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Thursday, November 10, 2016

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Oakland Mayor Explains Why Local Police Can't Stop Looting Rioters

Moments ago, Oakland mayor Libby Schaaf sent out the following letter to local business owners, many of whom were battered during the latest anti-Trump riots since Trump's presidential victory, which unlike peaceful protests in other cities, "ended in harm being done to our business community and the rest of Oakland." As a result "graffiti and broken windows were left behind by a group of anarchists who continually invade these otherwise peaceful protests with the intention of doing nothing but causing destruction."
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A top Kurdish commander has been assassinated near the Turkish border

A top commander in the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) has been assassinated in mysterious circumstances near the Syrian-Turkish border, according to local media outlets. On Wednesday, the activist Hasakeh Press reported that an improvised explosive device blast killed Ali Boutan, who the outlet called a “YPG leader,” and two of his bodyguards as they drove along the road linking the border city of Qamishli with the nearby town of Qahtaniyeh (Tirbespiye in Kurdish).
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President Assad: Syria is ready to co-operate with Donald Trump

Embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is “ready” to cooperate with the US President-elect Donald Trump, one of Mr Assad’s advisers has said. Speaking to US media group National Public Radio on Thursday – just after Mr Trump’s seismic victory in the US general election – Bouthaina Shaaban said any collaboration on Syria’s almost six-year-long civil war will depend on “whether Mr Trump’s policies meet expectations.”
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Trump Said To Consider Jamie Dimon For Treasury Secretary; Dimon Not Interested

One week ago, when the prospect of a Trump presidency was "calculated" as being anywhere between 0% and 20% by so-called experts, we reported that Trump's campaign finance chair, Goldman Sachs partner and Soros Fund management alum, Steven Mnuchin, was being positioned for something much larger as Donald Trump reportedly told his aides today that he wants Mnuchin to serve as his Treasury Secretary.
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Celebrities Urge Fans To "Fight Trump", Say They Were Only Joking About Leaving The US

As reported yesterday, among the extensive list of overly dramatic celebrities who vowed to leave the US if Trump wins the presidential election, was Amy Schumer, who said in September that Spain would be her destination of choice. “My act will change because I will need to learn to speak Spanish,” Schumer said in an appearance on the BBC’s “Newsnight.” “Because I will move to Spain or somewhere. It’s beyond my comprehension if Trump won. It’s just too crazy.”
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Police facial recognition cameras track our every movement

Soon, just about everywhere you go, police will be using facial recognition cameras to track your every movement. Police facial recognition cameras are being used on bridges, tunnels and CCTV cameras to name a few. Cops use facial recognition cameras on bridges, tunnels, airports and transit hubs "New York [City] is increasingly a target of threats to security. In recognition of this threat, the New York Crossings Project will integrate emerging technologies into the security design of bridges and tunnels across the state, deploying additional personnel and equipment. At each crossing, and at structurally sensitive points on bridges and tunnels, advanced cameras and sensors will be installed to read license plates and test emerging facial recognition software and equipment. These technologies will be applied across airports and transit hubs – including the Penn-Farley Complex – to ultimately develop one system-wide plan."
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Cop Smashes Handcuffed Woman’s Face In, on Video — Gets 2 Years Paid Vacation

You’ve heard the old adage, “Justice is swift,” but when it comes to justice in cases where police are the perpetrators, often times, it’s “justice delayed.” Oregon’s KATU 4 reported Wednesday the Seattle Police Department has fired Officer Adley Shepherd over his involvement in an incident which took place in 2014. He’s been on paid vacation ever since. On June 22nd, 2014, Officer Shepherd responded to a domestic disturbance involving Miyekko Durden-Bosley, then 23, and another man. The decision was made by Shepherd to arrest Durden-Bosley, whom he placed in handcuffs, and walked to his cruiser. As Shepherd was attempting to seat Durden-Bosley into the back of his patrol car, she resisted arrest, and kicked the officer. Shepherd exclaimed, “You kicked me!” then, in what appeared to be a full-force right hook blow, the officer punched the defenseless woman in the face.
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Trump and Brexit are retaliation for neoliberalism and corruption

Glenn Greenwald frames what I've been trying to articulate: as neoliberalism and its handmaiden, corruption, have swept the globe, making the rich richer, the poor poorer, and everyone in the middle more precarious; as elites demonized and dismissed the left-behinds who said something was wrong; as the social instability of inequality has been countered with increasingly invasive domestic "war on terror" policing, millions of people are ready to revolt, and will support anyone who promises no more business as usual. As Steven Brust writes, the fact that Trump supporters vehemently denied that he is a racist (he is a racist) also means that "even they think racism is a bad thing and should be denied." The "racist" Pennsylvania voters who supported Obama in 2008 went Trump in 2016 -- sure, they were bombarded with racist Facebook disinformation for the intervening eight years, but "scapegoating dynamics fester [in] a system that excludes and ignores a large portion of the population." (Greenwald)
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Chinese official named head of Interpol, drawing criticism

A top Chinese police official was elected president of Interpol on Thursday, setting off alarm bells among rights advocates over abuses and a lack of transparency within China’s legal system, as well as the potential misuse of the police organization to attack Beijing’s political opponents. Vice Public Security Minister Meng Hongwei was named as the first Chinese to hold the post at the organization’s general assembly on the Indonesian island of Bali, Interpol announced in a press release.
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End of ‘liberal non-democracy’: Hungarian PM Orban hails Trump victory

Viktor Orban, Hungary’s maverick PM, says Donald Trump’s US election victory marks an end of a two-decade period of “liberal non-democracy” in the West. “This is the second day of a historic event, in which Western civilization appears to successfully break free from the confines of an ideology,” Orban told a conference organized by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. “We are living in the days where what we call liberal non-democracy – in which we lived for the past 20 years – ends, and we can return to real democracy,” said Orban, without explicitly referring to Trump's election win.
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U.S. military announces that civilian casualties in Iraq and Syria are more than double previous estimate

The number of civilians killed by American air strikes in Iraq and Syria is more than double the previously disclosed estimate, U.S. Central Command said on Wednesday, after reexamining its air campaign based on allegations from activist groups. The announcement of 64 additional deaths brings the total civilian death toll in U.S. air attacks to 119 since the campaign against the Islamic State began in 2014, CENTCOM said. The command, responsible for U.S. military operations in the Middle East, is investigating other allegations.
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The Source Of Our Rage: The Ruling Elite Is Protected For The Consequences Of Its Dominance

There are many sources of rage: injustice, the destruction of truth, powerlessness. But if we had to identify the one key source of non-elite rage that cuts across all age, ethnicity, gender and regional boundaries, it is this: The Ruling Elite is protected from the destructive consequences of its predatory dominance. We see this reality across the entire political, social and economic landscape.
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