Coming February 6, 2024 . . .
MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Coming February 6, 2024 . . . MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Pre-order at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
The intra-Palestinian meeting in Moscow has precedent
— Hanna Notte (@HannaNotte) February 29, 2024
Russia's hosted such meetings in the past, most recently Feb 2019
Russia has long lamented the US' "monopolization" of the peace process & tried to carve out a niche for itself: mediating among the disunited Palestinians/2
Here's what I told them: https://halginsberg.com/vote-for-jill-stein-again/
Controversial Brazil law curbing Indigenous rights comes into force https://t.co/pCoDg05irX
— Gareth Harris (@garethharr) December 28, 2023
Location: U.S. Embassy and residential compounds
Events: Heavy gunfire is occuring around the area of the U.S. Embassy and residential compounds adjacent to the Trutier area of Tabarre. All Embassy personnel have been instructed to remain indoors and shelter-in-place until further notice. All others should avoid the area.
Actions to take:
- Avoid the area;
- Avoid demonstrations and any large gatherings of people;
- Do not attempt to drive through roadblocks; and
- If you encounter a roadblock, turn around and get to a safe area.
By The Editorial Board @ Bloomberg.com, December 8, 2023
A mass expulsion of Afghan migrants could destabilize the region and fuel radicalization. The West should pressure Islamabad to change course.
All eyes on #Chad right now
Chad has two internet trunks coming into the country: One from the Red Sea via Sudan; the other from Cameroon. Not possible for the totality of the country's internet network to be shut unless done centrally. A lot of rumors swirling; few facts. https://t.co/N6bDJZ2ixO
BREAKING: Three loss prevention employees in Macy’s across the street from Philadelphia City Hall stabbed, one of them has died from stab wounds, @PhillyPolice sources tell me. Police converged on the store as the three workers were rushed to Jefferson Hospital. pic.twitter.com/4U1eKycL4W
Former US Ambassador Arrested, Charged With Working As Secret Agent For Cuba https://t.co/LDwo4ZJI1K
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) December 4, 2023
[Chapter I news is HERE, Oct. 7 til today]
You don’t get it.
— George Deek (@GeorgeDeek) December 2, 2023
It’s not about an UNRWA teacher who held an Israeli kid hostage in his house.
It’s all about how for 75 years you have destroyed the future of generations of Palestinians, including my family.
My cousins in Arab countries are still not citizens - not even the… https://t.co/nv6anubGhc
Note 'Community Notes' attached to UNWRA's statement.
Imperialism for me but not for thee?
It's wild that Venezuela is now holding a vote on whether 2/3 of Guyana actually belongs to them! Analysts suggest that Modoru may want military action to pump up his sinking popularity.
Could we have a war in South America?!?
"The people who live in Essequibo are largely… pic.twitter.com/QvMEjkkgwy
The lack of a cohesive delegation has allowed attention-seeking lawmakers to act on their own.
McCarthy: “You have [Rep. Matt] Gaetz, who belongs in jail…”
Gaetz: “Tough words from a guy who sucker punches people in the back. The only assault I committed was against Kevin’s fragile ego.”https://t.co/LctPuz6Pcf
By Martinn Pengelly in Washington DC for TheGuardian.com, Nov. 30
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tells Ryan Grim life in Congress ‘completely transformed’ after Democratic leader stepped down
"Both the AU and the intl community place more weight on whether elections are held than whether they are free and fair. Sanctions/expulsions occur when there is a coup but not necessarily when elections are rigged or if an “institutional coup” occurs." https://t.co/m9dNimJP0D
— Cameron Hudson (@_hudsonc) November 28, 2023
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Comments
I'm still not quite sure how the Temptest got swept up in a ban on Ethnic Studies. I mean one really can't get much more a Dead White Male European than Bill.
by Elusive Trope on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 2:35pm
You'd think not, wouldn't you? But the issue is Caliban:
"This island's mine, by Sycorax my mother,/ Which thou tak'st from me," and "For I am all the subjects that you have,/ Which first was mine own king."
Apparently, too close to comfort in Arizona, where Chicano students can actually say that their group was here first, and then colonized by newcomers. And in general, over the last thirty years the play has come to be taught through a post-colonial lens, because people noticed: Hey, a bunch of white people arrive on an island, take it over, and enslave the person who was already living there! We know another story like that!
But that's what it comes down to: any sympathetic statement on the behalf of someone who feels colonized, even if he's a semi-diabolical fish monster, makes the state superintendent of education uneasy.
by Doctor Cleveland on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 2:57pm
Probably because Prospero has enslaved the two creatures on the island: Caliban, a sullen "thing of darkness," and Ariel, who is more like a sprite or elf. Caliban rebels, therefore remains enslaved, while the more obedient Ariel is granted freedom.
by Donal on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 2:58pm
They should really be banning all books. Does Europe also have multiple ethnicities? German, British, Spanish, French…? Heck, even "British" is itself multi-ethnic: English, Scottish, Irish…
by Verified Atheist on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 5:23pm
and the Welsh!
Ni fydd y Gymraeg yn angof!
by Elusive Trope on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 8:52pm
Wizards. No good ever comes of 'em.
by Michael Maiello on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 3:10pm
Now, warlocks on the other hand, have done a good job of blending in and accepting the dominant culture. You don't see them asking for warlock studies or national warlock days where they can fly their warlock flags.
by Elusive Trope on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 3:17pm
Or fly around on their Mansticks.
by Michael Maiello on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 4:14pm
I wonder if they're banning Bad Day at Black Rock and The Admirable Crichton?
by Donal on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 4:09pm
If the ban is successful, maybe Arizona will have a generation of people that are regularly stopped by the police on the basis of their appearance who have no idea who it is they are supposed to resemble.
by moat on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 4:38pm
Plato will be next.
I mean we have to ban that guy who is Greek to me and most folks.
I mean he had the audacity to say that there was a thriving civilization 9,000 years before his time. Now if you add 2400 years to that figure and then deduce that that civilization might have taken 5,000 years to get going, well...
I mean the earth was created in 4,000 BC for chrissakes or for the sake of Genesis!
The only thing that might save Plato's ass is the fact that most right wing Evangelicals think Plato was that dog in Disney cartoons!
by Richard Day on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 4:54pm
You only think you're joking. You've clearly never had a student call one of Plato's major philosophical dialogues "propaganda for homosexuality."
Wish I could say the same.
by Doctor Cleveland on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 5:06pm
Just for the sake of journalistic honesty here, the right wing did not ban the Tempest. The Tucson school district removed the Tempest from its curriculum to come into compliance with a right-wing law prohibiting "ethnic studies." I doubt that any right-winger would see the Tempest as an ethnic studies work, and in fact, I suspect that someone in the Tucson school district included it to make a politcal point.
That's not to say that the law itself is not an abomination.
by Michael Wolraich on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 9:03pm