, for or against her , but especially against her . To be un - hated is to be unnoticed . “ I was sad when I 'd show up at some college campus and there would be , like , one lonely protester , ” she said of one uneventful book tour .
It is true that it is the responsibility of the Senate to provide " Advice and Consent " on presidential appointees . It is not the responsibility of the Senate to obstruct and destroy , to turn the Senate into a banana - republic institution that , by its odious behavior toward Garland , has renewed its status as a symbol of the kind of obstruction and dysfunction that has led almost 80 percent of the American people to express their disapproval of the Republican Senate , and the Republican House , according to summaries of polling from RealClearPolitics . When Sen. Mitch McConnell Mitch McConnellRyan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax push Dems step up attacks on GOP ObamaCare bill Live coverage : Senate Dems hold talkathon to protestconflict.demonstrate.naGOP health plan MORE ( R - Ky . ) became Senate majority leader , he vowed to bring fairness and dignity back to the Senate . Instead , on the great matter of justice under law , he is acting more like Sen. Ted Cruz Ted CruzAccess to palliative care needs to stay in new health bill Dems step up attacks on GOP ObamaCare bill Overnight Finance : Ryan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax reform | Warren targets Wells Fargo board | Senators raise concerns over Russian takeover of Citgo | Pelosi hits GOP for budget delays MORE ( R - Texas ) by seeking to force a government shutdown of the Supreme Court in the same way that the only thing Cruz achieved in his short career in the Senate was to become known as the champion of the government shutdown in Washington . Garland has spent a career becoming one of the most respected jurists in America , praised by long lists of Republicans ( as well as long lists of Democrats ) , including Senate Republicans who sang his praises and proudly supported his confirmation to the federal bench .
The Norwegian authorities have begun sending the first of around 5,500 mainly Syrian refugees who ’ve been housed in a transit camp in the north of the country , back to the Russian border they crossed last autumn . Dozens of asylum seekers are resisting and have left the camp , around 30 others staged a brief hunger strike in protestconflict.demonstrate.na. Refugees seeking asylum in Norway go on hunger strike against deportation to Russia https://t.co/Hz2KAhngfw pic.twitter.com/jPYDrQ7Wpu — Philosophile ( @RealFKNNews ) January 19 , 2016 Many are distressed and confused and demanding information .
Image copyright Facebook Image caption Coca - Cola republished the map to include Crimea following complaints from Russians Ukrainian social media users have called for a boycott of Coca - Cola after it posted a festive map of Russia that included Crimea . The company originally posted a map that excluded the annexed peninsula , but backtracked when it received protestconflict.demonstrate.nafrom Russians . It quickly republished the photo to include Crimea , only for Ukrainians to threaten to boycott the company . Coca - Cola has now removed the image altogether and apologised .
Trump has called for a ban on Muslims entering the United States and wants to put some mosques under surveillance following the attacks in Paris and San Bernardino , Calif. Some of the Paris attackers reportedly posed as refugees to enter Europe . Earlier this month , he also kicked a Muslim woman , who stood up in silent protestconflict.demonstrate.na, out of a rally . " We have n't really learnt anything — I ’m depressed by the current situation . The experience of the Syrian refugees is similar to what we went through , " Schloss said in Newsweek .
“ In most , perhaps all , other countries of the world , the underground resources belong to the crown or the government , ” she explains . The fact that property owners did n’t stand to profit from drilling on their land ignited public outrage in some parts of the world , especially Eastern Europe . U.S. officials speculate that Russia also had a hand in fomenting protestsconflict.demonstrate.nathere . “ The perception among diplomats in the region was that Russia was protecting its interests , ” says Mark Gitenstein , the former U.S. ambassador to Romania . “ It did n’t want shale gas for obvious reasons . ”
JUST WATCHED Donald Trump Jr. slams email hack claim Replay More Videos ... MUST WATCH Donald Trump Jr. slams email hack claim 01:23 Putin also has a personal reason that he could want to intervene in America 's democracy : He 's convinced the U.S. orchestrated its own covert campaign against him that threatened his rule , and he has a personal grudge against Clinton as well . Putin , while serving as prime minister , forcibly denounced the then - U.S. secretary of state in 2011 , saying she had condemned Russia 's parliamentary elections as fraudulent before she had evidence and directly incited anti - government protestsconflict.demonstrate.na. The U.S. government dismissed the claims as absurd at the time . But people who have studied Putin closely suggest that the episode further cemented the Russian leader 's conspiratorial mindset and a worldview framed by his experience as a KGB officer when the Soviet Union crumbled .
