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- Sat May 15, 2021 6:55 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Why the hate on Russia?
- Replies: 90
- Views: 41536
Re: Why the hate on Russia?
I recognise how much the USA is inward looking, which makes its media ventures into foreign affairs that much more significant. As such, coverage of different nations is all we have to illustrate any biased editorial imperative. For example, why Alexei Navalny and not Julian Assange? Why designate H...
- Sat May 15, 2021 6:42 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Why the hate on Russia?
- Replies: 90
- Views: 41536
Re: Why the hate on Russia?
I didn't even hear anything positive about Russia when I was regularly watching Russian news in Russian. They only ever say how things will get better soon, and have been for the last 60 years. :D I remember growing up in the UK and my parents continuously complaining that the news was always bad! ...
- Sat May 15, 2021 6:13 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Why the hate on Russia?
- Replies: 90
- Views: 41536
Re: Why the hate on Russia?
Suspecting how the media walk in lockstep to present a uniform narrative, I came to wondering what was the last article I read in mainstream Western media that was not negative about Russia. I couldn't recall one. What is the last positive article on Russia you read, and do you think coverage of Ru...
- Sat May 15, 2021 6:11 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: UK Local Elections May 2021
- Replies: 32
- Views: 9090
Re: UK Local Elections May 2021
All world leaders did well because of Covid because of the rally-round-the-flag effect Trump lost. The Socialists lost Madrid. The Greens look on target to become the leading party in Germany. What is your justification to claim; "All world leaders did well because of Covid because of the rall...
- Sat May 15, 2021 6:07 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Israel and Gaza
- Replies: 151
- Views: 65548
Re: Israel and Gaza
But is it really an existential war? For Palestine and its prospects as a functioning state, yes. For Palestinians, as a recognised people, again yes. The inhabitants who peopled the Levant prior to 1948, and their descendants, are having their existence erased. This is but the latest chapter in a ...
- Sat May 15, 2021 3:22 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Why the hate on Russia?
- Replies: 90
- Views: 41536
Re: Why the hate on Russia?
Suspecting how the media walk in lockstep to present a uniform narrative, I came to wondering what was the last article I read in mainstream Western media that was not negative about Russia. I couldn't recall one. What is the last positive article on Russia you read, and do you think coverage of Rus...
- Sat May 15, 2021 2:53 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Bitcoin mining
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3175
Re: Bitcoin mining
I have long considered the idea of Bitcoin and other crypto-currency faintly ridiculous, but I had no idea how much harm they are actually causing. How Bitcoin Mining Keeps Old Fossil-Fuel Plants Alive I heard a story about this on NPR this morning, but when I did a search, this Mother Jones articl...
- Sat May 15, 2021 2:49 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Israel and Gaza
- Replies: 151
- Views: 65548
Re: Israel and Gaza
I can only speak from the media we are getting here, but the talk of Hamas using "human shields" seems to have been pretty much debunked. Gaza is extremely densely populated so any carpet bombing being carried out will perforce have civilian casualties. Israel seem to be making no attempt...
- Sat May 15, 2021 2:32 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: UK Local Elections May 2021
- Replies: 32
- Views: 9090
Re: UK Local Elections May 2021
I raise the UK mortality rate as a challenge to a certain narrative that Johnson only did well because of Covid. As far as I can see, this is a theory peddled by those who have constructed the "fact" Labour's suffering is due to Corbyn's "looney left" leadership. A year on from S...
- Fri May 14, 2021 8:44 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Israel and Gaza
- Replies: 151
- Views: 65548
Re: Israel and Gaza
Bëor, I have seen videos of Palestinian school children being taught to march around their classes with wooden rifles, chanting anti-Israeli slogans. They are being thoroughly indoctrinated to hate. On the other side, Israeli soldiers are shooting kids for throwing stones at their tanks. :cry: As f...
- Fri May 14, 2021 8:20 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: UK Local Elections May 2021
- Replies: 32
- Views: 9090
Re: UK Local Elections May 2021
Fascinating, but I'm not sure how much your personal platform influences UK elections...
- Fri May 14, 2021 8:11 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Israel and Gaza
- Replies: 151
- Views: 65548
Re: Israel and Gaza
Over and over and over again. Both sides have very legitimate concerns. Both sides take actions that are completely not commensurate with those concerns. Israel far more than the Palestinians. As a Jew, and a family member of Holocaust victims and survivors, and as a human being, it hurts my heart....
- Fri May 14, 2021 7:45 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: UK Local Elections May 2021
- Replies: 32
- Views: 9090
Re: UK Local Elections May 2021
I ran into this article in Merion West this morning by a Corbyn supporter (as far as I can tell) which discusses the Brexit issue Beorhtnoth raised upthread. I tended to see Brexit as a big wedge for Labour, creating an irreconcilable difference between working-class pro-Brexit constituencies in th...
- Fri May 14, 2021 7:33 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Israel and Gaza
- Replies: 151
- Views: 65548
Re: Israel and Gaza
Deja vu?
- Sat May 08, 2021 11:06 pm
- Forum: Tol Eressëa
- Topic: The Art of Rhetoric, Debate, Logical Fallacies, etc
- Replies: 29
- Views: 30379
Re: The Art of Rhetoric, Debate, Logical Fallacies, etc
For example - the big picture when it comes to discussing Middle-earth is that it is a work of fiction created by one man whose ideas evolved over time, and as such some questions don't have definitive answers or have contradictory answers. Ah, but that "big picture" isn't necessarily THE...
- Sat May 08, 2021 10:39 pm
- Forum: Tol Eressëa
- Topic: The Art of Rhetoric, Debate, Logical Fallacies, etc
- Replies: 29
- Views: 30379
Re: The Art of Rhetoric, Debate, Logical Fallacies, etc
Corollary - it's a red flag when someone enters a discussion and focuses entirely on minor details, the semantics, the hypotheticals. In my experience it means at best that that they do not understand the subject well enough to grasp the big picture, and at worst, that they are not participating in...
- Sat May 08, 2021 10:24 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Black Lives Don't Matter... As Black Lives?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5296
Re: Black Lives Don't Matter... As Black Lives?
Without wishing to sound like a one note orchestra, I believe words, and how they are used, is integral to this (as Voronwë highlights). There is nothing contentious about the statement "Black Lives Matter". There is nothing contentious about the statement "White Lives Matter". B...
- Sat May 08, 2021 10:06 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: UK Local Elections May 2021
- Replies: 32
- Views: 9090
Re: UK Local Elections May 2021
A major aim of UK devolution was to ensure the devolved parliaments weren't subject to the same party polarisation as in Westminster. It was designed to promote collegiate politics. There was never any expectation a single party would dominate as the SNP has. The electoral system is supposed to avoi...
- Sat May 08, 2021 6:30 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Black Lives Don't Matter... As Black Lives?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5296
Black Lives Don't Matter... As Black Lives?
When Cambridge University professor Priyamvada Gopal stated "White Lives Don't Matter", certain sections of the internet went into meltdown. Here was prima facie evidence of anti-white prejudice. Gopal received death threats. Throughout all this was forgotten Gopal's statement was edited. ...
- Sat May 08, 2021 4:02 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: UK Local Elections May 2021
- Replies: 32
- Views: 9090
Re: UK Local Elections May 2021
Among developed countries, I believe the U.K. trails only Israel in the percentage of the population vaccinated for Covid. Surely that helped the incumbent party even more than the general "rally round the flag" effect seen in most countries during the crisis. But the UK also has one of t...