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JVP just declared itself anti-Zionist and it’s already shifting the conversation | +972 Magazine
Jewish Voice for Peace director Rebecca Vilkomerson explains what it means for a Jewish group to be anti-Zionist in America today.
Source: JVP just declared itself anti-Zionist and it’s already shifting the conversation | +972 Magazine
Immigrants strengthen US more than burden it, say majority of Americans | Pew Research Center
The American public’s views of the impact immigrants have on the country remain largely positive – and deeply partisan.
Source: Immigrants strengthen US more than burden it, say majority of Americans | Pew Research Center
Experts Say Parents Who Don’t Vaccinate Kids Tend to Be Wealthy – “proves that educated, well heeled, white folks can be really stupid!”
On Tuesday, ABC News published a piece filled with interviews with immunology experts that affirms and reminds us of what has periodically been reported on over the last few years: rich people still tend to be less likely to vaccinate their kids.
Source: Experts Say Parents Who Don’t Vaccinate Kids Tend to Be Wealthy
Prominent Democrats Form Pro-Israel Group to Counter Skepticism on the Left – The New York Times – “The need is for balance to achieve peace, not one-sidedness.”
J Street donated just under $5 million to candidates in the 2018 election and Jeremy Ben-Ami, the group’s president, said they would at least match that in 2020. “The idea that the Democratic Party should just support the Netanyahu government, right or wrong, is out of line with where American Jews are at and where Jewish Democrats are at,” Mr. Ben-Ami said.
Genes linked to antibiotic-resistant superbugs found in Arctic | Society | The Guardian – Holy Crap!
Antibiotic resistance threatens a global “apocalypse”, England’s chief medical officer, Dame Sally Davies, has warned, and last week the health secretary, Matt Hancock, called it a bigger threat than climate change or warfare. Common operations could become life-threatening and rapidly spreading and evolving diseases could overcome our last medical defences, reversing nearly a century of remarkable progress in human health.
Source: Genes linked to antibiotic-resistant superbugs found in Arctic | Society | The Guardian
Covington Catholic School’s Not So “Christian” Values – LA Progressive
The students say they were under assault by a gang of “Black Hebrew Israelites.” The group is a well-established fringe religious movement, frequently engaged in street preaching around Washington D.C. Their preaching is frequently profane, but is not known for violence. The “gang” that assaulted the Covington Catholic School students numbered FOUR. There were a couple of others, filming the preaching, as the group does, for posting on Youtube. The Covington Catholic School students being “assaulted” numbered about 50. They were gathering at the Lincoln Memorial to get reloaded onto their school busses for the ride back to Kentucky, where the school is located. Yes, 50 active, healthy young men under deadly “assault” by 4 street preachers holding scriptures and religious signs.“” Additionally, the four Black Hebrew Israelite preachers were on the sidewalk, below the Covington Catholic School students standing on the steps leading up to the Lincoln Memorial. The Native American marchers were also down on the sidewalk level, below the students. Until the students descended the steps for the purpose of blocking the way where the elderly Native American was walking, they wer
Source: Covington Catholic School’s Not So “Christian” Values – LA Progressive
′Auschwitz did not begin in Auschwitz′ | Germany| News and in-depth reporting from Berlin and beyond | DW | 27.01.2019
Today’s world has grown sleepy, he says. “Many people these days seem to take democracy for granted. It’s like a comfort blanket that gives them a sense of peace and tranquility.” But that tranquility is deceptive, he warns: “Democracy is under attack.” Right-wing populists like the AfD politician Björn Höcke have a problem with Germany’s culture of remembrance. Höcke has described the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin as a “monument of shame.” For Heubner, it’s comments like these that are the source of shame. “This is disgraceful talk; unpatriotic, stupid. The German people have just regained their dignity through remembrance.”
Trump ordered 15,000 new border and immigration officers — but got thousands of vacancies instead – Los Angeles Times
In a sign of the difficulties, Customs and Border Protection allocated $60.7 million to Accenture Federal Services, a management consulting firm, as part of a $297-million contract to recruit, vet and hire 7,500 border officers over five years, but the company has produced only 33 new hires so far.
The PAC for Accenture Federal Services gave around $250,000 to 112 members of Congress in campaign donations 2015-2016. Pretty good investment return and insurance policy against not getting raked over coals for not fulfilling contract. And says a lot too for incompetence of the White House managers of the contract. $5+ billion demanded for a wall would produce a 2 or 3 miles of wall at this rate.
Ireland dismisses suggestion it should quit EU and join UK | Politics | The Guardian – This is how ignorant some Brits are to suggest Ireland would become a British slave again after fighting for 700 years to be free!
BBC’s John Humphrys criticised for putting ‘Brexit solution’ to Irish minister
Source: Ireland dismisses suggestion it should quit EU and join UK | Politics | The Guardian
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