NY Prison Authorities Denied Black Man Fair Review after 14 years in Solitary Confinement

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Prison officials failed to give a man who’d spent 14 years in solitary confinement a “meaningful review” of his detention conditions as they kept him in administrative segregation for another five years, the Second Circuit said in a split ruling Friday. 

From 2000 to 2014, Tyrone Walker was in solitary confinement as punishment for an attack on corrections officers. When the term ended in 2014, he was immediately placed in a nearly identical form of imprisonment, having been deemed a threat to safety at the prison — despite his lack of involvement in any violent incident since the 2000 attack. 

When that switch happened, according to the federal appeals court, due process requirements afforded Walker a more thorough analysis of his disposition. 

The court took no view as to whether Walker, now 56 and serving a life prison sentence following his 1994 conviction on two murders and an armed robbery, should have been moved into the general population during the five-year period of administrative segregation. 

“But Walker was entitled to meaningful process assessing that question,” U.S. Circuit Judge Susan Carney wrote in the majority opinion, and “a reasonable jury assessing the record could find that the reviews that his continued solitary confinement received were not constitutionally meaningful.” [MORE]

Yurugu's RichCraft: Venezuela has the World’s Largest Oil Reserves. If You Know That, You Need Know Little Else About Why the Trump Administration Claims Their Elected Government is “Illegitimate”

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DO DICTATORS OR DICTATORSHIPS HAVE ELECTIONS? From [HERE] Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared that the Venezuelan government is “illegitimate.”

“Maduro is NOT the President of Venezuela and his regime is NOT the legitimate government,” Rubio wrote on X. “Maduro is the head of the Cartel de Los Soles, a narco-terror organization which has taken possession of a country.  And he is under indictment for pushing drugs into the United States.”

Last year, Maduro won reelection in Venezuela’s presidential race. The Joe Biden administration responded by accusing Maduro of stealing the election and insisting that opposition figure Edmundo González was the rightful leader.

The Biden State Department used analysis from the Carter Center as the basis for its election rigging claim. While then-Secretary of State Antony Blinken asserted that the Carter Center is “independent,” the organization is funded by the State Department and several other Western states openly hostile to Maduro.

It was unclear whether President Donald Trump would continue the regime change effort in Caracas. Early in his second administration, Trump’s crisis envoy, Richard Grenell, traveled to Venezuela to meet with Maduro and returned with six Americans who were imprisoned in the country.

Soon after, the White House adopted a more aggressive policy, however. Rubio seized a plane owned by the Venezuelan government in February. Later that month, Trump announced that the US would step up the economic war on the South American nation.

Rubio, who is also serving as Trump’s national security adviser, is a long-time advocate of US intervention in Latin America, repeatedly calling for Maduro’s ouster.

Trump supported the attempted overthrow of Maduro during his first term, backing opposition leader Juan Guaido after he declared himself the rightful president of Venezuela. Guaido led a brief coup attempt in 2019 that fizzled in a matter of days, but garnered the full endorsement of Washington. Trump also used “maximum pressure” sanctions in an effort to weaken the Venezuelan economy and Maduro’s hold on power.

However, Guaido never gained significant popular support and the Biden administration eventually abandoned him in favor of González. [MORE]

Michigan State Police and Liberal AG Refuse to Release Videos of Fatal Shooting of Stephen Mason or Identify the Officer who Killed Him. Witnesses say Cop Shot Unarmed Black Man Posing No Threat

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From [HERE] Family, friends, and the attorney for Stephen Mason are calling on Michigan State Police to release video footage of the fatal May 16 shooting by a state trooper in Detroit, citing conflicting eyewitness accounts and a growing suspicion of a coverup.

They’re also urging state Attorney General Dana Nessel to appoint an independent special prosecutor, saying the state cannot fairly investigate itself.

“The transparency factor is not happening here at all, and that causes a lot of suspicion,” Leonard Mungo, an attorney representing Mason’s family, tells Metro Times. “The family doesn’t deserve to be kept in the dark. All they want is to know the truth.”

