All Discussions Tagged 'not' - 12160 Social Network2024-03-28T23:05:22Zhttps://12160.info/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=not&feed=yes&xn_auth=noMore on Anti-Antisemitism (aka “If you want to know who rules over you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.” ― George Orwell)tag:12160.info,2022-12-21:2649739:Topic:22392172022-12-21T19:12:01.464ZParrhesiahttps://12160.info/profile/DianaLovell
<p class="container" id="p_1_1"><span class="contents">It seems that if there is one thing that those at the top of the United States government and the national media really want for the holidays it is to be able to accuse someone new of being an antisemite. Since the Kanye West story exploded, anti-antisemitism has suddenly become big business in America with the White House hosting a December 7<sup>th</sup> conference on that theme featuring the media and the usual agitprop suspects and…</span></p>
<p id="p_1_1" class="container"><span class="contents">It seems that if there is one thing that those at the top of the United States government and the national media really want for the holidays it is to be able to accuse someone new of being an antisemite. Since the Kanye West story exploded, anti-antisemitism has suddenly become big business in America with the White House hosting a December 7<sup>th</sup> conference on that theme featuring the media and the usual agitprop suspects and groups proclaiming from on high how hatred of the Jewish people is surging. Of course, it is those very groups that compile the numbers on the alleged surge to benefit their argument and one sometimes wonders if a poster on a college campus wall announcing a meeting to support Palestine that annoys a Jewish student is really antisemitism.</span></p>
<p id="p_1_2" class="container"><span class="contents">One of the loudest voices calling for a crack-down on the alleged hate criminals, the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) Executive Director Jonathan Greenblatt, calls the latest developments <a title="https://www.npr.org/2022/12/07/1141115374/the-white-house-hosts-jewish-leaders-to-discuss-rising-antisemitism" href="https://www.npr.org/2022/12/07/1141115374/the-white-house-hosts-jewish-leaders-to-discuss-rising-antisemitism">a “national crisis.”</a> He has been particularly vocal in demanding strong hate crime type countermeasures to deal with those who dare to challenge the reality of Jewish power in the United States and has <em>inter alia</em> been successful in helping to convince the federal government to define criticism of Israel as <em>ipso facto</em> antisemitism. That leaves many of us wondering what happened to the First Amendment right to free speech, particularly as Israel is a foreign country with a dubious human rights and foreign relations history that merits considerable criticism.</span></p>
<p id="p_1_3" class="container"><span class="contents">The posing by Israel and its supporting cast of characters as perpetual victims is somewhat ironic, as Jews are the wealthiest, best educated and most politically powerful demographic in the United States. Joe Biden’s special envoy to monitor antisemitism worldwide Deborah Lipstadt <a title="https://www.npr.org/2022/12/07/1141115374/the-white-house-hosts-jewish-leaders-to-discuss-rising-antisemitism" href="https://www.npr.org/2022/12/07/1141115374/the-white-house-hosts-jewish-leaders-to-discuss-rising-antisemitism">oddly disagrees</a>, saying that “For too long, Jew-hatred has been belittled or discounted because Jews have erroneously been considered white and privileged. This is a very real threat to Jews…” but who is she trying to kid? Jews dominate and control the entertainment and news reporting sectors of the economy and are way over represented in many high profile, highly paid and high prestige professions, including medicine, law, financial services, government and academia. Beyond that, more than 90% of the discretionary spending by the Department of Homeland Security goes to Jewish groups and organizations to provide them with “security.”</span></p>
<p id="p_1_4" class="container"><span class="contents">Much of the Jewish success is due to persistent and successful networking within their ethnicity to advance themselves even when it is achieved at the expense of the common good. When necessary, both antisemitism and the so-called holocaust are cited to silence critics and justify the murderous and genocidal excesses committed by a succession of Israeli governments, likely reaching its peak when the new ultra-conservative government of Benjamin Netanyahu is formed in the next few days.</span></p>
<p id="p_1_5" class="container"><span class="contents">Politicians, understanding that being perceived as anti-Israel or opposed to the corruption of the political system itself wrought by Jewish money, quickly learn to avoid antagonizing the Tribe. Those who do not, are removed from the system as soon as possible, frequently when they find themselves running for their next office against an exceptionally well-funded and media endorsed opponent.</span></p>
<p id="p_1_6" class="container"><span class="contents">The recent White House sponsored closed-door meeting bringing together Jewish leaders to discuss what to do about the antisemitism problem was addressed by <a title="https://www.timesofisrael.com/doug-emhoff-laments-epidemic-of-hate-at-white-house-antisemitism-roundtable/#:~:text=Doug%20Emhoff%2C%20the%20husband%20of%20US%20Vice%20President,White%20House%20Campus%20in%20Washington%2C%20December%207%2C%202022" href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/doug-emhoff-laments-epidemic-of-hate-at-white-house-antisemitism-roundtable/#:~:text=Doug%20Emhoff%2C%20the%20husband%20of%20US%20Vice%20President,White%20House%20Campus%20in%20Washington%2C%20December%207%2C%202022">no less than Doug Emhoff</a>, the Hollywood lawyer described as the “Second Gentleman” by virtue of his marriage to the woman who currently pretends to be the Vice President of the United States. He is the first Jewish spouse of a president or vice president.</span></p>
<p id="p_1_7" class="container"><span class="contents">Emhoff described his boyhood growing up Jewish in New Jersey and New York and lamented the developing “epidemic of hate” directed against Jews by certain entertainers and public figures. He elaborated ““Let me be clear — words matter. People are no longer saying the quiet parts out loud, they are screaming them,” <a title="https://www.c-span.org/video/?524681-1/gentleman-speaks-anti-semitism&live=" href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?524681-1/gentleman-speaks-anti-semitism&live=">Emhoff said</a>. “We cannot normalize this. We all have an obligation to condemn these vile acts. We must not stay silent. There is no either or. There are no two sides. Everyone must be against this.”</span></p>
<p id="p_1_8" class="container"><span class="contents">The meeting, held in the in the Indian Treaty Room in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Campus in Washington, <a title="https://www.npr.org/2022/12/07/1141115374/the-white-house-hosts-jewish-leaders-to-discuss-rising-antisemitism" href="https://www.npr.org/2022/12/07/1141115374/the-white-house-hosts-jewish-leaders-to-discuss-rising-antisemitism">also featured</a> State Department anti-Semitism envoy Lipstadt and White House domestic policy adviser Susan Rice. There were representatives from a dozen Jewish organizations, including the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, Agudath, Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, American Jewish Committee, Orthodox Union, Jewish on Campus, National Council of Jewish Women, Hillel, Secure Community Network, Religious Action Center, Anti-Defamation League, Integrity First for America and American Friends of Lubavitch.</span></p>
