Juan Cole | Fate of 190,000-Years-Old Human Race Depends on Massive Greening Effort Over Just 30 Years

08 October 18 PM

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Juan Cole | Fate of 190,000-Years-Old Human Race Depends on Massive Greening Effort Over Just 30 Years 

Juan Cole, Informed Comment
Cole writes: "It strikes me as darkly humorous that we, the most intelligent species ever to have evolved on earth, homo sapiens (evolved circa 190,000 years ago), were so clever that around 1750 we started burning so much wood, coal and later on oil and natural gas that we started changing our own climate so much that it may threaten our survival."
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Christine Blasey Ford. (photo: Gabriella Demczuk/Getty Images)

Christine Blasey Ford Still Can't Go Home Due to 'Unending' Death Threats
Rafi Schwartz, Splinter News
Schwartz writes: "Two weeks after testifying to the Senate Judiciary Committee that Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her at a house party in the early 1980s, a lawyer for Dr. Christine Blasey Ford says she's still unable to return to her California home because of the sheer volume of death threats she's received since coming forward with her story."
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Jason Van Dyke. (photo: Antonio Perez/AFP/Getty Images)

Convicting Laquan McDonald's Killer Isn't Enough
Nate Marshall, BuzzFeed
Marshall writes: "The guilty verdict passed on police officer Jason Van Dyke is necessary and so infuriatingly insufficient."
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Brett Kavanaugh. (photo: Supreme Court of the United States)

'Mandatory Detentions' of Immigrants at Stake in Justice Kavanaugh's First Big Case
Scott Bixby, The Daily Beast
Bixby writes: "The ACLU calls the law a 'draconian response to an imaginary problem,' while Republicans argue the government needs 'broad power to detain.'"
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Some of the original 58 wooden crosses that were set up as part of a memorial after the Oct. 1, 2017, massacre on the Las Vegas Strip. (photo: Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

A Year After the Las Vegas Shooting, Congress Still Hasn't Banned Bump Stocks
Editorial Board, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "Here it is a year later, and bump stocks are still legal and available for sale in most of the country."
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Jair Bolsonaro. (photo: Evaristo SA/Getty Images)

ALSO SEE: How Brazil's Bolsonaro Used Trump Tactics

A Far-Right Authoritarian Is Edging Towards Power in Brazil
Luke Barnes, ThinkProgress
Barnes writes: "Jair Bolsonaro has praised Brazil's military dictatorship, which led the country up until 1985."
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Earth from space. (photo: Modis/Aqua/NASA)

A Final Call to Save the World From 'Climate Catastrophe'
Matt McGrath, BBC News
McGrath writes: "Their dramatic report on keeping that rise under 1.5 degrees C says the world is now completely off track, heading instead towards 3C."
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Charles Pierce | The Supreme Court's Legitimacy Is on the Brink of Collapse

07 October 18 AM

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Charles Pierce | The Supreme Court's Legitimacy Is on the Brink of Collapse 

Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "That's the sticking point for succeeding generations. Kavanaugh's entire career prior to being installed in the federal court where he now sits was as a partisan lawyer, the political equivalent of an ambulance chaser. That was the part of him that came out in his now infamous tirade. That was where 'revenge for the Clintons' came from."
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Drain What Swamp? Trump's Supporters Embrace Kavanaugh, Member of a Class They Once Rebuked.
Jenna Johnson, The Washington Post
Johnson writes: "At the heart of President Trump's political movement is this paradox: A wealthy reality television star who lived in a gold-encrusted Manhattan penthouse was able to gather a dedicated following of the less privileged and launch a war against his own social class."
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Christine Blasey Ford answers questions at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., September 27, 2018. (photo: Melina Mara/Reuters)

