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Berkeley Rep's play takes its title from The Octoroon, a 19th-century play about a person who is one-eighth Black.At the end of one entr’acte in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ An Octoroon, a slave from the antebellum South sweeps up balls of cotton strewn across the floor. As Dido (Jasmine Bracey) moved her broom around the stage, she whistled a few bars of “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah.” Those who caught the irony laughed nervously. Taken out of its original context — from the 1946 Disney film Song of the South — that immensely hummable, if damnable, tune epitomized the playwright’s repeated use of satiric assemblage and...

Russia's Foreign Ministry on Friday ordered a reduction in the number of U.S. diplomats in Russia and said it was closing down a U.S. recreation retreat in response to fresh sanctions against Russia. The U.S. Senate approved a new package of stiff financial sanctions Friday against Russia, Iran and North Korea and sent it to President Donald Trump to sign. The legislation bars Trump from easing or waiving the penalties on Russia unless Congress agrees. The legislation is aimed at punishing Moscow for interfering in the 2016 presidential election and for its military aggression in Ukraine and Syria, where the...

(CNN)British baby Charlie Gard, who was at the center of a legal battle that captured the world's attention, died Friday, one week before his first birthday, according to a family spokesperson. Charlie was born on August 4, 2016, seemingly healthy. But two months into his short life his parents noticed his health was declining. They took him to London's Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in October where he remained at least until Thursday. He was diagnosed with mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome, a rare inherited condition that causes muscle weakness and loss of motor skills. Charlie was the 16th person...

FULL TITLE: 'Our beautiful boy has gone': Little Charlie Gard's parents announce that their brave warrior whose plight touched the world has finally died after battling devastating genetic illness he fought for so long Eleven-month-old Charlie Gard, whose short life captured the hearts of the world, has died a week before his first birthday. Charlie suffered from a rare genetic condition which saw him in hospital for the majority of his short life. His parents, Connie Yates and Chris Gard, fought a lengthy and emotional legal battle to take their severely ill baby son to the US for treatment, but...

Two pilots have been suspended from duty after their aircraft, carrying 99 passengers, nearly ran out of fuel because they forgot to retract the landing gear after take-off. Air India Flight AI676 was en route to Mumbai from Kolkata on July 22 but was forced to divert to Nagpur when the crew became alarmed by the speed at which the aircraft was losing fuel thanks to the additional drag created by the extended wheels. An unidentified source told the Times of India that the “brand new Airbus A320”, one of the most fuel efficient aircraft in existence, had struggled to...

Rep. Mark Meadows, a key negotiator in the effort to repeal and replace Obamacare, said a new effort is underway to write a bill that can pass the Senate that would include proposals offered by Sens. Lindsey Graham, Bill Cassidy, Ted Cruz, and Rob Portman. "We continue to work on two different plans with our Senate colleagues," Meadows, R-N.C., told the Washington Examiner. "We will continue to do that over the next couple of weeks on a plan that can get to 51" votes in the Senate. Meadows said he has talked to senators, including Graham, in the hours after...

George Clooney is firing back after photos of his twin babies with his wife, Amal, appeared on the cover of France’s Voici magazine without his consent. Clooney released a statement to Deadline via his publicist that those responsible for the photos “will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.” “Over the last week photographers from Voici magazine scaled our fence, climbed our tree and illegally took pictures of our infants inside our home, Clooney said in the statement. “Make no mistake the photographers, the agency and the magazine will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law....

We have been so patient. Democrats are not patient. We have maintained our values. Democrats have only two values: Money and Power (not necessarily in that order). The Democrat Party in lockstep fashion continues fight for immorality, socialism and everything evil. They are not ashamed, discouraged or even close to giving up. Somehow, they corrupt everyone with whom they come in contact. It is now apparent that whoever goes to Washington may initially go there with moral values, a clear goal to enact legislation to benefit the people in a real way and a love of country, but almost every...

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THIS FALL, the National Institutes of Health will launch a major study to determine whether regular consumption of alcohol helps prevent heart attacks. The clinical trial will comprise nearly 8,000 participants, recruited from 16 sites in North and South America, Europe, and Africa. The volunteers will be randomly assigned to one of two groups: Those in the first group will have one drink each day, while those in the other group abstain. This enormous study will come with an enormous price tag: more than $100 million.If you're like me, news of the planned NIH study may make you wonder: Does...

n today's edition of /pol/ was right again, anons have located a YouTube channel belonging to the notorious criminal who's tied to the DNC and specifically Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Imran Awan. What's incredibly creepy about his channel is he does silent walkthroughs of abandoned or empty houses. While it could be true these are properties he owns for rentals or sale, there's some creepy moments in them where he's crawling through attics and cellars. Take a look. If you notice the pattern here most of these videos shows an address and an unknown person walking through each house inspecting each...

By now, the events related to Republicans' plans for health care early Friday morning have reverberated across Washington. Three GOP senators voted down a so-called "skinny repeal" plan, a devastating blow to President Donald Trump and Republican leadership. House Republicans met Friday morning. The closed-door conference was planned to be a discussion where House Speaker Paul Ryan laid out the conference committee structure/next steps. In fact, GOP aides say they were planning to vote to go to conference, appoint conferees and motions to instruct Friday before they left town. That obviously isn't applicable anymore.

Authorities in Phoenix are looking for a man caught on surveillance video torching a LGBT youth center — one year after he aged out of the program. Darren William Beach Jr., 26, is being sought by police in connection to an intentionally set fire at the one.n.ten youth center in Phoenix on July 12. No injuries were reported, but some staffers at the youth center are “shaken” by the incident. “Our youth whom we serve have been worried,” a statement on the center’s website reads. “Some are shaken. Our staff has been juggling the many issues that surrounded this loss...

Healthcare is not a right, it is a service provided by doctors and nurses who went to school to learn how to care for a sick human being. And they expect to be compensated for their services. Surely you would not expect your mechanic who learned how to fix your car, repair it for free, because it is your right to have a running vehicle. Health insurance is not a right either, it is also a service. Can you control what an insurance company does and what pricing systems they use? Can you control what government does now that they...

It would explain everything. Despite all the left wing blather, not a shred of evidence has ever been produced to give credence to the accusation that Trump colluded with the Russians to defeat Hillary Clinton. (Clinton has written a new book- "I lost because of...." and you can fill in the blank) It was conceived to distract the country and the mentally vacant press from the real scandal. I have long said that had there been anything to the Trump-Russia accusation it would have leaked by now, as the White House is a sieve. It's so bad that the number...

"Little Electric Chair" print was "rolled up in a tube," could be worth millionsAlice Cooper discovered an Andy Warhol silkscreen print that could be worth millions of dollars "rolled up in a tube" in a storage locker, The Guardian reports. The "Little Electric Chair" print was part of Warhol's Death and Disaster series and, coincidentally, had been laying around a facility for over 40 years alongside Cooper's Seventies-era electric chair stage prop. Cooper and Warhol became friends in the early Seventies after the rocker moved to New York City. Warhol even came to one of Cooper's concerts where he used...

The head of a Muslim food certification body in Australia has said “Australian women need [Muslim men] to fertilize them,” causing an online outcry. Mohamed Elmouelhy, the head of the Halal Certification Authority in Australia, wrote on his Facebook page that Australian women needed male Muslims because men in the country “are a dying breed.” “Australian women need us to fertilize them and keep them surrounded by Muslim babies while beer swilling, cigarette smoking, drug injecting can only dream of what Muslim men are capable of,” his post read. He added that Muslims “have a duty to make your [Australian...

A new study has found Muslims born in Denmark feel more fury at Western foreign intervention, and are more inclined to help Muslims by violent means, than foreign-born people who migrated from conflict zones. An international team of researchers, led by Milan Obaidi of Sweden’s Uppsala University, conducted two surveys in order to identify signs of victimisation-by-proxy — whereby, in its most extreme form, Muslims born in Europe who have never lived outside the continent become so angry at the treatment of Muslims abroad that they consider carrying out acts of violence. In order to compare the attitudes of Muslims...

Retired Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer said Thursday on Tucker Carlson Tonight that there is now evidence that then-Democratic National Chairwoman and current Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz used Imran Awan for "malevolent activities" and "manipulative things" against Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic primary race.

Teresa Tomeo interviewed Sharyl Atkisson the author of this book below in the last half of the stream at the link below. (starting around 27 minutes in); 'The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think and How You Vote' https://avemariaradio.net/audio-archive/catholic-connection-july-28-2017-hour-2/