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Kate Brannen | “Clear Direction From POTUS to Continue to Hold"

Kate Brannen, Just Security
Brannen writes: "Thanks to the testimony of several Trump administration officials, we now know what Trump was waiting on: a commitment from Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden. But getting at that truth hasn’t been easy and the Trump administration continues to try to obscure it."
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The remains of a vehicle hit by missiles outside the Baghdad airport. The commander of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guards Corps, Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, was killed. (photo: AP)

US Drone Strike Ordered by Trump Kills Powerful Iranian Commander
Michael Crowley, Falih Hassan and Eric Schmitt, The New York Times
Excerpt: "Iran’s top security and intelligence commander was killed early Friday in a drone strike at Baghdad International Airport that was authorized by President Trump, American officials said."
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Former employee of the private army Blackwater, Nicholas Slatten. (photo: Cliff Owen/AP)

Trump Considers Pardoning Blackwater Mercenary Convicted of Murder
Asawin Suebsaeng and Spencer Ackerman, The Daily Beast
Excerpt: "Less than two months after granting clemency to three convicted or accused war criminals, Donald Trump is considering pardoning a man convicted of murder in one of the worst atrocities of the Iraq war—someone who served under the command of an infamous for-profit army."
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Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks at the J Street National Conference on Oct. 28, 2019, in Washington, D.C. (photo: Jacquelyn Martin/AP)

Bernie Sanders Outraises Billionaire-Backed Competition
Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone
Dickinson writes: "Bernie Sanders is raising phenomenal campaign cash — in tiny increments."
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According to Amazon, it started updating its external communications policy for staff in spring last year. (photo: Friedemann Vogel/EPA)

Amazon Threatened to Fire Employees for Speaking Out on Climate, Workers Say
Oliver Milman, Guardian UK
Milman writes: "Amazon has threatened to fire employees for speaking publicly about the company’s role in the climate crisis, tech workers at the retail giant have revealed."

An email shared with the Guardian shows Amazon’s human resources department launched an “investigation” into one employee, Maren Costa, over comments made to the media that called for the company to do more to tackle the climate crisis.

In the email, Costa is told she will not face punishment at this point – but that any future comments unauthorized by Amazon “may result in formal corrective action, to and including termination of your employment with Amazon”.

A group of Amazon employees who banded together to call for stronger climate action by the company said several members have been questioned by legal and HR representatives about their public comments. Some received follow-up emails similar to Costa’s that threaten dismissal for speaking out in the future.

Costa said four employees have been questioned and two have been threatened with termination if they continue speaking up about Amazon’s role in the climate crisis without seeking approval.

Costa, a user experience principal designer, said: “It was scary to be called into a meeting like that, and then to be given a follow-up email saying that if I continued to speak up, I could be fired.

“But I spoke up because I’m terrified by the harm the climate crisis is already causing, and I fear for my children’s future. Any policy that says I can’t talk about something that is a threat to my children – all children – is a problem for me.”

According to Amazon, it started updating its external communications policy for staff in spring last year. It said it was not aimed at any particular group of employees.

A company spokeswoman said: “Our policy regarding external communications is not new and, we believe, is similar to other large companies. We recently updated the policy and related approval process to make it easier for employees to participate in external activities such as speeches, media interviews, and use of the company’s logo.

“As with any company policy, employees may receive a notification from our HR team if we learn of an instance where a policy is not being followed.”

Amazon’s threats to Costa and other employees occurred after it announced a “climate pledge” in September. The plan commits Amazon to using 100% renewable energy by 2030, before becoming carbon neutral by 2040. To help achieve this, Amazon has ordered 100,000 fully electric delivery vehicles for its fleet.

Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s chief executive, said he was “done being in the middle of the herd” on climate policies at the policy’s unveiling, which took place just a day before 1,500 Amazon employees planned to walk out of work to join a wave of global climate strike rallies inspired by Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg.

