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We, in the United States, have yet to realize both the futility and immense consequences of war even as we develop, store, sell, and use hideous weapons. The number of children killed is rising.
At 9:30 in the morning of March 26, the entrance to a rural hospital in northwest Yemen, supported by Save the Children, was teeming as patients waited to be seen and employees arrived at work. Suddenly, missiles from an airstrike hit the hospital, killing seven people, four of them children.
I visited the city of Christchurch on May 23, 2018, as part of a larger speaking tour in New Zealand that also took me to Auckland, Wellington, Hamilton and Dunedin.
New Zealand is an exceptional country, different from other countries that are often lumped under the generalized designation of the ‘western world.’ Almost immediately after my arrival to Auckland, New Zealand’s largest and most populous city, I was struck by the overt friendliness, hospitality and diversity.
He has sent so many cliques and groups into titters of anger, and the indignant have attempted to turn on him. The university environment should be the last place where dangerous ideas, and views, are stifled and stomped upon. In actual fact, we are seeing the reverse; from students unions to middle- and upper-managerial parasites and administrators, the contrarian idea must be boxed, the controversial speaker silenced and sent beyond the pale. Dissent and disagreement are lethal toxin to such affected notions as “diversity” and “inclusiveness”.
When President Donald Trump moved the US embassy to occupied Jerusalem last year, effectively sabotaging any hope of establishing a viable Palestinian state, he tore up the international rulebook.
Donald Trump’s first action upon assuming the Presidential throne of the United States involved the re-location of a bust of Winston Churchill back into the Oval Office. Originally given to President Bush the Second in July, 2001, Churchill’s bust was removed by Barack Obama (January, 2009) in favor of a bust of Martin Luther King. If the symbolism in all of this changing of the bust business were a pinball machine, then lights and buzzers would be flashing and dinging like crazy!
I decided to write this ninth love letter specially to Inaam, the 21st century generations of the world and the people of Okinawa because of three personal reasons.
I miss having the wonderful energies of 15-year-old Inaam at the Borderfree Nonviolence Community Centre. Inaam has to polish boots in the streets of Kabul to supplement his family’s income and to survive today’s terrible economic system.
The US coup with the self-proclaimed Venezuelan puppet president Juan Guaidó has been failing. Right-wing Latin American countries and the European Union, while willing to go along with the charade farce president, have not been willing to take military action against Venezuela.
For so long, we have been pushed out from democracy. Our elected officials and political parties, both Republicans and Democrats, have been undermining the will of ordinary people. Monopoly media, bought by corporate money has turned against public interests, distorting information and manipulating public perception.
Can a Socialist Win in the U.S.A.?
It’s a stretch to assume, the way all cable news anchors do, that a self-avowed socialist cannot become U.S. president, due to a supposedly inherent, gut-level American antipathy to socialism. The talking heads posit this in an attempt to convince the viewers that any hopes they have for fundamental change are hopeless if they challenge the omnipotent capitalist system. Don’t even think about it!
Consciousness is… from the very beginning a social product.
In all times some must be rich, some poore, some highe and eminent in power and dignitie; others mean in subjeccion.
I think I can see the whole destiny of America contained in the first Puritan who landed on those shores.
Today utopia is maligned because no one really wants to see its realization.
What exactly is the religious rationale for Israel as a Jewish state? Who better to ask than an America Jewish secular journalist. We can assume that makes our investigative journalist a zionist (90% of Jews support Israel — DV Ed note: This is not a definition of a Zionist), but, as a journalist, and secular, our protagonist assures the reader he is interested in giving us as objective a version as can be expected.
Well, not exactly like that, but in a way, yes. Now, finally, ‘the gloves are off’. The U.S. is openly threatening the historically timid ICC (International Criminal Court) and its judges. And unexpectedly, the ICC is hitting back. It refuses to shut up, to kneel, and to beg for mercy.
