Category Archives: Global Politics

Fundamentalist terror, human rights

Portland protests: Navy veteran speaks out after video of federal officers beating him goes viral | The Independent

Footage then showed Mr David standing still in front of the officers with his hands down at his side. He was carrying nothing in his hands and only had a backpack on him holding his ID and wallet.

One officer then started beating him with a baton when another sprayed pepper spray in his eyes, which encouraged the man to finally step away from the federal agents and move back towards the crowd.

The moment went viral after it was first shared on Twitter, with people calling Mr David “Captain Portland” and commending him for not moving when officers used aggressive force.

“That guy is a brick. And wow. Can’t believe that is how someone harmless-looking is treated,” one Twitter commenter wrote after viewing the footage.

Footage stopped with Mr David walking away, but that wasn’t the end for him.

 

 

Source: Portland protests: Navy veteran speaks out after video of federal officers beating him goes viral | The Independent

Fundamentalist terror, Traitor

Cuccinelli: Totally Legal and Totally Cool How CPB and ICE Now Control Your City | Talking Points Memo – American Camo-Shirt Fascism

They are the perfect vehicle for what the White House and these acting appointees at DHS want to do which is to seeks out confrontations which are consistent with President Trump’s campaign agenda. In their current form they really do amount to a federal political police force acting at the direction of the political appointees at the Department of Homeland Security, none of whom are even confirmed by the Senate to be acting in their current positions.

Source: Cuccinelli: Totally Legal and Totally Cool How CPB and ICE Now Control Your City | Talking Points Memo

Fundamentalist terror, human rights, Just strange, News to use

Portland mayor demands Trump remove federal agents from city | US news | The Guardian

“Once CBP agents approached the suspect, a large and violent mob moved towards their location. For everyone’s safety, CBP agents quickly moved the suspect to a safer location,” the agency said.

However, the video shows no mob.

In another case, Mark Pettibone, 29, said a minivan rolled up to him around 2am on Wednesday and four or five people got out “looking like they were deployed to a Middle Eastern war”.

Pettibone told the Associated Press he got to his knees as the group approached. They dragged him into the van without identifying themselves or responding to his questions and pulled his beanie over his eyes so he couldn’t see, he said.

“I figured I was just going to disappear for an indefinite amount of time,” Pettibone said, adding that he was put into a cell and officers dumped the contents of his backpack, with one remarking: “Oh, this is a bunch of nothing.”

After he asked for a lawyer, Pettibone was allowed to leave.

 

Source: Portland mayor demands Trump remove federal agents from city | US news | The Guardian

Fundamentalism, Fundamentalist terror, human rights

Opinion | White Supremacy Was Her World. And Then She Left. – The New York Times

People who are drawn to the hate movement have an acute desire to make sense of their place in the world. There’s a gap between who they are and who they think they should be, what they have and what they want. They want to seize or regain what they believe is a rightful status. They want empowerment, with minimal effort. Hate promises them that.

(True Believers come from extreme right and left and are attracted to other when one pushes them away.) https://reasonandmeaning.com/2017/09/04/summary-of-eric-hoffers-the-true-believer/

Fascism, Global Politics, Traitor

Trump Campaign Legal Adviser Jenna Ellis Appears on Kremlin-Backed RT

A top Trump campaign adviser recently appeared on the Russian-government funded TV network RT, which U.S. intelligence agencies have said plays a role in the Kremlin’s plans to undermine American democracy.

Trump campaign senior legal adviser Jenna Ellis’ appearance on RT’s The Alex Salmond Show aired on July 9. She appears to be the first Trump campaign official to go on the Russian-funded network since the 2016 election.

 

Source: Trump Campaign Legal Adviser Jenna Ellis Appears on Kremlin-Backed RT

Fundamentalist terror, human rights

VICE – People Keep Attacking Black Lives Matter Protesters With Their Cars

According to data collected by Ari Weil, the deputy research director at the Chicago Project on Security and Threats of the University of Chicago, Tuesday night’s incident marks at least the 68th car attack nationwide since George Floyd was killed on May 25, sparking a wave of anti-racism protests across the country.

Source: VICE – People Keep Attacking Black Lives Matter Protesters With Their Cars

denier, Fail!, Fundamentalist terror, Just strange

Trump Pushed CIA to Give Intelligence to Kremlin, While Taking No Action Against Russia Arming Taliban

In speaking about both the Kremlin’s arms and bounty programs, Brett McGurk, who served as Special Presidential Envoy until December 2018, told me, “Both should have been flagged and raised in Trump’s frequent engagements with Putin. It’s even worse if Pompeo was raising the arming issue with Lavrov (as he claims) or Khalilzad with his counterpart, but Trump never raised the issue with Putin. That makes whatever Pompeo may have said irrelevant, as the Russians dismiss anything Americans officials say if not backed from the top.”

Source: Trump Pushed CIA to Give Intelligence to Kremlin, While Taking No Action Against Russia Arming Taliban

Fail!, Fundamentalist terror, Gun-violence, human rights, racism

Man ‘pulls gun’ on Black Lives Matter protester after Trump supporters deface mural

Speaking to local media, one protester described how he saw the man drive past the demonstration yelling “all lives matter” and “flipping us off”; he followed the man’s car on his skateboard, at which point the man allegedly made a u-turn and and pointed a gun in the protester’s face.

Police, who were at the scene, pulled the man over to arrest him. He has not yet been identified; pictures from the scene show him wearing a cap bearing the American flag, but with the stripes apparently replaced by bullets.

The incident comes a day after the vandalisation of the mural, a large yellow rendering of the words Black Lives Matter painted on a main road with the city authorities’ permission.

On Saturday, a white man and woman both clad in red Trump campaign attire arrived with cans of black paint and a roller and began blacking out the words, all the while exchanging barbs with appalled onlookers.

 

Source: Man ‘pulls gun’ on Black Lives Matter protester after Trump supporters deface mural

Global Politics

Satellite image raises suspicions of attack at Iran nuclear site | World news | The Guardian

Journalists from the BBC’s Farsi service said they received a statement before the damage was publicised in which a group calling itself “Cheetahs of the Homeland”, made up of disaffected Iranians inside the defence establishment, claimed to be responsible.

Source: Satellite image raises suspicions of attack at Iran nuclear site | World news | The Guardian