sad addition to our racist history. A cemetery found on a construction site is believed to contain remains of African-Americans forced to work on plantations through the so-called convict lease system.
Monthly Archives: July 2018
Opinion | What Was Maria Butina Doing at the National Prayer Breakfast? – The New York Times
On Oct. 5, 2016, with one National Prayer Breakfast under her belt, Ms. Butina direct messaged a Russian official on Twitter: “We made our bet. I am following our game. I will be connecting the people from the prayer breakfast to this group.”
After the election, Ms. Butina informed someone the complaint called “U.S. person number one” that she would be bringing along some “VERY influential” Russians to the breakfast. After the event — which President Trump attended, just as previous presidents have — Ms. Butina emailed one of its organizers to thank him for “the gift” of his “precious time during the National Prayer Breakfast week — and for the very private meeting that followed. A new relationship between two countries always begins better when it begins in faith.”
Elon Musk Walks Back ‘Pedo Guy’ Attack on Cave Diver After Investor Pressure
He said it – no one forced him to be a bigoted fool – it cannot be walked back. Tesla and Musk’s time is up! The tech billionaire had faced mounting criticism for calling the British diver a pedophile after the man criticized Mr. Musk’s submarine.
Mark Zuckerberg Tries to Clarify Remarks About Holocaust Deniers After Outcry
Racism, hatred, fear, and fascism makes money for Facebook, so he tolerates it – period. He has also tolerated selling out his country to Russian trolls. He is a troll and traitor for cash. Facebook’s chief executive had said in an interview that false and “deeply offensive” conspiracy theories alone were not enough to get someone barred from the site.
America must deal with Donald Trump, the first rogue president | Simon Tisdall

His meeting with Vladimir Putin revealed the US leader to be a one-man threat to global peace and security
The contrast presented by Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin at their Helsinki press conference was striking. One should not judge a president by appearances, but in this case the comparison was instructive. Putin, immaculate in a beautifully tailored dark blue suit, looked sharp, cool and in control. Trump looked baggy, crumpled and out of his depth – at once baffled and sulky. This mismatch was the equivalent, in post-World Cup terms, of France v Corinthian-Casuals.
Trump was outshone, outmanoeuvred, out-thought and outwitted. Here was no Rocky Balboa, champion of the common man, running up the steps of Philadelphia’s Museum of Art: more a New York version of the ignorant, bigoted Alf Garnett, stumbling glass-jawed into a disastrous public drubbing. Trump had it coming, of course. He has been winging it ever since he took office 18 months ago. To go into a summit of such significance without preparation was the height of folly and vanity.
Zuckerberg defends Facebook users’ right to be wrong – even Holocaust deniers
So, Zuckerberg does not care if users of Facebook promotes hatred genocide for Jews, Gays, Roma, those disabled in some way? Fascist have already proved they cannot be tolerated or accommodated – there were more than 20 million deaths at the hands of German, Italian, and Japanese fascists – and over 50,000 Americans in the Pacific war. Your time is up Mr. Zuckergerg.

CEO explains decision not to censor conspiracy theories but says the platform will try to ‘reduce distribution of content’
Mark Zuckerberg defended the rights of Facebook users to publish Holocaust denial posts, saying he didn’t “think that they’re intentionally getting it wrong”.
In an interview with Recode published on Wednesday, the CEO also explained Facebook’s decision to allow the far-right conspiracy theory website Infowars to continue using the platform, saying the social network would try to “reduce the distribution of that content”, but would not censor the page.
Education in Jerusalem: Where are we heading?
If you mind is free, then those who believe they enslave you are the slaves – slaves to guarding and oppressing you instead of living themselves free lives.
As the Tawjihi ( official high school examination system) finished and results were out, a nightmare ended in the lives our students, and a horrific reality awaits them when we think of the situation of education in Palestine. An education institution that are actually to cope with the emerging changes and needs of the society , yet moving towards futuristic models and however still applying the same in futile methods of teaching and education , that only results in a purging situation of people with graduate studies and inefficiency when it comes to the demand and needs of the society and its market.
those lucky, can afford to leave to study abroad, which on a personal level I strongly recommend, in order to open new horizons to our youth beyond the life of checkpoints and restrictions that are lived here, starting with movement restrictions and ending with state-violence and violations that…
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Education in Jerusalem: Where are we heading?
