Saturday, November 10, 2018

Criminal Justice and Racism links 111018



Around the table: who really gets away with what, part 253.

"We've never had justice": How the Supreme Court rigged land deals against native people

Top-Down Processing and Perception

Congress Voted to Sell Apache Land to Foreign Corporation?  Controversial congressional measure reportedly gave sacred Apache land to an environmentally harmful foreign corporation.

'When They Go Low, We Go Hard': How Black Women Are Seizing This Political Moment.  Black women have been on the frontlines of social change in the United States for decades. Now, they're building a progressive movement to remake the rural Deep South.

1st black woman legislator in Vermont resigns after white supremacists threaten safety of her family

SOUTH CAROLINA IS LOBBYING TO ALLOW DISCRIMINATION AGAINST JEWISH PARENTS

Portland Cops Knew The Fascists Had A Weapons Cache. They Kept Silent And Attacked Protesters.
Patriot Prayer had a stash of guns on a roof before a violent Oregon rally in August. Police didn’t tell anyone.

New Book Peeks Inside American Prison System

‘American Prison,’ by Shane Bauer

George Taliaferro had an unwavering determination to right the wrongs around him

George Taliaferro, first African-American player drafted in NFL, dies at 91

White Men Have Good Reason to Be Scared: We’re coming for their power.

How The CIA Undermined Civil Rights

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Turns Seventy

Because I Want Us to Do Better

HUMANISM 101 | Racism by Numbers and the Battle Ahead

INSIDE THE WALLS | By Any Other Name

The Prisoner’s Lament

Uncle George & Me: Two Southern Families Confront a Shared Legacy of Slavery

The Rape of Recy Taylor

Bulger was a monster but federal government must answer for his death

Trump Ally Kris Kobach ‘Accepted Thousands of Dollars From White Nationalists’

Ferguson Activist Claims Son Was ‘Lynched’ as Police Investigate His Death as Suicide: “I’m sick and losing my mind,” wrote Melissa Mckinnies after the death of her son, Danye Jones. “But I had to let the world know what they did to my baby!”

Georgia voter: If African-Americans are being disenfranchised it’s because they’re too dumb to follow directions

The Reverend Elijah P. Lovejoy, Editor of the ‘Alton Observer,’ Dies at the Hands of a Pro-Slavery Mob, Alton, Illinois (1837)

Letters From the November 19-26, 2018, Issue: Fact in fiction… AOC prepares for DC… Performing patriarchy…

The Double Battle: Frederick Douglass’s moral crusade.

Down the Chain: How the courts perpetuate broken-windows policy.

The UMD Football Team Comes Together to Kick a Booster Off a Plane: The death of teammate Jordan McNair, and the arrogance of boosters protecting the program, has pushed UMD football to the edge.

Trump Shoves Nationalist Needle Into His Followers’ Veins: While the 70-year-old Queens racist with authoritarian statist leanings has long clad them in nationalist rhetoric, Monday was the first time the word escaped his blubbery lips.

Yes, I’m an American Nationalist

What Is A Nationalist In The Age Of Trump?

Trans people like me have a right to be part of society

Trump’s anti-trans proposal may increase prejudice. Here’s one way to combat it.  There’s one science-backed method to reduce anti-transgender prejudice. See for yourself how it works.

Trump cannot define away my existence

A White Nationalist Leader Just Posted Pics From His White House Visit: Identity Evropa’s Patrick Casey said he came to the White House to “pay my respects.”

Black Women Voters Aren’t “Saving America.” We’re Saving Ourselves.  Since at least the 1830s, Black women have organized, campaigned, and voted for issues that matter to us most.

Sessions, in Last-Minute Act, Sharply Limits Use of Consent Decrees to Curb Police Abuses

Ending Mass Incarceration in Pennsylvania

ACLU inspection planned for Fayette County Prison in October

Long-awaited death penalty report released. How long will Pa.'s moratorium on executions stand?

Wolf Signs Bill Sealing Some Criminal Records After Decade: A new Pennsylvania law automatically seals lower-level, nonviolent crimes from public review after 10 years.

Pennsylvania’s New Expungement Law Covers More Misdemeanors

Conservative magazine posts recording of King using derogatory language against immigrants

Man arrested for "terroristic" death threats against CNN's Don Lemon

Veterans related links 111018



President Donald J. Trump to Award the Medal of Honor

COLA Reaches Highest Level in 7 Years

What You Will Pay in 2019 for Medicare/TRICARE

Former Walter Reed Chief To Take Over at Troubled VA Medical Center

7 Things to Know About the VA’s New Website

Arlington’s Tomb Guards Are Getting These Gorgeous Ceremonial Pistols

MOAA Holds Reception for Outgoing President's Advisory Councils

The Senate: Affirmative action for white people

Veterans Day Freebies and Discounts 2018: Free Meals, Haircuts, Car Washes, and More on Veterans Day

Veterans Day Free Meals 2018: A List of Veterans Day Free Meals and Other Veterans Day Freebies for 2018

