Dale made me aware of a video in which Gonzalo Lira outgasses nonsense from his pie hole in sufficient volume and density so as to subvert the credibility of everything else he has here-to-date said about Ukraine. In this instance, he's so completely out of his depth and out of his mind talm'bout major riots coming to major American cities this spring in response to police violence. NOPE! Nyet! No way, no how! Nah Gah Happen....,
Ever since the Occupy Movement got b-slapped out of existence by a coordinated Federal clampdown, the Michael Brown uprisings, followed by the George Floyd uprisings, (A BLM/DNC Warren Buffet production) and finally the mass incarceration of every redneck peckerwood and his cousin who got caught up in January 6th Stop the Steal shenanigans - it has become conspicuously obvious to the casual observer that THE MAN is not fucking around and has not been for quite some time.
Everything else is - as they say - merely conversation.....,
TheIntercept | The recent wave of arrests are part and parcel of a “green scare,”
which began in the 1990s and has seen numerous environmental and animal
rights activists labeled and charged
as terrorists on a federal level consistently for no more than minor
property destruction. Yet the Atlanta cases mark the first use of a
state domestic terrorism statute against either an environmental or
anti-racist movement.
The 19 protesters are being charged under a Georgia law passed in 2017, which, according
to the Republican state senator who introduced the bill, was intended
to combat cases like the Boston Marathon bombing, Dylann Roof’s massacre
of nine Black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, and the
Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting.
“During legislative debate over this law, the concern was raised that
as written, the law was so broad that it could be used to prosecute
Black Lives Matter activists blocking the highway as terrorists. The
response was simply that prosecutors wouldn’t do that,” Kautz told me.
“There are similar laws passed in many other states, and we believe that
the existence of these laws on the books is a threat to democracy and
the right to protest.”
The Georgia law is exceedingly broad. Domestic terrorism under the
statute includes the destruction or disabling of ill-defined “critical
infrastructure,” which can be publicly or privately owned, or “a state
or government facility” with the intention to “alter, change, or coerce
the policy of the government” or “affect the conduct of the government”
by use of “destructive devices.” What counts as critical infrastructure
here? A bank branch window? A police vehicle? Bulldozers deployed to
raze the forest? What is a destructive device? A rock? A firework? And
is not a huge swathe of activism the attempt to coerce a government to
change policies?
Police affidavits
on the arrest warrants of forest defenders facing domestic terror
charges include the following as alleged examples of terrorist activity:
“criminally trespassing on posted land,” “sleeping in the forest,”
“sleeping in a hammock with another defendant,” being “known members” of
“a prison abolitionist movement,” and aligning themselves with Defend
the Atlanta Forest by “occupying a tree house while wearing a gas mask
and camouflage clothing.”
It is for good reason that leftists, myself included, have
challenged the expansion of anti-terror laws in the wake of the January 6
Capitol riots or other
white supremacist attacks. Terrorism laws operate to name the state and
capital’s ideological enemies; they will be reliably used against
anti-capitalists, leftists, and Black liberationists more readily than
white supremacist extremists with deep ties to law enforcement and the
Republican right.
Since its passage in 2017, the Georgia domestic terrorism law has not
resulted in a single conviction. As such, there has been no occasion to
challenge the law’s questionable constitutionality. Chris Bruce, policy
director at the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia, told
the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that “the statute establishes overly
broad, far-reaching limitations that restrict public dissent of the
government and criminalizes violators with severe and excessive
penalties.” He said of the forest defender terror charges that they are
“wholly inapposite at worst and flimsy at best.”
“The state is attempting to innovate new repressive prosecution, and I
think ultimately that will fail for them,” Sara, a 32-year-old service
worker who lives by the imperiled forest and has been part of Stop Cop
City since the movement began, told me.
kunstler.com | It’s been several days since San Francisco police interrupted a
hammer fight between Paul Pelosi — husband of House Speaker Nancy — and
his “friend… David,” in the Pelosis’ Pacific Heights home, and
apparently the cops have not asked David DePape why he was there in the
first place. Odd, a little bit. Is it possible that a whole chain of
authorities from the SFPD clear up into the top of the US government and
its Democratic Party sidekicks don’t want you to know what actually
happened?
So far, not much in this cockamamie story adds up. Quite a bit is
known now about the attacker, David DePape. He was a colorful character
on the scene in radical Berkeley across the bay, a “nudist activist” and
BLM supporter. He’d lived there and had a child with one Oxane “Gypsy”
Taub, a fellow nude activist and whack-job, who has spent time in prison
for child abduction. That partnership ended seven years ago and DePape
has been homeless on and off since then. Acquaintances and Berkeley
neighbors describe him as not mentally healthy, saying he exhibits
psychotic delusions and is sometimes incoherent.
— Just call me daddy (retired) (@meprogrammerguy) October 29, 2022
So far, police have not disclosed how DePape journeyed from Berkeley
to Pacific Heights at 2:00 o’clock in the morning, about fourteen miles.
Did he walk from Berkeley across the Bay Bridge and then halfway across
town? Mr. DePape is apparently also known to the police as a gay
hustler, that is, a person who sells sex for money. Unless I’m mistaken,
the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) has a detective department —
experienced men and women who go around the city seeking clues,
evidence, and testimony in order to make sense of perplexing crimes —
and then solve them! Shall we assume they are on-the-job?
Now, Paul Pelosi, 82, who made a $300-million fortune running a car
service (also shrewd investments in real estate and the stock market),
has been in quite a bit of trouble this year. On May 28, 2022, he was
arrested for Driving Under the Influence (DUI) in Napa (near a vineyard
estate he owns with Nancy) when his 2021 Porsche crashed into a 2014
Jeep driven by one “John Doe” (as the police identified him). KGO-TV,
ABC’s affiliate in the San Francisco area, said that there was a second
person in the Porsche with Pelosi at the time of the accident. He has
never been identified.
In August, Mr. Pelosi was sentenced to five days in jail, a fine of
roughly $7,000, a three-month drinking-and-driving course, eight hours
of public service, and having an “interlock” device installed on his car
that would require him to blow into an alcohol sensor before the engine
can ignite. By any chance, were the Napa Police or the County Court
contacted in the matter at some point by the US Capitol Police or the
FBI? We may never know.
If David DePape didn’t walk fourteen miles from Berkeley to Pacific
Heights, or take a cab (expensive), how did he get there? Here’s a
theory: he rode the BART subway from Berkeley to the Church Street and
Mission station in the city, a five-minute walk to the Castro, San
Francisco’s fabled gay district. Sometime before 2:00 a.m. closing time,
he met up in a bar there with Paul Pelosi, who drove DePape to the
Pelosi house in a car not equipped with an interlock device. That is to
say, David DePape was let into the house by Mr. Pelosi.
The police and the news media have theorized that DePape broke into
the place by smashing a glass door in back. Uh-huh…. Ask yourself: would
there not be an alarm system at least on all the ground floor windows
and doors in the house? Would there not be security cameras on the back
side of the house — the side that burglars might prefer, if they could
get over the wall? Would the Speaker of the House, with a discretionary
budget on top of a $300-million fortune, and in a time of epic political
rancor, not have a team of security guards in place at her private
home?
Initial news media chatter had both DePape and Paul Pelosi dressed in
their underwear, struggling over a hammer which turned out to belong to
Mr. Pelosi. Not until the police entered the house did DePape wrest the
hammer from Mr. Pelosi and commence to brain him with it. What does the
arrest report actually say about the two men’s state-of-dress? It is
not public information. How and why were the police just watching until
DePape assaulted Mr. Pelosi — who was hospitalized afterward and had
surgery on his cracked skull? (Uh, how did a blow that literally broke
his skull not kill the elderly Mr. Pelosi?)
The news media initially suggested that somebody — a third person on
the scene — opened the door to let the police in. Now they are saying no
such person was there. Was the front door unlocked? (Weird, considering
the general threat level for a public figure of Nancy P’s stature.) Or,
did police break the glass door in the rear of the house to get in?
(However, photos of the door show the glass being broken from the inside
and shards spread over the outside.) Odd, also, that such a wealthy and
powerful couple would not have hard-to-smash security glass on such a
door. (It’s easy to buy.) Odd, too, that there was not one human
security guard on the premises. The house had security cameras all over
the exterior and interior. No mention in the news media or from the SFPD
of what might have been recorded by these cameras at the time of the
incident.
My assessment of this bizarre episode as follows: Paul Pelosi was out
drinking late the night of the incident. He hooked up with David
DePape, a hustler he might have been previously acquainted with, and
took him back to the house in Pacific Heights. Something went wrong with
the transaction. Considering that DePape exhibited psychotic behavior
at times, it might have taken little to set him off. All the authorities
involved are playing it coy, but failing to construct a narrative that
adds up.
The Democratic Party has attempted to convert the sordid incident
into a political talking point, painting DePape as a MAGA crazy. That
spin apparently failed almost instantly. Their next effort will be to
shove the story down the memory hole — the news media will just not
report on any developments. Meanwhile, Nancy Pelosi put out a statement
that her family is “heartbroken” over the incident. Yes, of course. I’m
sure. Nobody knew about Paul Pelosi’s peccadillos. Boo-hoo. Cry me a
river, you degenerate jade. Don’t suppose the truth about this will be
successfully suppressed, like Hunter B’s laptop. And so, the career of
Nancy Pelosi comes to an ignominious end in the November 8 election,
with a cherry-on-top of personal humiliation. She deserves every bit of
it. Fist tap Dale.
tabletmag | Tides
was founded in 1976 by Drummond Pike, a California real estate investor
who named the entity after a Bay Area bookstore popular among
left-leaning activists. From the beginning, according to their own documents,
Tides was designed unlike most other nonprofit institutions. Rather
than building up or spending down an endowment, it sought to become more
like a sophisticated piece of software—a financial instrument that
would allow wealthy individuals and donors to contribute to the causes
of their choosing with more anonymity than is generally allowed by the
laws governing ordinary nonprofits.
Recently,
after Pike stepped away, the Tides network has taken on a distinctly
political role, whose guiding star appears to be Barack Obama. The
secretary of the Tides board
is Suzanne Nossel, the CEO of PEN America and a former deputy assistant
secretary of state for international organizations in the Obama
administration; board member Cheryl Alston was appointed by Obama to the
advisory committee of the federal pension program. Peter Buttenwieser,
the heir to the Lehman Brothers fortune who passed away in 2018,
financed a fund in his own name which is administered and distributed
entirely by the Tides Foundation. A “major behind-the-scenes supporter of Democratic candidates,”
Buttenwieser was one of President Obama’s earliest high profile
backers, helping the then-senator organize his bid for the White House.
Moreover, Atlantic Philanthropies, a nonprofit created by billionaire retailer Chuck Feeney in the 1980s, has directed more than $42 million in grants through the Tides network since 2000. Based in Bermuda,
Atlantic Philanthropies was able to participate in political lobbying
efforts in ways that continental United States nonprofits cannot.
Atlantic became increasingly aggressive under the Obama administration.
As Gara LaMarche, Atlantic’s president, said in one think tank address,
when Obama was elected “we saw opportunities to assist our grantees in
moving forward more rapidly and broadly in a number of areas central to
our mission.” In return, Atlantic dispensed $27 million to help push Obamacare through Congress. At the ceremony to sign Obamacare into law, LaMarche stood beside President Obama in the East Room of the White House.
In
any case, what’s clear is that there is now a sophisticated and complex
structure underneath what many assume to be an organic and spontaneous
social movement, one with deep pockets and ambitious goals. “After over
fourteen years of learning and over 700 million dollars invested ... the
collapse we have been expecting is surely underway,” reads the NoVo
Foundation’s website. Right now there’s only this one statement on the
site, which is under construction as noted: “Working on solutions now so
old patterns of power can’t, once again, re-form to rebuild and
continue to repress.”
globalresearch |Maliciously smearing approximately half of the country as
existential terrorist-inclined threats to “the soul of the nation” is
nothing but the crudest Machiavellian means of dividing and ruling the
population.
The Unprecedentedly Dangerous Divider-In-Chief
US President Joe Biden’s nationally televised speech on Thursday that the official White House website
headlined as being about “the continued battle for the soul of the
nation” saw the incumbent become the most dangerous and divisive
American leader in history. Far from trying to cleanse and protect that
very same soul, he shamelessly spit on it by pitting his people against
one another as part of an obvious divide-and-rule plot ahead of the
neck-and-neck midterm elections that are only two months away.
Debunking Biden’s False Belief In Equality & Democracy
The first part that stands out is Biden emphasizing how the location
of his speech, Philadelphia’s Independence Hall where the Declaration of
Independence was made and the Constitution signed, reinforces the
mutually complementary concepts of equality and democracy connected with
those two documents. He doesn’t truly believe in either of those though
as proven by White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre condemning all minority views as “extremist” earlier that same day.
Nevertheless, he pretended that he’s a true believer in them in order
to artificially manufacture the basis upon which to contrast himself
with former US President Donald Trump. Biden claimed that his predecessor and those who still support his Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement supposedly “represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.” Falsely framing them as existential threats so close to the midterms is obviously aimed at manipulating voters’ perceptions.
Applying The “Rules For Radicals” Against The MAGA Movement
This crude tactic would be condemned by the American Government if it
was employed by any Global South leader irrespective of whether it’s
baseless like in Biden’s case or genuinely backed up by facts. Biden
then channeled the infamous Saul Alinksy’s “Rules For Radicals”,
specifically the thirteenth rule to “Pick the target, freeze it,
personalize it, and polarize it”, when claiming that “the Republican
Party today is dominated, driven, and intimidated by Donald Trump and
the MAGA Republicans”.
By adding that “that is a threat to this country”, the incumbent
ominously implied that the full authority of the state will be brought
down to bear on those who are even simply suspected of being remotely
connected to the former president or his movement on faux national
security pretexts. He then instantly reverted to gaslighting once again
just like he earlier did by unconvincingly claiming that he supports the
Founding Fathers’ vision of equality and democracy by contrasting
Democrats and MAGA on false bases.
Who Really Employs Political Violence & Election Conspiracy Theories?
