theduran--2020-11-30--Is the U.S. actually a ‘police state’?

Is the U.S. actually a ‘police state’?

Is the phrase “ police state ” anything more than propaganda that a government uses against a foreign government that it wants to overthrow — such as the U.S. did against Iraq before invading it in 2003 , and against Libya and Syria since 2011 , and against Venezuela since 2012 , and against Ukraine since 2013 , and in all instances destroyed those countries , allegedly to ‘ bring democracy and human rights and the rule of law , and fight against corruption ’ there ( as if that were honestly the intention ) ?
The phrase “ police @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a foreign nation that one ’ s own government and its news-media don ’ t like and might even be hoping to conquer by means of subversion , or sanctions , or coup , or perhaps invasion by either the aggressor ’ s own troops or else hiring mercenaries — such as , for example , the U.S. did against Syria , hiring Al Qaeda and Kurdish separatists as ‘ rebels ’ there , to bring regime-change to Syria — all the while labelling as “ a police state ” the government that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The aggressor-country alleges itself to be attacking the target-country because that target-country is ‘ a police state ’ and ‘ violates human rights ’ — and the aggressor and its allies have continued this ‘ civil war ’ against Syria ever since 2012 , destroying Syria and refusing to pay even a cent for restitution and reconstruction in Syria .
They wreck the ‘ police state ’ , and then abandon it .
This is merely one example of a ‘ police state ’ , as that phrase is commonly employed .
This @ @ @ @ @ @ @ justify ’ an invasion .
It ’ s a ‘ justification ’ for international war-crimes .
So , there is a lot of hypocrisy in many common usages , of the phrase “ police state , ” by the U.S. and its allies ; and one must always be aware of the propagandistic usage of such phrases or words as “ police state , ” and “ regime , ” because the speaker or writer might actually represent that , more than does the government which that person is propagandistically attacking .
However @ @ @ @ @ @ @ police state ” is also possible ( though far less common ) .
That usage would be based upon rankings , according to reasonably reliable numerical measures , as being the basis for an objective comparison of countries ; and , so , this will actually be done here — not the normal , propagandistic , usage of the phrase “ police state.
” This is about only actual police states .
The measures that will be applied here will be two : ( 1 ) the percentage of the population who are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the percentage of the population who have been shot dead by police during the latest tabulated year .
The ranking of the world ’ s most powerful nation , USA , will be shown in boldface in the listings below , because the usage of the phrase “ police state ” is extraordinarily common in this country to refer to lands that its billionaires want to conquer and haven ’ t yet added to their list of ‘ allies ’ or vassal nations ( such as Iran , China , Russia , Syria @ @ @ @ @ @ @ usage for the phrase “ police state ” is different from that propagandistic one ; and , so , here it is : First are the rankings of the world ’ s countries according to the numbers of prisoners per million inhabitants ( though Wikipedia gives those numbers for 223 nations , only the top 12 % — only the top 26 nations , out of these 223 , and which have populations of over a million inhabitants — will be shown here , because Wikipedia fails to list the nations in rank @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their respective ranks at all , and also because only the very worst 26 of the nations might reasonably be considered to be “ police states ” ) : So : Those are the candidates to be considered as being possibly “ police states.
” Conspicuously NOT included as possible candidates here are ( just to name some of the ones that the nation which has the world ’ s highest imprisonment-rate — America — claims or believes to be ‘ police states ’ ( and the respective actual figure for each of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Vietnam ( 128 ) , Yemen ( 53 ) , Zimbabwe ( 114 ) , Syria ( 60 ) , Iraq ( 126 ) , Sudan ( 52 ) , Philippines ( 179 ) , Hungary ( 173 ) , Venezuela ( 178 ) , SaudiArabia ( 197 ) , Qatar ( 53 ) , Uzbekistan ( 150 ) , Tajikistan ( 120 ) , Kyrgyzstan ( 161 ) , Kazakhstan ( 156 ) , Mexico ( 163 ) , Libya ( 139 ) , Laos ( 130 ) , Kenya ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Palostan ( 38 ) , and Nigeria ( 36 ) .
None of those is even nearly as much of a police state as America is .
So : none of them is a police state .
Here are the percentages of the population who have been shot dead by police during the latest tabulated year as shown at Wikipedia .
USA is the 20th in that list of 60 countries , and may therefore reasonably be considered to be in the top half , as having a higher than normal percentage @ @ @ @ @ @ @ local police forces .
The countries that score worse ( higher ) than America on that list tend to be lands which have far lower per-capita GDPs than America does , and are therefore commonly called “ third world ” or “ poor ” countries by Americans ; and some of these countries — such as Iran and Venezuela — are routinely reported in American news-media as being police states .
All of the industrialized countries except the U.S. on that list have lower , not higher , levels of killings by police @ @ @ @ @ @ @ therefore less appropriate to be called a “ police state ” than the U.S. is .
Of the nations that U.S. media treat as being “ civilized , ” the only one that is in the top half as having an abnormally high frequency of police executing people who are in their custody is America itself .
This is especially remarkable because America is also the country which also has ( and by far ) the world ’ s highest percentage of its people imprisoned behind bars .
So : not only does @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of its population than does any other country in the entire world , but it is also the only wealthy country whose police forces execute an abnormally high percentage of the country ’ s population .
Certainly , therefore , if the phrase “ police state ” objectively means anything at all , then it applies to the United States of America .
Virtually all of the people whom the American criminal ‘ justice ’ system imprisons and executes are poor people , who , if they have violated any laws at all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that apply especially against the very poorest of Americans .
( Only few Americans are in prison for convictions of “ white collar ” or upper-class crimes . )
Furthermore , there appears to be a considerable amount of sheer racism that is involved , because the ethnic skew of Americans who become executed by police , and also of Americans who become imprisoned , both skews are intensely against black people .
For example , on 31 December 2015 , Britain ’ s Guardian bannered “ Young black men killed by US @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 1,134 deaths ” , and reported that , “ Young black men were nine times more likely than other Americans to be killed by police officers in 2015.
” Most of those killings by police were not processed to any conclusion by American courts ; but some were , and , of the 1,134 people killed by police in 2015 , only 23 % ( 255 of the 1,034 ) became ruled by a court as having been “ justified.
” The other 77 % might not have been ( even according to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in favor of police against anyone whom they arrest or try to arrest ) .
That news-article didn ’ t say how many , if any , of the murderous police became convicted by any court , but only 23 % of these 1,034 cases even were evaluated by a court as having not been murder by the police officer .
So , the situation in the United States seems to fit very well a police state .
It is non-accountability regarding individuals who exercise the power of the government , especially against @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that non-accountability : I headlined on August 21st of this year , at Strategic Culture , “ U.S .
Judge Urges Supreme Court to End U.S. Police State It Imposes ” , and reported that , “ A black U.S. District Court Judge in Mississippi — one of America ’ s most bigoted-against-Blacks states — issued on August 4th a 72-page decision , Jamison v. McClendon , containing a plea for the U.S. Supreme Court to discontinue its imposition of police legal immunity when police are being accused of — while on the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of American citizens ( such as by shooting or killing innocent persons — such as George Floyd ) .
Legally immune police is what defines a police state ; and , so , this was a black judge ’ s request for the U.S. Supreme Court to end the existing police state it imposes in America — to end a police state that this judge attributed to ( and which he documented to have been produced by ) choices that the U.S. Supreme Court itself had made , and that only they therefore @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to say , “ Our courts [ he was referring here to today ’ s U.S. Supreme Court ] have shielded a police officer who shot a child while the officer was attempting to shoot the family dog.117.
” That was a case which had been only recently decided by the U.S. Supreme Court , on June 15th , and which decision by this Supreme Court was ignored by the nation ’ s press , since that decision exposes how totalitarian this country has actually become .
That Supreme Court decision , which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ about the George Floyd murder case ) should have been front-page news throughout the country , was instead hidden from the public by the ‘ news ’ -media , though that decision — and the others which were similarly dismissed that day on the very same ground of “ qualified immunity ” of police officers — probably constituted the most important decision of the current Supreme Court term , and directly relate to the George Floyd case .
That June 15th decision ( now virtually a precedent protecting the murderer of George Floyd @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that had been brought against police officers by their victims .
This Supreme Court dismissed all of them , on the basis of this absurd court-precedent , which had been established in 1967 , and which was further defined in 1982 .
It ’ s “ qualified immunity ” , and asserts that police are allowed to do anything to anyone unless Congress has passed a specific law against what they did , and in that law , has described and identified exactly the same circumstances that the claimant against the police is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ detail of it — in his/her specific case .
It ’ s a Supreme-Court precedent , for a police state ( unaccountable government-officials ) to be ‘ Constitutional ’ in America , and this black judge in Mississippi was here essentially begging the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse the precedent that the 1967 Supreme Court had established ( and which had been reaffirmed and worsened yet further , by the Supreme Court in 1982 ) .
Prior U.S. Supreme Court rulings had placed judge Reeves into the position that , in the specific @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he had to choose either to rule in favor of the U.S. Constitution ( and convict the cop ) and then being virtually certain to be overruled on appeal , or else ruling ( as he now was doing ) in accord with the U.S. Supreme Court ’ s existing precedents and against the U.S. Constitution ( and rule that cop ‘ innocent ’ ) and thereby being safe against being overturned on appeal .
He was pleading with today ’ s Supreme Court : please change your precedent on this , so @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t , in the future , have to choose between either the Constitution or else being reversed on appeal .