Christine Blasey Ford's Friend Criticizes FBI for Not Interviewing Him
CBS News
Excerpt: "Koegler said there are a minimum of seven people who knew about Ford's allegation of sexual assault against Kavanaugh before his nomination and were not interviewed by the FBI."
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Activists celebrate outside the Leighton Criminal Courts Building hearing the verdict in the murder trial of Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke on Oct. 5, 2018 in Chicago. (photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Jason Van Dyke Trial: Chicago Takes to the Streets Following Murder Conviction
Safia Samee Ali and Doha Madani, NBC News
Excerpt: "Activists in Chicago used protests to celebrate the murder conviction of a white police officer who killed a black teenager in 2014."
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Hadi Mohammed sits with his 9 year old son Mohammed Ghaleb in their Lincoln, Neb. apartment. (photo: Nati Harnik/AP)

Trump Refugee Policy Leaves Thousands Stranded Outside US
Susannah George and Colleen Long, Associated Press
Excerpt: "Death threats drove Hadi Mohammed out of Iraq and to a small apartment in Nebraska, where he and his two young sons managed to settle as refugees. But the danger hasn't been enough to allow his wife to join them."
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Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi speaks at an event hosted by Middle East Monitor in London Britain, September 29, 2018. (photo: Middle East Monitor/Reuters)

Turkey Concludes Missing Saudi Journalist Was Killed in Consulate
Orhan Coskun, Reuters
Coskun writes: "Turkish authorities believe that prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who disappeared four days ago after entering Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul, was killed inside the consulate, two Turkish sources said on Saturday."
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At least 388 houses were flooded in Nicaragua due to the rains over the last 24 hours. (photo: Jorge Torres/EPA)

Heavy Rain Causes Floods, Landslides in Central America
Al Jazeera
Excerpt: "Heavy rain has lashed parts of Central America and has led to flash flooding and landslides."
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RSN: Shoot the Kid 16 Times

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Much has been written about the Chicago Police Department, Homan Square and police killings of BLACKS.

Ignorance of what has transpired in Chicago and elsewhere is simply no excuse. 
Injustice has created the SCHOOL TO PRISON PIPELINE for which we all pay. 



In many communities, members of the Police Force live locally, know their communities and take pride in their jobs, conducting themselves professionally. 

In Chicago, we know that Chicago Police operated a BLACK HOLE [Homan Square] where they tortured BLACKS into false confessions, inter alia.  

RSN: Chicago Cop Beat Wife in Homan Square 'Black Site,' Document Shows

RSN: Republicans Deserve Credit for Creating a Budget This Cruel, Bill Gates' "Charity" Org Holds $1.4 Billion in Fossil Fuel Investments

RSN: "Irresponsible & Reckless": Environmentalists Decry Obama's Arctic Drilling Approval, Homan Square Detainee: I Was Sexually Abused by Police at Chicago 'Black Site',

"Collective Psychopathology" And US Police State Methods 
By Jon V Kofas

http://www.countercurrents.org/kofas040315.htm

In February 2015, The Guardian published a couple of new stories about the connection between the Chicago police department “black site” at Homan Square and the Guantanamo prison where terror suspects have been kept as political prisoners without ever been charged. Neither the national media in the US nor the Chicago media organizations, including African-American, have pursued this story. Even after the British paper brought these issues to the attention of the public, the mainstream media in Chicago and across the US are ignoring the revelations, a subject in itself revealing about the role of the US media in a democratic society where human rights and civil rights violations occur

The disappeared: Chicago police detain Americans at abuse-laden 'black site' --Secret interrogation facility reveals aspects of war on terror in US | 24 Feb 2015 | The Chicago police department operates an off-the-books interrogation compound, rendering Americans unable to be found by family or attorneys while locked inside what lawyers say is the domestic equivalent of a CIA black site. The facility, a nondescript warehouse on Chicago's west side known as Homan Square, has long been the scene of secretive work by special police units. Interviews with local attorneys and one protester who spent the better part of a day shackled in Homan Square describe operations that deny access to basic constitutional rights. Alleged police practices at Homan Square, according to those familiar with the facility who spoke out to the Guardian after its investigation into Chicago police abuse, include: Keeping arrestees out of official booking databases. Beating by police, resulting in head wounds. Shackling for prolonged periods. Denying attorneys access to the "secure" facility. Holding people without legal counsel for between 12 and 24 hours, including people as young as 15

