
Trump up here calling out the “fake, fake, disgusting news”: image via Adam Gabbatt @adamgabbatt, 2 August 2018



Always nice to get feedback: image via Adam Gabbatt @adamgabbatt, 25 June 2018

Seeing a smattering of QAnon shirts before this @realDonaldTrump rally
for @RepLouBarletta gets under way.: image via Chris Brennan
@ByChrisBrennan, 2 August 2018

This guy's sign drew a loud stadium cheer and prompted a "CNN sucks" chant as the crowd waits for @realDonaldTrump and @RepLouBarletta : image via Chris Brennan
@ByChrisBrennan, 2 August 2018

As the crowd rolls in for a @realDonaldTrump rally for @RepLouBarletta an announcer advises them to point out for removal but not touch any protesters because Trump supports the 1st Amendment. - at Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza: image via Chris Brennan
@ByChrisBrennan, 2 August 2018

David Alberola of Nanticoke said his service dog Lucky was excited to attend his first Trump rally.
"I think he's one of our nation's greatest leaders," he said of Trump. "It's just amazing what he's done so far in two years.: image via Chris Brennan
@ByChrisBrennan, 2 August 2018

Tim Mikolaichik, 18, of Mountaintop, just registered to vote. "What I
really like is he is a bit more controversial," he said of Trump. "He's
not afraid to share his opinion. He says and does what he wants." - at Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza: image via Chris Brennan
@ByChrisBrennan, 2 August 2018

Evan Gedrich, 16, of Scranton is attending his 7th Trump rally. "He's standing up to the establishment and stopping the crooked Democrats." - at Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza: image via Chris Brennan @ByChrisBrennan, 2 August 2018

Looks like Q-Anon is also going to have a strong presence at the rally for Lou Barletta tonight in Wilkes-Barre, PA.: image via Travis View @travis_view, 2 August 2018

Looks like Q-Anon is also going to have a strong presence at the rally for Lou Barletta tonight in Wilkes-Barre, PA.: image via Travis View @travis_view, 2 August 2018

Spotted on vehicle headed into @realDonaldTrump rally amid the rain. A term getting attention.: image via Kelly O'Donnell @Kelly, 2 August 2018
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Looks like Q-Anon is also going to have a strong presence at the rally for Lou Barletta tonight in Wilkes-Barre, PA.: image via Travis View @travis_view, 2 August 2018

President Donald Trump speaks during a rally, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018, in Wilkes-Barre, Pa.: photo by Matt Rourke/AP, 2 August 2018
Trump trashes media as ‘fake, fake disgusting news’ at rally: Jonathan Lemire and Jill Colvin, AP, 2 April 2018
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — Thundering that the media is the “fake, fake
disgusting news,” President Donald Trump unleashed a torrent of
grievances Thursday at a Pennsylvania campaign rally in which he cast
journalists as his true political opponent.
Trump barnstormed in a state that he swiped from the Democrats in 2016 and that is home to a Senate seat he is trying to place in the Republicans’ column this fall. But the race between GOP U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta and two-term incumbent Democratic Sen. Bob Casey took a back seat to Trump’s invectives against the media, which came amid a backdrop of antagonism to journalists from the White House and hostility from the thousands packed into a loud, overheated Wilkes-Barre arena.
“What ever happened to the free press? What ever happened to honest reporting?” Trump asked, pointing to the media in the back of the room. “They don’t report it. They only make up stories.”
Time and time again, Trump denounced the press for underselling his accomplishments and doubting his political rise.
He tore into the media for diminishing what he accomplished at his Singapore summit with North Korea leader Kim Jong Un. He complained about the tough questioning he received in Helsinki when he met with Russia’s Vladimir Putin last month. And he began his rally speech with a 10-minute remembrance of his 2016 election night victory, bemoaning that Pennsylvania wasn’t the state to clinch the White House for him only because “the fake news refused to call it.”