He didn ’ t want to continue being merely a cog in an evil ( Constitution-violating ) machine .
That “ evil ” doesn ’ t consist ONLY of police murdering innocent people .
For example , the framing of innocent persons is almost routine in the United States and other dictatorships .
Non-accountability is the rule there , but , since police are near the bottom of the power totem-pole , way @ @ @ @ @ @ @ below the billionaires who control the government — the news-media , even in dictatorships , are allowed to expose it , if and when they find it .
And doing so “ helps sell newspapers.
” ( That ’ s a safe way to do it , because that type of ‘ sensationalism ’ poses no threat against the billionaires . )
Russia isn ’ t even listed in Wikipedia ’ s article on killings by police per 10 million residents .
However , Britain ’ s Guardian headlined on 13 January 2016 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ police custody in 2015 , says website ” , and reported ( apparently intending to make a hostile impression against Russia ’ s Government , which is something that both Britain ’ s and America ’ s billionaires seem to be unanimously in favor of doing ) that , Nearly 200 people are thought to have died in police custody in Russia last year , according to a new investigative website calling itself “ Russian Ebola ” .
Founded by journalist Maria Berezina , the site monitors deaths in police stations , pre-trial @ @ @ @ @ @ @ publishes the information online .
Berezina , who previously worked at the Journalism Investigations Agency in St Petersburg , said she first noticed the reports of frequent deaths while working for the prominent Russian opposition journalist Oleg Kashin .
She decided to request data from the Ministry of Internal Affairs , and said she had been shocked by the statistics .
Each month , the official figures showed that between nine and 29 people died at police stations across the country , with very few cases ever investigated further .
To convert those @ @ @ @ @ @ @ million residents ( and Russia has 144 million , so 10 million is 7 % of it ) would be not “ nearly 200 people ” but instead nearly 14 people , which would place Russia into the category of Luxembourg , India , and Canada , on that .
America ’ s rate of killings by police is about 2.5 times higher than Russia ’ s .
Usually , a police state has a constitution , but if this is a written constitution ( which not all countries have — UK doesn @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t , for examples ) , then that nation ’ s supreme court routinely finds ways to ‘ interpret ’ it so as to ‘ justify ’ unConstitutional laws , and unConstitutional actions by that regime ’ s officials ; and this is what has happened , which judge Carlton Reeves was objecting to .
But he was actually saying that the blame was specifically against the U.S. Supreme Court itself , ever since 1967 , because that Court had created this not law , but it was and is instead merely judicial @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t come from Congress .
The U.S. Supreme Court had itself created this ( in effect ) ’ law ’ .
Of course , when it ’ s an unwritten ‘ Constitution , ’ then even overtly the regime ’ s jurists are constantly ruling what that ‘ Constitution ’ is , and what it isn ’ t , and therefore an unwritten constitution is like chewing gum , and can become turned into virtually any shape at all , by the court .
All the judge needs to do is to cite @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a written constitution doesn ’ t necessarily mean that the government adheres to it .
But an unwritten constitution is virtually an invitation to dictatorship .
Even a written constitution can be totalitarian and yet still the regime calls itself a “ democracy.
” Netherlands is a good example of this — and thus it ’ s far more blatantly a dictatorship than America is , because Holland ’ s Constitution ( unlike America ’ s ) is itself ridiculous .
That Constitution ’ s five most important Articles are : 1 .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Ministers .
2 .
The Ministers , and not the King , shall be responsible for acts of government .
The Prime Minister and the other Ministers shall be appointed and dismissed by Royal Decree .
1 .
Ministries shall be established by Royal Decree .
They shall be headed by a Minister .
1 .
A Bill shall become an Act of Parliament once it has been passed by the States General and ratified by the King .
1 .
Members of the judiciary responsible for the administration of justice and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ shall be appointed for life by Royal Decree .
So : the King has total veto power ; he even appoints all Ministers and judges , and yet absorbs none of the blame for any of their decisions , because “ The Ministers , and not the King , shall be responsible for acts of government.
” And , of course , the judges alone are ‘ responsible ’ for their rulings .
There is no accountability .
To call that a ‘ democracy ’ is farcical .
( And , yet , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ residents in 53 countries whether they agree with the statement “ My country is democratic ” , Netherlands ranked 13th-highest at 66 % “ Yes , ” and America ranked 38th-highest at 48 % “ Yes ” ; so , even though Netherlands isn ’ t a democracy even on paper , the Dutch population are much more convinced that they live in a democracy than Americans are .
That is ridiculous on top of ridiculous . )
Things are not what they are said to be .
However , Netherlands definitely is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a long shot .
Not every dictatorship is also a police state .
But America is both a dictatorship and a police state .
In addition , the United States spends around half of the entire world ’ s money that is devoted to the military , and this too is consistent with the U.S. being a police state , even a global one — and very much in a class by itself about being so .
All of this is discussing actual police states , not employing the propagandistic usage of that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as ‘ police state ’ ) is what propagandists do .
But social scientists can not afford to .
Where do any such people ( social scientists ) even exist , at all ?
The public drown in all the propaganda .
And this is how today ’ s dictatorships function : by means of propaganda .
Issues about government — what is mis-called “ political science , ” even though there isn ’ t yet any scientific theory existing in that field — are inextricably connected to issues about criminal justice : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Following below are two discussions of criminal justice , exemplifying this : first , a reformist proposal , such as is accepted to be published in a dictatorship ; and , then , a much deeper revolutionary proposal , which a dictatorship won ’ t allow to become widely distributed ( and so it never was ) : “ Let ’ s use Roger Stone ’ s case to fix our broken justice system ” 12 February 2020 , BY DAVID OSCAR MARKUS , OPINION CONTRIBUTOR , criminal defense attorney at Markus/Moss in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ laude graduate of Harvard Law School .
He tries criminal cases and argues criminal appeals throughout the country .
… the larger problem , and the one that no one is talking about , is that the system itself is fatally flawed because it is set up for prosecutors and judges to issue unjustifiably harsh sentences .
Stone shouldn ’ t be thrown in a cage for 7-9 years — and neither should any other first-time non-violent offender .
… Had Stone pleaded guilty , he would have been looking at a sentence @ @ @ @ @ @ @ guidelines .
And had he met with prosecutors and cooperated , he likely would have been sentenced to probation .
Because he had the audacity to go to trial , his sentence goes from probation to 7-9 years .
It ’ s no wonder that innocent people plead guilty .
It ’ s no wonder that trials are vanishing .
Before the sentencing guidelines … , 20 percent of cases went to trial .
Now it ’ s less than 3 percent .
That is pretty stark evidence that the trial tax [ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ defendant ’ s choosing to go to trial ] has become too severe .
Lots of people are rightly saying that Trump was wrong to jump in for his friend and overrule the line prosecutors ’ sentencing recommendation .
But what was wrong about it was not overruling an overly harsh sentence .
What was wrong about it was that he did it for a friend instead of across the board .
We are in bad need of criminal justice reform .
Let ’ s overrule all of these insane sentencing recommendations for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cause crime ( a 185-page book ) by Harold E. Pepinsky & Paul Jesilow .
1992 .
Myth 6 : “ Rich and poor are equal before the law.
” 78 … 54 : WHITE-COLLAR CRIME is violent crime .
There is a common belief shared by the general public and criminal-justice personnel that white-collar crime is only economic .
That is , “ crime in the suites ” involves money being taken from a group rather than some physical attack on a victim .
The treatment of white-collar crime as economic , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by high Reagan administration officials and , more recently , by appointees of Pres .
George Bush , who define white-collar crime and violent crime as two mutually exclusive behaviors .
Then Attorney General William F. Smith said in regard to Reagan ’ s policy on crime , “ Top priority … would be violent crime .
That would be closely followed by organized crime , by drug enforcement , and by white-collar crime in due course.
” Smith ’ s ranking of crime priorities seems to say that white-collar crime lacks a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the evidence .
Consider the following corporate incidents .
On December 4 , 1984 , in Bhopal , India , a large amount of a poisonous chemical gas leaked from a storage tank at the Union Carbide India , Ltd. , plant .
The chemical , known as methyl isocyanate ( MIC ) , was used in the production of pesticides .
Touted the “ world ’ s worst industrial disaster , ” the leak left approximately 2,000 people killed and between 30,000 and 40,000 people seriously injured .
… 79 : THE @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the poor , so why are they not punished in equal proportion ?
Why are 48 percent of American prisoners black ?
Why is it so rare to see rich , prominent people sent to prison ?
Criminal justice officials , and indeed many criminologists , say that people are largely punished in proportion to the seriousness and quantity of offenses they commit .
How can they believe this ?
Suppose that most of the officers of an urban police force were to patrol the suites rather than the streets ( leaving sufficient @ @ @ @ @ @ @ calls ) .
… This pattern of enforcement would begin to ensure that the crimes of rich and poor would be detected equally .
The vast majority of dictatorships , throughout history , have been controlled — often behind the scenes — by the super-rich ( especially in fake ‘ democracies ’ ) , who also control the ‘ news ’ -media .
That ’ s the reason why the latter , far deeper , type of analysis ( from Pepinsky and Jesilow ) gets squelched and is therefore not made available to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it ’ s why anyone who would say merely “ Let ’ s overrule all of these insane sentencing recommendations for first time non-violent offenders ” can get plenty of publicity , and is acceptable to teach in places such as Harvard — the world ’ s most-billionaire-endowed university .
But what is taught by individuals such as professors Pepinsky and Jesilow is not .
It ’ s not merely a dictatorship : it ’ s one that is also a police state ( even a global police state ) .
The U.S. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ It is certainly the world ’ s leading police state .
Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author , most recently , of They ’ re Not Even Close : The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records , 1910-2010 , and of CHRIST ’ S VENTRILOQUISTS : The Event that Created Christianity .

