News omnibus: ODDS n' ENDS, STRAYS HERDED FROM THE HOLLAR, 'n UNMASKED REDACTIONS. Late April, 2019.
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ODDS n' ENDS, STRAYS HERDED FROM THE HOLLAR, 'n UNMASKED REDACTIONS
We'll make this a regular feature, starting in this edition. The idea is to keep important issues in the dialog, when the Big Media Singularity dismisses them.
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◇ Consumers around the world are spending less on almost everything. Even booze.
Shoppers in more than half of 64 countries surveyed said they expect economic conditions to worsen in the coming year.
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◇ Commander-in-Tweet vetoes resolution to end U.S. participation in Yemen’s civil war
The president called the measure “an unnecessary, dangerous attempt to weaken my constitutional authorities.”
Interesting, because the constitution gives warmarking powers solely to the congress.
The measure to end one of our endless wars/endless proxy wars had passed the House on a bipartisan vote of 247-to-175 and was approved by the Senate with the support of seven Republicans. But the latter is not sufficient to override the veto. So expect the record sales of both sophisticated weapons systems and dumb deadly ordnance to continue from the merchants of death of America's warconomy to the brutal regime in Saudi Arabia.
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◇ RENEWED SABRE-RATTLING WITH NORTH KOREA?
The Arbitrary Administration is making a beeline back to “fire and fury” with North Korea — and John “Bomb ‘em” Bolton is egging him on.
But there's a chance. South Korean president Moon Jae-in had meetings in D.C. last week, and he brought with him the Korean people’s mandate for peace.
Add your name to tell President Moon: We stand with you, we stand with the Korean people, and we stand for peace:
http://act.winwithoutwar.org/sign/tell-moon-we-support-peace/
Win Without War is a program of the Center for International Policy.
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◇ "Aldo Leopold’s Land Ethic and the Need for a New Approach to Managing Wildlife"
by LOUISA WILLCOX
Absolutely one of the best pieces you can read -- and share -- on how humans fail in our attitudes and interactions with wildlife and "managed" wild lands... A late addition here, published Saturday, April 20th in "CounterPunch."
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/04/19/aldo-leopolds-land-ethic-and-the-need-for-a-new-approach-to-managing-wildlife/
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* LATE ADDITION, EASTER SUNDAY, April 21st:
◇ OVER 200 KILLED, NEARLY 600 WOUNDED, IN SRI LANKA TERRORIST BOMBINGS
While US mainstream media is reporting this, we expect it will be shaded with the usual American pro-Christian spin. So here are a few facts:
• No terror or political agenda group had yet taken "credit" as of 11 am PDT.
• In the US, corporate Big Media is crazy with speculation assuming Muslims did it, and claiming the whole place is rampant with "anti-Christian discrimination and violence," though THAT should be challenged.
• Christian churches holding Easter services, and hotels catering to foreign tourists, were the targets.
• Sri Lanka's population makes no such assumption obvious. The nation is:
70% Buddhist
12% Hindu
9.7% Muslim
7.4% Christian
• It does not appear related to the anniversary of the brutal Sri Lankan civil war that ended in a peace settlement ten years ago today. That conflict had seen usually peace-advocating Buddhists fighting with Hindus for control of the country.
• British rule of India included Ceylon -- what is now the independent island nation of Sri Lanka. The British colonization of Ceylon ended over 2300 years of Sinhalese monarchy rule on the island. British rule ended in 1948 when the country gained independence, along with the division of mainland India into the separate nations of India and Pakistan. (The latter would later split into Pakistan and Bengla Desh.)
• Sri Lanka is a poor nation known for its natural beauty, its colorfully vibrant multiethnic culture and its fusion of exciting cuisines. Those things are celebrated in Los Angeles at an annual "Sri Lanka Festival," due in 2019 on Saturday, July 20, in the plaza in front of Pasadena City Hall.
• Sri Lankan expatriots remain proud of their heritage, retaining the moniker of "Lions" of "The Lion Nation." Though that animal is not indigenous to the island, it is their identity, and appears on the national flag.
• At home, Sri Lanka became a leader in chosing to promote tourism over destructive exploitation of its forest's exotic varieties of woods.
• Tourism is hugely important to its economy. In April, Sri Lanka's government announced free visas for Americans on arrival in the country. Obviously, the terrorist acts that happened today are an existential threat to a tourist economy.
