2020-02-16: Social Media Postees

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California to Apologize for Internment of Japanese Americans
Staff | truthdig.com | 2020-02-16
SACRAMENTO, Calif.

øGolpista venezolano Ricardo Hausmann escenificó una falsa renuncia al BID para conservar su cómodo trabajo en Harvard?
Anya Parampil | thegrayzone.com | 2020-02-16
Atrapado en un conflicto de intereses con su empleador en Harvard, en septiembre pasado Ricardo Hausmann renunció públicamente a su…
thegrayzone.com/2020/02/16/golpista-venezolano-ricardo-hausmann-falsa-renuncia-bid-harvard/

Gracias Chelsea Manning & Julian Assange for Exposing Bush's War Crimes
orion the elder | indybay.org | 2020-02-16
Fruitvale and MacArthur oakland 94602…
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U.S. Sanctions: The Weaponization of the Global Financial System
Monterey Peace and Justice Center | indybay.org | 2020-02-16
Monterey Peace and Justice Center | 1364 Fremont Boulevard | Seaside, CA 93955…
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One Billion Rising: V-Day and Campaign to End Sexual Violence
Eve Ensler & Taína Asili | zcomm.org | 2020-02-16
This Valentine's Day, people around the world took to the streets to protest violence against women and girls…
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American Citizens Killed and Tortured by Israel?
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-16
One of the principal functions of a United States Embassy overseas is to provide citizen services, which includes coming to the assistance of Americans who are treated badly by the local government. It is a responsibility that most embassies take …
globalresearch.ca/american-citizens-killed-tortured-israel/5703783

2013 Law Suit: Israel Tried and Found Guilty of War Crimes and Genocide
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-16
In November 2013, the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal (KLWCT) found Israel guilty of war crimes and genocide as defined under the 1948 convention dealing with this highest of high crimes. More on this below. | *** | There's no ambiguity about …
globalresearch.ca/israel-tried-found-guilty-war-crimes-genocide/5703766

Tulsi Gabbard: A Political Postmortem
William Kaufman | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-02-16
The all-or-nothing New Hampshire gamble of Tulsi Gabbard has come up snake eyes. As I write, with 98 percent of the vote tallied, she is in seventh place, with a meager 3.3 percent of the vote, behind Tom Steyer. It is hard to imagine any path forward for her. And, frankly, one must acknowledge that …
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New Film Showcases How the Rainbow Coalition's Struggle for Justice Lives On
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-02-16
One of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton's most famous quotes is: "You can kill a revolutionary, but you can't kill the revolution." Unfortunately, as the new documentary The First Rainbow Coalition demonstrates, the movement can be set back decades when a revolutionary of Hampton's magnitude is k…
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US-Linked South African "Crisis Pregnancy Centers" Spread Harmful Misinformation
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-02-16
A senior South African health official has today vowed action as openDemocracy reveals how vulnerable women and girls are being fed misinformation in US-backed "crisis pregnancy centres" across the world. | Supported by US Christian campaigners who claim close links to the Trump White House, around the world these centres appear to offer pregnant women unbiased "advice…
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Insurers Are Bankrupting Patients by Charging Unexpectedly for Preapproved Care
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-02-16
The more than $34,000 in medical bills that contributed to Darla and Andy Markley's bankruptcy and loss of their home in Beloit, Wisconsin, grew out of what felt like a broken promise. | Darla Markley, 53, said her insurer had sent her a letter preapproving her to have a battery of tests at the Mayo Clinic in neighboring Minnesota after she came down with transverse myelitis, a rare, paralyzing illness that had kept her hospitalized for over a month. But after the tests found she also had…
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Proposed Alaska Legislation Would Recognize Existence of Tribes
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-02-16
A bill before the Alaska House Tribal Affairs Committee is simple: "The state recognizes all tribes in the state that are federally recognized …" | The legislation gets more complicated after that line. | There are disclaimers about what the legislation doesn't do. There would be no changes to state jurisdiction. Or the status of land. And it does not create any new state responsibilities. Nor does the proposal diminish the federal government's trust responsibility or other obligations, specifically ack…
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Medicare for All Would Save $450 Billion and Prevent 68,000 Deaths Every Year
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-02-16
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Saturday applauded a new study published today by a team of epidemiologists in the peer-reviewed medical journal The Lancet, which found that Medicare for All will save Americans $450 billion and prevent 68,000 unnecessary deaths each and every year. | "This study confirms that Medicare for All will save the American people $450 billion on health ca…
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James Baldwin Won the Battle, but William F. Buckley Won the War
John Timpane | truthdig.com | 2020-02-16
"The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate Over Race in America" | Purchase in the Truthdig Bazaar | On Feb. 18, 1965, three days before the assassination of Malcolm X, a few weeks before the Selma-to-Montgomery marches, and six months before the Watts riots, James Baldwin and William F. Buckley Jr. debated before the Cambridge Union Society at Cambridge University. | The proposition: that "the American Dream is at the expense of the American Ne…
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Is China Capitalist?
Marc Vandepitte | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-16
Judging by what has been said or written about China, both on the right and on the left, socialism there is finished. The country is assumed to have capitulated and become capitalist, whatever the Chinese leadership itself may say. It …
globalresearch.ca/china-capitalist/5703795

