Wednesday, November 2, 2016
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RSN: Alabama: 1 Dead, 5 Injured in Gas Pipeline Explosion, Frank Rich | Trump's Appeasers
Frank Rich | Trump's Appeasers
Frank Rich, New York Magazine
Rich writes: "In 2016, springtime for Hitler has been held over by popular demand to summer and fall. 'It's difficult to say when the Hitler analogies got out of control,' observed the writer Michael Lind in Politico way back in March, after the somewhat unexpected trilogy of Bill Maher, Louis C.K., and Glenn Beck found common ground in likening Donald Trump to the Fuhrer."
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Frank Rich, New York Magazine
Rich writes: "In 2016, springtime for Hitler has been held over by popular demand to summer and fall. 'It's difficult to say when the Hitler analogies got out of control,' observed the writer Michael Lind in Politico way back in March, after the somewhat unexpected trilogy of Bill Maher, Louis C.K., and Glenn Beck found common ground in likening Donald Trump to the Fuhrer."
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Why Police From 7 Different States Invaded a Standing Rock Camp - and Other Questions
Tracy Loeffelholz Dunn, YES! Magazine
Dunn writes: "On Thursday, scores of law enforcement officers from seven different states showed up with riot gear, armored vehicles, and military weaponry to clear away Standing Rock's newest camp, the '1851 Treaty Camp.'"
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Tracy Loeffelholz Dunn, YES! Magazine
Dunn writes: "On Thursday, scores of law enforcement officers from seven different states showed up with riot gear, armored vehicles, and military weaponry to clear away Standing Rock's newest camp, the '1851 Treaty Camp.'"
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How a Theory of Crime and Policing Was Born, and Went Terribly Wrong
Tara Boyle, Jennifer Schmidt, Maggie Penman and Shankar Vedantam, NPR
Excerpt: "In 1969, Philip Zimbardo, a psychologist from Stanford University, ran an interesting field study. He abandoned two cars in two very different places: one in a mostly poor, crime-ridden section of New York City, and the other in a fairly affluent neighborhood of Palo Alto, Calif. Both cars were left without license plates and parked with their hoods up."
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Tara Boyle, Jennifer Schmidt, Maggie Penman and Shankar Vedantam, NPR
Excerpt: "In 1969, Philip Zimbardo, a psychologist from Stanford University, ran an interesting field study. He abandoned two cars in two very different places: one in a mostly poor, crime-ridden section of New York City, and the other in a fairly affluent neighborhood of Palo Alto, Calif. Both cars were left without license plates and parked with their hoods up."
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Donald Trump Used Legally Dubious Method to Avoid Paying Taxes
David Barstow, Mike McIntire, Patricia Cohen, Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner, The New York Times
Excerpt: "Donald J. Trump proudly acknowledges he did not pay a dime in federal income taxes for years on end. He insists he merely exploited tax loopholes legally available to any billionaire - loopholes he says Hillary Clinton failed to close during her years in the United States Senate."
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David Barstow, Mike McIntire, Patricia Cohen, Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner, The New York Times
Excerpt: "Donald J. Trump proudly acknowledges he did not pay a dime in federal income taxes for years on end. He insists he merely exploited tax loopholes legally available to any billionaire - loopholes he says Hillary Clinton failed to close during her years in the United States Senate."
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Man's Death Hints at the Wretched Medical Care in Private Immigration Prisons
Oliver Laughland, Guardian UK
Laughland writes: "Theodula Jaramillo had kept vigil over her son's deteriorating body for seven years before he died on Independence Day."
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Oliver Laughland, Guardian UK
Laughland writes: "Theodula Jaramillo had kept vigil over her son's deteriorating body for seven years before he died on Independence Day."
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US Food Justice Activists Call for Wendy's Fast Food Boycott
teleSUR
Excerpt: "Farmworkers, food justice activists and other supporters protested Sunday against U.S. fast food giant Wendy's in Washington, D.C., calling for a nationwide boycott of the company until it agrees to clean up its act when it comes to food sourcing and workers' rights."
