Ukraine President wins votes from fewer than one in three

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Wednesday May 28, 2014 · 10:48 PM PDT

2014/05/28 · 22:48

US MAINSTREAM MEDIA continues to give a partial, and dangerously misleading view of events in Ukraine.

The latest misrepresentation is in the reporting of the recent election for a new President.

Western media has presented the results as an "overwhelming victory" for chocolate billionaire oligarch Petro Poroshenko, with more than 54% of the vote.

This seems to be an impressive endorsement in the bid to give the coup-government some legitimacy. Until the turnout figures are examined.

The US media, in particular, has almost universally ignored turnout.

But figures from the Central Election Commission of Ukraine report an overall turnout of just 60.3%.

On that basis Poroshenko can claim the overall support of fewer than one in three Ukrainians.

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Wednesday May 14, 2014 · 2:18 PM PDT

2014/05/14 · 14:18

PORTLAND OR continues to resist bringing its rogue police force under open accountability.

At the end of March a Federal judge told the City and legal representatives of the police union he wanted agreement that his court would retain some open annual oversight of mandated police reforms. Without that agreement he would not sign off on a proposed settlement between the US Department of Justice and the City of Portland to reform police procedures and training.

The settlement follows an investigation by the DoJ into a pattern of excessive use of force by Portland's police.

The judge gave the City and DoJ up to three weeks to return to his court with their views.

Now, it is reported, Portland has rejected the judge's proposal.

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No Justice for Keaton Otis yet... US DoJ v City of Portland

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Thursday March 27, 2014 · 8:52 PM PDT

2014/03/27 · 20:52

IN MAY it will be four years since 25-year-old African-American Keaton Otis (right) was killed by Portland police in a frenzy of 32 shots in seven seconds... recorded on the i-phone of a witness.

He was shot by officers of the Hotspot Enforcement Action Team — HEAT — on the day the city's civil authority had sacked their boss, the chief of police.

He was tased three times. Twenty-three bullets hit him, nine missed.

The officers say they saw him driving by as they left a nearby Starbucks. "He kind of looks like he could be a gangster,” the officers later claimed, “he’s got his hood up over his head,” and he had “some scruffy, scruffy facial hair.”

The officers reported the stop, for not signalling a lane change, at 6:21pm on 12 May 2010. By 6:27pm Keaton Otis was dead.

The US Department of Justice has investigated excessive use of force by Police police, but excluded any reference to the killing of Keaton Otis.

Now, the DoJ and the City of Portland are about to have their negotiated settlement on how the city's police will respond to the DoJ's investigation endorsed by the Oregon District Court... it makes no mention of Keaton Otis, racial profiling or how the Portland Police Bureau interact with the city's people of color.

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Ukraine President wins votes from fewer than one in three

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No Justice for Keaton Otis yet... US DoJ v City of Portland