As the Tawjihi ( official high school examination system) finished and results were out, a nightmare ended in the lives our students, and a horrific reality awaits them when we think of the situation of education in Palestine. An education institution that are actually to cope with the emerging changes and needs of the society , yet moving towards futuristic models and however still applying the same in futile methods of teaching and education , that only results in a purging situation of people with graduate studies and inefficiency when it comes to the demand and needs of the society and its market.
those lucky, can afford to leave to study abroad, which on a personal level I strongly recommend, in order to open new horizons to our youth beyond the life of checkpoints and restrictions that are lived here, starting with movement restrictions and ending with state-violence and violations that can finish in the loss of lives either by perishing in prisons or a grave.
In Jerusalem, things can be considered worse, because the PA does not fully rule Jerusalem, and the restrictions are not completely visible, and in comparison with the peers in the West Bank, it is more of a paradise.
The unfortunate situation in the PA, from corruption, the absence of good governance, lack of accountability, repression of freedoms, minimal incomes that could count to poverty, while having maximal profits that are way exaggerated. All these factors, in addition to a systematic Israelization to Jerusalem, made students in Jerusalem find it more convenient to study in Israeli universities.
It sounds blurry to see how much the Israeli government is investing in recruiting Palestinians to its universities. It reminds me of the time when Palestinians in Jerusalem were allowed to report living in the outskirts of Jerusalem to cut them off the private benefits a decade later.
Another thought popped to my head was my time, when almost three decades ago, we Palestinians where considered overseas students when the luxury of accepting them occurs.
The increasing numbers of schools that belong to the Israeli government, and the unprecedented amount of new private schools that are being authorized working for the system ( it is a fact that there is a severe deficiency of classrooms\schools for Palestinians in Jerusalem ), in a time that Israel is forbidding the Palestinian ministry of education to perform in Jerusalem, which increases the complexity and the difficulties on the education to the schools in Jerusalem.
Having students going to the bigrut exams ( the Israeli high school system) can be easily related to the frustration from the Tawjihi that continues to prove its inefficiency and its unneedy amount of pressure put on the students. However, at the same time, Israel is facilitating an easy escape through the Bigrut, and by allowing all those knew emerging educational centers and colleges.
What is striking now, is that reputable private schools in Jerusalem are promoting studying in Israeli institutions and universities, and entirely ignoring Palestinian universities in an attempt that makes Israeli options as the natural outcome of being a student in Jerusalem.
Could Israel suddenly turn into a beautiful, caring occupying state and put us in what may be called internalizing colonolization? I just invented this term.)
I wrote an article about fifteen years ago under the title of ” Not have they only occupied the land but the minds.” In that article, I was reflecting on an experience I encountered in the Vanleer Institue that hosted Arabs\PAlestinians (from Israel) in a seminar to discuss the education in the Arab society inside Israel. I was appalled then by the fact that everyone was considering the future of Arab culture in Hebrew by Arabs, to a group of many Arabs and Israeli hosts. Back then I felt grateful to the fact that we live under occupation, and that the best thing that happened to us in Jerusalem is that we remain Palestinians. The non-israelization of the education system was something that by all means saved our identities from being distorted and destroyed.
From that moment on, the systematic approach to Israelizing the Jerusalem schools was running like a machine. I really (naively) believed that it could not happen because we have a living experience to what happened to our people inside what became Israel. How they strive today to attach to their Palestinian identity and Palestinian hood politically and culturally.
Sadly, disappointingly, it all happened under our noses, and we were all watching, and in our maximum efforts we condemned, and now we reached a situation where it even sounds odd to raise awareness about the situation. I feel like someone from outer space. It is not only Israeli schools in Jerusalem that mobilize for higher education institutes in Israel but also private schools that are considered historically aligned with the threats of the Israelization of the Palestinian identity.