The same man who represents the party that frenziedly fanned the flames of the joint Antifa- and BLM-ledHybrid War of Terror on America all throughout summer 2020, whose countless antagonists were manipulated into functioning as “useful idiots” of the anti-MAGA faction of the US “deep state”
(permanent military, intelligence, and diplomatic bureaucracies),
counterfactually claimed that it’s Trump and his supporters who divided
the country through the use of violence for political ends.
Biden also insulted Americans’ intelligence by gaslighting that it’s
only some MAGA folks who’ve ever rejected the outcome of a presidential
election when most Democrats refused to recognize the legitimacy of
Trump’s victory in 2016. Not only that, but their anti-MAGA “deep state”
puppeteers literally concocted the Russiagate conspiracy theory that
they laundered through allied congressional representatives, law
enforcement, media, and NGOs to discredit the entirety of his four years
in office.
CTH | It is hard to think the unthinkable – but there comes a time when
there’s nothing else for it. People raised to trust the powers that be –
who have assumed, like I once did, that the State, regardless of its
political flavour at any given moment, is essentially benevolent and
well-meaning – will naturally try and keep that assumption of
benevolence in mind when trying to make sense of what is going on around
them.
People like us, you and me, raised in the understanding that we are
free, that we have inalienable rights, and that the institutions of this
country have our best interests at heart, will tend to tie ourselves in
knots rather than contemplate the idea those authorities might actually
be working against us now. I took that thought of benevolent,
well-meaning authority for granted for most of my life, God help me. Not
to put too fine a point on it, I was as gullible as the next chump.
A couple of years ago, however, I began to think the unthinkable and
with every passing day it becomes more and more obvious to me that we
are no longer being treated as individuals entitled to try and make the
most of our lives – but as a barn full of battery hens, just another
product to be bought and sold – sold down the river.
Let me put it another way: if you have been driving yourself almost
demented in an effort to think the best of those in charge – those in
senior positions in government, those in charge of the great
institutions of State, those running the big corporations – but finding
it increasingly impossible to do so … then the solution to the problem
might be to turn your point of view through 180 degrees and accept,
however unwillingly, that we are … how best to put this … being taken
for a ride.
When you find a stranger’s hand on your wallet, in the inside pocket
of your jacket … rather than trying to persuade yourself he’s only
making sure it doesn’t fall out … it might be more straightforward to
draw the conclusion you’re in the process of being robbed.
Once the scales fall from a person’s eyes, the resultant clarity of
sight is briefly overwhelming. Or it is like being handed a skeleton key
that opens every locked door, or access to a Rosetta Stone that
translates every word into a language instantly understood.
Take the energy crisis: If you’ve felt the blood drain from your face
at the prospect of bills rising from hundreds to several thousands of
pounds while reading about energy companies doubling their profits
overnight while being commanded to subsidise so-called renewables that
are anything but Green while listening to this politician or that renew
their vows to the ruinous fantasies of Net Zero and Agenda 2030 while
knowing that the electricity for electric cars comes, in the main and
most reliably, from fossil fuels if you can’t make sense of it all and
just know that it adds up to a future in which you might have to choose
between eating and heating then treat yourself to the gift of
understanding that the powers that be fully intend that we should have
less heat and less fuel and that in the planned future only the rich
will have cars anyway. The plan is not to fix it.
The plan is to break it, and leave it broken. If you struggle to
think the best of the world’s richest – vacuous, self-obsessed A-list
celebrities among them – endlessly circling the planet on private jets
and super yachts, so as to attend get-togethers where they might
pontificate to us lowly proles about how we must give up our cars and
occasional holiday flights – even meat on the dinner table … if you
wonder how they have the unmitigated gall … then isn’t it easier simply
to accept that their honestly declared and advertised intention is that
their luxurious and pampered lives will continue as before while we are
left hungry, cold and mostly unwashed in our unheated homes.
Here’s the thing: if any leader or celeb honestly meant a word of their sermons about CO2 and
the rest, then they would obviously lead by example. They would be
first of all of us willingly to give up international travel altogether …
they would downsize to modest homes warmed by heat pumps. They would
eschew all energy but that from the sun and the wind. They would eat,
with relish, bugs and plants. They would resort to walking, bicycles and
public transport.
If Net Zero and the rest was about the good of the planet – and not
about clearing the skies and the beaches of scum like us – don’t you
think those sainted politicians and A-listers would be lighting the way
for us by their own example? If the way of life they preach to us was
worth living, wouldn’t they be living it already? Perhaps you heard Bill
Gates say private jets are his guilty pleasure.
And how about food – and more particularly the predicted shortage of
it: the suits and CEOs blame it all on Vladimir Putin. But if the
countries of the world are truly running out of food, why is our
government offering farmers hundreds of thousands of pounds to get out
of the industry and sell their land to transnational corporations for
use, or disuse unknown? Why aren’t we, as a society, doing what our
parents and grandparents did during WWII and digging for victory? Why is
the government intent on turning a third of our fertile soil over to
re-wilding schemes that make life better only for the beavers? Why
aren’t we looking across the North Sea towards the Netherlands where a
WEF-infected administration is bullying farmers off their land
altogether, forcing them to cull half the national herd.
Those Dutch farmers are among the most productive and knowledgeable
in the world, holding in their heads and hands the answers to all manner
of questions about how best to produce food, and yet their government
is so intent on scaring them out of the business that a teenage boy in a
tractor, taking part in a protest to defend ancient rights and
traditions, was fired on by police.
Why do you think it matters so much, to the government of the second
most productive population of farmers in the world, to gut and fillet
that industry? Why? Why have similar protests, in countries all across
Europe and the wider world, been largely ignored by the mainstream media
– a media that would have crawled on its hands and knees over broken
glass just to report on a BLM protester opening a bag of non-binary
crisps. Why the silence on the attack on farming?
zerohedge | Harvard professor, CNN analyst and former Obama admin undersecretary of Homeland Security Juliette Kayyem has called for violence and vandalism against Freedom Convoy protesters who have amassed on the bridge that connects Detroit, Michigan to Windsor, Ontario.
The convoy protest, applauded by right wing media as a "freedom protest," is an economic and security issue now. The Ambassador Bridge link constitutes 28% of annual trade movement between US and Canada. Slash the tires, empty gas tanks, arrest the drivers, and move the trucks ✔️ https://t.co/nvRQTfPWir
"The Ambassador Bridge link constitutes 28% of annual trade movement between US and Canada," tweeted Kayyem. "Slash the tires, empty gas tanks, arrest the drivers, and move the trucks."
In addition to a monumentally stupid idea considering the logistics of
moving trucks with no fuel and slashed tires, one has to wonder if
Kayyem is saying the quiet part out loud when it comes to how Democrats
respond to non-BLM protests.
The blockade, now in its fourth day, has drawn the attention of
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who called on Canadian authorities to
reopen the bridge, according to the Epoch Times.
"The
blockade is having a significant impact on Michigan’s working families
who are just trying to do their jobs. Our communities and automotive,
manufacturing, and agriculture businesses are feeling the effects. It’s
hitting paychecks and production lines. That is unacceptable," the
Democratic governor said in a Thursday statement.
