In what appears set to become a series of shots heard round the world, four people ended up dead at the hands of police after a hijacked UPS truck led law enforcement on an erratic chase in Miramar, Florida.

The deceased include two suspects, a UPS driver who has been identified as Frank Ordonez, as well as an innocent bystander.

New evidence emerges that Jeffrey Epstein was running an intelligence operation to blackmail politicians.

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Reading Time: < 1minute Want to get a job as a federal judge but have no courtroom experience, no common sense and no clue? No problem. If you are conservative enough, the GOP Senate will confirm you.

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As the impeachment of President Donald Trump and the forthcoming presidential election monopolizes the American conversation, WhoWhatWhy launches a weekly series looking at how the world views these historic events. This week Trump was in London for the 70th anniversary summit of NATO.

Source : Le Blog Mediapart, Hannoun Hervé, 29-11-2019

Source : ACRIMED, Frédéric Lemaire, 26-11-2019

Source : Interdit d’Interdire, Russia Today France, 27-11-2019

Frédéric Taddeï reçoit :

– Gilles Babinet, entrepreneur, vice-président du Conseil National du Numérique

– Diana Filippova, chef d’entreprise, auteure et activiste

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If you want to understand William Barr, President Donald Trump’s strikingly partisan and loyal attorney general who has continually assured Trump that his desired actions are perfectly legal, then you have to understand William Barr, the person.

I first got to know him in 1971 when he was just a lowly CIA analyst — and I was also working for the agency.

The European Council of Foreign Relations is funded by companies profiting from Israel’s war crimes.

How I Get By: A Week in the Life of a McDonald’s Cashier (Chris)

The author writes, “[Cierra] Brown works approximately 40 hours a week, splitting her time between a McDonald’s in Durham, North Carolina, and a food-service gig a local hospital. ‘It’s still not enough,’ she said. Both jobs are part-time, and she doesn’t receive health insurance through either employer.

Many of the actions that can save our threatened environment are already being practiced by indigenous peoples. If only we would pay attention. So suggests this week’s WhoWhatWhy podcast guest, Dr. Alejandro Frid.

Source : La Repubblica, Stefania Maurizi, 18-11-2019

Source : Lobe Log, Paul R. Pillar, 29-10-2019

Donald Trump (Gage Skidmore via Flickr)

Source : Amnesty International, 05-01-2018

Manifestation en Iran © Getty Image

This is obvious censorship! YouTube is planning to delete all accounts that aren’t “commercially viable” starting December 10th.

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Lawyers for Mavi Marmara victims vow to appeal new decision granting Israel impunity.

Five of Jeffrey Epstein’s accusers have said that the Duke of York was witness to the act of girls giving massages to adults at his various properties.

And now, the accusers’ lawyer plans to serve subpoenas to Prince Andrew to testify as a witness in their cases.

While the prince contends he didn’t witness or even suspect any activities for which Epstein has either been convicted or accused, the lawyer for the five women, David Boies, says the Duke of York may have important information related to their cases.

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Federal Agency Will Be Run by Man Who Tried to Ban Feeding Homeless (Reader Steve)

The author writes, “A consultant known for urging cities to stop ‘enabling’ homeless people, in part by blocking charities from handing out food, has been tapped to lead the agency that coordinates the federal government’s response to homelessness.

In what appears to be the biggest disruption to French society since the gilets jaunes demonstrators nearly torched Paris last year, public workers across the country stayed home on Thursday, immobilizing public transit across the country as the first general strike in more than 20 years began.

The walkout was called by unions angry at President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reforms (not unlike how a planned – then scrapped – gas tax hike sparked the giles jaunes).

Palestinian dies in Israeli detention following years of medical neglect.

New research shows that, as the world heats up, rice — the staple crop for two-thirds of the global population — will absorb arsenic at levels toxic to both people and plants.

Michel GOYA vient de publier un ouvrage important sur les processus d’adaptation des armées[1]. Cet ouvrage fait suite à d’autres, touts aussi important, comme celui qu’il consacra à la mort en opérations militaires[2]. L’ouvrage prolonge le cours qu’il donna à Sciences-Po.

Source : Thinkerview, Youtube, 04-11-2019

Source : Thinkerview, Youtube, 04-11-2019

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Don’t trust the algorithm!

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Belgium’s Wallonia region cools ties with Israel over violations of international law.

Invasive Grasses Are Fueling Wildfires Across the US (Chris)

From theConversation: “Some fires are occurring in areas that rarely burn, like the Sonoran Desert and the semiarid shrublands of the Great Basin, which covers most of Nevada and parts of five surrounding states.”

