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Netanyahu used the phrase, the toast traditionally given each year during the Jewish festival of Passover, in a congratulatory tweet. "You brought a lot of respect to the State of Israel," he wrote. "Next year in Jerusalem!"
It attracted even greater attention in the context of the relocation of the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem that weekend. Many of Netanyahu's supporters celebrated the move, a break with decades of US Middle East policy, as a triumph for the right-winger.
Publication of the cartoon also came just a day after Israeli troops shot dead dozens of Palestinians during protests on the Gaza border, drawing strong criticism from many countries.
Hanitzsch told German broadcaster RND on Thursday that he found Netanyahu's phrase "problematic ... It really does not help to pour even more oil onto the fire."
But Sueddeutsche Zeitung editor-in-chief Krach told the same broadcaster that he saw the cartoon as anti-Semitic and that the newspaper had ended its relationship with the cartoonist.
Hanitzsch told German online news provider t-online.de he had been unfairly treated. He said the newspaper's editors had approved a draft he submitted before they commissioned the cartoon, and then welcomed the final product.
"I didn't sneak the drawing into print," he said.
The German Press Council launched an inquiry to determine whether the cartoon was antisemitic after readers had complained that the image "reminded them of the anti-Semitic language of Nazi times," the council's spokeswoman told Reuters.
A startup called Changers.com makes energy production social. The $149 kit's solar panel hooks up to a battery system that can charge your iPhone in four hours.
Berlin-based startup Changers.com is today launching its social energy marketplace. Its solar-powered gadget charging system will allow people to produce their own energy when they power up their iPhones, iPods, or Android phones.
The system can generate up to four Watts per hour. In other words, when plugged into the solar panel, the battery can be charged in four hours.
A chip inside the battery pack sends the energy data to the Changers.com site, so the user can see how much energy was produced and how much their friends produced. The stats can be shared on Twitter. The person will acquire virtual currency as they produce more energy. For the moment, users can use the currency to buy sustainable goods on Holstee (100 credits equals $10).
"We need to find a way so everyone contributes and is aware of their own energy production," Raffauf said, hoping that his system will help crowd source energy production to combat global warming. "Only if they get the idea that you can change behavior and we change behavior at large, this device enables everyone to produce their own energy and make it visible."
While a portable system like this could be useful to people in developing countries or people living off-the-grid, Changers is targeting the urban demographic in America first. The mobile, social charging system costs $149.
And we saw this remarkable image today that puts a new twist on an old Navy tradition. For the first time, two women sailors shared the traditional first kiss that marks a Navy ship's return home. It happened when the U.S.S. Oak Hill docked in Virginia Beach after 80 days at sea and was made possible by the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, the rule that prevented gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military. There is a first.
Tomorrow will mark one year to the day that President Obama signed the repeal of the U.S. military policy known as Don't Ask, Don't Tell, banning openly gay and lesbian service members. And just today, a sign of the times. Two women shared the traditional first kiss after the U.S.S. Oak Hills returned to home port in Virginia.
Sailors and their families buy dollar raffle tickets for the chance at it, and those two women happened to win it. Critics said changing this law would never work in the real world of combat. Tonight, NBC's Jim Maceda takes one measure of the change on the ground with some of America's troops in Afghanistan.
JIM MACEDA: Task Force Bulldog, on patrol in eastern Afghanistan. It's the kind of combat unit that would implode, critics warned, if Don't Ask, Don't tell were repealed. But the chaos they predicted if openly gay and lesbian soldiers served in close quarters during combat never happened.
STAFF SERGEANT CHRIS BOSTICK, U.S. ARMY: I don't think anything's really changed at all.
MACEDA: Staff Sergeant Chris BostiCk is on his third combat tour, a squad leader.
BOSTICK: Every single one of my soldiers knows that I'm gay, and they know who I am and what I stand for.
MACEDA: And how do his straight buddies see it?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE SOLDIER: If you want to fight for our country, I don't care what you do, you know, that's how it should be.
