News 7/12/19

‘Overestimated herself’: German Social Democrats reject von der Leyen for EU Commission head
The Social Democratic Party, a member of Germany’s governing coalition, has issued a blistering letter arguing European Commission presidential candidate Ursula von der Leyen is unfit to lead.
rt.com/news/464034-german-social-democrats-reject-leyen/

UN calls on Spain to free jailed Catalan nationalist politicians
The United Nations (UN) Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) has called for the “immediate release” of four Catalan political prisoners currently in detention waiting for a verdict in the show trial mounted by the Spanish government, 20 months after they were incarcerated.
wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/12/cata-j12.html

UN Visits Colombia to Review Failing Peace Accord
This week, United Nations Security Council members will visit Colombia to review the implementation of the 2016 Peace Agreement that ended the armed conflict between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the state.
telesurenglish.net/news/UN-Visits-Colombia-to-Review-Failing-Peace-Accord--20190711-0017.html

Sudan's military rulers say coup attempt thwarted
Sudan’s military rulers said on Thursday that several officers had attempted a coup in an effort to undermine an agreement between the military and the opposition to share power for three years ahead of elections.
af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFKCN1U70QW-OZATP

Diplomats 'perplexed' Bolsonaro wants to appoint his son ambassador to US
Brazilian diplomats have reacted with scorn and dismay to reports that Jair Bolsonaro wants to make his son Eduardo the country’s ambassador to the US, despite his lack of diplomatic experience.
theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/12/bolsonaro-son-eduardo-us-ambassador-diplomats-response

CHINA TO CUT TIES TO U.S. BUSINESSES SELLING WEAPONS TO TAIWAN: 'CANCEL THE ARMS SALES IMMEDIATELY'
China announced it will blacklist U.S. businesses selling weapons to Taiwan, a breakaway island nation over which Beijing claims sovereignty.
newsweek.com/china-cut-us-business-taiwan-1449034
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Putin Seeks to Lock in Parliament Control
With public support for President Vladimir Putin wilting, the Kremlin is considering changing election rules in an effort to secure its lock on parliament ahead of potentially vital decisions that could extend his rule.
themoscowtimes.com/2019/07/12/putin-seeks-to-lock-in-parliament-control-a66384

Japan, South Korea fail to mend dispute with frosty meeting
Japan and South Korea failed to mend a dispute that could threaten global supplies of microchips and smartphone displays after officials met in Tokyo on Friday for a more than five-hour briefing that drew media attention for its frosty start.
reuters.com/article/us-southkorea-japan-laborers/japan-south-korea-fail-to-mend-dispute-with-frosty-meeting-idUSKCN1U70P2

Sajid Javid backs facial recognition tech, as privacy campaigners launch legal action
British Home Secretary Sajid Javid has welcomed police trials of facial recognition cameras, insisting forces must “be on top of the latest technology,” as campaigners fearing possible privacy violations launch legal action.
rt.com/uk/464004-javid-facial-recognition-privacy/

Billions of air pollution particles found in hearts of city dwellers
Even in the study’s youngest subject, who was three, damage could be seen in the cells of the organ’s critical pumping muscles that contained the tiny particles. The study suggests these iron-rich particles, produced by vehicles and industry, could be the underlying cause of the long-established statistical link between dirty air and heart disease.
theguardian.com/society/2019/jul/12/billions-of-air-pollution-particles-found-in-hearts-of-city-dwellers

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Big thanks dude

Any thoughts on what's going to come out of Sudan?

