Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days.
A press conference by Real Madrid president Florentino Pérez turned into an explosive row after the football supremo criticised the press, made comments described as sexist, and accused arch-rival Barcelona of corruption. His remarks have turned into a political storm.
A press conference by Real Madrid president Florentino Pérez, one of the most powerful men in Europe, has turned into a political row engulfing commentors, the media and progressive politicians accusing the football chief of sounding like Donald Trump.
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Sirve casi cualquiera de las frases de Florentino Pérez de este martes y el tono en el que las pronunció para explicar cómo el presidente del Real Madrid de los últimos casi 26 años ―solo tres, entre 2006 y 2009 no lo fue― encaja en eso que la ensayista y académica canadiense Martine Delvaux analizó hace tres años en…
... full articleWe’re losing our way as a society. If we don’t stand up, if we don’t say what we think those rights should be, and if we don’t protect them, we will very soon find out that we do not have them.
Speaking to reporters in the White House on Tuesday, President Donald Trump was asked about the potential spread of hantavirus in the U.S., following the return of over a dozen Americans who were on a cruise liner where the virus had infected multiple people.
The question specifically asked about infectious disease experts expressing concern regarding the lack of an adequate government response to the minor outbreak. Trump deferred to Mehmet Oz, the former television personality turned head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
... full articleGet up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.
On Tuesday, Judge Napolitano asked me to respond to Nicholas Kristof’s reporting on the systemic rape and sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners and hostages. Here is what I had to say:
Napolitano: Let’s go to another article, which is of some controversy. It’ll be in The New York Times tomorrow, so the only way you could see it today is in the digital version, and that’s Nick Kristof’s article about the prison rapes in Israeli prisons, which is very difficult to read, but which evoked a firestorm from the Israeli foreign ministry. Kristof, who almost apologized for writing this thing, feels intellectually bound to do so. He interviewed everybody — prison guards, interrogators, senior people, prisoners, Israeli prisoners, Palestinian prisoners. The picture he paints is so reprehensible, so clear, so consistent, so profound that Israeli leadership must know what’s going on, of horrific tortures of Palestinians, and every one of these tortures involves the forcible entry into someone’s body, male or female, including the use of dogs especially trained to do so.
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