The wingnut agitators organizing Saturday's circle jerk in Boston forgot one important thing: People. …
Monday, August 21, 2017
Outraged webmaster tears down Charlotteville marcher's porn site
The website, AlisaKiss.com, now only displays a message denouncing Alisa Kiss for promoting racism.
According to the website Bleeding Cool, she marched alongside the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis in Charlottesville with her partner, Jonathon Norris.
“This site is now closed,” her website now reads.
Mother Of Charlottesville Victim Receiving Death Threats As Dumbass Trump Emboldens White Supremacists
Since the attack, Susan Bro has spoken out loudly against the
hatred put on display in Charlottesville and criticized Dumbass Trump's
despicable response.…
If You Hit Protesters With A Car, Wingnuts Want To Protect You
For the wingnut cabal, protesting is un-American. Too bad that’s what the country’s founded on.
Circle jerking neo-Nazis: Mentally ill or just terrible people?
The idiots carrying flaming torches and chanting “Jews will
not replace us” last weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia, bore the
message of the “alt-right,” the name given to the white supremacist
movement dedicated to eradicating religious and ethnic minorities from
America.
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And, the answer to the Title question? YES.
Charlottesville organizer pens vile ‘payback’ tweet aimed at Heather Heyer
The
organizer of the violent Charlottesville “Unite the Right” circle jerk
tweeted vicious insults aimed at Heather Heyer, who lost her
life a week ago.
Sunday, August 20, 2017
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Today in History
| 917 | A Byzantine counter-offensive is routed by Simeon at Anchialus, Bulgaria. | |
| 1619 | The first group of twenty Africans is brought to Jamestown, Virginia. | |
| 1667 | John Milton publishes Paradise Lost, an epic poem about the fall of Adam and Eve. | |
| 1741 | Danish navigator Vitus Jonas Bering, commissioned by Peter the Great of Russia to find land connecting Asia and North America, discovers America. | |
| 1794 | American General “Mad Anthony” Wayne defeats the Ohio Indians at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in the Northwest territory, ending Indian resistance in the area. | |
| 1847 | General Winfield Scott wins the Battle of Churubusco on his drive to Mexico City. | |
| 1904 | Dublin’s Abbey Theatre is founded, an outgrowth of the Irish Literary Theater founded in 1899 by William Butler Yeats and Lady Gregory. | |
| 1908 | The American Great White Fleet arrives in Sydney, Australia, to a warm welcome. | |
| 1913 | 700 feet above Buc, France, parachutist Adolphe Pegoud becomes the first person to jump from an airplane and land safely. | |
| 1914 | Russia wins an early victory over Germany at Gumbinnen. | |
| 1940 | After a previous machine gun attack failed, exiled Russian Leon Trotsky is assassinated in Mexico City, with an alpine ax to the back of the head. | |
| 1940 | Radar is used for the first time, by the British during the Battle of Britain. Also on this day, in a radio broadcast, Winston Churchill makes his famous homage to the Royal Air Force: “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” | |
| 1941 | Adolf Hitler authorizes the development of the V-2 missile. | |
| 1944 | United States and British forces close the pincers on German units in the Falaise-Argentan pocket in France. | |
| 1953 | The USSR publicly acknowledges it tested a hydrogen bomb eight days earlier. | |
| 1955 | Hundreds are killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco and Algeria. | |
| 1960 | The USSR recovers 2 dogs, Belka and Strelka, the first animals to be launched into orbit and returned alive (Sputnik 5). | |
| 1961 | East Germany begins erecting a wall along its western border to replace barbed wire put up Aug 13; US 1st Battle Group, 18th Infantry Division arrives in West Berlin. | |
| 1964 | US President Lyndon Baines Johnson signs the Economic Opportunity Act, an anti-poverty measure totaling nearly $1 billion, as part of his War on Poverty. | |
| 1968 | Some 650,000 Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia to quell reformers there. | |
