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Source Article from Hits: 43 Web Inventor Urges Users To Seek ‘Complete Control’ Of Data March 17th 2019 Jesus Christ ✝ Web Inventor Urges Users To Seek ‘Complete Control’ Of Data Above Photo: AFP / PHILIPPE DESMAZES World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee on Monday slammed the increasing commodification of personal information and appealed for internet users to strive to maintain “complete control” of their data Berners-Lee credited with creating the web in 1989 is on a mission to save his invention from a range of problems increasingly dominating online life including misinformation and a lack of data protection “You should have complete control of your data It’s not oil It’s not a commodity” he told a small group of journalists gathered at Europe’s physics lab CERN where he first came up with the idea for the web 30 years ago When it comes to personal data “you should not be able to sell it for money” he said “because it’s a right” Berners-Lee who last year launched a development platform called “Solid” aimed at giving users control of their data described a frightening future if we do not rise to the challenge of privacy protection “There is a possible future you can imagine in which your browser keeps track of everything that you buy” he said In this scenario “your browser actually has more information then Amazon does” he said warning against complacency in expecting no harm will come from this loss of control over one’s own data “We shouldn’t assume that the world is going to stay like it is” he said People needed to do more to protect themselves and their data and not to simply expect that governments will look out for their best interests he argued Berners-Lee told a Washington Post event last week that he launched the Solid projet in response to concerns about personal data being bought and sold without the consent of users – ‘Don’t fail the web – The platform aimed “to separate the apps from the data storage” so users could decide where and how they would share their personal information he said He acknowledged Monday that enforcible laws would be needed to protect the most sensitive personal data “Sometimes it has to be legislation which says personal data you know genetic data should never be used” he said In addition to his work advocating for data protection Berners-Lee has launched a “Contract for the Web” aimed at ensuring the integrity of online information In a letter published Monday he hailed the opportunities the web had created giving marginalised groups a voice and making daily life easier But he warned “it has also created opportunity for scammers given a voice to those who spread hatred and made all kinds of crimes easier to commit” He was nevertheless optimistic that the problems could be fixed “Given how much the web has changed in the past 30 years it would be defeatist and unimaginative to assume that the web as we know it can’t be changed for the better in the next 30” he wrote “If we give up on building a better web now then the web will not have failed us We will have failed the web” Source Article from Hits: 38 Privatization Is Fundamentally An Attack On Democracy The Teachers Strikes Show Why March 17th 2019 Jesus Christ ✝ Privatization Is Fundamentally An Attack On Democracy The Teachers Strikes Show Why Above Photo: Charter schools are anti-democratic by nature Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images One key feature of the Trump era is a renewed public focus on the issue of democracy Last year’s congressional elections had the highest midterm voter turnout since 1966 Americans across the country have poured into the streets and packed the halls of Congress to protest President Trump’s power grabs Over one million people convicted of felonies have regained the right to vote in Florida thanks to a successful statewide ballot measure New York City residents pushed their elected officials to all but force the world’s richest person Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to walk away from 3 billion in tax breaks But leave it to public school teachers to educate us about a direct attack on democracy that’s been hiding right under our noses since long before the Trump presidency: Privatization A wave of teacher strikes is highlighting the country’s deepening education funding crisis while also raising concerns over the expansion of charter schools Last month West Virginia teachers walked off the job to protest legislation that would have opened up the state to charter schools and private school vouchers Also in February teachers in Oakland walked off on strike in the midst of their district’s funding crisis which is being fueled by out-of-date state laws that allow a virtually unlimited number of charter schools to open And in January Los Angeles teachers walked out forcing their district to demand that state legislators reevaluate California’s charter school laws which they’ve agreed to do in the coming months West Virginia teacher Katie Endicott from Mingo County—which Trump won in 2016 with more than three-quarters of the vote—didn’t pull any punches “It’s infuriating that people would try to profit off us: Privatization would give millions of dollars to elites and it would create even more haves and have not” she told Eric Blanc for Jacobin There should be no doubt that charter schools are a form of privatization Despite being funded with public dollars they’re often less transparent about how they spend money than traditional neighborhood schools They also often rent buildings that weren’t designed as schools and they pay teachers who are less likely to be unionized much less Most significantly they’re managed by private boards of unelected members who get to decide how to spend public money with little to no accountability to parents teachers and voters Charter schools are in a word undemocratic Debates about privatization often shy away from questions of democracy and focus on costs—will outsourcing a public good say bussing save the government money Or on efficiency—if a charter school produces high test scores who cares how it does so Evidence that privatization saves money is mixed at best and charter schools generally perform about the same as neighborhood schools on standardized testing but that’s beside the point The more important question is: Will outsourcing take decision making power away from the public Charter schools certainly do For example Cesar Chavez Public Charter Schools for Public Policy a prominent Washington DC charter school chain recently announced that it was closing one of its campuses with no warning Teachers found out in the middle of the school day when a journalist reached out for comment Some parents learned from seeing the closure reported on the news Because Chavez’s board meetings are closed to the public and even to employees no one knew the chain had been in financial trouble No one could weigh in on the decision outside of the board which includes a private equity investor and a retired ExxonMobil executive among other corporate leaders The board eventually explained that they decided to close the school to lease out its building or as they put it “monetize the asset” There are certainly great charter schools just like there are great neighborhood schools And it’s understandable that some parents want to send their kid to a different school particularly in poor and working-class communities where neighborhood schools are frequently starved of funding But when charter schools are allowed to replace neighborhood schools they threaten the democracy that makes public education truly public In that way charter schools are one tactic in a decades-long push by corporate-backed politicians wealthy funders and conservative think tanks to privatize public goods and services They fit right in with other forms of privatization like private prisons which turn our already out-of-control and inhumane criminal justice system into a gold rush for a handful of corporate executives and Wall Street banks and “public-private partnerships” which shield decisions about infrastructure spending from public view in complicated private financing contracts The through line is an attack on democracy Yes privatization is a corporate cash grab as well as a convenient way for politicians to dodge accountability and distract us from demanding higher taxes on corporations and the wealthy But most of all it takes decision-making power from the public and puts it into the hands of corporations It’s time to see privatization for what it is: An all-out attack on democratic decision making Thankfully by withholding their labor teachers across the country are showing us the most effective way to fight back Source Article from Hits: 38 Nuclear Powers Need To Disarm Before It’s Too Late March 17th 2019 Jesus Christ ✝ Nuclear Powers Need To Disarm Before It’s Too Late Above Photo: Indian and Pakistani border guards shake hands at a village border crossing Photo: Koshy Koshy / Flickr The world’s major nuclear powers are treaty-bound to move towards disarmament The India-Pakistan clash underscores the need to get moving The recent military clash between India and Pakistan underscores the need for the major nuclear powers — the US Russia China Britain and France — finally to move toward fulfilling their obligations under the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty NPT The Treaty’s purpose was not simply to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons but to serve as a temporary measure until Article VI could take effect: the “cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament and on a Treaty on general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control” The 191 countries that signed the NPT — the most widely subscribed nuclear treaty on the planet — did so with the understanding that the major powers would de-nuclearize But in the 50 years since the Treaty was negotiated the nuclear powers have yet to seriously address eliminating weapons of mass destruction While over the years the Americans and the Russians have reduced the number of warheads in their arsenals they — along with China — are currently in the midst of a major modernization of their weapon systems Instead of a world without nuclear weapons it is a world of nuclear apartheid with the great powers making no move to downsize their conventional forces For non-nuclear armed countries this is the worst of all worlds There Are No “Local” Nuclear Wars The folly of this approach was all too clear in the recent India and Pakistan dustup While both sides appear to be keeping the crisis under control for the first time in a very long time two nuclear powers that border one another exchanged air and artillery attacks While so far things have not gotten out of hand both countries recently introduced military policies that make the possibility of a serious escalation very real On the New Delhi side is a doctrine called “Cold Start” that permits the Indian military to penetrate up to 30 kilometers deep into Pakistan if it locates or is in pursuit of “terrorists” On the Islamabad side is a policy that gives front-line Pakistani commanders the authority to use tactical nuclear weapons The possibility of a nuclear exchange is enhanced by the disparity between India and Pakistan’s military forces One does not have to be Carl von Clausewitz to predict the likely outcome of a conventional war between a country of 200 million people and a country of 13 billion people Pakistan reserves the right to use nuclear weapons first India has a “no first use” policy but with so many caveats that it is essentially meaningless In brief it wouldn’t take much to ignite a nuclear war between them If that happens its effects will not be just regional According to a study by the University of Colorado Rutgers University and UCLA if Pakistan and India exchanged 100 Hiroshima-sized nuclear warheads 15 kilotons they would not only kill or injure 45 million people but also generate enough smoke to plunge the world into a 25-year long nuclear winter Both countries have between 130 and 150 warheads apiece Temperatures would drop to Ice Age levels and worldwide rainfall would decline by 6 percent triggering major droughts The Asian Monsoon could be reduced by between 20 and 80 percent causing widespread regional starvation Between the cold and the drought global grain production could fall by 20 percent in the first half decade and by 10 to 15 percent over the following half decade Besides cold and drought the ozone loss would be between 20 and 50 percent which would not only further damage crops but harm sea life in particular plankton The reduction of the ozone layer would also increase the rate of skin cancers The study estimates that “two billion people who are now only marginally fed might die from starvation and disease in the aftermath of a nuclear conflict between Pakistan and India” In short there is no such thing as a “local” nuclear war The Ultimate Equalizer Article VI is the heart of the NPT because it not only requires abolishing nuclear weapons but also addresses the fears that non-nuclear armed nations have about the major powers’ conventional forces A number of countries — China in particular — were stunned by the conventional firepower unleashed by the US in its 2003 invasion of Iraq Though the US occupation of Iraq took a disastrous turn the ease with which US forces initially dispatched the Iraqi army was a sobering lesson for a lot of countries In part it is the conventional power of countries like the US that fuels the drive by smaller nations to acquire nuclear weapons Libya is a case in point That country voluntarily gave up its nuclear weapons program in 2003 Less than seven years later Muammar Gaddafi was overthrown by the US and NATO At the time the North Koreans essentially said “we told you so” The NPT has done a generally good job of halting proliferation While Israel Pakistan India and North Korea have obtained nuclear weapons — the first three never signed the Treaty and North Korea withdrew in 2003 — South Africa abandoned its program Other nuclear-capable nations like Japan Brazil Argentina Iran South Korea and Saudi Arabia also haven’t joined the nuclear club — yet But it is hard to make a case for non-proliferation when the major nuclear powers insist on keeping their nuclear arsenals And one can hardly blame smaller countries for considering nuclear weapons as a counterbalance to the conventional forces of more powerful nations like the US and China If there is anything that might make Iran abandon its pledge not to build nuclear weapons it’s all the talk in Israel the US and Saudi Arabia about regime change in Tehran Regional Tinderboxes