“They were suffering that night, they were suffering,” Trump said of
the election-night pundits. He then promised that the Keystone State
would deliver his margin of victory “next time.”
“Only negative stories from the fakers back there,” the president declared.
With each denunciation, the crowd jeered and screamed at the press in the holding pen.
The inflammatory performance came just hours after White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders refused to distance herself from Trump’s previous assertions that the media is the “enemy” of the American people. Pressed during a White House briefing on the issue, Sanders said Trump “has made his position known.”
In a heated exchange with reporters, she recited a litany of complaints against the press and blamed the media for inflaming tensions in the country.
“As far as I know, I’m the first press secretary in the history of the United States that’s required Secret Service protection,” she said, accusing the media of continuing “to ratchet up the verbal assault against the president and everyone in this administration.”
Although Barletta’s bid was an undercard to Trump’s main event, savaging his opponents, the president did bless the congressman’s bid. Trump, who has accelerated his campaign schedule in recent weeks to help the Republicans he favors both in primaries and November’s midterms, was the first Republican to win Pennsylvania since 1988.
“For years and years, they said Republicans should win the state of Pennsylvania,” Trump said. “It always got away. But we won the state of Pennsylvania.”
He and Barletta, who is trailing by double digits in the polls, share hard-line immigration views, and Trump lashed Casey with his own derogatory nickname: “Sleeping Bob.”
But Trump’s focus was on defending his own accomplishments and beliefs. He pushed for tougher borders, overstating the threat posed by violent gangs like MS-13 and making the group a stand-in for all immigrants in the United States illegally.
He defended his kid-glove approach to both Kim and Putin, saying, “it would be a good thing, not a bad thing” to have warmer relations with the hostile powers and dismissing talk that summits with the autocrats elevated them on the world stage.
He bashed the Democratic leadership of Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and, curiously, suggested that his frequent foe Rep. Maxine Waters of California was “a new star” of the party.
He raved about the booming economy and said, without evidence, that his blue-collar supporters in states like Pennsylvania were the biggest beneficiaries.
And he looked ahead to his 2020 re-election campaign, touting his new slogan, “Keep America Great Again” while musing whether he wanted Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, whom he decried as “Pocahontas,” or Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, whom he flatly deemed “crazy,” as his opponent.
The rally came at a perilous time for Trump, who, the day before, had bluntly declared via tweet that his attorney general should terminate the federal probe into the campaign that took him to the White House. It was a newly fervent attack on the special counsel investigation that could imperil his presidency.
Sanders scrambled to explain that Trump’s tweet was “not an order” and that the president was not directing his attorney general to do anything.
“It’s the president’s opinion,” she said.
But it again raised the specter that Trump could try to more directly bring special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia-Trump election-collusion probe to a premature end. And it revived the idea that the president’s tweets themselves might be used as evidence that he is attempting to obstruct justice.
Negotiations have also started again about a possible presidential interview as Mueller’s team has offered the White House format changes, perhaps willing to limit some questions asked of Trump or accept some answers in writing, according to a person briefed on the proposal who wasn’t authorized to discuss private talks and spoke on condition of anonymity.
___
Colvin reported from Washington.
President Donald Trump arrives at a rally, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018, at Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza in Wilkes Barre, Pa.: photo by Carolyn Kaster/AP, 2 August 2018
President Donald Trump speaks during a rally, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018, at Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza in Wilkes Barre, Pa..: photo by Carolyn Kaster/AP, 2 August 2018
President Donald Trump speaks during a rally, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018, at Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza in Wilkes Barre, Pa.. : photo by Carolyn Kaster/AP, 2 August 2018
President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018, in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. (AP Photo/: photo by Matt Rourke/AP, 2 August 2018
In some ways, it’s back to the old fantasy of a Dubai in the West Bank, a Singapore in Gaza, which Shimon Peres used to espouse and which even the lamentable John Kerry suggested. For who now remembers the forgotten Secretary of State’s $4bn economic “plan for Palestine” which he proposed at the World Economic Forum more than five years ago?
The same old Abbas was then, too, being told he “must” restart negotiations with Israel, as Kerry waffled on about a “ground-breaking plan to develop a healthy, sustainable, private sector-led Palestinian economy ... bigger, bolder and more ambitious than anything proposed since Oslo more than 20 years ago.” But then at least Kerry was offering a Palestinian state in return for Abbas’s compliance.
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee speaks during a ceremony marking the construction of a new housing complex in the Israeli settlement of Efrat in the occupied West Bank: Photo Amir Cohen : image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 2 August 2018
