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The Mavericks - I'm Wondering
"We did not ask you white men to come here. The Great Spirit gave us this country as a home. You had yours. We did not interfere with you. The Great Spirit gave us plenty of land to live on, and buffalo, deer, antelope and other game. But you have come here; you are taking my land from me; you are killing off our game, so it is hard for us to live. Now, you tell us to work for a living, but the Great Spirit did not make us to work, but to live by hunting. You white men can work if you want to. We do not interfere with you, and again you say why do you not become civilized? We do not want your civilization! We would live as our fathers did, and their fathers before them."
Crazy Horse/Tashunke Witko, Oglala Lakota
News and Opinion
NYC mourns officers as rift widens between union, mayor
Two NYPD officers were shot and killed on Saturday afternoon, in what NYC Police Commissioner William Bratton called "execution-style." The suspect, Ismaaiyl Brinsley, was later found shot to death in a nearby subway station.
NEW YORK — The nation's largest city was mourning the execution-style murder of two police officers Sunday as controversy flared between Mayor Bill de Blasio and his police union.
Police said Ismaaiyl Brinsley, 28, walked up to a patrol car in Brooklyn on Saturday and fatally shot officers Wenjian Liu, a seven-year veteran of the force, and Rafael Ramos, who joined in 2012. Other officers pursued Brinsley to a nearby subway station where he apparently committed suicide, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said.
"When a police officer is murdered, it tears at the foundation of our society. It is an attack on all of us," de Blasio said.
But as the mayor and his entourage on Saturday walked through Woodhull Hospital, where the officers had been pronounced dead, dozens of police officers literally turned their backs on the de Blasio as he passed.
De Blasio and Patrolmen's Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch have been at odds since a New York grand jury earlier this month declined to indict an officer in the chokehold death of an unarmed black man, Eric Garner. Lynch accused de Blasio of failing to support officers and suggested that the mayor would not be welcome at funerals for police officers should they die on the job.
Gunman murders two NYPD officers in Brooklyn before shooting himself
~Officers killed in ambush named as Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos
~Suspect Ismaaiyl Brinsley also linked to shooting in Baltimore
~Police unions say ‘blood on hands’ of protesters and mayor
~Two NYPD officers ‘assassinated’ before anger turns on mayor – in pictures
~Opinion: ‘Wartime’ NYPD blames protesters. Have we learned nothing?
Two New York City police officers were shot and killed on Saturday afternoon as they sat in their patrol car in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighbourhood of Brooklyn.
In a Saturday evening press conference at Woodhull medical center in the borough, NYPD commissioner Bill Bratton, his voice cracking with emotion, named the two officers killed as Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos.
Bratton and New York City mayor Bill de Blasio both said the officers had been killed “execution style” and described their deaths as an “assassination”. “There is no more emotional time for a police officer,” said Bratton. “A death of this nature, an assassination, it’s unlike any other type of emotion. It’s hard to deal with.”
Bratton said the gunman, Ismaaiyl Brinsley, 28, had made “very anti-police” postings on the Instagram social media site and these were being investigated.
The killings sparked an angry outburst from the leader of the city’s main police union, the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association. Pat Lynch, president of the PBA, appeared to blame the deaths on the protesters who have taken to the streets of New York in recent weeks and on de Blasio, the mayor.
In a fiery press conference outside the hospital doors, Lynch said there was “blood on their hands [of] those that incited violence on the street under the guise of protest … [blood] on the steps of city hall, in the office of the mayor”.
“When these funerals are over,” said Lynch, “those responsible will be called on to the carpet and held accountable.”
NY cops shooter was almost tracked after posting threats to avenge Brown and Garner
The gunman who killed two police officers in New York before turning his gun on himself posted assassination threats on Instagram several hours before the killings. The man’s phone was traced by police just minutes before the tragedy.
Ismaaiyl Brinsley, a 28-year-old Afro-American, who was identified as the shooter by police, posted a picture of an automatic pistol and threatening messages on Instagram. They bore hashtags with the names of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, who were killed by police officers who were themselves later acquitted, sparking mass protests against police brutality across the US.
