If you're not aware, Prince Harry is suing five tabloids for invasion of privacy.
If you're not aware of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and how they address the junk food media, well let me clarify the facts.
Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan rarely speak to the press. They talk to reliable outlets.
If you are calling them friendly, that's fine. At least they have an opportunity to set the record straight whenever they are in the news for some controversy coming from sources who claim to have inside knowledge of the two.
The Sussexes were really angered by The Daily Mail posting images of the prince holding his daughter. They don't promote their children to the junk food media.
Also, Meghan has not tipped off paparazzi. They have used drones, sat outside their Los Angeles home, have spotters and check a routine schedule of where they go.
There is scandal in England and one of the chief antagonists at The Daily Mail is facing scandal as well. Dan Wooten is accused of catfishing minors. Prince William and Princess Catherine have been spotted arguing. He kicked King Charles III and Queen Camilla out of their Welsh cottage.
Meghan and Harry have not spoken to the press. Now here's a bonkers rumor.
The Daily Mail claims that the Sussexes asked President Joe Biden for a ride on Air Force One during the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. That is ridiculous for the start.
The prince and duchess stayed in Britain for the services, private funeral and greeted well wishers. Besides they live in California. Why would the U.S. government fly from Britain to Washington, DC and then to California and back?
When King Charles III was coronated, Meghan stayed home. Guess what the junk food media talked about?
They are now getting "sources" that Meghan and Harry are spliting. It's all because of them losing endorsement deals right?
Harry is suing Mail on Sunday publisher Associated Newspapers Ltd. over an article alleging he tried to hush up his separate legal challenge over the British government’s refusal to let him pay for police security.
During a hearing at the High Court in London, Harry’s lead attorney asked Judge Matthew Nickin either to strike out the publisher’s defense or to deliver a summary judgment, which would be a ruling in the prince’s favor without going to trial.
In a written witness statement published Tuesday, Harry said that he felt “as though the tabloid press thought that they owned me absolutely.”
“I genuinely feel that in every relationship that I’ve ever had — be that with friends, girlfriends, with family or with the army, there’s always been a third party involved, namely the tabloid press,” he said.
Hacking — the practice of guessing or using default security codes to listen to celebrities’ cellphone voice messages — was widespread at British tabloids in the early years of this century. It became an existential crisis for the industry after the revelation in 2011 that the News of the World had hacked the phone of a slain 13-year-old girl. Owner Rupert Murdoch shut down the paper and several of his executives faced criminal trials.
Mirror Group has paid more than 100 million pounds ($125 million) to settle hundreds of unlawful information-gathering claims, and printed an apology to phone hacking victims in 2015.
But the newspaper denies or hasn’t admitted any of Harry’s claims, which relate to 33 published articles.
If Alabama woman staged an abduction, it will have long lasting impacts on the search for actually missing women of color.
Over 1,000 Black women and children go missing without a national news story. If one does get coverage, it's amplified by Black Twitter.
No one heard of this until the social media lit up.
Carlee Russell is being called a racial hoaxer. Of course, we can't confirm the allegations but the Hoover Police released some damning evidence to show that the missing woman may have staged an abduction.
Some issues I seen through social media.
1. She apparently was fired out the cannon from her job.
2. She and her boyfriend had a fallout. See 7.
3. She posted on social media frustration about life before disappearance.
4. Claims a white toddler on Interstate 459 in Hoover, Alabama. That stretch of freeway has traffic cameras and the state police did not see much on a frequently travel stretch of the road.
5. Claims a white man with orange hair abducted her and she ended up in a empty trailer of a semi-truck. How the hell, did she escape a locked trailer given that temperatures in the south were extreme?
6. Searches of movies like Taken, hotel reservations to Nashville and how to kidnap were search when they retrieved her phone.
7. Boyfriend filed a restraining order against her weeks before the disappearance.
8. Refuses to explain to the police how she ended up in the situation.
9. Social media deactivation or private.
Russell vanished last Thursday night from the side of an interstate after telling 911 she saw a toddler in a diaper on the side of the road. Approximately 49 hours later, she returned home, sparking an outpouring of questions as to where she was and what happened to her.
If this is true how did the family go from receiving a call from the Red Roof Inn from #CarleeRussell to her showing up at the family home knocking on the door? This police scanner implies that the family showed up at the Red Roof so WTF really happened? pic.twitter.com/hzz3AfTChv
— Stagecoach Mary๐บ๐ฆ ๐ (@Stagecoach_Mary) July 16, 2023
#CarleeRussell | Her last 3 tweets were on the same day she disappeared— the very last one was tweeted at 9:19 and she made the 911 call at 9:30. pic.twitter.com/rzI3fvdbo6
— ๐ต๐ป♀️๐ฆ๐ญL̤̮E̤̮G̤̮๐ ฐ️C̤̮Y̤̮๐ฆ๐ญ๐ต๐ป♀️ (@iamlegacy23) July 22, 2023
— Ig~ @melaninbeautiesunite (@mbutweets) July 21, 2023
In an interview, Russell's parents said she was "not in a good state" when she returned home and that they believe she was "fighting for her life" while missing.
