The Weekly Watch
Another week flies by. The media of mass distraction has everyone talking about an athlete who refuses to stand for a song honoring war and supposedly our nation. Meanwhile a duly elected president was impeached by senators fearing investigation of their own corruption a week after the world participated in Games in Brazil...and the world makes no comment on the coup. The drip of leaks continues to keep the $hill in hiding, and the media misleads folks about Jill.
Election
We speak to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald of The Intercept. His most recent piece is headlined "Why Did the Saudi Regime and Other Gulf Tyrannies Donate Millions to the Clinton Foundation?" (10 min) Worth watching
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za0qvXR5Eog
Despite Trump, journalist should investigate Clinton. More from Glen Greenwald. (5 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynI3U0DVbkY
Saikat Chakrabarti of brand new congress talks about Canova's loss to DWS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMYF8dYgxwQ
Bill Curry and Paul Jay discuss the objectives and controversy around the launch of Bernie Sanders, 'Our Revolution' (22 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOWtbSVJ7mg
CNN has decided to do a promo for Jill Stein who is increasingly looking as a Plan B for liberals and progressives in case Hillary Clinton is charged (2 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUM1ExsB2go
Lee Camp takes PBS to task for editing Jill (8 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5nlqaivDno
Hellery seeks Kissinger's endorsement? You've got to be kidding...
https://theintercept.com/2016/09/03/hillary-clinton-courts-henry-kissing...
The Clinton's history in Haiti
See for yourself the kind of help the Clinton Foundation and world governments have provided to Haiti (14 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlS4SimQfv8
Several clips of the Clinton's Haiti disaster from MsGrin
http://caucus99percent.com/content/documentary-haiti-reconstruction-14-m...
Soros Foundation hacked but you won't hear about it.
Wonder why his leaked emails aren't reported? (4 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRsVCvM5nJU
George Soros pulls the puppet strings.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/wikileaks-email-soros-clintons-master/
The Soros leaks and what they reveal (the first 6 min of 15) They provide additional links too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn-RvN54Eos
Find out more and access the emails at:
http://soros.dcleaks.com/
EDUCATION
How schools are complicit in the brainwashing of the populous. (8 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okPnDZ1Txlo
History of the pledge of Alliegence (1.5 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nawIXBuBrU
PRISONS
Chris Hedges talks with civil rights attorney Stanley Cohen about his experience in prisons and halfway houses and how they are profit machines (25 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh3iZgcRoc0
First-of-its-kind report finds children are being imprisoned nationwide when families can't pay fines levied by juvenile justice system
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/08/31/debtors-prison-kids-poor-chi...
Debtors prison for a $29 bounced check? (8 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTm4jzEa1cw
BRAZIL
The Olympics have wrapped up in Rio, leaving Brazilians with a massive debt from the Games and an ongoing financial crisis. For more on the current situation, we speak with Glenn Greenwald (3.5 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3ztcA_2zug
Glen Greenwald discusses the embattled Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and her coup (18 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvEy_gpwsy8
Glen Greenwald comments on Bernie's denouncement of the impeachment (4 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17zLVkK1DCA
Impeachment with no legal basis is a coup. (12 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26O9jQD_t5E
The Brazilian Senate approved the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff (PT). With the decision, Michel Temer (PMDB) will take office as president
http://www.latinamericanpost.com/article/dilma-is-out-and-temer-still-in/
Brazil in the grip of unseen powers: Editorial
[struck me as particularly insightful. - AB]
http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/220921/brazil-in-the-grip-of-un...
VENEZUELA, ECUADOR and BOLIVIA
Freeze relations with Brazil as a result of Rousseff's impeachment.
http://www.latinamericanpost.com/article/venezuela-ecuador-and-bolivia-f...
CUBA
A US commercial flight has arrived in Cuba for the first time in more than half a century.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37235307
INDIA
NEW DELHI: Millions of public sector workers went on strike across India Friday (Sep 2) protesting against Prime Minister Narendra Modi's plans for greater privatisation and a proposed minimum wage hike they say is inadequate
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/business/international/millions-stri...
THAILAND
Fourteen migrant workers are now demanding US$1.3 million in compensation for ... gruelling 20 hour days that included sleeping in chicken rearing areas...unlawful salary deductions and said they were only permitted to leave the farm for two hours a week on a monitored market visit.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/myanmar-workers-sue-thai...
