Crowsbeak posted:

Is hat some protege of Bill Krystal?

Stultus Maximus posted:

The tendency for cops to shoot black people if they have anything that even resembles a gun because "they felt threatened"?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_John_Crawford_III
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Tamir_Rice

Radish posted:

Gun rights are pretty win-win for white people that are terrified of minorities. They get to have access to tons of weapons they will probably never use for self preservation and the perception of an incredibly well armed society allows police to have the benefit of the doubt that every unarmed black person they shoot was holding a gun.

icantfindaname posted:

Japan paid reparations, or at least large amounts of economic aid and low interest loans even if not marked specifically as reparations, to Red China as well as Taiwan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%E2%80%93Japan_relations#1960s


Abe sucks, yeah, but lots of people seem to have a hair-trigger reflex of calling Japan a nation of revisionist war criminal Nazis basically any time the country is mentioned. I think basically every single East Asian country would be considered ultranationalist by most people's standards, Japan is probably the least bad of them, or at least is no worse than the others. From what I can tell the country is pretty racist but actually fairly non-nationalistic, even in TYOOL 2015 after years of lurching to the right a dude lit himself on fire in front of parliament to protest the proposed constitution change

gradenko_2000 posted:

Besides disposable income, are there institutional/systemic barriers to African-Americans arming themselves with guns right now?

Joementum posted:

The mushroom cloud creating a hammer and sickle in the clouds is a nice touch.

Riptor posted:

the statue of liberty: noted landmark of the southwest

Ralepozozaxe posted:

Yeah, money isn't the problem. Any situation where it's okay for a white person to have or use a gun will get a black person arrested and/or killed. Just go find the numbers on when black people try to use the stand your ground defense. They get denied it's use like 99% of the time (also the same for women oddly, only white men can stand their ground)

zoux posted:

What the gently caress?


Hey Jeb, uh...don't listen to this guy.

chitoryu12 posted:

Thankfully we finally released from jail the woman who fired a warning shot and was facing 20 to 60 years in prison for it. Because only white people are allowed to fire guns even close to black people freely.

Associated Press posted:

The jury at her first trial found her guilty after deliberating for 12 minutes.

gradenko_2000 posted:

Besides disposable income, are there institutional/systemic barriers to African-Americans arming themselves with guns right now?

Rexicon1 posted:

Why would Obama nuke New York?

Joementum posted:

The mushroom cloud creating a hammer and sickle in the clouds is a nice touch.

mlmp08 posted:

Yeah, but the U.S. System dates from 1789. Reconstruction was a big deal, but it was achieved via processes and legal foundations that were already present in the 1789 constitution. There's a very, very solid case that Lincoln and Johnson at times operated outside the law, but they are generally given a pass since they were in the process of putting down a well organized, massive, violent failed rebellion against the legitimate law of the land.

UK tells UN of Iranian attempts to buy nuclear technology - report posted:

Britain has informed the United Nations Iranian of attempts a year ago to buy uranium enrichment technology on the black market, it was reported on Thursday.

Such procurement efforts would, if confirmed, represent a violation of UN security council resolutions placing Iran under sanctions, but analysts said they were unlikely to derail a comprehensive nuclear agreement between Iran and six world powers.

Under the agreement, due to be completed by 30 June, Iran would accept strict limits on its nuclear programme, particularly on uranium enrichment, in return for sanctions relief.

In an annual report, obtained by the Reuters news agency, a UN panel of experts responsible for monitoring compliance with the sanctions regime, revealed: “The UK government informed the panel on 20 April 2015 that it ‘is aware of an active Iranian nuclear procurement network which has been associated with Iran’s Centrifuge Technology Company (TESA) and Kalay Electric Company (KEC).’”

KEC is under security council sanctions while TESA is under American and European Union sanctions because of their suspected involvement in developing centrifuges for a uranium enrichment programme banned by the UN.

The UN panel said the British report was too recent to have been assessed independently.

A UK foreign office spokeswoman would not comment on the UN report, but said: “We are committed to negotiating a comprehensive nuclear deal with Iran. However, all UN sanctions on Iran remain in force. Until there is a new UN Security Council Resolution that changes this, all UN member states have a responsibility to enforce these sanctions, including through investigation of possible breaches.”

Mark Fitzpatrick, an expert on nuclear proliferation at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said the revelation did not represent a direct threat to the outcome of the nuclear negotiations between Iran and a six-nation group comprising the US, UK, France, Germany, Russia and China.

“It’s no surprise that Iran has continued procurement efforts for its nuclear programme. The Iranian leadership freely admits it,” Fitzpatrick said. “But this has little bearing on Iran’s trustworthiness to abide by a deal that limits its programme. It would feel an obligation to abide by limits to which it agrees, as opposed to UN security council resolutions which it argues were unjustly imposed on it.”