Mason, a 41-year-old Highland Park resident known for his gentle demeanor and skilled carpentry work, including building Detroit’s 30-foot Kwanzaa kinara at Campus Martius, was pulled over by a Michigan State Police trooper on May 16 around 7:30 p.m. near the Wyoming exit off the Lodge Freeway.

Police allege Mason fired three shots during a struggle, striking the trooper twice in the vest and once in the shoulder. The trooper returned fire, fatally striking Mason, according to MSP. The officer, who has not been named, was treated and released from a local hospital.

But witnesses say what they saw doesn’t match the official narrative.

One eyewitness, who shared a voice memo with Mason’s family, described a scuffle between the officer and Mason before the trooper stood up, cocked his gun, and fired three shots — two to the body and one to the head.

“I said no way, no way I just seen this officer kill this man,” the witness said. “Regardless of what was going on, that man wasn’t any threat.”

The witness, who was exiting the freeway when she saw the altercation, said Mason was trying to push the officer off him as the trooper reached for his gun.

“He didn’t say he was hit,” the witness said of the trooper. “He didn’t call for backup. He just stepped back to catch his breath.”

In an interview with private investigator Scott Lewis, a second witness, Bobby Ingram, said he came upon Mason’s body moments later, before a large police presence arrived. He said Mason was lying dead in the street with a gunshot wound to the forehead, with no gun in sight.

“I didn’t see a weapon at all,” Ingram said. “I was looking around to see how this man was shot.”

Asked why he came forward, Ingram responded that it was the right thing to do.

“I’m a black male in this city. He lost his life,” Ingram said. “If he lost his life and it wasn’t right, then I think we need to address that because that hurts the family, and more people will lose their lives around here if we don't stand up and make sure it’s known because we aren’t going to tolerate this. It’s not right.”

Detroit police are leading the investigation as part of a joint homicide task force with MSP. But Mungo and Mason’s supporters say the investigation is compromised because both agencies are intertwined, and the Attorney General’s office has taken charging authority away from the county prosecutor in cases involving troopers.

“This family doesn’t want to get caught in the middle of a power struggle between the state and county,” Mungo says. “That’s why we’re asking for someone truly independent. These are sober, reasonable requests to get answers.”

Despite repeated requests, Mungo says the family has yet to receive critical information, including any body camera, dashcam, or freeway surveillance footage. On July 4, MSP released a heavily edited video featuring a so-called witness who backed the trooper’s version of events, but no police footage was disclosed.

“They produce video when it clearly favors the police,” Mungo says. “In this case, they keep it hidden. That heightens the suspicion that this is a coverup.”

Mungo says he filed a public records request with the Michigan State Police and Detroit Police Department and is continuing to press for answers. In the meantime, he says the state’s refusal to release videos is making it harder for the family to grieve and heal.

“If the videos show Stephen was in the wrong, the family can begin the grieving process and get closure,” Mungo says. “But if he wasn’t a threat when he was killed, that’s something else entirely. Either way, the truth is in those tapes.”

Gregory McKenzie, who worked closely with Mason on the construction of the city’s Kwanzaa kinara, says Mason was a kind, gentle person and it’s inconceivable he would shoot a police officer.

“It was very devastating,” McKenzie tells Metro Times. “Witnesses are refuting the official narrative. It sounds like [the official version] is not quite what happened.”

The family is pleading with other potential witnesses to come forward and provide statements to help uncover the truth.

“This is the moment for Attorney General Nessel to show us that her commitment to the Black community goes beyond words,” Mungo says. “Equal access to justice under the law means listening to grieving families and shining a light on the truth.”

White Columbus Cop who Murdered Andre Hill Sentenced to 15 Yrs: Fatally Shot Black Man Holding a Cell Phone who Posed No Threat and Committed No Crime During Non-Emergency Event. Liar Cop Denied CPR

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From [HERE] and [HERE] A white Ohio police officer convicted of murder in the shooting of Andre Hill, a Black man who was holding a cellphone and keys when he was killed, was given a mandatory sentence on Monday of 15 years to life.

Columbus officer Adam Coy shot Hill four times in a garage in December 2020. He told jurors that he feared for his life because he thought Hill was holding a silver revolver.

