F##king idiot – trying to buy his way out of failure with another failure. Think of all the US auto industry being strangled by higher costs for steel and aluminium?!? And those costs being passed on to you when you try to buy a new car or truck. Job gains – forget it – just higher profits for owners with no new jobs! Another con job and no way but down for US. WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump struck a defiant tone on Friday, saying trade wars were good and easy to win, after his plan to put tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum triggered global criticism and a slide in stock markets.
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Wheels: Ford Bet on Aluminum Trucks, but Is Still Looking for Payoff
Trump will kill the F-150 with tariff on aluminium! Conceived for an era of high gasoline prices, the F-150 has lost its fuel-efficiency selling point, while its key material has gotten costlier.
Suu Kyi sold her soul to devil: Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi
Judge not lest you be judged?

Nobel Laureates Shirin Ebadi of Iran, left, Mairead Maguire of Northern Ireland, second from left, and Tawakkol Karman of Yemen, right, met Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the Gono Bhaban on Wednesday, February 28, 2018. Photo: BSS
By UNB, Dhaka
Mar 1 2018 (The Daily Star, Bangladesh)
Claiming that Aung San Suu Kyi has chosen to turn a blind eye to the genocide taking place in her country to retain her political power, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Iran’s Shirin Ebadi today said that their fellow laureate has sold her soul to the devil.
The laureate came up with this remark at a programme titled ‘Combating Violence Against Women and Advancing Women’s Rights’ arranged by Naripokkho and Nobel Women’s Initiatives in the city where she and another Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Northern Ireland’s Mairead Maguire talked to female reporters of the country.
“When Aung San Suu Kyi was under house arrest, Mairead and I staged several campaigns in order to secure her release, we even staged demonstration outside the Myanmar Embassy in Washingtong,” she said adding, “However, unfortunately, when she was released from the house arrest she sold her soul to the devil.”
Shirin said she, as a Muslim laureate, has written several open letters to Suu Kyi saying that her silence is shameful. “I urged her to take a stance breaking her silence, but Suu Kyi didn’t reply to any of them.”
Suu Kyi appears to have forgotten how she suffered when she was under house arrest. Now the Rohingya Muslims are suffering at least ten times more than any of her sufferings but she wants to hold on her political power, she added.
Urging for a peaceful solution,Mairead Maguire said dialogue and diplomacy are very important to solve the Rohingya crisis and the role played by Bangladesh is a model for the world.
She and the two other laureates will hopefully further detect the genocide of Rohingya people to the ICC and encourage the other countries to support Bangladesh for their inspirational works in the crisis, added the laureate.
She said it is also important to focus on the need of having dialogue and listening to each other to bring peace, while everybody, including the governments, has a role to play here.
Claiming that they have the evidence that the Rohingya issue is genocide, Mairead said their next course of programme is to identify interested states through the UN who can take the Myanmar government to the ICC. “We want to find states that have passion for human rights and justice,” she added.
However, the three Nobel laureates — Tawakkol Karman of Yemen, Shirin Ebadi of Iran and Mairead Maguire of Northern Ireland — came to Bangladesh on a week-long visit to see the Rohingya situation on the ground.
The Nobel Women’s Initiative in collaboration with its partner in Bangladesh, Naripokkho, led the delegation to Bangladesh to better understand the situation of the Rohingya refugees and the two laureates except Tawakkol Karman joined the programme to share their experiences with some of the female journalists of the country.
This story was originally published by The Daily Star, Bangladesh
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Wallström: Russia “just wants to finish the job” in Syria
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Sweden’s Foreign Minister Margot Wallström (left). On Wednesday, smoke rises from areas targeted by Syrian army shelling in towns in the suburbs of Damascus.
Lyssna: Swedish foreign minister on why UN ceasefire in Syria is not working
Deadly violence has continued in Syria despite a UN ceasefire resolution, drafted by Sweden and Kuwait, that was adopted last weekend.
The resolution is meant to last for 30 days and allow humanitarian aid and medical evacuations in bombed out ares of the Syrian capital, but fighting continues.
“Why is it that Assad, the regime, Russia, and … also the Turkish troops have not stopped the bombings? I think that maybe one explanation is that they feel very secure and sure about a military victory, and they just want to sort of finish the job.”
Foreign Minister Margot Wallström told Radio Sweden on Thursday.
Wallström also said that the five-hour daily “humanitarian pauses” that Russia had declared in eastern Ghouta, a rebel-held area on the outskirts of Damascus, were flawed.
She said the time limit was too short and that the pause should cover the whole of Syria and not just parts of Damascus as well as put an emphasis on providing medical aid.
Radio Sweden asked her whether it’s still possible to have faith in diplomatic measures when the parties don’t comply, and what can be done to actually get the UN ceasefire resolution implemented.
Brett Ascarelli
brett.ascarelli@sverigesradio.se
Rodrigo Duterte tells police not to cooperate in drug war investigation

