- if you didn't already know there seem to be many former comedians and clowns (literally) becoming politicians nowadays? Here we examine some of them and some of the more funny politicians in the world
- George W. Bush is a perennial favourite? Many times, you're not quite certain whether he's acting dumb or just is?
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bushism
George W. Bush - The Best Bushisms - www.NBCUniversalArchives.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhmdEq3JhoY
8 Years Of 'Bushisms'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AioJbNL1JS8
Best of the Bushisms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be6tunbRcs8
President Bush -- Fool me Once
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ux3DKxxFoM
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bush+shoe
Bush dodges flying shoes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxNprnas7i8
Man Throws Shoes At Bush
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RFH7C3vkK4
BUSH SHOE THROW LOOP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4rYWc4o-eY
Iraqi journalist who threw shoe at Bush runs for parliament
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM3nucc3XTc
george w bush intellectual breadth
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/04/25/george_w_bush_is_smarter_than_you_118125.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_image_of_George_W._Bush
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2003/04/close-up-the-mind-of-george-w-bush/303399/
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2013/04/bush-terrible-president-also-not-a-smart-man.html
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=letterman+late+show+bush
GEORGE W. BUSH on 'LETTERMAN' - 2000
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9Fxb9iSuB4
Late Show with David Letterman - Bush Corrections
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeRgmHRpfvw
Late Show with David Letterman - Great Moments in Presidential Speeches Part 1_2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKmRDBUeBWk
Late Show with David Letterman - Great Moments in Presidential Speeches Part 2_2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEsC533tK6M
Letterman's Top 10 George Bush moments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rToKEnySb7s
https://www.youtube.com/user/kareninysimba/videos
- Tony Abbott, former politician in Australia. Considered by some to be a better fighter then thinker?
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=tony+dumb+dumb
Tony Abbott, President of the USA of Australia: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3IaKVmkXuk
Kids Judge Tony Abbott (with Sam Mac)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoxIvLvNI9E
Tony Dumb Dumb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFEKymLys5s
tony abbot eating onion
https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/it-was-beautiful-tony-abbott-finally-explains-the-moment-he-bit-into-a-raw-onion/news-story/78f086ab4bf3f01d30670a9cb50d7401
https://www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/country-living/back-paddock/reason-for-tony-abbotts-raw-onion-bite-revealed/news-story/e29a4c96969f69f62bfa876563ddb6f3
- Larry Kudlow seems pretty funny. He's technically not a politician but has been floating around the edge for a while... Apparently, a former drug and alcohol addict based on some sources?
Wasted! Larry Kudlow Tries To Calm The Markets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99autePtZ9o
larry kudlow drunk
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/2/16/1919644/-Was-Larry-Kudlow-drunk-during-this-Fox-News-interview
https://freespeech.org/stories/seemingly-drunk-trump-adviser-says-stay-at-work/
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/08/internet-goes-wild-over-obviously-drunk-larry-kudlow-on-fox-news-hes-lying-while-slurring-his-words/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Kudlow
- Silvio Berlusconi is a bit of a party animal? Loves his Bunga Bunga parties?
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=silvio+berlusconi+funny
Compilation of Silvio Berlusconi's funniest blunders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMX3EgnI6xg
Berlusconi BEST MOMENTS _ Epic Funny Videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNQr7M1ZIQg
A Tribute to Silvio Berlusconi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqvAHMgiRBg
33 girls in 2 months 'Best bits' of Berlusconi book - BBC News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV8HKj0haAg
Government officials doing funny things Silvio Berlusconi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEAwUsPhUV0
Silvio Berlusconi's 'bunga bunga' problem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWzugdM_HQc
Silvio Berlusconi takes traffic cop from behind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2xHB1FmWpk
Inside Italy's Silvio Berlusconi - VICE News Tonight (HBO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7Co-fbIFcQ
Bunga bunga is a phrase of uncertain origin and various meanings that dates from 1910, and a name for an area of Australia dating from 1852. By 2010 the phrase had gained popularity in Italy and the international press to refer to former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's sex parties, which caused a major political scandal in Italy.
...
Resurgence in Italy
A century later, the term bunga bunga became popular again as part of a joke on the internet.[7][n 1] This joke was then narrated by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi at his dinner parties (in a version which featured, as prisoners, former ministers from the centre-left opposition party led by Romano Prodi).[8]
This expression was then frequently quoted by the Italian and international press during the 2011 investigation surrounding Silvio Berlusconi's child exploitation acquiring a quite different meaning as "an orgy involving a powerful leader"; it was allegedly taught to Silvio Berlusconi by Muammar al-Gaddafi,[9] who was also the unwitting originator of the phrase Zenga Zenga.
In Italy, the term "has become an instant, supposedly hilarious, household expression".[10]
Recent explanations disagree on its meaning, or perhaps illustrate the range of its reference. It "is said to be a sort of underwater orgy where nude young women allegedly encircled the nude host and/or his friends in his swimming pool",[11] "an African-style ritual" performed for male spectators by "20 naked young women",[12] or erotic entertainment hosted by a rich host involving pole dancing and competitive striptease by skimpy-costumed "women in nurses' outfits and police uniforms"[13] – but topless women, the prize being prostitution for the host.[14]
An alternative explanation for its origins was proposed by actress Sabina Began, who claimed that it was a nickname based on her surname and that she had organized the parties.[15]
The lexicographer Jonathon Green does not expect the term to make much headway, or to last, in English.[16]
The bunga bunga culture sparked a social movement called "Se Non Ora Quando" in 2011, which included street protests.[17]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunga_bunga
- Boris Yeltsin, former Russian president. He was known as a drinker as well as a dancer?
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=boris+yeltsin+dancing
President Boris Yeltsin dancing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRysHHzLAmM
Boris Yeltsin dancing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgqxMdZCagA
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=boris+yeltsin+drunk
Best of drunk Boris Yeltsin!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9YnDirqwT4
Drunk Boris Yeltsin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygywjtf2jYA
- both Clintons had their moments obviously...
