Fatty Patty Tara Reade got even more
disgusting. The bitter and obese "defector" -- her term -- to Russia
can't stop showing us she really was.
We
no longer need to believe her that she was assaulted by Joe Biden. It
was her word against his. I was fine supporting her based on how she
self-presented. Turns out, she lied about everything. Everything.
Fatty Patty claimed she was a liberal and she was left and she was a
Democrat and she cared about preventing assault of women and this and
that.
But Fatty Patty took
off to Russia -- where she should stay -- and she now reTweets convicted
pedophile and registered sex offender Scott Ritter. And it just gets
worse for her. She reTweets repugnant people like Marjorie Taylor
Greene. And now? Libs of Tick Tock. I don't think she can go back to
her hometown in California now even if she wanted to. That's really the
last straw.
Let's also not forget the many White nationalists she is forever reTweeting.
She's garbage. Human filth. And she lied about all of this.
So why should anyone believe her about being assaulted by Joe Biden.
It was her word against his.
And I believed her. But now she's shown her true nature.
That's
not how someone assaulted behaves. They may be hurt and lash out but
they don't start embracing racists and homophobes. That's not a
response to being assaulted.
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2) Increase heat to medium, stirring constantly until mixture reaches a boil*.
3) As soon as the pudding has thickened, remove from the heat and stir in butter and vanilla.
4) Allow mixture to cool completely, stirring occasionally to avoid a skim forming on the pudding.
5) Serve chilled or warm.
Note: Place a plastic wrap directly on the surface of the pudding while it cools to avoid a skin from forming.
*remove
the pudding from the heat as soon as it begins to boil and thicken. If
left to continue boiling the starch will start to break down and it
will not properly thicken, resulting in watery pudding.
Monday, July 29, 2024. A woman was shot in the Green Zone and Iraqis
say the shot came from the American Embassy, Iraqi women protest child
marriage, the government of Israel continues bombing schools in Gaza,
and much more.
Last night, we noted the following:
Iraq's the focus tonight. There's too
much going on and practically zero US coverage. That includes an
incident today that could end up international incident. Dr
Abdul Amir al-Hazali is an Iraqi MP. His wife was apparently shot today
and he is placing the blame on the US government. The wife is reported
injured, not dead.
Al-Ahad
Channel enters the home of Dr. Abdul Amir Al-Ghazali, where his wife
was injured by an American assault by an internationally banned bullet.#Iraq#Baghdadpic.twitter.com/pLZjt16h2V
— Alahad TV-EN
Not
really sure why the US media hasn't covered this. Is this not a real
story? Is it made up? Especially if it's made up -- some internet hoax
-- that would be reason to note it.
Though it remains uncovered by the US press, it's not made up. The incident happened last week. Abdul Amir Al-Ghazali spoke with ALSUMARIA
and explained to them that the shooting took place on Friday while his
wife was praying. The Badr Organization accuses the US government of
converting the US Embassy in Baghdad into a "military base," condemns
the action citing the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations 1961,
and, citing the Iraqi Constitution (Articles 1, 15, 50 and 109) calls
for Iraq's legislative and executive branches to expel the US military
from Iraq.
I did not have a good Sunday health wise, so
maybe it's just me, but I fail to see how this news was ignored by the
US media and continues to be. Exactly what are they paid for. This is
rather basic. Iraqis are outraged because a woman was shot and ended up
in the hospital. The shooting took place in the heavily fortified
Green Zone and, they say, came from the US Embassy.
The Badr Organization is part of the alliance that controls the Parliament.
All
by itself, a shooting of a civilian in the Green Zone is rare enough to
qualify as news. When the Iraqi people are saying that the shot came
from the US Embassy, that makes it even more newsworthy and that's
before you get to the fact that the shooting could lead to (something
needs to) the withdrawal of all US military from Iraq.
In other news, IRAQI NEWS AGENCY reports on the death of an MP, "Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani offered his condolences on Sunday
on the death of Member of Parliament Gandhi Mohammed Abdul Karim
Al-Kasnazani, saying that "with this loss we have lost a national figure
with a good impact." The fifty-two year-old
Baghdad's Tahrir Square was the scene of a protest Sunday. SHAFAQ NEWS reports:
Hundreds of Iraqi women took to the streets of Baghdad on Sunday to
protest against proposed amendments to the country’s personal status
law, expressing particular outrage over provisions that would legalize
child marriage.
