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Sanders Polling Better Against Trump Than Clinton
Informed Comment
Excerpt: "A Quinnipiac Poll has found that 61% of Americans say Donald Trump does not share their values, 50% would be positively embarrassed to have him as president, and that Sen. Bernie Sanders would defeat him 51% to 38%."
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Informed Comment
Excerpt: "A Quinnipiac Poll has found that 61% of Americans say Donald Trump does not share their values, 50% would be positively embarrassed to have him as president, and that Sen. Bernie Sanders would defeat him 51% to 38%."
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Quinnipiac Poll has found that 61% of Americans say Donald Trump does not share their values, 50% would be positively embarrassed to have him as president, and that Sen. Bernie Sanders would defeat him 51% to 38%. Sec. Hillary Clinton would defeat Trump by 47% to 40% if the election were held today, according to this poll.
Data on a Quinnipiac Poll covering Donald Trump (photo: Juancole.com)
Wochit notes:
“According to the latest poll from Quinnipiac UniversityBernie Sanders would beat Donald Trump 51-38 in a general-election match-up, Or like Donald trump likes to taunt people he would get ‘Schlonged’ like he said about Hillary CLinton Earlier this Week. While he may be leading the GOP right now it doesnt mean much when 61 percent of Americans say the Republican frontrunner “does not share their values,”. Other polls by the University said 58 percent believe Trump “is not honest and trustworth”. But when it comes to the GOP Nod With 28 percent support, Trump Leads Texas Sen. Ted Cruz by 4 points, and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio by 14 points.”
Arrest of NYPD Officer Brings Filming of Officers Into Focus
Larry Neumeister and Jake Pearson, Associated Press
Excerpt: "Charges against a police officer accused of arresting a man for filming him with a cellphone camera have drawn fresh attention to a decades-old issue: citizens' rights to record police."
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Larry Neumeister and Jake Pearson, Associated Press
Excerpt: "Charges against a police officer accused of arresting a man for filming him with a cellphone camera have drawn fresh attention to a decades-old issue: citizens' rights to record police."
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harges against a police officer accused of arresting a man for filming him with a cellphone camera have drawn fresh attention to a decades-old issue: citizens' rights to record police.
Officer Jonathan Munoz pleaded not guilty Tuesday to official misconduct charges in the March 2014 arrest of 21-year-old Jason Disisto.
Even before Munoz's arrest, Disisto contended in a lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court that New York Police Department officers intimidate or arrest people recording police activity. He cited instances since 2005 when people, including journalists, were arrested after recording police with cameras or phones.
Police spokeswoman Sophia Mason says NYPD employees are reminded not to interfere with people recording police activity.
Patrick Lynch, president of the union representing police officers, said people sometimes abuse their rights, using them to torment or harass officers.
"It escalates the tension and makes it more dangerous for everyone involved," Lynch said. "The act of recording police starts from the belief that every officer is doing something wrong and that's insulting to all police officers."
For officers, problems arise when recording can be interpreted as interfering with police activity, union officials say.
They add that officers understand they may be filmed, but the line between interference and documentation is blurred when a bystander shoves a cellphone into a crime scene from an arms-length away and yells aggressively at officers.
Prosecutors say their case against Munoz, 32, was built in part through surveillance video from a commercial establishment disproving his claim that Disisto entered a "fighting stance" before lunging and swinging a fist at him as officers investigated a young woman suspected of buying marijuana.
"Had this officer's attempts to conceal his alleged misconduct succeeded, an innocent man may still be facing charges for a fabricated crime," Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. said in a news release.
Munoz' lawyer did not immediately return a message Thursday seeking comment.
Christopher Dunn, associate legal director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, said court fights over the issue have occurred periodically since a 1973 lawsuit resulted in a settlement four years later.
In it, the city agreed arrests would not result when someone merely takes photographs, remains near an arrest, or speaks out — even with crude or vulgar language — as long as there is no threat to safety and no law is broken.
In a report this year, the Civilian Complaint Review Board, which investigates allegations of police wrongdoing, said video recordings — including those on someone's phone — had an increasingly important role in substantiating misconduct complaints. In 2012, only 3 percent of the agency's investigations included video evidence, growing to 17 percent in the first half of 2015.
Dunn said the recording trend has exposed police.
