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The Inevitable Civil War begins America - all of it
From: Jenifer (Zarknorph)
1/8/21
Former commissioner says 'racial component' involved in US Capitol turning down offer of help from Pentagon
Three days before supporters of President Donald Trump rioted at the US Capitol, the Pentagon asked the police if they needed National Guard manpower. The offer of FBI agents was also turned down.
Read more from www.abc.net.auFrom: Jenifer (Zarknorph)
1/8/21
'Storm the Capitol': Trump supporters openly planned US Capitol violence online for weeks
Questions are now being asked about whether social media companies could have shut down these groups earlier or done more to de-escalate the violent rhetoric on their platforms.
Read more from www.abc.net.auFrom: CamGeary
1/8/21
What, if anything, do you know about Radio New Zealand? I caught them once on shortwave and am an occasional listener to RNZ Concert via Tunein...
From: el gringo (ramseylurker)
1/8/21
From: Apollonius (Theocritos)
1/8/21
Jenifer (Zarknorph) said:No, it's like PBS.
Or like our CBC. A propaganda site for entrenched bureaucracies and those who feel they're so smart and important that they really should be addressing the General Assembly of the United Nations.
From: Apollonius (Theocritos)
1/8/21
The carnival in the Capitol | Spectator USA
You don't take a big wooden spear to a protest if you have an earnest plan to storm Capitol Hill. Yet inarguably they did storm Capitol Hill
Read more from Spectator USAGreat analysis. Also linked to therein by the author:
How camp explains Trump
On the still strangely underappreciated nature of the outgoing president's appeal
Read more from theweek.comFrom the article:
Camp, according to Sontag, "sees everything in quotation marks." It also depends upon "flamboyant mannerisms susceptible of a double interpretation; gestures full of duplicity, with a witty meaning for cognoscenti and another, more impersonal, for outsiders." This is what the fact-checking crowd never understood: Trump's off-the-cuff superlatives, both positive and negative, were part of a performance. The hysterical reaction of journalists, especially those who assume that such statements are capable of being judged in some coldly objective, quantitative manner, to his assertion that he has done more for African Americans than any president with the possible exception of Lincoln is the point, and so is the breathless defense from figures like Candace Owens.
I like this:
One thing Sontag does not mention in her essay is that politically speaking camp belongs decidedly, if not with any especial degree of conviction, to the right. Mussolini with his pouting lips and burlesques of classical architecture was a camp figure in a way that no left-wing dictator could be. Margaret Thatcher was camp, and so was Silvio Berlusconi. Camp is incompatible with progressive politics because its assumption of a hierarchy of understanding between those who do and do not "get it" is inherently anti-egalitarian, and with modish liberalism because it rejects moralism. (The polar opposite of right-wing camp is Aaron Sorkin.)
From: el gringo (ramseylurker)
1/8/21
What to know about Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, who died from injuries after pro-Trump riot
Capitol Police officer Brian D. Sicknick died from injuries sustained in the attack on the U.S. Capitol. Here's what we know.
Read more from USA TODAYFrom: el gringo (ramseylurker)
1/8/21
Apollonius (Theocritos) said:Are we keeping score?
US attorney's office opens federal murder probe into Capitol police officer's death: reports
Federal authorities will open a murder investigation following a Capitol Police officer's death after Wednesday's riots at the Capitol, according to multiple media reports.
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