What do you think about with current News and Opinions?

[guest1163268]

Something to understand what nurses think about re the Current News and their opinions!

[toomuchbaloney]

23 minutes ago, NurseBlaq said:

Because that's exactly what it is. Fox News has been radicalizing bigots for years. So glad the government finally said the silent part out loud about white supremacists being the biggest domestic terrorist threat.

There's quite a bit of overt denial of that reality among congressional and other republicans.  The party of Trump is doubling down.  Our republic is in peril. 

[Beerman, BSN]

47 minutes ago, NurseBlaq said:

Because that's exactly what it is. Fox News has been radicalizing bigots for years. 

Hogwash.

24 minutes ago, toomuchbaloney said:

So glad the government finally said the silent part out loud about white supremacists being the biggest domestic terrorist threat.

I guess so.  But that isn't saying much.  What are the top 5 "biggest domestic terrorist " threats?

 

[toomuchbaloney]

32 minutes ago, Beerman said:

Hogwash.

I guess so.  But that isn't saying much.  What are the top 5 "biggest domestic terrorist " threats?

 

It's sort of ironic that a Trump supporter would ask about domestic terrorism after Trump supporters threatened state political leadership and stormed the national capital building to stop the peaceful transition of power because of a lie. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/17/us/politics/domestic-terrorism.html

https://www.odni.gov/index.php/newsroom/reports-publications/reports-publications-2021/item/2194-unclassified-summary-of-assessment-on-domestic-violent-extremism

[Tweety, BSN, RN]

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White supremacists and other like-minded extremists conducted two-thirds of the terrorist plots and attacks in the United States in 2020, according to new CSIS data. Anarchists, anti-fascists, and other like-minded extremists orchestrated 20 percent of the plots and attacks, though the number of incidents grew from previous years as these extremists targeted law enforcement, military, and government facilities and personnel. Despite these findings, however, the number of fatalities from domestic terrorism is relatively low compared to previous years.

https://www.csis.org/analysis/war-comes-home-evolution-domestic-terrorism-united-states

 

All evidence is pointing that the #1 threat is from White Supremacists.  It's almost to easy a question to answer what the #1 is but not the top five.  The others might include as this article states anarchists, anti-fascists, or the mentally ill. 

 

 

 

[NurseBlaq]

1 hour ago, Beerman said:

Hogwash.

I guess so.  But that isn't saying much.  What are the top 5 "biggest domestic terrorist " threats?

 

You just proved my point and don't even know it. ?

[Tweety, BSN, RN]

It's a timely topic

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President Joe Biden's administration on Tuesday unveiled a plan to address the threat of violence posed by white supremacists and militias, five months after members of those groups joined in a deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-administration-unveils-plan-tackle-domestic-terrorism-2021-06-15/

[guest1163268]

1 hour ago, Tweety said:

It's a timely topic

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-administration-unveils-plan-tackle-domestic-terrorism-2021-06-15/

So seriously, I don't see why we can't commission those Italian satellites used to rig the votes and use the Jewish lasers on those groups hiding in the woods and then send in the lizard people to mop up the survivors? 

The following lawsuits can be paid in children's blood and pizzas since we have a surplus of those ?????. Hillary can pull some strings and make it happen! 

[guest1163268]

So now that Biden has made China his baddie, what happens to all the visas Kushner sold and the licensing agreements for Ivanka? Also without Netanyahu, is kushner going to have to give back the money to Israel because you know just like his Harvard degree, money changed hands somewhere? And I bet that both kushner and Ivanka were involved in some of the latest dealings with the Insurrection and trying to steal the election. Trump kept his inner circle small and they were deeply involved in most of the illegal things going on! You can also bet that with NY investigations, both Ivanka and kushner will be caught up in the taxes and the business dealings. 

Russia has already made themselves the bad guy and now China will be forced to align themselves with Russia and that will be a treacherous relationship. If this is Biden's ploy, it's a good one, because it will force a complete Indo Pacific alliance with India, Australia, Japan, Korea to deal with them and this will be totally beneficial for us. 

[toomuchbaloney]

You make my head spin a little bit sometimes, @Curious1997

[Beerman, BSN]

15 hours ago, Tweety said:

https://www.csis.org/analysis/war-comes-home-evolution-domestic-terrorism-united-states

 

All evidence is pointing that the #1 threat is from White Supremacists.  It's almost to easy a question to answer what the #1 is but not the top five.  The others might include as this article states anarchists, anti-fascists, or the mentally ill. 

 

 

 

The last sentence of the portion of the article you quoted goes to the point I was making:

"Despite these findings, however, the number of fatalities from domestic terrorism is relatively low compared to previous years."

[Beerman, BSN]

16 hours ago, Tweety said:

 It's almost to easy a question to answer what the #1 is but not the top five.  The others might include as this article states anarchists, anti-fascists, or the mentally ill. 

Your article mentions others.  Violent far right groups are number 1.  Violent far left is number 2.

"As shown in Figure 1, far-right terrorists committed 67 percent of attacks and plots, far-left terrorists committed 20 percent, and extremists with other motivations (such as supporters of the Boogaloo movement) and Salafi-jihadists each committed 7 percent."

Also from the article:

"Despite these findings, this violence needs to be understood in historical context. The number of fatalities from terrorist attacks in the U.S. homeland is still relatively small compared to some periods in U.S. history, making it important not to overstate the threat.7 Roughly half of the years since 1994 had a greater number of fatalities from terrorism than 2020—at least between January 1 and August 31, 2020. There were also no mass-casualty terrorist attacks, a stark contrast from such incidents as the April 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, which killed 168 people; the September 2001 attacks, which killed nearly 3,000 people; and the June 2016 Orlando attack, which killed 49 people."

[guest1163268]

3 hours ago, toomuchbaloney said:

You make my head spin a little bit sometimes, @Curious1997

Well I do consume world news and I try to make sense of what's going on. You have to ask why is Biden singling out China when Russia is doing the dirty business? He's got leverage on Russia and can impose sanctions on them anytime especially with Russia so dependent on oil, including freezing oligarchs bank accounts etc. The only leverage he has on China is how much they stupidly invested in this country that has a history of reneging, that Japan knows only too well.

The only reason I can think about is renegotiating our trade deals with China and loans. And this is the time to do it. Pandemic equals reduced trade worldwide hitting China hardest especially with the social awakening happening there re the inequality of income. Over 600 million people earn less than $14k annually. Yet Beijing has the 2nd largest amount of billionaires. China's Silk Road initiatives are getting pushback because China has always been idiots with their superiority complex. The antipodes are seriously pushing back on China except for the Kiwis hesitating slightly. Europe is definitely not keen on their investments because they are now relegated to Hungary and Oban. This is a great ploy if that's his plan.