The jury obviously did not find him to be credible and disregarded his testimony as false. The jury consisted of 13 white people and 3 Black people. [MORE]

The judge presiding over the case, Stephen McIntosh, ruled that Coy’s “prior use or non-use of force” could not be discussed during the trial. Judge McIntosh is a former prosecutor. The judge ruled that the jury could not hear about Coy’s history, including prior citizen complaints made about his use of force. Coy’s Columbus Division of Police personnel file showed he received 90 citizen complaints during his time with the department, including an incident where he pulled over a suspected drunk driver and slammed the person’s head on the hood of his police cruiser four times. [MORE]

A Franklin County jury also found the officer guilty of two other charges, felonious assault and reckless homicide. Mr. Coy was taken into custody after the verdict was read.

Coy, who is being treated for Hodgkin’s lymphoma, told the court on Monday he planned to appeal against the verdict.

“I feel my actions were justified,” Coy said. “I reacted the same way I had in hundreds of training scenarios. I drew and fired my weapon to stop a threat, protect myself and my partner.”

At trial however, prosecutors demonstrated that Hill followed police commands and was never a threat to Coy.

Coy fatally shot 47-year-old Andre Hill around 2 a.m. on Dec. 22, 2020, as Hill was leaving a leaving a friend's house on Oberlin Drive. Coy had been called to the neighborhood in response to a non-emergency call from a neighbor who reportedly witnessed someone sit in an SUV and turn the car on and off.

Hill was unarmed and was carrying just his mobile phone when he was shot. He was wearing a Black Lives Matter t-shirt when he was killed.

The body camera footage shows that around 1:30 a.m, Hill inside a garage, walking toward Coy with a cellphone in his hand, the screen lit up and visible. Within seconds, Coy fires his weapons and Hill falls as Coy continues to ask Hill to show his hands.

Coy points his flashlight into the dark garage with his gun drawn and suddenly shoots Hill several times. An autopsy found bullets struck Hill in the chest, twice in the right thigh and an additional time in the right leg.

Coy did not have his body camera on when he got out of his vehicle and approached Hill, a clear violation of police policy. After the shooting, he turned it on, which activated a 60-second "look back" feature and recorded the shooting without audio.

Five minutes after he was shot by Officer Adam Coy, who is white, another officer can be heard in the footage saying: "Let's cuff him up. He's still moving."Mr Hill is then rolled over on to his stomach before being handcuffed and put on his back as the officers wait for an ambulance.

After Hill was shot, several officers handcuffed him while he lay unresponsive on the ground.Video recordings from Coy and others show that none of the multiple officers on the scene made an attempt to render first aid to Hill until ten minutes after he was shot

Minutes later, a more senior officer arrives and asks "anybody doing anything for him?" He then orders an officer to start CPR. Mr Hill was later pronounced dead.

In victim impact statements on Monday, Hill’s sisters and ex-wife described the 47-year-old as a gentle man who had never met a stranger. His grandchildren called him “big daddy”.

COLUMBUS IS A CITY RUN AND CONTROLLED BY ELITE WHITE LIBERALS. EVERYWHERE ONE FINDS A LARGE POPULATION OF BLACK PEOPLE LIVING IN METRO AREAS CONTROLLED BY ELITE, WHITE LIBERALS, THE POLICE STOP, USE FORCE, DETAIN, PROSECUTE AND KILL BLACKS IN GROSSLY DISPROPORTIONATE NUMBERS. YET BLACKS RARELY QUESTION THIS EXTRAORDINARY PHENOMENON AND INEXPLICABLY AND STRONGLY BELIEVE THAT ELITE, WHITE LIBERALS ARE THEIR POLITICAL ALLIES WHO HELP TO ‘PROTECT THEIR RIGHTS.’

ACLU FINDS FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT LIMITED FOR BLACKS IN DC [IN EVERY CITY CONTROLLED BY ELITE WHITE LIBERALS W/A LARGE BLACK POPULATION, COPS STOP AND DEGRADE BLACKS IN GROSSLY DISPROPORTIONATE NUMBERS]

Coy, who had served 20 years on the Columbus, Ohio police force testified, “I thought I was going to die.” It was only after he rolled over Hill’s body and saw the keys that he realised there was no gun, Coy claimed during trial. “I knew at that point I made a mistake. I was horrified.”

