Living in the Shoes of a Woman | nadiaharhash

To my surprise, the attack I anticipated from society never happened. The attack came from a place I never expected, from the place that was supposed to foster me, to hold me up.The attack came under the direct guidance of my mother. My mom who raised me to stand up for my rights, who educated me so that I could shield myself in times of need, then blamed me for the years that I was submissive when I was merely compliant to satisfy those norms I highly revered.I thought that the moment I told them that he broke my rib, they would break his head, but instead, I was executed and blamed because they believed I must have provoked him. The moment I told them how many times he deceived me, how many times I swathed him up to protect my family, I was censured and says I must not have been good enough. I thought that the moment I told them that he was locking me up, cursing at me, abusing me, that they would nurture me and open their shoulders for me. Instead my mother and family persecuted me.

Source: Living in the Shoes of a Woman | nadiaharhash

Trump Offers No Apology for Claim on British Spying – The New York Times

Shortly afterward, Fox backed off the claim made by its commentator, Andrew Napolitano. “Fox News cannot confirm Judge Napolitano’s commentary,” the anchor Shepard Smith said on air. “Fox News knows of no evidence of any kind that the now president of the United States was surveilled at any time, any way. Full stop.”A spokesman for Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain said on Friday that the White House had backed off the allegation. “We’ve made clear to the administration that these claims are ridiculous and should be ignored,” the spokesman said, on the condition of anonymity in keeping with British protocol. “We’ve received assurances these allegations won’t be repeated.”

Jaws Drop As Trump WH Claims Starving Seniors By Killing Meals On Wheels Is Compassionate – Feeding kids and seniors a waste of time! Hate is Love/Love is Hate

Later Mulvaney was asked if this is a hard-hearted budget. He answered, “I don’t think so. In fact, I think it is one of the most compassionate things we can do to. You’re only focusing on half of the equation. Right? You’re focusing on recipients of the money. We’re trying to focus on both the recipients and the folks who give us the money in the first place, and I think it’s fairly compassionate to go to them and say look, we’re not going to ask you for your hard earned money anymore.”

Source: Jaws Drop As Trump WH Claims Starving Seniors By Killing Meals On Wheels Is Compassionate

Erdogan accuses EU of ′crusade′ against Islam | News | DW.COM | 17.03.2017 Last refuge of a fascist is to accuse others of being fascists!

For her part, German Chancellor Angela Merkel denounced Erdogan’s latest round of accusations. The Turkish president accused Merkel this week of supporting terrorists in the anti-Erdogan Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).”I don’t intend to participate in this race to trade provocations,” she told the German regional newspaper “Saarbrücker  Zeitung.” “The insults need to stop,” she added in comments printed in the paper’s Friday edition, referencing Turkey’s Nazi comparisons aimed at the Netherlands.Merkel stated that Turkish political leaders are permitted to appear in the country under certain conditions: they must disclose who will appear and for what goal, and the foreign politicians must abide by Germany’s laws and constitutional principles.”We do not give anyone a carte blanche for the future,” she added. The chancellor’s comments came the same day the city of Hannover scrapped a Friday rally organized by the Union of European Turkish Democrats (UETD) at which a senior Erdogan government official was set to appear.The last-minute cancellation indicates tempers could get hotter and the Turkish-Germa

Source: Erdogan accuses EU of ′crusade′ against Islam | News | DW.COM | 17.03.2017

Israel lashes out at Palestine activists | The Electronic Intifada

After being held for over seven hours, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s Lanning was told he would be denied entry because his activities were “hostile to Israel.”No further explanation was provided to Lanning at the time he was expelled, but before he returned to London the following morning, Israel’s immigration authority and the ministry of strategic affairs had released a statement saying Lanning was deported because of his efforts to advance the boycott of Israel.Strategic affairs minister Gilad Erdan, who leads the country’s effort to thwart the Palestine solidarity movement, said he was working with the interior ministry to deny entry to those “acting against Israel.”“Reality is changing,” Erdan said. “No sane country would permit entry to the main activists calling for its boycott and who work to leave it isolated.”“They do see us as a threat and I don’t think they know what to do,” Lanning told The Electronic Intifada.Last month, the Israeli government refused to grant Human Rights Watch’s new Palestine director, Omar Shakir, a work permit, claiming that the decades-old organization was producing “Palestinian propaganda.”The Israeli ministries called the Palestine Solidarity Campaign a leader in the efforts to “delegitimize Israel” in Europe, adding that its website was “rife with calls to boycott Israel,” the newspaper Haaretz reported.