2018 Veterans Day Deals, Discounts and Freebies

Big Freedia Is The 21st Century's Ambassador Of Freedom

Missouri House candidate is "racist" and "homophobic," his daughter says

McGuire VA continuing to buy canines for deadly dog research

Vietnam Veterans Memorial rededicated in Bristol Township

Welcome To America Again (Snapshots of Vietnam)

VVA License Plate Application

Application for Special Organization Registration Plate

Special Instructions for VVA License Plate Application

Reckless: Kissinger and the Vietnam War

'Vietnam' Takes On All Sides With A Critical Gaze

Review: Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy 1945-1975 by Max Hastings — a masterful overview of a savage war.  Few wars have been as toxic as Vietnam. Max Hastings, who was there as a young reporter, offers a balanced account of one of the most controversial of conflicts. Review by Dominic Sandbrook

Vietnam by Max Hastings review – an effort to exonerate the US military

An unsparing look at the Vietnam War's mountain of lies

VFW Action Corps Weekly

Wednesday, October 17, 2018

General and Miscellaneous related links 101718



Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson - The Year 2003 Minus 25

The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil - Philip G. Zimbardo

Why Surrender Is So Powerful, and How to Experience It?  The great gift that is surrender.

Hamilton Was Here: Rising Up in Revolutionary Philadelphia

My Name is Nobody; Jack's closing farewell letter.

My Name Is Nobody; Cemetery scene

Tangazo-Astor Piazzolla

Ginastera Harp Concerto with Kristan Toczko

Born to Jewish parents in Vienna, Running from Hitler in 1938 he emigrated to the United States, where he rapidly picked up English. And became a United States Army Air Forces WWII Vet. See if you recognize him in the business suit.

In 1942, he enlisted in the United States Army Air Force, underwent basic training in Atlantic City and became a supply sergeant.[2][3] He even posed for a recruiting poster.[3] He served until 1945.[1]
According to fellow Hogan's Heroes actor Robert Clary, "John lost a lot of his family" to the Holocaust.[4]

PastorKnowOne speaking peace (part 8) at the heart of the River

Charlotte Church - Ave Maria

Watch This 8-Year-Old Girl Crush Led Zeppelin's 'Good Times Bad Times'

Birth and Death of Joke Tellers

The Red Baron

Donald Trump’s 007 Goldenhair

Full Episode Jeeves and Wooster S01 E1 In court after the boat race

By Degrees - Official Lyric Video

Barbra Streisand - Don't Lie to Me (Official Video)

How to Spot the 9 Traits of Borderline Personality Disorder

Chatting with an Expert on Narcissism

Dire Straits - Once Upon A Time In The West (lyrics) HQ

JUDY COLLINS & LEONARD COHEN - "Hey, Thats No Way To Say Goobye" 1976

Joan Baez - Fare Thee Well Abschiedstour - Live @ Pariser Olympia 13.6.2018 (COMPLETE HD CONCERT)

Look Around: Andrew Bujalski’s strip-mall realism.

A Community of Defeat: German life in the 20th century.

Before the Law: Kafka’s afterlives.

POEMS by TREVINO L. BRINGS PLENTY

Christian MysticPastor KnowOne peace part 7

(PART 1) ***MY INSPIRATIONAL STORY*** Brain Arteriovenous Malformation (AVM) Survivor!!!

BoJack Horseman’s Brilliant Crack-Up: The Netflix show's new season is a darkly funny reckoning with grief.

The Tyranny of Personality Testing: The inventors of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator saw it as a path to self-discovery—and a tool of workplace management.

Bad Faith: Do atheists think too much like believers?

Gone but Not Deleted: When loved ones die, what do we do with the digital reminders they’ve left behind?

Military related links 101718



It’s official: DoD releases new ‘deploy or get out’ policy

126,000 service members in crosshairs for separation as DoD’s ‘deploy or get out’ policy takes effect

America’s Most Expensive Fighter Jet Totaled in First-Ever Crash: The incident could raise questions about pending F-35 sales to the U.K., Australia, and other countries.

Defense Health Agency Assumes Responsibility Over Military Medical Facilities

A Challenge For Military Moms: Breastfeeding And Pumping On Duty

TRICARE recoups $280 million so far after losing $1.5 billion to scammers

Here are the new rates for military retiree dental coverage under new FEDVIP benefit

NIH, Department of Defense to develop limb loss database

Build Small Nuclear Reactors for Battlefield Power

The Top American General In Vietnam Considered Using Nukes During The Siege Of Khe Sanh, New Documents Reveal

Document: GAO Report on Defense Department Weapon Systems Cybersecurity

How far-out is Trump’s war policy

This Key Indicator Points to the Largest Military Pay Raise in 10 Years

Suicide Rate in Military Community Warrants Immediate Attention

Army to Boost Social Media, Market to Major Cities After Missing Recruiting Goal

Jim Mattis: I’m Not Going Anywhere. Trump Told Me So.

Terrorism related links 101718



More than 100 migrant kids still separated from parents nearly 70 days past judge's deadline

LINDSEY GRAHAM ON DONALD TRUMP AND KIM JONG UN'S RELATIONSHIP: 'THIS LOVE CRAP NEEDS TO STOP'

Trump Administration to Deny Visas to Same-Sex Partners of Diplomats, U.N. Officials: The new policy will insist they be married—even if they're from countries that criminalize gay marriage.

