Last week, GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump told Yahoo News that he would not rule out “a form of special identification” for Muslims “that noted their religion”—a recommendation that has drawn more than a few comparisons to Nazi Germany. Hours later, Sergeant Tayyib Rashid, a retired Marine from Chicago, posted his response on Twitter:
Source: This Muslim Marine Has the Perfect Response to Donald Trump | GOOD
(Reuters) – A Wisconsin law requiring doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital is unconstitutional, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Monday, addressing a topic the U.S. Supreme Court is considering during its current term.
Donald Trump touted the benefits of waterboarding in a campaign rally on Monday night, telling a crowd that “you bet your ass” he would bring it back into use.Addressing thousands of people in Columbus, Ohio, the Republican frontrunner praised waterboarding, an interrogation method that has been called torture. “I would approve more than that,” he said.Trump told supporters: “Would I approve waterboarding? You bet your ass I would. In a heartbeat. I would approve more than that. It works.”The Republican frontrunner then added “… and if it doesn’t work, they deserve it anyway for what they do to us”.Trump is not the first Republican candidate to endorse the use of waterboarding, which involves simulating drowning, in an attempt to elicit information from terror suspects.
Source: Donald Trump on waterboarding: ‘Even if it doesn’t work they deserve it’ | US news | The Guardian
My soul is tired and aged,
Struggling without gain,
In limbo.
SometimesI break down into a hundred pieces,
Only to come together once again.
Sometimes
I don’t know where I am—
Here, there, everywhere, nowhere…
Sometimes
While out searching myself,
In the chaos of my mind,
I sink into the ocean of thoughts;
Mixed up with present, past, and future,
A question reflecting in my ear:
Who am I, who am I?
But I am nothing more than a picture of black and white.
Uncertain, confused, and lifeless—without light.
By Farida
Source: Afghan Women’s Writing Project | Picture of Black and White
Blue Shield of California accounted for nearly 30 percent of what some call “excess profits” nationally from Obamacare exchanges, according to Nov.19 report by the federal government. It reported nearly $107 million in excess profits, out of a national total of $362 million.
Those figures relate to individual coverage on Covered California and other Affordable Care Act exchanges nationwide.
San Franicsco-based Blue Shield tallied the most excess profits of the 319 insurers included in the report…
The iconic department store Kaufhaus des Westens in Berlin – known as KaDeWe – announced that eight Israeli wines it had removed from its shelves would be sold after all.KaDeWe said that the wines had been temporarily removed so the importer could relabel them in accordance with new European Union rules that require products from Israeli settlements in the West Bank to be labeled as such.
Source: Israeli settlement wines back on Berlin store shelves | News | DW.COM | 23.11.2015
Prime Minister David Cameron said on Monday that he would address parliament on Thursday to urge MPs to back strikes against the self-styled “Islamic State” (IS) militants in Syria.”On Thursday I will come to this house to make a statement” on the air campaign, Cameron said, having flown back to London from an earlier meeting with President Francois Hollande in Paris.The announcement came as the British government pledged an increase in the country’s military spending.Writing in Monday’s “Daily Telegraph” newspaper, the prime minister said: “As the murders on the streets of Paris reminded us so starkly, Islamic State is not some remote problem thousands of miles away; it is a direct threat to our security.”
Source: Cameron calls for UK to join airstrikes in Syria | News | DW.COM | 23.11.2015
Tech giant Yahoo has elicited ire from some of its American users after they found they could not access their email accounts. The company was reportedly testing a new feature barring users who have ‘ad block’ software.
Source: Yahoo shuts out email users who block ads | News | DW.COM | 23.11.2015
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has warned that heavy rains, flooding and a spike in new arrivals could threaten the lives of over 110,000 Burundian refugees living in overcrowded camps in Tanzania.An upsurge of new arrivals in the camps in April saw the figures rise to almost 180,000 Burundian and Congolese refugees in Tanzania. The violence in Burundi sparked by President Pierre Nkurunziza’s bid for a third term has claimed at least 240 lives and sent more than 200,000 Burundian fleeing to neighboring countries.
A north Queensland woman is recovering in hospital after being bitten by a deadly red-bellied black snake that was hiding under a garden hose.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-24/woman-bitten-red-belly-black-snake-near-mackay/6967922
Culture War is Class War disguised. The Wealthy Elite--the "Filthy Rich"--foment Culture War in society to distract and cover their real economic motives. Culture War, Class War explores the resulting cultural divide--how it was instigated and kept alive for fifty years in America by certain elite powers and how and why they choose to benefit while tearing families in two and keeping America paralyzed.
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