Category Archives: Rock on-Peace Out

Bob Corker Says Trump’s Recklessness Threatens ‘World War III’ – The New York Times

 

“Look, except for a few people, the vast majority of our caucus understands what we’re dealing with here,” he said, adding that “of course they understand the volatility that we’re dealing with and the tremendous amount of work that it takes by people around him to keep him in the middle of the road.”As for the tweets that set off the feud on Sunday morning, Mr. Corker expressed a measure of powerlessness.“I don’t know why the president tweets out things that are not true,” he said. “You know he does it, everyone knows he does it, but he does.”

Nathan Straus and the Milk Stations That Saved the Lives of New York City’s Kids ~ vintage everyday

He set to work both to provide pasteurized milk to needy children, and to have the process legally mandated for all milk sold. He set up milk stations in poor areas in New York City to give away pasteurized milk, and proof of the efficacy of the program was not long in coming. In 1891, fully 24 percent of babies born in New York City died before their first birthday. But of the 20,111 children fed on pasteurized milk supplied by Nathan Straus over a four-year period, only six died.

Source: Nathan Straus and the Milk Stations That Saved the Lives of New York City’s Kids ~ vintage everyday

Israeli, Palestinian women march together for peace | News | DW | 08.10.2017

“We are women from the right, the left, Jews and Arabs, from the cities and the periphery and we have decided that we will stop the next war,” said one of the founders, Marilyn Smadja.The tent on the Jordan River was named after Hagar and Sarah, the two women who, according to religious belief, each bore a son to patriarch Abraham (Ibrahim). Hagar’s son Ishmael is believed to be the ancestor of Arabic tribes, with Sarah’s Isaac being the progenitor of all ancient Jews. ‘To not believe in peace is to not believe in God’ The march comes at a time of deep divide between Palestinian and Israeli leaders. The peace march started on September 24 in several locations across Israel and the West Bank.”We must come together to be able to reach the peace that we all want,” Michal Froman, who was stabbed by a Palestinian in January 2016 while pregnant, told the Agence France-Presse news agency last week.”As a religious woman, I say that to not believe in peace is to not believe in God.”The women are now set to march to Jerusalem and hold a rally in front of the residence of Israel’s hawkish prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.

Source: Israeli, Palestinian women march together for peace | News | DW | 08.10.2017

Elite English-speaking hipsters, Catalan chaos and a popular Nobel winner | The Local Europe Edition on acast

In The Local’s first podcast we take a trip around Europe, looking at the Catalan crisis with Fiona Govan, at why it’s getting hard to find a German speaker in Berlin with Jörg Luyken and at the surprisingly popular winner of the Nobel Literature Prize. Presenters: James Savage and Emma Löfgren.

Source: Elite English-speaking hipsters, Catalan chaos and a popular Nobel winner | The Local Europe Edition on acast

Las Vegas shooting victims saved by former marine Taylor Winston with borrowed truck – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

They had six people in the back seat, and he thinks another eight to 10 in the bed.”We tried to take the most critical and there were people bleeding out with leg wounds, leg, torso, chest — just kind of everything,” he says.”I think the hardest part was leaving dozens of people who were shot and critically injured and trying to get in and just couldn’t take all of them.”They drove them to the hospital and went back to get more. He thinks all up he took between 20 and 30 people to the trauma centre that night.

Source: Las Vegas shooting victims saved by former marine Taylor Winston with borrowed truck – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

‘We’re walking down a dark path’: Biden hammers Trump in scathing speech | US news | The Guardian

“It’s not alarmist. We’re walking down a very dark path that isolates the United States on the world stage and, as a consequence, endangers – not strengthens – endangers American interests and the American people.”In a dig at Trump’s past career as a New York property developer, Biden said: “Rather than building a shared narrative of freedom and democracy that inspires nations to unite in common goals, this administration casts global affairs in a dog-eat-dog competition, like it’s a competition: who gets that plot to build the new high rise building.”

Source: ‘We’re walking down a dark path’: Biden hammers Trump in scathing speech | US news | The Guardian

Inoreader – Put Some Knowledge in Your Pocket!

ChangeLab is grateful to our comrades at If You Don’t They Will for creating this awesome portable resource for understanding and defeating white nationalism. Download it, print it double-sided, and fold it into a pocket-sized guide! If You Don’t They Will is a collaboration that provides concrete and creative tools to counter white nationalism

Source: Inoreader – Put Some Knowledge in Your Pocket!

British courts may unlock secrets of how Trump campaign profiled US voters | Technology | The Guardian

Pasquale said news that Facebook information had been used by Russian agents to target US citizens may prove to be a tipping point. “It shows this information has now been weaponised by a state actor. What we’re seeing is really a failure of the first order. Mark Zuckerberg wrote this 6,000-word letter about creating a global political community and yet we now know that Facebook was a platform for a devastating attack on the most robust democracy in the world.”

Source: British courts may unlock secrets of how Trump campaign profiled US voters | Technology | The Guardian

‘A white girl had to die for people to pay attention’: Heather Heyer’s mother on hate in the US | US news | The Guardian

“I think we’ve got to have some difficult, very difficult conversations about people’s beliefs and their anger and their hurt and what it is they need fixed to feel right again,” she said. “We’re not going to hug it out and be happy. That’s just not reality. But we can listen to one another.”“People are listening to me right now, so I’m talking right now,” she said. “When they stop listening, I might shut up, I might not. I’m not good at shutting up.”

Source: ‘A white girl had to die for people to pay attention’: Heather Heyer’s mother on hate in the US | US news | The Guardian