Showing posts with label occupation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label occupation. Show all posts

Saturday, 16 August 2014

When white cops get weapons of war (video)

Pat Macpherson, Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly; Sadhbh Walshe (Guardian via Occupy)
CIA-trained Chilean cop patrolling on horseback, medieval (nocaptionneeded.com)
The war on Americans. Sniper sits training military-grade weapon on unarmed U.S. civilians with the audacity to protest being killed in the streets by killer cops. Michael BrownFerguson protestsPolice brutalityPolice killingsRacial killingsPolice militarization
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"Enemy combatants" getting uppity in USA?
We can argue about the looting and brick-throwing. We can argue about what constitutes a race “riot” these days -- and why in the world we are seeing teargas being shot every other evening in the suburbs, or why Jim Crow-reminiscent police dogs are being released in the year 2014.
 
Charlie-Bravo-Haji, we see them coming. Arm up the MRAP before they lawyer up.
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There are a lot of things worth arguing about now that the world’s eyes are focused on Ferguson, Missouri, a town where two-thirds of the population is black yet 50 of the 53 police offers there are white and where one of those officers infamously gunned down an unarmed black kid in broad daylight.
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome
But here is something that makes no sense: Ferguson (population 21,135) has about 40 robberies per year, a couple of homicides, almost no arson cases, and a crime rate only a bit higher than the national average. Indeed, the town’s crime rate was going down as of two years ago, when the last major data set is available. Ditto in neighboring St. Louis.

Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles (MRAP) save military lives while killing lots of bystanders and civilians. Oh well. Survivors share stories. Since it was established in October 2006, the Joint MRAP Vehicle Program has delivered more than 26, 000 MRAP vehicles to Iraq and Afghanistan. This is the largest acquisition program for the Department of Defense since World War II. Video courtesy of Marines TV (player.theplatform.com). Still want to glorify war? Then visit jieddo.dod.mil or why not follow the militants on Twitter (twitter.com/JIEDDO) while being spied by Facebook (facebook.com/TheJIEDDO)?
 
Occupy together (occupy.com)
Now St. Louis isn’t exactly the ideal of safety, but two years ago the St. Louis Police Department acquired a Lenco BearCat armored military vehicle, a “tactical support vehicle,” and a helicopter that’s popular with the Korean Air Force. Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security donated a 22-ton Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle -- the thing the US military used on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan -- to the police department in nearby St. Charles, Missouri (population 66,463). MoreLatestMost Read - Did you miss it...
 
The Assault Breacher Vehicle (ABV) is a tracked armored engineer vehicle  specifically designed for conducting in-stride breaching of minefields  and complex obstacles (armyrecognition.com). The ABV is built on the same chassis as the General Dynamics-built  M1A1 Abrams main battle tank. The Assault Breacher Vehicle (ABV) is a  single platform that will provide deliberate and in-stride breaching  capability to the assault force of the Marine Air Ground Task Force. Army Recognition online Defence & Security magazine (eurosatory.com).
    America now has a domestic police force that looks, thinks and acts more like an invading and occupying military than a community-based force to protect the public. More
      This new documentary highlights worker-owned enterprises in North America and the remarkable Mondragon cooperatives in the Basque region of northern Spain. More

      Like other water-related crises this year in West Virginia and Detroit, the poisoning of Toledo's water is tied to corruption at the highest levels of state government by corporate special interests. More
        
      "I’m an engineer, not a politician. I don’t want the stage. I’m terrified of giving these talking heads some distraction, some excuse to jeopardize, smear, and delegitimize a very important movement.” More

       

      Wednesday, 13 August 2014

      Noam Chomsky on ISRAEL's "hideous atrocity"

      Wisdom Quarterly; Prof. Emeritus Noam Chomsky, Amy Goodman (democracynow.org)
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      US/CIA uses "Israel" in M.E.
      PART 2 (see Part 1): famed linguist and political dissident Noam Chomsky exposes the crisis in Israel and the Middle East, unquestioned U.S. support for Israel, states-sponsored Jewish-apartheid, and the BDS movement. "In the Occupied Territories, what Israel is doing is much worse than [racist South African] apartheid," Chomsky says.

      "To call it apartheid is a gift to Israel, at least if by 'apartheid' you mean South African-style apartheid. What’s happening in the Occupied Territories is much worse.

      "There’s a crucial difference. The South African Nationalists needed the black population. That was their workforce.…The Israeli relationship to the indigenous Palestinians it has corralled into the Occupied Territories is totally different. They just don’t want them. [They want to and are well into exterminating millions of them.] They want them out, or at least in prison."

      Let's open a new arm of the museum focusing on our crimes against others? - No way!
       