Hoover Police Capt. Keith Czeskleba began the Wednesday news conference by stressing that the police work on the case was not finished.
"Keep in mind this is still an ongoing investigation and there may be questions we cannot answer," he said.
Mayor Frank V. Brocato said the vanishing of Russell sent fear and panic throughout the community and the state. Brocato said it is important to share an update so the community can be at ease.
Police Chief Nicholas Derzis said officers have been working since Russell's return to determine where she was.
If this was a hoax, her parents will pay the price as well.
"Due to the public fear this case has generated, we owe it to the public to share what we have learned," he said.
The chief said surveillance video shows Russell concealing a bathrobe and toilet paper when leaving work Thursday night.
He said she ordered food from Tazikis, then bought granola bars and cheese crackers at Target. Derzis said she then spoke to people known to her on her phone as she drove before she called 911 from the interstate and said she saw a child.
Officials then played the 911 call in its entirety.
Derzis reiterated Russell's call was the only report of a child on the side of the road. He added that no children have been reported missing.
He said she travelled 600 yards while she was following the child, on phone with 911.
"Six football fields, to think a toddler could travel six football fields, without getting in the road, without crying, it's very hard to understand," Derzis said.
Derzis said her wig, cellphone and purse were in or near her vehicle when first responders arrived, but the snacks from Target and the items she took from her workplace were not.
For two days, tips poured in but Russell was no where to be found. Until she returned home on foot Saturday night.
According to Derzis, Russell told detectives that when she got out of her vehicle to check on the child, a man came from the woods, forced her into a car, and then she woke up in the trailer of a semi-truck.
She said she was taken by a white man with orange hair with a bald spot, a woman, and said she heard a child crying.
Russell said she was forced to undress and she believes the two took pictures. She said the woman played with her hair and fed her cheese crackers.
She said she was eventually able to escape and ran through some woods before she was able to find her way and walk back home.
Derzis said detectives did not press her after that initial interview so she could have time to rest.
However, Derzis said multiple searches were found on the day of her disappearance and leading up to the disappearance that he feels are relevant. Those searches include: "Do you have to pay for an Amber Alert," "How to take money from a register without being caught," "Birmingham bus station," "Taken (movie about abduction)," and "maximum age for an Amber Alert."
"There are many questions left to be answered, but only Carlee can answer those questions," Derzis said. "I do think it's highly unusual for the day someone gets kidnapped, several hours before that, they're googling the movie Taken, about an abduction, I find that very strange."
The Jussie Smollett fallout led to far right extremists questioning missing people of color and racial violence.
He said law enforcement has not been able to verify the story Russell told them, but he does not believe there is any danger to the community.
Derzis said Russell's parents have told them that their daughter is not ready to speak. He said he thinks they are believing what their daughter tells them.
If this turns out to be a hoax, the woman will be held accountable. It will immediately become a series of attacks on Rev. Al Sharpton, the retired Rev. Jesse Jackson, Barack Obama, Vice President Kamala Harris, Black Lives Matter and the rehashing of Black hoaxers like Jussie Smollett.
Jussie Smollett set back Blacks format least two generations. His racial hoax led to Empire being cancelled, him being permanently blacklisted from the entertainment business, Washed Up 45 and MAGA to doubt there was ever Black victims of racial violence.
What's worse, the far right and Republicans will likely exploit this for political gains.
Missing white woman syndrome has led to a number of tough on crime measures, mainly on the right, that were named for white women who disappeared and were subsequently found harmed. In addition to race and class, factors such as supposed attractiveness, body size and youthfulness function as unfair criteria in the determination of newsworthiness in coverage of missing women. News coverage of missing black women were more likely to focus on the victim's problems, such as abusive boyfriends or a troubled past, while coverage of white women often tend to focus on their roles as mothers or daughters.
Black women and indigenous women are missing far more and yet they never get the attention that white women get. Think about Gabby Petito and the amount of attention she and her killer got.
If the suspect is Black, Muslim or immigrant, the white extremists would often troll Black blogs and social media to throw inappropriate discussions about how white women should avoid relationships with people of color. They would use racial slurs, coded language and concern trolling as an excuse to justify their hatred.
How many women of color are killed by white men?
Do white men often troll social media with "thoughts and prayers" to women of color?
Tony Bennett, the eminent and timeless stylist whose devotion to classic American songs and knack for creating new standards such as "I Left My Heart In San Francisco" graced a decadeslong career that brought him admirers from Frank Sinatra to Lady Gaga, died Friday. He was 96, just two weeks short of his birthday.
Publicist Sylvia Weiner confirmed Bennett's death to The Associated Press, saying he died in his hometown of New York. There was no specific cause, but Bennett had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2016.