There are specific regional problems the solutions to which would reduce the dangers of a nuclear clash The US has taken some steps in that direction on the Korean Peninsula by downsizing its yearly war games with South Korea and Japan Declaring an end to the almost 70-year-old Korean war and withdrawing some US troops from South Korea would also reduce tensions Halting the eastward expansion of NATO and ending military exercises on the Russian border would reduce the chances of a nuclear war in Europe In South Asia the international community must become involved in a solution to the Kashmir problem Kashmir has already led to three wars between India and Pakistan and the 1999 Kargil incident came distressingly close to going nuclear This latest crisis started over a February 14 suicide bombing in Indian-occupied Kashmir that killed more than 40 Indian paramilitaries While a horrendous act the current government of India’s brutal crackdown in Kashmir has stirred enormous anger among the locals Kashmir is now one of the most militarized regions in the world and India dominates it through a combination of force and extra-judicial colonial laws — the Public Safety Act and the Special Powers Act — that allows it to jail people without charge and bestows immunity on the actions of the Indian army the paramilitaries and the police Since 1989 the conflict has claimed more than 70000 lives and seen tens of thousands of others “disappeared” injured or imprisoned India blames the suicide attack on Pakistan which has a past track record of so doing But that might not be the case here Even though a Pakistani-based terrorist organization Jaish-e-Mohammad JeM claims credit both sides need to investigate the incident It is not unlikely that the attack was homegrown — the bomber was Kashmiri — although possibly aided by JeM It is also true that Pakistan does not have total control over the myriad of militant groups that operate within its borders The Pakistani Army for instance is at war with its homegrown Taliban The Kashmir question is a complex one but solutions are out there The United Nations originally pledged to sponsor a plebiscite in Kashmir to let the local people decide if they want to be part of India Pakistan or independent Such a plebiscite should go forward What cannot continue is the ongoing military occupation of 10 million people most of whom don’t want India there Kashmir is no longer a regional matter Nuclear weapons threaten not only Pakistanis and Indians but indeed the whole world The major nuclear powers must begin to move toward fulfilling Article VI of the NPT or sooner or later our luck will run out Source Article from Hits: 41 Hiding Colombia’s Human Rights Nightmares In A Venezuelan Coup March 17th 2019 Jesus Christ ✝ Hiding Colombia’s Human Rights Nightmares In A Venezuelan Coup Above Photo: Youtube Screenshot/ Occupycom It can – and should be said that our imperialist coups are never about democracy but more so about protecting our investments killing the threat of a good example and of spinning a media tale to veil the extreme failures of our own government – our own lack of democracy In this week’s special episode we sit down with two women from Colombia to hear about the violence and oppression that they face and the connection to US foreign policy and corporate malfeasance Meanwhile the Colombian president sets his sights on Venezuela leaving his own people and indeed the Venezuelan people in dire straits Source Article from Hits: 38 The Fight For Justice Takes Its Toll On Ferguson Activists March 17th 2019 Jesus Christ ✝ Activists keep winding up dead under questionable circumstances but Black St Louis is a stressful and violent place “The suspicion in the activist community ‘speaks to the level of distrust for law enforcement in many communities in St Louis’” Ferguson activist Melissa Mckinnies sat on her couch her hair tied in a bun and spoke deliberately in a soft hushed tone The shades were drawn On October 17 Mckinnies had woken to a terrible event Early in the morning when her husband Derek came home from his nightshift he and Melissa noticed that her eldest son twenty-four-year-old Danye had left the light on in his basement bedroom When they went to check on him Danye was nowhere to be seen Panicked Mckinnies and her husband Derek searched the house and found a packed bag on the back porch as if he had been preparing to go somewhere Then she looked into the backyard and there she found her son hanging by a sheet from a tree mucus from his nose and mouth on his face The 911 operator said to take the body down from the tree Melissa recounted But before Derek and her brother Daniel who also lives with her untied the intricate knots on a sheet Daniel took pictures of the body using a flash because it was still dark she said The police came and ruled the death a suicide because there were no signs of trauma according to the medical investigator’s report St Louis County police spokesman Shawn McGuire clarified that the incident is classified as a suicide but the investigation is still open But Melissa was perturbed by details like Danye’s pants pulled down to his ankles and the fact that she believed Danye would not have killed himself She posted the pictures of Danye hanging on Facebook with the message “They lynched my baby” “Police came and ruled the death a suicide” Danye Jones’s death occurred against a background of severe distrust between local activists and law enforcement and the pictures went viral on social media Some users posted them as proof of a white supremacist plot to kill Ferguson protesters A GoFundMe was set up for Danye’s family to pay for their funeral expenses a private investigator and an independent autopsy and has received more than 49000 in donations The recently released medical examiner’s report however concluded that the cause of Danye’s death was suicide No autopsy was done on the body and a toxicology report showed nothing unusual According to the report family members told the medico-legal investigator Michael Tarticchio that Danye “had stated several times over the years that he felt depressed” he “recently started a real estate business which did not succeed and he was dealing with rumors of him being a homosexual” There was no trauma to Danye’s body other than the neck according to the report which also stated that the last time anyone heard from Danye was when he sent a text message to his sister Melisha at 9:30 PM the previous night saying “I’m sorry” to which she responded “I love you” Some activists distrust the medical examiner’s office because it failed to photograph Michael Brown’s body in August 2014 the examiner of that case told a grand jury “my battery in my camera died” Mckinnies dismissed the report’s account of her son’s death as lies saying that he had just started his business and was feeling confident about it that he was not depressed or worried about rumors of his sexuality and that there was a “knot on his face” and “indentations” on his wrists She did not dispute the text message however When asked about the message she said that Danye “was busy studying when she came over earlier on the sixteenth and didn’t speak to her when she came over and it made her upset with him” “At least five young men associated with the Ferguson protests who have died since 2014” Danye Jones is one of at least five young men associated with the Ferguson protests who have died since 2014 The night the grand jury acquitted Darren Wilson on November 24 2014 Deandre Joshua a childhood friend of a significant witness in the Mike Brown case was shot to death and found his body part-burned in his car That investigation is also still open according to the St Louis County Police Department In 2017 Edward Crawford who became famous after a picture of him throwing a tear gas canister went viral was found dead in a car Two women who were with him at the time said he shot himself and his death was classified as a “non-criminal incident” according to St Louis Metropolitan Police Department spokeswoman Michelle Woodling Then in September 2016 one of the most outspoken activists of the Ferguson protests Darren Seals was found shot to death in a burned car A few weeks before his death Seals said in a Facebook Live post that he had been pulled over by police officers who had warned him to be careful about making anti-Trump posts online No assailant has been found and when asked about the progress of the investigation Shawn McGuire a spokesman for the St Louis County police department told me: “No update as of right now but it’s still an active investigation” The Ferguson activist community doesn’t believe the police have carried out a thorough investigation Pictures posted on Twitter claimed to show that bullet casings were found at the crime scene after the police had visited suggesting that they had missed potentially important evidence Jamala Rogers is a long-time organizer and a founder of the Organization for Black Struggle where she serves as executive director She lived through the violent repression against activists of the COINTELPRO era “It seems like for a lot of young people the Darren Seals case put a chill in them” she said “The authorities were basically saying it’s an open investigation but there’s no real investigation going on from what we can see” “The Ferguson activist community doesn’t believe the police have carried out a thorough investigation of Seals’ death” Finally on November 27 last year Bassem Masri a Palestinian-American activist well known for livestreaming protests died on a city bus reportedly of a heart attack He was thirty-one years old and struggled with drug addiction problems and his passing prompted an outpouring of homages to him on social media There has been no police inquiry into foul play for his death and a fellow activist and friend of Masri’s Umar Lee said that although he and Masri had received “many death threats” for being prominent Muslim protesters the targeting did not escalate into physical threats Lee lost his job as a taxi driver because of his association with the protests and said that other taxi company owners “had been told not to hire me or there would be problems” He later moved to find work in Texas where he lives now Many people I spoke with in St Louis stressed that it’s important to look at these deaths in their broader setting The city has the highest murder rate in America and the vast majority of both the victims and suspects are black The police have an extremely poor record of solving such murders Out of 187 homicides in 2018 in St Louis 108 remain unsolved at time of writing Darren Seals one of the two activists who were shot and found in burning cars had said in a November 2014 Facebook post that he had been shot before Some activists in St Louis also often suffer from depression and isolation and have limited access to therapy and other resources St Louis is one of the most segregated cities in the US with Delmar Blvd dividing the more affluent white population from neighborhoods that are up to 98 percent black in North St Louis The Ferguson protests in 2014 were a flash-point but “there’s a long history of this kind of violent reaction to black folks in St Louis generally and certainly violent reaction to protesters” said Blake Strode the executive director of ArchCity Defenders a nonprofit civil rights law firm that has worked on dozens of cases of police brutality “St Louis has the highest murder rate in America” Besides the unexplained deaths Ferguson activists have experienced myriad threats to their physical and mental well-being In 2014 one young activist Josh Williams was arrested after lighting a garbage can on fire while protesting the police killing of another black man Antonio Martin according to activists He was convicted a year later after pleading guilty for arson burglary and theft and sentenced to prison for eight years He told Vice News that his harsh sentence was to make an example out of him and that prison guards verbally abuse him with racist slurs Mya Aaten-White an artist who had been at many of the protests was shot in the head during one night after a demonstration in 2014 but survived The police never interviewed her yet they confiscated the bullet from doctors while Aaten-White was in the operating room at the hospital where she was being treated she said “I was walking to my car at night somebody shot at me I got hit I ended up in the hospital the evidence went missing there was no police investigation my case keeps bouncing around from department to department” she said Her assailant is still unknown and she has had to move homes twice because of constant harassment Other activists say they have suffered harassment for standing up to police violence “We beat the local police department” explained Tory Russell one of the leading activists from the beginning of the protests Now a volunteer working with his former high school’s football team Russell said that the fact that the St Louis police had to call on the National Guard for help humiliated the local police officers As payback for this humiliation he said “they will hurt you in many different ways” “Activists say they have suffered harassment for standing up to police violence” Melissa Mckinnies had gotten involved in protests in nearby Ferguson after the death of Michael Brown and often brought her sons Danye and Javon with her In an interview she did with Colorlines in 2014 that she recalls with pain today she said “I have sons and they’re Mike Brown’s age It would kill me if it was one of mine” As a member of the Lost Voices a grassroots group that camped outside on West Florissant Avenue in Ferguson she was considered one of “the radical ones” she said By 2017 when a former St Louis police officer Jason Stockley was acquitted of murder charges relating to the 2011 killing of a twenty-four-year-old black man named Anthony Lamar Smith Mckinnies was one of the protest leaders It is rare that police face any disciplinary action but when they do it can be revealing In late November four St Louis officers were indicted on felony charges for beating an undercover cop during the 2017 Jason Stockley protests and then lying about the incident to the FBI The officers thought that the man they were beating a twenty-two-year veteran of the force named Luther Hall was a protester Hall had problems eating afterward and lost twenty pounds because kicks to the face inflamed his jaw muscles Some of the text messages the officers sent to one another that night while on duty were released to the public illustrating their excitement at the prospect of using violence “It’s gonna get IGNORANT tonight!!” Officer Dustin Boone texted to his colleague “But it’s gonna be a lot of fun beating the hell