Canadian police arrest 10 indigenous activists erecting teepee near PM Trudeau’s office for Canada Day observance. “Candace Day Neveau, from a group called the Bawating Water Protectors that arrived in Ottawa from Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., on Wednesday, said those arrested were ordered to stay away from Parliament Hill for six months.”
https://www.sootoday.com/national-news/ ... day-656982
Almost everyone in the world has seen substantial gains in income in the last 20 years thanks to globalization, except for the working and middle classes of developed countries, points out economist. “Globalization is one factor but there is also technological change, though in my opinion that is not completely unrelated to globalization, because though there is technological change in iPhones, for example, they are being produced physically, thanks to globalization, in Burma or Vietnam. It would be different if they were being produced in the U.S. or Sweden.”
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sens ... ics-means/
Some of the lowest paid workers in Los Angeles get a pay raise. “When the minimum wage in Los Angeles climbed from $10.50 to $12 an hour for large businesses on July 1, it marked the fourth such increase in three years…”
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-m ... story.html
States divided on how to respond to White House request for voter data. “More than two dozen states have refused to fully comply with a sweeping and unprecedented White House request to turn over voter registration data, including sensitive information like partial Social Security numbers, party affiliation and military status.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/won ... ually-say/
Nevadans line up after state legalizes recreational marijuana. “Nevada has become the fifth state in the U.S. with stores selling marijuana for recreational use.”
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/0 ... lining-up/
London marchers say “no” to government cut-backs. “Tens of thousands marched through central London on Saturday to protest privatization and austerity that has led to cuts in spending for education and public services.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/ ... vatization
Minneapolis raises minimum wage to $15 an hour, to be phased in by 2024. “Today’s vote, while historic, is just another step in our unending journey to build a better city.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/ ... nimum-wage
U.S. residents spend far more for healthcare, but don’t have the best results. “Total health spending last year, including private out-of-pocket and government spending, was $8,985 per person in the US… The life expectancy of the average American is 78.8 years, putting the US a fraction ahead of the Czech Republic, where out of pocket spending was just $236 last year.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/dat ... -one-chart
Democratic Party super delegate Dick Gephardt says no chance of single-payer health system instead of Trumpcare. “There is no way you could pass single payer in any intermediate future.”
https://theintercept.com/2017/07/01/dic ... lobbyists/
Cops reportedly intercepted more than 3 million phone calls during one Pennsylvania drug investigation. “The phone tapping was authorized by a single wiretap order. The order was signed to help the authorities track 26 individuals suspected of illegal drug trafficking and narcotics-related activities in Pennsylvania.”
http://www.ibtimes.com/can-government-t ... on-2560243
U.S. general admits there is rarely any on site investigation of civilians deaths due to airstrikes. “The U.S. government’s failure to speak to people on the ground demolishes Bontrager’s claim that his investigation (into the al-Jinah strike) left “no stone unturned”. Human Rights Watch, in contrast, interviewed 14 people by phone who had first-hand knowledge of the attack, including four who were in the mosque at the time of the attack; eight local residents, first responders, and local journalists who arrived at the site shortly after the attack; and two medical personnel who treated people injured in the attack.”
https://www.justsecurity.org/42675/pent ... s-victims/
Judges dismiss lawsuit against Barack Obama over unintended drone strike deaths, but one issues opinion calling congressional oversight “a joke, and a bad one at that”. “Judge Brown appears profoundly uncomfortable with her court giving our president carte blanche to kill innocents abroad.”
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/07/c ... 44615.html
Girls’ robotics team from Afghanistan denied visas for U.S. competition. “Six teenage girls from Afghanistan planned to come to the U.S. to compete in the First Global Challenge robotics competition this month, but those plans were canceled after they were denied visas to enter the country.”
https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/30/1590 ... ed-us-visa Taliban wins!
U.S. may move some defense production to Ukraine. “Speaking late on Thursday, Gurak said he had had negotiations with U.S. companies about setting up manufacturing facilities in Ukraine.”