Prosecutors questioned Coy on why he didn't ask Hill his name or call for backup if he was so concerned, CBS affiliate WBNS-TV reported. Coy said that Hill only partially obeyed his commands and was hiding his right hand.

"I thought he was going to draw. I drew my gun and fired four shots," Coy said.

Coy yelled, “Gun, gun, he has a gun!” before drawing his firearm and firing at Hill four times. Coy testified he saw silver metal in Hill’s right hand while Hill had his left hand up with a cellphone in it. 

The metal was Hill’s key ring. He was unarmed.  

Ben Crump, the Hill family's lawyer, said officers' actions were unforgivable."Where is the humanity for Andre Hill? Where is the humanity for this Columbus citizen who had committed no crime, had no weapon, was unarmed, only holding a cell phone? Where is the humanity for this citizen?

"He offered no verbal commands before he started shooting Andre Hill. He didn't say stop. He didn't say freeze. He didn't say, put your hands up. He didn't give Andre Hill a chance. He didn't give him a chance."

The footage also captures a woman inside the house where Mr Hill was shot telling officers that he had been bringing her Christmas money.

She shouted: "He was bringing me Christmas money. He didn't do anything."

Columbus later reached a $10m settlement with Hill’s family, and the city passed a law requiring police to give immediate medical attention to injured suspects.

Shenanigger AOC Votes Against Amendment that Would Have Slashed $500M in Weapons Aid to Israel. Offers Frivolous Justification for Her Step-n-Fetchit Activity for Elites [murdering Palestinians]

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ACCORDING TO FUNKTIONARY:

shenanigger – a Negro (neo-lawn-jockey) who carries out Step-n-Fetchit type activities/actions (shenanigans) for the dominant immoral minority (the psychopathic white power semi-organism), i.e., the Rhodes, Rothschild Anglo-Saxon Zionist power clique, unknowingly at the expense of him/herself and knowingly at the expense (sell-out/buy-out) of his/her people and culture. (See: McNegro, Coin-Operated, The Moteasuh Tribe, Sambo & $nigger) 

zig-zagetry – the occurrence and practice of saying one thing and doing the exact opposite. (See: Politician & Politics)

Zionism – “Jewish” Kazzarian brand of fascism arising from a racist and fanatical religious based political ideology.

From [HERE] and [HERE] US puppetician Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) is under fire after voting against a congressional amendment that would have slashed $500 million in weapons aid to Israel. Her justification? The amendment would have allegedly “cut off defensive Iron Dome capacities,” while doing nothing to stop offensive US-made weapons being used in Gaza.

But critics say her logic doesn’t hold up. In fact, many argue that so-called “defensive aid” is inseparable from Israel’s offensive war strategy, particularly in Gaza, where over 58,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children, have been killed since October 2023.

This report breaks down why AOC’s explanation is not only misleading but deeply flawed.

The False Divide Between “Defensive” and “Offensive” Aid

In her public response, AOC claimed:

“Marjorie Taylor Greene’s amendment does nothing to cut off offensive aid to Israel nor end the flow of US munitions being used in Gaza… What it does do is cut off defensive Iron Dome capacities while allowing the actual bombs killing Palestinians to continue.”

But human rights experts and legal scholars say that the distinction between “defensive” and “offensive” military aid is not meaningful in the case of Israel. The Iron Dome doesn’t operate in isolation. It’s part of a larger, integrated system that allows Israel to launch wars without fear of retaliation. In other words, Iron Dome provides impunity, a shield that enables continued aggression.

Craig Mokhiber, former UN human rights official, responded directly to AOC:

“You have just voted to send weapons to a regime that the ICJ and all human rights organizations have affirmed is an apartheid regime, that is on trial for genocide… This is not discernment. It’s complicity.”

Israel’s Iron Dome guards military airbases, arms depots, intelligence sites, and weapons factories, many of which are embedded within ‘civilian’ population centers across Israel. This entanglement of military infrastructure and civilian areas doesn’t make Iron Dome more ethical. It makes its funding more dangerous.

