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- 21 June 20
We Can't Risk Anything With This Election
Michael Moore, Michael Moore's Facebook Page
Moore writes: "Trump has lost none of his base and they are more rabid than ever. Sleeping on the sidewalk for five nights just to get in to see Trump? THAT is commitment. Do not take Trump for granted. Don't think he can't win."
Michael Moore below sounds the alarm that Trump’s supporters remain uniquely dedicated, passionate and committed. This piece is reminiscent of his ominous 2016 prediction that Trump could in fact win at that stage too.
However the New York Times is reporting that Trump’s rally in Tulsa actually was a disappointment in terms of turnout. Did Coronavirus fears factor in, or is reality finally catching up with the Trump reality show. It’s hard to say but he was apparently furious. — MA/RSN "
Michael Moore, Michael Moore's Facebook Page
Moore writes: "Trump has lost none of his base and they are more rabid than ever. Sleeping on the sidewalk for five nights just to get in to see Trump? THAT is commitment. Do not take Trump for granted. Don't think he can't win."
Michael Moore below sounds the alarm that Trump’s supporters remain uniquely dedicated, passionate and committed. This piece is reminiscent of his ominous 2016 prediction that Trump could in fact win at that stage too.However the New York Times is reporting that Trump’s rally in Tulsa actually was a disappointment in terms of turnout. Did Coronavirus fears factor in, or is reality finally catching up with the Trump reality show. It’s hard to say but he was apparently furious. — MA/RSN "
hey started lining up on Tues in Tulsa for Trump’s rally today. 100,000 are expected! Trump has lost none of his base and they are more rabid than ever. Sleeping on the sidewalk for five nights just to get in to see Trump? THAT is commitment. Do not take Trump for granted. Don’t think he can’t win. Don’t get all cocky telling everyone there’s no way he’s winning the White House because, frankly, you sound a lot like yourself four years ago when you told everyone there’s no way this country is going to put a clown in the Oval Office. If you are once again not taking my warnings seriously, then I have a question I want you to answer, and I ask you to answer me honestly:
“How many people would line up for five days just to hear Joe Biden talk?”
12?
5?
None?
The candidate who inspires the most people in the swing states to excitedly get to the polls — and ensure that each of them bring 10-20 of their friends & family w/ them on Election Day — all of them highly-motivated, fired-up, & “on a mission from God” — THAT’S who wins the White House. Don’t think we don’t have a problem here. Don’t get all smug laughing at these Bubbas in Tulsa today & snickering over how many of them are going to come down with Covid-19. They live, eat and breathe Trump — and none of us do that with Joe Biden. We’re counting on Hatred of Trump - not love of Biden - to win the day. Is that how you really think — hate beats love? Like, the more we ply our neighbor’s hatred of Trump, that’s the ticket to win? Because deep down we know there’s no massive, intense love of Joe Biden, no one is all dreamy and jazzy when they think about Joe Biden’s jobs plan, Joe Biden’s health care plan, child care plan, criminal justice plan, income inequality plan — “Mike! Stop! We get it.” Trump’s ppl will pack the polling sites. Our people will, well...well...they’ll be there!
That’s not enough. We’d better figure this out. Biden better get out of the basement. We need to know he’s ok. We need to know what Plan B is. Don’t be afraid to search your own mind about what you’re afraid to ask or say. We can’t risk ANYTHING with this election. Biden has to rock everyone’s world to win. I’m just the messenger. I’ll do my part.
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Bill Barr. (photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Trump Ousts Manhattan US Attorney Who Investigated President's Associates
Rosalind S. Helderman, Ellen Nakashima, Matt Zapotosky and Seung Min Kim, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "Attorney General William P. Barr said Saturday that President Trump had fired the top federal prosecutor in New York, ending an unprecedented standoff between Barr and U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman, who had resisted being removed from his post."
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Rosalind S. Helderman, Ellen Nakashima, Matt Zapotosky and Seung Min Kim, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "Attorney General William P. Barr said Saturday that President Trump had fired the top federal prosecutor in New York, ending an unprecedented standoff between Barr and U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman, who had resisted being removed from his post."
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Many of the arena's 19,000 seats remained empty as Mr. Trump spoke. (photo: Doug Mills/NYT)
Trump Rally Fizzles as Crowd Size Falls Short of Campaign's Expectations
Michael D. Shear, Maggie Haberman and Astead W. Herndon, The New York Times
Excerpt: "President Trump's attempt to revive his re-election campaign sputtered badly on Saturday night as he traveled to Tulsa for his first mass rally in months and found a far smaller crowd than his aides had promised him, then delivered a disjointed speech that did not address the multiple crises facing the nation or scandals battering him in Washington."
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Michael D. Shear, Maggie Haberman and Astead W. Herndon, The New York Times
Excerpt: "President Trump's attempt to revive his re-election campaign sputtered badly on Saturday night as he traveled to Tulsa for his first mass rally in months and found a far smaller crowd than his aides had promised him, then delivered a disjointed speech that did not address the multiple crises facing the nation or scandals battering him in Washington."
