Category Archives: Viva!

Mike Pence says NBA is ‘acting like a wholly owned subsidiary’ of China

What does this have to do with anything? Pence getting ready to replace Trump when Trump resigns or is tossed out?

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  • US vice president rips NBA and Nike in Thursday speech
  • Pence says league failed to adequately back Rockets GM

US vice-president Mike Pence accused the National Basketball Association of “acting like a wholly owned subsidiary” of China’s ruling Communist party for what he deemed the league’s failure to stand up for Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey, whose tweet in support of pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong caused an international rift.

Related: How the NBA’s rift with China laid bare the cost of free speech

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Republicans propose mass student surveillance plan to prevent shootings

Spy on everyone and give backdoor key to Russia!

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A new Senate bill would give a federally mandated boost to America’s growing school surveillance industry

Senate Republicans have a new plan for preventing mass shootings: require public schools to use surveillance technology to monitor students’ online behavior for signs of violence or self-harm.

A new Republican bill that claims “to help prevent mass shootings” includes no new gun control measures. Instead, Republican lawmakers are supporting a huge, federally mandated boost to America’s growing school surveillance industry.

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Donald Trump declares Syria ceasefire permanent and lifts Turkey sanctions

Why is the traitor then sending troops to Saudi Arabia? Is a Trump Tower promised there?

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  • ‘Let someone else fight over this long-bloodstained sand’
  • US special envoy reports Turkish ‘war crimes’ to Congress

Donald Trump has announced that the US will lift sanctions on Turkey, taking credit for a ceasefire deal that should end Ankara’s attack on Kurdish-led forces – at the price of ending the Kurds’ dream of local autonomy.

The US president, who has come under withering criticism for abruptly withdrawing US troops – and paving the way for a deadly Turkish offensive against the Kurds – said on Wednesday that a “small number” of US troops would remain in Syria’s oilfields.

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Russia and Turkey agree to share control of northeastern Syria

No shame Trump hands over cutting up Syria and genocide of Kurds to Russia and Turkey = definition of a Traitor!

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Syrian and Russian forces will deploy in northeast Syria to remove Kurdish YPG fighters and their weapons from the border with Turkey under a deal agreed on Tuesday which both Moscow and Ankara hailed as a triumph.