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It may sound like a "conspiracy theory," but the close relationship between the U.S. and Israel-which costs American taxpayers nearly $4 billion a year-has extended to the training of law enforcement, and dozens of American officials are sent to Israel to train with Israeli law enforcement each year.
In September 2017, the Jerusalem Post reported that 52 American police officers from 12 states made a special trip to Israel "to train in counterterrorism techniques and attend an annual 9/11 memorial service outside Jerusalem" with the Police Unity Tour, which was established in 1997. During the trip, the delegation of officers was based at the Beit Shemesh police academy where they participated in counterterrorism drills and received training from Israeli military and police before they concluded on Sept. 11 with a 9/11 memorial service.
© Maurico Palos/BloombergThe newsprint tariffs are being collected, but they are not finalized yet. The Commerce Department is set to finalize its decision by August.
The bill, introduced by Rep. Kristi Noem, R-S.D., is a response to the 22 percent tariff that the Trump administration has imposed on some Canadian newsprint since the beginning of this year. Noem said that tariff has led to rising costs for local newspapers, and are a threat to their survival.
"In recent years, new tariffs on Canadian newsprint have increased paper prices by 20 to 30 percent," Noem said in a statement. "That's significant. A paper that services around 20,000 customers, for instance, could see paper costs rise by about a quarter-million dollars annually, threatening the newspaper's survival."
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Her son's April 16 note, Landers said, was the culmination of months of bullying Jared endured in the classroom. That bullying included being struck in the face and thrown in the mud by another student. Even threats of electrocution.
"Jared has been relentlessly bullied," his stepfather, Josh Landers, told The Daily Signal. "To the point of being suicidal."
The Landerses tried addressing the situation with officials at Pine Grove Elementary School in Carney, Maryland, where Jared, who has since turned 10, is in fourth grade.
© WikicommonsThe gun battle resulted in the suspension of the Sugarloaf cable car service.
At least six bodies were reportedly discovered at the base of Brazil's famed Sugarloaf mountain on Sunday, according to local rescue authorities.
Police claim the bodies were retrieved from the area following a fierce gun battle between law enforcers and gunmen days before. The exchange resulted in widespread panic among residents as well as the suspension of the Sugarloaf cable car service which left tourists stranded.
The 100 or so visitors to the upscale Urca region were rendered immobile for about two hours while the gunfire exchange took place. Several weapons seized police following a land and sea search, police said.
The lawmen claimed that the deceased individuals were involved in ongoing gang battle over turf. President Michel Temer deployed armed forces across the state of Rio de Janeiro earlier in the year.
Brazil is facing economic and political unrest as well as experiencing a notable spike in violence, over the past few years.
Comment: According to a report in Spanish, the gunfight took place on a beach at the bottom of the Sugarloaf.
Like many countries in Latin America, the social climate in Brazil is currently quite explosive:
Brazilian president Michel Temer sends in army as truck protest causes fuel and food shortages
Introducing a performance by Bruce Springsteen, the actor twice denounces the president, but his words are bleeped out for TV audiences
The actor Robert De Niro won a standing ovation at Sunday night's Tony awards in New York for attacking the president. Appearing on stage at New York's Radio City Music Hall, De Niro declared: "I'm gonna say one thing. Fuck Trump."
Comment: Ooh, deep and edgy.
As the applauding audience rose to their feet, De Niro continued: "It's no longer down with Trump. It's fuck Trump." He then continued with an apparently prepared introduction of Bruce Springsteen.
Comment: Ooh, progressive.
Although the show was broadcast as-live, CBS had time to bleep out the f-word for TV audiences, thought to number around six million.
Comment: Probably more like one million.
De Niro has long been a vociferous critic of Donald Trump. After calling him "totally nuts" in August 2016, the actor released a video during the election campaign stating his desire to punch Trump in the face, and calling him "an idiot, a national disaster, an embarrassment to this country ... this fool, this bozo".
Hollywood, aka Wunderland, aka La-la-land - where everyone is The Star (in their own mind)
Comment: Ooh, deep and edgy.
As the applauding audience rose to their feet, De Niro continued: "It's no longer down with Trump. It's fuck Trump." He then continued with an apparently prepared introduction of Bruce Springsteen.
Comment: Ooh, progressive.
