ROYAL FUCKBAGS

Get these royal fucking parasitic fuckbags out of my fucking city.

HEAD OVER HEELS

Just a short post to say that I am in love.....with this:



I just bought this, as I am a little bit older and thought that I deserved something nice. And even if I don't, too late now, assholes. It's a re-issue of a 1991 Santa Cruz Jason Jessee model, and I friggin' love it. My daughter calls it my "weird fat skateboard", but this how they were back then, and I prefer the old school shapes to the new ones.
  Thanks to Eddy at Lyrics Skate Shop for ordering it in for me, and getting the perfect set up. I will enjoy this for a long time. As someone wise once said to me, "You don't stop skateboarding because you get old, you got old because you stopped skateboarding ". Yes indeed, my friends.

OLIVER STONE GETS IT, DO YOU ?

Oliver stone sums it up nicely while talking about anerikkkan foreign policy, saying "We aren't under threat, we are the threat". Fuck yes, Ollie.

Oliver Stone’s American History: ‘We’re Not under Threat. We Are the Threat’

By James Reinl

Global Research, September 18, 2016

Middle East Eye 17 September 2016

Region: USA

Theme: Culture, Society & History, Media Disinformation

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As he launches his new TV series offering a critical view of US overseas exploits, the film director tells MEE he didn’t always see it that way

American controversies are Oliver Stone’s forte.

The Hollywood movie director has turned his cameras on the assassination of John F Kennedy, the Vietnam War and the 9/11 attacks.

But, when researching his television series, The Untold History of the United States, it was American exploits in the Middle East that left him with the most lasting impression, he told Middle East Eye on Wednesday.

“When I studied the untold history, one thing that really hit me hard was the history of our involvement in the Middle East,” Stone said.

“It was a nefarious involvement.”

Stone traces Washington’s hand in the region back to the 1930s, but he says it reached a peak when President George HW Bush sent hundreds of thousands of US troops to liberate Kuwait after the Iraqi invasion of 1990.

The Soviet Union had recently collapsed and the region was wide open to a lone superpower, he said.

“We never got out of there. Once we were in, we’re in forever,” Stone said.

“We’ve destabilised the entire region, created chaos. And then we blame ISIS for the chaos we created,” he added, referring to the Islamic State (IS) group that now rules swathes of Iraq and Syria.

Stone researched and wrote the series and book with Peter Kuznick, a scholar at the American University who specialises in the US nuclear strikes on Japan that ended the Second World War.

“It’s all about the oil. You remember the bumper sticker: What is our oil doing under their sand?” Kuznick told MEE.

Washington’s hunger for fuel underpins its alliance with Saudi Arabia, the CIA-backed coup against Iranian prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1953 and its support for anti-Soviet religious militants in Afghanistan in the 1980s, he said.

Oliver Stone speaks at a press conference to launch his new book on American history (MEE/James Reinl)

“We create these messes, then we have a grand military plan to solve them. And the military solutions just don’t work,” he said.

The views of Stone and Kuznick are not likely to raise eyebrows on the streets of Cairo, Moscow or Paris.

But in the US they are not mainstream.

The way Stone tells it, Americans live in a bubble and are spoon-fed information by a school system, politicians and a media that portrays the US as a beacon of stability and a force for good in the world.

In one famous example, former President Ronald Reagan called the US a “shining city on a hill”.

“It’s very comforting to be an American,” Stone said.

You get the sense that you are safe and have prosperity of material goods, and that you have enemies everywhere – Russia, China, Iran and North Korea.

You get into this cocoon where you have a big country, two oceans, but that you’re always under threat.

Stone says he understands this well because he lived it himself.

He was raised in New York, the son of a Republican stockbroker, Louis Stone. He was always creative – he often wrote short plays to entertain his family – but never questioned how his history teachers puffed up the US, he said.

“I had only gotten a part of the story, which emphasised American exceptionalism, America as a selfless and beneficial country to the world,” he said.

In 1967, Stone volunteered to fight in the US Army and served in Vietnam. He was wounded twice and was honoured with a Bronze Star for heroism and a Purple Heart for his service.

“I came back from Vietnam puzzled, completely confused about what was going on there,” he said.

“But I did get a heavy dose of the doublespeak, the militarese talk.”

He started asking questions and reading up on “progressive history” at the same time as he studied filmmaking at New York University under Martin Scorsese and other teachers, he said.

These ideas fed his politically orientated filmmaking in the 1980s.

Salvador (1986) was set in a 1980s war in Central America. Platoon (1986), Stone’s directorial breakthrough movie, dramatised a young soldier’s tour of duty in Vietnam, starring Charlie Sheen.

He continued probing that war in Born on the Fourth of July (1989), starring Tom Cruise. JFK (1991) showed his conspiracy theories about the former president’s killing; movies such as Nixon (1995) and W (2008) tackled subsequent commanders-in-chief.

The release of his movie about NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has been delayed until 2016, he said.

