The 2nd Amendment: America’s Timeless Equalizer for the Weak and Vulnerable

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From [HERE] The right to keep and bear arms is not an outdated relic of the 18th century, as the anti-gun zealots want you to believe, but a safeguard of liberty and self-preservation.

Critics often portray the Second Amendment as a barrier to public safety, yet both history and reported weekly self-defense incidents confirm otherwise. The truth, when the media chooses to report these incidents, clearly establishes that our GOD-given right of self-defense remains a vital protection for all Americans, especially the weak and vulnerable who would otherwise be defenseless.

The Supreme Court has made clear that the Second Amendment protects an individual right. Our friend Dick Heller’s case, District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), in which the Court struck down a handgun ban and affirmed that self-defense lies at the very core of the right to bear arms. That recognition was extended to the states in McDonald v. Chicago (2010)and reinforced again in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen (2022), which held that firearm regulations must be consistent with America’s historical tradition of gun ownership. The Court recognized that targeted restrictions are possible, as shown in United States v. Rahimi (2024). Still, it has never wavered from the principle that self-defense is central to the Second Amendment.

From John Locke’s writings on natural law to the Declaration of Independence’s recognition that men are “endowed by their Creator” with unalienable rights, the Founders understood that life cannot be secured without the means of defense. The Virginia Declaration of Rights of 1776 directly tied the right to arms with personal and communal security. To disarm the people, in their view, would be to strip them of the very ability to preserve their lives and liberties.

These principles are not abstractions or the result of paranoia; they are seen in the lives of ordinary Americans who have relied on firearms to save themselves and others. These examples that the media often choose to ignore are far more common than reported.

  • In 2022, a young man in Indiana stopped a mass shooting at a mall within seconds, preventing untold carnage.

  • In 2024, 85-year-old Christine Jenneiahn, beaten and tied up by a home invader in Idaho, managed to reach her revolver and fatally stop the attacker, saving herself and her disabled son.

  • Across the country, armed school staff and resource officers have done the same for children: in 2024 at Apalachee High School in Georgia, two SROs rushed toward an active shooter armed with a rifle and put him in custody within minutes, saving lives.

  • In 2019, at STEM School Highlands Ranch in Colorado, a private security guard detained a shooter during an attack, preventing further bloodshed. And in 2021, Sarasota County Officer Mary Thoroman calmly disarmed a student concealing a handgun in school, using training and quick judgment to prevent what could have become another tragedy. [MORE]

Seized for No Reason: Grand Jury Indicts White Baltimore Cop with Attempted Murder for Trying to Intentionally Run Over a Black Man who was Not Under Arrest and Hadn't Committed a Crime

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From [HERE] A grand jury has indicted a Baltimore police officer on attempted murder charges after a video was posted online showing the officer using his police vehicle to chase a man on foot, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Officer Robert A. Parks is also charged with first- and second-degree assault, reckless driving and misconduct in office.

If convicted of those charges, Parks faces a maximum sentence of 65 years in prison, Baltimore State’s Attorney Ivan Bates said during a news conference at his office. Parks is in custody after turning himself in on Wednesday. His case was not available in online court records as of Wednesday afternoon.

Bates called Parks’ actions “completely unacceptable.”

“Sometimes you see something that’s just so egregious that you cannot understand how an individual would have placed himself in that position at that moment in time,” Bates said. “That was just my personal interpretation.”

Parks was stripped of his police powers Oct. 29 after a video surfaced of him first talking with a group of men in Central Park Heights before entering his car and driving erratically toward one of them.

While driving across a grassy area, his car hit the man, Bates said. The officer proceeded down a dirt road and crashed into a chain-link fence in a backyard. The next day, after pressure from the Office of the Public Defender and other critics, the department identified the officer from the video as Parks.

Prosecutors believe that Parks approached the group at around 5 p.m. on Oct. 28, shortly before one of the men recorded the encounter, near Wylie Liquors Bar on the 3100 block of Wylie Avenue. One of the men had a misdemeanor warrant, according to Bates.

