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May 5, 2018
Let’s Call Amazon’s Bluff
Seattle has given Amazon a free ride long enough. The multibillion dollar corporations responsible for the city’s skyrocketing homelessness need to start paying their fair share.
Amazon says they’ll halt new office projects if Seattle enacts an employee head tax. Good.
by Geov Parrish, Op-Ed Columnist
The debate over a proposed Employee Head Tax (EHT) on our city’s largest employers, with revenue dedicated to affordable housing and homelessness services, is coming to a head. After eight months of debate, the Seattle City Council is scrambling to meet a self-imposed mid-May deadline for trying to pass the proposal, with a final vote currently scheduled for Monday, May 14.
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Canadian Lawsuit Against Corporations Responsible for High Level Microwave Emissions
By Catherine J. Frompovich | Activist Post
A Class Action was filed in Superior Court, Province of Quebec, District of Montreal, Canada, Case No. 500-06-000760-153 against 50 Respondents including the Attorneys General of Quebec and Canada, the City of Sainte-Anne-Des-Lacs, Hydro-Quebec, and approximately 40 corporations involved in the manufacture, production, servicing and transmission of Electromagnetic Frequencies (EMFs) and Radiofrequencies (RFRs), for their contributory roles in the transmissions, products and services that emit
in excess of one milliGauss of magnetic field, 0.6 V/m of electric field, or 0.1 microWatt per square centimeter of microwave power density for general populations in uncontrolled environments; or 0.3 milliGauss of magnetic field, 0.2 V/m of electric field, or 0.01 microWatt per square centimeter of microwave power density for sleeping environments or for sensitive individuals (children, pregnant women or persons who are electromagnetic hypersensitive) from any one or any combination of anthropogenic the listed electromagnetic field (EMF) sources… [Pg. 6]
Anthropogenic EMF is measurable throughout Quebec attributable to technologies and infrastructures ranging from the low frequency power distribution grid through to high frequency mobile telecommunications networks. Not isolated systems, EMF from one system may couple onto an adjacent network compounding health effects, particularly for electro-sensitive individuals. [Pg. 7] [CJF emphasis]
Not only is anthropogenic [man-made] EMFs measurable in Quebec, but throughout entire global communities where various microwave technologies are prolific, e.g., cell, stingray and GWEN towers, Wi-Fi, AMI Smart Meters, 3G—4G and “trial communities” for 5G communications networks, plus antenna arrays and radar facilities.
Those technological “advances” have been implemented and allowed to be placed everywhere without proper environmental and human health impact studies—at least in the USA—being made available to consumers and the public at large. If such studies exist, they are not privy to public knowledge nor are warnings about adverse health reactions, e.g., electromagnetic hypersensitivity, etc. However, that information probably can be found during the Discovery process of any lawsuit, unless such ‘proprietary information’ may not be divulged due to “trade secrets” . . .
May 4, 2018
What’s Washington Really Doing in Armenia?
The role of George Soros’s Open Society Foundation and CIA-funded NED in Armenia.
There has been considerable speculation in recent days as to whether the recent and ongoing protests across former Soviet Armenia constitute another Washington Color Revolution destabilization or whether it represents simply the angry revolt of citizens fed up with the deep corruption and lack of economic development under the regime of Prime Minister Serzh Sargysan. Following days of large protests, the former President was forced to resign on April 23, declaring, “Nikol Pashinyan was right. I was wrong.” Armenia is an integral member of Russia’s Eurasian Economic Union and were it to come under control of a pro-NATO opposition could bring a strategic problem for Moscow to put it mildly. The issue is significant.
Ironically, what nominally sparked the protests was the action of Sargysan to in effect do what Turkey’s Erdogan has done, only in reverse. He and his parliamentary majority party managed to strip the office of President…
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North Korea is a Fake CIA State
Interesting theory. A lot of stuff in the recent North Korea narrative (especially Pompeo’s sudden secret visit to North Korea) simply doesn’t add up. According to Veterans Today, North Korea has been a CIA project country for years – just like Libya, which they claim the CIA used to run its Gladio stay behind program in Europe.
“The CIA and other agencies have gone in and out of North Korea for years, a safe haven for projects of all kinds that could exist nowhere else on earth. North Korea, with no surveillance, no spies, no media, is a dream come true . . .”
See https://www.veteranstoday.com/2018/05/03/intel-drop-north-korea-as-fake-as-trump/
At first glance, this looked really far-fetched to me, but there’s something about the sudden North Korea reversal that suggests we’re not being told the whole story.
North Korea is a Fake State: Totally Staged and Hilarious North Korean Photos
Remember Rumsfeld’s hilarious Bin Laden “Fortress” that looks like a picture from Highlight’s Magazine? This stuff is the same level.
By: Jay Dyer
You Saw it First on JaysAnalysis!
Remember – the famous Situation Room Photo is admittedly fake! Breaking – White House claims North Korea has no Missile Capability!