Demonstrators, including members of women’s rights
organizations, gathered in Tahrir Square, carrying signs that read "No
to child marriage" and "The era of child brides is over." The protesters
denounced the proposed amendments to Law 88 of 1959, arguing that they
would roll back women’s rights.
Here are some photos of the protest.
AP's Hadi Mizban has a photo of the protest here. ALSUMARIA notes that some participants carried sings stating "THE ERA OF THE CONCUBINE IS OVER." Not really sure why AL-MONITOR's Shelly Kittleson is insisting few turned out. ALSUMARIA's video report here
also doesn't bear out that only a trickle of people were present. It
also needs to be remembered that protesting in Iraq is not as easy as
protesting in Iraq. Those who protested showed determination and
courage.
Turning to Gaza, ALJAZEERA notes, "The Israeli army is investigating a video posted by its soldiers showing
Israeli troops blowing up Rafah’s main drinking water tank, according
to the Haaretz newspaper." War Crimes.
Only
14 percent of the Gaza Strip is not under the Israeli military ongoing
“evacuation orders”, according to the UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini.
Recurrent mass enforced displacement is the dominating scene with the
Israeli military ordering the residents of the Bureij and Nuseirat
refugee camps to leave their homes.
The majority of the displaced population is flowing to the Deir
el-Balah city that is already packed with displaced families and has no
sufficient space or resources to accommodate people.
Community
members e-mailed on Sunday asking that Monday's snapshot include a long
section from Saturday. I was responding to an e-mail from a crazy Jill
Stein supporter. They noted that it also responded to a segment on a
show that we didn't highlight. Honestly, I only heard the segment this
morning -- and only part of it. I'm real lucky that it didn't post here
on Friday. It's a topic that would normally get posted. I got lucky.
It should never be posted and it will never be posted here. And, yes,
my comments to the Jill Stein supporter could equally have been
addressed to the host and her two idiot guests. So here's part of
Saturday's entry that applies to who actually has power to end the US
arming of the Israeli government and I'm putting it between dashed
lines:
Are you getting just what a piece of crap David Sirota is?
Why bring this up now?
David's
been in the conversation regarding the nominee. David wants Joe Biden
out. Okay, he's not alone on that. There are others who want the
same. But David's also pimping a replacement: Josh Shapiro the governor
of Pennsylvania who doesn't believe in mask mandates or addressing
climate change. But for our focus here? Let's note this from ALJAZEERA:
While he may not have the national name recognition that his fellow
governors Newsom and Whitmer enjoy, Shapiro is considered one of the top
candidates to potentially replace Biden.
The governor, who previously served as Pennsylvania’s attorney
general, comfortably won his election in the Mid-Atlantic swing state in
2022. Since taking office, he has had positive approval ratings.
With regards to the war in Gaza, Shapiro has been a staunch supporter of Israel.
“The whataboutism used by some to justify Hamas’s unprovoked actions
is ignorant and wrong,” he said last year. “There is no moral
equivalency here. Israel has a right to defend itself.”
Shapiro has also been outspoken in denouncing what he describes as anti-Semitism by protesters who oppose the war in Gaza.
In April, he likened pro-Palestinian student protesters
to the Ku Klux Klan. The campus protests, however, have been largely
peaceful, and student leaders say accusations of anti-Semitism
misrepresent their aim: to encourage their universities to divest from
Israeli companies linked to the country’s human rights abuses.
“We have to query whether or not we would tolerate this if this were
people dressed up in KKK outfits or KKK regalia making comments about
people who are African American in our communities,” Shapiro told CNN.
And
that's who David Sirota supports. David wants Joe Biden out and he
wants Shapiro in. How exactly is David a progressive whatever it is
that he calls himself these days? (I just call him an ass regardless.)
Maybe David Sirota needs to sit his tired ass down and keep it down?
(For the record, he never apologized to Tina.)
