19 February 20
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19 February 20
Neil Young | An Open Letter to Donald J. Trump
Neil Young, Neil Young Archives
Young writes: "You are a disgrace to my country. Bragging about the US economy does not disguise the fact that the numbers today are what you inherited almost 4 years ago."
Neil Young, Neil Young Archives
Young writes: "You are a disgrace to my country. Bragging about the US economy does not disguise the fact that the numbers today are what you inherited almost 4 years ago."
Your mindless destruction of our shared natural resources, our environment and our relationships with friends around the world is unforgivable.
Your policies, decisions and short term thinking continue to exacerbate the Climate Crisis.
Our first black president was a better man than you are.
The United States of America, my country, is not a green on one of your branded golf courses that you can ride around on and damage so that other players cannot shoot straight.
“Keep on Rockin’ in the Free World” is not a song you can trot out at one of your rallies. Perhaps you could have been a bass player and played in a rock and roll band. That way you could be on stage at a rally every night in front of your fans, if you were any good, and you might be. . .
Every time “Keep on Rockin’ in the Free World” or one of my songs is played at your rallies, I hope you hear my voice. Remember it is the voice of a tax-paying US citizen who does not support you. Me.
I don’t blame the people who voted for you. I support their right to express themselves, although they have been lied to, and in many cases believed the lies, they are true Americans. I have their back.
US justice is ours-not yours.
One of your opponents has the answers I like. He is aiming at preserving our children’s future directly. He is not popular with the democratic establishment because unlike all the other candidates, he is not pandering to the industries accelerating Earth’s Climate Disaster, the end of the world as we know it. He is truly fighting for the USA.
His initials are BS. Not his policies.
We are going to vote you out and Make America Great Again.
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont gives a victory speech in Manchester, N.H., after winning the New Hampshire primary Tuesday night. (photo: Salwan Georges/WP)
New National Poll Gives Bernie Sanders a Double-Digit Lead
Elliot Hannon, Slate
Hannon writes: "A new Washington Post-ABC News poll out Wednesday shows Sen. Bernie Sanders extending his lead nationally after strong showings in Iowa and New Hampshire."
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Elliot Hannon, Slate
Hannon writes: "A new Washington Post-ABC News poll out Wednesday shows Sen. Bernie Sanders extending his lead nationally after strong showings in Iowa and New Hampshire."
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WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange leaves Westminster magistrates court in London after a previous hearing last month. (photo: Simon Dawson/Reuters)
Donald Trump 'Offered Julian Assange a Pardon if He Denied Russia Link to Hack'
Owen Bowcott and Julian Borger, Guardian UK
Excerpt: "Donald Trump offered Julian Assange a pardon if he would say Russia was not involved in leaking Democratic party emails, a court in London has been told."
Owen Bowcott and Julian Borger, Guardian UK
Excerpt: "Donald Trump offered Julian Assange a pardon if he would say Russia was not involved in leaking Democratic party emails, a court in London has been told."
EXCERPT:
Assange’s barrister, Edward Fitzgerald QC, referred to evidence alleging that the former US Republican congressman Dana Rohrabacher had been to see Assange, now 48, while he was still in the Ecuadorian embassy in August 2017.
Assange appeared in court on Wednesday by videolink from Belmarsh prison, wearing dark tracksuit bottoms and a brown jumper over a white shirt.
A statement from Assange’s lawyer Jennifer Robinson shows “Mr Rohrabacher going to see Mr Assange and saying, on instructions from the president, he was offering a pardon or some other way out, if Mr Assange … said Russia had nothing to do with the DNC [Democratic National Committee] leaks”, Fitzgerald told Westminster magistrates court.
District Judge Vanessa Baraitser, who is hearing the case at Westminster, said the evidence is admissible.
In September 2017, the White House confirmed that Rohrabacher had called the then chief of staff, John Kelly, to talk about a possible deal with Assange.
Rohrabacher told the Wall Street Journal that as part of the deal he was proposing, Assange would have to hand over a computer drive or other data storage device that would prove that Russia was not the source of the hacked emails.
