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VashtaNeurotic (2394 D)
08 Jul 17 UTC
Vash's Point Giveaway
Guys. I have too many points. I need to get rid of them. Who wants to take them?
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acamer4 (508 D)
30 Jun 17 UTC
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diplomacy reality show concept
Hey everyone, I wanted to share these "test run" episodes I made of a reality show about a game of diplomacy. http://www.diplomacyshow.com/about.html
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orathaic (1009 D(B))
03 Jul 17 UTC
Happy 4th
For him, Independence Day is a celebration of genocide. A number of tribes and nations contacted for this story expressed various levels of discomfort with the holiday. https://m.mic.com/articles/121671/native-americans-have-nothing-to-celebrate-on-july-4#.0sqTmzhvW
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ND (879 D)
05 Jul 17 UTC
absolutely, the violence directed at Trump supporters by sickos like antifa and other Trump protesters is unreal.
orathaic (1009 D(B))
05 Jul 17 UTC
not trump's fault if some of his supporters are fascists deserving of violence; to quote some antifa propaganda, "We're only punching you now, so we don't have to kill you later". Well maybe it kinda is Trump's fault...
Ogion (3817 D)
05 Jul 17 UTC
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I'd be a lot less condemning of the US for the sins of the past if Americans of the present repudiated them. Having made historical errors is one thing. Putting up monuments to them, persisting in the same attitudes that caused them and failing to show any sense that they were even wrong or existed is what robs the 4th of weight as a worthy holiday. The Holocaust was a horror beyond horrors, but in modern German there is a profound recognition and coming to terms with that history. It is the countries that don't really repudiate the past that I have a hard time respecting.
Ogion (3817 D)
05 Jul 17 UTC
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Oh, and Snowden didn't flee to Russia. He fled through Russia and the Russians detained him on his way in transit in the airport and he has essentially been held there since.

I'd have a lot more sympathy for Snowden critics if the were not effectively going to bat for a Stasi-like surveillance state. They're very much on the wrong side of history on this one.
orathaic (1009 D(B))
05 Jul 17 UTC
Snowden provided solid proof of 'what everyone knew was going on' - proof that it was illegal, proof that could be used to take the NSA through the courts, or as Snowden put it, 'evidence which the public can use to discuss what should be legal or not'

ie he did a public service by letting the public know, so 'we the people' can decide whether it is appropriate or not. Of course he failed to realise how little influence the people feel they have left. How ineffective a democracy the US has become, and how short their attention spans are...

But he tried. I'll give him that much.

(An i believe he was going to continue on to south america, but the plane was threatening with being stopped over europe and he has now no way ofhetting out of russia)
orathaic (1009 D(B))
05 Jul 17 UTC
"On June 23, 2013, Snowden landed at Moscow... he was on a... Route to asylum in Ecuador. Snowden had a seat reserved to continue to Cuba but did not board that onward flight, saying in a January 2014 interview that he was "stopped en route" despite an intention to be "only transiting through Russia." He stated "a planeload of reporters documented the seat I was supposed to be in" when he was ticketed for Havana, but the U.S. cancelled his passport. He said the U.S. wanted him to stay in Moscow so "they could say, 'He's a Russian spy.'"

So, apparently, Snowden is a hero, not a traitor. But the American government wants to paint him as a spy. Quel suprise
orathaic (1009 D(B))
05 Jul 17 UTC
And this little bit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales_grounding_incident
orathaic (1009 D(B))
05 Jul 17 UTC
And for completeness, here is a translation (google) of an archive (way back machine) of an interview between Julian Assange and a Bolivian newspaper - where they discuss the grounding of Evo Morales' plane: https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&nv=1&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&sp=nmt4&tl=en&u=https://web.archive.org/web/20150902010740/http://www.eldeber.com.bo/especiales/julian-assange-wikileaks-estudio-maduro.html&usg=ALkJrhgK-ESkGoNewrB-fFB4Qm3p5IDzMA
Crazy Anglican (1100 D)
05 Jul 17 UTC
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@Ogion
“I'd be a lot less condemning of the US for the sins of the past if Americans of the present repudiated them.”
That’s truly funny because the Nazi’s didn’t put up one monument to the travesty of the Holocaust. It was only after they had been defeated that the Holocaust was made public at all. Yes, you can go to Dachau (I have) and see a monument to the cruelty of the Nazi party, but the current German government wasn’t responsible for it. By contrast, the same government, that fought a war with itself to settle the issue of slavery and forcibly ran Native Americans off of their land, has literally tons of monuments and historical markers documenting our screw ups paid for by the federal and state governments:

https://www.nps.gov/manz/index.htm
https://www.usnews.com/news/national/articles/2008/02/25/preserving-the-japanese-american-internment-camps - You know who authorized the $38 million to preserve the internment sites? GW Bush!
http://whitneyplantation.com/ - Not funded by a government, but I entered it because it was a rich white guy who put this one together.
http://www.nchistoricsites.org/somerset/slavery.htm - one funded by the state of North Carolina
https://www.historiccharleston.org/Visit/Museums/Aiken-Rhett-House-Museum.aspx
https://images.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=new+echota+state+historic+site&fr=yhs-mozilla-004&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-004&imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fgeorgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu%2Fimages%2Fuploads%2Fgallery%2Fnewechota65.jpg#id=5&iurl=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.panoramio.com%2Fphotos%2Flarge%2F59321386.jpg&action=click – Doesn’t sound to me as if Georgia is glorifying the theft of Cherokee lands here
http://gastateparks.org/info/echota/ - Georgia didn’t leave it to one plaque though, They restored New Echota as a historical site.

“SS8H5d. Analyze the events that led to the removal of Creeks and Cherokees; include the roles of Alexander McGillivray, William McIntosh, Sequoyah, John Ross, Dahlonega Gold Rush, Worcester v. Georgia, Andrew Jackson, John Marshall, and the Trail of Tears.” - Georgia documents it pretty well in their history curriculum too. (It is introduced in the 2nd grade along with the forcible removal of the Creek’s) MacIntosh Reserve is a local historical site too funded by Carroll county, Georgia and related to the Creek removal. It is the site where John MacIntosh was killed for signing over the Creek lands.

I could go on and fill up a whole page of links to Georgia’s curriculum alone (“While the World Watched”, about the Birmingham Church bombing in 1963, there is a nine-week unit on this and the civil rights movement in 7th grade ELA. Etc.)

I could go on and on, but frankly I would rather visit these sites and continue learning the history of them than sit here and educate you as to their existence. Suffice it to say that if you want to know how the people of the United States have screwed up, been dishonest and greedy, and have even been murderous and cruel, simply look around we are pretty good at documenting our shortcomings as well as our successes. All you need to do it open your eyes. Certainly keep griping. It is your right and it is how other shortcoming will come to light and we can acknowledge them and try to avoid similar pitfalls in the future.
orathaic (1009 D(B))
05 Jul 17 UTC
@CA, i would be more convinced if i didn't see corporate america continuing to place profits above the interests of minority nindigenous groups.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/03/standing-rock-tribe-takes-dapl-protest-washington-170310032032028.html
orathaic (1009 D(B))
05 Jul 17 UTC
Of course there are other problems with a modern system which places profit above the interests of the people. But the problem is one of conflicting interests. The US was founded by people who realised they had conflicting interests with the British crown, and they managed to do their best to unite all those who could benefit from independence; even still many were not convinced.

Conflicting interests lead to France supporting the war of independence, and essentially single-handedly swinging the war in favour of the colonies. But this conflict of interest remains. Tenants, slaves, workers, and 'Indians' all had conflicting interests with the wealthy, land owning, slave owning, factory owning classes.

And to this day we see America divided along these lines. There is no universal health care, no free higher education, no protection of indigenous rights. There is limited protection of rights for women, people of colour, and the poor.