"It is
imperative that Canadian local, provincial, and national governments
de-escalate this economic blockade," she added, without suggesting how.
"They must take all necessary and appropriate steps to immediately and
safely reopen traffic so we can continue growing our economy, supporting
good-paying jobs, and lowering costs for families."
According to Kayyem, slashing tires, stealing gas, arresting the protesters, and somehow moving all the trucks is the way to go.
alt-market | I have been asking this question of leftists lately and I have yet to
receive any concrete or meaningful answer: If you are supposed to be
the underdogs and the revolutionaries, then why is it that all of the
evil money elites are on your side? Why are the all the people you say
you are fighting against giving you billions of dollars and enforcing
your political will? Is it possible that corporatists, globalists and
you leftists are all part of the same machine? Think about it…
The relationship between the agenda of globalists and the agenda of
the political left is growing increasingly obvious and intertwined. The
globalists want to dismantle traditional western structures, and so do
leftists. Globalists want to dictate economic growth through carbon
controls and climate change doom mongering, and so do leftists.
Globalists promote a decidedly communistic approach to private property
and economy, arguing in favor of the “Sharing Economy”, Universal Basic Income (UBI) and a world in which “we own nothing and are happy.” Leftist
are embracing this concept because many of them are self serving and
they prefer to take what others have worked for rather than earning it
for themselves.
Of course, the money elites will continue to keep their wealth and
influence while the rest of us are made “equal” through the equality of
poverty, but let’s not dwell on that…
What I see moving forward is that the left is becoming the Cheka, or the political commissars of the globalist “Great Reset.”
They have been molded for decades for this role and their purpose is to
provide an element of social force and the illusion of consensus. The
interesting thing about this strategy is that it seeks to exploit people
who feel as if they are “oppressed” by the existing system, or they
have been taught to feel oppressed. As with any Marxist takeover,
Globalists use the “have-nots” as a shield while they grab more power.
Every time any conservative criticizes the lies and manipulation of
the Black Lives Matter movement, for example, we are accused of
“racism.” And this is the big trick: We all know that BLM (founded by
devout Marxists and funded by globalists) has nothing to do with civil
rights or racial justice, it’s just a means to destroy western society
and replace it with a dystopian nightmare. That’s what we are
criticizing. Black lives are not the issue, globalism and communism are
the issue. Social justice and leftists movements are a smokescreen for a
bigger agenda, and the leftists love to be used.
Why do they do this? It’s a mistake to assume they are merely “useful
idiots.” Yes, some of them are, however, I think the people that fall
into the leftist cult are people that are naturally inclined to do so.
They are narcissists, psychopaths, degenerates, lazy, spoiled, and weak.
They are people that are generally not capable of surviving
independently and they know it, so they seek out collectivist frameworks
to join and feed off of.
Question: How does a mob of BLM leftists attack Kyle Rittenhouse in
Kenosha and EVERY SINGLE PERSON he shoots or tries to shoot ends up
having an extensive and violent criminal record? It is because leftist
movements attract such people in droves (look are what a BLM advocate
and career criminal just did in Waukesha, Wisconsin). They are not
innocent in all of this. They don’t care if they are being exploited by
the elites because they think it’s a trade for power and control they
would not have otherwise. They are partners with globalism, and
globalism breeds and encourages evil.
It is important to understand this dynamic going forward because I
see the argument often that the globalists are trying to “divide and
conquer” America. In truth, we are ALREADY divided and have been for
some time. Trying to talk with and educate moderates on the facts is one
thing, but there is very little point in trying to engage in diplomacy
with leftists. They have already chosen a side, and it’s not the side of
reason or freedom.
Minorities, working class females, refugees, indentured 1099 gig-serfs - none of these people are in any kind of position to “tear each other’s faces off” in American Civil War 2.0.
The working class is the most integrated sector of America. Most of the black folk I know don’t have much interest in BLM. Most are likely to ask “What do you have to say about the violence in the hood?” None of the black folk I know have any interest in the race baiters at CNN. MSNBC, NYT, WaPo, NPR, those jokers are for idiotic comfortable white folks, the pretty people.
Most of the white working class folk I know aren’t interested in any of that gas either. They're too busy trying to get by, take care of family etc. Now find a politician that doesn’t have a platinum tongue, who walks the talk about forcing industry to come back to America, and who threatens the rich with high wages for those folk or watch your holdings get repurposed. See what happens then. Watch as the pretty people show their true colors as the real race baiters.
We’ve got a family friend who is a shift manager at a local Starbucks. The chain closed 8,000 stores in 2018 for a day of racial sensitivity training. The sensitivity trainer surveyed the group of workers at our friend’s location. They stared back at him. After a moment, everyone broke out laughing. There was nary a marginalized minority who was not represented among them.
1% Media/Social Network Activists and White kids’ co-opting movements or appropriating and spinning the utter HORROR of being poor and Black in America has precious little to do with Black Lives Matter. Conflating this with Comcast-ATT-Fox-Disney-Viacom - again monetizing poor worker deaths by cop, OR, prodding the working poor into hellish gig-serfdom, to intentionally infect vulnerable loved-ones, flip their apartments; then further break them down into homelessness - IS what Taibbi, Greenwald… basically all your HEROS studiously ignore.
Phugg a Tuskeegee and ancient history. Black people have powerful common sense and clearly understand the absurdity of "protecting the protected from the unprotected by forcing the unprotected to use the protection that didn't protect the protected". Too bad too many other folks LACK the common sense that God gave to his people. How many vaccinated are just resentful and Karenized because once you get cream-pied with that unnatural and inanimate goo, there's no getting unvaccinated....,
"I'm not an anti-vaxxer. I'm no Fox
News-watching conservative. Many Black people are not, they just do not
trust this vaccine," Newsome, who is unvaccinated, added.
"Black people are realizing that Democrats are almost as bad as the Republicans when it comes to their treatment of Black people," he said. "It's a very sobering feeling."
But
he added: "We're fully aware that Republicans only care about Black
issues when it impacts them. They were pro-police when there was BLM
protests, anti-police when they stormed the Capitol on January 6."
And while he disavowed any comparison between vaccine mandates and Nazi
Germany or slavery, he believes they would be used "to make Black people
second-class citizens."
Forcing Black Americans to make a decision to take the vaccine or lose
their job is "completely unfair... because as a Black person, I do not
trust the government," he said. "The largest numbers of unvaccinated
people are Black. We will truly feel the penalty of not complying."
Newsome said he would not get the COVID-19 vaccine until he can trust
it is safe. "I think each individual has their own threshold," he said.
"I'll know mine when I reach it."
Enyia added: "When we talk
about issues of vaccine hesitancy, and we hear 'trust the science' and
those sort of phrases, you just can't overlook the role that historical
factors play into the scepticism and perhaps the mistrust.
"Frankly,
it's condescending and a bit trite to toss it aside... because the time
for trust building is throughout time, it's throughout that history.
It's harder in the middle of a pandemic, to need to hurry up and
convince people to trust an institution when the history has not shown
that that trust has been earned. That's a very real challenge."
dailymail | A huge crowd of protesters have gathered outside the 2021 Met Gala in Manhattan just as a host of A-listers arrive for the biggest night in the fashion calendar.