According to the broad parameters of the nuclear deal provisionally agreed in Lausanne on 2 April, Iran would accept a 70% cut in its uranium enrichment capacity, and a reduction in its stockpile of low-enriched uranium of up to 97%, in return for the lifting of sanctions. The exact sequence of reciprocal steps is one of the main issues that have to be resolved before the deadline.

In New York on Wednesday, the Iranian foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, signalled some flexibility over the sequence, saying Tehran would be prepared to wait a few weeks for the lifting of sanctions to allow for verification of self-imposed curbs on its nuclear programme.

“The key implication of this news is that it shows the need for new rules to regulate Iranian nuclear procurement consistent with the limits in the forthcoming comprehensive agreement,” Fitzpatrick said. “A replacement Security Council resolution will need to keep limits on procurement and to establish a tight monitoring mechanism.”

ComradeCosmobot posted:

In the fabled words of forums poster Meg from Family Guy, they're not wrong.

UberJew posted:

Hell no it wasn't, the Reconstruction Amendments redefined the franchise, were passed by militarily occupying the dissenting part of the country, ejecting them from the legislature and mandating by force of arms that they agree to them in order to be restored to congress.

It was absolutely justified and the right thing to do, but it's exactly the sort of thing we call a revolution when other countries do it and then try pretend it wasn't when we did it.

reagan posted:

gradenko_2000 posted:

Isn't that a picture from World in Conflict?

Chamale posted:

States are allowed to form state defence forces. Texas is one of 23 states that does.

quote:

“I do not come to you tonight with the ability to speak Spanish,” Mr. Huckabee, a Republican and former Arkansas governor, said during an appearance at the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference. “But I do speak a common language. I speak Jesus.”

Dancer posted:

SOooooooo, here's some maybe not terrible news, but it might be fun if republicans pounce on it.


Edit: okay I'm an idiot and forgot this. This is from the Guardian. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/30/uk-tells-un-of-iranian-attempts-to-buy-nuclear-technology-report

quote:

With Baltimore’s troubles as a backdrop, House Republicans are proposing new cuts from urban programs this week even as their budget would add tens of billions of dollars for the Pentagon to get around strict spending caps.

Caught most in the middle is a $55.3 billion housing and transportation measure that is fast becoming the new ground zero in the appropriations wars this summer and a symbol of Washington’s retreat from public investments in poor urban neighborhoods like Baltimore’s.

The 156-page bill demands real cuts from a cross-section of urban programs in order to meet statutory spending targets. But just hours after it advanced Wednesday morning in the House Appropriations Committee, the GOP announced its new 2016 budget agreement, which adds an extra $38 billion for defense by going around the very same caps that had earlier forced reductions in aid to cities.

Most simply, Republicans are proposing two sets of rules, one for defense and the other for domestic appropriations. And the resulting cuts resonate more now given the proximity of the crisis down the road in Baltimore.

Mr. Wookums posted:

I doubt he speaks Hebrew

WhiskeyJuvenile posted:

Quote of a day: "While no one condones looting, on the other hand, one can understand the pent-up feelings that may result from decades of repression and people who have had members of their family killed by that regime, for them to be taking their feelings out on that regime," he said. "And I don't think there's anyone in any of those pictures ... (who wouldn't) accept it as part of the price of getting from a repressed regime to freedom."

Luigi Thirty posted:

We just need to keep letting black people die until we find one that would pass a top secret security clearance and the presidential vetting process and did not have any social media accounts and

WhiskeyJuvenile posted:

Quote of a day: "While no one condones looting, on the other hand, one can understand the pent-up feelings that may result from decades of repression and people who have had members of their family killed by that regime, for them to be taking their feelings out on that regime," he said. "And I don't think there's anyone in any of those pictures ... (who wouldn't) accept it as part of the price of getting from a repressed regime to freedom."

Sir Tonk posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BynXfREPG8

edit


Is he talking about Iraq after the invasion?

WhiskeyJuvenile posted:

Quote of a day: "While no one condones looting, on the other hand, one can understand the pent-up feelings that may result from decades of repression and people who have had members of their family killed by that regime, for them to be taking their feelings out on that regime," he said. "And I don't think there's anyone in any of those pictures ... (who wouldn't) accept it as part of the price of getting from a repressed regime to freedom."

zoux posted:

This is why it's pointless to argue with people. Lady was tweeting fake racist looting photos and:

Nonsense posted:

She's basically the same as the WP crew in the Baltimore is on Fire thread.

zoux posted:

BPD is using white phosphorous?

Nonsense posted:

She's basically the same as the WP crew in the Baltimore is on Fire thread.