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U.S.

Jury Sees Body Camera Footage of Fatal Shooting by Police Officer

By KAY NOLAN and JULIE BOSMAN | Jun 16th 2017

Dominique Heaggan-Brown was charged with reckless homicide in the August death of Sylville K. Smith in Milwaukee, a shooting that led to protests.

It is the reason body cameras exist.
There is no reason for me to see the pictures.

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The Upshot

How We Became Bitter Political Enemies

By EMILY BADGER and NIRAJ CHOKSHI | Jun 15th 2017

Members of the two parties are more likely today to describe each other unfavorably, as selfish, as threats, even as unsuitable marriage material.

The appropriate model for political conflict in the U.S. is religious war.
The roots of the political conflict run back through the English civil war.
The Norman conquest is not the start nor is the Roman conquest of Britain.
Look for the American conflict's start in the Theocracy of the Plymouth Plantation
and the extractive aristocracy of Jamestown.

The present recrudescence (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/recrudescent) started with the resistance against the populist reforms of the first Wilson administration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson#First_term_.281913.E2.80.9317.29

10 Presidency (1913–1921)

• 10.1 First term (1913–17)
  • 10.1.1 Tariff legislation and income tax
  • 10.1.2 Federal Reserve System
  • 10.1.3 Antitrust and other measures
  • 10.1.4 Mexican Revolution
    • 10.1.4.1 Pancho Villa
  • 10.1.5 Miners strike, wife's death and remarriage
  • 10.1.6 Events leading to U.S. entry into World War I (1914–16)

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_Crash_of_1929
The return of reform with the election of F.D.R.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt

• 6.1 First term (1933–1937)
  • 6.1.1 First New Deal (1933–1934)
  • 6.1.2 Second New Deal (1935–1936)
  • 6.1.3 Economic policies
  • 6.1.4 Conservation and the environment
  • 6.1.5 Foreign policy (1933–1937)
• 6.2 Landslide re-election, 1936
• 6.3 Second term (1937–1941)
  • 6.3.1 Foreign policy (1937–1941)
  • 6.3.2 Educational contributions (1940)
• 6.4 Election of 1940: Breaking with Tradition
• 6.5 Third term (1941–1945)
  • 6.5.1 Policies
  • 6.5.2 Pearl Harbor and declarations of war
• 6.6 War plans
  • 6.6.1 Internment of Germans, Italians and Japanese
  • 6.6.2 War strategy
  • 6.6.3 Post-war planning
• 6.7 Declining health
• 6.8 Election of 1944
• 6.9 Fourth term and death (1945)

 Senator Joseph McCarthy and Anticommunism:

• • 2.1 Wheeling speech
  • 2.2 The Tydings Committee
  • 2.3 Fame, notoriety, and personal life
  • 2.4 McCarthy and the Truman administration
  • 2.5 Support from Roman Catholics and the Kennedy Family
  • 2.6 McCarthy and Eisenhower
  • 2.7 Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
  • 2.8 Investigating the Army
  • 2.9 Army–McCarthy hearings
  • 2.10 Edward R. Murrow, See It Now
  • 2.11 The "Joe Must Go" recall attempt
  • 2.12 Public opinion
  • 2.13 Censure and the Watkins Committee
• 3 Final years
  • 3.1 Death

Richard Nixon: The Southern Strategy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#Professional_career

• 2 Professional career
  • 2.1 1970s
  • 2.2 1980s
  • 2.3 1990s
  • 2.4 2000s
  • 2.5 2010s
  • 2.6 The Rush Limbaugh Show
  • 2.7 Television show
  • 2.8 Other media appearances
• 3 Influence and legacy
• 4 Awards and recognition
• 5 Works
• 6 Views
  • 6.1 Abortion
  • 6.2 African-Americans
  • 6.3 Capital punishment
  • 6.4 Dismissal of consent in sexual relations
  • 6.5 Drug abuse
  • 6.6 Environmental issues
  • 6.7 Feminism
  • 6.8 Iraq prisoner abuse
  • 6.9 Obama's policies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich

• 3 In Congress
  • 3.1 "Republican Revolution" of 1994
• 4 Speaker of the House
  • 4.1 Legislation
    • 4.1.1 Welfare reform
    • 4.1.2 Balancing the federal budget
    • 4.1.3 Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997
    • 4.1.4 Other legislation
  • 4.2 Government shutdown
  • 4.3 Ethics charges and reprimand
  • 4.4 Leadership challenge
  • 4.5 Resignation
• 5 Post-speakership
  • 5.1 Policy
  • 5.2 Businesses
    • 5.2.1 Gingrich Group and the Center for Health Transformation
    • 5.2.2 Gingrich Productions
    • 5.2.3 Gingrich Communications
    • 5.2.4 Other
  • 5.3 Political activity

About 34% of the population has been sold a Moral Dualism theory of politics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dualism#Moral_dualism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girolamo_Savonarola

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Opinion

Time for a Doctors’ March on Washington

By DANIELLE OFRI | Jun 16th 2017

Our job is to advocate for patients. We need to do the same in politics.

https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/06/16/the-silence-of-the-hacks/

"The actual text of the Senate version of Trumpcare is still a secret, even from almost all the Senators who are expected to vote for it. But that’s actually a secondary issue: never mind the precise details, what’s the organizing idea? What is the bill supposed to do, and how is it supposed to do it?

The answer — which I’ve been suggesting for a while — is that they have no idea, and more broadly, no ideas in general. Now Vox confirms this, by interviewing a series of Republican senators:

With the bill’s text still not released for public view, Vox asked GOP senators to explain their hopes for it. Who will benefit from the legislation? What problems is this bill trying to solve?

The answers, universally, were “Er. Ah. Um.”

Time was when even the worst legislation came with some kind of justification, when you could count on the hacks at Heritage to explain why eating children will encourage entrepreneurship, or something. On the right, these explanations have descended into ever deeper voodoo; the Kansas experiment was based on obvious nonsense, and has turned out even worse than cynics might have suggested. And you might have thought that this was as bad as it can get.

But now we have legislation that will change the lives of millions, and they haven’t even summoned the usual suspects to explain what a great idea it is. If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, Republicans have decided that even that’s too much; they’re going to try to pass legislation that takes from the poor and gives to the rich without even trying to offer a justification.

And they’ll try to do it by dead of night, of course.

This has nothing to do with Trump, who is, as I’ve been saying, an ignorant bystander — yes, he’s betraying every promise he made, but what else is new? It’s about Congressional Republicans.

Which Congressional Republicans? All of them. Remember, three senators who cared even a bit about substance, legislative process, and just plain honesty with the public, could stop this. So far, it doesn’t look as if there are those three senators.

This is a level of corruption that’s hard to fathom. Yet it’s the reality of one of our two parties."

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N.Y. / Region

Will the Next David Dinkins Please Stand Up?

By GINIA BELLAFANTE | Jun 15th 2017

The lack of an African-American challenger in the mayoral race highlights the absence of a rising generation of black politicians in New York.

Ginia Bellafante displays an insular disregard for the realities of local and national politics.

Begin with the rent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_control_in_New_York#New_York_City
See "Rent Stabilization in New York City" by the Furman Center for Real Estate & Urban Policy for the 2011 figures.

	2002[20]		2005[21]		2008[22]		2011[23]
Type	Units	% of units	Units	% of units	Units	% of units	Units	% of units
Non-regulated	665.0k	31.9%	697.4k	33.3%	772.7k	36.0%	849.8k	39.1%
Rent controlled	59.3k	2.8%	43.3k	2.1%	39.9k	1.9%	38.4k	1.8%
Rent stabilized pre-1947	773.7k	37.1%	747.3k	35.7%	717.5k	33.5%	743.5k	34.2%
Rent stabilized post-1946	240.3k	11.5%	296.3k	14.2%	305.8k	14.3%	243.3k	11.2%
Other regulated	346.5k	16.6%	308.0k	14.7%	308.6k	14.4%	297.6k	13.7%
TOTAL	2,085k	100%	2,092k	100%	2,144k	100%	2,173k	100%

About half the housing stock is rent stabilized one way or another.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City#Race_and_ethnicity

"The city's population in 2010 was 44% white (33.3% non-Hispanic white), 25.5% black (23% non-Hispanic black), 0.7% Native American, and 12.7% Asian.^[244] Hispanics of any race represented 28.6% of the population,^[244] "

Saul, Michael Howard (March 27, 2014). "New York City Population Hits Record High". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved March 27, 2014.

The ethnicity of the population tells the whole story.
The City of New York is more likely to have a Puorto Rican mayor.


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Books

I’m Dying Up Here: Books on How to Grieve and How to Die

By JUDITH NEWMAN | Jun 16th 2017

Our columnist examines new books that offer methods for dealing with death and dying — plus a poignant memoir that will show you how to live.

I am in agreement with Judith Newman.
Hospice does a necessary job well.

Assisted suicide can be necessary.
Unlimited morphine is a way states laws are skirted.

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Food

In Tama’s No-Frills Space, the Filipino Food Is Anything But

By LIGAYA MISHAN | Jun 15th 2017

At a new restaurant in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, every dish comes with a careful presentation, and a story.

If you wish.

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U.S.

Don’t Believe Anonymously Sourced Reports, Justice Official Says

By REBECCA R. RUIZ | Jun 16th 2017

The deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, issued a statement late Thursday after news reports revealing new details about the special counsel’s Russia inquiry.

I don't have to believe anonymous reports.
The facts should come out in nonpartisan reports or at trial.
This statement may not be nonpartisan.

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Science

Scalise Faces Prospect of Multiple Operations

By GINA KOLATA | Jun 16th 2017

Trauma surgeons have learned that a series of operations for such wounds have better outcomes than one long operation.

Assassination will not bring "regime change".
Martyrs are useful in religious wars.

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N.Y. / Region

If Sunscreen Is Free, Will Beachgoers Use It? New York Hopes So

By ELIZABETH TARBELL | Jun 15th 2017

To combat skin cancer, the city has placed sunscreen dispensers in 27 locations at beaches and at one fishing pier.

I dislike most sunscreen.  I would rather wear a shirt and hat.
I can sit in the shade.

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Opinion

What Bullets Do to Bodies

By LEANA WEN | Jun 16th 2017

Assault rifles, like the one Steve Scalise was shot with, are designed to do maximum damage.

Hollow points are not permitted under the Hague convention.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hague_Conventions_of_1899_and_1907
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/dec99-03.asp

It is surprisingly limited.

Hollow points may be a military round.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_rifle

Currently the most used assault rifle in the world along with its variant, the AKM, the AK-47 was first adopted in 1949 by the Soviet Army. It fires the 7.62×39mm M43 round.
A 7.62mm caliber legally purchased weapon would indicate a sporterized version of a Klashnikov AK-47
It would be semi automatic and fitted with a shorter magazine.

The M16 was first introduced into service in 1964 with the United States Armed Forces. It fires the 5.56×45mm NATO cartridge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5.56%C3%9745mm_NATO

I was told the 5.56x45mm round is intentionally designed to "keyhole" (tumble) on impact.
It passes through the body sideways to dodge the Hauge convention limit on dum dum rounds.

Ammunition designers are not nice people.


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