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| Sri Lanka's national banner, the Lion flag. |
Two Americans killed in the Sri Lanka bombings have been identified. They are Dieter Kowalski, a 40-year-old technician from Denver, and Kieran Shafritz de Zoysa, a fifth-grader at the highly selective Sidwell Friends school in Washington, D.C. CBS News reports that at least four Americans were killed in the bombings.
CNN's Fareed Zakaria wrote Monday:
"After the horrific Easter bombings in Sri Lanka, The Soufan Group links them to a global spread in Salafi-jihadist extremism, noting that both ISIS and al-Qaeda 'have long viewed South Asia as fertile ground to gain new territory and recruits, and militant propaganda has highlighted injustices against Muslims in Bangladesh, Myanmar, India, and Sri Lanka.'
"The bombings may remind some of Sri Lanka’s history of conflict—its civil war ended in 2009—but in a New York Times op-ed, Randy Boyagoda points out that Sri Lanka’s divisions have been ethnic, not religious, and that the island has a long tradition of religious pluralism. With Sunday’s attacks, Sri Lanka has gained 'membership in a global conflict that is at once fresh and familiar,' he writes."
UPDATE, April 24:
This story is now receiving plenty of mainstream coverage. We will add this final update. Overnight Tuesday night-Wednesday morning, ISIL took "credit" for the bombings. A video was released showing a group of figures cocooned in black and white robes and head wraps, who are said to be the suicide bombers. One figure at the center is intentionally identifiable as a known South/Southeast Asian Islamic terrorist. Immediately, leaders of Sri Lanka's Muslim community expressed fear their community will be targeted for violent reprisals. At the same time, it became clear the Sri Lankan government could fall over allegations it had been negligent over warnings about the attacks.
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* LATE ADDITION, Monday, April 22nd:
◇ SUPREME COURT TO DECIDE WHETHER CONGRESSIONAL & STATE LEGISLATIVE DISTRICTS ACCURATELY REPRESENT THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE THERE
On Tuesday, April 23, the Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in a case that will determine whether an unprecedented question about citizenship will appear on the 2020 Census. The Court will examine whether the Commerce Department’s decision to add a "citizenship question" was arbitrary and capricious, and whether it violates the Constitution’s requirement of a once-a-decade count of ALL people in the United States.
The case can only argue whether the citizenship question is arbitrary. In fact, it is a deliberate addition, aimed at intimidating iminorities who may not want their home addresses known in areas that are prone to intimidation, and it is chiefly aimed at immigrants -- even those with green cards -- who are, of late, afraid of being deported.
Thing is, the constitution requires a census that counts ALL people living anywhere in the US, regardless of their citizenship, and congressional and legislative districts are based on that.
How do we know? Because when America had "non-citizen" slaves, even they were counted for the purpose of getting more members of congress representing slave states. Slaves were infamously counted as "three-fifths" of their actual numbers -- oft cited as "three-fifths of a human being" -- but the lasting message is clear: even non-citizens are counted to determine representation. Another proof? Convicted felons who have lost voting rights and are barred from public office are still counted for purposes of representation.
But there are are certain interests who want to exclusively emphasize only certain races and religions, and intimidate others.
The high court's decision won't come for a while. But the lawyers' arguments and the questions the justices ask in Tuesday's session will tell us a lot.
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* LATE ADDITION, Wednesday, April 24:
□ SUNSET FOR SUNSHINE
CHARITY SUNSHINE, the remarkable 35-year old opera singer, died Tuesday, April 23rd. Her full name was Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick.
The operatic soprano, classical recording artist, composer and presenter authored her autobiography, "The Encore: A Memoir in Three Acts." She performed frequently at concerts, conferences and events throughout the United States and always delivered memorable interviews.
Charity Sunshine had two separate bilateral (double) lung transplants during the course of her career. The first saved her life because she suffered from Idiopathic pulmonary hypertension -- a condition wherein oxygen is not absorbed by the body and forces the heart to beat far too fast, to the point of fatal heart failure. The second bilateral lung transplant saved her life when her body began to reject the first donor lungs.
The world lost not only a remarkable singer, but a remarkable human being who got to know, and was loved by, the family of her donor's lungs.
Learn more about her at: https://www.charitysunshine.com
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