First Coronavirus Death Reported in Taiwan
telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-16
The first person to die from the coronavirus in Taiwan has been reported by the local authorities, putting the death toll closer to 2,000 since the start of the new year. | RELATED: | 'Countries Must Prepare for the Coronavirus Arrival' WHO Warns | According to the Taiwanese authorities, a taxi driver has died from the coronavirus, marking the first such death on the island and the fifth fatality outside mainland China from an epidemic that has curbed travel and disrupted global…
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From clothes to condoms: Coronavirus is threatening global consumption in ways you never knew were possible
rt.com | 2020-02-16
China's status as the world's manufacturing powerhouse means the coronavirus epidemic's effects are being felt in some odd places. We've come to terms with no new iPhones, but weirder shortages could upend people's daily lives. | Plummeting iPhone production and a lack of new cars rolling off the assembly line dominated early discussion of coronavirus-induced shortages. But the epidemic currently sweeping China and making determined inroads into over two dozen other countries has forced hundreds of factories to close, affecting dozens of industries. If nothing else, coronavirus has made the world realize that…
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Ceremonial Groundbreaking and Photo Opportunity for George Mark Children's House Restoration
Denise Lamott | indybay.org | 2020-02-16
George Mark Children's House (GMCH), the first freestanding pediatric palliative care center in the United States, will host a Groundbreaking Ceremony and photo opportunity with generous-hearted contractors, local politicians and civic leaders to commemorate a new Restorative Garden on Thursday, February 20.
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The Embassy Defenders: Mistrial in US Federal Court Is a Win for Venezuela's Sovereignty
Leonardo Flores | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-16
A jury of 12 Washington D.C. residents were deadlocked over the issue of the embassy defenders on February 14, forcing the judge to declare a mistrial in a blow to the federal government and to a judicial system that stacked …
globalresearch.ca/mistrial-federal-court-win-venezuela-sovereignty/5703758

Painting a True Christ
Edward Curtin | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-16
There's an early scene in Terrence Malik's masterful new film

War Criminal Hillary, Bloomberg's Choice for Running Mate
Kurt Nimmo | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-16
I figured as much. The moment Mike Bloomberg announced his intention to spend part of his billions–like Trump before him–to gain the presidency, I thought: this is the perfect opening for Hillary Clinton. | Clinton will be Bloomberg's running mate, …
globalresearch.ca/war-criminal-hillary-bloomberg-choice-running-mate/5703774

Rockets slam into US Embassy Compound in Iraq, as Base with US Troops also Comes under Fire
Juan Cole | zcomm.org | 2020-02-16
Trump has threatened to destroy the Iraqi economy with severe sanctions if the Iraqi executive follows through on parliament's decree that US troops must leave…
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Can Moscow finish Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline despite US sanctions? 'Never say never' says Gazprom
rt.com | 2020-02-16
Russia's $10 billion Nord Stream 2 pipeline – which will pump gas more than 1,200 km to Germany – has been sanctioned by Washington, with US officials claiming Moscow can't finish the project. "Never say never," Gazprom replied. | The Nord Stream 2 pipeline, a joint project between Russian energy giant Gazprom and five European firms, was sanctioned by the US Congress in December. The State Department followed this with an ultimatum to the European firms working on the project: "immediately cease construction-related activity." | The warning was enough to scare away Swiss pipelaying firm Allseas Group SA, and…
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Desperate much? Biden takes a dig at Sanders for not distancing himself ENOUGH from 'supporters' attacking a Latino union
rt.com | 2020-02-16
Hoping to bounce back from dismal early election results, former VP Joe Biden chastised Senator Bernie Sanders for not disowning supporters that harassed members of a Nevada Latino-majority union

