German president asks for forgiveness on Warsaw Ghetto Uprising anniversary

German president asks for forgiveness on Warsaw Ghetto Uprising anniversary

[ad_1] Germany’s president has asked for forgiveness for the crimes his country committed in the second world war, on the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the first German president to speak at the commemorations in Poland’s capital, joined his Polish and Israeli counterparts to mark 80 years since Jewish insurgents’ doomed uprising…

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He’s rich. He’s pugilistic. And he’s quietly paying to get Gavin Newsom’s attention.

He’s rich. He’s pugilistic. And he’s quietly paying to get Gavin Newsom’s attention.

[ad_1] It’s also opening a window into yet another way powerful individuals and groups can wield influence in the state, often without public scrutiny and far outside the Capitol. Critics of Weinstein’s latest approach say it is pure “astroturf activism,” designed to look like he has a groundswell of support for his corresponding ballot initiative…

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