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Tag: Anarchism

Donald Trump: Performance Artist or Closet Anarchist?

Posted on 2015/08/08 - 2015/08/08 by jd
Trump giving his New Jersey Jack-Off gang sign to his supporters while discussing feminism.  Seriously.
Trump giving his Queens NYC Jack-Off gang sign to his supporters while discussing feminism. Seriously.

BAIER: [….] And you said recently, quote, “When you give [money], they do whatever the hell you want them to do.”
TRUMP: You’d better believe it.
BAIER: — they do?
TRUMP: If I ask them, if I need them, you know, most of the people on this stage I’ve given to, just so you understand, a lot of money.
TRUMP: I will tell you that our system is broken. I gave to many people, before this, before two months ago, I was a businessman. I give to everybody. When they call, I give. And do you know what? When I need something from them two years later, three years later, I call them, they are there for me. And that’s a broken system.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What did you get from Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi?
TRUMP: Well, I’ll tell you what, with Hillary Clinton, I said be at my wedding and she came to my wedding. You know why?
She didn’t have a choice because I gave.
I gave to a foundation that, frankly, that foundation is supposed to do good. I didn’t know her money would be used on private jets going all over the world. It was.
BAIER: Hold on…..We’re going to — we’re going to move on.”
Source: Trump’s Triumph: Billionaire Blowhard Exposes Fake Political System

Video starts at 1min 57secs…

Posted in news dumpTagged 2016 USA Elections, Anarchism, Capitalism, Socialism

Eric Holder’s Revolving Door of Legal Corruption

Posted on 2015/07/08 by jd

This is why his Justice Department coordinated repression against the Occupy Movement and he is now being rewarded for it.

‘[Obama’s U.S. Attorney General (Min. of Justice) Eric] Holder also did a great deal to protect big banks during his tenure at the Department of Justice.

As journalist Lee Fang pointed out in the Intercept on Monday, “The Department of Justice under Holder not only failed to pursue criminal prosecutions of the banks responsible for the mortage meltdown, but in fact de-prioritized investigations of mortgage fraud, making it the ‘lowest-ranked criminal threat,’ according to an inspector general report.”

Moreover, Holder is famous for his ethos and phrase: big banks are “too big to jail.”…’

via After 6-Year Tenure Not Prosecuting Banks, Eric Holder Returns 'Home' to Defend Them | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community.

Posted in news dumpTagged Anarchism, Capitalism, End of the Republic (USA), Socialism

Young children carry out Restorative Justice

Posted on 2015/06/24 - 2015/06/24 by jd

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‘…"What surprised us is that children responded equally to the theft, unfairness, and loss conditions," Jensen says. "They treated all of them equivalent, whether they were affected or whether the puppet was affected." The children viewed a third-party violation with as much disdain as they did a personal one, and where adults might discriminate between outright theft, loss, or an unfair situation, the children punished them all equally. The children preferred restoration to punishment, and when they were able to restore stolen or lost items, they usually returned the hot items to the original owner, "even if the original owner was another puppet," Jensen says.

Taken together, the findings indicate that children’s reactions to third-party violations were more about responding to the needs of the "victim" than they were about punishing perpetrators.

"Young children seem to be very responsive to the distress that another individual might be feeling. This is called effective perspective taking," Jensen says. "This ability to show concern for others seems to be a very strong motivational force."

As adults, our sense of justice is based on learned rules and norms; we wield punishment as a deterrent and a form of revenge. But "in young children, it seems that we start with the pro-social aspect of [justice]," Jensen says, starting "with the concern we have for the individual who’s harmed. Those other aspects of justice then become layered on top of that."…’

via Toddlers Carrying Out Restorative Justice – Pacific Standard.

