Open Thread - the weekly watch
What are the big stories of the week? I guess it is in the eye of the beholder. The story which most speaks to me is the Standing Rock Protests and Tribal gathering. Journalists covering the story are being arrested along with indigenous people trying to pray for water, people, and the planet. Meanwhile, Kerry pressures Ecuador to cut off Assange's internet, and yet more Podesta emails are released. The media tries to counteract the leaks by revealing more women that were abused by Trump, and by hollering RUSSIA! The cold war seems to be heating up with RT (Russia Today) bank accounts being shut down in the UK and by harassing Russian ships in the Channel. And then there is the election...and more. I hope you find one or more of these links of interest.
What's on your mind today? This is an open thread.
Standing Rock - The first and last Democracy Now clips are powerful
Amy Goodman continues her coverage of the protests in ND with 1000's of native Americans and 100's of tribes trying to prevent an “excess” pipeline from crossing their land and waterways.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PxgcUfY7LE (13 min) Last Saturday's protests
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBgDt0aWXmQ (12 min) interview with activists
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeGdncyF1bA (4 min) activists interview continued
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTKpnuLr5lw (15 min) interview with Standing Rock tribal chair
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HOYevkCicc (12 min) Amy not charged – need for free media.
Abby Martin interviews AIM founder Dennis Banks about Standing Rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqanmctAoLs (24 min)
Madison Common Council Alderperson Rebecca Kemble speaks out after her arrest while working as a legal observer during the growing resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rBGHDdXdOA (19 min)
Wikileaks and Assange
The big news is Julian's internet service has been cut off (probably till after the election)
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/6f997f97c5f140a29f385ea05f1b642c/wikileak...
Assange cut off and RT accounts shut down. Is Freedom of Speech & truth talk gone in the UK?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2bR06TL0mU (8 min)
There have been absurd claims that you may not legally possess the leaked emails and must be dependent on CNN (Clinton News Network) for all the information
http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/16/cnn-host-claims-its-illegal-for-public...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns-HznLnp4Y (3 min from Jimmy Dore)
There have been accusations that Assange had a confrontation with embassy folks
https://www.buzzfeed.com/jamesball/mr-white-and-mr-blue?utm_term=.fl5116...
Assange under armed surveillance?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-21/wikileaks-reveals-heavily-armed...
This interview from a couple of weeks ago is interesting given Assange's current situation. Chris Hedges sits down with Guillaume Long, Ecuador’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4-zYwdcec0 (27 min)
Glenn Greenwald and Naomi Klein discuss the Podesta leaks and future implications.
https://theintercept.com/2016/10/19/is-disclosure-of-podestas-emails-a-s...
Thank goodness the TiSA … another trade scam ... is exposed by wikileaks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVDJ0i33L0Y (15 min)
A wall of propaganda is encountered by renowned Australian journalist and film-maker John Pilger while shooting his new film in the Pacific and Asia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUW5-LlLQ1Q (22 min)
The Election
Election fraud
http://alexanderhiggins.com/stanford-berkley-study-1-77-billion-chance-h...
Fall out from the leaks
https://theintercept.com/2016/10/19/a-peek-into-the-clinton-campaign-in-...
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges and Eddie Glaude, chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University, debate the issue of strategic voting and the role of third-party candidates. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co-MFmOWsMs (11 min)
Jimmy Dore explains the brainwashing of Hillbots (Go ahead and figure out how you want to die?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHQM49njiHM (10 min)
Hellery debates herself – clip from Jimmy Dore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMG12lXqkrs (5 min)
It's the economy stupid!
Chris Hedges and David Cay Johnson, author of “The Making of Donald Trump” examine how the rich are benefiting from a rigged tax system.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyFLu17pjJk (25 min)
Surprise, surprise...Bankers meet in secret and deny it all.
http://wallstreetonparade.com/2016/10/goldman-sachs-top-lawyer-is-part-o...
Around the world
November strike planned in Brazil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiE0N2PkxTc (14 min)
Honduran activists continue to suffer repression at the hands of state authorities and private companies, says filmmaker Jesse Freeston
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dkutXQbuc4 (13 min)
Middle East
Leaks reveal Saudi Arabia's connection with ISIS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL45Y-MBlDs (11 min)
The path to peace in Syria involves leaving Assad in office.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCZaBbNOK0U (14 min)
gjohnsit educates us about Syria
http://caucus99percent.com/content/what-you-arent-hearing-about-syria
Jimmy Dore discusses US - Yemen military actions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyTAxQCXuz0 (9.5 min)
Hellery's role in Libya from Telesur
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DC56CKvLfk (1 min)
How to wage peace...
World Beyond War conference video highlights and full sessions.
http://worldbeyondwar.org/NoWar2016/
The Planet
No leases for environmentalists, only for extractors.
