratroopers attempting to regain territory. The highly dramatic film is about the organization of a guerrilla movement and the illegal methods used by the colonial power to contain it. A subject of socio-political controversy, the film was not screened for five years in France, where it was later released in 1971. (source: wikipedia.org)


After months of patiently waiting, The 1975 fans can finally rest easy with the release of their newest album with a mouth-full of a title, I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it. Jumping from genre to genre with each song paired with an '80s vibe, lead vocalist Matt Healy discusses topics such as drugs, love and religion with a nostalgic twist.
The first song on the album, a self-entitled "The 1975," was definitely a letdown and started the album on a sour note with prolonged silence followed by a weird chorus of voices followed by more silence and weird choruses. Four tracks in, "A Change of Heart" finally began to redeem the album with a regretful tune riddled with sentiments of a failing relationship. This song will hit a bittersweet chord to listeners who understand Healy's lyrics grappling with the sudden and unexpected change of feelings towards someone you once cared deeply for.
Healy knocks "If I Believe You" out of the park with his blatant questioning of a higher power and asking for proof. It's not uncommon to question religion, and Healy does it candidly while still remaining tactful, asking, "I'm broken and bleeding and begging for help, and I'm asking you, Jesus, show yourself." This is one of those tracks that has the ability to speak to anyone, and Healy performed it masterfully. He dives into his own lack of faith and the impression left on the listener can only be put as heavy.
If that track wasn't enough to get the tears flowing, "Nana" will do a trick. A song dedicated to Healy's late grandmother, "Nana" is a conversation where Healy laments his grandmother's death and questions her existence after it. With lines like "I know God doesn't exist… but I like to think you hear me sometimes," this song exemplifies the unwillingness to let go of those who have let go of this world.
Healy is known for his ego, as noted in his interview with NME when he stated, "I'd rather people think I'm pretentious than not care." He later went on to say, "The world needs this album." That's quite the claim to make, but Healy wasn't afraid to make it. The thing is, 75 minutes of half-way decent songs with a few jam-worthy ones sprinkled in doesn't seem like the type of album the world needs.
While the band is continuing to change the way of music, this album only ranks mid-grade with some blunders and a few hits. Unfortunately, as hard as he might try, Healy never fails to make a cliché out of himself, and I'm afraid this album has followed suit. Several songs scream "try-hard" instead of wowing fans with what Healy took as an album full of ambitious and groundbreaking songs.
While I understand where the writer is coming from in their comments about The 1957's new album the comments also lead me to believe that this is their first encounter with the band and their sound. I have been a fan of The 1975 since I discovered them a few month after their first self titled album came out in fall of 2013 and have been anticipating this second album's release for quite a while. As someone who is quite familiar with the bands sound, unusual as it maybe be, the new album is in my opinion is very such what was expected of the bands sophomore album with a few surprises thrown in that I believe kept all of their fans on their toes. For those who know The 1975's first album recognized the first track on I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it to be the same song that opened their first album as well but re-mastered to flow with the sound of this album which I found to be a very creative away to start it off. I do whole heartedly agree that If I Believe You is one of the most stand out songs of the album not just in its powerful sound but also the lyrics of desperation that anyone who has gone though a hard time can relate to on some level. The album is a beautifully done mix of strong pop tunes, powerful ballads and inventive instrumental tracks which catch your attention from the very first song. This entire entire album for me is a natural transition to a second album and has been a large success for the band by debuting at number 1 in the UK and US.


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Bernd 09/18/2018 (Tue) 11:39:51 [Preview] No. 19362
> "He got tazer!"
> Shot him
Bernd 09/18/2018 (Tue) 11:45:45 [Preview] No.19363 del
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dog bless
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> naked nigga with no guns comming at you
> prophylactical shot
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> be bulgar
> get teamkilled
The day, when tousands dead innocent people get justified
>tfw you will never get shot by a qt American grill
Bernd 10/25/2018 (Thu) 15:43:34 [Preview] No.20266 del
Haha, how come I missed this thread?
also at least it's not anglo or swedish police
Did he got a shot into his chest?
Back in the day I had psychology class and the prof talked about how getting the aggression out of one's system via violence is bullshit as bunch of stabbing case show many wounds instead of one and clearly the rage of the perp wasn't quenched by the first stab. I believe the prof was full of shit for two reasons:
1. immersing into violence works, only the angry person have to tire himself out with it
2. stabbing ain't work like in movies where one stab leads to instant death, irl one needs many stabs (if doesn't know where to stab but this needs cool heda) to kill someone or the vic's agony gets long or even survive the stabbing.
Fukin retards seriously.
There was some stat about how many times armed civilians stop crime to happen.
I also had some vids relevant I think. Will try to dig out them.
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>There was some stat about how many times armed civilians stop crime to happen.
I've saved some infographs on this subject from /k/.
Bernd 10/26/2018 (Fri) 01:42:20 [Preview] No.20282 del
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The cops need better and more potent handguns.
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Am I alone in thinking that "almost committed crime" category is little too elastic to be reliable? Something can only be a crime after the fact, and before it happens it isn't easy to judge a situation would really develop into a crime.
Btw that webm isn't an illustration to my post, just an addition to the thread.
At 15 sec they literally shot the shoe off his foot and it flew 8m behind him.
"Allah akbar, allah akbar, allah aarghh, argh, argh, allah argh, argh" haha.
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Cleveland cops shot this guy in the stomach, and he got up and began attacking them again.
That scene looks and hears fucking ridiculous. At each moment I was expecting it to turn into a comedy gag: Now with your left index finger and touch your right earlobe while singing the national anthem and jumping on your right foot...
