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KCSM Democracy Now August 26, 2014

Funeral and speak to mourners who share their own stories about police brutality. They kicked down my door. They put nine millimeters on my tds had and they weren nothing but 9, 10 for 11 years old. They took my kids and lock them up for 30 days. 30 days over a snickers bar. As well as the nine millimeters and kicked in my house. That day, my whole life changed. X then we look at the crisis in libya three years after the u. S. Back toppling up Muammar Gaddafi. Egypt andhe past week the United Arab Emirates has secretly carried out airstrikes against islamist militia there. We will stick with professor Vijay Prashad, author of, arab spring, libyan winter. If you just give the libyan people a destroyed country, how are they going to build a future . That is the real danger of the air apartment in the style the americans conduct. They level countries and then tell people to create a democracy. It doesnt work like that. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Israel has bombed two highrise buildings containing scores of homes and shops in gaza city. As the israeli assault has entered its 50th day, the Palestinian Death toll has people,more than 2130 the vast majority civilians, with 68 dead on the israeli side. All the four our soldiers. Two palestinians have been killed so far today. The Palestinian News Agency maan reports at least 12 were killed monday. Reuters said the victims included at least four People Killed when israeli aircraft struck four homes in the town of beit lahiya. A journalist, abdullah murtaja, reportedly died monday, two weeks after he was injured by in Israeli Attack in a neighborhood of gaza city. Egypt has floated a new proposal for a truce between israel and hamas. Since the ceasefire collapsed last week, well over 100 palestinians have been killed. Residents in the seattle, Washington Area have continue to protest the israeli assault and the longstanding blockade of gaza by trying to block a cargo ship run by these really company zim. One person was arrested after scores of people gathered at the port of tacoma on monday. The protesters said they plan to continue their actions. They are coming. They are coming. We will continue monthly protests and blockade until they get the idea that seattle does not want them here. The United States is sending spy drones unmanned surveillance flights over syria in the latest step toward possible airstrikes against Islamic State militants there. According to an end officials in New York Times, president obama authorized the spy flights over the weekend. On monday, the regime of syrian president Bashar Alassad expressed willingness to work with the United States against the militants, but warned unilateral action would be seen as an act of aggression. The United Nations has found evidence Islamic State militants killed as many as 670 prisoners from a jail in mosul, iraq. After taking control of the city in june, the group separated out all the shiite prisoners and shot them. They you and Human Rights Office spokesperson said the militants come also known as isil, are committing abuses daily. Grave Human Rights Violations isil includingby forced conversions, objections, trafficking, slavery, sexual destruction embassy ching of entire communities because of their ethnic, sectarian affiliation. A car bomb has killed at least 10 people today in the iraqi capital baghdad. At least four dozen people were killed in a series of bombings targeting mainly shiite areas. In baghdad, 11 people were killed by Suicide Attack inside a mosque. The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for that attack, calling it revenge for mass shooting the killed 73 people at a sunni mosque east of the capital friday. Egypt and the United Arab Emirates have carried out airstrikes on islamist allied militias in libya. I named officials told New York Times, the United States was unaware and egyptian officials denied involvement. Both egypt and the uae are close u. S. Allies who have received billions of dollars of u. S. Military equipment. United arab emirates provided the planes and pallets for the strikes, which began a week ago. Libya has been roiled by fighting among rival militias following the u. S. Backed ouster of my market off he no market off he in 2011. On sunday, islamist militias claimed control of the libyan capital tripoli after taking over the main airport. On monday, the country was thrown into deeper turmoil in the former parliament, led by islamist, joseph new Prime Minister chose a new Prime Minister. More on libya with professor Vijay Prashad later in the broadcast. Leaste coast of libya, at 170 people have died after a boat carrying migrants sank while trying to reach europe. New evidence has emerged in the death of Michael Brown. He was shot dead on august 9 by Police Officer Darren Wilson in ferguson, missouri, sparking two weeks of protests. On monday night, cnn aired an audiotape, which allegedly captured the moment brown was shot. On the recording tape at least 10 gunshots can be heard. A private autopsy has shown brown was shot at least six times, twice in the head. The recording has not been independently verified but the fbi has questioned the man who says he recorded it. You can hear the unidentified man chatting