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukrai ... SKBN19L1SY
ING says it won’t finance Canadian tar sands projects. “… Dutch banking giant ING said Wednesday it would not finance major pipeline projects in Canada over concerns about the impact of tar sands extraction on First Nations communities and the climate.”
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/6/30/ ... _sands_oil
Journalist says big players in the health insurance debate are Koch-funded groups, medical device manufacturers, health insurance companies and lobbyists. “(Health insurance companies have) told their shareholders, if these taxes are repealed they can return more money to shareholders, that they think their stock price will improve.”
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/6/29/ ... ng_on_koch
Thousands marching 280 miles against ruling party in Turkey. “There is oppression against the opposition, and lawmakers are being arrested. This justice march is against this civil coup.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/ ... e-marchers
Police in U.S. on track to fatally shoot more than 1,000 people for third year in a row. “Police nationwide shot and killed 492 people in the first six months of this year, a number nearly identical to the count for the same period in each of the prior two years.”
http://www.denverpost.com/2017/07/01/fa ... ings-2017/
Green Party’s Jill Stein says Russia investigation needs to focus on U.S. election infrastructure. “I myself launched an inquiry into interference in the elections and into hacking in the elections in the form of a recount, which is still seeking, actually, through the court of law and through followup litigation, to get our hands on the machines and the software.”
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/07/jill-st ... nt-effort/
Trump travel costing taxpayers millions. “If Trump had stayed in Washington D.C. (this) weekend, he would have saved taxpayers over $800,000 in flights and likely more in security costs by staying at the White House.”
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/07/trump-j ... a-concert/
Senators call for investigation into allegations of U.S. collaboration with U.A.E. in torture of detainees in Yemen. “Even the suggestion that the United States tolerates torture by our foreign partners compromises our national security mission by undermining the moral principle that distinguishes us from our enemies— our belief that all people possess basic human rights.”
https://www.ap.org/ap-in-the-news/2017/ ... rted-by-ap
NYPD accused of harassing citizens groups monitoring police. “Yesterday, the New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB) released a report on hundreds of complaints and incidents of NYPD officers interfering in civilians’ Constitutional rights to film public police activity during the first 3 years of the de Blasio administration.”
https://rightsanddissent.org/news/repor ... ng-police/
Vista, California backs off on restrictions imposed on protesters outside Congressman’s office. “Hundreds of constituents who’ve gathered to protest at Republican Congressman Darrell Issa’s Vista, California, office for months on “Resist Trump Tuesdays” were handed a victory by the city this week when their special-events permit was extended for three months and restrictions were removed, despite the congressman’s objections.”
http://www.courthousenews.com/city-vist ... stituents/ Excuse me sir, do you have a permit to exercise that free speech? Yes, it’s true that the Constitution clearly says you have that right, but the courts have INTERPRETED that to mean that the government can make you apply for a permit and set numerous restrictions detailing exactly when, where and how you may exercise your constitutional rights. No, I’m not making that up.
Almost 1 in 5 community college students in Los Angeles are reportedly homeless. “The California State University system last year released a preliminary study saying that 1 in every 10 of its 460,000 students was homeless, and 1 in 5 had spotty access to food.”
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-m ... story.html
Talk show hosts claim they were threatened with hit pieces in tabloid unless they took back their criticism of the president. “On Friday, Scarborough claimed White House aides tried to blackmail him by threatening that the National Enquirer would publish unflattering articles about him and Brzezinski unless they apologized to the president for criticizing him in recent months on “Morning Joe”.”
https://www.gossipcop.com/mika-brzezins ... e-stories/
Man who killed Baton Rouge police officers apparently wanted to avenge Alton Sterling. “He wrote (in his “suicide” note) that people who knew him would be surprised he was “suspected of committing such horrendous acts of violence” but that he believed he had to inflict harm “upon bad cops as well as good cops in hopes that the good cops (which are the majority) will be able to stand together and enact justice and punishment against bad cops”.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/gavin-long- ... rs-report/
White man fatally shoots black teen in apparent road rage incident. “”The man in the red pickup truck shot her directly in the head,” Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan said Thursday.”
