Showing posts with label Truthout. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Truthout. Show all posts

Sunday, July 12, 2015

Everything's Peachy... if by "Peachy" You Mean Hemlock - 2015 - Updated #87

There's no "race problem" in America.  We all have black friends.  I even have more than I need.  [I call some of them relatives.]  Dr. King's dream has not become a nightmare.  It's become a dytopian vision of future that simply dresses the dark past in new fangled rags. - Leroy 16, Aug. 2014

From TheDailyBeast:  Fear of a dominant black woman, as seen in Serena Williams.

From Truthout:  In praise of Bree Newsome.

From TheAtlantic: Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Confederate flag.

From TheWashingtonPost:  Baltimore cop talks a horror show.

From TIME via RSN:  Baltimore is just the beginning.

From RSN:  Outrageous reasons cops gave for killing unarmed citizens.

From Truthout:  Swimming while black.

From Truthout:  Black and the U.S. military.

From GuardianUK: Banks targeted Black people with bad term loans - I think Rev. Jesse Jackson revealed this over a decade ago.

From Bloomberg:  How many indeed.

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From TheAtlantic: Take it down now - Ta'Nehisis Coates preaches!

From Truthout:  Two ways racists kill.

From TheDailyBeast:  John Oliver says "Kill the Confederate Flag."

From Intercept:  Only Muslims can be terrorists and not a white boy who slaughtered 9 Black people.

From GuardianUK: Jesse Jackson says we need more than prayer in the wake of Emanuel AME shooting.

From YahooPolitics:  Denmark Vesey, an American hero, finally gets a statue.

From TheNewYorker:  Charleston and the age of Obama.

From YahooNews:  I wouldn't forgive Dylann Roof, him or his Klanly... err... family.

From SPLC:  Southern Poverty Law Center statement on Emanuel AME shooting.

From YahooNews:  South Carolina State Senator, pastor Clementa Pinckney, among victims at Emanuel AME Church shooting.

From GuardianUK:  More on Pastor Pinckney.

From YahooNews:  What Dylann Roof said to his victims in Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.

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From TheDailyBeast:  More pool trouble for Black children; this time in Ohio.

From the GuardianUK:  Witnesses contradict Tamir Rice's killer, Cleveland PD officer Timothy Loehmann.

From YahooNews:  New documents on Tamir Rice shooting in Cleveland.

From RSN:   Obama remembers what happened to MLK.

From GuardianUK:  Don't buy the "Ferguson Effect."

From RSN:  Baltimore explained.

From TheGuardian:  Wal-Mart: where white cops go to shoot black men, and this one is on his second killing.

From AlJazeera:  Mexico's brothel state.

From RSN:  Relatives of people killed by cops speak out.

From WashPost:  Funny: some pro-law and order talking heads insisted that the number of people being shot be cops was falling fast.

From BuzzFlash:  40 reasons our jails are full of Black and poor people.

From TPM:  White fragility.

From YahooNews:  30 years on Alabama death row for nothing.

From the WashingtonPost:  DEA steals $16,000 from a young black businessman.

From Truthout:  Police don't see black children's lives as the future, but as disposable.

From TheGuardian:  Cops stop black guys in nice cars - Chris Rock.

From Haaretz:  Black is being oppressed anywhere there is white superiority - even in Israel.

From ThePlayersTribune:  Go ahead and put a cap in that ass, David Ortiz.

From the GuardianUK:  Justice for Arfee... It will make you laugh-cry.

From  BuzzFlash:  Anti-gay Christian bigots attack Disney/ABC Family about a proposed TV series in which gay rights activist Dan Savage is a writer.

From Truthout:  The school voucher rackets begins to serve its intended purpose.

From RSN:  FBI convicted a man using hair analysis, but it was a dog's hair.

From SFGate:  Cornell West on more shootings.

From GuardianUK: Elton John and Michael Stipe on the danger of the silence around the abuse of transgender prisoners.

From YahooNews:  After a black woman wins mayoral election, white cops and politicians flee town. Hilarious.

From GuardianUK: The black guy dies at the end.  The white guy knows why.

From TIME:  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar asks who will lead Black Americans.

From WashPost:  In 2004, Texas executed a man for the arson murder of his three young daughters.  He may have been innocent.  Now, the prosecutor of that case is facing misconduct charges.

From FreeThoughtProject:  DEA does not enforce drug laws in rich communities...

From TheGuardian: Yes, White outrage at Walter Scott shooting is not enough.

From Truthout:  Hip hop and Palestine.

From BuzzFlash: Accusations of being Jewish, then a suicide - strange goings in Missouri GOP.

From RSN:  The roots of American racism run deep.  Sho' nuff.

From Quartz: The power of Chris Rock's police-stop selfies.

From AmsterdamNews:  Mumia is in a diabetic coma.

From TheNewYorker:  Seymour Hersh returns to My Lai.

From Mashable: Banksy in Gaza.

From BuzzFlash:  The American terrorism of lynching.

From YahooSports:  College baseball player loses his gig for ugly thing he said about Little League World Series heroine, Mo'ne Davis.

From NPR via RSN:  A Black Mississippi judge's speech to three white murderers of a black man.

From NPR:  The power of Malcolm X as a public speaker.

From YahooNews:  ESPN's Steven A. Smith encourages Blacks to vote Republican in an argument that is familiar.

From Time:  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on MLK Day.

From RSN:  "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" by Dr. Martin Luther King

From RSN:  Free speech in France... except for Muslim students.

