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One night last month during the historic winter storm in Texas, Sharon Wilson was huddling in her sleeping bag inside her freezing home when her phone buzzed. A man was messaging her on Twitter from the small town of Wickett, in the sparsely populated part of west Texas that overlaps with the Permian Basin, home…
The Texas Freeze Set Off a Methane Bomb — Mother Jones
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Originally published by Indymedia NL.
Amsterdam. Netherlands. In honor of International Day Against Police Brutality we organized a spontaneous march along the Spuistraat. We blocked traffic, marching with two banners (“Bad cop – bad cop”, “From Amcterdam to London to Greece – Everyone Hates The Police”) and flares, while chanting slogans and handing out flyers.
There were around 25 people. We saw solidarity from Vrankrijk as they dropped 2 banners (“Police violence is not an accident”, “Fuck the police”) and saluted to us from the rooftop with flares. No one was arrested during the action.
Solidarity instead of Police Brutality! – From Amsterdam to London to Greece – Everyone Hates The Police
Police brutality is the unfortunate day-to-day reality for many people in the Netherlands. Daily instances of it are deportations, evictions and racial profiling. Another example is random ID checks that BIPoC (Black, Indigenous, People of Colour), homeless people, sex workers, Antifascists, Environmental activists, Queer people, disabled people and people with mental health issues are facing constantly and often end in blatant violence towards the subjects of these controls. Whilst the upper-class people that play by the rules of the repressive neoliberal game are surprised why we are angry and why we want to abolish the police.
In 2015 the whole world got witness to the murder of Mitch Henriquez, who was murdered by the racist cops of Den Haag. A few weeks ago the officers got away with just a six months suspended jail terms for assault, whilst the evidence for us, people in solidarity around the globe, and Mitch’s family was clear.: MITCH HENRIQUEZ – that was murder!
Last August, Amsterdam, the mentally ill influencer from Germany Sammy was intentionally shot to death after he had a mental breakdown and was running through Amsterdam with a knife. The situation appeared to be dangerous, however, the videos clearly indicate that with the amount of cops the extensive use of different guns was not needed and never will be. His parents state in German newspapers “The Amsterdam Police killed our Son”
Report backs from our comrades in homeless shelters and psychiatric clinics: The police is clearly never willing to try to solve a situation for the good of everyone involved. But rather, it turns out that the cops in the Netherlands are in fact violent pigs. Incredible use of force appear to be the most common practice when it comes to the problem-solving repertoire of the cops. The social workers, nurses, psychiatrists and volunteers report that they are more scared of calling the police, then solving dangerous situations on their own.
There is an incredible amount of reported and unreported cases throughout the Netherlands that we could discuss here, but it appears close to everyday on our social media channels, in our neighbourhoods and it becomes increasingly impossible to look away. George Floyd death was supposed to be a starting point, but the solidarity must go beyond this temporary rising up since nothing has changed, and it is not just a US problem!
In Luik, Belgium 4 police officers just violently assaulted a black woman last week leading to protests, which we stand in solidarity with, yes violence and looting are the language of the unheard! And of course not to forget this disgusting pig from London who murdered / commited femizid on Sarah Everard was a cop! The one violently preventing her vigil – were cops.
In the parliamentary and on the institutional level, criminality is often blamed on marginalized groups, gang criminality and political activists, however, for us its clear the biggest gang in town wears uniform. The criminals are the cops!
WE WANT JUSTICE FOR ALL VICTIMS OF POLICE BRUTALITY AND IMMEDIATE CHANGE!! – NO ONE IS FORGOTTEN!
We want the abolishment of the police and a development of alternative concepts for the cops and the justice system, including prisons.
We want social concepts and solutions that do not aim at punishing and imprisoning people to make social problems such as mental health and homelessness invisible. We need social solutions for social problems.
We want you to not look away and get involved if you are white (by filming, intervening and reporting for instance), get active in the fight against Police Brutality, fascism and racism! We will fight back!
JUSTICE FOR ALL VICTIMS OF POLICE BRUTALITY EVERYWHERE – ABOLISH THE POLICE – FOR A BETTER FUTURE FOR EVERYONE
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..If the research outlined below is proven publicly and accepted as correct at least the mRNA vaccines, Pfizer and Moderna, will have to be withdrawn. On the other hand urgent ongoing studies and the WHO conclude that vaccines may reduce transmission. Manufacturers already have a guarantee that they CANNOT BE SUED for damages, at least in the USA .
In an open letter to the WHO and in a follow-up video interview, Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche, says that by vaccinating everyone with a vaccine that doesn’t prevent transmission, we are destroying people’s immune systems, and setting the stage for a global health disaster.
Geert Vanden Bossche, DMV, Ph.D., has nothing against vaccines. In fact, the independent virologist formerly worked for Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Hace 3 años asesinaron a la compañera Marielle Franco, luchadora por los derechos humanos, de las mujeres y de les habitantes de las favelas, concejala de la ciudad de Río de Janeiro, feminista, negra, lesbiana y quien nunca se calló frente a los poderosos. El 10 de marzo de 2018 denunció a la policía por los atropellos y la violencia institucional ejercida en la favela de Acari.
Imagen: Grabado de Roberto Cervio.
Esa misma policía que mata a nuestres pibxs en las villas de acá, y en todas partes. Cuatro días después, matan a Marielle, de manera cobarde, y a Anderson Pedro Gomes, quien manejaba el auto en que se encontraban. La familia de Jair Bolsonaro está implicada en el crimen, que con una bronca infinita debemos decir que sigue impune, que el poder judicial archivó el pedido de investigar al actual presidente y la causa sigue rodeada de sospechas…
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Posted on By Children’s Health Defense Team
..If the research outlined below is proven publicly and accepted as correct at least the mRNA vaccines, Pfizer and Moderna, would have to be withdrawn. On the other hand urgent ongoing studies and the WHO conclude that vaccines may reduce transmission. Manufacturers already have a guarantee that they CANNOT BE SUED for damages, at least in the USA .
In an open letter to the WHO and in a follow-up video interview, Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche, says that by vaccinating everyone with a vaccine that doesn’t prevent transmission, we are destroying people’s immune systems, and setting the stage for a global health disaster.
Geert Vanden Bossche, DMV, Ph.D., has nothing against vaccines. In fact, the independent virologist formerly worked for Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Bossche says the COVID vaccines approved so far have been developed by “just brilliant” people and he has no criticism of them But, as he tells Dr. Phillip McMillan in an interview, “please use the right vaccine at the right place. And don’t use it in the heat of a pandemic on millions of millions of people.”
Bossche says that a mass vaccination campaign in the middle of a pandemic, with vaccines that don’t prevent transmission, is disastrous at an individual — and at a global — level:
“We are going to pay a huge price for this. And I’m becoming emotional because I’m thinking of my children, of the younger generation. I mean, it’s just impossible what we are doing. We don’t understand the pandemic.”
In the open letter to the World Health Organization (WHO), Bossche wrote that “we are currently turning vaccinees into asymptomatic carriers shedding infectious variants.”
Bossche hasn’t heard back from WHO, which concerns him.
Watch the video:
01/15/21.. The World Health Organization (WHO) warned there is no guarantee that COVID-19 vaccines will prevent people from being infected with the SARS-VCoV-2 virus and transmitting it to other people. Vaccines don’t necessarily prevent transmission
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Pam Vernon From unz.com via Mark Crispin Miller
Isn’t Israel the most vaccinated country in the world?
It is.
Haven’t half of all Israelis already been vaccinated?
Yes, they have.
Haven’t 90% of all Israelis over 60 (the age-group most likely to die from Covid) already been vaccinated?
On this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we speak with participants in autonomous groups across Texas, including Cooperation Denton, Stop the Sweeps in Austin, Mutual Aid Houston, Houston Tenants Union, and North Texas Rural Resilience.
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The first in a two part series, this episode discusses the devastating storms which rocked Texas and the Southwest and the context that the “big freeze” happened within: from anti-Black police violence and attacks on the homeless community, to widespread neoliberal policies that left infrastructure and housing stock dilapidated and on the verge of collapse.
by The Oil Crash shared with thanks. Translation thefreeonline. illustrations added
Desperate to keep the Capitalist machine churning out ‘toxic growth’ the EU resorts to dropping BILLIONS in Helicopter Money. But won’t that cause hyper inflation? THAT’S THE BIG IDEA. With inflation our meagre wages will disappear, their mega debts shrink, and what we have left we might as well SPEND.. ___________________________
Dear readers:
As you may have noticed, I had not published any post for three weeks. The reason is the same as always: a lot of workload – aggravated by the difficulties of the new “CoVid reality” – and therefore less free time, among other things to write on this blog. However, this time this work overload has risen an additional step, and that step has a name: NextGenerationEU.
In case you do not know, I will tell you that NextGenerationEU is a huge economic stimulus package (three-quarters of a trillion euros) that the European Union has allocated to stimulate the economic recovery of the member countries.
Most of this package is made up of the so-called Recovery and Resilience Fund (!), Which has very specific objectives, among which the fight against Climate Change (a minimum of 37% of the funds) and the digital transformation (at least 20%).
The Free 