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Post by mhbruin on Oct 27, 2023 8:46:28 GMT -8
If a bottle of poison reaches its expiration date, is it more poisonous or is it no longer poisonous?
Today's Anti-Semtic News
A teenager on a New York City playground yelled death threats at a 9-year-old Jewish boy, The New York Post reported.
The teen allegedly yelled, "I will kill you, Jew," to the boy, whose mother said her daughter was also threatened during the incident, which happened in Brooklyn on Monday.
“My kids were shaking, they were crying,” said Chaya Sundroy, who is an Israeli immigrant. “They asked why – we didn’t do nothing to him, why they say that, why they want to kill us? They were really, really scared about it.”
Police said the teen also yelled "Heil Hitler" during the attack. Other people who were there reportedly yelled "Allahhu Akbar" at the children.
One of the suspects allegedly flashed a knife during the incident.
“When the guy took out the knife I saw it,” Sundroy said. “It was very close to me. I saw it and heard it.”
The group fled after police were called and there had been no arrests as of Friday, the Post reported.
"Kiss a picture of Hitler every day."
Adidas employees experienced frequent anti-Semitism from Grammy Award-winning rapper and Yeezy designer Kanye West for nearly a decade.
Adidas officially ended its partnership with the rapper and producer, who now goes by Ye, in October of 2022, after multiple virulently anti-Semitic remarks, including a tweet in which the rapper threatened to go "death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE."
However, West's pattern of anti-Semitism dates back to at least 2013, according to the Times' reporting.
At the start of her report, Megan Twohey detailed how, in his initial meeting with Adidas executives at their German headquarters in 2013, West expressed his dissatisfaction with a proposed shoe design by taking a marker and drawing a swastika — the display of which is banned in Germany — on the design. He also reportedly told Jewish Adidas executive Jon Wexler, who at the time was Adidas' global director of entertainment and influencer marketing, to "kiss a picture of Hitler every day."
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 27, 2023 8:50:56 GMT -8
How Crazy Can the QOP Get About Guns? Evolution...Newly sworn-in Speaker Mike Johnson's record is being rapidly unearthed and critics are expressing anger and outrage that House Republicans have elevated what some are calling a far-right Christian nationalist to become the third most-powerful elected official in the country. "While preaching a sermon in 2016," MeidasTouch Network reports Thursday, "Johnson blamed mass shootings on the teaching of evolution." During his sermon at the Christian Center in Shreveport, Louisiana, Johnson said: "Some of you were around in the late 60s, you remember that what that was about? The counterculture revolution, Woodstock, and drugs and peace and free love and all that, but," he claimed, it was "more about the undermining of the foundations of religion and morality." "Because if you remember in the late 60s we invented things like no-fault divorce laws. We invented the sexual revolution. We invented radical feminism. We invented legalized abortion in 1973, where the state government sanctioned the killing of the unborn," he said. "All these things happened because as collectively as Americans, we began to get together in growing numbers and thumb our nose at the creator and say, 'We don't believe that anymore, we're rejecting the founders natural law philosophy in favor of moral relativism, and we're going down another path.' " "Now, what we tolerate in moderation our children excuse in excess. What happens when you fast forward another 30 or 40 years?" he asked. "We know that we're living in a completely amoral society. And people say, 'How can a young person go into their school house and open fire on their classmates?' Because we taught a whole generation, a couple of generations now, of Americans that there is no right and wrong. That it's about survival of the fittest and you evolved from the primordial slime, why is that life of any sacred value because there's nobody sacred to whom it's owed." New Speaker Mike Johnson Blamed School Shootings on the Teaching of EvolutionForksPiers Morgan and Jesse Watters locked horns on Fox News while discussing the controversy over gun safety, one day following a mass murder event in Maine. They appeared on a Fox panel with Morgan arguing for the U.S. to adopt more stringent restrictions banning certain firearms in the country while Watters retorted with a pro-gun "forks don't make you fat" refrain. CarsHeartsMSNBC’s Joe Scarborough slammed House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) “preposterous” comments against gun reform following a mass shooting in Maine that left 18 people dead. On Wednesday, the same day Johnson was elected speaker, a gunman opened fire with an assault-style rifle at a bowling alley and a bar in Lewiston. In an interview on Fox News Thursday, the Louisiana Republican said the problem is not guns, but “the human heart,” and argued it’s “not the time to be talking about legislation.” On “Morning Joe” Friday, Scarborough noted that the human heart “is not made of steel, and it can’t repel the bullets.” “Let me get confirmation from Katty,” he added, asking British-Swiss journalist Katty Kay. “Do they have human hearts in Britain and France and Germany and Spain? And by the way, do they have video games there? Do they have mental health problems?” None of those countries have gun laws anywhere near as relaxed as the U.S., or gun ownership levels anywhere near as high. Mass shootings there are rare.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 27, 2023 8:55:13 GMT -8
Speaking of the Speaker ...
