RSSIn Davos, Trump requested that people consider investing in the USA. Why would anyone consider something like that, with consideration that the property rights can be taken away anytime for a arbitrary political consideration,
Mr Unz, you are really hot., just look at all the high strung trolls!
Fascism is how Hitler saved the capitalistic system in Germany and maintained the control of its oligarchy. Fascism relies on military spending to employ the population, thus gaining political support. Fascism’s prime tool is military spending. Military spending produces a product that doesn’t build up on the nation’s shelves in the form of unsold inventory, and therefore can not cause a depression or a recession.
It is an answer to Carl Marx, however, in the end, the bill must be paid.
“There is no such thing as a free war.”
Well yeah, Zionism is a rather clear cut case of nationalism. However, there are those who suffer from severe delusions.
Wow the stupidity of some people is unbelievable. With few exceptions, I'm not giving anyone I dont know a ride.Especially with my wife in the car. I don't care what color they are.
Pat has been, for many people, a source of consolation and emotional stability in an otherwise very disturbing world. Happy birthday Pat!
The high tech establishment of “Silicon Valley ” like business in the US, with their need to compete on an international basis, cannot consider the absurd reference of “Ivy league” as genuine consideration, while Asian math ability is an indispensable at every level.
On that note, expect a doubling down on the deals and the bribes. But hey, the entertainment is free!
Shoot people on the street with paintballs, watch how quickly things escalate.
It’s time for all those men in China, who can’t find a wife, to start having sex with the women of South America.
Asians generally consider “affirmative action”, as we know it on our continent, to be highly illogical. But , an Asian has a very high ability and respect, for all things mathematical.
Anon, it’s der Kampf. Always will be. Maybe you are thinking meinen Kampf?
Putin is Orthodox, not Evangelical. (Two completely different poles of theology.)
Cyrano, your ignorance is causing you to be delusional
“Der Kampf” translates into the struggle.
Has nothing to do with summer camp.
The idea that Trump was turned around in 30 days is silly.
https://search.aol.com/aol/image?q=Salute+to+Israel+grand+marshall&s_it=img-ans&imgId=FA3ACE791702D26C3831809B1B7308C1661214C7&v_t=client97_searchbox
The correct term would be “bait and switch operation.”
But, there is a very real possibility that another 911 event is in the making, and soon.
I'd like to know how many of the murders are committed with semi-auto rifles ? I'd bet it's not very many.
If all the convenience stores close at 9, everyone will go home and go to bed ? OK, Got it!
What the hell is an "in school suspension coordinator" ? My local high school doesn't have that. Oh yea, because its maybe 1% black. FFS
No one goes to jail for having a "drug reaction". They get taken to the hospital for that. Someone may go to jail for drug possession or doing other illegal things while high.
Anonymous chattanooga gal said…
"How many deceased aspiring rappers do you think he`s been stuck with when the family skips out on the bill? "
I believe most black funeral homes charge a hefty portion of the bill up front. They are probably very aware that as soon as the first shock wears off those black customers will not pay another dime
I'm sure they get ALL the money up front.
Like Ed Koch used to say, “There are far more white people on welfare than there are black people.”
Seems Ed considered the Satmar to be white.
Is that real optimism, or what?
Americans have a lot to learn and unlearn. Our strategic advantage may reside in the fact that political life in the United States cannot get worse – we really have touched bottom and (barring a nuclear war) we can only look up. -- Petras

Neocon empire, is incompetent empire.
https://theintercept.com/2017/07/29/dan-coats-north-korea-nukes-nuclear-libya-regime-change/
Now the teachers just collect all the supplies at the beginning of the year and pass it out to everyone as needed. No need to embarrass any of the little darlings.
Excellent point. That is why "West" (US mostly) can not win a single war in 70 years.Replies: @TipTipTopKek, @Joe Wong, @ROBERTO
The modern western culture is centered on various forms of instant gratification, and that is also true for geopolitics. If the other guy does something, western leaders always deliver a “firm” response. They like to “send messages”
The war takes place in men’s minds, the shooting is only a the echo.
YES!
But, all this is overshadowed by the porn star who refused $10,000 to go on a date with billionaire Trump. BTW, what ever happened to her?
No one said they were going to start supporting democraps. You step off the ledge. a**wipe !
No pat downs or metal detectors for visitors? Really? This is in a real city or county jail and anyone can just walk in carrying whatever? Holy Shit!! Who in the hell is running this place? Must be more africans.
I shall be a winner, because , in that case, the last thread of plausibility will have been broken.
Absolutely nothing is remaining that can be taken seriously, in the event of a Clinton administration.
Well, I’m having a hard time believing that a porn star would refuse $10,000 to go on a date with a billionaire.
Where’s the logic in that?
