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wvParticipantUm….geez. Bennett is purty good.
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vwvParticipantI dunno. Sixth round picks do not have a lot of trade value to move up much in the first round or into the third from where we are in the fourth round. My guess is that Snead moves around a lot within the third and fourth rounds, and maybe deals on for a future pick in 2019. Gonna be an interesting draft!
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Well i think they have a hundred-and-thirty-seven
6th Round Picks now.So the thinking may be, “surely we can get a couple starters with that many shots at it.”
Ya know.
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vwvParticipant“…Patriots players who’ve also played elsewhere said that many teams take conditioning far less seriously or fail to apply it as specifically as New England does…”
Inter esting.
Apparently, Philadelphia is doing something right, too.
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vwvParticipant…Serenity now, serenity now, serenity now….must trust Wade, must trust Wade….must….
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vwvParticipantI heard on the radio that they haven’t had a raise in 4 years. And any contract they are getting now will be a multi-year contract, probably 3 years.
So they are getting an average raise of…0.7% per year.
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You know, i heard one video where a teacher also mentioned that the Police will get a raise as a result of this too. I havent heard anything else about that or heard anyone talking about it.
But I am wondering if that was part of a strategy. The police have a long history of busting Unions…so…ya know.
Anyway the Rep-thug politicians are now threatening everyone in the state and trying to undermine teacher power by saying the teacher raise will be coming out of everyone’s pockets, the old, the sick, etc etc.
Cuz you know, the Reps are always looking out for the old and sick.
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vwvParticipantDitto.
Agreed.
Massive accord.
…btw, I have always been partial to the Gospel of Vermeil.
As far as this: “…from my own home library. Several subjects, trying to group books together….”
I do that from time to time too. But to no avail. I got too many books, BT. I think I’m a book-hoarder. I got way too many. More than I will ever have time to read.
If i ever achieve true enlightenment I think I’ll know it coz I’ll give all my books away, and empty out my house, and I’ll just chop wood and drink tea, and watch the moon.
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Gospel of Eve
From Wikipedia:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_EveThe Gospel of Eve is an almost entirely lost text from the New Testament apocrypha, which may be the same as the also lost Gospel of Perfection.
The only known content from it are a few quotations by Epiphanius (Panarion, 26),[1] a church father who criticised how the Borborites used it to justify free love, by practicing coitus interruptus and eating semen as a religious act. While certain libertine Gnostics held that, since the flesh is intrinsically evil, one should simply acknowledge it by freely engaging in sexual acts, the majority of the Gnostics took the opposite view of extreme asceticism.
TextGnostics typically wrote on multiple levels, imbuing texts with complicated mystical esoteric meaning, rather than intending a base interpretation. It is possible that Epiphanius failed to realise this and only read into the text a simple literal interpretation. The quotation Epiphanius claims is a reference to semen is:
I stood on a lofty mountain and saw a gigantic man, and another, a dwarf; and I heard as it were a voice of thunder, and drew nigh for to hear; and He spake unto me and said: I am thou, and thou art I; and wheresoever thou mayest be I am there. In all am I scattered [that is, the Logos as seed or “members”], and whencesoever thou willest, thou gatherest Me; and gathering Me, thou gatherest Thyself.
— From the Gospel of Eve, quoted by Epiphanius, Hæres., xxvi. 3.[2]While this second passage from their “apocryphal writings,” says Epiphanius, was meant to represent the menstrual cycle (it is unclear if he is quoting Revelation 22:2):
I saw a tree bearing twelve manner of fruits every year, and he said unto me, This is the tree of life …[3]
Interpretation
According to the Naassenes, this reflected the “Seeds disseminated into the cosmos from the Inexpressible [Man], by means of which the whole cosmos is consummated.”[4] The scattering of the Logos and its subsequent collection recalls the myths of Osiris and Dionysus. A similar theme of Osirification is present in a Gospel of Philip, quoted by Epiphanius in the same chapter:
I recognised myself, and gathered myself together from all sides; I sowed no children for the ruler, but I tore up his roots, and gathered together [my] limbs that were scattered abroad; I know thee who thou art, for I am from the realms above.[5]
wvParticipantFrankly, Jack, I dont give the pro-athletes much credit for the political statements.
I dont think they do NEARLY enough. With all their millionaire-privilege they really do very very little. Most do nothing. Some do a little.
I’m not talking about charity work, visiting hospitals, saving puppies, etc. That kind of thing, they do. Practically ALL rich people do that. All the ones i know, anyway.