“I’m Putting Wings on Pigs Today,” Brinsley wrote. “They Take 1 Of Ours … Let’s Take 2 of Theirs.”
Early Saturday morning, hours before the attack on the police officers, Brinsley shot and seriously wounded a woman, presumably his ex-girlfriend, in Baltimore. He stole her phone and posted the threats from her Instagram account, Commissioner William Bratton of the New York City Police Department said at a press conference.
It was the victim’s mother who first noticed the posts and alerted Baltimore police, who were able to track the phone in the 70th precinct of New York and pass that information together with Brinsley’s description on to the NYPD.
Read more: 2 New York cops murdered in ‘execution style’ ambush
Police officer shot to death in Florida
A suspect has been taken into custody after allegedly fatally shooting a police officer in Tarpon Springs, Florida. The incident comes after a gunman killed two officers in New York City after issuing threats against law enforcement.
Veteran officer Charles Kondek was shot early Sunday morning near the coastal town’s Sponge Docks. The 45-year-old father of five had been on the force for 18 years.
After the shooting the officer, the suspect fled the crime scene in a white Hyundai sedan, before crashing into a pole, where he was arrested, police spokesperson Cecilia Barreda told Bay News 9.
Several city blocks around the crime scene were cordoned off Sunday morning as investigators collected evidence.
A police news conference is planned for Sunday.
The killing comes on the heels of Saturday’s double police murder in New York. A 28-year-old African-American man shot and killed two police officers in Brooklyn before turning the gun on himself. The man had posted assassination threats, including pictures of the pistol he would use to kill the officers, on Instagram earlier that day.
Obama says Sony hack not an act of war
(Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama moved to prevent U.S. anger at North Korea from spiraling out of control on Sunday by saying the massive hacking of Sony Pictures was not an act of war but instead was cyber-vandalism.
Washington's longstanding dispute with North Korea, which for years has centered on its nuclear weapons program, has entered new territory with the accusation that Pyongyang carried out an assault on a major Hollywood entertainment company.
Obama and his advisers are weighing how to punish North Korea after the FBI concluded on Friday that Pyongyang was responsible. North Korea has denied it was to blame.
The U.S. president put the hack in the context of a crime.
"No, I don't think it was an act of war," he told CNN's "State of the Union" show that aired on Sunday. "I think it was an act of cyber vandalism that was very costly, very expensive. We take it very seriously. We will respond proportionately."
Sony hack: US mulls putting N Korea back on terror list
President Barack Obama has said the US is considering putting North Korea back on its list of terrorism sponsors after the hacking of Sony Pictures.
A decision would be taken after a review, he said, calling the attack an act of cyber-vandalism, not of war.
North Korea denies the attack over The Interview, which depicts the fictional killing of its leader Kim Jong-Un.
Sony cancelled the Christmas Day release after threats to cinemas. It is considering "a different platform".
Costly
In a CNN interview, President Obama described the hacking as a "very costly, very expensive" example of cyber-vandalism.
Lawmaker calls for strong U.S. response to Sony hack, including sanctions
(Reuters) - The U.S. House Intelligence Committee chairman on Sunday called for a "very serious" U.S. reaction, including sanctions, to a North Korean cyber attack on Sony Pictures, saying it was not enough for the United States to restrict that country's cyber capability.
U.S. Representative Mike Rogers criticized President Barack Obama on "Fox News Sunday" for getting on a plane to Hawaii on Friday and not acting immediately against North Korea.
"The problem here was not that the fact that we didn't have the capability to do something nearly in immediate time. We just didn't get a decision from the president," Rogers said.
Rogers said there was much discussion last week about how to respond to the attack that wiped out Sony's computers in response to the film "The Interview," which depicts the assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
Kurdish fighters move on ISIL's Mosul hub
Peshmerga forces expand a major offensive against ISIL while also delivering aid to Yazidi refugees on Mount Sinjar.
Kurdish forces in Iraq have taken more ground from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group and are moving closer to the northern city of Mosul.
The Peshmerga, a term used by Kurds to refer to Kurdish fighters, delivered aid to Yazidi refugees on Mount Sinjar on Saturday and expanded a major offensive against ISIL in northwestern Iraq after breaking a months-old siege.