http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/loc ... 00963.html
Trump travel ban: mothers-in-law will be let in, but grandmas will be kept out. “The justices told the Trump administration that there were two kinds of “bona fide relationships” that it must consider. The first was what the court called “close familial relationships,” which is said were “required”…. But the administration excluded grandparents and grandchildren, uncles and aunts, nieces and nephews, as well as unmarried partners, even when they are engaged.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles ... y-dynamics
Chinese official says treaty guaranteeing rights of Hong Kong citizens after its return to China is obsolete. “‘The Sino-British Joint Declaration, as a historical document, no longer has any practical significance,” foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang said.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06 ... y-britain/
Female tech entrepreneurs claim they were sexually harassed by potential investors. “More than two dozen women in the technology start-up industry spoke to The Times in recent days about being sexually harassed. Ten of them named the investors involved, often providing corroborating messages and emails…”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/30/tech ... sment.html
20 states say they will not comply or only partially comply with White House request for voter registration info. “”California’s participation would only serve to legitimize the false and already debunked claims of massive voter fraud,” Democratic Secretary of State Alex Padilla said in a statement.”
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/states-resp ... ll-states/
Conservatives cite study showing that people with Medicaid insurance have poorer health care outcomes than people without any insurance, science pushes back. “Medicaid recipients are the poorest, least educated and sickest of all patients. Those patients have the highest incidence of AIDS, depression, liver disease, neurologic disorders, psychoses and metastatic cancer, according to the study.”
http://www.politifact.com/florida/state ... nsured-he/ And, conversely, many Americans who are uninsured are relatively young and/or healthy.
Former government ethics officials says Trump 2020 campaign fundraiser held at Trump International Hotel is a violation of ethics laws. “Norm Eisen, former Obama ethics czar and chair of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), charged in a series of tweets Wednesday night that the $35,000-per-ticket event—from which the press was barred—violated the domestic emoluments clause, which prohibits the president from receiving any compensation beyond the set yearly salary.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/ ... rump-hotel
Protesters opposing Trumpcare bill arrested around the country. “Demonstrators, including some with serious illnesses who would lose coverage for their medical care needs should the bill pass, staged sit-ins at the Senate offices of Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, Rob Portman of Ohio, Marco Rubio of Florida, and others. Many chanted, “Kill the bill, don’t kill me”.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/ ... -trumpcare
U.N. human rights officials warns Trump and May against using harsh rhetoric. “Following attacks in Manchester and London, May told reporters, “If human rights laws get in the way of doing these things, we will change those laws to make sure we can do them.” The High Commissioner called May’s remarks “a gift from a major Western leader to every authoritarian figure around the world who shamelessly violates human rights under the pretext of fighting terrorism”.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/ ... e-rhetoric
Silicon Valley takes action against low-income Californians living in RVs parked on city streets. “Amid complaints from residents, Palo Alto has announced it will enforce a rule that bans vehicles from parking in the same spot for longer than 72 hours.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... a-homeless
Progressive campaign for a national health insurance plan needs better branding, says writer. “About half (53%) of Democrats say they have a very positive reaction to ‘Medicare-for-all’ compared with 21 percent who say the same for ‘single payer health insurance system,’” according to the Kaiser poll. But to be clear: “Medicare-for-all” and “single payer” refer to… the same exact thing.”
https://theintercept.com/2017/06/28/mem ... ealthcare/
After Supreme Court ruling, modified travel ban goes into effect. “Under the temporary rules, citizens of Syria, Sudan, Somalia, Libya, Iran and Yemen who already have visas will be allowed into the United States. But people from those countries who want new visas will now have to prove a close family relationship or an existing relationship with an entity like a school or business in the U.S.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... story.html
Republican activist allegedly told Russian hackers to deliver Clinton server emails to Wikileaks. “(Peter) Smith told the (Wall Street Journal) that he was unsure of the authenticity of emails hackers eventually did send to him and he told them to pass them to WikiLeaks.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... story.html
White House panel chair Kris Kobach requests voter registration data from all 50 states. “The information requested includes the names, addresses, birth dates, political party (if recorded), last four digits of the voter’s Social Security Number and which elections the voter has participated in since 2006, for every registered voter in the country.”
