Tweets from the Cuckoo?

I refuse to follow dt on Twitter, but I was wondering if this report of tweets by him on Saturday, March 11, were real.

Complaining that the Underground Railroad "stole our property"?

Taunting that Canada can't keep "our big beautiful soldiers off your soil"?

Thinking ISIS may get Canada's oil: "Sharia law and North American energy do NOT mix!" ?

It turns out that a related report last summer was rated false by Snopes.  Therefore, this report from CounterPunch is also fake news--supposedly for someone's entertainment.  I don't find it funny to have my inbox polluted by fake new.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/03/14/on-guard-canada-trumps-latest-tweet-storm/

http://www.snopes.com/trump-claims-america-should-never-have-given-canada-its-independence/

Thank you to David Mikkelson and the snopes.com website for helping us to sort fact from fiction.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/10/us/snopes-day-in-the-life-trnd/

I'm sorry that I wasted my time reading this report and posting on it--with a question mark.

Add CounterPunch to your list of websites not to be trusted.

Discarded Women

How disheartening to hear how Syrian women are tricked, coerced, and used by ISIS... and then discarded.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/world/middleeast/isis-wives-and-enforcers-in-syria-recount-collaboration-anguish-and-escape.html

These three women eventually escaped to Turkey, but first they were coerced into marriages with ISIS foreigners who turned out to be suicide bombers.  

The men were not allowed to become fathers, lest they abandon their mission.  So the "wives" were not allowed to get pregnant.

One day their husbands disappeared and soon men came to inform them that they were widows.

Soon thereafter they were again coerced to marry new ISIS warriors...but these three escaped across the border into Turkey to tell their stories.

And now the US is urging Turkey to close 100 km of its border with Syria?

https://www.rt.com/news/323825-us-turkey-syrian-border/

How will refugees escape?

Bombs Don't Bring Peace

Thank you to Senator Bernie Sanders for speaking the truth about the Middle East as much of the world rushes to war.

It was the US bombing of Baghdad that destabilized the Middle East and led to the formation of the so-called Islamic State.

More bombing is not going to solve anything unless it is a unified effort planned by the United Nations.

What we need to do is assist the young immigrants and children of immigrants in Europe and the US to find meaningful lives, so they will not be desperate enough to become suicide bombers and terrorists.

Thank you to President Obama for not rushing to war in Syria in the past few years as most Republican presidents would have done.

These are Sanders' words:

I voted against the war in Iraq, and knew it was the right vote then, and most people recognize it was the right vote today. The only mission President Bush and his neo-conservative friends accomplished was to destabilize an entire region, and create the environment for al-Qaeda and ISIS to flourish.

While we must be relentless in combating terrorists who would do us harm, we cannot and should not be policeman of the world, nor bear the burden of fighting terrorism alone. The United States should be part of an international coalition, led and sustained by nations in the region that have the means to protect themselves. That is the only way to defeat ISIS and to begin the process of creating the conditions for a lasting peace in the region.”– Sen. Bernie Sanders