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Michelle Alexander | Learning to Walk 
 
Michelle Alexander, Michelle Alexander's Facebook Page 
Alexander writes: "The truth is we are stumbling badly in large part because we are just beginning to learn to walk. Roughly 50 years ago, we still had an explicitly racist system of laws and government: a racial caste system. It was not a true democracy by any stretch. We still don't have a real democracy. And we've managed to rebirth a new caste-like system in recent years, a new Jim Crow. In the words of William Faulkner, 'The past is never dead. It's not even past.'" 
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Trump's Vast Web of Conflicts: A User's Guide 
Darren Samuelsohn, Politico 
Samuelsohn writes: "An agency-by-agency look at the ethics challenges flowing from Trump's sprawling business empire." 
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Police Officer Charged With Manslaughter Over Shooting Death of Philando Castile 
Kyle Potter and Amy Forliti, Associated Pres 
Excerpt: "A Minnesota police officer has been charged with second-degree manslaughter in the killing of Philando Castile, a black man whose girlfriend streamed the gruesome aftermath of the fatal shooting live on Facebook, prosecutors announced Wednesday." 
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Muslim-Hating Conspiracy Theorist Frank Gaffney Advising Trump's Transition Team 
Jon Schwarz, The Intercept 
Schwarz writes: "According to the Wall Street Journal, Frank Gaffney, president of the Center for Security Policy, has joined Donald Trump's transition team to work on national security issues. Trump's campaign has denied that Gaffney is officially part of the transition, and the New York Times is reporting that Trump is merely relying on 'advice' from Gaffney." 
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Twitter Suspends Multiple Alt-Right Accounts in an Effort to Crack Down on Hate Speech 
The Cut, New York Magazine 
Excerpt: "Twitter suspended several social-media accounts linked to the alt-right movement on Tuesday, as part of its effort to crack down on 'hate speech.'" 
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Neil Young Celebrates 71st Birthday Performing at Standing Rock Protest Site 
Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone 
Kreps writes: "Neil Young celebrated his 71st birthday with some activism Saturday as the singer visited Standing Rock, site of the Dakota Access Pipeline protests, to perform for those involved in the standoff." 
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Social Movements Warn COP22 Could Accelerate Climate Catastrophe 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "While much criticism of the Paris deal and COP22 has highlighted world leaders' failure to create a roadmap for a timely transition away from fossil fuels to clean energy, debates over the future model of agriculture - and its impacts on land ownership and food sovereignty - are also key." 
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CounterCurrents: Our Ku Klux Klan In Blue, June Was Warmest On Record For U.S State of the Climate Repo, 30 Ways Cities Can Prepare For Global Warming, The Upcoming NATO Summit Meeting, On July 8-9

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Five Dallas Police Officers Killed In Sniper Firing At A #BlackLivesMatter Protest

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/08/four-dallas-police-officers-killed-in-sniper-firing-at-a-blacklivesmatter-protest/

Five Dallas police officers were killed and six others were wounded by snipers on Thursday night during a demonstration protesting shootings by officers in Minnesota and Louisiana this week.

#BlackLivesMatter: Philando Castile Shot Dead In Minnesota

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/08/blacklivesmatter-philando-castile-shot-dead-in-minnesota/

Philando Castile, another African-American, a 32-year-old school cafeteria manager, was killed during a traffic stop near St. Paul, in Falcon Heights, Minnesota where his distraught girlfriend broadcast his final moments in real time on Facebook.

Our Ku Klux Klan In Blue
by Professor Francis A Boyle 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/08/our-ku-klux-klan-in-blue/

Way to go America!
Our police shoot to kill Blacks
Just like “unlawful combatants”
In our Global War on Terrorism

Three Killed In Terrorist Attack In Bangladesh

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/08/three-killed-in-terrorist-attack-in-bangladesh/

In a terrorist attack near a mass Eid prayer gathering in Kishoreganj in Bangladesh two policeman and a woman were killed and 13 people were wounded. One attacker had been shot dead. Three terrorists were arrested, one of them injured.

