Roger Rael, who said he is considering a run for City Council in District 1 in the March election, said his goal in carrying the gun was to unnerve people at the City Council meeting Wednesday night because he wanted to keep city government “on their toes.”
The Look On Nikki Haley’s Face Was Priceless When She Realized Trump Suggested Invading Venezuela
Trump is winging it as president. Send the military to Venezuela? Sure, why not?His own administration has no idea what’s going on. The look on Nikki Haley’s face said it all. Trump is ruling by whim, and his whims are endangering the American people by making policy commitments that not even the military knows anything about.
Source: The Look On Nikki Haley’s Face Was Priceless When She Realized Trump Suggested Invading Venezuela
Trump thanks Putin: Darcy cartoon | cleveland.com
President Donald Trump now says he was being sarcastic when he thanked Vladimir Putin for expelling U.S. diplomats from Russia in retaliation for U.S. sanctions. At the time he had made the comment, it was hard to tell if he was joking, which was just one of the problems with his comment.
Charlottesville: far-right crowd with torches encircles counter-protest group | World news | The Guardian
West said: “The crypto-fascists, the neofascists, the neo-Nazis now feel so empowered, not just by Trump but by the whole shift in the nation towards scapegoats. “I don’t like this talk about ‘alt-right’, that’s an unnecessary abstraction. These are neofascists in contemporary garb.”
eSports are real sports. It’s time for the Olympic video games | Tauriq Moosa | Opinion | The Guardian – “and we need Olympic Chess, Go, Checkers, hula hoops, skateboarding, Horseshoes, Corn Hole, Kickball… not!”
We expect these people to perform great feats of physicality better than the rest of us. That is why so many are scornful of the notion that competitive video gaming, or eSports as it’s come to be known, should stand alongside other Olympic sports. But this requires rethinking.
Mahmoud Abbas decrees sweeping internet speech restrictions | The Electronic Intifada – Anyone for Palestinian freedom?
PA crackdown on journalistsBoth Israel and the Palestinian Authority, which work together closely to control the Palestinian population under military occupation, already jail Palestinians for their postings on social media.The decree’s enactment comes as the PA oversees a wave of press violations including arrests for statements made on social media.At the beginning of June, the Palestinian Authority arrested 23-year-old Nassar Jaradat for posting on his Facebook page a call for a “people’s revolution” against the Fatah leadership – Abbas’ political faction.This week, PA intelligence agencies in the occupied West Bank arrested four journalists from several local outlets, accusing them of “leaking sensitive information.”
Source: Mahmoud Abbas decrees sweeping internet speech restrictions | The Electronic Intifada
The U.S.-North Korean war of words – where will it end? Editorial Board Roundtable | cleveland.com
What are America’s best options in the face of accelerating North Korean missile and nuclear capability? Is America readying a first strike? Our editorial board roundtable takes up these questions and looks for readers’ thoughts in the comments.
Me: I ask you to speak for calm and diplomacy and a shut down of bully boy bravado from us and the Koreans. Bullies care more about themselves than the thousand or perhaps millions of innocents who could die because they miscalculated.
Source: The U.S.-North Korean war of words – where will it end? Editorial Board Roundtable | cleveland.com
China seethes on sidelines amid latest North Korea crisis
Source: China seethes on sidelines amid latest North Korea crisis
I ask you to speak for calm and diplomacy and a shut down of bully boy bravado from us and the Koreans. Bullies care more about themselves than the thousand or perhaps millions of innocents who could die because they miscalculated.
Chinese tourist awarded $461,000 for brutal beating she received at hands of US border agent: Shanghaiist “Smug racist keeps his job because other racists will not find a fellow racist guilty of being a racist.”
Demolishing souls
Damn!
I started my day this morning seeing my father’s garage in the photos on Facebook in one of the pages that bring about the news of the neighborhood.
Of course, there was no surprise. We live in a situation where we wake up to news of close people jailed or injured or killed. Demolitions are just another daily practice of an occupation.
I found myself calling my father, and I just wanted to know that he was okay. He has been battling against the demolition order for years now, firmly believing that they cannot demolish it, for two simple reasons, that he bought this land more than thirty years ago with the two rooms with no cement ceiling there , and he was using it more as his office to receive the taxi drivers and fix his cars . And he insists: ” I WILL NEVER DEMOLISH MY PROPERTY WITH…
View original post 769 more words










You must be logged in to post a comment.