out of these shitheads once the sun goes down and nobody can tell us apart!!!” Boone also described a black police officer he was working alongside as “basically a thug that’s on our side!!” During one of these Jason Stockley protests a white man on a motorcycle buzzed Tory Russell and other protesters gathered in the street Later Russell received a message on Twitter reading “next time I’m not gonna get that close without doing something” “You like oh shit You just live with your head on swivel Ain’t nobody safe” Russell said “It’s gonna be a lot of fun beating the hell out of these shitheads” Mckinnies said that in the month or so prior to Danye’s death she counted seven occasions on which a car outfitted with tinted windows and a single white man sitting in it was parked outside her house on a residential street She said that her husband Derek took a picture of the car one time before it sped off Russell said he has seen a gray Chevy Impala owner unknown on multiple occasions outside his house It’s impossible to say without further evidence whether the presence of strange cars is a sign of actual monitoring or mere coincidence But police the FBI and Homeland Security have monitored black activists throughout the country especially after Michael Brown’s killing The Intercept reported last year “at the height of 2014’s Black Lives Matter protests in Ferguson Missouri FBI agents tracked the movements of an activist flying in from New York” An FBI document they obtained shows the agency’s email correspondences concerning the organization of a stakeout at a location connected with Black Lives Matter in 2014 Documents obtained by The Intercept and Vice News showed that the Department of Homeland Security regularly tracked activists’ social media accounts and protests in St Louis and Baltimore The FBI’s counterterrorism division has also classified some activists as “Black Identity Extremists” and in a 2017 intelligence assessment the agency argued that in the wake of Michael Brown’s shooting “it is very likely Black Identity Extremist BIE perceptions of police brutality against African Americans spurred an increase in premeditated retaliatory lethal violence against law enforcement and will very likely serve as justification for such violence” The Congressional Black Caucus and others have called the report’s integrity into question and California congresswoman Karen Bass has called for its retraction arguing that the term has no scientific basis “Police the FBI and Homeland Security have monitored black activists throughout the country especially after Michael Brown’s killing” The Rev Darryl Gray a well-known figure in Ferguson has been fighting for social and racial justice for decades and participated in the 2014 protests In 2017 after leaving a radio interview following a trip outside St Louis his wife called to tell him there was a suspicious package on the floor of the driver’s seat in his locked parked rental vehicle He called Heather Taylor president of the Ethical Society of Police who then called the chief of the division at the time John Hayden Hayden is now the chief of St Louis City police Hayden cordoned off the area called in the bomb squad and was able to have the package X-rayed “Chief Hayden came outside of the police tape and said ‘Reverend Gray I have good news and bad news’” Rev Gray recounted “And I’m sitting here thinking well first of all there can’t be any good news in any of this But I asked ‘What’s the good news’ He said ‘It’s not a bomb’ And I said ‘What’s the bad news’ He said ‘It’s a six-foot python it’s a snake a live snake’” Reverend Gray has “not heard one word from the police that came to that investigation” St Louis city police spokesman Sgt Keith Barrett confirmed that the Chief Hayden “was on the scene during this incident” and that “it still has not been determined how or by whom the snake was placed in the truck” Besides the snake Rev Gray has also received text messages from an unknown number with pictures of his wife on three occasions with one of the messages reading “Don’t underestimate our reach” “Someone was letting me know that they had access to us to our physical bodies” Gray said Aside from the pictures of his wife Gray also received an anonymous message saying “I see you’re at a meeting I’m going to visit your home” Shortly thereafter an unknown white man came to his house and asked Gray’s wife who was standing at the front door talking to a neighbor for Gray’s whereabouts “It’s not a bomb it’s a six-foot python” The suspicion in the activist community “speaks to the level of distrust for law enforcement in many communities in St Louis” said ArchCity Defenders director Blake Strode “It speaks to what many people have experienced themselves with law enforcement and what they believe law enforcement to be capable of” Another prominent activist who was recently elected as a state representative Bruce Franks Jr was violently beaten and maced in December 2014 even though he was obeying police orders Franks Jr filed a lawsuit for excessive force with the help of ArchCity Defenders and in November 2018 courts ordered the release of bodycam footage taken the night of his assault The video showed officers kicking him and beating him with a baton while he was on the ground and repeatedly yelling “I’m not fighting!” White officers were then seen complaining about an eyewitness who filmed the encounter “one of the fucking white bitches caught me spraying everybody” and how the gas station where events were happening was a “terrible place to fight because of the fucking lights” Another officer bragged about “kicking him like there was no fucking tomorrow” while the one with the body cam spoke proudly about macing and kicking people until another cop suggested he turn his camera off In a twist of fate that illustrates the level of familiarity between police and protesters Anderer was one of the responding detectives at the Mckinnies residence when Danye Jones was found hanging according to the police incident report St Louis police have by far the highest rate of shootings in the country with more than five per 100000 people and most of the victims of police shootings are black Even black St Louis police officers believe the St Louis police are racist There are essentially segregated police unions in St Louis the Fraternal Order of Police white and the Ethical Society of Police black “Even black St Louis police officers believe the St Louis police are racist” “We understand that they see us as the enemy They see us as the direct problem” Ohun Ashe said According to activists the police know the protesters by name and often know where they live what cars they drive and who their family members are Ashe remembers a time she was pulled over and told “you’re the protester” On another occasion she related: I was already parked on the side and the officer came up and once he ran my name he took me to jail I was hit in jail by correctional officers I was pushed I literally thought I was going to die in jail that night On top of that I was cuffed with my hands behind my back to a metal bar for hours I had to use the bathroom they would not let me use the bathroom They didn’t even tell me why I was in there when I kept asking them when would I be released ArchCity Defenders director Blake Strode said that many activists experience this kind of profiling “A lot of the protest leaders and people who are seasoned at this point in engaging in protest know the officers the officers know them and so they’re always on some level of alert in moments where law enforcement’s present because they become targets” he said The groundswell that the Ferguson protest movement created has led to significant electoral victories Former county prosecutor Bob McCulloch who had held the office since 1991 and enjoyed strong support from police unions in part for refusing to indict officers who had shot black people was voted out this past September in favor of a more progressive candidate Wesley Bell Bell’s underdog win created hope that the first black county prosecutor could bring positive change for a community that has long faced discriminatory law enforcement In his first days in office Bell fired the assistant prosecutor whose failures in presenting evidence were seen as partly responsible for the grand jury’s decision not to indict Darren Wilson at the Michael Brown hearing Bell also announced that he would eliminate cash bail for misdemeanors no longer prosecute minor marijuana possession and carry out a number of other reforms aimed at dismantling the most racially abusive effects of the St Louis County criminal justice system’s policies “I literally thought I was going to die in jail that night” Although he is the son of a police officer Bell has already run into resistance: his assistant prosecutors voted to join the St Louis County police union ahead of his January term start A St Louis Post-Dispatch columnist called the timing “odd if not outrageous” in part because the assistant prosecutors are voting to join the police union not an association of lawyers The county police union is represented in public by its business manager Jeff Roorda who was fired from a previous post for lying on a police report and whom the sitting mayor has said in 2017 when she was an alderwoman should be fired from his current post for racist comments Bell also faces skepticism from some activists “You’re a prosecutor so unfortunately your job is gonna be locking up black dudes” commented Tory Russell “No matter how you cut it you’re gonna lock up more black people than you’re gonna let go” Although less an object of national attention Kim Gardner was elected circuit attorney in 2016 and has made waves by carrying out ambitious reforms She has made a list of twenty-nine police officers whose testimonies can no longer be considered credible in future prosecutions because they have lied during previous cases used intimidation to obtain charges or were under investigation This move unprecedented in recent St Louis history has already made her some enemies in the law enforcement community Despite these developments political change is slow and a sense of dread about the immediate future weighs on many people’s minds One of the most pressing issues for activists is a lack of resources for physical and mental health to treat the anxiety and effects of hostility “that wears on your mind and your body” Russell said “Some days I just wanna lay in that corner just lay in a dark place” The threat of violence facing the very community that is fighting for the wellbeing of black lives requires an urgent response Ohun Ashe said: “We cannot wait until somebody loses their life before we start taking into account the mental stresses of activism and the things that happen in the community” Source Article from Hits: 43 « Older Entries |
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Source Article from Hits: 23 Rigged College Admissions: One Aspect Of Rampant Social Inequity March 18th 2019 Jesus Christ ✝ Rigged College Admissions: One Aspect Of Rampant Social Inequity The children of working stiffs learned a brutal lesson this week as federal prosecutors criminally charged rich people with buying admission to elite universities for their less-than-stellar children The lesson is that no matter how hard you work no matter how smart or talented you are a dumb lazy rich kid is going to beat you It’s crucial that everyone who is not a wealthy movie star hedge fund executive or corporate CEO—that is 99 percent of all Americans—sees this college admissions scandal for what it really is: a microcosm of the larger corrupt system that works against working people squashing their chances for advancement This system is the reason that rich people and corporations got massive tax breaks last year while the 99 percent got paltry ones It is the reason the federal minimum wage and the overtime threshold are stuck at poverty levels It is the reason labor unions have dwindled over the past four decades This system is the reason we cannot have nice things Despite all that land-of-equal-opportunity crap the rich ensure that only they can have nice things starting with what they can buy legally and illegally for their children and rising through what they can buy legally and illegally from politicians who make the rules that withdraw money from the pockets of working people and deposit it into the bulging bank accounts of the fabulously rich When the mastermind of the elite university admissions scheme William Singer pleaded guilty this week he exposed the launching pad available to the well-heeled to guarantee that their children will be well-heeled Even after the wealthy pay for their heirs to attend prohibitively expensive private preparatory academies their grades test scores and extracurricular activities may not add up to enough to gain them entrance to Ivy League universities from which a degree virtually assures an overpaid position on Wall Street and with it another generation of wealth accumulation Singer admitted he developed a work-around for the wealthy The indictment revealed that through Singer parents handed between 15000 and 75000 to college entrance exam administrators to fabricate top-notch test scores for low-achieving offspring That lower amount—15000—paid by the rich to pad SAT and ACT scores is a good example It’s a figure of trifling import to a one-percenter It is however the entire year’s earnings of a parent working full-time at the federal 725 minimum wage That parent may have a child who received a perfect SAT score—without cheating—who has earned straight As even in advanced placement classes who excelled in soccer and served as class president But that child of a minimum-wage worker won’t get into Harvard because the rich kid took his place with falsified test scores and faked athletic achievements And the rich kid and his parents have the means to ensure that members of the next generation of the family have the same opportunity to cheat their way into a top college They have the money to buy just the right politicians something that the perverse Citizens United and McCutcheon decisions by the US Supreme Court facilitated The right-wing court ruled that rich people and corporations could give unlimited money to elect politicians of their choice Politicians chosen by the wealthy won’t support labor unions minimum wage increases or higher overtime thresholds They won’t cultivate opportunity for the 99 percent They won’t require corporations to treat workers as humans with dignity Politicians chosen by the rich have passed legislation in state after state intended to bankrupt labor unions the very organizations that were so crucial to creating the middle class in America Under the legislation labor unions are forbidden to collect small fees from people who choose not to join This weakens unions because they are required by federal regulations to provide services for all those who labor in a unionized workplace whether they join the union or not So what these politicians are doing is requiring unions to represent nonmembers for free It has devastated labor organizations in some places including Wisconsin The result is lower wages and worse benefits for all workers because higher union-bargained pay pulls up all incomes in a region The logic here is simple: less for workers more for fat cats And of course politicians chosen by rich people will not raise the minimum wage The federal minimum has remained at a painfully low 725 for a decade Now it’s a poverty wage It means a person who works full-time cannot support himself and certainly can’t provide for a family In Washington DC and other expensive cities some full-time minimum-wage workers are homeless The substandard minimum wage pulls down all wages Similarly politicians chosen by the rich will not significantly increase the 23660 overtime threshold under which all workers must be paid time-and-a-half for hours beyond 40 in a week Former Labor Secretary Tom Perez now chair of the Democratic National Committee proposed in 2016 doubling the threshold to 47476 which would have enabled an additional 4 million workers to qualify for overtime pay Often these are workers given fancy titles like assistant night manager and paid 24000 a year so that their fast-food restaurant bosses can require them to work 50 60 even 70 hours a week for no extra pay at all For these families the overtime pay would be extremely meaningful—in ways that are incomprehensible to families that can dish out 15000 to 75000 to cheat on the SAT Fast-food corporations including CKE owner of Carl’s Jr and Hardee’s opposed the proposed overtime threshold increase The CEO of CKE at the time Andrew F Puzder worth 45 million wrote an essay condemning the increase and explaining how millions of low-paid workers with fancy titles should love to work extra time without extra pay because it gave all of them the opportunity to work their way to the top like one guy at CKE did one time The US Chamber of Commerce a lobby group for rich corporations filed suit against the increase and scuttled it So now it hasn’t increased in 15 years A new labor secretary last week offered a much stingier increase Alexander Acosta proposed 35308 as the threshold Only about 1 million additional workers would benefit if the number were that low And instead of automatic increases every three years the Labor Department would consider whether to raise it only every four years no guarantees This is not good policy for working people It is however great policy for rich people who as a result keep more of the profits produced by the labor of underpaid people It means continuing the cycle of one percent staying rich and 99 percent denied opportunity And that means the wealthy can continue to bribe university officials to admit their unqualified scion There’s no reason to take heart from the fact that prosecutors stymied one specific college admission scam It is illegal to pay an SAT proctor to alter test scores It is not illegal though to buy a science lab for Harvard or a humanities building for Yale with the hope that the family name prominently engraved on the edifice will sway admission officers when they see the same moniker on a college application It’s no shock college admissions are rigged for the rich The whole economic system is rigged by the rich Until working people change that their opportunities and those of their children will continue to diminish Source Article from Hits: 24 Uncertain Futures Are A Warning For World To Act As One March 18th 2019 Jesus Christ ✝ Uncertain Futures Are A Warning For World To Act As One Above photo: The pace of climate change demands action now By Jason Row on Unsplash Different computer simulations deliver variant and uncertain futures One research team has studied millions And in most cases the outlook remains ominous London − US scientists have peered ahead in more than five million ways and they do not like the uncertain futures they see there Unless the world collectively and in concert takes drastic steps to slow or halt global warming generations to come face an intolerable prospect And even if humans do switch from fossil fuels to renewable energy economise on resources and restore the world’s forests and grasslands there is still no guarantee that disaster will not happen That is because the outcome depends not just on the steps humans take now but on one of the great unresolved scientific questions: just how sensitive is climate to shifts in the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere If sensitivity is low and humankind acts effectively and immediately the future could be tolerable But in a total of 5200000 computer-generated scenarios involving population growth economic development the role of carbon in the economy and the levels of climate sensitivity this happens only relatively infrequently “If large abatement efforts are undertaken warming is generally limited and damages are low However aggressive abatement action does not guarantee a ‘tolerable’ future” the scientists write in the journal Nature Climate Change Good luck needed “Our simple analysis shows that to achieve a tolerable future we must also have the good fortune of living in a world with low climate sensitivity Failure to rapidly increase abatement all but guarantees failure over a very wide range of climate sensitivities “We show that our generation has an important responsibility to ensure that coming generations have a tolerable future” And they conclude: “It is still however a gamble that depends on how sensitive the climate turns out to be and how soon the promises of negative emissions materialise but we show immediate rapid growth in abatement remains our safest course of action” At the heart of all such studies is the question: how much time does human society have before climate change becomes dangerous and inevitable The scientists defined “tolerable” as a future in which global warming stopped by 2100 at 2°C or less above historic levels a future 195 nations have already agreed to work for in Paris in 2015 “Uncertainty is sometimes interpreted as an excuse for delaying action Our research shows that uncertainty can be a solid reason to take immediate action” To achieve this tolerable future the scientists reasoned that the cost of abatement should be no more than 3 of the gross world product and the damage wrought by climate change no more than 2 Then they considered 24 levels of uncertainty in what they call the “human-Earth system” and generated their vast number of possible outcomes Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have already soared from around 280 parts per million to more than 400 ppm and global average temperatures have soared with them to around 1°C above the average for most of human history Climate scientists have already identified the costs of “intolerable” climate change They warn that as the thermometer rises so does the threat of devastating famine Extremes of heat become increasingly lethal Floods could become more devastating and sea levels rise dangerously Drought rising temperatures and food shortages are likely to create the conditions for dangerous conflict But in 2019 greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels are likely to be higher than ever The world is already midway through the hottest decade since records began And the planet could tip the 15°C global average temperature rise – the target proposed in Paris – in the next decade No reassurance The consequences of accelerated global warming could be calamitous but there is still argument about the rate of change the role of the natural cycles in atmosphere and ocean that influence climate the scale of hazard to human civilisation and the nature of the steps vital to contain warming So the US researchers decided to look at the whole range of possible future outcomes Their answers are not reassuring The message is that either global economies react now – at considerable cost and for no immediate reward – or that future generations must pay what could be a wretched price for present inaction “Despite massive uncertainties in a multitude of sectors human actions are still the driving factor in determining the long-term climate” said Jonathan Lamontagne a civil engineer at Tufts University in Massachusetts who led the study “Uncertainty is sometimes interpreted as an excuse for delaying action Our research shows that uncertainty can be a solid reason to take immediate action” − Climate News Network Source Article from Hits: 23 Millions Of Youth March Against Climate Change March 18th 2019 Jesus Christ ✝ Millions Of Youth March Against Climate Change Above photo: Saeed Khan / AFP / Getty Images An estimated 14 million students and youth walked out of school and took part in Friday’s worldwide demonstrations against climate change The internationally coordinated protests the largest in sixteen years were organized in response to the growing realization among young people that the governments of the world are incapable of taking any significant measures to halt global warming The latest UN report states that there may be as little as eleven years before the impact of climate change on human civilization becomes exponentially more devastating The demonstrators have also directed their outrage against international agreements such as the Paris Accord which have all proven to be worthless in addressing the crisis The initial impulse of the movement known as the Youth Climate Strike and Fridays For Future was given by 16-year-old Greta Thurnberg who began striking against climate change outside the Swedish parliament building last August This has been followed by a series of protests over the past several months Yesterday’s protests were on a larger scale The official list counts actions in more than 2000 cities in at least 120 countries on every continent including Antarctica There were 235 in Italy 214 in France 200 in Germany 195 in the United States 144 in Sweden and 120 in the United Kingdom The single biggest demonstration was in Milan where an estimated 100000 students and youth marched Organizers counted 60000 participants in Montreal 50000 in Naples 40000 in Paris 30000 in Brussels and Rome 20000 in Berlin and 10000 in London Smaller protests involving dozens or hundreds of students and youth occurred in every corner of the globe including Cape Town Tokyo Moscow New Delhi Mexico City Jakarta Buenos Aires and Shanghai More than 23000 German Austrian and Swiss scientists signed a statement supporting the protests under the name “Scientists For Future” They declared “The concerns of the young protesters are justified and supported by the best available science… The young people rightly demand that our society should prioritize sustainability and especially climate action without further hesitation Without far-reaching and consistent change their future is in danger” The demonstrations reflect a growing radicalization of young people internationally not only in relation to climate change but in response to mounting social inequality the victimization of immigrants and refugees and unending war This was reflected in many of the slogans on handmade banners that students brought to the rallies Some included: “Capitalism is killing the planet kill capitalism” “Profit or future” “Open borders for refugees” “Capitalism is killing us” and “World strike for the future” Members of the Socialist Equality Party and other supporters of the World Socialist Web Site attended demonstrations in several countries where they distributed copies of the WSWS perspective “ The Youth Climate Strike and the fight against global warming ” and other statements explaining the SEP’s fight to mobilize the working class against capitalism The perspective advanced by supporters of the SEP was in sharp contrast to the perspective promoted by various Democratic Party politicians and their counterparts internationally Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted that the young people were “beginning to launch climate walkouts to pressure their governments into acting on real climate change plan” Ocasio-Cortez and other Democrats are promoting a “ Green New Deal ” which is based on the fiction that anything can be done to stop climate change within the framework of the Democratic Party and the capitalist system New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern wrote “We hear you and we’re getting on with setting a path for carbon neutrality” referring to the different carbon emission trading schemes New Zealand has attempted in recent years They were joined by various trade unions and pseudo-left groups seeking to bolster the credentials of the parties of the political establishment Many of those who came to demonstrations however understood the need for a political struggle against capitalism They discussed the SEP’s critique of the Democratic Party and the various Labour Parties as parties of capitalism equally responsible with their more openly right-wing counterparts for militarism attacks on democratic rights and austerity The International Youth and Students for Social Equality at the University of Michigan spoke with students and youth in Ann Arbor Michigan Marisol a high school junior at Community High School said “The corporations and politicians are totally unwilling to change anything The working class just needs to wake up and see our power” She added “It’s not the fault of the people at the bottom who have nothing It’s the rich and the corporations and the politicians who are responsible” Lys a high-school student in Paris noted that “Today in France there are 280000 soldiers They are deployed throughout the world I find that France has a sphere of action that is far too large The wars are for private interests whether they be financial or political and not for humanitarian concerns That’s what I find dangerous That’s also what I’m afraid of for the climate It’s the private interests which buy politics and power That’s why I came today” The massive influx of resources needed to halt and reverse climate change requires the reorganization of economic social and political life on an international scale Energy production must be coordinated on a global scale in order to transition to renewable forms which in turn requires the most serious scientific investigation into new techniques and ideas Such a fundamental shift however comes into direct conflict with the nation-state system and the drive of corporations for private