One of the key reasons Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana finally lined up the Republican votes to become House speaker after other nominees failed was because everyone in the conference thinks he's "a nice guy," as NPR reporter Eric McDaniel noted several times Thursday on “Morning Edition.”
But Johnson isn't just aw-shucks nice: He's a particular brand of evangelical nice that frowns on LGBTQ+ Americans as lesser beings undeserving of equal protections under the Constitution. In other words, queer Americans should be treated as second-class citizens through and through. As antiquated as that point of view might seem to most Americans, it's the type of Christian conceit that still qualifies as "nice"—even ideal—in the Republican Party.
And where queer-hating Christians are concerned, Mike Johnson is top-notch. He cut his teeth as a legal advocate working for the anti-gay hate group Alliance Defending Freedom, formerly known as the Alliance Defense Fund. In the early aughts, ADF took the lead on mounting a legal battle against the freedom of same-sex couples to marry. Johnson memorialized all his truly heinous arguments and beliefs in a 2003 op-ed decrying the Supreme Court's Lawrence v. Texas decision extending the right to privacy to persons engaging in gay sex. In other words, what you do in your bedroom is your business—a concept most Americans agree with.
But at the time of the ruling, Johnson sounded this warning about the justices: "By closing these bedroom doors, they have opened a Pandora's box."
Within the op-ed, Johnson argued that states have public health reasons for proscribing same-sex relations, but the entire piece was undergirded by the moral superiority of heterosexuals.
"States have always maintained the right to discourage the evils of sexual conduct outside marriage, and the state is right to discriminate between heterosexual and homosexual conduct since the latter cannot occur within the confines of marriage," Johnson wrote.
For Johnson, gay sex was evil and immoral because same-sex couples couldn't legally marry, nor should they ever be able to.
But let's forget marriage equality for a second: Johnson really, really wanted gay sex to remain criminalized.
"There is clearly no 'right to sodomy' in the Constitution, and the right of 'privacy of the home' has never placed all activity within the home outside the bounds of the criminal law," Johnson argued.
The Lawrence decision, Johnson continued, "is ultimately a strategic first shot for the homosexual lobby's ultimate prize—the redefinition of the marriage.”
There's No Right to Intercourse in the Consititution, Either.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 27, 2023 8:58:23 GMT -8
Russia is Reviving a WWII Strategy. Shooting Their Own Soldiers.
Russia is executing soldiers who try to retreat from a bloody offensive in eastern Ukraine, the White House has said.
According to the US, some of the casualties suffered by Russia near Avdiivka were "on the orders of their own leaders".
Russian and Ukrainian troops have been locked into a fierce battle for the frontline town since mid-October.
Russia is thought to have suffered "significant" losses in this time.
Ukrainian estimates put the number of Russian casualties in Avdiivka at 5,000, while the US says that Russia lost "at least" 125 armoured vehicles and more than a battalion's worth of equipment.
A Ukrainian army spokesperson said that Russian troops were refusing to attack Ukrainian positions near Avdiivka because of heavy losses and that there had been mutinies in some units.
"Russia's mobilised forces remain under-trained, under-equipped and unprepared for combat, as was the case during their failed winter offensive last year," National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said in a briefing on Thursday.
He said that the Russian military "appears to be using what we would call 'human wave' tactics, just throwing masses of these poorly trained soldiers right into the fight."
"No proper equipment, no leadership, no resourcing, no support. It is unsurprising that Russian forces are suffering from poor morale," Mr Kirby added.
Taking Avdiivka - which lies near the Russian-occupied city of Donetsk - would allow Russian troops to push the front line back, making it harder for the Ukrainian forces to make further advances into Donetsk region.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 27, 2023 9:00:03 GMT -8
Ivanka Will Have to Lie Testify
Ivanka Trump will have to take the witness stand in the civil fraud case against her father, her brothers and the family business, a judge ruled Friday.