“He would get nothing, obviously, if what he gave us was not proof,” Rohrabacher said.
The report quoted an unnamed administration official as saying that Kelly had told Rohrabacher that the proposal “was best directed to the intelligence community”. The same official said Kelly did not convey Rohrabacher’s message to Trump, who was unaware of the details of the proposed deal.
Rohrabacher said at the time he was sceptical of the CIA’s impartiality, as it had been part of the US intelligence community consensus that Russia had meddled in the presidential election.
Until he was voted out of office in 2018, Rohrabacher was a consistent voice in Congress in defence of Vladimir Putin’s Russia, claiming to have been so close to the Russian leader that they had engaged in a drunken arm-wrestling match in the 1990s. In 2012, the FBI warned him that Russian spies were seeking to recruit him as an “agent of influence”.
Neither Rohrabacher, who now lives in Maine, nor his lawyer returned calls seeking comment on Assange’s claims.
The publication of emails hacked from the Hillary Clinton campaign helped perpetuate an aura of scandal around the Democratic candidate a few weeks before the 2016 election.
WikiLeaks put them online hours after Trump had suffered an apparent public relations disaster with the emergence of a tape in which he boasted of molesting women.
Assange is wanted in America to face 18 charges, including conspiring to commit computer intrusion, over the publication of US cables a decade ago.
He could face up to 175 years in jail if found guilty. He is accused of working with the former US army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to leak hundreds of thousands of classified documents.
The extradition hearing is due to begin at Woolwich crown court on Monday, beginning with a week of legal argument. It will then be adjourned and continue with three weeks of evidence scheduled to begin on 18 May.
The decision, which is expected months later, is likely to be appealed against by the losing side, whatever the outcome.
Assange has been held on remand in Belmarsh prison since last September after serving a 50-week jail sentence for breaching his bail conditions while he was in the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
He entered the building in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden over sex offence allegations, which he has always denied and were subsequently dropped.
Assange’s claims of a deal emerged a day after Trump granted clemency to a string of high-profile figures convicted on fraud or corruption charges, including the former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich and the “junk bond king” Michael Milken. Trump has not excluded pardoning Roger Stone, a former aide who was convicted in November of obstructing a congressional investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential race, and in particular for lying to investigators about his relationship with Assange and WikiLeaks.
Stone once boasted that he had dinner with Assange but later said the claim was a joke.
Immigrants post one number from the waiting list, indicating that only 10 migrants will have the chance to cross the border and apply for asylum in the US that day. (photo: Emilio Espejel/AP)
A Border Officer Said They Were Told to Lie About Not Having Enough Space to Process Asylum-Seekers
Adolfo Flores, BuzzFeed
Flores writes: "A Customs and Border Protection officer said supervisors instructed them to lie about not having space to process asylum-seekers at the border and turning them away, according to court documents."
Adolfo Flores, BuzzFeed
Flores writes: "A Customs and Border Protection officer said supervisors instructed them to lie about not having space to process asylum-seekers at the border and turning them away, according to court documents."
EXCERPT:
The deposition is a federal case filed in the Southern District in California by Al Otro Lado, a binational legal service provider, and other groups challenging the Trump administration practice of telling asylum-seekers the agency doesn't have the space or officers to process them. The deposition was taken in November and filed in court on Jan. 6.
Asylum-seekers wait for weeks or months for their turn to ask the US for protection. The practice, known as metering or queuing, was started by the Obama administration and expanded by President Donald Trump.
Advocates and attorneys at the border maintain that making asylum-seekers wait for months along the border was essentially denying them asylum and a violation of US laws.
The CBP officer said a manager would come up to the international border crossing where asylum-seekers presented themselves and turn them back.
"And when they said the port was at capacity, you knew that was a lie, right?" Medlock asked the officer.
"Yes," the CBP officer said.
"And it would have been obvious to those supervisors that it was a lie as well, correct?" Medlock said.
"Correct," the CBP officer said.
"In fact, it was obvious to everybody who was implementing this policy at Tecate that the capacity excuse was a lie, right?" Medlock said.