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Is the phrase “police state” anything more than propaganda that a government uses against a foreign government that it wants to overthrow — such as the U.S. did against Iraq before invading it in 2003, and against Libya and Syria since 2011, and against Venezuela since 2012, and against Ukraine since 2013, and in all instances destroyed those countries, allegedly to ‘bring democracy and human rights and the rule of law, and fight against corruption’ there (as if that were honestly the intention)?
The phrase “police state” is used propagandistically to denigrate a foreign nation that one’s own government and its news-media don’t like and might even be hoping to conquer by means of subversion, or sanctions, or coup, or perhaps invasion by either the aggressor’s own troops or else hiring mercenaries — such as, for example, the U.S. did against Syria, hiring Al Qaeda and Kurdish separatists as ‘rebels’ there, to bring regime-change to Syria — all the while labelling as “a police state” the government that the aggressor is trying to overthrow. The aggressor-country alleges itself to be attacking the target-country because that target-country is ‘a police state’ and ‘violates human rights’ — and the aggressor and its allies have continued this ‘civil war’ against Syria ever since 2012, destroying Syria and refusing to pay even a cent for restitution and reconstruction in Syria. They wreck the ‘police state’, and then abandon it. This is merely one example of a ‘police state’, as that phrase is commonly employed. This phrase is just a tool to ‘justify’ an invasion. It’s a ‘justification’ for international war-crimes.
So, there is a lot of hypocrisy in many common usages, of the phrase “police state,” by the U.S. and its allies; and one must always be aware of the propagandistic usage of such phrases or words as “police state,” and “regime,” because the speaker or writer might actually represent that, more than does the government which that person is propagandistically attacking.
However, objective usage of the phrase “police state” is also possible (though far less common). That usage would be based upon rankings, according to reasonably reliable numerical measures, as being the basis for an objective comparison of countries; and, so, this will actually be done here — not the normal, propagandistic, usage of the phrase “police state.” This is about only actual police states.
The measures that will be applied here will be two: (1) the percentage of the population who are in prisons; and (2) the percentage of the population who have been shot dead by police during the latest tabulated year.
The ranking of the world’s most powerful nation, USA, will be shown in boldface in the listings below, because the usage of the phrase “police state” is extraordinarily common in this country to refer to lands that its billionaires want to conquer and haven’t yet added to their list of ‘allies’ or vassal nations (such as Iran, China, Russia, Syria, and Venezuela), but our usage for the phrase “police state” is different from that propagandistic one; and, so, here it is:
(1)
First are the rankings of the world’s countries according to the numbers of prisoners per million inhabitants (though Wikipedia gives those numbers for 223 nations, only the top 12% — only the top 26 nations, out of these 223, and which have populations of over a million inhabitants — will be shown here, because Wikipedia fails to list the nations in rank order, and even fails to indicate their respective ranks at all, and also because only the very worst 26 of the nations might reasonably be considered to be “police states”):
USA=655
ElSalvador=590
Turkmenistan=552
Thailand=531
Rwanda=511
Cuba-510
Panama=401
CostaRica=374
Brazil=348
Belarus=343
Russia=340
Nicaragua=332
Turkey=324
Uruguay=295
Namibia=295
Iran=294
Peru=278
SouthAfrica=275
Georgia=262
Taiwan=258
Swaziland/Eswatini=258
Colombia=246
Morocco=237
Israel=234
Malaysia=230
Honduras=229
So: Those are the candidates to be considered as being possibly “police states.” Conspicuously NOT included as possible candidates here are (just to name some of the ones that the nation which has the world’s highest imprisonment-rate — America — claims or believes to be ‘police states’ (and the respective actual figure for each of them): China (120), Vietnam (128), Yemen (53), Zimbabwe (114), Syria (60), Iraq (126), Sudan (52), Philippines (179), Hungary (173), Venezuela (178), SaudiArabia (197), Qatar (53), Uzbekistan (150), Tajikistan (120), Kyrgyzstan (161), Kazakhstan (156), Mexico (163), Libya (139), Laos (130), Kenya (102), India (34), Pakistan (38), and Nigeria (36). None of those is even nearly as much of a police state as America is. So: none of them is a police state.
(2)
Here are the percentages of the population who have been shot dead by police during the latest tabulated year as shown at Wikipedia.
Killings by police per 10 million residents:
Venezuela=1,830.2
ElSalvador=954.5
Syria=831.6
Nicaragua=522.7
Philippines=322.4
Brazil=276.2
Afghanistan=170.5
DominicanRepublic=131.8
SouthAfrica=76.9
CentralAfricanRepublic=64.4
Lesotho=63.8
BurkinaFaso=60.4
Burundi=53.9
DRC=47.8
Iraq=45.1
Nigeria=44.0
Kenya=43.5
Honduras=40.4
Iran=36.6
U.S.=34.8
Angola=34.7
Colombia=34.1
Mali=32.3
Sudan=32,1
Rwanda=31.0
Mexico=30.0
Bangladesh=28.3
Pakistan=25.2
Argentina=21.6
Egypt=21.2
Luxembourg=16.9
India=12.54
Canada=9.7
France=3.8
Indonesia=2.9
Belgium=2.6
Netherlands=2.3
N.Z.=2.1
Norway=1.9
Finland=1.8
Nepal=1.7
Australia=1.7
Germany=1.3
Portugal=1.0
Sweden=1.0
Taiwan=0.8
UK=0.5
Poland=0.5
Japan=0.2
Denmark, Iceland & Switzerland=0
USA is the 20th in that list of 60 countries, and may therefore reasonably be considered to be in the top half, as having a higher than normal percentage of its people killed annually by its local police forces. The countries that score worse (higher) than America on that list tend to be lands which have far lower per-capita GDPs than America does, and are therefore commonly called “third world” or “poor” countries by Americans; and some of these countries — such as Iran and Venezuela — are routinely reported in American news-media as being police states. All of the industrialized countries except the U.S. on that list have lower, not higher, levels of killings by police, than America does, and are therefore less appropriate to be called a “police state” than the U.S. is. Of the nations that U.S. media treat as being “civilized,” the only one that is in the top half as having an abnormally high frequency of police executing people who are in their custody is America itself. This is especially remarkable because America is also the country which also has (and by far) the world’s highest percentage of its people imprisoned behind bars.
So: not only does the U.S. lock up a higher percentage of its population than does any other country in the entire world, but it is also the only wealthy country whose police forces execute an abnormally high percentage of the country’s population. Certainly, therefore, if the phrase “police state” objectively means anything at all, then it applies to the United States of America.
Virtually all of the people whom the American criminal ‘justice’ system imprisons and executes are poor people, who, if they have violated any laws at all, have violated the types of laws that apply especially against the very poorest of Americans. (Only few Americans are in prison for convictions of “white collar” or upper-class crimes.) Furthermore, there appears to be a considerable amount of sheer racism that is involved, because the ethnic skew of Americans who become executed by police, and also of Americans who become imprisoned, both skews are intensely against black people. For example, on 31 December 2015, Britain’s Guardian bannered “Young black men killed by US police at highest rate in year of 1,134 deaths”, and reported that, “Young black men were nine times more likely than other Americans to be killed by police officers in 2015.” Most of those killings by police were not processed to any conclusion by American courts; but some were, and, of the 1,134 people killed by police in 2015, only 23% (255 of the 1,034) became ruled by a court as having been “justified.” The other 77% might not have been (even according to American laws, which are obscenely slanted in favor of police against anyone whom they arrest or try to arrest). That news-article didn’t say how many, if any, of the murderous police became convicted by any court, but only 23% of these 1,034 cases even were evaluated by a court as having not been murder by the police officer. So, the situation in the United States seems to fit very well a police state. It is non-accountability regarding individuals who exercise the power of the government, especially against the poor and minorities.
Further about that non-accountability: I headlined on August 21st of this year, at Strategic Culture, “U.S. Judge Urges Supreme Court to End U.S. Police State It Imposes”, and reported that, “A black U.S. District Court Judge in Mississippi — one of America’s most bigoted-against-Blacks states — issued on August 4th a 72-page decision, Jamison v. McClendon, containing a plea for the U.S. Supreme Court to discontinue its imposition of police legal immunity when police are being accused of — while on the job — having violated Constitutionally guaranteed rights of American citizens (such as by shooting or killing innocent persons — such as George Floyd). Legally immune police is what defines a police state; and, so, this was a black judge’s request for the U.S. Supreme Court to end the existing police state it imposes in America — to end a police state that this judge attributed to (and which he documented to have been produced by) choices that the U.S. Supreme Court itself had made, and that only they therefore can possibly reverse.”
The judge was Carlton W. Reeves. I continued:
Reeves went on to say, “Our courts [he was referring here to today’s U.S. Supreme Court] have shielded a police officer who shot a child while the officer was attempting to shoot the family dog.117.” That was a case which had been only recently decided by the U.S. Supreme Court, on June 15th, and which decision by this Supreme Court was ignored by the nation’s press, since that decision exposes how totalitarian this country has actually become. That Supreme Court decision, which (especially because of the recent headlines about the George Floyd murder case) should have been front-page news throughout the country, was instead hidden from the public by the ‘news’-media, though that decision — and the others which were similarly dismissed that day on the very same ground of “qualified immunity” of police officers — probably constituted the most important decision of the current Supreme Court term, and directly relate to the George Floyd case. That June 15th decision (now virtually a precedent protecting the murderer of George Floyd) ruled in a slew of cases that had been brought against police officers by their victims. This Supreme Court dismissed all of them, on the basis of this absurd court-precedent, which had been established in 1967, and which was further defined in 1982. It’s “qualified immunity”, and asserts that police are allowed to do anything to anyone unless Congress has passed a specific law against what they did, and in that law, has described and identified exactly the same circumstances that the claimant against the police is claiming had existed — each and every detail of it — in his/her specific case. It’s a Supreme-Court precedent, for a police state (unaccountable government-officials) to be ‘Constitutional’ in America, and this black judge in Mississippi was here essentially begging the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse the precedent that the 1967 Supreme Court had established (and which had been reaffirmed and worsened yet further, by the Supreme Court in 1982).
Prior U.S. Supreme Court rulings had placed judge Reeves into the position that, in the specific case he now was ruling upon, he had to choose either to rule in favor of the U.S. Constitution (and convict the cop) and then being virtually certain to be overruled on appeal, or else ruling (as he now was doing) in accord with the U.S. Supreme Court’s existing precedents and against the U.S. Constitution (and rule that cop ‘innocent’) and thereby being safe against being overturned on appeal. He was pleading with today’s Supreme Court: please change your precedent on this, so that judges such as I won’t, in the future, have to choose between either the Constitution or else being reversed on appeal. He didn’t want to continue being merely a cog in an evil (Constitution-violating) machine.
