In photo, racist suspect Emre Umar, president of Correctional Medical Care, is questioned on the death of Mark Cannon during a deposition on July 15, 2016.
From [HERE] A private medical company and Albany County have agreed to pay nearly $1.1 million to the estate of a Black man who died when nurses waited more than 12 hours to call an ambulance after he suffered a stroke while being held at the county jail in August 2014.
Last year, an investigation ordered by the state Commission of Correction determined the care given to 24-year-old Mark Cannon was "so grossly inadequate ... it shocks the conscience."
Mark Cannon, died in August 2014 after suffering a stroke at Albany County jail. Nurses for a private medical company waited more than 12 hours to call an ambulance and were harshly criticized by state investigators for "egregious" errors in care.
The settlement was filed recently in U.S. District Court in Albany, where Cannon's mother had filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Cannon's infant daughter.
Cannon's symptoms steadily worsened after employees of a medical company that had a contract with the county brushed off his severe neurological symptoms as heat exhaustion, instructing guards to give him water and let him rest.
Later that night, Cannon's condition had deteriorated to the point where he lay nearly motionless on the floor of an infirmary cell with foam oozing from his mouth. A nurse patted his arm and wiped away the saliva, wrongly believing Cannon was recovering from a seizure even though he had no history of medical problems.
A nurse finally contacted a doctor for advice, and he instructed her to immediately call an ambulance. But it was too late: Cannon lingered for several days at Albany Medical Center Hospital before he was removed from life support.
Doctors determined Cannon had suffered a stroke — a loss of blood flow to his brain stem — that may have been caused by working out in the jail's recreation area on the day he fell ill. Emergency surgery might have saved his life, but too many hours had passed after the injury.
The state's investigation cited multiple missteps by nurses, including their repeated failure to acknowledge the severity of Cannon's symptoms or consult a physician until it was too late.
"Mark Cannon had a progressively deteriorating neurological situation that was completely disregarded by nursing staff despite dramatic signs and symptoms of an active neurological emergency and Cannon's repeated requests for medical care," the investigative report states.
The sharp criticism of Correctional Medical Care, a Pennsylvania-based private company, came as the state was probing the company's conduct related to multiple inmate deaths across the state.
The settlement filed in U.S. District Court calls for the company to pay $999,999, and Albany County to pay $95,000. Neither the company nor the county acknowledged any wrongdoing.
No Emergency. No Hostage: 30 White SWAT Cops Respond to Domestic Call w/Armored Vehicle, Helicopter & Snipers. Murder Black Man Holding His Son & Posing No Threat. From [HERE] and [MORE] Fourteen hours with an arbitrator was not enough to resolve a bitter dispute over the $15.1 million federal jury verdict against the Lakewood Police Department, its chief and two officers for the 2013 fatal shooting of an unarmed African-American man holding his son, according to court documents.
A federal judge had hoped lawyers representing the family and estate of Leonard Thomas and those for Lakewood, Chief Mike Zaro and the other officers could reach a settlement. However, the city’s attorneys have notified U.S. District Judge Barbara Rothstein that mediation has failed and are asking for a hearing.
Rothstein could set a hearing on several pending motions or rule on them without additional argument.
The city of Lakewood, Zaro and two of his officers, Sgt. Brian Markert and Officer Mike Wiley, were the focus of the July jury verdict, which levied $8.6 million in compensatory damages to Thomas’ parents and 9-year-old son, and an unprecedented $6.5 million in punitive damages against Zaro ($3 million), Markert ($2 million) and Wiley ($1.5 million).
They were the key players in a four-hour SWAT standoffthat ended when Thomas was shot by Markert, a sniper, as Thomas stood on the front porch of his Fife home with his 4-year-old son after agreeing to send the boy home with the boy’s grandmother.
Thomas was unarmed when he was shot, and no firearms were found in the Thomas home. Testimony showed that he had never threatened himself, his son or police during the incident.
The incident was tragically avoidable and that the arrival of the SWAT team - which surrounded the home and parked an armored-personnel carrier on Thomas' front lawn - escalated a minor domestic argument into a siege.
Pierce County Prosecutor Mark Lindquist, racist suspect in photo above, concluded the shooting was lawful and determined the SWAT sniper "did what was necessary to protect a child."
Attorney Tiffany Cartwright, one of the lawyers representing Thomas' parents and his now 9-year-old son, told the jury that nothing that the drunken, despondent, bipolar man did warranted a massive police response the night of May 23, 2013, for a misdemeanor, domestic-violence offense. Two armored vehicles and at least 27 officers responded, including the Pierce Metro SWAT team.
Based on photographs introduced in trial, the majority, if not all, of the officers were white. Attorneys for Thomas' family said in court documents that the case was "steeped in race."
“I want justice because my son didn’t need to be murdered. He had the knife to his own neck. I want justice for my son. I want those cops to be reprimanded. These Denver cops love to kill Natives. They love to kill people of color here,” Eagle Feather, Paul Casaway's mother. [MORE]
From [HERE] Last year, the mother of Paul Castaway, a suicidal man who was holding a knife to his own throat when he was killed by Denver police officer Michael Traudt in July 2015, filed a wrongful-death lawsuit in the case, with attorney Matthew Buck arguing that Castaway was "effectively murdered" during an incident captured on video, as seen below. Now, a U.S. District Court judge has denied a motion to dismiss the excessive-force aspect of the allegations against Traudt, keeping the case alive and on track for what could be a blockbuster trial.
