Mass arrests as anti-Putin protests sweep Russia Russian police detained more than 1,000 people yesterday in 82 towns and cities as the biggest protests against President Putin’s rule in four years swept the country amid growing anger over government corruption. Among those arrested was Alexei Nav[...]
Archive for March, 2017
March 27th, 2017 - 8:09 am § in Misc.
Buy a Town for $1.5 Million
Town of Reduction, population 60, up for sale in Pennsylvania HARRISBURG, Pa. (Reuters) – Got $1.5 million to spare? If so, tiny Reduction, a one-time company town built to house workers at a long-vanished garbage-processing plant in western Pennsylvania, could be yours for the asking. Full [...]
March 27th, 2017 - 7:36 am § in Misc.
Turkish Fascism
German Intelligence Chief: Coup in Turkey Was Just a Welcome Pretext’ German intelligence doesn’t buy Turkish President Erdogan’s claims that last year’s coup attempt was backed by the Gülen movement. BND chief Bruno Kahl, 54, speaks with SPIEGEL about Turkey, possible Rus[...]
March 27th, 2017 - 2:18 am § in Misc.
Making a head .. the rules
1. The eyes are in the middle of the head. For real, the forehead and hair are the full top half. Fold a face in half and the eyes are right there on the crease. 2. If you fold that same face in quarters, the fold above the eyes is the hair line and the […][...]
March 27th, 2017 - 1:39 am § in Misc.
NORWEGIAN ANTISEMITISM
Norway – A proposal to support a ban on ritual circumcision and label it child abuse is splitting the leadership of a liberal party in Norway, which supports outreach to Muslim immigrants. Socialist Left Party secretary Kari Elisabeth Kaski will push for language supporting the ban in the par[...]
March 26th, 2017 - 2:05 pm § in Misc.
Ryan’s Oops
“We’re not going to give up on destroying the health care system for the American people.”[...]
Trump’s defense budget ignores our combat troops
Broken weapons, Vietnam-era rifles and boots, vehicles that don’t run, no ammunition for training, old heavy equipment (see photo) … but Trump and his cabinet of Wall Street tycoons don’t give a damn. Despite flaunting a $54 billion a year increase in defense spending, Trump put no[...]
March 26th, 2017 - 9:51 am § in Donald Trump, Hypocrisy
How Trump Could Win
My Fellow Americans I am sickened, sickened by what I am learning about the partisan swamp here in Washington DC. Where I grew up in New York and even as a businessman, I had thought that Republicans and Democrats could work together for the benefit of their country. I am a Republican but I am [&h[...]
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President Trump and Melania Trump Welcome Their First Guests to Redecorated Oval Office
Since Dolly Madison, every first lady has had the unique opportunity to redecorate the oval office in her own style. (TA News, Washington DC) Today, America’s new First Couple proudly welcomed the ambassador of Saudi Arabia to the newly redecorated room. Mrs. Trump chose to continue her own [...]