Daily Archives: 5. Juni 2020


05.06.2020 - 22:12 [ Militarisierung (IMI) ]

Budgetäre Klimmzüge

Das ist allein schon aus dem Grund bemerkenswert, weil militärrelevante Ausgaben – eigentlich – nicht aus dem EU-Haushalt bezahlt werden dürfen.

05.06.2020 - 22:05 [ BR24 ]

Trump will offenbar 9.500 US-Soldaten aus Deutschland abziehen

Ein Teil der abgezogenen Soldaten werde nach Polen und in andere Staaten von Verbündeten verlegt, ein anderer Teil kehre in die USA zurück.

05.06.2020 - 20:18 [ theAtlantic.com ]

Stay Alive, Joe Biden – Democrats need little from the front-runner beyond his corporeal presence.

(24.03.2020)

Two days before the South Carolina primary that would reverse his political fortunes and redirect the course of the Democratic nomination, Joe Biden’s campaign for president announced a hastily planned event in McClellanville, South Carolina. The national campaign press was alerted that Biden would enter full battle mode at this stop, that the proverbial gloves were about to come off ahead of the kill-or-be-killed primary on Saturday, and no one would want to miss this one.

And yet, when the cameras and reporters arrived, all they found were a few folding chairs in an otherwise empty parking lot, in front of a community health center. Biden walked out to a podium, mumbled a few words about the improvements he wanted to make to Obamacare, and then shuffled off, alone. The sun was shining, the birds were chirping, and absolutely nothing had changed.

05.06.2020 - 20:00 [ Vice.com ]

Bernie Sanders Changed America

(Apr 8 2020)

Today, Sanders suspended his second presidential campaign after a primary season that always favored Joe Biden, but saw, for a brief moment, a socialist Jewish candidate as the frontrunner. “Few would deny that over the past five years, our movement has won the ideological struggle,” Sanders said during a farewell address to his supporters, made via a livestream from his home in Burlington, Vermont. He explained that he was dropping out because his campaign didn’t have a clear path to victory.

05.06.2020 - 19:49 [ GoodNightProductions / Youtube ]

POWERFUL Bernie Sanders AD (Killer Mike Speech) – THE TIME IS NOW!

(31.01.2020)

05.06.2020 - 19:33 [ New York Times ]

Why Most Americans Support the Protests

Beyond the scenes of protest and resistance playing out in cities across the country, a movement of a different sort has taken hold.

The American public’s views on the pervasiveness of racism have taken a hard leftward turn over the past few years. Never before in the history of modern polling have Americans expressed such widespread agreement that racial discrimination plays a role in policing — and in society at large.

05.06.2020 - 19:25 [ Monmouth University ]

NATIONAL: PROTESTORS’ ANGER JUSTIFIED EVEN IF ACTIONS MAY NOT BE

Only 17% of the public says that the actions of protestors, including the burning of a police precinct, sparked by the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police are fully justified, but another 37% say they are partially justified. On the other hand, 38% say these actions are not at all justified. At the same time, a majority of the American public (57%) says that the anger that led to these protests is fully justified. Another 21% say it is partially justified and only 18% say it is not at all justified.Majorities of black (69%), other minority (58%) and white (55%) Americans say that the protestors’ anger is fully justified, but there is some disagreement on the actual actions taken.

05.06.2020 - 19:24 [ Trust.org ]

EXCLUSIVE-Most Americans sympathize with protests, disapprove of Trump‘s response -Reuters/Ipsos

(02.06.2020)

The survey conducted on Monday and Tuesday found 64% of American adults were „sympathetic to people who are out protesting right now,“ while 27% said they were not and 9% were unsure.

The poll underscored the political risks for Trump, who has adopted a hardline approach to the protests and threatened to deploy the U.S. military to quell violent dissent. The Republican president faces Democrat Joe Biden in November‘s election.

05.06.2020 - 19:10 [ LA Times ]

Op-Ed: The moment the police approached George Floyd, the wheels of injustice started

On May 25, a store clerk in Minneapolis called the police because he suspected that Floyd had paid for a pack of cigarettes with a counterfeit $20 bill. But the store owner later said: “Most of the times when patrons give us a counterfeit bill, they don’t even know it’s fake.” The call should have started an investigation; that’s not what happened to Floyd.