That “evil” doesn’t consist ONLY of police murdering innocent people. For example, the framing of innocent persons is almost routine in the United States and other dictatorships. Non-accountability is the rule there, but, since police are near the bottom of the power totem-pole, way below national leaders — and even farther below the billionaires who control the government — the news-media, even in dictatorships, are allowed to expose it, if and when they find it. And doing so “helps sell newspapers.” (That’s a safe way to do it, because that type of ‘sensationalism’ poses no threat against the billionaires.)
Russia isn’t even listed in Wikipedia’s article on killings by police per 10 million residents. However, Britain’s Guardian headlined on 13 January 2016, “200 people died in Russian police custody in 2015, says website”, and reported (apparently intending to make a hostile impression against Russia’s Government, which is something that both Britain’s and America’s billionaires seem to be unanimously in favor of doing) that,
Nearly 200 people are thought to have died in police custody in Russia last year, according to a new investigative website calling itself “Russian Ebola”.
Founded by journalist Maria Berezina, the site monitors deaths in police stations, pre-trial detention facilities and related institutions, and publishes the information online.
Berezina, who previously worked at the Journalism Investigations Agency in St Petersburg, said she first noticed the reports of frequent deaths while working for the prominent Russian opposition journalist Oleg Kashin.
She decided to request data from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and said she had been shocked by the statistics.
Each month, the official figures showed that between nine and 29 people died at police stations across the country, with very few cases ever investigated further.
To convert those numbers into killings by police per 10 million residents (and Russia has 144 million, so 10 million is 7% of it) would be not “nearly 200 people” but instead nearly 14 people, which would place Russia into the category of Luxembourg, India, and Canada, on that. America’s rate of killings by police is about 2.5 times higher than Russia’s.
Usually, a police state has a constitution, but if this is a written constitution (which not all countries have — UK doesn’t, and Israel doesn’t, for examples), then that nation’s supreme court routinely finds ways to ‘interpret’ it so as to ‘justify’ unConstitutional laws, and unConstitutional actions by that regime’s officials; and this is what has happened, which judge Carlton Reeves was objecting to. But he was actually saying that the blame was specifically against the U.S. Supreme Court itself, ever since 1967, because that Court had created this not law, but it was and is instead merely judicial ‘precedent’ — it didn’t come from Congress. The U.S. Supreme Court had itself created this (in effect) ’law’. Of course, when it’s an unwritten ‘Constitution,’ then even overtly the regime’s jurists are constantly ruling what that ‘Constitution’ is, and what it isn’t, and therefore an unwritten constitution is like chewing gum, and can become turned into virtually any shape at all, by the court. All the judge needs to do is to cite existing precedents for it. However, a written constitution doesn’t necessarily mean that the government adheres to it. But an unwritten constitution is virtually an invitation to dictatorship.
Even a written constitution can be totalitarian and yet still the regime calls itself a “democracy.” Netherlands is a good example of this — and thus it’s far more blatantly a dictatorship than America is, because Holland’s Constitution (unlike America’s) is itself ridiculous. That Constitution’s five most important Articles are:
Article 42
1. The Government shall comprise the King and the Ministers.
2. The Ministers, and not the King, shall be responsible for acts of government.
Article 43
The Prime Minister and the other Ministers shall be appointed and dismissed by Royal Decree.
Article 44
1. Ministries shall be established by Royal Decree. They shall be headed by a Minister.
Article 87
1. A Bill shall become an Act of Parliament once it has been passed by the States General and ratified by the King.
Article 117
1. Members of the judiciary responsible for the administration of justice and the Procurator General at the Supreme Court shall be appointed for life by Royal Decree.
So: the King has total veto power; he even appoints all Ministers and judges, and yet absorbs none of the blame for any of their decisions, because “The Ministers, and not the King, shall be responsible for acts of government.” And, of course, the judges alone are ‘responsible’ for their rulings. There is no accountability. To call that a ‘democracy’ is farcical. (And, yet, when a confidential NATO poll asked the residents in 53 countries whether they agree with the statement “My country is democratic”, Netherlands ranked 13th-highest at 66% “Yes,” and America ranked 38th-highest at 48% “Yes”; so, even though Netherlands isn’t a democracy even on paper, the Dutch population are much more convinced that they live in a democracy than Americans are. That is ridiculous on top of ridiculous.)
Things are not what they are said to be. However, Netherlands definitely is not a police state — not by a long shot. Not every dictatorship is also a police state. But America is both a dictatorship and a police state.
In addition, the United States spends around half of the entire world’s money that is devoted to the military, and this too is consistent with the U.S. being a police state, even a global one — and very much in a class by itself about being so.
All of this is discussing actual police states, not employing the propagandistic usage of that phrase.
Throwing labels around (such as ‘police state’) is what propagandists do. But social scientists cannot afford to. Where do any such people (social scientists) even exist, at all? The public drown in all the propaganda. And this is how today’s dictatorships function: by means of propaganda.
Issues about government — what is mis-called “political science,” even though there isn’t yet any scientific theory existing in that field — are inextricably connected to issues about criminal justice: police, courts, and laws. Following below are two discussions of criminal justice, exemplifying this: first, a reformist proposal, such as is accepted to be published in a dictatorship; and, then, a much deeper revolutionary proposal, which a dictatorship won’t allow to become widely distributed (and so it never was):
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Let’s use Roger Stone’s case to fix our broken justice system Every day in courthouses around the country, federal prosecutors ask for grossly outrageous and offensively high sentences. The United States puts more people in prison for longer amounts of time than any other country in the world. And it’s not just violent, repeat offenders who are getting the monster sentences.
“Let’s use Roger Stone’s case to fix our broken justice system”
12 February 2020, BY DAVID OSCAR MARKUS, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR, criminal defense attorney at Markus/Moss in Miami. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School. He tries criminal cases and argues criminal appeals throughout the country.
… the larger problem, and the one that no one is talking about, is that the system itself is fatally flawed because it is set up for prosecutors and judges to issue unjustifiably harsh sentences. Stone shouldn’t be thrown in a cage for 7-9 years — and neither should any other first-time non-violent offender. …
Had Stone pleaded guilty, he would have been looking at a sentence of closer to 24 months under the guidelines. And had he met with prosecutors and cooperated, he likely would have been sentenced to probation. Because he had the audacity to go to trial, his sentence goes from probation to 7-9 years. It’s no wonder that innocent people plead guilty. It’s no wonder that trials are vanishing. Before the sentencing guidelines …, 20 percent of cases went to trial. Now it’s less than 3 percent. That is pretty stark evidence that the trial tax [the Government’s fee for a defendant’s choosing to go to trial] has become too severe.
Lots of people are rightly saying that Trump was wrong to jump in for his friend and overrule the line prosecutors’ sentencing recommendation. But what was wrong about it was not overruling an overly harsh sentence. What was wrong about it was that he did it for a friend instead of across the board. We are in bad need of criminal justice reform. Let’s overrule all of these insane sentencing recommendations for first time non-violent offenders.
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Click to access MythsThatCauseCrime.pdf
Click to access MythsThatCauseCrime.pdf
Myths that cause crime (a 185-page book) by Harold E. Pepinsky & Paul Jesilow. 1992.
CONTENTS …
Myth 4: “White-collar crime is nonviolent.” 54
Myth 5: “Regulatory agencies prevent white-collar crime.” 62
Myth 6: “Rich and poor are equal before the law.” 78 …
54: WHITE-COLLAR CRIME is violent crime. There is a common belief shared by the general public and criminal-justice personnel that white-collar crime is only economic. That is, “crime in the suites” involves money being taken from a group rather than some physical attack on a victim. The treatment of white-collar crime as economic, nonviolent crime is clearly evidenced in statements by high Reagan administration officials and, more recently, by appointees of Pres. George Bush, who define white-collar crime and violent crime as two mutually exclusive behaviors. Then Attorney General William F. Smith said in regard to Reagan’s policy on crime, “Top priority … would be violent crime. That would be closely followed by organized crime, by drug enforcement, and by white-collar crime in due course.” Smith’s ranking of crime priorities seems to say that white-collar crime lacks a violent component, a position unsupported by the evidence. Consider the following corporate incidents.
Union Carbide
On December 4, 1984, in Bhopal, India, a large amount of a poisonous chemical gas leaked from a storage tank at the Union Carbide India, Ltd., plant. The chemical, known as methyl isocyanate (MIC), was used in the production of pesticides. Touted the “world’s worst industrial disaster,” the leak left approximately 2,000 people killed and between 30,000 and 40,000 people seriously injured. …
79: THE RICH are as violent and crooked as the poor, so why are they not punished in equal proportion? Why are 48 percent of American prisoners black? Why is it so rare to see rich, prominent people sent to prison? Criminal justice officials, and indeed many criminologists, say that people are largely punished in proportion to the seriousness and quantity of offenses they commit. How can they believe this?
Looking for Crime
Suppose that most of the officers of an urban police force were to patrol the suites rather than the streets (leaving sufficient cars on the streets to cover emergency calls). … This pattern of enforcement would begin to ensure that the crimes of rich and poor would be detected equally.
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The vast majority of dictatorships, throughout history, have been controlled — often behind the scenes — by the super-rich (especially in fake ‘democracies’), who also control the ‘news’-media. That’s the reason why the latter, far deeper, type of analysis (from Pepinsky and Jesilow) gets squelched and is therefore not made available to the public in a dictatorship. And it’s why anyone who would say merely “Let’s overrule all of these insane sentencing recommendations for first time non-violent offenders” can get plenty of publicity, and is acceptable to teach in places such as Harvard — the world’s most-billionaire-endowed university. But what is taught by individuals such as professors Pepinsky and Jesilow is not.
It’s not merely a dictatorship: it’s one that is also a police state (even a global police state).
On 22 June 2020, Britain’s Guardian headlined “‘State-sanctioned violence’: US police fail to meet basic human rights standards”, and reported on a study that had just been published by the Law School at the University of Chicago, which examined 20 big-city U.S. police departments, and it found that “not one met the minimum standards established by human rights law.” Furthermore, “Across Europe, policing policies are much more closely aligned with human rights directives.” The U.S. Government, at its federal level, was found to be grossly deficient in the very same measures, of accountability and rule-of-law, that that Government pontificates against, issues sanctions against, and invades. (Yet those European governments still ally with the U.S. regime, instead of condemn its aggressions.)
The U.S. actually is a “police state.” It is certainly the world’s leading police state.
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They’re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of CHRIST’S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.
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theduran--2020-11-30--The assassination of Iran’s top nuclear scientist

