throw to first drat IT posted:

It IS terrible for democracy because it means that they are going to hold them without the protections for fair voting that the opposition was trying to push for. So the regiment is likely going to cheat like motherfucker and this is just a show to attempt to cement in their power.

tyblazitar posted:

I guess Germany and Finland are not quite as sophisticated as Norway then; I can't imagine (and have never seen) anyone here uttering a single word to a stranger in a waiting room, nor actually ask if a seat on the bus is free before sitting. Even if there's a seat occupied by someone's bag, you just stand there awkwardly until they (hopefully) move their bag. I'm so happy I was born here and not in one of those awful hellholes where you can't go outside without the risk of strangers talking to you.

Baronjutter posted:

It's true, all of it.

SyHopeful posted:

[citation needed]

Carter Center has attested to the fairness of the Venezuelan election process and Western media is rarely honest about context in any country that isn't fully embracing capitalism.

C.M. Kruger posted:

That's from 2012 and is woefully out of date with regards to the actual situation in Venezuela right now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZiQJ8EpoZY

Rnr posted:

Lol, just lol at trying to frame the situation in Venezuela as a win for socialism/communism...


Tens of thousands of people opposed to Venezuela's socialist government took to the streets in ongoing protests demanding elections and denouncing what they consider an increasingly authoritarian government

Heck Yes! Loam! posted:

https://twitter.com/Freeyourmindkid/status/956581214873378817

SeANMcBAY posted:

The person in that tweet is dumb but I’m not ready to bail on Chelsea just yet.

https://twitter.com/theonion/status/956595799466610692

Jerry Cotton posted:

I'd never noticed this before:

Heck Yes! Loam! posted:

https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/957010922417074176

Mostly Lurking posted:

To be fair, I was rethinking about Conan and never watched his show about the topic and stumbled on this:

http://teamcoco.com/video/web-exclusive-conan-talks-with-palistinian-activists

I hope they promoted it but it might have just been posted to mitigate damages.

quote:

The original version of the show - screened for 200 people in Los Angeles on Monday - included a scene filmed in a home in Bethlehem where a father discussed his son, who he said was killed by IDF soldiers during a riot. There was even footage of the funeral procession included.

Nebalebadingdong posted:

Nebalebadingdong posted:

From what I understand, it was filmed as part of the special but pulled because US audiences had negative reactions to it. Whether it was pulled by Team Coco or TBS maybe someone can find out

e: I wanna say there was also an interview with a mother whose son was murdered by the IDF?

found it:
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Conan-edits-Israel-travel-special-after-outcry-505620


They don't seem to have ever released that particular clip

Baronjutter posted:

It's true, all of it.

Detroit News posted:

An irate customer who was upset about the price of an item started trashing a northwest Detroit Marathon gas station last month, prompting manager Sadek Kaid to dial 911.

When the police didn’t respond after several minutes, Kaid said he hit redial and asked why.

“The dispatcher said, ‘It’s because you don’t have the Green Light,’ ” Kaid said. “The customer was in here destroying the store, throwing everything off the shelves. He was here for almost an hour before he left. When the police finally came, they told us the Green Light locations get priority.”

Businesses pay between $4,000 and $6,000 to join Project Green Light, a program that allows police to monitor businesses’ video surveillance feeds in real time. The cost covers installation of high-definition cameras and lighting. There also is a monthly fee of up to $150 for cloud-based video storage.

In exchange, participating companies are given Priority 1 status on police dispatches — but some business owners who don’t participate feel they’re being treated like secondary citizens.

“It’s not fair,” said Abdo Nagi, owner of a 76 gas station on Grand River on Detroit’s west side that is not part of the program. “We should all be equal. I pay high taxes already. Now I have to pay extra to get the police to come?

When told some business owners feel they’re being slighted because they already pay taxes and shouldn’t have to pay extra for prompt police response, Mayor Duggan said: “I’m not getting that.

“The level of enthusiasm is so high,” the mayor said. “Our resistance comes almost entirely from people who appear to have a relationship with the people up to no good in their parking lots.”

Crain's Detroit posted:

Mayor Mike Duggan's administration is moving forward with a plan to eventually mandate every retail business in Detroit with late-night hours have surveillance cameras tied into Project Green Light.

