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Archive for June, 2014
June 3rd, 2014 - 3:07 pm § in The Ave Scene
Advice to Sawant
Yesterday Kshama Sawant’s $15 minimum wage proposal, passed the council amended and adapted for reality by the Mayor. Now the question is whether she can build something more meaningful? David Goldstein live blogged at Horsesass: Okay, the council meeting hasn’t even started yet, but its a f[...]
Tiananmen Square Anniversary: Where is Thomas Paine?
CHINA, Inc. Wide spread suppression of free speech categorizes the upcoming June 4 anniversary of the Tiananmen Square uprising. Scholars, intellectuals, journalists and even foreign press have been arrested. Foreign journalists have been warned to stay away from the square s or “face grave[...]
An Open Question for my Relatives in South Carolina
You guys chose to live in South Carolina … cradle of the confederacy, a state with a heritage of slavery, a holocaust against Native Americans, and a current set of politicians worth of that heritage. Even the Jews of this state have “enjoyed” this tradition .. supporting slavery[...]
June 3rd, 2014 - 3:20 am § in Uncategorized
The AVE quiz: What Event Does This Day Commorate?
If you do not already know what Shavuot commemorates, use the Google![...]
BREAKING NEWS: China
Security tight on eve of Tiananmen anniversary BEIJING (AP) – Beijing put additional police on the street and detained government critics Tuesday as part of a security crackdown on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the crushing of pro-democracy protests centered on the capital’s Tiananm[...]
June 2nd, 2014 - 8:38 pm § in Uncategorized
On Prisoner Swaps
Some people are already questioning whether our government should have traded 5 Taliban guys for an American POW. The more indelicate versions of this question put it this way: Should President Obama have traded 5 terrorists for a deserter? That’s not an easy question to answer. (I’[...]
June 2nd, 2014 - 4:33 pm § in Misc.
Buchenwald 50: Anniversary of my Dad’s death and the birthday of Nicholas Winton
SIX YEARS AGO, MY Father died.. His heritage remains locked away because of my brother Hugh’s anger. This story of another good soldier from WWII, made me think of my Dad. In 1907 Sir Winton was born Nickolas Wertheim in Hampstead, London, the son of Jewish parents. Like so many of us, the W[...]
June 2nd, 2014 - 12:12 pm § in Politics
Egypt: Blaming the Jew
Egypt – Court Calls Morsi Supporters ‘Jewish Demons’ Today 09:05 AM Egypt – After Egyptian courts sentenced dozens of supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi to death and sentenced hundreds to life , the court defended its verdict by calling the men “demons” [...]
I am African.
I got into a nice debate about genetics the other day. I was told African Americans are not African, genetically speaking. The debate started as a result of a comment that I made about black people needing to embrace Africa in the same way the majority of Jewish people I have met embrace Israel[...]