Jared Kushner lands at the White House with Ivanka and his children as it ’ s revealed he will visit @ @ @ @ @ week for Israel talks after Mossad ‘ assassinated ’ Iran ’ s top nuclear scientist @ @ @ @ @ following killing of Iranian scientist Kushner will visit the Middle East this week to attempt @ @ @ @ @ more countries after successes with Bahrain and the UAE Concerns about Iran ’ s growing @ @ @ @ @ seen to be a factor in pushing other Middle Eastern countries toward alignment with Israel @ @ @ @ @ be the architect of Iran ’ s nuclear program , was killed Friday reportedly by @ @ @ @ @ he rode in a car near Tehran President-Elect Joe Biden has said that he plans @ @ @ @


theduran--2020-11-30--Hungary PM Viktor Orban demolishes SOROS in open letter

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theduran--2020-11-30--Lin Wood warns Republicans who fail to support Trump in Georgia

Lin Wood warns Republicans who fail to support Trump in Georgia I understand the frustration over the Steal , but @ @ @ @ @ runoffs , they will have the votes to pass national mandatory mail-in voting , grant @ @ @ @ @ Rico , and pack the Supreme Court full of activist Ginsburg clones .
Lin Wood @ @ @ @ @ republican pushing the idea , and has taken considerable heat .


theduran--2020-12-01--The election news ‘fog-out’ prepares the way for the Great Reset [Video]

The mainstream media is absolutely determined to destroy the United States as a free and independent nation with free and independent people .
The fervor to which all of the big outlets , including and especially noting Fox News , are running to Joe Biden , to globalism , to the Great Reset which will be the big move to a “ one world ” sort of governance of the type that the tinfoil hat types have been warning us about for decades… It is all on the line with this election .
Speaking personally , I can not understand @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have for many years pictured government as THE problem , and my suspicion that this was true supported my two most recent relocations ( though admittedly this was not the sole reason ) , to the high plains of Colorado and then later to Moscow , in Russia .
The farther away I got from Washington , DC and the “ fishbowl effect ” of the East Coast cities and of the US in general , the more clearly it became evident we needed real help to save the country from its rush @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by one Barack H. Obama .
We got that break , too .
When Donald Trump won the Presidency in 2016 , the nation immediately responded , and very positively for the most part .
I mean the way the country actually ran : employment boomed , companies repatriated tremendous amounts of overseas profits and gave bonuses to their employees , the US did not enter any new foreign wars and in fact ended one war ( at least the US involvement in it ) and has been far more concerned with bringing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Most recently , several Arab states did the unthinkable , signing peace agreements with Israel , helping to legitimize that nation ’ s status and to create a united Middle East .
A digression : To this last point , I know many faithful Duran readers will scream at their screens asking how I can sell out the Palestinians and Iranians by supporting Israel .
To be sure , I do not have much in the way of warm fuzzy feelings for Israel at all .
But the matter here is simple @ @ @ @ @ @ @ going to stand against Israel .
– a conveniently forgotten fact is that Russia , like the United States , at least tacitly supports the Jewish state .
There is a strong Russian presence in Israel , not the least of which comprises Russian Jews as well as a lot of Orthodox Christians .
• Further , the Soviet Union tried to go to war by proxy with Israel .
They lost .
The country has too much historical and strategic significance for the major powers to interfere unless they both agree to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from likely today .
Both countries are in fact working ( maybe even in concert ) to stabilize the Middle East • The way to bring the Palestinian people victory is not via terrorism .
Unfortunately , the Palestinians seem not to have realized this .
While their future is admittedly under terrible ( and I think , wrong ) pressure by the Israelis , these people really have not got much of a chance against the combined powers arrayed against them .
The better way to go is through peace and economic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Germany , many American Indian nations and India itself .
• The same situation applies to Iran .
Even though Russia supports Iran , they will not support Iran launching a war against Israel , and Iran knows this .
The only hope that nation ’ s leadership ever really had was to “ inspire ” Muslims all across the Middle East to their cause , that eradication of the Jewish State would be to sole task needed to bring about paradise on earth .
Unfortunately for the Iranian leadership , it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ world sees their single-minded anger as tipping the Crazy Meter , and they are opting for peace and development .
Eventually Iran ’ s leadership may come to their senses .
We hope so ; the Iranians themselves are great people with a fantastic and beautiful history .
The manufactured rage thing is getting pretty old .
43 years with no real results .
When is it time to stop ?
• President Trump knows this , and that is why the initiative to develop peace in the Middle East through agreements between @ @ @ @ @ @ @ successful .
Digression concluded… hopefully the screaming at the screen has also stopped .
Onwards !
The media and the Great Resetters also know all of this , and that is probably another reason why they have caused the American news establishment to in effect “ go dark.
” We no longer get news and information from these networks ; we get propaganda .
A whole lot of “ baseless ” or nothing at all .
While this is hard – I am literally sitting and waiting for any updates on the Trump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ good .
Here are some reasons it is good : • News does not happen on a 24-hour constant basis .
Remember when we used to get no more than two or three updates per day ?
We had a national evening broadcast , a couple local broadcasts and maybe a little bit in the mornings on weekdays .
In a day ’ s time , less than two hours , maximum , comprised of news coverage .
The rest of the day was on about a thirty-minute loop , repeating any developments @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was available only on news-radio stations .
• Our knowledge of events is augmented more at the speed of the events themselves , and far less on speculation .
Here I give the lie to myself because much of what I write is speculative .
However , my readers should also be able to see that I do not project , but merely propose .
Far from calling the election fraud claims “ baseless ” or “ certain ” , I can say “ they definitely exist and must be addressed.
” This @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that treatment actually leads to .
• Part of this is antithetical to the news business ( so it would probably hurt my work and others like me ) , but most of the time what happens in the world is not very important .
What happens in our neighborhood or in our own homes , is .
We have a lot of news junkies in desperate need of withdrawal , and the fog-out and utter failure of that anachronism called the “ national news network ” is in some ways the best @ @ @ @ @ @ @ about fifty years .
The only problem here is why .
The Great Reset is certainly real enough , though it is portrayed in as positive a light as dystopian fantasies can be ( see below ) .
What it means for the average citizen is terrifying .
However , it may be that alternate media is making the needed impact , as measures to implement the Reset in other nations are hitting roadblocks , namely riots .
France may actually throw this off .
Hungary certainly will refuse it , as will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on the planet is America , for our people have been abused by mainstream media propaganda for so long that they are now psychologically conditioned to accept external control .
But there are seventy-four million voters and their families who are not ready for that .
If they are awake and aware , they can beat this thing .