In an interview Wednesday with Crain's, Duggan said he will ask City Council later this year to mandate Project Green Light high-definition video systems for all retail businesses open after 10 p.m.

Duggan said the city will start with requiring the camera systems for bars, restaurants, gas stations and other businesses open between midnight and 4 a.m. during the "highest risk" time for crimes to occur. Then the city will move to businesses open after 10 p.m., he said.

The mandate could affect as many as 4,000 businesses open after 10 p.m., though the mayor said the video surveillance systems would be phased in because the Green Light Program already has a backlog of voluntary participants and a shortage of installers.

Duggan said making the project mandatory wouldn't start until businesses stop voluntarily signing up. Some eight systems have been installed every week and there is a six-month backlog of installations.

“There will come a point when the voluntary installations run out, and then I think the council will take up the ordinance, but that’s not anytime soon,” Duggan said. "I think the votes on council are there now, but there's no point of making it mandatory if we haven't finished the backlog."

Since January 2016, about 230 businesses in Detroit have voluntarily signed up with the city to have Comcast Business install video surveillance systems inside and outside of their businesses that are marked with an exterior green light that's meant to let would-be criminals know they're being recorded.

Businesses in the Green Light project get patrols from Detroit Police Department officers who stop in to sign a log book, documenting the visit. Startup costs for getting the surveillance cameras installed range as high as $6,000, with some monthly costs surpassing $200.

Detroit Police posted:

9. Does enrollment in this program mean my business gets special police attention?

Yes. Enrollment in Project Green Light requires police officers to visit your site on a weekly basis. Dispatch is notified that your business is enrolled in Green Light as soon as your site goes live. In the event of an emergency, businesses are required to call 911, and DPD is immediately notified of the incident at a Green Light location. The run is considered a Priority 1.

treasured8elief posted:

treasured8elief posted:

Pththya-lyi posted:

I remember seeing a print of the original propaganda poster in a museum. No matter your feelings on the Communist states, you gotta admit socialist realism is striking

tyblazitar posted:

I guess Germany and Finland are not quite as sophisticated as Norway then; I can't imagine (and have never seen) anyone here uttering a single word to a stranger in a waiting room, nor actually ask if a seat on the bus is free before sitting. Even if there's a seat occupied by someone's bag, you just stand there awkwardly until they (hopefully) move their bag. I'm so happy I was born here and not in one of those awful hellholes where you can't go outside without the risk of strangers talking to you.

SyHopeful posted:

Contextless videos of protests don't really demonstrate how the electoral situation is different from 2012. It's still post-Chavismo, it's still hated by capitalists. You're free to source how there's less democracy in Venezuela now than there was in 2012.


Lol, just lol at believing the capitalist media narrative on anything that even remotely approaches socialism!

https://youtu.be/lldKsHpPpBI

ryonguy posted:

This Jackson Pollock was brought to you by a kind donation from Chad I. Ayers, through the Congress for Cultural Freedom.

C.M. Kruger posted:

Searching for "Venezuela constitutional crisis" and "Venezuela protests April 2017" should get you to some good starting points for what the protests are about. But please, tell us more about your evidence that children aren't starving to death and it's all lies by the (((western capitalists))) and their fake news.


Meanwhile the KGB was sending bulldozers after "cultural terrorists" for offending the sensibilities of the state. Authoritarians fear art.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulldozer_Exhibition

SyHopeful posted:

Contextless videos of protests don't really demonstrate how the electoral situation is different from 2012. It's still post-Chavismo, it's still hated by capitalists. You're free to source how there's less democracy in Venezuela now than there was in 2012.


Lol, just lol at believing the capitalist media narrative on anything that even remotely approaches socialism!

https://youtu.be/lldKsHpPpBI

ryonguy posted:

Careful you don't choke sucking McCarthy's moldy cock there.




Oh and gently caress off with the (((bullshit))), calling leftists antisemitic is classic rightwing rhetoric that fools nobody.

C.M. Kruger posted:

Explain to everybody what a "rootless cosmopolitan" is, what the Doctors Plot was, and why the Soviet Union didn't actually ban the Protocols of the Elders of Zion until the 80s and was actively distributing it to Arab states.

neo-mccarthyist violently assaulting moderate pro-russian anti-zionist:


edit:
https://twitter.com/JulianAssange/status/957188759572934656