Showing posts with label Democracy Now. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Democracy Now. Show all posts

Wednesday, 20 August 2014

Police state abuses, live in Fergistan (video)

Ashley Wells, Pfc. Sandoval, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; Ryan Devereaux (FirstLook.org/TheIntercept); Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez (DemocracyNow.org, 8-20-14)
Do Americans know they're being spied on in Ferguson and all throughout USA?



Obama watches (firstlook.org/theintercept)
FERGUSON, Missouri - Protests over the fatal police shooting of unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown have continued for a 10th night in "Fergistan, USA." Protesters are calling for the arrest of a killer cop, Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, who shot the unarmed teenager six [to eight] times, including twice in the head.

Guns in police hands (ThisModernWorld)
According to The New York Times, Attorney General Eric Holder and top Justice Department officials are weighing whether to open a broader civil rights investigation to look at Ferguson’s police practices in general.

Meanwhile, the Committee to Protect Journalists has called on the Ferguson Police Department to stop harassing and detaining journalists. At least 11 journalists have been detained while covering the protests sparked by the shooting of Brown. We speak to of The Intercept. On Monday night covering the demonstrations, he was terrorized, shot by a rubberized bullet, arrested, and jailed overnight in spite of -- or possibly because of -- identifying himself as a member of the media.
 
 
 

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A Night in Ferguson: Rubber bullets, tear gas, and a jail cell

A Night in Ferguson: Rubber Bullets, Tear Gas, and a Jail Cell

Late Monday evening, after many of the major media outlets covering the protests in Ferguson, had left the streets to broadcast from their set-ups near the police command center, heavily armed officers raced through suburban streets in armored [military] vehicles, chasing demonstrators, launching tear gas [and potentially lethal projectiles] on otherwise quiet residential lanes, and shooting at journalists. Their efforts More

Intercept reporter shot with rubber bullets and arrested while covering Ferguson protests

(The Intercept,
Intercept reporter Ryan Devereaux was arrested this morning while on the ground covering the protests in Ferguson, Mo. According to St. Louis Post-Dispatch photographer David Carson, who witnessed the apprehension, Devereaux [was needlessly shot with a projectile] and a German reporter he was with were both taken into custody by members of a police tactical team. They were handcuffed and placed... More

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Tuesday, 19 August 2014

Overpoliced and Underprotected (video)

Ashley Wells, Pat Macpherson, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; Amy Goodman (Democracy Now)
Fergusonpolicing"Overpoliced & Underprotected": In Michael Brown killing, neglect and contempt of black communities is laid bare

Continuing to discuss developments since the murder of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown by a white police officer, Democracy Now! turns to John A. Powell, professor of law, African American studies, and ethnic studies at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the director of the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society. "The black community tends be overpoliced and underprotected," Powell says. "That’s a very serious problem."
 


(Democracy Now) FULL EPISODE, April 19, 2014
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Thursday, 14 August 2014

US police use military weapons to crack down

Ashley Wells, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez (Democracy Now)
(Democracy Now, Aug. 14, 2014) Armed with military-grade weaponry from war on Iraq, Missouri police crack down on protests over Michael Brown shooting
The Missouri town of Ferguson, a suburb of St. Louis, looks like a war zone as police fire tear gas, stun grenades, and smoke bombs at civilians.

They claim to be attempting to break up a fifth night of protests over the police shooting of unarmed African-American teenager Michael Brown, [who was apparently executed by police, shot in the back in revenge after an altercation]. At least 10 people were arrested on Wednesday, including St. Louis Alderman Antonio French, who has been posting video online of the protests and who appeared on Democracy Now! earlier this week.
 

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All-white jury acquits cop of video beating
An earlier protest faced a heavy Caucasian police response, with police in riot gear stationed by a massive armed vehicle in the street -- using weapons left over from the U.S. war on Iraq. Journalists from The Washington Post and Huffington Post were roughed up and arrested last night then released without charges [once they learned their lesson that police will not tolerate anyone exposing their crimes in a time of "crisis"].