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The mainstream media is absolutely determined to destroy the United States as a free and independent nation with free and independent people. The fervor to which all of the big outlets, including and especially noting Fox News, are running to Joe Biden, to globalism, to the Great Reset which will be the big move to a “one world” sort of governance of the type that the tinfoil hat types have been warning us about for decades…
It is all on the line with this election. Speaking personally, I cannot understand why they would want this. I have for many years pictured government as THE problem, and my suspicion that this was true supported my two most recent relocations (though admittedly this was not the sole reason), to the high plains of Colorado and then later to Moscow, in Russia. The farther away I got from Washington, DC and the “fishbowl effect” of the East Coast cities and of the US in general, the more clearly it became evident we needed real help to save the country from its rush into the darkness, spurred on greatly by one Barack H. Obama.
We got that break, too. When Donald Trump won the Presidency in 2016, the nation immediately responded, and very positively for the most part. I mean the way the country actually ran: employment boomed, companies repatriated tremendous amounts of overseas profits and gave bonuses to their employees, the US did not enter any new foreign wars and in fact ended one war (at least the US involvement in it) and has been far more concerned with bringing troops home than with intimidating other nations. Most recently, several Arab states did the unthinkable, signing peace agreements with Israel, helping to legitimize that nation’s status and to create a united Middle East.
A digression: To this last point, I know many faithful Duran readers will scream at their screens asking how I can sell out the Palestinians and Iranians by supporting Israel. To be sure, I do not have much in the way of warm fuzzy feelings for Israel at all. But the matter here is simple logic:
No major power is going to stand against Israel. – a conveniently forgotten fact is that Russia, like the United States, at least tacitly supports the Jewish state. There is a strong Russian presence in Israel, not the least of which comprises Russian Jews as well as a lot of Orthodox Christians. Further, the Soviet Union tried to go to war by proxy with Israel. They lost. The country has too much historical and strategic significance for the major powers to interfere unless they both agree to do so, and that is far from likely today. Both countries are in fact working (maybe even in concert) to stabilize the Middle East The way to bring the Palestinian people victory is not via terrorism. Unfortunately, the Palestinians seem not to have realized this. While their future is admittedly under terrible (and I think, wrong) pressure by the Israelis, these people really have not got much of a chance against the combined powers arrayed against them. The better way to go is through peace and economic development, following the example of Japan, Germany, many American Indian nations and India itself. The same situation applies to Iran. Even though Russia supports Iran, they will not support Iran launching a war against Israel, and Iran knows this. The only hope that nation’s leadership ever really had was to “inspire” Muslims all across the Middle East to their cause, that eradication of the Jewish State would be to sole task needed to bring about paradise on earth. Unfortunately for the Iranian leadership, it appears that the rest of their immediate world sees their single-minded anger as tipping the Crazy Meter, and they are opting for peace and development. Eventually Iran’s leadership may come to their senses. We hope so; the Iranians themselves are great people with a fantastic and beautiful history. The manufactured rage thing is getting pretty old. 43 years with no real results. When is it time to stop? President Trump knows this, and that is why the initiative to develop peace in the Middle East through agreements between Israel and other ME states is so successful.
Digression concluded… hopefully the screaming at the screen has also stopped. Onwards!
The media and the Great Resetters also know all of this, and that is probably another reason why they have caused the American news establishment to in effect “go dark.” We no longer get news and information from these networks; we get propaganda. A whole lot of “baseless” or nothing at all.
While this is hard – I am literally sitting and waiting for any updates on the Trump Election situation – this is also really good. Here are some reasons it is good:
News does not happen on a 24-hour constant basis. Remember when we used to get no more than two or three updates per day? We had a national evening broadcast, a couple local broadcasts and maybe a little bit in the mornings on weekdays. In a day’s time, less than two hours, maximum, comprised of news coverage. The rest of the day was on about a thirty-minute loop, repeating any developments until new ones came, and that was available only on news-radio stations. Our knowledge of events is augmented more at the speed of the events themselves, and far less on speculation. Here I give the lie to myself because much of what I write is speculative. However, my readers should also be able to see that I do not project, but merely propose. Far from calling the election fraud claims “baseless” or “certain”, I can say “they definitely exist and must be addressed.” This last is true, no matter what that treatment actually leads to. Part of this is antithetical to the news business (so it would probably hurt my work and others like me), but most of the time what happens in the world is not very important. What happens in our neighborhood or in our own homes, is. We have a lot of news junkies in desperate need of withdrawal, and the fog-out and utter failure of that anachronism called the “national news network” is in some ways the best thing that has happened to us in about fifty years.
The only problem here is why.
The Great Reset is certainly real enough, though it is portrayed in as positive a light as dystopian fantasies can be (see below).
What it means for the average citizen is terrifying. However, it may be that alternate media is making the needed impact, as measures to implement the Reset in other nations are hitting roadblocks, namely riots. France may actually throw this off. Hungary certainly will refuse it, as will Russia. The one real soft spot on the planet is America, for our people have been abused by mainstream media propaganda for so long that they are now psychologically conditioned to accept external control.
But there are seventy-four million voters and their families who are not ready for that. If they are awake and aware, they can beat this thing.
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theduran--2020-12-01--Is Voter Fraud Really An Urban Legend?

Is Voter Fraud Really An Urban Legend?

The short answer to that question is no .
And neither is gaslighting , which is what the mainstream media has been doing since before Donald Trump won the Presidency .
Writing for the Associated Press on November 28 , David Sharp opined : “ There is no evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 election .
In fact , election officials from both political parties have stated publicly that the election went well and international observers confirmed there were no serious irregularities.
” On this subject , he quotes the Democrat politician Matthew Dunlap : “ It ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ election year ” .
We ’ ve all heard of urban legends , folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand built his reputation on them .
Starting with The Vanishing Hitchhiker , he published a series of popular books on stories that while scary , or simply humorous , sound authentic .
There are some real classics , like the woman who boards a plane to the USA holding her baby .
When she is stopped on arrival , the child is found to be dead .
And stuffed with cocaine !
Professor Brunvand attempted to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to no avail .
It was a total fiction .
Then , in 1994 , an English civil servant boarded a plane in New York with a dead baby under her clothing .
Caroline Beale wasn ’ t a drug courier , but a deeply disturbed woman .
Another urban legend , and a far more sinister one , is that of the snuff film , one in which someone , usually some poor woman or unfortunate child , is murdered on camera , perhaps tortured to death , for the fun of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ films are now real , life imitated art or simply a sick fantasy in the case of Leonard Lake and Charles Ng .
And a few others .
The point is , just because something begins in the world of fantasy or fiction , doesn ’ t mean it will remain there .
Voter fraud started in the real world , is a very real phenomenon today .
There have been hundreds of convictions for it in the United States , and probably tens of thousands of major instances worldwide throughout history .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ certainly in the UK .
In March 2001 , the Guardian proclaimed : Councillors guilty of UK ’ s biggest electoral fraud .
In spite of the headline , this was a local election , and the fraudulent votes cast were only in three figures .
On November 17 , the Los Angeles Times reported that two men had been charged with trying to register eight thousand “ fictitious , nonexistent or deceased ” voters to receive mail-in ballots for a mayoral election .
The scale of the fraud perpetrated against Donald Trump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ than that , and the evidence is impressive .
It includes affidavits from literally hundreds of witnesses – not all of them Republicans , analyses by professional mathematicians , and investigations by computer professionals .
We can add to that common sense .
We are expected to believe Joe Biden won more votes than Barrack Obama .
Seriously ?
Trump played to packed out crowds nationwide while Biden addressed the nation mainly from his basement .
One outdoor “ rally ” was a total embarrassment ; there were perhaps thirty people present , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the other side of the road was a much larger crowd of chanting Trump supporters .
According to Sidney Powell , Trump won by a landslide .
The big question is , will this massive and damning evidence even be admitted to a courtroom ?
The mainstream media and the people who control social media have so far made sure that the evidence of Biden ’ s dirty dealings and the conspiracy against Trump that has been running since 2016 has been downgraded , while even the FBI has looked the other way @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in on it .
If Trump does succeed in pulling this off , there will be riots in the streets from the usual left wing mobs , but if he doesn ’ t , America will be facing disaster .
Does anyone really think the doddering Biden or the odious Kamala Harris could stand up to Xi Jinping , or even ANTIFA ?