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This sanctioned murderer should be behind bars now, and he walked free.
You posted that just above. :^)
I'm losing it. Sorry
Bernd 10/27/2018 (Sat) 05:24:05 [Preview] No.20307 del
You can use .xyz now, you'll get your ball back.
The instructions weren't even clear.
>crawl forward!
Generally people crawl on their four limbs.
I was talking to a police acquaintance about it and he even seemed to think the guy was gonna hang. Basically since they had 2-3 guns trained on him anyway as long as he was down with his hands on his head there was no reason to make him do the whole crawling bit, according to the guy I spoke to about it anyway.
The cop in question will probably never work as a cop again though so that might be a good thing?
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I'm happy he got fired, and will never get a Police Officer position anywhere again, but 20 years behind bars would have been a fitting punishment at least.
It's clear the dude was scared shitless. If I recall it correctly I read on Wikipedia that he was drunk as well. It does seemed he wanted to please the officer I would say even a little too eagerly and assumed things he should do the officer didn't even say. The cop didn't recognize this.
Ofc they got a call that someone shooting with a rifle from that apartment (turned out to be a BB gun) so it could be supposed the dude might have a pistol or something on him as well. But by the looks of that two I can tell from this shitty video alone they're just some fools and not killer psychos. Maybe deserved a good scare and black eye but not this.
Compared to the other videos with negers chimping out their behaviour is extremely timid and cooperative.
I dunno what's my point here maybe that the cop had no idea how to handle this thing beside violence.
He should have realize the dude can't follow his instructions as he had to stop him and restart everything over and over a few times. Maybe he just had to command the dude to stay put laying on his stomach his hand on his head with fingers weaved together and go there and handcuff him.
But since they wanted to get into the apartment and he didn't trusted his answer that noone in there maybe he didn't see it as an option to just walk right up to the door where he was laying. Still they don't look like someone who have armed to the teeth friends hiding and waiting to strike and ambush policemen.
Now I'm just rambling coz I can't make sense of that video.
Bernd 10/28/2018 (Sun) 07:12:53 [Preview] No.20325 del
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Yeah, the officer definitely had some sort of anger issues or authoritative complex. During the internal investigation they found his service rifle had YOU'RE FUCKED engraved into it.
In order for such a situation to flow smoothly, a degree of trust between the policeman and the approached is required. 70 years ago that would have been possible in America, but now it is a low-trust society. That police unit was likely used to facing genuinely dangerous individuals and acted in an accordingly paranoid manner. Such is life in a low-trust society: well-meaning people are prevented from being helpful and innocents get harmed.
Even then, a sane and professional cop could perhaps have overcome pressure, interpreted the situation and realized he wasn't facing a threatening individual. But this man's unstable mind tipped the scales and made it a tragedy.
My thoughts are returning to this video time to times and things comes to my mind such:
1. How confused/scared was the dude it took a while to him to decide which one is his left leg.
2. At the end he really put his right hand behind his back, or at least he started to. Why did he do that? And previously he put both back. Hindsight we know he hadn't had a gun so why did he do it? I guess he had some vague notion - from movies for example - how an arrest goes down, so he might been put his arms back because he waited to be handcuffed, and in the end as well. He thought he can lay down the ground and they will put on the cuffs.
3. Many people really can't follow simple instructions or can be perplexed with simple things. I have two experience with this.
3a. In school I witnessed many times that a teacher asked something extremely simple or obvious from a student who couldn't answer and it felt like he can't believe the teacher asked that and suspected some trick in the question.
3b. Not long ago I saw aquaintance telling his kid to do something who didn't because he didn't want to and the dad left his kid to do what he wanted to and didn't forced his own will on the kid. Then I interjected for a moment and asked the kid - I confess, unkindly but angry - why he doesn't do what his father tells him. His only job is to do just that. Then the kid started to cry and asked forgiveness from his father, that he was sorry. Still in the end he didn't have to do what his dad asked (which was really a simple thing, like "pick up that can!"). Many times I see such scenes when kids shat on what their parents say who left the whole thing at it. No consequences. At one level ofc this way the kids learn to be disobedient and at another level they learn not to follow simple instructions.
4. When was this? Before or after the Las Vegas hotel shooter? If after could this generate some excitement/fear in the cops as they could assume they will confront another one?
5. stuff
Extrapolate your onions.
Bernd 10/31/2018 (Wed) 06:07:16 [Preview] No.20386 del
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>dual wielding
Badass.
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What is school shootin?
Here's a list:
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/02/us/school-shootings-2018-list-trnd/index.html
Just started reading and I found:
>A person was shot on the campus of Savannah State University and taken to a nearby hospital where he later died. Neither the victim nor the shooter were university students
>A 15-year-old boy was shot in the head and a 15-year-old girl shot in the wrist at Sal Castro Middle School in Los Angeles, officials said. Two other students were grazed by bullets. A 12-year-old girl was booked for negligent discharge of a firearm in that shooting, which was considered "unintentional," Los Angeles police said.
>A fight led to a shooting in the parking lot of Lincoln High School, fatally wounding a 32-year-old man.
It's liek when that police shooting statistics includes instances when the officer committed suicide. "Hardly the case what we're talking about!"
Oh the criterion are just in the beginning. All right. The list's parameters are inadequate to define an acceptable category of school shooting.
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I wanted to look up some source on those informationals and I found this site:
http://www.gunfacts.info/
Basically all the things are just copypastes from there.
