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 Communist leaders Ernst Thälmann (left) and Willy Leow (right) in front of of parading troops of the Rotfrontkämpferbund during their national meeting in Berlin, June 1927. The Rotfrontkämpferbund (Red Front Fighters League/Association) was a paramilitary organisation of the Communist Party of Germany created on 18 July 1924. They regularly engaged in street fights with the Nazi Sturmabteilung (SA) before being banned in 1932. I think we can all imagine what happened to its members starting the following year.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPl_Y3Qdb7Y Documentary about Anarchist Spain.
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sullat posted:Huh, I did not know that the Dutch tried to re-conquer Indonesia in the late 40's, and tried to drag the US into it. Good thing the US figured the Indonesians could do a perfectly fine job of killing communists on their own. (With a little help from their friends at the CIA, of course) You know what we call the military operations undertaken by the Dutch military during the Indonesian War of Independence, or even more commonly, the whole Indonesian War of Independence to this day? "Politionele acties", meaning police actions. Here's some pictures of the first police action    And of the second police action    Fresh personnel arriving for the police actions  My late grandfather lived through the German occupation and was then in the army and sent to Indonesia during the war for independence. He has at times spoken about his experiences during the second world war and the occupation. He's never said a word about Indonesia nor visited a veteran's group or reunion.
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http://blog.occupiedlondon.org/2012...ining-industry/ Video on the VIOMETAL workers in Northern Greece and their struggle to achieve workplace democracy and become a cooperative.
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ekuNNN, you've inspired me to tell this story again.  This is Hannie Schaft. She's a receiver of the Dutch Cross of Resistance, of which only 95 where awarded, and the American Medal of Freedom. She received these for her actions during occupation in WW2. Studying law at the time of the invasion, she refused the loyalty oath the Germans required of all students, and joined the communist resistance. This is where she got her nickname "the girl with the red hair", which became the title of a biography about her, which later got a film adaption.  During her time in the resistance, she took part in multiple attacks on Germans, collaborators and traitors together with Jan Bonekamp, Freddie Oversteegen and Truus Oversteegen.  She took part in attacks killing NSB-member (Dutch national-socialist party) Piet Faber, police commissioner and zealous resistance hunter W.M. Ragut, NSB-member and police officer Willem Zirkzee and hairdresser and Sicherheidsdient collaborator Ko Langendijk. The last of these two assassinations took place in March 1945, about 2 months before liberation. This is the reason the Germans hated her particularly, as these attacks were in their view senseless.  W.M. Ragut On March 21st she was arrested at a roadblock for carrying illegal literature and a weapon. At the time, the Dutch Interior Forces and the Germans had an agreement for the latter to no longer kill any women. However, on April 17th Hannie Schaft was taken into the dunes to be shot. After a first shot which grazed her, her last words were "I shoot better", after which she was killed by Dutch SS member Maarten Kuiper, who was also involved with the arrest of Anne Frank and may have been the informer for that raid. Kuiper was sentenced to death and executed in 1948. Hannie Schafts actions during the resistance, and particularly the attack on W.M. Ragut were also the inspiration for a novel, De Aanslag, which is a major Dutch literary work and also turned into a movie, which in turn got awarded an Oscar and Golden Globe.  On November 27, Hannie Schaft's remains were reburied with full military honours on Honourcemetary Bloemendaal in the presence of Queen Wilhelmina, princess and heir Juliana and Prince Bernhard (husband of the queen). She was awarded both the Medal of Freedom and the Cross of Resistance posthumously in 1946.     As a national hero, she is commemorated yearly with a public gathering at her grave. Especially the communist party would traditionally attend this gathering. With the cold war however, the communist party and Hannie Schaft became undesirable politically. In 1951, the Dutch government went as far as to deploy the police and the army, including 4 armoured cars, to form a blockade and prevent the commemoration.    Those who attempted to reach her grave ended up leaving their flowers and wreaths on market square in nearby Haarlem. The police removed them and send them to the garbage dump.  In 1982, when the hatred of communists had died down (as had the communist party) princess Juliana, then ex-queen, unveilled a statue of Hannie Schaft in a park in Haarlem.  The statue was sculpted by Truus Menger-Oversteegen, the same Truus Oversteegen who fought side by side with Hannie Schaft in the resistance, and who was faced with armoured cars aiming machine guns at her trying to attend the grave of a fallen friend and comrade in 1951.  After the war she regularly spoke in universities and high schools on the subjects of war, antisemitism, tolerance and indifference and became known as an artist using the last name of her husband Piet Menger, whom she met in the resistance. One of her sculptures is in the Resistance Museum in Gouda which is about women in the resistance, another in Rotterdam on the place where the fire that started as a result of German terrorbombing on May 14th 1940 to force the Netherlands to surrender finally stopped days later.   She also wrote a book in 1982 about her experiences in the war titled 'Not Then, Not Now, Not Ever'. It was translated into English in 1998 and in German in 2000. Orange Devil fucked around with this message at Jul 21, 2012 around 02:35 |
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For all the theoretical merits of Swiss style democracy, they didn't institute women's suffrage until 1971.