This is a hopeful moment for the whole left-liberal coalition. The
vibes, for once, are good. Almost every leftist I know is excited about
Harris and thinks Trump is beatable. With a newly united party behind
her, there are only so many ways Harris can screw it up, but one seems
all too plausible: She could select Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro
as her running mate.
On paper, it’s understandable why Shapiro is among the leading candidates reportedly being
vetted by Harris. Like nearly all of the veep contenders, he’s a white
male governor with a centrist reputation. At 51, he’s even younger than
Harris and a fresh face, having only held his current job for 18 months.
He has already shown himself to be a more than capable administrator, generating a lot of good publicity for
repairing a damaged section of Interstate 95 within two weeks. Most
importantly, Pennsylvania is the most valuable swing state in play,
worth 19 electoral votes, and Shapiro is very popular there.
Unfortunately, Shapiro also stands out among the current field of
potential running mates as being egregiously bad on Palestine. It’s not
just that he, like many Democrats, is an outspoken supporter of
Israel—though he certainly is, having championed Israel’s war against
Hamas consistently and without any apparent concern for
Palestinian civilians. Shapiro has, moreover, done far more than most
Democrats to attack pro-Palestine antiwar demonstrators, in ways that
call into question his basic commitment to First Amendment rights.
In his previous role as Pennsylvania attorney general, Shapiro championed the
state’s constitutionally dubious anti-BDS (boycott, divestment,
sanctions) law against Ben & Jerry’s after the ice cream maker
refused to license its product for sale in Israeli settlements. “BDS is
rooted in antisemitism,” Shapiro wrote in a statement in 2021, as he
condemned a company named for its two Jewish American founders. “The
stated goal of this amorphous movement is the removal of Jewish citizens
from the region and I strongly oppose their efforts.”
As governor, Shapiro’s particular animus against pro-Palestine
activism has only grown more apparent and troubling. Last December, he
played an active role in the GOP-orchestrated sacking of University of
Pennsylvania President Liz Magill. During a visit to Goldie, the popular
Philadelphia restaurant co-owned by the Israeli-born celebrity chef
Michael Solomonov, Shapiro condemned Magill’s testimony on alleged
antisemitism on the Ivy League campus before Representative Elise
Stefanik, the MAGA right’s grand inquisitor. “That was an unacceptable
statement from the president of Penn,” Shapiro said,
referring to Magill’s unwillingness to accept Stefanik’s slippery
framing on what constitutes antisemitism. “Frankly, I thought her
comments were absolutely shameful. It should not be hard to condemn
genocide.” Magill resigned four days after her testimony and three days
after Shapiro’s statement, legitimizing the GOP’s wider assault on
academic freedom, which would be repeated successfully against Harvard President Claudine Gay weeks later.
In April, Shapiro’s office baselessly claimed that
a peaceful pro-Palestine encampment on the Penn campus threatened
student safety. “If the universities in accordance with their policies
can’t guarantee the safety and security and well-being of the students,
then I think it is incumbent upon a local mayor or local governor or
local town councilor, whoever is the local leadership there, to step in
and enforce the law,” Shapiro told Politico at the time. In May, he urged Penn to
shut down the encampment completely. “The University of Pennsylvania
has an obligation to their safety,” he said, once again alluding to
nonexistent threats to the physical well-being of Jewish students. “It
is past time for the university to act, to address this, to disband the
encampment, and to restore order and safety on campus.” The university
complied; one day and 33 arrests later, Shapiro’s office said Penn “made the right decision.”
That same week, The New York Timesprofiled Shapiro
as one to watch in his party with the headline “A Rising Democrat Leans
Into the Campus Fight Over Antisemitism.” In that piece, Shapiro made
clear the low regard in which he holds pro-Palestine campus activists.
“If you had a group of white supremacists camped out and yelling racial
slurs every day, that would be met with a different response than
antisemites camped out, yelling antisemitic tropes,” he told the Times. (This echoed a statement made in an earlier interview in which he compared campus protesters to the Ku Klux Klan.) Then, in an executive order, Shapiro updated his
administration’s code of conduct to forbid state employees from
engaging in “scandalous or disgraceful” behavior, a vaguely worded
instruction that civil libertarians immediately interpreted as
threatening pro-Palestine speech.
