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Apatosaurus
Barbara Alpert
Describes how the Apatosaurus was discovered, how paleontologists study its bones, and what the fossil evidence tells us about dinosaur behavior.
Describes how the Pterodactyl and other pterosaurs were discovered, how paleontologists study their bones, and what the fossil evidence tells us about these ancient flying lizards.
Describes how the Stegosaurus was discovered, how paleontologists study its bones, and what the fossil evidence tells us about this plant-eating dinosaur with plates.
Describes how the Triceratops was discovered, how paleontologists study its bones, and what the fossil evidence tells us about the behavior of this three-horned plant-eating dinosaur.
Describes how the Tyrannosaurus Rex was discovered, how paleontologists study its bones, and what the fossil evidence tells us about the behavior of the largest meat-eating dinosaur.
Describes how the Velociraptor was discovered, how paleontologists study its bones, and what the fossil evidence tells us about the behavior of this small, speedy meat-eating dinosaur.
Digging for Dinosaurs
If dinosaurs lived millions of years before humans, how do we know so much about them? This series examines the discovery of each featured species and later fossil finds that added to our body of knowledge, explaining how scientists interpret fossils to explain dinosaur behavior.
READING LEVEL: GRADE 2 AND UP
NSTA Recommends,
“Digging for Dinosaurs is a great read for both the intended audience and adults because of the facts and writing style. It is also a good size format and has large type. Designed with almost photo quality drawings and pictures of the dinosaur bones, questions and answers, glossary, and and index, all work to round out the content to make it a good selection for library, class, or home. ”—Dutchie Riggsby
“Combining dinosaur facts with basic paleontology, each title opens with a brief look at the featured animal in its time and then moves on to the first discovery of its remains. With clear, fairly simple language, the author describes how scientists built upon and corrected prior theories, such as the multiple errant attempts to match Apatosaurus to its proper skull. However, Velociraptors misleads readers by stating that velociraptors may have ‘hunted and lived in packs.’ Each book brings these reptiles up to the present day, with discoveries as recent as 2012. A question-and-answer feature encourages speculation in a nod to Common Core requirements. The illustrations, photographs, and reproductions show a mixture of fossils, paleontologists in the field, and images of the featured dinosaurs. The paleontologist viewpoint, coupled with more standard facts about behavior and physical features, makes a fairly engaging angle into dinosaur study. ”—Series Made Simple
Library Media Connection,
“This series of books presents easy-to-read yet informative texts. Each one begins with a short story about the named dinosaur, then offers information about how and where the dinosaur’s fossils were first discovered, more recent discoveries about the animal, and what research is being done today. There are photos of fossils, locations, and scientists and discoverers; paintings and computer graphic drawings of dinosaurs. Short, interesting ‘Question and Answer’ pairs on facing pages are sprinkled throughout. The series is plainly written and explains the most up-to-date information about dinosaurs. Recommended. ”—Jolene C. DeFranco, Librarian, Harmony School of Fine Arts and Technology, Houston, Texas
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Rabidly anti-gun 'Mike the Gun Guy' wants to empower doctors to disarm patients
Weisser is hopeful, though. Now that the Obama administration has unilaterally authorized the federal government to once again engage in anti-gun junk "science," maybe more doctors will be emboldened to do their part for forcible citizen disarmament.
Doctors are supposedly guided by the fundamental principle, "First, do no harm." How would they reconcile that noble principle with the practice of stripping the most vulnerable people of their ability to defend themselves in a dangerous world? [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend--and Facebook "likes" and "shares" are hugely appreciated.
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JPFO Alert: Author Claims Democrat "Gun Control" Timidity Undermines Constitution
Today's JPFO Alert notes that one "gun control" zealot advocates measures that would start a civil war, apparently without realizing it. Meanwhile, another one does realize that, but doesn't have a problem with it.
Perlstein exhibits a fundamental misunderstanding of the situation. "Gun nuts" (that's you, me, and everyone else who will fight to keep the palladium of liberty) will not be pacified by more aggressive forcible citizen disarmament efforts.
Such efforts will indeed be the most efficient way of forcing today's cultural cold war to go hot. Presumably, that's not what he wants.
Interestingly, Susie Madrak, writing for "Crooks and Liars" (which sounds like a good place for her), does seem to see the civil war implications of Perlstein's position--and seems to think he's onto something anyway . . .
And as always, if you haven't seen all the great JPFO Alerts written by David, Nicki, and Claire, you owe it to yourself to fix that.
Al Jazeera tells hunters not to fight for gun rights
From the above mentioned attempts to define "armor-piercing" ammunition in such a way as to net all centerfire rifle ammunition, to the Violence Policy Center's efforts to have accurate bolt-action rifles banned as "sniper rifles," to the International Action Network on Small Arms' (IANSA) call for a ban of all rifles that can kill at 100 meters (all rifles, in other words), hunting guns may be toward the end of the list of gun ban zealots' ambitions, but they are on it, and if we gun rights advocates have been taken out of the picture, who will speak for you, hunters?. [More]
Judge acknowledges Second Amendment has nothing to do with hunting
The intent here is not to antagonize hunters, or to be anything less than welcoming to their participation in the fight for gun rights. The point is that we are continually told that banning so-called "assault weapons," or .50 caliber rifles, or "high capacity" (gun ban jihadist-speak for "standard capacity") magazines is perfectly legitimate, because "no one needs those for hunting."
Any restriction on guns, ammunition and accessories justified by their failure to meet the government's idea of "sporting purposes" is very clearly a violation of the rights guaranteed by the Second Amendment, as the court ruling in Pennsylvania helps illustrate. [More]
St. Louis police chief, others sue to make Missourians' gun rights 'alieanable'
The right to keep and bear arms is fundamental, under the constitutions of both Missouri and the United States, and laws that restrict it must be required to withstand the very strictest of scrutiny. When Chief Dotson and the rest claim that voters lack the wit to realize that "unalienable" implies just that, they inexcusably insult Missourians' intellect. And if Judge Beetem decides to invalidate votes cast by voters to whom the state did not first spoon-feed a state-written "SJR 36 for Dummies" explanation of the amendment, he will have committed an unforgivable atrocity against those voters, and indeed against the entire state. [More]
Glaze's confession will not slow anti-gunners' exploitation of mass shootings
The "gun control" movement requires mass shootings--horrifying, indescribably evil slaughter of innocents, just to gain any public support. When those shootings occur, there is a "playbook" instructing the gun ban lobby on how to exploit them. When asked about the chances of new infringements on that which shall not be infringed, the gun ban jihadists say it depends on how effectively they exploit--their word--the blood of the innocent victims.
Glaze--no longer on the payroll of an organization hoping to make the most of such exploitation--could afford his brief moment of honesty. The anti-gun groups, though, cannot. The lie is all they have. [More]
Clinton perpetuates full-auto/semi-auto conflation, endorses thought control
And now we know what she means by "more thoughtful conversation" about guns. For the conversation to be "more thoughtful," the public needs to be kept unaware that semi-automatic "assault weapons" are not machine guns. In fact, "more thoughtful" means that viewpoints that "the majority" find terrifying are not permitted--only "approved" thoughts are authorized.
Orwell might have been an optimist. [More]
JPFO Alert: Supreme Court Ruling is About Registration, not Crime Control
Today's JPFO Alert notes that Justice Kagan admits that the most important aspect of any gun sale is that the federal government knows who has the gun.
In 2012, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives added a new question to ATF Form 4473--the form that must be filled out when purchasing a firearm, and the form on which Abramski admittedly lied. Now, every gun purchaser must answer whether or not he or she is of "Hispanic or Latino" ethnicity. As attorney and firearms law expert Evan Nappen notes, there is no real difference between that question, and a demand--backed up by federal law, and enforced with the full power of the U.S. government--that the purchaser answer whether he or she is a "Jew or Not a Jew."
And now, the Supreme Court has ruled that this is just fine.
VPC no longer trying to hide yearning for ban of all semi-automatics
The campaign to outlaw all semi-automatic firearms is gaining new adherents every day. When those are banned, count on bolt-action rifles to be demonized as "sniper rifles, with no place in civilized society." They want us disarmed. Every gun in private hands is "too deadly," for us mere citizens to own, and if they have their way, the government's hired muscle, armed with just the kinds of guns we cannot be trusted with, will come to take them from us, and kill us if we resist.
Well, they can try. [More]
Oregon teacher proposes to end school shootings by disarming self-employed
Perhaps the most disturbing facet of this is that Needler, a "gun control" cultist, is paid as a science teacher for our youth. This does not bode well for the future of our nation's scientific capability. [More]
'Progressive' gun rights foe announces plan to foment 'gun violence'
At least we now have a pretty good idea as to why Malloy is so insistent on restrictive gun laws. Being so consumed himself by hate and rage, it's hardly surprising that he projects those qualities even onto the vast majority of gun owners who are not inclined to kill those with whom they disagree, and to therefore believe they should not be armed.
If he wants to purchase any more guns, though, he might be well advised to not push so hard for mental health checks of prospective gun buyers. [More]
Another Chicago blogging mom wants to 'intimidate' Congress into gun bans
So she claims to have formed an unarmed "militia," and Congress should fear it, and not those of us who will fight and die for our freedom. Good luck with that.
And Congress, when deciding which "militia" should "intimidate" you more, remember the words of the late Andrew Breitbart: "we have the guns." [More]
Blogger demands justification for NOT banning so-called 'assault weapons'
But it's not that easy, J.A. You can't just dismiss the Constitutionally guaranteed, fundamental human right of the individual to keep and bear arms because you're tired of hearing about it, any more than someone who demands you justify the societal benefits of your blog, or he'll ban it, can dismiss your First Amendment rights, because he "so got that there's a right to" free speech, and doesn't want to hear about it.
J.A. repeatedly asks, "What am I missing?" Well, rather a lot of things, J.A., chief among them being that no one owes you any justification of our right to own militia-appropriate "regime change rifles." [More]
JPFO Alert: "Gun Control" Advocates Respond to Las Vegas Killings by Advocating Tyranny
Today's JPFO Alert notes that those attacking the Second Amendment are just the ones who make it necessary.
All these "progressives" argue that the United States government is not tyrannical, and that armed resistance to against it is treason. Fair enough. Why, though, do they seem in such a hurry to make it tyrannical?
Obama's greatest 'frustration' is his failure to trample 2nd Amendment enough
The problem is that Americans "can stack up a bunch of ammunition in their houses"? Is that what he has in mind--an executive order capping ammunition purchases?
Maybe, maybe not. We'll presumably know soon. Whatever he has in mind, remember that our freedom is his "biggest frustration." [More]
Miss USA recommends self-defense against campus rape; enrages 'feminists'
Of course the best "solution" to sexual violence is that those who perpetrate it stop. Unfortunately, that will not happen until someone stops them, and that will not happen without force. Universities and politicians refuse to allow women to defend themselves with firearms, and others are offended by the idea of them defending themselves with fists and feet. If there is a "war on women," these people would appear to be on the wrong side of it. [More]
Columnist compares open carry activists to child rapist/murderers
The far-left Daily Kos, astonishingly (or perhaps not), has taken the silly meme of "firearms as substitute for inadequate sexual anatomy" even further than Marcotte did, to the bizarre extreme of repeatedly referring to semi-automatic rifles as "giant metal death penises," indicating an astounding--and rather alarming--level of ignorance of the purpose of both firearms and penises.
Again, the wisdom of the approach to activism taken by Open Carry Texas is open to very legitimate question, but if anyone in this discussion can be fairly described as dangerously consumed by hatred, it ain't OCT.. [More]
JPFO Alert: SWAT Team Baby Burning -- More Police Militarization?
Today's JPFO Alert notes that the government's "War on Babies" puts it on the wrong side of a great many armed parents.
There cannot fail to be consequences from the discovery on the part of every parent in America that the government's hired muscle can kick down their doors, set their children on fire, and the official response will be a shrug, and maybe an "oops."
Inevitably, some parents will refuse to tolerate the intolerable. Some, even knowing the vanishingly small likelihood of their own survival, will fight back with every weapon they possess. Private citizens defending their homes and families will doubtless do the bulk of the dying, but they will not do all of it.
New book will confound purveyors of 'gun rights advocacy is racist' myth
Oppressors don't change their evil, tyrannical ways because they are persuaded by the eloquence and righteousness of the oppressed. They change because they harbor a very personal fear of the consequences of continuing their old course. [More]
Sen. Boxer displays serial hypocrisy on state sovereignty and guns
The point is that Boxer is generally an enthusiastic backer of federal government über alles, particularly when draconian federal gun laws are proposed. When federal law would interfere with states' oppressive gun laws, however, she suddenly turns into an Anti-Federalist for a day. Let's hope that the cognitive dissonance is physically painful. [More]
Sen. Boxer threatens Americans with 'Pause for Safety Act'
Wow. A need-based "may issue" system, for gun purchases, rather than for carrying a firearm in public, which even the notoriously "progressive" 9th Circuit Court of Appeals--whose jurisdiction includes California--has deemed unconstitutional. And Boxer calls such a system a "commonsense step."
Boxer wants us to prove we "need" a gun? The fact that people like her presume to write the laws by which the rest of us would be required to live is all the proof necessary. [More]
ATF's purchase reporting requirement gives lie to 'military features' test
The only "military feature" that gun ban groups really care about is that military arms are expected to fire when the trigger is pulled. That's what they want banned, and the BATFE stands ready to enforce that ban. [More]
St. Louis PD selling machine guns, but don't worry--only to rich people
Ah, yes--with prices of fully-automatic firearms vastly and artificially inflated by the Hughes Amendment's prohibition of private ownership of post-1986 machine guns, only the wealthy will be buying the department's Tommy guns. So don't worry--with the feds' gun equivalent of the poll taxes of post-Civil War infamy, we can rest assured that the riffraff will be kept out of the Tommy gun club. [More]
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Auto Racing Memories | Vintage Race Cars > Auto Racing Memories > New Members Post Here First!
Reminiscing... Hello From Colorado
New Members Post Here First! After you register on the AutoRacingMemories.com forums please make a thread here first and introduce yourself!
Johnny Calvaresi
Location: Highlands Ranch, Colorado
Happy to have this great opportunity to associate with folks who remember the "good old days" of racing in and around Denver, Colorado. I was attending Lakeside Speedway's midget auto races when I was still in my mother's womb. I won't say when that was, but suffice it to say that when I was old enough to have a favorite driver, it was Lloyd Axel....does that give you a hint? Although I can only remember vague images of the tragedy (being about 3 yrs.old at the time) I was at the track with my mom while my dad was in the pits the night my God-Father Mike Stefferi died as a result of getting upside down in the south turn. I continued to attend the races at Lakeside all the way up until I was a teenager and was let into the pits by being able to ride on Joe Giba's trailer when I was just 16. Joe would buy me a pit pass and I would ride on the trailer, acting like I was real busy doing something in the cockpit, as we went through the gate and then, once we were inside the pits, he would give me my pass...what a great guy, and what a great thrill it was for me at that time. I continued to hang out in the pits and after a while I came to know Eddie Jackson, the six time RMMRA champion. I would also stop in at Eddie's garage behind his house on 23rd and Sheridan in Denver whenever I would see him in there working. He finally began to let me help polish wheels and clean tools. I would also show up at the garage on race night and help them load the car, the extra wheels and the tools onto the trailer to head for the track. He made me extremely happy the night he invited me to go with him and the car to be part of his pit crew at the track!...even MORE thrilling than the first night Joe Giba sneaked me in! Ed was a real "shoe", and I loved to watch him drive! I can't even express to you what a thrill it was for me to get to be one of the guys who pushed that beautiful number 5 out for the trophy dash or for the main event...and an even greater thrill when I was allowed to STEER the car....WOW! During this same time (my teenage years) I began to race twin engine go-karts, and was fortunate enough to use some of what I'd been watching Eddie and our pit partner Frank Mantello do on the track, to win the state championship in twin engine go-karts three times. I then went on to race Formula Fords on the SCCA circuit and was thrilled to be able to race in what was known at the time as the Mini-Indy Series at Englewood Speedway on Wednesday nights. The culmination of that experience was the two nights that I had the privilege to race and win at none other than my home away from home...Lakeside Speedway!! A great great thrill that I will never forget. All those hours of watching all those great drivers of old paid off! Oh...and by the way...guess what my racing number was on every vehicle I ever raced...you guessed it...number 5. Yes...I have been truly blessed with many wonderful auto racing memories which makes being part of this site a heart felt honor.