But I managed to check the source of one "Fact" (2 500 000 Defensive Gun Use per year), "the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Kleck and Gertz, Fall 1995". The note itself is inaccurate as the real source is just an article, a study published in that journal and they didn't note the title of that article. Findable ofc, with simple search the journal will be among the first finds, and from there one can spot the names of the authors and the document is freely downloadable. Pdf related. Engaging read, and the "Fact" seems legit.
Fact: This webpage looks like it was setup up by the gun lobby
It really does look like.
This is why I was curious about the sources. It is only one source I examined but chosen somewhat randomly and that one looks all right.
Now am lying, because I was curious as the informational was taken from /k/ and those dudes are really love their raifus.
Maybe it was just made by activists fighting for their gun rights.
According to their "About" page, it receives no funding from organizations such as the NRA.
/k/ can be very serious and meticulous at times. When an engineering topic is under discussion, it's common to find at least one poster with knowledge in the specific field.
My favourite line on that site can be found in the "Children and Guns" section under the "Myth: Guns in America spark youth violence":
>Thus we have a violence problem – not a "gun" problem.
Honestly there could be some truth to that. We have the same "youth violence" problem in London right now but with knives instead of guns. That's more of a black people problem, though.
Have similar problems with Gypsies. Back in the state socialism a group of typical violent crimes (or the method how they were committed) were belonged to a category of "Gypsy crimes" because almost exclusively were committed by gypsies. Now it's banned as it's not PC, also it's illegal to record by the cops the criminals ethnicity...
Frankly Hungary would be much, much safer without them.
I didn't think you'd have the same problems thanks to le based totally not cucked Orbán. I guess us h'wite people are all the same in the end.
Problems are the same, the name is different. I would say at least they are Christian - some of them at least - but it doesn't really reassure me.
In the communism work and having a job was mandatory, so back then Gypsies had to work too. All right it was an alibi work, everyone had to show up but noone made a sweat but at least they weren't at home or on the streets, this prevented crime and at least kept the settlements safer. And their numbers were low. But since then a new generation grew up who didn't work and could make money out of making kids, even further: making retard kids, because that payed more there are ways to ensure the newborn turns out "handicapped", alcohol, nicotine, paint thinner huffing, beating the mother's stomach etc, and they did it liberally. Getting all kinds of social help sometimes even free housing what they destroyed, sold what's sellable, burn for heating what's burnable Beside that they stole what wasn't nailed down so they could live quite comfortably what counts as comfort for them. Meanwhile they outbreed us. There are certain places, young Hungarians move to western Hungary or Europe, old people remain and the growing number gypsies. We knew this and see this, while the media doesn't talk about it.
With the Fidesz there are some changes, the money they can get free is miserable, harder to get the gibsmedats they are mostly forced to work again, or at least show up and 15 do a job what 2 could in the same time. At least they don't do crimes 8 hours per day. But not all of them have to, they still breed like rabbits and still no real talk about the problem. A bunch of euphemism were invented to substitute Gypsy. Great result.
Oh yeah, raised the number of cops and civilian security organizations for the localities were created at some places.
Funny how the media behaves and hard not to pin it onto some kind of central command. For decades they didn't show faces of criminals and shorten their names when published and they all said: to protect their privacy rights according to the law. No such law were in force ever. Now I think this changed somewhat I'm not sure I only read news to post something here.
I know when the kuruc.info showed up. This is a news site, became close to the Jobbik right at the beginning (one leading member is the owner, or rumored to be), it uses a language which makes it unreadable, repulsive, but back then - about 2005 - started to cover stories about Gypsy crime. Thanks to them many outrageous events could be known and couldn't be silenced. This news site is among the reasons I don't follow the media anymore. I can see what's going on around me in my little world I don't need frustrating news I cannot do about jackshit and frankly noone is willing to do.
There were the infamous "gypsy murders" - reported by every media outlet - when some Hungarians with hunting rifles walked up to some of the poorest gypsies' houses at the end of villages and shot some of them down. People were arrested the case is stretching to this day, sometimes I hear something they were released and/or cleared I don't know what's the latest. There were speculations of course that these were red flag operations. Nevertheless killing a few of them terrorist style doesn't work, even the idiots can see, things have to change on institutional level, but until we play ostrich politics and don't talk about the problem, we can't sit down and do something about it.
Oh time fly by I have to go.
>But since then a new generation grew up who didn't work and could make money out of making kids
Sounds pretty much like our Irish """"""""""travellers""""""""""
>there are ways to ensure the newborn turns out "handicapped", alcohol, nicotine, paint thinner huffing, beating the mother's stomach etc, and they did it liberally.
The idea that people are willing to purposely make their own children retarded for some gibs is pretty fucked up, man.
>killing a few of them terrorist style doesn't work, even the idiots can see, things have to change on institutional level
This is something I think is true about the immigration crisis, too. Immigration itself isn't the problem, but it's a merely a symptom of a much larger problem.
>pretty fucked up
They do/did all kinds of dirty tricks to maximize the cash they can get from the state. That's the dirtiest for sure.
They also give/gave their kids into state care and then adopted by some relatives (who lives next door anyway) because for every kid the adoptive parents can/could get a nice sum last time I heard about it it was very close to the minimum wage[spoiler] for every [spoiler]for 4 kids they could almost get minimum wage * 4 per month.
I don't know the most recent regulations so this is why I write in present/past tense.
>merely a symptom of a much larger problem.
Very true. To both case, immigration and Gypsies. We can let migrants in or erect fences to stop them as much we want it won't solve anything.
