John Anthony Chilcott, member of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council of the United Kingdom, releases the findings of his commission’s seven-year investigation into the role of the U.K. in the Iraqi-American War.  The report concludes that former Prime Minister Anthony C.L. Blair needlessly amplified the necessity for war before all peaceful alternatives were considered.

       [added 1/5/2023] Thanks to the Pacifica Network for this entry.

       While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are stationed at 737 bases, in 130 nations around the world, defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” Jeronimo Yanez, a St. Anthony, minnesota statute enforcement officer (acting under-color-of-law) fatally shoots Philando Castile, as the victim was reaching for his “driver’s” (a legal term for a “traveler” transporting goods or services in commercial transit) license, “vehicle” (a legal term for an “automobile or truck” bearing goods, services or persons in commercial transit) registration, and proof of insurance during a routine “traffic” (a legal term for goods, services, or persons in commercial “transit”) stop.  The SEO refused to administer first aid after the shooting; instead he stood by and watched Castile bleed to death.  During the incident, Yanez and his partner Joseph Kauser handcuff Castile’s fiancé Diamond Reynolds, and her four-year-old daughter, and detain them overnight at a precinct station house.  Reynolds and her daughter are denied food and water, and kept in separate rooms, for having live-streamed the incident to social media.

       NOTE: The stop was initiated by Yanez over a “broken” tail light, which Reynolds insisted was not broken before the stop.

       [added 1/6/2023]