We’re Seeing a Trend Toward Less Violence in the World

Tecumsehsbones

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And then there's dozens of individual suicide bombers, incidents of cops shooting black (and white guys) on the street because of perceived threat that can often be avoided in the first place. I hear you re the big wars but as far as individual safety on the streets we're headed in the wrong direction. I think your chances of getting mugged are greater now than at any time during Vietnam or W.W.2.
Don't know about Canada, but in the U.S. violent crime in all categories is at about 50% of what it was in the 90s. So there's that.
 

Tecumsehsbones

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Yeah.... I got it from the topic label....
And you didn't regard prefacing my comment with "Don't know about Canada, but in the U.S. . . ." as an acknowledgement that the information I was giving was partial, and not the entire world?

OK, everybody has bad days now and then.
 

lone wolf

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That's the OP author for you......Drinking the leftard ....Ideologue kool-aid
OP author didn't write the title. NY Times author did. Are you so focused on your trolling, taunting and tormenting you've lost peripherals?

And you didn't regard prefacing my comment with "Don't know about Canada, but in the U.S. . . ." as an acknowledgement that the information I was giving was partial, and not the entire world?

OK, everybody has bad days now and then.
Honest mistake. You use the same tactic to steer and troll a thread too...
 

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Terrorism is dead.

ISIS loses all territory along Syria-Turkey border

Turkish troops and allied Syrian rebels expelled the extremist Islamic State in Iraq and Syria group from the last strip of territory it controlled along the Syrian-Turkish border on Sunday, effectively sealing the extremists' self-styled caliphate off from the outside world, Turkey's state-run news agency reported.

Also on Sunday, Syrian pro-government forces backed by airstrikes launched a wide offensive in the northern city of Aleppo, capturing areas they lost last month and besieging rebel-held neighbourhoods, state media and opposition activists said.

Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army rebels have cleared the area between the northern Syrian border towns of Azaz and Jarablus, the Anadolu news agency reported. It said the advance "has removed terror organization Daesh's physical contact with the Turkish border in northern Syria." Daesh is an Arabic acronym for ISIS.

The FSA's advance shut down key supply lines used by ISIS to bring in foreign fighters, weapons and ammunition.

ISIS loses all territory along Syria-Turkey border - World - CBC News
 

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The nature of violence has certainly changed. Time was when two warriors met on a battlefield, man-to-man, with sharp blades and only one survived (if that). Now, a technician flies a drone from a little room in Nevada, launches an Hellfire missile in Pakistan and only one of the adversaries still survives.
 

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Influencing and trying to take advantage of the European migrant crisis:

“Our premise for engaging in work related to governance was that, in addition to mitigating the negative effects of enforcement, we should also be supporting actors in the field proactively seeking to change the policies, rules, and regulations that govern migration. We also believed that advances at the regional or international levels could create impetus for policy change or implementation of existing norms at the national level. We deliberately avoided the term “global governance” because there is no single system at the global level for managing migration.”

Soros Hack: Top 10 Machinations of a Master Manipulator

...“The current refugee crisis is creating space to reconsider the governance of migration and the international refugee regime … reforming migration governance at the global level.”
“Although [comprehensive immigration reform] was not achieved, winning the Senate with such a large, bipartisan majority was a partial victory and further than the movement had gotten in recent decades, and, as a result of the effort, the immigrant rights movement infrastructure matured and ultimately emerged stronger, more coordinated, and more cohesive.” – Document including a presentation from Ivy O. Suriyopas, a program officer with OSF’s U.S. Programs

...5. Funding BLM (Black Lives Matter) to the tune of $650,000, which had more to do with instigating violent anti-police riots than genuinely helping black people in poverty facing racism and discrimination:"

Straight from the mouth of the lefty who brags about figuratively helping the nazis pull the gold teeth out of jewish corpses during WW2 to help fund the creation of the Rothschilde owned state of Israel

etc etc etc...
lefties should be left behind