Shapiro is an observant Jew with personal ties to Israel; on October 7, he tweeted,
“Our family has shared many special moments in Israel and our hearts
break for those living this horror now.” If selected as Harris’s running
mate and subsequently elected, he would become the first Jewish vice
president in American history (a distinction narrowly missed by the late
Joe Lieberman when Republicans stole the 2000 election).
Get
it? You focus on what is doable. If you want to call out Kamala, call
her out for considering Josh Shapiro as a running mate. He cannot be
the running mate. If you want to end the assault on Gaza before the end
of the year, pressure Joe Biden who remains the president.
Need
more realities? Jill Stein's not going to be the next president.
Here's some more: And she shouldn't. She's a Karen that traffics in
racism and flies to Moscow to sit with a butcher -- sit at a table with a
butcher and an abuser of human rights. You can feel whatever you want
about Ukraine. You can be backing that government or you can be against
it. But that doesn't change who Vladimir Putin is and has been for
years. I do not want the US (further) involved in that war. But long
before that, Vladimir -- who's held power since 1999 -- had earned his
reputation as a despot.
Jill flew to Moscow to make nice with him, sit at his table and get her picture taken.
She's not fit to be president and, again, she fortunately never will be.
But she can mislead people, she can fool and trick people and, in doing so, still real votes.
Donald Trump met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Friday, claiming that "no president has done what I've done for Israel".
The meeting signalled that both men are looking to ease tension that developed since Mr Trump left office in January 2021.
Warmly
clasping hands, Mr Trump and Mr Netanyahu greeted each other outside
the former president's home in their first face-to-face meeting in
almost four years.
About 50 pro-Palestinian protesters were on the bridge leading to the resort.
Given
a possible return of Mr Trump to the White House, Mr Netanyahu – whom
CNN reported had requested the meeting – was expected to be driven to
mend fences.
If you care about
Palestinians, you're not voting for vanity candidate Jill Stein -- 74
years old and planning to be the Green Party's presidential nominee for
the third time. It's a wasted vote.
I don't
say that about Chase Oliver or about Cornel West or about Claudia De la
Cruz. I don't think they're going to win but they are running real
campaigns. If they speak to you, you should absolutely vote for them.
But
there are people who are not real candidates -- Jill Stein is one,
Robert Kennedy Jr is another and Joseph Kishore is a third. They're
jokes, at best.
You vote for who you want.
It's your choice. I'm not going to judge you on it unless you vote for
destruction and that's what a vote for Donald, Jill, Junior or Kishore
is.
Direct
your criticism to Joe Biden. He's the only one with the power to end
this currently. Otherwise, you're just wasting time while Palestinians
die.
An Israeli air strike near a school in Rafah killed five Palestinians on Monday, the official Wafa news agency has reported.
Paramedics
from the Palestinian Red Crescent retrieved the bodies following a
strike near the Al Firdaws school in the west of the city, Wafa said.
It comes after five others were killed in shelling on the nearby city of Khan Younis.
Almost
39,400 Palestinians have been killed across Gaza since the war began on
October 7, according to figures from the enclave's health ministry.
Saturday, the government of Israel attacked a Palestinian school. AP's Wafaa Shurafa and Sam Metz report, "Israeli
airstrikes hit a school used by displaced Palestinians in
central Gaza on Saturday, killing at least 30 people including several
children, as the country’s negotiators prepared to meet international
mediators about a proposed cease-fire." Since October 7th, the Israeli
government has attacked over 200 schools and universities in Gaza. Along
with the thirty killed, at least 100 more people were left injured. NPR explains, "Blood was everywhere in the minutes that followed the strike, with
pieces of flesh visible on the stairs and handicapped residents trying
to flee, according to NPR reporter Anas Baba, who witnessed the
immediate aftermath." Australia's ABC notes,
"At Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir Al-Balah, ambulances raced wounded
Palestinians into the medical facility. Some of the wounded also arrived
on foot, their clothes stained with blood." This was supposed to be a
safe area -- as defined by the Israeli government. However, this week,
they began demanding evacuations. NDTV notes, "The United Nations said more than 180,000 Palestinians have fled Khan Yunis since the Israeli operation began on Monday." NPR adds,
"The United Nations currently estimates more than 80% of Gaza's
residents -- more than 2 million people -- are under similar evacuation
orders
across the territory."
