The Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment culture got carried by universities [and] other important cultural institutions, and these cultural institutions are dominated by super-majorities of progressives.
“Conservatives see this as an existential threat. That’s an important phrase: They see it as an existential threat to their way of life, to the things that they hold sacred.”
I will provide the link.
But I have been concerned that the current Republican party is against the Enlightenment movement. That lead to Democratic socites in Europe.
It is a clear and present danger of our Democratic Republic.
Thirty years ago, sociologist James Davison Hunter popularized the concept of culture war. Today, he sees a culture war that’s gotten worse — and that spells trouble for the future of the American experiment.
Filibuster Hangs Over Bill to Create Jan. 6 Commission
“The Senate could vote as early as next week on House-passed legislation creating an independent commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol,” NBC News reports.
“But it’s unclear if at least 10 Republican senators will support the bill, the threshold needed to move forward. It could be the first bill this year to be blocked by a filibuster.” __________
Taegan Goddard has a suggestion, it seems: Just hold hearing on the insurrection. They can't stop you from doing that.
“Culture wars always precede shooting wars. They don’t necessarily lead to a shooting war, but you never have a shooting war without a culture war prior to it, because culture provides the justifications for violence.”
I knew Gaza strip is along the Mediterranean sea that was part of the area created after World War two when Israel was created after the Fascist regime murdered millions of Jews.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel and Hamas agreed to a cease-fire Thursday, halting a bruising 11-day war that caused widespread destruction in the Gaza Strip, brought life in much of Israel to a standstill and left more than 200 people dead.
At 2 a.m. local time, just as the cease-fire took effect, frenzy life returned to the streets of Gaza. People went out of their homes, some shouting “Allahu Akbar” or whistling from balconies. Many fired in the air, celebrating the truce.
Like the three previous wars between the bitter enemies, the latest round of fighting ended inconclusively. Israel claimed to inflict heavy damage on Hamas but once again was unable to halt the Islamic militant group’s nonstop rocket barrages. Almost immediately, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced angry accusations from his hard-line, right-wing base that he stopped the operation too soon.
Hamas, the Islamic militant group sworn to Israel’s destruction, also claimed victory. But it now faces the daunting challenge of rebuilding in a territory already suffering from poverty, widespread unemployment and a raging coronavirus outbreak.
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of rebuilding in a territory already suffering from poverty, widespread unemployment and a raging coronavirus outbreak.
of rebuilding in a territory already suffering from poverty, widespread unemployment and a raging coronavirus outbreak.
of rebuilding in a territory already suffering from poverty, widespread unemployment and a raging coronavirus outbreak.
Roger, so You want the US Tax Payer to foot the bill? "of rebuilding in a territory already suffering from poverty, widespread unemployment and a raging coronavirus outbreak.
of rebuilding in a territory already suffering from poverty, widespread unemployment and a raging coronavirus outbreak.
of rebuilding in a territory already suffering from poverty, widespread unemployment and a raging coronavirus outbreak."
Are you talking about, Seattle, California, Chicago, Detroit, East St. Louis......
Gentleman from NY: (00:00) Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from Ohio, Mr. Ryan.
Speaker: (00:06) Gentlemen is recognized for 30 seconds.
Mr. Ryan: (00:09) I want to thank the gentlemen from New York and the other Republicans who are supporting this and thank them for their bipartisanship. To the other 90% of our friends on the other side of the aisle, holy cow. Incoherence, no idea what you’re talking about. Benghazi, you guys chased the former Secretary of State all over the country, spent millions of dollars. We have people scaling the Capitol, hitting the Capitol Police with lead pipes across the head, and we can’t get bipartisanship.
Mr. Ryan: (00:40) What else has to happen in this country? Cops.This is a slap in the face to every rank and file cop in the United States. If we’re going to take on China, if we’re going to rebuild the country, if we’re going to reverse climate change, we need two political parties in this country that are both living in reality, and you ain’t one of them. I yield back the balance of my time.
BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!! Sad how rat thinks he is clever while the facts show the opposite!!!!!!!!!! Maybe he can explain to the enthralled masses what proof he has that trump won!!!!!!! I am sure his response with be immediate and factual based!!!!
If you'd like to read something more intelligent than THWAP or myballs dumb statement, study this article (LINKk at politicalwire.com) on how Biden comported himself leading up to the present CEASE FIRE.
NBC NEWS REPORTS Inside Biden’s Quiet Diplomacy
“As the first rocket fire was exchanged between Israel and Hamas, President Joe Biden settled on a strategy. And as he had throughout the 2020 campaign, Biden adhered to it despite mounting criticism from Republicans and even his own Democratic Party,” NBC News reports.
“His approach was stylistically muted and substantively more hard-line than some of his allies had expected. It was driven by a singular goal: to end the violence as soon as possible so he could train his focus back onto his domestic agenda.
“To accomplish that, Biden chose not to publicly lay bare disagreements with his Israeli counterpart, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, although the two have their differences. He said little publicly about the issue and entertained few questions about the topic.”
THE ARTICLE DETAILS HOW A SEASONED, KNOWING PRESIDENT DEALT WITH THIS CRISIS.
DAVID BROOKS talks on the phone with the President and asks, What Happened to Joe Biden?
David Brooks: “Many people thought he was a moderate incrementalist, but now he’s promoting whopping big legislative packages that make many on the progressive left extremely happy.
“I asked him that when I spoke on the phone with him this week. The answer seems to be — it’s complicated.
“The values that drive him have been utterly consistent over the decades, and the policies he is proposing now are similar to those he’s been championing for decades.
“It’s the scale that is gigantically different. It’s as if a company that was making pleasure boats started turning out ocean liners. And that’s because BIDEN BELIEVES THAT IN A POST-TRUMP WORLD WE'RE FIGHTING NOT JUST TO PRESERVE THE MIDDLE CLASS, BUT TO SURVIVE AS THE LEADING NATION OF THE EARTH.”
Total U.S. coronavirus deaths reported each morning this week: Monday, 585,970; Tuesday, 586,359; Wednesday, 587,219; Thursday, 587,874. Friday, 588,539.
A cease-fire took effect between Israel and Hamas hours after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Security Cabinet approved a unilateral halt to an 11-day military operation in the Gaza Strip. The decision came after heavy private pressure from President Biden and international allies to halt the offensive (The Associated Press).
A senior Hamas official earlier confirmed the 2 a.m. start to a cease-fire mediated by Egypt. Netanyahu’s office announced that his security cabinet had voted to accept the Egyptian truce proposal, but cautioned “that the reality on the ground will determine the continuation of the campaign” (The New York Times and The Hill).
Biden, who spoke six times with Netanyahu over 11 days, on Thursday appeared in the East Room after the Mideast announcement to praise what he called a “mutual unconditional” cease-fire. “I believe the Palestinians and Israelis equally deserve to live safely and securely,” he said during brief remarks, “and to enjoy equal measures of freedom, prosperity and democracy.” The president did not respond to questions about whether he thought the truce would hold.
He said he promised Israel full U.S. support to replenish its Iron Dome defense system (The Washington Post). Secretary of State Antony Blinken plans to visit the region in the coming days “to discuss recovery efforts and working together to build better futures for Israelis and Palestinians.” the State Department said (The Hill).
U.S. officials this week were in close consultation with Egyptian counterparts, who served as intermediaries because Israel’s government and Hamas do not directly engage with one another, to urge a de-escalation during a second week of violence in Gaza.
Any one wonder who is going to pay for the replacement of voting machines in Az that have been compromised due to the incompetence of the GOP and the audit???? I think the RNC should cover the costs!!!!!!!!
Former president Donald Trump charged the Secret Service more than $40,000 this spring for rooms that Trump’s own protective detail used while guarding him at his Mar-a-Lago Club, according to federal spending records.
The records show that Trump’s club charged the Secret Service $396.15 every night starting Jan. 20, the day he left the White House and moved full-time into his Palm Beach, Fla., club.
Those charges, ultimately paid by taxpayers, continued until at least April 30, the spending records show, for a total of $40,011.15. The charges were for a single room used as a workspace by Secret Service agents, according to one person familiar with the payments.