"If you look at the video, there's no way a jury doesn't find that this police officer killed Paul Castaway and violated his civil rights," Buck maintains. "That's why I think they fought so hard to get the case away from a jury. Because axiomatically, it's murder."
Along with Traudt, the other defendants in the suit, which can be accessed here along with the latest order, were the City and County of Denver, Chief of Police Robert White and Jerry Lara, another officer who responded to the fateful call about Castaway. Wiley Y. Daniel, senior judge for the 10th Circuit, tossed the claims against Denver, White and Lara, as well as ones that targeted Traudt in his official capacity. However, Traudt is still on the hook as an individual in regard to actions for which he wasn't punished by either the Denver Police Department or the Denver District Attorney's Office under previous DA Mitch Morrissey.
"The DPD did an internal investigation, and they determined, as they always do, that this murder was justified," Buck told us for our previous post. "Then Mitch Morrissey determined, as he always does, that this murder was warranted. He will end his term having been feckless and allowing the DPD in this case to ruthlessly murder a citizen as opposed to protecting and serving, as they are supposed to do."
Seconding these thoughts was Lynn Eagle Feather, Castaway's mom, who reached out to police in the first place. "I called for help, not a killing," she said last year.
From [HERE] Two Columbus police officers used excessive force when they killed a 25-year-old man during an encounter on a Far East Side street last year, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday in federal court.
The wrongful-death suit contends that Officers Matthew Baase and John Narewski confronted Deaunte Bell-McGrew on Oct. 29, 2016 "in a fashion that unnecessarily created a dangerous situation."
A Franklin County grand jury declined to indict the officers on May 11.
Bell-McGrew was with two other people in a car when the officers approached them at the Amberly Square Apartments off Refugee Road, just east of Noe-Bixby Road, because of suspicious activity, police said. Police didn’t give further details of what the "suspicious activity" was but cops believe all Blacks are suspicious - b/c they are not white.
The officers said they tried "to talk with" Bell-McGrew, who was in the back seat, but he refused to comply with an order to put his hands up, according to Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O'Brien. It is not clear why cops had ordered to detain him at this point. Bell-McGrew struggled with Narewski and reached for a gun in his pocket, police said. He was shot six times by the officers and died at OhioHealth Grant Medical Center.
Bell-McGrew was on probation at the time for possessing a 9 mm handgun that he wasn't allowed to have because of a felony record, police said.
Baase, 41, was a 16-year veteran of the police division at the time and Narewski, 44, had been an officer for 15 years.
Christopher M. Cooper, the plaintiff in the suit and administrator of Bell-McGrew's estate, said Bell-McGrew was sitting in the back seat of the car talking with friends when Narewski approached asking what they were doing.
Suddenly, "for no apparent reason," Narewski opened the door where Deaunte was sitting and ordered him out of the vehicle, Cooper said.
"Deaunte (Bell-McGrew), as he had a constitutional right to do, repeatedly asked Officer Narewski what he did, why he was being ordered from the vehicle, and what law he had violated," according to the suit. Instead of answering Bell-McGrew, Narewski replied “I know exactly who the f--- you are,” and grabbed Bell-McGrew in an attempt to pull him from the vehicle, the suit states.
Narewski struggled to pull Bell-McGrew from the vehicle, still ignoring Bell-McGrew's questions.
At some point during the struggle, Baase yelled “gun!” and fired a shot into the vehicle, the suit states. Narewski backed away from the car while pulling his weapon and fired at Bell-McGrew, who was still sitting in the vehicle, hitting him at least five times.
From [HERE] White jurors didn’t buy the allegations of a Black man who accused a controversia, white Broward Sheriff’s Office deputy of allowing a police dog to attack him for an unreasonable length of time.
They found that Deputy Gerald “Jerry” Wengert did not use excessive force when his police dog partner at the time, Diesel, bit and held down a suspect during a November 2014 arrest in Tamarac. Jurors found Wengert’s actions were reasonable for a law enforcement officer and handler of the highly trained dog.
The jury in the civil lawsuit deliberated for four hours and 15 minutes before reaching their verdict on Thursday in federal court in Miami.
Wengert – a veteran deputy who featured with one of his former police dog partners in the reality TV show “Unleashed: K-9 Broward County” – is still facing other allegations of excessive force and one wrongful death in several unrelated cases. Jurors in the civil case were not told about the other complaints.
Reginald Chatman, 25, who is serving a state prison sentence for convictions related to the Nov. 10, 2014 incident, claimed he suffered leg injuries when Wengert’s dog, Diesel, bit him while he was hiding from deputies.
Chatman testified that he was coming down from a high after taking drugs when the incident unfolded. He said he thought he had smoked either a mix of cocaine and Ecstasy with marijuana or marijuana and flakka, a stimulant.
