Today's News (2020/6/9): Nice edition
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solarbirdReally, really, really love to know what Trump and Putin talked about a little over a week ago.
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N-go-z
twitter.com/ShesTooPrecious
8 June 2020
https://twitter.com/ShesTooPrecious/status/1270008888348327939
I remember someone saying they wanted to see how they were protesting in Alaska.
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Ancient Rome Thrived When the Empire Welcomed Immigrants. We Should Remember What Happened When That Changed
Douglas Boin
June 9, 2020
https://news.yahoo.com/ancient-rome-thrived-empire-welcomed-183037857.html
Instances of xenophobia shook the cities, each one worse than the next, in the anxious years of the early fifth-century Roman Empire. Doors were slammed in immigrants’ faces when they asked for food, immigrant family members were kidnapped and beaten on the road, an immigrant house of worship was set on fire. One commentator, taking up his stylus to decry the foreign “pestilence” ravaging his comfortable way of life, won instant applause from Latin-speaking audiences. He twittered about contemporary events with matter-of-fact indifference. “Everyone insults the immigrant,” the poet Claudian said.
Among the many ideas modern societies have inherited from Claudian’s Rome, none has had a more pernicious power than his people’s questionable notion of dividing the world into the civilized and barbarian, us and them. A modern version of that antiquated ideology still holds power. For example, even before the pandemic, Trump adviser Stephen Miller—who, the Southern Poverty Law Center has found, has shared material from white nationalist websites—reportedly scoured the federal law code for novel ways to restrict legalized immigration. The arrival of the novel coronavirus has only intensified the Trump Administration’s priorities, offering a convenient pretext to reduce green cards and tighten the borders.
But history didn’t have to turn out this way. The circumstances that led Western Europe and the U.S. to embrace the worst of classical culture demand a second look, now more than ever.
According to tradition, the once-great and formerly welcoming city of Rome had been founded in the eighth century B.C. as an asylum, a Latin word meaning “sanctuary for refugees.” As Rome grew from monarchy to humble republic to unrivaled empire, the Roman people developed a winning formula for ending wars, fostering stability and achieving widespread, lasting economic success: They extended citizenship to non-residents of the capital.
By any conservative account, Rome’s government did so three times by Claudian’s day: first, in its wars of Italian conquest in the first century B.C.; then, during its aggressive period of colonial expansion in the first and second centuries A.D.; and finally, in 212 A.D., when Emperor Caracalla granted citizenship rights to every free-born person in Rome’s orbit. In this multilingual, multiethnic world of nearly 60 million people—a disturbing number of whom were enslaved—hundreds of thousands of people in Europe, Africa and Asia saw their fortunes improve because of Caracalla’s law.
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Maddow Blog
twitter.com/MaddowBlog
June 8, 2020
https://twitter.com/MaddowBlog/status/1270166358530166785
What is the difference between reforming the police and transformational approaches that was saw in Camden and Compton and appear to be aiming at in Minneapolis? What's the qualitative difference?
Phillip Atiba Goff of John Jay College explains.
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Olga Lautman
olganyc1211
5 June 2020
https://twitter.com/olgaNYC1211/status/1269114893963333638
Huh! So Russia is sending more troops to challenge NATO/US near the borders, Trump announces that he is planning the withdrawal of troops from Germany, and Putin this week signed a decree giving him more flexibility in using nuclear weapons. Nothing to see
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Russia Sends More Troops West, Challenging U.S.-NATO Presence Near Borders
Russia has announced the deployment of more personnel to its western region, signaling a new challenge to the increasingly active U.S.-led NATO military alliance forces operating there.
Tom O'Connor
5 June 2020
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russia-sends-more-troops-west-challenging-us-nato-presence-near-borders/ar-BB156dgJ
The Western Military District press service said Friday that the Separate Guards Motorized Rifle Sevastopol Red Banner Brigade was deployed to Moscow's Novomoskovsky Administrative District, joining the Guards Red Banner Tank Army "to perform tasks on ensuring the defense of the Russian Federation in the Western strategic direction," according to the state-run Tass Russian News Agency.
The motorized rifle units are equipped with "more modern weapons and specialized vehicles," including the T-90A tanks, BTR-82A armored carriers, BMP-3 combat vehicles, and 9A34 Strela-10 and 2S6M Tunguska air defense systems, the Russian military said.The moves came just days after Colonel General Sergei Rudskoi of the Russian General Staff slammed "anti-Russian" activities conducted by the U.S. and allied states of the 29-member NATO defense pact near his country's borders. The largest deployment of U.S. troops in a quarter-century was scaled down due to novel coronavirus concerns in March, but the U.S. still stepped up its presence through other maneuvers.
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- I remember someone saying they wanted to see how they were protesting in Alaska.
- Ancient Rome Thrived When the Empire Welcomed Immigrants. We Should Remember What Happened When That Changed
- What is the difference between reforming the police and transformational approaches that was saw in Camden and Compton and appear to be aiming at in Minneapolis?