MACEDA: The repeal divided the military when a year ago President Obama lifted the ban on gays, lesbians and bisexuals serving openly. But now, soldiers from grunts to top brass - even U.S. Marines - have actively embraced the law. And so far, no reports of any incidents like hazing or gay bashing. Behind front lines at large bases like Bagram Airfield, groups of gays and lesbians now meet publically. A coffee hour unheard of only months ago.
Does it become easier to be a soldier?
SPECIALIST SPENCER ROUGIER, MILITARY POLICE: Definitely. Just knowing that you're not gonna be kicked out or have difficulties because of what you say.
MACEDA: 13,000 gays were discharged during Don't Ask, Don't Tell, and the old stigma runs deep. Half of this group of gays asked to conceal their identity, worried about reaction among peers. But hundreds, perhaps thousands of gay soldiers have recently posted their own coming out videos on YouTube, often to their own families.
RANDY PHILLIPS, U.S. AIR FORCE: Dad, I'm gay.
MACEDA: This phone call home by airman Randy Phillips based in Germany to tell his parents he's gay went viral - more than five million hits. Erin Jones, a Navy Petty Officer, now tells anyone who asks that she's lesbian.
PETTY OFFICER ERIN JONES, U.S. NAVY: I always felt like a part of me died every time I had to say, like, oh, my boyfriend, oh, this guy I've been talking to when I didn't mean that.
MACEDA: Even commanders like Marine General James Amos, once against lifting the ban during wartime, now support it.
BOSTICK: I do find that I'm a little more proud of my unit and my country for taking this kind of a step.
MACEDA: Allowing soldiers - straight or gay - to excel as they always have in war, but now to do it freely. Jim Maceda, NBC News, Logar, Afghanistan.
It's where a different type of couture takes over the runway.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTHI) - Preps to reduce, reuse and recycle all came down to one moment on Saturday!
That's as models replayed the runway in Terre Haute.
It's part of ReThink Inc.'s Fashion Show Fundraiser. It's where a different type of couture takes over the runway.
Members created looks out of trash and reusable items.
Local celebrities helped show off the finished products.
Organizers said they wanted to bring awareness to the Carbon footprints we leave behind.
"The bottom line is our youth needs us to pay attention to what we are doing," said Veronica Denny, ReThink Board Member, "We're using up our resources at huge amounts of quantities. We throw trash, styrofoam doesn't break down, we have all kinds of issues that we need to address now."
Money raised will go to helping out with ReThink community gardens, sustainability and green projects throughout the Terre Haute area.
Worshippers pray for the school stabbing victims during a vigil at Spring Baptist Church on Wednesday evening.
People wait outside while police investigate a fatal stabbing at Spring High School on Wed., Sept. 4.
A Spring ISD police car leaves Memorial Hermann hospital on Wed., Sept. 4. Police are investigating a fatal stabbing at Spring High School.
At least one victim of an apparent stabbing Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013 at Spring High School is being treated at Memorial Hermann hospital in Houston.
The Sunday Express Sport has revealed that Old Trafford is Robin Van Persie the Arsenal striker's favoured destination.
But he is demanding to be paid the same as I am before he agrees to join Manchester United!
Ha... why? Does he have expenses like wot I do?
Has he got three racehorses? Expensive tastkes in high-class totty? A hair-piece to maintain?
Iraq on Sunday sentenced 19 Russian women to life in prison for joining the Islamic State group, the latest in a series of heavy verdicts against foreign women linked to the jihadists.
The head of Baghdad’s Central Criminal Court, which deals with terrorism cases, said the women were found guilty of “joining and supporting IS“, according to an AFP journalist at the hearing. Six women from Azerbaijan and four from Tajikistan were also condemned to life in prison Sunday on the same charge.
The women, who have the right to appeal against the sentences, entered the court one-by-one dressed in black headscarves and pink blouses, most of them accompanied by their children. They addressed the court through a translator, a Russian-language professor at Baghdad University hired by their embassy for the trial.
“We will contact the parents to inform them of the verdict,” a Russian diplomat at the hearing told AFP.