He has also interviewed foreign statesmen who defy Washington – from the Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro to the ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The Untold History of the United States, a 10-part documentary series and a 750-page book, offers Americans an alternate perspective on US history from the Second World War through the Cold War to the present day.

Stone says he wants to counter the “educational crime” of misleading American schoolchildren.

“American exceptionalism has to be driven out of our curriculums,” he said.

“We’re not under threat. We are the threat.”

The original source of this article is Middle East Eye

Copyright © James Reinl, Middle East Eye, 2016

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THIS RACIST COUNTRY

The oppression and genocide of Native people is something that kkkanadians like to downplay, or try to make it sound like it's a thing of the past. Or they pull out the racist shit of "they get free education and don't pay taxes". Well fuck you. Is it worth it when your entire culture , language, and way of life were decimated, and almost completely wiped out ? Fuck no. Can this state ever make up for the nightmare of residential schools ? And it goes on. Read this, fuckers.....

More than 90 per cent of the population at Grassy Narrows and Wabaseemoong First Nations is showing signs of mercury poisoning, according to new research released on Tuesday by Japanese experts.

Mercury was dumped in the river that flows through the two northwestern Ontario communities by Reed Paper, upstream in Dryden, Ont., in the 1960s and early 1970s. Recent scientific reports show the water is still contaminated.

And people are still dealing with the health effects, according to Dr. Masanori Hanada, who has been studying the impact of the mercury on people in the First Nations and in Minimata, Japan, for 40 years.

• Japanese mercury experts push Canada to help Grassy Narrows
• Grassy Narrows: Why is Japan still studying the mercury poisoning when Canada isn't?

"If 90 to 95 per cent of the population have the same problem. For them it is normal, but for us who do the research it is not normal," Hanada said during a visit to Grassy Narrows on Saturday.

Hanada also sounded the alarm for a new generation of residents of Grassy Narrows and Wabaseemoong (also known as Whitedog) First Nations. People not even born when the mercury was being dumped in the river are demonstrating the symptoms of the poisoning, he said

The majority of the population is experiencing sensory deprivation — the loss of feeling in fingers and toes which is a classic symptom of mercury poisoning, he said.

'Everything is more difficult'

Barbara and Raphael Fobister both say they've lost feeling in their fingers, making everyday tasks such as cooking more difficult. (Jody Porter/CBC)

"I can't do any sewing unless I look at the needle and see if it's in my hand," said Barbara Fobister, 63. "In the kitchen, when I have to peel potatoes, everything is more difficult."

A total of 84 people from the two communities, that have a combined population of approximately 1,750 on reserve, were examined in 2014. Of all those tested, only seven people showed no sign of sensory disturbance.

The most surprising thing in the test results is that younger generations are affected, Hanada said.

"I was born in 1979 and I see that in the community. It's almost like a normal way for people to act," Chrissie Swain said. 

More precise research is needed to determine the root cause of the symptoms in young people, Hanada said. 

Chrissie Swain, 37, has been helping to maintain a logging blockade at Grassy Narrows since 2002 to prevent any further damage to the community's traditional territory. (Jody Porter/CBC)

"I cannot say exactly why, maybe there is mercury in their diet, or there is an after-effect of 20 or 30 years, but it is not normal to find this sign in the younger generation," he said.

People in the community find solutions for everyday tasks such as trouble doing up buttons and zippers or navigating the touch screen on a smartphone, but they should be compensated for the hardship, he said.

A compensation board was established in 1986 as part of settlement between Ontario, the pulp mill and the First Nations, but fewer than 30 per cent of the people who apply to the Mercury Disability Board are approved for a pension. 

Neither Barbara Fobister, nor her husband Raphael, 64, are among them. Raphael Fobister said the Japanese tests show he has one of the highest levels of mercury in the community.

Canada 'should be ashamed'

"The doctors in Canada are in complete denial that we are being poisoned by mercury," he said. "I think the government needs to come out in the open and say it is a problem and we're going to stop it."

"They should be ashamed for the amount of time they've done nothing," Barbara Fobister adds.

Swain said she is still navigating the complicated process of getting an appointment to be tested through the compensation board. 

"I wish Canada would do the same kind of testing that the Japanese do," she said.

The Japanese team urged Canadian researchers to collaborate to study the health concerns at Grassy Narrows and Wabaseemoong First Nations, Hanada said.

"They need the Canadian doctors, who live in Ontario, they can come here to look at their lives and their disease and do the testing," he said. "These collaborations can bring more exact evidence of this incident."

'Surprisingly, high rates of sensory disturbances can also be seen in the younger generations,' Dr. Masanori Hanada, centre, delivers the results of his latest study to people at Grassy Narrows First Nation. (Jody Porter/CBC)

Meanwhile, Hanada echoes calls from Swain and the chiefs of both First Nations for an immediate cleanup of the mercury that continues to contaminate the river.

Raphael Fobister goes a step further, calling for the mill in Dryden to be permanently closed.

