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Georgia cancels registration of more than 591,500 voters

Georgia cancels registration of more than 591,500 voters:

piddlebucket:

pepperonithotpocket:

theactualcluegirl:

gryphye:

giandujakiss:

CHECK YOUR REGISTRATION STATUS.  You can usually do it at the website of your local secretary of state, or at Vote.org.

Anyone who follows me from Georgia?  If not, pass it on.

sigh..  Actually, let me just add, THIS BULLSHIT RIGHT HERE, THIS IS WHY YOUR VOTE MATTERS.  You think they’d be so hot to take away your rights if it didn’t?

If you can register to vote by mail DO SO!!! Not only does it give you more time to research your ballot options, it provides a paper trail, so you can PROVE how you voted, no matter how the Russian hackers massage the electronic numbers.

@always-is-valuelesss @niggawittablog

Hi everyone who is not American, our country is corrupt and does shit like this

Ahed Tamimi stardom of Heroism and the eclipse of everyone else

Before I start, my problem is not with the young woman\ teen Ahed. On the contrary, the girl always impressed me as a child, and I continued to like her way of resistance with her family and villagers in Nabi Saleh. Somehow, a different flavor in the way we introduce resistance. And above all the girl is strong and of course charming.

For many reasons, Ahed resembles a new image for resistance, and she is lucky her pledge has been heard and got attention. But Ahed is not a star, nor is she inside a contest or a live TV competition. She is living under occupation where her pledge is the pledge of millions of Palestinians. When resistance becomes one person, then the problem starts. When prisoners issue becomes the attention because of Ahed, then there is a severe issue of hypocrisy in the society at all its levels.

Where are those voices for all the prisoners who are perishing in jail for resistance?

Where are those voices of support for prisoners who leave, prisoners who are tortured, prisoners who are deformed like in the case of Ja’abees?

The rush of all to go and be part of Ahed’s stardom and take a picture next to her. Her visit with her father to the tomb of Arafat. The reception Abu Mazen held for her in the Muqata’a. Not to forget of course that her mother was arrested with her and was released as well.

So what is it about Ahed that makes her a good pick for media and politicians and parasitic beneficiaries?

The girl is daring and enigmatic, but she is not anything more than her young age and innocent looks of overwhelmingness.

Some months ago, a year maybe, there was a younger female prisoner who was released after a few months of detention. The eyes of horror in the teen’s eyes tell all the stories of what it means to be locked inside a jail. To be a child stripped away of your childhood.

Ahmad Manasra who lost his childhood to jail.

Tens of stories of breaking hearts of children in the Israeli jails…

While the feast is over, and Ahed will become a teenager dreaming for a university alone, after securing a good result in the final exams, for the privilege of Jail, and many offers to study for free.

Can Ahed become a Malala?

In an ordinary place she can carry on the fight for freedom Malala represented….. seeing the crowds behind her …can only put her in one of the few options in the easy access to power in this place. Used by those who will benefit from her, until she becomes another icon that reflects the reality of the Palestinian abused resistance.

Jeff Sessions launches ‘religious liberty task force’ to avenge Christian hurt feelings

Jeff Sessions launches ‘religious liberty task force’ to avenge Christian hurt feelings:

beingliberal:

“The Religious Liberty Task Force is a joke. White Christians are the least discriminated against people in America. There are around 140 million of them, so let’s not act like they are an oppressed minority. Jeff Sessions is appeasing evangelicals and attacking LGBTQ and women’s rights.”

‘A Confession,’ by Tunisian Poet Sami Messelmani

Translator Sihem Hammouda shares a favorite poem by Tunisian poet Sami Messelmani

By Sihem Hammouda

Sami Messelmani, who writes mostly prose poetry, is one of Tunisia’s most distinguished poets in Tunisia. In addition to being a poet, he is also a teacher and a critic. One of his best-known works is Pillows of an Exhausted Wave.

