April 9th, 2012

Bobby McFerrin with the JMU Big Band

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  1. DanielRax says:

    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned Russian attacks on the Ukrainian regions of Kharkiv Zaporizhzhia and Sumy on Monday saying that the Kremlin intends to “humiliate diplomatic efforts” just hours before European leaders visit the White House. kra29 “The Russian war machine continues to destroy lives despite everything” Zelensky said in a statement hours before he’s due to meet US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office. “That is precisely why we are seeking assistance to put an end to the killings. That is why reliable security guarantees are required. That is why Russia should not be rewarded for its participation in this war.” kra24 at “Everyone seeks dignified peace and true security” the Ukrainian president said. “And at this very moment the Russians are attacking Kharkiv Zaporizhzhia the Sumy region and Odesa destroying residential buildings and our civilian infrastructure.” At least seven people were killed in Russia’s attack? on Kharkiv and a further three killed in the ballistic missile strike on the city of Zaporizhzhia with scores more injured according to Ukrainian authorities. “This was a demonstrative and cynical Russian strike” Zelensky added. kra24 cc https://kra-27.cc

  2. FrankJox says:

    It’s no secret how President Donald Trump feels about sports teams turning away from Native American mascots. He’s repeatedly called for the return of the Washington Redskins and Cleveland Indians claiming their recent rebrands were part of a “woke” agenda designed to erase history. But one surprising team has really gotten the president’s attention: the Massapequa Chiefs. The Long Island school district has refused to change its logo and name under a mandate from New York state banning schools from using team mascots appropriating Indigenous culture. Schools were given two years to rebrand but Massapequa is the lone holdout having missed the June 30 deadline to debut a new logo. kra40 cc The district lost an initial lawsuit it filed against the state but now has the federal government on its side. In May Trump’s Department of Education intervened on the district’s behalf claiming the state’s mascot ban is itself discriminatory. Massapequa’s Chiefs logo — an American Indian wearing a yellow feathered headdress — is expected to still be prominently displayed when the fall sports season kicks off soon putting the quiet Long Island hamlet at the center of a political firestorm. kra40 at The district is now a key “battleground” said Oliver Roberts a Massapequa alum and the lawyer representing the school board in its fresh lawsuit against New York claiming that the ban is unconstitutional and discriminatory. The Trump administration claims New York’s mascot ban violates Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which prohibits recipients of federal funds from engaging in discriminatory behavior based on race color or national origin — teeing up a potentially precedent-setting fight. The intervention on behalf of Massapequa follows a pattern for a White House that has aggressively applied civil rights protections to police “reverse discrimination” and coerced schools and universities into policy concessions by withholding federal funds. “Our goal is to assist nationally” Roberts said. “It’s us putting forward our time and effort to try and assist with this national movement and push back against the woke bureaucrats trying to cancel our country’s history and tradition.” kra40 сс https://kra39—cc.ru

  3. KerryAnelp says:

    Target is in trouble. And while it’s easy to get lost in the company’s recent poor handling of American culture war narratives that cast it as too “woke” or too willing to cave to online fascists the root of Target’s problems runs deep. tripscan Don’t get me wrong – the massive consumer boycotts from Black organizers have done damage. And there are probably folks on the far right who think even Target’s toned-down overwhelmingly beige Pride merch this year was still too loud. https://tripscan39.org трипскан But its stock is in the gutter and sales have been falling for two years because of good ol’ business fundamentals. It overstocked. It lost the pulse of its customers. It went up against Amazon Prime with… actually does anyone know what Target’s Amazon Prime competitor is called? The brand we petite bourgeoisie once playfully referred to as Tar-zhay has lost its spark. The company reported a decline in sales for a third-straight quarter part of a broader trend of falling or flat sales for two years. Employees have lost confidence in the company’s direction. And 2025 has been a particularly rough financially as Black shoppers organized a boycott over Target’s decision to cave to right-wing pressure on diverse hiring goals. Shares were down 10 Wednesday. It’s not to say the new guy Michael Fiddelke is unqualified. He’s been at Target since he started as an intern more than 20 years ago after all. But Wall Street is clearly concerned that Target’s leadership is underestimating the severity of the need for a significant change— just as President Donald Trump’s tariffs on imported goods threaten the entire retail industry. Appointing a company lifer “does not necessarily remedy the problems of entrenched groupthink and the inward-looking mindset that have plagued Target for years” Neil Saunders an analyst at GlobalData Retail said in a note to clients Wednesday. Missing the mark In its 2010s heyday Target became a go-to for consumers who liked a bargain but didn’t necessarily like bargain-hunting. The shelves felt well-curated. You’d go to Target because it had one thing you needed and 12 things you didn’t know you needed. It was stocked with Millennial cringe long before Gen Z gave us the term Millennial cringe. Target’s sales held strong through the pandemic as remote workers set up home offices and stocked up on essentials. Months of lockdown also benefited the store as people began refreshing their spaces because they didn’t really have much else to do and they were staring at the same walls all the time.

