Bosnia: Serb Leader Dodik Threatens to Block National Government

Source: US News & World Report

“Bosnian Serb separatist leader Milorad Dodik said on Thursday that Serbs would block the work of Bosnia’s national government unless election laws imposed by an international envoy are annulled and Western ambassadors expelled from the country. Bosnia’s peace overseer, Christian Schmidt, on Tuesday imposed changes to the election law to ensure its integrity through technical improvements after the country’s rival ethnic leaders failed to agree on election reform. Bosnian Serb officials do not recognise Schmidt as the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, saying the former German government minister was not endorsed by the U.N. Security Council. They have warned that they will not accept his decision and will instead pass their own election law.” (03/28/24)

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2024-03-28/bosnian-serb-leader-dodik-threatens-to-block-national-government

KC Stadium Tax Debate with Patrick Tuohey, Sly James and Jim Rowland

Source: Show-Me Institute

“On March 27, Sports Radio 810 WHB in Kansas City hosted a roundtable with Senior Fellow at the Show-Me Institute Patrick Tuohey, former KC Mayor Sly James, and Executive Director of the Jackson County Jim Rowland to discuss the upcoming vote on a new 3/8 percent sales tax to support ‘funding for park improvements consisting of Arrowhead Stadium and its surrounds, and a new Major League Baseball stadium in Jackson County.'” (03/28/24)

https://showmeinstitute.org/blog/corporate-welfare/kc-stadium-tax-debate-with-patrick-tuohey-sly-james-and-jim-rowland/

Trump should ditch the King James version of the Bible. What about the King Donald version?

Source: Palm Beach Post
by Frank Cerabino

“A month after hawking gold high-top sneakers for $400, Trump is trying to capitalize on the Easter weekend with his ‘God Bless the U.S.A. Bible.’ ‘Happy Holy Week! Let’s Make America Pray Again,’ Trump wrote on his social media site. ‘As we lead into Good Friday and Easter, I encourage you to get a copy of the God Bless the USA Bible.’ Trump is skimming royalties from the sale of Bibles priced at $59.95 plus shipping, fees and any medical expenses buyers may incur from being struck by lightning. … it’s not a Trump Bible but just an already available King James version wrapped in a bunch of performative patriotic packaging. …. rather than putting a fancy cover on an established ‘deep state’ Bible, Trump ought to be selling his own Bible — The King Donald version, one that worships himself, the less-than-divine being who has always been his one true god.” (03/28/24)

https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/opinion/columns/2024/03/28/easter-bible-verses-king-james-donald-trump-election/73115937007/

Maintain Your Brain

Source: Racket News
by Matt Taibbi

Racket readers may have noticed a frantic edge to the site’s strategy in the last year. After a self-inflicted wound led to Twitter/X stepping on my personal account, I started to worry over what looked like the removal of multiple lanes from the Information Superhighway. Wikipedia rules tightened. Google search results seemed like the digital equivalent of a magician forcing cards on consumers. In my case, content would often not even reach people who’d registered as social media followers just to receive those alerts. I was convinced the issue was political. … Now I think differently. After spending months talking to people in tech, I realize the problem is broader and more unnerving.” (03/29/24)

https://www.racket.news/p/maintain-your-brain

Stop the War Now

Source: Eunomia
by Daniel Larison

“The continuation of the war is a death sentence for thousands and thousands more Palestinian civilians. The only way to stop famine from devouring tens and possibly hundreds of thousands of lives is to stop the war now. The U.S. has tried to have it both ways by fully backing the war while feigning concern about the humanitarian crisis, but the former is causing the latter and the latter cannot be successfully ended without ending the war. It is clear that the U.S. is not trying to stop this assault from happening.” (03/28/24)

https://daniellarison.substack.com/p/stop-the-war-now

US DOD in early talks to fund peacekeeping force in Gaza

Source: Politico

“Biden administration officials are in preliminary ‘conversations’ about options for stabilizing post-war Gaza, including a proposal for the Pentagon to help fund either a multinational force or a Palestinian peacekeeping team. The options being considered would not involve U.S. troops on the ground, according to two Defense Department officials and two other U.S. officials, all granted anonymity to discuss the closed-door diplomatic and military negotiations. Instead, DOD funding would go toward the needs of the security force and complement assistance from other countries.” (03/28/24)

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/28/dod-in-early-talks-to-fund-a-peacekeeping-force-in-gaza-00149547

Will the Supreme Court give Trump the absolute immunity he claims to have?

Source: The Hill
by Rick Esenberg & Dan Lennington

“‘I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK? It’s, like, incredible.’ Even if President Trump could commit a crime and suffer no political consequences, would crimes in office result in legal consequences? The U.S. Supreme Court is about to consider whether — and more importantly under what circumstances — a president is immune from criminal prosecution. The story starts on or about Nov. 14, 2020, when then-President Trump took his first steps to engage in a broad conspiracy to defraud the United States, obstruct the certification of the electoral vote, and ‘injure, oppress, threaten, and intimidate one or more persons’ in the exercise of their right to ‘have one’s vote counted.’ Or so says the federal indictment, filed 936 days after Jan. 7, 2021 — the day Donald Trump’s alleged criminal conduct ceased.” (03/28/24)

https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/4559638-will-the-supreme-court-give-trump-the-absolute-immunity-he-claims-to-have/

Imagine If Russia Or China Did The Things Israel Is Doing In Gaza

Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone

“Imagine how the western political-media class would be acting if Russia or China was bombing and starving a walled-in population of two million, half of them children. Seriously, imagine it. Imagine the rage and vitriol. Imagine the nonstop media coverage. When Russia invaded Ukraine, US media coverage of that war exceeded the media coverage of all US wars in the previous three decades. If Russia were deliberately and systematically exterminating civilians in Ukraine or anywhere else, the western media coverage of those war crimes would be many times more. It’s almost cliché at this point to say ‘imagine if Russia or China did this’, but such comparisons are important for retaining a sense of perspective on just how evil the western political-media class is being about Gaza right now.” (03/28/24)

https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2024/03/28/imagine-if-russia-or-china-did-the-things-israel-is-doing-in-gaza/

UK: Oxford-Cambridge boat racers warned of “alarmingly high” E. coli levels in London’s sewage-infused Thames

Source: CBS News

“The famous Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race, which takes place every year on the River Thames, was expected to go ahead this weekend despite warnings about ‘alarmingly high’ levels of E. coli bacteria in the water. The environmental group River Action said Wednesday that it had regularly tested the section of the Thames where the race takes place between February 28 and March 26 and found E. coli levels up to 10 times higher than what U.K. environmental authorities consider the worst category for public bathing. Even at the worst rating, far lower than what was found in the Thames, authorities warn against exposure.” (03/28/24)

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oxford-cambridge-boat-racers-warned-of-alarmingly-high-e-coli-levels-in-londons-sewage-infused-thames/