When Resistance Becomes Duty
30 Thursday Jul 2015
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Monthly Archives: July 2015
Erdogan, stop bombing Kurds in Iraq, Iraqi government says
30 Thursday Jul 2015
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Translated from NOS TV in the Netherlands:
Iraq condemns bombing of PKK camps
Today, 14:55
Iraqi Prime Minister Abadi has condemned the Turkish bombardment of PKK camps in northern Iraq. He sees the attacks as a serious violation of the independence of Iraq and fears a “dangerous escalation” of conflicts.
Abadi calls on the Turks in order to avoid further escalation and find a solution to the crisis.
Turkey has intensified the attacks on the armed wing of the PKK after the NATO allies yesterday proclaimed their support to Turkey’s approach to terrorism.
The approach of the Turkish Erdogan government to terrorism is now: a few symbolic actions against ISIS terrorists who had used Turkey as their base for violence in Syria for a long time; and many more attacks on the only effective force fighting these ISIS terrorists: the Kurds in Syria, in Turkey, in Iraq
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The rulers accuse everyone else of xenophobia when they are the xenophobes
30 Thursday Jul 2015
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Who is the enemy of ordinary people?
Our rulers have provided the answer. It’s them. The outsider. The foreigner. The people who want to blow us up.
OK. I’ll go with that. They want to blow us up.. So what are we doing in their countries stirring up trouble, meddling with their politics, giving them reasons to blow us up?
If they are such a problem, such a danger, why have our rulers done everything possible, despite minimal cultural and historical connections with these countries, encouraged and enabled a high level of immigration?
Why when known trouble makers – known because they were ejected from other countries for being troublemakers, and having known connections with terrorism, fomenting it at every opportunity, have they not been deported?
And – and this is a real beaut – after our governments have orchestrated this melodrama, sternly told the populace who did not vote…
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The Devil Arrives In Detroit (And Feels At Home)
30 Thursday Jul 2015
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A Statue of Satan is being unveiled in Detroit. The event is being billed as: “The largest public Satanic ceremony in history.” Typically American hyperbole, we suppose. Discounting that side of things, the event still manifests considerable political significance. It should not be overlooked or dismissed as the nonsense of nutjobs.
This event, a fairly short time ago, would not have been possible in America; the culture would have prevented it. Or so we suppose. But now as we have written, the United States has gone from “In God we trust” and its related suspicion of government, all the way to “In Government we trust with suspicion for God. Satanism naturally follows. By definition, even.
Replacing God with Lucifer is not the only related reversal here. America was enriched as a Christian place, one where the Post-Reformation “Protestant Work Ethic” was enshrined. With that, corruption was minimal. The hard-working middle…
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TPP, TTIP, TISA Grants Banks Terrifying Secret Powers
30 Thursday Jul 2015
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Trans-Pacific Partnership treaty will help neither workers nor consumers
30 Thursday Jul 2015
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“China wants to write the rules for the world’s fastest-growing region … We should write those rules,” President Obama declared in his State of the Union address. To sell Congress on giving him authority to “fast track” consideration of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a trade and investment treaty with 12 nations that has been under negotiation for five years, the president argues it is vital that “we” write the rules. The real question, of course, is what does he mean by “we”?
Our global trade and tax policies have been and still are controlled by corporate and financial interests. They, not workers or consumers, write the rules.
Did Obama Administration Downplay Malaysia Slavery To Grease Trade Deal?
30 Thursday Jul 2015
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A few weeks ago Wall Street and the giant, multinational corporations got their way and pushed “fast track” through the Congress. This set up a special voting procedure for trade agreements – and only for trade agreements – that makes sure these rigged deals can get through Congress before the public can be organized to rise up in opposition.
However, one good thing did make it into this recent fast-track bill. The bill said the administration cannot go into a trade deal with any country that is a “Tier 3″ human trafficking (slavery) violator.
The Trafficking Victims Protection Act’s (TVPA) requires the State Department to compile a Trafficking In Persons (TIP) Report that ranks countries according to their compliance with certain TVPA standards. Countries are ranked:
Tier 1 if the fully comply with the TVPA’s minimum standards.
Tier 2 if they do not fully comply but are making significant efforts…
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Statistics, Statistics and Damned Lies? -| welfare-life-reformed
29 Wednesday Jul 2015
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Welfare-Life-Reformed: Statistics, Statistics and Damned Lies? http://welfare-life-reformed.blogspot.com/2015/07/statistics-statistics-and-damned-lies.html?spref=tw
Inverted totalitarianism and neoliberalism. Oh dear. | Politics and Insights
29 Wednesday Jul 2015
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British secret police’s sexual spying on women activists
29 Wednesday Jul 2015
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This video from Britain says about itself:
UK ‘Special Demonstrations Squad’ Undercover Police Used Identities of Dead Children For 30 Years
4 February 2013
The ‘Special Demonstrations Squad‘ are reported to have been undercover police officers who infiltrated protest groups from the late 1960’s to the mid 1990’s- and it is claimed by Scotland Yard that the Squad had now ‘disbanded’.
By Conrad Landin in Britain:
Deceived partner speaks of secret officer’s treachery
Wednesday 29th July 2015
IT WAS 10 years after Alison’s long-term partner disappeared that she was able to convince more than a few friends that he was an undercover police officer.
She believed he was Mark Cassidy, a joiner from Birkenhead who headed out at 6.30am each morning to work on building sites during the five years they lived together, from 1995 to 2000.
He was active in construction union Ucatt and an ally…
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