unz |“The logistical capabilities of antifa+ are also impressive. They can
move people around the country with ease, position pallet loads of new
brick, 55 gallon new trash cans of frozen water bottles and other
debris suitable for throwing on gridded patterns around cities in a well
thought out distribution pattern. Who pays for this? Who plans this?
Who coordinates these plans and gives “execute orders?”
Antifa+ can create massive propaganda campaigns that fit their agenda.
These campaigns are fully supported by the MSM and by many in the
Congressional Democratic Party. The present meme of “Defund the Police”
is an example. This appeared miraculously, and simultaneously across
the country. I am impressed. Yesterday the frat boy type who
is mayor of Minneapolis was booed out of a mass meeting of radicals in
that fair city because he refused to endorse abolishing the police
force. Gutting the civil police forces has long been a major
goal of the far left, but now, they have the ability to create mass
hysteria over it when they have an excuse.” (“My take on the present situation”, Sic Semper Tyrannis)
Colonel
Lang is not the only one to marvel at Antifa’s “logistical
capabilities”. The United States has never experienced two weeks of
sustained protests in hundreds of its cities at the same time. It’s
beyond suspicious, it points to extensive coordination with groups
across the country, a comprehensive media strategy (that probably
preceded the killing of George Floyd), a sizable presence on social
media (to put people on the street), and agents provocateur whose task
is to incite violence, loot and create mayhem.
None
of this has anything to do with racial justice or police brutality.
America is being destabilized and sacked for other purposes altogether.
This a destabilization campaign similar to the CIA’s color revolutions
designed to topple the regime (Trump), install a puppet government
(Biden), impose “shock therapy” on the economy pushing tens of millions
of Americans into homelessness and destitution, and leave behind a
broken, smoldering shell of a country easily controlled by Federal shock
troops and wealthy globalist mandarins. Here’s a short excerpt from an
article by Kurt Nimmo at his excellent blog “Another Day in the Empire”:
“The BLM represents the forefront of an effort to divide Americans along
racial and political lines, thus keeping race and identity-based
barbarians safely away from more critical issues of importance to the
elite, most crucially a free hand to plunder and ransack natural
resources, minerals, crude oil, and impoverish billions of people whom
the ruling elite consider unproductive useless eaters and a hindrance to
the drive to dominate, steal, and murder….
It
is sad to say BLM serves the elite by ignoring or remaining ignorant of
the main problem—boundless predation by a neoliberal criminal project
that considers all—black, white, yellow, brown—as expliotable and
dispensable serfs.” (“2 Million Arab Lives Don’t Matter“, Kurt Nimmo, Another Day in the Empire)
The
protest movement is the mask that conceals the maneuvering of elites.
The real target of this operation is the Constitutional Republic itself.
Having succeeded in using the Lockdown to push the economy into severe
recession, the globalists are now inciting a fratricidal war that will
weaken the opposition and prepare the country for a new authoritarian
order.
obb | Some of the leaders of the militia are supporters of the Bundy family
in Nevada. Cliven Bundy refused to pay the Bureau of Land Management
more than a million dollars in cattle grazing fees.
What resulted was an armed standoff between the BLM and militiamen from
around the U.S. who flocked to defend Bundy. Militiamen even shut down
I-15 north of Las Vegas as part of the confrontation.
In YouTube videos posted over the past two months, Cliven Bundy’s son,
Ammon Bundy, has made similar statements about the Hammonds – that the
family is “being silenced” by federal officers and prosecutors. In one
online posting titled a “Redress of Grievances,” Ammon Bundy alleges
federal prosecutors are intimidating the Hammonds.
“We have obtained appalling evidence that the U.S. Attorney’s Office
threatened the Hammond family with early detention and further
punishment if the Hammond family continued to communicate with a
certain individual,” Bundy writes. “This evidence…speaks against the
U.S. Attorneys [sic] Office in their gross effort to infringe upon the
Hammond’s right to free exercise of speech.”
In an interview with OPB, Cliven Bundy said the Hammonds reached out to
his family during the past two months and asked for help.
“In public, they haven’t asked for our help,” Bundy told OPB. “In
private, we’re still needed. I talked to Dwight Hammond…for probably
close to an hour. His conclusion is basically, ‘I do not want to be
shot in the head.’ He had fear that if he actually rejected what was
going on, and stood up for the abuse in what was going on, there would
be somebody who would actually kill him. Fear, is what their problem
is.”
Spurred by outcry from the Bundy family, the militia organized a rally
in support of the Hammonds for Saturday in Burns, calling out to
self-described patriot groups from across the country.
They said it would be a peaceful march. Yet, threats are implied in many of the calls to protest from all quarters.