Children’s crusades do not necessarily end well. During the years of armed missions to the Holy Land, when Jerusalem meant something to the sacredly inclined in Europe, children were encouraged to take to the rough and dangerous road as it wound its way towards Palestine. In 1212, a boy of 12 is said to have begun preaching at Saint-Denis in France. God had supposedly taken some time to communicate a pressing wish: Christian children were to head to the Holy Land and liberate it from the Infidel. How they would do so was not clear.
This biography-like series focuses on musicians and musical groups. Episodes follow how musicians began their careers, how they handle their celebrity status and, sometimes how they deal with their fall from grace as well. The one-hour special Dying in Vein is the precursor to Behind the Music, sharing the same approach in storytelling.
In most cases, the artists that are profiled have achieved success, but are no longer in the top of their field. Jim Forbes provides the narration for most of the episodes. The voiceover accompanies visuals of old concert footage and photos with interviews with the musicians and their peers. The first artists to be profiled were Milli Vanilli, followed by episodes featuring M.C. Hammer, Boy George, Fleetwood Mac, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Billy Joel Gladys Knight, and Ozzy Osbourne, and many others.
Those that never lose their impact on the industry are saved for VH1’s Legends series, although there are a few rare artists, such as Tina Turner, Queen, Elton John, and John Lennon that have appeared on both shows.
The show ceased production in 2006 after nine seasons and 200 episodes. New episodes began airing in the Fall of 2009.
Is the CIA working with the NYT to harm our troops in Afghanistan?
Big Journalism reports the New York Times is about to out the Department of Defense's covert agents in Afghanistan, putting them and our troops in great danger. I'd consider this a claim that required a great deal of evidence before repeating it, but as you recall we already reported that the paper outed Karzai's brother as a covert CIA agent,without penalty, so this would be just more of the same outrageous behavior.
As chronicled here, here, here, and here the Central Intelligence Agency via the New York Times has been waging a nasty proxy war against the Department of Defense over its use of former military and intelligence personnel to do what the CIA is both incapable and unwilling to do: gather the much needed intelligence that keeps our troops safe.
According to Washington Post columnist, David Ignatius, "[T]he U.S. military has long been unhappy about the quality of CIA intelligence in Afghanistan," and the senior military intelligence officer in Afghanistan, Maj Gen Michael T. Flynn went so far as to publish a stunning report calling for "sweeping changes to the way the intelligence community thinks about itself."
I am not sure that our outdated laws are adequate to deal with this, especially if, as this report indicates, the CIA is working with the Times to make this information public.. During the last administration the paper printed national security secrets without incurring prosecution.
It also calls into question once again the efficacy of the CIA and its meddling in domestic affairs to protect its turf whatever the costs to those doing the job it can no longer do.
Ever since Grey’s Anatomy introduced Nathan back in Season 12, we’ve heard the legend of how his two-timing had led to the “death” of Owen’s sister. Well, in Thursday’s “Danger Zone” (9/8c, ABC), we actually flash back to 2007 to see how the story unfolded for real. “It’s like a big Oprah ‘Aha!’ episode,” says Abigail Spencer, who plays Megan. “What you think went down, because everybody’s been alluding to it for years and years, is not the thing that actually happened.
In the wake of the revealing hour, which takes place partly in the past, partly in the present, the reunited couple won’t be the only ones who have closure. Though “it kind of sets up a whole new life for them… it’s a big moment for everybody to get very real about their relationships,” previews the Timeless star. In particular, “Megan’s a real catalyst for Owen to deal with his life. She says a lot of things that he needs to hear. He’s been shape-shifting for a lot of different people, and I don’t know if he really knows what he wants. Megan’s return has set off a tremor that’s going to be a larger earthquake in his life.
So, are you looking forward to rewinding to see how it all fell apart between Nathan and Megan? Hit the comments.
The indirect targets of the Ivory Coast attack are both France and a commitment to secularism in western Africa.
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb claimed responsibility for the Grand-Bassam attack in Ivory Coast that left at least 16 people dead on Sunday. This latest attack indicates a strategic shift by the terrorist group: spreading fear and instability further south and destabilising the capitals of the countries involved in fighting against its Sahel bastions. After smearing the streets of Ouagadougou and Bamako with blood over the past six months, the terrorists have added a new country on their list of targets.