Parks told them, “it’s getting a little hot, guys. I… just need you guys to take a lap, you know,” and the group walked away, the indictment says. Parks got back into his patrol vehicle and drove on Wylie toward the first person who left the liquor store corner, and called him by name.

That’s around where the video starts. “Don’t make it worse. I’m going to be straight up with you,” Parks said, according to the indictment. The man replied “No,” turned and walked away. Parks responded by saying “All right, I’m gonna call the dogs and come get you,” the indictment reads.

Parks then got into his police vehicle and proceeded to chase the man. Bates said Parks used his vehicle as a “weapon” when he steered his vehicle directly at the man.

Shortly after the video went viral, Mayor Brandon Scott and Police Commissioner Richard Worley both repudiated the officer’s actions and said that there would be an internal affairs investigation. Meanwhile, Bates said his office also would investigate the matter.

Parks, who has spent five years with the department, was initially placed on administrative duties, though a police spokesperson said Tuesday that he was later suspended without pay.

Anne Arundel County-based defense attorney Peter O’Neill, who speculated Tuesday that Parks’ loss of pay suggested he had been indicted, said that “one could argue” that driving a motor vehicle into a human being shows “an intent to take the life of the individual,” constituting attempted murder.

He also said that “countless defendants” are charged with first-degree assault in connection with similar actions where an officer is on foot and a fleeing suspect is in a vehicle.

“Based on the video I saw, I’m not surprised,” he said Wednesday when told about the charges against Parks. [MORE]

Reality Is Too Complex For Any Cosmic Computer Simulation, Study Suggests

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From [HERE] How do we know we’re not living in a computer simulation? Is it even possible to tell? For what it’s worth, researchers have drawn from various scientific frameworks to reject this hypothetical hypothetical reality—and a team of mathematicians now says they’ve taken the argument a step further.

In a Journal of Holography Applications in Physics study published earlier this year, researchers demonstrated that, assuming the universe runs purely on mathematics and physics, it would be impossible for any algorithm to simulate reality as we know it. This is because the universe exists “on a type of understanding that exists beyond the reach of any algorithm,” the researchers explained in a statement.

“Drawing on mathematical theorems related to incompleteness and indefinability, we demonstrate that a fully consistent and complete description of reality cannot be achieved through computation alone,” Mir Faizal, a physicist at the University of British Columbia in Canada, added in the statement. [MORE]

Remorseless Asian Cop who Helped Murder George Floyd Released; Said 'He Did Nothing Wrong' When He Failed to Intervene as Cops Knelt on Black Mans Neck, Prevented Aid, Mocked Floyd who Begged for Life

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From [HERE] Tou Thao, one of the four police officers convicted of charges related to the murder of George Floyd, was released from prison on Monday.

According to the Minnesota Department of Corrections records, Thao, who had been serving his sentence at a facility in Kentucky, is no longer in custody. He is under supervised probation with Anoka County Community Corrections and will be on supervised release until June 2027.

The former Minneapolis police officer was found guilty of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in state court in 2023, then sentenced to 57 months. He was also convicted on federal civil rights violation charges, which earned a 3 1/2-year sentence he served concurrently.

Thao stopped bystanders from intervening on May 25, 2020, while fellow officer Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd's neck for more than nine minutes. 

Chauvin pleaded guilty in 2022 to violating Floyd's civil rights and was given a 21-year federal prison sentence. He was also convicted of second-degree murder in state court.

Two other ex-officers convicted in Floyd's killing — J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane (pictured below) have been released from prison.

JUST LIKE JESUS WOULD HAVE DONE.

Court Rules Trump Unlawfully Seized Control of Oregon National Guard. Says there Were More Federal Cops than Protesters at Most Protests and “Antifa” is Not an Organized Group w/a Countable Existence

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From [HERE] A US federal judge in Oregon on Friday evening ruled that President Donald Trump unlawfully seized control of state National Guard units to police protests in Portland, issuing a sweeping injunction that sharply curtails the White House’s claimed power to deploy guard troops over a state’s objection.

