His tweet:
“I confronted a Muslim woman yesterday in Croydon. I asked her to explain Brussels. She said “nothing to do with me”. A mealy mouthed reply.”
He was arrested for this tweet. In bloody England. As said before, the UK is the canary in the totalitarian coal mine. What happens there will happen here in a few years. Tech Dirt
FEE.
Yikes. AP
The Intercept. Two Palestinians attacked Israeli soldiers at a check-point, where one soldier was stabbed non-fatally. The first attacker was shot immediately, and the second was killed as he lay on the ground, minutes after the attack. Occurred deep in Israeli-occupied West Bank territory.
Market Watch. High costs, high deductibles, lost doctors, lost insurance plans, low enrollment numbers, millions of uninsured…
NATO should’ve been tossed in the same grave as the Soviet Union, but for some reason, it hung around. Russia is no longer a threat to anyone, it spends in an entire year what the U.S. spends on defense in a few weeks.
NATO is expensive, but the greatest danger of NATO lies in the war guarantees each member has from every other member. If a NATO country is attacked, it’s up to every other NATO country to come to their aid. It is just as insane as it sounds. Is the defense of all those 28 NATO member states worth the lives of American soldiers?
The question with Trump should be: would he, in fact, dump NATO? Probably not.
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Which is why I don’t engage in it. And excessive social media use also leads to depression, as The Independent makes clear:
“Of the 19 to 32-year-olds who took part in the research, those who checked social media most frequently throughout the week were 2.7 times more likely to develop depression than those who checked least often.
The 1,787 US participants used social media for an average 61 minutes every day, visiting accounts 30 times per week. Of them a quarter were found to have high indicators of depression.