Michael-brown
Our racism kills; protests ensue
They were detained while filing reports from a McDonald’s restaurant. Ferguson police have refused to release the name of the officer who shot unarmed teen Brown, citing fears for his safety. But the name is known in the community and has been reported without confirmation. He executed the teen in broad daylight in front of witnesses who know his name.]

They have also requested demonstrators to limit their protests to "daytime hours." [Apparently this would save on police overtime costs.] DN! goes to St. Louis to speak with a very reticent Patricia Bynes, Democratic committeewoman of Ferguson township. Bynes has been out in the streets of Ferguson every night documenting the protests on Twitter.

Protests coming to Los Angeles
L.A. skyline pre-climate chaos (buzzfeed)
The killings and beating of African and Latin American youth continues throughout the U.S., particularly in Los Angeles, where police severely brutalized another unarmed mentally ill man, this time in Compton. On account of this, and in unity with Ferguson, citizens will march on the LAPD on Sunday.

Barry Montgomery, 29, was arrested in July after [police claim] he attempted to punch an LA County Sheriff’s Dept. deputy, according to the agency. But family members and the president of the Compton branch of the NAACP gave a much different account: Montgomery was playing basketball alone around 9:25 pm at Enterprise Park when he was approached by deputies, handcuffed, dragged from the court and into a bathroom, where he was severely beaten....Montgomery suffered a fractured eye socket, broken nose, and fractured ribs in the 25-minute beating, Simpson Gibson said. He was hospitalized... (as reported by L.A.'s new right wing newspaper, The L.A. Register, which brags "refreshingly not liberal").
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Wednesday, 13 August 2014

Greenwald: CIA and NPR propaganda (video)

Ashley Wells, Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly; Glenn Greenwald (The Intercept) Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, Nermeen Shaikh (DemocracyNow.org, Aug. 13, 2014)
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NPR propaganda uses CIA-linked firm's report on Snowden's whistle blowing

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Iraq: Is U.S. "humanitarianism" only summoned to control oil-rich areas?
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The NSA illegally spies on everyone it can.
Earlier this month, The Intercept published documents provided by NSA-whistleblower Edward Snowden that revealed the deep ties between Israeli and U.S. intelligence agencies.

In a recent article, investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald cites one 2013 document that described a "far-reaching technical and analytic relationship" between the National Security Agency (NSA) and its Israeli counterpart against "mutually agreed upon geographic targets."

The partnership includes a "dedicated communications line" supporting "the exchange of raw material, as well as daily analytic and technical correspondence." More

NPR's disinformation for the state
Whistleblower former NSA Agent Snowden
Furthermore, Greenwald’s latest article for The Intercept is headlined "NPR is laundering CIA talking points to make you scared of NSAb eporting." 

Greenwald takes a highly critical look at a story by NPR’s counterterrorism correspondent, Dina Temple-Raston, which aired on Morning Edition earlier this month. Temple-Raston’s propaganda-ridden report focused on claims by the tech firm Recorded Future that it has "tangible evidence" that NSA whistleblower Snowden harmed national security by inadvertently prompting "terrorists" to use better encryption programs to maintain their privacy.
 
Greenwald says the NPR report erred in failing to mention that the firm is funded by the CIA, even though Temple-Rason was well aware of this. "This was such a pure and indisputable case of journalistic malpractice and deceit," Greenwald charges. "NPR radically misled millions of people with this report." More

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Rise of CIA's "ISIS": US re-invasion of Iraq, backing of Syrian rebels fuels Jihadis’ advance
LA Police Commission gives LAPD Chief Beck 2nd term Beck has worked for the LAPD for more than three decades. Violent crime has fallen under his tenure it's also come with controversy.
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Thursday, 7 August 2014

An honest man on ISRAEL: Noam Chomsky

Wisdom Quarterly; Noam Chomsky, Amy Goodman (democracynow.org, Aug. 7, 2014)


Hideous. Sadistic. Vicious. Murderous. That is how Noam Chomsky describes Israel’s 29-day offensive war on Gaza -- which as killed nearly 1,900 people and left almost 10,000 Gazan Palestinians injured.
 