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bill+clinton+funny
Hillary Catches Bill Clinton Staring At Ivanka - Funniest Reaction Ever!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QIdcK1dYIc
Hillary Clinton's Shady/Boss Moments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-neH0xmNo4
President Clinton and Boris Yeltsin laugh attack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv7M0xmq6i0
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=clinton+funny
Hillary Clinton's Best Off-Script Moments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdshJxKdm2k
- Jean Claude Juncker is a drinker, a slapper, and more?
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jean+claude+juncker+funny
Jean Claude Juncker not giving a fuck compilation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlaXwfXX1DQ
best moments of Jean-Claude Juncker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vekYR0FLxCg
Bizarre moment Juncker ruffles woman's hair
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSCarR0UjDQ
Juncker's weirdest moments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjwf0Vmeg0A
The happy slapper - Meet Jean-Claude Juncker, the man in charge of the EU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTv3OjsmNFk
- technically, the US State Department is an adjunct to the political system. Plenty of entertaining moments if you know where to look (it's obvious that Google/YouTube works to help suppress potentially damaging information from time to time. This pertains mostly to information regarding the military industrial complex but but may span out into other areas?)?
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=funny+state+department
New State Dept Puppet Can't Answer This Simple Question
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42-8jYzCv3M
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=state+department+bloopers
US State Department Bloopers
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqCTV51uvnBQi88gvyg4CEyC2mCMzK0tz
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/09/google-sites-migration-goofs-killing.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/02/web-server-global-sampling.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2018/01/net-neutrality-or-googleyoutube.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2017/08/the-big-5-us-it-firms-arent-unbeatable.html
- Xi Jinping, Chinese president. Not funny in the comedian sense but has his moments?
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=winnie+the+pooh+xi+jinping
Gravitas - Why China's censors banned Winnie the Pooh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xNtgJFBDDg
Is Winnie the Pooh Really Banned in China _ China Explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0Npdhst-qk
Why China Hates Winnie The Pooh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4juYotatwl0
Winnie the Pooh film banned in China because he looks like Xi Jinping - TomoNews
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2jhl8noaJk
- Boris Johnson, UK Prime Minister
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=boris+johnson+funny
Boris' best moments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVXjXmy8_Yk
Boris Johnson's best gags in NYC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuUNGjBeKJ4
Boris Johnson's Funniest Moments Caught on Camera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9KCPGRniD0
Boris Johnson's hilarious election advert _ 12 Questions to Boris Johnson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97zPDojMWiQ
- Kanye West, technically not a politician but has his moments?
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=kanye+west
Joe Rogan realizes Kanye West is INSANE...(supercut edition)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39pe-zWuiWI
Kanye's Religious Transformation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwvLM9P6eB8
Joe Rogan Experience #1554 - Kanye West
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxOeWuAHOiw
- the following covers politics in general. I'm sure you'll find something funny or interesting in this group?
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=zdf+middle+east
'Die Anstalt' - Terrorism in the Middle East IRAQ _ IRAN _ ISIS 23.9.2014 (English subtitles)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1NO5DwrQz4
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=chasers+war+on+everything
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=chaser%27s+war+on+everything
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=chaser%27s+war+on+everything+osama+bin+laden
https://www.youtube.com/user/ChaserEpisodes/videos
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=john+oliver
https://www.youtube.com/user/LastWeekTonight/videos
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=us+state+department+bloopers
Best President News Bloopers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbI5gCZq_SY
- Rodrigo Duterte, president of Philippines. Has funny moments but difficult to read sometimes given his war on drugs?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodrigo_Duterte
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=duterte+english+jokes
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte Serenades Trump With A Love Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyIBW_cLiIk
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2017/01/life-in-philippines-duterte-background.html
The Funny Moments of Rodrigo Duterte
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gulBUWmnEy0
- Paul Keating was former Australian prime minister. He often straddled that line between between funny and outright mean? The unusual thing about Keating was that he doesn't come from the stereotypical elite background?
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=paul+keating+funny
The Best of Paul Keating
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1Ivp-A413A
Paul Keating - greatest hits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JcNlese0ig
Paul Keating 'He's going troppo'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCBx81LHMzQ
Paul Keating Vs. Peter Costello
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rnwn4q_ZE9c
https://www.youtube.com/user/AusQuestionTime/videos
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=keating+recession+we+had+to+have
Paul Keating On The Government's Economic Record
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJuoLrgGbXE
Keating was born at St Margaret's Hospital in Darlinghurst, Sydney, New South Wales, on 18 January 1944.[1] He was the first of four children born to Minnie (née Chapman) and Matthew John Keating. His father worked as a boilermaker for the New South Wales Government Railways.[2] All of Keating's grandparents were born in Australia. On his father's side, he was descended from Irish immigrants born in counties Galway, Roscommon, and Tipperary.[3] On his mother's side, he was of mixed English and Irish descent. His maternal grandfather, Fred Chapman, was the son of two convicts, John Chapman and Sarah Gallagher, both of whom had been transported for theft in the 1830s.[4]
Keating grew up in Bankstown, a working-class suburb in western Sydney. His siblings include Anne Keating, a company director and businesswoman. Leaving De La Salle College—now known as LaSalle Catholic College—at the age of 14, Keating left high school rather than pursuing higher education, instead working as a pay clerk at the Sydney County Council's electricity distributor.[5] He then worked as research assistant for a trade union, having joined the Labor Party as soon as he was eligible. In 1966, he became President of New South Wales Young Labor.[6] During the 1960s, Keating also managed a rock band named The Ramrods.[7]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Keating
was paul keating good for australia
Paul Keating had political skill and intuitive economic thinking, writes Richard Holden, but was he a great treasurer?
Paul Keating was once described as the "world's greatest treasurer" and last night's interview with Kerry O'Brien suggests he has not wavered in his own assessment of his legacy. But what, in fact, makes a great treasurer?
