RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/October 2018

October 2018
Suspicious billboards featuring Putin and Brexit [https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu-russia-stunt/spoof-london-billboards-seek-to-celebrate-putins-role-in-brexit-idUKKBN1ND23T?il=0 have started to appear around London. A group calling itself "Proud Bear" takes credit.] Why calling antisemites "White Nationalists" actually gives them cover. Glenn Greenwald discusses the lessons to be learned from the catastrophic election in Brazil in a Youtube video. A history of Israel pursuing diplomatic relations with pro-Israeli anti-semitic regimes to serve the interest of the state, at the expense of Jewish communities worldwide. Despite relentless whining about how the left wing media controls everything, right wing groups have bought up huge swaths of the media resulting in conservative nonsense dominating American politics. 'Toxic Christianity': the evangelicals creating champions for Trump. Pennsylvania GOP candidate for governor Scott Wagner explains that global warming is caused by the earth getting progressively closer to the sun. (Damn it, my plan's been exposed!) Betsy DeVos is failing an entire generation of students Francis Fukuyama interview: socialism ought to come back The Guardian: Mohammad bin Salman of Saudi Arabia [https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/18/mohammed-bin-salman-brutality-saudi-jamal-khashoggi was never a reformer. The disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi has proved it.] Court-packing is necessary to save American democracy Asian-Americans are now mostly against affirmative action, and disinformation is part of the reason. GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) is in free fall, with foreign investors fleeing away, economies of Saudi, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain etc in the verge of crisis. This is in spite of the young prince's supposed economic revitalization plan. The cruelty is the point: President Trump and his supporters find community by rejoicing in the suffering of those they hate and fear.