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vwvParticipantChanges due to MeToo:https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/its-been-a-long-time-coming/
It’s been a long time coming
By Laura DurkayIT’S NO challenge to be cynical about Hollywood and about the glitzy spectacle of award shows in particular. Hollywood loves self-congratulation and empty liberal platitudes.
This means it can be easy to miss it when things actually are changing in an industry that hails itself as progressive, but is steeped in racism, sexism, ageism and a work culture that would be the envy of any 19th-century industrialist.
But at the 2018 Academy Awards, change was most definitely in the air.
The impact of months of #MeToo awareness of sexual harassment and assault was evident from Jimmy Kimmel’s opening monologue, through to the prime-time commercials for a Kevin Spacey-less House of Cards. Even tiny cosmetic changes, like announcing “the women and men” nominated in a certain category, felt pointed.
Midway through the broadcast, Ashley Judd, Salma Hayek and Annabella Sciorra–all of whom have accused producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment or assault–took the stage together to introduce a montage of female and nonwhite writers, directors and actors talking about the changes they wanted to see in Hollywood. Even a symbolic gesture like this would have seemed unthinkable a few years ago.
Jodie Foster and Jennifer Lawrence presented the Best Actress award, replacing last year’s Best Actor winner, Casey Affleck, who has also been accused of sexual misconduct.
The winner of that award, Frances McDormand, ended her speech with a call for “inclusion riders.”
This is the term for hypothetical contract provisions that would allow A-list actors and directors to demand racial and/or gender equity in other parts of a film production as a condition of their participation. For example, an inclusion rider could stipulate that 50 percent of the crew be female, or that background actor casting be demographically accurate.
While this may seem like an odd bureaucratic detail to include in an Oscar speech, it’s at least an attempt to think creatively about how those with existing power in Hollywood can do something to push back against both overt and unconscious biases in hiring.
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THE EXPLOSIVE impact of #MeToo is a new and significant development this year, but the 2018 Oscars reflected years of rumblings in Hollywood, as a new generation enters the industry and many among an older one finally says enough is enough.
In addition to the many references to sexism, the show was peppered with encouragement for the high school students protesting gun violence and shout-outs to DREAMers and immigrants in general, as well as several digs at Trump’s border wall.
“The greatest thing that art does, and that our industry does, is erase lines in the sand,” said Guillermo del Toro upon winning Best Director for The Shape of Water. “We should continue doing that.”
It was just two years ago that the hashtag to watch at the awards show was #OscarsSoWhite. The membership of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and the film industry as a whole, is still disproportionately white and male, but the #OscarsSoWhite controversy did prompt the Academy to induct a wave of younger, female and non-white members.
That may have contributed to the more diverse slate of nominees this year. Jordan Peele’s “social thriller” Get Out brings together two elements that Oscar voters usually shun: Black people and horror movies. But Peele became the first Black filmmaker to receive Oscar nominations for writing, directing and Best Picture in the same year, and the first Black screenwriter to win Best Original Screenplay.
Rachel Morrison became the first female nominee ever for Best Cinematography, for the movie Mudbound–although she’s now better known for her work on Black Panther.
And Yance Ford became the first openly trans director nominated for an Oscar, for his documentary Strong Island, about the racially charged murder of his brother.
And then there is this year’s Best Picture and Best Director winner, The Shape of Water, which seems deliberately constructed as a 1960s fairy-tale version of everything Donald Trump hates: A disabled, working-class woman with a healthy sense of her own sexuality unites with her Black co-worker, her closeted gay neighbor and a sympathetic Russian spy to rescue her fish-monster lover from a villain who is so much the embodiment of stereotypical white male toxic masculinity that he is literally rotting due to his own violence and stupidity.
Oh, and this whimsical story of forbidden love is directed by a Mexican immigrant.
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BECAUSE OF the long life cycles of feature films, particularly studio blockbusters, the effects of any social change are slow to percolate through Hollywood.
The more diverse films landing on the big screen today are arguably the product of conversations going back as far as the 2013 summer movie season, which was particularly barren if you were looking for any protagonist who wasn’t a white dude.
Black Panther, the superhero movie currently smashing box-office records, was announced back in October 2014, in the wake of the Ferguson uprising and Trayvon Martin’s murder. Whether you see this as marketing opportunism or a genuine desire for Black pop cultural heroes, the end result is a movie that’s currently on track to make a billion dollars worldwide.