In a 106-page opinion, US District Judge Karin Immergut held that Trump’s federalization of 200 Oregon National Guard members, followed by deployments involving federalized California and Texas Guard troops to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Portland, exceeded his statutory authority and violated the Tenth Amendment’s protections for state sovereignty.

Judge Immergut concluded after a three-day bench trial that even affording “great deference” to the president, the government failed to show either a “rebellion or danger of a rebellion” against federal authority in Portland or any inability to enforce federal immigration law “with the regular forces” already available. The evidence, she wrote, showed that serious unrest around the ICE building in South Portland was brief, peaked in mid-June, and had substantially subsided long before the guard was called. Local police, Oregon State Police, and augmented federal law enforcement were “sufficient” to secure the facility and maintain order.

“The evidence demonstrates that these deployments, which were objected to by Oregon’s governor and not requested by the federal officials in charge of protection of the ICE building, exceeded the president’s authority,” Judge Immergut wrote, emphasizing that the guard, unless lawfully federalized, remains a state militia under the command of the governor, not an all-purpose domestic force at the president’s disposal.

The lawsuit, brought by the State of Oregon, the City of Portland, and later joined by California, challenged Trump’s decision to override Governor Tina Kotek’s refusal to activate the Oregon Guard for immigration-related protest policing and instead unilaterally federalize those troops. It also targeted memoranda authorizing deployments of California and Texas Guard units to the same one-block ICE facility, despite the absence of any request from the federal officials actually responsible for its security.

President Trump has repeatedly depicted Portland as “war-ravaged,” citing months of violent extremism, threats to officers, and strain on the Federal Protective Service. Judge Immergut rejected that characterization as inconsistent with contemporaneous reports and the testimony of on-the-ground law enforcement. The court found that crowds were often fewer than a few dozen people, that most demonstrations were peaceful, that more federal officers than protesters were present on many nights, and that the scattered violence and property damage did not impede ICE from carrying out immigration enforcement beyond a short-lived June disruption.

Judge Immergut also rejected the administration’s reliance on “Antifa” as proof of an organized insurrectionary threat in Portland. Citing testimony from Portland Police Bureau commanders, she found no evidence that Antifa in the city constituted a cohesive organization directing the ICE protests or orchestrating violence against the government. Assertions of an organized campaign to overthrow federal authority, she wrote, were unsupported by the record. The judge stated,

‘This Court finds credible Commander Schoening’s testimony that, at least in Portland, Antifa is not an “organized group where you have membership.” Commander Schoening has 23 years of policing experience in Portland and at least 8 years of experience working for PPB’s Rapid Response Team. Commander Schoening has unique familiarity with organized protest groups and political activists in Portland. In fact, Commander Schoening identified by name several “organized protest groups” in charge of “large marches and demonstrations in the downtown area”, including “50501,” “PDX,” and “Indivisible.” Commander Schoening testified that “Antifa” is not an organized group in Portland; although the city “did have a brief period of time . . . where [it] had a specific group named ‘Rose City Antifa.’” Commander Schoening testified that he is “not aware of” Rose City Antifa’s “continued existence.” Id.

For the same reasons, this Court also finds credible Commander Schoening’s testimony that “there hasn’t been any structured organization or any group in charge of the protest activity down at the ICE facility,” including Antifa.’

Since the statutory predicates for federalization were not met, the court held that Trump’s orders commandeered Oregon’s militia in violation of the Tenth Amendment and intruded on Oregon’s sovereign authority when coupled with the attempted deployment of other states’ guard units into its territory. The ruling leans heavily on the Supreme Court’s anti-commandeering line of cases and the structural limits embedded in the Militia Clauses, while applying the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit’s recent decision in Newsom v. Trump to cabin deference to presidential determinations under §12406.

​​Governor Kotek hailed the ruling as a “validation of the facts on the ground” and a repudiation of what she called a “gross abuse of power” by the White House. Friday’s decision comes as a related challenge from Illinois, where federal courts have likewise questioned Trump’s reliance on §12406 to send Guard troops to ICE protest sites, is already before the Supreme Court.