The last of the great saloon singers of the mid-20th century, Bennett often said his lifelong ambition was to create "a hit catalog rather than hit records." He released more than 70 albums, bringing him 19 competitive Grammys — all but two after he reached his 60s — and enjoyed deep and lasting affection from fans and fellow artists.
Bennett didn’t tell his own story when performing; he let the music speak instead — the Gershwins and Cole Porter, Irving Berlin and Jerome Kern. Unlike his friend and mentor Sinatra, he would interpret a song rather than embody it. If his singing and public life lacked the high drama of Sinatra’s, Bennett appealed with an easy, courtly manner and an uncommonly rich and durable voice — “A tenor who sings like a baritone,” he called himself — that made him a master of caressing a ballad or brightening an up-tempo number.
“I enjoy entertaining the audience, making them forget their problems,” he told The Associated Press in 2006. “I think people ... are touched if they hear something that’s sincere and honest and maybe has a little sense of humor. ... I just like to make people feel good when I perform.”
Tony Bennett with Lady Gaga.
Bennett was praised often by his peers, but never more meaningfully than by what Sinatra said in a 1965 Life magazine interview: “For my money, Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business. He excites me when I watch him. He moves me. He’s the singer who gets across what the composer has in mind, and probably a little more.”
He not only survived the rise of rock music but endured so long and so well that he gained new fans and collaborators, some young enough to be his grandchildren. In 2014, at age 88, Bennett broke his own record as the oldest living performer with a No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart for “Cheek to Cheek,” his duets project with Lady Gaga. Three years earlier, he topped the charts with “Duets II,” featuring such contemporary stars as Gaga, Carrie Underwood and Amy Winehouse, in her last studio recording. His rapport with Winehouse was captured in the Oscar-nominated documentary “Amy,” which showed Bennett patiently encouraging the insecure young singer through a performance of “Body and Soul.”
Boebert torched for throwing away pamphlet of Uvalde mass shooting victims.
When confronted by protesters who offered her a pin to show solidarity with the victims of the Uvalde school shooting, insufferable lawmaker Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) threw it away. It was filmed and it went viral.
Boebert, 37 is a 5'2" insufferable person. She was the former owner of Shooters Grille in Rifle, Colorado. She became infamous in 2014 when Nightline did a segment of her operating a "Hooters themed restaurant" with the female servers wearing a pistol on their hips. She decided to run for Congress after she protested the Colorado mask and coronavirus measures imposed by Gov. Jared Polis. She mocked Beto O'Rourke during a stump speech when he ran for president. She and her husband Jayson have four children and one grandchild. Boebert and her husband are finalizing their divorce,
The video appears to show Boebert being handed the pin and immediately throwing it away. A second video shows the pin in the trash along with an informational card about Maite and a plea to end gun violence.
Her opponent Adam Frisch vows to defeat her. Boebert defeated Frisch in 2022 by 550 votes. She is trying to take a more serious turn but her latest antics are still front and center.
Boebert and fellow insufferable lawmaker Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) are feuding with each other. Republicans have confirmed the two nearly got into a physical alteration and it forced the Freedom Caucasians to boot Greene out.
Boebert, Greene, Washed Up 45, Donald Trump, Jr., Sean "Softball" Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Jesse Watters, Rupert Murdoch, Piers Morgan, Madison Cawthorn, Dinesh D'Souza, and Sarah Palin are divorced. They are examples of how insufferable they are to their spouses.
So Boebert immediately discarded a pin honoring one of the victims of the Uvalde mass shooting after activists handed the memento to her in the halls of the Capitol on Tuesday.
The green Converse worn by fourth-grader Maite Rodriguez are portrayed on the pin, which was attached to a handout advocating for an assault weapons ban. The handout described who Maite was and how she was murdered, alongside a photo of her mother holding her shoes.
Activists approached Boebert and offered remarks about the shoes and Maite's death before asking Boebert to "take action on gun violence prevention," per the Houston Chronicle's Cayla Harris. Boebert, one of the most outspoken and inflammatory representatives in the House and a staunch opponent of restricting gun access, tossed the pin in the trash just a few paces after it was handed to her.
Families of Uvalde victims denounced the video, which quickly racked up nearly 3 million views and close to 10,000 likes as of Wednesday.
“Whether or not you agree with what we are fighting for or not, throwing away a pamphlet of a mother fighting to honor her child who was gunned down and murdered in her classroom is beyond (expletive) disgusting,” Jazmin Cazares, whose sister Jackie was also killed in the shooting, tweeted Tuesday. "You are a disgrace to mothers everywhere and I pray you and your children are never disrespected the way you just disrespected Maite and her mother," Cazares added.
Greene shows images of Hunter Biden without his permission.
The most insufferable lawmaker in modern history is a 5'1" middle age woman who spends way too much time on the internet. Elected in 2020 and served since 2021.