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The short answer to that question is no. And neither is gaslighting, which is what the mainstream media has been doing since before Donald Trump won the Presidency.
Writing for the Associated Press on November 28, David Sharp opined:
“There is no evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 election. In fact, election officials from both political parties have stated publicly that the election went well and international observers confirmed there were no serious irregularities.”
On this subject, he quotes the Democrat politician Matthew Dunlap: “It’s this urban legend that re-creates itself every election year”.
We’ve all heard of urban legends, folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand built his reputation on them. Starting with The Vanishing Hitchhiker, he published a series of popular books on stories that while scary, or simply humorous, sound authentic. There are some real classics, like the woman who boards a plane to the USA holding her baby. When she is stopped on arrival, the child is found to be dead. And stuffed with cocaine!
Professor Brunvand attempted to trace the origin of this story, to no avail. It was a total fiction. Then, in 1994, an English civil servant boarded a plane in New York with a dead baby under her clothing. Caroline Beale wasn’t a drug courier, but a deeply disturbed woman.
Another urban legend, and a far more sinister one, is that of the snuff film, one in which someone, usually some poor woman or unfortunate child, is murdered on camera, perhaps tortured to death, for the fun of it. But guess what, snuff films are now real, life imitated art or simply a sick fantasy in the case of Leonard Lake and Charles Ng. And a few others.
The point is, just because something begins in the world of fantasy or fiction, doesn’t mean it will remain there. Voter fraud started in the real world, is a very real phenomenon today. There have been hundreds of convictions for it in the United States, and probably tens of thousands of major instances worldwide throughout history. Usually, it is small scale, certainly in the UK. In March 2001, the Guardian proclaimed: Councillors guilty of UK’s biggest electoral fraud.
In spite of the headline, this was a local election, and the fraudulent votes cast were only in three figures. On November 17, the Los Angeles Times reported that two men had been charged with trying to register eight thousand “fictitious, nonexistent or deceased” voters to receive mail-in ballots for a mayoral election. The scale of the fraud perpetrated against Donald Trump is several orders of magnitude more serious than that, and the evidence is impressive. It includes affidavits from literally hundreds of witnesses – not all of them Republicans, analyses by professional mathematicians, and investigations by computer professionals. We can add to that common sense.
We are expected to believe Joe Biden won more votes than Barrack Obama. Seriously? Trump played to packed out crowds nationwide while Biden addressed the nation mainly from his basement. One outdoor “rally” was a total embarrassment; there were perhaps thirty people present, many of them staff, while on the other side of the road was a much larger crowd of chanting Trump supporters.
According to Sidney Powell, Trump won by a landslide. The big question is, will this massive and damning evidence even be admitted to a courtroom? The mainstream media and the people who control social media have so far made sure that the evidence of Biden’s dirty dealings and the conspiracy against Trump that has been running since 2016 has been downgraded, while even the FBI has looked the other way, those agents who were not actually in on it.
If Trump does succeed in pulling this off, there will be riots in the streets from the usual left wing mobs, but if he doesn’t, America will be facing disaster. Does anyone really think the doddering Biden or the odious Kamala Harris could stand up to Xi Jinping, or even ANTIFA?
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theduran--2020-12-01--Ukrainian state budget again with a huge deficit

Former Deputy Minister of Economy of Ukraine Pavel Kukhta announced the growth of a hole in the Ukrainian budget .
In his words , unfinanced budget expenditures amount to tens of billions of hryvnias .
Moreover , one third of them falls on protected expenses ( the volume of which does not change with a budget cut ) .
This year , Ukraine has changed the way to fill the budget deficit .
Previously , the market for domestic government bonds with the attraction of external credit was used for this .
In 2020 , it was decided to solve @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Simply by turning on the printing press .
However , the IMF did not allow this strategy to be fully implemented .
At thesame time , failures in obtaining loans from the fund led to the formation of holes in the country ’ s budget .
The current situation threatens not to allocate financing for the expenses provided for by the law , even if a lockdown is not announced .
If the authorities decide to stop the economy once more , the budget deficit could exceed UAH 100 billion .
Pavel @ @ @ @ @ @ @ working in manual mode for the past three weeks .
In his words , “ since November 9 , the treasury has been working in the mode of a card index – receipts are reduced until nightfall , in the morning they form a pool of expenses that will be financed , everything else is postponed.
” If you believe the words of the economist , then this has not happened in more than ten years .
At least at the beginning of November .
The only way out for replenishing the Ukrainian @ @ @ @ @ @ @ urgent fulfillment of all IMF requirements for obtaining new loans .
However , the president ’ s office said that this year Ukraine will definitely not receive any tranches from the IMF .
And the state budget will have to be balanced somehow independently .
Among the accumulated budgetary debts on protected items of expenditure ( they make up about 80 % of the budget ) are the following : • transfers to the population and local budgets , It is not yet clear which items the Treasury stopped funding .
However , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is necessary to finance more than 50 billion hryvnias of expenses , which is more than in the first three weeks of the month .
And if the situation with protected items of expenditure is in a deplorable state , then unprotected items in November were not funded at all .
The debt on them for the current year is about 64 billion hryvnia .
There are other ways to replenish the budget .
This year , the $ 2.9 billion court won against Gazprom was a significant help .
There is an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , owned by Kolomoisky , a tax debt in the amount of 30.4 billion hryvnia .
Even a complicated scheme was invented .
But most likely this scenario will remain unrealized , since the oligarch is too tough for the Ukrainian authorities .
Thus , it turns out that with the announcement of the second lockdown , the budget underfunding will amount to about UAH 100 billion .
If the outcome is successful , if the lockdown is not announced , it will be about 50 billion .
That is , in any @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the IMF to allow the issue of bonds of the internal government loan .
Well , or to allow the underfinancing of expenses , which will place a heavy burden on the 2021 budget .

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Former Deputy Minister of Economy of Ukraine Pavel Kukhta announced the growth of a hole in the Ukrainian budget.
In his words, unfinanced budget expenditures amount to tens of billions of hryvnias. Moreover, one third of them falls on protected expenses (the volume of which does not change with a budget cut).
This year, Ukraine has changed the way to fill the budget deficit. Previously, the market for domestic government bonds with the attraction of external credit was used for this. In 2020, it was decided to solve this problem by issuing government loan bonds. Simply by turning on the printing press.
However, the IMF did not allow this strategy to be fully implemented. At thesame time, failures in obtaining loans from the fund led to the formation of holes in the country’s budget. The current situation threatens not to allocate financing for the expenses provided for by the law, even if a lockdown is not announced. If the authorities decide to stop the economy once more, the budget deficit could exceed UAH 100 billion.
Pavel Kukhta said that the Treasury has been working in manual mode for the past three weeks. In his words, “since November 9, the treasury has been working in the mode of a card index – receipts are reduced until nightfall, in the morning they form a pool of expenses that will be financed, everything else is postponed.”
If you believe the words of the economist, then this has not happened in more than ten years. At least at the beginning of November. The only way out for replenishing the Ukrainian budget, he says, is the urgent fulfillment of all IMF requirements for obtaining new loans.
However, the president’s office said that this year Ukraine will definitely not receive any tranches from the IMF. And the state budget will have to be balanced somehow independently.
Among the accumulated budgetary debts on protected items of expenditure (they make up about 80% of the budget) are the following:
• salaries of state employees and payroll,
• purchase of medicines,
• provision of food,
• payment for utilities and energy resources,
• servicing the public debt,
• transfers to the population and local budgets,
• measures related to defense,
• payments on government derivatives, etc.
It is not yet clear which items the Treasury stopped funding. However, over the last week of November it is necessary to finance more than 50 billion hryvnias of expenses, which is more than in the first three weeks of the month.
And if the situation with protected items of expenditure is in a deplorable state, then unprotected items in November were not funded at all. The debt on them for the current year is about 64 billion hryvnia.
There are other ways to replenish the budget. This year, the $ 2.9 billion court won against Gazprom was a significant help.
There is an option to try to collect from Ukrnafta, owned by Kolomoisky, a tax debt in the amount of 30.4 billion hryvnia. Even a complicated scheme was invented. But most likely this scenario will remain unrealized, since the oligarch is too tough for the Ukrainian authorities.
Thus,it turns out that with the announcement of the second lockdown, the budget underfunding will amount to about UAH 100 billion. If the outcome is successful, if the lockdown is not announced, it will be about 50 billion. That is, in any case, Kiev will have to ask the IMF to allow the issue of bonds of the internal government loan. Well, or to allow the underfinancing of expenses, which will place a heavy burden on the 2021 budget.
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theduran--2020-12-01--Stock Market MEGA Bubble Fastest In History While Millions Can’t Afford To Eat. Roaring 20’s

