Category Archives: Fail!

Donald Trump on waterboarding: ‘Even if it doesn’t work they deserve it’ | US news | The Guardian

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

Israeli settlement wines back on Berlin store shelves | News | DW.COM | 23.11.2015

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

Cameron calls for UK to join airstrikes in Syria | News | DW.COM | 23.11.2015 AKA: Cameron lusts for bloodsport to show manliness?

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

We Found Where Donald Trump’s “Black Crimes” Graphic Came From – Little Green Footballs

So there you have it. Donald Trump is posting racist imagery that comes directly from neo-Nazis.I hope you’re not surprised that a guy like Donald Trump, who continually spouts fascist rhetoric, is attracted to fascist memes posted by neo-Nazis. This is where the right wing has ended up in 2015.

Source: We Found Where Donald Trump’s “Black Crimes” Graphic Came From – Little Green Footballs

Nationalistic or Culture War Breeds More War…

According to the political scientist Ulrike Guérot at the European Democracy Lab, the West’s double standards contribute ultimately even to the reinforcement of IS. “The talk of ‘defending our values'” in the “war on terror,” merely steadies “the stirrups, for, first, an exorbitant buildup of police and security measures throughout Europe,” and “second, for an exorbitant military buildup, for which more finances can be mobilized at the bat of an eyelash, than we would have been ready to spend on the refugees.” “The sorely felt discrepancy between our proclaimed values and reality is a breeding ground for IS,” explains Guérot. “We are certainly the rich, but, since quite some time, no longer the “good guys,” in the eyes of many. Some even see us as the barbarians.” “With each drone that fires a missile and bombards IS bases, IS will blow up our European cities and we will be even more terrified,” warns this former employee of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF), and the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR). “As long as we do not understand that each person’s life is just as precious, we will have lost the fight against IS already, even before it has really begun.”[6]

Source: www.german-foreign-policy.com

Experts Say the WHO’s Response to the Ebola Crisis Has Been a ‘Failure’ | TIME {Profit and Non-profits try to score points from tragedy}

{WHO answers to nations that budget it – Ebola stricken states pressured WHO to not push panic buttons to save their industries – Mistakes by many – not just WHO. Obscene how many institutions trying to profit from tragedy and errors.}

A panel of 19 experts brought together by the Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) on Sunday condemned the World Health Organization’s (WHO) response to the Ebola crisis, calling it an “egregious failure.”

Source: Experts Say the WHO’s Response to the Ebola Crisis Has Been a ‘Failure’ | TIME

Medecins Sans Frontieres hospital in Syria hit by airstrikes, organisation says – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

MSF said two people were killed and six injured when the makeshift facility was hit while several wounded were arriving for treatment.An attack was launched on Erbin, one of the besieged zones east of Damascus on Thursday afternoon local time, MSF said, during which two missiles exploded just outside the hospital.It follows a US air strike last month that “mistakenly struck” an MSF hospital in Afghanistan, killing 22 people.”MSF is appalled that again a health structure and staff are targeted after responding to provide life-saving treatment to wounded victims of an indiscriminate bombing campaign,” MSF director of operations Brice de le Vingne said.

Source: Medecins Sans Frontieres hospital in Syria hit by airstrikes, organisation says – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Trump Incites Supporters To Attack Black Protester | 3CHICSPOLITICO

A KKK Rally minus the white pointed hood with eyes holes.A Trump supporter is heard in the background encouraging violence yelling “beat his ass”. Shouts of white power, could be heard in audience all during speech.At a Birmingham, Alabama, rally for Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump on Saturday, a black protester was roughed up.The GOP frontrunner reiterated his call for the surveillance of “certain mosques” then spoke of the Syrian refugees who are fleeing from violence at the hands of ISIL.“I want surveillance. I will absolutely take (a) database on the people coming in from Syria,” Trump said, according to CNN. “If we can’t stop it — but we are going to if I win — they’re going back.”Then a fight broke out, because of course.Trump said, “Get him the hell out of here,” and the crowd took action.

Source: Trump Incites Supporters To Attack Black Protester | 3CHICSPOLITICO