Things continue to get worse for Prince Andrew, as five more women have come forward to accuse him of being present during the abuse that took place on Jeffrey Epstein’s properties.

The prince has denied all of the allegations against him, especially in regard to his main accuser, Virginia Giuffre, who appeared in a photograph with him while she was under the age of 18. It was during this time in which she says that Epstein forced her to have sex Prince Andrew, in addition to other wealthy and powerful men.

A convicted pedophile who became a key witness in Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation has been indicted on charges of illegally funneling campaign funds to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign using straw donors, according to Politico.

A school shooting with multiple fatalities is certain to make the headlines. After all, it’s major news when a kid gets shot and killed, right? 

Source : Arrêt sur images, Youtube, 31-10-2019

Source : CEPR, Guillaume Long, David Rosnick, Cavan Kharrazian, Kevin Cashman, Novembre 2019

Source : Haaretz, Neil Karpenko, 26-09-2019

Quand le même antisémitisme vicieux est exprimé par un chef de milice d’extrême droite et par un diplomate ukrainien, c’est signe que la société et la politique ukrainiennes sont contaminées par la haine du juif et le révisionnisme hyper-nationaliste sur l’Holocauste.

They’re hiding something REALLY bad…

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A woman who claims she was forced to have sex with Jeffrey Epstein and several associates has appealed to Britons for support, after Prince Andrew vehemently denied having inappropriate contact with her.

Virginia Giuffre says Epstein trafficked her to the British prince, bringing her to London in 2001 when she was 17-years-old. In an interview broadcast Monday, she says she was forced to have sex with him three times.

All New Cellphone Users in China Must Now Have Their Faces Scanned (Chris)

From MIT Technology Review: “China’s government says the new rule, which was passed into law back in September, will ‘protect the legitimate rights and interest of citizens in cyberspace.’”

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Counting prisoners as residents where they are incarcerated — rather than where they lived before — often results in districts with prisons receiving more federal resources than those that need it more. This practice is known as “prison gerrymandering,” and the NAACP wants to put a stop to it.

Source : Russia Today France, Interdit d’Interdire, 02-12-2019

Frédéric Taddeï reçoit Frédéric Lordon, économiste, philosophe, auteur de «Vivre sans ?» aux éditions La fabrique.

Source : Russia Today France, Interdit d’Interdire, 02-12-2019

Source : Le Monde diplomatique, Pierre Rimbert, 04-11-2019

Source : Ouest France, 24-10-2019

Palestinians protest during Great March of Return demonstrations east of Gaza City on 15 February.

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The US government has recently stepped up its investigation of whether Deutsche Bank knowingly helped Danske Bank launder vast sums of money — most of it from Russia and other former Soviet republics — that passed through the United States, according to a news report. 

Attorney General William Barr will dispute a fundamental finding in the upcoming Inspector General report – namely that the FBI was justified in launching an operation Crossfire Hurricane, the agency’s official covert counterintelligence investigation into links between the Trump campaign and Russian officials, according to the Washington Post.

Will Trump allow an invasion of Mexico?

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It all started with an effort to get big money out of politics. Now, lawmakers and campaign finance reform advocates might end up right back where they started.

Measles Death Toll in Samoa Rises to 42 (Mili)

From the Daily Mail: “Anti-vaxxers have been blamed for a killer measles outbreak in Samoa that has killed 42 people, the majority of whom were children under four. Low vaccination rates have allowed the disease to spread rapidly and infect thousands in a matter of weeks.

Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky says in a new interview that he and President Trump never discussed a “quid pro quo” – though he was unhappy to have learned that US security aid had been blocked.

“I never talked to the president from the position of a quid pro quo. That’s not my thing,” Zelensky told TIME in an interview published Monday.

Bolivia. November 11. Generals appear on television demanding the immediate resignation of the elected head of state, Evo Morales. Ever since Morales won the October 20 election, the country had been in upheaval. The right-wing Bolivian opposition claimed that the socialist had won by foul means, an accusation repeated by the Organization of American States. All over Bolivia, the opposition attempted to intimidate or terrorize the government into submission.

Regulator slams pro-Israel paper’s failure to cooperate as “unacceptable.”

The apathy of many world leaders, corporations, and individuals toward climate change has been vexing and frustrating to those who understand the devastating impact of the problem. What would it would take to spur the world’s population into doing something to save humanity?

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Source : Le Grand Soir, Personne, 08-11-2019

What’s wrong with young Americans?!

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