CHINA
China developing new long-range bomber
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/02/asia-pacific/china-developin...
MALAYSIA
A Malaysian Cabinet minister has admitted that Prime Minister Najib Razak was the mysterious unnamed official who the U.S. Justice Department said took part in rampant looting of state funds...The Justice Department has moved to seize assets including real estate in Beverly Hills, New York and London, artworks by Monet and Van Gogh, and a Bombardier jet that it alleges were purchased with money stolen from 1MDB.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/02/asia-pacific/politics-diplom...
JAPAN
Japanese transport ministry officials raided the Tokyo headquarters of scandal-ridden Mitsubishi Motors Corp. on Friday after the government alleged the automaker cheated on mileage ratings on more models than earlier reported.
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/asia/japan/2016/09/03/477388/Japan-raids.htm
EGYPT
Brokers in Egypt's underground trade in human body parts use prostitutes to tempt migrants to sell their kidneys as hospitals turn a blind eye to illicit dealing in donated organs for transplants, a report says.
http://allafrica.com/stories/201609020973.html
ZIMBABWE
GOVERNMENT has covertly deployed the military and other security forces to surround the protests-wrecked capital Harare, while unleashing a crack unit to operate under cover to crackdown on the opposition and civil society groups stepping up pressure for President Robert Mugabe to reform or quit.
http://allafrica.com/stories/201609020913.html
TURKEY, RUSSIA, and SYRIA
Turkey and Russia working on a pipeline deal.
http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Energy-Industry/2016/09/01/Russia-Turki...
US and Russia close to a deal on Syria?
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-02/putin-says-russia-and-...
a picture of the solar eclipse from Africa this week
The Planet
It's the time of man...and his destruction of the planet as we know it.
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/08/29/anthropocene-here-humanity-h...
Bullfrog films trailer on new documentary “Anthropocene” (3 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cITCD_qUUQ4
Warning that climate change amounts to the "mother of all risks," three of the world's biggest insurance companies this week are demanding that G20 countries stop bankrolling the fossil fuels industry.
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/08/29/mother-all-risks-insurance-g...
This is the treat of the post. I hope you can take a few minutes to find your place on the planet.
The Earth from Space, highlights from the ISS a year ago with auroras, lightening, day, and night (12 min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4IhCSMkADc
Please add any important stories, or any other thing on your mind. Hope you all are having a good Labor Day Weekend!
Comments
Sorry to be suspicious:
Is the Malaysian cabinet member a buddy of the CF?
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What is CF?
Here's a NYT piece to suppliment the japanese piece
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/31/world/asia/malaysia-najib-razak.html?_r=0
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Clinton Foundation and its tentacles
The theft of government monies seems familiar...
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Duh...
Still early I guess. Sounds more like just personal greed to me, but...
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
So much of the political news
So much of the political news sounds like the Plutarchs of the world are trying to strengthen their grip on the rest of us.
So long, and thanks for all the fish
Sad but true!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
So many historical figures
So many historical figures that sought democracy for us to work in will be rolling over in their graves.
So long, and thanks for all the fish
100 years ago
People fought for workers, women, education, and so on. Today we sit by while the gains of those hard fought battles slip away. We've given up on the idea of pensions, government jobs, equality, ...
Much of the reason Occupy, BLM, and others can't seem to make headway is a complicit media which doesn't educate. There are still people protesting!
http://heavy.com/news/2016/09/dakota-access-pipeline-protests-video-phot...
Maybe some progress was made this week.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
That the 6 major corporations
That the 6 major corporations that own all the media we get to see are complicit with very much the propaganda seeking to destroy all of those gains in favor of letting the Corporations and the Billionaires put us right back to the "Gilded age" where robber barons ran the country and no one had rights except those with the money stashed away in places no one could get at. History repeats itself, Humanity seems to hate learning from the past.
So long, and thanks for all the fish
Largest gathering of Native American nations in 100 years
according to the linked article about the protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline, which has been ongoing for months.
Apparently media coverage is better outside the US, from the Independent, BBC, etc.
Caught a great side-by-side photo comparison on Twitter of a white male cop siccing a dog on a black youth in the '60s with one from yesterday of a white female (because it's "our turn") siccing hers on a Native American youth. Nothing's much changed except, yeah, feminism.
And all these people are trying to do is preserve clean drinking water for their children's children's children - and, oh, those of the Euros downstream, too, and their children's children's children.