  4. JamesHof says:

    Since India’s independence from Britain in 1947 the status of English in India has been deeply political – entwined with questions of identity power and national direction. Today English is one of several official languages in India spoken by about 10 of the population. Hindi is the first language for around 44 of citizens according to the 2011 census. tripscan top But in recent years Modi’s BJP has placed particular emphasis on promoting Hindi and reducing the use of English in public life. The prime minister almost never delivers speeches in English preferring Hindi for national addresses such as his monthly radio program. His administration has encouraged officials to use Hindi on social media and in government correspondence – though after criticism from non-Hindi-speaking states clarified that this was intended mainly for the Hindi belt in the north. https://trip-scan.biz трипскан сайт When India hosted world leaders for the 2023 G20 summit in New Delhi invitations were sent out from “Bharat” – the Sanskrit or Hindi name for the country – instead of “India” fueling speculation that the government aims to ultimately phase out the country’s English designation altogether. Modi’s critics have been quick to note his political motives behind these moves. With its roots in the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh RSS a right-wing organization that advocates Hindu hegemony within India the BJP’s language policies resonate with many in a country where nearly 80 of people are Hindu. Analysts say the BJP is seeking to capitalize on this demographic by promoting language policies that strengthen its support base in the north. According to Rita Kothari an English professor from Ashoka University the government “is certainly interested in homogenizing the country and making Hindi more widespread.” But that policy can also backfire – in part because many regions such as Marathi-speaking Maharashtra in the west – are staunchly proud of their local language. The violent clashes in the state’s megacity Mumbai earlier this month were sparked by the regional government’s controversial decision to make Hindi a compulsory third language in public primary schools. Pushback and protest has also been especially strong in the south where English and regional languages such as Tamil Telugu and Kannada are valued as symbols of local identity and autonomy.

  5. Gordonres says:

    Dr. Jake Scott is on the front line of his second pandemic in five years and he is not getting much sleep. Scott works full-time as an infectious disease physician at Stanford Health Care’s Tri-Valley hospital in Pleasanton California. When he is done taking care of his patients and his two grade-school aged kids he often stays up past midnight writing — furiously penning op-eds collecting studies leading evidence reviews and posting meaty threads on social media most of them correcting the record on vaccines. tripskan Often he’s reacting to the latest maneuvers by US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.. A pinned post responding to one of Kennedy’s appearances on Fox News has been viewed almost 5 million times. Another post fact-checking Kennedy’s claims about potential harms from aluminum in vaccines had 1 million views in its first 48 hours. Scott’s followers on X have doubled since April. https://trip-skan.cc tripscan войти “A million views for this long-winded very detailed kind of nerdy breakdown of the science” Scott said marveling at the attention it got. “I think that’s saying something you know? People want that information and they deserve it” said Scott who is 48. The Covid-19 pandemic turned many infectious disease specialists and virologists into household names. Scott’s was not one of them perhaps because he was too busy treating patients. He didn’t stay out of the public discourse completely however. He was one of the first doctors to tell people that Omicron didn’t seem to be as severe an infection as earlier strains of the virus although some virologists were skeptical at the time. In President Donald Trump’s second administration however Scott is taking on what he sees as a second pandemic — misinformation and disinformation about vaccines. He knows false information can be as harmful as any virus. “When officials spread inaccurate information about vaccines it does have real consequences and families make decisions based on fear rather than on facts” Scott said. It’s already happening. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported data showing kindergarten vaccination rates continue to decline as states make it easier to opt out of school vaccination requirements. Vaccine preventable diseases like measles and whooping cough are rising again too. Scott knows it could get much worse. “In 2021 nearly every single patient I lost to Covid was unvaccinated by choice and every colleague of mine has said the same thing.”