<p id="p_1_9" class="container"><span class="contents">Many of those present urged a major federal government effort to address the developing antisemitism problem, as they see it. Some stressed the importance of improving education on Jews and anti-Semitism in schools where such issues are not taught, which would mean wholesale adoption of the acceptable narrative on both Jewish issues and on what is increasingly referred to as holocaust denial.</span></p>
<p id="p_1_10" class="container"><span class="contents">The antisemitism meeting was preceded by a December 5<sup>th</sup> <a title="https://www.rosen.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Quill2.pdf" href="https://www.rosen.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Quill2.pdf">letter to the White House</a> that was originated by Senator Jackie Rosen of Nevada and signed by 124 other Congressmen identifying themselves as the House and Senate Bipartisan Task Forces for Combating Antisemitism. The letter called on the White House to take action against the antisemites through a “unified national strategy.” President Joe Biden responded by setting up <a title="https://www.jta.org/2022/12/12/politics/biden-task-force-to-draft-strategy-for-fighting-antisemitism" href="https://www.jta.org/2022/12/12/politics/biden-task-force-to-draft-strategy-for-fighting-antisemitism">an interagency task force</a> to focus on the antisemitism problem, directed by the National Security Council. The group’s first task is coming up with a strategy to tackle the problem. Presidential spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre elaborated how “This strategy will raise understanding about antisemitism and the threat it poses to the Jewish community and all Americans, address antisemitic harassment and abuse both online and offline, seek to prevent antisemitic attacks and incidents, and encourage whole-of-society efforts to counter antisemitism and build a more inclusive nation.”</span></p>
<p id="p_1_11" class="container"><span class="contents">So the United States government and the so-called Justice Department will soon likely be going to war against alleged antisemites. Like all of America’s pointless wars, this war will be expensive and fundamental liberties will be sacrificed as the government intrudes in the daily lives of its citizens to enforce complete conformity. There are perhaps other signs that the war has already begun, at least for some public figures. One of the most astonishing stories to appear recently concerns how <a title="https://archive.ph/a9SyR" href="https://archive.ph/a9SyR">the Democratic Party majority</a> on the House Foreign Affairs committee by a 26 to 22 vote margin <a title="https://www.rt.com/news/567836-us-lawmakers-ukraine-audit/" href="https://www.rt.com/news/567836-us-lawmakers-ukraine-audit/">rejected a resolution</a> presented by a group of Republican lawmakers that would initiate auditing of the money going to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in an effort to determine how it is being spent (or wasted).</span></p>
<p id="p_1_12" class="container"><span class="contents">The bill had been introduced by controversial Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and a small group of mostly conservative Republicans who either oppose or seek restraint on US aid to Ukraine, but it also received some strong support including from more hawkish Republicans who generally back the war. Republican congressmen Thomas Massie (KY), Matt Gaetz (FL), Barry Moore (AL), and Andrew Clyde (GA) cosponsored Greene’s bill.</span></p>
<p id="p_1_13" class="container"><span class="contents">Several Democratic congressmen alleged that the legislation to set up the audit was due to the sponsors having been taken in by Russian propaganda, but the prize for Democratic Party response must go to Congresswoman Susan Wild of Pennsylvania, <a title="https://www.cnsnews.com/article/washington/micky-wootten/house-foreign-affairs-committee-rejects-ukraine-aid-audit-bill" href="https://www.cnsnews.com/article/washington/micky-wootten/house-foreign-affairs-committee-rejects-ukraine-aid-audit-bill">who opined that</a> the bill was “a political stunt designed to tie up and slow down our critical efforts to help Ukrainian forces.” But that was preceded by a personal rant attacking Marjorie Taylor Greene. Wild told her colleagues that “I want to begin on a personal note. As a Jewish American at a time when powerful public figures, including several celebrities with global platforms are putting Jewish communities across our country at risk of violent attacks by engaging in vicious antisemitism and holocaust denial […] it is beyond shameful to see support for a measure like this one introduced by representative Greene. I am not going to attempt to recite even a fraction of the patently false, bigoted, and hateful statements and actions that have characterized Representative Greene’s time as a member of this body. I will just say that her antisemitic conspiracy theories and trivializations of Nazism stand out as particularly reprehensible reflections of her ideology and approach to holding public office. I cannot in good conscience remain silent about any of this. I find the idea of Rep. Greene — the legitimacy that comes with elevating one of her pieces of legislation to be profoundly offensive.”</span></p>
<p id="p_1_14" class="container"><span class="contents">So, for someone in Congress the fate of a reasonable and much needed bill to audit the billions of dollars going to Ukraine turns out to be all about the alleged antisemitism of the legislation’s sponsor, which is not true in any event unless one defines criticizing the Rothschilds and globalist demon George Soros as antisemitism. Unfortunately, Susan Wild is far from unique.</span></p>
<p id="p_1_15" class="container"><span class="contents">Another antisemitism event <a title="https://news.yahoo.com/we-are-appalled-us-officials-condemn-un-human-rights-official-accused-of-making-antisemitic-posts-222234541.html" href="https://news.yahoo.com/we-are-appalled-us-officials-condemn-un-human-rights-official-accused-of-making-antisemitic-posts-222234541.html">heavily promoted in the media recently</a> concerns <a title="https://isim.georgetown.edu/profile/francesca-p-albanese/" href="https://isim.georgetown.edu/profile/francesca-p-albanese/">Francesca Albanese</a>, an Italian lawyer-diplomat who is currently the United Nations human rights special <em>rapporteur</em> in charge of monitoring the situation in the Palestinian territories. American officials sharply criticized several <a title="https://www.timesofisrael.com/un-palestinian-rights-officials-social-media-history-reveals-antisemitic-comments/" href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/un-palestinian-rights-officials-social-media-history-reveals-antisemitic-comments/">social media messages</a> that Albanese wrote in 2014, which seemed to them to confirm charges of anti-Israel bias in the UN’s Human Rights Council (UNHRC), where Albanese’s office is located. Michele Taylor, the US Ambassador to the UNHRC exploded, saying “We are appalled. This is outrageous, inappropriate, corrosive, and degrades the value of the UN.”</span></p>
<p id="p_1_16" class="container"><span class="contents">So, what was among the Albanese messages, which appeared on Facebook? She opined that “America and Europe, one of them subjugated by the Jewish lobby, and the other by the sense of guilt about the Holocaust, remain on the sidelines and continue to condemn the oppressed — the Palestinians — who defend themselves with the only means they have (deranged missiles), instead of making Israel face its international law responsibilities.” In another message she described Israeli behavior as “greedy.”</span></p>
<p id="p_1_17" class="container"><span class="contents">After the wave of attacks on her Francesca Albanese maintained that the observations were made long ago and that she had failed to contextualize them properly. I will leave it up to the reader to judge the comments, but I find them perfectly acceptable given the reality of what is going on in Israel-Palestine as well as the <em>de facto</em> domination of the process and narrative by Israel and its powerful lobbies in both the anglophone world and Europe. In fact, I would go farther and suggest that the essentially contrived anti-antisemitism campaign that seems to be gaining momentum in both Europe and the US indicates that, if anything, Albanese has understated her case.</span></p>
<p class="container"><span class="contents"><a href="https://alethonews.com/2022/12/20/more-on-anti-antisemitism/">More on Anti-Antisemitism « Aletho News</a></span></p> Seize, not freeze: EU outlines plans for Russian assetstag:12160.info,2022-10-25:2649739:Topic:22313022022-10-25T21:44:13.028ZParrhesiahttps://12160.info/profile/DianaLovell
<p>The EU seeks to outright confiscate Russian assets rather than just freeze them, but the bloc has yet to lay the legal groundwork for doing so, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Tuesday.</p>
<p>The official delivered her remarks during a conference devoted to the rebuilding of Ukraine, which was attended by a number of Kiev’s prominent international donors.</p>
<p>“Our aim is not only to freeze, but to seize the assets,” she said, although cautioning that…</p>
<p>The EU seeks to outright confiscate Russian assets rather than just freeze them, but the bloc has yet to lay the legal groundwork for doing so, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Tuesday.</p>
<p>The official delivered her remarks during a conference devoted to the rebuilding of Ukraine, which was attended by a number of Kiev’s prominent international donors.</p>
<p>“Our aim is not only to freeze, but to seize the assets,” she said, although cautioning that establishing a legal base for such a move is “not trivial.”</p>
<p>According to von der Leyen, the EU has created a task force that includes various international experts “not only to map out what has been frozen,” but also to see what the legal preconditions would be for seizing Russian assets and using them for the reconstruction of Ukraine.</p>
<p>“The will is there, but legally it is not trivial, there is still a lot of work to reach that goal,” she reiterated, noting that the EU adheres to the rule of law, and therefore this process has to be “legally sound.”</p>
<p>Responding to von der Leyen’s remarks, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that in reality the EU Commission president wants Russia to “exhaust itself being dragged through courts” while trying to retrieve its funds.</p>
<p>During the conference, von der Leyen stated that the World Bank had estimated the cost of the damage to Ukraine at €350 billion ($345 billion). Meanwhile, after Russia launched its military campaign in Ukraine in late February, a multinational task force froze $30 billion in funds belonging to Russian individuals, as well as $300 billion in assets of Russia’s central bank.</p>
<p>Russia strongly criticized the freezing of the funds, with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov saying that the West had essentially committed theft.</p>
<p>Western officials have repeatedly expressed the desire to confiscate Russian assets to benefit Ukraine. However, in July, during another conference on rebuilding Ukraine, Swiss President Ignazio Cassis opposed such a move, arguing that it would establish a dangerous precedent.</p>
<p>“You have to ensure the citizens are protected against the power of the state. This is what we call liberal democracies,” he said at the time.</p>
<p><a href="https://alethonews.com/2022/10/25/seize-not-freeze-eu-outlines-plans-for-russian-assets/">Seize, not freeze: EU outlines plans for Russian assets « Aletho News</a></p> It's not Russia that's pushed Ukraine to the brink of war - 2014 Articletag:12160.info,2022-10-10:2649739:Topic:22286852022-10-10T15:33:37.647ZParrhesiahttps://12160.info/profile/DianaLovell
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Wed 30 Apr 2014</span></p>
<p><span>The attempt to lever Kiev into the western camp by ousting an elected leader made conflict certain. It could be a threat to us all</span></p>
<p class="dcr-1acr2wr"><span class="dcr-8a14ll"><span class="dcr-o4cepu">T</span></span><span class="dcr-1acr2wr">he threat of war in Ukraine is growing. As the unelected government in Kiev declares itself unable to control the rebellion in the country's east, John Kerry<span> …</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Wed 30 Apr 2014</span></p>
<p><span>The attempt to lever Kiev into the western camp by ousting an elected leader made conflict certain. It could be a threat to us all</span></p>
<p class="dcr-1acr2wr"><span class="dcr-8a14ll"><span class="dcr-o4cepu">T</span></span><span class="dcr-1acr2wr">he threat of war in Ukraine is growing. As the unelected government in Kiev declares itself unable to control the rebellion in the country's east, John Kerry<span> </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/30/us-intercepts-moscow-calls-to-spies-kerry-leaked-remarks-russia" title="">brands Russia a rogue state</a>. The US and the European Union step up sanctions against the Kremlin, accusing it of destabilising Ukraine. The White House is reported to be set on<span> </span><a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/179579/cold-war-against-russia-without-debate" title="">a new cold war policy</a><span> </span>with the aim of turning Russia into a "pariah state".</span></p>
<p class="dcr-1acr2wr">That might be more explicable if what is going on in eastern<span> </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/ukraine">Ukraine</a><span> </span>now were not the mirror image of what took place in Kiev a couple of months ago. Then, it was armed protesters in Maidan Square seizing government buildings and demanding a change of government and constitution. US and European leaders championed the "masked militants" and denounced the elected government for its crackdown, just as they now back the unelected government's use of force against rebels occupying police stations and town halls in cities such as Slavyansk and Donetsk.</p>
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<p class="dcr-1acr2wr">"America is with you,"<span> </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/15/john-mccain-ukraine-protests-support-just-cause" title="">Senator John McCain told demonstrators</a><span> </span>then, standing shoulder to shoulder with the leader of<span> </span><a href="http://www.channel4.com/news/ukraine-mccain-far-right-svoboda-anti-semitic-protests" title="">the far-right Svoboda party</a><span> </span>as the US ambassador haggled with the state department over who would make up the new Ukrainian government.</p>