profit It is not a question of youth appealing to the powers that be but of directly opposing the domination of society by a handful of billionaires and the social system over which they preside At the same time as the global nature of the protests objectively demonstrates students must turn to the only progressive international social force on Earth the working class Just as economic and technical development under capitalism has caused a worldwide ecological crisis it also contains the ability to address this crisis in a rational way However to free up the resources needed to tackle climate change—along with war poverty and inequality—requires a complete socialist reorganization of economic life The economy must be placed in the democratic control of the working class the only social force capable of establishing a society based on human need including a healthy global environment Source Article from Hits: 20 New Details Of Failed Assassination Against Maduro March 18th 2019 Jesus Christ ✝ New Details Of Failed Assassination Against Maduro Above photo: The attack was aborted by Venezuelan security who exploded the drones Photo: Agency The US network CNN published an investigation in which it again confirms the official version of the attempt to assassinate President Nicolás Maduro The revelation comes from an interview with a former Venezuelan soldier who contributed videos and photos of the group training in the “Colombian plains” to execute the failed assassination with drones In these videos collected by the CNN correspondent in Colombia it can be clearly seen how drones are sent again and again as high as possible and then abruptly descending to explode near the floor exactly as they wanted to do in August of 2018 Atención a esto: CNN al igual que el NYT hace días devela detalles de la operación que intentó asesinar al presidente Nicolás Maduro en agosto del año pasado Lo que negaron tergiversaron falsearon y ocultaron periodistas y políticos que hoy vuelven al ridículo https://tco/LlhJ59QIEb — GBR GBorgesRevilla March 14 2019 The ex-military man who also claims to be the organizer of the attack confessed that the United States contacted the group after the attack on at least three occasions to learn details of the events A few months before Bloomberg reported that in reality Colombia and the United States were aware of the attack According to the unidentified former military officer the possibility that the failed attack murdered other people was one of the risks they “had to take” emphasizing that it “hurts that the Venezuelan people are always the ones who must pay the consequences” A contradiction in every rule The organizer of the attack also pointed out that the drones and explosive devices were smuggled into Venezuela which exposes the role of Colombia and anti-Chavez leaders like Julio Borges and Juan Requesens in the orchestration and execution of the plan The latter revealed last year that at the request of Borges he allowed the entry of Henriberth Enmanuel Rivas Vivas alias “Morfeo” who was in charge of executing the attack on the ground This revelation confirms once again the denunciations of the Venezuelan State about the frustrated assassination A few months earlier Bloomberg said the idea of the attack came from a group in Miami The Venezuelan government for its part holds the entrepreneur Osman Delgado Tabosky owner of El Faro Media Group LLC responsible for its financing Supposedly Senator Marco Rubio attended the inauguration of this company Source Article from Hits: 23 Solidarity Isn’t A Slogan It’s A Process March 18th 2019 Jesus Christ ✝ In this exclusive interview a prominent Indian intellectual examines how imperialism operates in our time and proposes specific forms of solidarity with Venezuela Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian journalist and Marxist intellectual Among numerous books and articles Prashad’s The Darker Nations stands out for its thorough account of Third World organizational efforts during the 20th century Today he is chief editor of LeftWord books and heads up the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research Last week Prashad was in Caracas for the International People’s Assembly and found time to respond to some of our questions about the history of internationalism and how to do solidarity with Venezuela and other countries under imperialist siege There is a long history of international solidarity but as far as South‐South solidarity goes one important landmark is the Non‐Aligned Movement which from 1961 on brought together governments from what we now would call the Global South Could we talk about what that legacy stands for today There are two reasons why we should understand this It’s important to see that when Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote the “Communist Manifesto” in 1848 they wrote “Workers of the world unite!” But in 1848 the workers of the world couldn’t communicate with each other In fact the first telegraph between India and Britain only came in 1870 So it would be a bit silly to look back and say about the First International of workers set up in London or even the Second International that they were really internationals After all in the colonized parts of the world workers movements really didn’t get going until the second half of the 19th century and later So it’s really important that the story of internationalism in the South not be too enthusiastic about small connections in the “ancient time” By the “ancient time” I mean the 18th and 19th centuries All that would be quite silly because the real connection begins in the period right after the Russian Revolution Strikingly the Russian Revolution the USSR took a decision that was quite out of time In 1919 a hundred years ago in March it invited people from across the world to create the Communist International The Communist International was made up not only of European trade unionists radicals and so on but also people from as far away as Argentina and Puerto Rico Initially it involved mostly the Western Hemisphere and the various parts of the former Russian empire that had been colonized… Turkmenistan and such Then in 1920 in the Second World Congress of the Comintern many more people came from around the world and you know the real heir to this movement was the Tricontinental Conference that met in La Habana by the late 1960s In 1928 the bourgeois anti-colonialists met in Brussels in the League Against Imperialism meeting I’m saying all this to point to the fact that the history of international struggles – of solidarity with and among people who had been colonized – is only about a hundred years old A hundred years in the large scheme of things is not a long time So I don’t think we are ready to be judged regarding the utility and value of anticolonial solidarity across boundaries It is of course important to say that from the 1950s when new states emerging out of colonialism like India Egypt Equatorial Guinea and Indonesia created the Non‐Aligned movement in Belgrade in 1961 that was a different kind of process because it involved countries: it was an intergovernmental movement They had now taken state power and they were trying to change the routines and institutions of the world order It was a much different scale of discussion They had an incredible vision for an alternative it was called the New International Economic Order which was passed by the UN General Assembly in 1974 From left to right Jawaharlal Nehru Kwame Nkrumah Gamal A Nasser Sukarno Josip Broz Tito founders of the Non-Aligned Movement New York September 30 1960 Archive Imperialism and especially US imperialism consistently tries to undo these South-South alliances We have seen how US imperialism operates in Latin America and its attitude toward Venezuela particularly aggressive now Can you tell us something about how imperialism works in the broad sense and then move into the particulars of the Venezuelan situation Imperialism is not a static phenomenon What we had in the 19th century and into the early 20th century is different from what we have now At that time production was mostly inside nations You had the Ford Motor Company located in the United States in competition with Daimler located in Germany and most Daimler cars were built in Germany while most Ford cars were built in the United States They were competing for resources in third or fourth or fifth countries and for markets and finance etc That was a form of inter‐capitalist rivalry and it pushed countries to use their political military and economic power to get an advantage over other countries That was the classic form of imperialism in the old days From the 1960s onwards the old factory form began to dissolve You saw factories being disarticulated and the emergence of the so called “global commodity chain” General Motors began to produce most cars outside of the US German cars were as often finished in Germany as in the United States…The whole structure of world production changed This had an impact on imperialism because from the late 1960s onwards there emerged a much closer alliance between what we call the Triad: the United States Europe and Japan The Triad didn’t come together with equanimity –they didn’t agree on everything – but there was a certain understanding that the US was the first among equals that new trade regimes had to be created and enforced and that Third World projects such as the New International Economic Order had to be destroyed It was in this realm that imperialism sharpen its teeth Now aerial bombardment was not necessary It all came in the writing of trade laws in determining how finance should operate and money should move An entire infrastructure was created almost behind the scenes by a group of seven countries using the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs which spawned the World Trade Organization in 1995 In the 1980s they imposed new regulations on property rights All this narrowed the ability of Third World countries to develop to be able to trade with each other and exercise their right to finance A new set of “institutional asphyxiations” were created by imperialism It was very smart because now you didn’t have to show your gun It was there but it was hidden because you now exercised power by saying “Sorry we are not going to finance you” particularly after the debt crisis in the early 1980s Countries like Venezuela are so vulnerable… In 1974 when Venezuela “nationalized” its oil resource it actually didn’t do it What actually happened is that the companies told the government: “You nationalize the oil because we don’t want to deal with it anymore We don’t want to invest in your country or take the risk You invest and take the risk We just want the profits” That is the new structure of imperialism That brings us to the present Right now it seems like there is an intense effort to strangle Venezuela’s economy and topple the government to say nothing of killing off the socialist project I would like your perspective on both the risk of direct military intervention in Venezuela and on other less visible forms of violence like economic sanctions When the Soviet Union collapsed the United States actually began to feel that there was going to now be another century of complete domination that it would lead on behalf of the Triad Actually the US is quite generous to its Triad partners: it’s not as if it wanted everything for itself It wanted growth of the corporations because that was seen as benefiting the United States and its allies They thought that what was coming was a hundred years who knows even a thousand years! of capitalism dominated by the US and its allies… But instead of that simple capitalist success story there was enormous demoralization after the collapse of the USSR… There was a huge demoralization because so many of the countries that had previously experimented with socialism and had transitioned now began to collapse one after the other into debt disorder and so on So the US began to talk about a few countries that it called “rogue states” which needed to be taken out Then after that would begin the thousand year rule! They identified Iran and North Korea among others you know any country that seemed odd and wasn’t allowing the trade order determined by the World Trade Organization to manage things Of course what began to be evident is that there were contradictions These contradictions are uncomfortable – they are in bad taste! – such as the Irakis saying “Look we fought the war on your behalf against the Iranians and now we want payment for the destruction of our country” Then they invaded Kuwait and that bothers the Triad so it goes into Iraq Another example is Yugoslavia where you see that as the cement of socialism began to break down very toxic forms of nationalism began to appear Then Yugoslavia was bombed into destruction The wars continued bewildering wars They were in principle wars to finish off the remnants countries – not socialist countries by any stretch of the imagination – but countries that were resisting the will of the Triad led by the US It is wrong to idealize these countries just because they were being bombed by the US Some of them had very dystopic internal relations even if they were being attacked for other reasons It was a surprise but we understood that the war was a way of saying: “Let’s get rid of the walls around Yugoslavia and let’s open it up to the IMF and the World Trade Organization Let’s get those markets and those workers…” The United States got embroiled in the wars on Iraq and Afghanistan in the early 2000s They took their gaze away from South America They lost sight of the plot and didn’t see what was happening In one country after another diverse social movements indigenous peoples and popular masses turned to elections And in one country after another they elected left-wing people! Honestly if the US hadn’t been so involved in Iraq and Afghanistan they might not have allowed this to go all the way After all they do have this idea – which has come up again recently! – that this is their backyard But by the time they turned their gaze back here in 2002 and tried the coup in Venezuela it was already too late Although there are differences between the Workers Party PT in Brazil and the experiment in Venezuela such as working at different paces nonetheless they were on the same page In Venezuela Chavez realized that you cannot build a new project inside a country: it has to be regional and you need new trade policies Venezuela understood how imperialism was working: it was the imperialism of finance and trade and so it attempted the ALBA project involving regional governments and states The US attempted to break that project many times Look Venezuela