Ammon Bundy writes that if the Hammonds are imprisoned, “there will be some serious civil unrest.”
And militiaman Ryan Payne said he will do “whatever it takes” to support the Hammonds.
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."
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.
Every public school district in America should be planning for in person school next semester. It can be done safely, *even in places with pretty high community transmission*. We now have pretty good data to show that. https://t.co/4fCs2tqVHa
economicprism | One of the absurdities of the coronavirus era is the purported faith
in science by the political class; in particular, the left. Joe Biden,
for instance, said he would shut the country down if recommended by scientists. Nancy Pelosi, this week, with respect to coronavirus stimulus, told Wolf Blitzer, that “…the science should call the shot and when they do, we should all trust it.”
“Trust, but verify,” counseled Ronald Reagan. No doubt, the Gipper, didn’t envision the ridiculous science behind coronavirus containment policy.
President Trump, taking the advice of Reagan, recently verified the
effects of coronavirus himself. His findings, following a three day
bout with the illness, revealed the science based policies that have
been applied are not to be trusted. Trump tweeted these conclusions:
“One thing that’s for certain: Don’t let it dominate you. Don’t be afraid of it. You’re going to beat it.”
According to Science magazine, “[Trump’s]
repeated public dismissals of scientific expertise, and his disdain for
evidence have prompted many researchers to label him the most
antiscience president in living memory.”
Maybe so. But when science is being used by policy makers to do
stupid and destructive things, like locking down the economy, being
antiscience is the intelligent choice. What’s more, the World Health
Organization now says it’s opposed to lockdowns, and told world leaders: “stop using lockdowns as your primary control method.”
We have a hunch that the science of lockdowns has little to do with
stemming the spread of coronavirus. We’ll have more on this in a
moment. But first, we must make an important distinction. And to do
so, we must take a brief diversion…
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.
NYTimes |President Obama
offered an indirect critique of the Black Lives Matter movement during a
town-hall-style event here on Saturday, encouraging activists to engage
with the political process and cautioning them that social change can
be a slow and incremental process.
At a meeting with young people
on the second day of his visit to Europe, during which he championed a
new trade deal between the United States and the European Union, the
president took questions on a variety of topics, including Northern
Ireland, transgender rights and racial profiling.
After
responding to a questioner who suggested that his administration had
not done enough to address racial profiling at airports — a practice
that Mr. Obama said he adamantly opposed — the president turned his
attention to the Black Lives Matter movement.
He
praised the movement as “really effective in bringing attention to
problems,” but said young activists should be more willing to work with
political leaders to craft solutions instead of criticizing from outside
the political process.
“Once
you’ve highlighted an issue and brought it to people’s attention and
shined a spotlight, and elected officials or people who are in a
position to start bringing about change are ready to sit down with you,
then you can’t just keep on yelling at them,” Mr. Obama said.
“And
you can’t refuse to meet because that might compromise the purity of
your position,” he continued. “The value of social movements and
activism is to get you at the table, get you in the room, and then to
start trying to figure out how is this problem going to be solved.”
foreignpolicy | If proud boys
and vigilantes can’t pull off a coordinated drive for power, they may
opt for a time-honored approach in democratic politics: the “strategy of
tension.” In a paper published this spring,
University of Winchester criminologists Matt Clement and Vincenzo
Scalia defined the strategy of tension as a political method of “state
crime,” designed to produce “a climate of fear within communities.
[Strategies of tension] employ deceit, threats, and acts of violence in
order to maintain control across society through fear of the
consequences of challenging the government of the day.”
The term was coined in Italy during the Years of Lead from the late 1960s to the 1980s, when political violence exploded, with bombings, kidnappings, and failed coups
making weekly headlines. Under the strategy of tension, as the left
grows more militant, influential, and strident in its demands, the right
tries to inflame social tensions rather than defuse them. The violence
has a dual purpose, to both suppress and provoke. The right’s aim is to
cordon the left off from power by simultaneously intimidating them,
eliciting escalation, getting the police to crack down, and using the
chaos to manipulate public opinion and political alliances.
Virtually every member of the Western Alliance has had its own years
of lead, not only Italy but Britain during The Troubles in Northern
Ireland, France as it tried to cling to Algeria and was targeted by its
own paramilitary terror campaign, South America in the years of Operation Condor,
Mexico’s Dirty War, and so on. America is no exception. The country has
been here several times before: Bleeding Kansas during the 1850s, when
slave-owners and abolitionists faced off in murderous confrontations;
the birth of the first Klan after the Civil War to resist Radical
Reconstruction; and the wave of violence that accompanied the rise of
the Third Klan during the civil rights movement. Elements of the left
from John Brown to the Italian Red Brigades have also pursued violent
accelerationist campaigns in pursuit of social change. But only the
reactionaries have enjoyed approval from more mainstream sources of
political power. Often, they got logistical support as well as material
and legal cover from security services.
