Cant shoot me until October, motherfucker.
Can't shoot me until October, motherfucker! Menno Schaefer/shutterstock.com

In Case You Didn't Know: If you are an American cop, black man hunting season began this week. There was Alton Sterling on Monday. He was shot and killed in by a cop in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Last night, there was 32-year-old Philando Castile, who was shot and killed by a Minneapolis cop during what Castile incorrectly thought was a routine traffic stop. The immediate aftermath of the shooting was broadcast live on Facebook by his girlfriend, who sat next to his dying and bloody body. (Castile was legally carrying a concealed weapon.) Now, if you are a regular citizen, and happen to live in California, black bear season begins on October 8, 2016.

Window Pane Falls 300 Feet From a Condominium That Looms Over Pike Place Market: The window pane was attached to an empty apartment on the 30th floor of a condominium, the Fifteen Twenty-One Second Avenue, that was completed the year Wall Street crashed, 2008. The reason for the pane's snap, split, fall, and smash, which only damaged non-living things in a parking lot next to a popular strip club, is not yet known. What is known, however, is the listed price for an apartment on the 35th floor of the tower: $2,980,000.

Median Value of a Home in Seattle Is Now an Astonishing $666,000: Yes, 666! And it gets scarier. According to data collected by Northwest Multiple Listing Service, prices in Seattle "are up 74 percent in just five years." Those kinds of numbers cannot be explained by standard demand models. This market is less and less about the material world, and more and more about the immaterial realm of financial capital. All that is solid melts into air.

One of the Consequences of American Car Culture: Over the July 4th weekend, 180 drivers in Washington State were arrested on suspicion of having consumed one too many.

Trump Supporters in Burien's 4th of July Parade Loudly Booed: They were also "flipped off and forced to dodge water balloons and hard candy, tossed by kids, middle-age adults and even a couple of elderly folk."

The Best News The UK Has Received Since Brexit Catastrophe: The radical leftist leader of the Labor Party, Jeremy Corbyn, has apparently beaten his foes and will not step down from power. The mistake the Blairites and their like made? They forgot he actually has principles.


For Those Who Wonder Why Brexit Happened In the First Place: "Spain and Portugal may be hit by European Union sanctions for breaching limits on budget deficits..." Germany will just not let go of austerity, which only means one thing: banks are more important than democracy, than the lives of work-class people in the EU. Meeting those deficit targets requires deep cuts in public spending. So, if the left can't end austerity, then working-class people will turn to the far right for results. This is what happened in the UK.

As For Zimbabwe: The government there tried "to block WhatsApp on Wednesday (July 6) to stop protesters from mobilizing." The youth in that sad country have had it up to here with their leader, Robert Mugabe. He is very old (92), he will not let go of power, he continues to be very good at doing absolutely nothing to improve the economy. The youth have hit the streets with the hashtags #ShutDownZim, #ZimbabweShutdown and #ZimShutDown. What the government needs to remember at this moment is this line by the reggae legend Jimmy Cliff: "Treat the youths right, [or you will be] playing with dynamite."


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