Police said situation is now contained but reported at least five deaths after shooting near an industrial area.
Source: Multiple deaths reported in Orlando, Florida shooting | News | Al Jazeera
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A man has been fatally shot by the police in another display of brutality. Jimmie Sanders, of Milwaukee was fatally wounded by the police last Sunday at Jack’s Apple Pub after someone called 911. Sanders has been involved in a fight with Henry Nellum, who pulled a gun on Sanders, but was disarmed after her […]
Source: Man Prevents a Murder by Disarming Attacker, Police Show Up and Kill Him
Americans, regardless of whether they’re Democrats or Republicans, want to power their homes with renewable energy, according to a new study.
Details on how exactly the US would withdraw are still being worked out, according to reports.
Source: Donald Trump pulling US out of Paris climate deal: reports
No matter the position one might take on the issue of sanctions, the fact remains that they caused a decade of tremendous suffering and widespread deaths of Iraqi civilians, many of them children.
Source: U.S. Repeating Same War Crime In Syria That Starved 500K Children To Death In Iraq
When the Masjid Al-Kareem mosque in Providence, Rhode Island, received a threatening letter in November calling Muslims a “vile and filthy people,” its members were frightened enough they asked for and got extra police protection. The 42-year-old mosque was far from alone. The letter it received was one of 2,213 anti-Muslim bias incidents in the US last year, according to a report released on Tuesday by the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
The latest version of the American Healthcare Act drew widespread criticism on and beyond Capitol Hill, and no House Democrats voted for the bill.
Source: GOP Passes ‘Trumpcare’ Bill; Critics Lambaste It – Truthdig
Hate groups have come to tiny Pikeville in a bid for support, but locals fear a violent standoff between the neo-Nazis and anti-fascist protesters
Source: Armed neo-Nazis prepare for potential clash in small Kentucky town | US news | The Guardian
As Official Washington fumes over Russiagate, Israel’s more significant political-influence-and-propaganda campaigns are ignored.
While the U.S. maintains a vast empire of military installations around the world with huge, hard-to-miss complexes in Europe and Asia, bases in Africa have been far better hidden.
Source: Secret Documents Reveal a Constellation of American Military Bases Across Africa – Truthdig
Barrett Brown, the journalist and “hacktivist” who is on parole after serving a four-year prison term over reporting on corporate espionage against Americans, has been arrested again. He had been speaking to the media and was set to appear on PBS.
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump’s Executive Order deregulating dangerous gas emissions is being signed today …
Source: The simple Number that will Defeat Trump’s attempt to Roll back Obama Energy Policies
Team Trump begins to roll out its plan to kill climate action, making up facts and ruining your children’s future.
Source: Four-and-a-half false statements EPA head Scott Pruitt made in just one interview
The architect of the US-Australia refugee deal says the arrangement was loosely contingent on Australia considering resettling people from Central America, Africa and reuniting separated refugee families.
From the March 17 edition of CNN’s The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer:
It’s his own PR firm.
Source: The EPA Used to Tweet About the Environment. Now It Just Tweets About Scott Pruitt. | Mother Jones
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – It is alleged that Adam W. Purinton, a regular at a …
Source: “Get out of my Country!” White Terrorist Shoots Asian-American Engineers in Wake of Trump Visa Ban
“My biggest fear is that later this week I will be among the legions at CPAC rearranging the furniture,” wrote Andrew Breitbart just days before the first Conservative Political Action Conference of President Barack Obama’s administration. “Instead, the conservative movement needs to think in revolutionary terms.”Eight years later
Source: The Breitbartification Of CPAC
“America cannot care more for your children’s future security than you do.”
Source: U.S. Warns NATO: Increase Spending Or We Might ‘Moderate’ Support | The Huffington Post
The United States is on a war path with Iran.
Source: America’s Looming War with Iran: What You’re Not Being Told
With many Muslims now banned from entering the United States, some have been left with no choice but to pretend to be Christian – a desperate measure first perfected by Republican politicians.
Following the lead of Republicans, thousands of Americans born in majority Muslim countries are claiming to live by a certain set of morals and beliefs, without actually putting those beliefs into practice.
