A gunman fired upon thousands of people attending a music festival on the Las Vegas Strip Sunday night, in a brutal attack that is blamed for at least 58 deaths, police say. In the mass shooting and panic that ensued, 515 people were injured. At least one of the dead is an off-duty police officer who was attending the concert.
Editorializing: Interesting how media always emphasize ISLAMIC terrorists, but downplay domestic terrorism as psychologically disturbed individual lone-wolfs.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Monday October 02 2017, @10:25PM (3 children)
Please read this page. You'll gag on the partisanship, and you'll probably hate the man for badmouthing Obama and Clinton. But, his first paragraphs put that whole enemy of mine enemy into perspective.
https://www.steynonline.com/6839/the-enemy-of-my-enemy [steynonline.com]
"The Congo Civil War raged for most of the first decade of this century uncovered by CNN and The New York Times for want of any way to blame it on George W Bush. Among the estimated six million dead, many were eaten. The two parties to the conflict agreed on very little except that pygmies make an excellent entrée. Both sides hunted down them down as if they were the drive-thru fast-food of big game. While regarding them as sub-human, they believed that if you roasted their flesh and ate it you would gain magical powers."
Odd, isn't it, that our inclusive left media doesn't include much of the bloodshed in Africa. Rwanda, Congo, South Africa, Ethiopia - the list goes on and on. But, hey, it's the Dark Continent, no one wants to turn the light on, do they? Oh, but - let's not forget South Africa!! What's his name, Nelson Mandela, became president after decades in jails and prisons, right? All without a bunch of killing, right? Uh-huh - right.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday October 02 2017, @10:59PM (1 child)
You make a lot of assumptions you really shouldn't. Just to pick one, I am not a fan of Obama or either Clinton, and would like to see every president we've had since and including Nixon strung up for war crimes. If you think I didn't know what kind of diplomatic Hell middle-east tribalism causes, you're also out of line. Try a little charity now and then, will you? Not everyone on the planet who disagrees with you is ill-informed.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday October 03 2017, @02:39AM
Another article, in some ways similar to the one above. The partisanship is from the other side of the aisle, but it's still there. Still, he explains pretty clearly that the saying is quite wrong.
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/39427-through-the-looking-glass-how-can-we-recognize-our-friends-in-the-mixed-up-world-of-donald-trump [truth-out.org]
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 03 2017, @01:38AM
Farther to the left than CNN and the New York Times, there is coverage:
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/04/remembering-rwanda-and-clinton-failure/ (Rwanda)
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2003/01/out-madness-matriarchy/ (Rwanda)
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/09/what-you-need-know-about-famine-horn-africa-backgrounder/ (Ethiopia)
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/10/us-drone-warfare-ethiopia-edition/ (Ethiopia)
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/09/congo-dodd-frank-conflict-minerals/ (Congo)
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/09/bosco-ntaganda-congo-warlord/ (Congo)
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/09/fear-loathing-congo-war-criminal/ (Congo)
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2008/11/congo-conflict-endangered-gorillas-are-pawns-0/ (Congo)
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-invisible-war/ (Congo)
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/ethiopias-becoming-more-homophobic-as-we-speak/ (Ethiopia)
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/ethiopian-troops-enter-somalia/ (Ethiopia)
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/ethiopian-strongman-zenawi-dies/ (Ethiopia)
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/rwanda-says-france-participated-in-genocide/ (Rwanda)
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/david-rieff-on-africas-world-war/ (Rwanda)
https://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0417-04.htm (Rwanda)
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/05/16/why-dont-we-care-about-congos-dead (Congo)
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2008/01/24/drc-invisible-war (Congo)
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/01/24/ethiopias-invisible-crisis (Ethiopia)
https://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0525-04.htm (Ethiopia)
https://www.democracynow.org/2007/10/8/they_are_destroying_the_female_species (Congo)
https://www.democracynow.org/2012/11/30/congo_humanitarian_crisis_worsens_amidst_renewed (Congo)
https://www.democracynow.org/2008/1/23/corporations_reaping_millions_as_congo_suffers (Congo)
https://www.democracynow.org/2008/11/13/congelese_citizens_caught_in_the_crossfire (Congo)
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/6/21/headlines/un_militia_linked_to_drc_committing_human_rights_abuses_in_kasai (Congo)
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/4/25/headlines/congo_video_appears_to_show_killing_of_two_un_investigators (Congo)
https://www.democracynow.org/2016/10/11/headlines/ethiopia_prime_minister_declares_state_of_emergency_amid_protests (Ethiopia)
https://www.democracynow.org/2011/7/22/horn_of_africa_famine_millions_at (Ethiopia)
https://www.democracynow.org/2016/9/7/headlines/ethiopia_23_die_in_disputed_circumstances_at_addis_ababa_prison (Ethiopia)
https://www.democracynow.org/2014/4/7/refusing_to_call_it_genocide_documents (Rwanda)
https://www.democracynow.org/2014/4/7/20_years_later_rwanda_commemorates_genocide (Rwanda)
https://www.democracynow.org/2012/11/30/congo_humanitarian_crisis_worsens_amidst_renewed (Rwanda)
https://www.democracynow.org/2010/8/31/draft_un_report_accuses_rwandan_troops (Rwanda)
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/2/10/headlines/south_africa_fistfights_erupt_at_president_zumas_national_address (South Africa)
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30553-rwanda-how-to-deal-with-a-million-genocide-suspects (Rwanda)
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/23017-us-role-in-rwandan-genocide-a-look-at-rwandan-politics-then-and-now (Rwanda)
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/24034-hate-as-a-contagion-the-role-of-media-in-the-rwandan-genocide (Rwanda)
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/24374-the-life-and-crimes-of-war-criminal-bosco-ntaganda (Rwanda)
People were killed in the struggle against apartheid. Who says otherwise?
New York Times on Mandela [nytimes.com]: