The police laid siege against a synagogue, opened fire upon it with rubber bullets, and ensconced it with a gas attack.
The temple opened its doors to shelter those demonstrators who were targeted for violent repression by the police, and they are paying the price still as I type this.
Jackbooted thugs are roaming the streets, hungry for murder, and each and every one of them are on the payroll of the City of St. Louis, Missouri.
This bears repeating:
In 2017, in America, police gassed a synagogue. For the crime of offering shelter from their violence. While Nazis cheered.
Ice-covered Antarctica is one of Earth’s most hostile natural environments.
But a new find by the Antarctic Heritage Trust suggests it’s no match for a 106-year-old British fruitcake.
Conservators found the elderly cake on Cape Adare, and believe it belonged to British explorer Robert Falcon Scott – known as Scott of the Antarctic.
Although the tin was rusted, the team said the cake was in “excellent condition” and smelled edible.
The New Zealand-based trust found it in Antarctica’s oldest building, a hut built by Norwegian explorer Carsten Borchgrevink’s team in 1899, and used by Capt Scott in 1911 during his Terra Nova expedition.
The polar pioneer was said to be fond of this particular cake, made by the British biscuit company Huntley & Palmers. Read more.
More than 1 million Americans await a hearing to see whether they qualify for disability benefits from Social Security, with the average wait nearly two years – longer than some of them will live.
An additional 8 million get disability benefits from Supplemental Security Income, the disability program for poor people who don’t qualify for Social Security.
Last year, the agency’s budget was $12.6 billion, roughly the same as it was in 2011, even though an additional 6 million people receive either retirement or disability benefits from Social Security.
Chris Hoffman worked as a mason, laying bricks and tile and pouring concrete. He had terrible back pain for much of his life, but he kept working until a series of heart attacks. He applied for Social Security disability benefits in 2014 but was denied. He appealed to an administrative law judge.
In November, Hoffman died at 58, following his fourth heart attack. Ten months later, the judge ruled that he was entitled to benefits.
“It wasn’t that he was limited, it was that he wasn’t able to do anything,” said Hoffman’s son, Dustin.
Last year there were 7,400 people on waitlists who were dead, according to a report by Social Security’s inspector general.
Chris Shuler couldn’t attend his hearing.
Shuler was working as an airplane mechanic in Oklahoma when he was exposed to some chemicals and developed severe respiratory problems, said his wife, Elizabeth Shuler. The medicine he took for his lungs affected his bones and he eventually had two hip replacements, she said.
Chris Shuler applied for Social Security disability payments in 2012 and was denied almost immediately, his wife said. He died in July 2015 from an infection that started in his hip, just before his 40th birthday.
Four months later Elizabeth Shuler attended her husband’s hearing on his behalf.
“I wanted to make sure I at least saw a judge,” she said. “The judge said it was a no-brainer.“
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