Arctic Sea Ice Hits Record Low For June Amid Escalating Warnings
by Nadia Prupis 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/08/arctic-sea-ice-hits-record-low-for-june-amid-escalating-warnings/

Arctic sea ice plummeted to a record low in June, shrinking 56,900 square kilometers (22,000 square miles) per day last month, according to new figures from the National Snow & Ice Data Center.

June Was Warmest On Record For U.S
State of the Climate Report 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/08/june-was-warmest-on-record-for-u-s/

The June temperature for the contiguous U.S. was 71.8°F, or 3.3°F above the 20th century average, surpassing the previous record of 71.6°F set in 1933. The year-to-date (January-June) temperaturewas 50.8°F, 3.2°F above the 20th century average, making it the third warmest on record.


Hollowness Of Invasion: John Chilcot Report On UK Role In US Led Invasion
by T Navin 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/08/hollowness-of-invasion-john-chilcot-report-on-uk-role-in-us-led-invasion/

The recent report produced by John Chilcot to look into UK role in US led invasion exposes the hollowness of such actions by allied forces

30 Ways Cities Can Prepare For Global Warming
by Wayne Roberts 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/08/30-ways-cities-can-prepare-for-global-warming/

There’s a good reason (actually, 30 good reasons covered here, plus at least 90 others to be discussed in later issues) why no-one has been able to come up with a better term for what’s called “urban agriculture.”

Vanishing Act: Why Insects Are Declining And Why It Matters
by Christian Schwägerl 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/08/vanishing-act-why-insects-are-declining-and-why-it-matters/

Insect populations are declining dramatically in many parts of the world, recent studies show. Researchers say various factors, from monoculture farming to habitat loss, are to blame for the plight of insects, which are essential to agriculture and ecosystems

MDR-TB Treatment Regimen: Short Indeed Is Effective
by Shobha Shukla 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/08/mdr-tb-treatment-regimen-short-indeed-is-effective/

WHO recently announced new recommendations to speed up diagnosis and improve treatment outcomes for multi drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) through the use of a novel rapid diagnostic test called MTBDRsl, and a shorter, cheaper 9-12 month treatment regimen. The new treatment regimen can be completed in 9-12 months— less than half the time required by the current 24-month treatment standard used worldwide.

The Upcoming NATO Summit Meeting, On July 8-9
by Eric Zuesse 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/08/the-upcoming-nato-summit-meeting-on-july-8-9/

All NATO leaders will meet together at a crucial July 8th-9th Summit meeting in Warsaw, to agree regarding what to do to Russia, about which U.S. General Philip Breedlove, then the Supreme Commander of NATO, said earlier this year “Russia has chosen to be an adversary and poses a long-term existential threat to the United States and to our European allies and partners.” The main purpose of this meeting will be to achieve unity on the Russian problem. It will be difficult to do. The 28 member nations are not, and have not been, unified on the matter. The U.S. is seeking a more aggressive stand.

Sheela Marandi: Another Victim Of Injudicious System
by Persecuted Prisoners Solidarity Committee 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/08/sheela-marandi-another-victim-of-injudicious-system/

Months of single-minded work since the formation of Persecuted Prisoners Solidarity Committee last year, could yield some encouraging results, especially on February 20 and May 30 when veteran leader of the revolutionary women’s movement in the country and founder of Nari Mukti Sangh, Comrade Sheela Marandi walked out of jail in after a long spell of persecution, and was last week saved the torture of being put behind bars once again

CLG: Two snipers dressed in military garb shoot 11 police officers 'from elevated positions' in Dallas, Century-Old Redwood Trees OK'd For Lumber Harvest, Despite Objections

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08 July 2016

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Breaking: Two snipers dressed in military garb shoot 11 police officers 'from elevated positions' in Dallas --Fifth police officer dies --One suspect claims to have planted bombs 'all over the place.' This suspect, holed up in a high-rise parking garage, was 'actively exchanging gunfire' and negotiating with police, but reports are emerging that this suspect has died from a 'self-inflicted gunshot wound.' At least four suspects 'with rifles' were/are apparently in play. Two suspects in a Mercedes-Benz 'with camouflage bags' were stopped and detained after a traffic stop. One suspect negotiating with the Dallas Police Department (DPD) revealed that there are bombs planted in the parking garage and 'all over downtown Dallas,' according to David Brown, Dallas Police Chief. --Suspicious device discovered near second suspect, bomb squad on scene --ATF, FBI, US Marshals, SWAT, military and Humvee on scene --Snipers were situated on two different perches --Fifty to sixty shots were fired --Suspects threatened to 'plant a bomb' in area, according to David Brown. Five police officers and one transit police officer (Dallas Area Rapid Transit - DART) were killed; 6 others wounded. One civilian has been wounded. Downtown Dallas is a 'major crime scene.' (Fox News - reports from commentators and media conferences) | 08 July 2016 | Updated: 03:51a.m. EDT. [This story will be updated.]

 

Police in standoff with suspected sniper after five Dallas officers killed during protest; three others in custody | 08 July 2016 | Dallas Police were in a standoff early Friday with a suspected sniper who, along with at least one other shooter, targeted law enforcement officers during a protest march, killing five and injuring several other officers as well as one civilian. More suspects may be at large. Dallas Police Chief David Brown said the suspect holed up in a downtown parking garage had exchanged gunfire with officers for 45 minutes and claimed "the end is coming," as well as saying that he had planted bombs across Dallas and wanted to hurt more officers. Brown also said authorities had earlier taken a woman into custody near the garage. Two men were also being questioned after police pursued their vehicle away from downtown onto Interstate 35.

 

Bomb squad secures suspicious package following Dallas police shootings | 07 July 2016 | A suspicious package has been located and secured by a bomb squad in Dallas following the shootings and killings of multiple police officers at a Black Lives Matter protest. Earlier Thursday, Dallas Police Department's Chief David Brown said snipers suspected of killing multiple police officers may have planted a bomb in the city. The snipers are suspected in the shootings of at least 11 police officers from elevated positions at a Black Lives Matter protest. As of 12 a.m. EDT Friday, four had died. One civilian was also wounded during the protest shootings.

 

Shots Reportedly Fired at Dallas Protest Over Police Killings | 07 July 2016 | Shots were reported fired in downtown Dallas on Thursday night during a protest over shootings by police of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota, CNN affiliate KTVT said. Across the nation, Americans wept and vented their anger over the police killings of two black men in two days. They chanted outside the governor's residence in St. Paul, Minnesota, miles from the spot where an officer killed Philando Castile in a car on Wednesday while a 4-year-old girl sat in the back seat.

 

Officer-involved shootings: All lanes of I-880 in Oakland remain closed due to protest | 08 July 2016 | Thousands of protesters gathered in Oakland Thursday night to rally behind the two men [killed in police shootings], now at the center of a nationwide conversation over race and the use of force. Demonstrators marched onto Interstate 880, shutting down all lanes of the highway as they staged a sit-in. At one point, protesters started lighting off fireworks, set a Caltrans sign on fire and climbed onto a big-rig.

 

Justice Dept. to monitor investigation into deadly Minnesota police shooting | 07 July 2016 | The Justice Department will monitor the investigation into the controversial shooting death of a black man by a police officer in the St. Paul, Minn. suburb of Falcon Heights, according to Gov. Mark Dayton who said Thursday he was "heartbroken for Minnesota." Officials say the state's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension will take the lead on the investigation into the shooting death of Philando Castile on Wednesday. Video of the aftermath appeared on Facebook.

