Tuesday, September 19, 2023

A disgusting hate merchant gets banned, a talented artist gets applause

Candace Owens?  She presents as Black but with that hair, she'd probably be more at home on the set of Mixed-ish than Black-ish.  She's a hate merchant.  She's been suspended again by YouTube:


YouTube has suspended Candace Owens from the video platform for a second time, because of anti-LGBTQ+ statements raised in her podcast show.
The writer and political commentator previously had her content demonetized on YouTube after several of her posts violated policies regarding misgendering trans people.

Her Daily Wire co-star, Michael Knowles, broke the news on the show's official YouTube channel and shared that he would be "joined by no one" on that episode.

The video was titled "Why YouTube Won't Let Us Stream..." In the short snippet, Knowles said: "Youtube hates us" and that the platform was "prohibiting her [Owens] from posting or appearing on any of the Daily Wire's YouTube channels."


You're a hate merchant.  I don't think you should be allowed on YouTube to begin with.  

Let's turn to some good news,  Greg Owen (LGBTQ Nation) reports:


With Divine co-stars Ricki Lake and Mink Stole looking on, filmmaker John Waters received the 2,763rd star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Monday, a rare acknowledgment from the movie industry of the director’s hold on a certain degenerate segment of the American movie-going public.

“The Hollywood Walk of Fame, you’re the best, and I hope the most desperate showbiz rejects walk over me here and feel some sort of respect and strength,” Waters said in his acceptance speech.

The 77-year-old director is having a Hollywood moment with his star’s unveiling and a new career retrospective at the Academy of Motion Pictures Museum, “John Waters: Pope of Trash.”

“I’m so respectable I could puke,” the Baltimore-born filmmaker said at a press conference for the show.

Waters’ most beloved films include cult classics Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, Multiple Maniacs and Mondo Trouble. Hairspray, starring Divine and Lake — both of whom Waters made stars — and Serial Mom with Kathleen Turner were rare mainstream Hollywood breakouts.


I love Hairspray but I love Serial Mom even more.  The way Kathleen Turner torments her neighbor over the phone, for example.  I also really love Cecil B. Demented and Pecker.  But my favorite will always be Female Trouble because I love Dawn Davenport (Divine) and her obsession with cha-chat heels.   I see a lot of Dawn Davenport in Roger on American Dad.  :D


This is C.I.'s "Iraq snashot:"


Tuesday, September 19, 2023.  Turkey kills three security force members in Iraq (three more injured), Iraq's prime minister meets with the US Secretary of State, Ronald DeSantis continues his war on education and wants to talk 'decency' -- no, he's not calling out Lauren Boebert for groping that man in public -- and much more.


Starting with Iraq where an attack in Kurdistan has been carried out.  Salar Salim and Abulrahman Zeyad (AP) report:

An airstrike on a military airport in northern Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region killed three people Monday, local officials said.

The region’s counter-terrorism service said in a statement that the attack on the Arbat Airport, 28 kilometers southeast of the city of Suleimaniyah killed three of its personnel and injured three members of the Kurdish Peshmerga forces.

Drone attack on the KRG?  Hmm.  Who could that be?  Who spring sto mind?  The government of Turkey?  







Al Jazeera’s Abdelwahid said that Turkish drones have been hovering in the area for the past three days.

“The Sulaymaniyah province is home to anti-Turkish and anti-Iran groups, and both these countries have been conducting air raids in and around Sulaymaniyah,” Al Jazeera’s Abdelwahid said, adding that we still do not know who is behind the attack.