US-led coalition military base 'impacted' after multiple rockets fired at Baghdad's Green Zone
rt.com | 2020-02-16
The US-led coalition has confirmed its base in Iraq was hit after the heavily fortified Green Zone came under rocket fire on Saturday night, with multiple blasts reported in the vicinity of the US Embassy. | The US-led coalition says its base in Baghdad was "impacted" by "small rockets" around 3: 24am local time. An investigation into the incident is underway, it added. | The attack did not result in any casualties, Col. Myles Caggins, spokesman for Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Resolve (CJTF-OIR), stated on Twi…
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Baghdad's Green Zone Comes Under Rocket Fire
telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-16
As many as four rockets were fired overnight into the U.S.-occupied Green Zone of central Baghdad, three of them landed inside the heavily fortified zone, which houses the U.S. embassy, the Iraqi military said on Sunday. | RELATED: | NATO Resumes Military Operations Without Iraq's Consent | According to the media office affiliated with the Iraqi Joint Operations Command (JOC), the attack took place late on Saturday night when unknown militants fired the rockets, but one of the…
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UN body says it will take months to verify 'record' Antarctica temperatures
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-02-16
Record high temperatures reportedly measured in Antarctica will take months to verify, the UN weather agency has said.A spokesman for the World Meteorological Organisation said the measurements made by researchers from Argentina and Brazil earlier this month have to undergo a formal process to ensure that they meet international standards."A formal decision on whether or not this is a record is likely to be several months away," said Jonathan Fowler, the WMO spokesman.Scientists at an Argentine research base measured a temperature of 18.3C (nearly 65F) on February 6 on a peninsula that juts out from Antarctica to…
thecanary.co/breaking-news/2020/02/16/un-body-says-it-will-take-months-to-verify-record-antarctica-temperatures/

Africa's largest oil nation could see production drop 35%
rt.com | 2020-02-16
Africa's largest oil producer could see oil production fall by 35 percent as low oil prices and regulatory uncertainty threaten to prompt oil majors to postpone final investment decisions. | OPEC member Nigeria is the largest oil producer in Africa and it pumped 1.776 million barrels of oil per day (bpd) in January 2020, according to OPEC's secondary sources in its monthly report published this week. Adding condensate production, Nigeria's total oil output exceeds 2 million bpd. | However, three deepwater projects offshore Nigeria, operated by oil majors Exxon, Shell, and Total, could see their start-up dates…
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Saudi Airstrikes Kill 31 Civilians in Northern Yemen
telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-16
TheSaudi-led Coalition carried out a deadly attack over northern Yemen on Saturday, killing over 30 civlians inside the Al-Jawf province. According to Yemen's Houthi movement, the airstrikes were carried out in retaliation for the downing of a Saudi warplane in the same province. | RELATED: | UAE Withdraws Some Troops From Yemen, Sudan Plans the Same | The United Nations office in Yemen said preliminary field reports indicated that "as many as 31 civilians were killed and 12…
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Houthis say Saudi-led coalition airstrikes in Yemen killed at least 30 people, including women & children
rt.com | 2020-02-16
Strikes carried out by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen on Saturday left at least 30 dead, according to the health ministry in the Houthi-controlled Al-Jawf province. Women and children were among the casualties, the ministry told a local TV channel according to Reuters. The alleged attack came shortly after the Houthis claimed to have downed a coalition warplane on Friday. Meanwhile, according to Saudi state news agency SPA, a spokesman for the coalition said that a Tornado jet had "crashed." He added that a rescue operation had been launched but declined to go into detail about what may have caused the crash…
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Mass Delay in Dominican Elections Due to Polling Stations
telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-16
The municipal elections in Santo Domingo, the first that are held separately from the general since 1968, began with delays and failures in the automated voting system, the spokespersons of several political parties announced. | RELATED: | Dominican Elections To Receive 118 International Observers | Dozens of polling stations nationwide continue to present delays at the beginning of the voting process two after the formal start of the elections. | The members of the JCE are meetin…
telesurenglish.net/news/Mass-Delay-in-Dominican-Elections-Due-to-Polling-Stations-20200216-0003.html

Daredevil routine at 1,300ft almost goes DISASTROUSLY WRONG for Russian paraglider & aerial gymnast (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-02-16
Russian paraglider Alexander Orlov and world champion aerial gymnast Anzhela Kulagila performed a daredevil routine in Vietnam, making jaw-dropping acrobatics moves at 400m (1,300ft)