On a larger scale, there is a demographic shift happening in Hollywood as the white boys’ club of directors that went from making indies in the 1970s to blockbusters in the ’80s begins to be replaced by younger filmmakers.
Ryan Coogler, the director of Black Panther, is 31. Greta Gerwig, who wrote and directed the Best Picture nominee Lady Bird, is 34. Patty Jenkins (Wonder Woman) and Ava DuVernay (Selma and 13th) are both 45–which is still young by the standards of how long it takes to succeed as a female director in Hollywood.
One could argue that the small but significant wave of Black writer/directors and Black stars reaching prominence in the films of 2017 and 2018 (Mudbound, Get Out, Moonlight, Black Panther and A Wrinkle in Time, plus John Boyega being cast in Star Wars and the upcoming Pacific Rim 2) is the echo effect of the Black Lives Matter protests of finally landing in Hollywood.
If so, who knows what films the echoes of #MeToo will produce in the next five years? But as Guillermo del Toro said while accepting the Oscar for Best Picture: “This is a door. Kick it open and come in.”
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vwvParticipant…btw, I think Jack Nicholson should have won the Oscar in 75.
March 6, 2018 at 10:37 am in reply to: Hiding in plain sight: WHY the GOP/Trump collude with Russia. #83525wvParticipantWell, i disagree with most of that, but its a minor thing to me. I’m not gonna repeat myself on the topic.
We agree on all the big stuff.
I think I’m gonna concentrate more on what we agree on from now on. I dunno why. I just feel like it.
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PS, this looks like a good book to me:https://legalform.blog/2018/01/19/review-of-sidney-l-harrings-policing-a-class-society-the-experience-of-american-cities-1865-1915-second-edition-chicago-haymarket-2017-part-one-stuart-schrader/
Review of Sidney L. Harring, Policing a Class Society: The Experience of American Cities, 1865–1915, second edition (Chicago: Haymarket, 2017) (Part One) — Stuart Schrader“…Harring argues that police in the United States from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the First World War played a key role in capital accumulation by controlling labor strife and managing the growth of the restive industrial working class. His analysis centers on the Great Lakes region, focusing on Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, and Toledo, plus some other smaller cities. He looks at both concentrated police activity toward working-class organization, like strike-breaking, and diffuse control of labor pools, like the enforcement of vice regulations and control of “tramps”, the itinerant unemployed or underemployed male proletariat.
One insight of Harring’s research is that it was not inevitable that police officers would side with capitalists against workers…”
wvParticipantMore on my only topic these days: Lies.
wvParticipantwvParticipant“I think for the good of football there’s probably more defensive backs available in terms of, let’s call it a pool to select from,” Snead said.
——————So maybe that means unless a CB is elite, you can get one in round three or so.
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vwvParticipantUS Meddling in Foreign Elections: A CIA Tradition Since 1948
CIA:https://southfront.org/us-meddling-in-foreign-elections-a-cia-tradition-since-1948/
Written by Wayne Madsen; Originally appeared on strategic-culture.org
“In a shocking display of relative independence from the post-Operation Mockingbird control of the media by the Central Intelligence Agency, a recent article in The New York Times broke with current conventional pack journalism and covered the long history of CIA meddling in foreign elections. A February 17, 2018, article, titled, “Russia Isn’t the Only One Meddling in Elections. We Do It, Too,” authored by Scott Shane – who covered the perestroika and glasnost for The Baltimore Sun in Moscow from 1988 to 1991 during the final few years of the Soviet Union – reported the US has interfered in foreign elections for decades. However, a couple of old US intelligence hands were quoted in the article as saying the US meddling was for altruistic purposes. The CIA veterans charged that Russia interferes in foreign elections for purely malevolent purposes…..
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…..Declassified CIA files are replete with examples of agency interference in foreign elections, including state elections in India and West Germany and provincial elections in Australia, Canada, and Japan. In the 1950s, the CIA provided massive support to the West German Christian Democrats, which were led by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. The CIA also did its best to suppress supprt for the West German Social Democrats and the far-right nationalist German Party in Berlin, Hesse, and Bavaria.In 1967, Indian Foreign Minister M. C. Chagla charged that the CIA “meddled” in India’s election, mainly through financial donations to parties in opposition to the ruling Indian Congress party. The CIA particularly targeted Communist parties in West Bengal and Kerala states…..
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wvParticipantGreat Ram In The Sky. Maybe the best handle ever.