Anyone who has been keeping an eye on the stock market knows it ’ s been doing well .
Sure it ’ s completely out of whack but the Fed won ’ t let it fall .
I mean , they love us , right ?
Yes , it ’ s completely overvalued by every single metric , but who looks at stats anyway ?
And I know that there ’ s an economic recession on right now that could easily unfold into the worst in a century , but that ’ s just a buy signal , I think @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t need to worry because Janet Yellen might make a comeback and she ’ ll know exactly how to keep this train moving .
Market volatility is collapsing to levels not seen since February , the latest sign of optimism about a stock rally that lifted major indexes to fresh records this week .
Stocks have soared back to highs , fueled by enthusiasm about a coming vaccine for the coronavirus as well as relief that the election-widely anticipated for months-has passed .
Tesla Inc. on Friday surpassed Berkshire Hathaway Inc. as the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The Silicon Valley electric-car maker ended Friday with a market cap of $ 555 billion , and Berkshire Hathaway ended the day with a market cap of $ 543 billion , according to FactSet .
Millions of Americans Expect to Lose Their Homes as Covid Rages – Bloomberg The auto maker ‘ s lending arm is drawing up plans to apply for a banking charter , a move that would allow it to accept deposits and expand its auto-finance business , according to people familiar with the matter .
General Motors Financial Company @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on Friday added wine to the growing list of Australian goods barred from its markets in a trade war against Australia over disputes including its support for a probe into the origin of the coronavirus .
Robots on the rise as Americans experience record job losses amid pandemic | Technology | The Guardian Robots on the rise as Americans experience record job losses amid pandemic They can check you in and deliver orange juice to your hotel room , answer your questions about a missing package , whip up sushi and pack up @ @ @ @ @ @ @ perhaps most importantly , they are completely immune to Covid-19 .
While people have had a hard time in the coronavirus pandemic , robots are having a moment .
The financial system has seen some serious money , debt , margin in 2020 .
There has been a considerable rise in stock prices .
The stock market goes higher .
Tech stocks are seeing major interest .
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Even Bloomberg admits it .
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Anyone who has been keeping an eye on the stock market knows it’s been doing well. Sure it’s completely out of whack but the Fed won’t let it fall. I mean, they love us, right? Yes, it’s completely overvalued by every single metric, but who looks at stats anyway? And I know that there’s an economic recession on right now that could easily unfold into the worst in a century, but that’s just a buy signal, I think. Oh well, I don’t need to worry because Janet Yellen might make a comeback and she’ll know exactly how to keep this train moving.
Falling Market Volatility Signals Growing Optimism About Stock Rally – WSJ
Falling Market Volatility Signals Growing Optimism About Stock Rally Market volatility is collapsing to levels not seen since February, the latest sign of optimism about a stock rally that lifted major indexes to fresh records this week. Stocks have soared back to highs, fueled by enthusiasm about a coming vaccine for the coronavirus as well as relief that the election-widely anticipated for months-has passed.
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Millions of Americans Expect to Lose Their Homes as Covid Rages – Bloomberg
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GM Plans to Seek Banking Charter to Grow Auto-Lending Business – WSJ
WSJ News Exclusive | GM Plans to Seek Banking Charter to Grow Auto-Lending Business The auto maker ‘s lending arm is drawing up plans to apply for a banking charter, a move that would allow it to accept deposits and expand its auto-finance business, according to people familiar with the matter. General Motors Financial Company Inc.
China slaps 200% tax on Australia wine amid tensions
China slaps 200% tax on Australia wine amid tensions BEIJING (AP) – China on Friday added wine to the growing list of Australian goods barred from its markets in a trade war against Australia over disputes including its support for a probe into the origin of the coronavirus.
Robots on the rise as Americans experience record job losses amid pandemic | Technology | The Guardian
Robots on the rise as Americans experience record job losses amid pandemic They can check you in and deliver orange juice to your hotel room, answer your questions about a missing package, whip up sushi and pack up thousands of subscription boxes. And, perhaps most importantly, they are completely immune to Covid-19. While people have had a hard time in the coronavirus pandemic, robots are having a moment.
The financial system has seen some serious money, debt, margin in 2020. There has been a considerable rise in stock prices. The stock market goes higher. Tech stocks are seeing major interest.
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theduran--2020-12-01--Is Bill Barr looking the other way? 1.9M Votes NOT Validated by Arizona County.

Is Attorney General William Barr the most incompetent Attorney General of all time , or is he a deep state @ @ @ @ @ investigations until the deep state get their puppet back into the White house ?
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theduran--2020-12-01--Totalitarian Toronto Mayor Uses Police To Harass And Break Small Businesses

Toronto Mayor allowed totalitarian bureaucrats to command Toronto police to use heavy handed tactics to bully a small business owner who is trying save his livelihood .
He has a wife and small children to feed , but while big businesses such as Costco are encouraged to keep trading , disgusting behavior is being used to threaten and destroy small traders .
The abuse of power by bureaucrats , police and the fake media is a disgrace and a betrayal of the people .
Thanks to Rebel news we can get real news for real people .
health authority Eileen @ @ @ @ @ @ @ send dozens of police to enforce a closure at Adamson Barbecue in Etobicoke , Ezra said : “ So , some unelected , unaccountable health bureaucrat gave the police the power to be her little army ?
Is that how police works in Canada ?
“ …some health board can say , ‘ I don ’ t like this restaurant , I ’ m sending in 100 police and the mounted police , the riot squad ?
’ ” The lion ’ s share of the mainstream media coverage regarding the Great Canadian @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to say , the Media Mob was less concerned about objectively covering the story and more concerned with howling at the authorities to “ do something ” ( that “ something ” being closing down Adam Skelly ’ s eatery while turning a blind eye to the Costco superstore down the road . )
Little wonder why Skelly banned most mainstream media types from stepping foot on his property — he knows that the Media Mob hates him and hates his customers .
But the jump-the-shark piece of so-called journalism regarding Skelly ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Post which published a jaw-dropping article by Maija Kappler entitled , “ To See White Privilege In Action , Look At Toronto ’ s Adamson BBQ Debacle.
” Yes , even when a restaurant “ illegally ” opens , it ’ s somehow all about race in 2020… The deck to author Maija Kappler ’ s crappy story reads : “ It ’ s hard to imagine the same outcome if Adam Skelly were a Black or brown restaurant owner.
” But contrary to what Kappler states , it ’ s NOT hard @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Adam Skelly wasn ’ t white .
You see , Kappler ’ s premise is that a black or brown restaurant operator pulling the same stunt as Skelly would ’ ve been shut down immediately as opposed to on Day 3 .
How does Kappler explain the illegal occupation by the violent thugs who comprised Afro Indigenous Rising , a group that illegally occupied Nathan Phillips Square not for three days , but for three WEEKS !
Even though they were breaking 11 sections of the Trespass Act ?
And if having one @ @ @ @ @ @ @ boarded up while the owner is handcuffed and thrown in a jail cell overnight is an example of “ white privilege ” I ’ d sure as hell hate to see an example of white prejudice…

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FREE ADAM SKELLY! Moments ago, Adam Skelly of Adamson Barbeque, the working class restaurateur who defied Toronto’s pandemic lockdown, was arrested, handcuffed, and taken away by Toronto police. That wasn’t even the worst of it. There were at least 50 police involved in the SWAT-style raid, including mounted police – the sort of thing you send to quell a riot.
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Toronto Mayor allowed totalitarian bureaucrats to command Toronto police to use heavy handed tactics to bully a small business owner who is trying save his livelihood. He has a wife and small children to feed, but while big businesses such as Costco are encouraged to keep trading, disgusting behavior is being used to threaten and destroy small traders. The abuse of power by bureaucrats, police and the fake media is a disgrace and a betrayal of the people.
Thanks to Rebel news we can get real news for real people.
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health authority Eileen de Villa to give the order to send dozens of police to enforce a closure at Adamson Barbecue in Etobicoke, Ezra said:
“So, some unelected, unaccountable health bureaucrat gave the police the power to be her little army? Is that how police works in Canada? “…some health board can say, ‘I don’t like this restaurant, I’m sending in 100 police and the mounted police, the riot squad?’”
The lion’s share of the mainstream media coverage regarding the Great Canadian Barbecue Rebellion was predictable. Which is to say, the Media Mob was less concerned about objectively covering the story and more concerned with howling at the authorities to “do something” (that “something” being closing down Adam Skelly’s eatery while turning a blind eye to the Costco superstore down the road.)
Little wonder why Skelly banned most mainstream media types from stepping foot on his property — he knows that the Media Mob hates him and hates his customers.
But the jump-the-shark piece of so-called journalism regarding Skelly’s takedown surely came via The Huffington Post which published a jaw-dropping article by Maija Kappler entitled, “To See White Privilege In Action, Look At Toronto’s Adamson BBQ Debacle.”
Yes, even when a restaurant “illegally” opens, it’s somehow all about race in 2020…
The deck to author Maija Kappler’s crappy story reads: “It’s hard to imagine the same outcome if Adam Skelly were a Black or brown restaurant owner.”
(Um, why is black spelt with an uppercase b but brown is spelt lowercase b? What does Kappler have against brown people?)
But contrary to what Kappler states, it’s NOT hard at all to imagine the outcome if Adam Skelly wasn’t white.
You see, Kappler’s premise is that a black or brown restaurant operator pulling the same stunt as Skelly would’ve been shut down immediately as opposed to on Day 3.
Really?
How does Kappler explain the illegal occupation by the violent thugs who comprised Afro Indigenous Rising, a group that illegally occupied Nathan Phillips Square not for three days, but for three WEEKS! Even though they were breaking 11 sections of the Trespass Act?
And if having one’s restaurant shutdown, seized and boarded up while the owner is handcuffed and thrown in a jail cell overnight is an example of “white privilege” I’d sure as hell hate to see an example of white prejudice…
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