AND HERE'S WHAT TRUMP LEFT BIDEN REGARDING NORTH KOREA:
North Korea Isn’t Giving Up Its Nuclear Arsenal New York Times: “The staying power of Pyongyang’s nuclear arsenal highlights an uncomfortable truth for Mr. Biden as he prepares to greet President Moon Jae-in of South Korea at the White House on Friday. Mr. Moon has said denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula is a ‘matter of survival’ for his country, and he has called on Mr. Biden to revive negotiations.”
“But North Korea’s arsenal of nuclear weapons and its stockpile of fuel have roughly doubled in the past four years, a steady rise that proceeded even as President Donald J. Trump held high-drama meetings with Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader. The best unclassified estimates are that the North has at least 45 nuclear weapons, and appears headed to an arsenal roughly the size of Pakistan’s, another nuclear state the United States once demanded must disarm, and now has all but given up that it ever will. For the North, that has always been a model to follow.”
WASHINGTON — As the first rocket fire was exchanged between Israel and Hamas, President Joe Biden settled on a strategy. And as he had throughout the 2020 campaign, Biden adhered to it despite mounting criticism from Republicans and even his own Democratic Party.
His approach was stylistically muted and substantively more hard-line than some of his allies had expected. It was driven by a singular goal: to end the violence as soon as possible so he could train his focus back onto his domestic agenda.
To accomplish that, Biden chose not to publicly lay bare disagreements with his Israeli counterpart, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, although the two have their differences. He said little publicly about the issue and entertained few questions about the topic. During a trip to Michigan this week, Biden even joked about running over a reporter who wanted to ask him a question about Israel. And he backed Netanyahu's assault on Gaza to an extent that surprised some fellow Democrats and angered others.
Israel, Hamas agree to cease-fire
"My sense is the White House doesn't see a lot of benefit in negotiating in public with the Israelis or Palestinians," said Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn.
"This town has gotten used to diplomacy being conducted on Twitter," Murphy added in a reference to former President Donald Trump's prolific use of social media. "And so it's kind of shocking when the Biden administration decides to have more private conversations with our allies and adversaries and share less information than the Trump administration did publicly."
The White House cast the cease-fire announcement Thursday between Israel and Hamas as a victory for what it had dubbed "quiet, intensive diplomacy" led by Biden. This account of how Biden navigated the first major foreign policy crisis of his presidency is based on conversations with 10 administration officials and others with knowledge of the strategy.
'A lousy hand of cards'
A senior administration official said the U.S. is "optimistic" that the cease-fire will hold while acknowledging that it's a fragile peace that will require continued engagement by the administration and countries in the region, particularly Egypt, to maintain.
A source familiar with the discussions and a senior administration official said no conditions were attached to the cease-fire. But even before Israel and Hamas agreed to a cease-fire, administration officials had been discussing what type of aid the U.S. would provide to help rebuild Gaza and offer humanitarian relief. Biden is also expected to soon announce his nominee to be the U.S. ambassador to Israel. And Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected to travel to the region next week.
Early in the conflict, the White House and the State Department privately conveyed to the Israelis that Biden wanted a swift end to the violence. Administration officials feared a long fight, and some were concerned that the Israelis would follow through with threats of a ground invasion into Gaza.
Biden's national security team told the Israelis he wouldn't accept a scenario like the 2014 conflict, which lasted 51 days and left 2,000 Palestinians dead.
Multiple administration officials said the president's position was a result of "lessons learned" from the Obama administration's approach to the 2014 violence between Israel and Hamas. In particular, they cited the Biden team's engagement of countries in the region as "very different" from 2014 and ultimately effective.
Biden never publicly demanded that Israel agree to a cease-fire through 11 days of fighting when more than 200 people were killed, the overwhelming majority of them Palestinians. It was a calculated decision.
Instead, the White House issued a written statement Monday saying Biden supported a cease-fire. And Wednesday, in another written statement, the White House said he conveyed to Netanyahu "that he expected a significant de-escalation today on the path to a ceasefire."
But that was the harshest language toward Israel ever attributed to Biden during the crisis.
Even when some administration officials had concerns about the credibility of intelligence Israel presented to the U.S., which it said detailed Hamas' underground tunnel system in Gaza and how the militant group embedded in buildings it has targeted, according to two people familiar with the matter, the administration tried to delicately navigate that view in public.
"It's a lousy hand of cards, but the Biden team has played it as best they can," a person close to the White House said.
After the shooting war over Gaza wound down early Friday, it seems that the Israelis and Palestinians may be poised to return to their fragile, if febrile, status quo. Israeli officials are already claiming their military objectives were met after close to two weeks of relentless bombardment of the blockaded Gaza Strip. The Islamist group Hamas, which fired more than 4,300 rockets into Israeli territory from its bastion in Gaza, also declared a kind of victory. It is likely to emerge from the fighting as it has after previous rounds, battered but unbowed, and perhaps boosted in the eyes of some of its brethren for having confronted an Israeli state that maintains an unflinching occupation over millions of Palestinians. Never mind the hundreds of Palestinians and dozen people in Israel who lost their lives in the process.
Yet to many analysts and close observers of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, there may be no going back to the way things once were. The intensity of this latest round of violence took both the Israeli government and the Biden administration by surprise. It should not have.
The coals were stoked away from Gaza, by the provocations of Israeli police and emboldened Jewish far-right vigilantes marching through Jerusalem. Palestinian protests against planned evictions in the contested holy city and the clashes that ensued all came to a head when Israeli security forces decided to storm al-Aqsa Mosque. Hamas then saw an opportunity to don the mantle of the defender of the third-holiest site in Islam as well as broader Palestinian claims to Jerusalem, and launched its attacks. The resulting war sprawled across the land between the river and the sea, with clashes in the West Bank as well as between Arab and Jewish Israelis in cities inside Israel’s 1967
Israel, Hamas agree to cease-fire amid global pressure
Israel and Hamas on May 20 announced a cease-fire to end a bruising 11-day war across the Gaza Strip. (Reuters)
The explosion of tensions exposed the internal dysfunctions among both the Israeli and Palestinian political camps. For the former, two years of ceaseless electioneering and the failure to form a stable ruling coalition either with or without Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu weakened governance and has brought far-right groups once considered too extremist into the political mainstream. For the latter, a crisis of legitimacy facing the beleaguered Palestinian Authority and its aging President Mahmoud Abbas has only intensified. Hamas’s renewed militancy followed a decision by Abbas to scrap the first planned Palestinian elections after more than a decade and a half.
Palestinians themselves are trying to make that last point clear. A mass general strike this week saw the joint participation of Arab Israelis — almost all of whom see themselves as Palestinians — and Palestinians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza. Analysts of the Palestinian scene see the glimmers of a new era of mobilization.
“First, the quiescence of the Palestinian people — accused, often most forcefully from within their own communities, of apathy and indifference — never amounted to acceptance of defeat. They have shown that Israel cannot persist in its policies without paying a price,” wrote Tareq Baconi in the London Review of Books. “Second, regardless of whether a broader movement emerges out of the current moment, the collective eruption across historical Palestine shows that the Palestinians remain a people, despite the false hope of partition, the all-too-real separation of their territories, and the deep fragmentation of their political and social
“For years, Israelis have made peace with the notion that they can manage, however brutally, their relationship with Palestinians instead of resolving it,” wrote Yousef Munayyer in the New York Times. “This has been aided by a process of walling off the ugliness of their rule: Gaza, caged and besieged, might as well have been on a different planet; Israelis could drive throughout the West Bank practically uninterrupted by the sight of Palestinians; Palestinian citizens of Israel have largely been relegated to neglected, concentrated areas.”
But, Munayyer added, the unrest and mass protests have confronted Israelis with a new reality: “Palestine is not ‘over there’ but is everywhere around them.”
The rumors are true. UFOs are invading Washington.
by Hayes Brown
Former President Barack Obama raised a lot of eyebrows earlier this week when he all but admit that UFOs are real when appearing on a late night talk show. That's after the Navy confirmed that video of a weird...thing off the California coast is legit. There's a lot of reason for the Scullys of the world to be skeptical, Hayes Brown writes. "But now that I’m older, I find myself understanding Mulder a little better, with his belief in things unknown."