The case started out with a very minor offense but escalated.
Chatman and a friend admitted they stole $30 worth of cookies and milk from a CVS store at Commercial Boulevard and State Road 7. When deputies questioned them, Chatman ran off, pushing one of the deputies and causing him to bump into the other deputy.
Sheriff’s officials treated the incident as a felony battery on a law enforcement officer by a fleeing suspect who might have been armed. They dispatched several deputies and four police canine teams to the area and launched a helicopter to help with the search.
Wengert testified that he – and Diesel – did precisely what they were trained to do and that the dog has never disobeyed an order to release a suspect. The dog found Chatman hiding in a bush, bit his leg and held him until Chatman was handcuffed and Wengert told Diesel to release his bite.
“I would not change anything that I did that night,” Wengert testified.
From [HERE] Just 24 hours after three Pomona Police Department officers were indicted by the FBI for excessive force in a 2015 incident, NBC4 has learned of three more alleged victims who filed a civil lawsuit against the department and three individual officers -- one of whom was involved in the first lawsuit.
Three brothers who used to live in the area alleged they were beaten without warning by the officers in October 2015, just one month after the alleged beating of a 16-year-old at the Los Angeles County Fair.
The lawsuit, which was filed on Oct. 4, states the officers and department violated the brothers' civil rights and that the officers approached their vehicle as the trio was getting ready for work. One of the brothers stepped out of the vehicle to speak with an officer, which allegedly prompted the official to draw his gun. Another brother, who was in the vehicle, was allegedly dragged out of the car by an officer afterwards. The last brother ran outside their apartment to ask what the police were doing and was then reportedly beaten by one of the officers.
"I felt someone had rushed me through the back," Jose Pelayo said. "I got hit in the side of the head and I blacked out."
According to the lawsuit, the officers allegedly fabricated actions in the report following the encounter and failed to document one of the brothers' complaints.
Unknown "Knife," "Fear", "Non-Compliance" & Other Lies by Racist Suspect Cops. From [HERE] and [HERE] The U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals is again expected to hear oral arguments in connection with a $200 million lawsuit that stemmed from the 2013 fatal shooting of a Black man by five white Martinsburg police officers.
In March of 2013, Wayne Jones was tasered and then shot 23 times by 5 white police officers after being approached for jaywalking. Out of the five officers involved, four still work with the Martinsburg Police Department.
A Berkeley County grand jury in October 2013 declined to indict the officers on any criminal charges.
The U.S. Justice Department also announced in April 2016 that it found insufficient evidence to pursue civil-rights charges against the officers.
Arguments in Richmond, Va., have been tentatively set for the Jan. 23-26 argument session by the appellate court, according to a calendar order filed last week.
"We're happy the federal appeals court is taking a close look at this matter," said Paul G. Taylor, who has served as local counsel in the case. "We will continue to vigorously pursue the options available to us to secure a public trial."
A federal judge twice ruled in favor of the Martinsburg Police Department in the wrongful-death lawsuit that was filed by the family of Wayne A. Jones, who was fatally shot multiple times in March 2013.
Wayne A. Jones was walking down the street beside the sidewalk at 11:30pm on March 3, 2013. An Officer Lehman lurked behind him in his patrol unit watching Wayne as he was walking. As Wayne made a wide turn around a parked car, he immediately turned in towards the curb and continued walking. The video depicts Wayne stopping at an intersection and then crossing the street and ultimately stopping when the Officer pulled his vehicle over and exited.
A consensual encounter ensued where Wayne attempted to articulate where he was going and why he was not walking on the sidewalk. Lehman immediately wanted to turn the encounter into a warrantless search and seizure by making several requests and asking Wayne “Where are you going?” and “Do you have any weapons on you?” We know now that Wayne had a pair of scissors in his back pocket because of the Medical Examiner Report. Wayne responded “What is a weapon?”
At this point, one could only surmise that he wanted to know, from the officer, if a pair of scissors was considered a weapon; Regardless, we will never find out because immediately what started out as consensual was escalated to detainment and ultimately a murder. Wayne refused to be detained and asked the Officer “What did I do to you?” and “What do you want?” Over and over – He asked the question. Lehman never said Wayne was under arrest, he never accused him of a crime yet he continued to demand Wayne to put his hands on the vehicle. Wayne Jones refused and was subsequently tazed twice as backup officers arrived on the scene.
From [the74million] In Flint, Michigan, 60 percent of people are black and 4 of every 10 people live in poverty. Flint has little funding supporting its community; thus, those with the greatest need are deprived of resources. Instead of using state resources to address the challenges facing Flint, the state of Michigan decided not to invest in its citizens, pulling resources and severely cutting the budget.
In April 2014, city officials attempted to save money by switching the water supply to a regional water system that wasn’t ready for use yet. While the city waited, they used water from the Flint River. Soon, citizens began to complain about the taste and color of tap water. The city tested the water and found the bacteria E. coli.
To get rid of the E. coli, the city pumped chlorine into the water supply, which damaged the pipes, allowing lead to seep into the water. The city’s water became astonishingly polluted, with lead levels 1,000 times higher than what would ordinarily trigger federal intervention. The pollution caused some residents to break out in rashes, others to have their hair fall out, and others to suffer impaired cognitive development and mood disorders.