Multiple
arrest have been made as dozens of NYPD officers clashed with the BLM
protesters outside New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art on Monday.
Police
can be heard yelling at demonstrators lining the streets to 'Move
back!' in cellphone footage of the event, while the protesters chant
'Black Lives Matter'.
'The NYPD has a total financial allocation
of $11 billion per year. This money goes towards racist policing that
destroys Black and brown communities while people who are struggling do
not get the resources they need. CARE, not COPS, is the answer,' the
flyer read.
It is still unclear how many protestors were arrested.
The
gala's theme this year is a celebration of the Costume Institute’s
newest exhibition, 'In America: A Lexicon of Fashion.' The exhibit will
open to the public in the Anna Wintour Costume Center on September
18th.
The gala usually takes place
on the first Monday in May, but was delayed due to Covid-19 fears until
tonight. The 2020 event was cancelled entirely due to the pandemic.
kctv5 | On Thursday, the FBI confirmed investigators returned to a Grain
Valley home off Buckner Tarsney Road where officers discovered the
remains of 32-year-old Kensie Renee Aubry last week.
According
to court records a separate child sex crimes investigation into the
property owner, Michael Hendricks, and his girlfriend Maggie Ybarra
brought investigators to the property to search for a body last week.
Both Hendricks and Ybarra are accused of molesting a teen girl. During
that investigation, the teen told investigators she believed a woman’s
body could be found on Hendricks’ property because she was shown photos.
She says they described how the woman was killed.
Investigators
have not said what they were searching for Thursday or why they returned
this week. During their search at the property last Wednesday, they
discovered Aubry’s remains. She was reported missing in October of last
year from Independence, Mo. “It’s disturbing to know all that was
happening right behind us,” one neighbor said. “We’ve had kids out here
swimming and playing in the pool.”
kansascity | It seemed more like the plot of a horror movie than a true account of a night at a Kansas City-area bar.
Two
sisters claimed in a lawsuit that bouncers refused to let them leave,
battered them and handcuffed them to a wall — all because the bouncers
wrongly thought the women had used a counterfeit $50 bill.
Nick
Hinrichs, an attorney representing the women, told The Star on Tuesday
that his clients had reached a $1 million settlement against the
bouncers and the owner of the bar. Missouri Lawyers Weekly first reported on the settlement.
Examiner | Grain Valley police don’t suspect foul play but aren’t ruling it out
yet in the death of an Oak Grove woman whose body was found Saturday in
Grain Valley.
Amber Jo Bradley-Couch, 28, of Oak Grove was found
dead Saturday in Grain Valley by a man out walking his dog about 4:35
p.m. She had been missing since Jan. 19 and had been last seen at the
Whiskey Tango bar in Grain Valley.
She was not reported missing
until Feb. 6. It was first reported by police that her 1997 green
two-door Chevrolet Cavalier was found in late February in Blue Springs,
but Grain Valley Police Chief Aaron Ambrose said that car was not
related to the incident.
Ambrose said Bradley-Couch was found not far from Whiskey Tango and it didn’t appear that foul play was involved.
Read more here: https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article213899559.html#storylink=cpy
theblaze | Why won't your favorite white cable newsman or newswoman tell you
what I'm telling you? Rachel Maddow, Anderson Cooper, Chris Cuomo, Joe
Scarborough, aren't they our allies? No. They're not. They're political
lobbyists working on behalf of the corporations and politicians pushing
the reset.
OK. What about me? You might think I'm a political
partisan working on behalf of conservative Republicans. That is
certainly how I've been painted by left-leaning media outlets and social
media platforms. And I'm now partnered with Blaze Media, a platform
that leans right.
Judge my career. I have been at this for more
than 30 years. I have been equally despised by the left and the right. I
have publicly feuded with Bill O'Reilly and Keith Olbermann. I've been a
guest on their old Fox News and MSNBC shows. I've worked and/or written
for ESPN, Fox Sports, the Huffington Post, Playboy Magazine, the New
York Times, the Wall Street Journal. I spent years bashing Sarah Palin.
I
don't play for any political team. I've never voted. I go wherever I
believe I can speak, follow, and write the truth. The truth I believe
the most is that Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior.
I believe
Jesus is under attack. That's why I'm at Blaze Media. You can't defend
Jesus at corporate media outlets. Advertisers won't allow it. You can
discuss the religion of racism every day at ESPN, CNN, MSNBC, and even
Fox Sports. But it's taboo to discuss the cure for racism — Jesus — on
those platforms.
I'm not saying any of this because there's a big
paycheck for black men espousing my views. The money for black
broadcasters and journalists is connected to preaching the race-bait
religion.
Let me be clear. I'm not broke by any stretch. I've
earned and saved a substantial sum of money. But I've bypassed far more
money than I've earned with the choice I've made to follow the truth
wherever it leads and my refusal to support the racial groupthink
dictated by global elites.
My faith won't allow me to jump on
board with the lunacy, racism, and sacrilege of Black Lives Matter, a
movement founded by three lesbian self-admitted trained Marxists. BLM is
an atheist movement in support of LGBTQ issues and the reshaping of
America into a communist country. BLM is part of the deception.
Black people tell me all the time: "I don't support the BLM organization, but I support the slogan and sentiment."
Let
me translate that. You despise the devil's tree but love the fruit it
produces. That's some Don Lemon-Lori Lightfoot-Van Jones-Colin
Kaepernick level of hypocrisy. You know, all the Malcolm X-wannabe,
anti-white radicals in relationships with white partners. They hate the
white tree but can't live without the white fruit.
We have to stop
letting everyone use us. We're being played. We're all being played,
black and white working-class people. It's all a giant setup. Look at
what they did to Trump supporters. They were manipulated into storming
the Capitol, and then the corporate media portrayed it as a bloody,
violent KKK rally intended to overthrow democracy. The so-called
"insurrection" is an excuse for the government to seize more power and
crush dissent.
We, black people, have been convinced the crushing of working-class white people is good for us.
It's
not. Working-class white people, Christian white people, are our true
allies, not the elites. We can't see that because of the made-for-TV
hyper-focus on racial conflict.
The defunding and demoralizing of
police are tactics deployed to increase violence in major cities. Local
media outlets are focusing on this rise in crime, national media
outlets have followed suit, and social media platforms are generating
viral videos exposing the crime wave.
Guess who are the stars of this content. Black perpetrators.
It's
all a massive setup. The stirring of racial animus between Obama
worshippers and Trump worshippers is orchestrated by billionaire elites,
executed by trained Marxists, promoted by millionaire influencers in
the media, sports, and entertainment worlds, and co-signed by religious
leaders pursuing popularity.
About those "rulers of BLM" - Never forget that Obama is the poster child and his cousin Warren Buffett is the money behind Black Lives Matter. Once you understand these basic facts, you can transcend the useless idiocy of talking in terms of "left" and "right", communist, fascist, conservative, progressive, etc..., rather, you can maintain laser-focus on who is doing the behavior and what their concrete-specific objectives can be discovered to be.