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Let's do another story. This is Klaas Carel Faber. If you've been reading this thread you might think something about that name sounds familiar. That's because Klaas Carel Faber is the son of Pieter (short: Piet) Faber. You see, the Faber family wasn't very nice. Both he, his father and his brother Pieter Johan Faber were members of the Dutch National-Socialist Party or NSB before the outbreak of WW2. A month after the invasion of the Netherlands by Germany, Klaas Carel Faber joined the SS.  I guess he wasn't quite as great as he himself thought however, as he dropped out of military training five months in for less demanding police jobs in Rotterdam and The Hague. His brother joined the Sicherheidsdienst, or SD, where he became headsergeant of the Scholtenhuis in Groningen.  Originally a sort of miniature palace built for rich industrialist Willem Albert Scholten between 1878 and 1881, the Germans repurposed it for usage as one of their six Aussendienststelles, or regional headquarters of the SD and sicherheidspolizei, in the Netherlands during the occupation. Hundreds of (suspected) resistance members were interrogated and brutally tortured in this building and usually executed nearby afterwards. The people of Groningen nicknamed it "the lobby of hell". It was destroyed by fighting during liberation. Excluding Jews sent to camps who did not return, at least 473 people died by the hands of the executioners of the Scholtenhuis. Those would probably mostly have been communists as well, as the communist resistance in the Netherlands was concentrated most heavily around east-Groningen and Amsterdam. In the municipality of Finsterwolde, the Dutch Communist Party would always get a straight majority. In the 50s this led to the municpality being placed under wardship. A law was passed sending the entire municipal council home and the government sent a government commissar to act as a curator. This lasted from 1951 to the next elections in 1953, again won by the communists. The communist party has supplied at least one wethouder (a sort of local minister) every year until 2006. I'm not able to easily find information from after that. You can make a virtual tour of the Scholtenhuis courtesy of the War- and Resistancemuseum Groningen on this website: http://www.scholtenhuis.nl/ Anyway, back to Klaas Carel Faber. In May 1943, he acquired German citizenship with the passing of Erlaß über den Erwerb der deutschen Staatsangehörigkeit durch Einstellung in die deutsche Wehrmacht, die Waffen-SS, die deutsche Polizei oder die Organisation Todt vom 11. Mai 1943 (RGBl. I. S. 315), which automatically awards citizenship to all foreign members of the Waffen-SS and other organizations. He then went on to become a member of a firing squad at Westerbork transit camp, the camp Anne Frank and 107.000 other Jews, resistance members, Roma and Sinti passed through on their way to concentration and death camps. The majority of the 107.000 were Jews, of which only 5.000 survived the war. His brother Pieter carried out executions here as well.    After Hannie Schaft killed his father on June 8, 1944 Klaas Carel Faber's zeal increased yet further. He became a member of the SS Silbertanne death squad which targeted resistance members, those who hid Jews and those who opposed Nazism. Both he and his brother were also a member of Sonderkommando Feldmeijer, which carried out over 54 arbitrary executions. Klaas Faber also served as a bodyguard to Anton Mussert, the head of the Dutch national-socialist party. Correction, in my other post I said SD member Maarten Kuiper killed Hannie Schaft, which is correct. There was another man present, whose name I cannot find. I think it's unlikely it was Klaas Carel Faber.  Henk Feldmeijer, who established and commanded the Dutch SS and later led Sonderkommando Feldmeijer during Silbertanne, which became the only death squad to carry out executions of part of this operation intended to retaliate for Dutch resistance assassinations of SS and police leaders in the Netherlands, was killed in 1945 by an Allied strafing run. After the war, Klaas Carel Faber and Pieter Faber were captured. The first picture in this post is of Klaas in capitivity. Pieter Faber was found guilty of 27 murders, sentenced to death by firing squad and executed in 1948. Klaas Carel Faber was convicted of 11 murders and sentenced to death by firing squad. The Dutch court called the brothers "two of the worst criminals of the SS". On January 14th, as part of the