It’s difficult to imagine a similar crisis happening in a wealthier, whiter city. What happened in Flint is the product of structural racism — something subtler than what you may have studied in school. Its existence is based on a long history of racial hierarchies that manifested in laws and policies that give advantages to white people, while producing negative outcomes for people of color. Structural racism is racism perpetuated by the fine print.
So what happened in Flint? Throughout the 1960s, the Federal Housing Administration had explicit instructions to deny or limit financial services in Michigan and elsewhere “based on racial or ethnic composition.” This practice, known as “redlining,” made it easier for white people to receive better housing. This encouraged self-segregation, as white people living near people of color were able to move to better neighborhoods.
Redlining was combined with state and private discrimination actions to prevent people of color from achieving economic stability. Preventing people from fully participating in the economy meant that even after the destruction of explicitly racist policies, people of color no longer had economic power. Cities like Flint became majority black and increasingly poor as wealthier white residents left for the suburbs.
Structural inequality is not limited to Flint but is unfortunately embedded in many communities across the country. It is imperative that all of us in America understand and confront structural racism. Outside of our moral and humanitarian obligations, the poisoning of Flint’s water clearly illustrates how political and economic racism can have dire effects for vulnerable populations. [MORE]
Today, Jews are considered to be "honorary whites." If you go to Israel you will immediately notice there is no difference in the physical appearance/skin color of Israeli's and Palestinians, who are classified as non-whites. Remember elite whites do all the classifying. Hitler classifed Jews as 'not pure white' or aryan during Nazi Germany - hence, they had to be destroyed.
As explained by Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, "from 1933 to 1945, Germany - a leading country in Western civilization under the leadership of Adolph Hitler - with the assistance of politicians, doctors, lawyers, professors, judges, scientists and the general population, conducted open warfare against and planned the extermination of Semites of the Jewish religion who were citizens of Germany and other countries of German-occupied Europe.
As persons who were referred to in Germany and throughout Europe as Semites, the Jews were not considered to be white people or aryans. As Semites they were considered to have their genetic roots amongst Africans - Black people on the continent of Africa. Indeed, the word Semite is derived from the Latin prefix "semi," which means half. Semites were the products of the genetic mixture produced when white Greek and Roman soldiers invaded Africa and raped African women, who of course were Black. Semite means the same as mulatto. Thus they were considered to be half Black and half white, or colored people." [MORE]
A man has his nose measured during Aryan race determination tests under Nazi Germany's Nuremberg Laws that was applied to determine whether a person was considered a “Jew”. "Non-Aryan" neurologists were expelled from the country, killed or driven to suicide.
From [Scientific American] Medical historians have recently published accounts that show neurologists were indeed complicit with the Nazis—and became victims if they were classified as “non-Aryan. Heiner Fangerau, who teaches the history and ethics of medicine at University Hospital Düsseldorf—along with colleagues Michael Martin at the Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf and Axel Karenberg from the University of Cologne—undertook extensive research on neurologists during the Third Reich for the German Society of Neurology. Fangerau discussed new findings with Corinna Hartmann and Andreas Jahn of Gehirn&Geist, the psychology and neuroscience specialty publication of Spektrum der Wissenschaft, and the German sister publication of Scientific American.
An edited transcript of the interview follows.
Professor Fangerau, your research project examines the role played by neurologists during the Nazi period. Why is this only happening 70 years after the fact?
There were several different phases in which people dealt with National Socialism after World War II. Immediately after 1945 the Allies pursued a policy of denazification. After that German society as a whole attempted to suppress its dark past. Many members of the next generation, however, found it impossible to close their eyes: Students in the 1968 movement were angry that their parents were unwilling to deal openly with the “Third Reich.” The medical specialties took even longer to begin working through the past. As a result, their reappraisal of the crimes committed began only in the 1980s. Part of the reason why historical research into neurology has only been conducted systematically over the past several years is that neurology and psychiatry were forced into the same disciplinary framework in 1935. Before then neurology had begun to separate from psychiatry. The basic idea was to leave psychological phenomena that are difficult to understand to the psychiatrists and to concentrate on disorders that are anatomically demonstrable. The National Socialists nullified this effort. They believed that they could control these medical specialties more effectively if they brought them together in the Society of German Neurologists and Psychiatrists, which was dominated by psychiatrists committed to the ideology of racial hygiene. The chairman of the society was Ernst Rüdin, a psychiatrist. As a result, neurology has come to be viewed as less implicated. Historical research conducted since the late 1980s, however, paints a very different picture.
What are the most important findings of your research?
Neurology as a discipline was indeed complicit in the crimes of the Nazis. The ideology of racial hygiene combined with opportunistic arguments about compassion and cost reductions served to justify the systematic killing of more than 70,000 disabled and sick people. The Nazis euphemistically called this policy “euthanasia.” Both neurologists and psychiatrists were involved, and it is often difficult to distinguish who was a neurologist and who was a psychiatrist. The doctors assessed patients, and whomever they found to be either problematic or incapable of working was transferred to a killing facility and murdered. Neuroscientists then used the brains of these murdered patients in their research.
