5: Trump continues to attack the cast of Hamilton, deflecting attention as he settles his lawsuit
Donald Trump continued lashing out at the musical Hamilton via Twitter on Sunday morning, demanding again that the cast of the hit Broadway show apologize to his vice president-elect Mike Pence after they delivered a heartfelt appeal during Friday’s show (which Pence attended) that his administration uphold the “inalienable rights” of “the diverse America who are alarmed and anxious.”
“The cast and producers of Hamilton, which I hear is highly overrated, should immediately apologize to Mike Pence for their terrible behavior,” Trump tweeted on Sunday, doubling down on two earlier statements he sent out 24-hours earlier, which drew criticism and ridicule from his opponents. His supporters, meanwhile rallied behind their president and vice president-elect, sharing the hashtag #BoycottHamilton.
Vice News
4: Mary Robinson: Worst Refugee Crisis Since WWII Driven in Part by Climate Change
During his campaign, Trump repeatedly said he would end all immigration to the U.S. by Syrian refugees and others from what he called “terror-prone nations,” and on Wednesday, a spokesman for the pro-Trump Great America PAC defended a proposed registry for all Muslim immigrants by citing World War II Japanese-American internment camps. “It’s such a contradiction from the reality as we know it in the world,” responds our guest Mary Robinson, “and the importance of actually having more inclusive societies.” Robinson served as president of Ireland from 1990 to 1997 and U.N. high commissioner for human rights from 1997 to 2002.
Democracy Now
3: Battle for Aleppo: Civilian casualties mount
A barrel bomb killed a family of six in rebel-held eastern Aleppo early on Sunday and rebel shelling took the lives of eight children at a school in the west, as one of the heaviest government bombardments of Syria’s civil war continues.
Two medics said the al-Baytounji family suffocated to death because the barrel bomb, which fell in the Sakhour district at about midnight, had been laced with chlorine gas.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the war through a network of informants, confirmed the bombing but could not confirm that chlorine gas was used.
Aljazeera
2: A NEW DOCUMENTARY EXPLORES THE DEVASTATING EFFECTS OF DRONE WARFARE ON VICTIMS AND WHISTLEBLOWERS
ON THE NIGHT of February 21, 2010, a group of families driving a convoy of vehicles through the valleys of Uruzgan Province, Afghanistan came into the sights of a Predator drone crew operating out of Creech Air Force Base in Nevada.
“That truck would make a beautiful target,” one of the operators says. The crew analyzes the convoy, debating whether children are present. “I really doubt that child call, man. I really fucking hate that shit.”
Under the watchful gaze of the drone crew, the families disembark from the convoy, stopping to pray at the side of the road. After a brief pause, they get back in their cars and continue their journey, still unaware that they are being stalked from above.
The drone crew, satisfied that they have a legitimate target in their sights, make the necessary preparations to use force.
As the cars trundle down the road, they open fire.
“And….oh…there it goes!” one of the pilots exclaims. The first car in the convoy, struck by a missile, disappears into in a giant cloud of dust. Moments later, a second car explodes. People run out of the remaining vehicle, waving at the aircraft above to stop firing. They brandish pieces of cloth at the sky to try and indicate they are non-combatants. A woman can be seen holding a child.
“I don’t know about this,” one of the operators says. “This is weird.”
The Intercept
1: The anti-Trump resistance takes shape: ‘Government’s supposed to fear us’
The rhetoric is familiar: the demands to take the country back. The railing against an out-of-touch elite. The anger at a rigged economic system.
But now the insurgent cries that propelled Donald Trump to the White House have been taken up by stunned opponents as they try to galvanise anger and fear over his election into a strategy to resist his policies and remake the left as a credible political alternative.
“People came out on the streets because they were in shock,” said Gregory McKelvey, an experienced activist who founded a protest group, Portland’s Resistance, as thousands joined spontaneous demonstrations in the liberal west coast city within hours of Trump’s victory. “Now we are seeing a rising up of people to say it’s supposed to be our country. The government’s supposed to fear us, not the other way around.
“The majority of Americans feel like it’s time for a big change and Donald Trump is pushing for one form of drastic change. We are pushing for another.”
The Guardian
Add this; NZD tanks 7 cents.(21st Nov) The end of the Housing Market? Capital dries up. US Bond yields climb, 70-69 cents is the NZD’s new home? Balance Sheets get hammered ….. and so on & so on.
$153b of customer deposits sitting in banks? Banks only have to insure themselves up to 16% of cash & assets. Where, what will they make the dif up with if things go sideways?
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