What the Usufruct!? Rick the Wealth Coach Discusses the Thievology of How Government and Banksters Steal Your Property, Money and Labor

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According to FUNKTIONARY:

thievology – the study of the application of usury by privileged commercial interests of the Corporate State in their privately owned centrally monopolized economic debt systems and its attendant affliction of suffering on the infected and victimized individual energy systems. (See: Usury, Interest, S&M Banking, “Monetized Debt,” IRS & Corporate State)

Central Banks – private-for-profiteering information and marketing companies created by the global elite and sanctioned by most Corporate States around the world where they legally reside as a means for the invisible transfer and centralization of wealth siphoned from those who produce value, goods, resources and exchange value. The imaginary debt that Central Banks create (as make-believe ‘money’ enforced by legal tender laws) and pretend to “loan” to governments and commercial banks is an ancient con game made more sophisticated over the centuries. Economist John Maynard Keynes indicated one of his books “The Economic Consequences of Peace,” that only one in a million would be able to recognize and fathom the fraud being perpetrated against the people by this insidious yet prestigious fraud. The central banksters control and wield unusurpable power by means of the great power of the purchasing media they create (“money”). The banksters control government(s) with their created money as long as the people obey the government and use it. If people ever figure out the ancient scam being perpetrated upon them the power of the central banksters over the government and commerce collapses—but in the absence of established or burgeoning alternatives, so does the lifeline of economies around the world. Realize that debt (imaginary or real) used as “money” extracts wealth from the producer to the creator of the debt (non-producer). GEO-dollars (government-edict-only) is 100% inflation itself at inception of its creation because it is imaginary demand—unearned symbolic value. (See: Gangbanking, GEO-Dollars, Monetized Debt, Usury, Interest, S&M Banking, LOAN, Inflation, Legal Tender Laws & Dollar)

Gangbanking – the legally sanctioned institution of covert slavery by the intergenerational dynastic banking families and their (pirate fraternity) member bank owners inflicted and imposed upon the subdued captured and domesticated population (dwellers upon the land) all over the world. 2) the centralization of symbolic imaginary debt in the hands of terrortorial gangsters backed by enforced by, and in collusion with an even more ruthless gang, i.e., the Corporate State. 3) the worldwide system of debt-based monetary “creation” in the form of digitized bank credit (ledger entries) stored “in” and transmitted from the memory banks of interconnected banking computer systems internetworked around the globe. Gangbanking is the system and mechanism for the international, intergenerational transmission and maintenance of global economic inequality and resource ownership and power differential. A further consequence of monopoly capitalism, state capitalism and virtual capitalism is that ownership of real assets and tangible wealth is increasingly transferred (appropriated) to banks as a whole, i.e., in the aggregate. Why should “banks” individually and collectively be allowed to collect principal and interest for merely publishing and administrating (via reciprocal clearing) our promises to “pay.” After all, the true creditor gave up property for irredeemable “notes” which are merely published by the "banking" system; and this arrangement certainly denies the true creditor interest, to take, for no more than the cost of tokenizing the debtor’s obligation, first principal equal to that of all wealth ever so financed, and secondly, to perpetually multiply that unjustified taking by interest. In re-borrowing interest, interest is converted to new principal (debt), which, because it exceeds the previous sum of debt, it is unquestionably how much debt increases. A circulation of political money subject to interest inherently and irreversibly multiplies debt in proportion to the circulation, even by inherently greater increments of periodic interest on ever greater sums of debt, until the system collapses under a sum of debt it can no longer service. Gangbanking is the plain and open fraud of officially sanctioned counterfeiting of “money” (i.e., substantive rights or actual claims on real wealth, goods, labor and services) and “lending” these imaginary intangible pretensions (as if they were discrete properties of some physical or scarce item, i.e., the misnomer of notional “real money” itself an oxymoron) at interest.