While the Palestinian poet #DareenTatour is jailed by the illegal #ZionistTerroristOccupation, the terrorist Zionist rabbi #YitzhakShapira who authorized "Jews" to kill non-Jews, has a school in occupied Palestine sponsored by #kushner family #DeleteIsrael: image via MY NAME IS JAFFA @Max43935579, 31 July 2018
While the Palestinian poet #DareenTatour is jailed by the illegal #ZionistTerroristOccupation, the terrorist Zionist rabbi #YitzhakShapira who authorized "Jews" to kill non-Jews, has a school in occupied Palestine sponsored by #kushner family #DeleteIsrael: image via MY NAME IS JAFFA @Max43935579, 31 July 2018
Interesting protest pic outside #ManafortTrial suggests how much Trump/#RussiaGate, in all its tentacles, framing up as corruption case--here eliciting class response. President Don Pérignon? Photo @alexwongcw @GettyImages: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 1 August 2018
Protests outside the courthouse on the first day of the bank fraud trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul #Manafort Photo @alexwongcw @GettyImages: image via Getty Images News @GettyImagesNews, 31 July 2018
A follower of the QAnon conspiracy theory waits in line to attend President Donald Trump's rally in Wilkes Barre, Photo PA : Rick Loomis: image via Getty Images News @GettyImagesNews, 2 August 2018
#Nicaragua. Catholic faithful smeared in burnt oil, take part in the opening of the ten-day celebration of the Santo Domingo de Guzman festival in Managua, #AFPphoto by @marvinrecinos: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 2 August 2018
#Nicaragua. Catholic faithful smeared in burnt oil, take part in the opening of the ten-day celebration of the Santo Domingo de Guzman festival in Managua, #AFPphoto by @marvinrecinos: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 2 August 2018
A youth holds up a statue of Santo Domingo de Guzman inside Las Sierritas church during Mass in honor of the saint in Managua, Nicaragua, July 31, 2018. The festival has its roots in the 1885 discovery of the 8-centimeter (a little over 3-inch) statue of Santo Domingo de Guzman, also known as St. Dominic de Guzman, the founder of the Dominican religious order.: photo by Arnulfo Franco/AP, 31 July 2018
A soldier takes a cell phone picture of journalists before the start of a military parade, part of Independence Day celebrations in Lima, Peru, July 29, 2018.: photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP, 20 July 2018
A soldier takes a cell phone picture of journalists before the start of a military parade, part of Independence Day celebrations in Lima, Peru, July 29, 2018.: photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP, 20 July 2018
#Honduras Students of the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH) clash with riot police as they protest against the hike in the price of the urban transport and taxi fares in Tegucigalpa. #AFPphoto by Orlando Sierra: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 2 August 2018
Carnaval, La Paz, Bolivia: photo by Marcelo Montecino, 30 January 2005
La Paz, Bolivia: photo by Marcelo Montecino, 30 January 2005
Death to Traitors, Lima, Peru, 1992 | Senderos Luminosos graffiti: photo by Marcelo Montecino, 14 March 2005
Alleged Terrorist, Lima, Peru, 91 | Sybila Arredondo, writer and widow of one of Peru's greatest writers accused of helping terrorists, 1991: photo by Marcelo Montecino, 14 March 2005
Indifference, Ayahuasca, Peru, 1991: photo by Marcelo Montecino, 21 March 2015
Israel Ultra-Orthodox Jews, demonstrate against the annual Gay Parade, in Jerusalem. #gay Photo Menahem Kahana @KahanaMenahem.: image via Aurelia BAILLY, 1 August 2018
Decir adiós. Gaza. Imagen @AFPphoto: image via Beatriz Lecumberri @blecumberri, 27 July 2018
Resting in a crate hanging from a tree, 3-year-old Syrian refugee Enas Jalal, in a camp north of Athens in Greece.: image via Muhammad Muheisen @Muheisen81, 19 July 2018
Last one for u Mr Marai. Gates of memories will never close... How much everybody miss u no one knows... Days will pass away into years... And we'll think about those memories With silent tears. Rest in peace my friend. God blessed family. @AFPphoto: image via Tauseef MUSTAFA @TauseefMUSTAFA, 1 May 2018
#Chile A seagull struggles to take flight covered by a plastic bag in Valparaiso @AFPphoto by @claudiocraftphoto: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 1 August 2018
#goodnight A long exposure photograph shows a lightning strikes during an electrical storm over the mountains near Port-au-Prince, #Haiti Photo @hectorretamal: image via Aurelia BAILLY, 2 August 2018
Trump barnstormed in a state that he swiped from the Democrats in 2016 and that is home to a Senate seat he is trying to place in the Republicans’ column this fall. But the race between GOP U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta and two-term incumbent Democratic Sen. Bob Casey took a back seat to Trump’s invectives against the media, which came amid a backdrop of antagonism to journalists from the White House and hostility from the thousands packed into a loud, overheated Wilkes-Barre arena.
“What ever happened to the free press? What ever happened to honest reporting?” Trump asked, pointing to the media in the back of the room. “They don’t report it. They only make up stories.”
Time and time again, Trump denounced the press for underselling his accomplishments and doubting his political rise.
He tore into the media for diminishing what he accomplished at his Singapore summit with North Korea leader Kim Jong Un. He complained about the tough questioning he received in Helsinki when he met with Russia’s Vladimir Putin last month. And he began his rally speech with a 10-minute remembrance of his 2016 election night victory, bemoaning that Pennsylvania wasn’t the state to clinch the White House for him only because “the fake news refused to call it.”