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/10/20/feds-only-those-committed-de...
Climate change isn't happening at a glacial pace Take a look at Greenland this summer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGgU3WrtE9I&spfreload=10 (3 min)
The Earth from space at night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG0fTKAqZ5g (3min)
Hope you're having a good Sunday. Please share the stories speak to you.
Comments
Was it a year ago that China was the proposed enemy?
Was that the basis for TPP? Is that the correct acronym? Now Russia. Want to bet that more Russians speak English than Americans do Russian?
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Not a good bet...
[edit]I read it backwards... it would be a pretty good bet (about English speaking Russians) but don't worry we can still have a war with China too over the S. China Sea.
Has your drought broken rl? You suggested big rains were on there way to you.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
I have yet to check the gauge, but officially a good start.
Somewhere near 2". I am still in a robe and socks, and it's wet out there, plus 43 deg, mixed precip heading E of me in the hills. A start. My driveway becomes a river with the leaf fall. TY for remembering.
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I have to wonder...
The hostilities towards Russia are ramping up so quickly; at what point do we lose access to Russia's heavy lift capability? I was watching the beautiful video from the ISS, and it struck me that the truths revealed by that viewpoint could be very inconvenient for the plans of TPTB. Not to mention the need to control access to the inconvenient data from weather and communication satellites... Congress has already been trying to muzzle climate science
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-congress-aims-to-cut-clim...
I hate feeling paranoid and then finding out they really ARE out to get us.
No stats on this...
It'd be a reasonable bet that more Chinese speak English than Americans. English is becoming an universal language. Around the world those whose natural first language in not English and speak a second language, English is the second. It's replaced Latin as the language of science and christian religion, and also finance.
Though what we Americans speak I only loosely call English. I enjoy Brit shows but they'd be easier to understand if they didn't speak English.
There is no such thing as TMI. It can always be held in reserve for extortion.
yes!
Now we are many nations separated by a common language.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Another 80 something arrested...
yesterday in ND at the protests. The police are trying to spin this peaceful protest as violent and dangerous. However the police are the ones who are dangerous and violent.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/dozens-arrested-at-dakota-access-pipeline-pr...
Over 200 people have been arrested. Many were strip searched. Evidently being Native American in ND is as bad as being black in MS or AL. You are treated as a subhuman. Almost no mainstream coverage.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
The rate, per capita, of Native American deaths
at the hands of the Police, are slightly higher than for African Americans. Rates of sexual assault, and excessive force, as well.
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
Article from In These Times
was discussed on Democracy Now talking about that very topic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNNJyN4nW6c (13 min)
I live on the trail of tears in the heartland of the Cherokee. All I can say is we have a lot of gall criticizing anyone's human rights record considering our own actions. The saddest part is it seems we can't learn...and on it goes.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Thanks,
I didn't know she had gotten to that.
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
Seems like Amy Goodman
is a step ahead of me all the time. DN is really the only broadcast act in the midst of the protests.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
RT and The Young Turks
have a good showing at DAPL protests.
There is no such thing as TMI. It can always be held in reserve for extortion.
Is RT still verboten at TOP?
native
Jordan on TYT
Has done some nice interviews from the camps as you suggest. Here's a good one with a lawyer working on the protests
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oAY4OvAU18&index=9&list=PLqSpk99bLYIRhT... (16 min)
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Good to see the ND protest here....
Great round up. You are our own CBS Sunday Morning show. I love the suns featured in that series. I've tried to buy one several times in a medium that could be hung outdoors but under a porch roof. They call Lake Huron the "sunrise side" of Michigan.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
Kurault was great...
in that series... as was Russert on Meet the Press. I guess real journalism has evaporated in the corporate news vacuum.
I don't like to promote products, but you might find a sun of your liking here:
https://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Aoutdoor%20sun%2...
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
I stand in awe of your work.
You join the ranks of Joe, gjohnsit, gg and other c99-ers who make this the place to go to get informed.
I must disagree about Russert, though. That guy sat there weekend after weekend nodding "yes" and acting almost worshipful as Cheney spun outrageous lies. Russert bears a lot of responsibility for the allowing the misinformation campaign about Iraq go unchallenged in the MSM.
Awe shucks
Really no need for awe. Joe with his daily reveal plus artist, and gjohnsit with his research...certainly rate my admiration.
As to Russert...you're right. I was way too flattering.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
OMG - so many to choose from
Thank you. With just a quick glance, I see several to choose from. Somehow we wandered into decorating the outside of the house. We have ship's bells for door bells and to summon folks at the beach to eat, a giant black bear nailed to the side of the shed, metal bears hanging on another outside wall, and we have the perfect spot for the sun. So thank you very much for giving me the link.
