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The political magazine with a full cup of Coffee and a few polling numbers in between the refills.

La revista política con una taza llena de café y algunos números de las encuestas entre las recarga

 

Episode  #2052

 

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http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/articles/threes-company/

PPP Poll New Hampshire  http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2015/PPP_Release_NH_120315.pdf

A week before Laquan McDonald was shot 16 times by a Chicago police officer in October 2014, the killing of another African-American man on the city's South Side was also caught on a police dash-cam video.Like the McDonald case, a police union spokesman showed up to the scene where Ronald Johnson III had been shot through the back on Oct. 12, 2014, and told reporters that the officer had fired in fear for his life.An official police statement later claimed that Johnson, 25, had turned and pointed a gun at the officers during a foot chase and that the weapon was recovered in his hand.But the dash-cam video – which the city has fought to keep hidden -- shows otherwise, lawyers for Johnson's family allege."The city is attempting to cover up another fatal shooting of an unarmed African-American man," attorney Michael Oppenheimer said at a news conference Tuesday calling for the video's release. "The video clearly shows Robert Johnson was not carrying a weapon...The police department planted that gun."Chicago Tribune

Filmmaker Spike Lee made it clear he believes a cover-up occurred at the highest levels."It has to be," Lee told CNN's Don Lemon. "This is like some Watergate stuff.""A lot of questions have to be answered," Lee said. "Who made the decision why this tape was held so long? And who saw the tape?. He was charged with first-degree murder in McDonald's death just hoursbefore the video's release. Said Lee: "Shenanigans to me."

“Never have the stakes of an international meeting been so high, since what is at stake is the future of the planet, the future of life,” President François Hollande of France told a packed United Nations plenary session at a convention center in this suburb north of ParisWeather-related disasters in the past two decades have killed more than 600,000 people and inflicted economic losses estimated at trillions of dollars, the United Nations said on Monday, warning that the frequency and impact of such events was set to rise.As well as killing hundreds of thousands, weather-related disasters affected 4.1 billion other people left wounded, displaced or in need of emergency assistance and inflicted economic costs well in excess of $1.9 trillion over the two decades.NYT

 

Show Notes

Climate change in the Fertile Crescent and implications of the recent Syrian drought http://www.pnas.org/content/112/11/3241.full.pdf

http://www.pnas.org/content/112/11/3241.abstract

The Monday Morning Quarterback is a person who passes judgement on and criticizes something after the event (the Oxford Dictionary).

We take a look at the Sunday talk shows and much more.

El lunes por la mañana El mariscal de campo es una persona que juzga y critica algo después del evento (el Diccionario Oxford).

Echamos un vistazo a los programas dominicales y mucho más. bostonred.org

“The fact that you have Latinos and a black among the leading candidates is just coincidence,” said J.C. Watts, a former Oklahoma congressman who became one of the nation’s most prominent African American Republicans. “It doesn’t speak to what’s beneath the surface. We’re still not talking about the concerns of that young black couple starting a business or that young Hispanic family,” he said, adding: “Where are our solutions to deal with incarceration reform, unemployment, the trouble blacks and Hispanics have getting home mortgages? Republicans who ignore Ferguson and Baltimore and Black Lives Matter are refusing to hear the depths of what people are experiencing.” WP

 

In Memorial of Jerry Pippin 1939-2015

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This morning the Holy Father transferred to the Church of St. Joseph the Worker, situated in one of the poorest quarters of the city of Kangemi. “I feel very much at home sharing these moments with brothers and sisters who, and I am not ashamed to say this, have a special place in my life and my decisions”, said the Pope to the inhabitants of the area. “I am here because I want you to know that your joys and hopes, your troubles and your sorrows, are not indifferent to me. I realise the difficulties which you experience daily! How can I not denounce the injustices which you suffer?”He began by speaking about the wisdom found in poor neighbourhoods, “'A wisdom which is born of the stubborn resistance of that which is authentic', from Gospel values which an opulent society, anaesthetised by unbridled consumption, would seem to have forgotten. You are able 'to weave bonds of belonging and togetherness which convert overcrowding into an experience of community in which the walls of the ego are torn down and the barriers of selfishness overcome'”.Vatican Information Service via African Press Organization