He was a legend, and I’ll miss him.
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vwvParticipantYeah, before the back problem he was an all-pro.
Rams have had some good ones.
Merlin, Deacon, Lundy, Grier, Bacon, JYB, Dryer, Little, Donald, Quinn.
I’m sure I’m leaving some out.Is Quinn gonna be missed? I dunno. Maybe.
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vwvParticipantNow this is the ‘good’ Maher.
wvParticipantwvParticipantdid Kushner really get two banks to give him half a million bucks
while he was in the white house?wvParticipantWell if he’s truly a freak he wont make it to 23.
Wonder what the mocks will do now that the Rams have Peters coming in at CB.
I guess the Rams could go in lots of directions now.
I just hope they dont go crazy and select the BPA. That way lies madness.
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vwvParticipantIn general, most people around here don’t initiate political discussions these days. I have a feeling people are burnt out. They’d rather talk about pretty much anything else.
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I bought “The Invention of Capitalism”. Dunno when I’ll have time to read it, but i have it. In a pile.
I also bought a turn-table. Havent had a turntable since i was a teenager.
I am looking forward to discovering quirky old records in junk shops. This is the first album i bought, for a dollar. I think its from 1970. John Mayall. Havent played it yet:
wvParticipantWow. I was totally unaware they were even working on that.
I’ll have to process that for a while.
Hard for me to believe it will ever be cheap enough for poor people to afford.
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wvParticipantBtw, just as some of the folks you post don’t think we should talk about the Russia thing . . . I’m beginning to think leftists shouldn’t talk about “the deep state.” Or maybe find different terms. Why? Because the right has latched onto this and is using it to push for a purge of government, from top to bottom. NOT to end any “deep state.” But to make sure it’s ALL in far-right, GOP hands. Most of it already is. But they aren’t satisfied with that.
Second biggest reason: Their spin is to say it’s all a Democratic Party coup against Trump. Fox and fiends and all of Trump TV land says the “deep state” consists of Dems and ONLY Dems.
The left shouldn’t be in the business of aiding and abetting folks like Hannity, Tucker Carlson, much less Trump himself.
Gotta be another way to critique government corruption and empire, etc.
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Oh yeah. I agree with you about the term. Most of the time i hear it
used here in WV, its used by Alex-Jones-Types in a real paranoid way.I like the term for lots of reasons (for one, its a conversation starter —
‘what do you mean by deep state…”), but I use it in some places and i avoid it in others. I use it ‘here’ but i would not use it a lot of places.w
vwvParticipantWhat Kind of Times Are These
By Adrienne RichThere’s a place between two stands of trees where the grass grows uphill
and the old revolutionary road breaks off into shadows
near a meeting-house abandoned by the persecuted
who disappeared into those shadows.I’ve walked there picking mushrooms at the edge of dread, but don’t be fooled
this isn’t a Russian poem, this is not somewhere else but here,
our country moving closer to its own truth and dread,
its own ways of making people disappear.I won’t tell you where the place is, the dark mesh of the woods
meeting the unmarked strip of light—
ghost-ridden crossroads, leafmold paradise:
I know already who wants to buy it, sell it, make it disappear.And I won’t tell you where it is, so why do I tell you
anything? Because you still listen, because in times like these
to have you listen at all, it’s necessary
to talk about trees.wvParticipantTHE POLAR BEAR
What I’m asking is will watching The Discovery
Channel with my young black boy instead
of the news coverage of the riot funerals riot arrests
riot nothing changes riots be enough to keep him
from harm? We are on my bed crying for what we’ve done
to the polar bears, the male we’ve bonded with on-screen
whose search for seals on the melting ice has led him
to an island of walruses and he is desperate, it is late-
summer and he is starving and soon the freeze
will drive all life back into hiding, so he goes for it,
the dangerous hunt, the canine-sharp tusks
and armored hides for shields, the fused weapon
they create en masse, the whole island a system
for the elephant-large walruses who, in fear, huddle
together, who, in fear, fight back. This is not an analogy.
The polar bear is hungry, but the walruses fight back.
A mother pushes her pup into the icy water
and spears the hunter through the legs, the gut,
his blood clotting his fur as he curls into the ice
only feet away from the fray—where the walruses
have gathered again, sensing the threat has passed.
My boy’s holding his stuffed animal, the white body
of the bear he loves, who will die tonight (who
has already died) and my boy asks me if this is real.