Amazon’s shift on climate change represented a victory for its employee group, which is called Amazon Employees for Climate Justice. The group had previously pushed, unsuccessfully, a shareholder resolution to set a climate change plan.

A further 8,000 Amazon employees subsequently signed an open letter to Bezos calling for concrete climate goals; to cancel contracts with oil and gas companies; and to stop donations to politicians who deny the reality of the climate crisis.

Amazon employees said the company updated its policy on staff speaking to the press and on social media in early September, a day after the plan to join the climate walkout was announced. The new policy requires staff members to seek permission from Amazon prior to talking in a public forum while identified as an employee.

Victoria Liang, a software engineer at Amazon, said: “Amazon’s newly updated communications policy is having a chilling effect on workers who have the backbone to speak out and challenge Amazon to do better. This policy is aimed at silencing discussion around publicly available information. It has nothing to do with protecting confidential data, which is covered by a completely different set of policies.”

Bezos, the world’s richest person, has said he understands the concerns of employees and has promised to review Amazon’s political donations. He has rejected, however, calls to sever ties with oil and gas companies.

Amazon Employees for Climate Justice said it will continue to push the company to do more on climate, despite the threat of recriminations for speaking out publicly.

Justin Campbell, a data engineer at Amazon, said: “Amazon’s policy is not going to stop the momentum tech workers have built over the past year at Amazon. The climate crisis is the greatest challenge we face, and the only way we can find solutions is by protecting people’s right to speak freely and disrupting the status quo.”

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Daniil Grachev, an LGBTQ rights activist, is arrested by riot police during a pride event in St. Petersburg, 2013. (photo: Roma Yandolin/Flickr)

The US Hasn't Only Stopped Defending LGBTQ Rights Around the World, Now It's Part of the Problem
J. Lester Feder, BuzzFeed
Feder writes: "This was the decade when it became clear that 'gay rights are human rights,' but it was also the decade when the very notion that humans have universal rights came under attack."
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Vicente Fernandez’s family has lived in Taos Valley for generations. He worries that a rollback of clean water rules will lead to more pollution flowing into vital waterways. (photo: Morgan Timms/LA Times)

Trump’s Plans to Strip Clean Water Protections Leave New Mexico Fearing Pollution and Health Risks
Anna M. Phillips, The Los Angeles Times
Phillips writes: "This year, President Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency plans to roll back clean water rules, abolishing limits on how much pollution can be dumped into small streams and wetlands."
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Massive Earthquake Triggers Tsunami In Chile
By Countercurrents.org

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc170915.htm

A powerful earthquake has hit central Chile. The 8.3-magnitude tremor was centred off the coast, about 232kmnorth-west of the capital Santiago. The Weather.com reported that "The gauge in Coquimbo, Chile, recorded three tsunami waves of at least 4 meters (13 feet) each, including a maximum tsunami wave height 15.1 feet above normal tide levels. Several other Chilean coastal cities have recorded tsunami waves as well, though none nearly as dramatic as those in Coquimbo."


What Is Wrong With A Zero Interest Rate? 
By Herman Daly

http://www.countercurrents.org/daly170915.htm

The stock market took a dip, so the Fed will likely continue to keep the interest rate at zero, in conformity with its goal of supporting asset prices by quantitative easing. What is wrong with a zero interest rate? Doesn’t it boost investment, growth, and employment?


UN Urges Sri Lanka War Crimes Court 
By The Sri Lanka Campaign for Peace and Justice

http://www.countercurrents.org/slc170915.htm

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights released its long awaited report into human rights violations in Sri Lanka 2002-2011. It calls for a war crimes court


Sri Lankans Disabled By War, Forgotten In Peace 
By Amantha Perera

http://www.countercurrents.org/perera170915.htm

Sri Lanka’s decades-long civil war ended six years ago, but it’s not over for many victims who suffered permanent injuries during the conflict. Government soldiers can receive assistance packages for injuries sustained in service, including the continuation of salaries for those able to work at desk jobs, or long-term care in military-run facilities for those severely disabled. But there is no programme to help civilians and former Tamil Tigers who remain permanently affected by injuries during the war


