INTELLIGENCE, SECRECY & POWER (ISP) ISSN 1245-2122
N. 747, 15 August 2019
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FRONT PAGE – HONG KONG PROTESTS, EL PASO & DAYTON SHOOTINGS, JEFFREY EPSTEIN SUICIDE
World Media – Synthesis Based on the Analysis of All 1 August 2019 to 15 August 2019 Entries
THE FORTNIGHT AT A GLANCE
1 August • Protesters repeatedly interrupt Dem primary debate, shout down Biden, Booker, de Blasio /Fox
• Biden under Fire From All Sides as Rivals Attack His Record /NYT
2 August • Dallas Police Body Cam Footage Reveals the Final Minutes of Tony Timpa’s Life [“You’re Gonna Kill Me”] /Dallas News
• Trump says he prefers rally crowd not chant “send them back” /Hill
3 August • Trump Says North Korea Firing Missiles is Okay, Because Kim Jong Un Has a “Beautiful Vision for His Country” /Newsweek
• Climate Could Be an Electoral Time Bomb, Republican Strategists Fear /NYT
• Woman shot by Texas cop [aiming at her dog] was fire captain’s daughter /Fox
4 August • El Paso Shooting: Massacre at a Crowded Walmart in Texas Leaves 20 Dead /NYT
• “Do something!” Those mourning Ohio shooting victims shout down Gov. Mike DeWine /USA Today
5 August • “Mental illness and hatred pulls the trigger • Not the gun” – President Donald Trump /ThinkProgress
• “Until law enforcement, and the media, treat these shooters as part of a terrorist movement no less organized, or deadly, than ISIS or Al Qaeda, the violence will continue” – journalist Robert Evans /Bellingcat
• James Comey: Mr. President, Please Take a Stand against Racism /NYT
• Gunman’s Own Sister Was Among Dayton Shooting Victims /NYT
6 August • What Four Things Do Nearly All Mass Shooters Have in Common /LAT
• Alarm over Voter Purges as 17M Americans Removed From Rolls in Two Years /Guardian
7 August • Hong Kong facing worst crisis since handover: senior China official /Reuters
• UN urges action against hate speech following US shootings /UN
8 August • Montana Man [Curt Brockway] Slams 13-Year-Old to Ground, Fracturing His Skull, for Not Removing Hat during Anthem /Slate
• Trump Judge [8th Circuit Court of Appeals] Approves Manslaughter Charges for Pregnancy Loss /Rewire.News
9 August • Neo-Nazi website founder [Daily Stormer founder Andrew Anglin] owes $14 million to woman [Tanya Gersh] he urged readers to harass, judge says /NBC
• One of the world’s largest banks [BNP Paribas] thinks the writing is on the wall for the oil industry [report “Wells, Wires and Wheels”] /ThinkProgress
• Republican congressman [Ralph Abraham] silent as constituent urges assassination /ThinkProgress
10 August • Joe Biden Says “Poor Kids” Are Just as Bright as “White Kids” /NYT
• ‘Straight pride’ parade leader [Don Grundmann] said they’re a ‘peaceful racist group’ to a roar of laughter /WP
• Robocall blocking apps caught sending your private data without permission /TechCrunch
11 August • Biden mistakenly says he was VP during 2018 Parkland shooting /Hill
• Israel Systematically Blocks International Scholars from Reaching Palestine /TruthOut
12 August • Hong Kong airport cancels all departures /CNN
• Scaramucci: GOP may need to replace Trump for 2020 /Hill
• Newark hands out bottled water amid growing water crisis following EPA rebuke /ThinkProgress
13 August • Border Patrol Agent Who Hit Migrant with Truck Pleads Guilty /NYT
• Donald Trump gets sick of everyone, except for Donald Trump /CNN
14 August • Russia Orders Evacuation of Village near Site of Nuclear Explosion /NYT
• Documents Show FBI Targeted Ferguson Black Activists Over White Supremacists /Salon
• Steve King thinks society would die out without rape and incest /ThinkProgress
15 August • House Democrats subpoena former Trump campaign manager Lewandowski and ex-White House official Dearborn /WP
• Israel Denies Entry to Omar and Tlaib after Trump’s Call to Block Them /NYT
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