“Only negative stories from the fakers back there,” the president declared.
With each denunciation, the crowd jeered and screamed at the press in the holding pen.
The inflammatory performance came just hours after White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders refused to distance herself from Trump’s previous assertions that the media is the “enemy” of the American people. Pressed during a White House briefing on the issue, Sanders said Trump “has made his position known.”
In a heated exchange with reporters, she recited a litany of complaints against the press and blamed the media for inflaming tensions in the country.
“As far as I know, I’m the first press secretary in the history of the United States that’s required Secret Service protection,” she said, accusing the media of continuing “to ratchet up the verbal assault against the president and everyone in this administration.”
Although Barletta’s bid was an undercard to Trump’s main event, savaging his opponents, the president did bless the congressman’s bid. Trump, who has accelerated his campaign schedule in recent weeks to help the Republicans he favors both in primaries and November’s midterms, was the first Republican to win Pennsylvania since 1988.
“For years and years, they said Republicans should win the state of Pennsylvania,” Trump said. “It always got away. But we won the state of Pennsylvania.”
He and Barletta, who is trailing by double digits in the polls, share hard-line immigration views, and Trump lashed Casey with his own derogatory nickname: “Sleeping Bob.”
But Trump’s focus was on defending his own accomplishments and beliefs. He pushed for tougher borders, overstating the threat posed by violent gangs like MS-13 and making the group a stand-in for all immigrants in the United States illegally.
He defended his kid-glove approach to both Kim and Putin, saying, “it would be a good thing, not a bad thing” to have warmer relations with the hostile powers and dismissing talk that summits with the autocrats elevated them on the world stage.
He bashed the Democratic leadership of Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and, curiously, suggested that his frequent foe Rep. Maxine Waters of California was “a new star” of the party.
He raved about the booming economy and said, without evidence, that his blue-collar supporters in states like Pennsylvania were the biggest beneficiaries.
And he looked ahead to his 2020 re-election campaign, touting his new slogan, “Keep America Great Again” while musing whether he wanted Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, whom he decried as “Pocahontas,” or Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, whom he flatly deemed “crazy,” as his opponent.
The rally came at a perilous time for Trump, who, the day before, had bluntly declared via tweet that his attorney general should terminate the federal probe into the campaign that took him to the White House. It was a newly fervent attack on the special counsel investigation that could imperil his presidency.
Sanders scrambled to explain that Trump’s tweet was “not an order” and that the president was not directing his attorney general to do anything.
“It’s the president’s opinion,” she said.
But it again raised the specter that Trump could try to more directly bring special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia-Trump election-collusion probe to a premature end. And it revived the idea that the president’s tweets themselves might be used as evidence that he is attempting to obstruct justice.
Negotiations have also started again about a possible presidential interview as Mueller’s team has offered the White House format changes, perhaps willing to limit some questions asked of Trump or accept some answers in writing, according to a person briefed on the proposal who wasn’t authorized to discuss private talks and spoke on condition of anonymity.
___
Colvin reported from Washington.

