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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Man packing gun at council meeting says he sought to unnerve people | Local News | santafenewmexican.com

Roger Rael, who said he is considering a run for City Council in District 1 in the March election, said his goal in carrying the gun was to unnerve people at the City Council meeting Wednesday night because he wanted to keep city government “on their toes.”

Source: Man packing gun at council meeting says he sought to unnerve people | Local News | santafenewmexican.com

The Look On Nikki Haley’s Face Was Priceless When She Realized Trump Suggested Invading Venezuela

Trump is winging it as president. Send the military to Venezuela? Sure, why not?His own administration has no idea what’s going on. The look on Nikki Haley’s face said it all. Trump is ruling by whim, and his whims are endangering the American people by making policy commitments that not even the military knows anything about.

Source: The Look On Nikki Haley’s Face Was Priceless When She Realized Trump Suggested Invading Venezuela

Trump thanks Putin: Darcy cartoon | cleveland.com

President Donald Trump now says he was being sarcastic when he thanked Vladimir Putin for expelling U.S. diplomats from Russia in retaliation for U.S. sanctions.   At the time he had made the comment, it was hard to tell if he was joking, which was just one of the problems with his comment.

Source: Trump thanks Putin: Darcy cartoon | cleveland.com

Charlottesville: far-right crowd with torches encircles counter-protest group | World news | The Guardian

West said: “The crypto-fascists, the neofascists, the neo-Nazis now feel so empowered, not just by Trump but by the whole shift in the nation towards scapegoats. “I don’t like this talk about ‘alt-right’, that’s an unnecessary abstraction. These are neofascists in contemporary garb.”

Source: Charlottesville: far-right crowd with torches encircles counter-protest group | World news | The Guardian

eSports are real sports. It’s time for the Olympic video games | Tauriq Moosa | Opinion | The Guardian – “and we need Olympic Chess, Go, Checkers, hula hoops, skateboarding, Horseshoes, Corn Hole, Kickball… not!”

We expect these people to perform great feats of physicality better than the rest of us. That is why so many are scornful of the notion that competitive video gaming, or eSports as it’s come to be known, should stand alongside other Olympic sports. But this requires rethinking.

Source: eSports are real sports. It’s time for the Olympic video games | Tauriq Moosa | Opinion | The Guardian

Mahmoud Abbas decrees sweeping internet speech restrictions | The Electronic Intifada – Anyone for Palestinian freedom?

PA crackdown on journalistsBoth Israel and the Palestinian Authority, which work together closely to control the Palestinian population under military occupation, already jail Palestinians for their postings on social media.The decree’s enactment comes as the PA oversees a wave of press violations including arrests for statements made on social media.At the beginning of June, the Palestinian Authority arrested 23-year-old Nassar Jaradat for posting on his Facebook page a call for a “people’s revolution” against the Fatah leadership – Abbas’ political faction.This week, PA intelligence agencies in the occupied West Bank arrested four journalists from several local outlets, accusing them of “leaking sensitive information.”

Source: Mahmoud Abbas decrees sweeping internet speech restrictions | The Electronic Intifada

The U.S.-North Korean war of words – where will it end? Editorial Board Roundtable | cleveland.com

What are America’s best options in the face of accelerating North Korean missile and nuclear capability? Is America readying a first strike? Our editorial board roundtable takes up these questions and looks for readers’ thoughts in the comments.

Me: I ask you to speak for calm and diplomacy and a shut down of bully boy bravado from us and the Koreans. Bullies care more about themselves than the thousand or perhaps millions of innocents who could die because they miscalculated.

Source: The U.S.-North Korean war of words – where will it end? Editorial Board Roundtable | cleveland.com

Chinese tourist awarded $461,000 for brutal beating she received at hands of US border agent: Shanghaiist “Smug racist keeps his job because other racists will not find a fellow racist guilty of being a racist.”

While Rodes was initially fired and charged following the incident. He was acquitted the next year and eventually reinstated to his old job.

Source: Chinese tourist awarded $461,000 for brutal beating she received at hands of US border agent: Shanghaiist

Demolishing souls

Damn!

نادية حرحش

I started my day this morning seeing my father’s garage in the photos on Facebook in one of the pages that bring about the news of the neighborhood.
Of course, there was no surprise. We live in a situation where we wake up to news of close people jailed or injured or killed. Demolitions are just another daily practice of an occupation.
I found myself calling my father, and I just wanted to know that he was okay. He has been battling against the demolition order for years now, firmly believing that they cannot demolish it, for two simple reasons, that he bought this land more than thirty years ago with the two rooms with no cement ceiling there , and he was using it more as his office to receive the taxi drivers and fix his cars . And he insists: ” I WILL NEVER DEMOLISH MY PROPERTY WITH…

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