Israeli Snipers Intentionally Murdered Al Jazeera Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh

After interviewing multiple eye-witnesses and on-scene bystanders, a CNN report has concluded that Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was purposefully shot by Israeli snipers. Almost 10 witnesses corroborated the same story about the sequence of events, saying that there was no gunfire prior to the sniper fire on Abu Akleh and her fellow journalists, with at least two witnesses saying they saw sniper rifles poking out of IDF vehicles towards the reporters.

“Several shots ring out in quick succession, cutting through a clear, blue spring morning in Jenin, in the West Bank. Crack, crack, crack, crack, crack, crack, crack. The cameraman filming the scene scrambles backwards to take cover behind a low concrete wall. Then a man cries out in Arabic: “Injured! Shireen, Shireen, oh man, Shireen! Ambulance!” When the camera operator pans around the corner, Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh can be seen lying motionless, face down on the ground as another Palestinian reporter, Shatha Hanaysha, crouches down beside her, using a tree trunk for cover. Hanaysha reaches out and tries to rouse her as gunshots continue. There’s no response. Both women are wearing helmets and blue protective vests marked “Press.” In the moments that follow, a man in a white T-shirt makes several attempts to move Abu Akleh, but is forced back repeatedly by gunfire. Finally, after a few long minutes, he manages to drag her body from the street. The shaky video, filmed by Al Jazeera cameraman Majdi Banura, captures the scene when Abu Akleh, a 51-year-old Palestinian-American was killed by a bullet to the head at around 6:30 a.m. on May 11. She had been standing with a group of journalists near the entrance of Jenin refugee camp, where they had come to cover an Israeli raid. While the footage does not show Abu Akleh being shot, eyewitnesses told CNN that they believe Israeli forces on the same street fired deliberately on the reporters in a targeted attack. All of the journalists were wearing protective blue vests that identified them as members of the news media.”

Today’s WTF News: What Happened to Bill Maher? MTG Needs to Go & Chuck Todd is!

Rep. Swalwell: ‘Parents Want Us On Offense’ On Gun Safety

The congressman uses the phrase “gun discipline” instead of gun control.   I like that idea.    Hugs

WOW: Furious Beto O’Rourke interrupts Greg Abbott’s press conference, SHREDS him, gets escorted out

For those hard of hearing some one in the crowd starts saying “GOP – Guns Of the People” and the crowd picks it up.   I had to struggle to understand what Beto was saying but he was saying it was on those in power on the stage, and at this political event where those Republicans are calling for more guns in schools, armed teachers, and chock points of access and exit, calling for making schools into prisons, one guys bellows “I cannot believe you come here to make this political, you sick son of a bitch”!   In other words the guy was saying don’t steal out thunder.   Hugs   

Furious NBA coach gives MUST-SEE response to shooting, STORMS OFF

He says 50 Senators more interested in holding on to their own power than they care about our children won’t even allow a vote on the background legislation (HR8 that 90% of US public wants approved) that has been sitting there for two years from the House.   Republicans have shown they can pass bills outlawing LGBTQ+ books and what they think is CRT when they want.   They could pass this if they wanted to save the kids.   Hugs

Let’s talk about grain, Ukraine, and messaging….

Please notice the framing, a coalition of the willing.   Where have we heard that before?  Iraq when the US gathered nations to help attack / invade Iraq.   This video is about a group of nations that have decided to go into the black sea and take on the Russian fleet to clear out the blockade so that the ships can get to Odesa and allow shipping of the grain that is needed to feed Europe and other areas.   The issue is that Russian ships have been steal the grain and taking it back to Russia.   A lot of it is already gone.    So for those that say NATO nations cannot get involved they are already done the prep work and it is going to happen, this is simply letting the world know they are going to do it.   One name not on the list is the US, but I bet they are in there somewhere.    If the US doesn’t have a nuclear sub sitting in the Black Sea I would be veery surprised.    Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said at the start of the war that it would only be a matter of time before the other nations came in, so why wait and let more die as the nations hesitated.   I said the other nations would have to go in and assist Ukraine.   Now that Europe is looking at their people going hungry and the problems with nations that depend on the food for Ukraine not getting that food, they are willing to act militarily.    The US will not stay out of this for long.  What will be interesting to see is what Russia does when combined fleets of a coalition of nations shows up to open that port for the Ukrainians.   Even if you don’t like Beau, this is worth a listen.    Hugs 

On the Horrific Texas Shooting

Not a standard video from me but almost felt like it might seem like I was ignoring the tragedy in Texas (much like our sorry ass government assuredly will) if I didn’t say something so…here’s something. Might heart goes out to everyone affected. Also just because I know people might be curious I’m in the UK for eventual book-writing reasons but the fruits of that labor are a long way off yet so…yeah. Anyway love yuns.

Disgusting Pastor EXPOSED As Sexual Abuser In Front Of His Entire Congregation

Pastor John Lowe of Indiana openly admitted to his congregation that he cheated on his wife, and things went awry very quickly as his wife got up and confronted her husband for his lies and set the record straight on how deplorable the pastor really is. She also hinted at her surviving sexual assault by Locke when she was 16, only adding to the multitude of stories of sexual assault survivors from evangelical Christian churches and religious sects.

“Carissa Beard was helping her daughter pack up her dorm room on Sunday night when she got the text from her husband, the lead pastor of First Baptist Church of Thurmont in Maryland. The nearly 300-page report on sexual abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention had dropped online. “It is every bit as bad as I expected it to be,” she said. When Philip Meade, pastor at Graefenburg Baptist Church in Kentucky, read the details, he began reworking his plans for the church’s worship service next Sunday. He will now devote a portion of the service to “a lament for the mishandling of sexual abuse claims and for the survivors who have suffered so much,” he said. Michael Howard, the head pastor of Seaford Baptist Church on the coast of Virginia, paused a family vacation to spend hours reading the report on Sunday afternoon. “It makes you ill,” Mr. Howard said. “I know as the word gets out, the people in our church will be asking: What is our response?”

Failure Trump Candidate Panders To His Racist Voters By Attacking Stacey Abrams

Georgia Republican Senate candidate David Perdue, who is also backed by Trump, blasted gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams in a racist attack just as election day in the state came. Perdue claims Abrams was “demeaning her own race” by telling Black service industry workers and farmers that they’re more than just workers, which seems in direct opposition to Perdue’s perception of the incident.

“Republican Senate candidate David Perdue (R-GA) tore into Stacey Abrams while campaigning on Monday and accused her of “demeaning her own race.” “When she told Black farmers you don’t need to be on the farm, when she told Black workers in hospitality and all this you don’t need to be … she is demeaning her own race when it comes to that,” Perdue said on The John Fredricks radio show. “I am really over this. She should never be considered material for governor,” he continued. Perdue would face Abrams in the general election in November for governor but is unlikely to win his primary against incumbent Republican Governor Brian Kemp. Perdue, who has been endorsed by former President Donald Trump, has been trailing Kemp by as much as 30 points in the polls.”

‘We’re Failing Ourselves’: 15 Die In Texas Before Buffalo Shooting Victims Are Buried

Fmr. Rep. David Jolly and Nicolle Wallace discusses the shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas in which fourteen students and one teacher have died. “They are still burying the dead in Buffalo, New York … We are a country that does not finish burying the dead from one mass shooting before we are drawn into another one,” remarks Nicolle Wallace. Jolly opined on America’s lack of gun legislation, saying that “If more guns made us safer, we’d be the safest country in the world. We’re not.”