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This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day.
The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy).
Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
In the 2004 film Downfall (Der Untergang), which portrays Hitler’s last days in a Berlin bunker, he says that if the German people are weak they deserve death. It is a view from philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche who argued that conflicts are won by those with the strongest will. ...
This week’s In the Loop
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Friendly American Fascism: Doesn’t Feel so Friendly Anymore
Now, No One Can Save Israel from Itself
Tick tick….
The FBI rejected a recent White House request to publicly knock down media reports about communications between Donald Trump’s associates and Russians known to US intelligence during the 2016 presidential campaign, multiple US officials briefed on the matter tell CNN.
But a White House official said late Thursday that the request was only made after the FBI indicated to the White House it did not believe the reporting to be accurate.
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/02/23/politics/fbi-refused-white-house-request-to-knock-down-recent-trump-russia-stories/index.html
and then you end up with Pence, or Ryan…
currently there is not winning for the US of A.
Next years mid-terms, when the entire House and a third of the Senate are up for re-election.
i am not sure there are going to be mid-term elections.
The Donald sez there’s nobody better then the Donald.
https://www.facebook.com/VICE/videos/745151985644754/
UK labour loses Copeland by election (and seat held for 80 years)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/24/copeland-labour-stoke-crisis-jeremy-corbyn
Yikes.
A bit of analysis here,
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/live/2017/feb/24/stoke-and-copeland-byelections-corbyn-allies-blame-disunity-for-labours-historic-defeat-politics-live?page=with:block-58b026b3e4b05f755cc0bf1f#block-58b026b3e4b05f755cc0bf1f
The bit that English newspapers never seem to mention in their rush to condemn Corbyn and bag the UK Labour Party is that the Blairite rump of the party that still holds sway in Scotland is sitting at 14% in the polls and isn’t even standing enough candidates in the up-coming local elections (being held in May) to gain control of all the councils where it’s standing (assuming all their candidates were voted in).
Dumping Corbyn and tacking the UK Party back to a ‘New Labour’ path would be such a good idea given the evidence on the ground, aye?
In other news, I’m told that Corbyn meetings are still packed out.And here’s the thing. It takes time for a break through to come from that (some say) old school way of communicating with people you hope to represent. But when the break through comes, it stays solid. (Just ask the SNP)
With No Fair Use, It’s More Difficult to Innovate, Says Google
http://m.slashdot.org/story/322903
So much for NZ innovative edge?