From the WashingtonPost:  I didn't believe this statistic until I started working at LSU Graphic Services, when I discovered how many semi-literate white people held positions for which they were unqualified - as per the official requirements for their jobs.  Some made more money than Black employees with college degrees, and more shockingly, and also instructors and professors.

From YahooNews:  A Univision personality is fired for comparing First Lady Michelle Obama to Planet of the Apes.

From BuzzFlash:  Black man in Louisiana gets over 13 years for pot.

From AlJazeeraAmerica:  We need the Black Panthers.

From TheGuardian:  "The disappeared: Chicago police detain Americans at abuse-laden 'black site' "

From DemocracyNow:  Malcolm X remembered 50 years after his assassination.

From RSN:  Americans need fair housing free of discrimination, says Richard Trumka

From Truthout:  Update on Marissa Alexander who could not stand her ground in Florida as George Zimmerman.

From the NationalPost:  In Quebec, a young woman was locked in the back of a police truck with a man who then, raped here.

From NPR:  There is also a war on Black girls.

From ConsortiumNews:  How Jefferson Davis' name is synonymous with violence against African-Americans, especially in the form of lynching.

From AlJazeera:  In Hollywood, black lives don't matter (related to Oscars' snub of "Selma")

From Truthout:  Everything is not peach in LGBT equality.

From YahooSports:  The story of Brian Banks - falsely accused of rape, his college football and NFL dreams were destroyed.  Now, he works for the NFL.

From AlJazeera:  2014 is the year that the myth of equality under the law in America was exposed.

From CrooksandLiars:  More on the white man who shot the Black chief of police and got away with it.  By the way, a bulletproof vest saved the police chief's life.

From YahooNews:  South Florida cops shooting at mug shots of Black men.

From TheGuardian:  Yeah, why did they?

From TIME:  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: The police aren't under attack...

From BuzzFlash:  Yes, the media does seem reluctant to call white supremacists and Christian fundamentalists terrorists when they commit acts of terrorists.

From Truthout:  The modern day lynching of Rev. Edward Pickney in Michigan.

From LATimes: Exonerated and broke.

From AlterNet:  A great review of the new film, Selma.

From YahooParenting:  7 things I can do that my black son can't.

From CNN:  I remember hearing about Macy's racial profiling case, but not this one involving "Treme" actor, Robert Brown.


Thursday, May 28, 2015

The Killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson - May 2015 Edition - Update #30


From Politico:   Policing scandals threaten to overwhelm the Justice Department... Ha!

From TheVox:  For me, it's not so much the picture, but the future behavior of the two cops in the photo.

From teleSUR:  Beyonce and Jay Z post bail for "Black Lives Matter."

From GuardianUK:  A Klan jury... I mean grand jury actually indcits all six killer cops involved in the death of Freddie Gray.

From DemocracyNow:  Matt Taibbi on police engaging in an endless campaign of harassment.

From Esquire: What the Cleveland PD had planned to do to Tamir Rice... after they'd already killed him.

From YahooNews:  He stood on the hood of car and fired 49 shots through the windshield at two unarmed occupants and the judge acquitted him.

From YahooNews:  Why aren't the bikers who got into a gun battle with cops after rioting amongst themselves called "thugs?" Hmm...

From GuardianUK:  Obama combats the militarization of American police departments.

From YahooNews:  As far as I'm concerned, these guys have been coddled by law enforcement for too long, either that or law enforcement is afraid of them.

From RSN:  Miami cops sent racists and pornographic emails?  They're just showing their true colors.

From the New York Times via RSN:  Police unions experience the loss of their privileged position.

From GuardianUK:  Brian Rice, one of the Baltimore cops charged in the death of Freddie Gray, has twice had his police weapons confiscated because of behavior.

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From TheDailyBeast:  George Zimmerman's blood feud.

From YahooNews:  Almost there...
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From TheGuardian:  New Attorney General Loretta Lynch opens federal probe of Baltimore PD.

From the ACLU: The group likes the city of Newark's cop watch accountability board.

From BuzzFeed:  Racist emails by San Francisco cops causes a review of 3000 arrest.

From the SacramentoBee:  California state senators seek to keep grand juries from investigating cases in which people are killed by police excessive force.

From GuardianUK:  Reporters get beat-downs and locked-up covering Freddie Gray protests.

From TheDailyBeast:  Cops can't stop stopping Chris Rock.

From TIME:  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Walter Scott.

From Truthout:  Mumia on Walter Scott shooting.

From RollingStone:  Matt Taibbi on how cell phones are changing the narrative.

From TPM:  How to destroy a black life.

From teleSUR:  That number, in six years, may exceed the number of lynchings over a 100-year period.

From Alternet:  Racists pretending to be Baltimore protestors.

From TheBaltimoreSun:  Six officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray - officers' arrest photos with specific charges.

From RSN:  The terrorism we suffer from police - Morgan Freeman.

From TheVillageVoice:  In light of Freddie Gray, New York's "antiquated" knife law.

From RSN:  Baltimore explained.

From RSN:  Cop beats his wife at Chicago PD black site, Homan Square.

Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Negromancer's Fave Poli-Reads - May 2015 Edition - Updated #14


From RSN:  I voted for him, but I always thought that he was a bit of dishonest cretin.

From TheVox:  Kansas is at war against the poor.

From Haaretz:   Wow!  No wonder they were supportive of South Africa.

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From the LondonReviewofBooks:  Seymour Hersh calls into the question the official account of the American raid that killed Osama bin Laden.