“If you’re desperate to get in, and saying you believe in Jesus is what it takes to get in, then you do it,” one Republican Senator, said, adding that he wouldn’t hesitate to do it again at the next election.
“When your livelihood is on the line, you’ll say and do whatever it takes,” said Ahmed Al-Bayati – an Iraqi man living in the United States – and Robert Johnson, a Republican Senator.
“I follow the teachings of Jesus, just like Mr Trump does,” Mr Al-Bayati said.
“So do I,” Senator Johnson added.
PEARLY GATES – For generations religious kooks from all across America have claimed that the country was founded on Christian principles and is indeed a “Christian nation,” whatever the hell that means. However, their credibility took a big hit this morning when Jesus Christ, the Son of God, held a brief news conference in which he distanced himself from the United States in general and the Trump Administration in particular.
“I just want everyone on earth to know that I do not in any way support the actions of this pubescent orangutan,” said Jesus, referring to President Trump. “It’s a damn shame that an entire planet has to suffer because one man is insecure about the size of his penis.”
“Furthermore, I’ve had it up to here with a bunch of cretins running around making idiotic laws in my name. Most of these folks wouldn’t recognize me if I came up and bit them on the ass. What is it with these people? Can’t they read? I guess the whole New Testament was a fucking waste of time.
“It’s days like today that I appreciate the work of my less popular cousin, Lucifer. There are gonna be a lot of evangelicals who are in for a nice warm surprise.”
“In closing, I’d like to say unequivocally that the United States is a far cry from a Christian nation. Any country that rejects refugees fleeing famine, war, and persecution should be ashamed of itself. I was once a refugee and I know what’s it’s like. I’m seriously considering a series of sanctions, including earthquakes, volcanoes, tidal waves, and a plague of orange cane toads for every state that voted for that asshole. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got soccer practice.”
After the press conference the White House immediately issued a statement saying that Jesus was spreading “fake news” and if he keeps it up he’ll suffer the consequences.
The Reverend Franklin Graham went on CNN and told viewers that Jesus had no idea what he was talking about and urged Jesus to get to know Trump personally. “If the Lord would just take time off from his other pursuits and meet with Trump I’m sure he’d change his mind,” said Graham, as the blood of a recently devoured infant ran down his chin.
Republican leaders were unavailable for comment, but an aide to Speaker of the House Paul Ryan said that he was trying to decide which way to go on the matter.
“Speaker Ryan is in the process of determining whether it would be better to support God or President Trump. After all, he has his political future to protect,” said the aide on condition of anonymity.
Surely she didn’t believe Trump’s commitment to NATO. Nonetheless, it would have been useful for her to get him on the record – sort-of.
Source: Nice media conference but the Trump-Putin agenda dwarfs Theresa May’s to-do list
President Donald Trump’s executive order closing the nation’s borders to refugees was put into immediate effect on Friday night.
Donald Trump’s repeated claim that millions of illegal votes were cast in the recent presidential election appear to be true, with reports that one man – an unregistered voter from Moscow – may have voted 3 million times.
The man – pictured above – is believed to have cast the votes, despite not being a US citizen.
“I’ve heard of people voting in multiple polling stations in the one city. But this guy appears to have voted in North Carolina, Virginia, Ohio, Florida, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania, all in the one morning,” an electoral expert said.
Mr Trump said it was ‘not what I meant’ when referring to illegal voting.
On the second day of the World Economic Forum in Davos,
WASHINGTON – At a press conference earlier today President Obama pledged to destroy the country one last time before turning over the reigns of power to Donald Trump, the first illiterate person to be elected President of the United States.
“I just want to make sure I leave this fucking place in the same shape I found it in,” said an emotional Obama.
The President did not specify what form this last orgy of destruction would take, but White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest told reporters later that it would be one of the President’s more creative efforts.
“He may alter the path of a large asteroid and have it impact at the geographical center of the lower 48, or he could cause huge tidal waves to hit both the east and west coasts simultaneously,” said a smiling Earnest. “Hell, he may even order our submarines to launch their Trident II missiles and wipe out every major city in America, you just never know with Barry.”
Experts from around the country say that this will mark the 47th time Obama has “completely destroyed America.”
Professor Hikita of the Banzai Institute told CNN that the variety of methods Obama has used in the past is mind-boggling, and there’s no way to predict how he’ll destroy the country this time.