I'm not sure what would be the best in the case of Gypsies. For my heart, I would really just deport them. Push them out of the borders and force them to go wherever they want. Once a bunch of them went to Strasbourg to cry how oppressed they are on the Hungary. They stayed there but after a bunch of theft and cons they were sent back with the first train... But I really would let the westerners get them and enjoy their colorful and rich culture.
However this isn't really a solution. Maybe integration could work for some degree but what I have in mind on that front - serious segregation, selection, regulation of having children (basically eugenics), strict education, forced labour, clean life etc - the sensitive liberal heart couldn't handle. Also could take a few generations.
Amerigans just keep getting shot.
turan gang for deporting unwanted elements of society.
Brice of Freedum.
Amis sind und bleiben eben Untermenschen.
Bernd 10/21/2019 (Mon) 19:46:06 [Preview] No.30768 del
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>be american
>get shot
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hate when people get shot by retarded cops, aren't they suposed to be fucking trained for theese things, but when the moment of truth comes they act like that nazi german shooter did a few weeks ago shooting random people in the street, even if they were white, wich he was supposedly defending
Additional information: he had a realistically looking BB gun. So it's all justified.
America's doing good, they just recruit all the violent extremists in the pawlice force, so all the shootings will be legal now.
But to be serious for a moment: how they don't see it, that the US doesn't have gun problem or "imageboard problem". She has violence problem. They should solve that and all the other will go away.
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He'd be alive today if he just complied with the Police orders, and didn't act like a retard
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The US has a mental problem, with the police.
Most people that join the police or atleast this type of units that have assault rifles go there "to be badass and kill the bad guys", this of course is a completly ideotic idea, but it makes them scared of the guys who they are detaining/whatever they were doing with the poor hobo, because they don't consider him a human being, they only see a possible bad guy who will hurt them because thats what evil people do.
So they didn't went to him to detain the hobo, they went to him to kill the bad guy, "but if he complies we might detain him instead".
2-Population: 7,1% of the population has depression, and since in burgerland
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>2-Population: 7,1% of the population has depression, and since in burgerland
wops
>He'd be alive today if he just complied with the Police orders, and didn't act like a retard
It's sad that this is the way they think, IMO police should never shoot if they are not shoot before, when you join the police you accept that you can get killed so deal with it, if he takes out a gun try to de-escalate the situation don't just fucking kill him, most humans don't whant to kill another human and most likely he's just scared as fuck
vid talking about most people not wanting to kill another human being https://youtube.com/watch?v=QwyrgQrRjvY [Embed]
americans have fucked up physcology. even if you take their guns, they will find a way to fuck up. it's saddening they have the world hegemony and our idiots imports their shit.
American hegemony is starting to crumble, we can already see this with their failed coup in venezuela and the protests against the us-backed Chile's goberment
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Is the punishment of not following orders death?
But that's not why he was shot, the bb gun was in his pants and it seemed he reached for it. He might just wanted to fix his pants or whatever but that was enough. I think the officer was pissed for the dude not doing what he said, and that was an excuse to shot him.
There was no intention in the policemen to diffuse the situation. They were just bad.
In vid related on other hand... hats off to them, this is more than patience.
Haha, Lllloyd. We have a whole thread just about that topic here: >>8950
There were many pictures with an illustration for the text here and there, but due to faulty database they're all gone now. I believe the book is on Library Genesis, but I think I can upload it if it's needed.
>the protests against the us-backed Chile's goberment
Do you have any proofs on the Chilean government being backed up by the US, or are you just assuming because they're capitalists they're an US colony?
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It's Cold War again.
Finally, I can post this pic.
It's cold war but replace the USSR with China.
>American hegemony is starting to crumble
But their cultural influence only getting stronger. I mean, their popular culture is everywhere, all these spidermans and other comics things, black and wannabe-black rappers, SJWs and other moral crusaders. It is hard to avoid this not only in English-speaking communities, but even locally nowadays.
>all these spidermans and other comics things,
Don't kid yourself. American media is more likely safe and trite so every culture already believes anything they peddle. I saw Captain America: Civil War and none of my friends even understood the position of Cap, it was too nuanced.
>government oversight and surveillance bad!
>too nuanced
Do Scandinavian countries just find it hard to swallow in general that people do not trust their government? I find this a common trend in the likes of Sweden and Norway, it's almost adorable how naive some of them are about the nature of Big Government.
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I meant to say that the US was friendly towards them, looking back, it wasn't the best choice of words.
jej
American culture replaced european culture many years ago, besides the influence of these things (SJW and shit like that) is generaly exagerated in the internet by /pol/ in order to sell their world view, as a person who has lived in many provinces in spain I haven't many SJW irl, even thou Spanish /pol/ says that they are everywere
That's really not even the same question as with you federalists who already surrendered to an EU-style "big government" and inherit your entire world view from that kind of context. When our high-tax states have to spend their time managing the public spending instead of pressing a button to decide who in the private sector it should be subsidized to, they have little time to target individual citizens with bureaucratic bullshit. The additional top layers in federal governments on the other hand seem to exist to have nothing but time in their hands.
In Scandinavia you don't usually get vindictively punished for saving a life at the cost of breaking the law, which is what Cap does to harbor a fugitive (Bucky) who's about to be killed by a foreign operator (Black Panther) on American soil. We can probably assume Cap isn't going to go hang for it in the movie either, but his position is to do the crime in the first place. What I hear from moviegoers is commonly along the lines of "sucks, but he should obviously just let Bucky die".
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All right, I don't know whats the word on other chans but this one is full of pure coincidences.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50942664
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Settlement%2C_Texas
Church of Christ congregation in White Settlement, Tarrant County (Texas).