movement towards abolishing the death penalty completely in he Netherlands, Klaas Carel Faber's sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. On December 26 1952, Klaas Carel Faber and 6 other former members of the Dutch SS managed to escape from the prison in Breda and cross into Germany that same evening. The Dutch government made an extradition request in 1954 to have Faber returned to complete his sentence. In 1957 a court in Dusseldorf once again tried Faber. The counts of murder were lowered to manslaughter and the courts claimed the Dutch authorities would not share evidence. They then dismissed all charges against him. Faber went on to live in Ingolstadt in Bavaria and worked until his retirement as an office clerk for car manufacturer Audi. He appeared lost to history, until the public prosecutor in The Hague discovered his place of residence in 2000. Dutch journalist Cees van Hoore managed to track him down, and various other journalists followed suit.   In part due to this, a second request for extradition was made in 2004. Again it was denied, this time referincing the 1957 decision of lack of evidence. When new evidence was brought to a court in Munich in 2006, the cases were again viewed as manslaughter and not murder, and thus seen as outside the statute of limitations. A new Dutch arrest warrant was needed to reopen the case, which was then issued. Calls for his extradition became more frequent, including at the 2007 Westerbork commemoration and in an open letter signed by 7 descendants of victims of Faber. On January 26 2007, the German justice ministry issued a statement saying Faber and 3 other still living Dutch war criminals would not be prosecuted anymore. However, in 2009 one of them, Heinrich Broere, another member of Sonderkommando Feldmeijer, was seen as fit to stand trial, and was sentenced to life in March 2010. In April 2009 Faber was listed by the Simon Wiesenthal Center as one of most important Nazi era war criminals still at large. In August 2010, following the petition of more than 150 lawyers organized by Jerusalem-based lawyer David Schonberg, the Israeli government demanded that Germany enforce Faber's sentence or extradite him to the Netherlands, and change its policy of allowing Nazi war crimes suspects to escape prosecution. Israel's justice minister, Ya'akov Ne'eman, wrote to the German justice minister, Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, asking that justice would be carried out. At one point, the Simon Wiesenthal Center listed Faber as their most wanted Nazi war criminal still at large. On August 6 2010, German federal minister of Justice Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger orders the German public prosecutor to investigate if Faber can still be tried. Her Bavarian colleague Beate Merk disagrees. On August 26 2010, it is decided that Faber can not be tried in Germany until The Netherlands provided new facts proving Faber was involved in the murders of resistance members. On November 25 2010, the Dutch public prosecutor issues a European Arrestwarrant against Faber. German department of justice commences an investigation on whether Faber actually possesses German nationality. This is important, because Germany forbids extradition of German nationals. On December 3 2010. on the initiative of the Socialist Party, all Dutch political parties in parliament jointly signed and sent a letter to the German Bundestag requesting they do everything in their power to commence a swift prosecution. On May 11 2011, the justice department of Bavaria issued a statement saying Faber would not be extradited because the municipality of Ingolstadt had determined Faber to be a German national. Faber would have obtained his nationality by virtue of his membership of the SS, a law that was on the books until 1964, as far as I am aware. By virtue of him having been a member of the SS, Germany refused him serving his sentence for crimes committed as a member of the SS. Dutch war correspondent Arnold Karskens discovered on August 3rd 2011 that Faber was also responsible for the murder of artist Henk Gorter from Groningen on October 28 1944. This gave new hope for prosecution. In January 2012, Germany carrying out the Dutch sentence thus became an possibility again after Dutch authorities had pressured the German public prosecutor's into making a request for such at the judge in Ingolstadt. On May 26 2012, Klaas Carel Faber's wife made public that Faber had died of liverfailure on May 24, 2012 in the hospital of Ingolstadt. 