"And like the poster in his FBI office read, 'I want to believe.' I just need the evidence to be able to do so," Brown writes.
RRB, Roger got a Map ready class yesterday. The class was Instructed by Cali.
Yeah, the draft-dodging milk cattle rancher can never admit when he's wrong.
Especially when he's galactically, stupendously, pathetically WRONG.
What we witnessed yesterday was emblematic of the alky's entire life encapsulated in a handful of posts. An epic fail at every single level of human existence.
Newly Published Video Shows Louisiana Troopers Stun, Drag, Hit Black Man Who Died After Traffic StopFBI, Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division have opened criminal investigation into 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene
This image published by the Associated Press that it says is from police body-camera footage shows Ronald Greene during a traffic stop outside Monroe, La., in 2019.PHOTO: LOUISIANA STATE POLICE/ASSOCIATED PRESS
By
Scott Calvert
and
Jon Kamp
May 20, 2021 10:09 pm
Louisiana state troopers are seen repeatedly using their stun guns before dragging a Black man and hitting him during a 2019 traffic stop after which he died, according to footage published this week by the Associated Press that it said was from a police body camera.
The arrest, which occurred outside Monroe, La., is the subject of a criminal investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, according to a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney’s office in Shreveport, La., whose prosecutors are also assisting with the probe.
In the footage published by the AP, Ronald Greene appears to be jolted numerous times with a stun gun and dragged from his car, as he screams and moans, repeatedly saying, “I’m scared” and “I’m sorry.” At one point, he says, “I’m your brother.”
While Mr. Greene is faced down on the ground with his hands cuffed and feet in shackles, a white trooper has his foot on Mr. Greene’s backside.
In many parts of the video, Mr. Greene isn’t on screen and the audio is choppy or off, making it hard to follow exactly what is happening. The AP said it obtained 46 minutes of video. The Wall Street Journal couldn’t independently confirm the provenance of the video.
Capt. Nick Manale, a spokesman for the Louisiana State Police, said the investigation into Mr. Greene’s death remains under review by federal and state authorities. “The premature public release of investigative files and video evidence in this case is not authorized and was not obtained through official sources. LSP is confident in the judicial system and fair review of this incident and continues to offer our full cooperation,” he said in a statement.
"What we witnessed yesterday was emblematic of the alky's entire life encapsulated in a handful of posts. An epic fail at every single level of human existence" RRB
exactly,,,,,, he is too sick to leave the home.
Today he will be again be spectacularly wrong, just wait for it.
VF Corp (VFC) – The company behind apparel brands like The North Face, Timberland and Vans posted a mixed quarter, beating top line estimates but reporting lower-than-expected per-share profit. VF said the majority of its supply chain is operational, although it has seen isolated product delays. VF shares tumbled 6% in the premarket.
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Thanks for the head-up alky, but not sure why you thought this was important in this thread?
The announcement by New York Attorney General Letitia James that her office is “actively investigating the Trump Organization in a criminal capacity” was greeted with a wave of nearly unanimous snap analysis that this spelled big trouble for former President Donald Trump and his company. But behind the scenes, many lawyers, including experienced prosecutors in New York, expressed confusion about what the move actually signifies.
It turns out that James’ unusual public statement portends bad news for Trump and his family-run operation but not for the reason you likely suspect.
The attorney general’s spokesperson noted that the AG was investigating “along with the Manhattan D.A.,” whose office has been conducting for some time a criminal investigation into whether Trump’s company inflated the value of its properties to obtain loans and lowered the values to limit its tax burden. Rather than a new, independent investigation into similar matters, the announcement was more of a combining of resources. Members of the AG’s staff have been named as “special assistant district attorneys” and will be working as part of District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.’s team. For that reason, it might have been more accurate to say that her team is assisting the DA’s already underway investigation.
This announcement was not merely stylistic, however. It represents a serious commitment by James to go all-in on the DA’s criminal investigation. James is a politician who holds elective office, and her high-profile announcement ensures that she will share in the credit or the blame for the outcome of this investigation.
James didn’t have to take this step. Her office could have continued to conduct a strictly civil investigation and brought a tax case or potentially even a case centered around violations of the Martin Act, the expansive New York securities statute that also covers real estate. A veteran of James’ office told me that any false statement in the offering terms or about the entity offering to sell interest in condominiums, for example, could serve as the basis for a Martin Act case. A civil case based on those false statements would not require proof that the false statements were deliberate.
Proving a criminal case is much more challenging. To secure a criminal fraud conviction, prosecutors must prove that the defendant had the intent to defraud. In other words, they have to prove that the defendant intended to tell those lies in order to trick people out of their money. It is never easy to prove what was going on inside the defendant’s mind. The fact that James was willing to stick her neck out and join the criminal investigation in a very public way suggests to me that her team believes the DA’s criminal prosecution will ultimately achieve some measure of success.
He will spend his life wearing an orange jacket with NY Prison label.
"If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor" Obama
any false statement in the offering terms could serve as the basis for a Martin Act case. A civil case based on those false statements would not require proof that the false statements were deliberate.
World Nut Daily Alex Jones aka rrb's new lover
said...
President Biden on Thursday pounded his podium as he decried crimes targeting Asian Americans before signing a hate-crimes bill crafted in response to a reported rise in violence against Asian Americans during the coronavirus pandemic.
Biden and fellow Democrats have contended the rise is linked to former President Donald Trump's branding of COVID-19 as the "China virus." The bill gained momentum after the shooting of eight massage-parlor workers in Atlanta, six of whom were
But crime data and the many incidents captured on closed-circuit cameras or by bystanders tell a story that establishment media and politicians are unwilling to confront: Most of the perpetrators are not Trump-supporting white supremacists. They are black people who, some sociologists argue, are part of the legacy of Congress trying to make amends for the monstrous sins of slavery and segregation through massive welfare programs that have produced fatherless families.
Biden called the history of mistreatment against the "AAPI community" – Asian American and Pacific Islander – "un-American."
"Silence is complicity. And we cannot be complicit. We have to speak out. We have to act," he said.
"That's what you've done," he said, addressing members of Congress. "And I can't thank you enough. I'm
The legislation aims to expedite the review of hate crimes believed to be related to the pandemic and grant federal funds to local law enforcement to improve reporting of bias-driven incidents. The Justice Department is to designate a point person to assist with the expedited review of COVID-19 hate crimes and expand "linguistically appropriate" public education campaigns.
The House passed the bill Tuesday 364-62 after the Senate passed it last month, 94-1. The only senator opposed to the bill was Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., who explained he regarded it as a threat to free speech. He said it "turns the federal government into the speech police – gives government sweeping authority to decide what counts as offensive speech and then monitor it." In a previous statement, he said that "as a former prosecutor, my view is it's dangerous to simply give the federal government open-ended authority to define a whole new class of federal hate crime incidents."
Is Biden ignoring the true cause of hate crimes against
The bill also drew opposition from 85 organizations that range from promoters of civil rights to gay rights, including the nonprofit 18 Million Rising and the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance, NBC News reported.
In a joint statement, the organizations said that, among other things, the bill "doesn't address the reality that, at least in New York City, many of the attacks involve people who do have mental health issues, who are poor, potentially homeless ... we have to address inequality in our society."
World Nut Daily Alex Jones aka rrb's new lover
said...
The bill's sponsor, Sen.Slanteyed Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, said the legislation was of major importance to Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders "who have often felt very invisible in our country, always seen as foreign, always seen as the other." In the House, Rep. Grace Meng, D-N.Y., of New York said that for "more than a year, Asian Americans all across our nation have been screaming out for help."
See Biden's remarks:
An African American Twitter user feared the bill "will be used specifically against Black
"Any disagreement or any retaliation in self-defense against an Asian will be labeled a hate crime," he wrote.
The problem isn't new, and neither is the media's unwillingness to tell the truth.