Only connect. - E.M. Forster
Please carry on....respectfully
I'm glad I somehow missed the bickering this week. I tend to read the essays before the comment trails get so long. Don't forget about the nature of opinions...everybody has one.
Feel free to add anything on your mind. I've got to go out to a big stew cooking today in the valley 15 gallons or so. So I'm off to stir and hopefully play a tune or two. Here's a shot from many years ago and an old friend who has passed on doing the stirring
Hope you all have a great holiday and take a little time to remember all those who fought for working people.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Thanks for all the news, Lookout! Good to see Jill getting some
mainstream attention. I do believe if everyone knew her and her positions, she would be wildly popular.
That report about juvenile injustice, putting kids into debtors' prisons, should be on the front page of every newspaper in America. Hideous; even worse than putting adults into debtors' prisons, which is bad enough. I hope the ACLU files suit. We should all write letters to the editor of our local newspapers to make sure it's at least seen there.
On a lighter note, finally, insurance companies are good for something! I never thought about it, but sure, they're going to take huge losses from climate change if something isn't done. I just figured that "something" would mean somehow they'd deny all claims, "it's an act of God, not covered by your policy," or else rates would skyrocket and they would just keep their wealthiest customers. Well, good for them! A large industry fighting the fossil fuel industry. It's past time.
Happy weekend, everyone!
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Hey, where'd that essay go? Darnit, I wanted to be called
an intellectual! It happens so rarely.
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I think, due to global warming...
the excessive carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is having an adverse effect on folks, especially in this country. And that's just half snark.
I have a special pie fight pootie
Please feel free to use as needed. It's in the list under Cat Pie:
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We need a ninja kitty
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
Take your pick!
https://www.google.com/search?q=ninja+kitteh&biw=1093&bih=517&source=lnm...
There are so many I can't decide!
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lol - I had this great response
and by the time I quit typing it was gone. It must have pissed off the c99 gods.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
Out of just a few comments...
two of them asked to have the essay deleted so I did. It was meant to disparage this site and to start another flame war, nothing more, and I'm getting quite tired of it.
Good. No food fights on picnic day
for those picnicking or partying. unlike me (not whining).
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I don't know,
but I wrote a comment, went to post and no more essay!?!
Ah, well.
Ya got to be a Spirit, cain't be no Ghost. . .
Explain Bldg #7. . . still waiting. . .
If you’ve ever wondered whether you would have complied in 1930’s Germany,
Now you know. . .
sign at protest march
I'm wondering where
the weekly Sunday morning Open Thread is. Is the Weekly Watch going to replace it? Today? From here on out? Anybody know?
Only connect. - E.M. Forster
it did today
Usually DMW post an open thread as well.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
So there.
[video:https://youtu.be/pYqLuDzFVzQ]
Banned George Carlin Skit
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/george-carlin-hammers-cops/
And
"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn
A great roundup ya got there, Lookout!
Much appreciated.
Hope the stew turns out great.
I intend to cook a brisket because I am a Texan and that is just what we do.
About the FTC and internet, my IT guy keeps saying Obama is delivering over the web to the UN or some such, blah blah blah. Does anyone know what he is talking about?
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Europe and Apple - article by Robert Reich -
Standing Up to Apple - Posted on Sep 4, 2016 - By Robert Reich / RobertReich.org
https://www.euronews.com/live
Would love to see this happen here
as well as worldwide
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-34125119
I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
We would outsource it of course.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
Before or after
it being the Russkies fault?
I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
ROF,L. The absolute effing truth, and any actual pickets and
marches would be broken up by the cops and the guard.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Stew was great...
wish you all could have a bowl. All is well in the valley and hope it is wherever you are!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Did you see this? Navajo did an extensive diary about the
Dakota Pipeline Company attacks on protestors. Very ugly and cruel. Navajo at TOP has a diary up about the incidence. I am glad she did publish it. Please go over there and spreach and recommend the diary. Inside her diary is also a video from Telesur. Vicious attacks.
Dakota Access Pipeline Company Attacks Native American Protesters with Dogs & Pepper Spray
[video:https://youtu.be/kuZcx2zEo4k]
No comment from Meteor Blades, yet.
https://www.euronews.com/live
I agree. I just saw it a little while ago. Excellent diary.
Terrible situation. Questionable legality (of the actions of the "security" staff).
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sorry, didn't see Don Mickulecky's diary about it /nt
https://www.euronews.com/live