Viral video of police being called to a youth soccer game near Orlando, Florida, is drawing outrage, with some claiming the cops showed up because a 3-year-old child was too good, while the league's director says the call was made because the parents were being disruptive. No one disputes that 3-year-old Nevada, who can be seen in several videos dominating on the pitch against kids one and two years older than him, is a soccer phenom. One of the directors of the youth league Nevada was playing in told the cops when they arrived, "The kid is very good ... He's great. Really good." Read more
President Donald Trump's administration is weighing lifting more sanctions on Russia, this time on a multi-billion account that U.S. officials have described as Russian President Vladimir Putin's "slush fund." Russia could see more sanction relief soon with restrictions potentially being lifted on Russian Direct Investment Fund, which is run by Kirill Dmitriev and has a long history of foreign investments, The New York Times reported this week, citing people familiar with the negotiations. Russian officials have been pushing for the sanction relief amid talks about a diesel deal between the country and the U.S.
Progressive Twitch streamer Hasan Piker filed a defamation lawsuit against conservative CNN commentator Scott Jennings on Tuesday, accusing him of falsely claiming Piker advocated for lynching Black Americans after airing an edited video of his remarks. The 38-page lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., centers on an Aug. 11 episode of "The Scott Jennings Show," in which Jennings shared clips of Piker claiming he had said, "the USA should resume lynchings against Black people." Piker, who threatened legal action in August over the claim and shared further context to the clips, alleges Jennings knowingly misrepresented sarcastic comments he made during his livestreams by turning it into an apparent endorsement of racial violence.
The nefarious Netanyahu junta -- still barely clinging to power following yesterday's murky election results -- revoked the travel authorizations for several American rabbis, Samaritans, and Democratic Party congressional candidate Brad Lander (D-NY) following their work last week with Palestinians harvesting olives in the West Bank. No reason was given for the revocation.
Jews Against Genocide are Bibi's Worst Enemies. Good.
A Republican candidate in Georgia running for the state House of Representatives has been arrested on charges of public indecency. According to Cobb County authorities, Andre Stafford is accused of public indecency and child molestation, a felony charge, in connection with an Oct. 15 incident in Smyrna. The arrest warrant said a girl walking to her bus stop was approached by a gray 2024 Kia Forte whose driver exposed himself. Police said Flock surveillance cameras tracked the car to Stafford, whom the victim identified in a photo lineup.
Neil Young says President Trump's fundraising committee is breaking a vow that "it would never again use Rockin' in the Free World'" at a campaign rally, and the musician is filing a $10 million copyright infringement lawsuit.
The "Heart of Gold" singer filed the suit against the Trump 47 Committee on Monday. In the filing, Young alleges that his 1989 hit was played just before Trump took the stage at a Youngstown, Ohio, rally on Oct. 12.
The lawsuit described the tune as a "blistering anthem that contrasts the hollow promises of American political rhetoric with the harsh realities faced by the poor, homeless and forgotten."
At the nexus of an ongoing affordability crisis and midterm election push, the Trump administration's effort to reduce beef prices appears to be falling short. President Donald Trump signed a proclamation in August to temporarily increase the quantity of beef in the U.S. by importing 300,000 metric tons of lean beef trimmings into the country at a reduced tariff rate.
Even MAGA rally attendees are sick and tired of hearing about Donald Trump's ballroom. The president visited Corinth, Mississippi, on Monday night to support the midterm efforts of Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, an incumbent Republican in an increasingly tight race against Democratic nominee Scott Colom. Trump was in the middle of rambling about the condition of the White House when he was heckled about his $600 million ballroom project. "Shove that ballroom up your fat ass!" a man shouted from the crowd.
October has brought more attacks on commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz than any month since tracking began, with Reuters counting at least twenty-eight. Traffic is falling again, with only five commodity vessels crossing on Saturday and none on Sunday, and more than thirty supertankers have now been damaged.
Kushner reportedly got former Secretary Rex Tillerson fired after the UAE paid him millions"prompting another nation to also pay Kushner to ensure favors of their own, according to a new book.
Donald Trump Jr. enjoyed a hunting trip with the Putin-linked Russian oligarch who paid for his lavish Caribbean wedding, it has been revealed. Umar Kremlev, head of the sanctioned and scandal-ridden International Boxing Association (IBA), joined Trump Jr. for a two-day trip to a remote part of western Mongolia in August, where Trump Jr. shot and killed an Altai argali, an endangered horned sheep, the Financial Times reports.
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him, as the wheel follows the foot of the ox that draws the carriage." The Buddha Read more
President Donald Trump's allies have questioned the integrity of the Brazilian election. But if Trump were to intervene, it would threaten a fragile trade detente between the two countries.
During a Democratic Party POTUS debate on 27 June 2019, Kamala Harris (D-CA) tagged former VPOTUS Joe Biden (D-DE) for his abysmal 1970s record on racial desegregation. The attack came after Biden came under harsh criticism for boasting about his ability to form personal relationships with race-baiting former Senators James Eastland (D-MS) and Herman Talmadge (D-GA). "It was hurtful," Harris said, to hear Biden speak of his bonds with those racist senators. Senator Harris then related the story of a little girl who was in an early wave of children to integrate schools in California, ending the anecdote with these words: "That little girl was me." To better understand the bigoted white Catholic milieu that Joe Biden grew up with in Scranton, PA (before his family moved to Claymont, DE in 1953), watch That Championship Season (1982) starring Robert Mitchum, Stacy Keach, Bruce Dern, Martin Sheen, and Paul Sorvino (71% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes).
During the Algerian 132-year struggle for independence from France (1830-1962), by 1875 the French military, security services, and Foreign Legion had liquidated an estimated 500,000 " 1,000,000 Algerians; 1.5 million people were killed in the 1954 " 1962 independence war. On 7 May 1945, when the guns finally fell silent all over Europe, the French military borrowed British warplanes to bomb Algerian freedom fighters. In 1962 when President Charles DeGaulle decided to grant Algeria independence, the French far-right (OAS) conspired to assassinate him, fictionalized in the novel The Day of the Jackal (Frederick Forsyth, 1971). An important film depicting French police brutality and oppression against the Algerians was The Battle of Algiers (1966), which starred one of the former FLN guerrillas tortured by les condes.
The Battle of Algiers
In 1970, the average American weighed 30 pounds less than today. No diets. No gym culture. No calorie counting. So what exactly happened?
In this video, we explore the real reasons why nobody was fat in 1970s America " from the way families cooked and ate, to the way children played, to the size of a dinner plate, to the moment everything quietly began to change.
This is not a story about willpower. It is a story about a world that made willpower unnecessary.