Clement and Scalia described the strategy of tension as a vicious cycle.
State prevention of emancipatory politics leads to dissent, which is in
turn repressed and delegitimized, further isolating social movements.
State
prevention of emancipatory politics leads to dissent, which is in turn
repressed and delegitimized, further isolating social movements.
With no outlet for their demands, activists pursue more radical
confrontations, leading their opponents to justify almost any violence
in maintenance of the oppressive regime.
That dynamic is on display in the response to this year’s BLM
protests. Once initial police suppression was met with uprisings, the
“good guys with guns,” “patriots,” and militias showed up. Ostensibly
there to protect businesses and support law enforcement, the armed
right has instead brought Chekhov’s AR-15 onto the political stage. The
inevitable exchanges of gunfire and vehicular assaults at protests
demonstrate, as Christina Cauterucci recently wrote for Slate, the political ethos of “own the libs” has escalated into “kill the libs.”
In the classic model, the strategy of tension was associated with
Cold War covert action and CIA interference in our allies’ domestic
politics. After World War II, Western intelligence agencies really did
organize “stay-behind networks” with alumni of both fascist regimes and
anti-communist resistance networks in preparation for a possible Soviet
invasion.
And a military threat from the east was only one strategic danger:
The left, it was feared, could also rise to power in the West at the
ballot box and through social movements. The CIA did put its hands on
the scale in the elections like Italy in 1948, when left-wing parties
were portrayed as Soviet puppets and systemically kept out of a
coalition government. In the late 1960s, the rise of the New Left was
indeed met with covert violence, police terror, and a string of false
flag attacks by neo-Fascists intended to suppress, discredit, and
isolate the young movement.
americanmind | Michael Anton’s new article “The Coming Coup?” went viral almost as soon as we posted it a week ago today. This is not simply because figures like Lara Logan, Mollie Hemingway, Newt Gingrich, Dan Bongino, and the editors of the New York Post
took note. It spread because concerned citizens began sharing it
throughout the nation. We could tell it was especially effective because
so many in the mainstream media maintained studious radio silence.
But hyperventilating ruling-class supporters of the Biden/BLM/Antifa
coalition did predictably lash out. The epitome of these reactions is an
article in New York magazine’s Intelligencer, by political columnist Ed Kilgore, entitled “Trump Backers Make Case for Stealing Election, Before Biden Gets the Chance.”
The title itself reveals the stubborn simplicity of the Democratic
Party’s coup narrative. Their elites have worked themselves and their
base into a frothing lather of existential fright. In article after
article, liberal intellectuals and activists have been talking for
months about how Trump could steal the election or refuse to leave the White House even if he loses. But if the Right dares to point out that Democrats are actually changing the rules of the electoral process and actually speaking publicly about refusing to concede even if they lose, well, this only proves that the Right is going to steal the election and refuse to concede if they lose!
These are segments from Rising featuring exemplary stretches of elite, straight-hate for the benighted peasants out here where I live. What jumps out of this cloud of misdirection is the framing of “Red“ state Trump supporters as welfare parasites, extracting our essentially unearned stipends from the productive largesse of the coastal cognitive elites. We addle-brained deplorables are ungrateful for vulture capitalists, hedge funds, military industrial technological complex that has strip mined wealth from us on the regular for generations.
Because these talking heads represent our cognitive elites, Russiagate is is not a hoax. BLM and the woke DNC minions are going to effect real criminal justice and law enforcement reform. Their accusations of treason, red baiting, and smears with one unsourced claim after another - never correcting the record when they were shown to be wrong - are the new normal. The mainstream narrative has told you authoritatively that Russia has more effect on our elections than Israel, Saudi Arabia, Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and our own military industrial technological complex.
Didn't you witness the way that they swept the Biden Crime Family information under the rug like it didn't even exist?
In my humble opinion, there is no way the PMC will allow the depth of its subversive control over everything including our elections to be revealed. At this point, I suspect that Trump is negotiating for his post-presidential life - and that of his family. He is trying to drive a hard bargain. He will push the potential of a reveal up to the point where they will give him what he needs and a little of what he wants.
Trump is looking to secure his family's continued ability to do business and be financially successful. In exchange, he will cease to seek a second term and will not tell too much about certain details or people in his upcoming book deal. That's it.