<p class="dcr-1acr2wr">When the Ukrainian president was replaced by a US-selected administration, in an<span> </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/david-morrison/ukraine-willliam-hague_b_4933177.html" title="">entirely unconstitutional takeover</a>, politicians such as William Hague<span> </span><a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/cm140304/debtext/140304-0001.htm" title="">brazenly misled parliament<span> </span></a>about the legality of what had taken place: the imposition of a pro-western government on Russia's most neuralgic and politically divided neighbour.</p>
<p class="dcr-1acr2wr">Putin bit back, taking a leaf out of the US street-protest playbook – even though, as in Kiev, the protests that spread from Crimea to eastern Ukraine evidently have mass support. But what had been a glorious cry for freedom in Kiev became infiltration and insatiable aggression in Sevastopol and Luhansk.</p>
<p class="dcr-1acr2wr">After Crimeans voted overwhelmingly to join Russia, the bulk of the western media abandoned any hint of even-handed coverage. So Putin is now routinely compared to Hitler, while the<span> </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/29/ukraine-fascists-oligarchs-eu-nato-expansion" title="">role of the fascistic right on the streets</a><span> </span>and<span> </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/05/clash-crimea-western-expansion-ukraine-fascists" title="">in the new Ukrainian regime</a><span> </span>has been airbrushed out of most reporting as Putinist propaganda.</p>
<p class="dcr-1acr2wr">So you don't hear much about the Ukrainian government's<span> </span><a href="http://www.channel4.com/news/svoboda-ministers-ukraine-new-government-far-right" title="">veneration of wartime Nazi collaborators</a><span> </span>and pogromists, or the arson attacks on the homes and offices of elected communist leaders, or the integration of<span> </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/23/ukrainian-far-right-groups-violence-kiev-pravy-sektor" title="">the extreme Right Sector<span> </span></a>into the national guard, while the<span> </span><a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/popups/summary.do?id=1239823&t=e&l=en" title="">anti-semitism and white supremacism</a><span> </span>of the government's ultra-nationalists is assiduously played down, and false identifications of Russian special forces are relayed as fact.</p>
<div class="ad-slot-container ad-slot-container-2 offset-right ad-slot--offset-right ad-slot-container--offset-right"><div id="dfp-ad--inline2" class="js-ad-slot ad-slot ad-slot--inline ad-slot--inline2 ad-slot--rendered"><div id="google_ads_iframe_/59666047/theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/ng_1__container__" class="ad-slot__content"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><strong>The reality is that, after two decades of eastward Nato expansion, this crisis was triggered by the west's attempt to pull Ukraine decisively into its orbit and defence structure, via an explicitly anti-Moscow EU association agreement.</strong></em></span> Its rejection led to the Maidan protests and the installation of an anti-Russian administration – rejected by half the country – that went on to sign the EU and International Monetary Fund agreements regardless.</div>
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<p class="dcr-1acr2wr">No Russian government could have acquiesced in such a threat from territory that was at the heart of both Russia and the Soviet Union. Putin's absorption of Crimea and support for the rebellion in eastern Ukraine is clearly defensive, and the red line now drawn: the east of Ukraine, at least, is not going to be swallowed up by Nato or the EU.</p>
<p class="dcr-1acr2wr">But the dangers are also multiplying. Ukraine has shown itself to be barely a functioning state: the former government was unable to clear Maidan, and the western-backed regime is "helpless" against the protests in the Soviet-nostalgic industrial east. For all the talk about the paramilitary "green men" (who turn out to be overwhelmingly Ukrainian), the rebellion also has strong social and democratic demands: who would argue against a referendum on autonomy and elected governors?</p>
<p class="dcr-1acr2wr">Meanwhile, the US and its European allies impose sanctions and dictate terms to Russia and its proteges in Kiev, encouraging the military crackdown on protesters after visits from Joe Biden and the CIA director, John Brennan. But by what right is the US involved at all, incorporating under its strategic umbrella a state that has never been a member of Nato, and whose last elected government came to power on a platform of explicit neutrality? It has none, of course – which is why the Ukraine crisis is seen in such a different light across most of the world. There may be few global takers for Putin's oligarchic conservatism and nationalism, but Russia's counterweight to US imperial expansion is welcomed, from China to Brazil.</p>
<p class="dcr-1acr2wr">In fact, one outcome of the crisis is likely to be a closer alliance between China and Russia, as the US continues its anti-Chinese "pivot" to Asia. And despite growing violence, the cost in lives of Russia's arms-length involvement in Ukraine has so far been minimal compared with any significant western intervention you care to think of for decades.</p>
<p class="dcr-1acr2wr">The risk of civil war is nevertheless growing, and with it the chances of outside powers being drawn into the conflict. Barack Obama has already sent token forces to eastern Europe and is under pressure, both from Republicans and Nato hawks such as Poland, to send many more. Both US and British troops are due to take part in Nato military exercises in Ukraine this summer.</p>
<p class="dcr-1acr2wr">The US and EU have already overplayed their hand in Ukraine. Neither Russia nor the western powers may want to intervene directly, and the Ukrainian prime minister's conjuring up of a<span> </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/25/russia-third-world-war-ukraine" title="">third world war</a><span> </span>presumably isn't authorised by his Washington sponsors. But a century after 1914, the risk of unintended consequences should be obvious enough – as the threat of a return of big-power conflict grows. Pressure for a negotiated end to the crisis is essential.</p>
<p class="dcr-1acr2wr"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/30/russia-ukraine-war-kiev-conflict">It's not Russia that's pushed Ukraine to the brink of war | Seumas Milne | The Guardian</a></p> We're Not Gonna Take It - The Worldwide Revolutiontag:12160.info,2021-07-19:2649739:Topic:21651972021-07-19T12:59:56.542ZLess Pronehttps://12160.info/profile/LessProne
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<p class="media-description">We The People are rising-up and overthrowing Tyranny all around the world, and we're not going to stop until every last one of these sociopathic bloodsucking parasites are brought to justice.</p>
<p class="media-description">The New World Order has been CANCELED !!!</p>
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<p>"Yesterday, hundreds of undocumented migrants took control of Terminal 2 of the Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris France. Approximately 500 migrants seized the terminal.</p>