What Bernd gathered about this?
Wow that's a lot of familiar names. I'd like to know who the attacker was and what was his motives but from what I see now it's unknown.
You think that was some kind of revenge or just someone memeing?
>Church of Christ (Christchurch, New Zealand)
>Tarrant county (Brenton Tarrant)
>Elevation 666 feet
FAKE!!!
It's all just happenstance. It was just a random white bum ofc.
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/30/us/texas-shooting-hero-jack-wilson/index.html
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/30/us/texas-shooting-keith-thomas-kinnunen-profile/index.html
I like how this topic is covered by Mr. Amir Vera. And the reading suggestion at the end of the BBC's article. Was journalism reporing the facts ever?
>Kinnunen it was the Finns
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Oh, this is genius.
Look at the header of these and the previous two CNN articles, timestamps and authors. How they smuggled Mr. Amir Vera with time among the authors of these articles. He's just the perfect man for the job, black and Muslim (or Amir/Emir is that popular name among non-Mulsims).
I can just imagine how these companies are just having these guys around with these diverse background to throw into the fray when it's necessary. The battle of opinion forming, the great struggle of our time.
The previous two is also on the list actually.
>Kinnunen
Oh fug he's Finnish.
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Here's the nigga, who got shot.
What I don't understand those three cops around why couldn't they restrain him, why did they let him walk around the car? All of them jerking out their pistols, why can't they hit his thigh muscle with a baton instead? They had to learn techniques to restrain people, no? Here policemen do. Srsly, wtf?
Btw, he is alive, but paralyzed. They shot at him seven times, four hit him.
I cant help to think of technocracy about all the police things. I've heard from several sources about "citizen police" aswell. My guess is, in a technocratic society police aren't of any use since AI controls everything and is the police, judge and law. So this is just propaganda, to make people feel this vitriol disgust against the police.
Same with politicians and bureaucrats. There is no room for them in a technocratic tyranny.
>technocracy
That depends how a technocracy would be constructed. And also how we define technocracy.
>AI controls everything and is the police, judge and law
As for now one entity cannot fill all those shoes, srsly tyrannical and people wouldn't agree on that. Protip: the govt telling you wear your fucking mask on public transport isn't tyrannical, the abolition of the separation of power is trannical.
But in this context how do you define law? The legislation?
I think the base police force in the US is undertrained thugs or worse undertrained and undereducated civvies in uniform who can't handle themselves (and definitely not others) in a stressful situation.
In a civilization money power rules it all. When coins and paper cash is gone, and everyone has a chip to pay for things there is no need for any external force.
5G is there to connect everyone with everyone else, the hivemind. You might argue that we are already living in a hivemind, and in a way we already are. I was drinking my (raw) eggs and milk today for breakfast and my colleagues were worried I might catch salmonella. I asked if salmonella is a town in Italy. They didn't see the humour in that. So everyone is thinking the same, dresses the same, acts the same. What if they also (with a brainchip or altered DNA/RNA) feels the same? What if they can feel the starvation of a niglet in africa and thus thinks that rationing of the food is a perfectly sensible thing to do?
Saying you're gonna catch salmonella is just a routine thing. You can tho, not from the raw egg, but the chickenshit on the shell. Although stuff can get through the shell it isn't insulates hermetically.
The others with the brainchip and stuff I won't comment, it's pure fantasy. Oh I just commented.
>it's pure fantasy
Because I could tell you a bunch of things gonna happen tomorrow but no matter how sure they will happen they would be just stuff I come up with and right now they only exist in my heda.
What you wrote is similar, except it contains more assumptions.
Anyway, my point was originally, that the US police is underfunded, they should spend more on them to get better human material to pick it as a career and to give them better training.
I don't think even in a possible future when all payments will be digital (I refuse to believe in chip implants, it's easier to do it with some gadget, like smart phones) simply penalization via the ability to make payments will result in the abolishment of the police force. Criminals don't give a rats ass about retribution, and those who commit crimes because they get agitated (eg. someone gets pissed at another and punch him in the beak) also don't give a shit in the heat of the moment. And even if solely digital payment will exist, there will be ways to get around of it.
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>gets prop gun
>shoot people
Sadly no video. Is LiveLeak still alive?
https://securebooks.in/2021/10/22/alec-baldwin-rust-shooting-live/
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no video for it me thinks
No, no videos in the links, just articles.
I think the "live" meant: live updated of the story.
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Stolen from Bernd.group.
Nice little addition.
Okay, he's got a knife. Okay he brandished it. Maybe he can walk just decided to roll, so counting on him staying seated isn't a 100% bet. Maybe if he entered it would have been harder to diffuse the situation.
But in that fuckin moment, how is it not possible to use a non-lethal way of dealing with him?
Just grab the baton and hit his hand so he can't drive that mobility chair on and disable lel him to use his knife with one action.
Or taze him.
I bet all the officers train with gun with religious fervor, and spend little thought on practicing other ways of handling people.
That neger with the knife who got shot (and survived) and the event caused the Kenosha riots also could have been neutralized differently. I have no doubt Hungarian police could have dealt with the situation - and I don't have too much regards toward them or have overinflated trust in their capabilities. But I do believe they are thugs enough to beat up people who would use knife against them, without themselves being harmed.
People who work in some profession often have thing called "professional deformation". For police it is specifically valid: when everything in your life is filled by pretty specific kind of people, you start to expect everyone be like them, and often begin acting like them (because there is no other way). It requires serious amount of will to prevent yourself from becoming thug when every person you interact is a thug who rarely understands anything except force. Especially considering that people who go to police already aren't big humanitarians either.