America Is Committing War Crimes and Doesn’t Even Know Why: The United States has spent far more time obscuring its role in the Saudi-led war in Yemen than in explaining any rationale for it.

Nobel Peace Prize 2018

The 2018 Nobel peace prize is awarded to a surgeon and a former slave: Two campaigners fighting against rape as a weapon of war have shone a light on a horrible tactic

Interpol Chief Meng Hongwei ‘Disappears’ After Trip to China

U.S. tears up obscure Iran treaty, escalating stand-off: The move came in response to a recent United Nations ruling that new American sanctions on Tehran violated the decades-old pact.

International Court Orders U.S. to Ease Some Iran Sanctions

Court rules that Kansas military family adopted daughter too late, so she can't become a citizen

Newly obtained memo shows Nielsen signed off on family separation policy she claimed never existed

Trump refuses to grant statehood to Puerto Rico because of his feud with San Juan's female mayor

Trump admin, in the dead of night, has been moving migrant kids to Texas prison camp

Texas desert tent city for immigrant children balloons in size

Protesters stage mock detention center outside Salesforce event in protest of border contract

Joaquin Castro, House Democrats call for investigation into Border Patrol serial killer

Confluence of Trump's Climate Villainy and Jailing Child Refugees, Says Bill McKibben, Nothing Short of 'Downright Evil': "Telling people to stay home is not an option—when there's no water, or when the floods come each year, or when the sea rises into your kitchen, people have to leave. Period."

The Ongoing, Avoidable Horror of the Trump Administration’s Texas Tent Camp for Migrant Kids

Repression in Saudi Arabia has reached a new level: It appears that nowhere is safe for Saudi dissidents

WATCH: Donald Trump Says ‘Every Single Democrat in the US Senate Has Signed Up for…the Open Borders Bill’: Nope.

After Khashoggi, U.S. Arms Sales to the Saudis Are Essential Leverage

Revealing Intelligence on Jamal Khashoggi

A journalist has been murdered. The U.S. knew before. And after. And is doing nothing about it.

Abducted By Boko Haram, Now Posing With Lady Liberty In Times Square

The Taliban Couldn't Quash This Pakistani Squash Champ

Trump's detention policy: Fiscally exorbitant as well as morally bankrupt

The View from Iowa: Where Immigrants are at the Heart of America's Culture War.  Latino immigrants are revitalizing rural Iowa but in some Americans’ eyes their dream of building a new life merits only shackles and an orange jumpsuit

US, having created 4 mn Refugees in Iraq, Slashes Immigrant cap to 30,000

Trump Says Murder Shouldn’t Stop Saudi Weapon Sales Because ‘We Have Jobs’

Forensics expert and former diplomat among Saudi team probed by Turkish officials

Donald Trump continues to help Saudi leaders wash their hands of murder

The Cruelty Is the Point: President Trump and his supporters find community by rejoicing in the suffering of those they hate and fear.

Jeremy Corbyn and the Crisis of Anti-Semitism: A vicious feud has engulfed the Labour Party—why can’t its leader defuse it?

The Mystery Deepens on Those ‘Immaculate Concussion’ Illnesses in Cuba: One thing is certain—the downsized US embassy has made it harder for diplomats to cover new developments there.

Inadmissibility on Public Charge Grounds: A Proposed Rule by the Homeland Security Department on 10/10/2018

Democratic senators urging Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen to withdraw the proposed regulatory changes.

As 18th Year of War in Afghanistan Begins, Sen. Warren Says: 'Long Past Time to Bring Our Troops Home': Sanders, meanwhile, called for "a vigorous discussion about our foreign policy, and how it needs to change in this new era."

Congress steps up to challenge Trump’s embrace of Saudi Arabia

JEFF SESSIONS CHARGED WITH ‘CHILD ABUSE’ BY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH MEMBERS AFTER IMPLEMENTING CHILD SEPARATION POLICY

Assad Has Carried Out ‘Over 100 Chemical Attacks’ Since 2013: Report

NYPD Looks to Charge 9 Proud Boys With Assault for Manhattan Fight: Three protesters described as antifa are also wanted after police say they threw bottles and punches during the incident.

On the Line: Fast Times on the Border: An event marking the fiftieth anniversary of César Chávez’s famous 1968 fast during the migrant grape workers strike in California.

The Wall at Home: Trump’s assault on the immigration courts.

Masquerade: The Incredible True Story of How George Soros' Father Outsmarted the Gestapo Paperback – March 15, 2011

Masquerade: The Incredible True Story of How George Soros' Father Outsmarted the Gestapo

Masquerade by Tivadar Soros

MASQUERADE: Dancing Around Death in Nazi-Occupied Hungary

A Soros Survivor’s Guide

Israel’s Season of Discontent: Seventy years after its founding, has the Jewish State abandoned the American diaspora?

TERRORIST BY ASSOCIATION: Has French security law turned holding Islamist ideas into proof of a crime?

Below the Surface of ICE: The Corporations Profiting From Immigrant Detention: Activists are targeting the companies that make ICE run.