The other shoe – there’s always another shoe in Russia. Riot police dragged demonstrators from the crowd and arrested news photographers and reporters at a protest called to support the journalist Ivan Golunov, who had been detained and abruptly freed.
Monthly Archives: June 2019
Police fired 55 times at Willie McCoy. An investigation called it ‘reasonable’
Impossible – just an execution for the hell of it – cause they can get away with that!

The 20-year-old aspiring rapper had been sleeping in his car at a Taco Bell when Vallejo police shot him
The California police officers who killed Willie McCoy, a 20-year-old who had been sleeping in his car, fired 55 bullets at him in 3.5 seconds – which was “reasonable”, according to the city of Vallejo’s hired consultant.
Officials disclosed the extraordinary number of rounds in a report released this week, months after six policemen shot the aspiring rapper who had fallen asleep inside his car at a Taco Bell. The 9 February killing, which McCoy’s family has called an “execution by a firing squad”, sparked national outrage and has led to intense scrutiny of the Vallejo police department’s frequent use of deadly force and history of misconduct and abuse cases.
Trump: if foreign power offered dirt on 2020 opponent, ‘I’d want to hear it’
Thinks he’s teflon don: President claims he would have no obligation to call the FBI, contradicting bureau director he appointed
Donald Trump said on Wednesday that if a foreign power offered dirt on his 2020 opponent, he would be open to accepting it, claiming he would have no obligation to call in the FBI.
“I think I’d want to hear it,” Trump said in an interview with ABC News, adding: “There’s nothing wrong with listening.”

President claims he would have no obligation to call the FBI, contradicting bureau director he appointed
Donald Trump said on Wednesday that if a foreign power offered dirt on his 2020 opponent, he would be open to accepting it, claiming he would have no obligation to call in the FBI.
“I think I’d want to hear it,” Trump said in an interview with ABC News, adding: “There’s nothing wrong with listening.”
AOC rips citizenship question “magically added” to census
Wowza! AOC rips them good!
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rips into Republicans for scheming to dissuade minorities from taking the US census by adding a question about citizenship.
Video: Is the number of unauthorized immigrants living in the U.S. declining?
The latest Pew Research Center data estimates there were 10.5 million unauthorized immigrants living in the U.S. in 2017, down significantly from a decade prior. In this video, our researchers go behind the scenes to explain the “how” and “why” behind determining these new numbers.
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Volkswagen Declares War against Works Council and German Union
Too big but not too big to fail
A top employee representative in Volkswagen’s Global Works Council was denied entry into the company’s Chattanooga, Tennessee, factory today as the union election began.
The plant’s 1,700 eligible hourly employees began voting this morning on whether to form a union with the United Auto Workers. The results will be announced Friday night.
According to a statement from the Global Works Council, Johan Järvklo arrived at the plant to be an election observer. Workers confirmed that he was booted.
Mexican journalist murdered on her doorstep
Norma Sarabia had worked as a crime reporter in the state of Tabasco for 15 years. She is the sixth journalist to be killed this year in a country ranked third most dangerous in the world.
Two More Ebola Cases Diagnosed in Uganda as First Victim, 5, Dies
Fears grew that the year-old outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo could spread more in what one expert called a “truly frightening phase.”
Can guerrilla picnics end Tokyo’s 50-year war on public space?

In 1969 Japan had its own ‘Occupy Tokyo’ moment – then the police cracked down. Now a new generation is fighting to bring public space back to the capital
It’s 3:30pm and a dozen Tokyoites are sitting in the middle of the asphalt road, on a street in the famously crowded entertainment district of Shibuya, having a picnic.
They’ve brought snacks, beer and an entire roast beef, as well as a couple of 19th-century picnic sets, one of which is worth roughly £6,000. Passersby pretend not to notice, but you can tell from their sideways glances that they think it’s a bit weird. Eventually a worried neighbour appears, ushering the group into his front yard, where there is a canopy to protect against rain.
‘Fishwrap’ fake news campaign recycles old news of terror attacks | Media | The Guardian “2020 election prep” to support Trump?
“There are two candidates here,” Truvé said. “It’s either a state-sponsored misinformation campaign, or it’s a domestic alt-right thing, because it is focused on terror events to do with Muslims. Or it could be what we call ‘operational preparedness’ – they’re up, active, creating history for themselves and their accounts, and then they want to use it in the future to spread original fake news.” But without specific information about the users that only the social networks have access to, Recorded Future cannot be more definite in its attribution. “Whichever way this is set up – they’re not breaking any laws, they’re not breaking even the terms of use of Twitter,” Truvé said. Misinformation campaigns, also known as “influence operations”, frequently use a combination of technical and societal factors in an attempt to spread propaganda. For instance, a computer vulnerability may be exploited to register hundreds or thousands of fake accounts, which are then deployed to influence curation algorithms and boost a particular news story or topic.
Source: ‘Fishwrap’ fake news campaign recycles old news of terror attacks | Media | The Guardian

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