“The bastard provided health insurance to poor people one time, then he orchestrated a deadly agreement with the Iranians that guaranteed we would all die of radiation poisoning another time,” said Hikita. “Then there was the time he rounded up all the Christians in Texas and sentenced them to live the rest of their lives in forced labor camps under WalMart Supercenters. He’s diabolical!”
The crescendo of doom is expected to begin sometime this evening and continue until the swearing-in ceremony tomorrow morning, leaving little time for many of us to live.
Sara Palin told Fox News that our only hope lies in the good and honorable man we’ve elected to be our next president.
“God has sent Donald Trump to save America, so I wouldn’t worry too much about it,” said Palin, as she injected 1/2 a gram of methamphetamine into a pulsating vein in her temple. “Trust in Jesus and everything will be just fine.”
Donald Trump’s relationship with the media has always been contentious. But his latest idea for the White House press corps may be the most alarming yet.
Source: Trump reportedly planning to ban journalists from the White House
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – We are now on the brink of a new form of …
China’s richest man has something to say to Donald Trump: if
As the Democratic party regroups ahead of the next election cycle, it would be wise for its leadership to examine areas where the Clinton campaign diverged from the party’s base. Israel-Palestine is one of those issues. The number of Americans who support imposing sanctions on Israel over its defiant settlement policies has shot up to 46 percent, the same percentage of Americans who voted for Donald Trump in the presidential election. [tmwinpost] That number has shot up nearly 10 percentage points over the past year, according to a national poll published by the Brookings Institute on Friday, on the sidelines…
Source: Nearly half of Americans support sanctions on Israel, poll finds | +972 Magazine
The Chinese didn’t imagine that the US would walk away from global leadership so readily. But it has happened, in plain view. On Friday.
Donald Trump’s hate-filled rhetoric has been encouraging violence against people of color since the beginning of his campaign. In March, for example, Wichita State University student Khondoker Usama and his friend were assaulted at a gas station.
Source: Hate Like This Is Spreading Across the Country. Will Donald Trump Denounce It? | The Nation
Choosing Myron Ebell means Trump plans to drastically reshape climate policies
Source: Trump Picks Top Climate Skeptic to Lead EPA Transition – Scientific American
Americans have sent the strongest possible message to the nation’s establishment, electing a 70 year-old rich white man from New York.
“We really showed them,” one Republican voter said today. “Those elites with all the power and money can go shove it!”
“This wasn’t a race between Democrat and Republican,” another voter pointed out, “It was a race between the establishment, and an interloper who just happens to own his own building on Wall Street”.
Trump was so repugnant because he violated our sense of identity politics.
Source: US election 2016: It’s not about racism or sexism, it’s about class warfare
As a wise comedian says, we must own Trump — he didn’t fall from the sky and, yes, he is a reflection our nation
Source: Heaven help us — George Carlin was right: Donald Trump is America – Salon.com
As Election Day draws close, it is worth simply reiterating the evidence in front of our nose that this republic is in serious danger.
The US election is a complete shambles, it is a total shemozzle. It’s like a shambles and a shemozzle got together and had a whole family of calamities
In memory of Desmond John “Des” Ball AO (20 May 1947 – 12 October 2016) When George H W Bush first publicly coined the phrase New World Order, a term previously proscribed to conspiracy buffs, it came as both a declaration of unilateral power, and a brash ultimatum to anyone who didn’t like the way…
America sees conflicts shaded in black or white and avoids all complex and nuanced ambiguities.
Source: Is America on the right side of history? – Al Jazeera English
The truth about Syria and what is happening in Syria is all here, in the video below, outlined and documented during this press briefing by the U.S. Peace Council (USPC).We cannot be sure how l…
Moscow has accused Washington of sabotaging the Syria ceasefire deal, saying that the US will be responsible for any new terror attacks in Syria, as by taking no action against Al-Nusra terrorists it shows it is ready “to make a deal with the devil.”
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Source: The Counted: people killed by police in the United States – interactive | US news | The Guardian
While I’ve been in the US this year, the issue of food insecurity has become a pressing issue. We can’t let Malcolm Turnbull lead us down that path
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