By Robert W. Jordan, U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia from 2001 to 2003 and author of Desert Diplomat: Inside Saudi Arabia Following 9/11
MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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In the News
By Chris Mills Rodrigo @ TheHill.com, Sept. 24
Vox Media Inc. agreed to buy New York Media, the owner of New York Magazine, the New York Times reported on Tuesday. Vox and New York said that the consolidation will provide a new model for a media company [....]
Alongside the biweekly New York Magazine, New York Media is home to The Cut, Grub Street, Intelligencer, The Strategist and Vulture [....]
By Karla Adam & William Booth from London @ WashingtonPost.com, Sept. 24
Embattled Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he will not resign after suffering a brutal defeat: The ruling asserts that suspending Parliament was a political maneuver to limit debate, and it strongly suggests that he might have misled the queen.
Party vows to take control of ‘endowments, investments and properties’
By Sebastian Payne in Brighton @ FT.com, Sept 22, 2019
Labour has pledged to abolish all independent schools in the UK if it wins the next general election, following a motion passed by delegates at its annual conference on Sunday. The opposition party has resolved to include a commitment in its next election manifesto to “integrate all private schools into the state sector”. This would be achieved by withdrawing charitable status, tax exemptions — including business rates — and all other public subsidies from private institutions. A future Labour government would seek to implement the policy by initially [....]
By Lily Kuo from Beijing @ TheGuardian.com, Sept. 23
[....] The video, posted anonymously on YouTube last week, shows what appear to be Uighur or other minorities wearing blue and yellow uniforms, with cleanly shaven heads, their eyes covered, sitting in rows on the ground [....] Nathan Ruser, a researcher with the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s international cyber policy centre, used clues in the footage, including landmarks and the position of the sun, to verify the video, which he believes was shot at a train station west of Korla in south-east Xinjiang in August last year [....]
By Ruaridh Nicoll in Port-au-Prince @ TheGuardian.com, Sept. 23
Caption: Senator Jean Marie Ralph Féthière, fires his gun outside parliament in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 23 September 2019. Chery Dieu-Nalio, an Associated Press photographer, was wounded in the shooting. Photograph: Chery Dieu-Nalio/AP
Two men including a photojournalist have been shot and injured by a Haitian senator who opened fire outside the country’s parliament, amid chaotic scenes as the government attempted to confirm the appointment of a new prime minister.
Chery Dieu-Nalio, an Associated Press photographer, was wounded in the face and a second man, Leon Leblanc, a security guard and driver, was also injured in the incident in the country’s capital, Port-au-Prince, on Monday. Although doctors were reported to be removing bullet fragments from Dieu-Nalio’s face, the injuries are said not to be life-threatening [....]
Before leaving the scene, Leblanc told reporters he had seen Jean Marie Ralph Féthière, a senator from the north of the country, draw a handgun as he tried to leave the parliamentary precincts through a crowd of protesters. Another senator, Patrice Dumont, said Féthière warned the crowd he would shoot if they did not let him leave.Féthière later justified his actions, without actually admitting firing his weapons. He told Radio Mega [....]
50,000 +. Beginning to believe that minus an economic collapse, Trump will be re-elected. It'll be fun though preserving all of the great, detailed progressive plans Bernie and Warren have so far come up with in an election memory scrapbook.
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Carter used the same speech to announce “an extra $10 billion over the next decade to strengthen our public transportation systems. And I’m asking you, for your good and for your nation’s security, to take no unnecessary trips, to use carpools or public transportation whenever you can … and to set your thermostats to save fuel. Every act of energy conservation like this is more than just common sense, I tell you it is an act of patriotism.”