American police has specific local problem: they work in environment full of armed people who don't care about prison sentences and may shoot on sight just for fun, especially in some ghetto regions. So they already have deformed enough personality that forces then to shoot first and think later. It saves them in most cases, but when case is different they just can't act in other way.
I think any amount of training would be useless for US police until they'll fix their complex system problem with crime-ridden regions, but there is no reasonable solution in sight.
>no doubt Hungarian police could have dealt with the situation
I guess that if you fill Hungary with large amount of weapons and people who don't afraid to use them everyday, your police also would transformed to something like this in few years.
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>For police it is specifically valid...
That's true.
>specific local problem
>especially in some ghetto regions.
Sure. But in this particular case above, that person did not look like a gangbanger preparing for a drive-by in his mobility chair.
>crime-ridden regions
This is important, not all areas are Detroit, or south central LA. The real gun crime ridden parts are localized.
Maybe there is one more component of the problem. What I see these videos that they seem precarious in the beginning, they let the thing spiral out of control to the point where they have to use deadly force. Here's the shooting that triggered the Kenosha riots (and the Rittenhouse case) >>39518
Maybe their uncertainty comes from the general disdain projected towards the police and the feeling they have to cover their asses, and they are afraid to do what's necessary early because they might be afraid of being called out for police brutality (even tho it would be just a beating what they do). Damned if you do, damned if you don't situation.
>I guess that if you fill Hungary...
Maybe. I don't hear much about shootings, even tho we have plenty criminals, and criminal elements who arm themselves, so something must happen.
It's not that hard to get weapons legally (sanity and background check essentially - sames in the US), but probably the prices are high in comparison to wages (last time I heard complains from a pal that hunting rifles are expensive, no idea about other weapons).
Criminals have their own channels, especially in organized crime.
Can this theory of professional distortion apply to this as well?
https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=VG0wfPMMR4k
https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=1iuuyg94-yI
>73 years old woman with dementia and "sensory aphasia" leaves a store with ~$14 worth of items (candy bar, detergent, t-shirt, "be less white" soda), she gets thrown to the ground several times, "are you ok? it's ok, the blood is hers", her arm is twisted behind her back, arm fractured, shoulder dislocated, "here comes the pop! hear the pop?", then handcuffed to a cell for about 5 hs.
She wasn't shot, unlike that wheelchair man, but can a pig really confuse a tiny babushka in bright daylight like this with a tough criminal in a dangerous situation?
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>but can a pig really confuse a tiny babushka in bright daylight like this with a tough criminal in a dangerous situation
I think it is no about confusion, but about mindset. They see people not as humans but as potential criminals and "work material", and see themselves as people who have power to do everything they want.
I.e. they do it because they can, and they have no problems with it. Even those who don't really have official power, like commercial security in shops or offices, often act similar way. Maybe it is about seeing yourself not equal than others in some perverted way, or just basic monkey instinct to use violence to establish yourself in hierarchy.
That is why it is better to avoid people who works in such professions (police, prison guards, etc) when you can, even if it is informal situation and they aren't at work - who knows what happens in their heads. I guess exceptions surely exist, and there must be good and humane policemen, but there is no way to distinguish between them and other types.
Watched the firs vid until they put her into the car at 5:10. Where's the beating starts?
Because up until that point, that's not that bad. Ofc the policeman isn't a doctor or anything who could tell she's not right in the head (and criminals do play that card) and doesn't look like he uses much more force than the situation required, and he also can't judge if her bone structure can't bear that.
Way better than thinking the phone or the candy bar is a firearm and shoot her.
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Anyone else here listens to psytrance/chill?
New Óperentzia album is out, last track is a banger. They fuse the psy-electronic with guest musicians doing Carpathian and Balkan folk music.
https://operentzia.bandcamp.com/album/biohack
Do you mean American cops should listen this and chill? Or accidentally in the wrong thread?
What the fuck, this is hella bugged.
I tried posting this in the music thread, first time it just created a new thread, then this.
Wtf.
End never had such issues.
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>End never had such issues.
Dunno fam. Sometimes the site acts a little random.
I've had some issues when posting before just like Slov >>45891 has
Ok, so you were talking about a mental "unbalance", or out-of-norm out-of-place "balance", resulting from the professional conditioning. Of course, that makes sense
Actually, this explanation is probably within the orthodoxy and in some cases it might be a deliberately sought-after state, just like how part of the military training is to remove from the/some trainees potential reservations that they might have, possibly born out instinctive senses (something like "empathy"), in order to make out of them more effective extensions of the commander's will. Similar training no doubt also is imparted to police, specially considering the growing militarization of civil forces.
The videos don't show any "beating" (as in punching, kicking, etc.) but if you skip around in the videos you can hear and also read subtitles which show that he did realize he harmed her because he makes comments about it. Like asking where some blood came from, or in the video showing the police-station office he asks "did you hear the pop?", they all watch the dude's worn camera and he expectantly announces "here comes the pop!" and "I love it!", he also looks at some documents in his computer discovering that she's 73 and might have mental issues yet the old woman would remain several more hours handcuffed to a cell with an injured arm and shoulder. Seems like he also didn't really need to drop her into the ground again to apply that leg restraint because he says to the fatso something along the lines of just being very eager to finally be able to use it on someone
Of course, way better than being shot 8 times Lol


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US senators are sending a strong signal that they want to punish Saudi Arabia for its role in the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, voting to move forward with legislation that would end US involvement with a Saudi-led war in Yemen.