Instead, within minutes of the police officers’ arrival, Floyd was facedown on the street, …

05.06.2020 - 18:45 [ Tacoma Action Collective / Facebook ]

Trigger Warning: Fatal Police Brutality‬ ‪Video of Manuel Ellis being beaten and tased by Tacoma Police. (1 of 2 posts) ‪#JusticeForManuelEllis ‬

(video)

05.06.2020 - 18:37 [ Tacoma Action Collective / Facebook ]

Trigger Warning: Fatal Police Brutality‬ ‪Video of Manuel Ellis being beaten and tased by Tacoma Police.

(1 of 2 posts) ‪#JusticeForManuelEllis ‬

05.06.2020 - 18:34 [ King5.com ]

Video shows Tacoma officer punching, restraining Manuel Ellis

Ellis’ family said investigators had stonewalled the family over the past three months.

“If it wasn’t for me and Manny’s friends screaming at the top of lungs and George Floyd dying, this would’ve been swept under the rug,” said Monet Carter-Mixon.

05.06.2020 - 18:31 [ NBC News ]

Death of man in Tacoma, Wash., who said ‚I can‘t breathe‘ in police custody ruled a homicide

“He picked up the officer by his vest and slam-dunked him on the ground,” said Ed Troyer, spokesman for the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department.

There was a struggle before police got Ellis handcuffed on the ground and officers called for paramedics at 11:25 p.m.

Ellis stopped breathing and lost consciousness within a minute of firefighters‘ arriving, and he was pronounced dead at the scene. His cause of death was initially listed as pending while medical examiners ran toxicology tests.

05.06.2020 - 17:59 [ John Pilger ]

THE CIA COUP AGAINST ‚THE MOST LOYAL ALLY‘ IS HISTORY‘S WARNING IN 2020

The Australian High Court has ruled that correspondence between the Queen and the Governor-General of Australia, her viceroy in the former British colony, is no longer „personal“ and the property of Buckingham Palace. Why does this matter?

05.06.2020 - 15:24 [ Common Dreams ]

ACLU Sues Trump Over ‚Shameless, Unconstitutional, Unprovoked, and Frankly Criminal‘ Assault on Peaceful Protesters

A coalition of civil rights groups including the ACLU of the District of Columbia is suing President Donald Trump, Attorney General William Barr, Defense Secretary Mark Esper, and other federal officials over the brutal police assault on peaceful demonstrators near the White House Monday that cleared the way for the president‘s photo-op at St. John‘s Episcopal Church.

05.06.2020 - 15:16 [ Common Dreams ]

Jayapal Condemns ‚Autocratic Frenzy‘ of Police After Video Shows Cops Shoving Elderly Man to the Ground, Knocking Him Unconscious

A disturbing video posted to Twitter by a local NPR affiliate late Thursday shows two cops in riot gear pushing a 75-year-old man—causing him to fall backward and slam his head on the concrete—as a group of officers advanced on protesters rallying against the police killing of George Floyd.

05.06.2020 - 10:34 [ Rationalgalerie ]

Linke und „Antifa“ auf der Seite der Repression

Eine alternative, spontane Bewegung breitete sich in Deutschland aus und wurde so zur wesentlichen außerparlamentarischen Opposition. Die etablierte Linke betrachtet diese Bewegung bis heute als Konkurrenz. Eine Konkurrenz, die auch von jenem Staat bekämpft werden soll, dem man neuerdings vertraut.