The government of Turkey has sent ground forces into Iraq and set up bases -- in violation of Iraq's sovereignty -- and under the pretext of fighting 'terrorism.'  Even when they're killing children, they insist they're killing terrorists.  When they attacked vacationers at a resort, they insisted it was to kill 'terrorists.'  The attack on Monday left three Iraqi military officers dead and three more wounded.  AFP reports:


Around 5 p.m. (1400 GMT) Monday, “the drone entered Iraqi airspace, crossing the border from Turkiye, and bombarded the Arbat airfield,” which is mainly used by crop-spraying aircraft, said General Yehya Rassoul, spokesman of the federal armed forces commander in chief.
“This attack constitutes a violation of Iraq’s sovereignty,” he said, adding: “Iraq reserves the right to put a stop to these violations.”
[. . .]
“These repeated attacks are incompatible with the principle of good neighborliness between states. They threaten to undermine Iraq’s efforts to build positive and balanced political, economic and security relations with its neighbors,” Rassoul said.
[. . .]
The United Nations mission in Iraq condemned the attack on Arbat airfield.
“Attacks repeatedly violating Iraqi sovereignty must stop,” it said. “Security concerns must be addressed through dialogue and diplomacy — not strikes.”


Because it was the PUK -- the political party of the Talabani family -- that was attacked, the Talabani family weighed in.  Sinan Mahmoud (THE NATIONAL) notes:


Bafel Talabani, President of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), one of the dominant Kurdish parties in northern Iraq, confirmed Monday's drone strike. He said those killed and wounded were members of the Iraqi Kurdish counter-terrorism force.

"We strongly condemn the terrorist attack on the Agricultural Airport of Arbid in Sulaymaniyah, which resulted in the martyrdom and injury of six heroic Peshmerga," he said.

Iraqi Kurdistan’s internal security forces, Asayish, said the counter-terrorism force was attacked and three members were killed during a training mission inside the airport.

Iraqi Kurdistan's Deputy Prime Minister Qubad Talabani condemned the drone attack and demanded the intervention of the federal government authorities to "prevent these attacks from recurring".


Azhi Rasul (RUDAW) reminds, "In April a drone strike targeted a convoy carrying US military personnel, including Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) general commander Mazloum Abdi, near Sulaimani International Airport. Abdi blamed Turkey for being behind the attack."


Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, prime minister of Iraq, is not currently in Iraq.  He's in the United States and he will address the United Nations this week.  




REUTERS notes, "Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani met with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in New York on Monday and received an invitation from U.S. President Joe Biden to visit Washington, Iraqi state media reported." If they meet, it would be the first face-to-face between Mohammed and Joe.  MEMO notes, "Biden and Sudani have yet to meet since Sudani took office last year after being appointed by a coalition of parties, predominantly Shia Muslim groups close to Tehran. He has since walked a diplomatic tightrope between the US and Iran, two countries that in the past have fought out their rivalry on Iraqi soil." Sinan Mahmoud (THE NATIONAL) adds:

Last week, Assistant Treasury Secretary Elizabeth Rosenberg visited Iraq and met Mr Al Sudani and the Governor of the Central Bank of Iraq Ali Al Alaq.

They discussed bilateral relations and measures taken by the bank to fight money laundering and terrorist financing, the central bank said.

Washington has been pressing Iraq since last year to stop the flow of the dollar through the foreign currency auction run by the Central Bank of Iraq to countries under US sanctions, including Iran, Syria and Lebanon.

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has applied strict measures on requests for international transactions from Iraq, rejecting many and delaying others.


The US State Dept issued the following yesterday:

The below is attributable to Spokesperson Matthew Miller:

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met with Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shiaa al-Sudani today on the margins of United Nations General Assembly in New York.  Secretary Blinken and Prime Minister Sudani renewed their commitment to continue strengthening the partnership between the two countries and reaffirmed the principles in the U.S.-Iraq Strategic Framework Agreement.  The Secretary also encouraged the Government of Iraq to continue sustainably developing energy resources and combating climate change and underscored U.S. support for re-opening of the pipeline with Türkiye.  The Secretary urged the Iraqi government to continue its cooperation with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to foster the KRG’s stability and resiliency.  The Secretary commended the Prime Minister’s commitment to judicial independence in Iraq’s recent conviction and sentencing of multiple individuals on terrorism charges in connection with the killing of U.S. citizen Stephen Troell.  The Secretary conveyed an invitation from President Biden to the Prime Minister to visit the White House soon and reiterated the U.S. commitment to assisting Iraq in achieving a secure, stable, and sovereign future.



