‘Did Jesus Pack Heat?’ – Maine Community College Professor Attacks, Discriminates Against Christian Conservative Student for Views on Gun Control
Oh, the travails of teaching at a community college:
I was called into the president’s office at one community college where I taught after I chastised two male white faculty for leaving a Winona LaDuke talk after a few minutes and after I heard them say, “I am not about to be berated for being a white man”. I left the venue, closed the door quietly behind them, and told them the message they were sending to LaDuke — who was on campus and in Spokane on a book and speaking tour, and who was addressing students, the public at large and elders from several tribes in our area — crappy, unprofessional and a mark on faculty for not sitting still and listening to te guest. They two white psychotics of course went to the college president to tell on me, a part-time faculty.
I fucking brought dozens of famous authors and speakers to Spokane, not just to Spokane Falls Community College, and I put on the big Earth Day Spokane — Taking it to the Streets. I had a radio show promoting those people and events, newspaper column, magazine gig, and alas, this is the fucking shit a real faculty receives.
Old News:
This week marks the unofficial beginning of what is traditionally the busiest time of the year here in the Inland Northwest. While we count on you to be utilizing our Calendar/Events section , (and maybe even one of our handy widget s ) to see what kind of eco and sustainable events are going on in Spokane and the Inland Nortwest – there are times when we must direct your attention to something that we are particulary stoked on. As is the case with next Tuesday’s double-shot of Winona LaDuke in Spokane.
LaDuke, a Native American activist, environmentalist, economist, and writer who you might remember as Ralph Nader’s vice presidential nominee in 2004, will speak twice in Spokane next Tuesday – once at 11:30 a.m. at Spokane Falls Community College, and then again at 7:30 at The Magic Lantern. LaDuke is an inspiring figure in the environmental community for her work as the program director of the Honor the Earth Fund where she works to advocate, raise public support, and create funding for frontline native environmental groups on a national level.
Winona LaDuke is just the beginning – March and April are full of amazing opportunities for engaging discusssions and actions focused on sustainability and envrionmental issues in Spokane and the surrounding area – culminating in Spokane Earth Day, April 26th, at Riverfront Park. To stay up to date, be sure to visit the Earth Day Spokane website.
If you are an organization or business interested in displaying the Earth Day Spokane calendar of events – please print the following PDF attachement and display it proudly.
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by Paul H. Haeder
You probably remember Winona LaDuke as the two-time Green Party vice presidential candidate, running with Ralph Nader in 2000 and 2004. You probably didn’t know that she’s an enrolled member of the Anishinaabeg Tribe from the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota, where she’s locked in another tough battle — this time against huge multinational corporations that want to change her tribe’s traditional way of life.
At three engagements in Spokane last week, and in some private interviews, LaDuke talked about the need to defend native peoples’ rights to the Earth. And this epic debate can fit into a single grain of wild rice — the Manoominike-Giizis strain, or the “wild rice moon” grown by her people for many generations.
This small grain of plant life serves as a microcosm of the entire sustainability challenge we all face: making sure future generations — all peoples and all species — will have a planet worth living on with ecosystems and resources to achieve spiritual and material prosperity.
LaDuke has proven to be so much more than a media darling — she’s a spiritual guide for her tribe and for the thousands she’s come across along her journey. Mixing humor with a shaman’s intensity, LaDuke has written books like All Our Relations and Recovering the Sacred.
LaDuke sees the Minnesota reservations’ practice of harvesting wild rice as vital: “The wild rice harvest of the Anishinaabeg not only feeds the body, it feeds the soul, continuing a tradition which is generations old for these people of the lakes and rivers of the north.”
It struck me last week while spending time with LaDuke that her tribe’s battle to keep their wild rice wild, free from genetic manipulation, is a much more far-reaching illustration of what sustainability activists consider the struggle of our times: How to create an America that respects the land.
Many of us think along systemic lines, attempting to understand the steps the globe probably has to take to solve the collapsing systems, both environmental and societal. Yet we need reminding that this struggle to work with a burgeoning global human population — 9 billion by 2050 at the current 1.2 percent growth rate — needs nudging from storytellers like LaDuke.