Mobster Meets w/Lobster: As Republicrats Pout About Electing a Muslim Mayor, Trump Welcomes an Al-Qaeda Leader Into the Family of Territorial Gangsters- Govt's who Commit Crimes w/ De Jure Authority

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According to FUNKTIONARY:

LOBSTER – Lower Order Behavior Systems Terrorizing Everyone’s Rights. 2) Lower Order Bureaucratic Slaves Twisting Everyday Reality. A lobster is a low order behaving MOBSTER, i.e., a territorial gangster with a mindset of eat-or-be eaten. Even if you put lobsters on ice—they still come back to life. CRAB is centralized rogue authoritarian behavior.

territorial gangsters – individuals (masquerading as “the State” so-called) who skillfully use fraud, coercion, and terror to claim “jurisdiction” (so-called) over their victims who happen to be in some geographic territory. Territorial gangsters brainwash their victims (the pixelated populace) so that they will work for them not only like slaves but actually as slaves. (See: Stationary Bandits, Statutory Oppression, Jurisdiction, Allegiance, Involuntary Servitude, Slave & Tyrant-Paradigm)

“Government” – Latinized Greek (“Gubernatio” = control; and from the Latin “mente” = mind; “The control of the mind.” 2) an abstraction (hoax) created for the sole purpose of making theft respectable and mind-control acceptable. 3) the societal manifestation of mass individual psychological reversal, i.e., the statutes, regulations, agencies, and agents (so-called bureaucrats) needed to threaten and shrink one’s comfort zone. 4) a granfalloon. 5) a fiction supported by those who kill on command and steal on demand under the guise of “protecting” their victims. Government is lawlessness (monopolized violence) mindlessly respected and accepted as law (open threats); politics is the way to enable and circumvent the law. The outworking of history consistently demonstrates that government will, in spite of the Bill of Rights, arrogate all power to itself eventually, if the people don’t act to prevent it. You have rights alright, just don’t get caught exercising them, O.K.? “Government” is simply, unequivocally, and always initiation of force or coercion and nothing else. Official “government” is disorganized, politicized; centralized; canonized and revered initiation of force, but it is no less initiation of force and coercion than any unofficial singular action of the same offensive or violent content. “Government” is an abstract infinite entity acting as a possessive noun. There is not a single line in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, or any governmental document that states that a natural person will be left alone as long as she or he does not impose upon another or others. By commission and omission, all official decrees make clear that a human is regarded as owned property or resource of the god called “Corporate State.” It is controlling the lives, energy and property of others that requires coercive force and this is its sole function. Endorsing the lie of an imagined abstract collective interest supports the very concept that gives rise to all covert and overt oppression. “The government never of itself furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got out of the way. It does not keep the country free. The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.” ~Kirkpatrick Sale. The wayward notion that government redistributes wealth is widely held as sacrosanct as it is patently false. There are redistributes aspects, sure, but that’s as close as it gets. “As long as government is allowed to exist, it will everywhere keep growing and getting worse. Nearly everything that “governments” do (i.e., those with wholly symbolic roles “running” it, and who perform acts in its name) is grounded in fear. Government will cease to exist when people cease to grant it legitimacy—in other words stop believing in it, stop looking to it for solutions to problems in their lives, and stop supporting it.” ~Fred Woolworth. Government has failed at every attempt in 6,000 years of recorded history. Government atrocities—carried out by irrational functionaries, economic hit men, soldiers, diplomats, emissaries, etc., under every possible flavor or form of government—have littered the bloody pages of recorded history. Government is indisputably the greatest purveyor of murder, mayhem, genocide, exploitation, rape, forced starvation, pillage and chaos in the annals of humanity. Government does not need to be abolished; merely rendered obsolete through seeing it for what it truly is—a prime manufacturer of poverty, brutal oppression, violence, coercion, conformity and fear. The monetary genius E.C. Riegel once wrote that petitioning to government is like writing to Santa Claus. Government has created its own necessity by making people (its fictitious subject-citizens) fearful of the violence it creates by the effects of its very existence—in the form of violent criminals and external aggressors. “Government is men and women providing services on a compulsory basis; pay or get shot. To be legitimate they would have to drop their guns and provide their services on a voluntary basis. However, the moment they do so, they cease to be a government. That’s quite the conundrum.” ~Marc Stevens. Government is at the root of the cycle of violence—you run to it for protection and run from it out of fear for your life. The Slaughterhouse is to cattle as “government” is to people. “Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem.” –U.S. “President” Ronald ‘McDonald’ Reagan. [MORE]

Did the Vax Clot Shot Cause Deion Sanders’ Blood Clots? Hall of Famer Afflicted w/Health Issues Since Taking and PropAgendizing COVID Shots Designed to Cause Death, Cancers, Strokes, etc [Detox ASAP]

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From [HERE] Video above provides information on how to Detox.