Trump has learned the hard way that the deep state is too well entrenched to be defeated; that he cannot use the system that screwed him (and us) to unscrew us. If the deep state has the power to fix a US presidential election and have the media pre-set on their side for the aftermath - then it is a fool's errand to think that one could use the very same system to set things right legally.
I absolutely love the way Trump has trolled these pompous, oxygen-thieving parasites. He has done yoeman's work toward the valuable goal of getting us to pay attention to the man behind the curtain. That was a necessary first step toward a warrior taking the stage and begining the armed journey toward a fight to the death.
Trump is not this warrior.
There would have to be investigations and arrests of perpetrators. Careers will be ruined. Glad handing money making networks will be disrupted on a huge scale. In fact, the entire democrat party, especially as run by an old school machine politician like Biden, is a massive money making cartel. That cartel will take a big hit. The PMC will fight more viciously than ever now to prevent any of this from happening.
The anti-Trump rhetoric will increase to hyperbolic levels exceeding even what we have seen over the past four years. True believers/ideologues will be in a frenzy. There will be continuous riots in the streets. probably targeted assassinations of Trump supporters and conservative politicians. Some of that will be spontaneous and some will be directed and funded by the anti-Trump "resistance". Blue governors will defy policy directives out of Washington DC.
There will be a whole new round of sabotage from the PMC that will surpass the Panicdemic, Russia collusion, lying about troop levels deployed to war zones, leaking to the press, fake news, impeachment and all of that nonsense.
The warrior will have to be autocratic, even 100% dictatorial, in his leadership style.
I don't see Trump as willing or able to do that job.
epochtimes | Having the organizational infrastructure in place, unionized K-12
teachers and staff are the perfect societal, organized group to take the
combination of masks, grievance, and narcissism and operationalize it
as the shock troops for taking down the American constitutional system.
Rick Moran identified this in his 2017 piece, “Dozens of public school teachers involved in Antifa.” It was a clarion call that something was going on.
The arrest reports from around the country have shown a high number
of those arrested are part of the K-12 education system. Often times,
arrests from Portland have reflected numbers north of 50 percent. Andy Ngo and others have done an excellent job of documenting this connection—often at great personal risk. The street thugs of Antifa and BLM seem to lose their “bravery” once the mask comes off and they are exposed.
Do not quibble, do not try to rationalize with the mob—reject their
thesis and aggressively deal with them—both citizens and all levels of
government must lock shoulders and stand against the blind rage of the
street mobbery. Once specific personalities are personally held liable
for the death and destruction they create, the violence will rapidly go
away.
This is not just the masked actors—this includes the state and local
leaders and politicians that act in a feckless, hapless matter.
Fecklessness may not be a crime, but results count, so citizens, please
hold these politicians and leaders responsible through recall petitions
and new elections.
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.
VeteransToday | Just what is this Koch Industries? Should it be called a “company?” If so we need to re-think the idea of what a company and a business is supposed to be. Even the brother of Koch Industries owners David and Charles Koch called the company an “organized crime” operation.
Koch money is a key driver of the conservative movement. Almost every [1] conservative-movement rock [2] you turn over [3] has Koch money [4] crawling around [5] under it. As the movement becomes more and more of a pay-to-play operation, conservatives of every stripe do more and more to protect and enrich the Koch operation. This has included blocking, disrupting and avoiding official investigations of accusations. It also includes funding front groups to advance the political and financial interests of the company and its owners.
Theft Of Oil From Reservations Oppose The Future [6] has the story of how Koch Oil [7] was caught stealing oil from an Indian Reservation, reducing or removing the incomes of so many poor residents.
At some point in 1987, Thurmon Parton’s royalty checks for the three oil wells he inherited from his mother suddenly dropped from $3,000 a month to a little over $1,000. He and his sister, Arnita Gonzalez, members of the Caddo tribe, lived near Gracemont, Oklahoma, a town of a few hundred people on a small grid on the prairie.
Those modest royalties were the only source of income each of them had.
What happened to Mr. Parton, Ms. Gonzales and Ms. Limpy had nothing to do with the wells or how they were producing. Their oil was being stolen. And all of the evidence pointed to the same culprit: Koch Oil, a division of Koch Industries
This is an important story today because it helps us understand the nature of the Koch operation, which has so much influence over our politics and even livelihoods today. It also helps us understand why our government not only appears to be influenced, but often to be outright corrupted. From the story
In the spring of 1989, a Special Committee on Investigations of the United States Senate’s Select Committee on Indian Affairs was formed to look into concerns that the path to tribal self-rule was impeded by fraud, corruption and mismanagement from all sides.