 

Minnesota Police Shooting's Aftermath Is Captured in Gruesome Video | 07 July 2016 | A Minnesota man was fatally shot Wednesday night by the police during a traffic stop in a St. Paul suburb, and the aftermath was captured in a grisly video recorded by the car's front-seat passenger and streamed live. It was at least the second shooting this week of a black man by police officers, and parts of both encounters were recorded on video. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reported that the man killed was Philando Castile, a 32-year-old cafeteria supervisor at a Montessori school in St. Paul.

 

At least 35 killed in attack on Shi'ite mausoleum north of Baghdad | 07 July 2016 | Islamic State claimed a triple suicide attack on Thursday evening near a Shi'ite mausoleum north of Baghdad, which killed at least 35 people and wounded 60 others, according to Iraqi security sources. The attack on the Mausoleum of Sayid Mohammed bin Ali al-Hadi reignited fears of an escalation of the sectarian strife between Iraq's Shi'ites and Sunnis. The Shi'ite form a majority in Iraq but Sunnis are predominant in northern and western provinces, including Salahuddin where the mausoleum is located.

 

NYC transit to get $22M to combat terrorism threat | 08 July 2016 | New York City's bus and transit system is receiving more than 22 million in federal funds for security upgrades and training intended to prevent terrorism. Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the award for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Thursday. Smaller amounts will go to transit agencies in western New York state.

 

9/11 witnesses describe explosion in World Trade Center BEFORE first plane hit building | 04 April 2010 | By sidneyoh "This video is [a compilation of] clips of people [who] say there was a BOMB that when off in WTC then the first plane hit. But the best video is around 6:38, when there is live feed from a news camera set on the ground where you can hear the plane coming in and you hear the bomb go off and it's felt by the camera [which was set] on the ground. Then you still hear the plane still coming in and then hear it hit [the] WTC." (Video)

 

U.S. court to hear arguments in warrantless NSA spying case --Mohamed Mohamud's lawyers argued he was entrapped by law enforcement officers posing as al Qaeda [al-CIAduh] militants. | 06 July 2016 | A U.S. appeals court will weigh a constitutional challenge on Wednesday to a warrantless government surveillance program brought by an Oregon man found guilty of attempting to detonate a bomb in 2010 during a Christmas tree-lighting ceremony. The case before a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is the first of its kind to consider whether a criminal defendant's constitutional privacy rights are violated under a National Security Agency program that allows spying on Americans' international phone calls and internet communications.

 

Bernie Sanders Will Endorse Hillary Clinton Next Week: Report | 7 July 2016 | Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is expected to formally endorse presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, potentially ending tensions between the two and easing the concerns of party leaders hoping for a united front ahead of the nominating convention later this month. The endorsement is expected to occur next Tuesday, when Sanders and Clinton will appear together at a rally in New Hampshire, Democratic sources first told NBC News on Wednesday.

 

Republicans hit Comey over Clinton email probe, say issue isn't over | 7 July 2016 | Americans have not heard the last of Hillary Clinton's emails. Republicans pumped FBI Director James Comey Thursday for fresh evidence to prolong the politically damaging saga during a Capitol Hill hearing that ignited partisan anger over his decision not to seek charges against the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. GOP lawmakers vented frustration that Clinton escaped criminal action over her use of a private email server while serving as secretary of state while Democrats blasted the hearing as no more than a tax-payer funded witch-hunt.

 

Outrageous: Century-Old Redwood Trees OK'd For Lumber Harvest, Despite Objections | 05 July 2016 | Cal Fire has approved a timber harvest plan that involves logging century-old redwood trees along the Sonoma County coast despite the objections of environmental advocates. The Press Democrat reports that environmental advocates may challenge the 330-acre "Dogwood" harvest plan that the state fire and forest agency approved Friday. Gualala Redwood Timber Inc. acquired the land along the lower Gualala River in the northwest corner of Sonoma County last year. 

 

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Another deal made by Pfizer to avoid another lawsuit regarding their immoral behavior. in 2009, Pfizer agreed to pay $2.3 billion to settle civil and criminal allegations that it had illegally marketed its painkiller Bextra. Looks like they are still at it, so long as they only have to pay a small fine and continue to make a fortune while NO ONE from Pfizer goes to jail. Who is going to stop this? Who in our government is going to change the laws so that this crap will end?