| 1971 | The Cambodian military launches a series of operations against the Khmer Rouge. | |
| 1974 | US Vice Pretender Ford, who had replaced Spiro Agnew, assumes the Office of the Pretender after Nixon resigns; Ford names Rockefeller as VP. | |
| 1978 | NASA launches Viking 1; with Viking 2, launched a few days later, it provided high-resolution mapping of Mars, revolutionizing existing views of the planets. | |
| 1979 | The Penmanshiel Diversion on the the East Coast Main Line rail route between England and Scotland opens, replacing the 134-year-old Penmanshiel Tunnel that had collapsed in March. | |
| 1980 | UN Security Council condemns Israel’s declaration that all of Jerusalem is its capital; vote is 14-0, with US abstaining. | |
| 1982 | A multinational force including 800 US Marines lands in Beirut, Lebanon, to oversee Palestinian withdrawal during the Lebanese Civil War. | |
| 1986 | Part-time mail carrier Patrick Sherrill shoots 20 fellow workers killing 14 at Edmond Okla., the first mass shooting by an individual in an office environment in the US. His actions give rise to the phrase “going postal,” for sudden violent outbursts. | |
| 1990 | Iraq moves Western hostages to military installations to use them as human shields against air attacks by a US-led multinational coalition. | |
| 1991 | After an attempted coup in the Soviet Union, Estonia declares independence from the USSR. | |
| 1993 | Secret negotiations in Norway lead to agreement on the Oslo Peace Accords, an attempt to resolve the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. | |
| 1994 | Miracle, the Sacred White Buffalo, is born on the Heider Farm near Janesville, Wisc. The first white (not albino) buffalo born since 1933, she was a important religious symbol for many US and Canadian Indian tribes. | |
| 1998 | The Supreme Court of Canada rules Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government’s approval. | |
| 1998 | The US launches cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical plant in Sudan in retaliation for the Aug. 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. | |
| 2002 | A group of Iraqis opposed to the regime of Saddam Hussein seizes the Iraqi Embassy in Berlin; after five hours they release their hostages and surrender. |
Scientists discover how magic mushrooms make psilocybin
Drones will fly into the path of the eclipse to study weather
Why NASA is chasing the total solar eclipse with jets
NASA is preparing to study the total solar eclipse on Monday, 21 August,
by chasing the path of totality with jet planes. By doing so, the space
agency should be able to capture the clearest ever image of the sun’s
outer atmosphere—its corona. NASA: Three-mile-wide asteroid set to pass Earth
Clouds on brown dwarfs move in mysterious ways
Charlottesville an American 'Guernica'?
Germans see echoes of their struggle with history as they reflect on Charlottesville
By honoring those who died doing forced labor for Adolf Hitler’s regime and learning their stories, pupils gain a clearer, more visceral understanding of their country’s crimes 75 years ago.
Who really is General Pershing?
"Study what General Pershing of the United States did to terrorists when caught. There was no more Radical Islamic Terror for 35 years!" Dumbass Trump tweeted.
While it was not 100 percent clear exactly what the president is referring to in the post, he has talked about Pershing ridding an area of terrorists in the past. And the claims he made about Pershing's tactics were widely debunked as false.
First, Troll And Disarm Fascists
Nonviolence works by diverting the oppressor
into a series of moral confrontations that they cannot win, eventually
defeating them in detail.
‘My life is over’
"People have a right to know if their neighbor is a violent neo-Nazi
just as much as they would if their neighbor was a violent sex
offender."
‘Based Stickman’ faces a year in prison for beating counter-protesters with a baton
Arizona woman shocked when dog with swastika painted on its head arrives at her door
Phoenix’s KPNX said that the woman — who asked to go unnamed — was immediately seized with fear due to the fact that she is of Hispanic heritage and her adopted children are racially mixed.