The World Health Organization says nearly 10,000 people - mostly civilians - have been killed in Yemen since the Saudi-led intervention began. (November 11, 2018) (Reuters)
The US Senate took a defiant stance against President Donald Trump's White House on Wednesday, advancing a measure that would end American military support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen.
Lawmakers agreed by a vote of 63-37 to allow debate to proceed on the resolution after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis failed to sway undecided senators to continue the military support for the war coalition.
The CIA dismissed allegations about the White House, saying the Trump administration did not tell CIA Director Gina Haspel to not attend the briefing for the US Senate on Yemen.
Pompeo and Mattis visited Capitol Hill on Wednesday morning to lobby against the resolution. Emerging from the briefing, Pompeo said the vote would be "poorly timed" as diplomatic efforts to end the conflict are underway.
The vote marks a striking departure from earlier this year when the measure failed, and signals a new bipartisan desire in the Senate for Trump's administration to take a harder line on Saudi Arabia after the murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi was linked to the government in Riyadh, and amid a mounting humanitarian crisis in Yemen.
TRT World's Leone Lakhani has more.
Lawmakers are exasperated with Trump's reaction to the murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, which has been linked to Riyadh, and by the mounting humanitarian crisis caused by the war in Yemen.
"The Saudis have gone off the rails. They've killed more civilians this year than any year prior in the Yemen war," Democratic Senator Chris Murphy told AFP.
"They obviously made a giant strategic error in abducting and murdering Jamal Khashoggi. So, a lot has changed in the last few months to get us to this point."
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said he switched his vote in favor of the resolution because CIA Director Gina Haspel did not testify and could not be grilled on whether Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was aware of the plan to kill Khashoggi.
"The question for me is whether or not the CIA supports the conclusion, with a high degree of confidence, that the crown prince was complicit in the murder of Mr Khashoggi," Graham told reporters.
"I'm not going to be denied the ability to be briefed by the CIA."
Both Mattis and Pompeo said that, after carefully reviewing the intelligence, they could find no direct evidence linking Khashoggi's murder to the crown prince, who is also known as MBS.
"There is no smoking gun," Mattis told Pentagon reporters, stressing he still believes those responsible should be punished.
"We have not changed, (in) that accountability for the murder is our expectation of everyone involved in the murder."
Yemen talks to begin
Peace talks aimed at ending the war in Yemen have been set for early December in Sweden, between Houthi rebels and the UN-recognised government.
Mattis and Pompeo worry a move to cut US support to the Saudis ahead of the summit is poorly timed and could embolden Houthis not to negotiate.
Senator Murphy, however, said Pompeo and Mattis' testimony may have been counterproductive.
"They lost votes this morning," he said.
"They just had no good answers for why Gina Haspel wasn't there. They had no plan to end the war in Yemen."
The conflict in Yemen began with the 2014 takeover of the capital of Sanaa by the Iranian-backed Houthis, which toppled the government of Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi. The Saudi-led coalition has been fighting the Houthis since 2015.
Saudi-led airstrikes have hit schools, hospitals and wedding parties, and the Houthis have fired long-range missiles into Saudi Arabia and targeted vessels in the Red Sea.
Tens of thousands of people are believed to have been killed in the war and UN food agency chief David Beasley said last week that as many as 12 million of the 28 million Yemenis "are just one step away from famine."
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Govt Staff to Face Action for 'Seditious' Posts Online, Nagaland Guv Warns
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Posting of 'seditious and subversive' content on social media by government servants will attract criminal prosecution and disciplinary action, Nagaland governor directs state govt.
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Nagaland Governor RN Ravi has issued an order asking state government employees to furnish lists of their relatives having links to Naga political groups and said the employees will face stern penal and disciplinary action for indulging in "seditious and subversive" writings on social media.
This comes amid a stalemate in peace talks between the Indian government and the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM). Meanwhile, in December last year, the Union Home Ministry declared Nagaland a disturbed area for six more months extending the continuation of the contentious Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA), which has been enforced in the state for decades.
According to a report in The Telegraph, the governor's secretary T. Mhabemo Yanthan, had in an official communiqué to chief secretary Jan-e-Alam on January 16, informed that some government servants were "indulging in seditious and subversive writings challenging the territorial integrity and sovereignty of the country" and posting them on social media platforms. Yanthan added that he has been "directed" to request the Nagaland government to take "serious" cognisance of such activities and "initiate appropriate" legal and disciplinary action against "delinquent" government employees.
Government servants engaging in such activities amounts to a serious offence under the penal law and gross misconduct under service conduct rules, attracting criminal prosecution and disciplinary action including dismissal from service, the communiqué is reported to have said.
A copy of the communiqué was also marked to Union Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla, which suggests that Ravi has kept the Centre involved in the process. Earlier in February last year, another letter was sent from Ravi's office to the chief secretary asking for the compilation of database of state government employees' family members and relatives involved with underground organisations. This came to the front in July 2020 when the Neiphiu Rio-led Nagaland government carified that due to Ravi's direction, it had asked the government servants to declare any underground link of their relative.
Governor's Order Draws Flak
The Naga Hoho, the apex tribal body of Nagas in the state, in a statement issued on Wednesday, termed the directive "another form to dehumanise the Naga people's hopes and aspiration and accused Governor Ravi of trying to criminalise individuals. Asserting that Naga people have the right to freedom of expression with regards to their love for our land and "in doing so it is not to advocate against India but a natural expression of any Naga who have experienced sufferings borne out of conflict and militarisation and continue to bear the brunt of it."