1/15 Serbia - Hungary border Refugees protest as Hungarian riot police fires tear gas and water cannon on the Serbian side of the border , near Roszke 2/15 Serbia - Hungary border A refugee throws a bottle of water towards Hungarian riot police after they used water cannon to push back refugees at the Hungarian border with Serbia near the town of Horgos 3/15 Serbia - Hungary border Refugees protestconflict.demonstrate.naas Hungarian riot police fires tear gas and water cannon at the border crossing with Serbia in Roszke 4/15 Serbia - Hungary border Hungarian armoured personnel carriers are deployed at the border crossing with Serbia in Roszke 5/15 Serbia - Hungary border Hungarian riot policemen are deployed at the border crossing with Serbia in Roszke
The North 's recent actions have sorely tested its only ally , China . It condemned January 's test and repeated that on Friday after the latest . China 's foreign ministry said it would lodge a diplomatic protestconflict.demonstrate.naand urged North Korea to avoid further action that would worsen the situation . Reaction from elsewhere was more harsh : United States - President Barack Obama condemned the test saying he had agreed with South Korea and Japan to work with the UN Security Council " to vigorously implement existing measures imposed in previous resolutions , and to take additional significant steps , including new sanctions "
In addition to the DNC hack , which led to the resignation of chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz , the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has also been targeted . Wasserman Schultz , who won the Democratic primary for her House seat this week , stepped down after WikiLeaks posted documents that showed DNC bias in favor of Clinton over her challenger for the presidential nomination , Sen. Bernie Sanders Bernie SandersSanders to GOP on healthcare bill : ' What are you afraid of ? ' Dems step up attacks on GOP ObamaCare bill Live coverage : Senate Dems hold talkathon to protestconflict.demonstrate.naGOP health plan MORE ( Vt . ) .
And he turned and went out the door . Hillary Clinton 's campaign chairman John Podesta said following the Trump press conference : ' Trump is desperate he ’s trying to take this race to a place in the gutter and we ’re not going there . ' Bill 's spokesman , Angel Urena , declined to comment Thursday on the ongoing protestsconflict.demonstrate.na. He tweeted out a Bloomberg article earlier in the day though that said , ' Whether acting as a pawn for the Russians or for his campaign henchmen who 've made a career going after @billclinton , one thing is clear : " Donald Trump is doubling down on his strategy of focusing on Bill Clinton 's accusers . " '
But here is what Comey revealed this week : " Secretary Clinton used several different servers and administrators of those servers during her four years at the State Department . " In other words , in just that short 4-minute segment , Clinton perjured herself not once but twice . Representative Jordan also did his best to pin Hillary down on her lying to the American people when she said an inflammatory Youtube video mocking the prophet Muhammad sparked a ( non - existing ) protestconflict.demonstrate.nathat led to the Benghazi attack . But in an email ( below ) she sent to her family the night of the attack , she revealed that she already knew it was Islamic terrorists . Jordan 's full 11-minute grilling of Clinton below :
Feminist historians uncover ghastly concentration camps where so - called " housewives " were forced to live inauthentic lives slaving away in kitchens Dictionary of the future : Global Warming was a popular computer simulation game , where the only way to win was not to play " Anti - fascist " groups violently protestconflict.demonstrate.namisspelling of their original name , " aren't - we - fascists " Post - inauguration blues : millions of democrats distraught as the reality of having to find real jobs sets in " Journalism is the continuation of war by other means " is exposed as a fake quote by mainstream media journalists
Which brings us to Trump and his reintroduction of a baleful phenomenon long absent in American politics : violence . The United States has hardly been immune to the ravages of men who prefer to settle disputes not in representative chambers but by brawling in the streets . From the Founding Fathers ( who fought a war against the world ’s mightiest empire ) through the era of political dueling to the anti – Vietnam War protestsconflict.demonstrate.naat the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago , violence has been a recurring feature of American political life . But for the better part of the past half century , we have thankfully been spared its depredations . Like our basic notions of decorum , civility , common sense , and much else that makes America great , the laudable facility for restraining one ’s pugnacious impulses in the clash of political differences has been thrown out the window in this campaign season by the utterly debased personage of Trump .
Of the three strategies , the second seems more imaginative . Going beyond the traditional dialectic of confirm - or - deny , Fallon hopes to totally delegitimize the emails by branding them as the dark fruits of a scurrilous foreign power . The subtext of Fallon ’s protestconflict.demonstrate.nais that no matter what reporters dig out in the voluminous Podesta emails , their stories will be polluted by the motives and methods behind their acquisition . Fallon is floating a very large crock here . Real reporters do n’t treat Freedom of Information Act requests the way he implies .
But those jobs would pale — both in terms of financial reward and degree of difficulty — to the gig to which Akhmetov referred Manafort and his team : returning Yanukovych to power . A former trucking official who had been convicted and incarcerated as a teenager for serious crimes , Yanukovych had become a popular symbol of the corruption that plagues Ukraine after his team tried to rig the 2004 presidential election . A series of protestsconflict.demonstrate.na, which became known as the Orange Revolution , forced a re - vote , which Yanukovych lost . While Manafort initially protested that Yanukovych was too deeply flawed to revive , Akhmetov eventually prevailed upon his American consultant to help Yanukovych and his political party , the Party of Regions , try to make a comeback in the 2006 parliamentary elections . Manafort and his team , including Kilimnik , set about to recast Yanukovych as an inspiring leader who could work with the West .