Gaza remains under assault. Day 297 of the assault in the wave that began in October. Binoy Kampmark (DISSIDENT VOICE) points out, "Bloodletting as form; murder as fashion. The ongoing campaign in Gaza
by Israel’s Defence Forces continues without stalling and restriction.
But the burgeoning number of corpses is starting to become a challenge
for the propaganda outlets: How to justify it? Fortunately for Israel,
the United States, its unqualified defender, is happy to provide cover
for murder covered in the sheath of self-defence." CNN has explained, "The Gaza Strip is 'the most dangerous place' in the world to be a child, according to the executive director of the United Nations Children's Fund." ABC NEWS quotes UNICEF's December 9th statement, ""The Gaza Strip is the most dangerous place in the world to be a child.
Scores of children are reportedly being killed and injured on a daily
basis. Entire neighborhoods, where children used to play and go to
school have been turned into stacks of rubble, with no life in them." NBC NEWS notes, "Strong majorities of all voters in the U.S. disapprove of President Joe
Biden’s handling of foreign policy and the Israel-Hamas war, according to the latest national NBC News poll.
The erosion is most pronounced among Democrats, a majority of whom
believe Israel has gone too far in its military action in Gaza." The
slaughter continues. It has displaced over 1 million people per the US
Congressional Research Service. Jessica Corbett (COMMON DREAMS) points out, "Academics and legal experts around the world, including Holocaust scholars, have condemned
the six-week Israeli assault of Gaza as genocide." The death toll of
Palestinians in Gaza is grows higher and higher. United Nations Women noted,
"More than
1.9 million people -- 85 per cent of the total population of Gaza --
have
been displaced, including what UN Women estimates to be nearly 1 million
women and girls. The entire population of Gaza -- roughly 2.2 million
people -- are in crisis levels of acute food insecurity or worse." THE NATIONAL notes, "Gaza death toll rises to 39,363 killed with 90,923 wounded." Months
ago, AP noted, "About 4,000 people are reported missing." February 7th, Jeremy Scahill explained
on DEMOCRACY NOW! that "there’s an estimated 7,000 or 8,000
Palestinians missing, many of them in graves that are the rubble of
their former home." February 5th, the United Nations' Phillipe
Lazzarini Tweeted:
April 11th, Sharon Zhang (TRUTHOUT) reported, "In addition to the over 34,000 Palestinians who have been counted as
killed in Israel’s genocidal assault so far, there are 13,000
Palestinians in Gaza who are missing, a humanitarian aid group has
estimated, either buried in rubble or mass graves or disappeared into
Israeli prisons. In a report released Thursday, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said that the estimate is based on initial reports and that the actual number of people missing is likely even higher."
As for the area itself? Isabele Debre (AP) reveals, "Israel’s military offensive
has turned much of northern Gaza into an uninhabitable moonscape. Whole
neighborhoods have been erased. Homes, schools and hospitals have been
blasted by airstrikes and scorched by tank fire. Some buildings are
still standing, but most are battered shells." Kieron Monks (I NEWS) reports, "More than 40 per cent of the buildings in northern Gaza have been damaged or destroyed, according to a new study of satellite imagery
by US researchers Jamon Van Den Hoek from Oregon State University and
Corey Scher at the City University of New York. The UN gave a figure of 45 per cent of housing
destroyed or damaged across the strip in less than six weeks. The rate
of destruction is among the highest of any conflict since the Second
World War."
A six-year-old child has died of starvation at a hospital in central
Gaza, taking the total official number of malnutrition-related deaths to
39.
Ali Anas al Tatar, 6, was pronounced dead at the Al Ahli
Baptist Hospital in Gaza City, according to the official Wafa news
agency.
Earlier this month, a group of UN experts said there was "no doubt" that famine is spreading across the enclave.
Images
of emaciated children have become commonplace as Gazans starve, with
aid deliveries blocked after Israel's seizure of the Rafah border
crossing.