esamizdat

Friend of mine up the street from me, puts out this little news summary every other day or so.
Its called Esamizdat. Fwiw.

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Esamizdat

Sam izʹ dat (Rus. Самизда́т): key form of dissident activity across the Soviet bloc in which individuals reproduced censored publications by hand and passed the documents from reader to reader.

E sam izʹ dat: electronic samizdat.

Important news censored by mainstream US media. Please forward to others;
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http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/25815-lapd-refusal-to-release-information-on-in-custody-deaths-feeds-community-mistrust
LA Police Refuse to Release Information on In-Custody Deaths, Community Pushes Back. Many questions remain as the Los Angeles Police Department refuses to release autopsy reports and the names of officers involved in the shooting death of unarmed black man Ezell Ford, and the beating death of Omar Abrego in South Central. Frustration grows in a community already mistrustful of police.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/25792-the-banality-of-police-militarization-how-champaign-urbana-acquired-its-mrap
How Champaign-Urbana Acquired Its MRAP. How did a small college town in central Illinois get a massive mine-resistant armor-protected truck from the federal government? Internal communications show how one local law enforcement agency, like many across the country, acquired hand-me-down military equipment from the Department of Defense.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/25808-colonization-by-bankruptcy-the-high-stakes-chess-match-for-argentina
The High-Stakes Chess Match for Argentina. Argentina is playing hardball with the vulture funds, which have been trying to force it into an involuntary bankruptcy. The vultures are demanding what amounts to a 600 percent return on bonds bought for pennies on the dollar.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/25799-education-inc
Education, Inc. “Reform” mechanisms are a huge success for the profiteers who are responsible for designing and implementing them. These profit-driven education policies are systematically undermining democratic control of our schools.

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/08/26/next-war-aggression-us-drones-over-syria-seen-sign-looming-airstrikes
US Drones over Syria Seen as Sign of Looming Airstrikes. “There is no decision yet to do strikes,” one senior Pentagon officials told the Wall Street Journal on Monday, “but in order to help make that decision, you want to get as much situational awareness as possible.” In a joint news conference last week, both Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Army Gen. Martin Dempsey indicated that striking targets inside Syria is an option now under high-level consideration within the Pentagon and the White House.

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/08/26/siding-gmo-giants-federal-judge-rejects-kauai-anti-gmo-law
Federal Judge Rejects Kauai Anti-GMO Law. The suit was brought against the county by four multinational agriculture companies—DuPont, Syngenta, Agrigenetics Inc. (owned by Dow Chemical), and BASF Plant Sciences—which for decades have been dousing their GMO test crops on the island with some of the most toxic pesticides available at a rate higher than most farms in the nation

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/08/26/battle-over-austerity-collapses-french-government
Battle over Austerity Collapses French Government. The French president and prime minister have announced the creation of a reshuffled government lined with pro-austerity loyalists, excluding dissenters. Economy Minister Arnaud Montebourg was featured in an interview with French paper Le Monde, published Saturday, in which he called for the president to abandon the country’s “dogmatic” austerity policies, which he charged as “absurd” and subservient to Germany’s far-right political forces.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/26/un-panel-global-warming-_n_5717139.html?ir=Green&utm_campaign=082614&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Alert-green&utm_content=Title
Climate Change Is Here, Human-Caused And Could Be Irreversible, UN Says. “The report tells us once again what we know with a greater degree of certainty: that climate change is real, it is caused by us, and it is already causing substantial damage to us and our environment,” Pennsylvania State University climate scientist Michael Mann wrote in an email. “If there is one take home point of this report it is this: We have to act now.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/25/methane-seeping-east-coast_n_5708669.html
Hundreds Of Methane Plumes Seeping Out Of Seafloor Along East Coast. Between North Carolina’s Cape Hatteras and Massachusetts’ Georges Bank, 570 methane seeps cluster in about eight regions, according to sonar and video gathered by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration ship Okeanos Explorer between 2011 and 2013. The vast majority of the seeps dot the continental slope break, where the seafloor topography swoops down toward the Atlantic Ocean basin.

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