<p>“France does not belong to the French! Everyone has a right to be here!” one person can be heard yelling into a loudspeaker.</p>
<p>The protest was organized by the migrant…</p>
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<p>"Yesterday, hundreds of undocumented migrants took control of Terminal 2 of the Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris France. Approximately 500 migrants seized the terminal.</p>
<p>“France does not belong to the French! Everyone has a right to be here!” one person can be heard yelling into a loudspeaker.</p>
<p>The protest was organized by the migrant support group “La Chapelle Debout,” which said their members call themselves “Black Vests.”</p>
<p>Sotiri Dimpinoudis ❁ @sotiridi · May 19, 2019 Replying to @sotiridi #Update: Just in - This situation is still ongoing and the 400 undocumented immigrants from Africa are still occupying the terminal 2, of the Charles de Gaulle Airport in #Paris. And are refusing to leave until they speak to prime minister Édouard Philippe. #France</p>
<p>In an official statement, the group asked to meet with Prime Minister Edouard Philippe over the country’s asylum policy and the leaders of Air France. They demanded that the airline “stop any financial, material, logistical or political participation in deportations.”</p>
<p>Later Sunday, an Air France delegation met with the group, a member told local newspaper Le Parisien.</p>
<p>A migrant who took part in the protest warned it wouldn’t be the last.</p>
<p>“We have targeted Air France, and other actions will follow,” he told the paper."</p>
<p>freedomoutpost.com/hundreds-of-black-vest-migrants-seize-terminal-in-paris-airport-france-does-not-belong-to-the-french/</p> 12160 - ALTERNATIVE MEDIA PLATFORMS FOR 2018tag:12160.info,2018-02-28:2649739:Topic:17554462018-02-28T15:40:08.706ZDTOMhttps://12160.info/profile/DTOM
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 24pt;"><strong><a href="http://12160.info/forum/topics/alternative-media-platforms-for-2018/edit" target="_self">ALT MEDIA PLATFORMS FOR 2018</a></strong></span></p>
<p><strong>No-one at 12160 is affiliated to or has been paid / rewarded for promotion of these services - this is simply a list of alternatives if you are sick of the increasing censorship and lock down.</strong></p>
<p><strong>YOU decide if you want to patronize / use…</strong></p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 24pt;"><strong><a href="http://12160.info/forum/topics/alternative-media-platforms-for-2018/edit" target="_self">ALT MEDIA PLATFORMS FOR 2018</a></strong></span></p>
<p><strong>No-one at 12160 is affiliated to or has been paid / rewarded for promotion of these services - this is simply a list of alternatives if you are sick of the increasing censorship and lock down.</strong></p>
<p><strong>YOU decide if you want to patronize / use these services ...or not.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Moaning and complaining won't change anything.</strong></p>
<p><strong>STOP FEEDING THE BEAST.</strong></p>
<p><strong>GO ELSEWHERE!</strong></p>
<p><strong>Let's make Facebook, Twitter and YouTube OBSOLETE!</strong></p>
<p><strong>Get out of the Google Gulag!</strong></p>
<p><strong>REMEMBER THE MORE OF US USE THESE PLATFORMS, THE MORE OTHERS WILL, THE MORE INFO IS SPREAD, THE MORE WE DO - WE WIN</strong></p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 14pt;"><strong><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1800345422?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="750" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1800345422?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" class="align-full" width="468" height="126"/></a></strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 14pt;"><strong>YOUTUBE ALTERNATIVES </strong></span></p>
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<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1800345556?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1800345556?profile=original" class="align-full" width="248"/></a><strong><a href="https://www.bitchute.com" target="_self">bitchute.com</a></strong></p>
<p>A peer to peer video sharing platform that puts respect for people and #freedomofexpression first.</p>
<p>BitChute says that their mission is to put people and free speech first.</p>
<p>It's a p2p using web torrent tech and Disqus, is free to join and create and upload your own videos to share with others, a bonus is that Youtube account auto-mirror on BitChute is free.</p>
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<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1800347917?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1800347917?profile=original" class="align-full" width="300"/></a><strong><a href="https://www.liveleak.com">liveleak.com</a></strong></p>
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<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1800347992?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1800347992?profile=original" class="align-full" width="204" height="204"/></a><strong><a href="https://pewtube.com" target="_self">pewtube.com</a></strong></p>
<p>The web's most creator friendly media hosting, supports not only video, but also audio and images, livestreaming and easy monetization!</p>
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<p><strong><a href="https://d.tube" target="_blank" rel="noopener">d.tube</a></strong></p>
<p>D.Tube is the first crypto-decentralized video platform, built on top of the STEEM Blockchain and the IPFS peer-to-peer network, it aims to become an alternative to YouTube that allows you to watch or upload videos on IPFS and share or comment about it on the immutable STEEM Blockchain, while earning cryptocurrency doing it.</p>
<p>Because of the decentralized nature of IPFS and the STEEM blockchain, D.Tube is not able to censor videos, nor enforce guidelines. Only the users can censor it, through the power of their upvotes and downvotes. </p>
<p>There are no hidden algorithms controlling the visibility or monetization of certain videos over others.</p>
<p>All of DTube's data is public, and can be analyzed by anyone with an internet connection, it is also ad free and users remain free to advertise any product or service they would like, directly inside their own videos, at their own risk of losing their subscribers.</p>
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<p><a href="http://12160.info/forum/topics/hooktube-com?overrideMobileRedirect=1" target="_self"><strong>Hooktube</strong></a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="https://www.dailymotion.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dailymotion.com</a></strong></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">VIDEO CODECS</span></strong></span></p>
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<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1800348089?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1800348089?profile=original" class="align-full" width="192" height="87"/></a><strong><a href="https://www.webmproject.org/vp9/">https://www.webmproject.org/vp9/</a></strong></p>
<p>VP9 video codec reduces file size without lowering quality.</p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 14pt;"><strong>PEER-TO-PEER / 2P DATA & INFORMATION EXCHANGES</strong></span></p>