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Maybe it's that Spanish aristocrat who shills for the North Korean government? Alejandro Cao de Benós de Les y Pérez  Doesn't really look a lot like him though.
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The more things change...     ...the more they stay the same.                      Ohio National Guard troops outside the Music Hall in Cincinnati, Ohio, March 1884. Troops were brought to bring an end to riots sparked by public outrage over the outcome of a murder trial. Orange Devil fucked around with this message at Jul 30, 2012 around 13:37 |
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Soviet Commubot posted:Basically, I was really kinda shocked at how I managed to passively eat up all of this propaganda about the guy. I recognized some of the more blatant things as propaganda, like his shirtless hunting and vase diving but I seriously fell for a lot of the more stubtle stuff. This is exactly how propaganda works though. I don't think there are very many people who really believe that vase diving and shirtless hunting crap. The only ones who would are already so far up Putins rear end that the propaganda doesn't need to target them anyway. However, studies have shown that those who are aware of how advertising works are actually more susceptible to it, probably because they think they won't fall for it due to their knowledge about it, and then let their guard down. So perhaps because Putins cult of personality propaganda is so blatantly "big burly manly man accomplishes big burly manly man things", you fell for the idea of him being a big burly manly man, even if you didn't believe in his over the top 'accomplishments'. 
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 The world would be a better place with everyone who has ever participated in or supported an act of torture dead.
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massey ferguson posted:I'll admit to not knowing much about religion but isn't Allah just the word for God in arabic? As in the same God christians worship? Please correct me if I'm wrong like I say I have only basic knowledge of religions. On Malta, which is so Christian it's the descendant of a crusader state, the local word for God is Allah. Similarly, Christian Arabs use Allah as well, as do Mizrahi Jews and Sikhs. 
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ekuNNN posted:Man, I hate energy drinks, but I would buy the poo poo out of those. Are you making GBS threads me? You don't see a tiny little problem of commodification here? 
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gently caress Breivik and white power fascists in general for trying to appropriate:   The raised fist is a socialist symbol. Orange Devil fucked around with this message at Nov 4, 2012 around 17:40 |
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Hawaii is most impressive of all, given that a week has only 168 hours.
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The part that bugs me the most is: "Man (...) A man (...) A man (...) men"      
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This one is great too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSrusP5SZI4 Can't go wrong with originals either though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRCt0vkDKfY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ft9iuZu0AI Orange Devil fucked around with this message at Nov 30, 2012 around 14:49 |
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Ententod posted:Berlin in the 1930s, in color. There's some correlation between the amount of the same flag on display and how horrible a place is. 
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Armyman25 posted:Ed Asner narrates a video about the recent financial crash. Way back in the 1890s of the Gilded Age, when capitalism was running rampant and nobody gave a flying gently caress about the poor, there was this really odd theory popular with those in wealth and power that the economy was kind of like a horse and a sparrow. The horse, ofcourse, was the rich, and the sparrow the poor. The theory was, as John Galbraith sarcastically put it, that "if you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows." And feed the horse they did, which has been credited as a major reason for the Panic of 1896, an acute economic depression. How times have changed. Back in the day the rich wanted you to eat their poo poo, now they're content to just piss on you.  
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Black Griffon posted:It wasn't a very good show, but this is a very good scene: This is a good clip except for the last one and a half minute when it goes into total fantasy land. Pretty much none of the things this guy says the US "used to be" or "used to do" are true. Sorry guys, it's always been poo poo, it's just that pretty much everywhere else used to be (and usually still is) pretty drat poo poo as well.  US troops boarding to go invade Haiti with the explicit aim to safeguard US corporate interests, 1915. Haiti remained under US occupation until 1934. It remains the worst country in the region to this day. Orange Devil fucked around with this message at Jan 8, 2013 around 20:50 |
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Joementum posted:It snowed in Israel and Bibi drew a picture of it. You know who else liked to draw pictures? That's right... 