There
is, however, another version of events, in which the heartfelt
dedication to racial justice is only the forward-facing side of a more
complicated movement. Behind the street level activism and emotional
outpouring is a calculated machinery built by establishment money and
power that has seized on racial politics, in which some of the biggest
capitalists in the world are financially backing a group of
self-described “trained Marxists”—a label that Cullors enthusiastically
applies to herself and the group’s other co-founders.
These
bedfellows, whose stories and fortunes are never publicly presented as
related, are in reality intertwined under the umbrella of a fiscal
sponsor named the International Development Exchange. A modestly endowed
West Coast nonprofit with origins in the Peace Corps—which for decades
supported local farmers, shepherds, and agricultural workers across the
Global South—IDEX has, in the past six years, been transformed into two
distinct new things: the infrastructure back end to the Black Lives
Matter organization in the United States and also, at the very same
time, an investment fund vehicle driven by recruited MBAs and finance
experts seeking to leverage decades of on-the-ground grantee
relationships for novel forms of potentially problematic lending
instruments . And it did so with help from the family of one of the most
famous American billionaires in history—the Oracle of Omaha
himself.
About the police, as currently
configured, these economic burdens have been determined to be obsolete and a decision has been taken to do away with
their current barely governable configuration. Part of the War on Drugs
was to keep cops from policing their own neighborhoods. Even if they
live in the city they serve, they cannot work in the jurisdiction they
live in, as it may create a conflict of interest. Police not knowing
residents is policy, not accident.
Many police,
firefighters/EMTs, and other city employees do not live in the cities
that employ them. As the ratio of local residents working for a city
steadily declines, so does the performance of that city’s government.
It’s a terrible situation, made demonstrably worse by state laws that
struck down residency requirements for city employees statewide, in
contravention of home rule guarantees. State preemption of local control
is destroying municipal governments throughout numerous states. Again, this is a matter of policy, not accident.
With
the military, it seems odd that progressives are just now waking up to
the idea that an all-volunteer force somehow may mysteriously end up
with a disproportionate number of right-wing members. Maybe we have a
similar phenomenon with police. So I would suggest a draft not only for
the military but also for local police. Everyone at a young age should
experience one or the other, or maybe both, for a few years. Then
perhaps we could have informed discussions and dispense with most of the
righteous ranting.
We should also dispassionately
consider how dangerous a police officer’s job actually is – compared to a
truck driver, carpenter, farmer and host of other jobs…. hint, you will
find that a cops level of danger in their job does not make the top ten
list. And as for stopping crime, the police are
really, really bad at it. According to FBI stats, only 4% of major
crimes reported to police end in someone being convicted of a
crime and only half of all major crimes are reported. Again, this is a matter of policy, not accident.
If
we are actually concerned with public safety, with crime control, with
having a public institution who’s mandate is actually to serve and
protect the citizenry, then we need to design a whole new system from
the ground up. Trying to reform the policing system we have into doing
what we want it to do is doomed to fail. We need to start with a system
that is accountable to the populace it serves, and that is designed
specifically to provide security to that populace. We should not waste another moment trying to reform a
system that was designed for entirely different purposes than to protect
and serve the public.
So all the soap opera and
machismo pushed by cops – that their job is so tough and dangerous –
reduces to mush when held to the light of evidence. Continuing in that
vein, by and large, police officers are exceptionally well-paid for the
minimal qualifications required to get the job. Moreover, there are the
power and prestige attractions associated with being narratized as
heroic first responders and all that folderal. When you take into
consideration official overtime pay, and the pay available for
moonlighting, policing is one of the few remaining occupations in which a
certain demographic with nothing more than a high-school diploma can
realistically achieve a 6 figure income. Again, this is a matter of policy, not accident.
This is why
police have so little difficulty parting with the 6-8% annual vigorish
to their “fraternal orders”. The fraternal lodges are the real command
and control systems for police departments. The chief of police is
typically a bureaucratic figurehead whose job it is to run interference
with politicians – and to a limited degree – the public.
In the interest of supporting citations – I offer the following link - but recommend a google search on – fop brad lemon tow lot scandal
This
is a wonderful mid-sized urban anecdote of most of the moving parts
involved with the structure of power, prestige, and accountability in
contemporary policing. Abusive policing is concentrated among a
relatively small proportion of police officers. The majority of U.S.
police probably spend their entire careers without any incidence of
corruption or brutality. The problem is that police
abuse is protected, unconditionally, resulting in either no or
disproportionately low consequences for their actions. What results is
that some naturally violent or naturally corrupt people will seek out
police careers because it allows them to fulfill these desires without
consequence. Again, this is a matter of policy, not accident.
There’s an endemic debate over what people are saying when they refer
to ‘the west’. Is the west defined by its whiteness, its wealth, its
liberal democracy? Should we call it the ‘highly developed countries’,
the ‘advanced economies’, the ‘first world’, or the ‘global north’? I
think most of these terms misses what is distinctive about this set of
places. The countries we think of as ‘western’ are all countries where
Catholicism was once dominant but is now in varying levels of retreat.
Western countries are ‘post-Catholic’.
Catholicism
has certain distinctive effects on a place. Crucially, Catholicism
situates politics as subordinate to morality. In medieval Catholic
states, the monarch derives authority from the pope or from divine
right. This means the monarch’s legitimacy depends on the monarch having
the right moral orientation. In other parts of the world, politics and
morality were more heavily enmeshed. In the Byzantine Empire, the
emperor was supreme in both religious and temporal matters. In the
Islamic world, the caliph combined both political and religious
authority. In China, different dynasties embraced and promoted the
teachings of many different schools of thought at varying points. It was
only in the Catholic west that politics and morality were firmly
separated, with the former rendered clearly subordinate to the latter.
Are
corporations now deriving their "authoriteh" from the rump
"professional" class mediocrities comprising the
diversity-inclusion-equity clergy? Can the ecclesiastical congregation
of diversity-inclusion-equity offer absolution? Or merely economic cancellation...,
Given the weakness of post-Catholic morality - the only pervasive corporate values I see nowadays boil down
to Overton's Window of permitted discourse - and - expected prompt and
unquestioning compliance on the part of economically captured consumers. The pretend ethics of
diversity-inclusion-equity have been quickly and none too subtly
supplemented by "trust the science" indoctrination and compliance. If
our corporate feudal lords can only police what we say or have ever
said, that only scratches the surface of intended moral orthodoxy. If they can
police what we do in ways that extend down to our genomes, then the post-Catholic corporatism has transcended the wildest fantasies of the pre-reformation Holy Roman Church.
The
government can't police your intentions or your expressions or your
behaviors anywhere near as well as corporations with amorphous
community standards and big data, algorithms, and inexpensive filipino and
south asian comment moderators.
Did you happen to see Warren Buffett's cousin and
the diversity commander-in-chief peddling some highly suspect
"trust the science" theocracy just last sunday on teevee? When everything's said and done, if
we can't persuade you to comply, we've got some community standard
digital passports coming your way here shortly so that you can show and
prove your true belief in a way that the penitents of old never previously had to do in their confessionals...,
jonathanturley | We recently discussed
the move by Twitter to block the tweet of sports journalist Jason
Whitlock criticizing the BLM co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors for
purchasing a $1.4 million home in a secluded area of Los Angeles. A
self-professed Marxist, Cullors has reportedly purchased four homes worth more than $3 million and has looked at real estate investments in places like the Bahamas. As with the censoring of a New York Post article on the Hunter Biden laptop story,
Twitter was criticized for the censoring of the story and later said it
was a mistake. Now, Facebook has reportedly blocked the underlying New York Post
report about the controversy. In the meantime, BLM itself insists that
the controversy is little more than terrorism from white supremacists.
