“Two United Airlines planes were involved in a minor collision at San Francisco International Airport on Labor Day, the airline confirmed. ‘Monday night, a United aircraft being pushed back from the gate at San Francisco International Airport made contact with the tail of a parked United aircraft,’ a United spokesperson said in a statement to Fox News Digital. No injuries were reported, and passengers on both planes were able to board other planes to reach their destinations. The collision between UA796 (headed to Boston) and UA1871 (headed to Denver) garnered social media attention.” (09/03/25)
“The Left [sic] wants to change America. Duh. I’m not talking about technological changes here. We’d all like to see improvements in technology, science, and medicine make life easier and healthier for all. But that has nothing to do with the eternal principles of virtue, morality, righteousness, or love thy neighbor as thyself. Those principles can, and should, apply as much in an industrial society as they do in an agricultural one. Industry and technology don’t justify murder, theft, adultery, etc. Virtuous principles are eternal and apply in whatever age man finds himself. But industrial ‘progress’ is not what the Left means by ‘progress.’ The main thing the Left wants is power. They want godless tyranny, not virtuous freedom to dominate and to rule. That’s the America they envision, one where, as in previous and current leftist societies, they dictate what the rest of us can and cannot say and do.” (09/03/25)
Source: Common Dreams
by Medea Benjamin & Nicolas JS Davies
“One year ago, the United Nations General Assembly demanded that Israel must end its occupation of the Palestinian Territories within 12 months. The General Assembly voted, by 124 votes to 14, with 43 abstentions, for a strong resolution that not only ‘demanded’ an end to the occupation within a year, but called on all countries to refrain from trade involving Israeli settlements and from transfers of weapons ‘where there are reasonable grounds to suspect that they may be used in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.’ … A year later, Israel has failed to comply with any of the demands of the 124 states. … In response to this unconscionable state of affairs, Palestine’s UN representative has formally asked the UN to authorize an international military protection force for Gaza to help with the delivery of humanitarian aid and protect civilians.” (09/03/25)
“The U.N. nuclear watchdog’s talks with Iran on how to resume inspections at sites including those Israel and the United States bombed cannot go on for months on end, its chief told Reuters on Wednesday, pushing for a deal as early as this week. The International Atomic Energy Agency has had no information from Iran on the status or whereabouts of its stock of highly enriched uranium since Israel launched the first attacks on its enrichment sites on June 13, IAEA chief Rafael Grossi confirmed in an interview.” (09/03/25)
“For decades, Democrats have clung to James Carville’s mantra: ‘It’s the economy, stupid’. It became the default excuse for every campaign message, every strategy and every setback. We need to retire that phrase from our political lexicon. My fellow Democrats forget that Carville’s first rule on his whiteboard in Little Rock wasn’t the economy, stupid. It was ‘Change vs. more of the same.’ Voters still want change — not numbers, not excuses. And if President Donald Trump offers change while Democrats defend the system as it is, Democrats will lose. Today, my party is jumping onto a shiny substitute considered to be the winning message that unites all (‘affordability’) as if the idea that lower prices are better than higher ones is a revelation. Has a candidate ever campaigned on the reverse?” (09/03/25)
“Right-wing US media network Newsmax is suing Fox News over what it claims are anticompetitive tactics to suppress competition, teeing up a legal battle in the American conservative news space. The lawsuit, filed in a Florida federal court, accuses Fox News of using its market power to coerce TV providers to restrict competing right-leaning channels. ‘Newsmax cannot sue their way out of their own competitive failures in the marketplace to chase headlines simply because they can’t attract viewers,’ a Fox News spokesperson said. The company, owned by billionaire Rupert Murdoch, is consistently ranked the most popular conservative news outlet in the US with a market value of nearly $26bn (£19bn).” (09/03/25)
“House Republicans tucked tail and left early after fearing the possibility of having to vote for transparency about the biggest underage sex ring in U.S. history, which gives you a good sense of where we are with that party right now. House Speaker Mike Johnson had six weeks to figure out how to manage the intra-party rebellion over the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. Republican members were still getting an earful at home, so ducking a vote wasn’t practical. But Johnson needed to uphold his prime directive of acting as a human shield for the president and keeping his name out of any revelations. So after weeks of rumination, here’s what Johnson came up with: a resolution, hastily added to the week’s floor voting schedule on Monday, that would ‘direct’ the House Oversight Committee to continue investigating the federal cases against Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, which is already in progress.” (09/03/25)
“The United States has approved $32.5 million in assistance to Nigeria to help address hunger, in a rare shift in U.S. foreign policy since former President Donald Trump suspended most aid through the U.S. Agency for International Development. The funding will provide food assistance and nutritional support to internally displaced people in conflict-affected areas, the U.S mission to Nigeria said in a statement on Wednesday. Insecurity and funding cuts have put northern Nigeria in the grip of ‘an unprecedented hunger crisis’ that could leave more than 1.3 million people without food and force the closure of 150 nutrition clinics in Borno state, Margot van der Velden, the World Food Program’s regional director for West Africa, said in July. In July, the WFP suspended food assistance across crisis-hit West and Central African countries as a result of U.S. and other global aid cuts that are grinding its operations to a halt.” (09/03/25)
“Whew, better late than never! That was my first reaction to the news that President Trump intends to give Rudy Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The announcement followed the serious weekend car crash in New Hampshire that sent the 81-year-old Giuliani to the hospital. Thankfully, his injuries, said to include a broken vertebrae, are not life-threatening and he has been released from the hospital. A likely result is Trump’s presentation will focus almost exclusively on Giuliani’s greatest achievement: His stellar tenure as New York’s mayor. Although he later served as Trump’s pugnacious lawyer during the disputed aftermath of the 2020 election, it was during Giuliani’s two terms as Gotham’s fearless leader that he proved he is fully worthy of America’s highest civilian honor.” [editor’s note: Giuliani moved NYC’s emergency center to the most likely place for a terror attack, failed to get first responders on radio frequencies, and tried to screw the 9/11 cleanup workers who got sick – TLK] (09/02/25)
“Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin have been overheard discussing organ transplants as a means of prolonging life on the sidelines of a military parade in Beijing. Putin suggested even eternal life could be achievable as a result of innovations in biotechnology, according to a translation of remarks caught on a hot mic. The unguarded moment was captured on a livestream carried by Chinese state TV as the two leaders and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un walked together through China’s historic Tiananmen Square. Xi and Putin have been in power for 13 and 25 years respectively. Neither has expressed any intention of stepping down.” (09/03/25)