It's tempting to think that good economic instincts are the key. And Keating had great economic instincts. He had an intuitive grasp of the importance of market-oriented economic policy, particularly for a small open economy like Australia. He understood that a strong social safety net could only be sustained on the back of a strong economy. And he realized that heavy regulation and high tariffs benefited capital and hurt workers.
These instincts helped bring to Australia a tidal wave of economic modernisation from the mid 1980s: a floated dollar, deregulated banking system, the end of centralized wage-fixing, the privatization of the Commonwealth Bank and Qantas, and the beginnings of Reserve Bank independence.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-11-20/holden-keating-legacy/5104990
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/apr/18/scott-morrison-is-no-paul-keating-but-he-should-heed-the-lessons-of-labors-path-from-triumph-to-rejection
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/10/cvresume-harvesting-research-notes.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/06/history-of-hate-and-supremacy-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/education-or-indoctrination-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/mexican-drug-cartel-background-random.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/03/religion-vs-uswestern-leadership-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/02/is-society-filtering-for-fairnessmerit.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/09/thinking-like-political-elite-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2018/01/capitalism-analysis-religion-23-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/05/is-western-leadership-required-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/08/neo-colonialism-and-neo-liberalism.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/06/religious-conspiracies-is-capitalism.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/01/conspiracy-theories-understanding.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/07/social-engineeringmanipulation-rigging.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/07/neuroscience-in-psyops-world-order.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/02/shadow-government-key-players-and-more.html
- Francois Hollande was probably a little bit out of his depth as French president. That said, at least there were some funny moments?
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=francois+hollande+funny
Top 10 Funny Style of French President Francois Hollande
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpNKbqC4-3A
Les moments cultes de François Hollande (chutes, ridicule, blagues etc..)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kaURaq-4ns
- you can often identify former Soviet/ex-KGB/FSB staff (same with many other spooks based on background, expertise, education, etc...)? Similar senses of humor? Somewhat morbid, authoritarian, imperialistic? Often obsessesed with homosexuality and like Steven Seagal?
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=putin+jokes
Putin tells Russian American KGB spy joke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0oic-ix9bM
'I can forgive lesbians but not gay men', says Lukashenko
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2XMe1hk-xg
Belarus: Steven Seagal pays President Lukashenko a visit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJIDYAbIc-8
Oldie But a Goldie! Putin Jokes In German With Austrians
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA8bVP8npRM
austria russia relations
According to the report Gazprom's European Web, Austria has long been a favorite country for Soviet (now Russian) commerce, banking, and espionage activities. Austrian police sources have in the 2000s stated that the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) maintained its largest European station in Vienna.[14]
In 2003, SVR agent Vladimir Alganov was caught in Vienna discussing bribes Russian spies had paid to senior Polish officials.[15][16][17]
On 9 November 2018, Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said that a 70-year-old retired army colonel was believed to have spied for Russia for about thirty years.[18] The officer in question, who was exposed thanks to a tip-off from the UK government, was said to have been engaged in disclosing state secrets to Russia's GRU from 1992 until September 2018.[19][20] Two days later, Kronen Zeitung reported that for more than a year, Austria's State Prosecution Office Against White Collar Crime and Corruption (Korruptionsstaatsanwaltschaft) had been investigating an employee of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Counterterrorism (BVT) who was suspected of spying for Russia.[21] As a result, Austrian foreign minister Karin Kneissl cancelled her visit to Russia that had been slated for early December.[18] Nevertheless, prime minister Kurz, citing Austria's neutrality, said no "unilateral action" would be taken against Russia.[22] Professor Gerhard Mangott of University of Innsbruck commented for the BBC by saying he was surprised the incident had been made public as it is business as usual and a long-standing tradition for Austrian citizens to spy for foreign powers.[23] In early July 2019, an Austrian court extended pre-trial detention of the suspected retired army colonel until 26 August.[24] On 25 July 2019, Austria's Ministry of the Interior said that the suspected colonel's handler had been a Moscow-born GRU officer Igor Egorovich Zaytsev, a Russian national, for whom an international arrest warrant had been issued.[25][26] In June 2020, the colonel, still unnamed, was freed upon being convicted of spying for GRU for more than 25 years.[27]
In August 2020, Austria expelled a Russian diplomat following a report accusing him of being involved in industrial espionage.[28] The expulsion was said to be a first in Austria's relations with Russia.[29] The Austrian newspaper Kronen Zeitung reported that the diplomat's illicit activities were exposed after an Austrian who worked in a technology company confessed he had carried out espionage for years on behalf of the Russian, who was his intelligence handler.[28]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria%E2%80%93Russia_relations
Lukashenka Disparages COVID-19 Victims As Belarus Curve Steepens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aABK8IxdTMM
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=yuri+bezmenov
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Bezmenov
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/02/a-new-cold-war-economic-crisis-and-more.html?m=0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Soviet_and_Eastern_Bloc_defectors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Western_Bloc_defectors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_Japan–Russian_Empire_relations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia–United_States_relations
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/06/history-of-hate-and-supremacy-random.html
- Jacob Zuma, president of South Africa. Corruption in politics often close to the surface in some countries?
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jacob+zuma+funny
Top ten Jacob Zuma hilarious moments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFempe5hYwk
JACOB ZUMA FUNNY MOMENTS COMPILATION
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTWvv1E4Lxo
$h_t Jacob Zuma Said_ Former President Of South Africa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs6mKfsOejg
South Africans Jacob Zuma could be the funniest President in Africa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFJRKowVed0
Zuma officially announced the death of Nelson Mandela, South Africa's first democratically elected president, in a press conference on 5 December 2013.[105][106] Zuma was booed and heckled by the crowd at the memorial service for Nelson Mandela.[107] Al Jazeera reported that "for many South Africans, Zuma represents some of the nation's least appealing qualities. They consider their deeply flawed president and faltering government and mutter dark thoughts about a failing state and a banana republic."[108]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Zuma
- I think most people realise that there is a fundamental difference between clownish heads of state and incompetent clowns. The danger is that we often straddle between two?
https://www.khon2.com/local-news/honolulu-zoo-hosts-mayoral-race-featuring-rusti-the-orangutan-and-squirt-the-reticulated-giraffe/
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- George W. Bush is a perennial favourite? Many times, you're not quite certain whether he's acting dumb or just is?
