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Jon Wiener: The Palestinian refugee camp you wrote about in
The Hard Crowd, Shuafat, is not in Gaza, or Southern Lebanon; it’s inside Jerusalem. You visited in 2016 when something called the Knife Intifada was going on, but your report is about ordinary life for Palestinian refugees at that time and in that place. What’s going on now in Israel and Palestine is so much worse when you were in Shuafat, Israeli planes were not bombing Gaza and killing children Israeli forces had not attacked the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, at the end of Ramadan, and injured hundreds of Palestinians. I almost said that, when you were in Shuafat in 2016, things were “more peaceful” but that’s not
Most shocking secrets declassified by US government: Spy cats , brainwashing and UFOs
Sick experiments on animals, feeding mentally ill people psychedlic drugs and trying to bring down the Russian government with books and magazines are just some of the strange secrets previously kept hidden away by the CIA
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âMost broadcast news is not constructive, itâs endless noiseâ: Samira Ahmed. Photograph: David M Benett/Getty Images
âMost broadcast news is not constructive, itâs endless noiseâ: Samira Ahmed. Photograph: David M Benett/Getty Images
Sun 25 Apr 2021 01.45 EDT
Sunday morning? I make a pot of coffee when I wake at 6am, then get back into bed and spend two hours reading. I started doing it in lockdown and have never been happier: why wait to do the thing you love most in the world?
Top 10 Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out To Be True
Everybody loves a conspiracy theory, but they are most often complete and total nonsense. The vast majority produce thoughts of people wearing tin foil hats, but they wouldn’t exist if conspiracies weren’t a real thing.
Conspiracies occur all the time, and for better or worse, they’re a fact of life. Every so often, a once-labeled “crazy” conspiracy theory ends up panning out, proving the crazies who believed it were right all along.
While most people know about MKUltra, the Gulf of Tonkin incident, and the U.S Government’s poisoning of alcohol, there are many more conspiracy theories out there that turned out to be 100% true. This list features some of the more insidious ones most never realized were true.
MEMO TO:
City Council, City of Los Angeles (CD 1: Gil Cedillo, CD 2: Paul Krekorian, CD 3: Bob Blumenfield, CD 4: Nithya Raman, CD 5: Paul Koretz, CD 6: Nury Martinez, CD 7: Monica Rodriguez, CD 8: Marqueece Harris-Dawson, CD 9: Curren D. Price Jr., CD 10: Mark Ridley-Thomas, CD 11: Mike Bonin, CD 12: John Lee, CD 13: Mitch O’Farrell, CD 14: Kevin de León, CD 15: Joe Buscaino)
Eric Garcetti, Mayor of Los Angeles
Heidi Marston, Executive Director, LAHSA
FROM: The undersigned faculty, UCLA, USC, UCI, Occidental College
We write to express our grave and urgent concerns about the recent displacement of the homeless encampment at Echo Park Lake. Many of you have either been actively involved in such displacement or supported it through your silent acquiescence. Especially troubling is the Mayor’s statement, suggesting that such displacement serves as a useful precedent and template. As reported by the LA Times on March 27, 2021 “Mayor Eric Garcetti framed the effort a