Within a span of months, the Special Committee determined that “Koch [Oil] was engaged in systematic theft, stealing millions in Oklahoma alone.” BLM, even with a tip that Koch was behaving improperly, hadn’t done a thing.
Oppose The Future [7] lays out the story and details of the oil theft. There is also the story of the years following.
unz |I think for most of us who were watching, we simply had an overwhelming feeling of Schadenfreude
— seeing the political elite that’s been selling us down the river and
making our lives hell for decades for once the ones cowering in fear.
This was most especially true of the Democrats, who got a taste of their
own medicine after endlessly excusing and justifying BLM and Antifa
violence over the past four years. Only a few weeks before, Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez had tweeted
an ill-timed message justifying protests, writing, “The thing that
critics of activists don’t get is that they tried playing the ‘polite
language’ policy game and all it did was make them easier to ignore . . .
The whole point of protesting is to make people uncomfortable.
Activists take that discomfort with the status quo and advocate for
concrete policy changes. Popular support often starts small and grows.
To folks who complain protest demands make others uncomfortable . . .
that’s the point.” On this, we can agree with her.
What if activists aren’t PR firms for politicians & their demands are bc police budgets are exploding, community resources are shrinking to bankroll it, & ppl brought this up for ages but it wasn’t until they said “defund” that comfortable people started paying attn to brutality
But
for me, I was no less happy to see the Republicans on the run. After
all, it is they who have been stoking the anger and resentment of
populist Americans, secure in their belief that they had conjured a
monster they completely controlled and that they could endlessly exploit
for their own purposes no matter what they did. Well, that monster
turned around and bit them on their fleeing asses on Wednesday. The
“people,” whom they love to claim they represent, went from being an
ideological abstraction to an angry mob after they felt cheated and
decided to take matters into their own hands. It’s important to remember
that, according to reports,
what first inspired the protesters to descend on the Capitol was when
word reached them that Pence had refused to challenge the certification
of the Electoral College result. They weren’t just angry at the
Democrats; they were angry at the whole lot of them.
Just
as among conservatives, there are those on the Dissident Right who see
this event as a tragedy, primarily because they believe that this
protest has discredited the populist movement. To such people, I can
only respond: What were you getting out of being well-behaved? It was
already clear before the Capitol occupation that no real attempt was
being made to win justice regarding the election results. Those
Republicans who have backed Trump in his efforts to challenge Biden’s
alleged victory have, for the most part, only done so because they want
to be able to tell their Trump-loving supporters that they did their
best, but that, in the end, the Democrats cheated them. I’m quite sure
that they’ve known for weeks that they had already done all they could
do through legal procedures; what they’ve been doing in the meantime was
merely theater for their constituents. None of them really wanted to
challenge the establishment; they are the establishment. So,
from our point of view, what is there to be gained by backing a lost
cause? A lost cause that, moreover, didn’t offer much to us to begin
with, given that every Dissident Rightist has been deeply disappointed
in the Trump administration? Sure, a Trump win was preferable to a Biden
win from our perspective, but it’s hardly worth quietly and passively
going down with the ship for him.
Of
course, even before the Capitol had been cleared, I started seeing the
conspiracy theorists coming out of the woodwork to claim that this was
yet another “false flag” event, just like every other historical event
to have occurred over the past 70 years. The main support for this claim
that I’ve seen is that it has been asserted that known Antifa members
have been identified in the crowd that occupied the Capitol. Even if
this is true, I don’t see what difference this makes. People in Antifa
are known to be attracted to violence and chaos, so it’s hardly
surprising that a few of them may have shown up to take part.
LATimes | Nearly three years ago, a group of about 200 workers at McDonald's, Taco Bell and other New York City fast-food restaurants walked off the job and rallied for higher wages.
It was widely described as the largest series of demonstrations ever in the fast-food industry.
Fast-forward to Tuesday, and the so-called Fight for $15 movement
seeking better pay for fast-food and other low-wage workers has spread
to what organizers say are 270 cities across the U.S. All three
Democratic presidential candidates weighed in with support on Twitter
after rallies began. The governor of New York and the mayor of
Pittsburgh issued orders Tuesday that will lead to a $15 minimum wage
for all government workers.
How the once-fledgling campaign has
captivated national political discourse is a testament to the uneasiness
still felt by many Americans left out of the recovery from the Great
Recession. Although jobs have continued to grow since the depths of the
downturn, earnings for lower- and middle-income workers have not.
By galvanizing efforts around fast-food workers —
people who many interact with on a daily basis — the movement's
organizers, backed in part by the nation's second-largest labor union,
have worked to change the public perception of low-wage work.