Doctors for COVID Ethics have been warning about the potential for gene-based COVID-19 “vaccines” to cause blood clots, cerebral vein thrombosis and sudden death

SARS-CoV-2 spike protein binds to the ACE2 receptor on platelets. The subsequent activation of the platelets can lead to disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), i.e., a pathological overstimulation of your coagulation system resulting in abnormal blood clotting, thrombocytopenia (low platelet count) and hemorrhaging

Research shows deaths are 14.6 times more frequent during the first 14 days after the first COVID injection among people over the age of 60, compared to those who aren’t vaccinated. Other data also show that after COVID-19 vaccines were implemented, overall death rates have, with few exceptions, increased

A key problem with all of these gene-based COVID-19 vaccines is that the spike protein itself appears toxic, and your body is now a spike protein-producing factory

Its inherent toxicity may be due to it being a prion protein. If so, we can expect these injections to cause all manner of prion diseases, such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS) [MORE]

Johnson & Johnson Ordered to Pay $966 Million to Family of Woman Whose Deadly Cancer Was Linked to Baby Powder

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From [HERE] A Los Angeles jury this month ordered Johnson & Johnson (J&J) to pay $966 million to the family of a woman who died in 2021 from mesothelioma, a rare and aggressive cancer linked to asbestos exposure.

The family of California resident Mae More, who died at age 88, sued the company, alleging its talc-based baby powder products contained the asbestos that caused her cancer.

The jury ordered J&J to pay $16 million in compensatory damages and $950 million in punitive damages. It is the largest settlement yet awarded in a mesothelioma case against the company, handed down just days after a South Carolina jury rejected a similar claim.

Trey Branham, a lawyer for Moore’s family, told Reuters he is “hopeful that Johnson & Johnson will finally accept responsibility for these senseless deaths.”

Erik Haas, J&J’s vice president of litigation, said in a statement that the company plans to immediately appeal the verdict, which he called “egregious and unconstitutional.” U.S. Supreme Court rulings have generally capped punitive damages at nine times the amount of compensatory damages.

J&J maintains that its products are safe, do not contain asbestos and don’t cause cancer. However, the company stopped selling its talc-based baby powder in the U.S. in 2020, and ended global sales in 2023 after facing tens of thousands of lawsuits alleging that asbestos in the talc had caused mesothelioma, ovarian and other cancers.

It replaced the talc version of its powder with a cornstarch-based formula.

Internal memos showed that company officials worried for decades that the talc could be contaminated with asbestos, ​​and that J&J ramped up its marketing to African American womenand other high-use groups. [MORE]

UN Report says Systemic Racism against Africans and People of African Descent in Criminal Justice Systems Worldwide is Pervasive [a major goal of RWS is to Put Black People into Greater Confinement]

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From [HERE] Systemic racism against Africans and people of African descent in criminal justice systems around the world is pervasive and deeply entrenched, the UN International Independent Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in Law Enforcement published a new report today.

The report identifies twelve key elements needed for criminal justice systems to eliminate racism and discrimination against Africans and people of African descent. These elements include the elimination of violations such as racial profiling or discrimination in access to bail and parole, and fundamental issues such as adequate training, the use of disaggregated data and the diversity and fair representation of Africans and people of African descent across the justice chain. Other highlighted promising practices include racial and cultural impact assessments, sentence reviews, and restorative justice measures with alternatives to incarceration.

“The overrepresentation of people of African descent in prisons and detention facilities across multiple countries is both a consequence and a symptom of systemic biases in criminal legal systems,” the report said. “Racial stereotypes falsely portraying Africans and people of African descent as inherently criminal not only influence individual decisions by police, judges and prosecutors but also distort entire justice systems.”

