Donald Trump’s State Visit To The UK Now In Doubt Attorney General Jeff Sessions abruptly canceled his scheduled appearance before an open session of the House and Senate committees set for next week. Instead the Washington Post and USA Today report that Sessions’ appearance is expected t[...]
Archive for June, 2017
June 11th, 2017 - 12:05 am § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: 6/11 Trump’s Royal Visit to Britain Looks Unlikey, Sessions abruptly cancels public testimony
June 9th, 2017 - 7:37 am § in Foreign Affairs
IRAN BLAMES US FOR ISIS ATTACKS IN TEHRAN
Iranian official calls Tehran attacks a Saudi-Israel-US plot Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warns ISIS-claimed dual attacks that killed 17 people in Tehran will only fuel Iranians’ hatred toward the U.S. and Saudi Arabia • Senior general says Iran’s response to attacks “bu[...]
June 9th, 2017 - 7:14 am § in Hypocrisy, The Ave Scene
THE AVE CHALLENGE: Why is this historic architecture for sale?
Where is this happening? The site began as a covert government funded research site. Later it was purchased by by a wealthy conservative family as a tax free but private park and research center. Now, the historic example of modernist architecture in a crowded city is up for sale with demotion[...]
June 9th, 2017 - 6:44 am § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: 6/10
House passes sweeping legislation to roll back banking rules BERNIE SANDERS BECOMES MILLIONAIRE, JOINS THE 1% SEATTLE TIMES: Puget Sound Energy should abandon all coal Britain’s pound dives after election in UK North Koreans get credit cards! Defiant May vows to stay on, form coalition...[...]
June 9th, 2017 - 6:00 am § in Hypocrisy, The Ave Scene
Black and Jew, Then and Now
As we see angst over a Jewish professor caught in the poisonous mix of white guilt and racism at Evergreen College, it is useful too look back a hundred years when the progressive Jewish newspaper, The Forward, introcuced WEB DuBois to what was then the Jewish left. “When the immigrant from [...]
June 9th, 2017 - 5:57 am § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: 6/9
Defiant May vows to stay on... ‘Flynn stuff is BS’: Trump Jr. angrily lashes out at Comey in the middle of his Senate hearing James Comey explains notes on Trump meetings: ‘I was honestly concerned he might lie’ Trump has filled just 15 percent of the government’s top science jobs bstruct[...]
June 9th, 2017 - 12:58 am § in The Ave Scene
Will Canada’s Oil Destroy the Puget Sound?
ORCA vs. Sand Tar Joel Connely, Seattle PI: No two places in North America look less alike than the tar sands of Alberta, a vast, Mordor-like oil field, and the blue waters and islands of the Salish Sea and Strait of Juan de Fuca, shared by British Columbia and Washington. The “oil patch”[...]
June 9th, 2017 - 12:06 am § in Misc.
Zillionaire Toys
“My proceeds from PayPal were $180m. I put $100m in SpaceX, $70m in Tesla and $10m in Solar City. I had to borrow money for rent”. – Elon Musk[...]
June 8th, 2017 - 2:37 pm § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS, TORY FAIL UK PARLIAMENT HUNG
In a collossal fuckup, the Torries have created a hung parliament, and destroyed their majority. Projections: Torries: 314 Labor: 266 SNP: 34 LD: 14 PC: 3 Green: 1 UKIP: 0 Other: 18 A total of 326 is needed to form a government. Labor + SNP is only 300.[...]