He asserts that as the first Iraqi leader since the U.S. invasion in 2003 to have spent his entire life within the country, he is better able to understand what Iraqis have been through, and to make changes.

Every other prime minister after the toppling of Saddam Hussein spent years in exile or working abroad, but Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, 53, never fled Iraq, despite Mr. Hussein’s having ordered the execution of his father and other close relatives.

“I am a product of the institutions of the state,” Mr. al-Sudani said in a recent interview in Baghdad, “and I understand the citizens and their priorities.” He described himself as part of “a second generation” of post-Hussein politicians, and said those with his background were closer to the people and understood that “the street wants a change.”

Mr. Sudani’s assessment is born of 20 years of holding government jobs, from mayor to minister. During that time, he has managed to win over Iraqis of almost all political stripes, coming across as straightforward — even earnest — and pragmatic.

But he faces formidable obstacles, given the challenges confronting Iraq. Among them are global warming, the persistent and growing influence of Iran, and the entrenched system of corruption in a country where a high percentage of jobs are in government, and where applicants often must pay a bribe or have a political connection even for low-paying positions.



Meanwhile, THE MAJORITY REPORT spoke with Jessica Valenti regarding the right-wing attacks on rights are linked.



In other news, Ronald DeSantis remains a fake ass.  Despite lying to Norah O'Donnell last week on THE CBS EVENING NEWS that he would treat all Americans the same, we all know that's not true.  The most recent proof?   In a column, attorneys and co-presidents of The League of Women Voters Florida chapter Cecile M. Scoon and Debbie Chandler (TALLAHASSEE DEMOCRAT) write:


Across our spacious skies, amber waves of grain, and the purple mountain majesties of our great but struggling nation, many people and organizations are working to extend the fundamental right to vote to all lawful citizens. Special plans for expanding the foundational right to vote to all lawful citizens are being made for National Voter Registration Day on September 19. In the face of efforts to expand the franchise, there are several states focused on making it harder for citizens to vote and adding difficulty to registering voters, including here in Florida.
In a 2021 ruling, Chief U.S. District Judge Mark E. Walker found that Florida officials have spent the last 20 years intentionally making registering voters and voting more difficult by creating a variety of prohibitions erroneously. Since Judge Walker's order, the Florida legislature has “gifted” Floridians with yet another nearly 100-page law with a slew of even more prohibitions, increased criminal penalties, and fines related to voting. This new government “fix”, also known as Senate Bill 7050, directly impacts any organization that wishes to register voters in Florida.
The League of Women Voters, a more than a century-old non-partisan organization, whose volunteer members are dedicated to registering and educating voters, has made the difficult decision to change its way of doing business in Florida due to this newly enacted law. Dedicated volunteers will no longer collect completed paper voter registration forms and return them to their local Supervisors of Elections on a voter's behalf. Gone are the days when hundreds of skilled volunteers with paper registration forms, pens, and clipboards will register voters in neighborhoods and at community events. Senate Bill 7050 sets fines for even inadvertent errors so high, the League’s yearly budget could be affected.



You know who works to suppress the vote?  People who don't believe in democracy.  People who don't respect the will of the people.  People named Ronald DeSantis.

You know, people who use their political office to destroy your child's future.  My heart goes out to parents with children currently in The New College of Florida.  That was actually a good university prior to Ronald.  But his war on education has harmed the university and it will harm the future of the students -- in fact, parents and students should consider suing Governor Ronald.  Aneeta Mathur-Ashton (THE MESSENGER) explains:


The New College of Florida saw a dramatic drop in its national ranking amid an ongoing conservative overhaul. 

In its newly revamped ranking system report released Monday, U.S. News and World Report now lists the university, located in Sarasota, Fla., as tied for 100th place — a notable 24-spot decrease from its previous ranking.

The trend, while startling, reflects a decrease seen across the map for universities located in the state — with the University of Florida dropping one spot, the University of South Florida dropping three spots, and Florida State University dropping three spots. 