A Confession

By Sami Messelmani

Translated by Sihem Hammouda

I realize that many

do not acknowledge me,

do not see me as a rose-seller:

one who arranges lilies

or serves up carnations

perhaps because I am too calm,

like a cold fire,

and I don’t chase the

resounding booms,

nor do I have I great desire

to lie down

like a face, its features erased

I will not be angered by their disregard,

everything they say,

will be but stray arrows

eternally drowning

in false lights

I do not care about the limelight,

their bright lights

infect me with an intellectual insomnia

shrinking my soul,

and blinding my eyes,

which

have not yet become accustomed to tapping tambourines.

Sihem Hammouda is a Tunisian writer and translator who works between English, Arabic, and French. She also works as a teacher. 

An ongoing theft of identity: Schmidt’s School memories Israelized

Heritage in this sense is what makes me the person I am .. these people sabotaged my mind and forged it in a place that belongs elsewhere.

It is not just a matter of a nagging side of mine.

It is not just a matter of finding a topic to scream about … Thi is the last thing I need living in this place. I have to admit that this issue might be distracting me from other not less important matters.

After all a 13-year-old boy was killed in Dheisheh by the Israeli forces, the new Jewish national law is quite an interesting issue to bug on , Gaza’s violations are not stoppable, assassinating two Palestinian researchers in Algeria, the attempted demolition of the Bedouin Khan al Ahmar area, the daily home demolitions in Jerusalem, the Trump exciting news, the Saudi massacres in Yemen, the white Helmets flee and rescue by Israel, domestic violence against women , car accidents ,….

Moreover, I am here thinking about mummified animals that are no longer exist.

Who needs to be interested in extinct animals of terminated people?

Maybe I am worried about me as a result? I do want to die as a Palestinian where my children can visit my burial in the family site in, and I want to be called the Palestinian Nadia. I don’t want to be exhibited in an Israeli museum anywhere and be pointed at as part of the heritage of the great land of Israel!

I need to also, of course, ignore the ” mere” the fact that the Tel Aviv university itself stands on the destroyed Palestinian village of Sheikh Mounis

I am damn serious about this.

This issue is making me furious. It is like theft in daylight.

As I am reading articles about the grand opening of the Israeli nature museum in Tel Aviv University, I cannot but get sicker each time I see photos of what I grew up knowing is mine. Memories that no one should have the right to steal from my childhood. My growing up. Memories I share with my children, and I was preparing myself to share with my children. Memories that ignite my imagination. Memories that increase my ideas of fiction, of telling a story of a place that I always belonged to.

School is more than home for 12 years of memories that shape whom you become. Suddenly, I see an Israeli child, mother, father, anyone touching and watching and playing with a treasure that was not just exclusive to us, but we were limited access to, and never allowed to move.

then they tell us that we don’t know how to preserve our heritage, or even worse, they saved it . ..

As i was reading about the topic, I came across a book written by Mazin Qumsiyeh with the title of “Mammals of the Holy Land, published in 1996. Of course, I did not encounter Mazin Qumisya’s book by chance, this Palestinian scholar and activist have established the Palestinian natural museum to preserve the heritage of Palestine. He was so kind n his book describing it all as the holy land, distinguishing with remarkable cautiousness the importance of the issue that is much bigger than the political conflict. He allowed space for Israel and other countries n the region to be part of what he called the mammals of the holy land. While in a straightforward and naturalistic way of occupation, the Tel Aviv University did not even hesitate in calling the Schmits collection as part of Israel heritage, while in the same institution ten years ago, the research mentioned the group as Palestinian located.

Maybe my voice is nothing more than an irritating fly buzzing noisily. Moreover, I have to admit; I don’t mind being an annoying fly, or a sucking mosquito, or even a biting bee.

The issue of this collection is personal. It tackles what it means to preserve your memories…. not things. Heritage in this sense is what makes me the person I am .. these people sabotaged my mind and forged it in a place that belongs elsewhere.