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bushism
George W. Bush - The Best Bushisms - www.NBCUniversalArchives.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhmdEq3JhoY
8 Years Of 'Bushisms'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AioJbNL1JS8
Best of the Bushisms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be6tunbRcs8
President Bush -- Fool me Once
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ux3DKxxFoM
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bush+shoe
Bush dodges flying shoes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxNprnas7i8
Man Throws Shoes At Bush
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RFH7C3vkK4
BUSH SHOE THROW LOOP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4rYWc4o-eY
Iraqi journalist who threw shoe at Bush runs for parliament
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM3nucc3XTc
george w bush intellectual breadth
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/04/25/george_w_bush_is_smarter_than_you_118125.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_image_of_George_W._Bush
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2003/04/close-up-the-mind-of-george-w-bush/303399/
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2013/04/bush-terrible-president-also-not-a-smart-man.html
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=letterman+late+show+bush
GEORGE W. BUSH on 'LETTERMAN' - 2000
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9Fxb9iSuB4
Late Show with David Letterman - Bush Corrections
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeRgmHRpfvw
Late Show with David Letterman - Great Moments in Presidential Speeches Part 1_2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKmRDBUeBWk
Late Show with David Letterman - Great Moments in Presidential Speeches Part 2_2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEsC533tK6M
Letterman's Top 10 George Bush moments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rToKEnySb7s
https://www.youtube.com/user/kareninysimba/videos
- Tony Abbott, former politician in Australia. Considered by some to be a better fighter then thinker?
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=tony+dumb+dumb
Tony Abbott, President of the USA of Australia: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3IaKVmkXuk
Kids Judge Tony Abbott (with Sam Mac)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoxIvLvNI9E
Tony Dumb Dumb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFEKymLys5s
tony abbot eating onion
https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/it-was-beautiful-tony-abbott-finally-explains-the-moment-he-bit-into-a-raw-onion/news-story/78f086ab4bf3f01d30670a9cb50d7401
https://www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/country-living/back-paddock/reason-for-tony-abbotts-raw-onion-bite-revealed/news-story/e29a4c96969f69f62bfa876563ddb6f3
- Larry Kudlow seems pretty funny. He's technically not a politician but has been floating around the edge for a while... Apparently, a former drug and alcohol addict based on some sources?
Wasted! Larry Kudlow Tries To Calm The Markets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99autePtZ9o
larry kudlow drunk
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/2/16/1919644/-Was-Larry-Kudlow-drunk-during-this-Fox-News-interview
https://freespeech.org/stories/seemingly-drunk-trump-adviser-says-stay-at-work/
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/08/internet-goes-wild-over-obviously-drunk-larry-kudlow-on-fox-news-hes-lying-while-slurring-his-words/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Kudlow
- Silvio Berlusconi is a bit of a party animal? Loves his Bunga Bunga parties?
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=silvio+berlusconi+funny
Compilation of Silvio Berlusconi's funniest blunders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMX3EgnI6xg
Berlusconi BEST MOMENTS _ Epic Funny Videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNQr7M1ZIQg
A Tribute to Silvio Berlusconi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqvAHMgiRBg
33 girls in 2 months 'Best bits' of Berlusconi book - BBC News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV8HKj0haAg
Government officials doing funny things Silvio Berlusconi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEAwUsPhUV0
Silvio Berlusconi's 'bunga bunga' problem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWzugdM_HQc
Silvio Berlusconi takes traffic cop from behind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2xHB1FmWpk
Inside Italy's Silvio Berlusconi - VICE News Tonight (HBO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7Co-fbIFcQ
Bunga bunga is a phrase of uncertain origin and various meanings that dates from 1910, and a name for an area of Australia dating from 1852. By 2010 the phrase had gained popularity in Italy and the international press to refer to former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's sex parties, which caused a major political scandal in Italy.
...
Resurgence in Italy
A century later, the term bunga bunga became popular again as part of a joke on the internet.[7][n 1] This joke was then narrated by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi at his dinner parties (in a version which featured, as prisoners, former ministers from the centre-left opposition party led by Romano Prodi).[8]
This expression was then frequently quoted by the Italian and international press during the 2011 investigation surrounding Silvio Berlusconi's child exploitation acquiring a quite different meaning as "an orgy involving a powerful leader"; it was allegedly taught to Silvio Berlusconi by Muammar al-Gaddafi,[9] who was also the unwitting originator of the phrase Zenga Zenga.
In Italy, the term "has become an instant, supposedly hilarious, household expression".[10]
Recent explanations disagree on its meaning, or perhaps illustrate the range of its reference. It "is said to be a sort of underwater orgy where nude young women allegedly encircled the nude host and/or his friends in his swimming pool",[11] "an African-style ritual" performed for male spectators by "20 naked young women",[12] or erotic entertainment hosted by a rich host involving pole dancing and competitive striptease by skimpy-costumed "women in nurses' outfits and police uniforms"[13] – but topless women, the prize being prostitution for the host.[14]
An alternative explanation for its origins was proposed by actress Sabina Began, who claimed that it was a nickname based on her surname and that she had organized the parties.[15]
The lexicographer Jonathon Green does not expect the term to make much headway, or to last, in English.[16]
The bunga bunga culture sparked a social movement called "Se Non Ora Quando" in 2011, which included street protests.[17]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunga_bunga
- Boris Yeltsin, former Russian president. He was known as a drinker as well as a dancer?