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Mitch G.
Location: Ponte Vedra Beach, FL
Re: Hello From Colorado
Great to have you hear John, Facebook has taken most of the traffic from most of the smaller auto racing websites. This site is still a great resource, lost of fun stuff and important history. Me my dad and brother (web master of this site, and its creator!) hardly missed a midget show from 1960 till the mid 80's. We remember the Formula Fords at Englewood, Mitch Miller was trying everything to get crowds back to the midgets, Wednesday was one of his experiments. I got in a argument with a guy on Facebook who used to race Formula Fords at Englewood as well. He claimed the Fords were 1/2 to a full second quicker around Englewood than the midgets. I could not find a lap time or lap record for the Formula Fords, the midget track record for that era was 15:20 set by Ed Jackson in Chuck Mauro's Edmunds VW. Do you have any recorded lap times for the Formula Fords at Englewood? Welcome aboard!
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No Mitch I dont, very sorry, I remember Mitch Miller really well, USAC use to race there once a year, and Eddie Jackson won a few times, Joe Giba with the an outboard engine i think, he sure could make that baby hum.
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el3ctron (el3ctron@loadaverage.org)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2020 16:26:43 PST el3ctron
en Chile, las personas afirman que se sienten más seguras al lado de los encapuchados, que al lado de la policía, EL MOVIMIENTO SOCIAL EVOLUCION? y Colombia no es la excepción. https://www.elespectador.com/noticias/educacion/que-es-la-primera-linea-los-manifestantes-que-ponen-el-pecho-en-las-protestas-articulo-894314
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Cargados de metales que usan como escudos, máscaras antigases, gafas y pa?uelos, los miembros de la primera línea son quienes resisten al frente de la movilización y la defienden de enfrentamientos con el ESMAD. En Colombia la Guardia Indígena también ha desempe?ado ese papel en el marco de las marchas del Paro Nacional.
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Protestation (English) (protestation@gnusocial.no)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2020 19:26:19 PST Protestation (English)
Lenin: The Campaign for the Elections to the Fourth Duma #ClassWarfare https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1911/ce4thd/index.htm
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Po Kamnuandej (kamnuandej@gnusocial.no)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2020 06:26:22 PST Po Kamnuandej
Now that Windows 7, the last good version of Windows, is officially dead, and Windows 10 is now officially known as a huge spyware...and all Apple products are non-free and malicious...you have only two choices left.
Linux or BSD.
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Jonathan (jmgresham@gnusocial.no)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2020 13:14:59 PST Jonathan
*GNU+Linux or BSD
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Po Kamnuandej (kamnuandej@gnusocial.no)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2020 18:23:21 PST Po Kamnuandej
Ah yes. I forget to do that. It should be GNU/Linux
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The Social-Democratic Deviation in Our Party #ClassWarfare http://marx2mao.phpwebhosting.com/Stalin/SDD26.html
Capitalism and Desire: In Dialogue with Psychoanalysis #ClassWarfare http://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/capitalism-and-desire-in-dialogue-with-psychoanalysis
Revolutionary Left Radio: Capitalism and Desire: In Dialogue with Psychoanalysis
Prof. Todd McGowan, author of "Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Costs of Free Markets" and co-host of "Why Theory", returns to the show to talk with Breht about Marxism and Psychoanalysis, Freud, Lacan, Death Drive, Desire, the fundamental sense of Lack at the core of our psyches, and much more!?Check out Todd's book here: Check out Todd's podcast Why Theory here:Outro music: 'Bowl of Oranges' by Bright Eyes Find more of this music here:------- LEARN MORE ABOUT REV LEFT RADIO:SUPPORT REV LEFT RADIO:? Our logo was made by BARB, a communist graphic design collective: @Barbaradical Intro music by DJ Captain Planet. --------------- This podcast is affiliated with: The Nebraska Left Coalition, Omaha Tenants United, FORGE, Socialist Rifle Association (SRA), Feed The People - Omaha, and the Marxist Center.
Kentucky Miners Illustrate Worker Power With Spontaneous Act of Resistance #ClassWarfare https://gnusocial.no/url/1793305
Kentucky Miners Illustrate Worker Power With Spontaneous Act of?Resistance
By L.Zorfass from The Red Phoenix
On January 13, 2020, a group of miners from the Quest Energy, company in Pike County, Kentucky blocked the railways carrying a heap of mined coal.
Over 50 workers have been denied pay for the past three weeks totaling between $2,000-$3,000 a worker. The companies gave little reasoning for the delay in payment, stating only that the company faces “challenging markets.” The miners who had been denied pay blocked up the railways, stopping a train of 120 cars, 100 of which were carrying already mined coal. The miners were joined by their fellow workers and members of the community who brought food and blankets in a great showing of solidarity. The company caved rather quickly, issuing checks which prompted the miners to allow the train to pass.
The significance of this action on the part of the miners illustrates much more than what was seen on the surface of this particular struggle. At a glance, one could say what was seen as a group of disgruntled workers standing up to management; something that happens every now and then and nothing more.
But a slightly deeper look at the situation reveals quite a lot about the practical education of working people working everyday to support themselves and their families.
To leverage their demands against the bosses, the miners stopped the circuit of capital from completing itself. They prevented the value of coal, created by the miners themselves, to be transformed into profit, money through its sale and delivery. While none of the miners in their statements put their actions into terms of political economy or stated whether or not they had formally studied economics they acted in a manner which perfectly shows how the worker, simply by the experience of their exploited lives, understand the system well enough to knock the wind out of it at a moments notice.
The miners had been denied upwards of $30,000 of pay which the company clearly had, as it has now paid it out to the workers. This act shows how wages are not made by current work, but by past work. The value created by workers previously has already been transformed from coal to money, and thusly can be paid out to workers. When the miners stopped the train from carrying its payload of coal to sale, the miners then directly shut down the circuit of capital. The coal, which is mined by miners and not touched by corporate officials, must be sold so that the value of that coal can be realized as money. It is the workers who generate the value, the money, of their own wages while the bosses, capitalists, etc. manage this money, taking as much for themselves paying the workers as little as they can get away with even though the pay originates from the labor of the worker.
By denying the workers pay, the company has shown quite clearly that wages come from capital that is already on hand to the company and advanced for the worker’s wage. When withheld from the worker, this money becomes a direct profit for the company; this is where the profit of the board of directors, the CEO, the foreman, and the various managers comes from.
This situation is not unique to the miners of Pike County or the field of mining. This is the general condition of capitalism of which all wage workers face, to have the value of their work stolen from them by their bosses. While actions taken by the miners in Pike County gained a victory in this particular case, the day to day exploitation continues. We have seen over the past year a great many strikes of various groups of workers, mining, steel production, teachers, auto production and the like. And while victories are found in these actions they have not been able to prevent the conditions for their necessity.
It will only be when the working class comes together in a unified directed movement that the conditions of exploitation can be removed. The spontaneous uprisings of this and that group can attain only temporary victories. For the livelihood of the majority of Americans to no longer be in the hands of a few hundred business owners, American workers must come together as a class to defeat the capitalist class which every day, holds the flame of life and death over us all.
Richard M. Stallman (rms@gnusocial.no)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2020 18:55:28 PST Richard M. Stallman
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ive been playing alot of runescape lately. haven't had any intake of anything intellectual except for probably 5 minutes of reading a novel before bed. I hate it when I get into it and then have to put it away because I can't stay up all night.
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Winston Churchill: Relief would do no good. Indians breed like rabbits and will outstrip any available food supply. https://protestationblog.wordpress.com/quotes8/#quotenr6317
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If you must break the law, do it to seize power; in all other cases observe it. (Julius Caesar)
[Israel will] create in the course of the next 10 or 20 years conditions which would attract natural and voluntary migration of the refugees from the Gaza Strip and the west Bank to Jordan. To achieve this we have to come to agreement with King Hussein and not with Yasser Arafat. (Yitzhak Rabin)
The natural scientist must be a modern materialist, a conscious adherent of the materialism represented by Marx, i.e., he must be a dialectical materialist. (Lenin)
If the war is lost, the nation will also perish. This fate is inevitable. There is no necessity to take into consideration the basis which the people will need to continue even a most primitive existence. On the contrary, it will be better to destroy these things ourselves, because this nation will have proved to be the weaker one and the future will belong solely to the stronger eastern nation (Russia). Besides, those who will remain after the battle are only the inferior ones, for the good ones have all been killed. (Hitler)
The proof of Communism does not lie in a theory; it lies in the facts of the world around us. (R. Palme Dutt)
Struggle against imperialism that is not closely linked with the struggle against opportunism is either an empty phrase or a fraud. (Lenin)
Leninism grew up and took shape under the conditions of imperialism, when the contradictions of capitalism had reached an extreme point, when the proletarian revolution had become an immediate practical question, when the old period of preparation of the working class for revolution had arrived at and passed into a new period, that of direct assault on capitalism. Lenin called imperialism “moribund capitalism.” Why? Because imperialism carries the contradictions of capitalism to their last bounds, to the extreme limit, beyond which revolution begins. Of these contradictions, there are three which must be regarded as the most important. The first contradiction is the contradiction between labour and capital. Imperialism is the omnipotence of the monopolist trusts and syndicates, of the banks and the financial oligarchy, in the industrial countries. In the fight against this omnipotence, the customary methods of the working class-trade unions and cooperatives, parliamentary parties and the parliamentary struggle-have proved to be totally inadequate. Either place yourself at the mercy of capital, eke out a wretched existence as of old and sink lower and lower, or adopt a new weapon-this is the alternative imperialism puts before the vast masses of the proletariat. Imperialism brings the working class to revolution. The second contradiction is the contradiction among the various financial groups and imperialist Powers in their struggle for sources of raw materials, for foreign territory. Imperialism is the export of capital to the sources of raw materials, the frenzied struggle for monopolist possession of these sources, the struggle for a re-division of the already divided world, a struggle waged with particular fury by new financial groups and Powers seeking a “place in the sun” against the old groups and Powers, which cling tenaciously to what they have seized. This frenzied struggle among the various groups of capitalists is notable in that it includes as an inevitable element imperialist wars, wars for the annexation of foreign territory. This circumstance, in its turn, is notable in that it leads to the mutual weakening of the imperialists, to the weakening of the position of capitalism in general, to the acceleration of the advent of the proletarian revolution and to the practical necessity of this revolution. The third contradiction is the contradiction between the handful of ruling, “civilised” nations and the hundreds of millions of the colonial and dependent peoples of the world. Imperialism is the most barefaced exploitation and the most inhumane oppression of hundreds of millions of people inhabiting vast colonies and dependent countries. The purpose of this exploitation and of this oppression is to squeeze out super-profits. But in exploiting these countries imperialism is compelled to build these railways, factories and mills, industrial and commercial centers. The appearance of a class of proletarians, the emergence of a native intelligentsia, the awakening of national consciousness, the growth of the liberation movement-such are the inevitable results of this “policy.” The growth of the revolutionary movement in all colonies and dependent countries without exception clearly testifies to this fact. This circumstance is of importance for the proletariat inasmuch as it saps radically the position of capitalism by converting the colonies and dependent countries from reserves of imperialism into reserves of the proletarian revolution. (Stalin)
Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life. (Karl Marx)
Long-haired preachers come out every night,\ Try to tell you what’s wrong and what’s right;\ But when asked how ’bout something to eat\ They will answer with voices so sweet:\ You will eat, bye and bye,\ In that glorious land above the sky;\ Work and pray, live on hay,\ You’ll get pie in the sky when you die. (Joe Hill)
I die like a true blue rebel. Don’t waste any time in mourning. Organize! (Joe Hill)
Any fool can know. The point is to understand. (Albert Einstein)
Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value. (Albert Einstein)
Governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class. (James Connolly)
I am not only the conqueror but also the executor of Marxism. (Hitler)
We thank Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin for giving us a weapon. This weapon is not a machine-gun, but Marxism-Leninism. (Mao Zedong)
The bank mania… is raising up a moneyed aristocracy in our country which has already set the government at defiance, and although forced at length to yield a little on this first essay of their strength, their principles are unyielded and unyielding. These have taken deep root in the hearts of that class from which our legislators are drawn, and the sop to Cerberus from fable has become history. Their principles lay hold of the good, their pelf of the bad, and thus those whom the Constitution had placed as guards to its portals, are sophisticated or suborned from their duties. (Thomas Jefferson)
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. (Aristotélēs)
Thus if the First Amendment means anything in this field, it must allow protests even against the moral code that the standard of the day sets for the community. In other words, literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor. (First Amendment)
A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government. (Goethe)
The history of the human race always has been, and most likely always will be, that of evolution and revolution. (Lewis F. Korns)
Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law. (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. (Desmond Tutu)
Workers of the world you have nothing to lose but your chains nothing to gain but your freedom. Workers of the world unite. (Karl Marx)
Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying. (Bakunin)
The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man… (Jean Genet)
The revolution is not a moment or a day, the revolution is a way of life. (Tupac Shakur)
Revolution is the larva of civilization. (Victor Hugo)
Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order. (John V. Lindsay)
You cannot buy the Revolution. You cannot make the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution. It is in your spirit or, it is nowhere. (Ursula K. Le Guin)
Advance, and never halt. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood. (Khalil Gibran)
Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power. (Malcolm X)
My children can live without me, but not without dignity. (Aminatou Haidar)
Capitalism has now it has become more cowardly, like the vulture, and it can only suck the blood of the helpless. (Malcolm X)
There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by sword. The other is by debt. (John Adams)
There is no peace but the Pax Romana, a “peace” maintained by violence and threat of violence, by the greed of the privileged and the oppression of the weak and the lowly. … The people of God knew, however, that this was no true peace. The peace and prosperity of the Roman empire depended on the continued oppression and enslavement of almost 95 percent of the population of the known world. The “peace” was meant for the privileged, the top 5 percent who dwelt in the palaces and courts of Rome. (Allan Boesak)
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. (Henry David Thoreau)
The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution. (Huey P. Newton)
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. (Edward Everett)
When I refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right of the majority to command, but I simply appeal from the sovereignty of the people to the sovereignty of mankind. (Alexis de Tocqueville)
You only have the freedoms you are willing to fight and die for. (Thomas Jefferson)
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear. (Harry Truman)
Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. (Albert J. Beveridge)
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. (Thomas Jefferson)
All just power is derived from the consent of the governed. (John Locke)
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. (Edmund Burke)
Those who cast the votes decide nothing, Those who count the votes decide everything. (Stalin)
The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people. (Frank Kent)
Those who already walk submissively will say there is no cause for alarm. But submissiveness is not our heritage. The First Amendment was designed to allow rebellion to remain as our heritage. The Constitution was designed to keep government off the backs of the people. The Bill of Rights was added to keep the precincts of belief and expression, of the press, of political and social activities free from surveillance. The Bill of Rights was designed to keep agents of government and official eavesdroppers away from assemblies of people. The aim was to allow men to be free and independent and to assert their rights against government. (Justice William O. Douglas)
With terror, tyranny came to power, and with terror, it holds onto its power. The sciences have been subordinated to authoritarian rule. Biology has been falsified, in order to externalize the privileges of the propertied classes. (Manifesto)
The great masses of people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one. Especially if it is repeated over and over. (Hitler)
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. (Nietzsche)
Every ambitious would-be empire, clarions it abroad that she is conquering the world to bring it peace, security and freedom, and is sacrificing her sons only for the most noble and humanitarian purposes. That is a lie, and it is an ancient lie, yet generations still rise and believe it. (Henry David Thoreau)
Where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. (Lord Acton)
Fellow workers and peasants, this is the socialist and democratic revolution of the working people, with the working people, and for the working people. And for this revolution of the working people, by the working people, and for the working people we are prepared to give our lives. (Fidel Castro)
I am not Christ or a philanthropist. I fight for the things I believe in, with all the weapons at my disposal. (Che Guevara)
We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels. (Henry A. Wallace)
The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)
The mistakes of the Iraq war are not only tactical and strategic, but historical. It is essentially a war of colonialism, attempted in the post-colonial age. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)
Power is the great aphrodisiac. (Henry Kissinger)
Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class. (Al Capone)