Her struggle — our struggle — is tied to the biodiversity of wild rice, a sacred food. There are more than 60,000 acres of natural wild rice growing throughout the lakes and rivers of her tribal lands. But there are troubling parallels drawn to what’s happened to the sacred corn of Mesoamerica at the hands of the agri-business multinationals, where corn has been patented, controlled and even turned into what some call Frankenfood.
Domestication and genetic modification of wild rice threaten the genetic integrity of this plant. For more than 30 years, plant breeders have developed wild rice for commercial paddies. So today, most of the wild rice on the market comes from these paddies, almost 70 percent of it from California. “Millions of pounds of California wild rice come into [Minnesota] to be processed,” says LaDuke, “some of that rice, if genetically engineered, would irreversibly contaminate our manoomin.”
LaDuke’s tenacity in understanding the sacred and reclaiming the wholeness of her people’s food is a valuable lesson for our times. She’s up against the juggernaut of Monsanto and DuPont, the largest seed companies in the world. Monsanto has spent $8 billion in the last few years buying up United States seed companies, while DuPont purchased Pioneer, the second largest seed company in the world.
“This concentration of control over world seed stocks is alarming to farmers on a worldwide scale, especially considering that the closer seeds seem to be held, the fewer there are.”
LaDuke puts all of our struggles into a feedback loop, connecting wild rice in Minnesota to sustainability in Spokane with the goal of creating a more independent, safe and stable food supply. “However you cut the statistics,” LaDuke says, “from the villages of India to the villages of northern Minnesota, there is a marked loss in worldwide biodiversity, and a closer hold on who controls the remaining seeds of the world.”
This issue of control took me back 32 years, to the time I was a newspaper reporter in the middle of a struggle for the soul of a mountain.
Environmentalists were trying to stop my school, the University of Arizona, from building roads and locating a large mirror telescope on Mount Graham, a 10,000-foot sky island sticking out of the Sonora Desert. Mount Graham was named after a white man who rode through the area many years ago, a Colonel James Graham, but for generations the San Carlos Apaches had referred to the entire range as “Pinaleno,” meaning “many deer.” It’s the holiest place for the Apaches, who acquire the power to become medicine men and women through singing and collecting herbs and water on that mountain.
Despite the importance and traditional use of the place, roads were cut and the telescope went up. LaDuke and I talked about that struggle, and she shared many similar struggles currently unfolding in Indian Country and elsewhere.
LaDuke’s power is in her ability to unearth the history of Native people’s struggles — and how that history is relevant today. There has been a lost connection between how the land should be used and how it actually is used — from wild rice in Minnesota to telescopes in Arizona. Reconnecting with the land is another step in the process, as her book puts it, of reclaiming the sacred.
Paul Haeder is the sustainability liaison at Spokane Falls Community College, where he also teaches English. His KYRS radio show, Tipping Points: Voices on the Edge, covers sustainability issues.
This is a trigger for me:
Nearly 50 Republican state lawmakers are calling on Eastern Maine Community College to fire an instructor there.
In a Monday letter, they accuse Dr. Carol Lewandowski of making “inappropriate and discriminatory comments” to a conservative student. The group also claims Lewandowski mocked a student’s Christian faith but did not provide specific details about what was said.
In that editorial, Rooks argued in favor of Democratic state lawmakers holding a hearing on the so-called “red flag” bill that will be put to Maine voters this November as a referendum. Rooks also argued in favor of the red flag law, claiming that Maine’s current “yellow flag” law is “cumbersome” and “stigmatizes” the mentally ill.
In her interview with George Hale and Ric Tyler on Wednesday, Parker said that in her essay for Lewandowski’s class, she agreed with Rooks on the first point that the legislature should have held a hearing on the bill, but disagreed with the veteran Maine journalist on the matter of whether the red flag law would be effective in Maine.
“I responded with agreeing with [Rooks] that the legislative session should have gone on as legally obliged, but I also disagreed, because red flags are not good for Maine in any capacity,” Parker said.
After submitting her rough draft to Lewandowski for feedback, Parker received a response from the community college professor that not only provided comments on her writing, but attacked the student’s opinion and used the student’s Christian faith against her (see below for screenshots of the professor’s response).
