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Sept 3, 2022 8:05:13 GMT -8
Post by mhbruin on Sept 3, 2022 8:05:13 GMT -8
One nice thing about egotists: They don't talk about other people The Death of CNNJohn Harwood is leaving CNN. The sudden departure does not sound like a planned career move; it is most likely a firing, a firing enforced by the new management at CNN, which lately seems to have taken a sharp right turn. This follows on the heels of the firing of Brian Stelter few weeks ago. Network insiders recently told The Daily Beast’s Confider that staffers feel that right-leaning billionaire John Malone, a key Warner Bros. Discovery board member, was behind Stelter’s firing in an effort to make CNN more “centrist.” Additionally, staffers feel that Billionaire John Malone is “indirectly dictating an agenda” to new CNN chief Chris Licht and fear more layoffs and cutbacks down the road to make the network “more vanilla.” The coverage of the Biden speech by CNN was downright from the republican playbook. The changes at CNN look politically motivated. Ignoring the Content of Biden's Speech, He Echoes QOP Phony Outrage |
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Sept 3, 2022 8:08:12 GMT -8
Post by mhbruin on Sept 3, 2022 8:08:12 GMT -8
Change "White" to "Muslim" and Who Does This Sound Like?Most of Patriot Front recruitment begins online, in gaming chat rooms, message boards, or social media channels where they seek out young white males seething with various resentments. Part of its marketing, as Stephen Piggot of the Western States Center told Ryan, involves creating video packages aimed at younger audiences. Simultaneously, he says, much of their appeal involves the group’s emphasis on translating the ideology into real-world action. Recruits are particularly drawn in by Patriot Front’s emphasis on creating “young warriors” and a “warrior elite,” Moon said. This includes an emphasis on fitness and diet, and is manifested in the real-world paramilitary training sessions it organizes. Behind a neofascist façade, Patriot Front is really just another ‘white nationalist pyramid scheme’Need a Hint? Here it IS IS.
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Sept 3, 2022 8:10:33 GMT -8
Post by mhbruin on Sept 3, 2022 8:10:33 GMT -8
Vysokopillya. That’s the town (pre-invasion population around 4,000) on the northwestern edge of Russia’s area of control which has long represented more of the most secure, fortified positions for Russia in the region. Reports that Russian forces in Vysokopillya were under attack by Ukrainian troops go back to May, and for over a month it has seemed that the Russian forces inside the town had been isolated as Ukraine freed surrounding villages and all but cut off Vysokopillya from resupply or reinforcement. On Friday, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense issued a statement saying that Ukrainian forces have “established positions in the town” and that Russia no longer controls Vysokopillya. In addition, some images and footage from the area has appeared which seems to clarify the status as of Friday. One of those is video of a warehouse being shelled, in the middle of a series of warehouses, light factories, and agricultural buildings, which reportedly represents one of the last positions of Russia in Vysokopillya. Looking at a map, reports that Russia is limited to the “southern edge” of the town seem to come down to just a few buildings at the very tip.  The image above is Vysokopillya. That red circle represents the area where any remaining Russian forces appear to be isolated. This looks to be a sort of reversal-in-miniature from the kind of position we’ve seen before, with Ukrainian troops desperately clinging to the last position in a city or town. It’s unclear if this group of buildings contains anything like tunnels or hardened locations. It’s honestly hard to know if there are any Russians remaining as of Saturday.
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Sept 3, 2022 8:13:34 GMT -8
Post by mhbruin on Sept 3, 2022 8:13:34 GMT -8
Three Months of War
The biggest chunk of red is that area in the Donbas which Russia occupied immediately following the fall of Severodonetsk. Otherwise, their advances have been very small. Russia has actually done a better job of retaking territory north of Kharkiv than they have advancing in the east.