President Donald Trump arrives at Wilkes-Barre/Scranton
International Airport in Avoca, Pa., on Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018.: photo by Jake
Danna Stevens/The Times-Tribune via AP, 2 August 2018

President Donald Trump arrives at a rally, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018, at Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza in Wilkes Barre, Pa.: photo by Carolyn Kaster/AP, 2 August 2018

President Donald Trump is cheered as he arrives for a
rally, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018, at Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza in
Wilkes Barre, Pa..: photo by Carolyn Kaster/AP, 2 August 2018

President Donald Trump speaks at a rally, Thursday, Aug.
2, 2018, at Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza in Wilkes Barre, Pa. : photo by Carolyn Kaster/AP, 2 August 2018
President Donald Trump listens to Senate candidate Rep. Lou Barletta, R-Pa., speaks during a rally, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018, at Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza in Wilkes Barre, Pa.: photo by Carolyn Kaster/AP, 2 August 2018

President Donald Trump listens to Senate candidate Rep. Lou Barletta, R-Pa., speaks during a rally, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018, at Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza in Wilkes Barre, Pa.: photo by Carolyn Kaster/AP, 2 August 2018

President Donald Trump speaks during a rally, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018, at Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza in Wilkes Barre, Pa..: photo by Carolyn Kaster/AP, 2 August 2018

President Donald Trump speaks during a rally, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018, at Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza in Wilkes Barre, Pa.. : photo by Carolyn Kaster/AP, 2 August 2018

President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018, in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. (AP Photo/: photo by Matt Rourke/AP, 2 August 2018
A Kushner-Drumpf bargain the Palestinians won't be permitted to refuse: your
land, your soul in forcible exchange for a two bit timeshare in Shitola

Jared Kushner promised 'better prospects' for the Palestinian people under Trump's presidency: photo via The Independent, 2 August 2018
Look closely and you'll see Jared Kushner's cynical ‘deal of the century’ for Palestinians in action: Their hearts may be empty but their stomachs shall be filled. Their hopes may be dead but their bank accounts will be in the black: Robert Fisk, the Independent, 2 August 2018
Hindsight is unfair – but it might tell the truth. First,
Donald Trump proclaims Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, thus
depriving the Palestinians of their capital in the east of the city. The
Palestinians are appalled. Mahmoud Abbas says he will no longer talk to
the United States. So Trump rages that “we pay the Palestinians
hundreds of millions of dollars a year and get no appreciation or
respect.” It was only a tweet, but he means it.
Those ungrateful
Palestinian wretches! And he cuts $300m from America’s aid to the
refugees, giving the oppressed and besieged and dispossessed
Palestinians a mere $60m.
Already the United Nations Relief and Works Agency –
recipients of international aid for 5.3 million Palestinian refugees –
is having to get rid of its employees, 113 of them in Gaza alone last
week. Unrwa has been caring for the Palestinians since 1949, and already
has a current deficit of $49m. Its 30,000 Palestinian doctors, nurses,
teachers and other staff face unemployment. Starvation thus threatens
even more of the tired, poor and huddled masses of Gaza. One 53-year-old
father of six has just been told he’s got no job after 32 years working
for Unwra.
But wait. Help is at hand. For did not Jared Kushner,
son-in-law of the aforesaid Trump and giver of a future peace “deal of
the century” to Palestinians and Israelis alike, promise a better life
for the losing side?
Why, he did indeed. Just a month ago. Let me quote: “I
believe that Palestinian people are less invested in the politicians’
talking points that they are in seeing how a deal will give them and
their future generations new opportunities, more and better paying jobs
and prospects for a better life.” I’ve remarked before that this is cash
for peace instead of land for peace – dollars instead of a Palestinian
capital in Jerusalem, an end to Jewish colonisation, a “right of
return”, and so on. A truly Trumpian solution.
But
the playback of chronological events makes the “deal” even more
cynical. First Trump gives Jerusalem to the Israelis. Then, when the
Palestinians dare to complain, he cuts their humanitarian aid and drives
them to despair. Then, courtesy of young Jared, Trump offers to shower
them with money in the “ultimate deal” if they will just stop making
these exorbitant, irrational, antisemitic, Nazi-like and racist demands
for statehood, dignity and an end to colonisation.
Their hearts may thus be empty but their stomachs shall be
filled. Their hopes may be dead but their bank accounts will be in the
black. Instead of all the gloom and violence fostered by their corrupt
political leaders who can neither pay nor feed their people, the
Palestinians can walk tall with “new opportunities… better-paying jobs
and prospects for a better life”. Yes, do watch the “prospects” bit.
And with that much lolly floating around, there won’t be any
need for Unwra, will there? Because there will be no more
poverty-stricken refugees. For the refugees will be well-off, if not
rich, with all those better-paying jobs and “prospects”. Goodbye the
middens of Gaza. Goodbye all threats to Israel. And since the same
financial salvation will be available to the Palestinians of the West
Bank, why should its inhabitants care any more about the campaign of
Israeli land theft which engulfs them? Just remember the dog-day
destitution of the summer of 2018 when even Unwra could no longer
relieve their oppression.
The equation is impossible to conceal. When the Palestinians
objected to the destruction of their political aspirations – refused to
“talk peace” in the obscene semantics of the Americans and Israelis –
they would be quite deliberately impoverished. “With the Palestinians no
longer willing to talk peace,” Trump said, “why should we make any of
these massive future payments to them?”
More than half of Gaza’s 2 million population, with a 44 per
cent unemployment rate, are dependent on Unwra. The Palestinian cause,
in other words – and one Unwra staffer put it like this – must be
replaced with a humanitarian cause. Peace will therefore be economic,
rather than political.
The Saudis and Emiratis and Egyptians are being
hustled to share in this new Levantine bonanza. Electricity stations
paid for by Abu Dhabi, Egyptian duty free shops in Raffah, Saudi shares
in Palestinian firms; dreams, perhaps, but suitable for the masses.
In some ways, it’s back to the old fantasy of a Dubai in the West Bank, a Singapore in Gaza, which Shimon Peres used to espouse and which even the lamentable John Kerry suggested. For who now remembers the forgotten Secretary of State’s $4bn economic “plan for Palestine” which he proposed at the World Economic Forum more than five years ago?
The same old Abbas was then, too, being told he “must” restart negotiations with Israel, as Kerry waffled on about a “ground-breaking plan to develop a healthy, sustainable, private sector-led Palestinian economy ... bigger, bolder and more ambitious than anything proposed since Oslo more than 20 years ago.” But then at least Kerry was offering a Palestinian state in return for Abbas’s compliance.

Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee speaks during a ceremony marking the construction of a new housing complex in the Israeli settlement of Efrat in the occupied West Bank: Photo Amir Cohen : image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 2 August 2018
Nothing, however, is “groundbreaking” about the Trump “deal
of the century” today, except the continued breaking of ground for new
Jewish “settlements”, as we still must call them, on the hilltops of the
West Bank. But I suppose if they’re less hungry, better fed, look
forward to better jobs and “prospects” for the future and don’t have the
nightmare Unwra to watch over them, the Palestinians will be able to
reflect how much worse off they’d be if they had their own state,
borders, security, East Jerusalem and no more Israeli colonies on
occupied Palestinian land.

Jared Kushner
at the Brookings Saban forum in December. Kushner maintains strong financial ties to Israeli companies, despite
his role as the White House point man on Middle East peace, the New York
Times reports. Israeli
insurance company Menora Mivtachim has invested $30 million in the
Kushner family's real estate business. The Kushners' company has also
struck deals with "one of the country’s wealthiest families and a large
Israeli bank that is the subject of a United States criminal
investigation," the Times reports. Kushner's
business dealings may raise questions about the ability of the U.S. to be
an impartial mediator between Israel and the Palestinians — a debate
already fueled by President Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as
Israel's capital: photo by Alex Wroblewski / Bloomberg via Getty Images, 7 January 2018

Jared Kushner
at the Brookings Saban forum in December. Kushner maintains strong financial ties to Israeli companies, despite
his role as the White House point man on Middle East peace, the New York
Times reports. Israeli
insurance company Menora Mivtachim has invested $30 million in the
Kushner family's real estate business. The Kushners' company has also
struck deals with "one of the country’s wealthiest families and a large
Israeli bank that is the subject of a United States criminal
investigation," the Times reports. Kushner's
business dealings may raise questions about the ability of the U.S. to be
an impartial mediator between Israel and the Palestinians — a debate
already fueled by President Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as
Israel's capital: photo by Alex Wroblewski / Bloomberg via Getty Images, 7 January 2018

While the Palestinian poet #DareenTatour is jailed by the illegal #ZionistTerroristOccupation, the terrorist Zionist rabbi #YitzhakShapira who authorized "Jews" to kill non-Jews, has a school in occupied Palestine sponsored by #kushner family #DeleteIsrael: image via MY NAME IS JAFFA @Max43935579, 31 July 2018