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=boris+yeltsin+dancing
President Boris Yeltsin dancing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRysHHzLAmM
Boris Yeltsin dancing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgqxMdZCagA
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=boris+yeltsin+drunk
Best of drunk Boris Yeltsin!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9YnDirqwT4
Drunk Boris Yeltsin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygywjtf2jYA
- both Clintons had their moments obviously...
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bill+clinton+funny
Hillary Catches Bill Clinton Staring At Ivanka - Funniest Reaction Ever!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QIdcK1dYIc
Hillary Clinton's Shady/Boss Moments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-neH0xmNo4
President Clinton and Boris Yeltsin laugh attack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv7M0xmq6i0
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=clinton+funny
Hillary Clinton's Best Off-Script Moments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdshJxKdm2k
- Jean Claude Juncker is a drinker, a slapper, and more?
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jean+claude+juncker+funny
Jean Claude Juncker not giving a fuck compilation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlaXwfXX1DQ
best moments of Jean-Claude Juncker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vekYR0FLxCg
Bizarre moment Juncker ruffles woman's hair
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSCarR0UjDQ
Juncker's weirdest moments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjwf0Vmeg0A
The happy slapper - Meet Jean-Claude Juncker, the man in charge of the EU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTv3OjsmNFk
- technically, the US State Department is an adjunct to the political system. Plenty of entertaining moments if you know where to look (it's obvious that Google/YouTube works to help suppress potentially damaging information from time to time. This pertains mostly to information regarding the military industrial complex but but may span out into other areas?)?
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=funny+state+department
New State Dept Puppet Can't Answer This Simple Question
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42-8jYzCv3M
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=state+department+bloopers
US State Department Bloopers
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqCTV51uvnBQi88gvyg4CEyC2mCMzK0tz
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/09/google-sites-migration-goofs-killing.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/02/web-server-global-sampling.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2018/01/net-neutrality-or-googleyoutube.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2017/08/the-big-5-us-it-firms-arent-unbeatable.html
- Xi Jinping, Chinese president. Not funny in the comedian sense but has his moments?
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=winnie+the+pooh+xi+jinping
Gravitas - Why China's censors banned Winnie the Pooh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xNtgJFBDDg
Is Winnie the Pooh Really Banned in China _ China Explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0Npdhst-qk
Why China Hates Winnie The Pooh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4juYotatwl0
Winnie the Pooh film banned in China because he looks like Xi Jinping - TomoNews
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2jhl8noaJk
- Boris Johnson, UK Prime Minister
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=boris+johnson+funny
Boris' best moments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVXjXmy8_Yk
Boris Johnson's best gags in NYC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuUNGjBeKJ4
Boris Johnson's Funniest Moments Caught on Camera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9KCPGRniD0
Boris Johnson's hilarious election advert _ 12 Questions to Boris Johnson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97zPDojMWiQ
- Kanye West, technically not a politician but has his moments?
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=kanye+west
Joe Rogan realizes Kanye West is INSANE...(supercut edition)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39pe-zWuiWI
Kanye's Religious Transformation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwvLM9P6eB8
Joe Rogan Experience #1554 - Kanye West
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxOeWuAHOiw
- the following covers politics in general. I'm sure you'll find something funny or interesting in this group?
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=zdf+middle+east
'Die Anstalt' - Terrorism in the Middle East IRAQ _ IRAN _ ISIS 23.9.2014 (English subtitles)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1NO5DwrQz4
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=chasers+war+on+everything
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=chaser%27s+war+on+everything
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=chaser%27s+war+on+everything+osama+bin+laden
https://www.youtube.com/user/ChaserEpisodes/videos
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=john+oliver
https://www.youtube.com/user/LastWeekTonight/videos
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=us+state+department+bloopers
Best President News Bloopers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbI5gCZq_SY
- Rodrigo Duterte, president of Philippines. Has funny moments but difficult to read sometimes given his war on drugs?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodrigo_Duterte
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=duterte+english+jokes
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte Serenades Trump With A Love Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyIBW_cLiIk
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2017/01/life-in-philippines-duterte-background.html
The Funny Moments of Rodrigo Duterte
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gulBUWmnEy0
- Paul Keating was former Australian prime minister. He often straddled that line between between funny and outright mean? The unusual thing about Keating was that he doesn't come from the stereotypical elite background?
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=paul+keating+funny
The Best of Paul Keating
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1Ivp-A413A
Paul Keating - greatest hits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JcNlese0ig
Paul Keating 'He's going troppo'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCBx81LHMzQ
Paul Keating Vs. Peter Costello
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rnwn4q_ZE9c
https://www.youtube.com/user/AusQuestionTime/videos
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=keating+recession+we+had+to+have
Paul Keating On The Government's Economic Record
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJuoLrgGbXE
Keating was born at St Margaret's Hospital in Darlinghurst, Sydney, New South Wales, on 18 January 1944.[1] He was the first of four children born to Minnie (née Chapman) and Matthew John Keating. His father worked as a boilermaker for the New South Wales Government Railways.[2] All of Keating's grandparents were born in Australia. On his father's side, he was descended from Irish immigrants born in counties Galway, Roscommon, and Tipperary.[3] On his mother's side, he was of mixed English and Irish descent. His maternal grandfather, Fred Chapman, was the son of two convicts, John Chapman and Sarah Gallagher, both of whom had been transported for theft in the 1830s.[4]
Keating grew up in Bankstown, a working-class suburb in western Sydney. His siblings include Anne Keating, a company director and businesswoman. Leaving De La Salle College—now known as LaSalle Catholic College—at the age of 14, Keating left high school rather than pursuing higher education, instead working as a pay clerk at the Sydney County Council's electricity distributor.[5] He then worked as research assistant for a trade union, having joined the Labor Party as soon as he was eligible. In 1966, he became President of New South Wales Young Labor.[6] During the 1960s, Keating also managed a rock band named The Ramrods.[7]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Keating
was paul keating good for australia
Paul Keating had political skill and intuitive economic thinking, writes Richard Holden, but was he a great treasurer?