IS took over nearly one third of Iraq in a blistering 2014 offensive, seizing control of the country’s second largest city, Mosul, among others. Baghdad declared military victory over the jihadists in December, after expelling them from all urban centres.
It has detained at least 560 women and 600 children identified as jihadists or relatives of suspected IS fighters, and is wasting no time in putting them on trial.
Most of the women on trial on Sunday claimed they were tricked into going to Iraq.
Experts estimate that Iraq is holding 20,000 people in jail over suspected IS membership. There is no official figure.
Iraqi courts have sentenced to death a total of more than 300 people, including dozens of foreigners, for belonging to IS, judicial sources said earlier this month.
Iraq’s anti-terrorism law empowers courts to convict people who are believed to have helped jihadists even if they are not accused of carrying out attacks.
From the shores of Lake Chad, Islamic State’s West African ally is on a mission: winning over the local people.
As conservative congress-critters hide from their constituents to avoid answering tough questions about the GOP’s anti-American policies, RWNJs of all shapes and sizes are spreading disinformation, deceits, deceptions, and outright lies.
Solution: Have Ryan and other conservatives swap their current healthcare plan for their newly-hatched scheme.
Jason Chaffetz (the neo-Nazi representative from Utah’s 3rd congressional district) chided people for considering the purchase of an iPhone instead of buying health insurance. Average cost of a new iPhone: $775. Average cost of health insurance: $3,650.
Conclusion: Jason Chaffetz is a moron.
John Shimkus (the misogynistic representative from Illinois’ 15th congressional district) doesn’t think people of the male persuasion should have to pay for prenatal care because that’s something for people of the female persuasion. Once again we are facing a conservatard who fails to comprehend the idea of insurance, not to mention failing to understand the concept of government doing things for the public good.
Recommendation: Deny conservatives like Shimkus any healthcare procedure affecting any male organ.
Roger Marshall (the condescending and hypocritical theocrat from Kansas’ 1st congressional district) says that lower-income Americans don’t take care of themselves and don’t want healthcare. That is insulting enough but then Marshass made it worse by invoking Jesus in his comments.
Prescription: Take Roger Marshall out behind the barn and administer a truth enema.
Idea: Create an emergency education plan for residents of Lyin’ Ryan’s 1st congressional district in Wisconsin so they become informed enough to toss this cretin out of office.
Sean Spicer (press secretary for Pretend President Dangerous Donnie) said that jobs figures from the Labor Department were fake in the Obama administration but they’re real now. Guess what, buttercup — math has not changed during the past few months.
Suggestion: Start funneling money into anti-Alzheimer’s research because Sean “Melissa” Spicy obviously needs help.
Karma: Ron DeSantis gets cancer.
Supposition: Paying a lowlife white supremacist like Mo Brooks is ten thousand times more unproductive than all welfare programs combined.
Postulation: Paul Ryan doesn’t do math. Or compassion. Or leadership. Or American values.
The Brexit process – initiated by a referendum in June 2016, that saw a small majority support the exit of the UK from the European Community – has been a “bugger’s muddle”, and now stands as almost a monument as to how to mismanage a significant national issue. The “deal” put by PM Theresa May to the UK Parliament this week, after almost two-and-a-half years of so-called “development and negotiation”, was humiliatingly rejected almost 2:1, still leaving no clear path forward. The exit is to take place in some 70 days time, on March 29. It is fair to say that the referendum initiated by the Cameron government was ill considered to begin with, but it seems was done apparently with the expectation that an “exit” would be opposed. But it wasn’t, and the voter turnout was historically high at 72 per cent, so Cameron resigned, and May was elected. May then called an early election, claiming to want to achieve something like a 100-seat majority, to give her a strong base for what would be very difficult negotiations with the Europeans. However, to her surprise, she ended up with a minority government, needing Parliamentary support at every turn. It was a real struggle for May to get her colleagues to accept her deal, and was only achieved at the cost of a number of resignations of key ministers, including several responsible for delivering the Brexit. Indeed, even though she had the support within her government to put the deal before the Parliament this week, more than 100 of her backbench voted against the deal. Immediately following the parliamentary defeat opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn moved a “no confidence” motion, which May survived, leaving massive uncertainty as to what would now happen. Major options are to seek to delay the exit date until around