Category Archives: racism

Cameron tries to calm immigration debate as Blunkett raises riot fears | UK news | The Guardian

Racist is as racist does!

He arrived in the country eager to talk about Britain\’s close trading ties with India that Downing Street sees as crucial to its theme of \”winning the global race\”.But Cameron was met with questions about Britain\’s \”unfriendly\” immigration rules, behind a sharp drop in the number of Indian students in the UK from 61,000 in 2009 to 16,000 last year.

via Cameron tries to calm immigration debate as Blunkett raises riot fears | UK news | The Guardian.

Gaza Returns to Donkey Days – Inter Press Service

GAZA CITY , Dec 5 2013 (IPS) – The garbage trucks of Gaza city are at a standstill due to an ongoing fuel shortage affecting all aspects of daily life, including garbage collection, sewage and waste disposal and other vital services. But the local donkeys are here to help.

Abu Hesham on his donkey cart won’t be able to clear all the streets of garbage. In Gaza’s Barcelona neighbourhood, trash bins are overflowing – a common sight since fuel for motor vehicles became scarce – and as the 33-year-old donkey cart owner approaches the garbage dump, there is no space left and no option but to throw the trash out on the side of the road.

“What else can I do?” he tells IPS as he carries sacks of waste at 7:00 AM through Gaza’s misty weather.

The smell of rotting garbage is getting worse and worse. The people in Gaza attempt to burn the garbage to reduce the quantity and minimise the risk of infection, so the air is filled with black smoke too. Right now, breathing fresh air is not an option for most people in Gaza, whether children or adults.

via Gaza Returns to Donkey Days – Inter Press Service.

French tattooists needled by ban of coloured ink – Europe – FRANCE 24

(Hollande’s government will now be hated by everyone with a tattoo or wants one in France – really stupid – people have been tattooing since the Celts ruled France!)

The French government plans to ban many of the products that make up coloured tattoo ink after a report claimed they could increase the risk of infection, allergy and cancer. The nation\’s tattooists are up in arms.

via French tattooists needled by ban of coloured ink – Europe – FRANCE 24.

CENSORED NEWS: O’odham and Anarchist Thanksgiving Day Protest Against Border Patrol

Article and photos courtesy of O\’odham and Anarchist solidarity action

Censored News

\”On Thursday, November 28th, 2013, a group of people made up by members of the Tohono O\’odham Nation, the Anti-Colonial Anarchist Bloc, and various Tucson community members in solidarity with those resisting ongoing colonisation on stolen Native land, gathered in front of the gates to the Border Patrol headquarters at Golf Links and Swan in Tucson.

via CENSORED NEWS: O’odham and Anarchist Thanksgiving Day Protest Against Border Patrol.

Boris Johnson’s philosophy isn’t just elitist – it’s sinister | Suzanne Moore | Comment is free | The Guardian

Boris Johnson – or Borisconi, as I call him – has a severe case of premature ejaculation. Obviously I am using ejaculation here to mean saying something too soon and too hastily.

He has said what he really thinks. Will the electorate, the great lumpen mass of obviously stupid people, swallow it? Rich people are rich because they are better, cleverer, more ambitious. We should worship them for paying taxes. Try not to think about the ones that don\’t. Oh, and let\’s have Boris Island.

There are no surprises in what he said, other than timing. The Tories increasingly favour genetic explanations for inequality. If whole swaths of us are born poor, dumb and without the drive to get to Eton, never mind a jobcentre, it\’s our own stupid fault. Only lunatics would point to the \”cleverness\” of the bankers who fabricated formulae that sold off risk in ever smaller bundles, with no consequences for the buyers. Amazing how these intellectual giants produced an unmitigated disaster!