From Salon: Hersh says he's not backing down on anything he said about Osama raid.

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From AlJazeera:  Oppression, segregation, anti-free speech: so much for the MidEast's only democracy.

From BloombergBusiness:  Harold Hamm, a billionaire oil CEO, wanted the University of Oklahoma to dismiss earthquake scientists and he wanted to sit in on the interview process to pick a new head of the geological survey.

From TPM:  He should blame the party he supports.

From TheDailyBeast:  Details on De Blasio's contract with America.

From CommonDreams:  Another financial meltdown looms as many of the practices that caused the 2008 financial crisis remain in practice.

From CNN:  The poor in the U.S. are not the envy of America.

From RSN:  No a black man will not win the GOP nomination.  That means not you, Ben Carson.

From YahooNews:  Poverty is creeping into the 2016 Presidential race, putting Republicans in a tenuous position.

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From CNN:  Carly Fiorina is running for President.

From TIME:  Why Fiorina is controversial.
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From BuzzFlash:  5 steps to privatizing everything.

From RSN:  An actual socialist is running for President.

From Consortium:  The day after Damascus falls.

From RSN:  Bernie Sanders is running for the Democratic nomination in 2016.

From TheIntercept:  There is a protest over a PEN Award to Charlie Hebdo.

From AlJazeera:  Killers on Blackwater payroll get long prison sentences...  their boss needs to follow them to jail.

From RSN:  Free range parenting vs. busy body servants of the police state.

Thursday, April 30, 2015

Negromancer's Fave Poli-Reads - April 2015 Edition - Update #16


From RSN:  Bernie Sanders is running for the Democratic nomination in 2016.

From TheIntercept:  There is a protest over a PEN Award to Charlie Hebdo.

From AlJazeera:  Killers on Blackwater payroll get long prison sentences...  their boss needs to follow them to jail.

From RSN:  Free range parenting vs. busy body servants of the police state.

From TheHill:  Watch President Obama trash talk Washington Wizards forward, Paul Pierce.

From Salon:  White Christian America in sinking numbers.

From YahooPolitics:  Hilary is in.

From TheIntercept:  American media talks about the "Iran nuclear deal," but never interviews any Iranians, while allowing pro-Israel voices to screech their side.

From NBC:  Your professor might be on food stamps.

From FirstLook:  Glenn Greenwald on how political smears in the United States remain the same.

From GuardianUK:  Honestly, there is no chance of Mike Huckabee being President.  Besides, for all his bigotry, I'm pretty sure that he is gay.

From RobertReich:  The rise of the non-working rich.

From RSN: Obama makes historical breakthrough on Iran.  Now, white guys in the Senate get to show how much they envy the achievements of Black men.

From TIME: Indiana tries Sharia law fro LGBTQ.  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar talks about the state of Indiana being on the wrong side of history.

From ThinkProgress: Maggots and rats on privatized prison food.  Michigan in need of a violent revolution.

From BuzzFlash: Roundup is safe, but Monsanto lobbyist won't drink it.

From RSN:  Barbra Streisand - Obama Has Turned the Economy Around.

From Esquire:  Charles Pierce takes down clown David Brooks on "religious freedom."


Tuesday, April 28, 2015

The Killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson - April 2015 Edition - Update #36


From RSN:  Baltimore explained.

From RSN:  Cop beats his wife at Chicago PD black site, Homan Square.

From RSN:  This is why I found that DOJ report on Ferguson to be wanting.  They let Darren Wilson get away with murder, and then for all the DOJ's criticism of Ferguson, there were no arrests, indictments, or lawsuits.

From ThinkProgress:  Dallas cops shoot mentally ill man within seconds of arriving at this apartment.

From RSN:  Don't forget that Cleveland said that a child was directly responsible for his death.

From GuardianUK:  Reserve deputy's shooting of an unarmed black man actually isn't being investigated anymore.

From RSN:  Michael Slater almost got away with murdering a black man.

From Vice:  Cop mocks dying man, and boils my blood.

From RSN:  After shooting Walter Scott in South Carolina, white cop jokes about adrenaline.

From TheDailyBeast:  Don't be surprised if Robert Bates and Sheriff Stanley Glanz turn out to be undercover gay lovers... not that there's anything wrong with being gay.

From Truthout:  The millionaire reserve deputy who shot Eric Harris dead in Tulsa Oklahoma is really the victim.

From YahooNews:  Police meet with family of cop-shooting victim, Freddie Gray.

From RSN:  Grand jury, Schmand jury.  When the grand jury won't give the prosecutor her way, she can just ignore them.

From YahooNews:  A white guy gets shot in the back and killed by a cop.  Go figure.

From YahooNews:  A sapling tree planted in Mike Brown's honor is destroyed and a plague stolen.

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From TheHill:  Black protestors are not "enemy forces."
From Salon: Another article on "enemy forces."
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From GuardianUK:  My blood still boils over this decision.

From DailyCaller:  A list of those horrid text released by San Francisco cops, who must be closeted Klansman.

From the GuardianUK:  Why the U.S. can't keep track of police killing civilians.

From YahooSports:  The NYPD never gets enough of beating on Black men.  Now, they have attacked an NBA player, ending his season because of injury that they may have caused.

Tulsa Shooting - 73-year-old reserve deputy shoots man dead, although he claims that he meant to use a Taser.  RAWVideoCNN.

From Politico:  Frank Serpico - "When Cops Cry Wolf" or "testi-lying.

