Month: October 2019

You’re in your bed and you wake up with a black bag over your head. When you can see again you have no idea where you are: exposed concrete room, very cold. You’re forced to perform manual labor, to attend talks on patriotism, to learn a new language, to sing inane songs. You are beaten…

A police shooting outside a Walmart in El Paso, Texas left shoppers stuck inside the store Wednesday night. Few details of what happened were immediately available, but the incident comes two and a half months after a gunman targeting Hispanic shoppers opened fire at another Walmart store in the border city, killing 22 people. An…

Oct 24 (Reuters) – A police officer shot and injured one person at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, late on Wednesday night, a local ABC network affiliate reported. There were no reports of deaths and the area around the store was blocked off to keep people leaving or entering, local TV stations reported.…

Sandy Hook, Orlando, Las Vegas, Sutherland Springs, Santa Fe, and most recently, El Paso and Midland-Odessa. Across the nation, city names have become trending hashtags as acts of mass violence have rocked communities, and claimed the lives of innocent people. August was bookended by the two recent shootings in Texas, killing 22 people in El Paso,…

WASHINGTON – Add a prestigious $1 million “thinkers” award to Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s fame and fortune. The 2019 Berggruen Prize for Philosophy & Culture is given annually to “thinkers whose ideas have profoundly shaped human self-understanding and advancement in a rapidly changing world.”  Ginsburg, 86, who has served 26 years on the…

Ruth Bader Ginsburg wins $1M Berggruen prize for philosophy and culture originally appeared on abcnews.go.com Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been awarded the $1 million Berggruen Prize. The award is given annually to “thinkers whose ideas have profoundly shaped human self-understanding and advancement in a rapidly changing world,” according to a statement from…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the winner of this year’s $1 million Berggruen Prize for philosophy and culture. The award announced Wednesday by the Los Angeles-based Berggruen Institute honors Ginsburg for her pioneering legal work for gender equality and her support for the rule of law. The institute says Ginsburg…

The Virginia city of Norfolk has the right to move its “Johnny Reb” Confederate statue from a busy downtown intersection to a local cemetery, the state attorney general and a local prosecutor have determined. Norfolk Commonwealth’s Attorney Gregory Underwood filed court papers late Tuesday saying his office and the office of Attorney General Mark Herring have determined…

The American president just gifted 2.5 billion barrels of oil to long-time Syrian enemy Bashar Al-Assad and, by default, Iran and Russia. As far as gifts go, it was both well-received and unexpected given the ‘Deep State’ designs on Syria for years.  To recap: Last week, Trump ordered the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria,…

Well over a hundred years ago, Karl May wrote a bestseller, Through Wild Kurdistan, about the adventures of a German hero, Kara Ben Nemsi. This immensely popular book established the perception of Kurdistan in central Europe: a place of brutal tribal warfare, naïve honesty and sense of honour, but also superstition, betrayal, and permanent cruel…