#state
1of2: The Primer
#Kissinger #war #criminal #statesman #secretary of #state #presidential #advisor #junta #coup #plotter #Argentina #Timor #Cambodia #Vietnam #Chile #Bangladesh #Nixon #Watergate #Ford #Obama #Clinton #president #communist #socialist #elections #capitalism #kills
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/11/henry-kissinger-dead-at-100/
Carina Schmitt & Amanda Shriwise identify the consequences of WWI for social reform in French & British African colonies & argue for more research on social policy trajectories in the Global South. Open access in Social Science History!
https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2023.14
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @africanstudies @devecon #history #histodons #war #Africa #state #SocialPolicy #France #Britain #colonialism
Today = 2nd ๐ of ฮฮญฯฮฝ #ฮคฮฟฮปฯฯฯฮน: ฮ ฮดฮฟฯ ฮปฮตฮฏฮฑ ฯฮทฯ ฮตฯฮฟฯฮฎฯ ฮผฮฑฯ: ฯฮฟ #ฮบฯฮฌฯฮฟฯ, which includes Greek translation of my #AnarchistStudies titled "Leo #Tolstoy on the #State: A Detailed Picture of Tolstoy's Denunciation of State #Violence & #Deception"
#Lawsuit #seeks to #block #Iowa #law that #bans #books with #sexacts, #restricts #LGBTQ #topics in #schools.
โThe #FirstAmendment does not allow our #state or our #schools to #remove #books or issue blanket #bans on #discussion and #material simply because a #group of #politicians or #parents find them #offensive,โ said #ThomasStory, an #attorney with the #ACLUofIowa.
#Iowa #LGBTQ #students file #lawsuit over new #state #law.
The #ACLU of Iowa joined two #lawfirms in filing a #lawsuit challenging #Iowa #SF496, which #prohibits the #instruction of #genderidentity and #sexualorientation through sixth grade, #prohibits #books with #descriptions of #sex #acts and #requires #parentalnotification when a K-12 student wants to be referred to by a different #pronoun or #name in school.
#Families #sue to block #Iowa #law #banningbooks, #genderidentity #discussions.
The #state #law "seeks to #silence #LGBTQ+ #students, #erase any #recognition of #LGBTQ+ #people from #publicschools, and #bansbooks with #sexual or #LGBTQ+ #content.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Iowa #Education #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Censorship #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.axios.com/2023/11/29/iowa-lawsuit-books-bans-lgbtq-schools
#Monarch #HighSchool #students are #upset that #principal was #reassigned amid #trans #athlete #investigation.
#JacquelineQuynh reports the #investigation began after a #complaint was made to the #state about a #trans #student playing on the #girls' #volleyball #team.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Florida #Education #Sports #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
#Scandal-Ridden #Arkansas #Governor #SarahHuckabeeSanders in an attempt to distract the public from her #corruption appoints #antiLGBTQ+ #Fascist to oversee #state #libraries
#JasonRapert recently called #LGBTQ+ people a #cult and a "#devil of #Hell."
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Censorship #Religion #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews
#Antitrans #school #sues #state for #religiousdiscrimination after it #forfeited #basketball #game after refusing to play.
The #Christian #school says it has a #ReligiousRight to refuse to #play against #trans people.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Vermont #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews
#President #JoeBiden's #Administration to #Overhaul #Welfare Following #ProPublica #Reporting.
The #regulations intend to ensure that more #federal and #state #welfare #dollars make it to #lowincome #families, rather than being #spent on other things, or not spent at all.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Welfare #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Racism #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.propublica.org/article/tanf-welfare-biden-proposal-state-spending-low-income-families
Alaskans impacted by 2023 Wrangell Landslide eligible for Individual Assistance
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Destruction in the Zimovia Slide area. Image-State of Alaska
Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, ALASKA โ The Alaska Division of Homeland Security...
https://alaska-native-news.com/alaskans-impacted-by-2023-wrangell-landslide-eligible-for-individual-assistance/71106/
#zimovia #landslide #assistance #state #disaster
The #Florida #SurgeonGeneral โis a #charlatanโ: #UniversityofFlorida turns against #JoeLadapo.
#Colleagues say the #state #surgeongeneral rarely is on #campus and has โ#sulliedโ the #reputation of the #flagship #school.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Florida #Conservatives #Extremism #Hyprocricy #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/27/joe-ladapo-university-of-florida-00128541
#Worries over #secrecy grow as #Arkansas #Republicans shield #State #records from the #public.