They'll make it to elections then a popular president is going to be the victim of a military coup and everything returns to the status quo under the al-Bashir regime

Oprah Winfrey praised for opening her private road during Maui fire to help evacuations
Oprah Winfrey is being praised for opening her private road on Maui to help people escape a brush fire that broke out on the Hawaii island Thursday.
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Alexander Acosta stepping down as Labor secretary amid scrutiny of his handling of Epstein plea deal
US Labor Secretary Alex Acosta will step down from his position, just days after holding a press conference to defend a plea deal he helped to obtain for sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as a US attorney over ten years ago.
rt.com/usa/464018-alexander-acosta-stepping-down/

Science offices throughout U.S. government closing under Trump at alarming rate
Donald Trump is closing science offices throughout the federal government.‘As of June, around 85 percent of all scientific posts in the federal government, including an official scientific advisor to the President, were left unfilled,’ write the editors of I F***ing Love Science blog in an op-ed this week.
boingboing.net/2019/07/12/science-offices-throughout-u-s.html

As Its Drug Pricing Plans Fall Through, Trump Administration Turns To Congress To Act
The Department of Health and Human Services said it will no longer pursue a rule that would have prohibited the payment of certain rebates on drugs in Medicare Part D and Medicaid plans.
npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/07/11/740845050/as-its-drug-pricing-plans-fall-through-trump-administration-turns-to-congress-to

Roasting on the line: Autoworkers warn of unsafe conditions at US plants as summer heat hits
Hot, humid weather blanketed much of the central United States on Wednesday, creating miserable and often dangerous work for tens of thousands of workers at auto factories and other plants.
wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/12/heat-j12.html

Trump reportedly asked aides to find a way to weaken the dollar. Experts say that would be currency manipulation, a practice the president hates.
President Donald Trump has long hammered trade partners with accusations of intentionally devaluing their currencies, a practice that can make a country's exports cheaper. But as tariff disputes weigh on the economy ahead of the 2020 elections, he appears to think the US should give it a try.
markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/trump-economy-asked-aides-for-weaker-dollar-currency-manipulation-commentary-2019-7-1028347308

Now in his 90th year, Noam Chomsky is still blessing us with his insights. Here he is on climate change, US empire, antisemitism, Venezuela, and much more.
Now in his 90th year, Noam Chomsky is still blessing us with his insights. Here he is on climate change, US empire, antisemitism, Venezuela, and much more.
jacobinmag.com/2019/07/noam-chomsky-interview-climate-change-imperialism

“Strategic Extremism”: How Republicans and Establishment Democrats Use Identity Politics to Divide and Rule
Until Trump came along, the Republican Party whipped up support among Evangelical Christians by appealing to “moral” issues like abortion (as if free healthcare, for instance, isn’t a moral issue). Because Trump obviously isn’t a Christian, it would have been harder to sell him to Evangelical voters were it not for his platform of Islamophobia. Trump’s cultural provocations are used as a weapon to motivate Republican voters and conceal his egregious economic policies, like Executive Order 13772 on Core Principles for Regulating the United States Financial System, which seeks to further liberalize damaging financial markets.Equally, in an effort to avoid core economic issues, establishment Democrats have traditionally appealed to cultural progressiveness, like gay rights.
counterpunch.org/2019/07/12/strategic-extremism-how-republicans-and-establishment-democrats-use-identity-politics-to-divide-and-rule/

The Guardian publishes, then censors Jewish open letter defending smeared pro-Corbyn Labour MP Chris Williamson
Britain’s leading newspaper The Guardian has censored an open letter published by prominent Jewish intellectuals, writers, and activists that defended leftist Labour Party Member of Parliament Chris Williamson from “anti-Semitism” smears.The Guardian printed, but then quickly removed the letter without explanation.Meanwhile, the paper has refused to retract a wholly discredited article that maligned journalist and political prisoner Julian Assange which has remained on the website for more than seven months. WikiLeaks says this piece is completely false, and has pledged to sue the newspaper over it.The retracted open letter was a defense of Chris Williamson emphasizing that the socialist and anti-imperialist MP “has a longer record of campaigning against racism and fascism than most of his detractors,” and “stands as we do with the oppressed rather than the oppressor.”
thegrayzone.com/2019/07/10/the-guardian-censors-chomsky-open-letter-corbyn-labour-mp-chris-williamson/

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First the Mendocino fire and mudslides strike her Summerland home now this maui one. I'm seeing a common denominator here. I think Oprah is an arsonist.