World AM News Briefs For Monday, 14 August 2017

Good Morning Australia!! - Trump fails to call out and condemn white supremacist terrorism yet again - Murder charges are filed against the nazi who rammed peaceful protesters with his car - Authorities identify the woman killed in the nazi attack on US soil - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Donald Trump has still not specifically condemned the racist, neonazi, white nationalist terrorism in Charlottesville, Virginia on Saturday;  The orange clown hasn't even bothered to retweet daughter Ivanka's tweet from Sunday morning:  "There should be no place in society for racism, white supremacy and neo-nazis," Ivanka wrote in a two-part tweet. 

Strange that they seem so far apart on this, because usually you can't separate them without a jimmy bar.  Daddy Dearest mostly maintained media and twitter silence on Sunday, and racists took his pitiful reaction as a tacit endorsement of their actions - which were denounced as "terrorism" by Trump's National Security Advisor ret. gen. H.R. McMaster (as the clown ignored it).

But even if Ivanka did take a step further than her father in dealing with the violence that white terrorists brought to the college town, not everyone was convinced of her sincerity.  Mother Jones magazine editor Clara Jeffery responded with blunt facts: "Dear Ivanka Trump," she tweeted, "You and your husband courted Bannon, Sessions, Miller to campaign.  You are an enabler of the worst, most venal kind."  Ms. Jeffery referred to racist pasts of White House aides Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller (also here and here), and Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

Charlottesville, Virginia authorities charged 20-year-old James Alex Fields, Jr. of suburban Cincinnati, Ohio with second-degree murder for the deadly car attack on anti-racist counter protesters walking away from the melee surrounding the "unite the right" rally of racist and nationalist groups in the lefty college town.  Here's Fields pretending he's a bad ass with his fellow racist scum (the matching white polo shirts are not accidents), holding shields with images of fasces, the symbol that gave fascism its name:

Here he is ramming his V-6 Dodge Challenger into a crowd of peaceful protesters with their backs turned, that's his license plate on the back:

Here he is being arrested: Note that he's still wearing the white polo shirt and khakis uniform that some racists modeled on the favorite golfing outfit of his hero, Donald Trump:

And here's a mug shot of a sad little nazi now in prison garb contemplating the "ahem" unrelenting arse-pounding he's going to get for the rest of his short life in a US prison:

As if the case weren't already open and shut:  Fields' former high school teacher has spoken out about officials counseling the boy in his first year because of his obsession with nazis and racism, citing a homework assignment "that just went beyond the pale".  Former teacher Derek Weimer said, "It was very much along the party lines of the neo-nazi movement," and, "I feel like I failed and that we all failed."  Fields' mother, 49-year old Samantha Bloom, claimed that despite her son's documented racist history she would be surprised if her son's views were so far right that he would attend a white supremacist rally.  Check the video, Sam, check the video.

The US Justice Department announced it is also investigating whether James Alex Fields, Jr. violated any civil rights, which could lead to federal hate crime charges. Best Training Courses and Providers in Kenya https://learnician.com/ke/en .

Authorities identified the woman murdered in Charlottesville:  32-year-old Heather Heyer was a paralegal who lived in Charlottesville, someone who spent her spare time helping the homeless and others, and who was determined to stand up to the injustice invading her town. 

"She always had a very strong sense of right and wrong, she always, even as a child, was very caught up in what she believed to be fair," her mother Susan Bro said in an interview with the Huffington Post.  "Somehow I almost feel that this is what she was born to be, is a focal point for change.  I'm proud that what she was doing was peaceful, she wasn't there fighting with people."  By every measure, the best of the main characters in this sad story.

ANYWAY..

US Central Intelligence Agency chief Mike Pompeo said there is no imminent threat of a nuclear war between his country and North Korea.  Both sides have used hostile rhetoric, which Donald Trump has severely escalated - breaking with decades of staid, sensible US policy on the hermit kingdom.  But Pompeo acknowledged that North Korea is getting closer to being able to deploy a nuclear weapon that could hit the US "at an ever alarming rate".

Iran's parliament has voted in favor of putting an additional US$260 Million into "development of the missile program".  This is in response to the latest round of US sanctions against Tehran, which Iran says is in violation of the 2015 international deal to curb Iran's nuclear program.

Brazil police arrested eleven people for looting shipping containers that fell off of a freighter in bad weather.  Port of Santos officials said 45 containers had worked loose from the ship's deck, and people took small boats out to fetch bicycles, clothing, and other goods. 

Kenya's opposition is calling for a general strike on Monday, in protest of last week's election that returned President Uhuru Kenyatta to office.  As many as 36 people have died in post-election violence because losing candidate Rail Odinga won't accept the results of the election which international observers certified was fair.

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has spent more time in the UK for medical treatment than he has in Nigeria.  Buhari says he feels better and is awaiting his doctor's permission to return to Abuja.  The nature of his illness has not been disclosed, and there is a growing sense that Buhari might have to step down, or at least be more transparent about his medical situation.