Israel often places its military assets within or beside civilian housing blocks, schools, and places of worship. From Tel Aviv to Ashkelon, Iron Dome batteries are located near shopping malls and apartment buildings. While Israel claims this is for efficiency and defense, it blurs the lines between combatant and civilian, exposing nearby civilians to risk, while simultaneously portraying itself as a victim if retaliatory attacks occur.

This tactic also prevents effective deterrence. Palestinian resistance groups have limited capacity to strike back, and when they do, Iron Dome intercepts nearly everything. That creates a military imbalance where Israel can kill with impunity while remaining largely shielded. [MORE]

Israeliens First: Trump Shows Strong Support for Israel [His Masters] as Palestinians in Gaza Starve to Death

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From [HERE] President Trump has shown strong support for Israel in recent days, while much of the world has been outraged over the images of Palestinians who are starving to death due to the US-backed Israeli siege on Gaza.

After the US and Israel quit ceasefire talks, Trump blamed the lack of progress on Hamas and suggested it was time for Israel to “finish the job” in Gaza. “I think they want to die, and it’s very, very bad,” Trump said on Friday, referring to Hamas.

For its part, Hamas has said that it was surprised by the US and Israel quitting the truce talks and that it was committed to continuing the process until a deal was reached.

In recent weeks, Trump has been claiming that a ceasefire deal was close, but now he is appearing to suggest that Israel should escalate its genocidal war. “They’re gonna have to fight, and they’re gonna have to clean it up. You’re gonna have to get rid of [Hamas],” he said.

Israeli officials told Axios that they weren’t sure if Trump’s comments were a negotiating tactic or a “green light” for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to use even more extreme military measures. The report said the Trump administration was rethinking its Gaza strategy, but there’s no sign it’s considering putting pressure on Israel to reach a ceasefire. [MORE]

Boston Judge Applies State Law and Dismisses Over 120 Cases because There Weren't Enough Public Defense Attorneys to Represent Indigent Defendants after 45 Days

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Boston Municipal Court Chief Justice Tracy-Lee Lyons dismissed over 120 cases on Tuesday after a work stoppage among public defense attorneys in Suffolk County, Massachusetts. Defendants were released from charges ranging from traffic violations to assault. 

In Massachusetts, a judge is required under the Lavallee protocol to release a defendant from custody if they haven't had an attorney for seven days, and must drop a case if the defendant hasn't had an attorney for 45 days, according to CBS News. 

"This case will be dismissed without prejudice," Lyons said for each case, and noted that all fines and fees would be waived. Lyons took the unprecedented action after hearing from Suffolk County public defenders that they were unable to find the defendants an attorney. 

Suffolk County provides a combination of public defenders and court-appointed attorneys, called bar advocates, for indigent defendants. Bar advocates usually take on about 80 percent of the county's cases, but a dispute over hourly pay led to a work stoppage and a shortage of available defense attorneys at the end of May. The work stoppage has caused more than 1,300 people to lack representation in court as of late June. In early July, the court was forced to release defendants from custody. Tuesday marked the first time the Lavallee protocol has been invoked to drop cases outright. [MORE]

Armed Black Man Stops Walmart Stabbing Spree in Michigan but Massa Media Conceals the Story b/c the Right to Carry a Gun for Self Defense and a “Black Male Hero” are Incompatible with Its Messaging

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From [HERE] What could have been an even deadlier tragedy was cut short by the fast action of shoppers in the parking lot. After the rampage, Gille attempted to flee but was confronted by a group of five or six brave citizens, including a Black man legally carrying a firearm.

What began as an ordinary Saturday afternoon shopping trip turned into chaos and terror when a man armed with a folding knife launched a brutal stabbing spree inside a Walmart in Traverse City, Michigan. Eleven people were stabbed—randomly and without warning—before the attacker was finally stopped thanks to the courage of everyday Americans, including a legally armed Black Man.

The suspect, identified as 42-year-old Bradford James Gille, reportedly entered the store around 4:10 p.m. and began attacking people near the checkout counters. He stabbed a total of 11 victims, both men and women, ranging from 29 to 84 years old, including a Walmart employee. Victims were attacked inside the store, in the vestibule, and even just outside the entrance.