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<p><a href="http://real.video" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>real.video</strong></a></p>
<p>Real.Video is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-peer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">p2p</a> file sharing infrastructure for videos and other content (it also supports audio files, PDF files, text files and HTML files) by '<a href="http://www.healthranger.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Health Ranger</a>' Mike Adams of <a href="https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-03-07-health-ranger-announces-real-video-as-the-answer-to-youtube-censorship-bypass-tyranny-and-censorship-with-p2p-file-sharing.html#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">naturalnews.com</a>.</p>
<p>Adams' states that Real.Video is not a video hosting site because any centralized hosting platform would be subjected to intense censorship, legal harassment, government raids and all the usual tactics pursued by totalitarian regimes (i.e. the “<a href="http://www.leftcult.com">left cult</a>” in America today) to silence opposition and crush free speech.</p>
<p>Rather, Real.Video provides a way for people to receive free speech videos, podcasts and documents which are specifically not hosted on any central server anywhere. Thus, they cannot be easily censored or shut down.</p>
<p>Content creators — i.e. independent writers, broadcasters and indy news leaders — are being invited to create <em>channels</em> in this system. Any videos or podcasts they publish to their channels are automatically replicated through the entire system, achieving delivery to your Windows PC, Mac laptop, Android or iPhone device. This bypasses censorship and brings you <em>files</em> which you can then archive for long-term safety and privacy.</p>
<p>Adams states that Real.Video has the support of the following alt-media outlets:</p>
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<li>Natural News</li>
<li>InfoWars</li>
<li>Next News Network</li>
<li>Activist Post</li>
<li>SGT Report</li>
<li>The Gateway Pundit</li>
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<p>Adams states that Real.Video does not compete with <a href="http://D.Tube" target="_blank" rel="noopener">D.Tube</a> and <a href="http://Bitchute.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bitchute.com</a> and will coexist with them as a unique, novel way to distribute video files without requiring the use of any central server whatsoever.</p>
<p>He goes on to state that Real.Video will take several months to fully test and deploy. Alpha / beta invitations will be sent to those who sign up, so if you want to be an early user or an early content creator who participates in this system, <a href="http://Real.Video" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sign up at Real.Video</a> right now.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">TEXT CHAT / VOIP / VOICE COMS ALTERNATIVES<br/></span></strong></span></p>
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<p><a href="https://discordapp.com/"><strong>https://discordapp.com/</strong></a></p>
<p>All-in-one voice and text chat for gamers that's free, secure, and works on both your desktop and phone. Stop paying for TeamSpeak servers and hassling with Skype. Simplify your life.</p>
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<p><a href="https://tox.chat/"><strong>https://tox.chat/</strong></a></p>
<p>Tox is a peer-to-peer instant-messaging and video-calling protocol that offers end-to-end encryption.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 14pt;">SOCIAL MEDIA ALTERNATIVES</span><br/></strong></span></p>
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<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1800351832?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1800351832?profile=original" class="align-full" width="416" height="234"/></a><strong><a href="https://gab.ai">https://gab.ai</a></strong></p>
<p>Welcome to Gab, a social network that champions free speech, individual liberty, and the free flow of information online. All are welcome.</p>
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<p><br/> <strong><a href="https://www.minds.com">https://www.minds.com</a></strong></p>
<p>An open-source, community-owned social network providing tools for revenue, reach, privacy and Internet freedom.</p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1800354341?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1800354341?profile=original" class="align-full" width="316" height="237"/></a><strong><a href="https://voat.co">https://voat.co</a></strong></p>
<p>Voat - have your say - a community platform where you can have your say. No censorship.</p>
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<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1800354520?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1800354520?profile=original" class="align-full" width="399" height="64"/></a><br/> <strong><a href="https://wrongthink.net/">https://wrongthink.net/</a></strong></p>
<p>WrongThink is an alternative social network for the people, by the people that actually respect your Freedom of Speech.</p>
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<p><strong><a href="https://steemit.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Steemit.com</a></strong></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 14pt;">CROWDFUNDING ALTERNATIVES</span><br/></strong></span></p>
<p><br/> <strong><a href="https://goyfundme.com">https://goyfundme.com</a></strong><br/> <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/Goyfundme">https://twitter.com/Goyfundme</a></strong></p>
<p>(Down as of March 1 2018)</p>
<p><br/> <strong><a href="https://hatreon.net/">https://hatreon.net/</a></strong></p>
<p>A platform for creators, absent speech policing - Speech protection, Privacy protection, Chargeback protection, Secure and principled.</p>
<p>(February 9, 2018: Pledging is currently disabled while systems upgraded)</p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 14pt;"><strong>SEARCH ENGINE ALTERNATIVES</strong></span></p>
<p><strong><a href="https://disconnect.me/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Disconnect.me</a></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Make the web faster, more private, and more secure. Disconnect lets you visualize and block the invisible sites that track your search and browsing history.</span></p>
<p><a href="https://duckduckgo.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"></a><a href="https://duckduckgo.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Duckduckgo.com</strong></a></p>
<p>Duckduckgo is a standalone search engine that does not track you. It does not use cookies to follow users. It also does not collect personal information of users who use it. Even your IP address will be hidden during searching for results. It will protect even the search history from the company itself.</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://www.ixquick.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ixquick.com</a><a href="https://www.ixquick.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"></a></strong></p>