"For many of us, these are workers who we see every day, yet they're
invisible," said Harley Shaiken, a UC Berkeley labor expert. "What the
Fight for 15 has done is give faces, names and personal stories that
many, perhaps most, working Americans can identify with."
The
federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour has been the same since 2009, and
efforts have stalled in Congress to increase wages. But at the state and
local level, there has been an unprecedented wave of action to boost
wages since the movement began in 2012.
gatestoneinstitute |According
to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, "Over 81,000 drug
overdose deaths occurred in the United States in the 12 months ending in
May 2020, the highest number of overdose deaths ever recorded in a
12-month period..." That is equal to one-third of the total number of
deaths supposedly attributed to the COVID pandemic.
Deaths equal to one-third of the pandemic? From another cause? Where
is the wall-to-wall news reporting on that public health crisis? Why
aren't people marching in the streets demanding action and justice for
that threat to human life? Since Joe Biden was elected president, we
have not heard a peep from Antifa and BLM -- maybe they can take up the
drug overdose cause?
In October, federal law enforcement officials arrested Mexican
General Salvador Cienfuegos as he arrived in Los Angeles for a family
vacation. Cienfuegos was accused of taking bribes and protecting cartel
leaders when he served as defense minister from 2012 to 2018. A month
later, the U.S. dropped charges and returned Cienfuegos to Mexico.
"Foreign policy considerations" was the official lie covering for the
reversal of what might have been an incremental step forward towards
legitimate justice in America's decades-long, losing "War on Drugs."
Every thinking person who has contemplated the drug corruption crisis
confronting America knows that absolutely nothing will happen to
Cienfuegos now that he is back in Mexico. He gets off Scot-free, other
than having to vacation in places other than the United States.
The Wall Street Journal, reporting on the Cienfuegos debacle, noted:
"Gen. Cienfuegos's return puts an uncomfortable spotlight
on Mexico's judicial system. More than nine in 10 crimes are never
reported or punished, according to the country's statistics agency."
Let us look more deeply at the drug crisis we face at the level of
families and communities. We can get lost looking at national overdose
numbers and corrupt foreign generals. Dirty cops are killing Americans,
directly and indirectly. In a border community like El Paso, the Mexican
cartels have an insidious, silent and powerful control that few people
wish to acknowledge or accept -- that includes a largely compliant news
media who usually report what happens, but rarely, if ever, ask "Why?"
or "How can this go on, decade after decade, without accountability or
resolution?"
More than seven years of ongoing investigation by Judicial Watch in
that region has revealed law enforcement corruption that ranges on a
scale from merely turning a blind eye; to marked law enforcement
vehicles being used to move burlap bales of marijuana; all the way up to
senior officials communicating with and tipping-off cartel members
about planned operations. That is what some of the supposedly "good
guys" are doing.
This is a dark, dangerous and threatening side of life in American
communities across the country. The drugs do not just materialize out of
thin air in Dayton, OH, or Rockville Centre, NY, or Whitefish, MT. If a
population is dying from overdoses that is one-third as large as the
COVID pandemic -- and we don't see, don't hear about it, and apparently
don't really care about it -- what does that say about us?
Tens of thousands of law enforcement officers, billions of taxpayer
dollars, nearly fifty years -- and the highest overdose rate in history?
It is terribly unpopular to blame law enforcement, especially when they
are being unfairly attacked by the militant fringe elements like Antifa
and various lunatic municipal officials seeking to defund them -- but
cleaning house within various agencies and increasing police pay would
go a long way towards thwarting our greatest domestic threat.
The incoming Biden administration has the cartels virtually
"high-fiving" each other -- they know a Biden administration will do
nothing to stop cartel dominance and control of the US-Mexico border.
What law enforcement officer is going to put his life on the line for a
Biden administration policy? None. Unless there is an unforeseen and
dramatic positive change in law enforcement at the federal, state and
municipal levels, expect more of our dirtiest little secret for years to
come and a continuation of the United States' longest war.
nonsite |In light of recent events we thought to republish Adolph Reed’s
2016 essay on racial disparity and police violence. We include a new
introduction to the piece by Cedric Johnson, “The Triumph of Black Lives Matter and Neoliberal Redemption,” that considers the essay in view of the contemporary situation.
Some readers will know that I’ve contended that, despite its
proponents’ assertions, antiracism is not a different sort of
egalitarian alternative to a class politics but is a class
politics itself: the politics of a strain of the professional-managerial
class whose worldview and material interests are rooted within a
political economy of race and ascriptive identity-group relations.