Shirley is apparently a lifelong protester . She told local reporters she participated in Civil Rights and anti - war protests in the 1960s . And now Donald Trump is among her list of people she ’s protestedconflict.demonstrate.naagainst . As she describes it , the early part of the protest was relatively good natured : Trumpers shouting , Trump , Trump , Trump ; her crew would respond Dump , Dump , Dump . Then this happened .
He anticipates opening the community gymnasium for people without beds come winter , and a growing pile of sleeping bags and blankets sits in his office . Those protesters from Arizona , Georgia and California wo n't know what hit them when the cold rushes in , he says . Photos : North Dakota pipeline protestsconflict.demonstrate.naFireworks lit the sky at the Oceti Sakowin Camp near Cannon Ball , North Dakota on December 4 , 2016 , after the Army Corps of Engineers halted the Dakota Access Pipeline route . An executive order by President Donald Trump in January allowed work to resume . Hide Caption 1 of 32 Photos : North Dakota pipeline protests Activists embrace after the December halt of the Dakota Access Pipeline route .
But anti - Americanism has surged in Turkey , where Vice President Joe Biden arrives on Aug. 24 to reassure the NATO ally that the US and Turkey still stand together against terrorism . He ’ll try to assure the country also that the US stands with President Erdoğan against the coup attempt , which has prompted a host of fresh conspiracy theories and new enemies in the popular imagination , from the island foreign policy conference to the White House . Such rhetoric is not new : It has grown since 2013 , prompted by Washington ’s criticism of Erdoğan ’s heavy - handed crackdown on Gezi Park protestsconflict.demonstrate.nathat year . Later came disputes over the Syrian war , with the US critical of what it saw as Turkish encouragement of Islamic jihadist fighters . More recently , US military support to Syrian Kurds , whom Turkey considers terrorists , attracted Turkey ’s ire in the fight against the self - declared Islamic State .
His statement provoked a sharp reaction from the broadcaster , which denounced Gulen ’s attempt to pressure the channel to cancel its broadcast , and aired the documentary . “ We can never accept this . We will protestconflict.demonstrate.naagainst any attempt to exert pressure that threatens freedom of expression , ” said TV4 ’s program director , Viveka Hansson , in a statement on the company ’s website . Speaking to Expressen , Gulen said that he had “ full respect for freedom of expression and for the channel , ” but refused to retract his plea to TV4 to withdraw the documentary piece . “ These are my feelings .
New Delhi , Aug 14 : Congress vice - president Rahul Gandhi on Friday voiced his support for the ex - servicemen protesting at the Jantar Mantar here and challenged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to come out with a date bringing in the One Rank , One Pension ( OROP ) scheme . The Gandhi scion , who interacted with the ex - servicemen here , told the media that they should not be removed from the protest venue as they are not doing anything wrong . " People from the army and jawans spend their lives on the border , they are protestingconflict.demonstrate.nanow and they should n't be removed . These people are just protesting and not doing anything wrong . They should n't be hurt and removed , they 're protesting for their right .
He refuses to acknowledge — contrary to members of both parties , the military and virtually every informed observer — that we save money by having forward - deployed troops . 1 of 52 Full Screen Autoplay Close Skip Ad × What it looked like at the Republican National Convention on Day 3 View Photos Supporters — and protesting opponents — of Donald Trump show up in Cleveland , as well as campaign merchandise vendors . Caption Supporters — and protestingconflict.demonstrate.naopponents — of Donald Trump show up in Cleveland , as well as campaign merchandise vendors . July 20 , 2016 Vice - presidential nominee Mike Pence greets the crowd on the third day of the Republican National Convention at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland . Jabin Botsford / The Washington Post Buy Photo Wait 1 second to continue .
Could not name a single leader . They coached him up , and in the second debate he did nothing but spout off names of foreign leaders . The bottom line is that I know Gary Johnson is getting a lot of this protestconflict.demonstrate.navote , mostly from Republicans , but the man is painfully , painfully ignorant . We ’ve already been through eight years of George W. Bush where we had a painfully ignorant president , so do not waste your protest vote on someone like Gary Johnson in the off chance that maybe he could win something , maybe . I do n’t know , but it ’s so not worth it , because that man is dumber than a box of hammers that have already lost their handles .
Again , the invasion was horrifying enough , and its aftermath is utterly grotesque . Nevertheless , it could have been far worse . Vice President Dick Cheney , Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld , and the rest of Bush ’s top officials could never even contemplate the sort of measures that President Kennedy and President Lyndon Johnson adopted 40 years earlier largely without protestconflict.demonstrate.na. Western Power Under Pressure There is far more to say , of course , about the factors in determining state policy that are put to the side when we adopt the standard convention that states are the actors in international affairs .