Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez (democracynow.org), 3/29/23; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly
38 die in fire inside Mexican immigration jail amid broader crackdown near U.S. border
(Democracy Now!) March 29, 2023. Let's go to the border dividing El Paso from Ciudad Juárez for an update on the fire that killed at least 38 men [who were picked up and detained whether or not they had legal papers to be in the country] held at a Mexican immigration detention center just across the U.S. border from El Paso, Texas.
Surveillance video from the jail shows guards walking away as flames spread inside the jail cells, making no effort to open the jail cells or help the migrants who were trapped.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador blamed the fire on the men who were being held at the detention jail, alleging that they set their mattresses on fire to protest conditions, while U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar claimed the tragedy was a consequence of "irregular migration."
The deaths in Mexico came just hours after the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees urged the Biden administration not to adopt a proposed anti-asylum rule that would turn more refugees away at the border.
[This means our U.S. policy contributed to their wrongful detention, their abusive conditions without enough food and care, overcrowding, protesting, and being burned alive as guards walk away.]
Democracy Now! speaks with the U.S.-Mexico border-based journalist Luis Chaparro.
Video Shorts; Base Jumping X Team Wannabees, Wisdom Quarterly
It's fun to watch in first class (of a car)
There's an extreme sport called "base jumping," taking a parachute in hand and throwing it into the wind when jumping off things -- buildings, cliffs, any platform will do really. What becomes possible when the wings/glider or flexible parachute can be maneuvered and aimed at landing spots? Here one daredevil goes from sky to rooftop of a skyscraper on the beach, probably a resort hotel, where he's not welcome by its security agent posted their to guard some VIP or other. They tell him to get off, but rather than the steps or elevator, he decides to jump off the edge. They helplessly run after him and watch him commit suicide, only he has other plans. A backflip into the wind then the descent of a raptor, skimming the surf and softly alighting on the sand. Success! How in the world it was filmed, we have to wonder. AI-controlled GoPro? How did the cam know to turn around for the backflip? No wonder China and TikTok will one day rule the world.
Watching this clip on a car video screen, I may want to parachute to the ground.
When do those George Jetson flying cars get here already? They exist. Let's go. Sky tickets!
"Fight War, Not Wars" Smurf cartoon crying over killing of children (Unicef/myspace.com)
"No War" (Spanish Guerra No) written on hands of child (puppetgov.com)
Israel's war crimes in Palestine and US military-industrial complex (palestina.tumblr.com)
Israel's critics must be self-hating Jews!
Former executive director of the American Jewish Congress (AJC), Henry Siegman, condemns Israel's excesses and crimes against humanity.
The AJC has long
been described as one of the nation’s "big three" Jewish organizations -- along
with the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League.
Henry
Siegman was born in 1930 in Frankfurt, Germany. Three years later, the
Nazis came to power. After fleeing Nazi troops in Belgium, his family
eventually moved to the U.S. His father was a leader of the
European Zionist movement, pushing for the creation of a Jewish state [in addition to the one that already existed in the Russian oblast].
In New York, Siegman studied and was ordained as an Orthodox rabbi by
Yeshiva Torah Vodaas. He later became head of the Synagogue Council of
America.
After his time at the American Jewish Congress, Siegman became a
senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He now serves as
president of the U.S./Middle East Project. Over the years, Siegman has become a vocal critic of Israel’s
policies in the occupied Palestinian territories and has urged Israel to engage with
Hamas.
He has called the Palestinian struggle for a state "the mirror
image of the Zionist movement" that led to the founding of Israel in
1948. In July, wrote an op-ed for Politico headlined, "Israel Provoked
This War." Democracy Now! hosts Amy Goodman and Nermeen Shaikh sat down
with him on July 29 -- in the midst of Israel’s offensive in Gaza. More
(Nation) "Blackwater's Youngest Victim" - the senseless killing by American mercenaries/"contractors" for Blackwater, Inc. in Iraq for fun and target practice and to train to be police officers in the U.S. in the future, which may explain Ferguson and other murders.
Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield at The Last Bookstore, Los Angeles
(April 24, 2013) Sundance Selects will be releasing
the documentary film "Dirty Wars." It is narrated and produced by
Scahill and features reporting done for his book, directed by
Richard Rowley. In theaters June 7th, 2013.
National Security Correspondent for The Nation magazine and New York Times bestselling author of Blackwater, Jeremy Scahill will visit The Last Bookstore with his latest title, Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield.
As seen and heard on Democracy Now! (TV and radio show), investigative journalist, and activist speaker of truth to power Scahill has reported from Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Nigeria, Yemen,
the former Yugoslavia, and elsewhere across the globe.
Scahill’s work has
sparked several Congressional investigations and won him some of
journalism’s highest honors. He was twice awarded the prestigious George
Polk Award, in 1998 for foreign reporting and in 2008 for his book Blackwater.
(April 25, 2013) Scahill with CNN's Martin Bashir on "The Bush
LIE-brary: A Last Attempt To Whitewash A 'Criminal' Legacy"
Wisdom Quarterly (COMMENTARY) WARNING: The most violent viral American hate crime since suburban lynchings
Racist group violence -- it is an American specialty. But teens helped by a 15-year-old girl beating a foreigner in the commission of robbery while filming it give this crime a twist. If they had raped him as well, it would have matched what Los Angeles Sheriff's deputies (allegedly) do to inmates at the LA County Jail facility in downtown every day of the week.