الخوذ البيضاء وتلطيخ المعارضة بالسواد

الخوذ البيضاء وتلطيخ المعارضة بالسواد

 

الظلم السوري بدأ بالانجلاء عن سورية العظيمة بشعبها وقيادتها. وقد يكون الجزء الأخير من فرق الخوذ البيضاء التي وصل صيتها إلى أواخر العالم وحازت على الجوائز في مشاهد أقرب إلى الهوليوودية بإنجازاتها بإنقاذ المدنيين من النظام الفاشي. منذ الوهلة الأولى كل ما تعلق بهذه الفرق بدا مشكوك فيه. ولكن ربما صدق البعض أن الحروب تخلق الابتكارات في الإنقاذ. ملائكة الرحمة وسط ركام التفجيرات والدمار والبراميل التي كان النظام المستبد القامع القاتل يرميها ويسقطها على شعبه. وكانوا هؤلاء في كل مرة يخرجون بمعداتهم التصويرية ويهبون للإنقاذ…حتى وصل استحقاقهم للترشح لجائزة نوبل للسلام!

لم نصدق النظام السوري المستبد عندما حاول القول إن هؤلاء لم يكونوا أكثر من مرتزقة خونة. عندما شاهدنا الأفلام السينمائية الصنع للإنقاذ وفبركت التفجيرات ووجوه الأطفال الملطخة بالدماء أحيانا وبالغبار الكثيفة من براميل الفوسفور أحيانا.

لم نصدق عندما بدأت فضائح القائمين على هذه الفرق من التنازع على الأموال والاختلاس وفضح كل منهم للآخر على صفحات الجائد الأوروبية.

نحن العرب لا نصدق الا ما يقوله لنا الغرب. والغرب الذي صنعهم لم يستطع تحمل كم الفساد الذي كان متفشيا ففضحهم…مؤقتا.

فالعالم الذي لا يرى من النظام الا مستبد وقاتل، يرفض أن يرى أنه وبالرغم من حقيقة استبداد النظام (ربما وبلا شك) إلا ان المعارضة لا تعني بالضرورة وطنية. فهناك من يركبون على مآسي الناس ويجعلون منها أبراجا عاجية ينادون بأبواق الخديعة ما تطرب له الآذان زو ترعبهم وتخلخل أمنهم. فمن يصدق أن هناك من يبيعون أوطانهم وشعوبهم من أجل حفنات الأموال الملطخة بدمار البلاد والعباد؟

تصادف موت الفناة لسورية المعارضة مي سكاف بجلطة دماغية في فرنسا، بينما كان يتم إخراج المئات من أعضاء الخوذ البيضاء من سورية بعملية إنقاذ قامت بها إسرائيل، بما سمي عملية إنقاذ إنسانية لملوك الرحمة! إسرائيل التي قتلت رزان بينما كانت تسعف مصابي المظاهرات على حدود غزة. إسرائيل التي لم ترحم أركان ابن الثالثة عشر من قنص جنودها صباحا في مخيم الدهيشة. إسرائيل التي تتفن في قتل الفلسطينيين خلف جدران عنصريتها وتقمعهم وتستبد بهم بلا رحمة وتوجت دولتها بالعنصرية على مرأى العالم. تنقذ الخوذ البيضاء من استبداد الأسد!

لماذا لم تنقذ إسرائيل الأبرياء في سورية الذين يقتلون ويشردون ويدمرون مع كل قصف تساهم إسرائيل فيه بالعلن والخفاء؟

قد يكون دماغ مي سكاف الذي فكر بالفعل أن نظام بلادها كان المشكلة الوحيدة في أزمة بلادها من تهجير وقتل وتدمير وتشتيت، استوعب بما لا يترك الشك أن المعارضة لم تكن بنزاهة محبي الوطن.

لم تستوعب أن الأوطان لا يتم تحريرها من الخارج ولا عبر الخارج.

لم تستوعب الا متأخرا أن هناك خونة أشد ضررا على البلاد من أظلم الرؤساء.

وكزن التاريخ يعيد نفسه في سيناريو تمثيلي جديد… الخوذ البيضاء أشبه باللحديين الذين حضنتهم إسرائيل بعد بيعهم لولائهم الوطني ليجدوا أنفسهم اليوم مثل الكلاب الضالة بلا حقوق ولا وجود. اندثروا وهم أحياء إلى مزابل الحاضر ولن يكون لهم في التاريخ الا بقعا سوداء تشير إليهم. كما الخوذ البيضاء الذين شوهوا حب الوطن والإنقاذ وباعوه ببخس لمن خربوا ودمروا وانتهكوا وسفكوا بوطن كان يتحدى طغيان الغرب وخيانة العربان من أجل استحكام لإسرائيل واستغلال لخيرات المنطقة.