Paul Keating was once described as the "world's greatest treasurer" and last night's interview with Kerry O'Brien suggests he has not wavered in his own assessment of his legacy. But what, in fact, makes a great treasurer?
It's tempting to think that good economic instincts are the key. And Keating had great economic instincts. He had an intuitive grasp of the importance of market-oriented economic policy, particularly for a small open economy like Australia. He understood that a strong social safety net could only be sustained on the back of a strong economy. And he realized that heavy regulation and high tariffs benefited capital and hurt workers.
These instincts helped bring to Australia a tidal wave of economic modernisation from the mid 1980s: a floated dollar, deregulated banking system, the end of centralized wage-fixing, the privatization of the Commonwealth Bank and Qantas, and the beginnings of Reserve Bank independence.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-11-20/holden-keating-legacy/5104990
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/apr/18/scott-morrison-is-no-paul-keating-but-he-should-heed-the-lessons-of-labors-path-from-triumph-to-rejection
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/10/cvresume-harvesting-research-notes.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/06/history-of-hate-and-supremacy-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/education-or-indoctrination-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/mexican-drug-cartel-background-random.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/03/religion-vs-uswestern-leadership-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/02/is-society-filtering-for-fairnessmerit.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/09/thinking-like-political-elite-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2018/01/capitalism-analysis-religion-23-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/05/is-western-leadership-required-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/08/neo-colonialism-and-neo-liberalism.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/06/religious-conspiracies-is-capitalism.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/01/conspiracy-theories-understanding.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/07/social-engineeringmanipulation-rigging.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/07/neuroscience-in-psyops-world-order.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/02/shadow-government-key-players-and-more.html
- Francois Hollande was probably a little bit out of his depth as French president. That said, at least there were some funny moments?
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=francois+hollande+funny
Top 10 Funny Style of French President Francois Hollande
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpNKbqC4-3A
Les moments cultes de François Hollande (chutes, ridicule, blagues etc..)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kaURaq-4ns
- you can often identify former Soviet/ex-KGB/FSB staff (same with many other spooks based on background, expertise, education, etc...)? Similar senses of humor? Somewhat morbid, authoritarian, imperialistic? Often obsessesed with homosexuality and like Steven Seagal?
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=putin+jokes
Putin tells Russian American KGB spy joke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0oic-ix9bM
'I can forgive lesbians but not gay men', says Lukashenko
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2XMe1hk-xg
Belarus: Steven Seagal pays President Lukashenko a visit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJIDYAbIc-8
Oldie But a Goldie! Putin Jokes In German With Austrians
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA8bVP8npRM
austria russia relations
According to the report Gazprom's European Web, Austria has long been a favorite country for Soviet (now Russian) commerce, banking, and espionage activities. Austrian police sources have in the 2000s stated that the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) maintained its largest European station in Vienna.[14]
In 2003, SVR agent Vladimir Alganov was caught in Vienna discussing bribes Russian spies had paid to senior Polish officials.[15][16][17]
On 9 November 2018, Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said that a 70-year-old retired army colonel was believed to have spied for Russia for about thirty years.[18] The officer in question, who was exposed thanks to a tip-off from the UK government, was said to have been engaged in disclosing state secrets to Russia's GRU from 1992 until September 2018.[19][20] Two days later, Kronen Zeitung reported that for more than a year, Austria's State Prosecution Office Against White Collar Crime and Corruption (Korruptionsstaatsanwaltschaft) had been investigating an employee of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Counterterrorism (BVT) who was suspected of spying for Russia.[21] As a result, Austrian foreign minister Karin Kneissl cancelled her visit to Russia that had been slated for early December.[18] Nevertheless, prime minister Kurz, citing Austria's neutrality, said no "unilateral action" would be taken against Russia.[22] Professor Gerhard Mangott of University of Innsbruck commented for the BBC by saying he was surprised the incident had been made public as it is business as usual and a long-standing tradition for Austrian citizens to spy for foreign powers.[23] In early July 2019, an Austrian court extended pre-trial detention of the suspected retired army colonel until 26 August.[24] On 25 July 2019, Austria's Ministry of the Interior said that the suspected colonel's handler had been a Moscow-born GRU officer Igor Egorovich Zaytsev, a Russian national, for whom an international arrest warrant had been issued.[25][26] In June 2020, the colonel, still unnamed, was freed upon being convicted of spying for GRU for more than 25 years.[27]
In August 2020, Austria expelled a Russian diplomat following a report accusing him of being involved in industrial espionage.[28] The expulsion was said to be a first in Austria's relations with Russia.[29] The Austrian newspaper Kronen Zeitung reported that the diplomat's illicit activities were exposed after an Austrian who worked in a technology company confessed he had carried out espionage for years on behalf of the Russian, who was his intelligence handler.[28]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria%E2%80%93Russia_relations
Lukashenka Disparages COVID-19 Victims As Belarus Curve Steepens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aABK8IxdTMM
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=yuri+bezmenov
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Bezmenov
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/02/a-new-cold-war-economic-crisis-and-more.html?m=0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Soviet_and_Eastern_Bloc_defectors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Western_Bloc_defectors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_Japan–Russian_Empire_relations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia–United_States_relations
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/06/history-of-hate-and-supremacy-random.html
- Jacob Zuma, president of South Africa. Corruption in politics often close to the surface in some countries?