Polls Show Syrians Overwhelmingly Blame U.S. For ISIS 
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse170915.htm

The British polling organization ORB International, an affiliate of WIN/Gallup International, repeatedly finds in Syria that, throughout the country, Syrians oppose ISIS by about 80%, and (in the latest such poll) also finds that 82% of Syrians blame the U.S. for ISIS


Benign State Violence vs. Barbaric Terrorism 
By Matt Peppe

http://www.countercurrents.org/peppe170915.htm

One day in the not too distant future, the skies across the world may be full of drones from every country dispensing justice from Miami to Mumbai via Hellfire Missiles, relegating the rule of law and its method of trial by jury to the ash heap of history. And it will not be because of terrorist groups like ISIS that governments and the media are so forceful to condemn, but because of governments themselves and their lapdogs in the media who refuse to apply the same standards when judging violence to states that have their own Air Forces


How Yarmouk Came About: Israel’s Unabashed Role in The Syrian Refugee Crisis 
By Ramzy Baroud

http://www.countercurrents.org/baroud170915.htm

Over 3,000 Palestinians were killed, tens of thousands of Palestinian refugees fled Syria, thousands more became internally displaced and the hopeless journey away from the homeland continued on its horrific course. Yarmouk - a refugee camp of over 200,000 inhabitants, most of whom are registered refugees with the UN agency, UNRWA - was reduced to less than 20,000. Much of the camp stood in total ruins. Hundreds of its residents either starved to death or were killed in the war. The rest fled to other parts of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and Europe


Monsanto's ‘Hand of God': Planned Obsolescence of The Indian Farmer 
By Colin Todhunter

http://www.countercurrents.org/todhunter170915.htm

While the West tries to impose its neoliberal agenda of cutting subsidies to agriculture and dismantling price support mechanisms and the public distribution system that if effectively run would allow Indian farmers to receive a decent stable income, farmers are unsurprisingly leaving the sector in droves as agriculture becomes economically non-viable. Forcing farmers to leave the land is a deliberate strategy. Just like it is a deliberate strategy to give massive handouts to industry and corporate concerns who are not delivering on jobs. It's all about priorities. And farmers are not a priority. They are being driven from farming, while all the advantages are being given to a failing corporate-industrial sector


Rape And Diplomacy In India 
By Zeeshan Hyder

http://www.countercurrents.org/hyder170915.htm

They came from the wrecked homes of Nepal, desperate for money. One was a divorcee, who lived with her two daughters and was the breadwinner of her family working as a laborer in Nepal. Another had lost her house to the catastrophic Earthquake in April this year and had come to Delhi to support her husband, who is fighting with cancer. Both came to Delhi in search of jobs, rather ‘respectable jobs’ but they had been sent by their recruiting agency to the new employer, Majed Ashoor, a Saudi Arabian, who enjoys a diplomatic status in India, who repeatedly raped them


The Proverbial“Red Rag”! 
By Mohammad Ashraf

http://www.countercurrents.org/ashraf170915.htm

The invoking of the cow slaughter ban through public interest litigation in the state high court appears to be a deliberate proverbial red rag to provoke the Kashmiris!


School Education In J & K Needs Urgent Reform 
By Masood Ali Mir

http://www.countercurrents.org/mir170915.htm

In order to have better results and to be purely and perfectly authentic to its purpose for which it has been created, there is a dear need of attention and reforms in certain areas of school education department if not the whole reformation and restructuring. To be up to the expectations of students, teachers, parents and the society of 21st century, the department has to re- adjust itself otherwise it will become irrelevant and obsolete. To be relevant it needs the immediate reforms in certain areas