Weeks after #lawmakers in #LittleRock passed #legislation shielding certain #staterecords from public #disclosure, #opponents launched efforts to #amend the #State #Constitution to protect #Public #Access to #government #documents.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Arkansas #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Corruption #RepublicanParty #ThePartyOfHate
Our #Classrooms Are Being #Censored by #Farright #Facists
Amid #electoral #rebukes for #MomsforLiberty, a #report from #PenAmerica shows a disturbing rise in #state #legislatures #imposing #restrictions on #LGBTQ+ #discussions in #schools, affecting #educators and #students
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Hategroups #Censorship #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.advocate.com/news/educational-gag-orders-surge-nationwide
Our popular #state #coinring is on #sale all week, but, today only you can couple that savings with $5 off $30 or more using coupon code CYBER5! Stock up now! https://berkshirebowls.etsy.com/listing/712374039 #CyberMonday #CyberMonday2023 #supportsmallbusiness #handmade #handmadegifts #christmas #etsy #california #californiadreaming #etsyhandmade #etsyhandmadejewelry #etsyseller #etsyshop #christmasgiftideas #quarterring #ring #rings
Day 27 "Dots". In the 27th Map ๐บ๏ธ of #30DayMapChallenge There are 175 world's #tripoints (where three countries meet), now you can see them in one single #map. Does your #country have it?
https://mapologies.com/tripoint/
#30daymapchallengequizz
#30MapChallenge #MapChallenge #mapologies #border #state #planet #global #star #dot #point
Welp. Donโt kill unarmed civilians and maybe that wonโt happen to you. Fact is though, #cops are doing hard time no matter where theyโre at. #county, #state and #feds are going to be tough on an ex cop. Even if theyโre not apart of a high profile case like this one.
From: @fromjason
https://mastodon.social/@fromjason@mastodon.social/111472030524161790
Over 60 #trans #people start #legal #case against #Hungary over #lack of #gender #recognition
As #Hungary continues its #crackdown on #LGBTQ+ #rights, 61 #trans #individuals filed #applications against the #state over #legal #GenderRecognition.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #EuropeanUnion #Hungary #Transitioning #ComingOut #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Transphobia #DefundHungary
NY State Eyes New Cyber Regs for Hospitals; $500M Price Tag โ Source: www.govinfosecurity.com https://ciso2ciso.com/ny-state-eyes-new-cyber-regs-for-hospitals-500m-price-tag-source-www-govinfosecurity-com/ #rssfeedpostgeneratorecho #govinfosecuritycom #CyberSecurityNews #cyber #state
NY State Eyes New Cyber Regs for Hospitals; $500M Price Tag โ Source: www.databreachtoday.com https://ciso2ciso.com/ny-state-eyes-new-cyber-regs-for-hospitals-500m-price-tag-source-www-databreachtoday-com/ #rssfeedpostgeneratorecho #CyberSecurityNews #DataBreachToday #DataBreachToday #cyber #state
Russian #state #propaganda spells out their plan to distract from #Ukraine ๐บ๐ฆ by promoting Hamas. This article argues that they had to do this to appease Iran, whose weapons they need to fight Ukraine
I've suspected this from the start, but didn't expect a Russian defense policy advisor to say it out loud.
#Hamas is #Putin's latest op. He's out to fuck Israel and Jewish people everywhere.
Putin should be aware that this is also a wedge issue in Russia. Does he really want to promote #Chechen Islamists right now, while the vultures are circling?
I won't link to a Russian #propaganda site, only because it's a learned skill to read through the BS. But this article was revealing. Putin is either working with Hamas or wants us to think so.
In my mind, this shows his weakness more than anything. He's dependent on #IRAN?
Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde, who heads a coalition government of Shiv Sena, BJP and NCP (Ajit Pawar faction), performed bhoomi pujan of Bharat Ratna Lata Mangeshkar Sangeet Vidyalaya in his home turf Thane
#StartCawing #NoisePollution #CMShinde #Dig #Besur #State
https://www.news18.com/india/crows-start-cawing-noise-pollution-has-increased-cm-shindes-dig-at-besur-state-of-politics-8668600.html
10/n to misdirect away. Everyone of us can grasp #Anxiety , #Depression , #fear , #Terror . It is not such a leap that people can't imagine how terrifying it must have been for this guy. People can try to imagine, if not fully, enough, to feel how #state persecution can lead to an ill person being railroaded towards taking their own life, and seeing that as...
6/n Once the applicant knows,understands and assumes the 'fact' that they are a 'drain on #Society a 'bad example' to set to your kids, and you are simply 'lazy' there is only one conclusion that can be drawn. Add to all of this the terror of dealing with the unaccountable #State that you will lose everything; your access to food, the place that you live...
How State Governments Can Regulate AI and Protect Privacy โ Source: www.govinfosecurity.com https://ciso2ciso.com/how-state-governments-can-regulate-ai-and-protect-privacy-source-www-govinfosecurity-com/ #rssfeedpostgeneratorecho #govinfosecuritycom #CyberSecurityNews #Governments #state
How State Governments Can Regulate AI and Protect Privacy โ Source: www.databreachtoday.com https://ciso2ciso.com/how-state-governments-can-regulate-ai-and-protect-privacy-source-www-databreachtoday-com/ #rssfeedpostgeneratorecho #CyberSecurityNews #DataBreachToday #DataBreachToday #Governments #state
#TransJusticeRally set for Nov. 15 at #USCapitol.
#Activists to demand #end to #state #bans on #trans #healthcare. โOur trans siblings deserve #freedom, #dignity, and #access to #Healthcare,โ
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #WashingtonDC #Activism #Representation #Culture
https://www.washingtonblade.com/2023/11/15/trans-justice-rally-set-for-nov-15-at-u-s-capitol/
This only confirms what many already realize: the #US is not a #healthy and functioning #democracy. ๐
"Whether or not one personally supports or opposes #cannabis #legalization, these overtly #undemocratic tactics ought to be a cause of deep concern. In a healthy and functioning democracy, elected officials represent the views of the electorate."
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4309084-republicans-love-state-voters-rights-until-they-choose-marijuana/
#Republicans love #state #votersโ #rights โ until they choose #marijuana
A quotation from Russell, Bertrand:
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In fact the state is primarily an organization for killing foreigners, thatโs its main purpose. There are, of course, other things they do. They do a certain amount of educating, but, in the course of educating you, try very hard to make the young think it is a grand thing to kill foreigners.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/russell-bertrand/64662/
#quote #quotes #quotation #foreigners #military #nationalism #state #war #xenophobia
Both @god and #FoundingFathers came and whispered in #MikeJohnson's ears that โ#Separation of #church and #state" really means that "they did not want the government to encroach upon the church, not that they didnโt want principles of faith to have influence on our public life. Itโs exactly the opposite.โ
via @uspolitics https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4308643-speaker-johnson-separation-of-church-state-a-misnomer/
#Pink to #HandOut #Thousands of #BannedBooks at #Florida #Concerts in #Partnership with #PENAmerica.
The #music #superstar takes on #bookbans in the #state that has the most of them.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #Music #Allies #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Censorship #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
#Democrats in #Virginia #nominates first #Black #speaker in the #State #House
Scott, a 58-year-old #defense #attorney of #Portsmouth, is set to become the first #Black #person to #lead the #House in the #state's #history.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Virginia #Politics #Progress #DemocraticParty #Allies #BlackMastodon
O their audacity!
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Jewish fascist regime Israel shared a shameless propaganda video few days back (nothing surprising there) by giving few bottles of water to about 10 Gazans that it has not yet blown to bits & then claiming it as a humanitarian act.
Someone on hellsite quote tweeted this image, which is quite appropriate response to Israeli propaganda.
But something else stuck in my head. Tho Ghassan might be speaking about Israel (I am not sure for a fact), I realised he was not speaking just about Israel.
He was speaking about Capitalists who gatekeep all our common resources (there by enslave us), protect this loot by paying the goons (State) & expect us to be thankful for the crumbs.
He was also speaking (atleast so far as I am concerned) about State. It steals our agency, steals our ability to self-defence, commits atrocities both within & outside the pen we call "nation border", picks fight with whoever it wants, drags us into fights that benefit ruling class, brutalises weakest in society such that they will be made to become desperate โ destroys their peace & everyone else's peace too, then claims it "protects" everyone from those it oppresses.
O their audacity!
I don't think extreme religions should be in political power. The leaders turn to cult worshipping.
The #maga movement in the #UnitedStates is an example of extreme #Christianity attempting to form a religious movement to battle all #islam in a great final battle at #jerusalem.
It's nonsense but ignorance is everywhere and the nation sponsors of terror fan the flames around the world.
UNLESS one day an exceptionally courageous #whistleblower comes out of the darkness of #State/#corporate/#institutional secrecy and exposes some unspeakable truths about the mysterious death of their beloved son, #MarioPaciolla
Loons, so many Loons
"nice to see someone leaning in to the core imagery of the loon as a red-eyed nightmare being by really focusing in on the eye part to the exclusion of the rest of the bird; I feel like this is the one Minnesotan who's going to be straight with me about the Horrors" โ taquito sunrise.
Minnesotans are submitting their new state flag and seal design ideas, and Mefites have opinions.
https://www.metafilter.com/201337/Heres-a-bunch-of-flags-to-look-at
The Key to #MikeJohnsonโs #Christian #Extremism Hangs Outside His Office.
The newly elected #House #Speaker has ties to the #farright
#NewApostolicReformation โ which is hell-bent on turning #America into a #Talibanesqe #religious #state
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Misogyny #Racism #Xenophobia #Homophobia #Transphobia #EmptyThePews #ThePartyOfHate
#Lawmaker Calls for #Commission to Study #State #Universitiesโ #History of #Uprooting #Black #Communities.
#Delegate #DeloresMcQuinn said a #taskforce could shed #light on the #impact of #college #expansion in #Virginia. Officials are also calling for #displaced #families to receive #redress, from #scholarships to #reparations.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Virginia #HigherEducation #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Racism #Homophobia #Transphobia #BlackMastodon
https://www.propublica.org/article/commission-black-families-displaced-virginia-universities
โShe quotes Aristide Zolbergโs observation that โformation of a new state can be a โrefugee-generating process.โโโ
https://c4ss.org/content/59175
#language #nation #zionism #ethnicity #indigenous #state #NationState
The 10 #most and #least #LGBTQ-#friendly #cities in the #US, according to a new #study.
โ#California is the most #LGBTQ-#friendly #state,โ the study said. โIn terms of policies, it has a near-perfect equality tally score of 43 out of 43.5, which is attractive to LGBTQ Americans looking to move to more-inclusive states.โ
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Representation #Culture #Travel #Tourism #PinkTourism
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/11/07/the-10-most-and-least-lgbtq-friendly-cities-in-the-us-according-to-a-new-study/
Failed republican lawmakers are suing #Michigan to block #state #constitutional amendment to #reproductive #rights, a ballot initiative approved by voters, arguing voters canโt create new rights. They fail to understand the basic concepts of democracy.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2023/11/08/Michigan-GOP-abortion-rights-suit/2071699472193/
#Virginiaโs #Election #Results #PushBack Hard Against #RepublicanParty's #AntiTrans #Agendas in #thesouth
This was the most #important #election for #LGBTQ #rights the #state had seen in a while.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Virginia #Politics #Progress #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
Here Are the #LGBTQ+ #Candidates Who #Won Their #Elections This Week.
This weekโs election saw #historic #wins at #state and #local levels. More than 200 LGBTQ+ people won elections this year, out of a record-breaking number of candidates across the nation.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Politics #Progress #Representation #Culture
https://www.them.us/story/lgbtq-candidates-who-won-their-elections-this-week
#MomsForLiberty And #AntiTrans #Republicans Suffer Massive #Election #Defeats #Nationwide
News from hotly contested #schooldistricts and #state #election #results poured in with one unifying theme: #candidates opposing #TransRights and #Running on a Moms For Liberty #platform #lost big.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/moms-for-liberty-and-anti-trans-republicans
@Teri_Kanefield They are lying. We know what they did, what they will do and how the federal courts will back their continued plans to choke #privacy, #healthcare and #civilliberties for #women and #girls. "The Supreme Court seems likely to preserve a gun law that protects domestic violence victims.." the wording of this says it all. How can #victims of #violence not have protection from further #gunviolence? because #GOP #Congress #state government exalts #guns #firearms #AR15 ...not #life
The #body language of the Israeli #war cabinet shows a clear #realization that their #state will not survive in its traditional/planned form.
This is the most delicate phase in armed #conflicts, where any slightest #misunderstanding can trigger a #disaster.
Heather Cox Richardson on one of our founding father's (James Madison) views of separation of church and state. Eat sh-t Mike Johnson
#churchandstate #separationofchurchandstate #church #state
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-1-2023?utm_campaign=email-post&r=1smcrn&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
During the tabling of its 2024 budget later this month, the #Johor government will be looking to promote the use of #publictransportation in the #state.
The state government had inserted โstrengthening connectivity through public transportationโ in its Johor #Budget 2024 agenda.
The Johor government wants to encourage the people to make full use of public transportation.
Read more: https://www.thestar.com.my/metro/metro-news/2023/11/01/allocation-sought-to-promote-public-transport
#RTSLink #BRT #LRT #bus #rail #train #metro #railway #publictransport
#November is nearly upon us and #holiday #shopping it just revving up. Order your thin #state #quarter #ring now and get it in plenty of time for #Christmas. https://berkshirebowls.etsy.com/listing/1206487489 #Michigan #rings #coin #coinring #coinrings #handmade #supportsmallbusiness #Christmasgifts #etsy
โThe root of the matter, the whole [defence] is based in the thought that trans and LGBTQ folks are less human than other victims, which is why itโs so important to ban the use of the [defences],โ she added.
โ Every single #Republican in the #State #House #voted against #banning #panic #defenses.. #ThePartyOfHate
#Michigan finally #bans #archaic โ#gaypanic' and #TransPanic #defences
The #ban was passed by the #stateโs #House on Thursday (19 October) in a 56-53 #vote along #partylines and will now move to the #state #Senate.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Michigan #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/24/michigan-gay-trans-panic-defence/
The #Nigeria #Security and #Civil #Defence #Corps #arrested 76 people for #alleged #involvement in a #samesexmarriage in #Gombe #State.
โThey were arrested for holding a #gay #birthday party and planned a #samesexwedding before our men #raided the scene. 59 males were arrested, 21 willfully confessed to being #homosexuals, and 17 #females, were picked upโ
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Africa #Nigeria #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia
https://www.ripplesnigeria.com/nscdc-arrests-76-for-same-sex-marriage-in-gombe/
#Arkansas #Gov. #SarahSanders #bans #genderneutral #terms from #state #documents, in an attempt to distract from #PodiumGate where she paid $19,000 for a $976 podium. Which was actually to pay for a #luxury #European #trip using #taxpayer #funds. She then attempted a #coverup.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Arkansas #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.axios.com/2023/10/19/sarah-huckabee-sanders-gender-neutral
The #eviction was not stopped. The vicious lackeys of #Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey displaced dozens of people with no permanent or better place to go, one week before the best chance for people to merely be COUNTED as #unhoused in #Minnesota AND the weather turns dangerously cold.
#MNastodon we need more attention to this recurring #state #violence
New in Social Science History!
Klaus Peterson, Carina Schmitt & Herbert Obinger argue that WWI & resulting turbulence directly account for the creation of independent welfare ministries, a key institution of the modern nation-state, in an analysis of 30+ countries.
https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2022.50
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @anthropology @geography @econhist @devecon #history #histodons #WWI #WelfareStates #war #SocialWelfare #State #NationState #institutions
#PredatorFiles investigation reveals catastrophic failure to regulate surveillance trade
"A new investigation into the global #surveillance crisis by the #European Investigative Collaborations (EIC) media network, with technical assistance from Amnesty Internationalโs Security Lab, today begins to reveal the shocking truth about how far the industryโs tentacles have spread and how ineffective #EU regulation has been in controlling it.
(...)
Intellexa allianceโs products have been found in at least 25 countries across Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa and have been used to undermine human rights, press freedom, and social movements across the globe."
https://securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2023/10/global-predator-files-investigation-reveals-catastrophic-failure-to-regulate-surveillance-trade/
#Capitalism #state #humanrights #antireport #Europe #Predator #Spyware #CapitalismIsADeadCult
#SC #Verdict On #SameSexMarriage #Sparks #Debate Around #MaritalRape.
The #SupremeCourt's #statement #emphasising the #State's #role in #domesticspace to #protect the #vulnerable #party #unprotected has once again sparked #debate around the #criminalisation of marital #rape.
https://www.shethepeople.tv/opinion/supreme-court-same-sex-marriages-marital-rape-1561006
"Terรกnโฆ refused to comply with the #lawful commands of the troopers to come out of a tent."
Really?
So then PROVE Terรกn shot first, motherfuckers!
PROVE IT, GODDAMMIT! ๐คฌ
oh, that's right...
YOU CAN'T because "there is no police #bodycam #video of the incident."
Goddamn terrorists. ๐คฌ
#StopCopCity #ACAB #ForestDefenders #SaveTheForest #TortuguitaDied #TeranDidntFireAGun
https://truthout.org/articles/georgia-prosecutor-refuses-to-charge-state-troopers-who-killed-tortuguita/
#Georgia #Prosecutor Refuses to Charge #State #Troopers Who #Killed #Tortuguita
US State Department advisory for Israel has been upgraded.
Do Not Travel To:
Gaza due to terrorism, civil unrest, and armed conflict
Reconsider Travel To:
Israel due to terrorism and civil unrest
West Bank due to terrorism and civil unrest
#Israel #WestBank #Gaza #travel #tourism #state #stategov
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/israel-west-bank-and-gaza-travel-advisory.html
The [USGSโs] 3D Elevation Program [3DEP]โSupporting Idahoโs Economy
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Big Brother makes his Games.....
In #France, the National Assembly approved on April 11 #mass surveillance in the course of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. #Paris2024
This paves the way for the French #state to use new digital surveillance and control technologies against people before, during, and long after the Games starting next year.
These include warrantless body scans and experimental, algorithm-based video surveillance, which will analyze the behavior of people in public on a massive scale and report what is defined as suspicious.
Since virtually every surveillance technology to date has been expanded and perpetuated beyond its originally stated purposes and functions after its introduction, this is to be expected in this case as well.
The authoritarian Macron regime and some of its possible successors (such as the right-wing radicals under Le Pen, who voted unanimously in favor of the law), along with the manufacturers and service providers of the technologies, are likely to be among the few beneficiaries of these developments, while everyone else can only lose in the digital dystopian panopticon that has been further erected.
#France #Technology #Data #Privacy #authoritariantransformation #surveillance #state #humanrights #Macron
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#Woman Lets Her #MiddleFinger Do The #Talking As #Republican #Official as he went off on an extended tangent against #trans #rights.
#Farright #Oklahoma #state #schoolsuperintendent #RyanWalters got a visit from a #bird in the middle of a #meeting.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ryan-walters-middle-finger_n_65165411e4b08e1d3e4d1606
Most #politically successful #assassination of a head of #state by a #massive #margin :antifa_100:
#QuincyJones, who once embarked on an #international #diplomatic tour w/ #jazz great #DizzyGillespie, received the US Department of Stateโs inaugural #PeaceThroughMusic Award.
A ceremony honoring the 28-time Grammy winning producer, musician & arranger was held Wed night as part of the launch of the #State Deptโs new #GlobalMusicDiplomacy Initiative.
As at least two #helicopters circles incessantly over North #Minneapolis may i raise my idea for better living through #economics โ noise pollution is a #cost imposed on an entire #community and we deserve #compensation for it.
If the #state insists on invasive #surveillance and #intimidation of poor neighborhoods, let it pay out some dollars to us.
A World of Slaves:
Most Americans havenโt seen whatโs coming.
Nancy MacLean notes that when the #Kochsโ control of the GOP kicked into high gear after the financial crisis of 2007-08, many were so stunned by the โshock-and-aweโ tactics of #shutting #down government, #destroying #labor unions, and #rolling #back #services that meet citizensโ basic necessities that few realized that many leading the charge had been trained in economics at Virginia institutions, especially George Mason University.
Wasnโt it just a new, particularly vicious wave of partisan politics?
It wasnโt.
MacLean convincingly illustrates that it was something far more disturbing.
MacLean is not the only scholar to sound the alarm that the country is experiencing a #hostile #takeover that is well on its way to radically, and perhaps permanently, altering the society.
Peter #Temin, former head of the MIT economics department, INET grantee, and author of "The Vanishing Middle Class", as well as economist Gordon #Lafer of the University of Oregon and author of "The One Percent Solution", have provided eye-opening analyses of where America is headed and why.
MacLean adds another dimension to this dystopian big picture, acquainting us with what has been overlooked in the capitalist right wingโs playbook.
She observes, for example, that many liberals have missed the point of strategies like #privatization.
Efforts to โreformโ #public #education and #Social #Security are not just about a preference for the private sector over the public sector, she argues. You can wrap your head around those, even if you donโt agree.
Instead, MacLean contends, the goal of these strategies is to radically alter power relations, #weakening pro-public forces and #enhancing the #lobbying #power and commitment of the corporations that take over public services and resources, thus advancing the plans to #dismantle #democracy and make way for a return to #oligarchy.
The majority will be held captive so that the wealthy can finally be free to do as they please, no matter how destructive.
MacLean argues that despite the rhetoric of Virginia school acolytes, shrinking big government is not really the point.
The #oligarchs require a government with tremendous new powers so that they can bypass the will of the people.
This, as MacLean points out, requires greatly #expanding #police #powers โto control the resultant popular anger.โ
The spreading use of pre-emption by GOP-controlled state legislatures to suppress local progressive victories such as living wage ordinances is another example of the rightโs #aggressive use of #state #power.
๐Could these right-wing capitalists allow private companies to fill #prisons with helpless citizensโor, more profitable still, right-less undocumented #immigrants? โ๏ธThey could, and have.
๐Might they engineer a #retirement #crisis by moving Americans to inadequate 401(k)s? โ๏ธDone.
๐Take away the rights of consumers and workers to bring grievances to court by making them sign #forced #arbitration agreements? โ๏ธCheck.
๐Gut #public #education to the point where ordinary people have such bleak prospects that they have no energy to fight back? โ๏ธGetting it done.
๐Would they even refuse children #clean #water? โ๏ธActually, yes.
MacLean notes that in #Flint, Michigan, Americans got a taste of what the emerging oligarchy will look like โ it tastes like #poisoned #water. There, the Koch-funded Mackinac Center pushed for legislation that would allow the governor to take control of communities facing emergency and put unelected managers in charge.
In Flint, one such manager switched the cityโs water supply to a polluted river, but the Mackinac Centerโs lobbyists ensured that the law was fortified by protections against lawsuits that poisoned inhabitants might bring. Tens of thousands of children were exposed to #lead, a substance known to cause serious health problems including brain damage.
Libertarian economist Tyler #Cowen has provided an economic #justification for this kind of #brutality, stating that where it is difficult to get clean water, private companies should take over and make people pay for it. โThis includes giving them the right to cut off people who donโtโor canโtโpay their bills,โ he explains.
To many this sounds grotesquely #inhumane, but it is a way of thinking that has deep roots in America.
In "Why I, Too, Am Not a Conservative" (2005), Buchanan considers the charge of #heartlessness made against the kind of classic liberal that he took himself to be.
MacLean interprets his discussion to mean that people who โfailed to foresee and save money for their future needsโ are to be treated, as Buchanan put it, โas #subordinate members of the species, akin toโฆ#animals who are dependent.โโ
Do you have your education, health care, and retirement personally funded against all possible exigencies?
Then that means #you.
@gcblasing the problem is that the #USA is not a nation-state in the sense of #federal #law ruling above #state laws...
The #FederalReserve, along with the #SupremeCourt and the entire #state and #federal #judicial #systems (including all #prosecutors), need full and immediate restructuring from their foundations, up, because they do not at all serve the #public interest, as most #citizens believe they are designed and meant to do (they never have been).
@amaditalks @aprilfollies @aburka @futurebird @zzzeek
So like in #Germany where the #Federal #Law is above #State #Laws!
What is Justice?
"A world without #police or #prisons doesnยดt mean a world where harm isnยดt confronted.
Our Conciption of justice shape who we are and who we believe the world should work.
Learn more about anarchist conceptions of justice in this Episode of A is for Anarchy."
Via @subMedia
https://sub.media/what-is-justice/
The #US state of #Georgia is the best current example of the death of even the idea of #democracy in this country as it prosecutes people in clear and open violation of the most basic of our supposed #CivilRights, #FreedomOfSpeech and association, as the #federal #government does literally nothing to stop the #state, tacitly granting its full approval.
The #5thCircuit panel also limited the govt institutions affected by its #ruling to the WH, the #SurgeonGeneralโs office, the #CDC & the #FBI. It removed restrictions #Doughty had imposed on the depts of #State, #DHS & #HHS & on agencies including the U.S. #Census Bureau, #NIAID, & #CISA. The #5thCircuit found that those agencies had NOT coerced the #SocialMedia companies to #moderate their sites.