الخوذ البيضاء أسقطت ورقة التوت الأخيرة عن عورات المعارضة. وأخذت معها الصالح بالطالح. أولئك السوريون الشرفاء من المعارضين الذين حلموا بديمقراطية ربما، وتعبوا من استبداد كان فسحة بما آلت اليه الأمور لاحقا.

الا ان العناد كفر…

فمن اجل التمسك بمعارضة عميت القلوب وانساقت نحو من يتاجرون بكل شيء من أجل مصالحهم. تم الانجرار وراء المرتزقة في حلة الذقون أحيانا وفي حلة الخوذ البيضاء أحيانا وفيما بينهما الكثير الكثير من المنتفعين المسترزقين على دماء الشعب وحضارته.

أثبت النظام السوري بأن الأوطان أكبر من صراع قوى، وأهم من حجر وحتى ولد، فالسيادة لا يمكن المساومة عليها. والامتداد الصهيوني الأمريكي العربي ليس الا سرطانا قاتلا لا يمهل الا القليل من الوقت قبل الفتك.

الفرق بين الخائن وصاحب الضمير الحي بحب الوطن، أن الخائن يفضح مهما طال زمنه. ويرمى لحظة الانتهاء من خدماته. تنتهي صلاحيته ويرمى في أحسن الأحوال ليكون طعاما للكلاب.

أما من يختار الوطن علما لطريقه، فحتى عند الموت يكون مرفوع الرأس نحو وطن يرفرف علمه عاليا حتى لو أسقطه الخائنون ولو شوهه التائهون عن طريق الأوطان التي تسقى من الدماء لتكون حياة لمن يستحق الحياة.

أصحاب الخوذ البيضاء رحلوا ولقد اسودت وجوههم، وفي ظلمات خروجهم كشفوا ما كان مستورا من تواطؤ الدول الشقيقة والعدوة على سورية كانت وبقيت رغما عن كل من ساءت له نفسه وسولت له هواجسه بأن خير الأوطان يأتي من أعدائها.

ولن يكون غريبا في زمن النذالة هذا، تدخل إسرائيل كوسيط قادم لغير هؤلاء، لمن ارتدى عمائم الإسلام من نصرة وجيوش إسلام…..

The NRA’s Strange Silence On Their Collusion With Russia

The NRA’s Strange Silence On Their Collusion With Russia:

crooksandliars:

“‘The walls are closing in on the NRA.” From your lips to God’s ears, Shannon Watts.

The NRA has powerful bought-and-paid-for friends in Congress, for now. But they’re about to find out what selling out their country will cost once their membership finds out the full extent of what irresponsible leadership has done.

People like Dana Loesch are in for a reckoning.

Source: Raw Story

With host Joy Reid introducing the segment by noting that NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch was recently revealed to have called Moms Demand Action members “dry-humping whores,” the MSNBC host asked founder Shannon Watts to weigh in on the NRA’s silence since the arrest of Butina.

“Why do you suppose they have been quiet about this unfolding scandal involving them?” Reid asked.

..

Ever since the story broke about Butina, they have been silent,” she continued. “Look, we know that the NRA leadership traveled to Moscow. We know they met with Kremlin officials. We know they hosted an alleged Russian agent at their annual meeting. They need to come clean and they need to talk about it and answer questions.”

“The walls are closing in on the NRA,” she warned. “It’s time to be honest with what their relationship is and not with just with Butina, but with Russia.”

The Jewish Nationality Law is the best of Israel

 

The scene of the Arab Knesset members tearing the declaration of the approved law on Jewish national identity of the State of Israel seemed like the shocking surprise of school students who were mad for the result of the exams. Never realizing that writing too much on the exam paper does not mean that you are writing what is required. Writing does not reflect necessary comprehending … So seemed the scene in that mockery instant of another failure.

I am not trying to be sarcastic here, but what is surprising, or better stated what is new?