I can’t stop laughing. From the get-go Jay’s Analysis called the North Korean theater operations recently occurring as a staged event, pointing out that anything real that happened would be by the machinations of the western establishment itself. Last night I became entranced by North Korean media photo ops and ended up staying up researching these hilarious pictures, getting no sleep. What became evident after several hours of photo analysis was how ridiculous the images are. But what’s amazing is not just how absurd the pictures are…
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What They Don’t Teach in School About the US Labor Movement
Plutocracy IV: Gangsters for Capitalism
Directed by Scott Noble
Film Review
The fourth film in a series, Plutocracy IV essentially rewrites “mainstream” history about the birth of the US labor movement. In director Scott Noble’s depiction, what we see is virtual all out war between working people and corporate bosses and their government stooges.
Noble begins by tracing the downfall of the global anarchist movement, beginning with the violent crushing of the anarchist-driven 1871 Paris Commune.
Founded in 1901, the Socialist Party, would briefly replace anarchism as the main engine of worker organizing. Eugene Debs, a founding member of both International Workers of the World (see Plutocracy III: Class War ) and the Socialist Party, would run five times as a socialist candidate for president. In 1912 he won 6% of the vote, with nearly a million votes.
In 1919, two-thirds of Socialist Party members voted to support the Bolshevik Revolution and were expelled by the party leadership, who favored democratic socialism. From that point on, the Communist Party (and fascism in Germany and Italy) drove most radical worker organizing.
Supreme Court Overturns Child Labor Laws
Noble describes 1921-1928 as extremely bleak for the labor movement – with most strikes being defeated during this period. Noble highlights the 1921 Battle of Blair Mountain, where striking West Virginia coal miners were attacked by federal troops and the 1923 St Pedro longshoremen strike (California), which was crushed by police and vigilante Ku Klux Klan members.*
It was also during this period that the Supreme Court overturned federal child labor and minimum wage laws.
Things got even worse for US workers during the Great Depression, with corporate bosses using the fear of unemployment to reduce wages by 20%. In 1932, Hoover ordered federal troops to mow down the Bonus Army, World War I veterans and their families, when they camped out in front of the Capitol demanding payment of the Bonus they had been promised (see The Wall Street Elites Who Financed Hitler)
General Strikes Force Roosevelt to Create National Labor Relations Board
In 1933, Roosevelt passed the National Industrial Recovery Act, which theoretically gave workers the right to unionize (and strike). Although union membership increased substantially over the next several years, strikes continued to be brutally suppressed by armed corporate thugs, police and state National Guards. One example was the 1933 Ford Hunger Strike (aka the Ford Massacre) – in which 15,000 autoworkers when on strike when Henry Ford began to close factories. Despite being brutally attacked by armed guards and police (with four strikers killed and many injured), strikers persisted and won right to organize Ford Motor Company.
I was very surprised to learn there were four general strikes during 1934 in San Francisco, Minneapolis and Toledo. The San Francisco general strike was defeated by the union leadership (AFL) when Roosevelt condemned it. Workers were victorious in Toledo and Minneapolis, even though the Minnesota governor called out the National Guard in an effort to crush the city’s strike.
The fear that more general strikes would provoke generalized revolt (and/or revolution) led Roosevelt to create the National Labor Relations Board in 1935. His aim was to allow for a “peaceful” process of resolving strikes.
*In one vignette, Native American Historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz describes how Woodrow Wilson and state and local officials supported the rise of the KKK in the north to crush strikes. Many members of the Portland police were KKK members during this period, and Colorado judges, police and elected officials belonged to the Klan in Colorado.
May 3, 2018
Prison Panthers and awakening the Black radicals
“And now our demand is that all of our long held political prisoners are released.”
by Keith ‘Malik’ Washington
“What made him (Malcolm X) unfamiliar and dangerous was not his hatred for white people but his love for Blacks, his apprehension of the horror of the Black condition, and the reasons for it, and his determination to work on their hearts and minds so that they would be enabled to see their condition and change it themselves.” – James Baldwin, “No Name in the Street,” pages 96-97
I have always said that if you want to understand the nature of a thing, you must research its origin. I would venture to say that the iconic freedom fighter and servant of the people Malcolm X was the first “Prison Panther,” although he was not known officially as such. However, when Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party for Self Defense in 1966 at Merritt College in Oakland, California, the legacy of their…
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Baby Boomers Likely to be Prime Marijuana Consumers
Susan Newman is the future the cannabis industry. Newman, 65, is part of a population of Americans ages 55 and older that comprises the largest growth segment for marijuana businesses. There’s no shortage of anecdotal evidence and hard data to back that. “I see more people at the cannabis shops my age than ever,” said Newman, a retiree who spends part of the year residing in Washington, where the state allows adult recreational cannabis use.
May is being celebrated by the Administration on Aging, part of the Administration for Community Living, as Older Americans Month. The 2018 theme, Engage at Every Age, emphasizes that people are never too old to take part in activities to enrich their physical, mental and emotional well-being.