year-end, in the hope of developing a “deal” that would gain sufficient, cross-party, parliamentary support; a new referendum; or a “hard Brexit”, that is just leaving without a deal; or even May calling another election. May would be wise to “test” the Parliament on each of these although, while you can never be sure without a formal vote, it seems that a majority of the Parliament wouldn’t support a new referendum, nor a hard Brexit and, as the failure of the “no confidence” motion demonstrated, Parliament doesn’t want another early election either, mostly because they (including some in his Labor Party) don’t want Corbyn to win government. This has, of course, been a very divisive issue right across the UK, and especially city vs many of the regions/nations, and the electorate is now genuinely frustrated that an effective, acceptable, deal wasn’t agreed in all this time. Their wishes were expressed democratically, and they had every reason to believe that the Cameron government had a plan to deliver the exit they voted for. As expected, the Europeans played “hard ball” conceding little in the so-called negotiations with May. They were most concerned about the risk of “fragmentation” of the European Community, especially with the challenge of mass migration from the Middle East and North Africa-that a UK exit might set something of a precedent, tempting other nations to follow. The UK is also Europe’s most significant trading partner, and major funder. It is also significant that the original referendum was based heavily on emotion and “fear” rather than hard evidence and analysis of the costs and benefits. A significant concern stemmed from the lack of an effective immigration policy in the context of the challenge of mass migration. The exaggerated argument that held a lot of sway was the unsubstantiated “threat” that the UK was about to be inundated by some 5 million refugees from the Middle East and North Africa, and that the UK would be “bound” by its membership of the EU to take them. In many ways, the UK had the best deal with Europe – it had the advantage of free access to a large market, the second largest economy, but was not constrained by being a member of the Euro. This gave them considerable flexibility in economic policy. Where to now? Party consultations, more no confidence motions, possibly an attempt to delay the exit, but unlikely agreement, which would probably not be solved even with another election. The worst of all possible outcomes. John Hewson is a professor at the Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU, and a former Liberal opposition leader.
The Brexit process – initiated by a referendum in June 2016, that saw a small majority support the exit of the UK from the European Community – has been a “bugger’s muddle”, and now stands as almost a monument as to how to mismanage a significant national issue.
The “deal” put by PM Theresa May to the UK Parliament this week, after almost two-and-a-half years of so-called “development and negotiation”, was humiliatingly rejected almost 2:1, still leaving no clear path forward. The exit is to take place in some 70 days time, on March 29.
It is fair to say that the referendum initiated by the Cameron government was ill considered to begin with, but it seems was done apparently with the expectation that an “exit” would be opposed. But it wasn’t, and the voter turnout was historically high at 72 per cent, so Cameron resigned, and May was elected.
May then called an early election, claiming to want to achieve something like a 100-seat majority, to give her a strong base for what would be very difficult negotiations with the Europeans. However, to her surprise, she ended up with a minority government, needing Parliamentary support at every turn.
It was a real struggle for May to get her colleagues to accept her deal, and was only achieved at the cost of a number of resignations of key ministers, including several responsible for delivering the Brexit. Indeed, even though she had the support within her government to put the deal before the Parliament this week, more than 100 of her backbench voted against the deal.
It is fair to say that the referendum initiated by the Cameron government was ill considered to begin with.
Immediately following the parliamentary defeat opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn moved a “no confidence” motion, which May survived, leaving massive uncertainty as to what would now happen.
Major options are to seek to delay the exit date until around year-end, in the hope of developing a “deal” that would gain sufficient, cross-party, parliamentary support; a new referendum; or a “hard Brexit”, that is just leaving without a deal; or even May calling another election.
May would be wise to “test” the Parliament on each of these although, while you can never be sure without a formal vote, it seems that a majority of the Parliament wouldn’t support a new referendum, nor a hard Brexit and, as the failure of the “no confidence” motion demonstrated, Parliament doesn’t want another early election either, mostly because they (including some in his Labor Party) don’t want Corbyn to win government.