The PA officials were racing with their condemnation statements: The Law is a racist law!

Seriously?

What is Israel other than a racist existence?

Israel was created to be the home for the Jewish people. All good and okay ( not for us of course) .. well, a sentence from my grandmother passes my mind now: we thought they were coming and leaving!

Israel is a democratic state …for the Jewish people.

That is the best expression I have ever seen about Israel.

It is a democratic state for the jews… Arabs are the conquered species of that war. The only loser in this new law is the Arab who held tight to the tail of Israel and believed that he would get equality based on Justice. This same justice created Israel on the destruction of land and expulsion and massacring of people and an ethnic cleansing that continues until this instant.

Only fools believe that you can build equality through a system that does not see you but an unequal.. a goy… Arabs in the Israeli mentality of statehood are nothing but necessary ( temporarily) “slaves” for the masters that they become.

Is it another model of the Apartheid of SA? Well, it has been evident from the first moment.

Occupation and freedom do not mix. Freedom under injustice cannot exist.

It can only serve as a blurring notion for the fools. Moreover, for those “democratic” regimes who need such acts for propaganda.

In reality, we were always fools to seek justice through a system that existed in our lives and insist on surviving on our remains.

Israel plans a continuous ethnic cleansing that may realize itself at the end in the programmed state in Sinai on the Egyptian land. Sarcastic enough to think, that the JEWISH state of Israel easily gives up on Sinai… The place was Moses supposedly spoke to God!

Going back to the 21st state of the Jewish people, the model of the U.S is, by all means, the easy to adapt the model. In a world of racism, when white is distinguished from black. Where immigrants are treated like thugs, and radical views of fundamentalism are the winning seats on parliaments and governments across the world. Israel is priding itself, and its creating states about its status as a Jewish state only defines reality and put it in perspective. No state solution that includes a one or a two or three. It is just one apartheid state, and that is Israel.. being called Jewish or anything .. APARTHEID is what stands before this state.

The NRA’s attempt to deflect blame away from guns for the Parkland shooting just fell apart

The NRA’s attempt to deflect blame away from guns for the Parkland shooting just fell apart:

justinspoliticalcorner:

Cydney Hargis at MMFA: 

National Rifle Association spokesperson Dana Loesch dismissed new findings that a school-based discipline program called Promise was not responsible for the Parkland, FL, school shooting after pushing the allegation for months that the program allowed the shooting to happen.    

Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz had been referred to Broward County’s Promise program, an alternative option for students “who have committed a behavioral infraction that would normally lead to a juvenile delinquency arrest” in 2013 after he vandalized a bathroom in an area middle school. Despite claims that referring Cruz to the program contributed to the failures to report his behavior to law enforcement, a commission set up to investigate the mass shooting concluded the program was “irrelevant” to Cruz’s ability to obtain an assault weapon and carry out the massacre.

During the months following the February 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that left 17 people dead and 14 others injured, NRA spokesperson and NRATV host Dana Loesch repeatedly shredded the “Obama-era” Promise program during her show, Relentless. During the May 29 edition of her show, Loesch suggested people should protest outside the house of President Barack Obama’s secretary of education, Arne Duncan, because it was his “Promise program initiative that assisted this murderer.”

Loesch said “the real story” behind the Parkland shooting is Broward County Superintendent Robert Runcie “worrying about the appearance of complying with an Obama-era Promise program” which ultimately “guaranteed that this murderer’s red flags would being completely overlooked” during the June 1 edition of Relentless. Four days later, she insisted Duncan’s “policies that were implemented that coddled this murderer failed” Parkland students.      

One day after the Miami Herald reported the commission’s findings, Loesch did a segment on the commission’s work that discussed the Promise program but ignored the revelation that it was found to have no causal relationship to the shooting.

[…]

During the July 13 edition of NRATV’s Relentless, Loesch referenced a tweet Runcie wrote in which he echoed the commission’s finding and said she questioned “how much” she believes him. She went on to place blame squarely on the superintendent, saying if the findings are true, “wouldn’t that just mean that it was his own personal incompetency then that contributed to this instead of a bad program? I mean, that seems like it’s worse.”