International criminal court opens case after complaint accusing Philippines president of crimes against humanity
President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the Philippines’ police and soldiers not to cooperate in any investigation into his bloody war on drugs, amid international calls for an external probe.
Western countries and rights groups have expressed alarm over the killing by police of more than 4,000 Filipinos since Duterte took office in June 2016, plus hundreds more killings of drug users by unknown gunmen.
‘Discharged to the streets’: a homeless man’s struggle in freezing London
May – does she care?

Richard Curtis, 66, was released from hospital as a snowstorm loomed. His story is typical
You have to be fast to survive on the streets, they say. That’s one thing Richard Curtis is not. Panting and stopping every 10 metres to catch his breath, Curtis drags his suitcase through the brown slush in Covent Garden on Wednesday night on his way to a weekly street handout.
With an air temperature of -4C, for Curtis it was like trying to breathe soup. The 66-year-old suffers from lung disease – stage IV chronic obstructive pulmonary disease – which cold air and large changes in temperature can badly aggravate. For a rough sleeper on the coldest week of winter, it is a major handicap.
Ex-Trump adviser sold $31m in shares days before president announced steel tariffs
#TraitorTrump pays off buddy with insider trader/traitor!

Carl Icahn sold $31.3m of shares in a company dependent on steel imports days before the commerce department mooted stiff tariffs on imports
Carl Icahn, a former special adviser to Donald Trump, sold $31.3m of shares in a company heavily dependent on steel imports last week, shortly before Trump’s announcement of new tariffs sent its shares plummeting.
Icahn, a billionaire investor who was a major Trump supporter, started selling shares in the crane and lifting equipment supplier Manitowoc Company on 12 February, days before the commerce department first mooted plans to impose stiff tariffs on foreign steel imports.
Take the Words “Judeo-Christian” Out of Your Damn Mouth
Recently on Twitter, human-shaped windsock Senator Marco Rubio was victimized by a gang of grieving teenagers from Parkland, FL, so he tweeted out some very wounded word salad, which included this sentence: “We claim a Judea-Christian [sic.] heritage but celebrate arrogance & boasting.” In response, Rabbi and author Danya Ruttenberg tweeted, “This might be a good time to note that ‘Judeo-Christian’ is not a thing and we Jews would like you to stop conflating our tradition with your American Christianity.”
This is a very simple concept. No Jew has ever used the term “Judeo-Christian,” because like the Sinbad movie Shazaam, it does not actually exist. We, the Jews, would like you to please stop fucking using it.
This might be a good time to note that “Judeo-Christian” is not a thing and we Jews would like you to stop conflating our tradition with your American Christianity.
— Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg (@TheRaDR) February 28, 2018
I could stop this article there. That’s all I should have to say—and all Rabbi Ruttenberg should have had to say. It’s a small appeal to basic decency, like “please wash your hands” or “don’t fart in an elevator.” But because Twitter is to basic decency as hydrogen gas was to the Hindenburg, noted collared-shirt-wearer Ben Shapiro, decided that no, the Rabbi was wrong about Judaism. He tweeted that what she had said was “nonsense,” and proceeded to explain to her, and to his 1.22 million followers, that “Judaism and Christianity are deeply intertwined. American Christianity has generally had a deeper love for the Old Testament than European Christianity. And the vast majority of religious American Christians see the Jews as the root of the tree of Christ.”
So now we have to unpack this fragrant bullshit. First of all, the word “intertwined.” An interesting choice! I think from now on I will think of Jesus as “intertwined” with the cross, and while he was up there, the crown of thorns as “intertwined” with his skull. I feel less bad for Leonardo DiCaprio, knowing he just wound up “intertwined” with that bear in The Revenant. I mean, I might have gone with something a little more descriptive, like “systematically brutalized for 2000 years,” but maybe Ben was running low on characters?
Judaism and Christianity are deeply intertwined. American Christianity has generally had a deeper love for the Old Testament than European Christianity. And the vast majority of religious American Christians see the Jews as the root of the tree of Christ.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) February 28, 2018
I’m going to just pass over the mention of the “Old Testament,” because Ben, being Jewish, knows how irritating that term is to Jews (I mean, we’re still using that book, but we can’t help it, we’re early adopters). He just doesn’t care. I mean, I get it, you have to have a thick skin when you’re selling out your people to the religious right.