    • "A Hideous Atrocity": Noam Chomsky on Israel’s assault on Gaza and U.S. support for Israel's illegal occupation 



    • Noam Chomsky: Israel’s actions in Palestine are "much worse than Apartheid" in South Africa



    • Noam Chomsky on the U.S. mainstream media’s "shameful moment" in Gaza and how a U.S. policy shift could immediately end the Israel's illegal occupation 
    • Ex-Japanese PM on how Fukushima meltdown was worse than Chernobyl and why he now opposes nuclear power Three years ago today a massive earthquake triggered a devastating tsunami that struck Japan’s northeast coast, resulting in an unprecedented nuclear crisis: a triple meltdown at the Fukushima-Daichi...
    • Noam Chomsky: Israel's Actions in Palestine are "much worse than Apartheid" in South Africa Part 2 of conversation with famed linguist and political dissident MIT Prof. Emeritus Noam Chomsky on the crisis in Israel's ghetto the "Gaza Strip," U.S. military and propaganda support for Israel, apartheid, and the BDS (boycott, divest, and sanction) movement. 
    • Noam Chomsky: Sabra and Shatila Massacre that forced Israeli PM Sharon’s ouster recalls worst of Jewish Pogroms We look at one of the most shocking incidents in the career of the late former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon: the Sabra and Shatila massacre. Up to 2,000 Palestinians died on Sept. 16-17, 1982...


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      Spied on for being Muslim? NSA targets named by Snowden respond to U.S. surveillance

      Wednesday, 30 July 2014

      Israeli Jew spills truth about Israel (video)

      Wisdom Quarterly; Miko Peled speaks to Christians in U.S., Dec. 2012

      Palestinian boy tries to defend family from genocidal, invading Israeli militants (EOI).

       
      I'll gladly kill every last d*mn Palestinian
      Miko Peled was born into a famous and influential Israeli Jewish family in Jerusalem, who like others did his compulsory military service for Israel. His father was a prominent general in the Israeli Army exterminating Palestinians. Another relative of his was a close personal friend and schoolmate of right-wing extremist [and U.S.-groomed CIA operative] Bibi Netanyahu

      When Peled's famous niece was killed by desperate Palestinian suicide bombers, the family may have been expected to place the fault on Palestinians. But surprisingly they blamed the "State of Israel," which violently tortures, persecutes, and pulls every dirty trick of imperial rule to drive the indigenous people from their houses and homeland. The Palestinians are so mistreated that in their sadness and desperation they would take their own lives to strike back.

      I'm just following orders to attack Arabs.
      Through his father's deep knowledge of the Israeli military's terrorist tactics, together with his own research, Peled realized the myths Israelis are fed about their own special history. The stories they are told make no sense under closer examination. Peled ruins the myths surrounding the supposed birth of Israel and the destruction of Palestine. He delivers truth so damning that many Jews and rabid Israel supporters in the USA are not able to bear it. The truth must not be revealed because it would make Israel the war criminals, the propagandists, the invaders and occupiers in collusion with the West laboring under a false history shrouded in Christian distortions.

      Looks like a new Berlin Wall, but it's a "fence"
      He reveals such things as the fact that the original Jews expelled are not the ones claiming a "right of return," nor their descendants. He covers the double standard regarding the right of return, which is not allowed to apply to Palestinians, and dispels the myth that there has been a conflict for ages by producing proof that it was peaceful for all up until 1947, when Israel launched their illegal attacks heavily subsidized by the U.S. and UK.

      Miko Peled is right...He must be silenced!
      Peled is just one of the many modern-day Jews who refuse to be complicit in Israeli crimes against humanity. He has turned against Zionism and the State of Israel, and with the information he delivers in this astounding talk, it is easy to see why more and more Jews are rejecting Zionism and calling for the dismantling of Israel.

      It is a true eye-opener for anyone who has for too long been blinded by the disinformation reported without question by the mainstream U.S. media. Here the truth comes straight from the heartland where he has spent many years documenting the real story.

      Monday, 24 March 2014

      Michelle Obama goes Tibetan in China

      Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly; A Martinez and Alex Cohen, Take Two (scpr.org)
      B----, please! Don't show me up. - Why, Laura, I would never dream of it; I'm Ivy League.

      They're fighting again because her husband, G.W., used to be dictator and now he's gay and paints himself in the bath. - I thought Barrack's gay? - Yeah, both! (Alexsaurel/flickr)
        
      The FLOTUS dresses well (Haley Fox/SCPR)
      The First Lady of the United States Michelle Obama is currently visiting China with her daughters Sasha and Malia and her mother, Marian Robinson. She is currently in China, where her style is generating a lot of buzz.
       
      First ladies in Beijing (Stuart Leavenworth)
      Mrs. Obama is there to promote educational exchanges between the U.S. and China, but she has also subtly been addressing the issue of freedom of expression.

      For a look at the substance of the First lady's trip, Laurie Burkitt, a reporter in the Beijing bureau of the Wall Street Journal, joined Take Two: LISTEN

      HIGHLIGHTS
      Indirectly criticized China for severe restrictions on the media.
      FREE TIBET!
      She was giving a speech to Stanford Univ. at Peking, one of China’s biggest and most important universities. She talked about the importance of overseas education to broaden the horizon of each individual and mixed in between that she mentioned freedom of speech and access to information. She used pretty strong language. She said something like, ‘Countries are stronger and more prosperous when everyone can be heard.’ She mentioned her own experience and said, ‘My husband and I are on the receiving end of a lot of criticism but we really wouldn’t trade it in for the world.’
      Later this week she will be eating a Tibetan lunch in China.
      Tibetan food is not the world’s greatest. It’s mostly [momos]. So the reason to eat it would be to open discussion about a region of China that has really been fighting for independence. And Pres. Obama recently met with the Dalai Lama, the religious leader who now lives in India [because] he’s not allowed to go back [to Tibet/China]...