#Fascist Florida #Governor #RonDeSantisโs Latest #Stunt:
Appoints #MomsforLiberty #Leader to #Florida #Ethics #Commission. A co-founder of a designated #antiGovernment and #antiLGBTQ #hategroup is now in charge of #policing #Florida #state #employees.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
"In effect, the law risks forcing individuals to divulge specific details of their #sexuality to the #state government to gain access to certain speech," Ezra added". #AgeVerification #internet https://www.npr.org/2023/09/01/1197380455/a-texas-law-requiring-age-verification-on-porn-sites-is-unconstitutional-judge-r
โDespite the dogged liberal assumption โ again, comยญing from [Adam] Smith's legacy โ that the existence of states and markets are somehow opposed, the historical record implies that exactly the opposite is the case. Stateless societies tend also to be without markets.โ
โ David Graeber, โDebt: The First 5000 Years.โ
localStorage as the engine of application #state, am I right?
or is it session cookies as the engine of application state?
query strings? location bar? browser?
Pakistan court suspends Imran Khan conviction | Al Jazeera Newsfeed
@marcelias โ#State #bar associations need to review how existing #rules failed to stop so many #lawyers from saying and doing so many things to undermine our #democracy. Rules need to make clear that undermining democracy, inside or outside of the courtroom, is prohibited. The federal rules of procedure must be revised to provide for swift, mandatory sanctions against lawyers who bring frivolous election-related claims.โ
Indeed. #SelfRegulatingProfession ๐
The madness continues.
Look at this party invitation.
The #violence from the #state is ceaseless.
Unless you show up and outnumber the #police two to one or better.
Here at the #WallOfForgottenNatives people stake out space on visible unused #land to demand suitable support and housing and the state preposterously claims all needs are met and threatens anyone who remains alive, visible, resisting erasure.
#Survey: #LGBTQ+ #Floridians want to #leave the fascist #RepublicanParty-Controlled #State.
A new community survey from the #HumanRightsCampaign #Foundation (#HRC) found that 80% of #transgender or #nonbinary #Floridians either want to #move away or have already made plans to do so.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Florida #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.axios.com/local/miami/2023/08/21/lgbtq-floridians-want-leave-human-rights-campaign
#NewJersey #Governor #PhilMurphy On #Middletown #Transgender #War: Let's Do Things #TheAmericanWay.
Gov. Murphy appeared on "#FacetheNation" Sunday, where he was asked why the #state #sued four #NJ #SchoolDistricts for their #antitrans #policies.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #NewJersey #Education #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
#Harm of #antiLGBTQ #laws includes #economic #pain for #communities, #communities
As #antiLGBTQ #laws spread across #Tennessee and the rest of the #country, many #LGBTQ #people and their #families are assessing whether they should #move to a #state with a more #LGBTQ-#friendly #politicalclimate
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Tennessee #NewMexico #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
Oakland #Privacy
Fighting Against the #Surveillance #State
"We fight against spy drones, facial recognition, tracking equipment, police body camera secrecy, anti-transparency laws and requirements for โbackdoorsโ to cellphones; we oppose โpre-crimeโ and โthought-crime,โ โ to list just a few invasions of our privacy by all levels of Government, and attempts to hide what government officials, employees and agencies are doing."
Via @indybay
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/07/15/18857333.php
Further knock on from the #state #electionresult in #karnataka .
A proposal to allow 12 hour work shifts for women in place of 8 hour ones has been dropped due to pressure from #labour #Unions . This is a consequence of the defeat of the #bjp in May this year. Clearly a link between #secular #democracy and #labourrights in #india. #Tamilnadu likely to follow suit.
# NY designates state a โsafe havenโ for trans youth, families and health providers
* #NewYork #Governor #KathyHochul #signed a #bill into #law on Sunday that #designates the #state as a #SafeHaven for #transgender #youth, #families, and #HealthCare #providers.
* The bill #prohibits state and #local #LawEnforcement from #cooperating with #investigations into families who seek #GenderAffirming #care for their #trans #children.
* It also #protects the #health #information of transgender people who seek care in New York, and it #prohibits #discrimination against transgender people in #employment, #housing, and #public #accommodations.
* The bill was passed in response to a record number of anti-LGBTQ+ bills being introduced nationwide.
Hochul said that the bill "sends a clear message that New York is a place where everyone is welcome, regardless of their gender identity."*
* The bill was passed by the New York State #Assembly and #Senate with #overwhelming #bipartisan #support.
* It is the first bill of its kind in the United States.
* The bill is being hailed by LGBTQ+ advocates as a major victory.
* However, some conservative groups have criticized the bill, arguing that it will harm children.
https://gothamist.com/news/ny-designates-state-a-safe-haven-for-trans-youth-families-and-health-providers
# The case for optimism about LGBTQ rights in the United States
* The #SupremeCourt's (#SCOTUS) decision in Bostock v. Clayton County (2020) has created a new #legal #framework for #challenging #antiLGBTQ #discrimination.
* #LowerCourt #judges have been receptive to this new #framework, and have #struck down several #state #laws that #discriminate against #LGBTQ people.
* Some of the state laws that have been struck down include #bans on #GenderAffirming #care for #minors, laws that #restrict #transgender people's #access to #bathrooms and #sports, and laws that allow #businesses to #discriminate against LGBTQ people.
* The future of LGBTQ rights in the United States remains uncertain, as the Supreme Court could overturn Bostock in the future.
* The Bostock decision was a 6-3 ruling, with conservative justices John Roberts and Neil Gorsuch joining the liberal minority.
* The decision was based on the interpretation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex.
