top of the heap to third world status in one generation

[Gry]

Fascist extremists in Ukraine brag they have received training from the Canadian Forces: report

The study from an institute at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., tracked social media accounts of the far-right group Centuria, documenting its Ukrainian military members giving Nazi salutes, promoting white nationalism and praising members of Nazi SS units.

“The Ukrainian military’s failure to check Centuria activities suggests a level of tolerance on its part for the apparent proliferation of far-right ideology and influence within the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” the study warned.

One member of the group has received officer training in the United Kingdom’s Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, graduating in late 2020. Another attended the German Army Officer’s Academy in Dresden in 2019.

In the summer of 2019, Centuria came out in support of a rally held by Ukrainian far-right groups to counter the LGBTQ “Kyiv Pride” event. Centuria released a statement that it supported “right patriots, nationalists, conservatives and Christians currently defending the streets of Kyiv from perverts from the LGBT movement and their left-liberal sympathizers.”


https://ottawacitizen.com/news/natio...-f2ae00a1e014/







liberal democracies arming and training fascists lol

This sort of this has been going on since the second world war
and we are seeing it accelerate.

 

[Gry]

Chevron LOCKS UP Lawyer Who Defeated Them In Court | Donziger Sentenced

Precedent setting and disgusting.
This is the result of a merge between corporate and government.
There is a designated term for that, and we all know what it is.
Everyone should see this as disturbing.

 

[Gry]

In May 2019, drone whistleblower Daniel Everette Hale was arrested and indicted on allegations that he disclosed classified documents about the U.S. military’s assassination program, believed to have been the source material for a series in The Intercept called “The Drone Papers”. On March 31, 2021, Hale pleaded guilty to a single count under the Espionage Act, carrying a maximum sentence of 10 years. On July 27, 2021, Daniel was sentenced to 45 months in prison.

Hale is a veteran of the US Air Force. During his military service from 2009 to 2013, he participated in the US drone program, working with both the National Security Agency and the Joint Special Operations Task Force at the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. After leaving the Air Force, Hale became an outspoken opponent of the US targeted killings program, US foreign policy more generally, and a supporter of whistleblowers. He publicly spoke out at conferences, forums, and public panels. He was featured prominently in the award-winning documentary National Bird, a film about whistleblowers in the US drone program who suffered from moral injury and PTSD. Hale based his criticisms on his own participation in the drone program, which included helping to select targets based on faulty criteria and attacks on unarmed innocent civilians.

https://standwithdanielhale.org/

Daniel Hale on National Bird
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY3UPB6DIZo&t=14s

 

[Hempy McNoodle]

This sort of this has been going on since the second world war
and we are seeing it accelerate.

I believe this is the neo-nazi group that the Obama/Biden admin supported against Russia...

 

[Hempy McNoodle]

Fascist extremists in Ukraine brag they have received training from the Canadian Forces: report

The study from an institute at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., tracked social media accounts of the far-right group Centuria, documenting its Ukrainian military members giving Nazi salutes, promoting white nationalism and praising members of Nazi SS units.

“The Ukrainian military’s failure to check Centuria activities suggests a level of tolerance on its part for the apparent proliferation of far-right ideology and influence within the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” the study warned.

One member of the group has received officer training in the United Kingdom’s Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, graduating in late 2020. Another attended the German Army Officer’s Academy in Dresden in 2019.

In the summer of 2019, Centuria came out in support of a rally held by Ukrainian far-right groups to counter the LGBTQ “Kyiv Pride” event. Centuria released a statement that it supported “right patriots, nationalists, conservatives and Christians currently defending the streets of Kyiv from perverts from the LGBT movement and their left-liberal sympathizers.”


https://ottawacitizen.com/news/nati...ort/wcm/6e013b41-57ec-4e2e-913f-f2ae00a1e014/







liberal democracies arming and training fascists lol

I'm not gonna say "I told you so."

 

[Gry]

How Science Conquered Diphtheria, the Plague Among Children


It was highly contagious, lethal and mysterious. Then medical experts developed treatments and vaccines, and the affliction disappeared—but not entirely
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/scie...-children-180978572/?utm_source=pocket-newtab

 

[Cannavore]

The FBI raided the NYPD Sergeants Union & the President of the Union's home today. Interesting.

 

[Cannavore]

I'm not gonna say "I told you so."

?? what do you think Q is? it's a domestic radicalization program.

 

[armedoldhippy]

Precedent setting and disgusting.
This is the result of a merge between corporate and government.
There is a designated term for that, and we all know what it is.
Everyone should see this as disturbing.

i'm not sure how this will turn out. "allegedly", he failed to turn over exculpatory evidence in the court case against Chevron. we would be screaming if he was a prosecuting atty falsely convicting some poor fuck for weed. that, and he supposedly was in trouble to start with for trying to appropriate some of the loot after signing away his rights to any of the cash. that much money all in a pile is IRRESISTABLE to nearly all attorneys, politicians, and other lower carbon-based forms of life

 

[Gry]

I'm not gonna say "I told you so."