In 2010, a San Francisco Chronicle columnist cited a "community organizer" who acknowledged "San Francisco's dirty secret" that Asian residents were being targeted for robberies, burglaries and intimidation by young black men.
The community organizer, Carol Mo, participated in a 2008 survey by the San Francisco Police Department analyzing 300 strong-arm robberies that found, she said, "85 percent of the physical assault crimes, the victims were Asian and the perpetrators were African American."
The columnist, C.W. Nevius, reported hundreds of people marched into a Board of Supervisors meeting "to express their fear, frustration and outrage." But officials seemed "intent on downplaying the role of race and its impact in the community."
"The recent incidents of black violence against Asians is the perfect opportunity to open a dialogue about racism," he wrote. "Instead, they are attempting to close the door."
Nevius said "no one is saying the entire African American community is violent."
"But ignoring the legitimate anger and frustration from Asians is disingenuous and unfair."
'Simply are afraid'
Earlier this month, an Asian-American writer and policy expert urged role models such as President Obama and black pastors to denounce the wave of black-on-Asian violence in America.
Ying Ma, the author of "Chinese Girl in the Ghetto," says leaders "simply are afraid to utter the word 'black."
"What we need in this country is an uncomfortable but honest conversation about the prevelance of black crime in general and black-on-Asian violence in particular," she said in an interview Wednesday night with Fox News' Tucker Carlson.
Ma, whose book tells her story of moving from post-Mao China to an inner-city neighborhood in Oakland, said she was "a big fan of President Obama when he bluntly talked about fatherless black households back in
"That took courage, and that took honesty and leadership, and I do hope that he will display the same kind of courage and leadership on this particular issue," she said.
Re 8:12 find the video of this black man's death at the hands of police
This happened BEFORE the George Floyd death. I suppose Ch/Scottie will explain it all away too. _________
It was nothing more than a traffic accident that killed him, police reported. Then why were two taser attachments still stuck in his back? the examining physician wondered.
Louisiana police were extremely slow in releasing the body cam video.
https://twitter.com/mikepompeo/status/1395359503302922243 Over a year ago, I told @MarthaRaddatz that the Wuhan Virus most likely came from a lab leak. She stopped just short of offering me a tin hat. The CCP said I was an enemy of mankind.
And now? Well, now, the Left wing media is scrambling to get on the side of the truth.
People were banned from social media for telling the truth
Under the Camp David Accords, brokered by President Jimmy Carter, Israel returned to Egypt the Sinai Peninsula, occupied during the 1967 war. Begin and Anwar Sadat were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1978. On June 22, 1982, while Israel was tangling with the PLO in Lebanon, Menachem Begin appeared in a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing. Sen. Biden told Begin that if Israel did not immediately cease building settlements in Judea and Samaria, the United States would cut off economic aid to Israel.
“Don’t threaten us with cutting off your aid. It will not work,” Begin responded. “I am not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a proud Jew with 3,700 years of civilized history. Nobody came to our aid when we were dying in the gas chambers and ovens. Nobody came to our aid when we were striving to create our country. We paid for it. We fought for it. We died for it. We will stand by our principles. We will defend them. And, when necessary, we will die for them again, with or without your aid.”
Biden then raised his voice at Begin and banged twice on the table.
“This desk is designed for writing, not for fists.” Begin said. “Don’t threaten us with slashing aid. Do you think that because the US lends us money it is entitled to impose on us what we must do? We are grateful for the assistance we have received, but we are not to be threatened. I am a proud Jew. Three thousand years of culture are behind me, and you will not frighten me with threats. Take note: we do not want a single soldier of yours to die for us.”
BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! Front Page magazine another POS with less credibility than rat the dumb fuck!!!!!!!
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Why is rat stuck in his never world of dumbness... No wonder why this country is in such deep shit and no one cares!!!!!!!
Oh, I see. It's from Frontpage online Mag which according to Wiki: "...has been described by scholars and writers as right-wing, far-right, and Islamophobic. _____
d the three stooges here. 17 of the next 18 posts were by them. Lol.
BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!! And you counted them while still not providing a single example of them working.....Dumb fuck ballz just opines without a basis of relliaty.....!!!!!!
The thief once again chimes in with more nothingness~!!!!!!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!!!! The rampant stupidity of the GOP on full display for all to laugh at!!!!!!! Keep slurping.....your really are good at it!!!!!
A cease-fire took effect between Israel and Hamas hours after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Security Cabinet approved a unilateral halt to an 11-day military operation in the Gaza Strip.
So it wasn’t the West Bank as you claimed yesterday, eh Alky?
JamesNewLeaf's Fucking Daddy said... Jack Posobiec https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1395885765905686529
Palestinian rioters set a Jewish man on fire on the street in NYC and it barely registered in the mainstream media
This happened yesterday
It's happening again May 22, 2021 at 8:58 AM ________
JamesNewLeaf said... I didn't know there were Palestinians in NYC. I thought they were in Israel.
Let's see proof that Palestinians set a Jewish man afire in NYC.
I'm not saying it didn't happen. I'm just saying I see no claim it happened except in one tweet made fourteen hours ago followed by no comments. May 22, 2021 at 9:14 AM ______
JamesNewLeaf said... STILL WAITING FOR PROOF. May 22, 2021 at 9:27 AM Delete ________
JamesNewLeaf said... It was F'n Daddy who made the claim.
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The Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment culture got carried by universities [and] other important cultural institutions, and these cultural institutions are dominated by super-majorities of progressives.
“Conservatives see this as an existential threat. That’s an important phrase: They see it as an existential threat to their way of life, to the things that they hold sacred.”
I will provide the link.
But I have been concerned that the current Republican party is against the Enlightenment movement. That lead to Democratic socites in Europe.
It is a clear and present danger of our Democratic Republic.
He is a conservative.
Teaching American history is not dangerous.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/05/20/culture-war-politics-2021-democracy-analysis-489900
How the ‘Culture War’ Could Break Democracy.
Thirty years ago, sociologist James Davison Hunter popularized the concept of culture war. Today, he sees a culture war that’s gotten worse — and that spells trouble for the future of the American experiment.
Teaching American history is not dangerous.
Someone needs to be taught geography as they don’t know Gaza City is in the Gaza Strip not the West Bank
Man up
Filibuster Hangs Over Bill to Create Jan. 6 Commission
“The Senate could vote as early as next week on House-passed legislation creating an independent commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol,” NBC News reports.
“But it’s unclear if at least 10 Republican senators will support the bill, the threshold needed to move forward. It could be the first bill this year to be blocked by a filibuster.”
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Taegan Goddard has a suggestion, it seems:
Just hold hearing on the insurrection. They can't stop you from doing that.
“Culture wars always precede shooting wars. They don’t necessarily lead to a shooting war, but you never have a shooting war without a culture war prior to it, because culture provides the justifications for violence.”
*hearings
I knew Gaza strip is along the Mediterranean sea that was part of the area created after World War two when Israel was created after the Fascist regime murdered millions of Jews.
You probably never read a history book.
You didn’t know where the rockets are coming from and you can’t admit you’re dead FUCKING WRONG, again.
I read history the difference is I understood and retained it, unlike you
I knew Gaza strip is along the Mediterranean sea
LMAO the West Bank doesn’t border the Med
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Gaza is a city. In a small percentage of the West Bank idiot.
Gaza doesn't border Egypt.
The Republicans who support the cancel culture know that " knowledge is power"
Ignorance about American history is dangerous.
Roger, so you are so very sickly, again.
"Someone needs to be taught geography as they don’t know Gaza City is in the Gaza Strip not the West Bank
Man up" Cali
Lordie, Roger attacked me .
You twisted him in a pretzel.
Roger today has stated that the entire Democrat party is against CRT and did not start/support the "cancel culture".
Truly twisted
Roger so wants his little high school diploma to be close to the level of our masters degrees. So sad. So envious.
MYBALLSINTGEWOODSAGAIN, True.
Lordie, Roger attacked me .
You twisted him in a pretzel.
He did and as always he didn’t know WTF he was talking about
Cali, Roger told us he has H.S. Debate skill that he honed "on Stage".
