Law, Power, and Justice

CURMUDGEONLY NEWS NOTES

Corporate Media

• Nicolle Wallace is, once again, not there to do her show.  Do any of these people work anymore?  I am beginning to agree with a twitterer, i.e., that everybody at MSNBC is drunk.
• Alicia Menendez is taking over for Nicolle Wallace.  I find this woman impossible to listen to.  She is boring, she never changes expression, she never says anything worth listening to.
• Mara Gay is on the panel of “Deadline white House.”  She is either wearing shorts, or a skirt that is 90% up her thigh.  Absurd.  I just don’t get why women dress like this. 
• MSNBC is using the entire first block on Deadline White House talking about whether Trump is going to do a debate with Harris.  That’s it?  That is the most important story MSNBC could come up with?  Absurd.  What a waste of time corporate news is.

Israel

• Egypt is claiming that there are no tunnels between Egypt and Gaza that can be used to smuggle arms and people can be smuggled.  This contradicts what high level officials in Israel have maintained.  The Egyptians claim that they blocked any tunnels six years ago.  This is one of the sticking points in the cease fire talks, whether as Israel claims, it has to maintain a presence in the Philadelphi corridor (the stretch of land running between Gaza and Egypt.)
• Hamas sees agreeing to Israeli control of the strip means normalizing Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip.