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Obama Arrives in Hiroshima (First Sitting U.S. President to Visit Since Bombing in 1945)
Source: CNN
Obama arrives in Hiroshima to stress 'very real risk' of nuclear weapons
Posted: May 27, 2016 3:08 AM EDT
Updated: May 27, 2016 3:38 AM EDT
By Kevin Liptak, Will Ripley and James Griffiths CNN
HIROSHIMA (CNN) -- President Obama's Air Force One has landed at Iwakuni Marine Air Station, ahead of a historic visit to Hiroshima, the first by a sitting U.S. President to the site of the world's first atomic bombing.
"This afternoon I will visit Hiroshima," Obama said at the base.
"This is an opportunity to honor the memory of all those who were lost in World War II. It's a chance to pursue peace and security, a world where nuclear weapons would no longer be necessary. And it's a testament to how even the most painful divides can be bridged."
The president, who is not expected to apologize for the American action to hasten the end of World War II, previously said he would stress the "very real risks" of nuclear weapons.
Read more: http://www.abc-7.com/story/32079231/obama-arrives-in-hiroshima-to-stress-very-real-risk-of-nuclear-weapons
Bill Cosby Ordered to Stand Trial in Sex Assault Case
Source: Associated Press
Cosby Ordered to Stand Trial in Sex Assault Case
Update at 1:02 PM
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) - The Latest on Bill Cosby's preliminary hearing in his Pennsylvania sex-assault case (all times local):
1 p.m.
Bill Cosby has been ordered to stand trial in the lone criminal case lodged amid dozens of accusations that he molested women.
The 78-year-old actor faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted of violating the accuser while she was impaired, unconscious or could not give consent.
Cosby insists their sexual encounter at his home was consensual and that she never told him to stop.
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District Judge Elizabeth McHugh found probable cause he was involved in a crime. The judge heard portions of accuser Andrea Constand's police statement read in court.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/the-latest-bill-cosby-is-in-courthouse-for-key-hearing/2016/05/24/b69465a8-21b1-11e6-b944-52f7b1793dae_story.html
Officer Acquitted in Freddie Grey Case
Source: Associated Press
@AP: Baltimore officer acquitted of assault, other charges in arrest of Freddie Gray, who died in police custody.
The Latest: Officer acquitted in Freddie Gray case
MAY. 23, 2016 11:02 AM EDT
BALTIMORE (AP) — The Latest on the trial for an officer charged in the arrest of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who died a week after he was critically injured in police custody (all times local):
11 a.m.
A Baltimore police officer has been acquitted of assault and other charges in the arrest of Freddie Gray, a young black man who died a week after he was critically injured in police custody.
A judge found Officer Edward Nero not guilty of misconduct in office and reckless endangerment. The judge announced his verdict on Monday.
Nero was one of six Baltimore police officers charged in the case. He waived his right to a jury trial, opting instead to argue his case before Circuit Judge Barry Williams.
Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/d5f6a756cb354c2dbc4ed6c1b5fa1c34/latest-officer-acquitted-freddie-gray-case
NBC News & The Intercept: How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Deceive & Destroy Reputations
https://theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/HOW COVERT AGENTS INFILTRATE THE INTERNET TO MANIPULATE, DECEIVE, AND DESTROY REPUTATIONS
Glenn Greenwald
Feb. 24 2014, 6:25 p.m.
One of the many pressing stories that remains to be told from the Snowden archive is how western intelligence agencies are attempting to manipulate and control online discourse with extreme tactics of deception and reputation-destruction. It’s time to tell a chunk of that story, complete with the relevant documents.
Over the last several weeks, I worked with NBC News to publish a series of articles about “dirty trick” tactics used by GCHQ’s previously secret unit, JTRIG (Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group). These were based on four classified GCHQ documents presented to the NSA and the other three partners in the English-speaking “Five Eyes” alliance. Today, we at the Intercept are publishing another new JTRIG document, in full, entitled “The Art of Deception: Training for Online Covert Operations.”
By publishing these stories one by one, our NBC reporting highlighted some of the key, discrete revelations: the monitoring of YouTube and Blogger, the targeting of Anonymous with the very same DDoS attacks they accuse “hacktivists” of using, the use of “honey traps” (luring people into compromising situations using sex) and destructive viruses. But, here, I want to focus and elaborate on the overarching point revealed by all of these documents: namely, that these agencies are attempting to control, infiltrate, manipulate, and warp online discourse, and in doing so, are compromising the integrity of the internet itself.