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  7. JamesGag says:

    He has had more cordial more productive meetings with US President Donald Trump since that now-notorious encounter on February 28. kraken7jmgt7yhhe2c4iyilthnhcugfylcztsdhh7otrr6jgdw667pqd But for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky today’s meeting at the White House will surely trigger awkward memories of that very public clash with the US President almost six months ago. Navigating the treacherous waters in which he finds himself today will be no easier. kraken6gf6o4rxewycqwjgfchzgxyfeoj5xafqbfm4vgvyaig2vmxvyd onion Increasingly it appears likely he will be told to give up land in exchange for some sort of security guarantees. The land side of that “deal” will be obvious. It can be drawn on a map. Crimea: gone says Trump. Donetsk: give all of it up says Putin apparently with Trump’s blessing. But the security guarantees? That’s where far more challenging ideas like credibility come into play. Could Zelensky rely on the US to deliver on some NATO Article 5-type promise to defend Ukraine if Russia breaches any peace agreement? Putin himself might even see an opportunity to further weaken the West by testing any such guarantees confident they are a bluff he could call. But all that would be for the future. For now it looks like Zelensky will have to weigh up whether he could bring his country with him if he were to cede territory to Russia – some of it still in Ukrainian hands – or whether he and his people could bear the costs of potentially defying Trump a Nobel Peace Prize and say no. If he chose the latter would the US President immediately end all remaining American support for Ukraine in terms of military aid and intelligence sharing for instance? If that happened to what extent could Zelensky’s European allies really step in and fill in the gaps left by any full US retreat? It is an almost impossibly hard choice before him. kraken2trfqodidvlh4aa337cpzfrhdlfldhve5nf7njhumwr7instad.onion https://kraken6gf6o4rxewycqwjgfchzgxyfeoj5xafqbfm4vgvyaig2vmxvyd0.com

  8. Jorgedrush says:

    What were covering • Zelensky in Washington: European leaders will join Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House as he meets with US President Donald Trump this afternoon. Trump said Zelensky must agree to some of Russia’s conditions — including that Ukraine cede Crimea and agree never to join NATO — for the war to end. kra32 СЃСЃ • Potential security guarantees: At last week’s summit with Trump Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to allow security guarantees for Ukraine and made concessions on “land swaps” as part of a potential peace deal US envoy Steve Witkoff told CNN. Zelensky suggested that such guarantees would need to be stronger than those that “didn’t work” in the past. Russia has yet to mention such agreements. kra37 at • On the ground: Zelensky condemned Russia’s latest strikes across Ukraine which killed at least 10 people saying the Kremlin intends to “humiliate diplomatic efforts” and underscores “why reliable security guarantees are required.” kra35 at https://kra36-cc.com

  9. Francislibre says:

    What were covering • Zelensky in Washington: European leaders will join Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House as he meets with US President Donald Trump this afternoon. Trump said Zelensky must agree to some of Russia’s conditions — including that Ukraine cede Crimea and agree never to join NATO — for the war to end. kra30 СЃСЃ • Potential security guarantees: At last week’s summit with Trump Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to allow security guarantees for Ukraine and made concessions on “land swaps” as part of a potential peace deal US envoy Steve Witkoff told CNN. Zelensky suggested that such guarantees would need to be stronger than those that “didn’t work” in the past. Russia has yet to mention such agreements. kra39 cc • On the ground: Zelensky condemned Russia’s latest strikes across Ukraine which killed at least 10 people saying the Kremlin intends to “humiliate diplomatic efforts” and underscores “why reliable security guarantees are required.” kra30 at https://kra33at.com

  10. Scottadunc says:

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