Moreover, although it often comes with a garnish of disparaging but
empty references to neoliberalism as a generic sign of bad things,
antiracist politics is in fact the left wing of neoliberalism in that
its sole metric of social justice is opposition to disparity in the
distribution of goods and bads in the society, an ideal that naturalizes
the outcomes of capitalist market forces so long as they are equitable
along racial (and other identitarian) lines. As I and my colleague
Walter Benn Michaels have insisted repeatedly over the last decade, the
burden of that ideal of social justice is that the society would be fair
if 1% of the population controlled 90% of the resources so long as the
dominant 1% were 13% black, 17% Latino, 50% female, 4% or whatever
LGBTQ, etc. That is the neoliberal gospel of economic justice,
articulated more than a half-century ago by Chicago neoclassical
economist Gary Becker, as nondiscriminatory markets that reward
individual “human capital” without regard to race or other invidious
distinctions.
We intend to make a longer and more elaborate statement of this
argument and its implications, which antiracist ideologues have
consistently either ignored or attempted to dismiss through
mischaracterization of the argument or ad hominem attack.1
For now, however, I want simply to draw attention to how insistence on
reducing discussion of killings of civilians by police to a matter of
racism clouds understanding of and possibilities for effective response
to the deep sources of the phenomenon.
Available data (see https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shootings/?tid=a_inl)
indicate, to the surprise of no one who isn’t in willful denial, that
in this country black people make up a percentage of those killed by
police that is nearly double their share of the general American
population. Latinos are killed by police, apparently, at a rate roughly
equivalent to their incidence in the general population. Whites are
killed by police at a rate between just under three-fourths (through the
first half of 2016) and just under four-fifths (2015) of their share of
the general population. That picture is a bit ambiguous because seven
percent of those killed in 2015 and fourteen percent of those killed
through June of 2016 were classified racially as either other or
unknown. Nevertheless, the evidence of gross racial disparity is clear:
among victims of homicide by police blacks are represented at twice
their rate of the population; whites are killed at somewhat less than
theirs. This disparity is the founding rationale for the branding
exercise2
called #Black Lives Matter and endless contentions that imminent danger
of death at the hands of arbitrary white authority has been a
fundamental, definitive condition of blacks’ status in the United States
since slavery or, for those who, like the Nation’s Kai Wright,
prefer their derivative patter laced with the seeming heft of obscure
dates, since 1793. In Wright’s assessment “From passage of the 1793
Fugitive Slave Act forward, public-safety officers have been empowered
to harass black bodies [sic] in the defense of private capital and the
pursuit of public revenue.”3
This line of argument and complaint, as well as the demand for ritual
declarations that “black lives matter,” rest on insistence that
“racism”—structural, systemic, institutional, post-racial or however
modified—must be understood as the cause and name of the injustice
manifest in that disparity, which is thus by implication the singular or
paramount injustice of the pattern of police killings.
But, when we step away from focus on racial disproportions, the
glaring fact is that whites are roughly half or nearly half of all those
killed annually by police. And the demand that we focus on the racial
disparity is simultaneously a demand that we disattend from other
possibly causal disparities. Zaid Jilani found, for example, that
ninety-five percent of police killings occurred in neighborhoods with
median family income of less than $100,00 and that the median family
income in neighborhoods where police killed was $52,907.4 And, according to the Washington Post data,
the states with the highest rates of police homicide per million of
population are among the whitest in the country: New Mexico averages
6.71 police killings per million; Alaska 5.3 per million; South Dakota
4.69; Arizona and Wyoming 4.2, and Colorado 3.36. It could be possible
that the high rates of police killings in those states are concentrated
among their very small black populations—New Mexico 2.5%; Alaska 3.9%;
South Dakota 1.9%; Arizona 4.6%, Wyoming 1.7%, and Colorado 4.5%.
However, with the exception of Colorado—where blacks were 17% of the 29
people killed by police—that does not seem to be the case. Granted, in
several of those states the total numbers of people killed by police
were very small, in the low single digits. Still, no black people were
among those killed by police in South Dakota, Wyoming, or Alaska. In New
Mexico, there were no blacks among the 20 people killed by police in
2015, and in Arizona blacks made up just over 2% of the 42 victims of
police killing.