While the Palestinian poet #DareenTatour is jailed by the illegal #ZionistTerroristOccupation, the terrorist Zionist rabbi #YitzhakShapira who authorized "Jews" to kill non-Jews, has a school in occupied Palestine sponsored by #kushner family #DeleteIsrael: image via MY NAME IS JAFFA @Max43935579, 31 July 2018
Interesting protest pic outside #ManafortTrial suggests how much Trump/#RussiaGate, in all its tentacles, framing up as corruption case--here eliciting class response. President Don Pérignon? Photo @alexwongcw @GettyImages: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 1 August 2018

Protests outside the courthouse on the first day of the bank fraud trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul #Manafort Photo @alexwongcw @GettyImages: image via Getty Images News @GettyImagesNews, 31 July 2018
Questions from QAnon
So... The 64 Million Shekel Question(s):
Is Jared Q?
Is Q about to Pull off the Able Baker Both-Thumbs #Walkaway?
And if not, why not?
And if not now, when?
And who is going to Empsplain it to Th'Emp?
And this New Up-Ratcheted Extreme Weirdness of Hatespectacle zo Nurembergian und Up-Ratcheted, vas is los?
Wilkes Barre? Tampa? Jim Acosta?
Burning Milestones in the Final Days Before The Storm?
Of which, more Anon.

A follower of the QAnon conspiracy theory waits in line to attend President Donald Trump's rally in Wilkes Barre, Photo PA : Rick Loomis: image via Getty Images News @GettyImagesNews, 2 August 2018

#Nicaragua.
Catholic faithful smeared in burnt oil, take part in the opening of the
ten-day celebration of the Santo Domingo de Guzman festival in Managua,
#AFPphoto by @marvinrecinos: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 2 August 2018

#Nicaragua.
Catholic faithful smeared in burnt oil, take part in the opening of the
ten-day celebration of the Santo Domingo de Guzman festival in Managua,
#AFPphoto by @marvinrecinos: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 2 August 2018

#Nicaragua. Catholic faithful smeared in burnt oil, take part in the opening of the ten-day celebration of the Santo Domingo de Guzman festival in Managua, #AFPphoto by @marvinrecinos: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 2 August 2018

#Nicaragua. Catholic faithful smeared in burnt oil, take part in the opening of the ten-day celebration of the Santo Domingo de Guzman festival in Managua, #AFPphoto by @marvinrecinos: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 2 August 2018

Pro-government
Sandinista militia members stand guard at a torn down barricade, which
had been set up by anti-government protesters, after police and militias
stormed the Monimbo neighborhood of Masaya, Nicaragua, July 17, 2018.
Heavily armed police and militias laid siege to and then retook a
symbolically important neighborhood that had recently become a center of
resistance to President Daniel Ortega's government.: photo by Cristobal
Venegas/AP, 17 July 2018


A youth holds up a statue of Santo Domingo de Guzman inside Las Sierritas church during Mass in honor of the saint in Managua, Nicaragua, July 31, 2018. The festival has its roots in the 1885 discovery of the 8-centimeter (a little over 3-inch) statue of Santo Domingo de Guzman, also known as St. Dominic de Guzman, the founder of the Dominican religious order.: photo by Arnulfo Franco/AP, 31 July 2018







A soldier takes a cell phone picture of journalists before the start of a military parade, part of Independence Day celebrations in Lima, Peru, July 29, 2018.: photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP, 20 July 2018

A soldier takes a cell phone picture of journalists before the start of a military parade, part of Independence Day celebrations in Lima, Peru, July 29, 2018.: photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP, 20 July 2018

#Honduras Students of the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH) clash with riot police as they protest against the hike in the price of the urban transport and taxi fares in Tegucigalpa. #AFPphoto by Orlando Sierra: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 2 August 2018

Carnaval, La Paz, Bolivia, 1987, +4: photo by Marcelo Montecino, 16 July 2015
The oligarch dressed up, Oruro, Bolivia: photo by Marcelo Montecino, 14 March 2005
Highlands, Bolivia, 1964: photo by Marcelo Montecino, 18 October 2017
El Alto, Bolivia: photo by Marcelo Montecino, 30 January 2005

The oligarch dressed up, Oruro, Bolivia: photo by Marcelo Montecino, 14 March 2005

Highlands, Bolivia, 1964: photo by Marcelo Montecino, 18 October 2017

El Alto, Bolivia: photo by Marcelo Montecino, 30 January 2005

Carnaval, La Paz, Bolivia: photo by Marcelo Montecino, 30 January 2005

La Paz, Bolivia: photo by Marcelo Montecino, 30 January 2005

Death to Traitors, Lima, Peru, 1992 | Senderos Luminosos graffiti: photo by Marcelo Montecino, 14 March 2005