"There are more and more instances surfacing where it is clear the police officers have lied in their descriptions of what happened in an incident," he said. "That sort of police perjury is unconscionable and something police departments really have to tackle."
COMMENTS:
We need to just turn around what the Police State has been telling us since the rise of mass surveillance after 9/11:
"If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear."
"If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear."
"The act of recording police starts from the belief that every officer is doing something wrong and that's insulting to all police officers," said Patrick Lynch, president of the NYPD officers’ union. This is an invalid position and one that contributes to, not helps solve, the problems America is having with its police.
Imagine someone said about the fact that the NFL films every game with multiple cameras, "The act of recording [players and referees] starts from the belief that every [one of them] is doing something wrong and that's insulting to all [players and referees]."
Or how about, "The act of [writing down every detail in a contract] starts from the belief that every [one who enters into an agreement] is doing something wrong and that's insulting to all [who sign contracts].
"The act of recording [customers] starts from the belief that every [shopper] is doing something wrong and that's insulting to all [people who enter a store to shop]."
Imagine someone said about the fact that the NFL films every game with multiple cameras, "The act of recording [players and referees] starts from the belief that every [one of them] is doing something wrong and that's insulting to all [players and referees]."
Or how about, "The act of [writing down every detail in a contract] starts from the belief that every [one who enters into an agreement] is doing something wrong and that's insulting to all [who sign contracts].
"The act of recording [customers] starts from the belief that every [shopper] is doing something wrong and that's insulting to all [people who enter a store to shop]."
Suspected Arson at Bill Clinton's Birthplace
CBS News
Excerpt: "Arson is suspected in a blaze that damaged the birthplace of Bill Clinton early Christmas morning, reports CBS Shreveport, Louisiana affiliate KSLA-TV."
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CBS News
Excerpt: "Arson is suspected in a blaze that damaged the birthplace of Bill Clinton early Christmas morning, reports CBS Shreveport, Louisiana affiliate KSLA-TV."
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Homeland Security Preparing 'Trump Style' Mass Deportation Raids
Jerry Markon and David Nakamura, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "The Department of Homeland Security has begun preparing for a series of raids that would target for deportation hundreds of families who have flocked to the United States since the start of last year, according to people familiar with the operation."
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Jerry Markon and David Nakamura, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "The Department of Homeland Security has begun preparing for a series of raids that would target for deportation hundreds of families who have flocked to the United States since the start of last year, according to people familiar with the operation."
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New Zealand Judge Rules Internet Entrepreneur Kim Dotcom Eligible for Extradition to US
Sophia Yan, CNN Money
Yan writes: "Dotcom and three of his former business associates - Mathias Ortmann, Finn Batato and Bram van der Kolk - are eligible for extradition under Wednesday's decision."
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Sophia Yan, CNN Money
Yan writes: "Dotcom and three of his former business associates - Mathias Ortmann, Finn Batato and Bram van der Kolk - are eligible for extradition under Wednesday's decision."
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US Officials Consider Allowing More Civilian Casualties in Airstrikes on ISIS
Karen DeYoung and Missy Ryan, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "President Obama's order to intensify air attacks in Syria has led to new internal debate over whether to loosen tight restrictions on strikes against Islamic State targets that risk civilian casualties, according to senior administration officials."
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Karen DeYoung and Missy Ryan, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "President Obama's order to intensify air attacks in Syria has led to new internal debate over whether to loosen tight restrictions on strikes against Islamic State targets that risk civilian casualties, according to senior administration officials."
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Almost All Major Oil Companies Have Known About Global Warming Since the 1970s
Lauren McCauley, Common Dreams
McCauley writes: "It wasn't just Exxon that knew fossil fuels were cooking the planet. New investigative reporting by Neela Banerjee with Inside Climate News revealed on Tuesday that scientists and engineers from nearly every major U.S. and multinational oil and gas company may have for decades known about the impacts of carbon emissions on the climate."
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Lauren McCauley, Common Dreams
McCauley writes: "It wasn't just Exxon that knew fossil fuels were cooking the planet. New investigative reporting by Neela Banerjee with Inside Climate News revealed on Tuesday that scientists and engineers from nearly every major U.S. and multinational oil and gas company may have for decades known about the impacts of carbon emissions on the climate."
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