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/ ... oter-rolls
Philadelphia district attorney pleads guilty, allegedly helped businessmen with their cases in return for bribes. “The 50-year-old Williams was accused of illegally accepting gifts from two businessmen in exchange for legal favors.”
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/seth-willia ... y-to-jail/
House Appropriations Committee passes motion to cancel post-9/11 “War on Terror” military authorizations. “(Barbara) Lee’s amendment would repeal the 2001 authorization within 240 days of the enactment of appropriations for fiscal year 2018 — forcing Congress to take up a new one.”
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/2 ... ate-240095
State of New York oks unregulated ride hailing apps, cab drivers gripped by sense of foreboding. “Independent cab owner Harunur Bhuiyan had been lined up and waiting three hours for fares across the street from the Hilton Garden Inn Downtown on Thursday when he saw a Lyft driver zoom up, pick up a passenger and drive away.”
http://buffalonews.com/2017/06/29/uber/
Study finds that pesticides harm bees. “In particular, (neonicotinoid) pesticides reduce honeybees’ ability to survive their winter hibernation, say researchers.”
https://www.nature.com/news/largest-eve ... es-1.22229
Citizen Review Board votes to reopen Keith Scott shooting investigation. “A review board Tuesday found “substantial evidence of error” in a North Carolina police department’s decision that the fatal shooting of a black man by an officer last year was justified, and scheduled another hearing on the matter in August.”
http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow ... story.html
Protestors demand third trial for police officer who shot unarmed motorist. “(Tensing) was a University of Cincinnati police officer when he shot DuBose during a 2015 traffic stop.”
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/prot ... g-48328052
No dash or body camera video in shooting death of Washington motorist Giovonn Joseph-McDade who was fleeing from police. “Des Moines police, who are conducting the investigation into the police shooting, say that a Kent officer opened fire after the driver allegedly drove toward the officer as he began to approach the car.”
https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2017/0 ... eph-mcdade
Indianapolis police shoot unarmed motorist Aaron Bailey after he crashes during pursuit. “They say officers chased the vehicle and, after it crashed into a fence, shot the man.”
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation- ... 59274.html
Phoenix reportedly pays $1.5 million settlement after police officer shoots man delivering fast food in the back. “(Rumain) Brisbon had “exercised his constitutional right to keep walking without engaging in conversation with defendant Rine,” the lawsuit noted.”
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/pho ... ce-9455485
Houston settles lawsuit over shooting of unarmed suspect, reportedly pays only $260,000 to family. “Rosemon shot Releford because, according to the officer, Releford had a hand behind his back and Rosemon feared he had a gun. Rosemon shot him a second time about one minute later, because he saw him try to get up.”
http://www.houstonpress.com/news/city-w ... an-9563361
NSA “EternalBlue” cyberweapon reportedly used again in latest ransomware attack. “What makes the rapid escalation of Petya both surprising and alarming is its similarity to the recent worldwide WannaCry ransomware crisis, primarily in its use of NSA exploit EternalBlue to spread through networks.”
https://www.wired.com/story/petya-ranso ... rnal-blue/
South Korean government alleged plotted to remove Kim Jong Un from power. “Japan’s Asahi Shimbun newspaper reported on Monday, citing sources familiar with (Geun-hye) Park’s North Korea policy, that Park had signed off on a plot to remove the North’s leader in 2015 and the plan was orchestrated by the South’s spy agency.”
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-north ... SKBN19J1KN
NATO agrees to send more of its troops to Afghanistan. “NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Thursday 15 nations will contribute to the increase, though he did not say how many additional troops NATO members would send.”
