Somali referee Omar Artan, who was set to be the first from his country to officiate at the World Cup finals, has been denied entry to the United States.
Natasha Devon, "I hear this accusation all the time, that anti racism groups don't do enough to include Jewish people"
"I just want to try and pour some clarity on that if I can"
"When the appalling stabbing happened, Keir Starmer called a COBR meeting. He brought together some leading thinkers to ask what more could be done to tackle antisemitism. The Met police called for more funding to protect Jewish communities. The media gave it pretty much its undiverted attention for days"
"That is the correct response"
"That response did not happen when a Muslim woman was targeted by a hit and run"
"When a Sikh woman was sexually assaulted by a racist who thought she was Muslim"
"Or when 50 mosques were targeted between Juen and October 2025"
"We don't see the same response"
"Antiracism campaigners are looking at where they are needed"
"When these appalling attacks happen to the Jewish communities we have the correct response"
"When it happens to other communities: women, LGBT, black people, Muslims, not the same urgency is applied"
For people want more context, here is what the deal entails :
Imagine the US used to give money to help African countries fight diseases like HIV, malaria, and TB through big aid organisations like USAID/PEPFAR.
Now, under a new Trump policy called "America First," they're changing how that money is given. Instead of sending cash through proxy NGOs , the US signs a 5-year contract directly with the country's government.
The deal says: The US will still give a lot of money (hundreds of millions or billions in bigger countries).
But the African country must also put in more of its own money every year to pay for medicines, hospital workers, etc.
Over time, the country takes full control and pays most of the bills itself.
The tricky parts that some countries dislike:
-The country has to share a lot of its people's health records and disease data with the US (sometimes for many years).
-The US gets to set targets and check if the country is doing a good job.
-In return, the country gets help building better health systems.
Why some say no (like Ghana and Zimbabwe):
They worry about giving away private health information without enough control, and they feel the deal is one-sided, they give data and money, but may not get equal benefits like cheap new medicines later.
It's basically a "you help pay more, we give less over time, but we get your health data" swap to make countries more independent while protecting America from future outbreaks.
32 countries including Nigeria signed happily, others rejected it.
@ggreenwald You must be a new fool. It was never closed. Till Dumbass P and his Puppet masters got it closed. And want credit for it reopening.
Fuck outta here!
JUST IN: You do not fire your Army Chief of Staff in the middle of a war for no reason. You fire him because of what comes next.
Pete Hegseth called General Randy George on April 2 and told him to retire immediately. The Pentagon confirmed it within hours. No reason was given. Not publicly. Not privately. A senior Army official told Fox News that Hegseth offered George nothing: no misconduct, no operational failure, no policy disagreement on the record. Just a phone call and a career ending in the middle of the most significant American combat operation in two decades.
George is the 24th general or admiral Hegseth has removed. But he is not the 24th. He is the one that matters. The Army Chief of Staff. The man whose signature sits between a presidentโs intent and the order that sends soldiers across a beach or into a tunnel complex. The 82nd Airborne is deploying right now. Marines from the 31st MEU are staged on the USS Tripoli. JSOC operators are at forward bases in Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. Kharg Island, 90 percent of Iranian oil exports, sits 16 kilometres off a coast that someone will have to decide whether to approach. And the four-star general whose job it was to advise whether that approach should happen was removed 48 hours after Trump told the nation the war would continue for two to three more weeks.
The replacement is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve. He was Hegsethโs senior military aide before this appointment. The man who carried the Secretaryโs briefcase now commands the Army the Secretary is reshaping. The chain of command did not break. It shortened. The distance between a television studio and a combat order just collapsed to zero intermediaries who were not personally selected by the man giving the order.
No reason was given. That is the tell. When someone is removed without explanation during a crisis, the explanation is the crisis itself. George either objected to something or was about to. The ground option. The power plant strikes. The Kharg raid. The escalation that turned a highway bridge in Karaj into rubble on the same day he was told to leave. Something in the next two weeks requires a chief who will not push back, and the Pentagon solved that problem by installing one trained as Hegsethโs aide.
A former Fox News weekend host just fired a four-star general with combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, replaced him with his own former assistant, and did it during a live war in which the next decision could put American soldiers on Iranian soil for the first time in history. No hearing was held. No misconduct cited. The Army woke up on April 3 with a new chief it did not choose, in a war it did not start, preparing for a phase the previous chief apparently could not be trusted to execute.
The question is not why George was fired. Every general in the building knows why. The question is what order is coming in the next fourteen days that required removing the one man in the chain of command who might have said no.
The war has no perimeter. The chain of command has no objectors. And the next phase has no one left to stop it.
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Israel's parliament passed a law making the death penalty a default sentence for Palestinians convicted in military courts of deadly attacks, fulfilling a pledge by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right allies https://t.co/gdpQZZ8yVj