Alleged Terrorist, Lima, Peru, 91 | Sybila Arredondo, writer and widow of one of Peru's greatest writers accused of helping terrorists, 1991: photo by Marcelo Montecino, 14 March 2005

Indifference, Ayahuasca, Peru, 1991: photo by Marcelo Montecino, 21 March 2015

Israel Ultra-Orthodox Jews, demonstrate against the annual Gay Parade, in Jerusalem. #gay Photo Menahem Kahana @KahanaMenahem.: image via Aurelia BAILLY, 1 August 2018

Decir adiós. Gaza. Imagen @AFPphoto: image via Beatriz Lecumberri @blecumberri, 27 July 2018

Resting in a crate hanging from a tree, 3-year-old Syrian refugee Enas Jalal, in a camp north of Athens in Greece.: image via Muhammad Muheisen @Muheisen81, 19 July 2018

Last one for u Mr Marai. Gates of memories will never close... How much everybody miss u no one knows... Days will pass away into years... And we'll think about those memories With silent tears. Rest in peace my friend. God blessed family. @AFPphoto: image via Tauseef MUSTAFA @TauseefMUSTAFA, 1 May 2018

#Chile A seagull struggles to take flight covered by a plastic bag in Valparaiso @AFPphoto by @claudiocraftphoto: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 1 August 2018

#goodnight A long exposure photograph shows a lightning strikes during an electrical storm over the mountains near Port-au-Prince, #Haiti Photo @hectorretamal: image via Aurelia BAILLY, 2 August 2018

9 comments:
The Scarlet Pimpernel: Leslie Howard, 1934
QAnon is a bit like The Scarlet Pimpernel. Or Kilroy. Or the Chinese Envoy. Was here. But left.
A whole conspiracy involving Cardinal Richelieu and QAnon... about which more Anon.
Better days. The Deep State so much more shallow now. A guppy could be embedded and never know it and never wake up.
John Cale: Chinese Envoy (live, 1983)
Chinese Envoy
She was a princess, much lower than people thought
A master of nothing a mistress of something she thought
She could talk about things that never mattered ever
From one person's miserable life after another
She could talk to the French and Germans at will
They'd never listen
Calling out her name you'd be surprised at what came
Galloping out of the darkness like furniture
We'd have lost it all if it hadn't been for Cardinal Richelieu
And all his courtiers
The chinese envoy was here but left
The chinese envoy was here but left in his broken hearted pagoda
The chinese envoy and QAnon went out in a boat on the pond in the courtyard of the pagoda
The chinese envoy fell in Who was left
PinchMe was in that boat too BTW.
QANon has made so many fab cameo appearances over the years, it's a wonder our world hasn't yet been blown to smithereens.
Jonathan Richman Road Runner 1871repurposed 1971-1977 Top of the Pops: Note QAnon appears w the Drag Cardinal "Hotpants" Richelieu in ensemble cast - in cunning disguise naturellement
This QAnon business, I don't know. Is it comedy hour forever and ever? What is a boy to do?
John Cale has the proper Welsh incision. Every Celt sharpens their smarts in exile.
Jonathan Richman on Top of the Pops is a lovely thing.
Traci Chapman: If Not Now, live, Amnesty International Concert, Oakland Coliseum Arena, 4 December 1988
Thank you WB, hadn't see that till after If Not Now, in the new scrimping google austerity phase of The Great Blogztermination Programme.
The TOTP "interpretation" of Road Runner is a joy, gave me brief hope for the species... as it was 40 years ago.
Now this QAnon business: having spent far too many hours (any is far too many) "researching" the matter, I have concluded the obvious: it is an exercise in self amusement conducted by the growing mass of braindead murican lunkheads who are still celebrating a 2 bit tax refund and will never cease to rejoice in the "toughness" (gauche bumbling) displayed on Th'Emp's world-stage appearances; the bullying appeals to bullies, and deep inside (if there is an inside), every murican is BORN TO BULLY, and will never get over it; in that respect, to Muricans, the "world stage" is simply a large playground for bullying upon.
JR's Road Runner was one of the great radio songs of the Mesozoic and one of the great geographical state highway songs of all time. (The 128...)
He recorded it several times. I believe these are now meant to be called iterations.
Jonathan Richman: Road Runner: All 3 Versions on Vinyl
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