She is by far the most laziest lawmaker in history. A woman who just can't shut her damn mouth. A woman who rather spend her time being a total asshole than a lawmaker serving the constituents of the Georgia's 14th Congressional District.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) at a committee hearing showed inappropriate images of President Joe Biden's son Hunter. The president's surviving son is a private citizen. He has no role in the White House. He admits he has mental health issues and is a recovering drug addict.
Greene stuck her foot in her mouth.
The president used her Turning Point Action conference rhetoric into a campaign ad. It went viral and Greene went ballistic. She had to respond to the campaign ad.
Greene is feuding with Laura Loomer. The far right extremist is preparing to "expose" her and talk about her adultry.
Greene called Special Counsel prosecutor Jack Smith a bitch after Washed Up 45 was issued a target letter in regards to his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Lastly, Greene acknowledged she was booted from the Freedom Caucasians after the encounter with fellow insufferable lawmaker Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO). Republicans behind the scenes are seeing the making of a physical alteration between the two insufferable lawmakers.
Greene's latest stunt earned the ire of many when she showed on live television, images of Hunter Biden getting oral service and showing images of individuals without permission.
Greene used her question time during the hearing to display what appeared to be naked pictures of Hunter Biden obtained from his laptop.
“What’s even more troubling to me is that the Department of Justice has brought no charges against Hunter Biden that will vindicate the rights of these women,” Greene said, holding up pictures that appeared to show the president’s son making sex tapes with women whom Greene claimed were sex workers.
U.S. Attorney David Weiss, a holdover from the Washed Up 45 administration, told them he couldn’t bring charges outside of Delaware. Weiss and U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland have insisted Weiss had complete authority to bring charges however he wanted.
The president loves his son, regardless of the noise Republicans bring.
The hearing did not resolve the contradiction between the IRS agents’ previous allegations and the denials from the Justice Department. In their public testimony, the agents essentially repeated what they’d already told lawmakers in a private deposition.
“It appeared to me, based on what I experienced, that the U.S. attorney in Delaware, in our investigation, was constantly hamstrung, limited and marginalized by DOJ officials as well as other U.S. attorneys,” IRS special agent Joseph Ziegler told the House Oversight Committee.
Ziegler, who the Republicans called Agent X was claiming he felt "handcuffed" when investigating Biden.
Greene then asked Ziegler whether Hunter Biden had violated the federal Mann Act of 1910, which prohibits the transportation of women across state lines “for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose.”
The lawmaker then showed an image of a receipt for a United Airlines plane ticket, booking a woman on a flight from Los Angeles to Dulles Airport in northern Virginia in June 2018.
The receipt for the ticket was found on Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop.
The other whistleblower, Gary Shapley, a supervisory agent in the IRS criminal division, said he didn’t know if Garland had deliberately lied.
Shapley was demoted and is a known conspiracy theorist.
“I have never claimed to have evidence that Attorney General Garland knowingly lied to Congress,” Shapley said.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has said Republicans would move to impeach Garland if the whistleblower testimony proves true. “We need to get to the facts, and that includes reconciling these clear disparities,” McCarthy said in June.
None of these allegations have any connection to President Biden.
It appears the woman who wore a pink hat while hollering through a bullhorn is crying for mercy. She was found guilty in federal court for her role in the Jan. 6 insurrection.
When she was in the court at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, she irked the judge by wearing a see through open mask. The judge warned her that her antics will result in a lengthy sentence. She continued to show no remorse for her actions.
It appears she is about to figure out the old saying:
Fuck around and find out!
Rachel Powell, the Pennsylvania woman who stormed the U.S. Capitol was found guilty on nine servings of that federal sandwich. She faces from one year up to 47 years in federal time out.
Powell was found guilty on a variety of charges, including felony counts of interfering with officers performing their duties and obstruction of an official proceeding. Her bench trial was held in May, and U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth delivered the verdict Tuesday.
Powell was accompanied to court by her children, one of whom was wearing a red "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN" hat in the courtroom. Powell had posted on social media that Washed Up 45 had given her child a MAGA hat.
Powell, 41, of Sandy Lake, Pennsylvania, waived her right to a jury trial. The judge convicted her of charges that she interfered with police and obstructed the Jan. 6 joint session of Congress for certifying Biden's 2020 electoral victory over Donald Trump.
Prosecutors asked Lamberth to jail Powell until her sentencing, but the judge agreed to let her remain free until the hearing.
A lawyer for Powell had no comment on the verdict.
Rachel Powell, a mom of 8 could face a lengthy bid.
Powell played a “leading role” during the riot, a prosecutor said at a February 2021 hearing.
“She is front and center in the incursion.” Assistant U.S. Attorney Elizabeth Aloi added, according to a transcript.
Powell was arrested nearly a month after the riot. FBI agents found several smashed cellular telephones, gun paraphernalia and other weapons when they searched her home.