He has yet to show those skill here.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel and Hamas agreed to a cease-fire Thursday, halting a bruising 11-day war that caused widespread destruction in the Gaza Strip, brought life in much of Israel to a standstill and left more than 200 people dead.
At 2 a.m. local time, just as the cease-fire took effect, frenzy life returned to the streets of Gaza. People went out of their homes, some shouting “Allahu Akbar” or whistling from balconies. Many fired in the air, celebrating the truce.
Like the three previous wars between the bitter enemies, the latest round of fighting ended inconclusively. Israel claimed to inflict heavy damage on Hamas but once again was unable to halt the Islamic militant group’s nonstop rocket barrages. Almost immediately, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced angry accusations from his hard-line, right-wing base that he stopped the operation too soon.
Hamas, the Islamic militant group sworn to Israel’s destruction, also claimed victory. But it now faces the daunting challenge of rebuilding in a territory already suffering from poverty, widespread unemployment and a raging coronavirus outbreak.
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of rebuilding in a territory already suffering from poverty, widespread unemployment and a raging coronavirus outbreak.
of rebuilding in a territory already suffering from poverty, widespread unemployment and a raging coronavirus outbreak.
of rebuilding in a territory already suffering from poverty, widespread unemployment and a raging coronavirus outbreak.
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Alky where does your post mention The West Bank?
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Lol@Alky
Roger, so You want the US Tax Payer to foot the bill?
"of rebuilding in a territory already suffering from poverty, widespread unemployment and a raging coronavirus outbreak.
of rebuilding in a territory already suffering from poverty, widespread unemployment and a raging coronavirus outbreak.
of rebuilding in a territory already suffering from poverty, widespread unemployment and a raging coronavirus outbreak."
Are you talking about, Seattle, California, Chicago, Detroit, East St. Louis......
Gentleman from NY: (00:00)
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from Ohio, Mr. Ryan.
Speaker: (00:06)
Gentlemen is recognized for 30 seconds.
Mr. Ryan: (00:09)
I want to thank the gentlemen from New York and the other Republicans who are supporting this and thank them for their bipartisanship. To the other 90% of our friends on the other side of the aisle, holy cow. Incoherence, no idea what you’re talking about. Benghazi, you guys chased the former Secretary of State all over the country, spent millions of dollars. We have people scaling the Capitol, hitting the Capitol Police with lead pipes across the head, and we can’t get bipartisanship.
Mr. Ryan: (00:40)
What else has to happen in this country? Cops.This is a slap in the face to every rank and file cop in the United States. If we’re going to take on China, if we’re going to rebuild the country, if we’re going to reverse climate change, we need two political parties in this country that are both living in reality, and you ain’t one of them. I yield back the balance of my time.
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BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!! Sad how rat thinks he is clever while the facts show the opposite!!!!!!!!!! Maybe he can explain to the enthralled masses what proof he has that trump won!!!!!!! I am sure his response with be immediate and factual based!!!!
Biden fucking cup the middle in only a few months is making Trump's Abraham Accords that much more diplomatic, meaningful, and Nobel worthy.
If you'd like to read something more intelligent than THWAP or myballs dumb statement, study this article (LINKk at politicalwire.com) on how Biden comported himself leading up to the present CEASE FIRE.
NBC NEWS REPORTS
Inside Biden’s Quiet Diplomacy
“As the first rocket fire was exchanged between Israel and Hamas, President Joe Biden settled on a strategy. And as he had throughout the 2020 campaign, Biden adhered to it despite mounting criticism from Republicans and even his own Democratic Party,” NBC News reports.
“His approach was stylistically muted and substantively more hard-line than some of his allies had expected. It was driven by a singular goal: to end the violence as soon as possible so he could train his focus back onto his domestic agenda.
“To accomplish that, Biden chose not to publicly lay bare disagreements with his Israeli counterpart, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, although the two have their differences. He said little publicly about the issue and entertained few questions about the topic.”
THE ARTICLE DETAILS HOW A SEASONED, KNOWING PRESIDENT DEALT WITH THIS CRISIS.
NOBEL WORTHY????? BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!! Trumps abject failure letting BiBi get away with everything!!!!!!!!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/abraham-accords-israel-palestinian-gaza/2021/05/14/60798bb2-b405-11eb-bc96-fdf55de43bef_story.html
Try again asshole with facts rather than your inane parroting of fox news.....LOLOLOLOLOLOL
As you read that article, contrast in your mind what this president did as compared with what the former president would have done.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/inside-biden-s-quiet-relentless-diplomatic-scramble-gaza-n1268102
There's the link.
The article linked at 7:06 shows what a failure Trump's peace deal was.
The article linked at 7:09 shows what Biden accomplished with quiet but bold diplomacy.
DAVID BROOKS talks on the phone with the President and asks,
What Happened to Joe Biden?
David Brooks:
“Many people thought he was a moderate incrementalist, but now he’s promoting whopping big legislative packages that make many on the progressive left extremely happy.
“I asked him that when I spoke on the phone with him this week. The answer seems to be — it’s complicated.
“The values that drive him have been utterly consistent over the decades, and the policies he is proposing now are similar to those he’s been championing for decades.
“It’s the scale that is gigantically different. It’s as if a company that was making pleasure boats started turning out ocean liners. And that’s because BIDEN BELIEVES THAT IN A POST-TRUMP WORLD WE'RE FIGHTING NOT JUST TO PRESERVE THE MIDDLE CLASS, BUT TO SURVIVE AS THE LEADING NATION OF THE EARTH.”
LINK at politicalwire.com
Total U.S. coronavirus deaths reported each morning this week: Monday, 585,970; Tuesday, 586,359; Wednesday, 587,219; Thursday, 587,874. Friday, 588,539.
A cease-fire took effect between Israel and Hamas hours after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Security Cabinet approved a unilateral halt to an 11-day military operation in the Gaza Strip. The decision came after heavy private pressure from President Biden and international allies to halt the offensive (The Associated Press).
A senior Hamas official earlier confirmed the 2 a.m. start to a cease-fire mediated by Egypt. Netanyahu’s office announced that his security cabinet had voted to accept the Egyptian truce proposal, but cautioned “that the reality on the ground will determine the continuation of the campaign” (The New York Times and The Hill).
Biden, who spoke six times with Netanyahu over 11 days, on Thursday appeared in the East Room after the Mideast announcement to praise what he called a “mutual unconditional” cease-fire. “I believe the Palestinians and Israelis equally deserve to live safely and securely,” he said during brief remarks, “and to enjoy equal measures of freedom, prosperity and democracy.” The president did not respond to questions about whether he thought the truce would hold.
He said he promised Israel full U.S. support to replenish its Iron Dome defense system (The Washington Post). Secretary of State Antony Blinken plans to visit the region in the coming days “to discuss recovery efforts and working together to build better futures for Israelis and Palestinians.” the State Department said (The Hill).
U.S. officials this week were in close consultation with Egyptian counterparts, who served as intermediaries because Israel’s government and Hamas do not directly engage with one another, to urge a de-escalation during a second week of violence in Gaza.
Any one wonder who is going to pay for the replacement of voting machines in Az that have been compromised due to the incompetence of the GOP and the audit???? I think the RNC should cover the costs!!!!!!!!
Former president Donald Trump charged the Secret Service more than $40,000 this spring for rooms that Trump’s own protective detail used while guarding him at his Mar-a-Lago Club, according to federal spending records.
The records show that Trump’s club charged the Secret Service $396.15 every night starting Jan. 20, the day he left the White House and moved full-time into his Palm Beach, Fla., club.
Those charges, ultimately paid by taxpayers, continued until at least April 30, the spending records show, for a total of $40,011.15. The charges were for a single room used as a workspace by Secret Service agents, according to one person familiar with the payments.
AND HERE'S WHAT TRUMP LEFT BIDEN REGARDING NORTH KOREA:
North Korea Isn’t Giving Up Its Nuclear Arsenal
New York Times:
“The staying power of Pyongyang’s nuclear arsenal highlights an uncomfortable truth for Mr. Biden as he prepares to greet President Moon Jae-in of South Korea at the White House on Friday. Mr. Moon has said denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula is a ‘matter of survival’ for his country, and he has called on Mr. Biden to revive negotiations.”
