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Fox News: ISIS's real target: Saudi Arabia http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/05/19/isiss-real-target-saudi-arabia.html As Donald Trump sucks up to the fascist Saudi government, Fox News publishes an "opinion piece" that is so propagandistic, it is shocking. I'm not shocked that stories from mainstream media outlets in my news feed are propaganda. That's par for the course. I'm just shocked that this one is so blatant. Usually, they try to at least pretend like what they spew is news-worthy and at least semi-truthful. Here, they didn't even try. Here are some quotes from the piece, written by Ali Shihabi, "the executive director of the Arabia Foundation a Washington, DC-based propaganda outlet think tank focused on the geopolitics of the Arabian Peninsula", along with some of my comments: "As custodian of Islam’s holiest sites, Mecca and Medina, and as leader of the 41-nation Islamic coalition established to combat terror, Saudi Ar...

Yesterday, while on a drive, I got behind a truck and took this picture. (During a roughly half-hour period on the road, I came across three more such trucks.) I could smell the truck from so close, and the smell was not good. These chickens were dirty and lame, unable to stand up even if they had the room to do so. Some were throwing their legs around, attempting to stand. I wondered what it must be like for them to see the outside world for the first time in their lives. Of course, there is also the heat and the wind (blowing feathers from the truck as it drove), but the outdoors, even if from behind bars, may have excited them a bit. Who knows what they would find in this whole new world that they had not known even an hour earlier? Maybe their lives would change for the better. Well, that did not pan out. As I kept driving straight, the truck turned right...into a processing plant with a sign boasting "Premium Fresh Young Chicken". Well, that was their glimps...