doesn’t have the kind of oil that the US needs and desires They are not coming for the oil resources! They are coming for this project and they did a very good job Honestly the most impressive coup d’etat that they managed in this period of social media was the 2009 coup in Honduras There was also earlier the coup d’etat in Haiti where they just absented Aristide twice and in the rest of the continent they pushed the leftist waveback in little by little But it wasn’t just US imperialism and not being aware of that is one of our weaknesses It’s also that new social forces came in that the left was not fully cognizant of For example pentecostalism and various other forms of aspirational desire from below Things were being reshaped and people were moving in directions that were outside of the ideology of the new Pink Tide and the Bolivarian Project I think there are two big dynamics that weakened this project It wasn’t just imperialism There were these internal developments that were contrary to the dynamic of a strong left and of course you have the collapse of commodity prices But what I want to highlight here is that it wasn’t the collapse of commodity prices alone that creates this problem There are a couple of other things that I would like to say on this subject One is that socialism takes time in a poor country and this is a poor country It has never been a rich country It is a poor country with a lot of oil just like Nigeria It’s rich in resources but very poor in terms of the distribution of wealth and aspirations and hope and so on Socialism takes a long time and basically ten years is not enough Thomas Sankara used to say “He who feeds you controls you” But this country imports most of its food There was no freedom yet It was going to take thirty forty fifty years to get there Capitalism took hundreds of years to develop Socialism is always attacked within two three four or five years and not just by the capitalists but also by people on the left who get impatient and angry because it doesn’t meet their own dreams and utopias It’s a very ugly process because you are desperately trying to create new forms and in the meantime you must be sure that people are not hungry That is the first point The other one is a political question: the United States was very craftily able to set legal boundaries around countries where they said “Well we are going to sanction you because you did this wrong” Obama’s Decree in 2015 opened the door and then from that door they add another sanction and another and more and more And since they control money its movement and how you are going to buy and sell your own goods then you are really caught in a vice and nobody is going to come to liberate you If tomorrow this government falls and an American-backed government comes in what will the Chinese and the Russians say Pay us back in cash The truth is that Venezuela is not in good shape whether the Bolivarian government remains or an American puppet government comes in The Americans will not have the money to pay back the Chinese and Russians That is just not going to happen! If the newly installed government were to say that we need to renegotiate our loans that is a bad precedent so Americans don’t want that You’ve got to face up to the fact that there are some serious economic challenges and it’s very tragic that the oligarchy and others don’t see that They are being reckless with their own country I think they will pay a huge historical price for that recklessness Venezuela is highly vulnerable as it is dependent on imports for most food items including corn and other staples of the Venezuelan diet Archive Finally I would like to ask you about international solidarity these days How should it be done especially in relation to Venezuela Solidarity with the Bolivarian Process has to begin by demanding the end to all interference Now interference is a complicated word under the new imperialism It means no military intervention that is one point But does it mean that there should be no embargo Yes that is another point No economic sanctions That is another point Also finances should not be blocked and Venezuela’s own money should be available to it Of course all that is important But I’m saying there is more than that: solidarity must help countries have food security total independence in relation to food You know Cuba needs solidarity to help it produce grains and it doesn’t produce enough potatoes either nor does it produce anywhere near what it consumes in terms of wheat or rice These problems are solved through human connections We have to really work together to provide food security Hunger is a weapon often used by imperialism They make you hungry and then they tell you “Take the aid” It’s very crafty so this is the thing that has to be overcome This is not news to anybody Chavez spoke about the problem of food all through his political career It was very important for him to think about how to feed the country Like is it possible to feed this country with domestic grains Also the problem of feeding animals He talked about this stuff all the time Fidel towards the end of his life had this dream of creating organic food for animal feed that is produced now in Venezuela These kinds of options must come to be In that sense solidarity should not be thought of as a slogan solidarity is a process You have got to build solidarity by providing interesting new thinking about how to solve problems of hunger and how to organize society Source Article from Hits: 23 Ladies Ditch the Bra March 18th 2019 Jesus Christ ✝ The Facts: The National Order of Biologists made a €10000 donation to a group that questions the safety of vaccines The Infanrix Hexa vaccine was the first one tested and results showed no trance of antigens and a high level of contamination Reflect On: Why is this not big news Why does the vaccine not contain any of the antigens it’s supposed to guard against This test shows clear and large causes for concern so why does it not make mainstream headlines Facebook which seems to have become a government-run agency claiming to help fight the war on ‘fake news’ has pledged to delete and flag content that spreads misinformation This is great and should be done but the only problem is that content around the internet is being taken down flagged and deemed as a ‘conspiracy theory’ when it is well-supported factual and backed by peer-reviewed science I just wrote an article about the recent measles outbreak in Washington State for example and how that state is pushing hard for all school-aged children to receive a mandatory MMR vaccination These outbreaks are constantly being blamed on unvaccinated children but the mainstream never points people towards the actual statistics showing that Washington State like many other states have not experienced a drop in MMR vaccination coverage Instead MMR vaccine coverage is very high Furthermore they don’t mention that there’s been a long history of measles outbreaks in highly vaccinated and fully vaccinated populations see article linked below for examples and sources and they don’t mention the deaths disabilities and adverse reactions that’ve occurred as a result of the MMR vaccine either Why don’t they mention that the death rate from measles in Washington State was just 14/10000 source in article below before the introduction of the vaccine You can read more about that and access multiple studies and testimonies on this subject in the article linked below: Biochemical Engineer Drops Bombshell Facts About Measles amp The MMR Vaccine In Washington Information and science are constantly emerging regarding vaccinations but we never hear about any of it from mainstream media I also recently published an article of Robert F Kennedy explaining how big pharmaceutical companies are the biggest lobbyists even more than big oil and how they’ve completely compromised both the Democrats and the Republicans They’ve captured them our regulatory agencies and turned them into sock puppets They’ve compromised the press… and they destroy the publications that publish real science – Robert F Kennedy So what’s some of the latest information regarding vaccine safety An article published in Nature International Journal of Science titled “Italian scientists protest funding for vaccine-safety investigation” outlines how The National Order of Biologists made a €10000 donation to a group that questions the safety of vaccines The groups name is Corvelva and they received the donation on the 26th of October of 2018 The group believes that the research it conducts is necessary because “previous studies it has funded which have not yet been published in a peer-reviewed journal indicate that some vaccines contain impurities or lack the active ingredients they claim to contain” Nature points out that “Some scientists in Italy are up in arms over a donation from the organization that oversees the nation’s professional biology qualification to an advocacy group that opposes the country’s policy of mandatory childhood vaccination” This part is confusing: Why would any group or any scientist oppose more safety studies regarding vaccinations Wouldn’t professionals on both sides of the coin be in support of as much vaccine safety testing as possible ONB president Vincenzo D’Anna told Nature in an e-mail interview that there is a need for truly independent vaccine research because in his opinion work conducted in public laboratories and at universities is usually influenced or funded by companies that produce vaccines “The goal is to contribute to complete the biological and chemical analyses on vaccines” he said in the interview part of which the ONB has published in its Bulletin Again Nature points out that many scientists dismiss the need for more vaccine safety testing and that they are upset That being said it’s a comforting thought that ONB disagrees and that they are supporting this type of thing Clearly many professionals within that organization don’t believe that vaccines go through rigorous safety testing as is claimed by many Again what harm could be done by further testing What Did They Find The first vaccine that was tested was the Infanrix Hexa vaccine It’s a six-in-one vaccine that’s manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline GSK that’s supposed to contain the following antigens: tetanus diphtheria and pertussis toxoids inactivated poliomyelitis viral strains 1-2-3 and hepatitis B surface antigen Corvelva discovered that none of these antigens were actually in the vaccine which means it had zero antibodies to the intended antigens to be created This was a huge shock and in addition to that they also found the following: Traces of 65 chemical cross-contaminants from other manufacturing lines: chemical toxins unrecognizable macromolecules various free bacterial peptides that are potential allergens and are capable of inducing autoimmune reactions According to Corvelva Tetanus diphtheria and pertussis toxoids D antigens of Poliomyelitis 1-2-3 hepatitis B proteins obtained with genetic engineering and Haemophylus polysaccharides chemically linked to tetanus toxoid as carrier Toxoids are created by treatments with formaldehyde and glutaraldehyde that should remove toxicity keeping intact their ability to stimulate protective antibodies against original toxins We were expecting to find the three toxoids and the other antigens not modified by treatment with formaldehyde and glutaraldehyde to separate the antigens from each other and to be digestible by the enzyme specific for proteins trypsin We have found instead a real polymer insoluble and indigestible that we supposed to be the set of antigens chemically bound together has to be defined if this is present as an aggregate of the individual antigens or a single macromolecule on which we can find in literature partial information regarding the single antigens This macromolecule could not be recognized in any way by the protein databases and in fact it turned out to be a solid compound of an unknown chemical structure Proteins solubility and their digestion ie the capacity to divide them into small peptide fragments are two typical proteins characteristics that not only makes it possible to study them through some specific analysis methods but are also fundamental for the interaction with the immune system to create protective antibodies because if the protein structure is heavily altered from the original one the new antibodies result completely different from those that are able to attack the original antibodies causing illnesses Since this polymer we have encountered derived from the antigenic mix is not only different for its spatial conformation but it’s chemically different so we can state that we are not facing antigens similar to the original ones but in the form of a compound with an unknown and unpredictable toxicity and efficacy source The fact that the vaccine antigens were not detected is seriously concerning and so is the fact that of the 65 signs of chemical contaminants only 35 are known This was only the first phase of this safety testing as a second analytical study with standard controls will be released 7 chemical toxins were also identified and the group states that these toxins have a structure that could probably be partially derived from the formaldehyde glutaraldehyde and cyanogen bromide reactions with other chemical contaminants in the vaccine We’d like to point out that the toxicity of many of these toxins have been confirmed and published in Pubchem or Toxnet and this poses important safety problems issues and concerns From the protein and peptide fraction study various free peptides of bacterial origin have been obtained probably coming from the bacterial culture cells used for the antigen extraction Literature reports bacterial peptides as potential allergens 5 and also as capable of inducing autoimmune reactions 6 and these too put a safety issue that needs to be further clarified with the regulatory bodies Coming back to the two basic principles that have been our topic on this analysis path we reaffirm what we have said in the recent interview on the scientific journal Nature: we are inquiring the vaccines efficacy and safety and we can’t quite understand how it is possible to claim that this vaccine is even able to generate the 6 protective antibodies – reason why it is designed for – and furthermore to understand how this cluster made of 6 neurotoxic antigens bound together can be claimed as not toxic for newborns Infanrix Hexa hexavalent as for the method we have commissioned casts major doubts on both its effectiveness and on its safety… One thing is for sure: we will not stop to proceed Download: More Vaccine Controversy From Italy In the 90s Dr Antonietta Gatti