What you also did not do was provide a link
which would take one to the post in
which you made such a claim.

 

[Gry]

I believe this is the neo-nazi group that the Obama/Biden admin supported against Russia...

The post demonstrates two things: your own lack of interest in the subject and your source had no desire to relay accurate information.

 

[Gry]

Dallas History

The Day Kennedy Died

Dr. Robert McClelland held JFK’s head in his hands. He massaged Oswald’s heart. Forty-five years later, his students are still riveted by the surgeon’s tales.

https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2008/november/the-day-kennedy-died/

 

[audiohi]

Revealed: pipeline company paid Minnesota police for arresting and surveilling protesters
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...peline-enbridge-paid-police-arrest-protesters

The Canadian company Enbridge has reimbursed US police $2.4m for arresting and surveilling hundreds of demonstrators who oppose construction of its Line 3 pipeline, according to documents the Guardian obtained through a public records request.

Enbridge has paid for officer training, police surveillance of demonstrators, officer wages, overtime, benefits, meals, hotels and equipment.

It’s common for protesters opposing pipeline construction to face private security hired by companies, as they did during demonstrations against the Dakota Access pipeline. But in Minnesota, a financial agreement with a foreign company has given public police forces an incentive to arrest demonstrators.

Enbridge told the Guardian an independent account manager allocates the funds, and police decide when protesters are breaking the law. But records obtained by the Guardian show the company meets daily with police to discuss intelligence gathering and patrols. And when Enbridge wants protesters removed, it calls police or sends letters.

“Our police are beholden to a foreign company,” Tara Houska, founder of the Indigenous frontline group Giniw Collective, told the Guardian. “They are working hand in hand with big oil. They are actively working for a company. Their duty is owed to the state of Minnesota and to the tribal citizens of Minnesota.”

“You wish they were actually there to protect and serve us, and not to protect and serve a pipeline and a company,” she said of police. “It’s the antithesis of democracy in my mind.”

Winona LaDuke, executive director of Honor the Earth, an Indigenous environmental group, told the Guardian she was at the 9 January protest and witnessed an Enbridge employee directing police. “Enbridge has been calling the police shots in northern Minnesota,” she said.

Citing concerns that similar funding models could be replicated in other states, lawyers are close to filing a lawsuit challenging the legality of the escrow fund. “It presents a dystopian future, that’s why we’re challenging it,” said Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, a lawyer with the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund.

In August, Houska and other water protectors met with the UN special rapporteur on human rights to share their concerns about police and the escrow fund. Houska said the financial relationship had resulted in the criminalization of protest and was setting a precedent that “should scare anyone”.

“As we see the climate crisis raging all around us, and the world is on fire, and the water protectors are in jail, at what point do we step in to prevent a precedent like this being the norm?” Houska asked.

 

[moose eater]

Revealed: pipeline company paid Minnesota police for arresting and surveilling protesters
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...peline-enbridge-paid-police-arrest-protesters

Did the same folks help to fund White Swan Security in the Dakotas, during the Dakota XL Pipeline protests, and the many abuses White Swan committed there?

 

[Gry]

Did the same folks help to fund White Swan Security in the Dakotas, during the Dakota XL Pipeline protests, and the many abuses White Swan committed there?

Would anticipate a goodly number of the same people are involved with each.
Had the opportunity to hear an attorney for Chase Iron Eyes speak about what they faced.
It was shameful.

 

[h.h.]

Surf city . Oil up your board.

 

[Gry]

The Deadliest Disaster at Sea Killed Thousands, Yet Its Story Is Little-Known. Why?


In the final months of World War II, German citizens and soldiers fleeing the Soviet army died when the “Wilhelm Gustloff” sank.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/...-is-little-known-why?utm_source=pocket-newtab

 

[Gry]

Searching for MrX
For eight years, a man without a memory lived among strangers at a hospital in Mississippi. But was recovering his identity the happy ending he was looking for?
Audio available
https://magazine.atavist.com/search...sippi-radio-mystery/?utm_source=pocket-newtab

 

[h.h.]

Keep the beat.

 

[Gry]

How South Dakota became a global tax haven <--- cue up "We've Only Just Begun" -gry

South Dakota has become the world's foremost tax haven — right up there with the Cayman Islands, and ahead of old-fashioned locations like Switzerland. That's one of the clear messages from the Pandora Papers leak of confidential financial information about the world's richest individuals.

https://www.axios.com/south-dakota-g...=pocket-newtab