Powell and her ex-husband shared custody of six minor children in 2021. She left her children at home when she went to Washington to attend the “Stop the Steal” rally, according to prosecutors.
American solider Travis King puts U.S. in an international crisis.
The American solider who was detained in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (aka North Korea) is an African American man. I am expecting the vilification to begin.
Pvt. 2nd Class Travis King is currently being held in North Korean custody after he cross the Demilitarized Zone while doing a guided tour.
President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Congress, Department of Defense Lloyd Austin and U.S. Department of State Antony Blinken were notified.
The junk food media is claiming the solider defected.
So we will vilify him. It is almost certain.
The Republicans will not condemn Tara Reade for defecting to Russia or Gal Luft for fleeing custody after being indicted as a foreign agent. But I expect since the solider is a Black man, they will literally call him a traitor if it's proven.
Now the North Koreans will use this solider as a bargaining chip to get sanctions relieved and use this solider for propaganda.
Fox and the Republicans will accuse Biden of not doing enough or conceding too much.
If the solider is white, expect it to be wall to wall coverage and calls of the person being hailed a hero. If the solider is a person of color, expect the rounds of criticism, allegations of treachery and blame of Biden policies for the solider's capture.
Here is how the junk food media vilifies people of color.
Months before he fled into North Korea, U.S. soldier Travis King faced two assault allegations and was fined by a South Korean court for damaging a police car, according to a court ruling and a lawyer who represented him.
The U.S. military was scrambling to establish the fate of King, who made an unauthorised crossing of the inter-Korean border into North Korea on Tuesday, throwing Washington into a new crisis in its dealing with the nuclear-armed state.
Sounds like mental illness.
King's motivations for his high-stakes gambit remain unclear.
The Demilitarized Zone is a neutral territory which both Koreas are still at war.
U.S. officials said he had finished serving time in detention in South Korea for an unspecified infraction and was transported by the U.S. military to the airport to return to his home unit in the United States, when he apparently decided to join a tour to the North Korean border.
King pleaded guilty to assault and destruction of public goods stemming from an October incident, and on Feb. 8 the Seoul Western District Court fined him 5 million won ($4,000), according to a copy of the ruling reviewed by Reuters.
Two U.S. officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the soldier had been due to face disciplinary action by the U.S. military.
NO!!!
JUST DON'T DO IT, PLEASE!! ... "North Korea is believed to have detained a serving US army soldier who crossed the heavily fortified border from South Korea without permission.
The man, identified by the Pentagon as Private 2nd Class (PV2) Travis King, 23, was on an… pic.twitter.com/mHza1gs9qT
A picture shows Private 2nd Class Travis King, 23, enjoying a tour of the high-security zone moments before he made the mad dash into North Korea. pic.twitter.com/4S4Mc2eyyW
๐จ๐บ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ต US soldier Travis King was imprisoned by the US army for assault, and has likely "escaped" to North Korea and is seeking asylum. pic.twitter.com/wf2eZGxs1O
— MakeItMakeSense๐คก๐๐คฏ (@ButThisMouth) July 19, 2023
Reuters was not immediately able to ascertain whether the disciplinary action was linked to his conviction over damaging the police vehicle.
The Seoul court said on September 25 last year King punched a man in the face at a club several times but the case was settled.
One of the lawyers who represented him at the time told Reuters King had spent time in U.S. military detention in Pyeongtaek since the October case.
The lawyer, who declined to be named due to the sensitivity of the matter, said he was unaware of the status of King's custody or whereabout after February.
King's other lawyers listed in court documents were not immediately available for comment.
King's mother, Claudine Gates, told ABC News she was shocked at the news her son had crossed into North Korea.
Since the U.S. has no embassy or any ambassador for North Korea, they will have to rely on Sweden, China and even Russia to establish diplomatic relations. The only people who are capable of entering North Korea with limited access are Bill Clinton, Bill Richardson, Dennis Rodman and Washed Up 45.
Send Rodman over. He is an unofficial ambassador to North Korea and is friends with Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Un.
President Joe Biden hosts Israeli president Isaac Herzog. The Israeli president had said that Jews marrying non-Jews is like a plague.
The Democrats are on the wrong side of history. It will take the youth vote, people of color and generational protests to sway the center-left party to reality.
The Democrats and Republican lawmakers are embolden by the notion that criticism of Israel is anti-semitic. Their definition of American patriotism is pledging loyalty to a foreign country. They don't care if Israel is tilting towards fascism. They don't care if Israel is pushing ethno-nationalism.
They hate an Islamic state but praise a Jewish state.
Did you know that 33 states have laws on the books banning state contracts to companies that boycott Israel or Israeli-branded products?
Former lawmaker Lee Zeldin, a Republican who is Jewish tried to criminalize boycotting Israel with fines and imprisonment.