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/6/29/ ... fghanistan Remind me, which member of NATO is under attack by the Taliban?
Trump nominee to be top lawyer at Dept. of Transportation is same lawyer who drafted legal defense of Bush administration’s detainee abuse policy. “In 2005, Bradbury authored memos justifying the Bush administration’s use of torture in interrogations.”
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/6/29/ ... on_hearing
Historian claims radical right’s endgame is to protect the gains of the very wealthy. “Democracy must be, in effect, shackled, to prevent the majority will from being expressed, because it would take too much from people of great wealth, and that would be a problem for them.”
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/6/29/ ... e_reflects
Senior technician at nuclear power plant reportedly falsified safety records. “A senior radiation protection technician at the closed Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant deliberately falsified safety records and failed to check workers for radiation exposure for eight months last year, according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.”
http://wtop.com/government/2017/06/nuke ... nt-yankee/
Supreme Court sends case involving Border Patrol agent who shot Mexican teenager across the border back to the lower court. “In oral arguments in February, some justices were concerned that making U.S. agents liable for their actions taken in a foreign nation could be extended to, say, a house full of noncombatants killed by a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan.”
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/ ... ower-court Oh, no! Can’t have that.
Trump accused of posting fake Time magazine cover, featuring him, on the walls of some of his resorts. “At the same (Virginia) club, Trump’s staff put up a historical marker declaring that there had been a Civil War battle on the site — and that the adjacent Potomac River became a “River of Blood.” Historians say this battle never happened.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... story.html
Sarah Palin sues NYT over story claiming Palin’s “gun sight” ad targeting Congresswoman Giffords inspired shooting. “In one section, it read: ‘In 2011, when Jared Lee Loughner opened fire in a supermarket parking lot, grievously wounding Representative Gabby Giffords and killing six people, including a 9-year-old girl, the link to political incitement was clear.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ation.html
Chicago police officers charged for involvement in shooting cover-up. “Detective David March and patrol Officers Thomas Gaffney and Joseph Walsh, who was Van Dyke’s partner on the night of the shooting, were each charged with conspiracy, official misconduct and obstruction of justice, according to the 12-page indictment.”
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/laqu ... story.html
Warren Buffet says the rich are being over-rewarded. “This has been a prosperity that’s been disproportionately rewarding to the people on top.”
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/27/warren-b ... e-him.html
Man spends 90 days in jail after Florida cops mistake drywall for cocaine. “An officer found white powder on his seat and floorboard, and when the substance was tested, the results came back positive for cocaine, authorities said.”
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.3282506
Freedom of Information Act requests being illegally ignored by some government agencies. “FOIA’s intent was that agencies respond fully and promptly to requests for information. But they don’t always do so. It may take persistence — and effective legal help — to break through an agency attempt to stonewall a FOIA request.”
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinio ... story.html The Tokyo Embassy and U.S. State Department have been stonewalling me for more than two years.
Senate Trumpcare bill would result in 22 million MORE uninsured Americans. “Starting in 2020, the budget office said, premiums and deductibles would be so onerous that “few low-income people would (be able to) purchase any plan”.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/26/us/p ... lican.html
Turkish police block Istanbul’s gay pride parade. “Police with riot shields and helmets enforced the ban by sealing off entrances to the main Istiklal Street, forcing activists to gather in various side streets.”
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/2017- ... an-n776426
Madison County, Mississippi sheriff accused of violating black residents civil rights. “The (ACLU) lawsuit alleges the county has subjected its citizens to more than a decade of brazenly illegal and discriminatory policing—unconstitutional roadblocks that only appear in black neighborhoods, warrantless home invasions, and aggressive “jump out” squads that target young black men doing nothing more than walking down the street.”
https://reason.com/archives/2017/06/23/ ... locks-aclu
Trump accused of taking war powers stolen from Congress and passing them on to the military. “There is no faster route to destruction of our republic than the path we are currently upon, where unelected Pentagon officials have been ceded a constitutional power reserved for the Congress.”