From RT:  In this article, a US Marshal says cops are trained to justify use of deadly force.  Hell, they're trained to use deadly force on Black people, even children.

From TheAtlantic: The gangsters of Ferguson.

From the NYT:  Cop points gun at son of Times' writer, Charles Blow.

From TheDailyBeast:  Ramsey Orta, the man who recorded the choking death of Eric Garner in Staten Island, is apparently on a hunger strike while in Riker's.

From YahooNews:  About the gap in between the video recordings of the South Carolina Walter Scott shooting.

From YahooNews:  After this white cop in South Carolina killed an unarmed Black man, he tried to plan a weapon on him.

From RSN:  White people far more accepting of police violence.  I can only laugh, although I am surprised, but should not be.

From Truthout:  A young African-American woman is charged with lynching in California for "removing someone from police custody."  Irony x ridiculous.

From YahooMovies:  City of Ferguson releases racists emails.

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From Truthout:  PART 1: Exclusive report begins - Chicago PD killing Black youth and purges misconduct allegations.

From Truthout:  PART 2: Young life vs. deadly force

From Truthout:  PART 4: How the "Gold Standard" of Police Accountability Fails Civilians by Design.

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From ACLU:  Since the White House Task Force on 21st Century Policing report was released, cops have killed over 100 people - an average of 3 day.

From Progressive: Black America's surveillance state.

From Truthout:  Ring of Snitches - how Detroit cops got false murder convictions of young Black mane.


Sunday, March 29, 2015

The Killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson - March 2015 Edition - Update #30


From Gawker:  The NYPD plan to turn making someone into a felony easy-peasy.

From TechDirt: There is no such thing as "contempt of cop."

From RSN:  In this case, it's a white woman in prison for decades for a murder she did not commit.

From RSN:  Two inmates shot and one is killed... their hands were handcuffed behind their backs.

From ShreveportTime and RSN:  Former prosecutor's words are hollow.

From GuardianUK:  Cleveland PD still killing black teens.

From RSN:  Whatever.

From BuzzFlash:  Chicago PD uses stop-and-frisk against people of color at 4 times the rate of the NYPD.

From RollingStone:  Matt Taibbi on the decision to keep Eric Garner grand jury minutes secret.  I say if you have nothing to hide, what are you hiding.

From YahooNews:  San Fran pigs show their Klan-side in text messages.

From YahooNews:  Missouri Lt. Gov. Peter Kindel probably called his mother "Aunt Mama" and probably thinks the Ku Klux Klan is super-tubular-cool!

From Truthout:  A history of killing black men and getting away with it.

From CapitalNewYork:  The NYPD kills and abuses, and then changes the Wikipedia entries about those incidents.

From the NewYorker:  Release Eric Garner grand jury records... NOW!

From GuardianUK:  Two cops shot during recent Ferguson protests.

From GuardianUK:  Long overdue - Ferguson police chief Thomas Jackson resigns, but gets a a year's severance pay, $95,000.  The city manager left and got $120,000.

From Politico:  Yes, Obama's friend the professor found this out.

From RSN and Slate:  States take over Ferguson court system to restore order and to implement reforms.

From teleSUR:  White cop kills unarmed NAKED black man.

From YahooNews:  More on how Madison police chief is doing it differently from Ferguson Klan chief... err... I mean police chief.

From Truthout:  Why Black America, even the uncle toms, sometimes fear calling the police.

From TheGuardian: Madison police chief has a better control of things than that portly clown in Ferguson had.

From YahooNews:  Black, unarmed, shot dead by cop in Madison, Wisconsin.

From CBCNews: A police officer in Quebec drives 75 miles in a 30 mile zone and kills a five-year-old child.  Canadian media won't name him, nor has he been charged.

From AlJazeeraAmerica:  Shot in the back.

From The Post via RSN:  They're called "SCOPs" and you should know about them.

From TheWashingtonPost:  Attorney General Eric Holder is prepared to dismantle Ferguson police force if necessary.

From HuffPost:  This tale of a drunk white man at White Castle begins the Ferguson PD highlights from the Department of Justice's report.

From YahooNews:  Highlights or low lights from the DOJ's Ferguson Police Department report.

From TheVox:  A selection of 7 racist jokes from Ferguson police and court officials.  They're F'ed up.

From TheVox:  Justice Department's report on Ferguson PD is due this week.  Preview from the New York Times, includes racist jokes (including a horrid one about President Obama), and targeting black to raise funds for the city.

From TheGuardian:  The Chicago PD have their own CIA-like "black site."

From TheGuardian:  After Trayvon, a new Civil Rights movement.

From Cleveland.com:  City responds to lawsuit by Tamir Rice's family.

From Reuters via RSN:  Justice Department reportedly to sue Ferguson Police Department.

Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Negromancer News Bits and Bites for December 28th to 31st, 2014 - Update #5


NEWS:

From RSN:  Bill Simpich is critical of The Interview.

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From YahooTV:  Hollywood salaries revealed - an interesting article.

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From Variety: The winner of the Dec. 26th to 28th, 2014 box office is The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies with an estimated take of $41.4 million dollars.  This is a repeat victory, as the film was also #1 in its opening week.  Seth Rogen and James Franco's controversial film, The Interview, earned an estimated $1.8 million in what is mainly an art-house release.


STAR WARS:

From YahooMovies:  Oscar Isaac says Star Wars rumors/theories are wrong.


COMICS BOOKS:

From YahooTV:  New promo art from "Ant-Man," featuring the character "Yellowjacket."