Outgoing senator Ben Cardin, a Democrat from Maryland tried to impose sanctions on countries that sponsor calls to punish Israel.
If you call Israel a racist state, they are quick to condemn any critics as misinformed.
In turn, they will call you a racist, push propaganda, call you anti-semitic or ban you from businesses.
They force Pramila Jayapal to apologize for her honest opinion on Israel.
Now Congress passed a resolution calling for unilateral solidarity with Israel after Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) responded to protesters who want a Palestinian state. The vote was 412-9-1 with nine Democrats voting no. Far right lawmaker Rep. August Pfluger (R-TX) sponsored the bill and it has bipartisan support. Jayapal was not addressed in it but they knew what the resolution addressed.
Jayapal said that Israel is a racist state and it earned a strong rebuke from Republicans and Democrats. The House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) forced Jayapal to walk back her comments and attend an upcoming event. They also forced her to vote on the resolution.
Top Democrats issued a statement over the weekend countering Jayapal's remarks in which they declared, "Israel is not a racist state."
"Our commitment to a safe and secure Israel as an invaluable partner, ally and beacon of democracy in the Middle East is ironclad," House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Reps. Katherine Clark (D-MA), Pete Aguilar (D-CA) and Ted Lieu (D-CA) said in a statement.
Aguilar further touted the "special relationship" between the U.S. and Israel during a news conference on Tuesday, where he was asked whether the Israel resolution would expose division within the party.
"No, there's unity in the Democratic caucus," Aguilar responded. "I think you'll see that with strong attendance from our colleagues on the House floor to see the president of Israel address us."
The Jewish Democratic lawmakers are Islamophobic. They are not willing to listen to the cries of Palestinians. They openly attack the only Palestinian-American lawmaker who is boycotting the Israeli leaders visiting the U.S. this month.
Only three members of the House are Muslim.
It is time to sever ties to the American Israeli Political Action Committee and any pro-Israeli groups. It's about time to force accountability on the state of Israel before its too late.
It will take a village to change the world.
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Rep. Andre Carson (D-IN), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Rep. Summer Lee (D-PA), Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-IL), Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), Rep. Ayanna Presley (D-MA) and Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) are boycotting at Joint Session of Congress.
All the lawmakers are people of color.
They are noise makers but I do agree with them wholeheartedly on this one.
They are protesting the state visit of Israeli president Isaac Herzog. He will speak in a Joint Session of Congress with Vice President Kamala Harris, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and members of both House and Senate in attendance.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with President Joe Biden in the coming weeks.
Palestinians are calling for world leaders to hold the Israeli government accountable for war crimes and illegal settlements in violation of the United Nations.
The recent attack on Jenin has finally reached a boiling point with people on the sidelines being fed up with the one sided view that Israel can't do no wrongs.
United Nations experts say Israeli forces’ actions amount to ‘egregious violations of international law’.
In one of the fiercest assaults in two decades on the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces brought death and widespread destruction to Jenin.
At least 12 Palestinians were killed and thousands were displaced from the Jenin refugee camp due to Israel’s two-day assault.
Why do Americans refuse to follow the U.S. State Department travel advisories?
Why do some U.S. soldiers fail to follow protocol when it comes to dealing with foreign customs?
Looks like President Joe Biden is forced into an international crisis. An American soldier is arrested in the People's Democratic Republic of Korea (North Korea) after crossing the border illegally.
Now the North Koreans will use this solider as a bargaining chip to get sanctions relieved and use this solider for propaganda.
Fox and the Republicans will accuse Biden of not doing enough or conceding too much.
If the solider is white, expect it to be wall to wall coverage and calls of the person being hailed a hero. If the solider is a person of color, expect the rounds of criticism, allegations of treachery and blame of Biden policies for the solider's capture.
The solider, Travis King was arrested.
The person was taking part in a tour to the Joint Security Area on the demilitarised zone (DMZ) border separating the two Koreas since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War where soldiers from both sides stand guard.
South Korea's Dong-a Ilbo daily, citing South Korea's army, identified the person as Travis King, a U.S. army soldier with the rank of private second class. The newspaper later deleted the name.
Reuters could not immediately establish the identity of the person.
"A U.S. National on a JSA orientation tour crossed, without authorization, the Military Demarcation Line into the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)," the U.N. Command (UNC) said on Twitter.
"We believe he is currently in DPRK custody and are working with our KPA counterparts to resolve this incident," it added, referring to North Korea's People's Army.
The man was with a group of visitors, including civilians, to the Panmunjom truce village when he suddenly bolted over the brick line marking the border, Donga and the Chosun Ilbo daily newspapers reported, citing South Korean army sources.
Colonel Isaac Taylor, spokesperson for the U.S. military in South Korea (USFK) and the U.N. Command, declined to confirm whether the individual was a U.S. Army soldier or a member of USFK, saying he had nothing to add to the UNC statement.
"We're still doing some research into this, and everything that happened," he told Reuters.