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/t ... war-making
FBI agent charged in connection with LaVoy Finicum shooting incident. “…a member of the FBI’s elite Hostage Rescue Team was indicted on suspicion of shooting twice at Finicum during the chaotic encounter and then lying about it to state and federal investigators.”
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-fbi ... story.html
No apparent link between illegal immigrants and crime. “The number of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. tripled between the 1990s and 2013, while violent crime declined 48% and property crime fell 41% over that period.”
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-h ... es-n777856
About 30 pro-democracy protesters arrested in Hong Kong on eve of Xi visit. “Police said the demonstrators, including Wong who helped lead the 2014 Occupy street protests that blocked key streets for 79 days, were arrested for causing a public nuisance.”
http://www.atimes.com/article/hk-protes ... -xi-visit/
Canada’s Supreme Court orders Google to censor website from search results world-wide in intellectual property lawsuit. “Other countries may soon follow this example, in ways that more obviously force Google to become the world’s censor.”
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/na ... e35485762/
Infant hospitalized after becoming “overheated” on delayed United Airlines flight. “France told the Post that she and other passengers begged to return to the gate, but ground and air crews seemed to be debating how to best handle the situation.”
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/col ... ht-n777291
Japanese budget airline accused of making disable man crawl up stairs to board plane. “Vanilla Air, a budget airline subsidiary of All Nippon Airways, has apologised for the incident and announced new measures to aid wheelchair users at the airport.”
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-40435031
Utility company pulls the plug on “clean coal” generator after state regulators put limits on costs that can be passed on to customers. “A first-of-its-kind “clean coal” power plant that U.S. utility owner Southern Co. has spent years and billions of dollars building in Mississippi appears to be dead.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... ower-plant
California adds glyphosate to list of carcinogens. “Glyphosate is the key ingredient in weed killers such as Roundup.”
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/28/healt ... index.html
Pro-Trump super PACs reportedly running ads against the president’s opponents. “The (Great America Alliance) launched a new ad this week featuring conservative media star Tomi Lahren attacking Robert Mueller, the special counsel now leading the Russia investigation.”
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-t ... SKBN19J2GI
Comic book features California secessionist movement. “Militarized police is not dystopian fiction.”
http://www.salon.com/2017/06/28/calexit-comic-book/
Even “safe” levels of air pollution can be dangerous. “A study released Wednesday shows that levels of air pollution considered safe can still shorten lifespans.”
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/air-polluti ... ath-study/
Billionaire-funded libertarian group says Senate version of Trumpcare is not conservative enough. “Tim Phillips, who leads Americans For Prosperity, the Koch network’s political arm, called the Senate’s plans for Medicaid “a slight nip and tuck” of President Barack Obama’s health care law, a modest change he described as “immoral”.”
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nati ... story.html
Barack Obama calls Trumpcare “massive transfer of wealth” from the poor and middle-class to the wealthy. “He said that if Republicans come up with a plan that is “demonstrably better than the improvements we made to our health care system, that covers as many people at less cost, I would gladly and publicly support it”.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 05431.html Like the single-payer national health insurance proposal that Democrats took off the table?
University of Delaware professor reportedly blacklisted for commenting on Facebook that Otto Warmbier “acted like a spoiled, naive, arrogant U.S. college student” and “got exactly what he deserved”.
http://udreview.com/anthropology-profes ... -deserved/ North Korean officials reportedly say their regime is the “biggest victim” of the incident. “The smear campaign against (North Korea) staged in the U.S. compels us to make (the) firm determination that humanitarianism and benevolence for the enemy are taboo and we should further sharpen the blade of law.”
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/06/25 ... h-u-s.html Because putting a “bad hombre” like Warmbier into a coma is clearly not harsh enough.