The Peshmerga closed in on Sinjar town south of the mountain and Tal Afar to its east, AFP news agency reported on Sunday.
If successful, the move would significantly alter the map of ISIL's self-declared cross-border "caliphate" and isolate its Mosul hub.
It comes as ISIL reportedly regained control of Beiji city, north of Baghdad. The battle for Beiji and its oil refinery has been running back and forth for months, with each side making gains and losses in the fighting.
US planes hit 'Islamic State' in Iraq, Syria after big Kurdish victory
The US led air campaign sought to build on the successes of Friday and Saturday, when Iraqi Kurdish forces helped by US planes were able to break the siege of Mt. Sinjar, where a genocide of Yazidis was once feared.
Sinjar Mountain, Iraq and Washington — US-led air forces attacked Islamic State targets on Sunday with 13 air strikes in Iraq and three in Syria, the US military said. The bombing in Iraq has helped Kurdish forces roll-back advances by the self-styled Islamic State, which led to a stunning victory for the Kurds yesterday.
One of the Iraq strikes were near Sinjar in the north of the country, which destroyed Islamic State buildings, tactical units and vehicles, while other Iraqi cities targeted included Tal Afar and Mosul in the north, Baiji in the center of the country, and Ramadi, the capital of the western Anbar Province, according to the Combined Joint Task Force.
The strikes in Syria over the weekend were focused around the contested city of Kobani near the Turkish border. There were five air strikes near Kobani on Saturday followed by the three on Sunday.
In Iraq, US and partner nations conducted eight air strikes on Saturday, including near Tal Afar, Ar Rutba, Mosul and Baiji, the task force said.
US delivers Apache helicopters to Egypt
Ten Apaches delivered to Cairo after part lifting of aid freeze to the country, according to senior US official.
The United States has delivered 10 Apache attack helicopters to Egypt in recent weeks after lifting part of a freeze on aid to the North African nation, a US official said.
US Secretary of State John Kerry had promised Cairo's new leadership that the aircraft - aimed to join operations in the Sinai Peninsula - would be delivered soon.
"They got there a few weeks ago," a US senior administration official told AFP news agency on Saturday.
Kerry announced in June that he was "confident" Egypt would receive the helicopter gunships soon, and reiterated that in a phone call to Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry.
The US annually allocates some $1.5bn in aid to Egypt, including $1.3bn in military assistance.
CIA’s Officials Will Not Face Charges For Peeping Into The Senate’s Activity
CIA officials will not face charges for peeping into the Senate’s activity, according to a recently released executive summary of the famous report on ‘torture practices’ within the agency. Investigators have been advised not seek punishment for the Central Intelligence Agency’s inquiry of a computer network utilized by Senate Intelligence Committee staff.
The scandal boiled over the CIA’s meddling into the committee’s activities while Democrats were analyzing a “torture report” concerning the agency. The report was discharged last week and showed that the CIA made use of ruthless interrogation procedures against suspected terrorists, with debatable efficacy.
The board incriminated five CIA heads which supposedly requested and performed computer investigations. The alleged culprits stated, in their defense, that their activity was legitimate and carried out at the command of CIA chief John O. Brennan, as indicated by the New York Times. Consequently, the aforementioned accusations will not lead to any penalties for the authorities as the board plans to condemn the institution for its activities and does not seek to target specific officials.
This choice is probably going to outrage the Intelligence Committee, who is fuming about the fact that the CIA was endeavoring to meddle in an examination of wrongdoing concerning the activity of an agency. The investigations are thought to have happened before the end of last year as the advisory group was dealing with a report that hammered its confinement and cross examination practices
Leaked CIA docs teach operatives how to infiltrate EU
Wikileaks has released two classified documents instructing CIA operatives how best to circumvent global security systems in international airports, including those of the EU, while on undercover missions.
The first of the documents, dated September 2011, advises undercover operatives how to act during a secondary airport screening. Secondary screenings pose a risk to an agent’s cover by focusing “significant scrutiny” on an operative via thorough searches and detailed questioning.