I'm not just talking about slavery and genocide; I am talking about the exploitation of workers, and tenant farmers (like these: : https://libcom.org/history/articles/anti-renter-movement-1839-1846 ). Capitalism, and 'market forces' are directly responsible for the deaths caused during the Irish great famine, and the 1876-78 great famine in India (both under british rule). And yet this ideology is still considered sacred for many US politicians (while Communism's millions dead due to famine is used to scare children).

Wealth inequality is growing wider, and the FBI intentionally targets left-leaning organisations with tactics to disorganise them. Trolls, roleplayers, anything they can do, not limited to the assassination of key organisers in the 70s (see cointelpro) and continuing to this day ( see: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/dec/29/fbi-coordinated-crackdown-occupy ). You will note these are peaceful US citizens being denied their right to protest - because they are deemed to be a threat to the status quo.

Anyone who tries to upset the powers that be is subject to this kind of repressive actions. Whether that was the anti-war movement during the Vietnam war, or the civil rights movement, or the occupy movement. Effective political protest is suppressed. Organisations are targeted. Power protects itself. And those whose interests conflict with the powerful are alienated, marginalised, and subject to arrest.

You can see it in low voter turnout. You can see in the increasing income and wealth gap. And you can see how Trump has scapegoated minorities to re-direct the anger of millions of voters at 'illegals' and Muslims.

People are angry, and they should be angry; and solidarity between poor angry americans is the last thing the power that be want.
Crazy Anglican (1100 D)
05 Jul 17 UTC
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@orashee

You think people protesting and pursuing their interests in court compares to them being forcibly removed from their lands by executive authority in direct opposition to a Supreme Court ruling?

It looks, to me, like they are exercising right guaranteed to them by the United States Constitution. Corporations are there to make profits, courts are there to decide the legality of their actions. It is interesting to note that the US Army Corp of Engineers asked the Standing Rock Sioux to consult on the project. The Standing Rock Sioux denied unless they could consult on the entire 1,000+ mile project. Now, I am not advocating for the pipeline here. There are serious problems with how it has gone forth and Trump has monetary interests in it which call his executive order into question. However, These people are pursuing their interests in court and this is likely not over by any stretch of the imagination. So, I am not sure what your point it here. Is this likely another screw up? Yeah. Are these people exercising the rights given to all American citizens to combat it? Absolutely. They are even going to the United Nations with their concerns.
Crazy Anglican (1100 D)
05 Jul 17 UTC
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@orashee

There is no universal health care (um yeah, ObamaCare and whatever it will be replaced with), no free higher education (granted, but who started the ball rolling with free public education?), no protection of indigenous rights (you just cited an article that argues the contrary). There is limited protection of rights for women, people of colour, and the poor (in what way are European courts superior in this regard?).

“Anyone who tries to upset the powers that be is subject to this kind of repressive actions. Whether that was the anti-war movement during the Vietnam war, or the civil rights movement, or the occupy movement. Effective political protest is suppressed. Organisations are targeted.”

You would think that the US government’s elite would do a better job their success rating on subjugating the three movements you cited is only 33%. The Anti-War movement and the Civil rights movements were both successes by any fair recollection. I am not sure what Occupy Wall Street was trying to accomplish, so it might be that they weren’t successful because they couldn’t articulate their aims?
“People are angry, and they should be angry; and solidarity between poor angry americans is the last thing the power that be want.”

Ah Yeah Workers of the world unite. You Americans are being oppressed by your Imperialist overlords Yadda Yadda. I see where this is going and also why you didn’t respond when I noted that the USSR was an equally expansionist 20th Century power. Have fun with this.
orathaic (1009 D(B))
05 Jul 17 UTC
No, i think there continues to be a violation of citizens rights when ever it suits the powers that be. Whether that means the FBI designating the Occupy Wall Street Movement as terrorists, and making plans to assassinate leaders of the movement. Or that means the unequal relationship between the federal government and the federally administered tribal areas. ( 'The U.S. federal government recognizes tribal nations as "domestic dependent nations" and has established a number of laws attempting to clarify the relationship between the federal, state, and tribal governments.' see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribal_sovereignty_in_the_United_States).