- Russia is sending more troops to challenge NATO/US near the borders, as Trump announces he is planning a substantial withdrawal of troops from Germany
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N-go-z
twitter.com/ShesTooPrecious
8 June 2020
https://twitter.com/ShesTooPrecious/status/1270008888348327939
I remember someone saying they wanted to see how they were protesting in Alaska.
[EMBEDDED VIDEO]
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Ancient Rome Thrived When the Empire Welcomed Immigrants. We Should Remember What Happened When That Changed
Douglas Boin
June 9, 2020
https://news.yahoo.com/ancient-rome-thrived-empire-welcomed-183037857.html
Instances of xenophobia shook the cities, each one worse than the next, in the anxious years of the early fifth-century Roman Empire. Doors were slammed in immigrants’ faces when they asked for food, immigrant family members were kidnapped and beaten on the road, an immigrant house of worship was set on fire. One commentator, taking up his stylus to decry the foreign “pestilence” ravaging his comfortable way of life, won instant applause from Latin-speaking audiences. He twittered about contemporary events with matter-of-fact indifference. “Everyone insults the immigrant,” the poet Claudian said.
Among the many ideas modern societies have inherited from Claudian’s Rome, none has had a more pernicious power than his people’s questionable notion of dividing the world into the civilized and barbarian, us and them. A modern version of that antiquated ideology still holds power. For example, even before the pandemic, Trump adviser Stephen Miller—who, the Southern Poverty Law Center has found, has shared material from white nationalist websites—reportedly scoured the federal law code for novel ways to restrict legalized immigration. The arrival of the novel coronavirus has only intensified the Trump Administration’s priorities, offering a convenient pretext to reduce green cards and tighten the borders.
But history didn’t have to turn out this way. The circumstances that led Western Europe and the U.S. to embrace the worst of classical culture demand a second look, now more than ever.
According to tradition, the once-great and formerly welcoming city of Rome had been founded in the eighth century B.C. as an asylum, a Latin word meaning “sanctuary for refugees.” As Rome grew from monarchy to humble republic to unrivaled empire, the Roman people developed a winning formula for ending wars, fostering stability and achieving widespread, lasting economic success: They extended citizenship to non-residents of the capital.
By any conservative account, Rome’s government did so three times by Claudian’s day: first, in its wars of Italian conquest in the first century B.C.; then, during its aggressive period of colonial expansion in the first and second centuries A.D.; and finally, in 212 A.D., when Emperor Caracalla granted citizenship rights to every free-born person in Rome’s orbit. In this multilingual, multiethnic world of nearly 60 million people—a disturbing number of whom were enslaved—hundreds of thousands of people in Europe, Africa and Asia saw their fortunes improve because of Caracalla’s law.
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Maddow Blog
twitter.com/MaddowBlog
June 8, 2020
https://twitter.com/MaddowBlog/status/1270166358530166785
What is the difference between reforming the police and transformational approaches that was saw in Camden and Compton and appear to be aiming at in Minneapolis? What's the qualitative difference?
Phillip Atiba Goff of John Jay College explains.
[EMBEDDED VIDEO]
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Olga Lautman
olganyc12115 June 2020
https://twitter.com/olgaNYC1211/status/1269114893963333638
Huh! So Russia is sending more troops to challenge NATO/US near the borders, Trump announces that he is planning the withdrawal of troops from Germany, and Putin this week signed a decree giving him more flexibility in using nuclear weapons. Nothing to see
[LINK TO:
Russia Sends More Troops West, Challenging U.S.-NATO Presence Near Borders
Russia has announced the deployment of more personnel to its western region, signaling a new challenge to the increasingly active U.S.-led NATO military alliance forces operating there.
Tom O'Connor
5 June 2020
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russia-sends-more-troops-west-challenging-us-nato-presence-near-borders/ar-BB156dgJ
The Western Military District press service said Friday that the Separate Guards Motorized Rifle Sevastopol Red Banner Brigade was deployed to Moscow's Novomoskovsky Administrative District, joining the Guards Red Banner Tank Army "to perform tasks on ensuring the defense of the Russian Federation in the Western strategic direction," according to the state-run Tass Russian News Agency.
The motorized rifle units are equipped with "more modern weapons and specialized vehicles," including the T-90A tanks, BTR-82A armored carriers, BMP-3 combat vehicles, and 9A34 Strela-10 and 2S6M Tunguska air defense systems, the Russian military said.The moves came just days after Colonel General Sergei Rudskoi of the Russian General Staff slammed "anti-Russian" activities conducted by the U.S. and allied states of the 29-member NATO defense pact near his country's borders. The largest deployment of U.S. troops in a quarter-century was scaled down due to novel coronavirus concerns in March, but the U.S. still stepped up its presence through other maneuvers.
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