War Is an Enormous Threat to the Climate Movement
Sarah Lazare | zcomm.org | 2020-02-16
U.S. wars have historically been used to beat back and repress exactly the kind of left movements that we need to tackle the climate crisis…
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The climate and the fat tail risk
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-02-16
My gap year ends in August, but it doesn't take a college degree in economics to realise that our remaining 1,5 ∞ carbon budget and ongoing fossil fuel subsidies and investments don't add up. | Source…
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Marxism and the Climate Crisis: African Eco-Socialist Alternatives
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-02-16
There is a rich inheritance of emancipatory Marxism in Africa, which includes Frantz Fanon, Ruth First, Samir Amin, Sam Moyo, Harold Wolpe and many others. Today, Satgar argues, the challenge is to defeat carbon capitalism accelerating the climate crisis and fomenting exclusionary nationalisms and for this there has to be a return to Marx. | Source…
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Sanders Applauds New Medicare for All Study: Will Save Americans $450 Billion and Prevent 68,000 Unnecessary Deaths Every Year
Common Dreams staff | commondreams.org | 2020-02-16
Medicare for All will save Americans $450 billion and prevent 68,000 unnecessary deaths each and every year. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/screen_shot_2019-05-07_at_1.35.52_pm.png …
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Bakery workers target Pancake Tuesday in strike over pay
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-02-16
Workers have vowed to halt Pancake Tuesday in Northern Ireland during strike action at one of the UK's largest bakeries.Bakers at Allied Bakeries in east Belfast walked out early on Sunday morning for the first time in decades in a row over a 3% pay claim.The factory makes products such as Kingsmill bread.This is one of the busiest weeks of the year at the site, which is part of Associated British Foods.The multinational company owns a series of brands, including clothes retailer Primark, and posted profits of around £1.4 billion last year.A Kingsmill lorry stopped at the gates where dozens of workers carry…
thecanary.co/breaking-news/2020/02/16/bakery-workers-target-pancake-tuesday-in-strike-over-pay/

'Millions' with flu symptoms may need to 'self-isolate' due to coronavirus
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-02-16
"Millions" of Britons with flu-like symptoms could be told by authorities to "self-isolate" by staying at home for a fortnight if the UK's number of coronavirus cases rises passed 100, it has been reported.The Sunday Telegraph said senior NHS managers have been told that the service will stop testing for the strain known as Covid-19 "once around 100 cases have been confirmed" across Britain.Eight of the nine people diagnosed with the virus in the UK have since left hospital after two negative tests for Covid-19, with the paper reporting hospitals have in the last week made "isolation pods" to keep those being tes…
thecanary.co/uk/2020/02/16/millions-with-flu-symptoms-may-need-to-self-isolate-due-to-coronavirus/

UN deputy envoy to Libya at Munich conference: Ceasefire hangs by thread & arms embargo is a 'joke'
rt.com | 2020-02-16
The fragile truce in Libya is at risk of falling apart, and efforts to stop the flood of weapons into the war-torn country have been completely ineffective, the deputy head of the UN mission to Libya warned on Sunday. | Stephanie Williams told attendees at the Munich Security Conference that the ceasefire between Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army (LNA) and the UN-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) is perilously close to collapsing. She added that an arms embargo put in place by the UN Security Council to prevent the flow of weapons into Libya "has become a joke." | Noting that the economic situ…
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Scooter Red Alert: The Oakland Lime Strike Is Crashing the Company
Spunky Peons | indybay.org | 2020-02-16
On the evening of February 10th, the Lime scooter company cut pay for contractors by 30% without warning. Many if not most contractors immediately responded by refusing to charge the company's electric scooters. It's likely that there are more uncharged scooters in the streets now than charged scooters. It's getting so bad that countless scooters are beginning to crash, along with prospects for the company in Oakland.
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Record-breaking floods across England as Storm Dennis lashes UK (VIDEOS)
rt.com | 2020-02-16
Storm Dennis has sparked a record number of flood warnings across England after barreling through the UK and releasing more than a month's worth of rainfall in just 48 hours. | The storm blasted parts of northern Europe with fierce winds and torrential downpours over the weekend. With the worst of the storm finally having passed, authorities and residents across Britain have been left to pick up the pieces, as some parts of the country have been left submerged in floodwater. | The situation in South Wales was said to be "life-threatening", prompting the UK Met Office to issue a red warning due to heavy rain…
rt.com/uk/480971-storm-dennis-record-floods-video/

In the Revolutionary Vanguard of the Civil War: Harriet Tubman, Fighter for Black Freedom
Spartacist League | indybay.org | 2020-02-16
First Congregational Church | 2501 Harrison St., Oakland…
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The Irony of The Centrist-Progressive Debate
Jim Hightower | zcomm.org | 2020-02-16
Moderates consistently warn that progressive ideas can't win "the middle." But just look at the polls…
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