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jacob+zuma+funny
Top ten Jacob Zuma hilarious moments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFempe5hYwk
JACOB ZUMA FUNNY MOMENTS COMPILATION
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTWvv1E4Lxo
$h_t Jacob Zuma Said_ Former President Of South Africa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs6mKfsOejg
South Africans Jacob Zuma could be the funniest President in Africa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFJRKowVed0
Zuma officially announced the death of Nelson Mandela, South Africa's first democratically elected president, in a press conference on 5 December 2013.[105][106] Zuma was booed and heckled by the crowd at the memorial service for Nelson Mandela.[107] Al Jazeera reported that "for many South Africans, Zuma represents some of the nation's least appealing qualities. They consider their deeply flawed president and faltering government and mutter dark thoughts about a failing state and a banana republic."[108]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Zuma
- I think most people realise that there is a fundamental difference between clownish heads of state and incompetent clowns. The danger is that we often straddle between two?
https://www.khon2.com/local-news/honolulu-zoo-hosts-mayoral-race-featuring-rusti-the-orangutan-and-squirt-the-reticulated-giraffe/
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They were also used to expand the fur trade, which, in turn, encouraged other settlers to keep moving west, with some forts functioning in part as trading posts. The famed expedition of Lewis and Clark was a military mission (Meriwether Lewis was an army captain and William Clark a former infantry company commander) to collect geographic data that would be used for more "fort construction, natural resource exploitation and westward colonization by settlers," Vine notes.
While the United States was expanding its frontier, its Navy was also pursuing fort construction overseas, from North Africa's Barbary Coast to Chile, often for the purpose of securing trade advantages. In the thirty years following the war of 1812 — primarily a war of US expansion — settlers pushed westward within the United States, building infrastructure as they went: roads, trails, and more than sixty major forts west of the Mississippi River by the 1850s. After the United States went to war with Mexico, army bases were constructed in the annexed territory. Forts in Wyoming protected wagon trails, allowing settlers to expand through the western United States.
The violent conquest and massacre of Native Americans did not stop during the Civil War, and it escalated from 1865 to 1898, when "the U.S. Army fought no fewer than 943 distinct engagements against Native peoples, ranging from 'skirmishes' to full-scale battles in twelve separate campaigns," writes Vine. Exterminationist, white supremacist policies were particularly pronounced in California, but took place across the West. After 1876, when President Ulysses S. Grant "turned over" Native Americans to the War Department, Fort Leavenworth was transformed into a prisoner of war camp for the Nimi'ipuu tribe.
Over "almost 115 consecutive years of U.S. wars against indigenous nations," as Vine puts it, US military forts played a consistent role in protecting white settler pillaging and conquest.
In Vine's telling, the War of 1898 was "the start of a new form of overseas empire" which "saw the country expand across the continent with the help of U.S. Army forts and near-continuous war." In some cases, it's possible to draw a direct line between expansion within the United States and conquest abroad.
Nelson A. Miles, US Army commanding general, waged brutal battles against the Kiowa, Comanche, Sioux, Nez Perce, and Apache tribes, then ordered Gen. George Custer's calvary to massacre as many as three hundred Lakota Sioux in 1890, then violently put down the Pullman, Illinois railroad workers strike in 1894.
Miles also led a bloody counterinsurgency war in the Philippines, aimed at defeating its independence movement. (Similar continuity between domestic and global repression can be found today as counterinsurgency tactics and military weapons and equipment are used by US police departments.)
Organized labor, immigrants, recently freed slaves, indigenous peoples at home and abroad: They were all subdued by the same military and police forces making way for white settlement and capital expansion.
After seizing Spanish colonies during the 1898 war, the United States began to pursue a new form of imperialism that was "less dependent on the creation of new formal colonies and more dependent on informal, less overtly violent — but violent nonetheless — political and economic tools backed by military might, including bases abroad," Vine writes. The United States built up the military presence in the Philippines to seventy thousand troops, using these forces to help put down China's Boxer rebellion, and used its military might to intervene ruthlessly in Panama.
World War II saw the dramatic expansion of military bases, an era inaugurated in 1940, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a deal with Prime Minister Winston Churchill to trade naval destroyers for ninety-nine-year leases in eight British colonies, all located in the Western Hemisphere. In the immediate aftermath of the war, the United States temporarily shrank military personnel spending, and returned roughly half its foreign bases.
Yet the basic global infrastructure of bases (many of which were built with the labor of colonized workers) would remain entrenched — and a "permanent war system," as Vine puts it, was established. During the post–World War II era of decolonization, the United States used its military base network and economic influence, buttressed by new institutions like the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, to protect its preeminence.
During the Cold War, overseas base expansion became central to the goals of containment and forward positioning, premised on the idea that global bases allow quick response to threats and rapid interventions and deployments in crises. While giving the illusion of increased safety, these bases actually made foreign wars more likely, argues Vine, because they made it easier to wage such wars. In turn, conflict increased construction of US bases.
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/10/us-military-bases-global-war-machine-imperialism
- In a statement issued on 26 October, the SFC's Denver Gingerich said the organisation believed that youtube-dl has a large number of non-infringing uses, and listed the following:
It enables users to watch YouTube videos without installing any non-free software;
It enables the watching of YouTube at different speeds (including speeds YouTube does not offer) – an important feature for accessibility;
It changes the YouTube video quality setting manually when the user is more aware of bandwidth issues than YouTube's non-human algorithms;
It has the ability to download (and then, with other software, modify and reuse) freely licensed videos, such as those licensed under CC-BY; and
It provides various aids for journalists, including fact-checking, video analysis, and bandwidth-saving.
"We realise Microsoft, a paying member of the RIAA, has left themselves stuck between their industry association's abuses of the law and the needs of FOSS projects for which they provide infrastructure," Gingerich said.
"While under current law (which we object to), complying with the takedown notice is admittedly the fastest way to limit Microsoft's liability, we view Microsoft's membership in the RIAA as a much bigger liability to our community, now that Microsoft controls GitHub.
"We call on Microsoft to resign from the RIAA and remove their conflict of interest in this matter. This is an important opportunity for Microsoft to stand up for the values of software freedom."