The fact is, the powers the be continue to ignore treaty agreements with indigenous peoples. And there is no doubt that Trump will sweet fuck all to help (Obama did precious little until he was about to leave office).


My point is, there has been a continuing effort to marginalise and oppress people in the US. And this is just one side of it.
But your point is weak and ignores the facts. These people were asked to participate in the review process and chose not to. This isn't some grand corporate conspiracy, they are fighting it out in court and will continue to do so.

"Whether that means the FBI designating the Occupy Wall Street Movement as terrorists, and making plans to assassinate leaders of the movement."

Which one was assassinated, if the FBI anyone in the FBI thought they could actually get away with it.
Looking into Cointelpro, I will see about that later.
orathaic (1009 D(B))
05 Jul 17 UTC
making plans and carrying them out are different things. I never claimed the FBI assassinated anyone in the Occupy movement, they haven't felt the need to take such actions since the civil rights movement.
So you admit that the FBI hasn't assassinated anyone since the 1960's, and they got caught the time they did. Even though it was the Chicago PD that actually did the assassinating.
orathaic (1009 D(B))
05 Jul 17 UTC
Regarding the treatment of Indigenous peoples, look at this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Lakotah_proposal#Legal_basis_for_independence
Why in the world would any sane person trade the FBI for this? Even if they did as you say?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge
Yeah I know, I already alluded to that when I said the Black Rock Tribe was going to the U.N. That's kind of a sovereign nation thing, right?
orathaic (1009 D(B))
05 Jul 17 UTC
Yeah, except they aren't recognised as such. As a 'domestic' nation, the US will refuse to acknowledge any UN interference in their domestic affairs.

My point was that the Lakota Republic is an area of land which the Federal government promised to the Lakota people, and then 'forgot'.... integrating it into several different states.

if you look at the rights of Tribal courts, and how they relate to 'sovereignty' of tribal regions, you can see several serious limitations. Basically they can't sue state of federal governments (like California could presumably take the federal government to court), 'serious crimes' committed by one indian on another can be tried in federal court. Non-indian on indian, or indian on non-indian crimes can be tried in federal court. Non-indian on non-indian crimes committed on tribal land can be tried in state courts. So in total, the majority of control over crime and punishment does not belong to the tribal governments.

The most powerful right they have been granted has been to be immune from certain state/federal laws - Sovereign states enjoy immunity from many lawsuits; so tribal casinos can run fairly well.

My point was that the US has historically and continually ignored the rights of the indigenous peoples. They were seen as a threat to be wiped out, and pushed to near extinction; in the 40s the US had an official 'termination policy' to get rid of all the tribes and force assimilation on their people (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_termination_policy - but i haven't read this article yet). And the oppression continues to this day.

The Dakota Access Pipeline is an example of how capitalist free market profits (ie the interest of corporate america) are put above those of anyone who has conflicting interests.

The Occupy / FBI is an example of how Wall Street and banks collaborated with the State security apparatus to again, promote their interests over the 'public' who opposed them.

What the State determines to be 'national interest' just means the interests of the rich and powerful. Nobody cares is a black kids is shot in the inner city, that isn't a threat to 'national security'. But the Occupy movement are 'terrorists'.
Ogion (3817 D)
05 Jul 17 UTC
I don't think we can at all say the FBI is out of the assasination business at all. If memory serves they tried blowing up some environmental activists in the 1990s, although their efforts to frame the victims afterwards may have worked
Crazy Anglican (1100 D)
05 Jul 17 UTC
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Um Yeah Ogion,

