Launch more missiles, run more nuclear weapons tests, and ban sarcasm… perhaps the North Korean media is being ironic in praising Donald Trump. Brilliant, but only if you know better than your generals as long as they can be your generals. Trump loves to refer to things he owns, “my African-Americans”, “my generals”…
“The president that U.S. citizens must vote for is not that dull Hillary – who claimed to adapt the Iranian model to resolve nuclear issues on the Korean Peninsula – but Trump, who spoke of holding direct conversation with North Korea.”
Trump is a “wise politician” and “far-sighted presidential candidate,” the Korean-language article in DPRK Today argues.
The editorial, attributed to Chinese North Korean scholar Han Yong-mook, is not official government policy. Yet it likely reflects the authoritarian regime’s thinking, experts told NK News.
“This is very striking,” Aidan Foster-Carter of the University of Leeds told NK News.
“Admittedly it is not exactly Pyongyang speaking, or at least not the DPRK government in an official capacity. But it is certainly Pyongyang flying a kite, or testing the waters. For the rest of us, this is a timely reminder – if it were needed – of just how completely Trump plans to tear up established U.S. policy in the region; and what an irresponsible, unthinking menace the man is.” www.nknews.org/…
“Yes, do it now,” the editorial urged Trump, reflecting Pyongyang’s long-held demand the U.S. troops leave the Korean peninsula. “Who knew that the slogan ‘Yankee Go Home’ would come true like this?”
Ratings challenged @CNN reports so seriously that I call President Obama (and Clinton) “the founder” of ISIS, & MVP. THEY DON’T GET SARCASM?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 12, 2016
Trump’s claimed “sarcasm” (Obama created ISIS(sic)) is in fact more hyperbolic than sarcastic, probably exempting him from any potential violations when President Trump visits Pyongyang. Continue reading →
“Overnight sensation” – the star who bursts on the scene, seemingly out of nowhere, so often is someone who has labored unappreciated at their craft for years.
At the end of the 20th century, Australian poetry was in the doldrums. Major publishers declared that maximum sales of only 200 to 400 copies per edition were not sustainable. Penguin Australia ditched its poetry list in the 1990s because it wasn’t selling.
In 1996, Dorothy Porter (1954-2008) finally found a publisher for her verse novel The Monkey’s Mask, a noir tale of a private eye’s search for a missing poet. “The Monkey’s Mask – the book for which I couldn’t even find a publisher – suddenly becomes a film, a play, and the BBC has just done a radio dramatisation of it in London. I admit at times I have deliberately done things to make money. But The Monkey’s Mask I wrote for the sheer hell of it.”
And “overnight”– after years of being a familiar name mostly to other Australian poets, meanwhile earning a living teaching – Dorothy Porter was a Sensation.
The cake! The party was financed by an Il gattaro D’aleppo group member, who in lieu of birthday presents for herself, asked friends to help her sponsor a party for children in Aleppo.
Today on Morning Joe, Libertarian party candidate Gary Johnson asked, “What is Aleppo?” in a truly cringe-worthy video. For those of us closely following news from Syria, Aleppo is not only the war’s fiercest battleground but also has become synonymous with Omran Daqneesh and Abu Wad and Mohammad Alaa Aljaleel (i.e., those people from this ancient, beautiful city, caught in the crossfire … the people for whom Gary Johnson, in his ignorance, seems to know or care little).
I have never considered voting for Johnson for president (just look at his stance on gun control, also known as: willful rejection of science). That said, he’s someone who doesn’t know about Aleppo, and I think he should. So, I’m here to help, with an open letter.
Antonin Dvořák was born on September 8, 1841, in a village near Prague. His Bohemian heritage strongly influenced his music.
The word “dumka” means “thought” in Ukranian. As a musical term, it refers to the patterns of Slavic epic ballads, which were usually thoughtful or woeful. These folk music patterns became popular with Russian and Central European orchestral composers in the 1870s, especially Antonin Dvorak. In classical terms, Dumka has come to mean instrumental music with sudden changes from melancholy to exuberance.
Traditional U.S. journalism and the American people are facing a crisis as the preeminent American newspaper, The New York Times, has fully lost its professional bearings, transforming itself into a neoconservative propaganda sheet eager for a New Cold War with Russia and imposing a New McCarthyism on public debate…
Donald Trump’s Losers’ Curse comes from the GOP essentially overpaying or overvaluing its POTUS candidates — raising campaign money that seems not yet to have been spent, even as there seems to be a rising need to avert a loss.
The Donald is all about winning, believe him it will be amazing, even as he demotes Paul Manafort and lets the idiots at Breitbart run his campaign with Roger Ailes lurking in the background like a bald Rasputin.
What remains strange are the subtext messages: 88 former military endorsing him, for example, as though we didn’t remember the white racist use of “88” as signifying a salute to Godwin. Stranger is his odd paternalism signaled by his utterance about allowing into the country only “immigrants chosen to thrive, flourish, and love us”…
The argument that Trump’s rise was enabled by basic cable and the networks that have raked in millions in badly needed advertising cash (while giving Trump an unmediated platform to spout whatever ooze he chooses) is a core contention of many media analysts and many of Trump’s defeated foes. Ted Cruz and his staff, in particular, are enamored of the idea that the GOP nominee secured the nomination as a result of $2 billion or so in unmediated “earned” free media.But John Dickerson, the fair-haired host of the stubbornly civil, traditional and very much mediated “Face the Nation” program on CBS, believes that presidential politics is a Darwinian process. Trump, he argues, has simply out-primate-ed the competition on a level evolutionary playing field by taking advantage of the open microphone — and now he’s refusing to evolve and being eaten alive, fair and square.
Trump has been a naive or deluded bidder for POTUS, winning however regretfully the GOP primaries, but the voting base, as the alienated LIV base is a mass market for losing, hence the underbidding of their success, especially as religiosity of a conservative kind declines by generation. Their sense of losing can be seen in the extremism of their messaging. Continue reading →
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