In all three cases, such attacks have been intended to derail a steady process of institution building. The objective of these attacks is to fuel hatred and xenophobia while impeding the economic development of societies where fundamentalists hope to recruit more zealots.
The biggest enemy and strongest weapon against fundamentalism is a healthy democratic society promoting a multi-party system and guaranteeing freedom of expression.
Nowhere is this more true than in Africa, a continent whose economic development is often hampered by the weakness of its political institutions.
By targeting hotels frequented by Western tourists and entrepreneurs, the terrorists are hoping to attack African economies at their heart, damaging its tourism sector and hampering the attraction of foreign investors.
Sunday's attacks in Grand-Bassam followed this objective as did the recent attack against the Splendid Hotel in Ouagadougou and the raid again the Radisson Blu hotel in the Malian capital Bamako.
Similarities are striking between the three attacks even beyond the choice of targets. Burkina Faso, Mali and Ivory Coast are three countries which had successfully overcome an era of turmoil to organise peaceful presidential elections.
In Ivory Coast, the past five years have been impressive in terms of institutional reconstruction after the coastal nation was riven by two religious wars from 2002-2007 and 2010-2011 between a government-held Christian south and northern regions under the control of Muslim rebels. As a result, Alassane Ouattara was re-elected by a landslide in a relatively peaceful election last year.
Far from traditional cliches and the image that terrorists want to spread, Western Africa has changed over the past few years. From the peaceful transition in Nigeria between Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari to the stepping down of president Amadou Toumani Toure in conformity with the Malian constitution or the rebirth of democracy in Burkina Faso, the continent has proved its capacity to steadily move towards sustainable democracy despite the terrorist threats.
Ibrahim Boubacar Keita in Mali, Roch Marc Christian Kabore in Burkina Faso and Alassane Ouattara in Ivory Coast were each elected after widely acclaimed ballots in which their opponents peacefully admitted defeat and publicly congratulated the winning candidates.
If Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, known as AQIM, and Boko Haram have suffered severe military defeats on the ground recently, the biggest drawback for fundamentalists has been the resilience of Western African societies and their capacity to answer with a commitment to democratic rule.
If the recent terrorist attacks aim to scare away investments essential to African development, they are no more than painful defeats in a war for democracy that is being steadily and slowly won.
Beyond Ivory Coast, the indirect target of Sunday's attack are both France and a commitment to secularism in western Africa. Indeed, in 2014, Paris announced that its former colony would be its base for fighting Islamist terrorism in the Sahel region.
A 3,000-strong task force of French solders has been based there ever since. Similarly in July 2015, foreign imams were banned from preaching in mosques in the north of Ivory Coast and the government suspended the construction of new radical mosques around the northern city of Ouangolodougou. The renewed French involvement in the subcontinent is hampering the progression of fundamentalists' ideology and interests.
Each of the Western African countries recently attacked by AQIM benefited from the benevolent support of the former coloniser, France, and Francois Hollande's administration, which broke away from his predecessor's resolute decision to support authoritarian leaders at the expense of democratic demands.
If French interference in African domestic affairs is far from over, the approach is vastly different. Sarkozy's speech belittling the "African man who had failed to enter history" has thankfully been replaced by a more humble support to endogenous institution building supported by the current French president.
The growing political democratic stability of Western African countries which face terrorist threats on a daily basis is also a lesson for populations in industrialised countries in Europe and the United States. While the latter have decided to cower into debates on national identity and to turn more and more towards populistic leaders - from Donald Trump to Viktor Orban or Marine Le Pen - the former have shown a political maturity that breaks with the obsolete cliche on Western Africa.
The outcome of the war on terrorism in the continent will depend on the capacity of African societies to continue supporting their newly democratically elected regimes. The same holds true for Europe and the United States following the attacks in Paris and San Bernardino.
If local populations turn their back on mainstream liberal parties and answer the xenophobic calls of extreme movements and leaders, then the terrorists will have achieved their objectives. This would boost their capacity to recruit and only increase the rate of attacks.