This story is special because one of the ringleaders is 17-year-old Raymond Palomino (seen here), who is being charged as an adult. He is the son of 30-year Cook County Sheriff's veteran Michael Palomino, who can not believe his baby is being charged with felony aggravated battery and robbery. (Maybe as a deputy he was expecting his son to get off with a wink and a nod from the judge so he could take him home and beat him himself for getting caught?) What kind of parental police brutality in the home created this desensitized criminal teen?
Now, amazingly, a lawsuit against LA police guards is trying to put a stop to it. And the FBI is on the right side of the law opposing the deputies, when it so frequently involves itself illegally in foreign affairs such as the invasion of Iraq. (By law the FBI is not allowed to participate in foreign affairs).
The military-industrial complex conditions young men and women to put away their humanity and be as vicious as possible. Police are regularly videotaped beating, torturing, and killing suspects and innocent individuals alike. YouTube is full of examples, as is Wisdom Quarterly.
There are even reports of deputies homosexually raping or sodomizing male inmates. No one seems to mind that crime under color of law is far more serious than even the aggravated mayhem displayed by this group of teens.
State-sanctioned crime (illegal invasions, occupations, urination, incarceration, water boarding and other forms of torture during interrogation as well as gleeful implementation of the death penalty) influences and inspires American children.
These kids, all of them under 18, must have been desensitized by what they see police do (or what they have suffered at the hands of police). Police are routinely recruited from the military, pressuring veterans to conceal their PTSD, brain damage, and emotional problems over having engaged in and gotten away with crimes against humanity.
Recently, a mass murderer began a serial killing spree of homeless individuals he targeted, one after seeing on the news. He is a war veteran who does not seem to know why he did what he did. His only explanation so far was that he had recently heard that someone from his old platoon had been killed in combat by someone defending against a barbaric invasion, occupation, and daily humiliation.
"We will not stand for resistance or anything but complete submission" seems to be the message police, soldiers, and apparently Chicago teens are standing by.
US (MIC) tortures no matter what Dick Cheney or WH calls it.
OPINION The human world is NOT going to hell in a hand basket. It is much bigger than that. Humans are being inspired, influenced, and possessed to engage in conduct unbecoming of a human being (disregarding the Five Precepts, which is what makes us human). Who is inspiring us?
Conventionally speaking, it is the military-industrial complex with allies in the prison-industrial complex, pharmaceuticals, and entertainment (Hollywood).
The War Department with corporate backing (banking), private prison and mercenary companies (Xe, KBR, Halliburton, the Carlyle Group, etc.), Big Pharma (that does all it can to drug children and adults at levels seen nowhere else on the planet), and finally the entertainment/propaganda arm of the 1% apparatus. Who is pushing for this New World Order?
Ultimately speaking, it does not seem to be other humans. It seems to be surviving NAZIs, titans (asuras), "demons," ogres, reptilians, hybrids, malevolent spirits, and submissive humans (hypnotized, traumatized, drugged, and fed a steady stream of processed foods and EMF screen entrainment waves, and HAARP suggestions).
(Reuters) The gay half-sister of Republican presidential candidateNewt Gingrich slammed his position on gay rights on Wednesday and said she will support Pres. Obama, a Democrat, in the 2012 election.
Candace Gingrich-Jones, a gay rights activist, told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow that she and her older half-brother, the former speaker of the House of Representatives, were "mutually respectful" but disagree on gay rights. "He is definitely on the wrong side of history when it comes to those issues." More
This nondescript building illegally held detainees where they could be tortured and interrogated outside the purview of US and international law. USA, USA, USA!Neighbors unaware of deplorable acts being committed.
Is privatization and the creation of "Gladiator Schools" in a prison-industrial complex the answer?
If asking one prison to beat, maim, or kill another is not effective, torture is prescribed (forced cell extraction, sitting on, arm twisting, manhandling, hog tying, pepper spraying, stripping naked, beating, concussion, choke holds, beatings, shooting, blinding, and on to death) at the discretion of prison guards and officials. Crime? Disobeying or not obeying quickly enough to suit draconian standard procedures. This torture is filmed because it complies with standards and practices. The camera is turned off when guards choose to employ "cruel and unusual" measures they would never likely be prosecuted for or even charged with.
Occupy Wall Street protesters driven by varying goals [W]eeks into an anti-greed sit-in, the "leaderless resistance movement" is at a crossroads. Day # of Occupy Wall Street begins with a march through the streets of Lower Manhattan (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times)
NEW YORK (LA Times) - Michael Moore and Susan Sarandon have dropped in. A seasoned diplomat dispenses free advice. Supporters send everything from boxes of food and clothes to Whole Foods gift cards. They even have their own app, for the legions of fans following them on iPhones and Androids. Source
Republican Anh "Joseph" Cao, with his daughter Sophia Cao, 5, and his wife Kate Cao, talks to reporters after church in New Orleans, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2008. Cao defeated Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., for the 2nd Congressional District in Louisiana, making him the first Vietnamese-American in Congress (AP Photo/Cheryl Gerber).
NEW ORLEANS – The first Vietnamese-American elected to Congress took advantage of dissatisfaction with a longtime incumbent dogged by corruption allegations and reflects the changing nature of New Orleans politics since Hurricane Katrina.
Republican immigration attorney Anh "Joseph" Cao defeated Democratic U.S. William Jefferson on Saturday in an election postponed for a month by Hurricane Gustav.
The victory for a 41-year-old child of Vietnam War refugees was greeted with amazement and drew parallels to last year's election of Gov. Bobby Jindal, an Indian-American Republican. More>>
There might not be a story here were it not for the atrocities committed by American soldiers in the American War (aka "Vietnam War"). And one day WQ will surely cover the "First Iraqi-American Elected to Congress": Blackwater guards indicted in Iraq shooting surrender
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