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The Disappeared: Chicago Police Detain Americans at Abuse-Laden 'Black Site' 
Spencer Ackerman, The Guardian 
Ackerman writes: "The Chicago police department operates an off-the-books interrogation compound, rendering Americans unable to be found by family or attorneys while locked inside what lawyers say is the domestic equivalent of a CIA black site." 
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The tapes of a recent shooting were erased. 
Witness accounts differ from Police statements and autopsy results contradict Police accounts. 




PLEASE NOTICE HOW WHITE THE CHICAGO POLICE FORCE IS. 

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FOCUS: Charles Pierce | Shoot the Kid 16 Times

Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "If you're wondering what went through the mind of Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke as he emptied his service piece into Laquan McDonald a year ago, it was confidence. The confidence that comes with being licensed to carry a gun as a defense against your fellow citizens."
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Most of the time, when you're a white cop, you shoot the kid and nothing happens. Will that finally change?

hoot the kid.

Shoot the kid 16 times.

Shoot the kid 16 times, mostly when he's already down.

Shoot the kid 16 times.

Make the body bounce.

Shoot the kid 16 times.

Shoot the kid 16 times and know that your buddies have your back.

Shoot the kid 16 times.

Shoot the kid 16 times and know that your buddies will grab the tapes.

Shoot the kid 16 times.

Shoot the kid 16 times and know that your buddies will bully the witnesses.

Shoot the kid 16 times.

Shoot the kid 16 times and know that the city will settle quietly.

Shoot the kid 16 times.

Shoot the kid 16 times and know that the city will bury the case.

Shoot the kid 16 times and know that nobody ever will know that you did.

Shoot the kid.

Shoot the kid 16 times.

If you're wondering what went through the mind of Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke as he emptied his service piece into Laquan McDonald a year ago, it was confidence. The confidence that comes with being licensed to carry a gun as a defense against your fellow citizens. The confidence that comes with the knowledge that almost every powerful institution in your city will come to your aid if every powerless individual in the city is outraged by what you've done. The confidence that comes with knowing that the tapes will always be taken care of, the autopsy buried, and the official story spread far and wide before the truth ever is known, assuming that it ever is. The confidence that comes with being a white police officer in a major city in a terrified country. That was the spirit in which Jason Van Dyke allegedly fired his last rounds into what soon became the dead body of Laquan McDonald.

But the rules changed on Van Dyke. They changed in Ferguson, and on Staten Island, and in Tulsa, and, most recently, in Minneapolis. Dogged local reporting dug out the autopsy report, which showed that Laquan McDonald had taken 16 bullets. Dogged local reporting, and an overwhelming public outcry, forced the release on Tuesday of the dashcam video. The videotape was proof enough. Jason Van Dyke stands charged with first-degree murder in the death of Laquan McDonald, whom he shot 16 times.

It's hard to know whether this story will end well or not. Truth be told, the first-degree murder charge may be very hard to sustain in this case against a Chicago police officer. At least one juror likely will have imbibed the line that Van Dyke's life was endangered by McDonald because that juror has been fed a steady diet of black criminality on the news, on the radio, and by his favorite television pundits. This is not an easy prosecution, but the fact that it is being brought at all is something of a small miracle. That is, of course, very easy for me to say. I am not the threat, walking down the street with my Skittles and my iced tea. I am not the threat, peddling my loosies on the sidewalk. I am not the threat, acting bizarrely outside the Burger King. I am not the threat.

Shoot the kid.

Shoot the kid 16 times.

Shoot the kid 16 times, and see what happens next.


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