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From FlickeringMyth:  Vin Diesel does more "Inhumans" teasing.


REVIEWS:

From AlterNet:  A review of Selma.

Sunday, December 28, 2014

Everything's Peachy... if by "Peachy" You Mean Hemlock - Update #77

There's no "race problem" in America.  We all have black friends.  I even have more than I need.  [I call some of them relatives.]  Dr. King's dream has not become a nightmare.  It's become a dytopian vision of future that simply dresses the dark past in new fangled rags. - Leroy 16, Aug. 2014

From AlterNet:  A great review of the new film, Selma.

From YahooParenting:  7 things I can do that my black son can't.

From CNN:  I remember hearing about Macy's racial profiling case, but not this one involving "Treme" actor, Robert Brown.

From Reuters via RSN:  Off-duty, Black NYPD cops feel threat from White colleagues.

From TheDailyBeast:  After they fired the shots, they're the victims...

From NYTimes:  Police shootings reveal racial chasm... D'uh.

From Time:  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to White people feeling targeted by Ferguson protests - Welcome to our world.

From MiamiHerald:  The rules are indeed different for Black people seeking justice.

From TheGuardian:  Gentrifiers having to throw people out of their homes.

From CNN:  Racism without racists.

From the GuardianUK:  Jesse Jackson says we can still get justice for Mike Brown.  I kinda doubt it, but I'm hopeful.

From Esquire:  The rise in police shootings, even in places like Utah.

From YahooNews:  Another black male with a toy gun shot to death by cops - this time the black male is a child.

From CSMonitor:  Mumia Abu-Jamal sues over the Pennsylvania law specifically meant to gag him.

From RSN and FirstLook:  Yes, we do need someone to judge the judges because Judge Edith Jones is an ignorant racist bitch.

From FirstLook:  How the innocent are screwed into pleading guilty.

From NPR:  Black and dead in Brazil.

From ConsortiumNews:  Is Arlington, VA racist?  Probably.

From RSN:  Did you know that Denver cops had killed an unarmed street preacher.  It costs them $4.6 million?  That was an expensive cap-popping.

From RawStory:  Dead in Alabama jails to save money.

From TheNation:  How racism stole black childhood.

From RSN:  Cops killed 77 people in September 2014.

From the NYT:  Civil asset forfeiture - makes me wanna support Clive Bundy.

From Demos via RSN:  A third of Americans live at or near poverty.

From YahooNews:  Expelled Nazis and SS still get Social Security paychecks.

From Think Progress via RSN:  Funny Ebola freak-outs.

From YahooNews:  Michael Dunn gets life for killing 17-year-old Jordan Davis.

From Truthout:  Incarceration, mass murder, and genocide of Black men.

From FreeThoughtProject:   Cops with gang tattoos to celebrate the people they kill.

From Truthout:  Understanding our many Fergusons.

From YahooNews:  Another unarmed, innocent black teen attacked by white cops on a racial profiling rampage.  Luckily, the cops didn't kill him.

From GQ via RSN:  An interesting article about murderer, George Zimmerman's crappy family.

From News 13 via RSN:  Michael Dunn found guilty of murdering black teenager, Jordan Davis.

From Truthout:  Cops retaliate against citizens group that monitor police activity.

From Salon via RSN:  America's summer of white supremacy.

From InformedComment via RSN:  $8.7 billion in food stamp cuts, but $22 billion to fight ISIS.

From TheNewYorkTimes:  When Whites Just Don't Get It Part One and Part Two.

From the HuffingtonPost:  Los Angeles law enforcement kill about one person a week - I'm not surprised.

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From YahooNews:  JUSTICE:  Woman beat up by CHiP cop, wins $1.5 million and cop resigns.

From NPR:  INJUSTICE:  Grand Jury refuses to indict murders... I mean cops involved in the shooting death of an unarmed man in Ohio Wal-Mart shooting.
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From BearingArms:  Family wants charges against fat lying bastard who made the 911 call that led to the murder of their son.

From Salon via RSN:  The strange death of Charles Smith.  Shot to death while handcuffed, supposedly in possession of gun.

From Salon via RSN:  Rock the Vote joins militia group to intimidate Wisconsin African-American voters in November.

From CBS:  WHITE South Carolina state trooper charged in shooting of UNARMED BLACK MAN.

From Salon via RSN:  Yes, Justice Scalia is "an utter moral failure."

From the Guardian UK via RSN:  Cops act like gang in assault on Latino man.

From the AP via RSN:  Students walk-out in protest over conservative school board's attempt to make history education emphasize respect for authority and the free-market.

From the Guardian UK via RSN:  By the way, a federal judge approved New York City's settlement with the Central Park Five.  Former mayor, Michael Bumberg, had fought the lawsuit.

From The Washington Post via RSN:  Cops seizing hundreds of millions in cash and property from motorists not charged with crimes.  First heard about this a month ago, and I'm still shocked.

From Campus Reform via RSN:  Students and faculty have to tell Clemson University how many times they've had sex...  Apparently, this is real.

From The Daily Beast via RSN:  Ferguson cops caught in a lie about blood on their uniforms and got away with it... for now.

From BuzzFlash via Truthout:  For Black youth, no mistakes allowed.  It could be fatal.

From TheWashingtonPost:  White rage against Black progress.

From the GuardianUK via RSN:  Yep, the cops shot Darrien Hunt in the back.  Had to admit it.

From Esquire via RSN:  It's never about race, right?  Riiiiiight.

From The Intercept via RSN:  No heads in the sand on ISIS beheading videos.