Lewandowski told Parker in the feedback to “avoid proselytizing with logical fallacies in a college class,” before referencing the student’s previous essay regarding her Christian faith.
“Wasn’t your former speech a testimony to finding Jesus [sic]. Did Jesus pack heat?” Lewandowski asked, in an apparent attempt to argue that the student’s religious beliefs are incongruous with her views on the red flag law.
Lewandowski then told the student to pick a different topic for her essay due to the professor’s inability to grade it fairly because of her own strong opinions on the subject.
“I find this 2nd amendment nonsense exhausting and highly recommend you choose a different topic since this one is not one I can easily grade, given my own disdain for the misinterpretations of the second amendment,” Lewandowski wrote.
“Hate to tell ya, but guns DO kill [sic],” the EMCC professor wrote, before launching into a list of mass shootings in recent years.
“You clearly do not care about people as much as you care about guns,” Lewandowski accused the student. “Your argument is a solid representation of that. For fairness to you and to me, please choose another topic.”
The community college professor then again tried to use the student’s religious beliefs against her.
“And think again about Jesus packing heat. Really. You and your ilk drive me nuts with your hypocrisy,” Lewandowski wrote.
“Guns kill. Own it,” she added.
Parker described Lewandowski’s response as not only deeply unprofessional, but also personally insulting.
“I knew that going into a community college I would face a degree of persecution. I was aggravated, because while I’ve been facing this type of thing since middle school, I’ve never been personally insulted by a professional college professor or any teacher at all,” Parker said.
She added that her first reaction was to call her mother to ensure she wasn’t overreacting, and her mother shared her aggravation.
Parker then emailed Lewandowski, firmly stating she would not change her essay topic.
“I didn’t tell her how infuriated I was, but I knew that this is more than not okay. This is unprofessional and it’s bullying of a student,” Parker said. “A professor at a college level should be able to grade a paper unbiased despite any topic, and they should not be personally insulting their students for their topic of choice.”
In response to Parker’s email saying she would not change her essay topic, Lewandowski again told her to change the topic, and suggested that Parker pursue the matter with the department chair and the dean.
“Please change your topic as I earlier requested as this is a trigger issue for me. No pun intended,” Lewandowski wrote.
“I admit I cannot assess the gun issue objectively,” the community college professor wrote.
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Oh, that’s right, I wrote about that kind of shit already this year happening to ME in a college class here on the coast: I was right there in that bullshit Orwellian Chamber of Administrative Hell.
From the VP of the community college:
Received a note from one of your students this morning:
Can you issue a full refund for my registration to the “Writing As Gift Class” in Waldport which starts this afternoon? This class is not as described in the Catch the Wave. I write about nature and short stories of personal experiences. This class appears to be biased towards politics. Can you also let the instructor know to delete my email and contact information permanently? I do not give the instructor permission to forward my contact information or use it for any other purposes.
I’m going to ask that you not bulk email the students henceforth. Our team will send emails on your behalf about any announcements – assignments, presentations, date/time changes, etc. Just send those to us and we’ll distribute. (Of course, any student who wishes to hear from you directly can tell you so and provide their preferred email address; we have no interest in interfering with that.)
Time is short, but we’re forced to consider canceling the class this morning for two reasons: First, in your email, you introduce an experience far from what we advertised in our catalog. Second, in my estimation it doesn’t conform to our Academic Freedom policy. Based on your email, the class certainly does not appear to be an examination of issues, but presents a singular political agenda. (Note that I’m setting aside here the fact that you and I may share many viewpoints raised in your email to students; this isn’t about my personal beliefs and concerns.) If you wanted to present a workshop focused on your personal opinions, and your past writings, about the current or former administrations or other political issues, one alternative would have been to rent a room from the College or a Library and delivered the event without being tethered by the College’s commitment to freedom of expression of all viewpoints. That may be an option to consider in the future.