Vor allem in Berlin, wo es an jedem Demonstrationstag zig Verhaftungen gab, wo eine rot-rot-grüne Regierung ihrer Polizei offenkundig die Anweisung gab mit wachsender Brutalität zur Abschreckung vorzugehen, scheint die linke Öffentlichkeit blind zu sein. Auch das bundesweite Wachstum der Bewegung gegen die Beschädigung des Grundgesetzes konnte die organisierte Linke – von der Linkspartei bis zu den Gewerkschaften – nicht rühren. Im Gegenteil: Eine Querfront, die von der TAZ bis zur BILD reichte, war sich einig, dass jene, die mit dem Grundgesetz in der Hand auf Straßen und Plätzen unterwegs waren, bestenfalls Spinner oder sogar Nazis seien. Besonders hartnäckige Freunde des Staates wollten der Bewegung sogar Antisemitismus anhängen. Der deutsche Staat, der in den letzten Jahren ein Netz von hauptberuflichen Antisemitismusbeauftragten geschaffen hat, bekam mit solchen von links gelieferten Etiketten geradezu höhere Weihen für seine Repressionen.

05.06.2020 - 07:19 [ Tagesschau ]

Trauerfeier für George Floyd: Acht Minuten und 46 Sekunden Schweigen

Pastor Sharpton forderte die Besucher der Gedenkfeier auf, acht Minuten und 46 Sekunden inne zu halten. Genau die Zeit, die George Floyd in Minneapolis am Boden gepresst lag, mit dem Knie des Polizisten in seinem Nacken. Selbst als Floyd bewusstlos war, griffen die anderen am Einsatz beteiligten Beamten nicht ein. Floyd starb in Folge der Polizeigewalt noch am Tatort.

05.06.2020 - 07:14 [ Guardian News / Youtube ]

George Floyd memorial service held in Minneapolis – watch live

The family of George Floyd hold a memorial service in Minneapolis, before he is laid to rest in Houston on Tuesday

05.06.2020 - 06:29 [ Matt Oswalt / Twitter ]

in case this video doesn‘t sicken you enough here‘s the official department response to the incident.

05.06.2020 - 06:15 [ David Begnaud, Lead National Correspondent for @CBSThisMorning / Twitter ]

New Tonight: Disturbing video from @WBFO in Buffalo, NY shows an elderly man walk up to police in riot gear. An officer shoves the man…he falls backwards, hits his head…starts bleeding immediately…motionless.

Why did this happen @BPDAlerts ?

05.06.2020 - 06:08 [ alexis isabel / Twitter ]

wondering where all those piles of bricks being planted all over cities are coming from? look no further. this is insane.

(02.06.2020)

05.06.2020 - 05:55 [ NBC News ]

White nationalist group posing as antifa called for violence on Twitter

Other misinformation and misleading claims spread across Twitter on Sunday night and into Monday related to the protests.

05.06.2020 - 05:46 [ @greg_doucette / Twitter ]

Philadelphia, PA: four cops brutalize and arrest a man Notice how one cop deliberately put the man‘s hand on the baton / stick / whatever, just so he could then beat the guy for touching it

(02.06.2020)

05.06.2020 - 05:38 [ Leandro Oliva, @theintercept / Twitter ]

„what‘s gonna happen is we‘re gonna start beating the fuck out of you“ a little snapshot from #Denver

(01.06.2020)

yesterday (tiktok user yazzdazzz)

05.06.2020 - 05:34 [ @greg_doucette ]

Chicago, IL: nearly a dozen police officers team up to destroy a car and pull at least one of the occupants out by their head Original poster indicates police stole the car soon thereafter, leaving the driver and another passenger in the lot

(02.06.2020)

05.06.2020 - 05:17 [ Curbed.com ]

What L.A. could do with its $1.8 billion police budget

The LAPD will receive a $120 million increase in funding under Garcetti’s budget, which was adopted by default Monday after the City Council declined to review it by the June 1 deadline. More city money will be dedicated to policing than any other service this budget year. If you added up the budgets for housing, streets, and transportation, then tripled the sum, it still would not match the city’s LAPD budget.

05.06.2020 - 05:10 [ Nick Andert / Twitter ]

We see you, Mayor Garcetti. Please share widely.

05.06.2020 - 04:13 [ @LowkeySinistra / Twitter ]

They were. They aimed low and gradually got higher every time I stood up after being shot. The police intentionally tried to kill me.

(today)

05.06.2020 - 04:09 [ @LowkeySinistra / Twitter ]

Cops shot me in the head at the #LosAngelesProtest with rubber bullets while I had my hands up in the air. My brain is now bleeding and getting worse. Keep fighting.

(31.05.2020)