Various conservative sites reported this week that Facebook users could not share the link to a story that shed light on Cullors’ multi-million-dollar splurge on homes. Fox News reported
that “an error message appears whenever users try sharing the article
on their personal Facebook page or through the Messenger app.”
Cullors has not denied the purchase or the real estate investments,
including in her statement below to the controversy. The story was
widely circulated because Cullors has long insisted that she and her BLM
co-founder “are trained Marxists. We are super versed on, sort of,
ideological theories.” She has denounced capitalism as worse than
Covid-19.
Critics like Nick Arama of RedState pointed out: “[I]t’s interesting to note that the demographics of the area are only about 1.4% black people there. So not exactly living up to her creed there.”
Moreover, the head of New York City’s Black Lives Matter chapter called for an independent investigation into the organization’s finances in the wake of the controversy.
The New York Post and other publications reported that Cullors is eyeing expensive properties
in other locations, including the Bahamas. However, I noted earlier
that there is no evidence that this money came from BLM, which has
reportedly raised almost $100 million in donations from corporations and
other sources. Indeed, Cullors seems to have ample sources of funds.
She published a best selling memoir of her life and then a follow up
book. She also signed a lucrative deal with Warner Bros to develop and
produce original programming across all platforms, including broadcast,
cable and streaming. She has also been featured in various magazines
like her recent collaboration with Jane Fonda.
dailymail | Black reporter LOCKED OUT of Twitter for criticizing BLM founder's
$1.4 million home purchase blasts big tech for making movement a 'sacred
cow despite its financial grift'
Patrisse Cullors, 37, has bought an expansive property in Topanga Canyon
The district in which the BLM founder will now live is 88% white and 1.8% black
Critics accused her of abandoning her social justice and activist roots
Sports journalist Jason Whitlock was among those remarking on her purchase
Twitter on Friday locked him out of his account in response to his tweet
Whitlock told DailyMail.com he remains blocked by the social media network
Twitter is demanding he delete his tweet linking to a celebrity real estate blog
Whitlock says he remains 'in Twitter jail, because I won't post bail'
The action is the latest draconian step in censorship by the Silicon Valley firm
ghionjournal |Precisely at the time we need
leadership the most, we have been left out in the cold and shepherded
into the wilderness by black opinion leaders who are more interested in
cashing checks and enhancing their Q ratings than they are in standing
up for justice. Gone are the days of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and
erstwhile moral giants who confronted racism with the courage of lions,
we are now firmly entrenched in the era of hustling hyenas like
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Barack Obama and Kamala Harris who cozy up to the very
system of repression they pretend to be fighting against.
Instead of leading with imagination, sambos in expensive suits prefer to distract us
with agitprops and tropes. We went from “we shall overcome”, a mission
statement of resilience, to “black lives matter” as we meekly advertise
our inadequacies and beg for social acceptance. I am actually
embarrassed every time I see a similarly complexioned brother or sister
wearing a #BLM logo on their facemask or their chest;
As if doing damage to our psyche was not enough, some decide to add
insults to self-injury by dismissing the plight of anyone who does not
have melanin like ours. It is the height of absurdity to assume that
someone who is “white” has privilege by virtue of their skin color.
Not only is it patently untrue, it is counterproductive as it prevents
likeminded and like-mired “white” people–who would otherwise be
receptive to our plight–from hearing the message we are trying to convey
and joining the fight for redemption.
No one likes to be marginalized and their struggles to be minimized;
this is true for the truly privileged and the most disadvantaged alike.
Think about it; if someone in a wheelchair downplayed your pains and
pooh-poohed your anguish wrought by a broken leg, would you not take
umbrage with that person no matter how crippled she was? People who have
it bad don’t have a license to insult and disparage others who have it marginally better.
Instead of reaching an audience that is sympathetic to our cause, all
we do is close doors and preclude much needed conversations.
The only people who profit from these campaigns of grievance and
woe-is-me victimhood are the very charlatans who are sitting in the lap
of comfort and leading lives of true privilege. The establishment reward
demagogues who incite passions and lead us in the wrong direction.
There is a reason, after all, the Obamas were compensated to the tune of $60 million and why Ta-Nehisi Coates keeps landing on the New York Times bestsellers list.
The fastest way to make a buck and get leg up is to sell your own
people down the river in order to be invited into the whites’ house.
The leaders of Black Lives Matter have perfected the art of the
shakedown in ways that puts Jessie Jackson to shame; they have made more
money in our names and using our pains than any black organization
since the NAACP. What do we have to show for the hundreds of millions they have collected since Ferguson?
Email or DM me if you know the answer because I have been searching for
that answer since Michael Brown was assassinated. Far from being
freedom fighters, Black Lives Matter is a co-op of fee collectors who
hear cash registers ringing each time a “black” man or woman gets killed
by a cop.
americanthinker |The
headlines were about the fact that, when Megyn Kelly appeared on Bill
Maher’s HBO show on Friday, she complained about the way her children’s
pricey private schools in New York were indoctrinating them with
pro-transgender values and anti-white animus. Bill Maher to his credit,
agreed with Kelly that matters are getting seriously out of hand, at
least when it comes to the anti-white hatred that’s becoming the norm in
education. Maher’s always been a bit of maverick, though. The real
surprise was the enthusiasm his audience showed for that sentiment.
For
conservatives, nothing that Kelly said about her children’s experiences
in New York’s toniest private elementary schools came as a surprise.
Kelly said that, while she and her husband identify as “center-right,”
she was okay with the fact that the schools were on the left side of the
political aisle. That changed, though, when “they went hard left, and
then they started to take a really hard turn toward social justice
stuff.”
One
of the hot-button issues was the schools’ efforts to normalize
transgenderism, a form of body dysphoria that’s recognized as a mental
illness when the subject is anorexia, not sex. Kelly told Maher that,
when one of her sons was in third grade – that is, 8 years old, the
school “unleashed a three-week experimental trans-education program.”
You
talked about this letter the school put out. … Can I read some of the
things that are from this letter, lest people think I’m losing my mind?
“There’s
a killer cop sitting in every school where white children learn. White
children are left unchecked and unbothered in their homes,” one sentence
starts. Well, how old do you have to be before you can just be
unchecked and unbothered. You know, what age to you get bothered?
“I’m
tired of white people reveling in their state-sanctioned depravities,
snuffing out black lives with no consequences.” You know, “go reform
white kids.”
You
know, it bothers me so much that I have to be on this side [Kelly’s
side] of this issue. Because I’ve always been a civil rights advocate.
You know, don’t make me Tucker Carlson. You’re the f***ing nuts. This is
insane.
“As
black bodies drop like flies around us by violent white hands.” There
is racist problems in this country. But this is hyperbole, and this is
making people crazy.