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas; hence of the relationships which make the one class the ruling one, therefore, the ideas of its dominance. The individuals composing the ruling class possess among other things consciousness, and therefore think. Insofar, therefore, as they rule as a class and determine the extent and compass of an epoch, it is self-evident that they do this in its whole range, hence among other things rule also as thinkers, as producers of ideas, and regulate the production and distribution of the ideas of their age: thus their ideas are the ruling ideas of the epoch. For instance, in an age and in a country where royal power, aristocracy, and bourgeoisie are contending for mastery and where, therefore, mastery is shared, the doctrine of the separation of powers proves to be the dominant idea and is expressed as an “eternal law.” (Karl Marx)
I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. (Benjamin Franklin)
All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia. (George Orwell)
Against the workers the capitalists of all nations and religions are united, but they strive to divide and weaken the workers by national strife! (Lenin)
Relief would do no good. Indians breed like rabbits and will outstrip any available food supply. (Churchill)
Politicians are the lowest form of life on earth. Liberal Democrats are the lowest form of politicians. (George Patton)
The dialectics of history were such that the theoretical victory of Marxism compelled its enemies to disguise themselves as Marxists. Liberalism, rotten within, tried to revive itself in the form of socialist opportunism. They interpreted the period of preparing the forces for great battles as renunciation of these battles. Improvement of the conditions of the slaves to fight against wage slavery they took to mean the sale by the slaves of their right to liberty for a few pence. They cravenly preached “social peace” (i.e., peace with the slave-owners), renunciation of the class struggle, etc. They had very many adherents among socialist members of parliament, various officials of the working-class movement, and the “sympathising” intelligentsia. (Lenin)
For the bourgeoisie, freedom of the press meant freedom for the rich to publish and for the capitalists to control the newspapers, a practice which in all countries, including even the freest, produced a corrupt press. (Lenin)
Einstein’s relativity work is a magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king… its exponents are brilliant men but they are metaphysicists rather than scientists. (Nikola Tesla)
The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
The Marxist doctrine is omnipotent because it is true. It is comprehensive and harmonious, and provides men with an integral world outlook irreconcilable with any form of superstition, reaction, or defence of bourgeois oppression. It is the legitimate successor to the best that man produced in the nineteenth century, as represented by German philosophy, English political economy and French socialism. (Lenin)
The opportunists are a section of the petty bourgeoisie and of a certain strata of the working class who have been bribed out of imperialist superprofits and converted to watchdogs of capitalism and corruptors of the labour movement. (Lenin)
Joseph Stalin was a great man; few other men of the 20th century approach his stature. He was simple, calm and courageous. He seldom lost his poise; pondered his problems slowly, made his decisions clearly and firmly; never yielded to ostentation nor coyly refrained from holding his rightful place with dignity. He was the son of a serf but stood calmly before the great without hesitation or nerves. But also – and this was the highest proof of his greatness – he knew the common man, felt his problems, followed his fate. (W. E. B. Du Bois)
The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil. We see before us a huge community of producers the members of which are unceasingly striving to deprive each other of the fruits of their collective labour…I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals. (Albert Einstein)
Powerful people in the American ruling class fear democracy. (Tim Robbins)
In Germany they first came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up because I was a protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was nobody left to speak up. (Martin Niem?ller)
It is the function of the CIA to keep the world unstable, and to propagandize and teach the American people to hate, so we will let the Establishment spend any amount of money on arms. (John Stockwell)
I want to tell you something very clear, don’t worry about American pressure on Israel, we, the Jewish people control America, and the Americans know it. (Ariel Sharon)
We Jews regard our race as superior to all humanity, and look forward, not to its ultimate union with other races, but to its triumph over them. (Goldwin Smith)
I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in ’47, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo. (Harry Truman)
We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world – no longer a Government of free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men. (Thomas Woodrow Wilson)
All over the world, people need change. The change? Getting control over the power and resources they need to solve their problems. (Jeremy Brecher)
We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories. (Cecil Rhodes)
We have a single system, and in that system the only question is the price at which the proletariat is to be bought and sold, the bread and circuses.” ” The whole fabric of society will go to wrack if we really lay hands of reform on our rotten institutions. From top to bottom the whole system is a fraud, all of us know it, laborers and capitalists alike, and all of us are consenting parties to it. (Henry Adams)
If you liked El Salvador, you’re going to love Colombia. It’s the same death squads, the same military aid, and the same whitewash from Washington. (Carlos Salinas)
Today, the United States and Somalia are the only two countries in the world which haven’t ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. And since Somalia is a country with no internationally recognized government, the United States essentially stands alone as the last holdout to legally guarantee children the same full range of human rights … agreed to by 191 other sovereign states. (Catherine Langevin-Falcon)
America is today the leader of a world-wide anti-revolutionary movement in the defense of vested interests. She now stands for what Rome stood for. Rome consistently supported the rich against the poor in all foreign communities that fell under her sway; and, since the poor, so far, have always and everywhere been far more numerous than the rich, Rome’s policy made for inequality, for injustice, and for the least happiness of the greatest number. (Arnold Joseph Toynbee)
All the emphasis on crime and drugs and pornography used to justify the suppression of the internet is really aimed at suppressing knowledge of the radical politic alternatives that are now available. (Tony Benn)
This antagonism is artificially kept alive and intensified by the press, the pulpit, the comic papers, in short, by all the means at the disposal of the ruling classes. This antagonism is the secret of the impotence of the English working class, despite its organisation. It is the secret by which the capitalist class maintains its power. And the latter is quite aware of this. (Karl Marx)
Fascism is a reactionary force which is trying to preserve the old system by means of violence. What will you do with the fascists? Argue with them? Try to convince them? But this will have no effect upon them at all. Communists do not in the least idealise the methods of violence. But they, the Communists, do not want to be taken by surprise, they cannot count on the old world voluntarily departing from the stage, they see that the old system is violently defending itself, and that is why the Communists say to the working class : Answer violence with violence; do all you can to prevent the old dying order from crushing you, do not permit it to put manacles on your hands, on the hands with which you will overthrow the old system. As you see, the Communists regard the substitution of one social system for another, not simply as a spontaneous and peaceful process, but as a complicated, long and violent process. Communists cannot ignore facts. (Stalin)
The Deep State not only holds the nation’s capital in thrall, but it also controls Wall Street (“which supplies the cash that keeps the political machine quiescent and operating as a diversionary marionette theater”) and Silicon Valley. This is fascism in its most covert form, hiding behind public agencies and private companies to carry out its dirty deeds. It is a marriage between government bureaucrats and corporate fat cats. (John W. Whitehead)
Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home and of bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possible. (Stalin)
In one way or another, all official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery. (Lenin)
All that modern nations have achieved is to disguise slavery at home and import it openly into the New World. (Karl Marx)
Trotsky groups all the enemies of Marxism. (Lenin)
The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do. (Samuel P. Huntington)
Of course, I am against fascism with its spread of color prejudice and race hatred and working class oppression. How could any sensible Negro be otherwise? (Aldous Huxley)
Fascism presented itself not only as an alternative, but also as the heir to socialism. (J.L. Talmon)
The laws of social development are not identical with the laws in the natural sciences. The content of the social laws is not nature but second nature: coagulated history. They are manmade, but they also make men; they are dialectical, at once subject and object. (Russell Jacoby)
Since those who rule in the city do so because they own a lot, I suppose they’re unwilling to enact laws to prevent young people who’ve had no discipline from spending and wasting their wealth, so that by making loans to them, secured by the young people’s property, and then calling those loans in, they themselves become even richer and more honored. (Plátōn)
There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people. (Howard Zinn)
A party is the vanguard of a class, and its duty is to lead the masses and not merely to reflect the average political level of the masses. (Lenin)
The rich have grown richer, but their tax rate has declined. The poor have grown poorer, but their taxes have increased. (Michael Parenti)
There is no escape for capitalism save the escape of death. Do what they may, they cannot get out of the continual circle of ever-rising prices, piling debts, unemployment, war and threats, of war, and all the time the rising tide of the anger of the people at home and in the subject countries abroad. It is their knowledge of this which inspires their panic fear of Bolshevism, even when the actual movement is as weak as a child; until by the very noise of their panic they help to create what they are seeking to destroy. It is their knowledge of this which is making them fight with all the ferocity and violence of a trapped animal. They are in panic because they know their failure; they are violent because they know they are not strong. And it is this same knowledge, which gives the confidence of absolute assurance to the Communist struggle. (R. Palme Dutt)
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention. (Khalil Gibran)
Of course, in the United States of America, in Britain, as also in France, there are aggressive forces thirsting for a new war. They need war to obtain super-profits, to plunder other countries. These are the billionaires and millionaires who regard war as an item of income which gives colossal profits. (Stalin)
Only Socialism can finally end imperialist wars by ending their cause—the class system of society. The victory of Socialism in the leading countries of the world means the end of war, because it ends the jungle-fight of the exploiters over the spoils; it ends the fight for profits, spheres of influence, colonies, markets and monopolist domination. Socialism means the freedom and brotherhood of all nations without distinction of race or colour. Socialism means that all peoples freely organise their production for use, for common advantage. (R. Palme Dutt)
Compared to feudalism, capitalism was an historical advance along the road of “liberty”, “equality”, “democracy” and “civilisation”. Nevertheless capitalism was, and remains, a system of wage-slavery, of the enslavement of millions of working people, workers and peasants, by an insignificant minority of modern slave-owners, landowners and capitalists. Bourgeois democracy, as compared to feudalism, has changed the form of this economic slavery, has created a brilliant screen for it but has not, and could not, change its essence. Capitalism and bourgeois democracy are wage-slavery. (Lenin)
Let her sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world. (Napoléon Bonaparte)
Two basic steps are thus required: first to identify the geostrategically dynamic Eurasian states that have the power to cause a potentially important shift in the international distribution of power and to decipher the central external goals of their respective political elites and the likely consequences of their seeking to attain them; […] second to formulate specific U.S. policies to offset, co-opt, and/or control the above. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)
If the American people ever find out what we have done, they would chase us down the street and lynch us. (George H. W. Bush)
Any country that has Milton Friedman as an adviser has nothing to fear from a few million Arabs. (John Kenneth Galbraith)
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones. (Bertolt Brecht)
Stalin is the savior of all the oppressed. (Mao Zedong)
I am a Communist and my painting is Communist painting. (Picasso)
The colonists usually say that it was they who brought us into history: today we show that this is not so. They made us leave history, our history, to follow them, right at the back, to follow the progress of their history. (Amilcar Cabral)
The state is a special organization of force: it is an organization of violence for the suppression of some class. What class must the proletariat suppress? Naturally, only the exploiting class, i.e., the bourgeoisie. The working people need the state only to suppress the resistance of the exploiters, and only the proletariat can direct this suppression, can carry it out. For the proletariat is the only class that is consistently revolutionary, the only class that can unite all the working and exploited people in the struggle against the bourgeoisie, in completely removing it. (Lenin)
All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy and fake “public opinion” for the benefit of the bourgeoisie. (Lenin)
The state is a machine for the oppression of one class by another, a machine for holding in obedience to one class other, subordinated classes. There are various forms of this machine. The slave-owning state could be a monarchy, an aristocratic republic or even a democratic republic. In fact the forms of government varied extremely, but their essence was always the same: the slaves enjoyed no rights and constituted an oppressed class; they were not regarded as human beings. We find the same thing in the feudal state. (Lenin)
Capitalism reveals itself in fact, with the increase of concentration and the power of production, not as a growingly harmonious and organised system of world production, but as a growingly violent system of antagonisms. (R. Palme Dutt)
The old ignorant Malthusian notions of absolute “overpopulation,” or the modern lugubrious chants of birth-control as the necessary solution of poverty, are thus abundantly exploded by facts. It is worth noting that this reactionary propaganda is still maintained, not only in clerical and con- servative quarters, but also by the would-be “progressive” (actually, as we shall have occasion to see, one of the real bulwarks of conservatism in England) Labour Party. (R. Palme Dutt)
Fascism accordingly requires for its full realisation the “totalitarian” terroristic class-State. Social Democracy controls the workers most favourably and successfully in the liberal-parliamentary class-State, utilising its own “internal” methods of discipline, and occasional State coercion, for the suppression of all militant struggle. Fascism operates primarily by coercion alongside of deception. Social Democracy operates primarily by deception, alongside of coercion. It is this combined relationship of difference in method and parallelism in basic aim and role that underlies Stalin’s definition, given already in 1924 (“Main Factors of the Present International Situation,” Communist International, English edition 1924, No. 6), that “Social Democracy objectively represents the moderate wing of Fascism.” (R. Palme Dutt)
Fascism by all the above tests is economically identical with Capitalism, representing only a special method to maintain its power and hold down the workers. Fascism is profit-making society, is class-society, is society based on exploitation. Alike in Italy and in Germany, production is carried on for profit; the means of production are the property of a small minority, the upper strata of whom draw large incomes through their ownership; the mass of the workers are cut off from ownership, and work for a wage, producing surplus-value for the owners, or are left unemployed, if it is not profitable to employ them. All these are the familiar characteristics of capitalism in all countries, as are equally the crisis, depression, decline of production and mass unemployment. The Fascist countries show no difference from the other capitalist countries in any of these respects. Fascist Italy and Fascist Germany are no better off than non-Fascist France and non-Fascist Britain (in fact worse off, but for reasons not necessarily connected with Fascism); they are all economically in the same boat, in the capitalist boat. The only contrast is provided by the land of socialist construction, the Soviet Union, with its ending of unemployment and gigantic rise of production alongside the decline in all Fascist or other capitalist countries. (R. Palme Dutt)
Principle of the transfusion. As a rule propaganda always operates from a preexisting substrate, be it a national mythology or a complex of traditional hatreds and prejudices; It is a matter of spreading arguments that can be rooted in primitive attitudes. (Joseph Goebbels)
I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races – that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race. (Abraham Lincoln)
The owners of the Washington Post long ago acknowledged that the Post is the government’s voice to the people. In 1981, Katherine Graham, who owns the Post and Newsweek announced that her editors would “cooperate with the national security interests.” National security in this context means “CIA.” (John Stockwell)
The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all … The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. The majority of mankind are working people. So long as their fair demands – the ownership and control of their livelihoods – are set at naught, we can have neither men’s rights nor women’s rights. The majority of mankind is ground down by industrial oppression in order that the small remnant may live in ease. (Helen Keller)
Marxism differs from all primitive forms of socialism by not binding the movement to any one particular form of struggle. It recognises the most varied forms of struggle; and it does not “concoct” them, but only generalises, organises, gives conscious expression to those forms of struggle of the revolutionary classes which arise of themselves in the course of the movement. Absolutely hostile to all abstract formulas and to all doctrinaire recipes, Marxism demands an attentive attitude to the mass struggle in progress, which, as the movement develops, as the class-consciousness of the masses grows, as economic and political crises become acute, continually gives rise to new and more varied methods of defence and attack. Marxism, therefore, positively does not reject any form of struggle. (Lenin)
Pre-Marxist socialism has been defeated. It is continuing the struggle, no longer on its own independent ground, but on the general ground of Marxism, as revisionism. (Lenin)
The traitors, blockheads and pedants of the Second International could never understand such dialectics; the proletariat cannot achieve victory if it does not win the majority of the population to its side. But to limit that winning to polling a majority of votes in an election under the rule of the bourgeoisie, or to make it the condition for it, is crass stupidity, or else sheer deception of the workers. In order to win the majority of the population to its side the proletariat must, in the first p]ace, overthrow the bourgeoisie and seize state power; secondly, it must introduce Soviet power and complete]y smash the old state apparatus, whereby it immediately undermines the rule, prestige and influence of the bourgeoisie and petty-bourgeois compromisers over the non-proletarian working people. Thirdly, it must entirely destroy the influence of the bourgeoisie and petty-bourgeois compromisers over the majority of the non-proletarian masses by satisfying their economic needs in a revolutionary way at the expense of the exploiters. (Lenin)
Lev Parnas and Rachel Maddow blow the lid off Trump’s coverup #ClassWarfare https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/lev-parnas-and-rachel-maddow-blow-the-lid-off-trumps-coverup/
Lev Parnas and Rachel Maddow blow the lid off Trump’s coverup
By Blake Deppe from People's World
Lev Parnas, in his bombshell interview Wednesday night with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow literally blew the lid off the entire conspiracy surrounding the scandal for which President Trump has been impeached and for which he is now on trial before the U.S. Senate.