Among the core self-identified purposes of JTRIG are two tactics: (1) to inject all sorts of false material onto the internet in order to destroy the reputation of its targets; and (2) to use social sciences and other techniques to manipulate online discourse and activism to generate outcomes it considers desirable. To see how extremist these programs are, just consider the tactics they boast of using to achieve those ends: “false flag operations” (posting material to the internet and falsely attributing it to someone else), fake victim blog posts (pretending to be a victim of the individual whose reputation they want to destroy), and posting “negative information” on various forums. Here is one illustrative list of tactics from the latest GCHQ document we’re publishing today:
Other tactics aimed at individuals are listed here, under the revealing title “discredit a target”:
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Robert Reich: Wasserman Schultz "Insider Politics Run Amok"
From his Facebook page:
This is insider politics run amok, at the very time and in the very election that insider politics is disdained – and at the very moment it’s vitally important to unite the Democratic Party. How Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the DNC be so obtuse?
What do you think?
OMG. Trump. Cinco de Mayo. And Samantha Bee's Takedown!
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/donald-trump-cinco-de-mayo
Donald Trump Posts Pic Of Taco Bowl For Cinco De Mayo: 'I Love Hispanics!'
Katherine Krueger
MAY 05, 2016
Donald Trump, the Republican Party's presumptive presidential nominee, celebrated Cinco de Mayo Thursday with a Tex-Mex taco bowl in New York.
"I love Hispanics!" Trump posted to social media, with a photo of the billionaire hunched over a barely-touched taco bowl purportedly from the Trump Tower Grill.
A recent Gallup poll found nearly 80 percent of Hispanics have an unfavorable view of Trump.
SAMANTHA BEE'S RESPONSE:
"The best taco bowls are made by hardworking immigrants who don't like being called rapists by a rich prick. I love inauthentic Mexican food!"
TOM TOMORROW: The Forever Campaign
DAILY KOS LINK: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/05/02/1521554/-Cartoon-The-forever-campaign
Daniel J. Berrigan, Defiant Priest Who Preached Pacifism, Dies at 94
Source: New York Times
Daniel J. Berrigan, Defiant Priest Who Preached Pacifism, Dies at 94
By DANIEL LEWIS
APRIL 30, 2016
The Rev. Daniel J. Berrigan, a Jesuit priest and poet whose defiant protests helped shape the tactics of opposition to the Vietnam War and landed him in prison, died on Saturday in New York City. He was 94.
His death was confirmed by the Rev. James Martin, a Jesuit priest and editor at large at America magazine, a national Catholic magazine published by Jesuits. Father Berrigan died at Murray-Weigel Hall, the Jesuit infirmary at Fordham University in the Bronx.
The United States was tearing itself apart over civil rights and the war in Southeast Asia when Father Berrigan emerged in the 1960s as an intellectual star of the Roman Catholic “new left,” articulating a view that racism and poverty, militarism and capitalist greed were interconnected pieces of the same big problem: an unjust society.
It was an essentially religious position, based on a stringent reading of the Scriptures that some called pure and others radical. But it would have explosive political consequences as Father Berrigan; his brother Philip, a Josephite priest; and their allies took their case to the streets with rising disregard for the law or their personal fortunes.
A defining point was the burning of Selective Service draft records in Catonsville, Md., and the subsequent trial of the so-called Catonsville Nine, a sequence of events that inspired an escalation of protests across the country; there were marches, sit-ins, the public burning of draft cards and other acts of civil disobedience.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/nyregion/daniel-j-berrigan-defiant-priest-who-preached-pacifism-dies-at-94.html
Sanders Wins Democratic Presidential Primary in Rhode Island
Source: Associated Press
BREAKING: Clinton wins Pennsylvania, Deleware, Maryland primaries; Sanders captures Rhode Island race, NBC News Projects
Sanders wins Democratic presidential primary in Rhode Island
Apr. 26, 2016 9:11 PM EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) — Bernie Sanders wins the Democratic presidential primary in Rhode Island, claiming his first win of the night and blocking a potential sweep by Hillary Clinton of Tuesday's five contests.
Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/8e59b2bef4a443f8b818683cb987116a
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