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 Convoy transporting American troops to Russia during the Invasion of Russia, 1918.  American troops in Vladivostok. Probably 1919.  American troops digging in in the Arkhangelsk Oblast, in the far north west of the Russia.    American troops in Siberia.  The only good American troop invading another nation and recent WW 1 ally unprovoked. Nations who invaded Russia almost immediately following the 1917 revolution: British Empire Empire of Japan Czechoslovakia Greece United States France Serbia Romania Italy China
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steinrokkan posted:
I was aware of the Czechoslovak Legion and their railway antics and their role in the formation of the Czechoslovak state, but was not aware they were originially living in the Russian Empire and allowed by the Czar to form a number of rifle regiments to fight the Dreibund, and ofcourse specifically Austro-Hungary, in order to help defeat them and hope to form a Czechoslovak state in the aftermath, thus making "invasion" an inappropriate term to use for their involvement.  Also, my earlier list did not include "Canada" as a country which invaded Russia following the revolution for some reason. Orange Devil fucked around with this message at Jan 12, 2013 around 14:33 |
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Czechoslovakia didn't exist yet and the Czechoslovak Legion, a corps of some 70 000 volunteers, didn't seek quarrels with the new Russian regime. Even though the British and Americans used conflicts between the Legion and the various Russian factions as a pretext for invading Russia, the Czechoslovaks themselves remained a politically ambiguous force that was dragged into fighting the Bolsheviks by Trotsky's deals with the Germans. The Germans wanted the Legion to be disarmed and imprisoned, the Red Army tried to comply, and the Legion - which was already on its way from Russia - found itself attacked by Red commanders, and scattered by rapidly shifting lines of battle. Ultimately most Legionnaires chose to carry on towards Vladivostok, forcing their way through when needed, while others merged with the White czarist armies, and some Communist sympathizers / pan-Slavists chose to work with the Bolsheviks.
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Lord Lambeth posted:This Machine Kills Fascists are only allowed on guitars. Au contraire  
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Starting to piss me off how literally everyone, ever always gets anarchy so completely wrong.
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ekuNNN posted:This seems fake and out of character, let's look around a bit. Uh, after looking at his twitter page this doesn't seem out of character at all, wow. Richard Dawkins is a much worse person than I thought reading his books. Richard Dawkins is a piece of poo poo, who, like many "famous atheists" hates Muslims. He also hates women. When he's really having a good day, he manages to hate both simultaneously. http://www.theatlanticwire.com/nati...comments/39637/  quote:Opening Serve: Richard Dawkins made an unexpected appearance in the comments section of biologist PZ Myers' post at Scienceblogs.com last week. Myers was commenting on Rebecca Watson's recent experience being propositioned in a hotel elevator by a male attendee of a conference at which Watson had just spoken in Dublin. Dawkins got himself into hot water by commenting in the form of a sarcastic letter to a Muslim woman, pointing out how trivial Watson's experience in the elevator was compared to the abuses Muslim women deal with on a daily basis. "Stop whining will you. Yes, yes, I know you had your genitals mutilated with a razor blade, and...yawn...don't tell me again, I know you aren't allowed to drive a car, and can't leave the house without a male relative, and your husband is allowed to beat you, and you'll be stoned to death if you commit adultery," he wrote. "But stop whining, will you. Think of the suffering your poor American sisters have to put up with."
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Hereditary political power is wrong on principle, but who cares if they make some money right? 