“But North Korea’s arsenal of nuclear weapons and its stockpile of fuel have roughly doubled in the past four years, a steady rise that proceeded even as President Donald J. Trump held high-drama meetings with Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader. The best unclassified estimates are that the North has at least 45 nuclear weapons, and appears headed to an arsenal roughly the size of Pakistan’s, another nuclear state the United States once demanded must disarm, and now has all but given up that it ever will. For the North, that has always been a model to follow.”
TRUMP M. EAST PEACE DEAL
EPIC FAIL
TRUMP N. KOREA NUCLEAR TALKS
EPIC FAIL
LINK at politicalwire.com
WASHINGTON — As the first rocket fire was exchanged between Israel and Hamas, President Joe Biden settled on a strategy. And as he had throughout the 2020 campaign, Biden adhered to it despite mounting criticism from Republicans and even his own Democratic Party.
His approach was stylistically muted and substantively more hard-line than some of his allies had expected. It was driven by a singular goal: to end the violence as soon as possible so he could train his focus back onto his domestic agenda.
To accomplish that, Biden chose not to publicly lay bare disagreements with his Israeli counterpart, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, although the two have their differences. He said little publicly about the issue and entertained few questions about the topic. During a trip to Michigan this week, Biden even joked about running over a reporter who wanted to ask him a question about Israel. And he backed Netanyahu's assault on Gaza to an extent that surprised some fellow Democrats and angered others.
Israel, Hamas agree to cease-fire
"My sense is the White House doesn't see a lot of benefit in negotiating in public with the Israelis or Palestinians," said Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn.
"This town has gotten used to diplomacy being conducted on Twitter," Murphy added in a reference to former President Donald Trump's prolific use of social media. "And so it's kind of shocking when the Biden administration decides to have more private conversations with our allies and adversaries and share less information than the Trump administration did publicly."
The White House cast the cease-fire announcement Thursday between Israel and Hamas as a victory for what it had dubbed "quiet, intensive diplomacy" led by Biden. This account of how Biden navigated the first major foreign policy crisis of his presidency is based on conversations with 10 administration officials and others with knowledge of the strategy.
'A lousy hand of cards'
A senior administration official said the U.S. is "optimistic" that the cease-fire will hold while acknowledging that it's a fragile peace that will require continued engagement by the administration and countries in the region, particularly Egypt, to maintain.
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A source familiar with the discussions and a senior administration official said no conditions were attached to the cease-fire. But even before Israel and Hamas agreed to a cease-fire, administration officials had been discussing what type of aid the U.S. would provide to help rebuild Gaza and offer humanitarian relief. Biden is also expected to soon announce his nominee to be the U.S. ambassador to Israel. And Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected to travel to the region next week.
Early in the conflict, the White House and the State Department privately conveyed to the Israelis that Biden wanted a swift end to the violence. Administration officials feared a long fight, and some were concerned that the Israelis would follow through with threats of a ground invasion into Gaza.
Biden's national security team told the Israelis he wouldn't accept a scenario like the 2014 conflict, which lasted 51 days and left 2,000 Palestinians dead.
Multiple administration officials said the president's position was a result of "lessons learned" from the Obama administration's approach to the 2014 violence between Israel and Hamas. In particular, they cited the Biden team's engagement of countries in the region as "very different" from 2014 and ultimately effective.
Biden never publicly demanded that Israel agree to a cease-fire through 11 days of fighting when more than 200 people were killed, the overwhelming majority of them Palestinians. It was a calculated decision.
Instead, the White House issued a written statement Monday saying Biden supported a cease-fire. And Wednesday, in another written statement, the White House said he conveyed to Netanyahu "that he expected a significant de-escalation today on the path to a ceasefire."
But that was the harshest language toward Israel ever attributed to Biden during the crisis.
Even when some administration officials had concerns about the credibility of intelligence Israel presented to the U.S., which it said detailed Hamas' underground tunnel system in Gaza and how the militant group embedded in buildings it has targeted, according to two people familiar with the matter, the administration tried to delicately navigate that view in public.
"It's a lousy hand of cards, but the Biden team has played it as best they can," a person close to the White House said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/abraham-accords-israel-palestinian-gaza/2021/05/14/60798bb2-b405-11eb-bc96-fdf55de43bef_story.html
After the shooting war over Gaza wound down early Friday, it seems that the Israelis and Palestinians may be poised to return to their fragile, if febrile, status quo. Israeli officials are already claiming their military objectives were met after close to two weeks of relentless bombardment of the blockaded Gaza Strip. The Islamist group Hamas, which fired more than 4,300 rockets into Israeli territory from its bastion in Gaza, also declared a kind of victory. It is likely to emerge from the fighting as it has after previous rounds, battered but unbowed, and perhaps boosted in the eyes of some of its brethren for having confronted an Israeli state that maintains an unflinching occupation over millions of Palestinians. Never mind the hundreds of Palestinians and dozen people in Israel who lost their lives in the process.
Yet to many analysts and close observers of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, there may be no going back to the way things once were. The intensity of this latest round of violence took both the Israeli government and the Biden administration by surprise. It should not have.
More to come
The coals were stoked away from Gaza, by the provocations of Israeli police and emboldened Jewish far-right vigilantes marching through Jerusalem. Palestinian protests against planned evictions in the contested holy city and the clashes that ensued all came to a head when Israeli security forces decided to storm al-Aqsa Mosque. Hamas then saw an opportunity to don the mantle of the defender of the third-holiest site in Islam as well as broader Palestinian claims to Jerusalem, and launched its attacks. The resulting war sprawled across the land between the river and the sea, with clashes in the West Bank as well as between Arab and Jewish Israelis in cities inside Israel’s 1967
Israel, Hamas agree to cease-fire amid global pressure
Israel and Hamas on May 20 announced a cease-fire to end a bruising 11-day war across the Gaza Strip. (Reuters)
The explosion of tensions exposed the internal dysfunctions among both the Israeli and Palestinian political camps. For the former, two years of ceaseless electioneering and the failure to form a stable ruling coalition either with or without Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu weakened governance and has brought far-right groups once considered too extremist into the political mainstream. For the latter, a crisis of legitimacy facing the beleaguered Palestinian Authority and its aging President Mahmoud Abbas has only intensified. Hamas’s renewed militancy followed a decision by Abbas to scrap the first planned Palestinian elections after more than a decade and a half.
Palestinians themselves are trying to make that last point clear. A mass general strike this week saw the joint participation of Arab Israelis — almost all of whom see themselves as Palestinians — and Palestinians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza. Analysts of the Palestinian scene see the glimmers of a new era of mobilization.
“First, the quiescence of the Palestinian people — accused, often most forcefully from within their own communities, of apathy and indifference — never amounted to acceptance of defeat. They have shown that Israel cannot persist in its policies without paying a price,” wrote Tareq Baconi in the London Review of Books. “Second, regardless of whether a broader movement emerges out of the current moment, the collective eruption across historical Palestine shows that the Palestinians remain a people, despite the false hope of partition, the all-too-real separation of their territories, and the deep fragmentation of their political and social
“For years, Israelis have made peace with the notion that they can manage, however brutally, their relationship with Palestinians instead of resolving it,” wrote Yousef Munayyer in the New York Times. “This has been aided by a process of walling off the ugliness of their rule: Gaza, caged and besieged, might as well have been on a different planet; Israelis could drive throughout the West Bank practically uninterrupted by the sight of Palestinians; Palestinian citizens of Israel have largely been relegated to neglected, concentrated areas.”
But, Munayyer added, the unrest and mass protests have confronted Israelis with a new reality: “Palestine is not ‘over there’ but is everywhere around them.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/05/21/israel-palestinians-future/
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The rumors are true. UFOs are invading Washington.
by Hayes Brown
Former President Barack Obama raised a lot of eyebrows earlier this week when he all but admit that UFOs are real when appearing on a late night talk show. That's after the Navy confirmed that video of a weird...thing off the California coast is legit. There's a lot of reason for the Scullys of the world to be skeptical, Hayes Brown writes. "But now that I’m older, I find myself understanding Mulder a little better, with his belief in things unknown."