What I’m asking is how long will we stay walruses,
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Jennifer Givhan: “My son and I watch science shows because he wants to be a scientist when he grows up. Online, the morning after we watched a show about the ice caps, I watched a mother taking her son away from the Baltimore riots and I wrote this poem.” (website)wvParticipantCollins on political poems:http://www.kwls.org/event-coverage/billy-collins-on-politics-poetry-and-war/
“I’m not a political poet,” asserts Billy Collins as he begins to usher the KWLS audience through an exploration of political poetry. He follows with a funny anecdote about his time as Poet Laureate, when a child asked him what his place in line was to be president.
There are two problems with the political poem, according to Collins: It has a shelf life, and it must adhere to a topic. Political poems usually do not transcend time because of their connection to the day’s headlines. Written as current events, Collins says, “[they] read like yesterday’s paper.”
Poetry should develop organically, Collins believes, taking form as the poet is writing. Ideally, he says, a poem’s topic is more “launchpad” than contrivance. Despite these obstacles, Collins selects highlights of the sub-genre and masterfully recites them, eliciting a broad range of emotion from the audience at San Carlos.
Collins begins his homage to political poetry by reciting Walt Whitman’s “Election Day, November, 1884,” illuminating Whitman’s argument that the “power of the country lies in the power to vote.” With his signature wit, Collins breaks up any somberness, and the audience can’t help but laugh at his analysis.
He also dwells on the realities of war and its effects. His recitation of “Photograph from September 11” by Wislawa Szymborska, in which the poet attempts to not write the last line, is especially poignant. By the end of the poem, the audience falls silent. Billy notes that one can “assess the silence right after the poem to measure the power of it.”
Staying with the subject of war, he recites his own poem, “Building with Its Face Blown Off,” taking the audience from a war-torn place to one of peace, ending with “olives.” He swears to the audience that in writing it, he made no conscious connection to the symbolism of “olive-branch.”
Finally, he leaves us with “The Polar Bear,” by Jennifer Givhan. While the poem brings us back to current events, it also evokes a sense of fear that is timeless in America. While political poetry may have its obstacles, Billy Collins’s choices prove that policy always intersects with humanity.
wvParticipantIsrael-Gate. The gate that MSNBC and the DNC and the MSM will never talk about…
I didnt realize Kushner actually contributes money to build settlements. Sigh.
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link:https://consortiumnews.com/2017/12/08/missing-the-significance-of-israel-gate/
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…………Dennis Bernstein: Jared Kushner is a broker for illegal settlements.Ali Abunimah: He is a donor to illegal settlements, a philanthropist for illegal settlements. How many headlines have been devoted to Kushner failing to disclose important information in his government ethics filings? The latest is that he failed to disclose the fact that he was a director of his family’s foundation, which has donated to building settlements in the occupied West Bank, particularly the settlement of Beit El, the same settlement that receives philanthropic donations from David Friedman, Trump’s ambassador in Tel Aviv.
Kushner, who is supposedly charged with coming up with a peace plan, is actually busy funding settlements. Kushner’s family are close friends of Benjamin Netanyahu. It is just farcical to pretend that anyone like Jared Kushner could ever be an honest broker.
Dennis Bernstein: Is all of this legal?
Ali Abunimah: That’s questionable. Actually, in the past year there were lawsuits filed challenging this massive multi-billion dollar flow of tax-deductible, so-called charitable funds for illegal purposes, including the construction of settlements and massive donations to groups like Friends of the IDF.
Another issue is this whole business of what Jared Kushner was doing during the transition, when he was trying to undermine the policy of the sitting Obama administration and stop the UN Security Council resolution passed last December condemning Israeli settlements. This all came out in the context of the Mueller investigation and Michael Flynn’s guilty plea, which revealed not so much a collusion with Russia as a very close collusion between the Trump transition and Israel.
Dennis Bernstein: You would think then that MSNBC, which makes a living on pumping up Russiagate, would want to jump into this case of collusion.
Ali Abunimah: The Michael Flynn revelation did not show collusion with Russia and certainly did not show any interference in the US election. What Flynn pled guilty to was lying about two meetings. Flynn is a serial liar, he lied about his work for the Turkish government.
The facts that were filed in the documents with his plea show that a “very senior member” of the Trump transition team, who has since been identified as Jared Kushner, had ordered Flynn to contact every member of the UN Security Council to try to defeat this resolution criticizing Israel. It was also reported in The New York Times that Kushner had acted at the urging of Netanyahu.