<p>Ixquick uses around 10 different search engines to produce your result. It also comes with a standalone proxy service. Ixquick is also incorporated into quick and startup page search engines. This allows all users to open all search results via proxy. Private information and IP addresses are deleted within 48 hours of a search. Ixquick confirms that it does not share user information with other search engines or provider of sponsored results.</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://startpage.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Startpage.com</a><a href="https://www.startpage.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener"></a></strong></p>
<p>Startpage.com was launched by Ixquick to offer its features with an easy to remember and spell URL. When compared with ixquick.com, stratpage.com fetches its results from Google’s search engine. This is performed without saving the IP address of the user or giving out any personal information out onto Google servers.</p>
<p>Both Ixquick and Startpage strip away personal information, so Google will not know your search for the results.</p>
<p><a href="http://gibiru.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Gibiru.com</strong></a></p>
<p>Giburu describe themselves as: Founded in 2009 by Internet Privacy advocates, Gibiru is the preferred Search Engine for Patriots. Gibiru is faster than the NSA Search Engines since it does not install all sorts of personalization and tracking cookies on your system.</p>
<p>Gibiru provides Uncensored and Unpersonalized Anonymous Web and News Results and is not partnered with the NSA so you can browse the Internet safely the way the Constitution would have intended.</p>
<p><a href="https://metager.de/en/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Metager.de</strong></a></p>
<p>MetaGer lets you make confidential untraceable searches that leave no footprints. It also integrates a proxy server so that you can open any link anonymously from the search result pages and yet keep your IP address hidden from the destination server. It also never tracks your keywords. This prohibits third parties or advertisers to target you for ads or any of malicious attacks. N.B - Its default language is in German.</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://www.myprivatesearch.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Myprivatesearch.com</a></strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="https://privatelee.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Privatelee.com</a></strong></p>
<p><a href="https://www.searx.me/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Searx.me</strong></a></p>
<p>Searx is a free metasearch engine available under the GNU Affero General Public License version 3, with the aim of protecting the privacy of its users.</p>
<p>Searx does not share users' IP addresses or search history with the search engines it gathers results from. Tracking cookies served by the search engines are blocked, preventing user-profiling-based results modification.</p>
<p>By default, Searx queries are submitted via HTTP POST, to prevent users' query keywords from appearing in webserver logs. Searx was inspired by the Seeks project, though it does not implement Seeks' peer-to-peer user-sourced results ranking.</p>
<p><a href="https://swisscows.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Swisscows.com</strong></a></p>
<p>Formerly Hulbee, described as the first intelligent answer engine, based on semantic information recognition and offers users intuitive help in their search for answers.</p>
<p>Swisscows state that users IP addresses and personal information, are not stored or used for any additional business. All the servers are located in Switzerland and neither the US nor other data snoopers can get their hands on this information.</p>
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<p class="title"><a class="title may-blank outbound" href="https://twitter.com/StefanMolyneux/status/795282595466637312" rel="">Stefan Molyneux: "So Hillary Clinton routinely exposed classified information to her maid. This is a stupidity hole with no bottom."</a> <span class="domain">(<a href="https://www.reddit.com/domain/twitter.com/">twitter.com</a>)</span></p>
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<h2 class="title">ISIS: God did not command us to fight Israel</h2>
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<div class="odd">Bassam Ramadan</div>
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<h2 class="title">ISIS: God did not command us to fight Israel</h2>
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<div class="odd">Bassam Ramadan</div>
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<a href="http://www.islamopediaonline.org/websites-institutions/al-masry-al-youm">Al-Masry Al-Youm</a></div>
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<p>ISIS: God did not command us to fight Israel</p>
<p><strong>Summary:</strong> The militant group the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS) said that “in the Quran, God did not command us to fight Israel or Jews, until we fight apostates and hypocrites.”</p>
<p>ISIS added on Twitter that Jerusalem will not be liberated until the instruments of imperialism controlling the fate of the Islamic world are destroyed.</p>
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Arabic</div>
</div> 12160 Progressives try to take away your right to vote for MN judges, again Part 1tag:12160.info,2013-10-08:2649739:Topic:13319672013-10-08T01:10:14.431ZDon Mashakhttps://12160.info/profile/DonMashak
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<p>Recently, a coalition of Minnesota Democrat and Republican Progressives who seek to take away your right to vote for Minnesota Judges, imploded. The name of this plan to take away your right to vote for judges as…</p>
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<p>Recently, a coalition of Minnesota Democrat and Republican Progressives who seek to take away your right to vote for Minnesota Judges, imploded. The name of this plan to take away your right to vote for judges as prescribed by the Minnesota Constitution is “Merit Selection Retention Elections” [“MSRE” (pronounced “misery”)]. (Though you may not live in Minnesota, this article will likely be of interest<br/> to all Americans, as this particular Progressive agenda item is being pressed upon several states.) The Minneapolis Star and Sickle provided the official major media spin in this article:</p>
<div align="center"><b>Political divide emerges on plan to overhaul Minnesota judicial elections</b></div>
<div align="center"><br/> <a href="http://t.co/HyYyd1xMwf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://t.co/HyYyd1xMwf</a></div>
<br/> From this writer’s perspective, this article appears to be almost purely propaganda. Propaganda aimed at advancing one of Progressivism’s goals; that Progressive goal being to establish a government run by<br/>
“Educated Elites”. Minnesota Progressives propose that some mysterious group of Educated Elites would create a list of judicial candidates and the governor would choose judges from amongst those on that list.<br/>
In accordance with Natural Law that our country was founded upon, this writer will endeavor to let you establish the truth for yourself; entrusting you to use your own observations and reasoning to determine the truth. This as opposed to the Progressive tactic of managing and manipulating you into accepting the government’s version of the truth by presenting it to you as news through major media outlets such as the Minneapolis Star and Sickle. (Propaganda)<br/>
