[DW] After reversing decades of Middle East policy, Australia will now wait to move its embassy to Jerusalem. Last year, the US unilaterally recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital, triggering violent unrest in the region. which had been so placid and peaceful in the past
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Saturday that his government recognizes west Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, upending decades of Australian foreign policy in the Middle East.
"Australia now recognizes west Jerusalem, being the seat of the Knesset and many of the institutions of government, is the capital of Israel," Morrison told an audience at the private Sydney Institute think tank.
Morrison said that despite Australian recognition, his government would move the country's embassy "when practical, in support of, and after, final-status determination," referring to a political solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
[Townhall] Going all in on attacking President Trump isn't proving to be a particularly effective business strategy for media outlets.
The Weekly Standard, a 28-year old neoconservative institution, is reportedly headed towards dissolution after its founder, Bill Kristol, devoted almost three years of work to attacking the President and his supporters. dead as of yesterday
It's not just Kristol. The entire world of clickbait Trump-hate seems to be in jeopardy, including sites that cater to the liberal base.
The same week that The Weekly Standard's troubles broke, Vanity Fair dropped a bombshell report about the struggles faced by those hip, millennial-targeted left-wing rags with the cool names and rabidly anti-Trump headlines strewn across your social media feed. Vice, Vox, Mic, Buzzfeed, Mashable ‐ they're all either looking for buyers or seriously reevaluating their strategies in hopes of becoming profitable. Mic laid off most of its workers. Vice and Vox are firing staff left and right.
On cable TV, one network in particular has abandoned decades of journalistic tradition and ethics, devoting its resources to a relentless, nakedly partisan crusade to savage President Trump: CNN. Its ratings, predictably, are in the tank ‐ in October, CNN fell behind both the Hallmark Channel and Home and Garden Television.
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Hating The President Is Not a Strategy
But it does gets you invited to events with the "Best People"
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Blind obstructionism and tirades about how nekulturny his tweets are not a strategy... It makes you look like just one of those faux Conservatives that work on the major MSM outlets -- if so why read the Weekly Standard just turn on CNN, its cheaper!?!
[Guardian] Daniel Weaver does not vote, drive a car, read a paper, listen to music, watch sport of any kind, own a mobile phone or use a computer. But as we eat the food grown in his garden outside the window, he confesses that he did once see a film. He refuses to disclose what, brushing aside my questions as we sit talking around the dining table with his wife, five of his eight children and one grandson. "I am not proud of that," he says. "I went against my parents’ wishes."
But this one-off incident, many years ago, speaks to the reasons why this 52-year-old sold his thriving Ohio clothing business, one that supplied hundreds of stores across North America, and moved his family to this idyllic farm in upstate New York three years ago. Daniel is Amish ‐ a member of a community famed worldwide for their plain clothes and use of horse-drawn buggies ‐ and he fears the impact of modernity and the temptations of technology on his children, his church and his traditional Christian world. "Our values are different and we chose to safeguard them," he says. "But if our people get lax and rub elbows too much with the world, then the world may not look too different ‐ we become like the people outside."
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OH, they have many problems. Many health issues as much or more than the general population. Young people have most or all of their teeth pulled. Cancer, heart problems they are not exempt. The young want to leave their order for more understanding bishops. Then many leave for what they see is the bright life. New blood is vitally needed to curtail birth defects. They have good natures and are a kindly people. Very sociable and when you visit a home all are in attendance. You are the center of attention because having no TV or radio creates a active involvement by all. Riddles and story telling by the young. An example; On what side does the horses hair grow best?; On the outside.
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They call us the English. As with any groups of people some are good and some are bad. Drug dealing. Stealing farm tractor parts from other farmers. Yes all this and more goes on. Avoiding all taxes has become an art for them, even avoiding paying on toll roads. The Mennonites are their friends as others are. They visit to use a phone now and then. When they become a burden the Bishop will allow a phone in the barn on their property.
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The most desperate Amishman I ever met was an 18-year-old who had just left the order & intended never to return. He had just shaved off his beard & his face looked like a plowed field. He knew he had cut all his ties with his family. It turned out there was a Mennonite group that would provide much-needed assistance for such young people. We had their contact #s on the ER Rolodex.
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Yes # 6. They pool their money. So I would believe his Bishop was involved in this payment. I can't say for certain. I believe his order held a meeting on this disbursement.
[San Diego Reader - Satire Alert] "Well, we did it," said Caminar Por La Cura migrant caravan organizer Susan K. Roamin. "We walked all the way from Honduras to the border between Mexico and the United States, and in so doing, raised both awareness of the violence and poverty in our native country and millions of dollars to help alleviate those problems. Now we can return to our homes, secure in the knowledge that we can achieve any goal we put our minds to, and hopeful for a brighter tomorrow. Thanks to everyone who did so much to spread the word about our important mission, especially President Donald Trump, who kept us in the forefront of everyone's mind during a tumultuous election that threatened to prove a serious distraction."
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Townhall] Going all in on attacking President Trump isn't proving to be a particularly effective business strategy for media outlets.
[Guardian] Daniel Weaver does not vote, drive a car, read a paper, listen to music, watch sport of any kind, own a mobile phone or use a computer. But as we eat the food grown in his garden outside the window, he confesses that he did once see a film. He refuses to disclose what, brushing aside my questions as we sit talking around the dining table with his wife, five of his eight children and one grandson. "I am not proud of that," he says. "I went against my parents’ wishes."