"And like the poster in his FBI office read, 'I want to believe.' I just need the evidence to be able to do so," Brown writes.
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RRB, Roger got a Map ready class yesterday. The class was Instructed by Cali.
Alky, you seem to be working very hard to convince us you're on the side of the terrorists.
We heard you the first time and we get it...
...You love dead Joos.
Blogger KansasDemocrat said...
RRB, Roger got a Map ready class yesterday. The class was Instructed by Cali.
Yeah, the draft-dodging milk cattle rancher can never admit when he's wrong.
Especially when he's galactically, stupendously, pathetically WRONG.
What we witnessed yesterday was emblematic of the alky's entire life encapsulated in a handful of posts. An epic fail at every single level of human existence.
Newly Published Video Shows Louisiana Troopers Stun, Drag, Hit Black Man Who Died After Traffic StopFBI, Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division have opened criminal investigation into 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene
This image published by the Associated Press that it says is from police body-camera footage shows Ronald Greene during a traffic stop outside Monroe, La., in 2019.PHOTO: LOUISIANA STATE POLICE/ASSOCIATED PRESS
By
Scott Calvert
and
Jon Kamp
May 20, 2021 10:09 pm
Louisiana state troopers are seen repeatedly using their stun guns before dragging a Black man and hitting him during a 2019 traffic stop after which he died, according to footage published this week by the Associated Press that it said was from a police body camera.
The arrest, which occurred outside Monroe, La., is the subject of a criminal investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, according to a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney’s office in Shreveport, La., whose prosecutors are also assisting with the probe.
In the footage published by the AP, Ronald Greene appears to be jolted numerous times with a stun gun and dragged from his car, as he screams and moans, repeatedly saying, “I’m scared” and “I’m sorry.” At one point, he says, “I’m your brother.”
While Mr. Greene is faced down on the ground with his hands cuffed and feet in shackles, a white trooper has his foot on Mr. Greene’s backside.
In many parts of the video, Mr. Greene isn’t on screen and the audio is choppy or off, making it hard to follow exactly what is happening. The AP said it obtained 46 minutes of video. The Wall Street Journal couldn’t independently confirm the provenance of the video.
Capt. Nick Manale, a spokesman for the Louisiana State Police, said the investigation into Mr. Greene’s death remains under review by federal and state authorities. “The premature public release of investigative files and video evidence in this case is not authorized and was not obtained through official sources. LSP is confident in the judicial system and fair review of this incident and continues to offer our full cooperation,” he said in a statement.
LMAO:
7 nooses found at Amazon construction site in Connecticut in past month
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/7-nooses-found-amazon-construction-020335316.html
This story collapses under the weight of it's own hoax in 5, 4, 3, 2...
Black LIES matter.
LOL.
"What we witnessed yesterday was emblematic of the alky's entire life encapsulated in a handful of posts. An epic fail at every single level of human existence" RRB
exactly,,,,,, he is too sick to leave the home.
Today he will be again be spectacularly wrong, just wait for it.
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They're coming to take him away !!!
Just a matter of time
Between the unrelenting love of Goddard, the bleating of VERY lo iq and the gibberish of alky they might soon have a common destiny
in a room
with white walls
VF Corp (VFC) – The company behind apparel brands like The North Face, Timberland and Vans posted a mixed quarter, beating top line estimates but reporting lower-than-expected per-share profit. VF said the majority of its supply chain is operational, although it has seen isolated product delays. VF shares tumbled 6% in the premarket.
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Thanks for the head-up alky, but not sure why you thought this was important in this thread?
Roger Amick said...
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A former federal prosecutor
The announcement by New York Attorney General Letitia James that her office is “actively investigating the Trump Organization in a criminal capacity” was greeted with a wave of nearly unanimous snap analysis that this spelled big trouble for former President Donald Trump and his company. But behind the scenes, many lawyers, including experienced prosecutors in New York, expressed confusion about what the move actually signifies.
It turns out that James’ unusual public statement portends bad news for Trump and his family-run operation but not for the reason you likely suspect.
The attorney general’s spokesperson noted that the AG was investigating “along with the Manhattan D.A.,” whose office has been conducting for some time a criminal investigation into whether Trump’s company inflated the value of its properties to obtain loans and lowered the values to limit its tax burden. Rather than a new, independent investigation into similar matters, the announcement was more of a combining of resources. Members of the AG’s staff have been named as “special assistant district attorneys” and will be working as part of District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.’s team. For that reason, it might have been more accurate to say that her team is assisting the DA’s already underway investigation.
This announcement was not merely stylistic, however. It represents a serious commitment by James to go all-in on the DA’s criminal investigation. James is a politician who holds elective office, and her high-profile announcement ensures that she will share in the credit or the blame for the outcome of this investigation.
James didn’t have to take this step. Her office could have continued to conduct a strictly civil investigation and brought a tax case or potentially even a case centered around violations of the Martin Act, the expansive New York securities statute that also covers real estate. A veteran of James’ office told me that any false statement in the offering terms or about the entity offering to sell interest in condominiums, for example, could serve as the basis for a Martin Act case. A civil case based on those false statements would not require proof that the false statements were deliberate.
Proving a criminal case is much more challenging. To secure a criminal fraud conviction, prosecutors must prove that the defendant had the intent to defraud. In other words, they have to prove that the defendant intended to tell those lies in order to trick people out of their money. It is never easy to prove what was going on inside the defendant’s mind. The fact that James was willing to stick her neck out and join the criminal investigation in a very public way suggests to me that her team believes the DA’s criminal prosecution will ultimately achieve some measure of success.
He will spend his life wearing an orange jacket with NY Prison label.
"If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor" Obama
any false statement in the offering terms could serve as the basis for a Martin Act case. A civil case based on those false statements would not require proof that the false statements were deliberate.
Very similar
LOCK HIM UP
ROFLMFAO !!!
TDS
That white room can't come soon enough
Palo Alto Networks Inc
NYSE: PANW
Down $30 this year.
Alky , more and more I believe you were never scammed out of any money.
You much more likely made piss poor stock buying choices
President Biden on Thursday pounded his podium as he decried crimes targeting Asian Americans before signing a hate-crimes bill crafted in response to a reported rise in violence against Asian Americans during the coronavirus pandemic.
Biden and fellow Democrats have contended the rise is linked to former President Donald Trump's branding of COVID-19 as the "China virus." The bill gained momentum after the shooting of eight massage-parlor workers in Atlanta, six of whom were
But crime data and the many incidents captured on closed-circuit cameras or by bystanders tell a story that establishment media and politicians are unwilling to confront: Most of the perpetrators are not Trump-supporting white supremacists. They are black people who, some sociologists argue, are part of the legacy of Congress trying to make amends for the monstrous sins of slavery and segregation through massive welfare programs that have produced fatherless families.
Biden called the history of mistreatment against the "AAPI community" – Asian American and Pacific Islander – "un-American."
"Silence is complicity. And we cannot be complicit. We have to speak out. We have to act," he said.
"That's what you've done," he said, addressing members of Congress. "And I can't thank you enough. I'm
The legislation aims to expedite the review of hate crimes believed to be related to the pandemic and grant federal funds to local law enforcement to improve reporting of bias-driven incidents. The Justice Department is to designate a point person to assist with the expedited review of COVID-19 hate crimes and expand "linguistically appropriate" public education campaigns.
The House passed the bill Tuesday 364-62 after the Senate passed it last month, 94-1. The only senator opposed to the bill was Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., who explained he regarded it as a threat to free speech. He said it "turns the federal government into the speech police – gives government sweeping authority to decide what counts as offensive speech and then monitor it." In a previous statement, he said that "as a former prosecutor, my view is it's dangerous to simply give the federal government open-ended authority to define a whole new class of federal hate crime incidents."