It
was with those words that the amazing thing happened: Maher’s audience
applauded. Over the years, Maher’s audiences have always been trained
seals, reliably clapping at every hard left, anti-George Bush,
anti-Trump, pro-Obama statement the host utters. But this time, he said
that the BLM rap pushing Critical Race Theory (“CRT”) on American
society is dangerous insanity – and the audience clapped.
dailymail | The Electoral Commission has rejected a controversial application to set up a Black Lives Matter (BLM) political party in Britain because its name would be 'likely to mislead voters'.
The
independent election watchdog argued that a 'reasonable voter could
assume that the party represents, or is in some way associated with' the
grassroots BLM movement and its official UK affiliate.
A
spokesperson told MailOnline that the party's proposed constitution and
financial scheme were 'incomplete' and also rejected, as the manifesto
did not determine the structure and organisation of the party.
The application was submitted to the
election watchdog by applicants whose identities remain unknown just
five months after the killing of black man George Floyd by police officers in Minneapolis.
His
death triggered a cultural revolution in Britain that began with a wave
of statue toppling by protesters and culminated in the founding of a
Commission of Diversity in the Public Realm by London Mayor Sadiq Khan.
Tory
backbenchers claimed the application to set up the party proved that
BLM was a partisan political project with Left-wing objectives,
including 'deconstructing the concept of "family" and defunding the
police'.
However, at the time the bid
was lodged the main Black Lives Matter UK (BLM UK) group insisted it
had no affiliation with the applicants.
deadline |CAA has signed artist, organizer, educator, and public speaker Patrisse Cullors for representation in all areas.
Cullors is known as the co-founder of the Black Lives Matter Global
Network. In addition to her work with BLM, her advocacy shines through
as a Chairperson of Reform LA Jails, and Founder and Board Chair of
grassroots Los Angeles-based organization Dignity and Power Now.
On the TV side, Cullors is part of the writers’ room for the Freeform series Good Trouble. She initially served as a consultant for the first season of The Fosters spinoff
to help with Malika (Zuri Adele) activism and social justice storyline.
She joined the writers’ room for the second season.
Cullors also appeared in the Kenneth Paul Rosenberg’s documentary Bedlam, which sheds light on the state of mental health in the U.S. It premiered at Sundance earlier this year
and Cullors’ family is one of four that share their personal stories
about mental health. For her part, she shares the heartbreaking story of
her brother Monte and his struggle with mental health. This opens the
floodgates that unveil the country’s severely broken healthcare and
prison system.
In 2016, Cullors published her memoir When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir which wnet on to become a New York Times bestseller. She has directed and produced numerous theater and performance pieces as well as docu-series.
Cullors will continue to be repped by Keppler Speakers and Victoria Sanders & Associates.
truthdig |The black revolution is much more than a struggle for the rights
of Negroes. It is forcing America to face all its interrelated
flaws—racism, poverty, militarism, and materialism. It is exposing evils
that are rooted deeply in the whole structure of our society. It
reveals systemic rather than superficial flaws and suggests that radical
reconstruction of society itself is the real issue to be faced.—Martin Luther King Jr., 1968
You don’t have to be one of those conspiratorial curmudgeons who
reduces every sign of popular protest to “George Soros money” to
acknowledge that much of what passes for popular and progressive,
grass-roots activism has been co-opted, taken over and/or created by
corporate America, the corporate-funded “nonprofit industrial complex,” and Wall Street’s good friend, the Democratic Party, long known to leftists as “the graveyard of social movements.” This “corporatization of activism”
(University of British Columbia professor Peter Dauvergne’s term) is
ubiquitous across much of what passes for the left in the U.S. today.
What about the racialist group Black Lives Matter, recipient of a
mammoth $100 million grant from the Ford Foundation last year? Sparked
by the racist security guard and police killings of Trayvon Martin, Mike
Brown and Eric Garner, BLM has achieved uncritical support across the
progressive spectrum, where it is almost reflexively cited as an example
of noble and radical grass-roots activism in the streets. That is a
mistake.
I first started wondering where BLM stood on the AstroTurf versus
grass roots scale when I read an essay published three years ago in The Feminist Wire
by Alicia Garza, one of BLM’s three black, lesbian and veteran
public-interest careerist founders. In her “Herstory of the
#BlackLivesMatter Movement,” Garza wrote: “Black lives. Not just all
lives. Black lives. Please do not change the conversation by talking
about how your life matters, too. It does, but we need less watered down
unity and a more active solidarities with us, Black people,
unwaveringly, in defense of our humanity. Our collective futures depend
on it.”
Denouncing “hetero-patriarchy,” Garza described the adaptation of her
clever online catchphrase (“black lives matter”) by others—“brown lives
matter, migrant lives matter, women’s lives matter, and on and on”
(Garza’s dismissive words)—as “the Theft of Black Queer Women’s Work.”
“Perhaps,” she added, “if we were the charismatic Black men many are
rallying around these days, it would have been a different story.”
From a leftist perspective, this struck me as alarming. Why the
prickly, hyperidentity-politicized and proprietary attachment to the
“lives matter” phrase? Garza seemed more interested in brand value and
narrow identity than social justice. Did she want a licensing fee?
Wouldn’t any serious, leftist, people’s activist eagerly give the catchy
“lives matter” phrase away to all oppressed people and hope for their
wide and inclusive use in a viciously capitalist society that has
subjected everything and everyone to the soulless logic of commodity
rule, profit and exchange value? Who were these “charismatic Black men
many are rallying around” in the fall of 2014?
And how representative were Garza’s slaps at “hetero-patriarchy” and
“charismatic Black men” of the black community in whose name she spoke?
Would it be too hetero-patriarchal of me, I wondered, to suggest that
maybe a black male or two with experience of oppression in the nation’s
racist criminal justice system ought to share some space front and
center in a movement focused especially on a police and prison state
that targets black boys and men above all?
I defended the phrase “black lives matter” against the absurd charge
that it is racist, but I couldn’t help but wonder about the
left-progressive credentials of anyone who gets upset that others would
want to have a “conversation” (as Garza put it) about how their lives
matter too. Is there really something wrong with a marginalized Native
American laborer or a white and not-so “skin-privileged” former factory
worker struggling with sickness and poverty wanting to hear that his or
her life matters? For any remotely serious progressive, was there
anything mysterious about the fact that many white folks facing
foreclosure, job loss, poverty wages and the like might not be doing
cartwheels over the phrase “black lives matter” when they experience the
harsh daily reality that their lives don’t matter under the profits
system?
My concerns about BLM’s potential service to the capitalist elite
were reactivated when I heard a talk by Garza’s fellow BLM founder,
Patrisse Cullors (another veteran nonprofit careerist). Cullors spoke
before hundreds of cheering white liberals and progressives in downtown
Iowa City in February. “We are witnessing the erosion of U.S.
democracy,” she said, adding that Donald Trump “is building a police
state.” Relating that she had gone into a “two-week depression” after
Hillary Clinton was defeated by Trump, Cullors said she wondered if BLM
had “done enough to educate people about the differences between Donald
Trump and Hillary Clinton.” She described Trump as a fascist.
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