Source: Israel lashes out at Palestine activists | The Electronic Intifada

Michael Flynn Was Paid by Russian-Linked Firms, Letter Shows – The New York Times

An email from Katia Illarionova, an RT producer, discusses expenses for Mr. Flynn’s trip to Russia.The document provides new details about Mr. Flynn’s ties to Russian entities just over a month after being forced to resign following revelations that he had misled Vice President Mike Pence and other top White House officials about his conversations last year with the Russian ambassador to the United States.The letter, addressed to Mr. Trump; James B. Comey, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, requested additional documents related to Mr. Flynn’s security clearances.The fees were apparently for speaking engagements by Mr. Flynn, a retired Army lieutenant general and former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency. The engagements occurred before he became an official adviser to Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign. Document: Oversight Committee Releases Documents on Flynn’s Trip to RussiaThe letter and supporting documents provide new details about a trip Mr. Flynn took to Moscow in December 2015 on behalf of RT. As part of that trip, RT paid him more than $45,000 to deliver a speech at an opulent gala hosted by the network, where he sat next to the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin.That summer, according to an invoice included with the letters, Mr. Flynn also received $11,250 from a Russian cargo airline named Volga-Dnepr Airlines.According to Mr. Cummings’s letter, the company came under United Nations scrutiny after allegations of bribery surfaced involving two Russian officials serving at the United Nations. As part of that investigation, the United Nations removed the company in 2007 from its approved list of vendors, the letter said.

US to default on Thursday? | Business | DW.COM | 15.03.2017 “Duh… What Me Worry? Did I forget something?” #LoserTrump

President Donald Trump’s administration will face its first huge challenge on the budget front when the measure to suspend the limit on the amount of money the federal government is allowed to borrow soon lapses.

Source: US to default on Thursday? | Business | DW.COM | 15.03.2017

Trump’s planned foreign aid, UN cuts would diminish US influence | Americas | DW.COM | 15.03.2017 – “Make Room for Daddy Putin” says #LoserTrump

Retreat would leave vacuum

What could also loom on the horizon is a diminished US role in the United Nations after Donald Trump had not only made plain repeatedly that he holds the UN specifically and multilateral organisations generally in low esteem, but since his administration has so far also clearly kept the UN at arms length.That’s why it does not come as a big surprise that according to media reports the Trump administration could drastically slash its contributions to the UN.This is important because Washington was not just the driver behind the founding of the UN, but again is also the organisation’s biggest individual contributor – which gives the US big sway in what’s happening there.  “There are lots of problems with the United Nations, but perhaps the Trump administration could use their energy to help reform and changes,” said Tingley. “But a retreat from participation in the UN is just going to open up a vacuum for other countries that the US would rather not have as much in charge.”

Source: Trump’s planned foreign aid, UN cuts would diminish US influence | Americas | DW.COM | 15.03.2017

Poll: Trump uniquely unpopular in Sweden – Radio Sweden | Sveriges Radio

Eighty per cent of Swedes dislike US president Donald Trump and only 10 percent like him, according to a new survey carried out by the Novus polling company and commissioned by Swedish Radio.The survey, carried out in early March among a random sample of over 1,000 Swedes, asked respondents to place Trump on a scale from “strongly dislike” to “strongly like”.The outcome of the poll is uniquely negative, Sören Holberg, a political scientist at the University of Gothenburg, suggested. He told Swedish Radio that previous polls measuring Swedes’ attitudes to foreign leaders have not turned out such pessimistic results.

Source: Poll: Trump uniquely unpopular in Sweden – Radio Sweden | Sveriges Radio

Jamaica activist arrested after posting names of alleged sexual predators | World news | The Guardian

The co-founder of a new organization that campaigns against gender-based violence in Jamaica has been arrested after posting the names of alleged sexual predators on social media.Latoya Nugent, a prominent LGBT activist and co-founder of the Tambourine Army, was arrested late on Monday and charged with three counts of breaching the country’s Cybercrimes Act.

Source: Jamaica activist arrested after posting names of alleged sexual predators | World news | The Guardian

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