Our Academic Freedom policy reads as follows:
Approved by Board of Education: 01/21/2015 Institutions of higher education exist for the common good, and the unfettered search for truth and its free exploration is critical to the common good. The college seeks to educate its students in the democratic tradition, to foster recognition of individual freedoms and social responsibility, and to inspire meaningful awareness of and respect for a collaborative learning environment. Freedom of expression will be guaranteed to instructors to create a classroom atmosphere that allows students to raise questions and consider all sides of issues. OCCC instructors are responsible for exercising judgment in selecting topics of educational value for discussion and learning consistent with course requirements, goals, and desired outcomes. (Emphasis added, DP)
Finally, whether or not we wish to cancel, this drop brings us to near break-even for the course. If we lose another student today we’ll be forced to cancel for low enrollment, full stop. We don’t run Community Ed courses at a loss. The taxpayers don’t fund classes on chocolate enrobing of fruits, nor of sea-star wasting disease, nor of oil painting or writing. These courses must pay their own way. I will let you know if we hear from another student and are forced to cancel. In that case, we will post a sign on the door and email and call registrants so long as time permits.
I’m pasting the course description published in CTW below. It does not hint at the political focus that dominates your email to students.
Dave Price
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Of course, the pre-course email did have articles on writing, writing programs, writing MFA workshops, all of that, now in a Time of Trump cuts. From JOURNALS. Some higher ed journals, and writing journals. And, of course, the course is described as working with topics around estrangement — any kind, but I put in familial and community estrangement. The class I have taught seven times down here, and I am giving students hundreds of examples of nature essays and poetry and memoir writing adventures, and alas, the resources I give the students are ALL about CREATIVE writing.
This is pre-class harassment by a fucking spineless fool, really, with that threatening letter. The class did make, and I asked all in the class if it was okay sending everyone emails “To the Class,” and if it was fine we worked as a writer’s workshop, sending comments about others’ work back and forth before we met weekly for our two hours.
This is someone who makes a cool $110,000 or more a year, plus benefits. Shame on him, shame on HIM.
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Another example tied to the Christian Crap above in the Maine cas for me was a course I taught in composition with some books required, including a writing process book/texbook and a few novels, to include the Fight Club. Imagine that, and the author was coming to town and was invited and accepted said invitation to speak at my class and the school at large.
This is a state school, and the student went to the department chair to request and demand she get a replacement text for the Fight Club and to be excused from the class during talks about the book’s issues and when Chuck Palahniuk showed up to class.
SAME FUCKING Christian CRAP, man, as a state community college. I did not give alternative texts, and the fucking chair of the department did all sorts of arm twisting of another faculty to take this young woman into her course. Fucking A!
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More fucking needle-using heroin addict news: RFK Jr. cancels USPSTF meeting as healthcare orgs urge Congress to ‘protect integrity’ of expert panel
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is made up of 16 volunteer members who are nationally recognized experts in prevention, evidence-based medicine, and primary care. Task Force members, appointed by the Secretary of HHS, serve staggered four-year terms to ensure all 16 members are not appointed by the same presidential administration.
Members are screened to ensure that they have no substantial conflicts of interest, according to the task force’s website.
The USPSTF was established in 1984 to make recommendations to general practice physicians and public health bodies on preventive care. Federal policymakers rely on the USPSTF recommendations, including Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
SCOTUS upholds ACA preventive services task force in 6-3 ruling
And, insurers must provide cost-free coverage for preventive services that have been recommended by the USPSTF, such as lung and colorectal cancer screenings, behavioral counseling, prevention of maternal depression, childhood vision screenings and adult diabetes screenings.
The Task Force meets remotely on a weekly basis and meets in-person three times per year.
The USPSTF was slated to discuss healthy diet, physical activity and other approaches to prevent cardiovascular disease at the July 10 meeting, according to the source.
The Supreme Court last month upheld the key preventive services task force in a 6-3 ruling. The decision, Kennedy v. Braidwood, preserved the Affordable Care Act’s preventive coverage mandate and also determined that members of the USPSTF are selected within the bounds of the Constitution.
Everything and everyone in the Rapist in Chief’s Soiled Depends Adult Diaper Wearing Minyan is Dirty.
Trump’s people, i.e. Larry Fink and Black Rock’s Schwarzman.