I watched that too. It was televised remember. Secret Police organizations bent on subjugating the populace don't tend to do that. Colossal screw up? Yeah, evidence of an assassination attempt? Hardly.
I will be happy to acknowledge that the FBI isn't a perfect organization, but a secret police designed to keep the wealthy in power while denying opportunity to the masses languishing in poverty? You bring up two events twenty years apart from each other and that's evidence? I am not convinced.
orathaic (1009 D(B))
05 Jul 17 UTC
I never made claims either way. Whether the FBI planned to kill anyone in the Occupy movement or not, i can't tell; but there were plans drawn up, and the individuals concerned were not warned (which is apparently standard practice for the FBI).

quoting from the article i linked above: "and even threats of the assassination of OWS leaders by sniper fire – by whom? Where? – now remain redacted and undisclosed to those American citizens in danger, contrary to standard FBI practice to inform the person concerned when there is a threat"

Which i presume means the FBI were collaborating with banks and private security agencies employed by these banks, and failed to warn any activists of threats to their lives because of that collaboration.

This is some of the scariest 1984 stuff you can find anywhere.
@Orashee

"My point was that the Lakota Republic is an area of land which the Federal government promised to the Lakota people, and then 'forgot'.... integrating it into several different states."

Getting to the bottom of this one. Can you find anyone in the United States who does not know that we screwed the Native Americans out of their land, went back on treaties, and basically acted like scum buckets to them? Like I said we have a history of acknowledging our screw ups. Do you see Scotland giving back land to the Picts? How is the Welsh independence movement doing?
Crazy Anglican (1100 D)
05 Jul 17 UTC
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@Orashee

This is getting ridiculous, dude.

Look at your own quote:

"quoting from the article i linked above: 'and even threats of the assassination of OWS leaders by sniper fire – by whom? Where? – now remain redacted and undisclosed to those American citizens in danger, contrary to standard FBI practice to inform the person concerned when there is a threat'"

When there is a credible threat actually that is the policy. The FBI doesn't randonly call everyone for whom they receive a threat. Your article seems to imply the source of the threat was unknown. What was the FBI going to do call up "Hey guys we have this threat to your life, we don't know who it is from or how they plan on pulling it off, or even if they really have a chance. Just thought you should know, OK, bye."

1984 it isn't, at least not from anything that you have cited. Certainly not anything I would trade communist dictatorship for.
orathaic (1009 D(B))
05 Jul 17 UTC
@(sorry i missed this post) "The Anti-War movement and the Civil rights movements were both successes by any fair recollection. I am not sure what Occupy Wall Street was trying to accomplish, so it might be that they weren’t successful because they couldn’t articulate their aims?"

The anti-war movement was not successful, the US war goals* were to destroy Vietnam and prevent it becoming a powerful economic force. The war basically did that. And then the US pulled out. The anti-war movement may have declared victory, but it was a little late.

The civil rights movement had minor success, and the more conservative elements were assimilated into the mainstream. While assassination by the FBI lead to the more militant elements going underground (and disappearing completely).

You could similarly claim that marriage equality means that LGBT protesters who started the Stonewall riots have succeeded. Yet in the 60s when radical queers protested the establishment, they wanted to abolish marriage, not gain marriage equality. Now we find many influential conservative gay men support marriage equality, so they can be the equal of their conservative straight (mainstream) allies - taking the Irish Taoiseach as a prime example.

The radical parts of that movement have failed, while the conservative elements have been assimilated into the mainstream.

I know the civil rights movement is seen as this terrific victory for all the injustices perpetrated against people of colour in the US. And yet 40 years later we still see the need for the Black Lifes Matter movement. Comprise with the establishment left many people, poor, under-represented, and disenfranchised - that is without rights.

*At least according to Noam Chomsky, but i can't find his sources. Nevertheless, the anti-war movements were to prevent the destruction of Vietnam, and they failed in this.

Also, in a sense, it is a good thing that the US failed to prevent Vietnam from becoming a unified communist state; otherwise Vietnam might have ended up more like Korea, and i somehow doubt you would support the creation of a second NK.