What did you find especially shocking?
I found especially frightening the matter-of-factness with which many physicians used the bodies of those that had been killed, and their indifference in carrying out or approving experiments on their patients. After the war these crimes in the name of science were covered up as the acts of individuals. But in fact, these were by no means the acts of sadistic individuals; rather, a large proportion of academic neurologists collaborated with the Nazi system to their mutual benefit. The scientists were the recipients of research projects and state funding, and in return the National Socialists received scientific legitimation for their racial policies. Under the Nazis physicians were to play a major role in the state. And unfortunately, on the whole physicians were prepared to work with the regime.
What sorts of research did neurologists conduct back then?
For one thing, they studied diseases like epilepsy. Their main concern here was to distinguish between hereditary and nonhereditary forms so that patients with a genetic predisposition could be forcibly sterilized in accordance with Nazi eugenic principles. The second research focus was brain anatomy. Using samples from those who had been euthanized, neurologists studied the structure, function and pathology of the brain.
"Evaluating the Effects of Police Body-Worn Cameras: A Randomized Controlled Trial." From [HERE] and [HERE] A new study by the Lab @ DC found that there was not a “statistically significant effect of the body-worn cameras.” Many seem surprised. [MORE]
Police brutality on non-whites is caused by racism/white supremacy. Cameras have no effect on Racism/White Supremacy. "Racism White Supremacy is a virus in the mind, a malignant meme that has both the host of the virus and the whole society sick. White Supremacy (Degeneracy) is socially engineering Black Consciousness and/or also responsible for the falsification of Black consciousness." [MORE] Relentless programming and psy-ops by elite racists has made Black people extremely gullible and well, crazy. This programming must be dropped.
Dr. Amos Wison explains,
"White domination and Black subordination involve special types of social power relations constructed predominantly by Whites in order that they might receive certain material and non-material benefits thereby. These social power relations involve social practices and processes which mediate the White American socioeconomic, sociopolitical, sociopsychological manipulation and construction of Black consciousness and behavior. Under White supremacy Black consciousness and behavior are socially manufactured, labeled, and judged by Whites in ways consonant with their social control and expropriation of Black natural and acquired human resources. The "normality" or "abnormality" of Black consciousness and behavior are so classified with reference to the degree to which they support or oppose to the continuity of White supremacy. "Normal" Black consciousness and behavior under the various regimes of White domination are characterized by habitual thought patterns and behavioral tendencies which render them pliable to White authoritarian/authoritative social control with minimal resistance; which induce Blacks to accept their subordinate status as natural, perhaps actually to misperceive their oppression as freedom. "Abnormal" Black consciousness arid behavior under White supremacy involve habitual thought patterns and behavioral tendencies in Blacks which make their social control by Whites intolerably difficult or ineffective; which induces them to protest, resist and reject their subordinate status as destined or natural, to perceive their oppression as unfreedom." [MORE]
A new poll from Harvard on "racism" was released last week. Pew explains "the share of Americans who say racial discrimination is the main reason that many blacks are unable to get ahead is now at its highest level dating back more than two decades. Still, somewhat more say blacks who are unable to get ahead are mainly responsible for their condition.
Overall, 61% of Americans say the country needs to continue making changes to give blacks equal rights with whites, compared with 35% who say the country has made the changes needed to give blacks equal rights with whites.
There are stark partisan and ideological divisions in these opinions. Core Conservatives stand out for their belief that the country has made the necessary changes to give blacks equal rights (81%). Majorities of Country First Conservatives (66%) and Market Skeptic Republicans (61%) share this view. [MORE]
NPR says "majorities in many ethnic, identity and racial groups" [translation, this means non-whites] in America believe that discrimination exists against their own group, across many areas of people's daily lives, according to a poll from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
The poll asked a wide range of questions about where Americans experience discrimination — from the workplace to the doctor's office — and people's perception of it. The groups polled include whites, blacks, Latinos, Asian-Americans, Native Americans and LGBTQ adults.
White Americans are among those who feel their group is discriminated against, with 55 percent saying discrimination exists against whites in the U.S. today. [MORE] That is, white people "believe" discrimination against them exists and believe" "they encounter it.
Yes and know that "belief" is a real motherfucker. OshoRajineesh states, 'A mind that is filled with belief is a mind which can project anything according to the belief. When you see things, always remember this.' [MORE] Dr. Blynd explains "only the blind must believe in sunlight."
"The experience is the result of the belief, not the other way around. We do not formulate our beliefs based on what we experience. Quite the contrary, the belief comes first and then we create the experience as a projection or trajectory of the belief." You cannot know something and believe it simultaneously and vice versa." A "believer" is "one who accepts that which has no basis in reality. 2) a person who enjoys being deceived. A believer does not seek—just accepts theologies and/or ideologies. 3) one who is addicted to vanity and/or chained to convention with conviction. 4) one who lives in a cloud of illusions, confounded by language and its deceptions. Believers are people who make their lives subjective slaves to a mere belief—engineered my limited and fragmented understanding and fostered by erroneous conclusions based solely on effects and appearances. A true believer would rather believe in something and be wrong than not believe in it and be right." More on belief from Dr. Blynd is [HERE] and much more [HERE].