I am not crazy about the new hostess. I'm not sure why. Kurault was great and is a tough act to follow. It could be as simple as change, but I don't think so.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
I have a brass bell as my doorbell from a boxing ring
If I ever move from this house, that will go with me, a gift from my now-dead father. He also gave me a school bell that used to be mounted on the dog yard gate post, until my daughter taught the dog (also now-deceased) to ring the bell.
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83 people were arrested yesterday at Standing Rock and
charged with criminal trespass and riot. Standing up for clean water and against the polluters is a major offense in the USA - starting wars; ignoring treaties; trashing Constitutional rights, not hardly.
"The justness of individual land right is not justifiable to those to whom the land by right of first claim collectively belonged"
I think it is becoming a focal point
for the movement...Fighting for the planet and its people. More power to all the people standing up to corporate greed!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
And indigenous people from around the world are still coming.
A good pow-wow for them all, to find common beliefs.
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Same as with Amy Goodman
First trespass (dropped), then riot (thrown out by judge). Democracy Now interviewed several Native Americans arrested, strip searched, and held for days.
Talk about a waste of tax money!
Heard Lee Camp yesterday (was podcasting while doing housework, so don't know which episode) and said something like, 'It was a fucking drum circle!'
These Protectors really are having their human rights violated, and media around the world are covering it, but crickets here.
Story behind the pedophilia smear
against Assange has many twists and turns.
But it appears the plot has been partially unraveled by minds posting on reddit, 4chan, etc.
The main actor is a man called Akhtunde Sahara Reid-Kapo.( born 1983)
He is ToddandClare, the spurious dating service which invented the pedophilia charge against Assange. ( launched in USA by our friends at TOP). He seems to be an online hustler of some kind. The best physical address for him is an expensive London apartment occupied by Margo Reid, thought to be his mother.
TBK runs Schiel and Denver Publishing, which shares street addresses with T&C. Another is YamieChess. A sub of YC is Statsdrome, which does data work for hire, including to "military".
There is only the question of why TRK did what he did.
The sleuths on case are puzzled by the fact that the operation was more complicated than needed for a simple scam for profit. And T&C blew it up themselves, when it all could have been used on another mark. So it looks like the point was not to make money, but to attack Arrange in a way meant to enrage the public against him, painting him as an actual danger to children. That charge alone might justify removing him from the embassy, cut him off Internet at the very least.
So why would TBK do this? Either he is crazy on Assange, or someone paid him to do it. If so, who would that be?
This is where things get murky. The sexy connection is with Premise Data, a firm in SF with clear links to Clinton.
There is an office address used by both T&C and Premise. This is the weakest as many companies go through these offices and Premise says coincidence only here.
The point: Premise said they left address in August 2015. T&C isn't active there until October, so you have a break in the chain. However the present tenant began occupancy in November, and says that Premise had some presence there into October. They never saw any person from T&C. (This is off Reddit thread.)
This is the question of fact here which can be investigated and answered.
Who, if anyone, paid the landlord for the use of 645 7th st.( SF) from August until November?
If Premise was on that lease,even though they were not physically present, then I would say Lucy has got some 'splaining to do.
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!.TBK's Yamie Chess lists a statistical data subdivision might have overlapped with Premise somewhere, bringing TRK to their attention.
2. Premise head Soloff claims PhD(ABD) UC Berkeley. As pointed out by offended reddit mind, there is no such thing. He did not complete his degree and tries to fool people on the front of his business site, impressing them with Berkeley. It is probably not that hard to bust out of their grad program. Small thing maybe, but to anyone who struggled to get through graduate school, this is a major lie.
Of course, he may not be in on T&C at all, but as a professional liar he fits well with HRC folk. Great
photo with HRC!
Stein-Baraka 2016
Assange is "safe and still in full command"
Because this posted around midnight, and the time difference, I am not sure if tomorrow is today or tomorrow.
What a story...
This whole Assange saga. Let the truth be smothered!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Good morning everybody ....
Here's another worthwhile YouTube vid for those with a half-hour to kill. It was a 2-parter, I posted the first part, (E982), in the Evening Blues last week. Max and Stacy are using the term "Double Government" for what many of us call the Deep State.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig-3qWcz0s8 width:500 height:300]
We wanted decent healthcare, a living wage and free college.
The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.
Thanks for the clip
Wish we could see the cabinet list they are sending to Hellery. It's the double/shadow government.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
junk economics uses junk mathematics, yeah, I like that :-)
thx. for this video clip.
https://www.euronews.com/live
Not cool being forced to log in after comment preview
Not sure what's going on, but I guess I should change my damned password. GRRRR!
Email appears to show Kaine was notified in 2015 he'd be veep
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25445
'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member