The Naga Hoho further said, "The peace negotiation of two decades going on between the Government of India and the Naga political groups is too precious to be derailed by the lack of sight of a single person."
The Global Naga Forum (GNF), a platform comprising Nagas from professions and places, also condemned the governor's order against government servants and said it violated the right to privacy and freedom of speech. "A country takes over control of a free people, and having created a political system where the people have hardly any other way to make a living except by working for the government, turns around to punish and prosecute its employees for 'sedition' against the Indian government for saying that Nagas have a right to self-determination, while the same government imposes military laws on the people with whom it engages in peace negotiations," the GNF said in representation to the to the chief minister.
"We appeal to your good offices to put an end to the governor's undemocratic, extremely authoritarian orders against Naga employees who are not committing any punishable crime for exercising their right to speak truth to power, without advocating any violence, by asserting the Naga people's basic right of political self-determinatio," the GNF stated. It added that the Indo-Naga relations have come to a "volatile point" due to Governor Ravi's "extremely divisive and provocative manner of running the office.
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The peace talks to resolve the Naga political problem has been stalled because of ties between Ravi and NSCN (IM) turning sour last year. The NSCN (IM) has been in ceasefire since 1997 and had signed a framework agreement to resolve the problem in 2015. Governor RN Ravi is the Centre's interlocutor for the peace talks. The relation between him and NSCN (IM) has reportedly become tensed after he eliminated the possibility of a separate flag and constitution for the community.
In his speech on the eve of the 58th Statehood Day of Nagaland, Ravi said, "The Indian National Flag and Constitution are the pride of the people of India. The Government of India is absolutely clear that there is and shall be only one National Flag and Constitution in India. Anyone talking anything contrary is peddling preposterous lies. They are trying to confuse and mislead the people."
The NSCN(I-M) has sternly held on to its demand for a separate flag and constitution. However, the NNPG, which is a joint body of seven other Naga insurgent groups involved in talks with the central government, has expressed agreement to a solution without a separate flag and constitution.
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'Justice comes with the crack of the whip," is the tag line. And he wields bullwhips as a hobby. Naw, he's no overseer. What connotations could I even imply?
Robert Davis, professor of history at Ohio State University, developed a unique methodology to calculate the number of white Christians who were enslaved along Africa's Barbary Coast, arriving at much higher slave population estimates than any previous studies had found.
Putting together such sources of attrition as deaths, escapes, ransoming, and conversions, Davis calculated that about one-fourth of slaves had to be replaced each year to keep the slave population stable, as it apparently was between 1580 and 1680. That meant about 8,500 new slaves had to be captured each year. Overall, this suggests nearly a million slaves would have been taken captive during this period. Using the same methodology, Davis has estimated as many as 475,000 additional slaves were taken in the previous and following centuries.
The result is that between 1530 AD and 1780 AD there were almost certainly 1 million and quite possibly as many as 1.25 million white, European Christians enslaved by the Muslims of the Barbary Coast.
Of course nobody ever hears about this because under the re-education so fashionable under progressive interpretation, the slavery of whites doesn't fit the communist motivated, anti-American imperialism that is the real target of the attack by those who want to destroy America and the capitalism that drives its economic power. So the slavery argument has been captured to only discuss the practice in America. What is ignored is that once America had freed itself during the Revolution it immediately went to work to free all men which started the Civil War. After the Civil War was a period of westward expansion which highlights the era typically rendered by the cinematic western. It is from this time that the bullwhip came into play not as a plantation guardian, but of individuals facing down the vast open spaces of the American West.
The tag line I use at this site is a quote from my own 2004 novel The Symposium of Justice where the main character Cliffhanger fights off modern slavery by destroying a mind control device designed to interfere with the thinking of a town's citizens and guide them in the proper political direction. The use of bullwhips in the story has nothing to do with slavery or standing over other people—it is about freeing people so that they can think. The use of the bullwhip is to use force to punish bad guys for attempting to enslave civilization. My use of the bullwhip in that story context is to free people, not to enslave them.
Those who chose to revise history are far more dangerous than the perceived slave master who uses a bullwhip to control the black slaves at their southern plantation. The minds of these critics shown at the beginning of this article are made by modern progressives who make movies like Dajango Unchained and the ignorant masses believe wholeheartedly that the filmmaker Tarentino is a scholar who knows much about the slavery argument. But he doesn't. For those who do know, slavery wasn't a black or white condition, it was a product of the times, and white people were just as vulnerable to enslavement as blacks were—yet this is never discussed even though the evidence is quite extensive.
For my own lessons in history it is my proposal that it takes an "overman" to see past the limitations imposed on mankind through thousands of years motivated exclusively by ignorance. It takes such a position to understand why a 2004 book written about white slavery in North Africa by a professor of history at Ohio State was ignored—because it didn't fit the progressive definitions meant to attack American imperialism. It is also meant to ignore the role that Muslims played in that slavery—as Islam is a religion that progressives are advocating as a volatile assailant against the bourgeoisie of world power, the North American continent. Those progressive definitions come straight out of the books of Karl Marx and have no other grounding in reality. To see such contradictions not only takes a student of history, but someone willing to step outside of the current human limitations of personal sensitivity and political concern to see the truth. And the truth is, America freed their slaves, but the rest of the world didn't. Of those other places in the world that promoted slavery so intensely, it was the Muslims who then as they do now, seek to rule over mankind with an iron fist. For me, the bullwhip is a symbol of the American West and the only time in world history that a nation freed itself from a tyrannical past. That symbol needs to be propped up for the world to see so that they too can rise up against their slave masters with a projection of strength that can metaphorically come only from a bullwhip.


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