Posted in news dumpTagged Anarchism, Culture, Socialism, sociology 101

Goodbye LieberLand #‎StupidLibertarians‬

Posted on 2015/05/11 by jd

perhaps he can use his bitcoins to bail himself out?
‪#‎StupidLibertarians‬

On Saturday, less than a month after Czech activist Vit Jedlicka declared himself president of a patch of land between Serbia and Croatia, and named it Lieberland, he was shortly detained by Croatian border police. Police from Serbia and Croatia have tried to prevent several people entering Lieberland.
Croatian police arrest ‘president’ of Lieberland

Libertarian Paradise 4EVAR…

Posted in news dumpTagged Anarchism, Capitalism, Globalism

Noam Chomsky speaking to Chris Hedges about America today…

Posted on 2015/04/28 by jd

Noam Chomsky speaking to Chris Hedges about America today…

“I have never seen anything like this in my lifetime,” Chomsky added. “I am old enough to remember the 1930s. My whole family was unemployed. There were far more desperate conditions than today. But it was hopeful. People had hope. The CIO was organizing. No one wants to say it anymore but the Communist Party was the spearhead for labor and civil rights organizing. Even things like giving my unemployed seamstress aunt a week in the country. It was a life. There is nothing like that now. The mood of the country is frightening. The level of anger, frustration and hatred of institutions is not organized in a constructive way. It is going off into self-destructive fantasies.”

“I listen to talk radio,” Chomsky said. “I don’t want to hear Rush Limbaugh. I want to hear the people calling in. They are like [suicide pilot] Joe Stack. What is happening to me? I have done all the right things. I am a God-fearing Christian. I work hard for my family. I have a gun. I believe in the values of the country and my life is collapsing.”

via Chris Hedges: Noam Chomsky Has ‘Never Seen Anything Like This’ – Chris Hedges – Truthdig.

Posted in news dumpTagged 2016 USA Elections, Anarchism, Capitalism, End of the Republic (USA), sociology 101, USofA

Video » ‪‎Noam Chomsky‬ explains why America is always on top

Posted on 2015/04/16 - 2015/04/16 by jd

‪‎Noam Chomsky‬ discusses American White Supremacy, US imperialism and why North America and Europe are always on the top of a map, and not at the bottom…. [2 mins]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGHpWST7l9I

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Posted in news dumpTagged Anarchism, Endless War, Propaganda, sociology 101

Mario Draghi Attacked by Protester at ECB Press Conference

Posted on 2015/04/16 - 2015/04/16 by jd

‘April 15 — European Central Bank President Mario Draghi was attacked by a protester yelling “end the ECB dictatorship” during a press conference today. The event resumed a few minutes later.’

UPDATE: Who was the woman that threw confetti at Mario Draghi?
http://redjade.noblogs.org/20150416/990

Posted in news dumpTagged Anarchism, Capitalism, EU, EU Austerity, Socialism

Noam Chomsky explains the US Republican Party

Posted on 2015/03/23 by jd

Posted in news dumpTagged 2016 USA Elections, Anarchism, End of the Republic (USA)

Video: Iceland’s Pirates to rule?

Posted on 2015/03/19 - 2015/03/19 by jd

‘…[Bir­gitta Jóns­dót­tir, MP for the Pi­rate Party] says that she does not want to be­come Prime Min­is­ter and if the Pi­rates were to re­ceive this num­ber of votes in the next gen­eral elec­tions the party would not be likely to form a coali­tion gov­ern­ment with the rul­ing par­ties, the In­de­pen­dence Party and the Pro­gres­sive Party…’
via Pirate captain as Prime Minister? – mbl.is.

Posted in news dumpTagged Anarchism, Capitalism, EU, Socialism

The Coup: Economics is the symphony of hunger and theft

Posted on 2015/03/15 by jd

Strange Arithmetic (lyrics) by The Coup

History has taught me some strange arithmetic
Using swords, prison bars, and pistol grips
English is the art of bombing towns
While assuring that you really only blessed the ground
Science is that honorable, useful study
Where you contort the molecules and then you make that money
In mathematics, dead children don’t get added
But they count the cost of bullets comin out the automatic

Teacher
My hands up
Please, don’t make me a victim
Teachers
Stand up
You need to tell us how to flip this system