White people's inability to see things as they really are has to do with the power of their belief in their fantasy of white supremacy/racism. White people don’t see us with their eyes. In the presence of color their eyes are filled with so many thoughts - they are thinking and not seeing - so they are not really present and missing reality in the right now - like walking dead. Unfortunately, racists have the unequal power to bring into reality the bullshit they project. Based on their cartoon beliefs Neuropeans go on projecting and have created a play or pretend world for us to live in - a world based on their idiocy.
But enough about whites & their problems. Whether you choose to either "react" or "respond" to actual reality will determine if you can drop your role in his system.
Racism is a worldwide phenomenon that is highly observable [except on television of course]. Consciously aware or deprogramming Non-whites - those who have eyes and ears to see and hear- can directly experience racism whenever they want to. No study, polls or research is necessary. You can easily test out NeelyFuller's theory that "most white people (51% or more) hate Black people" by just walking out your house and observing for a while. You will see it with your eyes (unless you are mind blocked) or experience it through interactions and thereby "know" through personal experience or "knowing" or through "being." As Dr. Blynd explains, "Belief is for kids."
It is never clear what is meant when people use the words "racism" or "discrimination" but clearly, racists like to use word tricks or confuse with language, for instance by using words with different meanings interchangeably. Racism/white supremacy is primarily carried out through deception. Confusion is a major tool of racists.
The terms "racist" and "racists" and racism are often used interchangeably or confusingly by racists with what is really just bigotry or just name calling or bad behavior directed at someone.
bigot - one who manifests and expresses self hatred and self inferiority. Not to be confused with racism.
Bigotry - manfestation of the self-alien(h)ated and self hatred projected towards others, especially those of a different so-called race. Bigotry is personal, whereas white supremacy racism is an institutionalized group power dynamic and impersonal.
Racism White Supremacy- 1) psychopathic degeneracy. 2) "The local and global power system and dynamic, structured and maintained by persons who classify themselves as white, whether consciously or subconsciously determined, which consists of patterns of perception, logic, symbol formation, thought, speech, action and emotional response, as conducted simultaneously in all areas of people activity (economics, education, entertainment, labour, law, politics, religion, sex and war); for the ultimate purpose of white genetic survival and to prevent white genetic annihilation on planet earth—a planet upon which the vast majority of people are classified as non-white (Black, Brown, Red and Yellow) by white skinned people, and all of the nonwhite people are genetically dominant (in terms of skin coloration) compared to the genetic recessive white skin people." -Dr. Francis Cress Welsing, MD.
In reality, to be a racist is to be an "upholder, supporter and perpetrator of the institution of the White Supremacy Dynamic in a system of oppression (structured and perpetuated injustice—racism) a white over Black system of vast unequal power and unequal conditions.
There is no system of Black supremacy.Nelly Fuller has observed that there is only one functioning form of racism in the known world- White supremacy. He challenges his readers to identify and then to demonstrate the superiority or functional supremacy of any of the world's "non-white" peoples over anyone. Concluding that since there is no operational supremacy of any "colored" people, Fuller reveals that the only valid operational definition of racism is white supremacy. He observes that in spite of any and all statements the world's "non-white" peoples may make about themselves having economic and/or political independence and the like, in the final analysis, they are all victims of the white supremacy process. He places major emphasis on the present realities of the world that can be verified and tested, rather than on what one could imagine to be the case (such as a black or yellow supremacy). He further emphasizes that, instead of focusing on individual cases or on specific locations, a perspective that examines the patterns of relationships between whites and "non-whites" worldwide must be developed. [MORE]
Racism is white supremacy and white supremacy is racism. 'Everywhere one finds Whites and Blacks in close proximity to each other, whether it is Chicago or Zimbabwe, the Whites are in control. This extraordinary universal phenomenon which defies every known statistical law of probability is rarely questioned by African Americans (90% of the world is non-white)'. [MORE] In a system of white supremacy/racism non-whites cannot be racist to whites b/c they have no power to do so. It is a white over Black system of vast unequal power by design.
A: Because this describes exactly WHO is practicing racism. For one group to practice racism that group must have MORE POWER than another group. Since whites control ALL the major areas of human activity in America — housing, education, health, entertainment, economics, politics, law, and religion — it is accurate to define all “racism” as “white supremacy.” We must be accurate so the victims of racism do not become confused.
Q: Isn’t all racism the same, regardless of who is practicing it?
A: There is only ONE kind of racism: white supremacy. White people are the only group in America with the POWER to discriminate (deprive or punish other ethnic groups), and the systems and institutions to maintain the imbalance of power.
For example, rich people are more powerful than poor people. Rich people have the POWER to discriminate against poor people by depriving them of income, promotions, jobs, housing, land, justice, and any other rights – if they choose to do so.
