2017年8月12日 星期六

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Robert Reich
What has Trump unleashed? Last night, hundreds of far-right demonstrators wielded torches as they marched on to the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville chanting slogans like “You will not replace us” and “Blood and soil.” They then attacked a much smaller group of counter-protesters who had linked arms around a statue of Thomas Jefferson.
I lived through the Civil Rights movement and the anti-Vietnam War movement. They both split America. But at least they were based on ideals about justice and fairness. What’s motivating the current clashes?
What do you think?

JUST IN: President Donald J. Trump condemned the violence that broke out at a white supremacists rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday, saying: “No matter our color, creed, religion or political party, we are all Americans first.” http://cnn.it/2w0X8ul

How the Swastika Became a Confederate Flag

By BRENT STAPLES

Beneath the surface of white supremacism are symbols rooted in the Third Reich.

Hillary Clinton
America has a lot to lose by electing Trump. But there’s one group in particular who has everything to gain.

“A lot of what he believes, we believe.”
HILLARYCLINTON.COM


He says the majority of Americans “are embracing the core issues I have fought for my entire life.”

Duke said Friday he has espoused principles for years that are similar to the…
PBS.ORG
David Shapiro’s vision of materialist America in the book “Supremacist” is brutally honest, complex, and self-contradictory.

But with the murder of Dr. George Tiller by an anti-abortion fanatic, closely followed by a shooting by a white supremacist at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the analysis looks prescient.


The Useful Arts and the Liberal Tradition by Earl F. Cheit - jstor

www.jstor.org/stable/3445898


Earl Cheit, Prescient Educator, Dies at 87



henchmen, buggy-eyed superhero,  ninja,
Times reporter John Eligon writes about his experience interviewing a white supremacist in Leith, N.D. “Many people have wondered how I could stomach doing an interview with a man whose beliefs were so hostile toward people of my race.”


A Superheroic Caped Crusade to Keep Troops Safe in Afghanistan
Bagram Batman TV Spots Educate Military; 'He Acts Just as Well as Adam West Did'

 

   

 


Books About Nazi Henchmen
Reviewed by JACOB HEILBRUNN
None of Hitler's lieutenants did more to realize the Final Solution than Heinrich Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich.

Deficit spending and sex scandals are not a good recipe for success.
But by forcing through a government takeover of health care, the auto industry and the banks, the president and his Congressional henchmen have brought us in a time machine to Russia 1917. These massive changes have been done in secret and along bullying, straight party-line votes.

Superheroes cheer children in Japan's tsunami zone
The Associated Press
ISHINOMAKI, Japan (AP) — The battle between the buggy-eyed blue superhero and the evil sea monster and his ninja henchmen was a brief but refreshing return to normalcy for children in this Japanese coastal city. Nearly two months after their lives ...





henchman

n.
  1. A loyal and trusted follower or subordinate.
  2. A person who supports a political figure chiefly out of selfish interests.
  3. A member of a criminal gang.
  4. Obsolete. A page to a prince or other person of high rank.
[Middle English hengsman, henshman, servant to a person of rank : hengest, horse (from Old English) + man, man; see man.]


Definition of buggy

adjective (buggierbuggiest)

  • 1infested with bugs.
  • (of a computer program or system) faulty in operation.
3North American informal mad; insane.

henchman
[名](複-men)
1 ギャングの手下, ごろつきの手先, 子分;政治家の支持者, 取り巻き, 追従者.
2 信頼されている部下, 腹心.
3 ((古))小姓.


Definition of superhero

noun (plural superheroes)

a benevolent fictional character with superhuman powers, such as Superman.




prescient 

Pronunciation: /ˈprɛsɪənt/ 

ADJECTIVE

Having or showing knowledge of events before they take place:a prescient warning
presciently


Pronunciation: /ˈprɛsɪəntli/ 
ADVERB




Origin

Early 17th century: from Latin praescient- 'knowing beforehand', from the verb praescire, from prae 'before' + scire 'know'.
Meaning #1: perceiving the significance of events before they occur
adj.
  1. Of or relating to prescience.
  2. Possessing prescience.
[French, from Old French, from Latin praesciēns, praescient-, present participle of praescīre, to know beforehand : prae-, pre- + scīre, to know.]
presciently pre'scient·ly adv.






 Supremacism is the belief that a particular racespeciesethnic groupreligiongendersexual orientationclassbelief system or culture is superior to others and entitles those who identify with it to dominate, control or rule those who do not.


supremacist

Pronunciation: /suːˈprɛməsɪst/ 
 /sjuːˈprɛməsɪst/ 

NOUN

An advocate of the supremacy of a particular group, especially one determined by race or sex:a white supremacist

ADJECTIVE

Relating to or advocating the supremacy of a particular group:supremacist ideologies
Derivatives
supremacism

NOUN

supremacist

Meaning #1: a person who advocates the supremacy of some particular group over all others

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