Witnesses described scenes of horror as people screamed, fled, and attempted to help the wounded. One employee reported seeing a victim stabbed in the eye. At least three of the injured required emergency surgery, but thankfully, as of Sunday, all victims are expected to survive. Hospital officials have described their recovery as “encouraging,” with several already moved from critical to fair condition.

In bystander video now widely circulated online, the group can be seen yelling at Gille to “drop the knife” and get on the ground. The armed citizen held him at gunpoint while others surrounded him, one even using a shopping cart to block his path. The standoff ended when one bystander tackled Gille to the pavement, subduing him until police arrived. [MORE]

The US Unprovoked Bombing of Iran Exposes Western Hypocrisy

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It is not yet clear how much damage was done to Iran’s civilian nuclear facilities by the fourteen bunker-buster bombs the United States dropped last weekend. But the damage done to international law, not only by the bombing but also by the response of America’s allies, is very clear.

The hypocrisy is stunning. Washington and its Western allies have committed to a military and intelligence operation against Russia in defense of Ukraine so massive that it has put the world on the brink of nuclear war more than once. The weight of the justification for that effort rests, in large part, on the defense of international law and especially the ban on any nation violating the sovereignty of another nation with an aggressive attack.

And yet, the U.S. committed that very crime by attacking, without approval of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), a sovereign nation that had neither attacked nor threatened it. 

America’s action and the response to it by its allies exposes the charade of international law. In the U.S.-led rules-based order, there is no consistently applied international law; Washington and its allies selectively apply the rules when they suit them and exempt themselves from the rules when they do not.

That reality is laid bare not only by America’s illegal bombing of Iran but by Europe, NATO, and Ukraine’s justification of that attack while simultaneously condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. [MORE]

Genocide is Big Business for Corporations and Israel

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Report accuses global firms of complicity in a system of occupation, surveillance, weapons

The active genocide of Palestinians by the State of Israel is being sustained by a deeply entrenched system of exploitative occupation and global profit.  For multinational arms dealers, surveillance tech firms, financial institutions, and logistics companies, the occupation and genocide are big business, says a damning new report on the human rights situation in Occupied Palestine.

The report, “From Economy of Occupation To Economy of Genocide,” was presented to the 59th Session of the Human Rights Council on July 3, in Geneva, Switzerland. It reveals how corporate profiteering has underwritten death and destruction, while empowering Israel’s actions and existence as an occupier power.

“For some, genocide is profitable,” said Francesca Albanese, the report’s author and Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.

“In the past 21 months, while Israel’s genocide has devastated Palestinian lives and landscapes, the Tel Aviv stock exchange soared by 213 percent (USD), amassing $225.7 billion in market gains—including $67.8 billion in the past month alone,” she pointed out.

While life in Gaza is being obliterated and the West Bank is under escalating assault, the report reveals why Israel’s genocidal actions continue. For many, it is lucrative, said the report. [MORE]

Attorney Suing Bill Gates, Bourla, Schwab Over Covid Shot Injuries Arrested by Military Police and Imprisoned in Netherlands

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A Dutch lawyer leading a lawsuit against billionaire Bill Gates, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla and World Economic Forum chair Klaus Schwab over Coronavirus policies and Covid-19 vaccine injuries was arrested last month and thrown in prison as the trial was set to get underway.

Reports state attorney Arno van Kessel, who was representing the case alongside attorney Peter Stassen, was brutally arrested during a late-night raid at his home in Leeuwarden on June 11, with police accusing him and others of terrorism.

Van Kessel was “blindfolded, taken by military police, and is now being held in a maximum-security facility — without charges, and without access to his legal team or family,” according to The People’s Voice TV.

Dutch newspaper De Andere Krant described the nature of the lawsuit, writing, “These cases revolve around the central questions of whether the coronavirus policy is part of the globalist reform agenda ‘the Great Reset’ and whether the COVID-19 vaccine is a bioweapon.” 