None of this has anything to do with Russian interference in the elections. What it does show is clear collusion at the highest level with a foreign government [Israel] to undermine and sabotage the policy of the sitting administration.
President Donald Trump places a prayer in-between the stone blocks of the Western Wall in Jerusalem, May 22, 2017. (Official White House Photo by Dan Hansen)
Dennis Bernstein: It doesn’t appear that Arab outrage is going to have much influence over what happens with this plan to move the capital from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Ali Abunimah: On the contrary, I think that it has actually been facilitated by the fact that Saudi Arabia, which markets itself as the guardian of Islam, has been engaging in this major rapprochement with Israel, pressuring the Palestinians to accept what amounts to surrender, in order to get them out of the way so that Saudi Arabia and Israel can embrace each other and go to war together against Iran.
The New York Times reported details of the so-called Trump peace plan that Jared Kushner has been putting together, which basically creates a Palestinian state in name only. The Palestinians would have very limited autonomy in very small non-contiguous areas of the West Bank. They would have no control, no sovereignty, no capital in East Jerusalem, no right of return for refugees, and so on. But they would be free to call this a Palestinian state if they want to.
All of this sounds familiar to people who have followed this issue because this is a rehashing of the kind of schemes that have been put forward since the 1990’s. What is different this time is that Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority leader, was called to Riyadh last month and told by Mohammad bin Salman that he was going to accept this or else. The thinking behind it is that the Palestinian issue is a thorn in the side of the Saudi/Israeli alliance that wants to escalate the catastrophic confrontation with Iran.
Dennis Bernstein: How does the crisis with the prime minister in Lebanon play into all of this?
Ali Abunimah: The Saudis have been behind so many of the regional disasters, including escalating the situation in Syria by funding a proxy war that has killed hundreds of thousands of people. For two years they have been bombing the poorest Arab country, Yemen, with millions suffering famine and tens of thousands killed and injured. Saudi Arabia has been unable to defeat the people resisting them in Yemen. They were trying to destabilize Lebanon and that failed because [Prime Minister] Hariri went home and rescinded his forced resignation under pressure from the Saudis.
Dennis Bernstein: I guess maybe the one silver lining in all of this is the boycott/divestment movement. There is not much else going on in terms of global resistance to the brutality in occupied Palestine.
Ali Abunimah: I suppose it is possible to look at all of this and just feel immobilized and hopeless. But I think it is important to feel hope as well. Even in Jerusalem, Palestinians have been standing up to Israel and winning victories, as they did this summer when they forced Israel to back down from its efforts to impose stricter control on entrance to the al-Aqsa mosque compound. That was a real victory for people power in Jerusalem against one of the strongest armies in the world.
Despite a twenty-fold increase in lobbying, Israel has not been able to stop the “impressive growth” of the Palestine solidarity movement, particularly the boycott/divestment/sanctions movement. So it’s not time to be hopeless, it’s time to get on with the work, because there is lots to do and people power is still winning victories.
Dennis Bernstein: I guess you could say that proof of those victories is the amount of repression and clamp-down of Palestinian students and their supporters all over the country.
Ali Abunimah: And it is across the board now, including the effort of the big Silicon Valley companies who are helping the establishment to censor and limit the reach of independent media like us. They know that people are listening and we are powerful, even though we may sometimes feel small in the face of the forces that are trying to reshape the world.
Dennis J Bernstein is a host of “Flashpoints” on the Pacifica radio network and the author of Special Ed: Voices from a Hidden Classroom. You can access the audio archives at http://www.flashpoints.net.
March 3, 2018 at 12:34 am in reply to: Despite success Rams staying busy…& other "what do they have to do" pieces #83387wvParticipantGonzalez is pretty good. I enjoy reading his stuff. He’s got the Jim Thomas role, I suppose, and he’s good at it.
I wonder about Barwin. Sure, he’s a UFA, but he isn’t going to get any money anywhere. I mean…the Rams can afford Barwin without thinking twice. He wasn’t particularly impressive to me last season, but he knows what he’s doing, and they need somebody there. I would think the Rams would make an effort to keep him. Especially if Barron doesn’t fit. You don’t really want to give up on 3 LBs in the same offseason.
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Things went so well last year, If Wade Phillips wanted to cut Aaron Donald, and replace him with Jimmy Kennedy, I’d probly just go “well of course.”
I think Wade Phillips name should always be Bolded btw.
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