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A Small News Update

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1. The Netherlands have finished their official investigation of the crash of the flight MH17. The investigators will soon make it public.

2. The American far right scored a huge victory this week. The Tea Party managed to shut down the Ex-Im bank. Obama is still fighting to save it, though.

3. One of Josh Duggar ‘ s victims who’s not a family member is filing a suit against him.

4. Dilma Rousseff is finally meeting with Obama to distract attention from a huge corruption scandal in Brazil.

5. Macy’s is ditching Donald Trump – branded underwear.

6. Rand Paul’s campaign is do hopeless that he is ducking up to Cliven Bundy. Nobody else will vote for him, it seems.

7. The US soccer team beat Germany 2:0.

8. The US is opening an embassy in Cuba.

So most of the news today looks good.

Feel free to mention whatever you care about.

15 responses to “A Small News Update”

  1. Stille (@aperfectbalance) Avatar
    Stille (@aperfectbalance)

    Tbh I’m kinda spooked that Donald Trump-branded underwear was ever a thing.

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    1. Clarissa Avatar
      Clarissa

      I’m guessing Macy’s will not lose a lot of profit because of dumping this merchandise. I mean, is there anybody here who’d like to undress a guy who wears Donald Trump underwear?

      I’m sure there’s no women’s underwear with the Trump name.

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  2. el Avatar
    el

    Saw this Jewish reaction regarding forgiving Dylann Storm Roof:
    http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/do-we-have-the-right-to-forgive-the-unrepentant/

    Loved the distinction between Letting go vs. forgiveness, and a short explanation of Jewish approach.

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    1. Clarissa Avatar
      Clarissa

      None of us know how we will react to major trauma. One thing is for sure: this reaction will be about survival, not ideology.

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  3. J. Otto Pohl Avatar
    J. Otto Pohl

    While nobody finds it odd that Europeans and Americans study other societies it has been rarer until recently for people in Africa and Asia to do so. Fortuntately, this is changing and scholarship outside the white world is becoming increasingly important globally.

    http://jpohl.blogspot.com/2015/06/asian-studies-in-africa-conference.html

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  4. cliff arroyo Avatar
    cliff arroyo

    Call me if aliens or interdimensional gateways are involved.
    I maintain careful neturality until I have more info.
    Good for the person filing the suit! (sorry about the reason, but good for them for making it public). Those who life by self-righteousness die by self-righteousness.
    She’d been avoiding him? Had he been avoiding her?
    I’m assuming that only people wishing for celibacy would buy such a thing so now they’ll have find something even grosser to alienate others, lots of luck on that one.
    I have some respect for his father, but Rand Paul seems like the classic case of offspring trying to follow in their parents’ footsteps without having whatever it was that made the parent successful.
    I’m not interested at all. I can vaguely enjoy mens’ national soccer but this just seems like the worst of soccer without the redeeming features of spectacle and ersatz warfare that the mens game provides.
    About effin’ time. The pig-headed Miami Cubans have done more to help Castro and hurt their countrymen than anyone else. Many of them even realize this and still can’t let go of their stupid policies. I’m so glad this special interest group is losing its influence.

    In the Islamic state there are contests for memorizing the quran and the prizes include sex-slaves

    http://www.clarionproject.org/news/memorize-quran-get-free-slave-girl-isis-competition

    http://www.businessinsider.com/isis-is-offering-sex-slaves-to-the-winners-of-its-quran-memorization-contest-2015-6

    I just found about this and am stunned that the story is over a week old.

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    cliff arroyo

    Oops, the numbers and spaces I’d put in the previous post were eaten up by wordpress, let me try again for clarity.

    one- Call me if aliens or interdimensional gateways are involved.

    two- I maintain careful neturality until I have more info.

    three – Good for the person filing the suit! (sorry about the reason, but good for them for making it public). Those who life by self-righteousness die by self-righteousness.

    four – She’d been avoiding him? Had he been avoiding her?

    five – I’m assuming that only people wishing for celibacy would buy such a thing so now they’ll have find something even grosser to alienate others, lots of luck on that one.

    six- I have some respect for his father, but Rand Paul seems like the classic case of offspring trying to follow in their parents’ footsteps without having whatever it was that made the parent successful.

    seven- I’m not interested at all. I can vaguely enjoy mens’ national soccer but this just seems like the worst of soccer without the redeeming features of spectacle and ersatz warfare that the mens game provides.

    eight – About effin’ time. The pig-headed Miami Cubans have done more to help Castro and hurt their countrymen than anyone else. Many of them even realize this and still can’t let go of their stupid policies. I’m so glad this special interest group is losing its influence.

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  6. el Avatar
    el

    I watched yesterday a TV program about Ethiopian Jews and turns out there is a complicated situation with parts of them, called The Falash Mura. Here is a good explanation:
    https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/falashmura.html

    I sometimes see their women in Israel with crosses on their foreheads, looking like the woman at the center:

    Israel does not accept any Jews who practice another religion, regardless of skin color, so it is at its heart not the issue of racism.

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  7. el Avatar
    el

    Report: ISIS used advanced Russian weapons in Sinai attacks, including Russian-made Kornet anti-tank missiles.
    Egyptian media calls unprecedented Sinai attacks a ‘war,’ claims that militants responsible were heavily armed with sophisticated weaponry.
    http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4675603,00.html

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    1. Clarissa Avatar
      Clarissa

      When Hillary is elected, she’ll finally whoop their asses.

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  8. el Avatar
    el

    Товарищ-геноссе Гольдберг
    http://scholar-vit.livejournal.com/422794.html

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    1. Clarissa Avatar
      Clarissa

      And it’s just one of many such cases, too.

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  9. Shakti Avatar
    Shakti

    In special snowflake newsDylann
    Roof’s sister created a GoFundMe to pay for her wedding and honeymoon

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    1. Clarissa Avatar
      Clarissa

      A family of fucking sociopaths.

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  10. el Avatar
    el

    Firebombs believed to be cause of Jerusalem-area blazes
    Arson by Palestinians suspected after over 100 hectares of woodlands go up in flames in less than a week.
    …
    Yitzhak said evidence had been found pointing to criminal activity. “On Thursday we found fragments of Molotov cocktails exactly at the spot where the fire started,” he said. “I believe that today was no different from Thursday and no different from Sunday. It’s a phenomonen we’ve been dealing with quite a bit in the last few years – Molotov cocktails thrown over the fence.
    http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4676123,00.html

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