CNN sends sketch artist to White House “no cameras” new conference. “Spicer and his deputy Sarah Huckabee Sanders have only held four on-camera briefings in June. Most of their Q&A sessions have been held off-camera.”
http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/23/media/w ... index.html
College football game between Fresno State and University of Alabama will be played despite California’s travel ban due to “prior contractual obligations” clause. “The California legislation restricts travel to states with laws that authorize or require discrimination based on gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation or same-sex couples.”
http://www.al.com/alabamafootball/index ... sno_s.html
Democratic party official in Nebraska ousted after allegedly expressing support for shooting of Republican congressional leader. “In the recording, Montag used a series of obscenities to describe Scalise and said he hated the congressman whose job was to “convince Republicans to (expletive) kick people off (expletive) health care.”
http://wspa.com/2017/06/25/democratic-o ... -was-shot/
Trump has allegedly spent twice as much on White House decor so far as Obama did during the same period in his administration. “Federal documents show that Trump spent $133,053 on office furnishings during the period, compared to $51,204.25 by Obama.”
https://nypost.com/2017/06/23/trump-has ... sis-shows/ But it’s ok, because Mexico is paying for it….
Suspects wanted for parole violations reportedly kill themselves. “A man and a woman wanted for parole violation barricaded themselves inside a Pennsylvania home after allegedly firing shots at police, and later died in an apparent murder-suicide on Saturday.”
http://www.wbal.com/article/247966/110/ ... er-suicide It could happen!
Kellyanne Conway claims Senate Trumpcare bill does not include Medicaid cuts. “The Congressional Budget Office has yet to release its evaluation of the Senate bill, but its analysis of the House version said it would drain more than $800 billion from Medicaid, in addition to the $610 billion reduction ordered by Trump’s federal budget proposal.”
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politic ... -1.3276268
Mother posts $231,115 hospital bill for her son’s heart surgery on social media. “A New Jersey mom says she posted her three-year-old son’s heart surgery bill online to show how potential changes in the health care law could drastically increase out-of-pocket costs for those with life-threatening conditions.”
http://www.fox29.com/news/local-news/263723404-story
Trump Russia dossier may have been paid for by Democrats, unidentified Republican investigator alleges. “Steele contracted with Fusion GPS to investigate Trump’s ties to Russia starting in June 2016, whereupon he outlandishly claimed that Hillary campaign hackers were “paid by both Trump’s team and the Kremlin” and that the operation was run out of Putin’s office.”
https://nypost.com/2017/06/24/inside-th ... p-dossier/
Overweight man who booked two seats on Spirit Airlines flight says he was kicked off plane when the airline took away one of his seats. “I had told them that I bought two seats, (they said) we’ll take it up after, talk to them when you get off the plane.”
http://fox17online.com/2017/06/25/color ... verweight/
New York Times runs a list of all of Donald Trump’s lies, takes up almost entire page. ““Between 3 million and 5 million illegal votes caused me to lose the popular vote.” (There’s no evidence of illegal voting.)”
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/201 ... .html?_r=0
Court ordered review of Dakota Access pipeline project will examine impact on Standing Rock tribe. “(U.S. District Judge James Boasberg) said (the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) didn’t adequately consider how an oil spill under the Missouri River might affect the Standing Rock Sioux tribe’s fishing and hunting rights, or whether it might disproportionately affect the tribal community…”
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/06/25/da ... tribe.html
Chuck Schumer promises Democratic Party makeover. “I think what the Democrats have got to say is that we will be on the side of the working class of this country.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... ess-voters No Chuck, “saying” is not enough. Trying “proving”.
Ralph Nader tells the history of the decline and fall of the Democratic Party. “…in 1979. Tony Coelho, who was a congressman from California… convinced the Democrats that they should bid for corporate money, corporate PACs, that they could raise a lot of money.”
https://theintercept.com/2017/06/25/ral ... n-history/
Surprising revelations in Oliver Stone’s interviews with Putin. “… right from the beginning there is a tension between Stone, with his often archetypal liberal-left views, and Putin, whose perspective – if it has any American equivalent – might be called paleoconservative.”
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2017 ... ive-times/
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