At the same time, I am not against studying in Israeli universities. After all, they offer an excellent education. However, my worries are about how and why our students are going there. In my old time of romantic aspirations, I seriously went to the Hebrew university believing that these people occupied my land, I will regain my rights by using them in benefiting from education that can build a better Palestinian quest. Back then I also believed that it was just a matter of months when Saddam Hussein takes back Palestine to the womb of the Arabs!!!
To where is all this leading us? I cannot have any hopeful answer anymore.
I don’t throw words when I say that I am the person who strives for peace. The peace I strive for is built on justice, and justice can never be achieved as we move from the situation of being oppressed under occupation to colonize under the rule. That internalization of occupation and colonolization is only suffocating what is left in any hope for justice… justice that can only be achieved through people who can carry on for the future, and the future cannot be built by a distorted education that defames identities.
Justice needs equality ….and equal Palestinians need a long way in reclaiming their freedom and maintaining their identities, and this needs outstanding education.
White House doesn’t rule out letting Russia interrogate U.S. citizens
Via aleksey godin – it is simple – Trump is a traitor to his nation and humanity.
During the first White House press briefing in more than two weeks, Press Secretary Sarah Sanders didn’t rule out the possibility that President Trump will allow the Putin regime to question U.S. citizens — including a former American ambassador — whom Putin has accused of being involved in crimes.
“Russian authorities yesterday named several Americans who they want to question whom they claim were involved in Bill Browder’s quote unquote crimes, in their terms, including former ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul,” Maggie Haberman of the New York Times began during Wednesday’s briefing. “Does President Trump support that idea? Is he open to having U.S. officials questioned by Russia?”
Sanders demurred.
“The president’s gonna meet with his team and we’ll let you know when we have an announcement on that,” she said.
Haberman followed up, asking whether allowing Russia to interrogate Americans was “a topic that came up” during Trump’s secret meeting in Helsinki with Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier this week.
Sanders confirmed it was.
“There was some conversation about it but there wasn’t a commitment made on behalf of the United States,” she said. “The president will work with his team and we’ll let you know if there’s an announcement on that front.”
During his joint press conference with Putin on Monday, Trump described a proposal from Putin to allow Americans to be involved in Russia’s questioning of Russian hackers charged with interfering in the 2016 presidential election, in exchange for Russian involvement in the investigations of Americans allegedly involved in unspecified crimes in Russia, as “an interesting idea.”
Later, Trump described idea as “incredible.”
“What he did is an incredible offer — he offered to have the people work on the case, come and work with their investigators with respect to the 12 people,” Trump said. “I think that’s an incredible offer.”
As Politico detailed, at one point during the presser, Putin “pointed specifically to the case of American Bill Browder, an investor whose anti-corruption attorney, Sergei Magnitsky, was arrested and detained in Moscow and died after being held without trial for almost a year.”
Despite Magnitsky’s reportedly violent death and the Putin regime’s alleged role in recent murders and attempted murders on foreign soil, Trump seems unconcerned about the prospect of letting Russia question U.S. citizens — including former government officials and investigators who are working to shed light on the Kremlin’s attack on American democracy.
During an interview with Sean Hannity following the news conference, Trump went even further and said he was “fascinated” by Putin’s proposal.
“I was fascinated by it,” Trump said. “His prosecutors would prosecute it, and he said that Robert Mueller’s people could go with them.”
Later, Trump said Putin is “willing to take those 12 people… willing to let Robert Mueller’s people go over there, and bring a big investigation of those people, working together with Russian investigators.”
The only reservation Trump expressed is that the “12 angry Democrats” on Mueller’s team “probably won’t want to” travel to Russia and work with Putin.
Since Mueller has already charged more than two dozen Russian government agents with crimes, and the U.S. government does not typically allow its ambassadors to be interrogated by foreign investigators, suffice it to say that Trump’s interest in Putin’s offer is highly unusual.
At other points during Wednesday’s briefing, Sanders was evasive when pressed about what agreements, if any, Trump and Putin reached during their secret meeting.
Sum summer time 🤗



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