All-purpose news and politics thread

[StoneGold]

It was really only a matter of time.

Keep reading. He also says black people should try a little light slavery again to teach them the value of work.

[Spike-X]

Keep reading. He also says black people should try a little light slavery again to teach them the value of work.

*blink*

Wow.

[StoneGold]

*blink*

Wow.

Yeah, my sentiments exactly.

[Matt Algren]

Sometimes I don't quote parts like that just to get that delayed response.

Oh, and this is a black guy. Dying to know what his price was.

[Spike-X]

Sometimes I don't quote parts like that just to get that delayed response.

Oh, and this is a black guy. Dying to know what his price was.

Hopefully enough to buy him a really nice cabin.

Yeah, I went there.

[C-Cool]

God damn it.

Where do the Republican Party and Fox News find these embarrassments of human beings, never mind an embarrassment to black people. Dumb ass Jesse Lee "Uncle Ruckus" Peterson over there needs to get a time machine and do some of that "light slavery" he loves to get that "value of work". Or at least get the hell back into his cave, damn ingrate.

See, those are the type of people I get irate about. I can't stand these people who don't got real comprehension of the past and just yuk it up with Hannity and those other goons. Oh, even better, he's a Reverend, so he can influence other people to become even bigger fools. And this sell out is the type of dude Hannity would use to say "Oh, I got Black friends! I love Black people".

Dude needs a broader perspective in the worst way. Using the Allegory of the Cave for a moment, this guy is an example of a man playing with too many shadows to even understand what he's really talking about.

[7thangel]

jesse lee is the living embodiment of uncle ruckus. he has an organization that acts as a front for racist jared taylor and his amren (american renaissance). he has said worse things.

[the4thpip]

So, this happened.

Fox News contributor laments ‘mistake’ of letting women vote

“I think that one of the greatest mistakes America made was to allow women the opportunity to vote,” Peterson says. “We should’ve never turned this over to women. And these women are voting in the wrong people. They’re voting in people who are evil who agrees with them who’re gonna take us down this pathway of destruction.”

“And this probably was the reason they didn’t allow women to vote when men were men. Because men in the good old days understood the nature of the woman,” he adds. “They were not afraid to deal with it. And they understood that, you let them take over, this is what would happen.”

he sounds a lot like David Sim.

“You walk up to them with a issue, they freak out right away. They go nuts. They get mad. They get upset, just like that. They have no patience because it’s not in their nature. They don’t have love. They don’t have love.”

[the4thpip]

German police last night arrested Swiss national Sebastien N. , considered one of the most violent neo-nazis in Europe.

[the4thpip]

Good news... there still seem to be non-despicable men of the cloth:

The president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s North Carolina chapter strongly condemned Amendment One, an amendment that would define marriage in the state as only between a man and woman, Sunday afternoon.

Rev. William Barber described his opposition to the amendment in a passionate sermon at Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Greensboro, North Carolina. Barber was among 100 black clergy figures displaying their united stance against Amendment One.

“I tried to find somewhere where the Lord discriminated against people, even if he didn’t agree with them,” Barber said. “And I found out that God gives every human being certain constitutional rights, that can’t nobody revoke. You know, those rights that just come with being a human. You know, like the one that says that allows to sun to shine on the just and unjust.”

“God gives everybody constitutional rights, to air, and sun, and rain and existence. So your motivation to the polls should be, ‘How dare some human being tried to give folks less rights than God himself? How dare us take our puny little human document and try to write something, an appalling human document, that’s less than God, who made us, does?’ That ought to be your motivation.”

Barber didn’t restrict himself to just Biblical references to chastise Amendment One, which would also ban same sex civil unions and domestic partnerships, to galvanize those against the measure.

“Harriet Tubman got 500 folks out of slavery, and she didn’t have Twitter,” he said. And she didn’t have Facebook. From now to Tuesday, you ought to call everybody you know. From now to Tuesday, you ought to text everybody you know. From now to Tuesday, you ought to email everybody you know. From now to Tuesday, you ought to Facebook everybody you know. From now to Tuesday, you ought to MySpace everybody you know. From now to Tuesday, you ought to tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet.”

Barber and fellow black clergy figures’ opposition to Amendment One in North Carolina contradicts the plan by the National Organization of Marriage to intentionally cause a rift between black and LGBT.

The amendment is on the ballot for the North Carolina primary on Tuesday.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/05/0...ment%E2%80%99/

[matthewaos]

A government cannot say "we don't recognise what the last government signed" willy-nilly. That says to everyone else "don't make any deals or agreements with Greece, they'll ignore it after an election". You'd be fucked for years to come.



How? What are you going to offer to the people you need money from?

And if you say "we don't recognise what we signed", you can't renegociate. They'll say "fuck off".




You have a communist party. Syriza will have to include them in a left-wing coalition (it'll also have to include part of Pasok) to get workable numbers.

Fine by me if they want to include the communist party, that will be an even better progress.
The terms signed by new democracy and pasok bound greece till 2050 as a germany's bitch, with no national dominion of her own, and with unbelievable payment agreements which will make the loan unpayable, which is already. The loan by itself will be payed, just not all the increeces. And for your information, greece on the european courts have won against I can't remember which country now, sorry, when decades ago greece had taken a loan from said country. Greece could not aford it, because the people couldn't live, so they won the court. With this court decision Iceland managed to exit the imf.
And by the way all the money that the greek governments have loaned were not going for the prosperity of the people but for the prosperity of their pockets, with the full knowledge of germany. Siemens was paying politicians to get jobs since 1950. Germany naver payed the war compensation, instead, as it seems, they gave the money to politicians, under the table. This has to stop. And you have to stop watching so much tv, cause I have heard what foreign (for me) news are saying and in their majority are lies.

[o1pickleboy]

German police last night arrested Swiss national Sebastien N. , considered one of the most violent neo-nazis in Europe.

Only because the United States requested it, the republican party is looking for more people that are congressman material.

[Iangould]

Fine by me if they want to include the communist party, that will be an even better progress.
The terms signed by new democracy and pasok bound greece till 2050 as a germany's bitch, with no national dominion of her own, and with unbelievable payment agreements which will make the loan unpayable, which is already. The loan by itself will be payed, just not all the increeces. And for your information, greece on the european courts have won against I can't remember which country now, sorry, when decades ago greece had taken a loan from said country. Greece could not aford it, because the people couldn't live, so they won the court. With this court decision Iceland managed to exit the imf.
And by the way all the money that the greek governments have loaned were not going for the prosperity of the people but for the prosperity of their pockets, with the full knowledge of germany. Siemens was paying politicians to get jobs since 1950. Germany naver payed the war compensation, instead, as it seems, they gave the money to politicians, under the table. This has to stop. And you have to stop watching so much tv, cause I have heard what foreign (for me) news are saying and in their majority are lies.

Enjoy your country's transformation into Zimbabwe.

And as a aside, I don't get any of my news from television.

[Iangould]

Australia is protected to return a A$1.5 billion surplus in the next financial year according to the budget handed down today.

The tax-free threshold is being almost tripled to $18,000 and the Low Income Offset will effecively ensure no-one earning less than about $20,000 a year pays any income tax.

Low and middle income families will receive more money.

There's also various tax benefits for business, especially small business, (but not the expected cut in the corporate tax rate).

[Spike-X]

The latest Australian federal budget has been handed down. The most infuriating item for me so far is $59 million being taken away from the indigenous literacy and numeracy program. Meanwhile, they've managed to find $220 million to put Christian chaplains into our supposedly secular school system.