"It's a cost and the cost is too high," he said. "It costs people's lives, people's health and animal's health and the environment's health and that's why I think they should shut it down."

LEST WE GET TOO FUCKING SMUG

Yes Comrades,

This shit happens here too. And as always, fuck the police, and fuck imperialism.

STATEMENT FROM SUPPORTERS OF THE PCR-RCP IN OTTAWA:

Justice for Abdirahman Abdi!

Abdirahman Abdi, who was beaten brutally by Ottawa police on Sunday July 24, passed away from his injuries. We express our solidarity and rage with his family and friends.

It is impossible to separate this event from all the other killings, all the violence against the Black community perpetrated by police across the United States and Canada. Family members and neighbours of Abdirahman, many of whom witnessed his horrifying beating, emphasized themselves the question of racial profiling suffered by Blacks in Ottawa, in particular among the Somali community. In addition, they have pointed to his mental condition and the language barrier which hindered his ability to effectively communicate with police, something the five officers involved gave no consideration for when they assaulted him.

Abdirahman was pinned face down and handcuffed, and then repeatedly hit with batons and kicked until he started bleeding, right in front of his apartment in the Hintonburg area. He had run there in fear from the officers who were chasing him following a call from a local shop. The Gangs and Guns Unit was deployed, even though Abdirahman was unarmed. After waiting a long time to call an ambulance, the cops tried to take phones from the people who had been filming, but were unable to prevent videos from surfacing on the web.

This event is sadly not surprising given the history of targeted violence and harassment against marginalized communities on the part of Ottawa police. The Somali community in particular has long been vocal against the harassment they suffer, particularly through the use of carding. It came out for example in 2014 that 20% of people carded by police in Ottawa were classified as Black, and 14% as “Middle-Eastern”, while the two communities make up only 5,7% and 3,7% of the city’s population respectively. While the Ottawa police have carefully crafted over the years the image of a police department in harmony and peace with Ottawa’s “diverse” communities, tensions are boiling under the surface. The rallying cry Black Lives Matter resonated loudly in the city, in solidarity with struggles for justice, for Mike Brown in Ferguson, for Freddie Gray in Baltimore, for Andrew Loku and Jermaine Carby in Toronto, and more recently for Alton Sterling and Philando Castile. No doubt it will be heard even louder now.

The Special Investigations Unit put in charge of the case will predictably rubber-stamp the non-indictment of the officers. Just like the two cops who got away with the point-blank murder of Brandon Maurice in Maniwaki. Just like the murderer who shot nine bullets into Sammy Yatim and got charged with “attempted” murder. Just like all those officers who beat Freddie Gray to death and were found not responsible. And the subservient “civilian board” will rubber-stamp the rubber-stamp, and the case will be closed.

Why this impunity? Because, as it has been said often after so many vigils and rallies in those last few years, under this capitalist system, all lives don’t matter. Police forces, let’s not forget, originate in Canada from an occupation army that was set up to crush Native people’s resistance. Similarly, in much of the United States, they were first set up as slave patrols. They are the enforcers of the ruling class’ interests, the armed defenders of private property. The lives of Black, disabled immigrants like Abdirahman, are collateral damage in the war waged by the dominant class to enforce its rule. In exchange for their loyalty, police forces are given the exclusive use of armed force, as well as almost complete impunity whenever they abuse it.

As a logical result of this, more and more people are coming to the conclusion that justice can be achieved only through their own struggle. This is what the masses in Ferguson, Baltimore and elsewhere have been pursuing when they rioted, inspiring the rebirth of a revolutionary Black movement crushed decades ago by the terrorist tactics of the US government counter-intelligence program (COINTELPRO). This is what the Indigenous resistance movement in Canada is also increasingly coming to terms with, as we find out more and more the extent to which police forces are involved in the systemic murder and disappearance of Indigenous women across the country. This is also what dozens of immigrants, currently on hunger strike to protest their illegal, unlimited prison detention, have realized a long time ago already. More recently, we have seen this with the desperate adventurist actions of armed Blacks in Baton Rouge and Dallas who have taken it upon themselves to avenge police brutality.

We are part of a growing movement in Canada that is rising up to challenge police impunity and state power. The families of various victims of police brutality and their supporters are joining up in a struggle for justice. Justice for Brandon Maurice, a 17 year old killed by police in Messines, Québec; Justice for Gladys Tolley, from Kitigan Zibi; Justice for Fredy Villanueva and Jean-Pierre Bony, from Montréal-Nord. Likewise, we will support Abdirahman’s family all the way in their struggle for justice.

The movement against police brutality has the potential to unite the masses across the country, uniting all groups that are marginalized and oppressed under this capitalist, white-supremacist, colonial system. By building connections between each local struggle, centralizing intelligence concerning police actions, and sharing resources and tactics to resist repression, we can build an alternative counter-power. Only in this way will be able to achieve true justice.

Justice for Abdirahman Abdi!
Fuck the racist police!
Long live people’s resistance!