In America, whites have the POWER to discriminate against blacks (and other non-whites) by depriving them of income, promotions, jobs, housing, land, justice, and any other rights – if they choose to do so. It doesn’t matter that some whites are poorer than some blacks.
In all things and in all places in America, whites are collectively more powerful than blacks are collectively. This imbalance of (white) power creates the opportunity and the ability to practice racism against non-whites. Racism is not empty rhetoric (words) or mindless emotion. Racism is economic, political, institutional, and systematic POWER. Since whites control all the institutions and systems of power in America, only whites have the power to practice racism. [MORE]
"Q: Are you saying blacks cannot be racist toward whites?
A: That’s correct. Of course, all people can be hateful or prejudiced. Those terms describe individual behaviors, not systematic power. Racism is the COLLECTIVE behaviors of a group. A white individual within a system of racism/white supremacy has the implicit or explicit support of that system IF they choose to practice racism.
If a poor man robs a rich man at gunpoint that doesn’t mean the poor man is more powerful (economically and politically) than the rich man. The poor man is an individual who committed a crime of opportunity. There are no powerful institutions or systems that support his right to rob the rich man, but there are institutions and systems that allow the rich man to rob the poor man - which is why he doesn’t need a gun to do it.
A black person who mistreats a white person doesn’t mean black people are more powerful (economically and politically) than white people. Never confuse the actions of a black individual (or a group of black individuals) that mistreats someone white as proof that black racism exists. Their “power” is limited ONLY to what they can do as individuals. There are NO black institutions or systems that support, defend, or finance the right of blacks to mistreat whites.
There are NO black individuals or black organizations that have the power to strip whites of their collective right to live where they want, work where they want, get an education wherever they want, or control what white people do collectively in ANY area of human activity. There are NO black institutions that are more powerful than white institutions. Therefore, blacks do not have the COLLECTIVE POWER to diminish the quality of life for the white collective.
Made You Look. From [HERE] and [HERE] The White House is welcoming a congressional measure killing the ability of millions of Americans to band together to sue bank or credit card companies to resolve financial disputes in a major win for Wall Street.
The Senate narrowly voted late Tuesday night to nullify the rule, with Vice President Mike Pence casting the final vote to break a 50-50 tie. The measure now goes to President Donald Trump for his signature.
“President Donald J. Trump applauds the Congress for passing,” the resolution, the White House said in a statement shortly after the vote that highlighted its own Treasury Department report criticizing the rule. “The rule would harm our community banks and credit unions by opening the door to frivolous lawsuits by special interest trial lawyers.” [MORE]
This year, after careful study and deliberation, The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) restored consumers’ constitutional right to challenge fraud, cheating, deception, and swindles perpetrated by banks and other financial institutions before an impartial judge or jury.
Unscrupulous banks, payday lenders, and credit card companies regularly present consumers with one-sided forced arbitration provisions that block consumer access to courts of law and prevent victims from banding together to challenge financial wrongdoing. Private forced arbitration contract provisions also limit consumer rights to present evidence or appeal a bad or unjust decision. Moreover, defendants in such cases are often repeat-offenders, developing cozy relationships with arbitrators and biasing them against consumers. Shockingly, a 2007 Public Citizen report found that arbitrators working for the National Arbitration Forum (NAF) had ruled against consumers 94 percent of the time. (See: Arbitration: Unfair and Everywhere, September 14, 2009.)
There can be no free market without freedom of contract. The Senate’s action to limit consumer rights is a blatant example of crony capitalism. Unbridled corporatism has stripped consumers of their freedom of contract with fine-print, standard-form contracts that become more dictatorial every decade. Consumers are living in a state of contract peonage. Consumer groups throughout the country have documented the problems with forced arbitration and have advocated against these unfair provisions.
In the case of loan contracts that require Service members and family members to waive their right to take legal action, a Department of Defense report goes so far as to say that mandatory arbitration provisions should be outright prohibited:
Service members should maintain full legal recourse against unscrupulous lenders. Loan contracts to Service members should not include mandatory arbitration clauses or onerous notice provisions, and should not require the Service member to waive his or her right of recourse, such as the right to participate in a plaintiff class. Waiver is not a matter of “choice” in take-it-or-leave-it contracts of adhesion…
Mandatory arbitration clause
By eliminating a borrower’s right to sue for abusive lending practices, these clauses work to the benefit of payday lenders over consumers. (See: Report On Predatory Lending Practices Directed at Members of the Armed Forces and Their Dependents, August 9, 2006).
In an August 18, 2016 letter to CFBP Director Richard Cordray and then-Assistant Director Hollister (Holly) K. Petraeus, The Military Coalition (TMC), “a consortium of uniformed services and veterans organizations representing more than 5.5 million current and former Service members and their families and survivors” vehemently expressed their unanimous opposition to forced arbitration:
Forced arbitration is an un-American system wherein service members’ claims against a corporation are funneled into a rigged, secretive system in which all the rules, including the choice of the arbitrator, are picked by the corporation. Found in almost every financial services contract, forced arbitration clauses systematically include a provision banning the rights of consumers to ban together to hold a corporation accountable. Given the exponential and expansive use of these clauses by financial institutions in contracts with service members, prohibiting the practice of forcing service members to surrender fundamental Constitutional and statutory rights through the use of pre-dispute forced arbitration clauses is now more critical than ever.