I can find quotes like this: "The ultimate goal of the United States in Southeast Asia, as in the rest of the world, is to help maintain free and independent nations which can develop politically, economically, and socially and which can be responsible members of the world community." - and i'm pretty sure the victory for the North Vietnamese did indeed bring about this end. - in fact this is a clear propaganda lie, the US refused to allow elections to take place in 1956 because they feared the 'free and independent' nation would choose to elect a communist. So in this case 'free and independent' means free to do what we want, and independent of influences other than the US.
orathaic (1009 D(B))
05 Jul 17 UTC
@"When there is a credible threat actually that is the policy. The FBI doesn't randonly call everyone for whom they receive a threat. Your article seems to imply the source of the threat was unknown."

If you actually read the article. The suggestion is that the FBI know, but redacted those parts of the document.

"1984 it isn't, at least not from anything that you have cited. Certainly not anything I would trade communist dictatorship for." - but the alternative isn't a communist dictatorship, nobody is suggesting you create a communist dictatorship. Infact the Chinese Communist Party is a big ally of the US, who owns a tonne of US debt, so it communist dictatorships are so bad, that just goes to show how little the Federal government cares about citizens of other nations... (you are literally letting the Chinese government invest in US government bonds rather than investing in their own people's health and well-being).

The 1984 comment is directed at FBI and private security forces collaborating with campus security, and eveyone else under a joint task force to prevent citizen's engaged in political actions - ie the Occupy protests.

Legitimate, peaceful, protest, which is guaranteed as a right; and was effectively put down. And i agree that there is a lack of specific details on what the Occupy movement's goals were; largely because the idea of a 'Communist dictatorship' is such a scare word in US that the left don't really have any good alternative to present - perhaps the apparent anarchism of the Occupy movement was in fact a good alternative, but it was suppressed. And the tactic of occupying does not result in specific ideas for changing a society.
@orashee

Thus the only way to be successful is for all of your objectives to be met, especially the most radical of them. No compromise is possible?

Your fanaticism is showing my friend.

My claim is that the Civil Rights Movement is successful, but it most assuredly is not over. Thus, yeah, there are still movements for equality on race relations. That is what a successful progressive movement does.

The Anti-War movement was about the ending of the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War ended. The USA left and a communist government was established contrary to the stated objectives of the leaders of the war effort. It was successful.

These movements weren't "assimilated into the mainstream" There are no more segregationists at least not that anyone listens too. They established a new mainstream.

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dargorygel (2684 DMod(G))
06 Jul 17 UTC
1812 and Fireworks and Putin
And NPR
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Onar (131 D)
08 Jul 17 UTC
replacement russia needed
http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=201151
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Egathetos (212 D)
03 Jul 17 UTC
Question on moves
Unit A attacks an enemy unit. At the same time units B and C support HOLD unit A.
What is the defensive strength of unit A? Is it 2 beceuse it is supported by 2, or is the support wasted because unit A is attacking rather than holding?
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brainbomb (295 D)
06 Jul 17 UTC
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NPR blasted for tweeting passages from Declaration of Independence
http://www.wsbradio.com/news/npr-declaration-independence-tweetstorm-confuses-some/QOsQcr9EDmyAyb8LUHICeM/
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brainbomb (295 D)
07 Jul 17 UTC
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Hillary Clinton found guilty on 237 charges
Treason, Money Laundering through her foundation, illegally checking her facebook, illegally deleting an email from a south african prince who left her millions in his will, Regecide, criminal neglect, intent to have intent, causing rising sea levels, orchestrating the murder of rival DNC members, 9/11, and a whole host of other charges ranging from multi-accounting to impersonating Jesus. Lock her up. So glad this criminal investigation paid off.
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CAPT Brad (40 DX)
07 Jul 17 UTC
Federal Judge Denies Motion Challenging White House Travel Ban
HONOLULU — A federal judge in Hawaii is leaving Trump administration rules in place for a travel ban on citizens from six predominantly Muslim countries.
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Hippopankake (80 D)
06 Jul 17 UTC
Wtf
I just met a Spanish facist who when we showed a photo of a freedom fighter statue in our country. He motioned a pistol and shot it.
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Randomizer (722 D)
06 Jul 17 UTC
Hobby Lobby's Christian Values
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/05/us/hobby-lobby-ancient-artifacts-trnd/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/06/us/hobby-lobby-bible-museum/index.html