The drop in rankings comes amid a massive conservative overhaul that has been going on since January after Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed a new majority to the university’s board of trustees and tasked them with transforming the school into the "Hillsdale College of the South,” a private conservative Christian school in Michigan. 



You know what probably didn't drop?  The tuition parents and students are paying.  They should sue Governor Ronald for the way he's destroyed their education -- both in terms of what they could be learning and also in terms of  how little their degrees will now be worth as the university had been turned into a national dirty joke.


On Ronald and his war on education, Chauncey DeVega (SALON) observes:



DeSantis' and the larger Republican fascist and white right's plans to erase the real history of Black America and the color line include teaching that white on Black chattel slavery was basically a type of jobs program and not a centuries-long institution of human trafficking, torture, rape, murder, war, dislocation, and exploitation on a global scale that killed many millions of Black people. Such a reading of history is inaccurate, based on lies and willful distortions of fact and historiography, intellectually dishonest, and is right-wing dogma and disinformation masquerading as "scholarship".

Social theorist and cultural critic Henry Giroux, has correctly described DeSantis' weaponization of education in the service of a white supremacist fascist agenda as being an example of "apartheid pedagogy". In an essay at the LA Progressive, he explains:




Apartheid pedagogy is about denial and disappearance—a manufactured ignorance that attempts to whitewash history and rewrite the narrative of American exceptionalism as it might have been framed in in the 1920s and 30s when members of a resurgent Ku Klux Klan shaped the policies of some school boards. Apartheid pedagogy uses education as a disimagination machine to convince students and others that racism does not exist, that teaching about racial justice is a form of indoctrination, and that understanding history is more an exercise in blind reverence than critical analysis. Apartheid pedagogy aims to reproduce current systems of racism rather than end them. Apartheid pedagogy most ardent proponent is Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis who has become America's most prominent white supremacist.

Apartheid pedagogy is a form of white supremacy; white supremacy is inherently violent. Apartheid pedagogy is not new. Its roots can be traced back to slavery, the end of Reconstruction, and the Jim and Jane Crow terror regime and "separate but equal". Today's attempts by the "conservative" movement to reverse the gains of the civil rights movement are but a continuation of that centuries-long white supremacist political project to protect and expand white privilege and white domination over every area of American life. Apartheid pedagogy as seen in DeSantis's Florida is also part of a much larger global project as seen in Orban's Hungary, Putin's Russia, and other parts of the "Western" world, to end multiracial pluralist democracy.

DeSantis' intent is irrelevant; racism and white supremacy are not a matter of intent but of outcomes and results. For example, DeSantis has supported gerrymandering, voter suppression, voter harassment, voter intimidation, arrests for largely non-existent "voter fraud", and other policies targeting the Black community in Florida as a way of keeping him and other Republicans in power. Rolling Stone highlights how DeSantis still refuses to publicly and in direct terms condemn neo-Nazis and other white supremacists and to disavow their support of him. One of DeSantis's senior campaign staff members was recently fired after he posted a campaign video online that featured Nazi imagery. DeSantis and his spokespeople claim that they had no knowledge of the staffer's white supremacist politics. Such a denial has no credibility given the larger pattern of white supremacist and other racist behavior by DeSantis and his administration and supporters. The white supremacist mass murderer in Jacksonville envisioned himself as a soldier in that global struggle. Signaling his devotion to that evil cause, he wore a Rhodesian army patch on his tactical vest.



In other Ronald news, the man who dresses like he's standing in line at Sam Goody waiting to purchase Barbra Streisand's EMOTION album has the nerve to criticize the dress habits of others. Isaac Schorr (MEDIAITE) reports:



Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis slammed Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) for wearing shorts and hooded sweatshirts inside the upper chamber of Congress on Monday, deeming his wardrobe “disrespectful” of the institution.