Pope Francis has launched a blistering attack on “new forms of colonialism” that exacerbate the “dreadful injustice of urban exclusion” while speaking to thousands of people in one of Nairobi’s most impoverished slums.The pontiff criticised wealthy minorities who hoard resources at the expense of the poor and praised the values of solidarity and mutual support in deprived neighbourhoods. Such values, he said, had been forgotten by “an opulent society, anaesthetised by unbridled consumption” and were “not quoted in the stock exchange, are not subject to speculation and have no market price”.Guardian

The past week's political events that help shape American  politics.

Acontecimientos políticos de la semana pasada que ayudan a conformar el cuerpo político estadounidense

 

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The political magazine with a full cup of Coffee and a few polling numbers in between the refills.

La revista política con una taza llena de café y algunos números de las encuestas entre las recarga

 

Episode  #2045

 

Show Notes

Racial Disparities in Marijuana Arrests in Virginia20032013 http://www.drugpolicy.org/sites/default/files/Racial_Disparities_in_Marijuana_Arrests_in_Virginia_2003-2013.pdf

Thanksgiving is one of our nation’s favorite holidays, it has a far different meaning for many Wampanoag, who now number between 4,000 and 5,000. Turner said, “For the most part, Thanksgiving itself is a day of mourning for Native people, not just Wampanoag people.”It is an annual tradition started in 1970, when Wampanoag Wamsutta (Frank) James was invited by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to give a speech at an event celebrating the 350th anniversary of the Pilgrims’ arrival and then disinvited after the event organizers discovered his speech was one of outrage over the “atrocities” and “broken promises” his people endured.On the Wampanoag welcoming and having friendly relations with the Pilgrims, James wrote in his undelivered speech: “This action by Massasoit was perhaps our biggest mistake. We, the Wampanoag, welcomed you, the white man, with open arms, little knowing that it was the beginning of the end.”Indian Country Today

Walmart workers across the country and their supporters are fasting during the 15 days leading up to Thanksgiving and Black Friday later this week.

Jerry Pippin remembers Walter  Cronkite (November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009)  broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years (1962–81). During the heyday of CBS News in the 1960s and 1970s, he was often cited as "the most trusted man in America" after being so named in an opinion poll.[1][2][3] He reported many events from 1937 to 1981, including bombings in World War II; the Nuremberg trials; combat in the Vietnam War;[4] Watergate; the Iran Hostage Crisis; and the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, civil rights pioneer Martin Luther King, Jr., and Beatles musician John Lennon.

 Jerry Pippin  1939-2015 He have been 76 today.

Le­on Pan­etta ar­gued that for all of Barack Obama’s strengths, he is miss­ing an es­sen­tial in­gredi­ent of lead­er­ship. He lacks “fire,” wrote Obama’s former CIA dir­ect­or and Pentagon chief. “The pres­id­ent re­lies on the lo­gic of a law pro­fess­or rather than the pas­sion of a lead­er.”Obama has proved Pan­etta right again and again dur­ing his pres­id­ency, but nev­er more dan­ger­ously so than with his shoulder-shrug ap­proach to IS­IS. Obama called it a “J.V. team” be­fore it star­ted be­head­ing Amer­ic­ans. He said it was “con­tained” be­fore it at­tacked Par­is. Now he’s call­ing it “a bunch of killers with good so­cial me­dia.”Ron Fournier

President Obama is tired of all the critics who say his strategy to destroy Islamic State isn't working."The only thing that they're doing is talking as if they're tough," he complained last week. "If folks want to pop off and have opinions about what they think they would do, [they should] present a specific plan."What the rest of us need, Obama counseled, is more patience. "It's going to take time".Obama was right on one count: ?LATimes