Let\’s move on, as Borisconi did in his party political broadcast for himself: let the wealthy take London, let a thousand Shards split the sky open so that golden showers rain down on to multibillionaires. Then, he got controversial with an ill-judged and frankly under-researched passage about IQ. Give me back my Mensa membership because any fule know any fule can be tutored up for IQ tests, which is why selective schools prefer this discredited measure of intelligence. Never mind. A genetically determinist argument – part selfish gene, part antisocial goonishness – is now in favour.

via Boris Johnson’s philosophy isn’t just elitist – it’s sinister | Suzanne Moore | Comment is free | The Guardian.

Settlers bulldoze Palestinian lands west of Salfit, chop olive trees | Maan News Agency

SALFIT (Ma\’an) — Israeli settlers raided lands in the northern West Bank with bulldozers on early Tuesday morning in order to level the area to prepare it for expansion of the nearby Ariel settlement block, a witness said.

Settlers razed the lands north of Bruqin village west of Salfit to prepare it for the construction of factories that will be a part of the adjacent Jewish-only settlement area.

The settlers, who are from the nearby Brukhin settlement, also chopped 10 olive trees in the Wadi Baqdonis area north of the village.

Researcher Khalid Mali said that \”the factories in the Ariel settlements are expanding,\” and highlighted that settlers have been confiscating lands from the Palestinian villages and areas of Bokin, Salfit, Sarta, Haris, and Kifl Haris.

via Settlers bulldoze Palestinian lands west of Salfit, chop olive trees | Maan News Agency.

Photos: When Santa Monica Beach Was Segregated: LAist

The story of Santa Monica\’s Inkwell beach sounds like something out of the Jim Crow South. During the 1920\’s, the 200-foot-long strip was one of the only beaches in the county—save for a sliver of Manhattan Beach—where African-Americans were allowed to enjoy the ocean.

via Photos: When Santa Monica Beach Was Segregated: LAist.

Israeli forces demolish water tank in Nablus village | Maan News Agency

Occupation is always seemingly random in its acts of terrorism and intimidation to deny humanity of those it seeks to suppress.

 

Israeli forces demolished a water tank and an agricultural structure in the Nablus village of Aqraba on Wednesday, a local official said.

Deputy mayor of Aqraba Bilal Abdul-Hadi told Ma\’an that three bulldozers escorted by seven military vehicles stormed the al-Taweel neighborhood and began demolishing the structures, claiming they were built without authorization.

The steel agricultural structure belongs to Marwan Hussein Abdul-Hadi and the water tank to Imad Fathi Minnat Allah.

Israel has destroyed more than 558 Palestinian properties in the West Bank and East Jerusalem since the beginning of this year, displacing 919 people, according to OCHA.

Between 2009 and 2011, Israel\’s military destroyed 173 water, sanitation and hygiene structures in the West Bank including 40 wells, 57 rainwater collection cisterns and at least 20 toilets and sinks, OCHA says.

via Israeli forces demolish water tank in Nablus village | Maan News Agency.

SPIEGEL Interview With Cornelius Gurlitt About Munich Art Find – SPIEGEL ONLINE

How many Germans claimed they did not know what was going on during the build up to the war and the crimes committed in their name? If they were looted and stolen paintings – they were never his and he knew enough to suspect that his father might have used NAZI connections to get them.

 

Gurlitt spent a lifetime being a son and an heir, making it his mission to preserve his father\’s legacy. He says it never occurred to him that the art he kept in his 100-square-meter (1,076-square-foot) apartment, art that perhaps wasn\’t entirely his, could be used to help make amends for what the Nazis had done.

via SPIEGEL Interview With Cornelius Gurlitt About Munich Art Find – SPIEGEL ONLINE.

Israeli settlers uproot 106 olive trees near Yatta | Maan News Agency

Israeli settlers raided Palestinian agricultural areas in the southern West Bank overnight, uprooting 106 olive trees in Quwawees area east of Yatta.

Locals said that Israeli settlers destroyed 106 olive trees owned by Abd al-Nabi Makhamra in an overnight attack.

Settlers have recently destroyed trees in the area with ripe olives, in order to prevent Palestinians from harvesting them, locals added.

via Israeli settlers uproot 106 olive trees near Yatta | Maan News Agency.