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Planned picket line against CNN would have stopped Des Moines Democratic debate
DES MOINES, Iowa (PAI)—The Jan. 14 debate between six Democratic presidential hopefuls in Des Moines, Iowa, almost fell through. The reason it didn’t was pressure on its broadcaster, the Cable News Network (CNN), by Democratic National Chairman Thomas Perez, a former Obama administration Labor S...
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Rep. Duncan Hunter pleads guilty, resigns, goes to prison, collects lifetime pension
One of these centuries soon—but really, soon—Congress has got to come to grips with the problem of its errant members. So far, for the crimes you commit, you can be ordered to stop voting on bills, you can be deprived of all committee assignments, and of course you won’t be held accountable fo...
Winston Churchill: (To Benito Mussolini:) If I had been an Italian, I am sure I would have been entirely with you from the beginning to the end of your victorious struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism. https://protestationblog.wordpress.com/quotes7/#quotenr6316
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Since 1845 Marx and I have held the view that one of the ultimate results of the future proletarian revolution will be the gradual dissolution of the political organisation known by the name of state. The main object of this organisation has always been to secure, by armed force, the economic oppression of the labouring majority by the minority which alone possesses wealth. (Friedrich Engels)
Debt is the prolific mother of folly and of crime. (Benjamin Disraeli)
The revolutionary proletariat cannot be victorious unless this evil is combated, unless the opportunist, social-traitor leaders are exposed, discredited and expelled. That is the policy the Third International has embarked on. (Lenin)
For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions. (Albert Einstein)
Because they didn’t know better, they called it “civilization, ” when it was part of their slavery. (Cornelius Tacitus)
In those countries, it is actually capital that rules; that is, nothing more than a clique of a few hundred men who possess untold wealth and, as a consequence of the peculiar structure of their national life, are more or less independent and free. They say: ‘Here we have liberty.’ By this they mean, above all, an uncontrolled economy, and by an uncontrolled economy, the freedom not only to acquire capital but to make absolutely free use of it. That means freedom from national control or control by the people both in the acquisition of capital and in its employment. This is really what they mean when they speak of liberty. These capitalists create their own press and then speak of the ‘freedom of the press.’ In reality, every one of the newspapers has a master, and in every case this master is the capitalist, the owner. This master, not the editor, is the one who directs the policy of the paper. If the editor tries to write other than what suits the master, he is ousted the next day. This press, which is the absolutely submissive and characterless slave of the owners, molds public opinion. (Hitler)
The Chinese Trotskyists (like the Trotskyists of other countries) do not represent a political group, much less a political party. They are nothing but a band of evil-doers, the running dogs of Japanese fascism (and of international fascism). (Ho Chi Minh)
The process of revolution is — on a historical scale — synonymous with the process of the development of proletarian class consciousness. (Gy?rgy Lukács)
In Marx the dialectical method aims at understanding society as a whole. Bourgeois thought concerns itself with objects that arise either from the process of studying phenomena in isolation, or from the division of labor and specialisation in the different disciplines. (Gy?rgy Lukács)
From a very early stage the ideological history of the bourgeoisie was nothing but a desperate resistance to every insight into the true nature of the society it had created. (Gy?rgy Lukács)
In our progress toward a resumption of work we require two safeguards against a return of the evils of the old order; there must be a strict supervision of all banking and credits and investments; there must be an end to speculation with other people’s money, and there must be provision for an adequate but sound currency. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem at a distance of a few million miles. (H. G. Wells)
Revolutions are not push button affairs; rather, they evolve only if there exists a reservoir of hope and grievance that can be galvanized into popular action. (Michael Parenti)
A nation is not a racial or tribal, but a historically constituted community of people. (Stalin)
It doesn’t matter whether the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice. (Deng Xiaoping)
Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line. (Cornelius Tacitus)
The progressive historical role of capitalism may be summed up in two brief propositions: increase in the productive forces of social labour, and the socialisation of that labour. But both these facts manifest themselves in extremely diverse processes in different branches of the national economy. (Lenin)
Goebbels […] was using my book Crystallizing Public Opinion as a basis for his destructive campaign against the Jews of Germany. This shocked me. (Edward Bernays)
The Nazi state was created by the same oligarchical financial and political interests who today control what we call the mass media and television. Forget about whatever stories you have seen on television about how Hitler came to power: His path to power was cleared by the same oligarchs who employ the brainwashers that program your television. Over a period of years, following the First World War, Germany was brutalized by the economic policy of this international (ETK: Jewish) elite. Hitler’s Nazis were funded and promoted as a political option, and then steered into power in 1932-1933. Once in power, the Nazis maintained their hold through the use of terror as part of mass brainwashing. In many ways it were proper to view the Nazi period as an experiment in methods of mass brainwashing and social control. (Lonnie Wolfe)
Is that to say we are against Free Trade? No, we are for Free Trade, because by Free Trade all economical laws, with their most astounding contradictions, will act upon a larger scale, upon the territory of the whole earth; and because from the uniting of all these contradictions in a single group, where they will stand face to face, will result the struggle which will itself eventuate in the emancipation of the proletariat. (Karl Marx)
The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent. (Charles Eliot Norton)
A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets. (Napoléon Bonaparte)
Revolutions never go backwards. (Wendell Phillips)
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. (Camus)
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. (JFK)
The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I. (Karl Liebknecht)
Capitalist states can maintain themselves only by crime. (Bakunin)
Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people! (Malcolm X)
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind. (C. C. Colton)
A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves. (Bertrand de Jouvenel)
Revolutions are the locomotives of history. (Karl Marx)
Fight the power that be. Fight the power. (Spike Lee)
A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything. (Malcolm X)
An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere. (Samuel Johnson)
The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams. Wake up! (Tupac Shakur)
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. (Aristotélēs)
They that start by burning books will end by burning men. (Heinrich Heine)
I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world. (Eugene V. Debs)
When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect. (Thomas Paine)
When I was asked about any weapon capable of surpassing the power of the atomic bomb, I suggested the best of all: Peace. (Albert Einstein)
Experience has proved that, on certain very important questions of the proletarian revolution, all countries will inevitably have to do what Russia has done. (Lenin)
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. (Thomas Jefferson)
Find out just what the people will submit to and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. (Frederick Douglass)
Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death. (Hitler)
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. (George Orwell)
The Struggle of Guevara against the US was the struggle of the Spirit against Matter. (Ernesto Sábato)
No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. (Edmund Burke)
The first stage of fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of State and corporate power. (Mussolini)
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. (The Declaration of Independence)
Hegel remarks somewhere that history tends to repeat itself. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. (Karl Marx)
Behind the visible government there is an invisible government upon the throne that owes the people no loyalty and recognizes no responsibility. To destroy this invisible government, to undo the ungodly union between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the task of a statesman. (Theodore Roosevelt)
You let men in power assume power “for the Little Man”. But you yourself remain silent. You give men in power or impotent people with evil intentions the power to represent you. Only too late do you realize that again and again you are being defrauded. (Wilhelm Reich)
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. (James Madison)
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. (Thomas Jefferson)
The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements. (James W. Fulbright)
There is no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war… Except its ending. (Albert Einstein)
Ignorance and obscurantism have never produced anything other than flocks of slaves for tyranny. (Zapata)
With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power. (Henry A. Wallace)
We have a large public that is very ignorant about public affairs and very susceptible to simplistic slogans by candidates who appear out of nowhere, have no track record, but mouth appealing slogans. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)
…foreign policy of a pluralistic democracy like the United States should be based on bipartisanship because bipartisanship is the means and the framework for formulating policies based on moderation and on the recognition of the complexity of the human condition. That has been the tradition since the days of Truman and Vandenberg all the way until recent times. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)
You can’t make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can’t make peace without Syria. (Henry Kissinger)
Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don’t understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn’t like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It’s the kind of a life a decent man leads, it’s something to live for and to die for. (Dalton Trumbo)
The problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us. (Michael Parenti)
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism. (Karl Marx)
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. (Benjamin Franklin)
We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace: business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
Today’s Conservatives Are Fascists: Torture, dictatorship, phony `elections, ‘ and endless war – it’s fascism with a `democratic’ face. (Justin Raimondo)
It is well known that the black race is the most oppressed and most exploited of the human family. It is well known that the spread of capitalism and the discovery of the New World had as an immediate result the rebirth of slavery which was, for centuries, a scourge for the Negroes and a bitter disgrace for mankind. What everyone does not perhaps know, is that after sixty-five years of so-called emancipation, American Negroes still endure atrocious moral and material sufferings, of which the most cruel and horrible is the custom of lynching. (Ho Chi Minh)
(To Benito Mussolini:) If I had been an Italian, I am sure I would have been entirely with you from the beginning to the end of your victorious struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism. (Churchill)
We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false. (William Casey)
The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes. (Benjamin Disraeli)
Since there can be no talk of an independent ideology formulated by the working masses themselves in the process of their movement, the only choice is — either bourgeois or socialist ideology. There is no middle course (for mankind has not created a “third” ideology, and, moreover, in a society torn by class antagonisms there can never be a non-class or an above-class ideology). Hence, to belittle the socialist ideology in any way, to turn aside from it in the slightest degree means to strengthen bourgeois ideology. There is much talk of spontaneity. But the spontaneous development of the working-class movement leads to its subordination to bourgeois ideology, to its development along the lines of the Credo programme; for the spontaneous working-class movement is trade-unionism, is Nur-Gewerkschaftlerei, and trade unionism means the ideological enslavement of the workers by the bourgeoisie. (Lenin)
The obliging Trotsky is more dangerous than an enemy! (Lenin)
I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy. (Stalin)
Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance. (Ayrton Senna)
The common elements of fascism — extreme nationalism, social Darwinism, the leadership principle, elitism, anti-liberalism, anti-egalitarianism, anti-democracy, intolerance, glorification of war, the supremacy of the state and anti-intellectualism — together form a rather loose doctrine. Fascism emphasises action rather than theory, and fascist theoretical writings are always weak. (Ian Adams)
In fascist countries capitalism only survives as Fascism, and Fascism can only be resisted as capitalism, as the most naked, brazen, offensive, and deceitful form of capitalism. (Bertolt Brecht)
But what counter-insurgency really comes down to is the protection of the capitalists back in America, their property and their privileges. US national security, as preached by US leaders, is the security of the capitalist class in the US, not the security of the rest of the people. (Philip Agee)
We now live in a state of permanent war – a global arms industry, apparently the largest single international business, must have its products used up so more can be sold. There must be profits for the capitalists and jobs for the proles… Are we not still in Caligula’s Rome? (David Watson)
… the media in the United States effectively represents the interests of corporate America, and … the media elite are the watchdogs of what constitutes acceptable ideological messages, the parameters of news and information content, and the general use of media resources. (Peter Phillips)
A considerable proportion of the developed world’s prosperity rests on paying the lowest possible prices for the poor countries’ primary products and on exporting high-cost capital and finished goods to those countries. Continuation of this kind of prosperity requires continuation of the relative gap between developed and underdeveloped countries – it means keeping poor people poor. Increasingly, the impoverished masses are understanding that the prosperity of the developed countries and of the privileged minorities in their own countries is founded on their poverty. (Philip Agee)
All national institutions of Churches appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and to monopolise power and profit. (Thomas Paine)
Don’t be deceived when they tell you things are better now. Even if there’s no poverty to be seen because the poverty’s been hidden. Even if you ever got more wages and could afford to buy more of these new and useless goods which industries foist on you and even if it seems to you that you never had so much, that is only the slogan of those who still have much more than you. Don’t be taken in when they paternally pat you on the shoulder and say that there’s no inequality worth speaking of and no more reason to fight because if you believe them they will be completely in charge in their marble homes and granite banks from which they rob the people of the world under the pretence of bringing them culture. Watch out, for as soon as it pleases them they’ll send you out to protect their gold in wars whose weapons, rapidly developed by servile scientists, will become more and more deadly until they can with a flick of the finger tear a million of you to pieces. (Jean-Paul Marat)
The U.S.A. has supplied arms, security equipment and training to governments and armed groups that have committed torture, political killings and other human rights abuses in countries around the world. (Amnesty International)
[Nationalism is] a set of beliefs taught to each generation in which the Motherland or the Fatherland is an object of veneration and becomes a burning cause for which one becomes willing to kill the children of other Motherlands or Fatherlands. (Howard Zinn)
There is …a huge tacit conspiracy between the U.S. government, its agencies and its multinational corporations, on the one hand, and local business and military cliques in the Third World, on the other, to assume complete control of these countries and “develop” them on a joint venture basis. The military leaders of the Third World were carefully nurtured by the U.S. security establishment to serve as the “enforcers” of this joint venture partnership, and they have been duly supplied with machine guns and the latest data on methods of interrogation of subversives. (Edward Herman)
Freedom of the Press belongs to the man who owns one. (A. J. Liebling)
In many respects, we now live in a society that is only formally democratic, as the great mass of citizens have minimal say on the major public issues of the day, and such issues are scarcely debated at all in any meaningful sense in the electoral arena. In our society, corporations and the wealthy enjoy a power every bit as immense as that assumed to have been enjoyed by the lords and royalty of feudal times. (Robert McChesney)