Is Biden ignoring the true cause of hate crimes against
The bill also drew opposition from 85 organizations that range from promoters of civil rights to gay rights, including the nonprofit 18 Million Rising and the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance, NBC News reported.
In a joint statement, the organizations said that, among other things, the bill "doesn't address the reality that, at least in New York City, many of the attacks involve people who do have mental health issues, who are poor, potentially homeless ... we have to address inequality in our society."
The bill's sponsor, Sen.Slanteyed Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, said the legislation was of major importance to Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders "who have often felt very invisible in our country, always seen as foreign, always seen as the other." In the House, Rep. Grace Meng, D-N.Y., of New York said that for "more than a year, Asian Americans all across our nation have been screaming out for help."
See Biden's remarks:
An African American Twitter user feared the bill "will be used specifically against Black
"Any disagreement or any retaliation in self-defense against an Asian will be labeled a hate crime," he wrote.
The problem isn't new, and neither is the media's unwillingness to tell the truth.
In 2010, a San Francisco Chronicle columnist cited a "community organizer" who acknowledged "San Francisco's dirty secret" that Asian residents were being targeted for robberies, burglaries and intimidation by young black men.
The community organizer, Carol Mo, participated in a 2008 survey by the San Francisco Police Department analyzing 300 strong-arm robberies that found, she said, "85 percent of the physical assault crimes, the victims were Asian and the perpetrators were African American."
The columnist, C.W. Nevius, reported hundreds of people marched into a Board of Supervisors meeting "to express their fear, frustration and outrage." But officials seemed "intent on downplaying the role of race and its impact in the community."
"The recent incidents of black violence against Asians is the perfect opportunity to open a dialogue about racism," he wrote. "Instead, they are attempting to close the door."
Nevius said "no one is saying the entire African American community is violent."
"But ignoring the legitimate anger and frustration from Asians is disingenuous and unfair."
'Simply are afraid'
Earlier this month, an Asian-American writer and policy expert urged role models such as President Obama and black pastors to denounce the wave of black-on-Asian violence in America.
Ying Ma, the author of "Chinese Girl in the Ghetto," says leaders "simply are afraid to utter the word 'black."
"What we need in this country is an uncomfortable but honest conversation about the prevelance of black crime in general and black-on-Asian violence in particular," she said in an interview Wednesday night with Fox News' Tucker Carlson.
Ma, whose book tells her story of moving from post-Mao China to an inner-city neighborhood in Oakland, said she was "a big fan of President Obama when he bluntly talked about fatherless black households back in
"That took courage, and that took honesty and leadership, and I do hope that he will display the same kind of courage and leadership on this particular issue," she said.
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Thanks for the head-up alky, but not sure why you thought this was important in this thread?"
So he can look spectacularly wrong and foolish. Two of his named stocks lose investors money.
Re 8:12
find the video of this black man's death at the hands of police
This happened BEFORE the George Floyd death. I suppose Ch/Scottie will explain it all away too.
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It was nothing more than a traffic accident that killed him, police reported. Then why were two taser attachments still stuck in his back? the examining physician wondered.
Louisiana police were extremely slow in releasing the body cam video.
I found ANOTHER case of a "man of the cloth" being a pedophile
In fact dozens and dozens now
CASE CLOSED on the "pastor" !!!
by his own logic
"If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor" Obama
2013 LIE OF THE YEAR.
LOL
Kamala Harris can't keep staff
By Monica Showalter
Steven Hayward at Power Line has a prescient observation about the unflattering exposé of Kamala Harris that ran in The Atlantic two days ago
full article: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/05/kamala_harris_cant_keep_staff.html
looks like a lot of people other than Obama are unhappy with Harris
Mike Pompeo
https://twitter.com/mikepompeo/status/1395359503302922243
Over a year ago, I told @MarthaRaddatz that the Wuhan Virus most likely came from a lab leak. She stopped just short of offering me a tin hat. The CCP said I was an enemy of mankind.
And now? Well, now, the Left wing media is scrambling to get on the side of the truth.
People were banned from social media for telling the truth
Disagreement is "misinformation"
The state knows best
The deep state at least
1984
Everything old is new again -
Under the Camp David Accords, brokered by President Jimmy Carter, Israel returned to Egypt the Sinai Peninsula, occupied during the 1967 war. Begin and Anwar Sadat were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1978. On June 22, 1982, while Israel was tangling with the PLO in Lebanon, Menachem Begin appeared in a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing. Sen. Biden told Begin that if Israel did not immediately cease building settlements in Judea and Samaria, the United States would cut off economic aid to Israel.
“Don’t threaten us with cutting off your aid. It will not work,” Begin responded. “I am not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a proud Jew with 3,700 years of civilized history. Nobody came to our aid when we were dying in the gas chambers and ovens. Nobody came to our aid when we were striving to create our country. We paid for it. We fought for it. We died for it. We will stand by our principles. We will defend them. And, when necessary, we will die for them again, with or without your aid.”
Biden then raised his voice at Begin and banged twice on the table.
“This desk is designed for writing, not for fists.” Begin said. “Don’t threaten us with slashing aid. Do you think that because the US lends us money it is entitled to impose on us what we must do? We are grateful for the assistance we have received, but we are not to be threatened. I am a proud Jew. Three thousand years of culture are behind me, and you will not frighten me with threats. Take note: we do not want a single soldier of yours to die for us.”
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/05/bidens-begin-back-story-lloyd-billingsley/
"If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor" Obama
LIE OF THE YEAR.
"...in a few days it will go down to near zero" Trump
LIE OF MANY YEARS
My Abraham Accords post seems to have triggered the three stooges here. 17 of the next 18 posts were by them. Lol.
Yes, it was fun showing how stupid the Abraham Accords have turned out. Thanks.
BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! Front Page magazine another POS with less credibility than rat the dumb fuck!!!!!!!
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Why is rat stuck in his never world of dumbness... No wonder why this country is in such deep shit and no one cares!!!!!!!
Rat's 9:22 sounds a little biased.
Oh, I see. It's from Frontpage online Mag which according to Wiki:
"...has been described by scholars and writers as right-wing, far-right, and Islamophobic.
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Just the kind of reading rat loves.
Wow. Bwaaa was even rougher on Frontpage than my Wiki quote.
Stupid?? Peace agreements in the mid east stupid?? Good grief. I'm speechless at your utterly assinine statement.
d the three stooges here. 17 of the next 18 posts were by them. Lol.
BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!! And you counted them while still not providing a single example of them working.....Dumb fuck ballz just opines without a basis of relliaty.....!!!!!!
Yes ballz.....the abraham accords are about as useless as your opinions......BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
Myballs said...
My Abraham Accords post seems to have triggered the three stooges here. 17 of the next 18 posts were by them. Lol.
Yep, they should get a room
with white walls
sooner rather than later
They are all in this together
ROFLMFAO !!!
The thief once again chimes in with more nothingness~!!!!!!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!!!! The rampant stupidity of the GOP on full display for all to laugh at!!!!!!! Keep slurping.....your really are good at it!!!!!
A cease-fire took effect between Israel and Hamas hours after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Security Cabinet approved a unilateral halt to an 11-day military operation in the Gaza Strip.
So it wasn’t the West Bank as you claimed yesterday, eh Alky?
JamesNewLeaf's Fucking Daddy said...
Jack Posobiec
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1395885765905686529
Palestinian rioters set a Jewish man on fire on the street in NYC and it barely registered in the mainstream media
This happened yesterday
It's happening again
May 22, 2021 at 8:58 AM
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JamesNewLeaf said...
I didn't know there were Palestinians in NYC. I thought they were in Israel.
Let's see proof that Palestinians set a Jewish man afire in NYC.
I'm not saying it didn't happen. I'm just saying I see no claim it happened except in one tweet made fourteen hours ago followed by no comments.
May 22, 2021 at 9:14 AM
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JamesNewLeaf said...
STILL WAITING FOR PROOF.
May 22, 2021 at 9:27 AM Delete
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JamesNewLeaf said...
It was F'n Daddy who made the claim.
Pedo I’m still waiting on you to prove Trump would’ve left our Afghan allies behind to be slaughtered, been a week
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