The manual stresses the importance of having a "consistent, well-rehearsed, and plausible cover," in addition to cultivating a fake online presence to throw interrogators off track.
Meanwhile, the second document, dated January 2012, presents a detailed overview of EU Schengen Border Control procedures.
In Midst of Holiday Shopping, Protesters Disrupt Business-As-Usual to Declare 'Black Lives Matter'
On one of the busiest commercial days of the year, in one of the largest malls in the world, protesters interrupted business as usual on Saturday to send a message: "While you’re on your shopping spree, black people cannot breathe."
An estimated 3,000 people flooded the rotunda of the Mall of America, located in Bloomington, Minnesota, demanding an "end to police brutality and racial inequities affecting Black and brown Minnesotans," according to a statement from the Minneapolis chapter of Black Lives Matter.
"Today’s protest was our biggest success yet," said Mica Grimm, an organizer with Black Lives Matter Minneapolis. "Thousands of people stood together, refused to be intimidated, and disrupted business as usual on the busiest shopping day of the year at the biggest mall in the country. As long as innocent Black and brown lives are disrupted by police without consequence, we cannot go about business as usual."
The crowd chanted "Black Lives Matter" and sang the song by the Bronx-based group Peace Poets that has resounded at street protests, die-ins, and direct actions across the country: "I still hear my brother crying I can't Breathe. Now I'm in the struggle saying I can't leave..."
Scenes from the protest are captured by filmmaker Jon Reynolds: View video here.
America's Decay Into a Violent, Cruel Place
It seems police can get away with anything: choking men who have surrendered; shooting unarmed teens; knocking pregnant women to the ground. While the issues involving race, civil rights and the relationship between law enforcement and communities are essential for examination and correction, few are talking about how all of this fits into the larger pattern of America’s cultural decline and decay. America has become a society addicted to violence and indifferent to the suffering of people without power. Whenever there is a combination of a culture of violence and an ethic of heartlessness, fatal abuse of authority will escalate, and the legal system will fail to address it.
Critics are right to condemn the criminal justice system for its embedded inequities and injustices, but they are hesitant to condemn the actual jurors giving killer cops get-out-of-jail-free cards. These jurors are representational of America: ignorant and cold. They hear testimony from eyewitnesses claiming Darren Wilson shot Michael Brown while he had his hands in the air, and set Wilson free without trial. They listen to reports of three officers choking Robert Saylor, an unarmed man with Down syndrome who wanted to see a movie without a ticket, and they send the police back to work. They watch video footage of police choking Eric Garner in New York, and of two police officers brutally beating Keyarika Diggles, a woman in Texas, and they decline to make them pay for it.
Have they been programmed into cruelty and apathy by American schools, churches, families, politics, and pop culture?
There are practical demands that the sane minority of Americans can make as they march the streets of Ferguson, New York and Chicago. Body cameras on police officers is a technological aid to the people who live under military occupation from the blue army. Tougher requirements for entering the police force, and better training methods for those in the academy are essential, as is a sweeping and radical review, best led by the White House, of a racist and predatory criminal justice system.
As Four Afghan Men Released From Guantánamo, Calls to Free All Who Remain
"Continuing to hold prisoners at Guantánamo under the guise of an endless, worldwide 'war on terror' would be both unlawful and, itself, terrifying"
Following the Pentagon's announcement on Saturday that it has repatriated four men incarcerated at Guantánamo Bay to Afghanistan, human rights advocates are urging the United States to release all who remain captive in the U.S. military prison "without delay."
Mohammad Zahir, 61, Khi Ali Gul, 51, Shawali Khan, 51, and Abdul Ghani, 42 were transferred to Afghan authorities on Friday, the Pentagon announced Saturday. All of them were cleared for release in 2009.
This is the first repatriation of men held in Guantánamo Bay to Afghanistan since 2009, and it follows the release of six people to Uruguay earlier in December.
The move was reportedly a delayed response to the request of new Afghan president Ashraf Ghani, who is strongly backed by the United States and recently signed the Bilateral Security Agreement, which locks in at least another decade of U.S. military entanglement in Afghanistan.