"Correct," the CBP officer said.
The Tecate port of entry has come under scrutiny before. In September, a government watchdog report found that contrary to federal law and agency policy, CBP officers at that location sent asylum-seekers already on US soil back to Mexico.
The Department of Homeland Security's Office of the Inspector General report stated that a CBP officer told investigators that in late 2017 or early 2018, a supervisor verbally instructed officers they would no longer process asylum-seekers and send them back to Mexico.
No other officers investigators spoke with recalled receiving any instruction to return asylum-seekers from Tecate to Mexico, the report added.
E Jean Carroll. (photo: Craig Ruttle/AP)
E. Jean Carroll Who Accused Trump of Rape Says He Is Trying to Delay Her Defamation Suit and Stall on Giving DNA
Associated Press
Excerpt: "Lawyers for a woman who has accused President Trump of raping her in the 1990s told a court Tuesday he's trying 'to stop the truth from ever coming out' by attempting to delay her defamation lawsuit and her effort to get his DNA."
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Associated Press
Excerpt: "Lawyers for a woman who has accused President Trump of raping her in the 1990s told a court Tuesday he's trying 'to stop the truth from ever coming out' by attempting to delay her defamation lawsuit and her effort to get his DNA."
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Prostests in Chile. (photo: Reuters)
Chile: 3,765 Injured, 10,000 Detained Protesters Since October
teleSUR
Excerpt: "Four months of protests in Chile against the neoliberal policies of Sebastian Piñera's government has resulted in more than 3,700 people injured, 951 filed complaints of torture and 195 for sexual violence, according to updated figures released Tuesday by the National Institute of Human Rights (INDH)."
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teleSUR
Excerpt: "Four months of protests in Chile against the neoliberal policies of Sebastian Piñera's government has resulted in more than 3,700 people injured, 951 filed complaints of torture and 195 for sexual violence, according to updated figures released Tuesday by the National Institute of Human Rights (INDH)."
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A Malawian girl fetches water from a river created by floodwater after Cyclone Idai struck in March 2019. (photo: Amos Gumulira/AFP)
Marriage of Survival: Will Climate Change Mean More Child Brides?
Abigail Higgins, Al Jazeera
Higgins writes: "After Cyclone Idai battered southern Malawi last year, the hotline Weston Msowoya manages was flooded with calls."
Abigail Higgins, Al Jazeera
Higgins writes: "After Cyclone Idai battered southern Malawi last year, the hotline Weston Msowoya manages was flooded with calls."
EXCERPT:
One in five
As the effects of climate change worsen - as is expected - parents in the global south will be forced into this position more often. Many researchers believe that Africa will be the continent hit hardest by the effects of climate change. Poor countries that have contributed the least to the greenhouse gases causing climate change are already taking some of the hardest economic hits from climate-related disasters.
Every year, 12 million underage girls get married; one in five girls get married before adulthood, according to Girls Not Brides, an international nonprofit working to end child marriage. The practice is most common in sub-Saharan Africa where almost four in 10 girls are married before age 18, followed closely by South Asia - two continents where many are already struggling to survive the effects of climate change.
It is a practice, however, that cuts across cultures and religions and occurs everywhere in the world - including the United States. It is associated with a host of negative effects, from cutting girl's education short, to increasing their risk of domestic violence, to their likelihood of experiencing complications in childbirth and the chances that their children will die in infancy.
The practice is decreasing globally, but like many women's rights gains - such as reduced maternal mortality and increased primary school attendance rates - there is growing evidence around the world that shows climate change is threatening how long that will hold true.
"This is a place affected by river erosion," the parents of a Bangladeshi girl named Azima told her, explaining why she had to marry at 13, according to Human Rights Watch. "If the river takes our house it will be hard for you to get married so it's better if you get married now," they said.
In Mozambique, Majuma Julio told journalists her uncle's crop failures forced him to marry her off at 15. "It was because of the sun. There was too much sun and the rain was not falling enough. His production started to decrease three years before the marriage," she said. "It used to rain for two months, but after a while, it started coming less and less."
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