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Hatem Abudayyeh, national chair of the U.S. Palestinian Community Network and a spokesman for the Chicago Coalition for Justice in Palestine, said elected officials’ condemnations of Palestinians were “not acceptable. The reason for this escalation is decades of Israeli crimes--decades of home demolitions, of stealing of land, of killing of Palestinian people in their home and in the streets.” He said that about 2,000 people rallied outside the Israeli consulate in Chicago this weekend.
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Embarrassing. Simply embarrassing.
Diversity brings centuries old ethnic conflicts halfway across the world, who unnecessarily participate in cultural grievances which have little to nothing to do with their daily life. Totally ridic.
Another example of blind adherence to trendy political positions, absent of understanding of underlying political and historic context. More idiotic ‘woke” folks virtue-signaling for selfies.
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What say you Rahm?
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Sooo…. Johnson’s supporters, if not Johnson himself, are taking Hamas’ side while Pritzker (being Jewish) comes out firmly in support of Israel. This could get interesting…..
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