Jubilant residents of South Paterson, N.J. - aka “Little Ramallah” - raised a Palestinian flag over City Hall this weekend, reportedly the first time the flag has flown over an American city, in honor of Palestinian-American Day. The day before, Raed Zidan became the first Palestinian to reach the summit of Mt. Everest - part of an "Arabs with Altitude" quartet that included the first Saudi Arabian woman - where he raised a Palestinian flag and dedicated his feat to Palestinians, notably those "languishing in Israeli prisons."

With Illinois poised to approve fracking, Gasland II, the second part of Josh Fox' acclaimed anti-fracking documentary, kicked off a 23-city tour of the film with a free showing in Normal, Il. The film tells stories of fracking victims and explores the financial clout of Big Oil, best if perversely exemplified by the industry's admitted use of psyops to manufacture consent - a tactic celebrated, with apologies to Francis Coppola, with a new video.

Shareholders of JPMorgan Chase have reportedly declined to strip Jamie Dimon of his job as mega-fat-cat Chairman/CEO of the too-big-to-fail-or-jail Chase, despite an unending litany of illegal activities, an upcoming Senate hearing, and an astonishing new 45-page report documenting case after case of fraud and abuse, from foreclosure fraud to obstruction of justice to making fictitious trades to money laundering for drug cartels - all by a company that's essentially "a criminal racket just days away from imploding, were it not propped up by implicit bailout guarantees and light-touch regulators." Yeah, sure, let's keep the guy who ran it.