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Fascism in Donald Trump's United States

Henry A. Giroux
Truthout
Tue, 08 Dec 2015 19:33 UTC
Trump on stage
© Kevin D. Liles / The New York TimesRepublican presidential hopeful Donald Trump speaks during a rally at the Macon Coliseum in Macon, Georgia, November 30, 2015.
Donald Trump's blatant appeal to fascist ideology and policy considerations took a more barefaced and dangerous turn this week when he released a statement calling for "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States." Trump qualified this racist appeal to voters' fears about Muslims by stating that such a ban is necessary "until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on."

When Trump proposed the ban at a rally at the USS Yorktown in South Carolina, his plan drew loud cheers from the crowd. Many critics have responded by making clear that Trump's attempts to place a religious test on immigration and travel are unconstitutional. Others have expressed shock in the face of a proposal that violates the democratic ideals that have shaped US history. Fellow Republican Jeb Bush called Trump "unhinged."

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Trump, in all of his fascist wisdom, calls for a complete ban on Muslims entering the US and 'closing up' of the internet

Jay Syrmopoulos
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 08 Dec 2015 18:29 UTC
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On Monday, Donald Trump issued a statement advocating "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our representatives can figure out what's going on."

Only hours after calling for a "total and complete ban on Muslims entering the United States," the Republican presidential candidate forwarded the notion that America should also consider "closing the Internet up in some way," as a means of fighting the Islamic State.

During a speech, Trump said that children in America are "watching the internet and they want to be masterminds," and "we're losing a lot of people because of the internet."

Forwarding the narrative that the internet is responsible for radicalizing Muslims, a contentious point, to say the least, Trump called for closing down the internet, by oddly invoking Microsoft founder Bill Gates as a point man of sorts in his ludicrous scheme.

Comment: Regardless of whether Trump makes it to the White House, he is doing a superb job of stirring up fear and Islamophobia.

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Arrow Up

The Hulk blasts Monsanto CEO after CBS interview

Julie Fidler
Natural Society
Mon, 07 Dec 2015 18:38 UTC
Monsanto CEO
© Mark Ruffalo/TumblrMonsanto CEO Hugh Grant on the left.
Actor Mark Ruffalo got the chance to do something that many of us could only dream of doing when he told off the CEO of Monsanto, Hugh Grant, in the Green Room at CBS while Ruffalo was waiting to do a segment about his new movie, Spotlight.

Ruffalo writes at EcoWatch.com that it was an uncomfortable move for him, but a necessary one, as "we must call out the people who are doing horrible things when they do them."

On December 2, Ruffalo was waiting to go on the air to discuss Spotlight when he spotted Grant "worm his way through the strong questions he was getting from the CBS team." Ruffalo says Grant's "handlers" had obviously been prepping him for such interviews by supplying him with slick non-answers to interviewers' questions.
"I simply told him this:

'You are wrong. You are engaged in monopolizing food. You are poisoning people. You are killing small farms. You are killing bees. What you are doing is dead wrong.'

A bead of sweat broke out on his head. 'Well, what I think we are doing is good,' Grant replied.

'I am sure you do,' I told him."
The actor, who portrayed the Hulk in The Avengers and Avengers: Age of Ultron, claims Grant told him that Monsanto needs to do a better job with their messaging, but Ruffalo vehemently disagrees.
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Sheriff

Pittsburgh cops say drug testing is unconstitutional...but only for themselves

William N. Grigg
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 08 Dec 2015 18:16 UTC
cop drug test
In an unprecedented protest against the routine offenses against due process and bodily integrity carried out in the name of the "war on drugs," the union representing Pittsburgh police officers has condemned workplace drug and alcohol testing as a violation of the Constitution. Their zeal for the right to privacy only applies to themselves, however, not to the public they supposedly serve.

NBC affiliate WPXI reports that the Pittsburgh Lodge of the Fraternal Order of Police "has filed a civil rights grievance against the city, claiming officers have been order to undergo drug and alcohol testing that is in violation of their contract." Union attorney Bryan Campbell describes the policy as "an illegal search and seizure."

To which those not protected by Blue Privilege might respond: Welcome to our world, FOP.
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Health

Flesh eating disease spreads in terrorist-controlled Syria


RT
Tue, 08 Dec 2015 16:14 UTC
Syria flesh eating disease
© wikisabah.blogspot.com
Outbreak of flesh-eating skin disease grips ISIS-controlled areas in Syria
The collapse of medical services in terrorist-controlled parts of Syria has caused the spread of a flesh-eating virus transmitted by parasites munching on corpses dumped in the streets.

"As a result of abominable acts by ISIS that included the killing of innocent people and dumping their corpses in streets, this is the leading factor behind the rapid spread of Leishmanisis disease," Dilqash Isa, the head of the Kurdish Red Crescent told the Kurdish Rudaw news.

Comment: Truly heart wrenching.

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Dispelling the myth that Muslims aren't doing enough to fight terrorists groups: They are, in fact, on the front lines


Sputnik
Tue, 08 Dec 2015 14:01 UTC
Syrian Army
© Sputnik/ Mikhail Voskresenskiy
Muslims all over the world are fighting extremism, and if we really want to stop Daesh (ISIL/ISIS), we need to work with them, not against them. This is not, of course, what Republicans think.

In the wake of the San Bernardino shooting, they've ramped up their usual fearmongering about Muslims and Islam, a religion practiced by 1.6 billion people with a rich 1,500 year history of scholarship, art, and culture.