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teleSUR
Excerpt: "Farmworkers, food justice activists and other supporters protested Sunday against U.S. fast food giant Wendy's in Washington, D.C., calling for a nationwide boycott of the company until it agrees to clean up its act when it comes to food sourcing and workers' rights."
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1 Dead, 5 Injured in Gas Pipeline Explosion
Samantha Page, ThinkProgress
Page writes: "A gasoline pipeline in central Alabama exploded Monday night, killing one pipeline worker and injuring five others. The ensuing fire burned 32 acres of nearby woodlands, and residents in a 3-mile radius were evacuated Monday afternoon, according to a statement from Gov. Robert Bentley (R)."
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Samantha Page, ThinkProgress
Page writes: "A gasoline pipeline in central Alabama exploded Monday night, killing one pipeline worker and injuring five others. The ensuing fire burned 32 acres of nearby woodlands, and residents in a 3-mile radius were evacuated Monday afternoon, according to a statement from Gov. Robert Bentley (R)."
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RSN: DeRay Mckesson | Why I'm Voting for Hillary Clinton
FOCUS: DeRay Mckesson | Why I'm Voting for Hillary Clinton
DeRay Mckesson, The Washington Post
Mckesson writes: "I am not naive enough to believe that voting is the only way to bring about transformational change, just as I know that protest alone is not the sole solution to the challenges we face."
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DeRay Mckesson, The Washington Post
Mckesson writes: "I am not naive enough to believe that voting is the only way to bring about transformational change, just as I know that protest alone is not the sole solution to the challenges we face."
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Tuesday, November 1, 2016
A Special Thanks to Alan Caron!
Yesterday, on June 12th, 2029, President Donald Trump, two days short of his 83rd birthday, died peacefully in the White House, just five months after winning a fourth term. Vice President Sarah Palin was immediately sworn in as his successor.
The announcement has shaken the country to its core, provoking a quiet period of contemplation about the Trump years and what comes next. America has changed in ways that few believed possible.
When he was first elected in 2016, Trump offered what many Americans wanted. He projected himself as a “strong man” who would turn back the clock and restore the country to what he thought was the greatness of the past, in the 1950s and 1960s.
Working-class men, in particular, overwhelmingly supported Trump’s perplexing promise to return their manufacturing jobs and their middle-class lives, as though they faced no new competition from women, minorities and other countries.
Those who understood the dangers to democracy that a man like Trump represented had assumed that our system of checks and balances would keep him from going too far. But they were wrong. Once in power, Trump accumulated more power with each passing year, relying in part on a fiercely partisan Congress and a compliant Supreme Court, which included the three new members he’d appointed. Those who disagreed with him, including the press, were slowly silenced by lawsuits, threats, personal attacks and imprisonment.
Trump came to power in one of the nation’s most bizarre presidential elections. It featured two widely unpopular major party candidates and two smaller party candidates. Hillary Clinton, Trump’s main competitor, was widely expected to win the election, according to polls and pundits across the spectrum. Trump, however, shocked the political world, winning with just 46 percent of the vote after voters either ignored the polls or thought their vote didn’t matter.
Once inaugurated, Trump quickly acted on the promises he’d made during the campaign, many of which were laid out in his “First 100 Days” plan.
• Over time, all taxes on the rich and corporations were eliminated, while spending on the military was increased by a third. The national debt exploded.
• Trade deals were torn up, but instead of creating new manufacturing jobs, it caused the loss of 5 million jobs dependent upon exports. The cost of imported goods doubled and tripled with new tariffs and trade wars. Hundreds of Wal-Marts and bargain stores were forced to close.
• Abortion was outlawed.
• Same-sex marriage was criminalized.
• Coal mining and offshore drilling were dramatically increased, while all support for renewable energy was halted.
• To reduce “burdensome” regulations, the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act were gutted, and in just a few years Americans once again saw smog clouds over its cities, acid rain in places like Maine and rising pollution in its rivers and shorelines.
• All actions to respond to climate change were stopped.
• Nearly all gun laws were eliminated, including the ban on military-style heavy and tactical weapons.
