Stay updated with breaking news from Julian s. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
good morning. it is saturday may 14th. according to the latest survey, americans view inflation as the top problem facing the country right now. this is no surprise as the price of everything is rising. there s a lot more going on behind the scenes. i want to get in to it with gas prices. it rose averaging $4.42 a gallon, according to the automobile association. a top $4 per gallon in every state, well above $5 a gallon in california and hawaii. this leads us to the discussion of crude oil prices. the biggest factor that affects how much you pay at the pump. over the past 20 years, it s important to look at it overtime. the price of crude has had peaks and values. you can see the rise starting in 2002, then the fall after the 2008 recession, then another sharp fall in 2014, and then another in 2020, the beginning of the corona pandemic. oil falls when people use less than the world produces. now let s go to socks. i prefer to focus on the s&p 500. it is a better represe ....
the hearing has been ongoing in the mariana islands. thejudge says julian assange the mariana islands. thejudge sastulian assange will walk away a free man that s the information coming in from the remote us territory. the wikileaks founder has been fighting extradition to the us on espionage charges for over a decade now. let s take a look at the key dates that have brought us to this point. the wikileaks cofounder has been fighting extradition to the us on espionage charges for over a decade. let s look at the key dates that have brought us here. in 2010, julian assange was part of a flood of classified military files and diplomatic cables spilled by wikileaks that year. months later, an international arrest warrant was issued. sweden wanted to question him about sexual assault allegations made by two women. to avoid extradition, he sought refuge in ecuador s london embassy. he d spend seven years there. but in 2019 in a dramatic moment he was dragged out of the ....
Concentration camps are the end of a genocide. we start with the ostracization, the polarization of people, us versus them. that is the beginning steps of an atrocity that we end up with. i just wanted to show in a book, in the story, that was for children, how we can go from step a through steps e. it is the silence of people that lets it happen. we have a minute left. there is another piece of other that you tackle. it is bullying. it is a common seem in white bird and wonder. you can if you have not read wonder, we see sarah s grandson, julian, bully audi in the first pages of wonder in white bird. then we see that they target julian for limp and a crunch. sara is not a bully but a ....
His grandmother. it picks up after julian s expelled and it is working on a class project at his new school interviewing someone he knows and sharing the story. julian s, grandmother, sara, was a young jewish girl in the free part of france. the part that was not occupied by the nazis themselves. it was not free it was administered by pro nazi french government in world war ii. she had a happy childhood with loving parents. she was able to maintain the illusion of normalcy, and quote, despite the increase of nazi propaganda and her own experience with antisemitism at school. there is a particularly heart-wrenching moment when sarah asks her father, why do they hate us? he responds that it is not all people who hate them, quote, i try not to think in terms of a good and bad, i think of light and dark. i prefer that all people have a light that shines inside of them. this light allows us to see into other peoples hearts, to see the beauty that is there, the love, the sadness, the ....
A book club members will remember mouse, the pulitzer prize graphic novel about the holocaust, both because of the shockingly widespread calls of the band across the u.s. and because it spurred a book club. today, we go back to the beginning, all to the old truth subject matter, despite its deniers, the holocaust. we feature a different graphic novel but from the same topic and written for children. it is white bird by r. j. palacio. it is part of the wonder children s book series. wonder falls on guy, a ten year old boy born with a genetic deformation. during his mainstream school, he notices bullying and kindness. i won t give too much away from that. white bird is the latest book that centers around one of obvious bullies, julian, and ....