Ilanpappe
Pappe: "Racist Apartheid State" with US help
Chomsky has written extensively about the Israel conflict with Palestine for decades. After Israel’s Operation Cast Lead in 2008-2009, Chomsky co-authored the book Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel’s War Against the Palestinians with Israeli scholar Ilan Pappé. (Exeter University Prof. Pappé is one of the leading voices on Israel, calling the U.S./Israel campaign against Palestine an "incremental genocide").
 
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Israel claims "self-defense" in war crimes
Chomsky's other books on the Israel/Palestine conflict include Peace in the Middle East?: Reflections on Justice and Nationhood and The Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians. Perhaps his most famous work is called Manufacturing Consent exposing American propaganda techniques.
 
Noam Chomsky is a world-renowned political dissident, linguist, and author, Institute Professor Emeritus at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), where he has taught for more than 50 years. More
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Wednesday, 6 August 2014

U.S. bombs Japanese civilians: Hiroshima

Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan (DemocracyNow.org, Aug 6, 2014); CC Liu and Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly; Follow the White Rabbit (A Million Windows, Feb. 3, 2011)
American “Enola Gay” dropping the bomb on innocent Japanese civilians at home far from the war zone for the profit of the U.S. military-industrial complex (gtrebekah.edublogs.org)
Nagasaki civilians were bombed by the USA first major war crime, a crime against humanity so enormous that no American thinks much about it except to offer limp excuses that cannot hold up (Nagasaki Museum/US Army handout (latimes.com)
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 69 Years Later
Japan (sunrisejetphotogallery)
“I hate war,” Koji Hosokawa told me as we stood next to the A-Bomb Dome in Hiroshima, Japan.
 
The skeletal remains of the four-story building stand at the edge of Japan's Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. The world watches in horror this summer as military conflicts rage.
  • [These "conflicts" are fomented by the U.S. military-industrial complex.]
The U.S. military-industrial complex loves to bomb Buddhists (amillionwindows)
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They're leaving destruction in their wake from Afghanistan, to Libya, to Gaza, to Syria, to Iraq, and Ukraine...

Ukraine, Kiev, Independence Square, Tymoshenko pic
Protesting and demanding change in Ukraine
[Ukraine is where U.S. Senator, failed presidential candidate, released POW, torture survivor, Arizona Republican John McCain is both eliminating the civil rights of Americans with indefinite detention bills (written with a shameful Joe Lieberman). There he has been stirring up Cold War-era tensions with Russia by offering Ukraine covert U.S. military intervention and promises of overt sanctions].
Never far from the dead and injured, nuclear-armed missiles stand by ready to rain down ultimate devastation, waiting for the horrible moment when hubris [our overarching American pride and exceptionalism], accident, or inhumanity triggers the next nuclear attack.
 
“I hate war,” Hosokawa reiterated. “War makes everyone crazy.”

Nagasaki Festival
 
(FTWR) Imagine 20 bulky, drunk Japanese men carrying a two ton golden shrine, hauling [it] up several flights of stairs.

We are experiencing the Kunchi matsuri Festival in Nagasaki City, Japan (where they affectionately call it O-kunchi).

Kunchi started as a festival to celebrate the harvest season, then came to be an occasion to oust hidden Christians, and nowadays it’s primarily just a holiday.
 