From Truthout:  NRA hold "killer cop contest."Includes a "Head Shots Only" competition.

From the SPLC via RSN:  Neo-Confederate group forms paramilitary unit to advance a second secession.

From YahooSports:  Yeah, there are good cops...

From CBSLocal via RSN:  Free Patrick McLaw - A teacher an self-published science fiction author placed on administrative leave after his work was discovered.  Free Patrick McLaw.

From ABCNews:  John Crawford, Jr., the father of Wal-Mart shooting victime, John Crawford, III, hears his son's dying breaths.

From YahooNews:  So-called witness in John Crawford shooting - the guy who called 911, has changed his story.

From BuzzFlash:  Black men who "open carry" get a cap in the ass from cops.

From TomDisptach via RSN:  We made ISIS.

From Truthout: U.S. slammed for failure to end all forms of racial discrimination

From Reuters via RSN:  Federal prosecutors will investigate the shooting death of Victor White III, a Louisiana man whose death had been previously ruled a suicide.  Supposedly, he shot himself while handcuffed in the back of a police car.

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From LATimes:  Two brothers who were wrongly convicted of the murder and rape of an 11-year-old girl in North Carolina were freed Wednesday morning, September 3, 2014.  They spent 30 years in prison.  One was 19 and the other were 15 when they were arrested in 1983.

So is a Black man in America more afraid of police and the justice system or of ISIL/ISIS?
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From ThinkProgress via RSN:  Ain't it the truth, girl - America has a real racial problem - Justice Ginsburg.

From GlobalVoiceOnline:  Israeli soldiers used Gazans as human shields  This is not the first time I have heard of this.  They way Israelis act, one would think Palestinians were the ones who caused the Holocaust.

From Truthout:  Black women on "Women's Equality Day."

From NateSilver via RSN:  Most police don't live in the cities they serve.

From TheNation:  How Trayvon Martin's death launched a new generation of black activism.

From MotherJones:  How indeed.

From BuzzFlash: A piece on Ferguson police officer, Dan Page, and his racist speech given before the Oath Keepers in April 2014.  From TheAdvocate and TheGuardian - Page's speech.

From YouTube:  Ferguson police officer, Dan Page, threatening CNN's Don Lemon.

From Truthout:  "We won't go back" - the march for Eric Garner.

From Truthout:  The killing of black men continues...

From YahooNews:  Activist carry the coffin of a black woman killed by a white Phoenix police sergeant to the steps of City Hall.

From Valid:  More commentary on Michelle Cusseaux, the black woman killed by a white Phoenix police officer.

From BuzzFlash via Truthout:  Most whites still don't understand the danger of being a black man in the U.S. ...

From Esquire via RSN:  Charles Pierce - Ferguson: The Limits of Everything

From Reuters via RSN:  President Obama order review of police militirization

From Salon via RSN How to Wreck the GOP in 3 Easy Steps! - Obama and weak-kneed Democratic leadership won't do this.

From RSNWhere Were the Soldier Cops at Bundy Ranch?  - Good questions, Marc Ash.  There is a markedly different response to black protestors in Ferguson, Missouri than there was to the white, gun-toting protestors at the Bundy Ranch in Nevada.

From Popular Resistance via Truthout:  The reality of militarized, racist policing ...according to a recent study, a black man is killed every 28 hours by police, security guards or vigilantes. The whole nation is experiencing these tragedies; reality is being forced upon us.

From Time via RSNKareem Abdul-Jabbar: "The Coming Race War Won't Be About Race." He says that it will be about class.  He also wonders if the event in Ferguson, Missouri will disappear down the memory hole as the shootings at Jackson State in 1970 - 10 days after the Kent State shooting.

From Salon via RSN: The criminalization of Black mothers.

From Truthout:  It's worth standing with Keith Ellison.

From BuzzFlash:  President Nixon's Vietnam treason confirmed


OTHER:

From The Intercept via RSN:  How Gary Webb was destroyed.


MISC:

From Suggest:  10 celebs you didn't know were black.

From RedFlagNews, you will learn that everything is not peachy.



Sunday, November 30, 2014

Negromancer's Fave Poli-Reads - November 2014 Edition - Update #17


From YahooNews:  Republican bitch gets out of hand with President Obama's daughters about something that is really not important at all.

From RollingStone:  The 15 worst owners in sports.

From RollingStone:  Rape... at a college founded by a slave owner that raped his female slaves... No way...

From the GuardianUK:  Angela Davis on Mike Brown.

From the GuardianUK:  You've got to be kidding me.  Masai homeland to be turned into hunting ground for Dubai royalty... Off with their heads.

From FirstLook:  Glenn Greenwald's sarcastic piece about the people most excited about a Hilary Clinton presidency.

From Politico:  Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) on why the Republicans want to impeach President Obama.

From TIME:  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar says that American politicians are a bigger threat to democracy than ISIS.  Yes.

From Vocativ:  Be a cop in Oakley Michigan for $1200.

From RSN:  How to scrap the two-party system...

From BBCNews:  J. Edgar Hoover used Nazis as Cold War spies.  Why am I not surprised.

From TheDailyBeast:  Jonathan Alter, one of my favorite writers about politics and society, talks about what the day after the Republican takeover of Congress will be like.

From Newsweek:  When Google met Wikileaks.

From WashingtonPost:  Senator Mark Warner's middle of the road fantasy almost cost him his seat on Tuesday, November 4, 2014

From YahooNews:  President Obama not mopey about 2014 midterms.