The Failure of Development Programmes In India 
By Moin Qazi

http://www.countercurrents.org/qazi170915.htm

It is time we respect the wisdom of the villages .Panchayat Raj is just one of the ways of involving and empowering the grassroots to participate in the development agenda .The people are keen to climb their way out of the poverty tap .They don’t want handout ,they want handup

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David Swanson | Kathy Kelly Freed, Convictions of Oak Ridge 3 Overturned

David Swanson, David Swanson's blog
Swanson writes: "Kathy Kelly is just out of prison, where she'd been sent for nonviolently opposing drone murders."
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America's Richest Congressman, Worth Almost $500 Million, Says Poor Americans Are Doing Great
Judd Legum, ThinkProgress
Legum writes: "Congressman Darrell Issa, America's richest Congressman with a net worth of nearly $500 million, says the nation's poor are actually doing very well. Issa told CNN that 'our poor are ... the envy of the world.'"
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Sheldon Adelson Faces New Scrutiny as Documents Challenge His Testimony
Chris McGreal and Matt Isaacs, Guardian UK
Excerpt: "Sheldon Adelson, the multibillionaire casino magnate and key Republican party donor, spent four combative days in a Las Vegas court this week defending his gambling empire from accusations of bribery and ties to organised crime."
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World Health Organization Declares Liberia Ebola-Free
Al Jazeera
Excerpt: "Liberia is now free of Ebola after going 42 days - twice the maximum incubation period for the deadly disease - without any new cases, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Saturday. The virus killed more than 4,700 people in the West African nation during a year-long epidemic."
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Dems Demand Apology From CIA for Spying on Congress
Julian Hattem, The Hill
Hattem writes: "A trio of Senate Democrats is putting new pressure on CIA Director John Brennan to offer a full-throated apology for the agency's searches through congressional records."
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Why Are We Still Asking if a Dying Woman Should Be Able to Get an Abortion to Save Her Life?
Jennifer Dalven, ACLU Blog
Dalven writes: "A recent analysis of abortion attitudes by The New York Times came to the right conclusion: The divide on how Americans feel about abortion is much smaller than partisan politics would have us believe."
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Bernie Sanders Could Be the Greenest Presidential Candidate Ever
Ben Adler, Guardian UK
Adler writes: "The Democratic presidential primary race got its second major candidate last week, and its first true climate hawk: Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, self-described democratic socialist."
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RSN: To Save the Environment, Don't Manufacture What You Can't Clean Up, The Demolition of Workers' Comp Is Driving Americans Into Poverty

David Petraeus' zipper problem betrayed national security.....

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NOW Slams 'Sexist' Warren Buffett Comment About Elizabeth Warren

Kevin Cirilli, The Hill
Cirilli writes: "The president of the National Organization for Women criticized billionaire Warren Buffett's comments on Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) as sexist."
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Trevor Timm | Petraeus Won't Serve a Day in Jail; Neither Should Snowden
Trevor Timm, Guardian UK
Timm writes: "The sweetheart deal the Justice Department gave to former CIA director David Petraeus for leaking top secret information compared to the stiff jail sentences other low-level leakers have received under the Obama administration has led to renewed calls for leniency for NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden."
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Seumas Milne | The Demonization of Russia Risks War
Seumas Milne, Guardian UK
Milne writes: "Politicians and the media are using Vladimir Putin and Ukraine to justify military expansionism. It's dangerous folly."
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Drone Pilots Quitting Due to PTSD
Pratap Chatterjee, TomDispatch
Chatterjee writes: "The U.S. drone war across much of the Greater Middle East and parts of Africa is in crisis and not because civilians are dying or the target list for that war or the right to wage it just about anywhere on the planet are in question in Washington. Something far more basic is at stake: drone pilots are quitting in record numbers."
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The Demolition of Workers' Comp Is Driving Americans Into Poverty
Michael Grabell, ProPublica and Howard Berkes, National Public Radio
Excerpt: "Over the past decade, state after state has been dismantling America's workers' comp system with disastrous consequences for many of the hundreds of thousands of people who suffer serious injuries at work each year, a ProPublica and NPR investigation has found."
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Iraq Offensive Displaced Tens of Thousands, Says UN
Deutsche Welle
Excerpt: "Nearly 30,000 people have been displaced in the four days since the offensive began to retake Tikrit. An estimated 2.5 million Iraqis have fled since 'Islamic State' started taking territory in the region."
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To Save the Environment, Don't Manufacture What You Can't Clean Up
Derrick Jensen, CounterPunch
Jensen writes: "Some of the most important questions confronting us are: what should we do about this culture's industrial wastes, from greenhouse gases to pesticides to ocean microplastics?"
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DemocracyNOW!: Ferguson October, Gary Webb and Iran-Contra-Cocaine

