Vice President Pence tells West Point graduates they WILL see combat. “It is a virtual certainty that you will fight on a battlefield for America at some point in your life,” Pence said. “You will lead soldiers in combat. It will happen. Some of you may even be called upon to serve in this hemisphere.” https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mike-pence-west-point-graduation-vice-president-says-they-should-expect-to-see-combat-today-2019-05-25/
Sailor pleads guilty to attempting to reveal nuclear secrets. “Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Stephen Kellogg III wished to publish an expose on waste within the military and admitted he wanted to share the information with Russians, Jeff Houston of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service said in an email to the Associated Press.” https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-navy-sailor-russia-espionage-guilty-plea-20190524-story.html This, on the surface, does not seem to make a lot of sense. Everyone knows the military wastes money and resources, it’s no secret, just Google it. And why would he share this with Russia instead of Congress? My stab in the dark: it wasn’t about ‘waste within the military’ it was about ‘how waste is handled by the military’, specifically, nuclear waste. “The Soviet Union was not the first nation to discard its radioactive wastes at sea, but dumping by the United States, Britain, Japan and other nations has been limited to material with a lower level of radioactivity than what the Soviets are believed to have dumped.” https://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/04/world/the-us-too-has-dumped-waste-at-sea.html Maybe he was asking the Russian shipbuilder how they deal with this issue?
Bernie Sanders campaign accuses Joe Biden of selling out to raise campaign cash. “… these are high-dollar functions hosted and attended by corporate lobbyists, health care executives, a Republican casino-CEO, and a union-busting lawyer among others.” https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sanders-biden-fundraisers
Dayton, Ohio KKK rally attracts hundreds of counter-protesters. “I was appalled. I was like, ‘This is really happening’,” (Jemia) Shackelford said, adding that she is hopeful members of the Klu Klux Klan-linked group “get that people are just not having any of the racism.” https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/445560-kkk-group-heavily-outnumbered-by-counter-protesters-at-their
AT&T wants to track where you are, what you are doing, what your interests are and what kind of media you are watching so that they can micro-target you with ads. “This is a terrifying vision of permanent surveillance.” https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/22/18635674/att-location-ad-tracking-data-collection-privacy-nightmare
As U.S. prison population soars, so do deaths in custody. “Surges in the number of Americans dying while incarcerated have occurred against a backdrop of an increase in the US prison population by 500% over the last 40 years. Based on the latest national figures available from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, 4,980 prisoners in US correctional facilities died in 2014…” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/26/us-prisons-jails-inmate-deaths
Two MOVE members released after 40 years in prison. “The release of Janine, 63, and Janet, 68, marks a key moment in the history of the Move 9, the group of African American black power and environmental campaigners who were imprisoned after a police siege of their home in August 1978. The pair were the last of four women in the group either to be paroled or to die behind bars.” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/25/move-9-black-radicals-women-freed-philadelphia
Britain’s Home Secretary threatens to prosecute its YPG volunteers with up to 10 year prison sentences. “The Kurdish militias were often described as the most dependable ground forces in the US-led coalition fighting Isis, losing more than 10,000 fighters as they pushed the jihadists from north-east Syria.” https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/may/26/sajid-javid-condemned-for-criminalising-those-who-fought-isis
Christian right figures say abortion controversy could lead to civil war. “A civil war is coming to America, only this time, it will be abortion, rather than slavery, that divides the nation.” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/26/abortion-ban-rightwing-christian-figures-civil-war-predictions “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.” Matthew 5:9
Blockades, trespassing and vandalism at abortion clinics up sharply. “While death threats went down, they declined only slightly. There were 57 death threats or threats of harm in 2018, just five fewer than in 2017.” https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/05/24/new-data-reveals-alarming-escalation-threats-towards-abortion-facilities
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