Muslim sues Ohio jail after being 'forced' to attend church services
An American Muslim woman says her constitutional rights were violated after she was forced to attend Christian church services while in jail. She has filed a lawsuit and says she was threatened with solitary confinement if she did not attend.
Sakeena Majeed says that a correction officer, Regina Watts, made her and other inmates at the Cuyahoga County jail in Ohio attend church services on Friday afternoons, which were conducted by a Baptist minister.
The 24 year-old added that she was threatened with being sent to solitary confinement if she did not comply, while another correction officer made fun of her when she refused to attend the services.
"That should be offensive to anybody, no matter what your religion is," said her attorney, Matthew Besser, who filed the lawsuit, AP reported. "The government can't tell you what God to pray to or to pray at all."
Hellraiser Preview
Sherman, set the time machine for tomorrow's Hellraisers Journal, which will feature an article from the Montana News, a Socialist newspaper, discussing the spiritual perils of Socialism from the perspective of the Catholic Citizen.
Tune in at 2pm!
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Right-Wing Evangelists Eagerly Condone Torture
700 Club host Pat Robertson gave the Republican Party an early Christmas present this week: he has found the replacement for Obamacare they have been looking for. Robertson was asked by a viewer if he thought it would be all right if he decided to stop seeking medical attention, instead making a covenant with God to be his physician.
Robertson told the ailing man, "There’s some people who think that doctors are God and they really aren’t. You’ve asked God to be your physician so stick with it and say ‘Lord, I’m asking you for it.’”
This is strange advice, especially coming from a man who chose heart surgery in 2009 instead of sticking with prayer, as he suggests. Though taking medical advice from a man who believes you can get AIDS from a hotel towel may not be the best advice.
Dr. God may be more than a medical expert; it seems he is a war strategist as well. Brian Fischer of the American Family Association—which the Southern Poverty Law Center considers a hate group—wrote in a recent blog piece that God would condone American torture techniques. Wrote Fischer:
“Students of Scripture are well aware of some of the grisly things done by God’s warriors in the heat of battle. Ehud, for instance, arranged a private meeting with the king of Moab and ran him through the gut with a sword until the king’s fat folded over the hilt of the sword, which Ehud left as a calling card (Judges 3). He was both an assassin and a war hero at the same time.
“The left, if they had enough familiarity with the Bible to even know these stories, likely would be aghast at such behavior and be inclined to throw Ehud and Jael into Gitmo along with throat-cutting Muslims."
It Doesn't Matter Who Does the Lobbying: Trade Agreements Aren't the Place for Internet Regulations
The Associated Whistleblowing Press released portions of draft text proposed by the United States for the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) this week, revealing some alarming provisions that indicate how tech companies have been involved in influencing a secret international deal. The language of the leaked treaty shows provisions that could impact privacy online, and net neutrality—with no public consultation or opportunities for open debate. What is dispiriting is some of the language of these Internet regulations almost certainly comes from tech companies, who have joined the many other lobbyists fighting for their special interests behind closed doors.
TISA is yet another so-called trade deal which began negotiations in 2013 and is being hammered out in back room meetings between 23 countries around the world, including the United States, the European Union, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru. According to the leaked documents, countries involved in the negotiations have agreed to keep the text of this agreement classified for five years after it enters into force. On top of the five-year-embargo, neither the negotiation rounds nor the topics discussed in this agreement have ever been made public.
Banning Limits on the "Free Flow of Information"
TISA contains a provision that bans countries from regulating how and when any given company can move, access, and process the data for its services:
Article X.4: Movement of Information No Party may prevent a service supplier of another Party from transferring, accessing, processing or storing information, including personal information, within or outside the Party's territory, where such activity is carried out in connection with the conduct of the service supplier's business.
Defending the Free Linux World
Co-opetition is a part of open source. The Open Invention Network model allows companies to decide where they will compete and where they will collaborate, explained OIN CEO Keith Bergelt. As open source evolved, "we had to create channels for collaboration. Otherwise, we would have hundreds of entities spending billions of dollars on the same technology."
