Why foreign aid is bad

Cawthorn — now armed with a handgun, he said — took shelter in the office of a colleague. “It was a great bonding experience,” he said. “But it literally felt like a scene from The Lord of the Rings. You kind of see the orcs — Helm’s Deep, or taking over Minas Tirith, whatever — it just looks like the enemy is on something that they’re not supposed to be on … And the worst part was they’re all waving these American flags and these MAGA flags, and you want to say, ‘You don’t represent me at all. That’s not my movement. You’re not part of my party one bit if you’re taking this kind of extreme action.’ One can say, ‘You can only push somebody so much, and they watched the Black Lives Matter people do this all summer,’ blah blah blah — but at the end of the day, there’s no excuse for it.” … [Read more...] about What Madison Cawthorn Saw at the Insurrection

The plans to cut public media funding are at the heart of a motion filed Friday by five opposition parties for a parliamentary vote of no-confidence in the center-right government of Prime Minister Janez Jansa. As well as the media component, the parties are dissatisfied with the government's response to the coronavirus pandemic and its foreign policy. … [Read more...] about Slovenia’s Public Media Under Pressure

Defending vicar Stephen Sizer after he posted anti-Semitic material online Writing a foreword for a new edition of Imperialism: A Study, which argued that banks and the press were controlled by Jews. He wrote that the tome, written by John Atkinson Hobson in 1902, was 'brilliant' Supporting Holocaust denier Paul Eisen, a Holocaust denier, and his group Deir Yassin Remembered Criticising a decision to remove an anti-Semitic mural from a wall in East London. in 2012, which depicted a group of 'hook-nosed' men sitting around a Monopoly board Attending an event on Holocaust Memorial Day in 2010 where the Israeli government was compared to the Nazis    Attending a wreath laying ceremony in Tunisia for Black September terrorists who murdered Israeli athletes at the 1974 Munich Olympics - and later saying he was 'present but not involved' Saying 'Zionists...don't understand English irony despite having lived in the country for a long time' at a Labour … [Read more...] about Labour’s dossier of shame: Jeremy Corbyn is personally accused of NINE anti-Semitic acts in bombshell report – as new video shows him embracing ‘blood libel’ preacher later jailed for raising funds for Hamas