• Millions of children of illegal immigrants were sent back to the country of their parents’ origin, even though they were born here. Many died trying to return, while the nation’s food industry nearly collapsed from the lack of harvesters. Food prices skyrocketed.
• Immigration was sharply curtailed, except for white European Christians. Muslims were excluded altogether. In an aging country, many companies were forced to close because of a lack of employees.
• Nuclear weapons spread to 12 new countries, including at least four in danger of being overtaken by extremists, who have pledged to use those weapons to eliminate America’s major cities. Reckless taunting and over-reactions have engaged the country in five new wars since 2020.
• As Trump promised, the world fears America. But most of that fear is felt by our former allies, who increasingly see the U.S. as an erratic, unreliable and dangerous superpower.
The country is now deeply settled in a second Great Depression, leading to more calls for a dictatorship.
The children of America have begun to ask some hard questions of their parents at kitchen tables across the country. “What did you do to stop the rise of Trump?” they ask. Parents often deny voting for Trump.
Others offer sheepish explanations. “I never thought he would win. All the polls had Clinton winning. I thought I was free to use my vote as a protest against the system.”
“But Dad, didn’t you hear what Trump was saying? Didn’t you know that there was only one candidate who could have stopped him? Why didn’t you vote for her, Dad?”
“I’m sorry, sweetie. I didn’t like her very much.”
“But why?”
“Well, she used a personal computer at home when she should have used a government computer. And she made a lot of money-making speeches.”
“You risked our future for that, Dad?”
***
Alan Caron is the owner of Caron Communications and the author of “Maine’s Next Economy” and “Reinventing Maine Government.”
CounterCurrents: Coalition forces Enter Mosul, Maersk Scraps Ships At Dangerous Shipyards In India
Dear Friend,
The coalition forces have entered Mosul. It is reported that street fighting is going on between coalition forces and ISIS in Mosul. Coalition forces have taken over the TV building. Meanwhile nearly 40,000 people have fled the city. Jordan Shilton reports that the various forces currently aligned against ISIS are pursuing conflicting and even mutually antagonistic goals that threaten to tear Iraq apart as well as escalating into a wider war.
The India-Pakistan border also is simmering. A teenage girl was killed and three others injured as India and Pakistan exchanged heavy gunfire and shelling along the border in Jammu and Kashmir today. The 19-year-old girl was killed in Ramgarh sector of Samba district in Jammu.Three civilians were injured in heavy mortar shelling in Kalal village of Nowshera sector of Rajouri district. Forward villages of Mendhar sub-division of Poonch district have also come under heavy mortar shelling.
Maersk has sent two ships to be recycled at a shipyard in India considered by experts to be dangerous. It is in violation of many international conventions on ship breaking. Toxics Watch Alliance in India has demanded a probe into the murky deals of Maersk
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Sectarian Tensions Rise In Iraq As Mosul Offensive Enters Third Week
by Jordan Shilton
http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/01/sectarian-tensions-rise-in-iraq-as-mosul-offensive-enters-third-week/
Iraqi government troops entered the eastern outskirts of Mosul Monday, as the US-backed offensive launched October 17 to recapture the country’s second largest city from the Islamic State began its third week. But the advances of Iraqi government soldiers, Peshmerga fighters and Sunni and Shia militias could not conceal the fact that growing sectarian tensions are threatening to vastly intensify the bloody conflict in Iraq and Syria and draw the major powers into a direct military clash.
Forget The Trump-Clinton Charade: It’s Time To Wake Up America!
by Colin Todhunter
http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/01/forget-the-trump-clinton-charade-its-time-to-wake-up-america/
There will only be one group of winners: the interlocking oligarchy of financial, oil, military, agribusiness and pharmaceuticals interests than run the U.S. Whether it’s Trump or Clinton, policy nuances aside, Washington’s empire will stumble on. And it will do so not because of its inherent dynamism but because of its lies, manipulations, militarism and ability to crush any tendencies that exist towards a multi-polar world.
