62-Year-Old Man Arrested For Spray-Painting ‘NO MORE CHINESE’ All Over Bayview: SFist

The SFPD is thanking the public for their help after an arrest was made Tuesday in a vandalism case that is being considered a hate crime. 62-year-old John Schenone of San Francisco has been charged with five counts of felony vandalism and five counts of felony hate crime after it is believed he’s the person responsible for spray-painting the words ‘NO MORE CHINESE’ in multiple locations Monday in the Portola and Bayview districts.

Source: 62-Year-Old Man Arrested For Spray-Painting ‘NO MORE CHINESE’ All Over Bayview: SFist

What Donald Trump learned from his German grandpa Friedrich Drumpf | World | DW.COM | 09.09.2015

 whether on purpose or not, he had managed to miss military service – when he left he was too young and after he came back he was just a couple of months too old, which he said was absolutely coincidental. Gwenda Blair wrote two books about Trump and his familyGerman authorities however thought this was not coincidental at all and refused to let him repatriate. They said he was a draft-dodger, expelled and deported him to the place he came from – the United States – which is how the Trumps ended up as Americans after all instead of simply being a family in Germany that had a grandfather who had spent some years in the United States.

Source: What Donald Trump learned from his German grandpa Friedrich Drumpf | World | DW.COM | 09.09.2015

European Official Calls for Continent to Take In 160,000 Migrants – The New York Times

The European Union’s top executive proposed a plan on Wednesday to distribute 160,000 people throughout the member nations, even while acknowledging that the plan was inadequate to the depth of the crisis.Citing history, morality and economics, the official, Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission, urged the bloc to put aside deep divisions over welcoming refugees from war-torn and poverty-stricken nations in the Middle East and Africa and forge a stronger and more unified response.

Source: European Official Calls for Continent to Take In 160,000 Migrants – The New York Times

(This is some sort of bad joke? Little Lebanon has taken in more refugees. They are not migrants – they are refugees. More people than this move back and forth within Europe Union each year. Spin, bad spin.)

Gaza sandstorm compounds Palestinian boy’s housing woes

A Palestinian boy lies on a mattress in what is left of his family’s home, which witnesses told Reuters was destroyed by Israeli shelling during the 50-day war in 2014.His housing problems have been compounded by a sandstorm that has swept Gaza and parts of the Middle East, killing two people and hospitalising hundreds.

Source: Gaza sandstorm compounds Palestinian boy’s housing woes

Female PKK fighters are also present in the combat line against ISIS in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk. Credit: Karlos Zurutuza/IPS

IPS Inter Press Service posted a photo:

Female PKK fighters are also present in the combat line against ISIS in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk. Credit: Karlos Zurutuza/IPS

In and Behind the Trenches Against ISIS
By Karlos Zurutuza

KIRKUK, Iraq, September 9, 2015 (IPS)—

Reminders of the last occupants of camp K1 in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk are only visible on the murals at the main gate leading into the compound: Iraqi soldiers saluting the flag, pointing their weapons or being cheered on by grateful families.

US Open tennis 2015

The US Open started August 31 and concludes this weekend in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. It is the fourth and final tennis competition that comprises the Grand Slam, in which Serena Williams has a chance to earn this calendar year. It would be the first time in 27 years this feat was accomplished for a singles player.

By Leanne Burden Seidel
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Serena Williams of the United States celebrates after defeating Venus Williams of the United States in their Women’s Singles Quarterfinals match on Day Nine of the 2015 U.S. Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on Sept. 8, in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City.
(Mike Stobe/Getty Images for the USTA)