This has, of course, been a very divisive issue right across the UK, and especially city vs many of the regions/nations, and the electorate is now genuinely frustrated that an effective, acceptable, deal wasn’t agreed in all this time. Their wishes were expressed democratically, and they had every reason to believe that the Cameron government had a plan to deliver the exit they voted for.
As expected, the Europeans played “hard ball” conceding little in the so-called negotiations with May. They were most concerned about the risk of “fragmentation” of the European Community, especially with the challenge of mass migration from the Middle East and North Africa-that a UK exit might set something of a precedent, tempting other nations to follow. The UK is also Europe’s most significant trading partner, and major funder.
It is also significant that the original referendum was based heavily on emotion and “fear” rather than hard evidence and analysis of the costs and benefits. A significant concern stemmed from the lack of an effective immigration policy in the context of the challenge of mass migration. The exaggerated argument that held a lot of sway was the unsubstantiated “threat” that the UK was about to be inundated by some 5 million refugees from the Middle East and North Africa, and that the UK would be “bound” by its membership of the EU to take them.
In many ways, the UK had the best deal with Europe – it had the advantage of free access to a large market, the second largest economy, but was not constrained by being a member of the Euro. This gave them considerable flexibility in economic policy.
Where to now? Party consultations, more no confidence motions, possibly an attempt to delay the exit, but unlikely agreement, which would probably not be solved even with another election. The worst of all possible outcomes.
Published: Oct. 23, 2012 at 03:23 p.m.
Updated: Oct. 23, 2012 at 10:40 p.m.
Gregg Rosenthal watches every rookie quarterback snap and ranks them every Tuesday based on that week only. It's a tough job, but he's man enough to do it.
A lot of superlatives have been thrown RG3's way this week. We haven't heard "steady" to describe him enough. Every week feels like only a slight variation on the one before. He's patient. He's very accurate from the pocket. He makes good decisions -- often safe ones.
Griffin would just barely edge out Andrew Luck for my Rookie of the Year vote because he's so consistent. He's finished first or second in this weekly exercise six times in seven tries. Of course, he can mix in the spectacular too.
His fourth-down throw to Logan Paulsen was one of the plays of the year. He picked up two other fourth downs in the fourth quarter with a designed run and a fake draw where he took a step forward, got the linebacker to bit, and found Leonard Hankerson. Griffin actually had his least steady stretch before his dramatic TD drive -- two fumbles and an interception in 2 drives -- but he was nearly flawless in the rest of the Redskins' 27-23 loss to the New York Giants. Washington's powerful offense is basically all about the RG3 Zone.
Weeden improves every week. He nabs the second spot this here because he showed the full arsenal in the Browns' 17-13 loss to the Indianapolis Colts. He's got a big arm and used it on a perfect third-and-13 conversion. He found his second read for a potential touchdown that was called back by penalty. On the next play, he showed touch on a toss Greg Little turned on for a highlight reel. Weeden gives his receivers chances to make plays; he's not afraid.
Weeden missed a few deep passes, but a beautiful bomb thrown to Josh Gordon was dropped. Weeden was hit on the play and continues to stand tall in the pocket. He even made a surprising scramble to pick up another third-and-long. The Browns have a nice mix of slants, screens, and vertical throws. Weeden hit three plays over 25 yards and there should have been four. He's probably played his best game of the season four weeks running and hits No. 2 on our countdown for the first time. A true honor.
Luck bounced back nicely from his rough game against the Jets. He made two long touchdown drives look easy to start the game. He got great protection in the first half, but still showed off his knack for movement inside the pocket. His rushing ability continues to be extremely valuable -- he ran for two scores.
The offense stagnated in the second half. A drop by T.Y. Hilton and a miscommunication with Lavon Brazill didn't help. The Browns played nickel the entire game, so the Colts relied on the running game far more to mixed results. (That's an improvement.) Luck played a good game, but Weeden got the slight edge because he was asked to do more and he was a little more accurate. The Colts are 3-3 almost entirely because of Luck. This is not a good team.