According to ABC Gulf Coast News, Slide Insurance CEO Bruce Lucas and his wife, Slide’s COO, earned $21 million and $16.5 million, respectively, last year. Together, they brought in over $50 million in compensation, even as many Florida homeowners face rate hikes topping 20%.
The payout comes at a time when insurance options in Florida are dwindling. Companies are pulling out of the state or slashing coverage, citing growing risks from extreme weather, like hurricanes, flooding, and wildfires.
“The greed! The rich get richer and the poor get poorer,” said Mary Bousquet, a Cape Coral resident. “It’s just so unbalanced. The whole thing is out of control — it has to be fixed somehow.”
[Sweden’s order, worth about $526 million— the country’s largest since the 1980s—will bolster the country’s Archer self-propelled artillery systems, Defense Minister Pål Jonson said.
German defense giant Rheinmetall and Norwegian company Nammo will produce the ammunition, Jonson said.
Building up artillery ammunition stocks is high on the to-do list for both NATO and the European Union. The most in-demand shells, 155mm rounds, have been harder and harder for Ukraine to get hold of as the war has dragged on.]
We will eat brass casings: US Ally Makes Largest Ammo Order in Decades
Racist Jew Miller and his Klan back at it: America First Legal Foundation filed a federal civil rights complaint against Colorado State University, alleging that its diversity, equity and inclusion programs are discriminatory and violate federal law.
The complaint was filed June 24 by the nonprofit law firm that was founded in 2017 by Stephen Miller, the current White House deputy chief of staff, and Gene Hamilton. America First Legal’s mission is to “oppose lawless government overreach and fight to restore the rule of law in the United States,” according to its website.
“As with any complaint filed with a governmental agency, the university takes the matter seriously,” CSU spokesperson Tiana Kennedy told the Coloradoan in a July 2 email. “We are reviewing the issues raised in the complaint and will respond appropriately.”
- A faculty recruitment toolkit that notes “there are many opportunities to embed best practices for enhancing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)” in searches for new faculty members
- The awarding of scholarships it says are discriminatory based on students’ “immutable characteristics.”
- An all-university core curriculum that requires students to complete at least three credits in courses focused on DEI-related topics.
[Job creators — prosthetics, coffins, physical therapists, and land mine manufacturing and land mine demining.]
The Horror The Horror:
And, the inhumanity of it all, these fucking White Races: Lithuania, Finland pivot to landmine production, potentially supplying to Ukraine, Reuters reports
The horror the horror:
Kousser said a presidential run in 2028 “is unlikely” since the Democratic Party is “collectively soul-searching to find a new vision” and “may not turn to exactly the candidate who lost the last election.”
“I do not see much of a political future at the national level for Harris, due to a variety of factors,” Grant Reeher, a professor of political science at Syracuse University, told Newsweek.
“Even though she was dealt a tough hand in the presidential race, she struggled as a candidate, particularly when asked specific questions about her policy positions and about Biden administration policies, which presumably she was partly responsible for.”
Newsweek has contacted Harris’ office for comment via a contact form on her website.
The whores the whores: Trump threatens 50% tariffs on Brazil if it doesn’t stop the Bolsonaro ‘witch hunt’ trial
Jewish Leon Levine’s name is etched across Charlotte, a testament to decades spent investing in the state he cherished. But it’s his final act of generosity, a posthumous directive to dissolve the very foundation he built, that he hoped would ultimately fulfill his promise to underserved Carolinians and the Jewish community. “He wanted us to be part of the permanent solution,” said Tom Lawrence, president and CEO of the Leon Levine Foundation. “It’s more about self-sufficiency for our neighbors than it is self-preservation for the foundation.”
The horrors from the Whores of Bar Mitzvah: Family Dollar, and dollar stores in general, have been alleged by a number of studies, individuals, and organizations to proliferate food deserts: areas with limited access to healthy and affordable food. Dollar stores are alleged to outcompete local grocery stores, and end up being one of the few options available for purchasing food in some communities. In line with these allegations, a number of states have passed restrictions on where new dollar stores can be opened.
A 2023 study from experts at Tufts University School of Medicine and the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, which was published in the American Journal of Public Health, found that “dollar stores are now the fastest-growing food retailers in the contiguous United States.”
