of the system can t sustain a shock and a trigger zone reaction. i would talk about black lives matter with all of the people walking through the streets and cities like baltimore saying we live in a country where almost every 28 hours an african-american man or woman is shot dead lethal force, usually unarmed, we have video of our police actually murdering unarmed civilians and yet despite the outcry it continues. and we have in the last month seen a space of shootings of police officers, one in new york, two in mississippi just the another day another one and i am hoping these are just incidental and you know but if that becomes a pattern, that is certainly would replicate the societies that are declining where people reach such a rage they lash out. the state has turned their back on people like you and me how affective are these rebellions? black lives matter? occupy wall street? snowden? well, they are affective in this sense. they expose the lie that the state uses
ever, i dull into nate than ever i sort of began realizing i was going to be gay. there s no verb about it at this time it was only a noun or an adjective. so the response i get from people now and i think it s one of the exciting things about writing for young people is when you write for young people, you don t just write for them you write more their parents and aunts and booksellers and librarians. and so what i hear just like you said, ellen is people who write to say i m a 70-year-old gay man, and if i had had this book when i was in middle school, i wouldn t have maybe have been in the close earth for the clottest for the or 12-year-old boys who say i m the only boy in my dance class in utah and it was so cool to read a character like nate. whatever that boy s going to grow up to become, i don t know but it s exciting to know that there are voices on the shelves that are being published, by the way, so many publishers that are doing this. and simon and sui
during world war ii and said that this provision permits the government to criminalize and her words an entire group of people and hold them in essence and internment camps or military facilities where they can sit without ever seeing a lawyer. what is happening now, we are not in a state of crisis i don t think the state needs to employ those draconian forms of control, but should the society disintegrated, should there be the kind of unrest that we see in some european countries like greece they certainly will bring in the military if they feel that they need the military in order to retain power, and they will use these legal mechanisms which they have created for themselves against us. we re not in a moment of crisis right now. we are in a moment of relative stability. i think they put tanks on the streets of ferguson missouri against unarmed protesters, you see glimpses of the capacity of the military state. i think we would have to be i kind of freefall for us to begin
bomber not far from their base in the north. three americans and three afghans were wounded. margaret brennan reports tonight from the pentagon. reporter: the american service members were stopped at a local meeting point while on patrol with afghan forces when a suicide bomber drove a motorcycle packed with explosives into the group. the taliban took credit for the attack, which happened nearby bagram air field, the largest remaining u.s. military base in afghanistan. the pentagon has warned that the insurgents have been gaining strength since the end of the u.s. combat mission. the taliban has seized control of the strategic helmand province in the south as well as getting closer to important cities. national security analyst michael o hanlon just returned from afghanistan. the threat remains roughly constant. the insurgency is resilient, and we have 100,000 fewer combined forces on patrol across the country. reporter: so far this year 20 american service members have
WILMINGTON — Inez Marie Bowen, born on May 2, 1931, in Vance County, NC, peacefully passed away on May 14, 2024, in Wilmington, NC. She was 93 years old.