Hobby Lobby believes their version of the Bible is more important than the law.
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Manwe Sulimo (419 D)
29 Jun 17 UTC
Is it happening?
Market is acting pretty strange, has it begun?
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orathaic (1009 D(B))
06 Jul 17 UTC
Battery free phone
https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/6ljt26/batteryfree_phone_harvests_ambient_energy_to_make/
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Zach0805 (100 D)
05 Jul 17 UTC
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CNN found the Reddit user who created the WWE wrestling meme
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/04/politics/kfile-reddit-user-trump-tweet/index.html
This is just sad. A news organization so triggered by a meme that they would go after the poor guy and threaten to release identity to get an apology and is still threatening to release his identity. You can argue if it was appropriate that Trump tweeted this but this is not ok. This is freedom of speech and he might get severely punished for it. Apparently CNN never understood that "1984" is fiction.
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Jacob63831 (160 D)
02 Jul 17 UTC
Hi
Hello
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Ezio (1731 D)
02 Jul 17 UTC
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I'm all out of things to say
I just wanted to tell everyone that I have nothing more to say.
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orathaic (1009 D(B))
20 Jun 17 UTC
On this day...
In 1937, exactly 80 years ago, the women's day massacre occured in Ohio.

'Police' hired to prevent union workers fighting for their rights, killed 16 and injured over 280. Violence is ok, so long as you claim to represent the state...
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orathaic (1009 D(B))
05 Jul 17 UTC
Shock tactics, and how to resist them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w44lApffH30
Naomi Klein, on Trump and shock tactics.
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markradar29 (401 D)
05 Jul 17 UTC
Takeover Russia
Would anyone like to take over for me in Quevega?
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Ezio (1731 D)
03 Jul 17 UTC
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The most official MAFIA game ever.
Mafia 29.5 "Totally not a popularity contest or RNG"
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Jeff Kuta (2066 D)
03 Jul 17 UTC
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OFFICIAL MAFIA XXX SIGN-UP THREAD
See inside for game details.

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Februarius II (100 D)
04 Jul 17 UTC
The Diplomatic Pouch
The e-zine of the Game of Kings

http://www.diplomatic-pouch.org/Zine/S2017M/index.html / https://www.facebook.com/TheDiplomaticPouch;
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Hippopankake (80 D)
04 Jul 17 UTC
People
Need one more player for classic game called Europe is at war
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brainbomb (295 D)
03 Jul 17 UTC
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OFFICIAL XXX SIGN UP THREAD
see "inside" for details..
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Fluminator (1500 D)
29 Jun 17 UTC
American President Tier Ranking
I'm curious to see people's rankings of American presidents. Here's mine.
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Drydoc (398 D)
03 Jul 17 UTC
Modern diplomacy need tenth player
I'm looking for a tenth player in a modern diplomacy game called "war is life". Any takers, message me. It's 2 day phases. Pauses are to be expected.
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Hippopankake (80 D)
03 Jul 17 UTC
Need players
Need new players for a modern game just two more to be exact
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Flame (125 D)
03 Jul 17 UTC
Napoleonic variant. RELEASED!
Napoleonic variant from FireHawk is fixed and avaliable for playing here:
http://server.diplomail.ru/variants.php?variantID=101
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brainbomb (295 D)
01 Jul 17 UTC
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Is it happening?
My ghost rating is acting pretty strange, has it begun?
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bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
30 May 17 UTC
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MAFIA XXIX - OFFICIAL GAME THREAD
See inside. Please do not post until the game begins.
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