Microsoft acquired GitHub in June 2018 for US$7.5 billion (A$9.79 billion) in Microsoft stock. Soon after the deal, many GitHub users said they would be moving their repositories off GitHub unless Microsoft stopped its work with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
https://www.itwire.com/your-it/apps/free-software-group-asks-microsoft-to-quit-riaa-over-youtube-dl-takedown.html
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- The trajectory toward empire started with white settler expansion within the United States. In 1785, the US Army initiated what "would become a century-long continent-wide fort-construction program," Vine writes. These forts were used to launch violent invasions of Native American lands, to protect white settler towns and cities, and to force Native Americans further and further away from the East Coast.
They were also used to expand the fur trade, which, in turn, encouraged other settlers to keep moving west, with some forts functioning in part as trading posts. The famed expedition of Lewis and Clark was a military mission (Meriwether Lewis was an army captain and William Clark a former infantry company commander) to collect geographic data that would be used for more "fort construction, natural resource exploitation and westward colonization by settlers," Vine notes.
While the United States was expanding its frontier, its Navy was also pursuing fort construction overseas, from North Africa's Barbary Coast to Chile, often for the purpose of securing trade advantages. In the thirty years following the war of 1812 — primarily a war of US expansion — settlers pushed westward within the United States, building infrastructure as they went: roads, trails, and more than sixty major forts west of the Mississippi River by the 1850s. After the United States went to war with Mexico, army bases were constructed in the annexed territory. Forts in Wyoming protected wagon trails, allowing settlers to expand through the western United States.
The violent conquest and massacre of Native Americans did not stop during the Civil War, and it escalated from 1865 to 1898, when "the U.S. Army fought no fewer than 943 distinct engagements against Native peoples, ranging from 'skirmishes' to full-scale battles in twelve separate campaigns," writes Vine. Exterminationist, white supremacist policies were particularly pronounced in California, but took place across the West. After 1876, when President Ulysses S. Grant "turned over" Native Americans to the War Department, Fort Leavenworth was transformed into a prisoner of war camp for the Nimi'ipuu tribe.
Over "almost 115 consecutive years of U.S. wars against indigenous nations," as Vine puts it, US military forts played a consistent role in protecting white settler pillaging and conquest.
In Vine's telling, the War of 1898 was "the start of a new form of overseas empire" which "saw the country expand across the continent with the help of U.S. Army forts and near-continuous war." In some cases, it's possible to draw a direct line between expansion within the United States and conquest abroad.
Nelson A. Miles, US Army commanding general, waged brutal battles against the Kiowa, Comanche, Sioux, Nez Perce, and Apache tribes, then ordered Gen. George Custer's calvary to massacre as many as three hundred Lakota Sioux in 1890, then violently put down the Pullman, Illinois railroad workers strike in 1894.
Miles also led a bloody counterinsurgency war in the Philippines, aimed at defeating its independence movement. (Similar continuity between domestic and global repression can be found today as counterinsurgency tactics and military weapons and equipment are used by US police departments.)
Organized labor, immigrants, recently freed slaves, indigenous peoples at home and abroad: They were all subdued by the same military and police forces making way for white settlement and capital expansion.
After seizing Spanish colonies during the 1898 war, the United States began to pursue a new form of imperialism that was "less dependent on the creation of new formal colonies and more dependent on informal, less overtly violent — but violent nonetheless — political and economic tools backed by military might, including bases abroad," Vine writes. The United States built up the military presence in the Philippines to seventy thousand troops, using these forces to help put down China's Boxer rebellion, and used its military might to intervene ruthlessly in Panama.
World War II saw the dramatic expansion of military bases, an era inaugurated in 1940, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a deal with Prime Minister Winston Churchill to trade naval destroyers for ninety-nine-year leases in eight British colonies, all located in the Western Hemisphere. In the immediate aftermath of the war, the United States temporarily shrank military personnel spending, and returned roughly half its foreign bases.
Yet the basic global infrastructure of bases (many of which were built with the labor of colonized workers) would remain entrenched — and a "permanent war system," as Vine puts it, was established. During the post–World War II era of decolonization, the United States used its military base network and economic influence, buttressed by new institutions like the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, to protect its preeminence.
During the Cold War, overseas base expansion became central to the goals of containment and forward positioning, premised on the idea that global bases allow quick response to threats and rapid interventions and deployments in crises. While giving the illusion of increased safety, these bases actually made foreign wars more likely, argues Vine, because they made it easier to wage such wars. In turn, conflict increased construction of US bases.
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/10/us-military-bases-global-war-machine-imperialism
- In a statement issued on 26 October, the SFC's Denver Gingerich said the organisation believed that youtube-dl has a large number of non-infringing uses, and listed the following:
It enables users to watch YouTube videos without installing any non-free software;
It enables the watching of YouTube at different speeds (including speeds YouTube does not offer) – an important feature for accessibility;
It changes the YouTube video quality setting manually when the user is more aware of bandwidth issues than YouTube's non-human algorithms;
It has the ability to download (and then, with other software, modify and reuse) freely licensed videos, such as those licensed under CC-BY; and
It provides various aids for journalists, including fact-checking, video analysis, and bandwidth-saving.
"We realise Microsoft, a paying member of the RIAA, has left themselves stuck between their industry association's abuses of the law and the needs of FOSS projects for which they provide infrastructure," Gingerich said.
"While under current law (which we object to), complying with the takedown notice is admittedly the fastest way to limit Microsoft's liability, we view Microsoft's membership in the RIAA as a much bigger liability to our community, now that Microsoft controls GitHub.
"We call on Microsoft to resign from the RIAA and remove their conflict of interest in this matter. This is an important opportunity for Microsoft to stand up for the values of software freedom."
Microsoft acquired GitHub in June 2018 for US$7.5 billion (A$9.79 billion) in Microsoft stock. Soon after the deal, many GitHub users said they would be moving their repositories off GitHub unless Microsoft stopped its work with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
https://www.itwire.com/your-it/apps/free-software-group-asks-microsoft-to-quit-riaa-over-youtube-dl-takedown.html