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R. Mute posted:Pim Fortuyn was a racist Dutch politician who really hated Islam and who was really popular during the early 2000's. Pim Fortuyn was a very interesting character and I don't feel like I'm able to say for certain whether he believed or stood for any single position out of any kind of ideological conviction or belief that a policy would lead to some kind of societally beneficial goal. The man would at times turn on a dime when it came to his policy positions and went from being an associate professor in Marxist sociology and communist to a xenofobic hard-right demagogue politician who had a good shot at being Prime Minister. A lot of his initial political message was about making the government smaller in scale to allow it to be brought closer to the people. Smaller schools, more health clinics, more local politics. At the same time, however, he also wanted less government involvement in education and healthcare and the police had to become tougher on crime. US Republican talking points, but masked very well as the ideas of a man who wanted to cut down bureacracy and bring the government closer to the people. A great way to sell neoliberalism in Europe, where people don't have the inherent distrust of government that seems to be so prevalent in the US. I've given it a lot of thought, and I think Fortuyn cared about one thing and one thing only, power for Fortuyn. He'd say anything, take any position, as long as he thought it'd get him more power. The most memorable moment, to me, and I only really saw this a year or maybe two ago, yet I think of it regularly, is his acceptance speech on November 25th 2001 as leader of the Livable Netherlands party (who kicked him out a couple months later, leading to him establishing his own party). He goes over all his policy positions on all kinds of domestic issues, and his charisma and talent at speeching shines, as he manages to hide his neoliberalism incredibly well, and paint a desirable vision for the future. Then he comes to this moment where he says "(in English) I had a dream (in Dutch) and that is a dream, of a world without borders, where you can be where you want. Where you can meet people, experience loves, make yourself useful, in the place which you choose. And then a plane came, and then another plane, and another plane and another plane, and then the dream was shattered." At the time I first really saw this a few years ago (I didn't pay so much attention to politics at the time this all took place) I thought that Pim Fortuyn was the face of cowardice. That part of his speech is unadulturated cowardice. To let 20 idiots destroy a vision, a dream, just like that, is to be a complete and utter coward. I think now however, that it was something worse. It was the face of a calculating demagogue who knew that many people were scared, and he could use and manipulate that fear to gain more power. Instead of aspiring to be a leader who would inspire people and help them find the courage to stand together, he encouraged them to embrace their fears and rip eachother apart. Islamophobia and racism were just a means to the end of him gaining more power. I'm glad he's dead. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gGY37cYJOQ 4:44 in this video for the segment Unfortunately, his political legacy lives on.  
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midnightclimax posted:If I remember one thing from my trip to South America, it's that everyone thinks the neighbouring country is full of unfriendly shitheads that will mug you. Interesting how all these countries with predominantly white elites haves predominantly non-white lower and middle classes who hate eachother for vague, inaccurate and bullshit nationalist reasons. I wonder, I wonder... 
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mlmp08 posted:A video on wealth distribution in the USA and USA citizens' beliefs about it: I wish a video designed to educate wouldn't perpetuate misconceptions about socialism. For anyone in doubt, nothing he says about socialism is true. 
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Accretionist posted:What's this? Kettling. It's the police equivalent of "I'm not touching you!".  It's strong against non-violent protest, weak against suicide bombs.
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Peven Stan posted:What interests me most about kettling is that its basically an encirclement tactic that can be countered by a determined thrust towards the weakest (or perceived weakest) part of the encirclement in a classic "breakout." Of course, if your protest is ostensibly nonviolent there is literally no way to do this. The only counters to kettling continuing to happen are someone with some power pulling their heads out of their rear end and forbidding police from doing this or dead cops. Guess which one is more likely?  
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Dusseldorf posted:I always thought that this photo was taken as a promo for Come and See. I'm pretty sure it was posted earlier in the thread and mentioned that it was some kind of inspirational (!) poster made before or during WW1 to show how safe kids would be or some such. It's pretty hosed up. 
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Baruch Obamawitz posted:End all wars 
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Just going to post the picture of probably the single biggest hero of the 20th century again, because really that can't be done enough.
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prefect posted:a lady who had a cancerous tumor that stayed alive after she died (scientists have grown 20 tons of her cells for medical research) On account of this lady having the misfortune to be both a woman and black in the 1950s United States, not only did her family not see any kind of compensation for the usage of her cells in pretty much every medical research since then of note, but neither her nor her family's consent was acquired. Ethically, the continued usage of her cells is in quite a hosed up grey area. Seriously though, Henrietta Lacks, a name to know and a woman to appreciate.   
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Related to the subject of anti-war war movies, this is possibly the angriest documentary ever made, and in some way becomes the most honest WW2 documentary as a result. English language Soviet documentary about the Nuremberg Trials: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urt51jWFdII Maybe someone has a higher quality version?
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 One of the four Basques who killed Carrero. He was himself killed in a car-bomb using explosives from a US military base by fascists from the Spanish Navy, France and Italy. Why yes the US had military bases in fascist Spain, why do you ask? Orange Devil fucked around with this message at Apr 6, 2013 around 19:29 |
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