Gazawomanrubble
500,000 displaced, 10,000 injured by Israel
The city districts make their own floats; one float was a beautiful ship with kids playing drums, and one of them was also trying to catch as many painted wooden fish from the ground as possible. We also find traditional Dragon Dance and, of course, the use and abuse of sake [a distilled rice alcoholic spirit that leads us to wonder if the name Naga-saki isn't a reference to "dragon-brew," naga-alcohol]... More 
"Evacuate your cities." U.S. threat letter to Japan, circa 1945
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Friday, 1 August 2014

Animals eating corpses due to ISRAEL (video)

Ashley Wells, Sheldon S., Pat Macpherson, Pfc. Sandoval, Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly; Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, Aaron Mate, Nermeen Shaikh (DemocracyNow.org)

Rajisouraniaugust1An almost unthinkable thing is happening in Muslim/Christian Palestine. Dead civilians, children, and their scattered body parts are not being allowed to be collected. The result is that laying around in the sun and rubble, wild animals are moving in to devour them. The demons rejoice and unclean spirits feast (Buddhist yakshas, pretas, maras, asuras).
 
This is unthinkable because according to Muslim and Jewish tradition, it is vital that all parts of the physical body be interred for the future rearising (not rebirth so much as reincarnation, the coming to life again, the resurrection). Palestinians are horrified and rushing in when any phony, fragile ceasefire is announced only to be killed when Israel changes its mind or uses the pretext that Hamas restarted the asymmetrical warfare being waged on it.
Whereas Zoroastrians (Indian Parsis) or Tibetans might welcome a "sky burial," being eaten as carrion by vultures, the Middle East can hardly think of anything worse than being eaten by filthy beasts, a mark of the depravity of human cultural insensitivity. Their suffering and anguish seems to drive the "powers that be," the forces fueling, directing, encouraging, and re-arming Israel.
Israelis may carry out the atrocities, but it is certain that the CIA and other Western forces are pulling the strings and approving of the tactics -- drones, mass surveillance, spies, informants, home demolishing, bombing civilian infrastructure as was done illegally in Iraq in the early years of the internationally-illegal U.S. invasion, and so on. Then Israeli generals take it even to unapproved tactics -- shelling U.N. facilities, invading civilian camps (as was done infamously in Janine), immediately rearresting released prisoners, claiming to have lost a soldier to kidnapping then using this allegation as a pretext for collective punishment, the basis of threats to take the gloves off and go in with even greater force and brutality, to engage in ethnic cleansing, incremental genocide, and crimes against humanity all the while calling it "retaliation" and a "security" exercise and a tunnel exploration, tunnels built only to overcome an illegal strangulation of 1.8 million people called a "blockade."

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Amnesty Int'l: US should stop arming Israel amid "growing evidence of war crimes in Gaza"
 
There is a literal Preta Realm as well.
Indiscriminate shooting, aerial bombardment, attacks from the sea, and ground invasion of a densely populated metropolitan civilian area with no exit allowed. It is as if a WW II army went into a ghetto, surrounded it, cut off all escapes, then began killing residents blaming them for "remaining in a war zone." And the world is lied to told that it is a "conflict" between, one is led to assume, more or less equal sides, to foreign armies at odds, when nothing could be further from the truth.

The truth is the world's greatest military is funding, aiding, arming, and training the fourth most powerful military to kill civilians armed with homemade rockets, old rifles, and anything that comes to hand, who are granted an internationally-recognized right to defend themselves. But that defense is used as the excuse for offensive attacks and thousands of TONS of bombs being dropped on a city of helpless victims.

And we, the world, stand around looking at our feet saying, "I'm sure Israel has its reasons." The mainstream media is controlled, unarmed soldiers are sent all over the world to man the PR desks, and keep the propaganda machine churning out spin to protect the onslaught from scrutiny or intervention.
 
The Western world is silenced, the Arab world is stymied, and the poor Palestinians have to wonder why no one but God is hearing their cries and pleas. And even God seems to not be paying attention. People of conscience may say something, but people of the book only seem to be chanting encouragement to the killers in Israel to keep going.
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John Brennan faces calls to resign after CIA admits to spying on Senate torture probe
 

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