“Did you guys hear the U.S. Senate just eliminated its dress code because you got this guy from Pennsylvania — who’s got a lot of problems, let’s just be honest — like how he got elected, well I mean he got elected because they didn’t want the alternative,” began DeSantis, inserting a veiled swipe at former President Donald Trump and Mehmet Oz, his handpicked GOP candidate into his critique of Fetterman.

“He wears like sweatshirts and hoodies and shorts, and that’s his thing. So he would campaign in that — which is your prerogative, right? I mean, if that’s what you want to do,” he continued. “But to show up in the United States Senate with that and not have the decency to put on proper attire? I think it’s disrespectful to the body, and I think the fact that the Senate changed the rules to accommodate that I think speaks very poorly to how they consider that.”


Fetterman dressed appropriately for his swearing in.  After that?  Well, the rules have been changed.  Don't like it?  Why is that?  Do you know his health?  I don't.  But I do know John has had health issues.  The change in dress code might be for that reason.  It might be just because Chuck Schumer thought the rules needed to be updated.

What I do know is that ridiculous vest that Ronald wears constantly is a joke and manages to make him look both shorter and fatter.  Know what else I know?  He's calling out the Senate, Schumer and Fetterman for clothes and to toss out the word "decency."

Decency?


Decency?  Where is his condemnation of US House Rep Lauren Boebert?  Or does he think it's appropriate for her to act as she did in the video?





She's a member of Congress who chose to go out in public on a date with her boyfriend -- while she's still married.  No, that divorce is not final.  The two are merely separated.  Not only did she elect to take another man out on a date but she was tickled pink when, in an auditorium filled with people (including children), her date groped her breasts and then she went to town on his clothed lump -- at one point in the video, she's not just grabbing his crotch, she's jerking him.  


But Ronald wants to talk the 'decency' of John wearing shorts?  Not the groping display in public that was really offensive and would have been if it were two unknown people but is only more offensive because one of the two people is a member of Congress.

I think Ronald's offended that John, even with health problems, is both better looking than Ronald and more real and sincere to voters than Ronald is.





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Monday, September 18, 2023

Julie Chen is an idiot

Or rather Julie Chen Moonves.  The Hollywood Reporter notes:

Julie Chen Moonves said she questioned her husband, Leslie Moonves, over the 2018 sexual abuse allegations that resulted in his resignation as CBS CEO and disputed a previous statement that she made the decision to leave The Talk after a decade as co-host.

Chen Moonves opened up about both topics, while also declining to discuss the “believe her” movement with Juju Chang on Good Morning America on Monday. The Big Brother host appeared as part of a segment promoting her new memoir, But First, God, in which she details how in the past five years she “found God.” It’s an experience she says changed her from her a “self-absorbed, career-minded, vain, gossipy, fun to be with, but probably kind of a shallow person.”   


She only got her jobs at CBS because she was sleeping with (later married to) the president of the network, Les Moonves.  When women came forward to talk about how he harassed them, she kept her mouth shut.  She didn't stand up for them.  But now she wants to whine that because CBS fired her husband, she got kicked off The Talk.  Oh, boo, hoo.  She should have been kicked off the whole network.

She's still married to the criminal and she wants to whine?  She's got a lot of nerve.


This is C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"


Monday, September 18, 2023.  A woman returns from Iraq to Bahrain and is arrested, a delegation from Iraq is in the US for a UN meet-up, THE VANGUARD can't stop lying -- most recently claiming a man got married at the age of 15 (he was at least 29), a Seattle cop and his Guild advisor crack jokes about a woman the police officer just ran over and killed, hate merchant Lauren Boebert took time off from attacking LGBTQ+ people to go out on a date (before the divorce is final) in public while her date repeatedly grabbed her breasts in front of people and she kept massaging his crotch while people were all around them, and much more.


Starting with news of an arrest in Bahrain.  THE INTERNATIONAL QURAN NEWS AGENCY reports:

According to a report by the Iraqi al-Ghadeer TV television network, the activist, identified as Sheikha al-Majid, was detained following her return from the holy Iraqi city of Karbala to the Bahraini capital of Manama.