The ruling came weeks into the trial of New York Attorney General Letitia James' lawsuit against former President Donald Trump, sons Don Jr. and Eric, the Trump Organization and some executives.
After Ivanka Trump was dismissed from the case months ago, lawyers for her and the defense contended that she shouldn't have to take the stand, noting that she moved out of New York and stepped away from her Trump Organization job in 2017. The state's lawyers argued that the former Trump Organization executive vice president has relevant information.
Judge Arthur Engoron sided with the state, citing documents showing that Ivanka Trump has ownership or management ties to some businesses in New York and still owns Manhattan apartments.
"Ms. Trump has clearly availed herself of the privilege of doing business in New York," Engoron said. He said her testimony wouldn't be scheduled before Nov. 1, to give her lawyers time to appeal.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 27, 2023 9:01:33 GMT -8
I Guess This is Welcome, But People In His Home State Had to Be Slaughtered Before He Woke Up?
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 27, 2023 9:04:59 GMT -8
55 Things You Need to Know About Mike Johnson
In short, if there is anything vile that anyone in the QOP favors, so does Mike. #56: Mike Johnson Has a FanA Russian state TV host has celebrated Mike Johnson becoming the Speaker of the House of Representatives. The Trump-supporting Republican was elected to the role this week after 22 days of deadlock after Kevin McCarthy's ousting earlier in October and failed bids from other candidates, including Jim Jordan. In a clip from Russian TV channel RTR Planeta, translated by Russian Media Monitor, Olga Skabeeva said Johnson would "suit" Russia because of his stance on Ukraine. Newsweek has contacted Johnson to comment on the claim. She said: "Zelensky is in mourning today. Mike Johnson was elected House speaker. All 220 Republican Congressmen voted for him. "Johnson is not only the ultra-right Trump supporter who always voted against aid to Ukraine and made corresponding statements that were considered to be anti-Ukrainian. "Where Ukraine is concerned, it's sufficient to look at Johnson's ratings with his respect to his support of Ukraine. His rating is very poor. This means that all of this suits us well."
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 27, 2023 9:06:20 GMT -8
Unfortunately, the Gun Manufacturers Will Come to the Rescue.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 27, 2023 9:10:18 GMT -8
Too Much of This. Too Little of That. What to Do? What to Do?
The Biden administration is launching a multi-agency effort to encourage states and cities to convert more empty office buildings into housing units, with billions of federal dollars available to help spur such transitions.
The new initiative, announced Friday morning, involves the departments of Housing and Urban Development and Transportation, along with the General Services Administration and the Office of Management and Budget in a multi-pronged effort to address both the national shortage of affordable housing and the post-pandemic surplus of vacant office buildings.
“This presents an area of opportunity to both increase housing supply while revitalizing main streets. It's a win-win,” said Lael Brainard, director of the National Economic Council. “We're utilizing resources from across the government.”
Several of the new measures will be designed to specifically encourage the creation of new affordable housing units near transportation hubs like bus terminals and subway stations. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg said his department will issue new guidance to states and municipalities on how to access funding through a pair of federal programs — the Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act and Railroad Rehabilitation & Improvement Financing.
Buttigieg said that “over $35 billion in lending capacity” will be made available to provide below-market rate loans to finance both new housing construction and office conversions near transportation hubs.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 27, 2023 9:16:12 GMT -8
Want to Earn 15% on Your Money?
Russia's central bank has put up its key interest rate to 15% to try to curb inflation and bolster a weak rouble.
The higher-than-expected rate hike of two percentage points raises borrowing costs for the fourth time in a row.
Globally the pace of price rises has been high, in part due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Inflation in Russia hit 6% in September.
There has also been increased government spending in Russia as it pours resources into its war machine.
The Bank of Russia, the country's central bank, has now raised rates by 7.5 percentage points since July as it seeks to get inflation back down to its 4% target.
This includes an unscheduled emergency hike in August as the rouble tumbled past 100 to the dollar and the Kremlin called for tighter monetary policy.
"Current inflationary pressures have significantly increased to a level above the Bank of Russia's expectations," it said on Friday.
And They Promise Not to Shoot You
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