“Skeptics suspect that linking Van Kessel to a criminal organization is intended to damage his reputation, which is intended to ensure that the substance of these cases is glossed over,” continued De Andere Krant. [MORE]

The False Conviction of Reiner Fuëllmich - Authoritites Kidnapped and Locked Up Attorney After He Investigated COVID Shots as Genocide and Attempted to Convene 2nd Nuremberg Trial

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[MORE] The Corona Committee was established in July 2020 by Attorneys at Law Dr Reiner Fuellmich (agEt) Viviane Fischer, Dr Justus P. Hoffmann (agEt), and Antonia Fischer (agEt). Initially in English as the German Corona Investigative Committee, its present-day internet presence is in German: Corona Ausschuss (Corona Committee (agEt)). The Corona Committee seeks answers to the legal questions of whether the anti-Corona measures taken by the German federal and state governments against a possible overloading of the healthcare system (“flattening the curve”) and to prevent SARS-CoV2 deaths were suitable, necessary and proportionate – in accordance with the constitutional standard of review – or whether the collateral damage that occurred was culpably caused.

Dr. Reiner Fuellmich has been admitted to the bar in Germany and California for more than 25 years. Born and raised in Bremen, he attended school in Bremen and Farmington Hills, Michigan and studied law at Georg-August University in Göttingen and Los Angeles. Along the way he was a research assistant at the law faculty of Georg-August-U and received his doctorate there. Prior to founding his law firm in 1993, he worked in corporate banking for Deutsche Bank in Germany and Japan. Dr. Fuellmich has published various articles and books in the fields of banking law, medical law and private international law, has taught as a professor and lecturer at universities in Germany and Estonia, and is a member of the German American Lawyers Association, German Japanese Lawyers Association, German Lawyers Association, and Bürgerbewegung Finanzwende (Citizens’ movement financial turnaround e.V.). Additionally, Dr. Fuellmich is the founding chairman of the Corona Committee Foundation, and founding member of the interest group A-DuR (Aktion Demokratie und Recht/Action Democracy and Law) for the introduction of, among other things, genuine class actions in the sense of class action and a sanction-protected right of proof in the sense of discovery into civil procedural law for the purpose of creating equality of arms in legal disputes with structural imbalance due to the involvement of state bodies or corporations.

IsrAlien Minister: Gaza Will Be ‘Wiped Out’ and Will Become Totally Jewish

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Israeli Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu said on Thursday that Israel was working to “wipe out” the Gaza Strip and called for the Palestinian territory to be settled by Jews, saying it will become totally Jewish.

“The government is racing ahead for Gaza to be wiped out,” Eliyahu said in a radio interview, according to The Times of Israel. “Thank God, we are wiping out this evil. We are pushing this population that has been educated on Mein Kampf.”

The minister, who is a member of Itamar Ben Gvir’s Jewish Power party, said that Gaza will be cleared for Jewish settlements, but said that Jewish towns wouldn’t be “fenced in inside cantons.”

“All Gaza will be Jewish,” he said. According to the Times, Eliyahu said Arabs who are loyal to the state of Israel could be tolerated, but it’s unclear what that means. “We aren’t racists,” he said. [MORE]

An Offensive Shield — for Impunity, and Genocide: The Iron Dome and U.S. Complicity in Slaughter of Gazans

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The House of Representatives has approved giving Israel an additional $1.3 billion in “emergency defense assistance” for its Iron Dome missile defense program, another installment of countless billions sent from the United States to intensify a one-sided war against the Palestinian people.

The Iron Dome system intercepts short range rockets (launched from 2.5 to 43 miles) through the joint work of the IDF, Israeli contractors, and U.S. weapons manufacturers like Raytheon. Radar batteries detect incoming missiles, calculate direction and threat level, and, if necessary, target the menacing projectile and speed interceptors to destroy it.

The Iron Dome destroys incoming rockets at high altitude, but, since its emplacement in 2011, the system has also functioned to enable Israel to conduct ethnic cleansing and perpetuate genocide with impunity in Gaza and the West Bank.

It has underwritten an astonishingly deadly campaign of collective punishment, with lengthy, targeted air, drone, and guided missile strikes in densely populated areas. These deadly attacks are carried out against a people who have no army, no shield, and no means of response.

When we fund one-sided protection without justice, we destroy the possibility of peace for them, and for ourselves. [MORE]