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BMJ study: US police hospitalized 54,000 people in 2012 | Americas | DW.COM | 26.07.2016

One of the more challenging aspects of the research, Miller said, is how little official documentation of police violence can be found in law enforcement databases and how often police involvement in injuries is left out of medical records.”The surprise that had dropped on all of us around the time of starting this was that the data sets that I’ve worked with since I came into the field of injury, from the vital statistics on the number of people killed in the United States and the intent of those deaths, that the coroners and medical examiners were failing to code police involvement in almost half of the police-involved deaths,” Miller said. “And there are two separate reporting systems that the police are supposed to report police-involved deaths to – and both of those had even worse underreporting.””When you correct those firearm accounts, what you find is that one in every 13 people who died because someone else fired a firearm the police pulled the trigger,” he added. “A police officer pulled the trigger. And that’s scary.”

Source: BMJ study: US police hospitalized 54,000 people in 2012 | Americas | DW.COM | 26.07.2016

Humans of New York

“My father was a fascist. He was trained to be a terrorist in Mussolini’s army. He was anti-everybody. The Irish were ‘micks,’ black people were ‘niggers,’ and Jewish people were ‘kikes.’ His main weapon was pain. He raped me, locked me in closets, beat me with broom handles. He sent me to the hospital many times. He’d threaten to blow my brains out in the middle of the street. I absorbed a lot of his emotional energy. Sometimes his voice still comes out of me. When I’m really angry, and cussing myself out, I sound just like him. It’s him inside me, speaking to me. But I didn’t become him. My grandfather saved me. My grandmother was a fascist like my father. She counted her rosary beads and condemned the world, but my grandfather was a simple man. He lived with us. He always told me: ‘Your father is a nut.’ He hugged me and kissed me. I swung between two extremes: the love of my grandfather and the hate of my father. My grandfather knew how to love. My father couldn’t love because he was too filled with terror. He didn’t have the tools to love. Once when I was fifteen, I walked over to my father and gave him a big hug. He kept his arms stiff by his side. I said ‘I love you Dad,’ and his body started trembling. There was a terrified child inside of him. He wanted to love. And he wanted to be loved. He just didn’t know how.”

Source: Humans of New York

Mimi Writes…….: Monday Mimisms ~ I Need An Ocean and A Long Strong Kiss

But I am having a good hair life this year (unlike a few real candidates) and I haven’t lost any emails (that I know of) and the ONLY reason I know that my bloglegs are returning as we blogspeak is that I continue to use unnecessary and annoying parentheses and run-on sentences galore while adjusting my wrinkled couch skirt in public. Yes. Finally.

Source: Mimi Writes…….: Monday Mimisms ~ I Need An Ocean and A Long Strong Kiss

Egyptian Aak 2016- Week 28 (July 11- 17)

good reads and coverage on Egypt

Nervana

Top Headlines

  • Word “fire” is heard on voice recorder of doomed Egypt Air
  • Egypt orders Muslim preachers to deliver identical weekly sermons
  • Sisi will participate in Beijing G20 summit in September
  • Egypt’s Sisi extends state of emergency in parts of North Sinai
  • Foreign Ministry denies Egypt blocked UN Security Council statement on Turkey

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Obama at D.N.C.: Character Witness and Prominent Clinton Convert – The New York Times

Mr. Obama is well positioned to be a character witness for Mrs. Clinton, his advisers argue, because of his popularity — 53 percent of Americans approve of his job performance, according to this month’s New York Times/CBS News poll — and because he is a prominent convert to her cause, a once-bitter campaign rival who came to trust and respect her.In the interview on Sunday, Mr. Obama said he had become friends with Mrs. Clinton, but the two are not “bosom buddies.” The president said he was “cleareyed” about her strengths and weaknesses.“This is somebody who knows as much about domestic and foreign policy as anybody; is tough as nails; is motivated by what’s best for America and ordinary people; understands that, in this democracy that we have, things don’t always happen as fast as we’d like, and it requires compromise and grinding it out,” Mr. Obama said. “She’s not always flashy — and there are better speechmakers — but she knows her stuff.”

Source: Obama at D.N.C.: Character Witness and Prominent Clinton Convert – The New York Times

Blind Drunk — Mary Miley’s Roaring Twenties

Where does the phrase “blind drunk” come from? Wood alcohol (methanol) attacks the optic nerve and destroys retinal cells, rendering the drinker blind. During Prohibition, all alcohol was illegal as a beverage, so it was impossible to distinguish between legitimate alcohol and the poisoned version. People who drank in speakeasies–especially the cheap ones in poor […]

via Blind Drunk — Mary Miley’s Roaring Twenties

“On Munich and Whiteness” by Alex Shams 

Hummus For Thought


Alex Shams is an Iranian-American journalist and a PhD student of Anthropology at the University of Chicago.

He is an editor-in-chief of Ajam Media Collective (AjamMC.com), a platform focused on culture and society throughout Iran as well as Central and South Asia, and he also regularly blogs on his Facebook page.

Why did the Munich killer beg us to see him as German?

Around and around we go.

Yesterday, an 18-year old man named David Ali Sonboly, born and raised in Germany with an Iranian immigrant background, carried out a shooting in Munich during which he yelled “I Am German!”, complained about being bullied for years, reportedly made disparaging remarks about Turks, and ended up killing 10 people including himself.

The killer was obsessed with mass shootings, and his room was full of documents exploring school shootings. Police also said there was an “obvious link between the…

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