"Moderate" Muslims, Republican say, just aren't doing enough to fight radical groups like Daesh. This argument is so flat-out wrong and inaccurate it wouldn't be worth talking about if it weren't echoed everyday on cable news by right-wing stooge after right-wing stooge.

The fact is that every day Muslims ARE fighting Daesh.

They're fighting Daesh on the ground in Syria and Iraq, they're fighting Daesh as members of our armed forces, and they're fighting Daesh in their mosques and communities where they are doing their best to stop extremism before it starts. Everyday Muslims hate Daesh more than anyone, and that's not just because most of its victims are, you know, Muslim.
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Iran: Cyber police FATA arrest 53 Daesh propagandists


Press TV
Mon, 07 Dec 2015 11:02 UTC
Hadianfar
© shiapost.comBrigadier General Kamal Hadianfar
Iran's cyber police unit known as FATA has arrested 53 people for supporting the dogma of the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group on the Internet over the past 20 months.

Head of Iran's cyber police Brigadier General Kamal Hadianfar said on Monday that some of those individuals who had backed the Daesh dogma out of negligence were released on their own recognizance while the rest remained in custody. Hadianfar said that the majority of the individuals had been arrested in Iran's border provinces.

During the same period, said the commander, FATA identified some 285 pro-Daesh websites and profiles, 108 of which were based overseas and countered through the Interpol. Some 132 websites that had promoted the Daesh dogma were identified and blocked during the past eight months, he added.

Comment: Whether the activities of Daesh have "links to Islam" or not, we should follow the breadcrumbs back to the founders, trainers and keepers of this group. The rest is blur and window dressing compared to the demon spawn itself, its hell-bent originators and their heinous agenda.

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Cops respond to hostage situation by killing the victim - who had a lawsuit against them

William N. Grigg
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 08 Dec 2015 02:58 UTC
SWAT_Funk
© The Free Thought Project
The suspect is alive and the only person killed by police in an hours-long SWAT standoff is a hostage, who happened to be suing them.

The only casualty of an hours-long SWAT raid and hostage situation in Neenah, Wisconsin was a disabled veteran who had filed a $50 million civil rights suit after he survived a similar SWAT raid three years ago.

Michael Funk, a co-owner of Eagle Nation Cycles, was shot and killed by police after being held hostage for several hours on December 5. Police evacuated several buildings and closed down an entire street in the city, which is located about 40 miles south of Green Bay.

"Mike worked there," observed attorney Cole White, who had represented him in his lawsuit against the City of Neenah and its police department. "Mike was a hostage ... not a suspect, he was not involved criminally. He was a hostage that was taken at gunpoint by this maniac."

A suspect was taken into custody at about 1:00 PM. His name has not been released, nor has the name of the officer who killed Funk. The official story is that Funk, who had a concealed carry license, refused to drop his gun in response to police commands after he fled the building.According to the preliminary police account, the still-unidentified officer who killed Funk was shot and suffered trivial injuries. It isn't known how the hostage situation began.
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Red Flag

U.S. Dept of Justice opens civil rights probe over Chicago police shooting; 409 shootings since 2007


Sky News
Mon, 07 Dec 2015 18:04 UTC
Laquan McDonald
© Skynews
The investigation comes as Chicago officials announce an officer involved in a second fatal shooting will not be charged

The US Justice Department will launch a wide-ranging investigation into the Chicago Police Department following the release of a video showing the shooting of a black teenager.

The civil rights probe, which comes after similar investigations in Baltimore and Ferguson, follows intense scrutiny surrounding the police department and Mayor Rahm Emanuel over their handling of the death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald.

Officer Jason Van Dyke was charged with first-degree murder on 24 November, more than a year after the teenager's death and hours before police dashboard camera footage showing the fatal shooting was released.

The video showed Mr McDonald moving away from officers when Van Dyke opened fire from close range. The officer continued shooting after the teenager fell to the ground and stopped moving.

Chicago City Council signed off on a $5m (£3.3m) settlement with Mr McDonald's family before they had filed a lawsuit and officials fought for months in court to prevent the video, which does not include sound, from being released publicly.

Comment: Police State America: Cops have killed over 1000 people in 2015

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Attention

Dire warning from Peter Schiff: "The whole economy has imploded... collapse is coming"

Mac Slavo
SHTFplan
Sun, 06 Dec 2015 00:00 UTC
financial tidal wave
Back before 2008 Peter Schiff was harshly criticized and laughed at for his predictions about a coming economic collapse. Among other things Schiff warned that consumer spending had hit a wall, stocks were overpriced and lax credit lending practices would lead to a detonation of the banking system. Rather than heed the warnings, the biggest names in mainstream media tried to discredit him for not toeing the official narrative. Shortly thereafter, of course, Schiff was vindicated and much of the doom he had forecast came to pass.

Today, Schiff continues to argue that the economy is on a downhill trajectory and this time there'll be no stopping it. All of the emergency measures implemented by the government following the Crash of 2008 were merely temporary stop-gaps. The light at the end of the tunnel being touted by officials as recovery, Schiff has famously said, is actually an oncoming train. And if the forecast he laid out in his latest interview is as accurate as those he shared in 2007, then the the train is about to derail.

Comment: For an excellent deconstruction of the house of cards on which our economy is built - as well as some ways in which to ameliorate the coming pain see: 2015, the BRICS checkmate Western finance? (This article is not just about BRICS.)

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