Well here goes, The Obama administration has been out there to try and jazz-up the black vote. Hillary has been trying to play to the working people that she knifed in the back with trade deals. Perhaps big TV watchers could actually believe this, but, the election depends on who comes out to vote.
Trump’s support is solid, while Clinton’s is not. Not doing very well in a debate,is a very disarming sort of a thing.
In that video clip, Trump speaks so much more fluently and eloquently than he does nowadays. Sure, I guess he is getting old now, but the difference is still noticeable.
I was watching some old presidential and vice-presidential debates the other night, and between 1980 and 1984 GHWB went from being a fairly polished (nowhere near as good as Reagan, but still pretty good), persuasive, quick-witted speaker to a stuttering, stumbling fool (Ferraro mostly ran rings around him in 1984). Now doubtless he was far more motivated and better prepared when he was taking on Reagan in a high-stakes debate for the Republican nomination than in a near-meaningless VP debate prior to a near-certain victory four years later. But still. Did something happen in between times? I remember Steve years ago speculating that GWB might have suffered some kind of stroke in the late 1990s, given his (relative) verbal fluency in his early years as Texas governor and his invariably shambling performances as president. I haven’t compared any of H. Clinton’s pre-probable-stroke speeches with her recent efforts, but I’ll be expecting the same pattern when I do. Just a few thoughts.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/08/31/member-of-congress-berates-obama-for-consulting-congress-on-syria/
In a squeeze it will probably be on many fronts as well. The fools in Washington seem to forget that a serious slap down of the United States is a potential open road for wanabe world powers such as China.
Work toward mutual prosperity is in everyone’s best interests.
But Hispanic perpetrators are counted as white, aren’t they? Coverage may yet continue! But probably won’t.
Do we need a word for Hispanic criminals who are counted as whites to deliberately skew crime figures. Whitespanic? Whispanic?
Notice how the media always refer to ‘Catholics’ and ‘Protestants’ (or Protestant sub-denomination) rather than just saying ‘Christian’.
Surely ‘Al Kyder’ and ‘G. Haddy’?
Or maybe ‘Terry Wrist’?
What??? No one pulled out a gun and started shooting? They really need to step it up.
I was thinking the same thing. Japan is the answer.
What are the explainations for the terms "traditional non-religious" and "traditional religious"?
Traditional in what way?
in this case buddy boy (or girl) the thing is define ‘exceptionally brutal” and “long period’. a succint review of todays’ press shows that world peace is flourishing, obviously (gimme a break). anyway you look at it, the system(s) sucked and still sucks and so do the bullshit attempts to sanctify it; no matter how many angels you throw into the mix, which i find rather curious for this assortment of nonbelievers.
You write; “‘The reason that I suspect Steven Pinker does not talk much about European colonialism is that it was not exceptionally brutal, nor was it a very long period in much of the world.”
You are not seriously thinking this statement holds any water. Balderdash! (or bullocks if you prefer)
…” So I simply limited the sample to those with at least bachelor’s degrees to control for intelligence:” Without further explanation from you, this statement is questionable, at least.
Enjoyed the slide show. Sounds like a fun study. Good luck. I’m far too old to participate, but will be interested in your findings. Now that I think of it, I’m not smart enough to participate, but I’ll still be interested in your findings.
p.s. Adobe messages that slide 29 has a problem with the (presumed) chart.
banned ?oh no!! on my first post? sorry, i didnt mean to “project” anything. my analysis of the holloway paper is that too much with too little, the same applies to SJG; that was my point.
(Bin Laden claimed he wasnt a terrorist). You yourself stated: dont trust one figure, one paper,one graph (although I remember Baltimores’ famous 200 cpm to claim RT) or too few tables with oo few skulls; too few mis-measurements. Thats all there is to it. The rest in commentary.
Wouldn’t it be interesting to see a psychological study on the perception of graphic representations? To me, two things come to mind when I look at these, not from the point of view of data representation, but from visual impact point of view.
1) It’s a little irritating to keep searching for any particular country’s line when the line color changes from chart to chart.
2) Scale means a lot. Our attention has been drawn to infant mortality rate. When we look at that graph when we ‘explore data’ and add a non-western country, South Africa, for example, we find that the automatic scaling feature squishes the data of the six countries here almost into a common line. Almost. This does not change the facts, only the perception of them.
So psychologists, what can you tell us from this and our perception of data presented (aside from the obvious) and the representation or dissection of data in future studies?
It is easy to reduce white crime rates: Just take a big crime, one for which too many whites would have to be prosecuted and put in prison, and make it legal. Something like cocaine consumption, abortion, homosexuality, alcohol consumption, gambling, patronizing prostitution. The same kind of crimes that americans proclaim to have a right to commit. The same that we want the Islamic countries to accept as “freedom”.