in a building near where brown was killed as he says youre so pretty six gunshots can be heard in the distance and then four more shots. Listen closely to the gunfire in the background. You are pretty. [gun fire] just going over some of your videos. Thousands of people attended the funeral in st. Louis monday to remember Michael Brown. The reverend al sharpton was among the speakers. This is about justice. This is about fairness. America is going to have to come to terms with their a something wrong that we have money to give military equipment to police forces, but we dont have money for training and money for Public Education and money to save our children. More on the funeral after the headlines. The ukrainian and russian president s are meeting for talks in belarus today amidst tensions inr prorussian insurgency addition ukraine. Fighting between Ukrainian Forces in the rebels has killed more than 2000 people. Just before the talks, Ukrainian Security forces claimed to have captured 10 russian paratroopers and ukrainian turn territory southeast of the rebel held city of donetsk. Russia announced plans to send a second batch of humanitarian aid into the region after its previous convoy made its delivery and returned to russia. Ukraine is facing a political crisis in key of. Has called for early elections in october. Frances in the midst of a political crisis after a dispute over harsh austerity policies caused the president to dissolve the government. Took actionllande after his economy minister harshly criticized the governments policies and urged them to resist what he termed journeys obsession with austerity. German backed economic measures have crippled economies and spark as protests across europe. A library and dr. Infected with ebola who received one of the last doses of an experimental drug has died. Two american missionaries recovered after getting the same drug. A spanish priest who received it also died. The World Health Organization said monday in an unprecedented number of healthcare workers have been affected in the outbreak due to factors including a lack of equipment and our staff shortages. More than 240 Health Care Workers have contracted ebola and over 120 have died. You can go to democracynow. Org to watch our discussion with dr. Paul farmer, founder of partners in health about the ebola crisis. Water mullah has declared a state of emergency in 16 out of 22 provinces and ms. The worst drought in decades. Said activist dina cardona farmers are facing severe shortfalls. Some parts are drier and in other parts have grown. To eatn the cattle want because it is to drive. The farmers would have liked to sell their crops to recover what little they can, but they cannot. They lost everything. Talks the World Food Program has estimated about 2. 5 Million People 11 impacted across honduras, nicaragua, el salvador, and guatemala. California has been grappling with similar conditions with 98 of the state now deemed to be a condition of severe drought. In brazil, hundreds of prisoners have reached a deal to end their takeover of a prison in the city of cascavel. Police said the writers killed for fellow prisoners, two of whom were the headed, after taking control of the prison sunday. The u. N. In human Rights Groups ever people he warned of dire conditions in brazils overcrowded prisons. And vinyl activist Daniel Mcgowan has filed a lawsuit against the u. S. Bureau of prisons for jailing him solitary confinement after he wrote an article about his earlier imprisonment. Hes been more than five years in prison for arson as a member of the Earth Liberation front. For part of his term, he was held in the present highly restrictive Communications Management unit. After his release to Halfway House in 2012, he wrote an article for the Huffington Post about how documents proved he was held in the cmu in which Eliot Shepard is political speech. Three days after the article came out, mcgowan was again taken into custody and told he would be returned to his cmu. He was released the next day after federal authorities were notified they had arrested him under a regulation declared unconstitutional. Jenna mcgowans attorney told the Huffington Post a new report intercept new site reveals a National Security agencys sigrid with providing troves of data to nearly two dozen Government Agencies using a googlelike search engine. Documents provided by Edward Snowden provided proof that for years the nsa has made data directly available to domestic Law Enforcement agencies like a Drug Enforcement administration and fbi. The search tool contains information on both foreigners and millions of your citizens who have not been accused of wrongdoing. It is designed to share more than 850 billion records that is more than twice the number of stars in the milky way. The report comes after the intercept discovered that the u. S. Military has banned all employees from visiting the news site and began blocking it on work computers, purportedly because it is published classified material. Military employees reported being told it was illegal and a violation of National Security to read the intercept. Occupy wall street protesters have won a legal victory against the new York City Police department. A federal Appeals Court has rejected the citys bid to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the nypds mass arrest of 700 occupy demonstrators on the Brooklyn Bridge in 2011. The partnership for Civil Justice fund called the mass arrest one of the largest mass violations of Civil Liberties in u. S. History. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. New evidence has emerged in the death of Michael Brown, the 18yearold africanamerican teenager who was shot dead by ferguson missouri Police Officer on august 9 mismarking two weeks of protests. On monday night, cnn aired an audiotape allegedly recording the moment brown was shot. On the recording, at least 10 gunshots can be heard. A private autopsy had shown brown was shot at least six times, twice in the head. The new recording has not been into finale verified, and in an identified resident, recording to the fbi. You can hear the man video chatting in a building near where brown was killed. As he says, youre so pretty, six gunshots coming heard in the distance, then as, then four more shots. This is the audio. It last about 10 seconds. Gunshots in the background, not the conversation. You are pretty. [gun shots] just going over some of your videos. That is audio of a video chat allegedly recorded the same time ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson fatally shot unarmed teenager Michael Brown. Cnn first played it monday night saying it had been handed over to the fbi by ferguson resident. More than 2500 people filled the sanctuary a Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church in st. Louis for Michael Browns funeral. Another 2000 packed into overflow rooms. Hours before the service began, hundreds lined up outside to pay their respects. Aaron mate was there and brings us some of their voices. We shall overcome shall overcome we are the frilly Temple Missionary Baptist Church for the funeral of Michael Brown, just moments ago am a browns family entering. Leaving a large contingent of family members into the church. The funeral of their son. When we arrived, there was a crowd outside singing we shall overcome. We spoke to some of those waiting in line to pay respects. Were here to support the mike brown family and the people in general and show we can all get together and were not letting anything go down out here. We stand for justice for the mike brown family. My name is crystal williams. What happened to my son here, he was not or 10 years old. I was living out there. My son had got a ticket for a snickers bar. I did not know about it. In that county, the issue of warrants. They kicked down my door. They put nine millimeters on my kids head and they was another but 9, 10, 11 years old, with my nephews. That day, they took my kids, locked them up for 30 days. 30 days over a snickers bar. As well is put nine millimeters and kicked in my house. That day my whole life changed. I had to relocate my life to minnesota because i knew then that my boys was going to die here. So it changed my whole life. Theyw, as well as i knew killed him, they were going to kill my children. You felt the police who were a threat to your children . Absolutely. I knew. My mom told him when i moved out there, that was the kkk, but i did not listen to them. It took them to put nine millimeters on my kids head at 10, 11 years old. When you heard about Michael Browns killing, what was your reaction . What was my reaction . Immediately, the streets. Immediately. No second thoughts. I had to get out there. If i have to die today, i will, for my grandchild. Im not running from st. Louis no more. No more. My name is edward harris. I was angry because im tired of seeing young unarmed black man getting killed by police. The police are supposed to protect and serve. We got to stand up and protect ourselves because they not going to do it. Theyre going to gut as down. They could have used a taser. What are the tasers for . Just pulling out your gun and shooting. That makes you look at. People going to go the wrong way. People was mad. You dont do stuff like that. Looting and rioting doesnt make it right, but what else can we do . We took the Martin Luther king approach first, with these, but there is no peace and no justice, but there will be justice in this case. And am here for mike brown mostly for all black man walking down the streets, not being able to go out in the county. City with ticket values and stuff, we have been ticketed much over there. You just cant go past the county. Im fearful of the county. I have been stuck in the city for six or seven years because the county has been that bad. I have to sneak to see my kids. Because my plates might be bad. Im poor and trying to drive around to get better, but they want to ticket you. They just take your stuff immediately. My name is ann hamilton. This is something i never thought i would be deceived. I heard about Different Things that happen. I know about Martin Luther king. I am actually living something that should have stopped years and years ago. Theyre celebrating the first byil rights lady appointed four president s. This her, her 50th anniversary. And now we have to deal with this still happening in the city of st. Louis anywhere . Injustice is everywhere. A rifle way, and there is to the power of voting and getting involved. As african, we want to be treated fairly and given the same advantage. This is

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