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    Quote Originally Posted by goldfly View Post
    brilliant hot takes
    More like inconvenient truth bombs.
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    yeah

    toxic masculinity only happens in the arab/muslim world



    btw, none of your posts in the global event thread are global events
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    Quote Originally Posted by thethe View Post
    More like inconvenient truth bombs.

    you claim i am a liberal

    you know i am a secularist

    and you say people like me choose islam over iranians

    your math is a perfect example of 2+2=5
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    Quote Originally Posted by goldfly View Post
    brilliant hot takes
    Not to mention blatant falsehoods.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jpx7 View Post
    Not to mention blatant falsehoods.
    no doubt

    addressed that in post 425
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    By 2065, non-Hispanic whites will only make up 46% of the (U.S.) population -- and no one racial or ethnic group will comprise a majority, experts project. Hispanics will be 24% of the population; Asians will be 14%; blacks will be 13%. Asians will also supplant Hispanics for the largest share of the foreign-born population, experts expect.

    America is changing. Bigoted slurs, immigration bans and racist rallies can't change that
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    13 Siblings, Some Shackled to Beds, Were Held Captive by Parents, Police Say

    range in age from 2 to 29 — in the foul-smelling house in Perris, Calif., living in the dark without access to adequate food or water, the department said.
    The sheriff’s office said that the 17-year-old girl who called 911 looked to be 10 years old.
    run a private school, the Sandcastle Day School, at the family’s home, a one-story stucco house in a subdivision built in recent years. The school enrolled six students this year, in grades six through 12, and Mr. Turpin was listed as the principal.
    Said to be a good christian home


    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/15/u...tionfront&_r=0
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    When you believe in a magic man in the sky there is no telling what kind of nonsense they can be convinced of. The overwhelming majority of the people in prisons are Christians. If I was a judge I would thow the book at people who said they found Jesus to try and get a lighter sentence. "You found Jesus? Well now your getting the max penalty so you should have that bible memorized by the time you get out, your welcome".



    I hope it's in my lifetime that we am finally get rid of church's tax exemption. Many of them want to put just about everyone who doesn't follow their beliefs in prison so they should atleast help pay for those prisons.
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    While everyone focuses on Russian influence, China continues to make it's move:

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...=.b04bbce67a1b
    As part of a broad effort to interfere in U.S. institutions, China tries to shape the discussion at American universities, stifle criticism and influence academic activity by offering funding, often through front organizations closely linked to Beijing.

    Now that aspect of Beijing’s foreign influence campaign is beginning to face resistance from academics and lawmakers. A major battle in this nascent campus war played out over the past six months at the University of Texas in Austin.

    After a long internal dispute, a high-level investigation and an intervention by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), the university last week rejected a proposal by the leader of its new China center to accept money from the China United States Exchange Foundation (CUSEF). The Hong Kong-based foundation and its leader, Tung Chee-hwa, are closely linked to the branch of the Chinese Communist Party that manages influence operations abroad.


    https://www.economist.com/news/leade...s-best-defence
    WHEN a rising power challenges an incumbent one, war often follows. That prospect, known as the Thucydides trap after the Greek historian who first described it, looms over relations between China and the West, particularly America. So, increasingly, does a more insidious confrontation. Even if China does not seek to conquer foreign lands, many people fear that it seeks to conquer foreign minds.

    Australia was the first to raise a red flag about China’s tactics. On December 5th allegations that China has been interfering in Australian politics, universities and publishing led the government to propose new laws to tackle “unprecedented and increasingly sophisticated” foreign efforts to influence lawmakers (see article). This week an Australian senator resigned over accusations that, as an opposition spokesman, he took money from China and argued its corner. Britain, Canada and New Zealand are also beginning to raise the alarm. On December 10th Germany accused China of trying to groom politicians and bureaucrats. And on December 13th Congress held hearings on China’s growing influence.

    This behaviour has a name—“sharp power”, coined by the National Endowment for Democracy, a Washington-based foundation and think-tank. “Soft power” harnesses the allure of culture and values to add to a country’s strength; sharp power helps authoritarian regimes coerce and manipulate opinion abroad.

    Like many countries, China has long tried to use visas, grants, investments and culture to pursue its interests. But its actions have recently grown more intimidating and encompassing. Its sharp power has a series of interlocking components: subversion, bullying and pressure, which combine to promote self-censorship. For China, the ultimate prize is pre-emptive kowtowing by those whom it has not approached, but who nonetheless fear losing funding, access or influence.

    China has a history of spying on its diaspora, but the subversion has spread. In Australia and New Zealand Chinese money is alleged to have bought influence in politics, with party donations or payments to individual politicians. This week’s complaint from German intelligence said that China was using the LinkedIn business network to ensnare politicians and government officials, by having people posing as recruiters and think-tankers and offering free trips.

    Bullying has also taken on a new menace. Sometimes the message is blatant, as when China punished Norway economically for awarding a Nobel peace prize to a Chinese pro-democracy activist. More often, as when critics of China are not included in speaker line-ups at conferences, or academics avoid study of topics that China deems sensitive, individual cases seem small and the role of officials is hard to prove. But the effect can be grave. Western professors have been pressed to recant. Foreign researchers may lose access to Chinese archives. Policymakers may find that China experts in their own countries are too ill-informed to help them.


    http://www.scmp.com/news/china/socie...t-independence
    US hotel giant Marriott said it is in the process of sacking an employee for “wrongfully liking” a Twitter post by a group that supports independence for Tibet in its latest effort to calm a storm of criticism sparked by a company survey that referred to the Chinese region, and self-ruled Taiwan, as countries, Chinese state media reported.

    Craig Smith, president and managing director of Asia-Pacific for Marriott International, made the announcement at a meeting with the China National Tourism Administration on Friday, Xinhua reported.

    Wang Xiaofeng, deputy director of the administration, said listing Tibet, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan as countries was an infringement of China’s territorial integrity and hurt the feelings of the Chinese people.

    He said the hotel group should learn from the experience and do all it can to minimise any negative impact.



    The message seems clear enough.
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    If anyone remembers this





    http://www.latimes.com/world/mexico-...115-story.html



    Venezuela police look to have killed the rebels. Perez's last message to the world was that he was trying to surrender but the government wont stop shooting.
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    http://www.newsweek.com/mexico-marin...-border-786250



    Mexican soldiers executed 3 US citizens.
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    Quote Originally Posted by thethe View Post



    Trump visiting Germany?
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    Quote Originally Posted by cajunrevenge View Post
    Trump visiting Germany?
    LOL worthy here. Well done.
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    Yeah I couldn't resist although I think people go way overboard based on a joke he made in what he thought was s private conversation.




    On another note I take all the foreign events with a grain of salt if it's not a decent source. Random guy on Twitter doesn't have much credibility with me.
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    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...ource=Facebook



    Police in Rotterdam Denmark are beginning a new program where they will rob you of your clothes if you look poor but wear expensive clothing. I can only imagine how American police would abuse this.
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    Where were all these attacks before 9/11?
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