“The historical origins of many legal and law enforcement institutions – established during colonial rule or rooted in racially oppressive systems – continue to shape contemporary practices,” the report said. “These disparities are part of a pattern of institutional racism rooted in the enduring legacies of colonialism, enslavement and segregation.”

“All these violations are at high risk of continuing to increase in the current global context. We call on all States to implement these recommendations. We need to work together to overcome systemic racism against Africans and people of African descent in the criminal justice system,” Akua Kuenyehia, the Chair of the Expert Mechanism said.  

LA County DA Charges 13 L.A. County Employees with Stealing Over $430,000 in Unemployment Benefits

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The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office has charged 13 Los Angeles County employees from seven different agencies with felony grand theft for stealing a combined $437,383 in state unemployment benefits between 2020 and 2023.

“As government employees, we have an obligation to uphold the public’s trust,” Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman said. “When a civil servant steals from the government, that trust is broken. The scale of fraud in these cases is shocking, spanning seven different County agencies, including employees whose very job was to help the public determine whether they were eligible for public benefits. Most egregiously, these individuals allegedly claimed to be unemployed during the COVID pandemic when millions of Californians were legitimately in need of unemployment benefits. I thank Los Angeles County Auditor-Controller Oscar Valdez for his partnership and commitment to holding government employees accountable. Today, we are putting all government employees on notice: If you steal from taxpayers, you will be prosecuted.”

Each of the 13 Los Angeles County employees was charged with one felony count of grand theft and one lesser included misdemeanor offense.

While working for Los Angeles County and receiving County paychecks between 2020 and 2023, the defendants allegedly submitted fraudulent unemployment insurance claims to the California Employment Development Department in which they falsely claimed, under penalty of perjury, that they earned less than $600 per week during each two-week claim period. In fact, the employees earned more than $600 a week, making them ineligible for unemployment benefits. [MORE]

Rep Thomas Massie Claims the Capitol Police Planted the Pipe Bomb Outside the Capitol on January 6th and Implies that FBI and CIA are Covering it Up

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Representative Thomas Massie (R-KY) challenges the FBI’s silence regarding allegations that Capitol Police officers were involved in planting pipe bombs on January 6, 2021. Massie emphasizes the need for accountability, stating that the FBI, CIA, and Capitol Police are implicated in this controversy, and he criticizes Trump administration figures, including FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi, for their lack of response to the claims three days after the report emerged.

Massie’s remarks spotlight the intense scrutiny surrounding the events leading up to and during the Capitol riot, with forensic evidence suggesting a Capitol Police officer may have planted the explosives before resigning months later. This new information raises serious questions about the actions of law enforcement agencies and their oversight during a critical national incident, prompting a call for further investigation and transparency. [MORE]

First Steps Taken to Vote on Discharge Petition to Release Epstein Files. Blight House Probot says Supporting It "Would be a Hostile Act"

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Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., the conservative firebrand who's clashed with Donald Trump and other GOP leaders, filed a discharge petition Tuesday to force a floor vote compelling the Justice Department to release all the files from the Jeffrey Epstein case.

It's one of the first House actions as lawmakers return to Washington from their five-week summer recess. And the issue is sure to dominate Capitol Hill this week, as sexual abuse survivors of Epstein — the convicted sex offender who took his own life in prison in 2019 — met with key lawmakers Tuesday and plan to hold a much-anticipated news conference Wednesday.

Massie and his Democratic co-author, Rep. Ro Khanna of California, said they will begin collecting signatures for their Epstein resolution starting Tuesday. They need at least 218 signatures — half the members of the House — to force a vote, and Khanna told NBC News he is certain that all 212 Democrats will sign on, along with at least six Republicans.

If they can secure the requisite 218 signatures, there is still an additional waiting period of seven legislative days before a vote can happen. Then the House speaker has two legislative days before he must call up the measure for a vote on the floor. So, the earliest a final vote could happen would be in two weeks.

