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It Oversaw For-Profit Colleges That Imploded. Now It Seeks a Comeback.

Want to steal more dreams and money from the unsuspecting. The Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools, which was stripped of its power by the Obama Education Department, is pursuing a return under a more for-profit-friendly administration.

Egypt horizons ..Luxor’s Temple

Luxorious!

نادية حرحش

I have seen what I always called great by all means, when it comes to heritage , culture, archaeology around the world …I would say by far….when one stands in front of such history , one cannot but kneel down to the greatness of this making …. I think if humans today existed in that time , they were not more than locust of that time…. civilization has definitely went way backwards since then

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Videos show Israeli soldiers sniping unarmed protesters in Gaza

Attempts to retroactively portray Friday’s demonstrators as Hamas militants, stone-throwers, or human shields serves only one purpose: to quiet the Israeli conscience.

The Israeli army and Israel’s hasbara apparatus wasted no time blaming the 16 Palestinians killed by Israeli army snipers last Friday for their own deaths. Infographics were released within hours. Talking points distributed. Israel was defending its sovereign border, they said.

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Two videos published on the day of the carnage in Gaza, however, show a different story. They appear to show Israeli snipers positioned behind dirt mounds on the other side of the border fence shooting and killing unarmed protesters — carrying neither weapons nor rocks nor Molotov cocktails — who posed absolutely no threat to security forces — or anyone, for that matter.

The first video appears to show Israeli soldiers shooting 19-year-old Abdel Fattah Abdel Nabi in the back as he is running while holding a tire (tires are often burned by protesters across the world, including by Jewish Israelis, to provide smoke screens as protection from security forces).

A second video published the same day appears to show soldiers shooting a Palestinian demonstrator as he gets up following prayers. Like Abdel Nabi, the protester poses no threat to the soldiers.

The Israeli army accused Hamas of published edited or fabricated videos, but at least the top video exists from multiple angles and was witnessed by a number of people. The army also claimed that most of those killed were Hamas militants, but The Washington Post reported that there were no signs of affiliation with the Islamist group at Abdel Fattah Abdel Nabi’s funeral and that his family denied he was in any way connected to the group.

But if the above videos teach us anything, it is that Israel needed no pretext for shooting and killing those 16 protesters. In fact, Israeli generals told the cabinet ahead of time that there would be Palestinian casualties. Attempts to retroactively portray them as Hamas militants, stone-throwers, or human shields serves only one purpose: to quiet the Israeli conscience.

Egypt….horizons

نادية حرحش

I always thought that Egypt is a place where you see people.. it is about people. It will always be of course my impression… what makes Egypt this Egypt is this special thing about its people … but then there is this history that is beyond our grasp of what we understand of history … this is when you know that the people who live today are a reincarnation of species that used to be there then… they take this current life easy thinking … oh folks.. what do u know ?

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Donald Trump launches fresh attack on Amazon, Washington Post

#TraitorTrump and #ClownTrump blathering on because someone has more money than he does… Little person…

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The president has complained that the US Postal Service loses “billions of dollars” delivering packages for Amazon. He also took aim at the internet retailer’s boss for his ownership of the influential Washington Post.

Palestinians hold day of mourning after 773 ‘shot with live ammunition’

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At least 15 killed when Israeli soldiers open fire during mass demonstrations in Gaza

Gaza hospitals, running low on blood and overstretched by the huge number of wounded, were reeling after one of the enclave’s bloodiest days outside of open war, in which Israeli soldiers shot 773 people with live ammunition, according to the ministry of health.

Fifteen of the wounded died, said the ministry spokesperson Dr Ashraf al-Qidra. “Most of the dead were aged between 17 and 35 years old,” he said. “The injuries were on the upper part of the body.” He added that the remainder of the wounded, some of whom were in a critical condition, had been “shot with live ammunition”.

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“Under Pressure”

In Saner Thought

By now the world has witnessed the protests being lead by students of the school last visited by gun violence…….too many are bad mouthing the students for their activism even to the point of claiming that they are puppets or even actors….

One FOX anchor person even went so far to try and bully a 17 year old…..it backfired miserably (but what can you expect from anyone on FOX)…in case your nose picking got in the way of your current events…

Laura Ingraham offered an apology to Parkland school shooting survivor David Hogg Thursday—after multiple major advertisers heeded his call to pull their ads from her Fox News show. Hogg, who has become a prominent gun-control advocate since the mass shooting, called for the boycott after Ingraham taunted him for “whining” about being rejected from colleges, the New York Times reports. “On reflection, in the spirit of Holy Week, I…

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