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--North Carolina Trump rally crowd (Photo: Screen capture)In a column for the conservative Bulwark, two high-ranking officials in the Wisconsin Republican Party revealed that they tried to pass a resolution condemning violence by either side of the political sphere only to see it drawn to the party by Donald Trump.According to Kevin Barthel, a former member of the Executive Committee of the Republican Party of Wisconsin, and John F. Foote, a former vice-chairman of the , they submitted a resolution to the Oconto County Republican Party on Feb. 13th that read, in part: "Therefore Be It Resolved that the Republican Party of Oconto County, in caucus assembled: According to the two officials, it was shot down by a 55-45 percent margin.To explain the political leanings of Oconto County voters, the two wrote, "Oconto is a small county—26,000 registered voters out of a total population of 38,000—in northeastern Wisconsin," adding, "Former President Donald Trump carried Oconto County by 37 points in 2016 and 41 points in 2020. Local Republican congressional candidates, as well as partisan state and local candidates, regularly outperform the Democratic candidates 2:1 at the ballot box. Oconto County has been, in many ways and for many years, reflective of the base of the Republican party in Wisconsin."With that in mind, the two longtime Republicans lamented what their party is becoming when members can't even agree to -- no matter the party."There was the sense from those opposed to the resolution that they did not need to be told 'what is right and wrong,' so it appears to have struck a personal nerve with some even though we carefully drafted the resolution to express an organizational message that condemned uncivil actions and not specific parties or individuals," they wrote before citing that showed "that nearly 4 in 10 Republicans see a legitimate place for political violence in our political discourse."To explain what they think is happening to the Republican Party, they had a few observations about what the party is changing into and the type of people who are being drawn to it."This can sometimes be a good thing—there's a reason organizations value fresh blood. But it can also be a bad thing if many of the new members are less interested in political philosophies and more interested in anger and indignation," they wrote. "Which is why, in recent months, the focus of many local GOP organizations has shifted away from solving problems and toward blowing things up."Moving beyond the broad sweep of the state of Wisconsin Republicans, they added, "At least in our neighborhood, we can now see that a number of these newly enlisted Republicans appear to have come to the GOP not for the ideology or the philosophy, but for the signs, the flags and, the fight," who, they assert, is one reason why their anti-violence resolution failed.You can .Report typos and corrections to: .Film director Jean-Luc Godard, the godfather of France's New Wave cinema, died on Tuesday aged 91, newspaper Liberation said, citing people close to the Franco-Swiss director. was among the world's most acclaimed directors, known for such classics as "Breathless" and "Contempt", which and inspired iconoclastic directors decades after his 1960s heyday.His movies broke with the established conventions of in 1960 and helped kickstart a new way of filmmaking, complete with handheld camera work, jump cuts and existential dialogue.For many movie buffs, no words are good enough: Godard, with his tussled black hair and heavy-rimmed glasses, was a veritable revolutionary who made artists of movie-makers, putting them on a par with master painters and icons of literature."It's not where you take things from - it's where you take them to," Godard once said.Quentin Tarantino, director of "Pulp Fiction" and "Reservoir Dogs" in the 1990s, is often cited as one of a more recent generation of boundary-bending tradition that Godard and his Paris Left Bank cohorts initiated.Earlier came Martin Scorsese in 1976 with "Taxi Driver", the disturbing neon-lit psychological thriller of a Vietnam veteran turned cabbie who steers through the streets all night with a growing obsession for the need to clean up seedy New York.Godard was not everyone's idol. Wild-child Canadian director Xavier Dolan, who at 25 shared an award with an octogenarian Godard at the Cannes film festival in 2014, courted controversy every bit as much as Godard did but called him "the grinchy old man" and "no hero of mine".Godard was born into a wealthy Franco-Swiss family on December 3, 1930 in Paris's plush Seventh Arrondissement. His father was a doctor, his mother the daughter of a Swiss man who founded Banque Paribas, then an illustrious investment bank.(REUTERS)Saudi authorities have arrested a man who claimed to have travelled to the Muslim holy city of Mecca to perform an umrah pilgrimage on behalf of the late Queen Elizabeth II.The man, a Yemeni national, on Monday published a video clip of himself on social media at the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Islam's holiest site, where non-Muslims are forbidden.In the clip, he held up a banner saying: "Umrah for the soul of Queen Elizabeth II, we ask God to accept her in heaven and among the righteous."The footage was widely circulated on Saudi social media, with Twitter users calling for the man's arrest.Saudi Arabia forbids pilgrims to Mecca from carrying banners or chanting slogans.And while it is acceptable to perform umrah on behalf on deceased Muslims, this does not apply to non-Muslims like the queen, who was supreme governor of the Church of England, the mother church of the worldwide Anglican communion.Security forces at the Grand Mosque "arrested a resident of Yemeni nationality who appeared in a video clip carrying a banner inside the Grand Mosque, violating the regulations and instructions for umrah," said a statement carried by state media late Monday."He was arrested, legal measures were taken against him and he was referred to the public prosecution."State television broadcast segments about the incident that included the controversial video clip, but with the banner blurred.The umrah is a pilgrimage that can be undertaken at any time -- distinct from the hajj, which takes place once annually and usually draws millions from around the globe.The queen died on Thursday and her funeral is planned for September 19.© 2022 AFPRight-wing economist trashes his former White House colleagues as a “Cabinet of Clowns” in a new book.The dishes up personal criticism of Donald Trump's high-ranking officials and advisers, including former treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin and all four chiefs of staff, according to excerpts from the book .“The first chief Reince Priebus was just the wrong, small, and inexperienced man for a very big job,” Navarro writes in Taking Back Trump’s America.Navarro compares Trump's second chief of staff, John Kelly, to "using a chainsaw for open heart surgery," and says the retired Marine Corps general was “brutally and simply incapable of messaging anything to the press.”READ MORE: Mick Mulvaney remained the acting chief of staff for the entirety of his tenure, and Navarro says Trump purposefully withheld the official designation as a “little dig that the Boss liked to stick into Mick so he never got comfortable in the job.”“The more Mick begged, the more permanent his ‘acting chief’ status would become,” Navarro writes.Navarro's strongest criticism is aimed at Mark Meadows, whom he agrees was “the worst chief of staff in history," although he concedes that Mulvaney and Kelly are ignominious contenders. “Note to Reince,” Navarro writes, “I think you would have turned out to be the best of the bunch if the Boss had only given you a bit more time to prove yourself.”Navarro needles Mnuchin with personal attacks, saying he ”spoke like a robot" and came across as "cringeworthy and a Wall Street hack.”“You should normally expect a murderer’s row of highly polished media killers in the cabinet secretary pool,” Navarro writes. “Regrettably, this was just not so in Trump Land.”&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Copyright © 2022 Raw Story Media, Inc. 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--North Carolina Trump rally crowd (Photo: Screen capture)In a column for the conservative Bulwark, two high-ranking officials in the Wisconsin Republican Party revealed that they tried to pass a resolution condemning violence by either side of the political sphere only to see it drawn to the party by Donald Trump.According to Kevin Barthel, a former member of the Executive Committee of the Republican Party of Wisconsin, and John F. Foote, a former vice-chairman of the , they submitted a resolution to the Oconto County Republican Party on Feb. 13th that read, in part: "Therefore Be It...

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