* The decision has been used to challenge a wide range of anti-LGBTQ laws, including those that restrict transgender people's access to bathrooms and sports.
https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/6/26/23752360/supreme-court-lgbtq-transgender-bathrooms-sports-gender-affirming-care-bostock
#Transgender and #nonbinary individuals are often #sidelined at #Pride.
This year is different, with #positive #changes for #transgender and #nonbinary people. From #transgender #grandmarshals in #NYC #Pride to a powerful #photo display in #Hastings, #Nebraska, celebrations stand against #RepublicanParty #state #Legislators targeting the #Transgender #community.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Pride #PrideMonth #Representation #Culture #Activism
https://www.wsoctv.com/news/transgender/OTOKLR6GZV4GQ5GJI2Z7Q3C2LU/
Then each new rotation, you move to a broader reach, next time it's #municipal, then it's #state or #provincial, then it's #federal, then #international, & as experienced #seniors, they #mentor in areas of expertise. Or just be retired from #publicservice.
All can participate bc there is a lot of work we need to do to survive #climatechange & we need to make it about #governance & #caring for the #earth & life including ourselves.
END #elections
BUILD #sortition
#Elections are for #oligarchs
#Ohio's first #lesbian #bar, #SummitStationโnow known as #SummitMusicHallโis set to receive a #historicalmarker from the #Ohio #HistoryConnection.
Summit Station is the first #establishment to receive a historical marker driven by the #LGBTQ+ #community in #CentralOhio, and the third in the #state.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Ohio #History #Pride #PrideMonth #Representation #Culture
Why are we not surprised to find out who is fanning the anti-#ESG flames:
"The documents obtained by #InfluenceMap โ which date back to the first attempts to craft anti-ESG legislation โ reveal #FossilFuel companiesโ role as the major driver in the fight against sustainable #finance."
Not only finance:
"Eighteen #GOP-controlled #state legislatures have passed bans of ESG."
Well-founded concern. My #Democratic #TX #state rep voted yes to an #AntiTrans #bill, which passed.
Maybe why they are sending a proxy to our #Drag #brunch #fundraiser ...
... won't work, though, as they're the featured speaker at our next local Dem group meeting (jointly with a neighboring Dem group and there is a strong #LGBTQIA+ presence).
Unfortunately, I'm in a role where I can't bitch about them by name. There were multiple Dems who voted yes on this bill ....
How to best account for the historical trajectory of American #Capitalism?
We'll be discussing this question around the concept of #developmental #state, and how it can help us make sense of the nineteenth century US.
A #conference in Paris, France, on May 25-26, organized by Noam Maggor (IEA Paris & QMUL), Sofia Valeonti (AUP), Ariel Ron (SMU) and myself (EHESS).
#histodons #econhist #histecon @histodons @econhist @historyofeconomics
HOW DID WE GET HERE?
(a thread of threads, quotes, and links)
This is a collection of writings and research concerned with how we got where we are today, which is in fact the story of what has been done *to* us, and what has been *taken from us*.
By "us" we're talking about "the 99%", "workers", "wage slaves", all non-owners of private property, "the poor", unhoused people, indigenous people, even plenty of people who swear by capitalism and identify as "capitalist" yet have no capital of their own and no serious hope of ever having any worth speaking of. In other words almost everyone except for the very few who have had the power to exploit us and shape our lives to serve their agenda. We're going to examine institutions and concepts that have deeply altered our world at all levels, both our external and internal realities.
By "here" we are talking about climate crisis and myriad other environmental catastrophes resulting from hyper-excessive extraction, consumption and waste; a world of rampant inequality and exploitation, hunger and starvation; a world of fences, walls, tollbooths, prisons, police, bullshit jobs and criminalized poverty; a world overrun with cars and preventable diseases; a world of vanishing biodiversity and blooming fascism; a world where "democracy" results in being led by some of the worst of humanity; a world ruled by an imaginary but all-powerful and single-minded god: Capital.
Our inspiration and structural framework for this survey is this quote from "The Prehistory of Private Property", an important work from political philosopher Karl Widerquist and anthropologist Grant S. McCall:
"After hundreds of millennia in which all humans had direct access to the commons, it took only a few centuries for enclosure, colonialism, capitalism, and industrialization to cut off the vast majority of people on Earth from direct access to the means of economic production and therefore to rob them of the power to say no. It took only a few generations to convince most people that this situation was natural and inevitable. That false lesson needs to be unlearned."
https://widerquist.com/books-3/#2b
Also recommended: "Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy"
https://widerquist.com/books-3/#4b
#capitalism #colonialism #enclosure #PrivateProperty #state #police #inequality #anthropology #environment #ClimateCrisis #economics
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Cops Are Incorporating Private Cameras Into Their Real-Time Surveillance Networks
"In a quiet but rapid expansion of law enforcement surveillance, U.S. cities are buying and promoting products from Georgia-based company Fusus in order to access on-demand, live video from public and private camera networks."
Via @eff
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/neighborhood-watch-out-cops-are-incorporating-private-cameras-their-real-time
#Videosurveillance #Surveillance #police #state #camera #Digitalisierung #Data #technology #privacy