Our service members protect our nation against both foreign and domestic threats. The sacrifices and logistical undertakings they and their families make in order to serve are compelling reasons alone to ensure they are not only shielded from predatory financial practices and unscrupulous lenders, but are also able to enforce their congressionally mandated rights through our civil justice system if and when violations arise. [MORE]
In photo, a man rides his bicycle through a damaged road in Toa Alta, west of San Juan, Puerto Rico, on September 24, 2017 following the passage of Hurricane Maria. [MORE]
From [HERE] At least two Senate Republicans are delaying swift passage of a disaster aid package — demanding that Puerto Rico be made permanently exempt from a 1920 law that has complicated efforts to send supplies to the hurricane-ravaged territory.
Sens. Jeff Flake of Arizona and Mike Lee of Utah are holding up the legislation, according to GOP sources, due to fiscal concerns but also to allow Puerto Rico to bow out from the Jones Act, which restricts shipments between U.S. ports to just those vessels built and operated by Americans.
“I’ve got concerns about the absence of reforms in this bill, especially its failures to permanently exempt Puerto Rico from the Jones Act and address the shortcomings of the island’s bankrupt, state-run power company," Flake said in a statement. "Given that the national debt is more than $20 trillion, I believe Congress can do more to ensure every dollar in this bill is used as effectively as possible.”
The Senate on Monday evening voted 79-16 to advance the $36.5 billion measure, which has already passed the House. Even with the objections, senators are expected to pass the bill later this week and send it to President Donald Trump for his signature.
Lee wants 30 minutes on the floor to speak about his concerns before the disaster aid package passes, a spokesman said.
The Trump administration issued a 10-day waiver of the Jones Act late last month, but said it would not extend it.
Lee and another Arizona Republican, Sen. John McCain, have introduced a bill that would permanently exempt Puerto Rico from the Jones Act, which the senators say have caused shipping costs from the U.S. mainland to the territory to be double the cost of goods carried from foreign islands near Puerto Rico.
The aid package has been a target of several parochial concerns from senators representing regions recently hit by disaster.
Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) were among the senators pushing for more aid to help their home states recover from the torrent of hurricanes earlier this year.
Cornyn extracted personal assurances last week from the Trump administration that another emergency funding measure will include more money for Texas, which is dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey in late August.
GOP sources said earlier Monday thatSen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) also has a hold on the disaster aid package, but a spokesman said Monday afternoon that the Texas senator released the hold "following conversations with the administration regarding additional supplemental appropriations to provide storm relief to Texans, Floridians, and Puerto Ricans in need."
From [HERE] and [HERE] A total of 74 Puerto Ricans are suspected to be suffering from leptospirosis since Hurricane Maria wreaked havoc across the island last month, and four deaths are being investigated as possible cases of the disease, according to the Associated Press.
Although dozens of people are may be suffering from the bacterial disease, officials have denied to call it an epidemic or a confirmed outbreak.
The disease is the result of contact with water that has been contaminated by animal urine. Puerto Rico averages 60 reported cases of leptospirosis each year. The 74 suspected cases have transpired since Hurricane Maria hit the island.
More than a third of the island remains without running water; some of those affected by leptospirosis fell ill after drinking local stream water.
According to the CDC, symptoms of leptospirosis are wide and varied but can include high fever, jaundice, red eyes and body pain. The CDC also states that some infected people may have no symptoms at all, a worrisome thought for those in Puerto Rico that have resorted to drinking contaminated water.
The time between a person’s exposure to contaminated water and becoming sick can range from two days to four weeks, leaving plenty of time for more cases to be reported over the next month or more.
The CDC states that leptospirosis can last for a few days or several months depending on treatment, yet people in Puerto Rico are dying from the infection.
"While most patients have mild or self-limiting infection, some patients will develop severe infection and present with bleeding or hemorrhage, kidney failure, meningitis and hepatitis," said Dr. M. Rizwan Sohail, a professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Mayo Clinic. "The death rate in patients who develop severe infection is between 5 and 15 percent."
Doctors told HuffPost the U.S. territory is ripe for an outbreak of leptospirosis and other endemic diseases on the island if more aggressive preventive action isn’t taken soon.
Leptospirosis is spread through the urine of infected animals, including rats, pigs, dogs and horses. When a person comes into contact with water, mud or soil that has been contaminated by an infected animal’s urine, the bacteria can enter the body through open abrasions or mucous membranes in the eyes, nose and mouth, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The current conditions in Puerto Rico are ripe for this type of infection.
The disease often mimics many viral infections, making it hard to diagnose, Capó said. It is often underreported or misdiagnosed as dengue, a viral disease transmitted via mosquitoes. But unlike dengue, leptospirosis can be treated early on by using antibiotics. If left untreated, in some strains of the disease, patients may hemorrhage in the lungs or experience kidney failure and die.
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In photo, racist suspect Emre Umar, president of Correctional Medical Care, is questioned on the death of Mark Cannon during a deposition on July 15, 2016.