Maersk Scraps Ships At Dangerous Shipyards In India
by Claus Nordahl
http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/01/maersk-scraps-ships-at-dangerous-shipyards-in-india/
Maersk has sent two ships to be recycled at a shipyard in India considered by experts to be dangerous. Cancer, mutilation and death caused by a lack of protective equipment threaten employees, according to occupational safety experts that have reviewed Danwatch’s documentation. Maersk concedes that there are problems.
Revealed Maersk’s Murky Deals Promote Waste Imperialism And Lobbying For Proposed Regressive Hong Kong Convention
by Toxics Watch Alliance
http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/01/revealed-maersks-murky-deals-promote-waste-imperialism-and-lobbying-for-proposed-regressive-hong-kong-convention/
Toxics Watch Alliance demands a probe into the murky deals of Maersk
Having A Flutter: The Melbourne Cup And The Australian Gambler
by Dr Binoy Kampmark
http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/01/having-a-flutter-the-melbourne-cup-and-the-australian-gambler/
Over the course of the day, the relevant spectacle is not that of dashing horses and their desperate jockeys dashing to the finishing line, but of collapsing punters, their fascinators and suits crumpled and soaked, flailing in mud and excreta.
Poor Women: A Voiceless Underclass
by Moin Qazi
http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/01/poor-women-a-voiceless-underclass/
Over the years several strategies have been used to empower women .One of them relies on community groups whose members can be trained and equipped to use their collective strength and wisdom to tackle their problems. It needs great emotional intensity to break through age old barriers .This can be possible only through groups who share the same emotional values and are driven by strong impulses of mutual goals. Together the women create a critical mass and change the perception of what women can do .
End Repression In Kashmir: A Call From The Civil Society
http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/01/end-repression-in-kashmir-a-call-from-the-civil-society/
We, the undersigned, are dismayed over the ongoing crisis in Kashmir. We have watched in horror and shock the repetitive cycle of state aggression leading to violence, deteriorating state of civil liberties, violation of fundamental rights and ever escalating loss of human life and dignity in Kashmir. In the last 115 days, we have lost over 100 lives in Kashmir.More than 15,000 civilians have been injured, out of which 4500 persons have suffered grievous injuries due to pellet-guns, 4664 have been injured by bullets
Why Even After 32 Years Of 1984 Sikh Massacre Perpetrators Roam Free?
by Shamsul Islam
http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/01/why-even-after-32-years-of-1984-sikh-massacre-perpetrators-roam-free/
The Indian State which claims to be committed to get justice to Sikh community for 1984 massacre must look at one crucial document of the period to locate large numbers of perpetrators. This document can be a crucial source of finding out many more sadist killers. This document may throw some light on the unhidden aspects of the genocide. It was authored and circulated by a veteran ideologue of the RSS, Nana Deshmukh on November 8, 1984. Interestingly, this document was published in the Hindi Weekly Pratipaksh edited by George Fernandes (Defence Minister of India 1999-2004 who continued to be a great pal of the RSS) in its edition of November 25, 1984 titled ‘Indira Congress-RSS collusion’ with the following editorial comment
PUCL Demands Judicial Enquiry Into Malkangiri Encounter Killings
by People’s Union for Civil Liberties
http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11/01/pucl-demands-judicial-enquiry-into-malkangiri-encounter-killings/
PUCL expresses its strongest sense of outrage and condemnation for the killing of about 39 members of the CPI (Maoist) party and other Adivasis near Balimela reservoir in Malkangiri district of Odisha close to the Odisha – AP border on 24th October, 2016. Though the police claim that the killings were a result of a sudden encounter and resultant fire-fight, all the available circumstantial information indicates that there is sufficient ground to disbelieve the story put forth by the police and Government.
RSN: The US Government Must Permanently Halt the Dakota Access Pipeline
FOCUS: Robert Reich | The US Government Must Permanently Halt the Dakota Access Pipeline
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Facebook Page
Reich writes: "The U.S. government must permanently halt the Dakota Access Pipeline. Now. The Army Corps of Engineers never did a proper review of its environmental impact, nor did it adequately consult with the Standing Rock Sioux tribe."