Newman, like many in her generation, uses marijuana for all of the above.
She has another residence in Maui, where she and her 71-year-old husband, Carl, spend their days golfing, playing mah-jongg, entertaining and walking around a lot.
“It helps with my pain,” Newman said of her cannabis use. “I am kind of in pain 90 percent of the time.”
Newman, who typically vapes cannabis and sometimes takes it in pill form, uses marijuana to relieve pain from arthritis in her hands, neck, and back, as well as a degenerative disc disease. She said it also helps keep her active. . .
She does Pilates twice a week, takes extensive walks at least three times a week, and swims about twice a week.
All of this is possible, she said, because cannabis dulls the pain, and improves her mind-set by keeping her from dwelling on the discomfort.
“It helps me get my mind off of it,” she said.
It’s these type of health and wellness benefits that are driving older Americans to use cannabis, according to Linda Gilbert, managing director of consumer insight for BDS Analytics.
“What we’re seeing in the data is that older adults are being faced with a lot of decisions regarding the use of OTC and pharmacy type products that have very concerning side effects,” Gilbert said.
Many older people face anxiety, chronic pain, diabetes, loss of appetite – all medical problems with symptoms that have been known to be relieved through cannabis consumption – and they are hearing about the benefits of marijuana from other seniors, relatives, and in the media, Gilbert added.
Of further interest to this group is reducing the inconvenient — and sometimes scary — side effects that come with other pain medications, such as losing one’s balance and falling, or constipation.
“We see a high degree of receptivity because they don’t want to take Ambien and oxycontin and all of the traditional things that have been prescribed,” Gilbert said.
Seniors remain a fast-growing consumer demographic
According to the 2018 BDS Analytics trend study, Public Attitudes and Actions Toward Cannabis in the US, 12 percent of adults ages 50 and older living in states where medical or recreational cannabis use is legal say they have used cannabis in some form in the past six months.
The study shows that 19 percent said their reasons for cannabis use is to relieve pain, while 16 percent said they use marijuana to relax.
This age group is also a big consumer of Edibles, Gilbert has found in her research.
The reason for this is simple. Many older people are coming into cannabis use for better health and wellness, so using an inhalable isn’t really seen as being aligned to that goal.
“They tend to be more oriented to edibles and topicals,” Gilbert said. “They’re not looking to get high, they’re looking to relieve pain, deal with anxiety and sleep better.”
An American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse study released last year, “Older adults’ marijuana use, injuries, and emergency department visits,” shows how much marijuana use overall is being bolstered by older adults.
The study is a compilation of myriad scientific and academic studies, as well as polling. It cites a Gallup poll that shows that 29 percent of respondents ages 55 and older supported legalizing cannabis in 2003 and 2005, but by 2016 the figure had risen to 45 percent.
Baby boomers are changing the tide
The study also shows that baby boomers are among the biggest reasons for the increasing cannabis use rate among older adults. Aging baby boomers have had greater exposure to marijuana, and often sport more permissive attitudes toward recreational use than prior generations, according to the study. . .
via Golden, and Greener, Years: Baby Boomers Likely to be Prime Marijuana Consumers — Marijuana
Crisis In Cali: Workers Face “Buckets Of Feces And Needles” As Homelessness Worsens
The Golden State’s homeless population of more than 130,000 people is now about 25 percent of the nationwide total, and cleaning up after the surging group is getting costly — topping $10 million in 2016-17.
Authored by Mac Slavo via SHTFplan.com,
Workers in California, who are desperately trying to clean up the state because of the skyrocketing homeless population, are facing grotesque conditions. Some workers even fear for their health after being faced with buckets of fecal matter and dirty needles.
In a democrat’s paradise, such as California, you would think all those taxes and numerous regulations would be able to house some people. But as the taxes and regulations increase so does the homeless rate, and state workers tasked with cleaning up the mess caused by democrat’s policies are facing dire situations.
The taxes will have to continue to rise too in order to cover the cost of cleaning up the shanty towns. According to Fox News, the cost of cleaning up the state’s numerous shanty towns is also hitting record highs, and that price tag is likely to keep rising as workers…
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May 2, 2018
Identity politics sucks. But it’s not a Liberal’s creation.
In a free world, there is nothing freer than being unidentified. Reducing someone to a label is wrong, whatever the reason is. How you identify should not be a representation of your whole self.
“We know what we are but not what we may be” – Spinoza
Identity politics sucks. Last time, my wife wanted to register for a seminar. She had to answer a few questions: what race, what ethnicity, what age, what sexual identity she identified with, and how she wanted to be referred to. That’s insane. My problem with it is that the persons going this way think that they are broadening their deepness when in fact they are just reducing someone to a few concepts that are independent from (or should be just a part of) their way of thinking and who they truly are. In a free world, there is nothing freer than being unidentified. Reducing someone to a label is wrong, whatever the reason is. How you identify should not be a representation of your whole self.
Identity based politics is something that America…
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