She was charged with “sectarianism” due to broadcasting live images while standing in the vicinity of the shrine of Imam Hussein (AS), the report added.

Al-Ghadeer TV noted that Bahraini opposition groups and human rights organizations have condemned Majid’s arrest and demanded her immediate release.

Meanwhile, Karim Alivi al-Mohammadavi, a member of the Foreign Relations Commission of the Iraqi Parliament, denounced Majid’s arrest as a direct assault by Bahrain’s ruling Al Khalifa dynasty on Shia Muslims.

Mohammadavi said the move conveys the message that the Manama regime does not seek civil peace and spares no effort to create internal chaos and division in any way.

The Iraqi legislator slammed the move as “irresponsible,” calling upon Bahraini authorities to reconsider the Shia activist’s detention and put an end to all heavy-handed measures against members of the majority religious community.





Okay before we go further . . .   A column has been e-mailed into the public e-mail (common_ills@yahoo.com) by three different people -- plus the author itself.  As I replied in a dictated e-mail to the author last Thursday, I'm not interested.

It's a so-so column on a serious issue.  I'm not interested.  You're over the age of 70 and that's old enough to come out of the closet.  Your parents have both passed away.  You should be out of the closet.  The 'alternative' media has allowed you to be closeted this whole time.  I'm not interested in that lie.  I'm also aware that you have never written on LGBTQ+ issues -- that's how deep in the closet you are.  In the 90s, I met you and knew the minute we met that you were gay.  I asked _____ who published your work, "He's out right -- at least to people he knows?"  No.  And you're over 70 -- you are well over 70 now -- I'm not interested in your 'truth.'  

I have no idea who you think is being helped by you pretending to be straight but I've lost the ability to care about you or whatever topic you want to half-ass write about this month.  So not interested.  So not interested.  

The LGBTQ+ community is under attack.  I don't know how you can hide in the closet during these attacks.  So, no, I'm not interested in your bad writing.

Something else I'm avoiding?  The new Russell Brand controversy.  I don't like Russell.  I don't like Katy Perry.  I didn't like them as a couple when they dashed over to meet me.  Anything I'd write about Russell's current scandal would probably fall under "malice" on my part.  So I have nothing to say.  Except maybe, Katy, your battle with that veteran over the house will not end good for you.  You've been lucky that there have been so many celebrity scandals and that you are so untalented and unwanted that people aren't really paying attention to you.  But you need to settle that for your own future.

When Joni made Alanis cry, I didn't understand it.  Then one day Russell and Katy came up to me (which means it was a long while ago because they've been divorced for some time) and started gushing, I got it.  Some people you just don't want in your fan base.  

I was asked about THE VANGUARD.  I actually did catch some of their crap yesterday.  "Once you know what you know about Woody Allen," the always laughable Zac wanted to say.  What is that?  What do you think you know?  That despite Dylan's claims of being molested, the only two investigations found that she wasn't?  That Dylan could have done a civil suit on Woody long ago but doesn't want to make claims in court?  That Moses and Soon-Yi refute Dylan's claims?  

I'm not really sure what you think you know.


Then you wanted to pull in Luc Besson. What do you think you know there?  The rape charges?  The ones that were dismissed twice in court and the ones he was then cleared of?  I don't understand what you think you know beyond whispers.  

But I don't understand what you think you know period.  You two do sit in front of computers, right?  While you're doing your awful podcast? So you can actually take a moment to fact check?

THE VANGUARD doesn't just act like they believe that they're immune to fact checks, they act like they're allergic to them. 

Even their president Macron was like 15 when he married his wife, who was his teacher, who was like in her 30s at the time and they're all like 'what a beautiful romantic story' and completely ignoring the inappropriate clear grooming that occured in that dynamic.

That's from the idiot Gavin. 

There was no reason for them to discuss Macron.  Nor was there reason to do a bad French accent.  But there they are doing another fact-free podcast. 