From TheWashingtonPost:  Rachel Maddow on the GOP banking on fear.

From RawStory:  North Carolina voting machines acting kinda shady.  I have been hearing similar stories for years.

From ThinkProgress:  A secretive voter purge in 27 states, largely unknown and aimed at suspected members of minorities.

From Truthout:  The origins, history, and more about GamerGate.


Friday, October 24, 2014

News Round-up: The Death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri Update #72


GoFundMe page for Mike Brown's family

From TheIntercept via RSN:  Klan jury... I mean grand jury in Mike Brown's shooting began Wednesday, August 20th, 2014.

Michael Brown, 18, was shot to death, reportedly by police officer Darren Wilson, on Saturday, August 9th, 2014 at approximately 2:15 pm on Canfield Drive in Ferguson, Missouri.  Ferguson is a small city in St. Louis County.  The shooting of the unarmed Brown sparked a furious backlash and days of protests, some violent and involving looting.  What follows is a list of links to news articles about the shooting and related matters:

From the StLouisPostDispatch:  An early article about the Michael Brown shooting

From the LosAngelesTimes:  This is the earliest (or oldest) article that I could find about the Michael Brown shooting.

From HuffingtonPost:  Another early article about the local African-American community's reaction to the shooting of Brown

From PrisonCulture:  A searing image of Michael Brown's father

From the WashingtonPost via RSN:  More of Darren Wilson's history and background emerges; it seems that he was previously associated with another police department that had a bad relationship with the local black folks.

From  Al Jazeera via RSN:  Darren Wilson: Judge, jury, and executioner.

From YahooNews via CSM and the AP:  Shooter a.k.a. Darren Wilson tells his "side" of the story about how he shot an unarmed black man to death.

Updated Shooting Timeline:  The AP via YahooNews.

UPDATED LINKS SECTION:

From YahooNews:  Why is the Justice Department surprised by anything Ferguson and St. Louis investigators do.

From Reuters:  Amnesty International: Police in Ferguson committed human rights abuses.

From YahooNews:  The results of a government autopsy of Mike Brown leaked to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

From Guardian UK via RSN:  Young people resist older generation's call for "peace."

From YahooNews:  A weekend of resistance.

From the Guardian UK via RSN:  Ours sons could be the next Michael Brown.

From RSN:  The much-talked about grand jury tweet.

From Esquire via RSN:  Another black teenager shot by a you-know-what.

From Reuters via RSN:  Missourri planning for riots.

From ABC News via YahooNews:  There is a night of unrest after police kills black teen.

From Truthout:  The fault lines of Obama's "My Brother's Keeper."

From The Feminist Wire via Truthout:  Black women on the front lines of Ferguson.

From the AP via RSN:  Ferguson price-gouging media and other entities seeking files, records and information connected to Darren Wilson's killing of Mike Brown.

From Truthout:  Facism 101 - Police and media control.

From the USA Today via RSN:  Voter registration surges in Ferguson post-Mike Brown killing.

From the AP via RSN:  President Obama says mistrust of police is corroding America.

From Reuters via RSN:  People shooting at Ferguson police officers.  I'm surprised this didn't happen sooner.  Of course, this may not be linked to the Mike Brown shooting...

From YahooNews:  Mike Brown's parents ain't buyin' your bull, Chief/Grand Dragon Tom Jackson!

From Salon via RSN:  Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson attempts to join protest march calling for his resignation.

From YahooNews:  The Justice Department asked the Ferguson Police Department to order its officers to stop wearing "I am Darren Wilson: bracelets.

From YahooNews:  The Department of Justice begins interviews in its investigation of the Ferguson Police Department.

From NPR via RSN:  The 11-year-old who shocked the St. Louis County Council.

From YahooNews:  Slide-show about tensions in Ferguson.  The real treat is the string of anti-Black racists posts in the comments section.

From YahooNews:  More looting after a Mike Brown memorial is burned.

From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch via RSN:  Mike Brown's killer, Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson testifies before grand jury.  Mike Brown was also scheduled to testify, but he failed to appear because he is dead... because of Darren Wilson, who was able to testify because no one has killed him... yet.

From YahooNews:  Protestors renew calls for D.A. Bob McCullogh's recusal, as judge gives klan jury... I mean grand jury until January to complete is cover-up... I mean complete its inquiry.

From Salon via RSN:  Hands up! Don't shoot!

From Salon via RSN:  There's a cover-up in  Ferguson.

From CSM via RSN:  When respect goes down, shootings go up.

From the WashingtonPost via RSN:  Protests in Ferguson continue; 38 arrested in act of civil disobedience to have Bob McCulloch removed as the prosecutor in the Mike Brown shooting.

From Rolling Stone via RSN:  Grammy-winning rapper and actor, T.I., speaks about the Mike Brown shooting - America has created a monster.

From the AP via RSN:  Ferguson, MO elected leaders are met with protests and anger during a Tuesday, September 9, 2014 meeting with the public.

From StLouisToday: New witnesses that Mike Brown has his hands up.

From Truthout:  St. Louis area cops loved shooting Black males before Mike Brown.

From Truthout:  Black men share their stories of abuse at the hands of the Ferguson (my term) "klops," klan cops.

From The Nation via Truthout:  A former Marine explains the weapons of war used by the Ferguson police.

From The Feminist Wire via Truthout:  The price of blackness

From Public Radio International via RSN:  In 2013, British police fired guns three times.

From the IrishTimes:  African-American men at risk...