But I’m going to dig in to that last line, where Ben definitely thinks the goyim are making a nice compliment! “The roots,” they call us! And you know, Ben, I get it: I definitely like to think of us as the lowest, most primitive rung on the evolutionary ladder of religion. I don’t know about you, but whenever I read about Jewish cemeteries being desecrated, or Nazis out for a nighttime stroll shouting “Jews will not replace us!,” it definitely soothes me to think of how lovingly American Christians have tended to those roots throughout our history. I am sure that the nine hundred Jews on the USS St. Louis in 1939 were deeply reassured, even as their ship was forced to turned away from the lights of Miami and head back to Germany, to know that someday they would be remembered as fertile soil for the “tree of Christ.”
I guess it’s easy to think of us as the roots when they’ve buried so fucking many of us, Benjamin.
Now look. I understand that dunking on an amoral dipshit like Ben Shapiro is rather like trash-talking a small child you have vanquished in a go-kart race. But the fact that this simpering shanda has never had an original thought in his life means that the stuff that falls out of his mouth mirrors what many, many Americans believe. And the reason they believe this particular toxic thing is because it has been parroted by politicians of virtually every flavor and make.
Many, many people use the word “Judeo-Christian.” Most of these people are very nice! I’ve probably used it, too! English is a rich tapestry, full of terms we use unthinkingly, like “rule of thumb.” Most people who aren’t Jews probably think it’s fine, even benevolent. But that’s exactly what makes “Judeo-Christian” so insidious—it sounds benign because it purports to involve Jews in the conversation. As if they’re doing us a favor by remembering we exist. But the people who do it the most, like Mike Pence, view that existence as a necessary evil: 77% of US evangelicals like him believe that the Rapture will come in their lifetimes, and their explicit goal is to route all the Jews back to Israel so it can happen. This is well-documented.
And even when they aren’t zealots like Pence, there are only two reasons why people like Rubio and Shapiro insist on saying “America is a Judeo-Christian nation.” One, because they want to say “Christian” country, but they don’t want to piss off AIPAC donors, or two, because they really want to say “white,” or “not Muslim.” I guarantee you that they also do not mean to include Sephardic Jews, and they definitely don’t mean to include Black Jews. Everything about the term is predicated on bad faith. It needs to die.
Striking a term from a national vocabulary isn’t easy, especially when that term carries a false veneer of respect. But it’s worth trying. Whether you mean it or not, to say “Judeo-Christian” is to conscript Jews into a vision of a Godly, purified America, and that has never, ever, ever worked out well for us. It’s co-opting, it’s colonizing, and it’s condescending. It has comprehensively infected our national political discourse, but so did syphilis, once upon a time, and we figured out how to cure that.
Saying “Judeo-Christian” is like saying “post-racial.” It allows Christians to think that everything’s fine with the Jews now, that we’re cool. That we’ve forgotten.
We have absolutely not forgotten. We are not cool.
Stop fucking saying it.
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Feature image by Christian A. Schröder, via Wikimedia Commons.
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All The White Supremacists Running For Office In 2018
All The White Supremacists Running For Office In 2018:
A quick and easy guide to finding their opponents, and then donating your time and/or money to anyone willing to stand up against these assholes.
And let’s reinforce the lesson everyone should have taken away from the 2016 election:
THE PERFECT IS THE OPPOSITE OF THE GOOD.
I DON’T GIVE A SHIT IF THE PERSON RUNNING AGAINST THE WHITE SUPREMACIST DOESN’T THINK COLLEGE SHOULD BE FREE
OR THAT WE SHOULD HAVE UBI
OR ISN’T A FUCKING VEGAN
OR WHAT-THE-FUCK-EVER IS UP YOUR ASS TODAY
YOU VOTE AGAINST THE WHITE SUPREMACIST.
PERIOD.
AND IF YOU’RE LUCKY ENOUGH NOT TO HAVE A WHTIE SUPREMACIST RUNNING IN YOUR DISTRICT, FIND ONE SOMEWHERE ELSE AND GIVE YOU TIME AND MONEY TO THEIR OPPONENT.
THIS ISN’T FUCKING ROCKET SCIENCE.
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After 136 Years, L.A. Times Journalists Win Their Union
March 01, 2018 / Kristina Bui and Nastaran Mohit
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Journalists at the L.A. Times on January 19 received the news we had long awaited—with a landslide of 85 percent, the staff voted to unionize and join the NewsGuild, an affiliate of the Communications Workers.

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