In 2021, the age of consent became 15 in France.  Prior to that?  It really didn't exist.  If you could prove coercion in the sex involved between a teenager and an adult, you could prosecute for rape but otherwise no.  Their age of consent is 15 now.  Even if you want to go back to when Macron had his affair and impose the 2021 law, the relationship was still legal.  

You don't like it?  Then don't go to France and have a relationship with a teenager.  But stop your damn lying.

They did not get married when he was 15 and a basic trip to WIKIPEDIA would have corrected your lies:


Macron is married to Brigitte Trogneux,[477] 24 years his senior,[478] and his former La Providence high school teacher in Amiens.[479][480] They met during a theatre workshop that she was giving when he was a 15-year-old student and she was a 39-year-old teacher, but they only became a couple once he was 18.[481][482] His parents initially attempted to separate the couple by sending him away to Paris to finish the final year of his schooling, as they felt his youth made this relationship inappropriate.[14][482] However, the couple reunited after Macron graduated, and were married in 2007.[482] She has three children from a previous marriage; he has no children of his own.[483][unreliable source?] Trogneux's role in Macron's 2017 presidential campaign has been considered pivotal, with close Macron allies stating that Trogneux helped Macron to develop skills like public speaking.[484]


Emmanuel was 29 or 30 when they were married.  Not 15.  But, hey, just make up whatever s**t you want, just keep doing that and see how many more people walk away from your bad program.  

Macron has many policies and actions to slam.  Sixteen years married to the same partner?  I don't really think that falls under something to be slammed for.  Or, for that matter, something to lie about.

While THE VANGUARD was making up s**t and broadcasting it as truth, Dan Conway (WSWS) reported on something real and actually disgusting:


On Tuesday, body camera footage taken by Seattle Police Officer Daniel Auderer was released to the public as a result of an internal department investigation. Auderer, also vice president of the Seattle Police Officers Guild, inadvertently took the footage in response to a January 23 incident involving fellow officer Kevin Dave, who struck and killed 23-year-old Jaahnavi Kandula in the middle of a crosswalk in Seattle, Washington.

Dave had been responding to a drug overdose call when he barreled through the intersection at 74 miles (119 kilometers) per hour in a 25 mile per hour zone, killing Kandula, a graduate student in Information Sciences at Northeastern University in Seattle. In addition to her schoolwork, Kandula had also been working part time to help support her mother in Andhra Pradesh in India.

A statement from the family read, “Jaahnavi’s tragic and untimely death has left her family and community with a huge hole in their hearts that will never be repaired. In spite of earning less than $200 per month, her mother educated Jaahnavi and encouraged her to travel to the United States hoping Jaahnavi would have a better future and better life abroad.”

Dave, 35, is a former US Marine hired by the Seattle Police Department as part of a mass hiring initiative in 2019. The officer, while having no significant disciplinary history with the SPD prior to the January incident, did have a previous Arizona driver’s license suspended in 2018 for unpaid traffic tickets and failure to appear in court. Dave’s driving record also includes a 2018 traffic ticket for running a red light in Washington state.

The leaked body camera footage in question shows Auderer in his patrol car speaking over the phone to a man later identified as guild president Mike Solan a day after the January accident. Auderer is heard assuring Solan the incident would not be the subject of a criminal investigation and stated that driving 50 miles per hour through a 25 mile per hour intersection—not the actual 74 miles per hour—was “not reckless for a trained driver.”

Auderer then gave Solan his own interpretation of witness testimony regarding the incident. “I think she [Kandula] went up on the hood, hit the windshield, then when he [Dave] hit the brakes, flew off the car.” He then told Solan, “but she is dead” and then proceeded to laugh out loud. In a subsequent statement dripping with horrifying contempt for the working class student, Auderer tells Solan, “It’s a regular person. Yeah, just write a check. $11,000.” Auderer then states, mistaking Kandula’s age, “She was 26 anyway. She had limited value.”


I guess covering actual news isn't as fun for Zac and Gavin as making crap up and trying to be the Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons of the 21st century but it would be more honest and more helpful if the two men could be introduced to the truth.

