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Eilat Lash: Listen, this is a post you must flip through on every possible media. Share in any way. It must shock the whole country to the skies. Pay attention: As he is naked, while it's cold and rainy outside, 36-year-old I. Jose was left outside the residence as punishment. For two hours he begged to enter. In vain. Judge Gadi Tzafrir approved a plea deal and sentenced the therapist, Muhammad Ghanaim, to 3 months of community service (!!!). The judge also considered (!!) and ruled that he would only start them in July because he is a student (!!)...

The physicians' plan would single out Black and 'Latinx' patients in 'fight for racial justice in medicine.'Critical Race Theory influenced the physicians' support for 'medical restitution' and 'federal reparations.'Harvard Medical School instructors Bram Wispelwey and Michelle Morse argue in a Boston Review article that race should be used as a determining factor in how heart failure patients are treated. They write that the necessary "proactively antiracist agenda for medicine" should be direct, and the solution they propose could reach patients exactly at the point of care: "a preferential admission option for Black and Latinx heart failure patients to our specialty...

"As reported by WND.com, “One of the nation’s largest school districts has adopted a resolution banning “hateful speech” against Muslim students while accusing America of having “a long history of racism and xenophobia.” "Can you just imagine what would happen if a school board voted 8-0 for a resolution that promoted “instituting school policies and setting an educational curriculum that reflects JUDEO-CHRISTIAN values?”" Here's the resolution: http://www.boarddocs.com/mo/kanscsd/Board.nsf/files/AE7V8M7F8634/$file/KCPS_SupportForMuslims_2016_NAedits-2.pdf

... A rabbi from Brooklyn, N.Y., is suing the Army over its “no-beard” policy, claiming the service violated his religious freedoms when it rejected him because he refuses to shave...lawsuit argues the Army is discriminating against him because it has waived the “no-beard” rule for several Sikhs and a Muslim, but not for him. ...

IT WAS just after midnight. Brian Westberry and a woman friend sat frozen in his bedroom, hoping the persistent pounding on the front door of his Northeast Philly home would stop. It didn't. Westberry, 24, slipped his licensed .38-caliber revolver into his pants pocket and crept downstairs to open the door. There stood Gregory Cujdik, 32, who demanded to see "Jen," his girlfriend. Westberry told him "Jen" didn't want to see him, and repeatedly ordered Cujdik to leave. When Cujdik refused, Westberry threatened to call police. " 'Do it. My family are cops,' " Cujdik said, according to Westberry.

OMAHA (DTN) -- The head of the World Trade Organization raised concern over the rising number of bilateral and regional trade agreements, citing the development as a "significant challenge" to the multilateral trading system. WTO Director-General Supachai Panitchpakdi noted that 21 such agreements were notified to the WTO between January and August 2004 alone, increasing the total number of notified agreements to more than 200. The continued rise makes preferential discriminatory trade relations "an ever more established and perhaps irreversible feature of the international trading system," a report warned.

Foreign policy considerations do not need to be very complicated. If one were to consider foreign policy as based on the type of alliances and trade deals that are supposed to guarantee a maximum of safety for one country, and a maximum of prosperity for its inhabitants, Venezuela natural and principal partnership would be with the United States, with essential side links toward Colombia, the Caribbean and to a lesser extent the rest of South America. Europe would be a purveyor of luxuries and Asia of electronics. Why? As the geographically closest supplier of oil after Mexico and Canada, Venezuela...

GOING TOO FAR by Timothy Rollins, Editor and Publisher September 22, 2003 For some, it's love of the game. For others, it's an opportunity to get away for two or three hours to watch athletes at the top of their game doing what they do best. For players, it's a dream come true, getting paid to do what they did in the playground as a kid. For fans, it's a chance to relive their childhood as they take their children or just some friends to whatever game they're watching.However, in the last couple of years, I've had to ask myself...