The actual state of violence composed of the malnutrition, ignorance, sickness and hunger of the vast majority of the Guatemalan population, is the direct result of a capitalist system that makes the defenseless Indian compete against the powerful and well-armed landowner. (Thomas Melville)
Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship. (William Blum)
… several of the greatest American corporate leaders were in league with Nazi corporations before and after Pearl Harbor, including I.G. Farben, the colossal Nazi industrial trust that created Auschwitz. (Charles Higham)
How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again! (Mark Twain)
Nor will there be planned economy. What is planned economy? What are some of its attributes? Planned economy tries to abolish unemployment. Let us suppose it is possible, while preserving the capitalist system, to reduce unemployment to a certain minimum. But surely, no capitalist would ever agree to the complete abolition of unemployment, to the abolition of the reserve army of unemployed, the purpose of which is to bring pressure on the labour market, to ensure a supply of cheap labour. You will never compel a capitalist to incur loss to himself and agree to a lower rate of profit for the sake of satisfying the needs of the people. (Stalin)
The slave is sold once and for all; the proletarian must sell himself daily and hourly. (Friedrich Engels)
A learned man is not one who uses complicated and difficult words in spoken and written language, but one who uses words that are easily understood by ordinary people. (Kim Jong-il)
Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists. (Nikola Tesla)
There’s a class warfare, all right, but it’s my class that’s making war, and we’re winning. (Warren Buffett)
I was in the East End of London (a working-class quarter) yesterday and attended a meeting of the unemployed. I listened to the wild speeches, which were just a cry for ‘bread! bread!’ and on my way home I pondered over the scene and I became more than ever convinced of the importance of imperialism…. My cherished idea is a solution for the social problem, i.e., in order to save the 40,000,000 inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, we colonial statesmen must acquire new lands to settle the surplus population, to provide new markets for the goods produced in the factories and mines. The Empire, as I have always said, is a bread and butter question. If you want to avoid civil war, you must become imperialists. (Cecil Rhodes)
[Fascism is] a genuinely revolutionary, trans-class form of anti-liberal, and in the last analysis, anti conservative nationalism. As such it is an ideology deeply bound up with modernization and modernity, one which has assumed a considerable variety of external forms to adapt itself to the particular historical and national context in which it appears, and has drawn a wide range of cultural and intellectual currents, both left and right, anti-modern and pro-modern, to articulate itself as a body of ideas, slogans, and doctrine. In the inter-war period it manifested itself primarily in the form of an elite-led “armed party” which attempted, mostly unsuccessfully, to generate a populist mass movement through a liturgical style of politics and a programme of radical policies which promised to overcome a threat posed by international socialism, to end the degeneration affecting the nation under liberalism, and to bring about a radical renewal of its social, political and cultural life as part of what was widely imagined to be the new era being inaugurated in Western civilization. The core mobilizing myth of fascism which conditions its ideology, propaganda, style of politics and actions is the vision of the nation’s imminent rebirth from decadence. (Roger Griffin)
If the Fascist ideology cannot be described as a simple response to Marxism, its origins, on the other hand, were the direct result of very specific revision of Marxism. It was a revision of Marxism and not a variety of Marxism or a consequence of Marxism…It was the French and Italian Sorelians, the theoreticians of revolutionary syndicalism who made this new and original revision of Marxism, and precisely this was their contribution to the birth of the Fascist ideology. (Zeev Sternhell)
Existentialism is bourgeois ideology in the hour of its defeat. (Russell Jacoby)
The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable. (Thucydides)
If you live, live free or die like the trees, standing up. (Mahmoud Darwish)
The dictatorship of the proletariat, i.e., the organization of the vanguard of the oppressed as the ruling class for the purpose of suppressing the oppressors, cannot result merely in an expansion of democracy. Simultaneously with an immense expansion of democracy, which for the first time becomes democracy for the poor, democracy for the people, and not democracy for the money-bags, the dictatorship of the proletariat imposes a series of restrictions on the freedom of the oppressors, the exploiters, the capitalists. (Lenin)
It is ironic that people of modest means sometimes become conservative out of a scarcity fear bred by the very capitalist system they support. (Michael Parenti)
Radical simply means ‘grasping things at the root.’ (Angela Davis)
So long as wage-slavery exists, inevitably prostitution too will exist. All the oppressed and exploited classes throughout the history of human societies have always been forced (and it is in this that their exploitation consists) to give up to their oppressors, first, their unpaid labour and, second, their women as concubines for the “masters”. Slavery, feudalism and capitalism are identical in this respect. It is only the form of exploitation that changes; the exploitation itself remains. (Lenin)
Today literature, even that published “legally”, can be nine-tenths party literature. It must become party literature In contradistinction to bourgeois customs, to the profit-making, commercialised bourgeois press, to bourgeois literary careerism and individualism, “aristocratic anarchism” and drive for profit, the socialist proletariat must put forward the principle of party literature, must develop this principle and put it into practice as fully and completely as possible. (Lenin)
Develop the class struggles. Organize the proletariat. Start the armed resistance! (Gudrun Ensslin)
Thus, this war is a war of one set of exploiters against another set of exploiters. It is a war of rival capitalist Great Powers, like the last war: a war for world domination : for the largest share in the exploitation of the world; for possessions, profits, markets and spheres of influence; for the new division of the world. The interests of the working people in all countries are wholly opposed to this conflict of imperialist Powers for world domination, in which the people are sacrificed for the profit of the exploiters. (R. Palme Dutt)
This type of struggle provides us with the opportunity to become revolutionaries, the highest level of the human species. At the same time, it enables us to emerge fully as men. (Che Guevara)
The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt. (John Kenneth Galbraith)
You speak of your “devotion” to me. Perhaps it was just a chance phrase. Perhaps. . . . But if the phrase was not accidental I would advise you to discard the “principle” of devotion to persons. It is not the Bolshevik way. Be devoted to the working class, its Party, its state. That is a fine and useful thing. But do not confuse it with devotion to persons, this vain and useless bauble of weak-minded intellectuals. (Stalin)
He (Stalin) established unity in the Soviet Union. He consolidated what Lenin had begun: party unity. He gave the international revolutionary movement a new impetus. The USSR’s industrialization was one of Stalin’s wisest actions. (Fidel Castro)
Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories. (Amilcar Cabral)
The state is, therefore, by no means a power forced on society from without; just as little is it ’the reality of the ethical idea’, ’the image and reality of reason’, as Hegel maintains. Rather, it is a product of society at a certain stage of development; it is the admission that this society has become entangled in an insoluble contradiction with itself, that it has split into irreconcilable antagonisms which it is powerless to dispel. But in order that these antagonisms, these classes with conflicting economic interests, might not consume themselves and society in fruitless struggle, it became necessary to have a power, seemingly standing above society, that would alleviate the conflict and keep it within the bounds of ’order’; and this power, arisen out of society but placing itself above it, and alienating itself more and more from it, is the state. (Friedrich Engels)
The state is a machine for maintaining the rule of one class over another. When there were no classes in society, when, before the epoch of slavery, people laboured in primitive conditions of greater equality, in conditions when the productivity of labour was still at its lowest, and when primitive man could barely procure the wherewithal for the crudest and most primitive existence, a special group of people whose function is to rule and to dominate the rest of society, had not and could not yet have emerged. Only when the first form of the division of society into classes appeared, only when slavery appeared, when a certain class of people, by concentrating on the crudest forms of agricultural labour, could produce a certain surplus, when this surplus was not absolutely essential for the most wretched existence of the slave and passed into the hands of the slave-owner, when in this way the existence of this class of slave-owners was secure—then in order that it might take firm root it was necessary for a state to appear. (Lenin)
Labor is a commodity, like any other, and its price is therefore determined by exactly the same laws that apply to other commodities. In a regime of big industry or of free competition – as we shall see, the two come to the same thing – the price of a commodity is, on the average, always equal to its cost of production. Hence, the price of labor is also equal to the cost of production of labor. But, the costs of production of labor consist of precisely the quantity of means of subsistence necessary to enable the worker to continue working, and to prevent the working class from dying out. The worker will therefore get no more for his labor than is necessary for this purpose; the price of labor, or the wage, will, in other words, be the lowest, the minimum, required for the maintenance of life. (Friedrich Engels)
Working class women have more in common with working class men than they do with women like Margaret Thatcher and Edwina Currie, because their oppression as women stems from the exploitation which all the working class suffers. Thatcher and Currie are representatives of the exploiting class, whose interests are in direct conflict with the interests of working class men and women. (Eleanor Leacock)
Fascism cannot be interpreted in terms of its own alleged political “theories,” but only in terms of its service to finance-capital. (R. Palme Dutt)
Principle of the silencing. To silence on the questions on which there are no arguments and to disguise the news that favors the adversary, also counterprogramando with the aid of related media. (Joseph Goebbels)
To pay for the arms race the nation has to cut thousands of social programs, … The nation cannot go wild on military expenditures and also afford to care for old people, poor people, disabled people, farmers, or students. (John Stockwell)
Official Washington cannot tell the American people that the real purpose of its gargantuan military expenditures and belligerent interventions is to make the world safe for General Motors, General Electric, General Dynamics, and all the other generals. (Michael Parenti)
Either materialism consistent to the end, or the falsehood and confusion of philosophical idealism. (Lenin)
The bourgeoisie needs hirelings who enjoy the trust of a section of the working class, whitewash and prettify the bourgeoisie with talk about the reformist path being possible, throw dust in the eyes of the people by such talk, and divert the people from revolution by giving glowing descriptions of the charms and possibilities of the reformist path. (Lenin)
Grenfell: Johnson appoints engineer with links to the firm that made the tower's cladding to the inquiry #ClassWarfare https://gnusocial.no/url/1793285
Grenfell: Johnson appoints engineer with links to the firm that made the tower's cladding to the inquiry
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Former Labour MP Emma Dent Coad tells the Star that the PM has driven the ‘final nail in the coffin’ of justice
Momentum confirms it's backing Long Bailey for the Labour leadership #ClassWarfare https://gnusocial.no/url/1793284
Momentum confirms it's backing Long Bailey for the Labour leadership
PUERTO RICO: Trump Finally Releases Aid with Restrictions After Major Earthquakes #ClassWarfare https://gnusocial.no/url/1793282
PUERTO RICO: Trump Finally Releases Aid with Restrictions After Major?Earthquakes
By incendiarynewsservice from Incendiary
Photo: Rubble from a church destroyed by the ongoing wave of seismic activity in Puerto Rico
By Joseph Magyar and Ben Robinson
On Wednesday, US President Donald Trump finally announced he would lift a block on $8 billion of previously allocated disaster aid meant for Puerto Rico after months of withholding the money, but it came with several restrictions which could further delay its release.
On January 7, a 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck the southern coast of Puerto Rico, the second major earthquake in the course of two days, compounding the dire situation in the country, which has still never fully recovered from the devastation of Hurricane Maria in 2017.
Puerto Rico has been hit by hundreds of earthquakes of varying intensity over the past two weeks. Source: US Geological Survey
Over the past month, the island has seen a consistent string of seismic activity. On January 11, a 5.9 magnitude earthquake hit the island, and hundreds of foreshocks and aftershocks have occurred since December 28, leading to the displacement of at least 2,000 people. Following the January 7 earthquake, which left one man dead and hundreds of thousands without water or electricity across the island, Trump and Puerto Rican Governor Wanda Vázquez declared a state of emergency.
Thousands of people have been displaced by the earthquakes as aid has been withheld
The major earthquakes and the hundreds of seismic shocks have caused an estimated $110 million in damages, with analysts predicting a $3.1 billion in economic loss. Governor Vázquez also announced that $130 million in emergency aid would be allocated to emergency relief, but the actual amount that will reach those affected remains to be seen.
Governor Vázquez’s disaster declaration comes as reconstruction efforts are still underway after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in September 2017, causing thousands of deaths and over $91 billion in damages. The federal government’s response to Maria was slow and inefficient, greatly increasing the number of casualties. As part of a larger issue with corruption in Puerto Rico, multiple instances of fraud and embezzlement of hurricane relief money were also reported.
The Trump administration relied on the claims of corruption to withhold aid for months, and it appeared it would maintain this stance despite the damages of the most recent earthquakes. The indifference and neglect of the administration was clear this past Fall as well, when the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) neglected to inform Puerto Rico of a deadline that would have allowed further access to $43 billion worth of aid allocated to hurricane recovery.
Of the $20 billion congress allocated in aid to the island since Hurricane Maria, up until Wednesday, only $1.5 billion had officially been released by HUD. HUD officials had defended this, stating, “Given the Puerto Rican government’s history of financial mismanagement, corruption and other abuses, we must ensure that any HUD assistance provided helps those on the island who need it the most: the people of Puerto Rico.”
Since the removal of the corrupt US lackey Governor Ricardo Rossello in August 2019 due to pressure from popular protests, there has been a rotating line-up of comprador politicians (those who sell out their own people’s interests in favor of US imperialism) moving through the governor’s seat.
Despite the appearance of a dispute between the Trump administration and the island’s government over corruption, this corruption is in the direct service of US imperialism, ensuring that policy always reflects their agenda. Trump only uses the excuse of corruption, which he and the US government practice in the same hypocritical fashion as any bourgeois state, as yet another way to bludgeon the island’s people and enforce their dependent status.
Wednesday’s announcement that the other $8 billion would be made available may seem like a rare act of recognizing Puerto Rico’s needs, but it too comes with imperialist stipulations. Trump has tied the release of funds to lowering the wages of relief workers to below $15/hr, countering a 2018 executive order by then-Governor Rossello.
The stipulations also seek to give greater authority to the federally mandated Fiscal Control Board. Known pejoratively to Puerto Ricans as ‘La Junta,’ the colonial nature of the board was a primary target of the protests which ousted Rossello. The funds are also conditionally tied to Puerto Rico agreeing to a new system of tracking property deeds and they cannot be used to repair the island’s crumbling electrical grid, which has seen further damage from the recent earthquakes. Rather than unconditional help, this aid simply seeks to strengthen Puerto Rico’s status as a US colony.
More than any force of nature, the masses of Puerto Rico face a crisis which is the making of US imperialism. But the nation has a long history of resistance to foreign domination, and the failure of the comprador and bureaucratic bourgeoisie to adequately respond to the recurring natural disasters present an opportunity to stoke the fires of rebellion against the hand of US imperialism propping them up.
DELAWARE: Fascist Attacks and Vandalizes Planned Parenthood #ClassWarfare https://incendiarynews.com/2020/01/16/delaware-fascist-attacks-and-vandalizes-planned-parenthood/
DELAWARE: Fascist Attacks and Vandalizes Planned?Parenthood
Photo: Newark, Delaware Planned Parenthood vandalized by Samuel James Gulick
By Ben Robinson
Samuel James Gulick, 2018
Earlier this month, 18-year-old Samuel James Gulick was arrested for vandalizing a Newark, Delaware Planned Parenthood with fascist graffiti and throwing an incendiary device through its window.
The explosive device started a fire but burned out on its own after causing minor damage. For this, Gulick was charged with maliciously damaging a building and intentionally damaging a reproductive health services building. Additionally, he was charged with possessing an unregistered destructive device.
Gulick’s graffiti featured crude religious imagery co-opted by fascists and the slogan “deus vult,” Latin for “god wills it.” Originally used by Christians during the First Crusade, the phrase along with Crusader imagery is now used by many within the ‘alt-right’ to encourage violence against Muslims and is also associated with Christian fascists generally.
Gulick targeted Planned Parenthood specifically due to his far-right beliefs. On his since-deleted Instagram page, he compared abortion to the holocaust, among other anti-woman and white nationalist sentiments consistent with his brand of Christian fascist ideology. He also voiced support for those killed during the Waco and Ruby Ridge sieges, both far-right Christian separatists who have been hailed by white nationalists and more traditional rightwing militia movements to this day.
Fascist Graffiti on front of Delaware Planned Parenthood
Young white men such as Gulick are radicalized online by fascists who blame various oppressed groups for the problems caused by imperialism and assert white nationalism and reactionary violence as the solution.
Gulick faces up to 20 years in prison and up to $250,000 in fines if found guilty, but his punishment will not change the conditions that gave rise to the fascist movement of which he is a part. Only a centralized, organized, and disciplined antifascist movement can combat fascists like Gulick and the ideology he represents.
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Self-identifying ‘communists’ blame Iran
By Joti Brar from CPGB-ML
Self-defence is no offence; those who really want to stop war must stand with the resistance.
Car industry crisis pushes Peugeot-Fiat merger #ClassWarfare https://gnusocial.no/url/1793276
Car industry crisis pushes Peugeot-Fiat merger
Workers rightly fear for their jobs as another round of ‘cost-cutting’ looms.
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PSA: Windows 7 end of support means: Scavenge all the 'old' computers! It be raining computing devices (prolly also a lot of data because newbs) which can be transformed with a single USB to a fully fledged linux workstation! i3-i5 intels for the grabs, if you're lucky i7!
Think: Companies, Libraries, Schools and Most of all Government institutes (they prolly be dumping their XP boxes and having a hard day finding out that their new integrated systems now function on 7 and need 5 years + millions to get to run on 10)
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There are many online education opportunities for anyone who is interested in learning more about providing person-centred care and support for people with a disability.
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The Family and Community Services (FACS) Disability training site is available free to all health and disability staff through the online training Portal. The Good To Great Program, provides a number of modules which can be undertaken in your own time, and gain a certificate of completion. The program aims to educate staff to provide quality person centred support.
There are many topics to consider, have a look today!
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The Department of Developmental Disability Neuropsychiatry (3DN) at UNSW Sydney have developed free eLearning resources about intellectual disability for professionals, carers, and consumers. Their goal is to improve your knowledge, skills and confidence, leading to better mental health and wellbeing for people with an intellectual disability. This site was designed to be an interactive education resource for everyone with an interest in intellectual disability mental health.There are a number of modules available, covering topics such as:
Introduction to intellectual disability
Living with an intellectual disability
Intellectual disability – changing perspectives
Mental disorders in intellectual disability
Communication: the basics
Improving your communication
Assessment of mental disorders
Management of mental disorders
Equality in mental health care – a guide for clinicians
Consent, decision-making & privacy – a guide for clinicians
A one hour Power Point presentation, including facilitators notes, has been developed for Health and Disability Staff to co-facilitate an education session for clinical staff.
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The NSW Health and ADHC Joint Guideline (GL2013_001) was developed in 2013 to ensure that staff in hospitals and disability accommodation support services are aware of their respective roles and responsibilities for people with disability before, during and after transfer of care from hospital.
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A hospital admission for a person with an Intellectual Disability can be a confusing and frightening experience resulting in behaviours that are difficult to interpret and manage by staff who don’t know the person.
This increases the risk that the patient’s presentation could result in missed diagnosis, escalation of behavioural problems, inefficient use of resources, and increased length of stay, miscommunication between multidisciplinary teams and disjointed discharge planning and disconnection with community resources that could lead to unplanned readmission.
To improve your understanding and awareness about Disability complete an online module.
My Health Learning has developed a number of modules about disability as well as partnering with carers.
You can access the My Health Learning site here then login using your stafflink details.
Select catalogue from the top menu, and then search.
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Let’s Talk Disability
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Going to Hospital Training Package
Contains information about the NSW Ombudsman’s report into preventing deaths of people with disability in care, the principles of the NSW Health and FACS (Disability) Joint Guideline 2013, the purpose of the A2D Together Folder and how to develop one as well as the roles and responsibility of disability support staff when a person is admitted to hospital.
How to assemble an A2D Together Folder
This includes instructions for disability service providers to make up an A2D Together Folder for a client.
How to write a TOP5
This provides helpful hints about completing a TOP 5 for a client.
The A2D Going to Hospital poster
A Going to Hospital poster has been developed to display in supported accommodation, to remind Disability Support Workers of the process to follow when there is a medical emergency. It can be printed as an A3 or A4 size poster and displayed to support the Going to Hospital training package. Click on the poster image at right to download.
Providing detailed information about the following issues
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NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal 2016
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Improving the hospital journey for a person with an intellectual disability.
A2D Together Folder templates and guide to assemble
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Golden Sun: Dark Dawn - Wikipedia.
Golden Sun: Dark Dawn is a 2010 Eastern RPG developed by Camelot Software Planning for the Nintendo DS, a sequel to the Golden Sun duology that was released for the Game Boy Advance in 2001 and 2003. It was announced at Nintendo's E3 2009 conference as Golden Sun DS, then promptly disappeared off the radar for a year before resurfacing at next year's E3 as with the Dark Dawn subtitle and was.
Golden Sun (known as Golden Sun: The Broken Seal in Japan) is a 2001 RPG from Nintendo and Camelot Software Planning for the Game Boy Advance, who you may recall also made Mario Golf and Tennis as well as Sega's Shining series. The sequel, Golden Sun: The Lost Age, was released in 2003, while the third game, Golden Sun: Dark Dawn, was released in 2010 for the Nintendo DS.
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This game will be a joy and a curse to all those who remember the old games. You'll love it because it's Golden Sun again - with added 3D This game will be a joy and a curse to all those who remember the old games. You'll love it because it's Golden Sun again - with added 3D battles and animations, some of the old characters returning, and many references to the original games on the Advance.
The Vampire Diaries ended in 2017, giving most of the main characters a happy ending, if not the ending they deserved. But the story of the Salvatore brothers destined to love the same woman not just once, but twice, remains a fan favorite. We can't get enough of the doomed love triangles, tragic deaths, witchy loopholes, good guys doing bad things and bad guys doing good things.
Golden Sun: The Lost Age follows Felix and his crew's mission to restore Alchemy to the world; a potential catastrophe that the original game's characters were trying to prevent. As a new band of adventurers, unleash new Summon spells and employ powerful Djinn elemental spirits.
Honestly, Golden Sun and Golden sun: The Lost Age were some of my favorite Gameboy games! They are lots of fun and the story is great! Golden Sun: Dark Dawn on the DS was great too! I really hope they bring it back for the 3DS. Such a good hidden gem! Edit: Wow! This blew up unexpectedly. lol. Glad to know you guys enjoyed the games as much as me!
Weyard is revealed by the game's sequel, Golden Sun: The Lost Age, to be a setting modeled off the flat Earth ideal of the world; it is a flat, vaguely circular plane whose oceans perpetually spill off the edge of the world's entire perimeter into an endless abyss.
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It was followed by a sequel, Golden Sun: The Lost Age on April 14, 2003, which picks up right where the original Golden Sun left off and let players carry over their character data and items via system link or a password. A third game in the series Golden Sun: Dark Down came out in 2010 for the Nintendo DS.
If you are scratching your head at the name, Golden Sun: The Lost Age wondering if you missed a game in the Game Boy Advance Golden Sun series do not worry. This is the second game in the series and in some regions, it was simply called Golden Sun 2. This is a popular RPG series and many people rank this one as the very best.
Golden Sun is a 2001 Japanese role-playing video game developed by Camelot Software Planning and published by Nintendo.It was released in August 2001 for Nintendo's Game Boy Advance, and became the first installment in the Golden Sun series.The game is notable for certain distinctive game elements, such as the use of special Djinn that empower the player and can be used against enemies.
This game expands on the story, the characters, the djinni system and usable psyenergy. It also features really hard puzzles and several sidequests. What makes this game amazing is that you can connect with the previous Golden Sun and trade all your progress on levels and items to the sequel.
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Golden Sun (known as Golden Sun: The Broken Seal in Japan) is a 2001 RPG from Nintendo and Camelot Software Planning for the Game Boy Advance.It is the first game in the series of the same name. Golden Sun tells the story of Isaac, a teenager from the village of Vale, gifted with the power of Psynergy, and his journey to stop a dangerous group of antagonists from releasing the ancient power.
Golden Sun If you don't get the Orb of Force, and inspect the log in the Altin Mines. Garet gets to run with you when the boulder comes crashing down :) I don't remember the dialogue Garet says unfortunately.
Golden Sun 2 (Video Game 2002) Quotes on IMDb: Memorable quotes and exchanges from movies, TV series and more.
Anyway, as the game begins, we see Felix, Jenna, and Kraden in Venus Lighthouse. Felix Moves a statue onto a button, lowering a neaby forcefield, then leaves. Jenna and Kraden now start talking (you'll see a lot of this in both Golden Sun games).
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A Bridgeport company has been fined $3,000 by the state Department of Public Health for multiple violations, including poor supervision of medication and unsanitary conditions, at two substance abuse treatment centers it operates in Waterbury. On May 6, Connecticut Renaissance Inc. signed consent orders with DPH agreeing to a $1,000 fine in connection with violations at Renaissance East at 31 Wolcott St. and $2,000 in connection with violations at Renaissance West at 466 W. Main St., both in Waterbury. Connecticut Renaissance also must hire independent licensed practitioners to oversee each of the treatment centers for at least four months to ensure proper patient care and compliance with all state and federal regulations, the consent decree said. The violations were found by DPH during unannounced inspections at the two centers in January.
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Lee Isaac Chung’s “Minari” casts a spell from its opening moments, a Terrence Malick-like evocation of human beings trying to stay in harmony with the natural world. As a family car travels through a green American landscape, the earth itself seems to be speaking to the characters, and through them, to us.
It is a classic immigrant story with specific, often unique new details. A Korean American family headed by a father, Jacob (Steven Yeun) and mother Monica (Yeri Han), came from Korea in the 1980s and spent time in California working as chicken sexers, separating baby chicks by gender. Now they have moved with their two American-born children, a serious and mature girl named Anne (Noel Kate Cho) and a six-year-old named David (newcomer Alan S. Kim), hoping to start a 50-acre farm in a small Arkansas town.
Culture clash is the unifying subject here, though not the only one. Chung, who waited to make this autobiographical drama until he had several acclaimed films under his belt, knows exactly the story that he wants to tell and how he wants to tell it. Monica and Jacob fight over their shared goals as a couple and their ambitions for their children. The tension of assimilation versus independence underscores every exchange, whether it’s intimate and private or connected to the larger community that they are tentatively getting to know.
It’s clear that Jacob has bought into some version of “the American dream” and carries himself like a prototypical mid-20th-century white American farmer, complete with gimme cap, terse speech, breast pocket cigarette pack, and ambling gunfighter walk. Monica seems more torn, and it is obvious from seeing the two of them interact that she comes from a higher social class and is more comfortable in the cities. As the story goes on, we begin to wonder if she regrets having moved to America in the first place. Even though she’s game, it’s a tough road that never seems to get easier.
Ordinary rituals become fresh and alive when a different frame is put around them, and this is the case in Chung’s film. The couple talks about whether to get a small farm in a community with a larger Korean American population or stick where they are and tough it out in relative isolation, a conversation many couples might have in a similar situation, here it is with all sorts of secondary challenges. What church do we go to? Should we go to church at all? How forward should we be in trying to make new friends with people who do not share our cultural heritage? These are problems that individuals raised in a monoculture don’t think about often, or at all.
The movie loses tension at certain points, relying a bit too strongly on atmospheric nature shots and a haunting score that seems to be performed on a slightly out-of-tune upright piano, and sometimes punting conflicts down the timeline when the viewer may want a bit more examination of them at that moment. But Chung’s grip as a storyteller remains sure. There is a ring of truth to every moment and conversation. The best of these are imbued with a complexity and contradiction that suggests that there’s more to human interactions than whatever advice we were given as kids. A moment after church when young David is casually racially insulted by a young white boy who then immediately speaks to him as a friend, and invites him over to a sleepover, will ring true to anyone who has been on the receiving end of that type of behavior. Everyone in this movie is still learning the right way to behave, including the adults.
The supporting characters are vividly drawn. The great American character actor Will Patton is superb as an evangelical Christian farmer who praises Jesus every minute and is glimpsed in one scene carrying a big wooden cross on his back as he walks along the country road. (Jacob asks if he wants a ride and he says no, he’s got this.) But the best performance belongs to Yuh-Jung Youn as Soonja, Jacob’s grandmother, who is brought in from the old country to provide advice and childcare help. She is a live wire—a cosmopolitan who always speaks her mind and is at ease with profanity, practical joking, and making moral/ethical decisions that could have major repercussions without consulting Jacob or Monica. (When Monica puts a $100 bill in the church collection plate, presumably to make a big impression during their first visit, grandma deftly removes it.)
Chung has a knack for capturing those moments when people behave according to their own internal compass, in ways that may not make sense to an outside observer. And it’s impossible not to appreciate the deep understanding of human behavior, as well as the way that ordinary objects and situations acquire symbolic meaning when we think about them in relation to the characters. This is a lovely, unique film.
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What is an Invasive Species?
Invasive species are non-native species that can cause harm to the environment, the economy or to human health. Invasives come from all around the world. As international trade increases, so does the rate of invasive species introductions. Invasive species are one of the greatest threats to New York's biodiversity. They cause or contribute to: habitat degradation and loss; the loss of native fish, wildlife and tree species; the loss of recreational opportunities and income; and crop damage and diseases in humans and livestock (from the New York Dept. of Environmental Conservation).
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Guidelines for Disposal of Terrestrial Invasive Plants (2011) is a 4-page PDF (1422kb) that covers methods for disposing of woody & non-woody plant materials, grasses and sedges, and includes a list of invasive plants that should not go into your compost pile.
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The TaoTronics SoundLiberty 53 Wireless Earphones Sound Decent for $45
Leslie Shapiro | Aug 5, 2019
They say you get what you pay for. With budget audio products, that’s rarely a good thing. Finding a pair of true wireless earphones for under $50 is a rare thing, and finding ones with acceptable sound quality is even rarer. I had a chance to check out the TaoTronics SoundLiberty 53 earphones that retail for $45. Let’s see what just under fifty bucks gets you these days.
The SoundLiberty 53 are true wireless earphones that come with a charging carrying case. The earphones themselves will play for up to 5 hours on a single charge, but the carrying case supplies an additional 36 hours; TaoTronics claims a total of 40 hours. It has fast-charge capability, and requires 2.5 hours for a complete charge. They have touch controls that will access Siri and/or Google Assistant in addition to taking/making phone calls and controlling volume and track playback.
The SoundLiberty 53 earphones feature Bluetooth 5.0 but lack audio features such as aptX. They turn on and pair automatically when removed from the charging case. They will connect as a stereo pair, or they can be used individually. One nit-pick: they do not turn off automatically when removed from your ears; they must be returned to the charging case or disconnected from the Bluetooth source, in which case they’ll turn off after 10 minutes.
TaoTronics claims the earphones are rated for IPX7 water-resistance, so while they’re not really suitable for swimming, they are waterproof for up to 30 minutes in less than 1 meter of water. What this means for me is that with their price and that rating, I have no fear in taking them to the gym and getting in a strenuous workout.
Sunday mornings at the gym are quite quiet, so I thought it was a good place to audition the SoundLiberty 53. I warmed up listening to Sigrid’s “Raw”, which is always a challenge for bass response. The plucked strings that open the song had a nice solid sound, but the deeper bass notes lacked impact and definition. In addition, the earphones had a very slight vibration on deep, low notes that was mildly uncomfortable. Sigrid’s voice had a slightly harsh tone that was more pronounced at louder listening levels.
To cool down, I listened to “The Rains” by Henry Jamison which has a gorgeous tight kick drum sound. Again, there was a slight “tickle” from the earphones on the impacts. Jamison’s voice had a slightly veiled sound, lacking upper high-end sparkle. Back home, I connected the earphones to my laptop to watch some YouTube videos. I noticed a very slight lag in the audio sync, but it wasn’t significant. In general, they weren’t as transparent and natural as some other headphones, and lacked an accurate deep bass. However, all in all, they delivered acceptable sound for the price.
For an economical wireless earphone, the SoundLiberty 53 earphones were much better than I was expecting. They’re not nearly as good as some high-end earphones, but then again, I wouldn’t bring an expensive set of 'phones to the gym. For workouts or rainy commutes, the TaoTronics SoundLiberty 53 are more than adequate. It turns out that you get quite a lot for under fifty bucks.
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The World's Hypocritical Silence as China Imprisons its Ethnic Muslims En Masse
The entire world's ruling elites are silent because they're terrified that even mild murmurings might limit the blood-soaked billions they want to reap from trade with China.
Imagine the reaction in the global Muslim community if a western nation imprisoned hundreds of thousands of Muslims solely for being Muslim and subjected them to torture, "re-education" that amounts to treating their religious faith as a pathological mental illness, forcefully separating parents and children, incarcerating the children in state-run orphanages, and on and on in a ruthlessly efficient Nazi-like systemic oppression.
The Muslim "street" would erupt in mass protests, burning flags and calling for the downfall of The Great Satan, and the Muslim nations would cancel energy and trade contracts and lodge diplomatic protests.
But the global Muslim community, and indeed, the entire global community, is strangely silent as China pursues a high-tech suppression of its ethnic Muslims. This silence might be the one thing Tehran, Moscow and Washington have in common: a complete and utter disregard for China's Muslim-only gulags.
While America's ruling elite greedily rubs its hands over the wealth that will flow from a "trade deal" with China, where is America's vaunted concern with human rights? Nowhere to be found. Where are the canceled energy and trade contracts between China and Iran, Turkey, Pakistan, Egypt, Indonesia, Malaysia, Iraq, Syria, Saudi Arabia, the Persian Gulf States and other Muslim-majority nations?
The entire world's ruling elites are silent because they're terrified that even mild murmurings might limit the blood-soaked billions they want to reap from trade with China. That is the source of the world's hypocritical silence about China's Muslim-only gulags: the endless, insatiable, boundless greed of the ruling elites.
There's a funny little thing called karma, or blowback if you prefer a secular label, and both China and its vast host of global ruling-elite enablers will eventually reap what they are sowing.
China employs vast armies of propagandists in the West whose favorite word is "debunked." You can easily identify a Beijing-propaganda proxy by their use of "debunk" to counter any criticism of China's Muslim-only gulags.
Meanwhile, the alarming reality has been covered in depth by what little remains of the global free press. If you look at only one article, start with this photo-essay: How China Turned a City into a Prison (New York Times)
Satellite Shows Sprawling 'Re-education Camps' For Chinese Muslims In Xinjiang Region(Zero Hedge)
China’s Uighur Camps Swell as Beijing Widens the Dragnet (WSJ.com)
Satellite images show expansion of ‘re-education’ centers in China’s Xinjiang region China has sharply expanded an internment program that initially targeted ethnic Uighur extremists but is now confining vast numbers of the largely Muslim minority group, including the secular, old and infirm, in camps across the country’s northwest.
Up to one million people, or about 7% of the Muslim population in China’s Xinjiang region, have now been incarcerated in an expanding network of 'political re-education' camps, according to U.S. officials and United Nations experts.
Tracking China’s Muslim Gulag (Reuters)
China’s Detention Camps for Muslims Turn to Forced Labor (NYT.com)
Internet Sleuths Are Hunting for China’s Secret Internment Camps for Muslims(TheAtlantic.com)
China Is Treating Islam Like a Mental Illness The country is putting Muslims in internment camps—and causing real psychological damage in the process.(TheAtlantic.com)
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CRPD committee
UN projects
Our submissions
"Right to serve in the Army"
(contribution to OHCHR study on 'work and employment of persons with disabilities', HRC 22nd session, March 2013)
Shadow report on Paraguay
(contribution to CRPD 8th & 9th sessions, 17-28 Sept 2012; 15-19 April 2013)
Supplementary shadow report on Paraguay
(contribution to the CRPD 9th session, 15-19 April 2013)
UN treaty body reform
(contribution to a consultation with NGOs, Intergovernmental process on the strengthening of human rights treaty bodies, letter of 9 August 2012)
Shadow report on Australia
Our submission for the CRPD Day of General Discussion on "Women and Girls with Disability", (17 April 2013)
Shadow report on El Salvador
Shadow report on Austria
(contribution to the CRPD 10th session, 2-13 September 2013)
Shadow report on Azerbaijan
Shadow report on Costa Rica
Shadow report on Sweden
(contribution to the CRPD 11th session, 31 March -11 April 2014)
Shadow report on Mexico
(contribution to the CRPD 12th session 15 September -3 October 2014)
Shadow report on Mongolia
(contribution to the CRPD 12th session and pre-session working group 7-10 October 2014)
Shadow report on Cook Islands
Shadow report on Turkmenistan
Shadow report on Brazil
(contribution to the CRPD 13th session and pre-session working group 20-24 April 2015)
Shadow report on Gabon
Shadow report on Mauritius
Shadow report on Portugal
(contribution to the CRPD 14th session and pre-session working group 17 August - 11 September 2015)
Shadow report on Serbia
Shadow report on Thailand
1. POLICY STATEMENTS
UNSG Message on International Day of Persons with Disabilities (3 December 2019)
Message on the International Day of Persons with Disabilities - UNSG (3 December 2018)
Everyone has a 'moral imperative' to uphold the rights of persons with disabilities, says UN Secretary General at 11th session of the Conference of States Parties (12 June 2018)
Secretary-General, in World Autism Day Awareness Message, Calls for Speaking Out against Discrimination, Ensuring Gender Equality Reaches All Women, Girls (2 April 2018)
Secretary General Urges to Remove All Physical, Cultural Barriers to Persons with Disabilities in Message for International Observance (1 December 2017)
Secretary General says Equal Opportunity for Self-determination Would Empower Persons with Autism to Make Stronger Positive Impact in World Observance Message (30 March 2017)
Secretary-General Calls for Inclusive World Embracing All Humanity's Diversity, in Message on International Day of Persons with Disabilities (1 December 2016)
"We Can Move World Forward by Leaving No One Behind", says UN Secretary-General in Message for International Day of Persons with Disabilities (25 November 2015)
"Dignity Integral to Healthy, Fulfilling Lives for Persons with Mental Disabilities", says UN Secretary-General in World Mental Health Day Message (8 October 2015)
"Disabilities are Part of Human Diversity", says UN Secretary-General in Message to World Federation of Deaf (28 July 2015)
"Employ Enormous Potential of People with Autism" , urges UN Secretary-General in Message for the World Awareness Day (30 March 2015)
"Sport for All" lauds UN Secretary-General in Video Message to Deaflympics (28 March 2015)
"The new sustainable development goals must address equality and help build a life of dignity for all, including persons with disabilities" says UN SG in Message for the World Down Syndrome Day (20 March 2015)
"Inclusive Technology Can Aid Persons with Disabilities in Reaching Their Potential", says UN Secretary-General in Message for the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (28 November 2014)
"Inclusion Critical for Equal Participation and Contribution of Persons with Disabilities" says UN Secretary-General in Message to Asia-Pacific Countries on Initiative for Persons with Disabilities(10 November 2014)
"Disability is Part of the Human Condition" says UN Secretary-General at UN General Assembly High Level Meeting on Disability and Development (23 September 2013)
"We Need to Bridge Gap Between Well-Meaning Commitments and Long Overdue Actions" says UN Secretary-General in Message for the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (27 November 2012)
"More Work Needed to Build Inclusive, Accessible Societies" says UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (New York, 19 November 2012)
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the proclamation of the third Asian and Pacific Decade of Persons with Disabilities 2013-2022: "Empowering Persons with Disabilities Strengthens Human Solidarity for Everyone" (South Korea, 30 October 2012)
2. RATIFICATIONS
Sao Tome and Principe accedes the CRPD Convention (November 2015)
Bahamas and DRC ratify/accede the CRPD Convention (September 2015)
Gambia accedes the CRPD Convention (July 2015)
Madagascar and Trinidad and Tobago ratify the CRPD Convention (June 2015)
Kazakhstan ratifies the CRPD Convention (April 2015)
Marshall Islands accede the CRPD Convention (March 2015)
Viet Nam ratifies the CRPD Convention (February 2015)
Congo, Guinea-Bissau and Guyana ratify the CRPD Convention (September 2014)
Grenada ratifies the CRPD Convention (August 2014)
Angola and Burundi accede/ratify the CRPD Convention (May 2014)
Palestine and Switzerland accede the CRPD Convention (April 2014)
Andorra and Georgia ratify the CRPD Convention (March 2014)
Côte d'Ivoire and Japan ratify the CRPD Convention (January 2014)
Tuvalu accedes the CRPD Convention (December 2013)
Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Venezuela and Zimbabwe accede/ratify the CRPD Convention (September 2013)
Kuwait accedes the CRPD Convention (August 2013)
Singapore ratifies the CRPD Convention (July 2013)
Norway and Palau ratify the CRPD Convention (June 2013)
Iraq ratifies the CRPD Convention (March 2013)
Albania and Barbados ratify the CRPD Convention (February 2013)
Cambodia ratifies the CRPD Convention (December 2012)
Dominica and Malta ratify the CRPD Convention (October 2012)
Israel, Poland and Russia ratify the CRPD Convention (September 2012)
3. CRPD AFFAIRS
CRPD States Parties Reporting Status Update (January 2017)
CRPD States Parties Reporting Status Update (April 2015)
CRPD adopts General Comment 1 (on Art 12) and General Comment 2 (on Art 9),Guidelines on Article 14 (liberty and security of persons with disabilities) and Guidelines on interaction with DPO/NGOs. The CRPD also adopts new views on individual petitions (October 2014)
CRPD Committee concludes its 9th session and schedules a meeting with States parties for September 2013 (19 April 2013)
CRPD Committee concludes its 8th session, and schedules day of general discussions on 'women and girls with disabilities' (28 September 2012)
New 9 Members elected to the CRPD Committee (CSP, 10-12 June 2014)
4. CRPD CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS
CRPD adopts Concluding Observations on the initial reports of
Haiti (February 2018)
Nepal (February 2018)
Oman (February 2018)
Russian Federation (February 2018)
Seychelles (February 2018)
Slovenia (February 2018)
Sudan (February 2018)
Latvia (September 2017)
Luxembourg (September 2017)
Montenegro (September 2017)
Morocco (September 2017)
Panama (September 2017)
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (September 2017)
Armenia (April 2017)
Bosnia and Herzegovina (April 2017)
Canada (April 2017)
Cyprus (April 2017)
Honduras (April 2017)
Iran (Islamic Republic of) (April 2017)
Jordan (April 2017)
Republic of Moldova (April 2017)
Bolivia (September 2016)
Colombia (September 2016)
Ethiopia (September 2016)
Guatemala (September 2016)
Italy (September 2016)
United Arab Emirates (September 2016)
Uruguay (September 2016)
Chile (April 2016)
Lithuania (April 2016)
Portugal (April 2016)
Serbia (April 2016)
Slovakia (April 2016)
Thailand (April 2016)
Uganda (April 2016)
Brazil (August 2015)
European Union (August 2015)
Gabon (August 2015)
Kenya (August 2015)
Mauritius (August 2015)
Qatar (August 2015)
Ukraine (August 2015)
Cook Islands (April 2015)
Croatia (April 2015)
Czech Republic (April 2015)
Dominican Republic(April 2015)
Germany (April 2015)
Mongolia (April 2015)
Turkmenistan (April 2015)
Belgium (September 2014)
Denmark (September 2014)
Ecuador (September 2014)
Mexico (September 2014)
New Zealand (September 2014)
South Korea (September 2014)
Azerbaijan (April 2014
Costa Rica (April 2014)
Sweden (April 2014)
Australia (September 2013)
Austria (September 2013)
El Salvador (September 2013)
Paraguay (April 2013)
Argentina (September 2012)
China (September 2012)
Hungary (September 2012)
Peru (April 2012)
Spain (September 2011)
Tunisia (April 2011)
5. CRPD LIST OF ISSUES
CRPD adopts the List of Issues on Nepal, Oman, Russian Federation, Seychelles, Slovenia,
Sudan and schedules the constructive dialogue with these States for the upcoming 19th session (14 February - 9 March 2018)
CRPD schedules adoption of List of Issues on Algeria, Cuba,
Malta, Philippines, , Poland, South Africa, and The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia for the meeting of the pre-sessional working group and upcoming 19th session (14 February - 16 March 2018)
CRPD adopts the List of Issues on Chile, Lithuania, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Thailand, and Uganda, and schedules the constructive dialogue with these States for the upcoming 15th session (29 March 2016 - 21 April 2016)
CRPD schedules adoption of List of Issues on Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Colombia, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Italy, Republic of Moldova, United Arab Emirates, and Uruguay for the meeting of the pre-sessional working group and upcoming 15th session (21 March 2016 - 21 April 2016)
6. OTHER TREATY BODIES
The Committee against Torture shares the CRPD concerns at possible practices of ill-treatment against persons with disabilities in Peru (November 2012)
7. UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW
UPR of Peru insists on the implementation gaps found by the CRPD Committee (November 2012)
UPR of Argentina insists on the implementation gaps found by the CRPD Committee (October 2012)
UN Special Rapporteur Rashida Manjoo: Report to the UN General Assembly on violence against women with disabilities (October 2012)
OHCHR study on violence against women and girls, and disability (HRC, 20th session, June 2012)
Millennium Development Goals: a disability-inclusive development agenda towards 2015 and beyond (Report of the UN Secretary-General to the 67th session of the UN General Assembly, October 2012)
A World Report on Disability published by the World Health Organization in 2011 indicates now that an estimated more than one billion people, or 15% of the world population, live with some form of disabilities around the world!
With the adoption of the UN International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD Convention), persons with disabilities worldwide have an instrument that allows them to no longer just aspire to charity and condescendence, but to full inclusion in their respective societies.
The CRPD Convention and its Optional Protocol were adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 13 December 2006 and entered into force on 3 May 2008.
The CRPD Convention establishes monitoring mechanisms both at the international and national levels. At the international level the central monitoring mechanism is the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD Committee). At the national level the CRPD Convention encourages States to establish a number of institutions in order to facilitate implementation and monitoring. A closer work with civil society organizations including national organizations of persons with disabilities is encouraged.
States parties are obliged under the terms of the CRPD Convention to respect, to protect and ensure the equal enjoyment of all human rights by persons with disabilities on equal footing with other citizens. However, ensuring the promotion, protection and implementation of the rights of persons with disabilities is not an easy task and will not be achieved without the contribution and collective efforts of civil society organizations both nationally and internationally based.
It is in this connection that DISABILITY COUNCIL INTERNATIONAL (DisabCouncil) is positioned as an innovative non-profit organization working to promote the full realization of the rights of persons with disabilities. Far too often disability is viewed as a health or charity issue. Disability Council International believes that persons with disabilities should be seen as an asset for the future of their countries rather than a burden to avoid. It is not so much a question of curing the impairments of persons with disabilities as it is a question of removing society made barriers (stereotypes, inaccessible environment, lack of reasonable accommodation) preventing the full and productive inclusion of persons with disabilities in absolutely all areas and forms of society life. It is a matter of putting ability and human dignity first.
In this regard, Disability Council International is an international NGO, universal in membership (it is open to persons with all forms of disabilities, but it appeals equally to persons without disabilities, who are invited to work, as active partners, for the promotion of the equal human rights of persons with disabilities). Disability Council International is also universal in its territorial ambit (its activities extend to all countries of the world).
Disability Council International is based in Geneva and works to encourage the universal ratification and implementation of the CRPD Convention through advocacy and capacity building programs of support to States and to the UN monitoring body (the CRPD Committee), the UN Offices and Agencies dealing with disability issues, civil society organizations, and national human rights institutions. It also develops projects directly benefiting concrete individual persons with disabilities and communities of those persons in all countries of the world.
Disability Council International also contributes to the implementation of the Convention by disseminating best practices in the realization of the human rights of persons with disabilities and fostering international cooperation in the exchange of technical innovations.
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CRPD Jurisprudence
A. Case Ms H.M. vs. Sweden (April 2012)
The CRPD Committee reviews its first individual petition and finds Sweden in violation of its treaty obligations for denying reasonable accommodation to a person with disabilities (Case of Ms H.M. vs. Sweden, April 2012)
1. Case no. 3/2011 (H.M. vs. Sweden) (Views were adopted in April 2012 during the 7th session of the Committee) is the first one ever decided by the CRPD on the basis of its competence under the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
I. The facts of the case
2. The case reports to events that happened back in 2009/2010, more precisely between December 2009 and August 2010.During this period, Ms H.M., a Swedish national resident in the city of Örebro (Sweden) and a person suffering from multiple forms of disability, including the so-called Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, tried unsuccessfully to secure permission from local municipal authorities for the building of an indoor hydrotherapy pool in her own plot of land, as recommended by her treating doctors. Orebro municipal authorities rejected her request for permission to build the indoor hydrotherapy pool, relying on local Swedish land use regulations that prohibited such buildings in that parcel of land. The petitioner went through the chain of administrative courts up to the Supreme Administrative Court of Sweden, which refused her appeal.
3. Having exhausted all possible local remedies, on 6 December 2010, Ms H.M. applied to the CRPD Committee seeking a redress of her situation under the CRPD Optional Protocol. In her claim to the Committee, H.M. essentially raised two issues: first that she considered that by failing to take account of her specific needs and her equal right to rehabilitation and improved health, Sweden has discriminated against her; and second, since without the hydrotherapy pool she would be left with the only option of joining an institution, her right to an independent life in the community would also be violated. The petitioner relied on a number of the substantive provisions of the Convention, in particular articles 5 (non- discrimination), 19 (life in the community), 25 (health) and 26 (rehabilitation).
II. The Committee’s position and reasoning
4. The Committee essentially agreed with the petitioner and found Sweden in violation of its obligations under the mentioned relevant articles (Sweden’s obligation to ensure the realization of the right of the petitioner not to be discriminated against, and her equal right to independent life in the community). The Committee recommended Sweden to consider authorizing the petitioner’s request for a building permit, and ensure that such violations are prevented in future including by ensuring that the interpretation of its legislation does not have the effect of nullifying the exercise of the rights of persons with disabilities on equal basis with others.
5. In coming to its conclusion, the Committee considered the following arguments:
There is discrimination contrary to relevant provisions of the Convention (arts 4, 5) when laws are applied in a neutral manner without taking into consideration the particular circumstances of the individuals to whom they are applied; accordingly the right not to be discriminated against is violated if a State, without objective and reasonable justification, treats equally, persons in different situations;
Making necessary and appropriate modification and adjustments not imposing a disproportionate or undue burden, where needed in a particular situation is a requirement under the Conventional principle of reasonable accommodation, and denying such accommodation is considered a form of discrimination in the Convention (arts 2, 5). The Committee noted that the State never argued that providing the petitioner with such accommodation (departing from the official policy) would occasion a disproportionate or undue burden on the State;
The Convention (arts 25, 26) also requires States parties to undertake measures to ensure access for persons with disabilities to health services that are gender-sensitive, including health-related rehabilitation to allow such persons to attain maximum independence and full inclusion in all aspects of life. The Committee also noted that the Convention requires such rehabilitation programs and services to be based on the multidisciplinary assessment of individual needs and strengths;
The Committee concluded that denying the building permission due to purported general public interests protected by the said law of Sweden, was a disproportionate and discriminatory measure adversely affecting the petitioner’s right to the healthcare and rehabilitation required for her specific health condition;
The Committee further concluded that by denying the building permission and leaving the petitioner with no other alternative but joining an institution, Sweden was also violating the petitioner’s right to life and inclusion in the community, which could only be supported with the indoor hydrotherapy pool. The Committee reminded that under the terms of the Convention (art 19), Sweden was obliged to provide persons with disabilities with a range of community-based supporting services and programs in order to prevent their isolation or segregation from the community.
6.The Committee requested Sweden to report back within 6 months on the measures undertaken to implement its Views and recommendations.
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B. Case Kenneth McAlpine vs. UK (September 2012)
The CRPD Committee was seized of its second individual petition and declined to review it for lack of jurisdiction ratione temporis(Case of Kenneth McAlpine vs. UK, September 2012)
1. Case no. 6/2011 (Kenneth McAlpine vs. UK) (Decision adopted in September 2012 during the 8thsession of the Committee). This is the second case on which the Committee took a decision on the basis of its competence under the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
2. The case relates to events that happened back in 2005/2010, more precisely between December 2005 and February 2010.During this period, Kenneth McAlpine a British national and a person with diabetes mellitus (type 1 diabetes) was an employee of a private company. In December 2005 after a discussion with his supervisor related to his unavailability for a meeting at work, the supervisor was informed for the first time that the employee was a person with disabilities. The discussion resulted in a reasonable accommodation of Mr. McAlpine, who saw his duties at work reduced as he wished. In January 2006, a reorganization in the petitioner’s company resulted, this time against his specific will, in further, more substantive reduction of his duties. In February 2006 the petitioner was put on a confidential provisional list for redundancy. In May of the same year he was publicly informed of that decision, with the explanation that the reorganization made his specific duties no longer needed in the company. The petitioner then tried on his own to find an alternative occupation in the same company, but was unsuccessful, until the dismissal took effect in July 2006.
3. In August 2006, the petitioner lodged a complaint with the UK’s Employment Tribunal Service alleging discrimination. He claimed that he was dismissed because he had requested a reduction of his workload because of his disability. In support of his position he relied in particular on an exchange of messages available in the files of the Tribunal where his immediate supervisor had indeed proposed him for redundancy on account of his disability. However, the Tribunal noted that the exchange of messages happened after the petitioner had been included in the redundancy list by the direction of the company, of which the supervisor was allegedly unaware, and dismissed his complaint in August 2007.
4. In October of the same year the petitioner appealed the decision to the UK’s Employment Appeals Tribunal. In December 2007 the Appeals Tribunal dismissed the appeal alleging lack of “reasonable grounds” for a valid appeal.
5. The petitioner filed another application for leave to appeal these decisions to the highest Court of Session in the UK. In February 2010 the Court of Session (last available local remedy) also refused his application alleging the same lack of reasonable grounds for the appeal (matters of facts were within the purview of the lower Employment Tribunal, and the Court found “no errors of law” in the qualification of the facts by the lower courts).
6. In May 2011, having thus exhausted all the local remedies, the petitioner applied to the Committee. In his application, the petitioner raised issues of violation of his rights granted by the Convention, among others under the following articles: 4 (denial of reasonable accommodation), 5 (non-discrimination), and 27 (non-discrimination in employment).
7. The UK asked the Committee to declare the case inadmissible on the following ground, among others: lack of jurisdiction ratione temporis (alleging that the facts happened in 2006, whereas the State party ratified the Convention and the Protocol only in 2009).
8. The Committee essentially agreed with the UK and found that it lacked jurisdiction ratione temporis to entertain the case on its merits.
On the key matter of ‘date of the alleged violation’ by the UK (before or after its ratification of the Convention in 2009), the petitioner asked the Committee to consider this date as 2010, when the highest Court of Session’s decision was taken, but the Committee found that the 2010 highest Court of Session’s decision “by its very nature, did not in itself constitute an act that reiterated the content of the judgments of the lower courts in their rulings on the question of discrimination raised by the author, and that, consequently, the decision did not violate the author’s rights under the Convention.” (para. 6.5).
Therefore the Committee appears to have considered the UK’s Appeal Tribunal’s decision of December 2007 as the critical date of the alleged violation by an organ of the State, as it concluded in agreement with the UK that “the alleged violations took place before the entry into force for the State party of the Convention and Optional Protocol” in 2009 (para. 6.5).
23rd session of the CRPD Committee (09 March - 27 March 2020)
A. Dialogue with Governments and Adoption of Concluding Observations
I. Bangladesh
SP report
Contributions from civil society
DPOs
Global Initiative to end corporal Punishment
Leprosy Mission et al Bangladesh
II. Djibouti
World Policy Analysis Center
III. Estonia
Reply to the List of Issues
Contributions from stakeholders
NHRIs
Estonian Chamber of DP
IV. Hungary
LoIPR
SP report under the LoIPR 1, 2
Child Rights NGO coalition
EFOESZ
DPOs and CSOs
MDAC
HAPID
V. Lao People's Democratic Republic
ILEP
VI. Venezuela
Reply to the List of Issues 1, 2, 3, 4. 5
CONSORVEN
Meeting of the CRPD Pre-Sessional Working Group
(27 March - 03 April 2020)
B. Adoption of Lists of Issues
VII. Angola
List of Issues (**)
VIII. China
IX. China (Hong Kong)
X. China (Macau)
XI. Georgia
XII. Indonesia
XIII. Malawi
SP report 1, 2
XIV. Mauritania
C. Adoption of Lists of Issues Prior to Reporting
XV. Croatia
LoIPR (**)
SP report under LoIPR
(**) to be adopted at the pre-session
More information can be found on CRPD website by clicking here
Our capacity building tools
NGOs Guide for Shadow Reporting
Essential readings
UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, adopted 13 December 2006 by the UN General Assembly
Optional Protocol to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, adopted 13 December 2006 by the UN General Assembly
Recent events and developments
22nd session of the CRPD Committee (26 Aug - 20 Sep 2019)
Albanian Blind Association
Caritas Albania
Network of Disability Organizations (Albania)
Albanian Disability Rights Foundation
All Means All
Australian DPOs
Autism Aspergers Advocacy Australia
IHRA
Victims of Psychiatrists
Fundación Sendas y Fundación Manos Mágicas
GHM
NCDP Greece
CSNR
Joint NGO submission by Srishti Madurai and NNID
United National CRPD Coalition-India
Women with Disabilities India Network
Iraqi Al-Amal Association and Al-Namaa Center for Human Rights
IADO
Rawasi
Myanmar National Human Rights Commission
B. Adoption of Lists of Issues Prior to Reporting
SP report**
List of Issues**
Canadian Civil Society Organizations'
Autistic United Canada
Ontario Network of Injured Workers’ Groups
Canada Community Organizations and Organizations of People with Disabilities
Canadian Human Rights Commission
Ukrainian National Assembly of People with Disabilities
OPD ”Fight for Right”
Coalition for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities
Lugansk Regional Public Youth Organization
Office of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights
*(To be adopted at the session)
(23 - 27 September 2019)
Adoption of Lists of Issues
VDPI
FDPO
DPOs in Slovakia
**(To be adopted at the pre-session)
Past Events and Developments
21st session of the CRPD Committee (11 March - 05 April 2019)
20th session of the CRPD Committee (27 August - 21 September 2018)
19th session of the CRPD Committee (14 February - 9 March 2018)
18th session of the CRPD Committee (14 August - 1 September 2017)
17th session of the CRPD Committee (20 March - 17 April 2017)
12th session of the CRPD Committee (15 September - 3 October 2014)
11th session of the CRPD Committee (31 March-11 April 2014)
10th session of the CRPD Committee
(2 -13 September 2013)
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Size units
Cluster size and slack
NTFS-specific features
Disk space visualization software
Automated disk cleanup software
Disk space usage in RAID
Host Protected Area (HPA)
Size units in data storage
In software, the kilobyte equals 1024 bytes, which is 2 to the power of 10. The megabyte (1024 KB) is then equal to 1,048,576 bytes, and the gigabyte is 1,073,741,824 bytes.
On the other hand, hardware vendors (specifically a hard drive vendors) use decimal scale, in which 1 gigabyte equals 1,000,000,000 bytes.
This amounts to about seven percent difference in a gigabyte capacity between what is written on the hard drive itself and what Windows tells you. The useable capacity is even less than that, because certain amount of space is reserved for a system's own purposes.
This accounts for certain limits having "unusual" values. For example, older computers may be unable to recognize drives larger than 137 GB. This is due to the software limit on a number of 512-byte sectors it can see on a drive. The actual limit, however, amounts to 128 "binary" gigabytes. Taking into account the above difference, we arrive at 137.4 "decimal" gigabytes as a limit value.
To clear the confusion, a special term was introduced, "kibi-" instead of "kilo-" to denote 1024 units. Similarly, "mebi-" is proposed for 220, and "gibi-" for 230, to be used instead of "mega-" and "giga-", respectively. However, these terms have no widespread use as of this writing.
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