“It’s a notable evolution: Dollar stores once focused primarily on personal care and craft items,” the university wrote in a release. “Now, they’re expanding to offer prepackaged, shelf-stable food items. These items might be convenient, but they often have suboptimal nutritional value.”
“Sales in local grocery stores are known to drop by 30% following the opening of a nearby dollar store.”
It continued: “While dollar stores don’t tend to specialize in fresh foods and produce, they do fill a void that can’t be ignored, especially for people who live in remote areas. In some ways, their rise is actually a positive development, providing consumers with food options in low-access areas. On the other hand, the recent growth in dollar store food expenditures raises concerns that such stores could force out local grocers through competitive pricing, the researchers write — leaving consumers with limited, less healthy options.”
The Heart of Apocalypse Now HORRORS.
Looking back on his days serving in the Vietnam War with the U.S. Air Force, Larry Kerr remembers the regular exposure to Agent Orange.
The chemical was stored in large drums where he helped handle munitions as a weapons specialist. It was used to defoliate vegetation on the periphery of the bases and other areas where U.S. forces operated during the war, thus making them easier to monitor. Particles of the substance seemed to float everywhere and contaminate everything.
“We breathed it in. We bathed in it. We brushed our teeth in it,” Kerr said, seated in the living room of his Syracuse home.
He had no inkling of its dangers at the time, but after he suffered a heart attack in 1980 at the age of just 32, he started suspecting something was up. He suffered more ailments over the years, sowing his intense qualms with Agent Orange, and a head and neck cancer diagnosis in 2023 really jumpstarted his activism.
According to the National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine, the U.S. Air Force sprayed at least 11 million gallons of Agent Orange in Vietnam between 1962 and 1971 as part of what the U.S. government dubbed Operation Ranch Hand. The aim as the war with Vietnam intensified was to defoliate trees and plants in Vietnam, thus reducing enemy cover, and to destroy enemy crops.
Whatever the case, Kerr said more and more veterans of the war started reporting an uptick in cancer and a range of other ailments in the late 1970s, which he and others connected to Agent Orange. Ultimately, U.S. officials recognized a link between exposure to the herbicide and a long list of diseases and health conditions, creating a means of compensation for those impacted by the chemical.
Nevertheless, Agent Orange exacted a heavy toll, and Kerr says those who have suffered at the hands of the chemical merit recognition and that the broader public needs to be informed about what happened. The chemical has also taken a heavy toll on many Vietnamese people exposed to it, according to the Vietnamese government.
“Along with honoring veterans that have been impacted by Agent Orange, this memorial will serve as a monument to history, a place for the public to learn about our nation’s past and as a place for people to reflect and mourn for loved ones lost,” reads the Utah Agent Orange Veterans Foundation website. “The devastation Agent Orange has left behind is far reaching and we aim to provide solace to those who have suffered.”
Kerr, for his part, points to personal friends he’s lost and the impact the deaths of those exposed to Agent Orange has had on surviving loved ones. “If you get five or 10 of these spouses or widows in a room and have them talk about it, you would come out of there crying,” he said.
After a stroll in Detroit, a humanoid robot goes viral
WE ARE FUCKED. Look at those kiddos, man, fucking A, dude, the Jews Have the Next and the Next and the Next Generations. RFID chips in the neck and nanobots in the body along with RFK Junior’s FitBit Watch 6.0!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And so more dead and dying kiddos, mixed in with 40 mandatory vaccinations, and the robots and the Jews RULE:
The producer of the world’s most popular weedkiller – Roundup – is replacing a notorious ingredient with what could be a “regrettable substitution“.
As scrutiny grows over the health risks of glyphosate, the herbicide diquat is increasingly used in its place.
A fresh analysis from researchers in China, however, suggests that the alternative is not without its harms. In fact, at some concentrations, it can cause irreversible damage to organs.
Diquat is a close cousin of paraquat – a herbicide that is 28 times more toxic than glyphosate and that is banned in 70 countries. Glyphosate was initially introduced as a safer alternative to paraquat; however, both chemicals now face scrutiny for their potential health effects.
Related: Controversial New Study Links Parkinson’s With Living Near a Golf Course
Diquat has begun to rapidly take their place.