discovered the relationship between micro- and nano-particles as well as a great number of pathologies: cardiovascular diseases many forms of cancer multiple neurological diseases and autoimmune diseases She’s taken part in many international research projects including the pathologies induced by depleted uranium waste incineration food polluted with inorganic particles and more Currently she is the coordinator of the Italian Institute of Technology’s Project of Nanoecotoxicology called INESE She is also a selected expert of the FAO/WHO for the safety in nanotechnological food a Member of the NANOTOX Cluster of the European Commission the author of the book “Nanopathology: the health impact of nanoparticles” on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Biomaterials Applications and a Member of the CPCM of the Italian Ministry of Defense Furthermore her and her husband Dr Stefano Montanari founded a laboratory called Nano-diagnostics for the evaluation of the pathological tissues of patients It’s presently at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia Italy Recently the Italian police raided their home and the police took all digital assets that were owned by the the two nanopathologists including their laptops computers and flash-drives basically years of work and research James Grundvig via the World Mercury Project describes what happened quite well: “Because Gatti and Montanari had taken their research of nanodust and nanoparticles from in-vivo performed in a living organism and in-vitro performed in a test tube to what unseen contamination might reside in vaccines in 2016 they came under the microscope of the United States European and Italian authorities They had touched the third rail of medicine They had crossed the no-go zone with the purported crime being scientific research and discovery By finding nano-contamination in random vaccines Gatti and Montanari revealed for the first time what no one knew: Vaccines had more than aluminum salts adjuvants Polysorbate-80 and other inorganic chemicals in them they also harbored stainless steel tungsten copper and other metals and rare elements that don’t belong in shots given to fetuses pregnant women newborns babies and toddlers developing their lungs immune and nervous systems” The scientists published their work in January of 2017 titled New Quality‐Control Investigations on Vaccines: Micro‐ and Nanocontamination If science wasn’t plagued by corruption an investigation would have started healthcare agencies would be involved and vaccine safety policies would have come under intense scrutiny but that never happened You can read more about this story and access an interview with the scientists here The Takeaway There are numerous vaccine safety issues The bioaccumulation of various vaccine ingredients for example are one Ingredients like aluminum have been added to vaccines for more than 100 years under the assumption that they are safe It’s only within the last couple years that scientists decided to look to see where these ingredients go after being injected They found that aluminum when injected doesn’t exit the body it actually travels to distant organs and the brain You can access those studies and read more about that here You can also watch a short video from Dr Christopher Shaw from the University of British Colombia explaining the difference between injectable aluminum and the aluminum our body takes in from food Here is another related study you can read that goes into further detail The main point I’m trying to make is that no parent should ever be made to feel guilty for not vaccinating their children Vaccines are clearly not as safe as they’re marketed to be and it’s important that we ask ourselves why this type of information goes virtually unacknowledged by the masses Help Support Collective Evolution The demand for Collective Evolution’s content is bigger than ever except ad agencies and social media keep cutting our revenues This is making it hard for us to continue In order to stay truly independent we need your help We are not going to put up paywalls on this website as we want to get our info out far and wide For as little as 3 a month you can help keep CE alive! 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Source Article from Hits: 25 Maria Butina and Brenton Tarrant the Two Faces of the Russian 2nd Amendment Dialectic for American Civil War March 18th 2019 Jesus Christ ✝ Christopher Jon Bjerknes Russian agent Maria Butina sought a relationship with the pro-gun NRA and the Republican Party The Russians have a proven recent history of insinuating themselves into American internal politics through the issue of the Second Amendment Along comes the terrorist Brenton Tarrant who openly advocates an anti-Western and anti-NATO political platform and murders 49 innocent Muslims for the express purpose of creating an American civil war over the issue of the Second Amendment Tarrant is working for the Russian government On one side there was Maria Butina cheerleading for the NRA On the other side Brenton Tarrant committed acts of propaganda of the deed so that the American government would contravene the Second Amendment and provoke Americans into civil war Who benefits from this Who like Tarrant has been trying to provoke war and revolution in America for the purposes of Balkanization for more than 150 years The Communists and since they took over Russia the Russians The links are all there so why am I the only person drawing attention to these links and where they point Source Article from Hits: 24 The CIA Should Investigate Brenton Tarrant’s Ties to Russian Agents March 18th 2019 Jesus Christ ✝ Christopher Jon Bjerknes Brenton Tarrant’s manifesto The Great Replacement might as well have been crafted by the FSB/KGB As I explain in my book Putin’s Reign of Terror Putin is behind ISIS and has sponsored global terrorism to sway elections and provide him with a pretext to invade other countries Putin wants to drive a wedge between Turkey and NATO Putin wants to Balkanize America and is behind the separatist movements in California and Texas Putin wants a revolution in America and sponsored the alt-right versus antifa wars in our streets Putin is pitting Muslims against Whites and Whites against Muslims for the benefit of Israel Putin sponsors the Zionist cause by agitating for anti-Semitism in the West to inspire Jews to either emigrate to Israel or Russia Putin has called for Jews to come to Russia where they will be safe Russian Jews want Israel to shift its main alliances from America to Russia Brenton Tarrant is a globe trotter and therefore an ideal candidate for Russian influence Tarrant’s terrorist attack was an attack on the American political system by a foreign agent Tarrant openly stated in his manifesto that it is his aim to drive America into a civil war and Balkanize the nation He attacked Muslims to accomplish his ends so as to drive a wedge between Muslims and Whites in their common cause to end Jewish oppression Tarrant is Zionist who want Jews to move to Israel Tarrant is an anti-Capitalist Communist who admittedly engages in propaganda of the deed Tarrant claims to be a “Fascist” and Communists have long created the false opposition of Fascism to serve as their Bogeyman Tarrant engineered his attack to drive a wedge between Turkey America and NATO Tarrant’s manifesto takes a page directly out of the FSB/KGB playbook when it states: “To add momentum to the pendulum swings of history further destabilizing and polarizing Western society in order to eventually destroy the current nihilistic hedonistic individualistic insanity that has taken control of Western thought To drive a wedge between the nations of NATO that are European and the Turks that also make a part of the NATO forces thereby turning NATO once more into a united European army and pushing the Turkey once more back to the true position of a foreign enemy force Finally to create conflict between the two ideologies within the United States on the ownership of firearms in order to further the social cultural political and racial divide within the United states This conflict over the 2nd amendment and the attempted removal of firearms rights will ultimately result in a civil war that will eventually balkanize the US along political cultural and most importantly racial lines This balkanization of the US will not only result in the racial separation of the people within the United States ensuring the future of the White race on the North American continent but also ensuring the death of the ‘melting pot’ pipe dream Furthermore this balkanization will also reduce the USA’s ability to project power globally and thereby ensure that never again can such a situation as the US involvement in Kosovo ever occur againwhere US/NATO forces fought beside muslims and slaughtered Christian Europeans attempting to remove these Islamic occupiers from Europe Tarrant’s terrorist attack was NOT a White Nationalist attack It was a Russian Communist attack on Western Civilization He is a Russian agent trying to destabilize the West especially America for the interests of Russia and Israel If the CIA scratches around a little they will certainly turn up a nest of Russians who crafted Tarrant’s agenda and set him up to knock us down So why am I telling you all this surrended by a sea of silence from the media and our government These things are obvious! Just as I warned the world that Trump was working for the Russians and publicly called for the CIA FBI and Congress to investigate Trump and the alternative media years before they did so I am publicly calling for the CIA FBI and Congress to investigate Brenton Tarrant with a special emphasis on turning up the Russian influence that created his terrorism and anti-American agenda Tarrant definitely had Russian advisors I have heard the same anti-Western Russian agenda iterated by several “alt-right” stooges for the FSB/KGB They generate self defeating hatred of Muslims They say all Jews should move to Israel They want Turkey to leave NATO and become a Russian ally They demand the Balkanization of America which would spell the death of Whites etc Why isn’t our government protecting us from all of this instead of using it as a pretext to strip us of our rights Whites and Muslims if you think Putin is your friend you are sadly deluded He is pitting you against each other so that you destroy each other Source Article from Hits: 30 Brenton Tarrant’s Propaganda of the Deed March 18th 2019 Jesus Christ ✝ Christopher Jon Bjerknes Brenton Tarrant murdered 49 people in an attempt to take away our gun rights Tarrant anticipates that his terrorism will provoke the government to deprive us of our rights to keep and bear arms He believes that this will prompt the American people to revolt against an increasingly tyrannical government He is engaging in classic communistic and anarchistic “propaganda of the deed” His manifesto The Great Replacement is Zionist anti-Capitalist and calls for the Balkanization of America The New Zealand government has taken the bait and done exactly what Tarrent wanted them to do They are moving to take away their people’s rights to keep and bear arms His attack has been a complete success He is following the Communist playbook to gin up revolutions and provoke a race war Putin must be delighted by all of this If Tarrant is not working directly for the Russians he is working indirectly for them by succumbing to their agenda and forwarding it He is also a Zionist who wants all Jews to move to Israel And Tarrant claims to be a member of the Knights Templar all of which recalls Anders Breivik and his rampage of murder It is also reminiscent of Charles Manson’s false flag murders meant to spark a race war The mass media are responding exactly as Tarrant predicted they would There will probably be more book burnings and social media is already becoming more discriminatory against Whites The more restrictive they make the means of communication to achieve political parity and representative government the more the media and corporations will inspire such insane acts of violence As they make it impossible for politics to succeed in giving Whites a voice the more they will drive Whites to engage in public violence in acts of desperation and protest despite the fact that it is morally wrong and politically counterproductive to do so John F Kennedy said “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable” The media are in love with the story because it fits in perfectly with their agenda but only because Tarrant wanted it to fit their oppressive agenda and deliberately engineered his violence to achieve that end The mass media will never discuss how censorship and repression are inspiring these horrible acts and are in part to blame for this horrific mayhem They also falsely and generally accuse White Nationalists as if they are collectively to blame for Tarrant’s insane acts this as they violently oppose generalizations which collectively blame Muslims for acts of terrorism committed by insane individuals The media are also not addressing the violence in movies and video games which is turning masses of people into psychopaths They want easy answers which strip of us our rights and impose government and corporate tyranny on Whites which only compounds the problem and which will inevitably inspire more violence as a response to the increasing repression That is what Tarrant wants He wants Whites to face increasing restrictions on their rights so that they will violently rebel against the increasing oppression in a self feeding cycle of violence and tyranny Instead of restricting our means of communication and political activity corporations and the mass media should be affording us greater freedom of communication and augmenting the public debate with a level and fair playing field Every human being shares the same rights to freedom of expression self determination and representative government If the corporations and mass media continue to presume they have the right to selectively silence individuals with differing views those with pro-White views then they will increasingly inspire unstable individuals to express themselves through violence because they will not have the option of civil discourse The hysterical mass media and the corrupt corporations make Brenton Tarrant’s propaganda of the deed a success and therefore encourage more of it to the detriment of us all In order to better understand how “propaganda of the deed” works consider the increase in Muslim terrorism that would occur if the Koran were banned from all the major booksellers Further image that Muslims were banned on all major social media outlets and artificial intelligence was used to delete anything and