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Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Facebook Page
Reich writes: "The U.S. government must permanently halt the Dakota Access Pipeline. Now. The Army Corps of Engineers never did a proper review of its environmental impact, nor did it adequately consult with the Standing Rock Sioux tribe."
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RSN: Democrats Sue Trump for Alleged Voter Intimidation in Four States, FBI Is Sitting on Evidence of Russian Support of Trump, Was a Trump Server Communicating With Russia?,
FBI Is Sitting on Evidence of Russian Support of Trump
David Corn, Mother Jones
Corn writes: "On Sunday, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid sent Comey a fiery letter saying the FBI chief may have broken the law and pointed to a potentially greater controversy: 'In my communications with you and other top officials in the national security community, it has become clear that you possess explosive information about close ties and coordination between Donald Trump, his top advisors, and the Russian government.'"
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David Corn, Mother Jones
Corn writes: "On Sunday, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid sent Comey a fiery letter saying the FBI chief may have broken the law and pointed to a potentially greater controversy: 'In my communications with you and other top officials in the national security community, it has become clear that you possess explosive information about close ties and coordination between Donald Trump, his top advisors, and the Russian government.'"
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Was a Trump Server Communicating With Russia?
Franklin Foer, Slate
Foer writes: "This spring, a group of computer scientists set out to determine whether hackers were interfering with the Trump campaign. They found something they weren't expecting."
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Franklin Foer, Slate
Foer writes: "This spring, a group of computer scientists set out to determine whether hackers were interfering with the Trump campaign. They found something they weren't expecting."
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Democrats Sue Trump for Alleged Voter Intimidation in Four States
Andy Sullivan, Reuters
Sullivan writes: "Democratic Party officials sued Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in four battleground states on Monday, seeking to shut down a poll-watching effort they said was designed to harass minority voters in the Nov. 8 election."
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Andy Sullivan, Reuters
Sullivan writes: "Democratic Party officials sued Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in four battleground states on Monday, seeking to shut down a poll-watching effort they said was designed to harass minority voters in the Nov. 8 election."
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Over 1 Million People Remotely 'Check In' at Standing Rock
teleSUR
"Over one million people have 'checked in' at Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota on Facebook Monday in response to a viral post calling for help to protect activists in North Dakota protesting against the Dakota Access oil pipeline from police surveillance through the Facebook feature."
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teleSUR
"Over one million people have 'checked in' at Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota on Facebook Monday in response to a viral post calling for help to protect activists in North Dakota protesting against the Dakota Access oil pipeline from police surveillance through the Facebook feature."
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Remembering the Black Panther Party
Robert Greene II, Jacobin
Greene writes: "The creation of local Oakland activists and radicals Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, the Black Panthers soon developed into the largest, most prominent manifestation of 'Black Power' ideology following their formation in October 1966. Yet much about the Panthers remains either forgotten or distorted."
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Robert Greene II, Jacobin
Greene writes: "The creation of local Oakland activists and radicals Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, the Black Panthers soon developed into the largest, most prominent manifestation of 'Black Power' ideology following their formation in October 1966. Yet much about the Panthers remains either forgotten or distorted."
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Turkey Detains Opposition Newspaper Editor, Columnists
Zeynep Bilginsoy, Associated Press
Bilginsoy writes: "Turkish police detained the chief editor and at least 11 senior staff of Turkey's opposition Cumhuriyet newspaper on Monday, a move that signals a widening crackdown on dissenting voices."
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Zeynep Bilginsoy, Associated Press
Bilginsoy writes: "Turkish police detained the chief editor and at least 11 senior staff of Turkey's opposition Cumhuriyet newspaper on Monday, a move that signals a widening crackdown on dissenting voices."
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The Upside of Ignoring Climate Change
Nives Dolsak and Aseem Prakash, Slate
Excerpt: "Suppose one fast forwards to the Clinton presidency. It's possible that the way the issue would have been framed during the debates could have limited her policy options."
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Nives Dolsak and Aseem Prakash, Slate
Excerpt: "Suppose one fast forwards to the Clinton presidency. It's possible that the way the issue would have been framed during the debates could have limited her policy options."
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