At the bottom, is an article about Gary Webb who was destroyed for presenting the TRUTH.

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Seattle Marks Indigenous Peoples' Day Amid Calls to End Federal Holiday Celebrating Columbus Today marks Columbus Day, a federal holiday to commemorate the arrival of Christopher Columbus to the so-called "New World" in 1492. But the holiday has long evoked sadness and anger ... Read More →

Socialist City Councilmember on Nobel Prize Winner Malala Yousafzai: "Socialism is the Only Answer" We speak to Socialist Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant about the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai, who has expressed support ... Read More →

Ferguson October: Thousands March in St. Louis for Police Reform & Arrest of Officer Darren Wilson Since the killing of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown two months ago, protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, have defied a militarized crackdown and taken to the streets to call for the ... Read More →

Campaigners Call for "One Fair Wage" to Help End Sexual Harassment for Tipped Restaurant Workers A new report finds up to 90 percent of women working restaurant jobs that depend on tips have experienced workplace sexual harassment. More than 70 percent of tipped workers are women, ... Read More →

Inside the Dark Alliance: Gary Webb on the CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion

Democracy Now! Coverage of Justice for Michael Brown Protests

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Nurses Protest Inadequate Policies After Dallas Nurse Contracts Ebola NIH Director: Budget Cuts Prevented Ebola Vaccine Liberian Health Workers Call Strike After 95 Die of Ebola Turkey Allows Use of Bases by U.S. Forces Anbar Province Said to Be on Verge of Falling to ISIS ISIS Releases Third Video of British Hostage U.S. Drone Strikes Kill 8 Near Afghan-Pakistani Border Donors Pledge $2.7 Billion for Gaza Reconstruction Thousands Join "Ferguson October" Protests Against Police Shootings Hong Kong: Protest Opponents Tear Down Barricades Bolivia: President Evo Morales Wins Third Term Brazil: Environmentalist Silva Backs Pro-Corporate Candidate Neves In Less-Reported Remarks, Nobel Winner Malala Yousafzai Backs Socialism, Opposes Drone Strikes Texas: Abortion Providers Report Surge in Calls, Wait Times After Court Ruling Former NSA Director: Government Shouldn’t Pursue Journalist James Risen

CLG: Mining company buys armed drones for 'riot control', Panel questions Social Security field office closings, et al

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19 Jun 2014

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Breaking: Obama: US Will Send up to 300 Military Advisers to Iraq, Set up Joint Operation Centers --Green Berets, Army Rangers, Navy SEALs may go to Iraq 19 Jun 2014 President Barack Obama said Thursday he was sending up to 300 military advisers to Iraq, but added that America was not returning to a combat role in the country. Up to 100 U.S. special forces -- probably Green Berets, Army Rangers and Navy SEALs -- would go to Iraq to advise its military and collect intelligence under a Pentagon plan offered to President Barack Obama, according to several U.S. officials. (Wires)

150 Australians fighting in Syria, Iraq - official 18 Jun 2014 Around 150 Australians have fought with radical militants in Syria and Iraq, raising government fears of a terrorist threat to Australia if the fighters return home, the foreign minister said on Thursday. Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said she had cancelled a number of passports on the advice of security agencies in a bid to reduce the security threat to Australia. She did not say whether the passports were canceled to prevent Australians leaving or returning. "Our best estimate is that there about 150 Australians...who have been or are still fighting with opposition [terrorist] groups in Syria and beyond," Bishop told Australian Broadcasting Corp.

