‘Catastrophic situation’ at children’s hospital as Israel renews Gaza attacks
Director of only major hospital in north of strip still offering specialist care says it cannot evacuate all its patients
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Israeli forces fire at U.N. position in Lebanon, 22 killed in Beirut strike
Israeli forces fired at a watchtower used by U.N. peacekeepers in southern Lebanon on Friday, injuring two, a U.N. source said, the third day in a row peacekeepers have reported Israeli fire at their positions as Israel wages war on Hezbollah.
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UN peacekeepers in Lebanon say Israel has fired on their bases deliberately
Unifil says two peacekeepers were injured after Israeli tank fired on one observation point and soldiers fired on another
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Anderson Cooper hit in the face by Hurricane Milton debris Live on TV
Anderson Cooper was hit in the face by debris just minutes after Hurricane Milton struck in Siesta Key, Florida.
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| October 9, 1919 The International Fellowship of Reconciliation was founded in Bilthoven, the Netherlands. Its members have since been active in promoting programs and activities for reconciliation, peace-building, active nonviolence, and conflict resolution.  More about FOR history |
| October 9, 1990 The U.S. began making reparations payments to survivors and families of Japanese-Americans taken from their homes put into internment (or concentration) camps during World War II.The payments were a result of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 signed by President Reagan. Popularly known as the Japanese American Redress Bill, this act acknowledged that “a grave injustice was done” and mandated Congress to pay each victim of internment $20,000 in reparations.  Some of the housing in the concentration camps was in former horse stalls. The first nine redress payments were made at a Washington, D.C. ceremony. 107-year-old Reverend Mamoru Eto of Los Angeles was the first to receive his check. A chronology of internment during WWII Note: In the entire course of the war, 10 people were convicted of spying for Japan, all of whom were Caucasian. |
| October 9, 1991 Women In Black in Belgrade (Zene u Crnom) began regular weekly silent vigils in Republic Square. They stood to protest the nationalist violence that had erupted in the disintegration of Yugoslavia. They encouraged men who refused to serve in the military, and engaged in many educational efforts. They were initially encouraged by “Women Visiting Difficult Places,” a group of Italian women who encouraged women on both “sides” in conflict-ridden countries to communicate. They in turn were inspired by Israeli Jewish women who organized in 1988 during the first intifada to protest their country’s occupation of Palestinian territories, and held vigils in as many as forty locations, later joined by Israeli Palestinians.  Women In Black • New York City |
| October 9, 2007 The Imagine Peace Tower, a work conceived by Yoko Ono and dedicated to John Lennon’s memory, was dedicated on the island of Videy, within sight of Reykjavik, Iceland. The LennonOno Grant for Peace will be awarded there each year. Iceland was chosen because Iceland has no standing army and it is a world leader on the environment. The installation bears the inscription, Imagine Peace, in 24 languages. more photos The Tower is lit the first week of Spring, on October 9 and December 8 (the dates of Lennon’s birth and death) and on New Year’s Eve. The electricity comes solely from the Hellisheidi Geothermal Power Plant. The Imagine Peace Tower live feed Note: A few peace buttons from peacebuttons.info were buried in a time capsule at the base of the Imagine Peace Tower. < get some for yourself and friends |
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Discuss! If we wish.
[ John Naughton ]
“If you log into Dave Winer’s blog, Scripting News, you’ll find a constantly updated note telling you how many years, months, days, hours, minutes and seconds the blog has been running. Sometime tomorrow morning the year field will switch to 30.”
Running a blog for 30 years is no small feat. Dave Winer’s Scripting News is a big deal that has an enduring community which he’s built from scratch over that time.
This also resonates:
“In my experience, most journalists failed to understand the significance of the blogosphere. This was partly due to the fact that, like Dr Johnson, they thought that “No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money”, and so bloggers must be weird.”
My position: everyone should blog. Every new voice adds something new to the conversation. And long-term bloggers like Dave have shown the way.
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· https://werd.io/2024/the-blogosphere-is-in-full-bloom-the-rest-of-the
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Trump has a long history of endorsing police violence, having said that police reaction to the racial unrest in response to the murder of George Floyd in 2020 “was a beautiful thing to watch.”
The former president, who risks jail time and more criminal trials if he loses, has expanded his range of baseless attacks on U.S. voting procedures in recent weeks and months. Trump falsely claimed Monday that Democrats are exploiting an overseas ballot program for expats and military members in order to circumvent “any citizenship check or verification of identity.”
Look at the projection in the next story. Look the only end might be the clawing back some of the taxes owned to the public treasury from the wealthy people who constantly want more and more public funds only for themselves. The only loss will be a white majority nation, and Elon Musk is a full out South African racist bigot. Full out racist bigot. He is not worried about voting, he is a white man. He is worried brown / black people will get to vote. He and tRump talk bad about Haitians and immigrants while hiring them on the cheap. Hugs. Scottie
David Pakman recently released a video of Donald Trump’s greatest cognitive hits and when seen in total is something to behold:
These maga gang thugs think they can get away with anything and that they don’t have to obey any laws or rules. Hate rules their lives. It may have been this guy who said he wrote the bill because he couldn’t stand that kids were coming out at school and being accepted by other students instead of targeted for abuse. He wants LGBTQ+ kids to be scared to be themselves and to stay in the closet hiding from them straight cis bullies. Hugs. Scottie
Fine was in court due to a lawsuit involving a Brevard County election official. As I’ve said here before, he is probably the most obnoxious of all Florida lawmakers, which is really saying something.
He last appeared here when DeSantis vetoed funding for a “woke zoo” because it wouldn’t host a fundraiser for Fine.
Fine also appeared on JMG in May 2022 when he tweeted what many interpreted as a threat to assassinate President Biden. That tweet remains online.
Before that, Fine appeared on JMG when he called for felony charges after Florida Democrats staged a sit-in over the racist US House map submitted by DeSantis.
And before that, he appeared here when he threatened to defund a Florida Special Olympics event and called a local school board member a “whore” because she’d been invited its fundraiser gala and he was not.
Fine was a sponsor of the bill that stripped Disney’s self-governing status. His family owns annual passes to the “woke” theme park giant.
In 2022, he arranged for a Florida town to honor a war criminal who was convicted of executing four Iraqi prisoners. In April 2023 he declared, “Damn right, we ought to erase” LGBTQs.
Fine is also a sponsor of Florida’s bill criminalizing drag shows in view of minors. Of note, his wife runs a self-described “sultry” burlesque show that would violate her husband’s law.
As you’ll see in the video report, Feldman demanded that the school display the black and white version of the “straight pride” flag seen below.
Hit the link for other already known examples of Trump withholding federal relief from blue states. Earlier this week Trump posted that Biden was withholding relief from “Republican areas” in North Carolina.
Popp is posting screenshots of the threats on the bakery’s Facebook page.
Donald Trump’s foul-mouthed migrant rant captured in private pitch to donors
Republican nominee claims Harris is threat to democracy in recording of top-dollar fundraiser in Colorado in August
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Opinion | What atrocity would Israel have to commit for our leaders to break their silence?
To avenge 7 October, crimes of all kinds are condoned. But politicians should take note: the British public disagrees, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
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