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Arms linked, residents of CHOP, the Capitol Hill protest zone, form a human barricade to keep out known people who create problems. (photo: Alan Berner/The Seattle Times)
After Early Morning Shooting in CHOP, Occupied Area Returns to Its New Normal
David Gutman, Brendan Kiley, Hannah Furfaro and Mike Carter, Seattle Times
Excerpt: "A shooting on Capitol Hill early Saturday left one teenager dead, another person critically injured and raised new questions about the city's capacity to provide emergency and medical services to the protest zone that has taken over the heart of the neighborhood for the last 12 days."
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David Gutman, Brendan Kiley, Hannah Furfaro and Mike Carter, Seattle Times
Excerpt: "A shooting on Capitol Hill early Saturday left one teenager dead, another person critically injured and raised new questions about the city's capacity to provide emergency and medical services to the protest zone that has taken over the heart of the neighborhood for the last 12 days."
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Celia Yap-Banago and her husband, Amado, had planned to travel to their native Philippines next year to renew their vows to celebrate 35 years of marriage. 'We had it all planned out,' their son Jhulan said. (photo: Jhulan Banago)
Kent Babb, Brittany Shammas and Ariana Eunjung Cha, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "Celia is gone, one of hundreds of U.S. health-care workers - not just nurses and physicians but also EMTs, paramedics and medical technologists - who've died fighting a virus against which humans have no known immunity."
Two days earlier, Celia Yap-Banago died alone in her bedroom weeks after caring for a patient suspected of having covid-19 at Research Medical Center in Kansas City, Mo. Celia wasn’t just a registered nurse who would have celebrated 40 years in the profession that month. At 69, she was the plain-spoken, slightly inappropriate, kind-of-nosy mother figure of 4 North, the cardiac telemetry unit that had become an overflow ward for patients with covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
“I just wish …” Jenn Caldwell, a nurse at Research who spent years working alongside Celia, says after the vigil starts. “I wish things would’ve went a lot differently.”
But instead Celia is gone, one of hundreds of U.S. health-care workers — not just nurses and physicians but also EMTs, paramedics and medical technologists — who’ve died fighting a virus against which humans have no known immunity. There is no official tally of their deaths. More than 77,800 have tested positive for the coronavirus, and more than 400 have died, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which acknowledges that’s a significant undercount. The nation’s largest nurses union, National Nurses United, puts the total much higher: 939 fatalities among health-care workers, based on reports from its chapters around the country, social media and obituaries. Nurses represent about 15 percent of those deaths, the union said.
And those may be just the first casualties, with new coronavirus cases surging in parts of the South and the Far West and the possibility of a second wave of the pandemic in the fall.
Co-workers of those who’ve died have been left to deal not just with grief but a mix of anger, frustration and fear. Heath care, after all, is as much a calling as a job for many of them; during a pandemic, learning a colleague or relative is infected or worse means an almost daily reckoning — not just with one’s own mortality, but also with a growing sense of powerlessness.
Pierre Kompany. (photo: Judith Jockel/Guardian UK)
teleSUR
Excerpt: "The Ganshoren major Pierre Kompany emphasized that Belgium should apologize for the atrocities that King Leopold II (1835-1909) allowed to happen when Congo was a colony of this European country."
Up to 15 million people were killed by the entrepreneurial activities of King Leopold II, the "sole owner" of the "Congo Free State."
"If the State apologizes, it would be a big step. But if the King does the same, we would come out of this even better," Kompany said, as reported by VTR NWS.
These statements occurred amidst the World Refugee Day on June 20, when the Black mayor, who left the Congo as a political refugee in 1975, recalled the "embarrassing reality" that colonial violence generated in his homeland.
On June 10, King Leopold II's statue, which was located in the Trone Square in Brussels, dawned painted with anti-racist slogans supporting the protests in memory of George Floyd.
"This man killed 15 million people," said one of those phrases, referring to an imperial ruler who allowed bloody business exploitation of natural resources in the African country.
Belgium now third country to see removal of statues of historically prejudiced figures, due to #BlackLivesMattters protests.
150 yr old statue of Colonial King Leopold II removed by authorities in Antwerp. He oppressed/enslaved people in Congo in 19th c:
Between 1885 and 1908, King Leopold II was the sovereign and "sole owner" of the Congo, a territory rich in rubber, diamonds, ivory, and other precious stones.
To extract these resources, the Belgian monarch used the native population as forced and slave labor, which was controlled through violent means such as murder, torture, and amputations of hands when people were disobedient and disrespectful.
Despite strong historical evidence of the colonial genocide, Prince Laurent downplayed the crown's responsibility for the Congolese genocide.
"There were many people who worked for Leopold II and they really abused. But that doesn't mean that King Leopold II had abused. He never went to Congo personally, so I don't see how he could have made people suffer over there," Laurent as reported by local outlet Sudpresse.
Humpback whales and calves at Exmouth Gulf during an experiment to test how they react to noise from whale-watching boats. (photo: Kate Sprogis, Aarhus University)
Whale-Watching Boat Noise Found to Disrupt Mother and Calf Resting Times
Graham Readfearn, Guardian UK
Readfearn writes: "Repeated noise from whale-watching boat engines could be affecting humpback mothers and their calves while they stop to rest on their long migrations to the Antarctic, a study has found."
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Graham Readfearn, Guardian UK
Readfearn writes: "Repeated noise from whale-watching boat engines could be affecting humpback mothers and their calves while they stop to rest on their long migrations to the Antarctic, a study has found."
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