Like paraquat, diquat is well known to be toxic, which is why it must be handled with protective gear, but there is disagreement on precisely what levels of exposure are safe.
Jobs to Kill For. We are all complicit, man, dirty dirty Murder Incorporated: Ohio awards $310 million to US defense contractor for 4,000-worker advanced manufacturing
They will be living in Quonset huts: Investors snap up growing share of US homes as traditional buyers struggle to afford one.
Nearly 27% of all homes sold in the first three months of the year were bought by investors — the highest share in at least five years, according to a report by real estate data provider BatchData.
Between 2020 and 2023, the share of homes bought by investors averaged 18.5%.
All told, investors bought 265,000 homes in the January-March quarter, an increase of 1.2% from the same period a year earlier, the firm said.
Free Free Palestine with Quonsets?
British band Idles dedicates concert to Palestine in Barcelona
And so the Romper Room MOTHER Fucking Depends Feces Filled Diapers Epstein Trump and Company will make US pay, even tubing down a creek, now: Coming to a state near you.
If you like to go out on the water in Oregon, get ready for some big changes for permits.
Starting next year, you’ll need a Water Access Permit to use any boat in Oregon waterways including kayaks and stand-up paddleboards, even two inner tubes tied together will be affected.
Previously, any watercraft 10 feet or shorter was exempt.
And so the world is in its final Romper Room fucking stupidity and, well, fascism, because when you follow TeleTubby and Seseame Street Walkers a la Disneylandians, we have no choice but to look at our fellow fucking anal leak Americans and say: “They gotta go too.”
The Persecution of Francesca Albanese By Chris Hedges!
Her latest report lists 48 corporations and institutions, including Palantir Technologies Inc., Lockheed Martin, Alphabet Inc. (Google), Amazon, International Business Machine Corporation (IBM), Caterpillar Inc., Microsoft Corporation and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), along with banks and financial firms such as BlackRock, insurers, real estate firms and charities, which in violation of international law, are making billions from the occupation and the genocide of Palestinians.
You can read my article on Albanese’s most recent report here.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio condemned her support for the ICC, four of whose judges have been sanctioned by the U.S. for issuing arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant last year. He criticized Albanese for her efforts to prosecute American or Israeli nationals who sustain the genocide, saying she is unfit for service as a special rapporteur. Rubio also accused Albanese of having “spewed unabashed antisemitism, expressed support for terrorism, and open contempt for the United States, Israel, and the West.” The sanctions will most likely prevent Albanese from travelling to the U.S. and will freeze any assets she may have in the country.
The attack against Albanese presages a world without rules, one where rogue states, such as the U.S. and Israel, are permitted to carry out war crimes and genocide without any accountability or restraint. It exposes the subterfuges we use to fool ourselves and attempt to fool others. It reveals our hypocrisy, cruelty and racism. No one, from now on, will take seriously our stated commitments to democracy, freedom of expression, the rule of law or human rights. And who can blame them? We speak exclusively in the language of force, the language of brutes, the language of mass slaughter, the language of genocide.
“The acts of killing, the mass killing, the infliction of psychological and physical torture, the devastation, the creation of conditions of life that would not allow the people in Gaza to live, from the destruction of hospitals, the mass forced displacement and the mass homelessness, while people were being bombed daily, and the starvation — how can we read these acts in isolation?” Albanese asked in an interview I did with her when we discussed her report, “Genocide as colonial erasure.”
The militarized drones, helicopter gunships, walls and barriers, checkpoints, coils of concertina wire, watchtowers, detention centers, deportations, brutality and torture, denial of entry visas, apartheidesque existence that comes with being undocumented, loss of individual rights and electronic surveillance, are as familiar to desperate migrants along the Mexican border, or attempting to enter Europe, as they are to Palestinians.
This is what awaits those who Frantz Fanon calls “the wretched of the earth.”
Those that defend the oppressed, such as Albanese, will be treated like the opp
There is no such thing now of this Antisemitism Bullshit Passed as Logic and Social Justice by the Industry, the Hasbara, the Lying Jewish Jewish Double Jewish Bullshit Antisemitism Factories.
Paul Haeder, Author 