Pfizer agrees to opioid marketing deal to 

escape a lawsuit by Chicago

Pfizer is also in the late stages of developing a non-opioid 

painkiller with Eli Lilly. The drug is targeted for regulatory 

approval in 2018.

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At a Loss: The Struggle to Say Something About the Murders of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling https://shar.es/1leaF2

"I watched the videos, like you, and I just don't know what to say anymore. I don't see how you can conclude anything other than that the two men are dead because they are black. Hell, the governor of Minnesota just said that he's sure Castile wouldn't have been shot if he had been white.

"I have long said that, at some point, what needs to happen is that cops need to condemn other cops, like Muslims after a terrorist attack. Usually, the response to that is how cops would never do that to other cops, that I don't understand their job, or something about the Blue Wall of Silence, the usual litany of excuses for why we can't evolve. But the Castile case seems to offer a situation where police officers can possibly, safely say, "Yeah, he fucked up and needs to be arrested."

7/07/2016

At a Loss: The Struggle to Say Something About the Murders of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling

I watched the Alton Sterling and Philando Castile videos shortly after they were put on line, one night after another, showing two black men murdered by police officers. The Sterling shooting is pathetic and enraging. The video of Castile bleeding to death while his girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds, filmed and narrated and her young daughter sat in the back seat as the cop holds his gun and gives orders is an absolute abomination.

Because, see, Castile did everything he was supposed to do. He complied. He had a license to carry a concealed weapon, which he was and about which he told the officer. He complied. The one thing that anyone who wanted to support the police in all the previous murders by police - Eric Garner or Walter Scott - was that you needed to do what the cops told you. Philando Castile, who was beloved by kids at the St. Paul, Minnesota, elementary school where he worked in the lunch room, did, even volunteering the information about his weapon, which likely the cop knew about in the first place from running the plate on the car.

What do you do with that? How do you justify this shooting, knee-jerk cop defenders? He listened. He responded. But the officer's complete fear and loss of control come through when he desperately screams at the almost supernaturally composed Reynolds, "I told him not to reach for it! I told him to get his hand out!" Philando Castile was still moaning at that point. What the fuck do you do with that? What do you do with what seems, in the video, with no one attempting to help Castile as he bled out? It was ten minutes before anyone tried to do anything for him.

Castile didn't resist. He submitted. Why would an African American want to submit anymore if even that will just get you killed? Why fucking bother, if following the law is no defense against law enforcement?

And Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana? Shot point blank by cops who were on top of him? How dumb a cop do you have to be to do that? How likely are you to shoot your partner in such close quarters? You'd think that police officers would be trained that if they have someone on the ground and are holding him down, they don't need to shoot the suspect.

I watched the videos, like you, and I just don't know what to say anymore. I don't see how you can conclude anything other than that the two men are dead because they are black. Hell, the governor of Minnesota just said that he's sure Castile wouldn't have been shot if he had been white.

I have long said that, at some point, what needs to happen is that cops need to condemn other cops, like Muslims after a terrorist attack. Usually, the response to that is how cops would never do that to other cops, that I don't understand their job, or something about the Blue Wall of Silence, the usual litany of excuses for why we can't evolve. But the Castile case seems to offer a situation where police officers can possibly, safely say, "Yeah, he fucked up and needs to be arrested."

African Americans need to know that the police know the difference between right and wrong, protection and attack. That's incumbent upon the cops to show that their world isn't just easily killed black and readily defended white.

We are stuck in this nation in patterns that we seem to be deliberately refusing to break, as if to do so would take away the status quo and reconfigure the power dynamics of our culture. A history of racism, the proliferation of guns, the shitty training of police, the militarization of local law enforcement, so much is bound up in these acts that we may never get to untangle it and try to come up with a new way of putting it all together.

http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2016/07/at-loss-struggle-to-say-something-about.html