On Wednesday May 18th, Davis College Republicans will be hosting Democrat, Republican and Independent Candidates for CA Congressional District 4. The event will be at 7pm in Young 198!
This event will be open to the general public. Please spread the word and we hope to see you there!
Candidates are:
• Representative Mike Thompson (D)
• Andrew Engdahl (D)
• Matt Brock (R)
• Scott Giblin (R)
• Jimih Jones (R)
• Jason Kishineff (I)
Nancy Pelosi and Kevin McCarthy are both corrupt. Today I voted for the only person on the ballot who won't be beholden to either of them. I also voted for the Left Unity Slate, pictured below.
From Jewish Voice for Peace: "2,400 Palestinians are facing imminent homelessness after yesterday’s Israeli high court ruling, which paves the way for the Israeli military to take over their land and demolish their homes. The families of Masafer Yatta have owned and cultivated this land for 13 generations — long before Israel and Zionism even existed.
The pretense for this colonial theft and destruction? That the Palestinians of Masafer Yatta are “illegally” living in a military “firing zone.”
But Israel baselessly declared this “firing zone” in the 1980s, after the people of Masafer Yatta had lived there for centuries, with the explicit purpose of expelling them to colonize their land. Former prime minister Ariel Sharon brazenly discussed this colonial ethnic-cleansing strategy in a 1981 meeting. And Masafer Yatta is not the only Palestinian area where Israel has claimed Palestinian land for supposed military use: today 18% of the West Bank is considered a “firing zone.”
Yesterday’s Israeli high court ruling defies international law, which prohibits both the expropriation of land for reasons that do not benefit the people living on it as well as the forced transfer of those people. But the judge in the case was himself a settler illegally living in the occupied West Bank. And Israel’s courts are not just biased; they are tools of its colonial, apartheid system that disenfranchises Palestinians to exercise increasing control over them and their land.
Not only do the courts not abide by international law, but no foreign government holds them accountable, either. In fact, the US government gives Israel $3.8 billion per year to fund the bulldozers and other machinery that will be used to demolish homes in Masafer Yatta — as well as the soldiers that will train on top of the ethnically-cleansed village.
To #SaveMasaferYatta, keep your eyes on news and support local resistance by following @basilaladra and the hashtag. You can also go to savemasaferyatta.com to sign up for updates.
We must pressure our governments to end all funding to the Israeli military that provides the justification for, and perpetrates, this violent expulsion."
Ukraine and the US are the only 2 countries to vote against a UN measure to combat the glorification of Nazis, and all of Europe abstained. It's almost like the US is supporting Ukrainian Nazis and all of Europe knows it....
Here's how it works: The government buys weapons with YOUR money, sends them into a proxy war, the Ukrainians mainly suffer the loss of lives, YOU lose millions (soon billions) of dollars, and the profits go to the investors in weapons, media, steel and whatever resources they want to rip off.
It's not politics, I know, but while canvassing in Napa I was fortunate enough to snap this shot of a squirrel leaning out of a tree to drink out a bird bath.
Remember the Afghanistan Papers? This bit of investigative journalism revealed that the Bush and Obama administrations had been lying through their teeth about our progress in order to prolong the war. They did this to enrich war profiteers. Trillions of dollars disappeared in Afghanistan. Now we see this same scenario playing out in Ukraine as the media keeps telling us that Russia is losing and demoralized, but we still need to send billions of dollars in weaponry.
And millions of Americans are eating this up and endorsing the looting of the Treasury, some even endorsing a hot war with Russia. If only we could make every one of them revisit all of the lies the government and media have shamelessly disseminated to the public in order to promote war. All we can do is keep speaking the truth. If you think the US should keep dumping money into prolonging Ukraine's war with Russia, please read the Afghanistan Papers.
When I ran for city council in 2020, I promised an American Canyon woman named Sophie that I would try to get a park for disabled children built, so that kids like her daughter Sophia, won't have to sit on the side of the park and watch other children play. I haven't forgotten that promise to Sophie, and still plan on following through with it. As a Congressperson I would be in a unique position to discuss the details with all the right people. We can get this done, not just for Sophia, but for all the disabled children in the area, who I'm certain, would come from even neighboring cities to play on such a specialized and unique park.
Who are the National Endowment for Democracy (NED)? How do they manufacture consent for coups in other countries?
What are the techniques used by violent extremists in CIA-backed coups? They're strikingly similar. You can see the playbook used again and again.
After the overthrow of the Yanukovich government in Ukraine, Crimea became part of Russia. How did that happen? Was it a result of a Russian invasion? Clip from the documentary Ukraine On Fire, featuring an Oliver Stone interview with former Ukrainian president Victor Yanukovich.
How did Donetsk and eastern Ukraine become so divided from western Ukraine? Is the division just propaganda? Was it Russian infiltrators? Did the division begin in February 2022?