From MTV:  Ma$e drops rhymes about Trayvon Martin and Mike Brown.

From RSN:  Why the grand jury will love the killer Darren Wilson.

From the AP via RSN:  The outrageous behavior of a killer cop and his cohorts has united victims of police violence nationwide.

From TIME via RSN:  Hilary finally speaks on Mike Brown shooting.

From TPM:  Protesters sue Missouri police.

From Yes! Magazine via Truthout:  The #FergusonSyllabus

From YahooNews:  2 law enforcement officers who acted up during Mike Brown/Ferguson protests are out of jobs - one resigned and the other was fired.

From Boston.com:  Jordan Lebeau on being "no angel."

From TheDailyBeast:  Shocker!  The Koch Bros. take on the militarization of police.

From RSN:  The New York Times called out for its dishonest of its "Ferguson shooting" story by many including Lawrence O'Donnell of MSNBC and William Boardman of RSN.

From TheWeek:  Jon Stewart returns to "The Daily Show," and talks FOX News, Ferguson, and race; FOX doesn't get the best of that.

From Reuters via RSN:  Coverage of Mike Brown's funeral.

From the HuffingtonPost and TheVox:  The New York Times draws criticism for calling Mike Brown, "no angel."  The killer, Police Officer Darren Wilson, was described as "well-mannered" in the same article.

From the HuffingtonPost: NYT and Uncle Tom back down on "no angel."

From the HuffingtonPost:  The always presumptuous Sean Klannity... I mean Sean Hannity gets schooled by Ferguson democratic politician, Patricia Bynes, in not backing down from a paternalistic white bully.

From TheVillageVoice:  The difference between the outrage over Mike Brown and over Eric Garner.

From the NewYorkTimes:  The secret to raising big money on crowdfunding sites is to kill a black male... apparently.

From YahooNews:  Two rallies, one racial divide over Ferguson shooting

From The Wire via RSN:  I bet he does represent quite a bit of the rank-and-file St. Louis County Police Department

From RSN:  The Ferguson police have a card up their sleeves

From CommonDreams via RSN:  10 Facts about police violence in Ferguson on Sunday night, August 17th, 2014

From RSN:  D.A. Bob McCulloch stalls for time:  A woman who served on McCulloch's grand jury for eighteen Wednesdays said that the vast majority of witnesses McCulloch uses are police officers. "He relies on them to make his cases. They are his allies...He can present the case against Wilson any way he wants to get the outcome he wants."

From Truthdig via RSN:  The ghost of Dred Scott

From MotherJones:  Not surprisingly, racists donate to Darren Wilson

From Esquire via RSN:  A body does not lie in the street for four hours... not in an advance society

From YahooNews:  Autopsy vs. autopsy

From Truthout: How the mainstream media killed Michael Brown - by helping to spread the "official account" when cops kill Black men

From TheGuardianUK:  The ghost of Mike Brown

From The Daily Beast via RSN:  Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson has a history of supervising cops that shoot unarmed men.

From RSN:  Police kill mentally ill woman in Arizona

From RSN:  An account of the night police fired rubber bullets at protesters

From the WashingtonPost: Reporter Wesley Lowery's story of being arrested at a McDonald's in Ferguson

From RSN:  Did you know an unarmed black man was also shot by police in Los Angeles?
From Reuters via RSN:  Protest of that killing continue

From HuffingtonPost:  Veteran Cop:  If you don't want to get shot -- shut up

From Inquisitr:  The "bum rush" theory

From YahooNews:  Police mistrust among minorities still prevalent years later

From The Feminist Wire via Truthout:  Dancing While Lying Dead in the Street: Michael's body lying in street as the spectacle of lynching

From Truthout:  The Militirization of Racism and Neoliberal Violence by Henry A Giroux

From Time via RSN:  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on what a coming race war will really be about.

From Fox2Now of St. Louis:  The Baden autopsy press conference - Brown could have survived all the shots, except the last one, says Dr. Baden

From the NewYorkTimes:  The autopsy of Michael Brown - the results by Dr. Michael M. Baden, the former chief medical examiner of the City of New York.

From HuffingtonPost:  A Klan-like rally in support of killer-cop, Darren Wilson.

From NBCNews:  First photographic images of police officer Darren Wilson who killed Michael Brown.

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From YahooNews:  At Greater Grace Church in St. Louis:

Missouri State Highway Patrol Capt. Ron Johnson, a natural and adept, soft-spoken but firm performer, also spoke about his own son who, he said, wears his pants saggy, his hat crooked, and has tattoos running up his arm.

“And that’s my baby! That’s my son,” the police captain said, to raucous applause.

Al Sharpton: “Nobody can go to the White House until they stop by our house!”

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From YahooNews: Ferguson Officer Darren Wilson earned police honor before killing Michael Brown

From TheGuardian:  St. Louis Country prosecutor furious over transfer in leadership

From Huffington Post:  Darren Wilson is the police officer who killed Michael Brown.

From HuffingtonPost:  Missouri governor did not know who killed Michael Brown.

Conflicting information about the cop who killed Michael Brown:  RT, Wonkette, and TheWire.

From YahooNews:  Police defend use of tear gas, smoke at protests.

From TheGuardian via RSN: St. Louis County officer shoots "second man" in Ferguson, where police officers shot 18-year-old African-American man, Michael Brown, dead.

From TheGuardian:  ACLU may sue to obtain the name of the police officer who (which has not been revealed as of this post) shot Michael Brown dead.

From The Guardian:  They shot another young black man in America.