RUDAW notes, " Iraq’s Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein late Friday arrived in New York to attend the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly in the coming days. The Iraqi prime minister is expected to attend the session as well." IRAQI NEWS reports that Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani is en route to New York. 




Ashesh Mallick (INDIA TV) reports, "The Security Council on Friday (September 15) voted unanimously to end the UN probe, a year from now, into activities of Islamic State extremists in Iraq.  The voting was made at the request of the Iraqi government." ASHARQ AL AWSAT adds,  "The UK-sponsored resolution noted that Baghdad also asked that UN investigators hand over evidence they have gathered so far to the government, so that Iraqi authorities can pursue ISIS members’ accountability, as well as that of those who assisted and financed 'this terrorist organization'."  That should be large amount of evidence since the investigation since you're looking at investigation that's gone on for over five years now.  SHIA WAVES notes, "The resolution asks Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to submit a report by Jan. 15 on recommendations to implement Iraq’s request for evidence obtained by the U.N. team."  In related news, RUDAW reports:

Six years after the liberation of Mosul from the brutal clutches of the Islamic State (ISIS), the search continues for the dead who lie under piles of rubble on the western bank of the city that bore the brunt of nine months of destructive war.

Search and rescue teams say they find seven to eight bodies every week.
[. . .]
Since 2017, a total of 6,044 bodies have been recovered. Of them, 3,749 have been identified. The remaining 2,295 unidentified includes 800 children.

The city buries the unknown bodies if they are not claimed by family within two months.

"Following measures and inspections being carried out for the dead bodies, we will place the dead bodies in refrigerators at the Mosul morgue for a legal timeframe of 60 days. Upon instruction from the court, we will bury them in coordination with the Mosul municipality," Shahd Arif, head of the Mosul forensic department, told Rudaw.

Despite the smell of death that haunts parts of the city, health authorities have not registered any diseases as a result of the bodies lying under the rubble.




In news of more recent violence, AL MAYADEEN reports:

Turkish airstrikes targeted on Saturday a number of regions in Dohuk province, located in northern Iraq, claiming they were targeting positions affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which Ankara designates as a "terrorist organization".

According to a security source, Turkish helicopters conducted aerial raids on areas within the Amadiya district, north of Dohuk province.

Providing further insight, the source told news outlets that areas falling within the same province were also subjected to shelling. 


Turkey has been terrorizing Iraq for years.  And the area that they targeted on Saturday? It was the third time in a week that they attacked it.  






Turning to the US, Alex Bollinger (LGBTQ NATION) reports:

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) denounced the state of Massachusetts for allegedly taking a step towards jailing parents for not supporting their transgender children, even though that didn’t happen at all. Her statements were part of a larger myth on the right that Democrats and other liberal people want to take people’s children away and force them to transition to another gender.

“A commission in Massachusetts just said that child-abuse laws should include withholding ‘gender-affirming care,'” she tweeted last week. “So, if I don’t want my eleven year old to get his body mutilated, I should be sent to jail for child abuse.”


Really?  The whore said that.  Because whore is the only word for her.  She's wrong  ("First, 'mutilation' does not describe gender-affirming care. Also, 11-year-old trans kids don’t get gender-affirming genital surgery because it is not performed on transgender minors, much less pre-teens.") but that doesn't stop the whore does it.  She has condemned gay people, trans people, drag artists and everyone else as a threat to the public.  But it was still-married Lauren Boebert, the whore, who went to a performance of BEETLJUICE with her new male partner -- again, she's not yet divorced -- and chose, in full view of others, to let him grope her breasts, while she repeated grabbed his crotch. 


See for yourself in the video below.




She wants to talk about what others do in public?   Then let's talk about the sitting whore in Congress who went to a  musical and put on a sex show.


She's still married to another man and she acts like that in public?  She can't even claim they were parked on a dark road and so she thought no one would see.  This was in public with people seated on all sides of them.  And she wants to lecture others?  This is how a member of Congress behaves -- a married member of Congress behaves with someone who is not her spouse -- in public?  And she has the nerve to attack anyone else?



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