Taliban hits NATO fuel trucks in Afghanistan East --37 NATO trucks destroyed in explosions 19 Jun 2014 Taliban militants have targeted NATO fuel trucks in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar Province near the border with Pakistan, officials say. Idris Momand, a spokesperson for the local border police, said the bombing attacks near the Torkham border crossing took place at 4:30 am local time on Thursday. Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, the spokesman for the provincial governor, said 37 NATO trucks were destroyed in explosions set off during the ensuing gunbattle between militants and police guards in the troubled eastern province.

Germany is NSA's primary host of surveillance architecture in Europe - report 18 Jun 2014 The US National Security Agency has turned Germany into its most important base for surveillance operations in Europe, developing an "intimate relationship" over the past 13 years, Der Spiegel revealed. The NSA has not only been spying on German citizens, but the country has also become home to the agency's key data collection centers in Europe, German magazine Der Spiegel revealed on its website Wednesday in an article based on the analysis of documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden and information from other sources.

New NSA Revelations: Inside Snowden's Germany File --NSA Sites in Germany 18 Jun 2014 ...But until now, almost nobody in Wiesbaden knew that Building 4009 of the "Storage Station" houses one of the NSA's most important European data collection centers. Its official name is the European Technical Center (ETC), and, as documents from the archive of whistleblower Edward Snowden show, it has been expanded in recent years. Soon the NSA will have an even more powerful and modern facility at their disposal: Just five kilometers away, in the Clay Kaserne, a US military complex located in the Erbenheim district of Wiesbaden, the "Consolidated Intelligence Center" is under construction. It will house data-monitoring specialists from Mainz-Kastel.

Central Stockholm cordoned off after man with 'explosives' enters building 19 Jun 2014 Two central areas in the Swedish capital are in lockdown after a man walked into an office building in Gamla Stan claiming he has a bomb strapped to his body. The man walked into the building offices of human rights group and the ruling Moderate Party at 2.20pm (12.20 GMT) local time claiming to have an explosive device strapped to his body, the police said. "The man has expressed his dissatisfaction with parties in the parliament," the city police wrote in a statement as cited by local media.

Mining company buys armed drones for 'riot control' --An African mining company has ordered more than two dozen drones capable of shooting pepper spray, plastic bullets and lasers. 19 Jun 2014 An African mining company has ordered more than two dozen drones capable of shooting pepper spray, plastic ammunition and blinding lasers. The supplier, South African-based Desert Wolf, describes the 'Skunk' as a "riot control copter" -- but there are concerns it breaks international treaties on the use of torture, lasers and even the Geneva Convention. The Skunk can carry a payload of up to 45kg. It has four high-pressure paintball guns on board that can shoot plastic bullets and up to 4000 balls of pepper spray. It can shoot 80 rounds a second. [People have the right -- indeed, obligation -- to shoot down corpora-terrorists' 'riot control' drones.]

Panel questions Social Security field office closings 19 Jun 2014 The Social Security Administration has cut thousands of field workers and reduced hours and services at hundreds of satellite offices over the past four years at a time when baby boomers are starting to hit retirement age, a new Senate report concludes. Most troubling, the agency hasn't fully analyzed the impact of such reductions or followed its own protocol in many cases, according to the Senate Special Committee on Aging, which issued the study and held a hearing on it Wednesday. "I think it's a legitimate question: Is this a death by a thousand cuts?" said Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Orlando, who chairs the panel. "An agency known for its great service could be undercutting its mission. Most of this has been done with very little consultation of the Congress...and most of this has been done without consultation with the impacted communities."

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