Saturday, August 19, 2017
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Today in History
| 1493 | Maximilian succeeds his father Frederick III as Holy Roman Emperor. | |
| 1587 | Sigismund III is chosen to be the king of Poland. | |
| 1692 | Five women are hanged in Salem, Massachusetts after being convicted of the crime of witchcraft. Fourteen more people are executed that year and 150 others are imprisoned. | |
| 1772 | Gustavus III of Sweden eliminates the rule of parties and establishes an absolute monarchy. | |
| 1779 | Americans under Major Henry Lee take the British garrison at Paulus Hook, New Jersey. | |
| 1812 | The USS Constitution earns the nickname “Old Ironsides” during the battle off Nova Scotia that saw her defeat the HMS Guerriere. | |
| 1914 | The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) lands in France. | |
| 1934 | 38 million Germans vote to make Adolf Hitler the official successor to President von Hindenburg. | |
| 1936 | Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca is shot by Franco’s troops after being forced to dig his own grave. | |
| 1942 | A raid on Dieppe, France by British and Canadian commandos is repulsed by the German Army. | |
| 1944 | In an effort to prevent a communist uprising in Paris, Charles De Gualle begins attacking German forces all around the city. | |
| 1950 | Edith Sampson becomes the first African-American representative to the United Nations. | |
| 1957 | The first balloon flight to exceed 100,000 feet takes off from Crosby, Minnesota. | |
| 1965 | US forces destroy a Viet Cong stronghold near Van Tuong, in South Vietnam. | |
| 1974 | US Ambassador to Cyrus Rodger P. Davies is assassinated by a sniper of the Greek Cypriot paramilitary group EOKA-B during a demonstration outside the embassy in Nicosia. | |
| 1976 | Ford, who had become Pretender of the United States after Nixon resigned, wins the wingnut cabal’s pretender nomination at Kansas City convention. | |
| 1987 | The Hungerford Massacre takes place in the UK; armed with semi-automatic rifles and a handgun Michael Ryan kills 16 people before committing suicide. In response, Parliament passed the Firearms (Amendment) Act of 1988 banning ownership of certain classes of firearms. | |
| 1988 | A cease fire begins in the 8-year war between Iran and Iraq. | |
| 1991 | Communist hard-liners place President Mikhail Gorbachev under house arrest in an attempted coup that failed two days later. | |
| 2002 | A Russian Mi-26 helicopter carrying troops is hit by a Chechen missile outside of Grozny, killing 118 soldiers. | |
| 2003 | The Shmuel Hanavi bus bombing occurs: a suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem kills 23 Israelis, some of them children, and wounds 130. Islamist militant group Hamas claims responsibility for the attack. | |
| 2004 | Google Inc. stock begins selling on the Nasdaq Stock Market, with an initial price of $85; the stock ended the day at $100.34 with more than 22 million shares traded. | |
| 2005 | A supercell weather pattern hits Toronto: a series of thunderstorms spawns several tornadoes and causes flash floods in Southern Ontario. Losses exceed $500 million Canadian dollars, the highest ever in the province. | |
| 2010 | Operation Iraqi Freedom ends; the last US combat brigade, 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, leave the country. Six brigades remain to train Iraqi troops. |
Natalee Holloway disappearance
Truck driver formally indicted for 10 immigrant deaths in Texas
James Bradley Jr., 60, was given a five-count indictment that included charges of transportation of undocumented aliens resulting in death and conspiracy to transport aliens resulting in death. If convicted on these charges, he could face up to life in prison or death, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas said.
Four things the average citizen can do to counter hate after Charlottesville
Internet firms shift stance, move to exile white supremacists
The wave of internet crackdowns against white nationalists and
neo-Nazis reflected a rapidly changing mindset among Silicon Valley
firms on how far they are willing to go to police hate speech.…
'Patently false’
Idaho state Rep. Heather Scott defended white nationalists by claiming that racism is not part of the movement. Eclipse will bring out more weird behavior in humans than in animals
‘It’s alive!’
Well, almost: Frankenstein monster may be missing dinosaur link
A
hole in the historic record of dinosaurs may have just been filled
thanks to the finding of a new species that experts are calling a
“Frankenstein’s monster.” The odd beast had the looks of … Read more
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