Dilbert podcast comments on a journalist supposedly killed during interrogation by the Saudis was actually an Iranian agent.
Mollie Hemingway’s Federalist article on Qatar and Khashoggi
- Khashoggi was an influence peddler working for Iran
- WAPO was therefore…colluding with Iran, a foreign enemy
in another podcast he asks why the Turks consider the Kurds as terrorists.
it's because the Versailles treaty cut up the Ottoman empire and resulted in the Kurds being divided. The huge Kurdish minority in eastern Turkey were pressured into becoming Turks, and resisted, including violent terrorist attacks.
The Kurds in northern Iraq were gassed etc by Saddam Hussein, and after the first Gulf war, the Americans put up air protection for them so they have essentially been running their own state within a state there, which is giving the Kurds in Syria the same idea. The Turks don't want that, especially since the Turkish birth rate is low, and the Kurdish birth rate is higher and in the long term they might take over the place.
Ottoman History podcast discusses the history of that ethnic group that wants their own country.
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it's because the Versailles treaty cut up the Ottoman empire and resulted in the Kurds being divided. The huge Kurdish minority in eastern Turkey were pressured into becoming Turks, and resisted, including violent terrorist attacks.
The Kurds in northern Iraq were gassed etc by Saddam Hussein, and after the first Gulf war, the Americans put up air protection for them so they have essentially been running their own state within a state there, which is giving the Kurds in Syria the same idea. The Turks don't want that, especially since the Turkish birth rate is low, and the Kurdish birth rate is higher and in the long term they might take over the place.
Ottoman History podcast discusses the history of that ethnic group that wants their own country.
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a summary of the American war of the elites vs the deplorables link
and uses a history of Athens to show the problem of the losing side criminalizing differences of opinion in policy matter.
and explains how this predates Trumpieboy
and explains how this predates Trumpieboy
The 2008 financial crisis sparked the realization that public opinion meant nothing, because the elites of both parties (and the press propaganda to support them) united to bail out the crooked banks.
They showed “government by the people, for the people” to be a fable. This forced the recognition that there exists a remarkably uniform, bipartisan, Progressive ruling class; that it includes, most of the bureaucracies of federal and state governments, the judiciary, the educational establishment, the media, as well as major corporate officials; that it had separated itself socially, morally, and politically from the rest of society, whose commanding heights it monopolized; above all that it has contempt for the rest of America, and that ordinary Americans have no means of persuading this class of anything, because they don’t count.
a similar warning can be found in Mike Duncan's book on how political violence destroyed the Roman Republic.
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