Economics is the symphony of hunger and theft
Mortar shells often echo out the cashing of checks
In Geography class, it’s borders, mountains and rivers
But they will never show the line between the takers and givers
Algebra is that unique occasion
In which a school can say that there should be a balanced equation
And then Statistics is the tool of the complicit
To say everybody’s with it and that you’re the only critic

Social Studies, the goliath to tackle
Which turns into a sermon on simplicity of shackles
Physics is to school you on the science of force
‘Cept for how to break the hell out the ghetto, of course
Home Ec can teach you how to make a few sauces
And accept low pay from your Walmart bosses
If your school won’t show you how to fight for what’s needed
Then they’re training you to go through life and get cheated

https://vimeo.com/103299654

Posted in news dumpTagged Anarchism, Capitalism, EU, USofA

Ivana Hoffman died for an Anarchist Syria

Posted on 2015/03/11 - 2015/03/11 by jd

Ivana Hoffman

‘…A hint of defiance, a look of liberated joy: that’s the expression etched on the face of this foreign fighter. Ivana Hoffman, 19, did not leave Germany to fight for Islamic State, of course, but for the Kurdish struggle.

In the photograph being widely distributed, she stands in front of the emblematic hammer-and-sickle icon. Hoffman was a communist, fighting to “defend the revolution”, she said. What is being forgotten is that the great war of northern Syria is not simply a defensive struggle against Isis’s barbarism but a revolution in its own right, and the likes of Hoffman are heroes of the left.

[….] In northern Syria, the struggle is led by the Democratic Union party, a radically democratic, feminist, leftwing force and an affiliate of the Kurdistan Workers’ party. Once Stalinist, the PKK has evolved, now drawing inspiration from the libertarian socialism of the US theoretician Murray Bookchin….’

via Why the revolutionary Kurdish fight against Isis deserves our support | Owen Jones | Comment is free | The Guardian.

Posted in news dumpTagged Anarchism, Islamophobia

Video + Statement: Greek Anarchists occupy Syriza’s headquarters

Posted on 2015/03/09 - 2015/03/09 by jd

Greek Anarchists have occupied Syriza’s headquarters in Athens as an act of solidarity with an ongoing hunger strike.

The statement from the occupation:
‘Today Sunday 8 of March we occupy the central offices of the government SYRIZA in Koumoundourou Street.
We stand in solidarity with the hunger strikers, political prisoners in Greece, and we ask that their demands are satisfied.
1. Abolition of the Anti-terrorist Law Α’, article 187, Law 2001 (criminal organization)
2. Abolition of the Anti-terrorist Law B’, article 187A, Law 2004 (terrorist organization)
3. Abolition of the “hoodie law” (acts committed with concealed physical characteristics)
4. Abolition of the legal framework for type C prisons
5. The immediate release from prison of Savvas Xiros (convicted for his participation in the R.O. 17 November) on health grounds
6. Against the criminalization of the family relations of the members of the R.O. Conspiracy of Cells of Fire.
via Anarchists occupy Syriza’s headquarters.

 

Posted in news dumpTagged Anarchism, EU Austerity, Greece

check again.

Posted on 2015/03/07 - 2015/03/07 by jd

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New yorker cartoon

Posted in news dumpTagged Anarchism, Cartoons

Emma Goldman Papers forced to leave Berkeley

Posted on 2015/02/13 - 2015/02/13 by jd

Surprise! Surprise! the state doesn’t want to fund Anarchism.
As Infoshop.org says, time to step up and support.

‘…“I’m afraid Dr. Falk has made this a bit adversarial,” [Berkeley Associate Chancellor Nils Gilman says], “and we need to put things into some historical perspective. Since the project began, state support for the university has been slashed. So now, all research projects must find their own basis of support. Our current approach is to provide seed funding, but we make it clear that it comes with a time delimitation—typically three to five years. By contrast, the university provided financial support for the Goldman project for 25 years….’
via One Fewer Radical at Berkeley: Emma Goldman Papers Forced to Go Elsewhere | California Magazine.

Posted in news dumpTagged Anarchism, Capitalism, Socialism, USofA
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