The Open Invention Network, or OIN, is waging a global campaign to keep Linux out of harm's way in patent litigation. Its efforts have resulted in more than 1,000 companies joining forces to become the largest defense patent management organization in history.
The Open Invention Network was created in 2005 as a white hat organization to protect Linux from license assaults. It has considerable financial backing from original board members that include Google, IBM, NEC, Novell, Philips, Red Hat and Sony. Organizations worldwide have joined the OIN community by signing the free OIN license.
Organizers founded the Open Invention Network as a bold endeavor to leverage intellectual property to protect Linux. Its business model was difficult to comprehend. It asked its members to take a royalty-free license and forever forgo the chance to sue other members over their Linux-oriented intellectual property.
However, the surge in Linux adoptions since then -- think server and cloud platforms -- has made protecting Linux intellectual property a critically necessary strategy.
Four Ways 2014 Was a Pivotal Year for the Internet
The death of the internet is at hand.
Sound familiar? That’s what Internet pioneer Robert Metcalfe predicted in 1995 when he wrote that spiraling demands on the fledgling network would cause the Internet to “catastrophically collapse” by 1996.
Metcalfe, of course, was dead wrong: The internet is still chugging along, with a predicted 3 billion users by year’s end.
Still, the internet’s fate feels distinctly uncertain as 2014 draws to a close. At stake is whether the internet remains a democratic, user-powered network — or falls under the control of a few powerful entities.
The Evening Greens
Weekend Edition Editor - Agathena
Caribou on Baffin Island ranged from 60,000 to 180,000 in the 1990's. A new survey in the Spring of this year counted 1,000 - 2,000 caribou.
95% decline in Caribou on Baffin Island, Nunavit, Canada
The Government of Nunavut has placed a moratorium on the hunting of Baffin Island caribou beginning January 1 — the first such moratorium on that population.
Once plentiful, Baffin Island caribou have largely disappeared in the last 15 years.
The Environment department blames the natural cycle of the animals as well as increased harvesting pressure, due both to population growth and the increased reach of snowmobiles.
Birds 'heard tornadoes coming' and fled one day ahead
Geolocators showed the birds left the Appalachians and flew 700km (400 miles) south to the Gulf of Mexico.
The next day, devastating storms swept across the south and central US.
Writing in the journal Current Biology, ecologists suggest these birds - and others - may sense such extreme events with their keen low-frequency hearing.
Remarkably, the warblers had completed their seasonal migration just days earlier, settling down to nest after a 5,000km (3,100 mile) journey from Colombia.
Crows exhibit advanced relational thinking, study suggests
Crows have long been heralded for their high intelligence -- they can remember faces, use tools and communicate in sophisticated way
"Crows Spontaneously Exhibit Analogical Reasoning," which was published December 18 in Current Biology, was written by Wasserman and Anna Smirnova, Zoya Zorina and Tanya Obozova, researchers with the Department of Biology at Lomonosov Moscow State University in Moscow, Russia, where the study was conducted.
Wasserman said the Russian researchers have studied bird species for decades and that a main theme of their work is cognition. He credits his counterparts with a thoughtful and well-planned study.
Blog Posts of Interest
Here are diaries and selected blog posts of interest on DailyKos and other blogs.
What's Happenin' Is On Hiatus
ISIS executes 100 deserters
Winning Elections
Hellraisers Journal: 26,000 Fall River Textile Strikers Move to Settle Conflict Through Arbitration
Understanding the Aggressive US Stance towards Russia
Meteor Blades Saturday round-up of green diaries
A Little Night Music
The Mavericks - The Writing On The Wall
The Mavericks - The End Of The Line
The Mavericks - Come Unto Me
The Mavericks - There Goes My Heart
The Mavericks - All You Ever Do Is Bring Me Down
The Mavericks - Tonight The Bottle Let Me Down
The Mavericks - Save A Prayer
The Mavericks - I Should Have Been True
The Mavericks - Missing You
The Mavericks - The Losing Side Of Me
The Mavericks - Tell Me Why
The Mavericks - Shine Your Light
The Mavericks - Fool #1
The Mavericks - Here Comes My Baby
The Mavericks - Back In Your Arms Again
The Mavericks - Tim Goes By
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