Tuesday, May 04, 2021
Monday, May 03, 2021
2021.0503.0008...
Ordinarily I don't post birds until the third Friday of the month, but I just did a bunch of research on this particularly interesting bird and wanted to post it now before I forget where I put the links.
Here's a link to read about the bird...
Protective Father Birds Hides His Chicks From Danger In Adorable Photos
African Jacana Bird
Here's a link to read about the bird...
Protective Father Birds Hides His Chicks From Danger In Adorable Photos
Sunday, May 02, 2021
2021.0502.0009...
Click on headline to read entire scary article...
They robbed an armored car outside a sprawling Seattle shopping mall.
These are the final paragraphs of the article...
From the Past, a Chilling Warning About the Extremists of the Present
They robbed an armored car outside a sprawling Seattle shopping mall.
They bombed a synagogue in Boise, Idaho, and within weeks assassinated a Jewish talk radio host in Denver.
Then a month later, they plundered another armored car on a California highway in a spectacular daylight heist that netted more than $3.6 million.
What initially seemed to F.B.I. agents like distant, disparate crimes turned out to be the opening salvos in a war against the federal government by members of a violent extremist group called the Order, who sought to establish a whites-only homeland out West.
Their crime spree played out in 1984. Fast forward to 2021. Federal agents and prosecutors who dismantled the Order see troubling echoes of its threat to democracy in the Capitol riot and the growing extremist activity across the country.
These are the final paragraphs of the article...
Though the motivations are related, there is plenty that separates groups active now from those that operated in the past. Far-right organizations once needed to engage with possible recruits in person; now much of that radicalization occurs online. They can connect, scheme and even act through the internet. It was also unthinkable that any high-profile politician would voice opinions that such groups considered encouragement. Now those words have come from a former president.
Former agents viewed the Capitol riot and last year’s protests over social justice issues as possible seeds for radicalization.
“I feel that if there is an organization today from the extreme right that is following in the footsteps of the Order,” Mr. Manis said, “you will not know anything about it until it is too late and they have already done something dastardly.”
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