Whether in Ivory Coast, Mali or in Burkina Faso, whether in recently stricken Indonesia, Turkey or Tunisia, the reinforcement of liberal democracy is the only cure to the terrorist cancer.
When I ring up a big bill at the grocery store, I picture myself in a Delta Comfort+ seat. That’s because I’m paying with my Delta-branded American Express, where all dollars spent add to my SkyMiles bank (which I tend to use for upgrades).
I am a fan of the airline’s SkyMiles program and the American Express card that pads it. That puts me at odds with others who find my approach old-fashioned or best reserved for business travelers whose companies pay the way. Those people probably don’t live in a market with a carrier as dominant as Delta.
“For Minneapolis-based fliers, having a co-branded card can make a world of difference. Perks like free checked luggage can easily offset a card’s annual fee,” said Kyle Potter, editor at Minneapolis-based Thriftytraveler.com. Fliers with a gold ($95), platinum ($195) or reserve ($450) Delta-branded American Express can check a bag for free; the airline charges $30 one-way on many flights.
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Potter’s favorite way to use SkyMiles is to nab a flight during a SkyMiles flash sale, when the number of miles to purchase a flight can be half of the usual charge. “Last month they had a round trip to China for 30,000 SkyMiles,” Potter said. Those sales, though sometimes unannounced, are often noted with an e-mail to SkyMiles members.
When dealing with a behemoth in the marketplace, book the best fare on any airline, and avoid becoming a slave to Delta in the search for SkyMiles. Especially when a trip to the grocery store will tick up the miles.
While "climate grief" has many young people mired in worry about a warming planet, others are banding together to try to make a difference.
A WOMAN is facing theft charges after allegedly eating thousands of dollars worth of ham at her deli job.
A GROCERY store employee could be charged with theft for her alleged daily snacking habit.
The unnamed employee worked in Bolivar in the US state of Ohio at the grocery chain Giant Eagle for eight years.
During that time, authorities claim she helped herself to three to five slices of ham every day, totalling $AU12,936 in lost revenue. They allege she would also sometimes eat salami.
The Associated Press reports that the store’s loss prevention manager received a tip that the employee had been eating the meat slices for years.
“While our office did take a report of the issue as requested by the store, no determination of charges has been made. The procedure is to send the report to the Prosecutor’s Office and they are the ones to decide.
“While my office does not have the authority to make the final decision in this case, I do feel confident that once all of the facts are relayed to the prosecutor, felony charges are unlikely,” the statement read before adding that no arrests and “no formal filing of charges” had happened yet.
This article originally appeared on Fox News and has been republished here with permission.
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March 8 is International Women's Day and we couldn't think of a better way to celebrate than with a story time featuring this Bold & Brave. This inspiring picture book from U.S. Senator Gillibrand profiles 10 suffragists who strove to win the right to vote for American women--a journey that took more than 70 years of passionate commitment. Join us in the Readings Gallery for stories, crafts, a small snack and great conversation. Note: author does NOT attend.
Memphis hopes to schedule Georgetown next season, Tigers coach Penny Hardaway said during his pregame interview on Rock 103 Memphis Saturday.
Already on the schedule for the 2019-20 season are Ole Miss (Nov. 16) and Northeastern (preferred dates are Nov. 11, Nov. 16 or Nov. 30). The game against the Rebels will be at FedExForum, while the Northeastern tilt will be in Boston.
Other potential games for the 2019-2020 season include a matchup on Nov. 5 against South Carolina State at FedExForum. The proposed contract between the schools has only been signed by Memphis.
The rematch of the rejuvenated rivalry between Memphis and Tennessee will take place Dec. 14 at Thompson-Boling Arena in Knoxville.
The Tigers have also signed a contract to play in the Myrtle Beach Invitational on Nov. 21-24. Mississippi State, Villanova, Baylor, Utah, Middle Tennessee State, Ohio and Coastal Carolina are also scheduled to be part of the event.
Many entertainment stars love the finer things in life, but it seems even the earnings of an A-lister like Johnny Depp couldn't sustain his wild indulgences.