{"id":23918,"date":"2011-11-20T20:19:19","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T03:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/20\/the-us-is-once-again-a-world-thought-leader.html"},"modified":"2011-11-21T08:57:08","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T15:57:08","slug":"the-us-is-once-again-a-world-thought-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/20\/the-us-is-once-again-a-world-thought-leader.html","title":{"rendered":"The US is once again a world thought leader!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Folks abroad are using the police reaction to OWS as an excuse for suppressing their own domestic protesters.<\/p>\n<p>The Right often goes on and on about how the US is exceptional, and an example for the rest of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes we need to really think about what sort of example we&#39;re setting. #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fcache.gawker.com%2Fassets%2Fimages%2F7%2F2011%2F11%2Ffb_a3426354de5757d7db3f1dac463062de.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/gawker.com\/5861191\/how-egypt-justifies-its-crackdowns-occupy-wall-street'>How Egypt Justifies Its Brutal Crackdown: Occupy Wall Street<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTwo people were killed in Cairo and Alexandria this weekend as Egyptian activists took the streets to protest the military&#39;s attempts to maintain its grip on power.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Folks abroad are using the police reaction to OWS as an excuse for suppressing their own domestic protesters. The Right often goes on and on about how the US is exceptional, and an example for the rest of the world. Sometimes we need to really think about what sort of example we&#39;re setting. #ddtb Embedded &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/20\/the-us-is-once-again-a-world-thought-leader.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The US is once again a world thought leader!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,10,17],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-23918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-homeland-security","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":153528,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2021\/03\/07\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years.html","url_meta":{"origin":23918,"position":0},"title":"Still chatty after all these years","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 7-Mar-21 12:30am","format":false,"excerpt":"The Stupid Evil Podcast is ... well, it was fun.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;DDtB-SEB Podcasts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"DDtB-SEB Podcasts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/podcasts\/ddtb-seb-podcasts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":136275,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/06\/and-lo-there-shall-come-another-seb-podcast.html","url_meta":{"origin":23918,"position":1},"title":"And, lo, there shall come another SEB Podcast!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 6-May-18 2:56pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It's been an astonishing three years since +Les Jenkins and I did one of his Stupid Evil Bastard podcasts (the biggest takeaway from which was that it had been three years since we previously did it, and that was clearly way, way too long). 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