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and other GOP leaders are opposed to the push, arguing that it’s not needed because the House Oversight Committee is investigating the matter and is in the process of reviewing a tranche of Epstein records.

But the discharge petition allows a majority of the House to circumvent leadership's wishes.

A White House official commented on the discharge petition Tuesday night, saying that supporting it would be viewed as “a hostile act.” [MORE]

The IsrAlien Holocaust Only Stopped in The Spectacle: The Media Conceals Reality as Gaza Endures Daily Bombings a Month into 'Cease Slaughter'

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Israel’s two-year genocide is far from over.

On the ground, Israeli attacks and the humanitarian crisis they have caused continue.

Almost daily, explosions demolish large swathes of homes across the Gaza Strip. Shelling and gunfire continue to kill and wound people, while drones hover overhead broadcasting disturbing recordings.

Meanwhile, essential food items and medical supplies remain scarce amid an ongoing Israeli siege. 

“The genocide has only stopped in the media,” said Jendiya. 

“They’ve stopped talking about it, but for us, it’s still ongoing.” [MORE]

According to FUNKTIONARY:

The Media – the Spectacle-Cabal who love freedom of the press, but abhor freedom of speech. The Media is the Fourth Estate of Government (created, owned, administered and controlled by Pathocrats). It is one of the most essential arms of “government.” They couldn’t give you their Matrix Reality without it—likewise they couldn’t keep you imprisoned in it without it. The News Anchor holds down the Ship of State at the Port of Lies. How is it that shareholders of Media conglomerates also sit as anchors and bring you their master’s views as if it could ever be objective or news? “The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.” ~ Malcolm X. (See: Television, Perception, MEDIA, Senses, CON, Normal, Pathocracy, NEWS, Corporate Media, Control, COG & Pixelated People)

The Spectacle – a constructed reality; the concrete inversion of life; via the autonomous movement of the apparently non-living. 2) the mirrorization of the noumenon into the phenomenal universe without understanding or overstanding it as such an objectivization in duality. The Spectacle is not a collection of images but a social relation among people mediated by images. The Spectacle is a theoretical construct—a tool for explaining many things about society; how people live vicariously through the dominant images of production, consumption and power relations. It is the thoughtforms in which people create, contemplate and consume mediated by images of what-life-is, so that they will forget how to live radically for themselves. It is the totality of images and illusions that alienate people from living, its the primary production of modern societies. It is ideology materialized. It is the social relations that are mediated by the mass media; it is what makes people apathetic and reduces them to inactivity. It is what prevents people from realizing what their collective problems are and dissolving them. It is what perpetually absorbs people into activities that prolong their misery. It is the mediated stream of unreality that channels desire-energy against itself, producing a separate world, a pseudo-world apart form one’s self-history—from all those powerful institutions of Self-actualization. It is what motivates people to live a pseudo-life in submission to products and machines, basking passively in the acceptance of oppression, to blindly do what is manifestly against their own self-interest, to pollute the land they love and the air they breathe—it is a fundamental sickness of modern societies superimposed over and aided by the “Rolebots” (clones and drones) of Corporate State. It is the mass media and the propaganda from the pure war machine and the military prison industrial police state complex. It is Doggy, the double-bind of not knowing real from unreal, (hypereal) or what you say from what you want. It is the mass objectivization and unholy marriage (union) of the Beasthood with the Syndrome, leaving people fragmented, separated, isolated, alienated, fascinated, pixelated, dilated, intimidated, exasperated, mediated, concatenated, weak, docile, dependent, submissive and uncritical. “The Spectacle is the ultimate commodity in that it makes all others possible.” ~Scott Bukatman. “Without the slightest hint of suppression or intolerance, the spectacle ensures that the appearance of real dissent precludes its real appearance.” ~Sadie Plant. (See: PIC, Commodity, Screen, Maya, Pseudolife, The Passing Show, Rolling Mirror, MEDIA, Materialism, Funktionalize, F-Prime, Meta-Frame, Naïve Realism, “Dream,” Trance, Emergency, Consumers & Doggy)