everything they wrote and said What would happen if every foul act committed by a Muslim was used to justify the elimination of civil rights for all Muslims That is exactly what governments the mass media and corporations are doing to Whites Since they are making it impossible for Whites to engage in civil public discourse about their own destiny and rights they are inspiring unstable Whites to express themselves with violence having no other public means to express themselves It is a predictable response and Tarrant predicts more to come The media despite their pretense of sophistication has been taken in by a sick terrorist and was outclassed They have no clue as to what just really happened but Brenton Tarrant does His propaganda of the deed was a stunning success most unfortunately Source Article from Hits: 29 Greek Culture found everywhere even India amp China March 17th 2019 Jesus Christ ✝ Greek Culture found everywhere even India amp China Hits: 75 Trump”s Confused Middle East Foibles Are Actually Pushing Assad and Erdogan into each other”s arms March 17th 2019 Jesus Christ ✝ Trump’s Confused Middle East Foibles Are Actually Pushing Assad and Erdogan into each other’s arms Trump’s foreign policy gambles in the Middle East just continue to shake the region up causing confusion betrayal and more recently a new arms race which is all heading towards more bloodshed there as ISIS appears to be in decline and Russia Iran and Turkey continue to look like stronger players Despite Iran sanctions Tehran continues to show its strength in its sheer resilience and its brash cavalier attitude towards other countries in the region barely days after if foreign minister resigns – but then withdraws it – Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani takes a trip to Iraq to remind the Americans that Tehran still wields considerable power and influence there as well as Syria Lebanon and also Qatar and Turkey The shake-up which is as a direct result of Trump’s erroneous decisions in the region has led though to an arms race starting amid rumours of Trump wanting to sell nuclear arms to Saudi Arabia – despite Riyadh going rogue recently on arms procurement and looking more to Russia and China In recent weeks we heard of reports of Hezbollah’s new missiles in Lebanon having updated heads fitted which makes them even more precise than previously thought which is a chilling thought for the Israelis who have been mulling the timing of Hassan Nasrallah’s threat to use them if Israel continues to target Hezbollah fighters in Syria More recently American THAAD missiles were sent to Israel as a direct consequence of the Nasrallah comment as the Hezbollah leader never does empty threats but it’s also about Iran’s missile capability which is making the Israelis a tad skittish And they’re right to be but not exclusively because of the Iran sanctions and its missile capabilities It’s also about Turkey In January a secret document revealed that Israel Saudi Arabia and the UAE considered Turkey to be the real threat to their power in the region which has changed the focus of their aggression and in part is responsible for a number of embassies reopening in the Syrian capital The West believes that a softening of isolation might bring Assad farther away from Iran and Russia and align itself more with the Arab super powers in the region This idea on its own had some feasibility until just very recently when it looked like Turkey’s firebrand leader had fired the starter’s pistol on a new level of difficult relations with Washington by making it clear that Ankara’s new accord with Russia over missiles – the revered S-400 system – is a done deal President Erdogan has made it clear that nothing will stop this deal going ahead which means for Israel that he is edging closer to the Russia-Iran powerbase and critically towards a situation which the author has been arguing for months is inevitable: a thaw of relations with Assad Given that part of the Saudi-Israeli plan was to support the Kurds in Northern Syria in a new campaign to clear Turkish forces of their large enclave – perched in between Al Qaeda extremists on one side and Kurdish fighters on the other – it has pushed Erdogan to do what many would argue would be a no brainer which is to consider cooperating with Assad as both have a common objective of hitting the Kurds Israelis and the Saudis at the same time A triple whammy for both of them This scenario if it pans out as so far we have only heard reports of back channel talks between Ankara and Damascus would be devastating for Israel which is struggling presently with having Russia as an Assad ally to bypass before it hits Hezbollah targets but for Turkey to be even a distant ally of Assad could spell disaster for Israel which cannot afford to clash with Turkey – itself the premise of a completely new conflict which has been brewing for years given the acrimonious and vociferous exchange of insults both leaders have flung at one another last year Erdogan attacks Netanyahu over the latter’s appalling treatment of Palestinians while the Israeli leader uses Erdogan’s unparalleled fondness of locking up journalists as return-fire ammo In reality both of them are tarnished with an abysmal human rights record but both have used one another for political capital That arrangement until now a verbal one might change if Assad were to actually let bygones be bygones and strike a deal with Erdogan If that were to happen Trump would also completely slam the door on Turkey and make it also a target of hatred and ridicule – as no one but Trump will take it as personally as the US president who has shown remarkable resilience towards the Turkish leader who has tested his patience on a number of occasions in the last two years An Assad-Erdogan pact could spark a crisis within NATO and make Russia and Iran bolder than ever before in the region as Trump’s refusal to stop arming Kurdish factions in northern Syria – along with suspending the F-35 fighter jet program – is likely to reach a tipping point between Ankara and Washington For Erdogan to play the ace card – Assad – would be a smart move to put Trump in his place assert Turkey’s power in Syria and weaken the Kurds in one blow Filed under: American Hegemony China GCC Hezbollah Iran ISIL kurds Nasrallah NATO Qatar Russia SAA Saudia Trump Turkey UAE War on Syria |
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– Program Officer North Korea USA Password |
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Series: Geopolitics amp North Korea’s Nuclear… |
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North Korea rebuilding Sohae rocket launch site say observers |
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North Korea Says It May Put Off |
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SUBJECT: The North Korean Oil Embargo and the New Pearl Harbor Attack |
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North Korea’s Reassembly Activity at the Sohae Satellite Launch Facility |
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KTG North Korea Travel |
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North Koreans hail nuclear test |
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Living in North Korea |
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Naldin Didesak Mundur dari Jabatan Ketua DPRK Aceh Tengah |
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north korea looking |
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View All Articles in this Escalate As North Korea Threatens To Deploy LCWR Nuns On West |
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South Korea monitoring North for possible missile North Koreans vote for new parliament |
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A Day in the Life of a North Korean Soldier |
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North Korea wants to suspend the negotiations on nuclear disarmament |
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North Korea in Pictures |
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Singapore Now in Hot Soup With the UN for Alleged Sanctions Violations For a North Korea Officials Port Visit Outside of the Trump-Kim Summit |
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North Korea Office |
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America’s history since the demise of the Soviet Union is one of truly breathtaking lies: on Panama Afghanistan Iraq Syria Venezuela Libya and North Korea Its record of overthrown governments black-op and false flag operations and the garrisoning of the planet with some thousand military bases is conveniently left out of consideration |
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Rason SEZ — how economic reform is shaping up in the DPRK |
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This North Korean Defector Hopes Trump Will Help Her Return Home HBO |
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Media Roundup: Reactions to the DPRK-US Summit |
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The Interview controversy raised to a new level: US hacked North Korea much before the latter hacked US |
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US envoy: North Korea diplomacy ‘very much alive’ but it’s watching rocket site |
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MoA: “CIA Blames Its Proxy For Its Raid On North Korea’s Embassy In Spain” |
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How to book an independent tour to North Korea |
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The CIA’s Violent Assault On North Korea’s Embassy In Spain amp The CIA Deal With ISIS In Syria |
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North Korea has 60 nuclear warheads What if Iran takes the 150 billion Obama gave them amp buys several This is the premise of ThePersianGamble as I explained on CBN News |
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President Trump le North Korea hruaitu Kim Jong-un an kut an i tlaih than cang |
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MoA: “CIA Blames Its Proxy For Its Raid On North Korea |
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Top 20 Things to do in North Korea Part 2 |
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South Korea to work with US North Korea after failed nuclear talks |
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Shadowy group trying to overthrow Kim raids North Korea embassy |
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Top 20 things to do in North Korea 20-11 |
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Russian superheroine Soviet Girl captured humiliated degraded and milked together with her arch enemy North Korea spy agent Gil Moon |
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Russia’s oil exports to North Korea is failing US attempts at isolating Kim Jong Un says experts |
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What do Vietnam and North Korea have in common |
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The Most Amazing Facts About Kim Jong Un: Ruling North Korea |
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Kim And Company Arrive In Singapore Via A Procession Of Chinese And North Korean |
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President Trump he i ton ding ah North Korea hruaitu Kim Jong-un a rak phan cang |
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National Geographic Live – A Rare Look: North Korea to Cuba |
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North Korea eager to emulate Vietnam’s economic growth experience |
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North Korean vs South Korean Dialects |
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Joss Stone Is Bringing Reggae To North Korea |
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North Korea may brea… |
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North Koreas 571 million crypto hack |
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North Korean Malware Infects US Computers |
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Inside North Korea’s New Mobile Phone |
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DPRK Map |
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SUBJECT: A provocation scenario for a North Korean satellite launch |
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북한뉴스 North Korea |
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A Shadowy Group Trying To Overthrow Kim Jong Un Raided A North Korean Embassy In Broad Daylight |
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White House bars four print reporters from covering dinner between US North Korea leaders |
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CIA Implicated in Attack on North Korean Embassy in Madrid |
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Banned photos were smuggled out of North Korea |
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Maximum Pressure Campaign Against North Korea is Working White House |
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South Korean Elections and North Korean Incursions |
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11 Brutal Facts About North Korea That May Leave You Surprised |
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North Korea election turnout 9999 percent: State media |
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Remarks of US Special Representative for North Korea at Stanford University |
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The Cruel Reality Of North Korea |
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North Korea Basketball Rocketman T-Shirt |
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Unified Olympic march will offer North Korea a ‘taste of freedom’ White House… |
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North Korea issues fresh threat to US Bases! |
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North Korea rebuilding rocket sites: What does this mean |
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Pope Francis Wants Norway to Be Mediator Between USA and North Korea |
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North Korea Warns the US with Guam Threat Again Prior to US-South Korea Drills |
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North Korea’s Satellites Could Unleash Electromagnetic Pulse Attack |
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Chinese Government Officials Targeted With Ransomware North Korea Suspected |
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Trump talks North Korea threat in calls with China Japan leaders |
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