The White House, the U.S. State Department and the Pentagon did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The crossing comes at a sensitive time amid high tensions on the Korean peninsula, with the arrival of a U.S. nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarine in South Korea for a rare visit in a warning to North Korea over its own military activities.
North Korea has been testing increasingly powerful missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads, including a new solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launched last week.
South Korea's Defence Ministry said it did not immediately have any information on the border incident.
U.S. State Department travel advisory bans U.S. nationals from entering North Korea "due to the continuing serious risk of arrest and long term detention of U.S. nationals."
The ban was implemented after U.S. college student Otto Warmbier was detained by North Korean authorities while on a tour of the country in 2015. He died in 2017, days after he was released from North Korea and returned to the United States in a coma.
Reporting by Hyonhee Shin, Soo-hyang Choi, Ju-min Park and Josh Smith; Writing by Jack Kim, Editing by Andrew Heavens and Tomasz Janowski.
Washed Up 45 announced that he has gotten a target letter from Special Counsel Jack Smith in regards to his participation of the Jan. 6 insurrection. The former president who couldn't be charge while in office is complaining he is expect to be charged now that he is no longer president but is running for president.
I got a headache.
Thanks to the former president, Smith and his team have U.S. Marshal protection. The former president may face a gag order if the federal courts deem his rhetoric out of bounds.
No one is above the law. Let me be clear, if it was average Joe, they would certainly be indicted by the federal government.
The frontrunner for the Republican nomination is criminally indicted by the federal government, the state of New York and soon the state of Georgia. He is under investigation in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Michigan and Wisconsin for having those fake electors.
“Deranged Jack Smith, the prosecutor with Joe Biden’s DOJ, sent a letter (again, it was Sunday night!) stating that I am a TARGET of the January 6th Grand Jury investigation, and giving me a very short 4 days to report to the grand Jury, which almost always means an Arrest and indictment,” Washed Up 45 posted on his Truth Social account.
The former president said that this effectively means that he will be indicted for a third time. Washed Up 45 added that he's "Joe Biden’s NUMBER ONE POLITICAL OPPONENT, who is largely dominating him in the race for the Presidency."
It was not immediately clear what the charges are or whether anyone else received a target letter.
The former president said his lawyers gave him the letter, which he called "HORRIFYING NEWS for our Country," on Sunday night while he was with his family after attending a Turning Point event in West Palm Beach, FL.
"Nothing like this has ever happened in our Country before, or even close," Washed Up 45 wrote in his lengthy statement.
Smith, appointed as special counsel by Attorney General Merrick Garland in November, has led a sprawling investigation in the almost eight months since. Smith secured an indictment before a Florida grand jury last month, charging the former president with 37 counts in connection with his handling of classified documents and alleged efforts to obstruct that investigation.
No time for noise.
The charges in that case include making false statements, conspiracy to obstruct justice and willful retention of national defense information, related to the more than 100 classified documents that were recovered from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida last year, according to the indictment. Washed Up 45pleaded not guilty and has repeatedly denied wrongdoing.
A possible indictment charging the former president in the Jan. 6 probe comes after a House select committee, created by Democrats when they held the majority control of the chamber last year, investigated the former president's role in the riot.
Days after the attack, the House impeached the former president — for the second time — for "incitement of insurrection." The Senate later acquitted him because Democrats fell 10 votes short in securing enough Republican votes to join them.
Washed Up 45 faces several other investigations. He was separately charged in early April by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to his role in hush money payments toward the end of his 2016 presidential campaign. He pleaded not guilty. He also faces a criminal investigation in Georgia related to the 2020 election.
Women of color. Rashida Tlaib, Pramila Jayapal and Ilhan Omar criticize the Israeli government and often face backlash from their own party.
The internal fights between the progressive and moderate Democrats continue.
President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Rep. Shontel Brown (D-OH), Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA), Rep. Katherine Clark (D-MA), Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-CA) and other Democrats turn a blind eye to the unlawful actions of Israel.
Anytime a person of color, a Muslim or a progressive criticizes Israel, it earns outrage from not only the far right but the Democratic Party itself. Republicans often use Israel in their Christian fascist ideology. Democrats use Israel as a wedge to keep Jewish support.
Democrat Rep. Pramila Jayapal attempts to appease so-called "Free Palestine" protesters after they hijacked a leftist conference: "We have been fighting to make it clear that Israel is a racist state!"pic.twitter.com/9p2aX6uh4F
Israel has been criticized for issues regarding the conduct of its armed forces in the Arab–Israeli conflict, establishment and expansion of illegal Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories, its treatment of Palestinians, and the blockade of the Gaza Strip, with its impact on the economy of the Palestinian territories, the country's nuclear weapons program, and its targeted killings program. Other criticized long-standing issues include: the refusal to allow post-war Palestinian refugees to return to their homes, and the prolonged occupation of territories gained in war and the construction of settlements therein. Israel's status as a representative democracy has also been questioned because Israeli residents of the occupied territories are allowed to vote in Israel's elections while Palestinian residents are not.