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<br/> It is important to note there are two different groups who seek to reform the Minnesota Judiciary. The first group was founded in the early 2000s and is composed of true grassroots Judicial TAR (Transparency, Accountability and Reform) reformers. The second group is composed of Progressive Educated Elite usurpers of the original grassroots Judicial TAR movement. The latter group is known as the “Coalition for Impartial Justice” and advocates MSRE. True, grassroots Judicial TAR groups tend to be dominated by rank and file Americans. Groups supporting MSRE tend to be dominated, led and supported by Judges<br/>
and Lawyers.<blockquote class="tr_bq"><br/> <i>"Tyranny is always better organized than freedom."</i><br/>
Charles Peguy</blockquote>
<br/> [“Judicial TAR” is literary license this writer takes to avoid having to name hundreds of individuals and dozens of organizations who were working, often independently, sometimes cooperatively at the grassroots level to curb judicial corruption and cause our judicial system to be<br/>
more fair, equitable and just.]<div align="center"></div>
<div align="center"><br/> <b><u>What are Merit Selection Retention Elections (MSRE)?</u></b></div>
<br/> MSRE is premised on the position that current Minnesota Judiciary is..<br/>
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Those were my thoughts.<br/>
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In Closing:<br/>
<br/>
Thank you, my fellow citizens, for taking your valuable time to read and reflect upon what is written here.<br/>
<br/>
If what is written here rings true to you, perhaps you should contact your local elected officials and let them know. If you are afraid of repercussions, snail mail it anonymously and ask them to respond in the local paper or their own monthly/quarterly internet newsletter. Even ifthis article refers to something outside you geographic area, it still likely applies to your location. Remember all those taxpayer training junkets we taxpayers send the bureaucrats on? They all learn the same “livestock management” techniques to use on WE THE PEOPLE.<br/>
<br/>
And that leaves WE THE PEOPLE with this conundrum: While our #Government works full time with compensation and funded with our money for the cause of #Tyranny; WE THE PEOPLE are forced to work part time without compensation for the cause of #liberty with what is left over of our time, money and energy.<br/>
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<p>Recently, a coalition of Minnesota Democrat and Republican Progressives who seek to take away your right to vote for Minnesota Judges, imploded. The name of this plan to take away your right to vote for judges as…</p>
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<p>Recently, a coalition of Minnesota Democrat and Republican Progressives who seek to take away your right to vote for Minnesota Judges, imploded. The name of this plan to take away your right to vote for judges as prescribed by the Minnesota Constitution is “Merit Selection Retention Elections” [“MSRE” (pronounced “misery”)]. (Though you may not live in Minnesota, this article will likely be of interest<br/> to all Americans, as this particular Progressive agenda item is being pressed upon several states.) The Minneapolis Star and Sickle provided the official major media spin in this article:</p>
<div align="center"><b>Political divide emerges on plan to overhaul Minnesota judicial elections</b></div>
<div align="center"><br/> <a href="http://t.co/HyYyd1xMwf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://t.co/HyYyd1xMwf</a></div>
<br/> From this writer’s perspective, this article appears to be almost purely propaganda. Propaganda aimed at advancing one of Progressivism’s goals; that Progressive goal being to establish a government run by<br/>
“Educated Elites”. Minnesota Progressives propose that some mysterious group of Educated Elites would create a list of judicial candidates and the governor would choose judges from amongst those on that list.<br/>
In accordance with Natural Law that our country was founded upon, this writer will endeavor to let you establish the truth for yourself; entrusting you to use your own observations and reasoning to determine the truth. This as opposed to the Progressive tactic of managing and manipulating you into accepting the government’s version of the truth by presenting it to you as news through major media outlets such as the Minneapolis Star and Sickle. (Propaganda)<br/>
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<br/> It is important to note there are two different groups who seek to reform the Minnesota Judiciary. The first group was founded in the early 2000s and is composed of true grassroots Judicial TAR (Transparency, Accountability and Reform) reformers. The second group is composed of Progressive Educated Elite usurpers of the original grassroots Judicial TAR movement. The latter group is known as the “Coalition for Impartial Justice” and advocates MSRE. True, grassroots Judicial TAR groups tend to be dominated by rank and file Americans. Groups supporting MSRE tend to be dominated, led and supported by Judges<br/>
and Lawyers.<blockquote class="tr_bq"><br/> <i>"Tyranny is always better organized than freedom."</i><br/>
Charles Peguy</blockquote>
<br/> [“Judicial TAR” is literary license this writer takes to avoid having to name hundreds of individuals and dozens of organizations who were working, often independently, sometimes cooperatively at the grassroots level to curb judicial corruption and cause our judicial system to be<br/>
more fair, equitable and just.]<div align="center"></div>
<div align="center"><br/> <b><u>What are Merit Selection Retention Elections (MSRE)?</u></b></div>
<br/> MSRE is premised on the position that current Minnesota Judiciary is..<br/>
<br/>
To continue reading for free, please click here <a href="http://t.co/xaoM7T1bdC">http://t.co/xaoM7T1bdC</a><br/>
<br/>
Those were my thoughts.<br/>
<br/>
In Closing:<br/>
<br/>
Thank you, my fellow citizens, for taking your valuable time to read and reflect upon what is written here.<br/>
<br/>
If what is written here rings true to you, perhaps you should contact your local elected officials and let them know. If you are afraid of repercussions, snail mail it anonymously and ask them to respond in the local paper or their own monthly/quarterly internet newsletter. Even ifthis article refers to something outside you geographic area, it still likely applies to your location. Remember all those taxpayer training junkets we taxpayers send the bureaucrats on? They all learn the same “livestock management” techniques to use on WE THE PEOPLE.<br/>
<br/>
And that leaves WE THE PEOPLE with this conundrum: While our #Government works full time with compensation and funded with our money for the cause of #Tyranny; WE THE PEOPLE are forced to work part time without compensation for the cause of #liberty with what is left over of our time, money and energy.<br/>
<br/>
Finally, this article is written with the same intentions as Thomas Paine <a href="http://ushistory.org/paine" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://ushistory.org/paine</a>. I seek no leadership role. I seek only to help the American People find their own way using their own “Common Sense” <a href="http://amzn.to/kbRuar" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://amzn.to/kbRuar</a><br/>
<br/>
Keep Fighting the Good Fight!<br/>
<br/>
In Liberty,<br/>
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