Monday, December 18, 2023
Human rights group accuses Israel of trying to starve Palestinians in Gaza
The Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused Israel of trying to starve Palestinians in Gaza, arguing Monday that the Israeli government is using the starvation of civilians as a method of warfare in the Gaza Strip.
The HRW report pointed to comments from high-ranking Israeli officials who discuss what the group claims to be their “aim to deprive civilians” of water, food, and fuel. The referenced comments were made in October by Israeli officials shortly after Palestinian militant group Hamas’s surprise incursion into Israel on Oct. 7.
Sunday, December 17, 2023
The campus war over words on Israel and Palestine
The Hamas terrorist attacks of October 7 have highlighted sharp disagreements — among college and university leaders, students, faculty, alumni, politicians and the general public — over where to draw the line between protected speech and impermissible harassment or threats. Anger at the language and tactics of pro-Palestinian protesters and insistence on stronger action from colleges and universities to suppress antisemitism are resulting in demands for policies that, in some cases, conflict with the values of academic freedom and free speech.....Read More
Saturday, December 16, 2023
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What Stogie Had For Lunch
Jerk Chicken
Rice and Platanos
Hines Caribbean Cuisine
3313 N. Nebraska Ave, Ybor Heights
Tampa's Best Jamaican Food!
FDA Suggests Florida Surgeon General Is Spreading “Misinfo” About COVID Vax Safety
As the federal government renews calls for more COVID-19 vaccines, the Biden administration continues to argue that the jabs are safe and effective, and said suggestions to the contrary, such as those recently expressed by Florida’s top doctor, amount to “misinformation and disinformation” that make people hesitant to get the shot.....Read More
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SIMPLE: Ron DeSantis sees mental institutions as a solution to homelessness
“I do think some of these folks would benefit from being in an institutional setting and I think the public as a whole would be safer as a result of them being in an institutional setting.”....Read More
Teachers challenge a new Florida law restricting the use of pronouns in schools
Three teachers on Wednesday filed a federal lawsuit alleging a new state law restricting titles and pronouns at schools unconstitutionally discriminates against transgender and nonbinary educators.....Read More
Tampa City Councilman Luis Viera and Tracey McManus talk local elections and more
Luis Viera consistently brings a calm, measured and thoughtful tone to the dais at Tampa City Council, and council’s second-longest tenured representative brought the same to WMNF Tampa today as we discussed a smattering of topics including participation in local elections, Hanna City Center, his relationship with the mayor’s administration, and his appetite when it comes to running to become mayor himself (TLDR: that race is too far away, so he’s non-committal, but technically said there is a chance) .....Read More
Listen to the broadcast HERE
Florida Supreme Court hears arguments on protest law amid allegations of targeting Black activists
James Tysse at the Florida Supreme Court, 10/4/23 // Credit: Florida Supreme Court Youtube
On Wednesday, the Florida Supreme Court heard arguments in a challenge to a 2021 law that enhanced penalties and created new crimes during protests that turn violent.
Groups including the Dream Defenders and NAACP argue that the law was enacted seemingly in response to the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests.
Friday, December 15, 2023
DEVILISH: DeSantis defends Iowa Satanic Temple vandalism
Freedom of religion isn’t just for Christians.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has responded to an act of vandalism in Iowa, where one of the religious displays set up for Christmas in the Capitol building was destroyed.
Exciting Developments for 2024 MLK Jr. Parade
The Martin Luther King Parade Foundation, Inc., in partnership with the City of Tampa, is thrilled to announce updates for the 2024 parade and activities honoring the life and legacy of Civil Rights Leader Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The Foundation is set to reveal its Signature Sponsor, a newly launched youth program, and offer unique participation opportunities for the community in the 2024 MLK Black-Tie Gala and City of Tampa MLK Jr. Parade.....Read More
Florida's crumbling prison system will cost billions to fix, new report says
Florida's prisons are in bad shape, and taxpayers are on the hook for billions of dollars to fix them, a new report found.....Read More
Thursday, December 14, 2023
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Talk of Genocide
I often tell people that since the inception of the Israeli state, even before that, Zionist leaders of Israel have openly declared that their intentions are to launch and continue a campaign of genocide against the people of the Nation of Palestine; to exterminate or drive out all Arabs from Palestine so they can take the land for themselves. Here are several quotes to illustrate this:
Theodor Herzl, the founder of Zionism, said in 1895, “We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it employment in our country. The property owners will come over to our side. Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discretely and circumspectly”
Chaim Weizmann, a Zionist leader, the President of the Zionist Organization and the President of Israel from 1949-1952, said in 1920, “We will establish ourselves in Palestine whether you like it or not...You can hasten our arrival or you can equally retard it. It is however better for you to help us so as to avoid our constructive powers being turned into a destructive power which will overthrow the world.”