Criticisms of Israeli policies come from several groups: primarily from activists, within Israel and worldwide, the United Nations and other non-governmental organizations including European churches, and mass media. Media bias is often claimed by both sides of the debate. Since 2003, the UN has issued 232 resolutions with respect to Israel, 40% of all resolutions issued by the UN over the period and more than six times that of the second placed country, Sudan.
Countercriticisms include the assertion that some critics and their criticisms are aimed at delegitimizing Israel's right to exist, which has led some to debate over the point at which criticism of Israel crosses the line into antisemitism. The term "new anti-Semitism" refers to criticisms deemed to have crossed this threshold.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Rep. Andre Carson (R-IN) opposes funding to Israel's military defense.
Omar and Tlaib are the most vocal. They call Israel an apartheid state due to its actions in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, the Golan Heights and East Jerusalem. They were banned from entry into Israel. Tlaib has family living in the West Bank.
The Republicans are openly hostile to Muslim Americans. Democrats are "allies" only when it comes to Muslims staying silent on Israel. They can criticize China, Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Somalia, Algeria and Yemen.
Only Israel is what drives their outrage.
Jayapal said Israel is a racist country. That is a fact. But it was quickly shot down by top Dem leadership and they ordered her to walk back her remarks.
She made them at the Netroots Nation political action conference.
Israel is not a Jewish state. It is a unitary state with a republican form of government in which the political power is vested in and entrusted to the parliament with confidence by its electorate.
They have elected leaders and a functioning government. If it was a Jewish state, then it would be fascism. Because it would ban other religions and punish those who stand up to the authority.
Israel has been under fire for committing war crimes in the West Bank, Golan Heights, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip. The country has continued building settlements in the West Bank despite the warnings it would flare tension.
Those living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip are being stripped of resources. Those living in the West Bank are banned from traveling on roads built to the settlements.
For the people of the Gaza Strip, they have no resources or the military to defend itself.
Since 2005, Israel has a blockade for aid to the Gaza Strip.
Those who tried to bring aid into the Gaza Strip are stopped or shot.
The Palestinians have no military. Israel does and it has proven to be extremely brutal in its attacks.
Israel is a neo-fascist country. They are masquerading as a legitimate democracy when its prime minister and his far right coalition are trying to eliminate the federal courts, outlaw integration, outlaw non white Jews, non white immigrants, make it a religious theocracy and brutally eliminate the other. They are trying to destroy democracy and wipe out the Palestinians who live in Gaza Strip, West Bank, East Jerusalem and Golan Heights.
The U.S. funds its defense operations and they use it in a brutal almost criminal assault on those living in Palestine. The Palestinians have no military equipment or the technology. Whenever Israel strikes, they hit residential and urban centers. They claim they are killing "militants" and those who were injured are used as shields. Israel claims the world hates them and they must defend themselves.
The Republicans and some Democrats have this notion that criticism of the state of Israel is equal to anti-Semitism. They seriously call for boycotts and censorship of those who dare speak against the inhumane crimes done by the Israeli government.
Deaira Summers is lucky to be alive today. The 11 year old girl survived an acid attack by a 12 year old girl in Detroit, Michigan. Now the Wayne County Prosecutor is going to charge the girl and her mother with attempted murder with intentions of great harm.
In a news release obtained by WJBK, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy has charged the 12-year-old girl with a count of assault with intent to do great bodily harm and a count of felonious assault.
“This is an extremely troubling set of allegations,” said Prosecutor Kym Worthy, according to the news outlet. “Instant horrible decision-making can have lifelong effects on others. There is no excuse for this.”
The attack happened last Sunday, July 9, according to WWJ-TV. It happened on a playground near Vernor Elementary School in Detroit, WDIV reported.
The incident happened with some kind of altercation on the playground. WDIV reported that Summers said she was not involved in the argument. Her family said that the 12-year-old girl’s mother handed her a bottle that was filled with some kind of liquid. The girl then reportedly threw the liquid toward Summers, her cousins, and her siblings. Summers sustained burns to her legs, back, and arms. Following the attack, Summers ran back to her house.
Summers spent three days at a children’s hospital for treatment for severe burns, WDIV reported.
A preliminary hearing was held Saturday where she was given a bond with a tether that was ordered, the news outlet reported. The 12-year-old was ordered to have no contact with Summers or any of the witnesses.
The 12-year-old girl is expected back in court on July 18, WJBK reported.
It is not yet clear if she will be charged as a juvenile or adult. No information has been released if anyone else will be facing any charges. The type of acid that was used in the attack has not been released.
The suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
A GoFundMe account was established for treatment of Dearia. The young girl will face post-traumatic stress, depression, life altering injuries and surgeries.