Although the show was broadcast as-live, CBS had time to bleep out the f-word for TV audiences, thought to number around six million.
Comment: Probably more like one million.
De Niro has long been a vociferous critic of Donald Trump. After calling him "totally nuts" in August 2016, the actor released a video during the election campaign stating his desire to punch Trump in the face, and calling him "an idiot, a national disaster, an embarrassment to this country ... this fool, this bozo".
Comment: The Liberal-Postmodernist-Left can't really complain about 'the population being dumbed-down' and having a leader who 'speaks to them in childish language' when they whoop and holler at a polemic that even most of the population's poorest - be they 'white trash', 'illegals' or 'gangbangers' - wouldn't use in public.
However, earlier this year during the Cambridge Analytica scandal we began to see some of the first hints that our phones may actually be listening to us.
Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie says that they have probably been listening all along. During an appearance before the UK parliament, Wylie said, "There's audio that could be useful just in terms of, are you in an office environment, are you outside, are you watching TV, what are you doing right now?"
Since the scandal, experts who have studied this possibility began revealing their surprising results.
In a recent interview with Vice, Dr. Peter Hannay, the senior security consultant for the cybersecurity firm Asterisk, explained how third-party apps exploit a loophole to gather the voice data from your phone.
Suzanna Danuta Walters, a professor of sociology and director of the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Northeastern University, is the editor of the gender studies journal Signs.
It's not that Eric Schneiderman (the now-former New York attorney general accused of abuse by multiple women) pushed me over the edge. My edge has been crossed for a long time, before President Trump, before Harvey Weinstein, before "mansplaining" and "incels." Before live-streaming sexual assaults and red pill men's groups and rape camps as a tool of war and the deadening banality of male prerogative.
Seen in this indisputably true context, it seems logical to hate men. I can't lie, I've always had a soft spot for the radical feminist smackdown, for naming the problem in no uncertain terms. I've rankled at the "but we don't hate men" protestations of generations of would-be feminists and found the "men are not the problem, this system is" obfuscation too precious by half.
But, of course, the criticisms of this blanket condemnation of men - from transnational feminists who decry such glib universalism to U.S. women of color who demand an intersectional perspective - are mostly on the mark. These critics rightly insist on an analysis of male power as institutional, not narrowly personal or individual or biologically based in male bodies. Growing movements to challenge a masculinity built on domination and violence and to engage boys and men in feminism are both gratifying and necessary. Please continue.
Comment: Wow, this article is so wrong on so many levels that it's hard to think of a short way to put it, but let this sink in:
A university professor writing for a major American newspaper is actually calling for half of humanity to hate the other half.
What can possibly go wrong??
Who do you help when you censor a cartoon depicting Israel's well-documented war crimes against Palestinians - and do so on the grounds that the criticism of Israel is anti-semitic?
The answer is: you help anti-semites.
Here is the cartoon the Guardian does not want its readers to see.
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Comment: Indeed, political Zionism is so self-contradictory as an ideology that in trying to defend Israel's image it actually hurts it further. But that what's happens when you try to defend the indefensible. No matter Israel's excuse for massacting civilians, they still massacred civilians, and that is as plain as day for all to see.
© ReutersPodemos (We Can) party leader Pablo Iglesias delivers a speech during a motion of no confidence debate at Parliament in Madrid, Spain, May 31, 2018
"We need to act more firmly on an illegal country like Israel," said Pablo Iglesias Turrion during an interview with the RTVE public broadcaster.
It has been some difficult weeks for the Israeli occupation. Shakira canceled her concert in Tel Aviv, Argentina canceled the friendly soccer match with Israel, many well-known and international artists and filmmakers pulled out of the pinkwashing Tel Aviv LGBT film festival, and a wave of cities in the Spanish state have declared their support for the Palestinian cause.
Comment: All over the world citizens are uniting against Israel's barbaric treatment of the Palestinians:
- The Death of Razan al-Najjar and Israel's Culture of Impunity
- Israeli occupation forces seal Palestinians' family home with them inside
- The Real Story of How Israel Was Created
- Behind the Headlines: The Truth About Israel and Palestine, with Robert Fantina
- The Truth Perspective: Identity Politics on Steroids: How Zionism Outdoes Them All
Comment: Given the IDF's historical indiscriminate killing of Palestinians in Gaza, this doesn't bode well for US citizens.