The Israeli Prime Minster Levi Eshkol said this about Gaza in 1967, “I want them all to go, even if they go to the moon. We’ll deprive Gaza of water, and the Arabs will leave.”
Prime Minister of Israel Golda Meir said in 1969, "There is no such thing as a Palestinian people. It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn't exist. How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.”
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin said in 1982, "[The Palestinians] are beasts walking on two legs."
Benyamin Netanyahu, then Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister, said in 1989, "Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the Arabs of the territories."
Israeli Foreign Minister Ariel Sharon said in 1998, "It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten with time. The first of these is that there is no Zionism, colonialization, or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands. Everybody has to move, run and grab as many Palestinian hilltops as they can to enlarge the Jewish settlements because everything we take now will stay ours...Everything we don't grab will go to them.”
Israeli Prime Minister David Ben Gurion said in 1937, “We must expel the Arabs and take their place and if we have to use force, to guarantee our own right to settle in those places – then we have force at our disposal.” and again in 1948, he said, “We must expel Arabs and take their places. We must do everything to insure they never do return.”
Defense Minister of Israel Moshe Dayan said in 1969, “We came here to a country that was populated by Arabs and we are building here a Hebrew, a Jewish state; instead of the Arab villages. You even do not know the names of those villages, and I do not blame you because these villages no longer exist. There is not a single Jewish settlement that was not established in the place of a former Arab Village”
The Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defence Forces Raphael Eitan said 1983, “When we have settled the land, all the Arabs will be able to do about it will be to scurry around like drugged cockroaches in a bottle.” He also said in 1983, “We declare openly that the Arabs have no right to settle on even one centimeter of Israel. Force is all they do or ever will understand. We shall use the ultimate force until the Palestinians come crawling to us on all fours.”
The Speaker of the Knesset Moshe Feiglin said in 2014, “What is required now is that we internalize the fact that Oslo [Accord] is finished, that this is our country - our country exclusively, including Gaza. There are no two states, and there are no two peoples. There is only one state for one people.” In 2016, he also said, “After the IDF completes the ‘softening’ of the targets with its fire-power, the IDF will conquer the entire Gaza, using all the means necessary to minimize any harm to our soldiers, with no other considerations… Gaza is part of our Land and we will remain there forever. Subsequent to the elimination of terror from Gaza, it will become part of sovereign Israel and will be populated by Jews. This will also serve to ease the housing crisis in Israel. The coastal train line will be extended, as soon as possible, to reach the entire length of Gaza.”
Israel Koenig, the author of “The Koenig Memorandum" that called for the Judaization of the Galilee, or Northern Israel, said in 1977, “We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population.”
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman (referring to getting rid of Palestinian Israelis) said in 2015, “Anyone who’s with us should be given everything – up to half the kingdom. Anyone who’s against us, there’s nothing to do – we should raise an axe and cut off his head.”
Rabbi Yaacov Perrin said in 1920, “One million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail”
Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin when he was a General in the IDF said in 1948, “We shall reduce the Arab population to a community of woodcutters and waiters”
Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked said in 2014, “The entire Palestinian people is the enemy. Destroy Palestine, including its elderly and its women, its cities and its villages, its property and its infrastructure. Kill Palestinian mothers of little snakes.”
Prime Minister of Israel Moshe Sharett said in 1955, “This state of Israel has no international obligations, no economic problems, the question of peace is non-existent. It must calculate its steps narrow-mindedly and live by the sword .... It must invent non-existent dangers, and to do this it must adopt the method of provocation and retaliation.”
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said in 2001, “Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that. I want to tell you something very clear: don't worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it.”
"Benny Morris, a professor of history in the Middle East Studies department of Ben-Gurion University said in 2004, “The great American democracy could not have been achieved without the extermination of the Indians. There are cases in which the general and final good justifies difficult and cruel deeds that are carried out in the course of history."
Sprawling new developments obliterate the revival of Florida panthers
One development is an entire new city called “Kingston,” whose owner wants to build 10,000 homes, a hotel, and other businesses in a section of Lee County that’s supposed to be kept at a low density for groundwater recharge. Hey, it’s just our source of clean drinking water — it’s not like it’s something people really NEED.
The other, known as Bellmar, is one part of a new city, a village that will plop 8,600 new residents on land that’s virtually next door to the Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge.
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
Proposed Florida House bill may punish lawmakers who vote to remove historical monuments
FDOT to divvy up Hillsborough transportation sales tax fund
Gov. Ron DeSantis is pointing to the Florida Department of Transportation to divvy out the $570 million collected through the Hillsborough Transportation Sales Tax back in 2019 to 2021.....Read More
What Stogie Had For Lunch
Picadillo
With Black Beans and Rice
Huracan Supermarket
Sligh and Central, Tampa
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