Over in Kherson, you can see that red bulge which is that area where Russia has pushed forward between Snihurivka and Kyselivka. Everywhere else in Kherson, Ukraine has advanced. Ukraine has also made significant movements in Zaporizhzhia. That total change means that all the area taken by Russia in the last three months would fit within the city limits of Huntsville, Alabama or Lexington, Kentucky.
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Sept 3, 2022 8:15:21 GMT -8
Post by mhbruin on Sept 3, 2022 8:15:21 GMT -8
What's Not There is Scarier Than What Is There. What documents were in those folders? Where are they now?
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Sept 3, 2022 8:17:01 GMT -8
Post by mhbruin on Sept 3, 2022 8:17:01 GMT -8
How Weird Is It to See Bill Barr Speak the Truth?
Don't Expect to See Him on Fox (or CNN) Soon.
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Sept 3, 2022 8:18:05 GMT -8
Post by mhbruin on Sept 3, 2022 8:18:05 GMT -8
I Wonder Why
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Sept 3, 2022 8:20:05 GMT -8
Post by mhbruin on Sept 3, 2022 8:20:05 GMT -8
QOP: "It's the Foreigners, Stupid!"
In GOP ads, ‘invasion’ language is everywhere
When Republicans are asked about midterm election campaign issues that make them squirm, they have a ready answer. Never mind abortion rights or Donald Trump’s legal travails, they say — we’re running on inflation. The GOP will win control of Congress on gas and grocery prices, and that’s what they’re laser-focused on.
But over the airwaves and online, another story is playing out: an absolute torrent of ads meant to frighten and anger voters about immigration.
A new report from the pro-immigration group America’s Voice seeks to document this ongoing phenomenon. One of its key conclusions: “Republicans have made their nativist narrative a top messaging priority.”
In the world of Republican campaign ads, very little has changed since the xenophobic Trump presidency, and some of what’s in these ads is truly repellent.
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Sept 3, 2022 8:24:35 GMT -8
Post by mhbruin on Sept 3, 2022 8:24:35 GMT -8
QOP New Levels of Crazy (And Losing)
Brian Kemp’s Running Mate Is a Fake Elector
Georgia's governor makes nice with MAGA by embracing the election deniers who think he cheated Trump.
Georgia Republican Governor Brian Kemp gets a lot of credit for resisting pressure from former President Donald Trump to “find the votes” to flip the 2020 election results in his state. But that was then. Today, Kemp stands shoulder-to-shoulder with one of the state’s top election deniers. That man is his running mate, the GOP candidate for lieutenant governor, Burt Jones.
Jones signed on as a false elector in the scheme to squeeze former Vice President Mike Pence to reject electoral votes on January 6th. Because of this, he is now a target of the Fulton County district attorney’s criminal investigation into Trump’s broader efforts to interfere in the 2020 election.
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Sept 3, 2022 8:28:42 GMT -8
Post by mhbruin on Sept 3, 2022 8:28:42 GMT -8
Stupid White People: I Guess They Never Saw James Earl Jones Play King Lear
Brandon Morse has read J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit,” the “Lord of the Rings” series and watched extended editions of Peter Jackson’s ring trilogy so often that “I can almost quote them all line for line.”
But Morse is dreading a new addition to the Middle-earth canon that he says “perverts and corrupts” Tolkien’s mythical medieval universe because TV showrunners have committed this storytelling crime:
They are trying to “woke-ify” Amazon’s new series, “The Lord of the Rings: “The Rings of Power.”
Morse is deputy managing editor of RedState, a conservative news site. He says “The Rings of Power” producers have cast non-White actors in a story based on European culture and who look wildly different from how Tolkien originally described them. He says it’s an attempt to embed “social justice politics” into Tolkien’s world.
The makers of “The Rings of Power,” which premiered Friday, promise viewers plenty of epic battles. Yet some of the biggest battles surrounding the Amazon Studios series have erupted offscreen. Middle-earth fans and scholars like Morse have clashed in online forums and dueling op-eds over this question: Does casting non-White actors enhance the new series, or is it a betrayal of Tolkien’s original vision?
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