What is clear in those states, however, is that the great
disproportion of those killed by police have been Latinos, Native
Americans, and poor whites. So someone should tell Kai Wright et al to
find another iconic date to pontificate about; that 1793 yarn has
nothing to do with anything except feeding the narrative of endless
collective racial suffering and triumphalist individual
overcoming—“resilience”—popular among the black professional-managerial
strata and their white friends (or are they just allies?) these days.
dailymail | 'He’s no Rachel Dolezal': Shaun King's wife defends her husband over
claims he lied about his race as family member CONFIRMS both his
parents are white
Rai King, the wife of Shaun King, is defending her husband over claims that he is white
She said he husband is 'no Rachel Dolezal' and that the story behind his race is 'beautifully difficult'
Rai also said despite her pleas to get him to share his story, Shaun will not comment out of respect to his family
On Wednesday night, a family member said in an interview that both of King's parents are white
That family member also claimed that the vicious attack King
suffered in high school was not in fact a hate crime, which
eyewitnesses dispute
Rai and Shaun have five children, and have taken in other children in the past Fist tap Rohan
Many historians point to his invention of a
diabolical “Southern Strategy,” which employed racially charged issues
such as law and order and welfare fraud to win racist votes in the
eleven Confederate states.
This story is wrong, too. While Nixon used racism, of course, he did
not invent the Southern Strategy. Southern slaveholders invented it at
the founding of the republic, and it has become a regular feature of
American politics.
For example, the former Confederate states were part of the
Democratic Party’s New Deal coalition. Southern support did not come for
free. Franklin Roosevelt’s programs were confined in what historian Ira
Katznelson has called the “southern cage.” That is why the Social
Security Act did not apply to agricultural and domestic workers, the
only jobs many African Americans in the south could get. This was FDR’s
Southern Strategy.
In 1980, after the Republican National Convention, nominee Ronald
Reagan chose to begin his campaign in Neshoba County, Mississippi. This
small county is known for only one thing, the 1964 Ku Klux Klan murder
of civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael
Schwerner. It was one of the worst atrocities of the civil rights era.
When Reagan told the crowd, “I believe in states’ rights,” everyone knew
what he meant. That was his 1980 Southern Strategy.
On July 26 of this year, Republican U.S. Senator Tom Cotton told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette he thought slavery was a “necessary evil.” Why? He was getting an early start on his 2024 Southern Strategy.
The outcome of the 1968 election had been decided four years earlier.
In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson and the Democratic Congress realigned
the American political parties. They kicked the Confederacy out of the
New Deal coalition by passing the Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act,
Medicare, and Medicaid in 1964 and 1965.
The southern states had nowhere to go except the Republican Party,
which is what they proceeded to do. In 1968, Democrat Humphrey won only
one of the eleven Confederate states. The rest split between Nixon and
third-party candidate George Wallace, a former Alabama governor and a
raw segregationist. Polls showed if Wallace had not run, his votes would
have gone to Nixon by a two-to-one margin. Nixon’s electoral vote
margin over Humphrey would have been even larger than it was.
Except when Jimmy Carter won one term due to the Watergate scandal.
Republicans owned the White House for the next twenty-four years. And
since 1964, no Democratic presidential candidate has won the majority of
white votes in the South or nationwide.
theintercept |In August, 40 federal agents arrived
in Memphis. Some were already on the ground by the time U.S. Attorney
Michael Dunavant announced the onset of Operation Legend and the city
became, along with St. Louis, the seventh to be targeted by the Justice
Department’s heavy-handed initiative to reduce violent crime. Many of
the agents are on temporary assignment, working in collaboration with
police; nearly half will relocate by November. But they will leave
behind a city flush with grant money for local police — and heightened
surveillance capabilities.
In Memphis, organizers have long battled police surveillance.
The fight came to a head in 2017, when a lawsuit against the city of
Memphis revealed years of close surveillance of Black Lives Matter
activists and union organizers. “We knew we were being watched and
monitored and surveilled,” said Hunter Demster, an activist who was
tracked on social media by MPD. The suit was successful, and in 2018, a
federal judge ordered an independent monitor to oversee policing in the
city. Now, activists there say that Operation Legend is a serious blow.
Operation Legend and its December precursor,
Operation Relentless Pursuit, are both funding surveillance technology
in cities across the country. Through Operation Legend, Memphis and four
other cities received grants for gunshot detection technology, which
lines cities with sensors to detect gunfire, despite longstanding
concerns about its efficacy. Other more opaque grants from the Justice
Department, like a $1.4 million grant to Shelby County, which surrounds
Memphis, in April and a $1 million grant in July to the city of
Cleveland, are to be used in part for “technological solutions” or
“support” for investigations.
Awash in these federal funds, cities have doubled down on their
surveillance investments, even as they face general budget shortfalls in
the tens of millions.
On August 4, two days before Operation Legend was formally announced in
the city, Memphis signed a new contract with Cellebrite, an Israeli forensics manufacturer
popular with law enforcement, whose products can hack and extract data
from smartphones. The estimated $65,000 contract would double previous
annual spending on the technology, per city procurement records. The
Memphis police declined an interview request for this story and did not
respond to several additional inquiries about the purchases.
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4/3
43
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What day?
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