HYPOCRISY AND RACISM

 The way the western media is covering the russia Ukraine conflict is beyond ridiculous. They repeatedly talk about "this isn't Africa or the Middle East, this is europe" , as if it's okay when it's somewhere other than a predominantly white country. They can't even hide their stupid blatant racism . 

Some examples :

In one of the clips, which aired on the BBC, Ukraine's Deputy Chief Prosecutor, David Sakvarelidze is heard saying, “It's very emotional for me because I see European people with blue eyes and blonde hair being killed.”

"The unthinkable has happened...This is not a developing, third world nation; this is Europe!" a woman is heard saying in one of the now viral clips, which aired on UK-based ITV network.

In another segment on the issue, one of the guests says “we have cruise missile fire as though we were in Iraq or Afghanistan, can you imagine?”

The racist reporting was first noticed when CBS correspondent Charlie D'Agata compared the situation in "civilised" Ukraine to what he implied were "uncivilised" countries such as those in the Middle East.

"This isn't a place, with all due respect, like Iraq or Afghanistan that has seen conflict raging for decades ... this is a relatively civilised, relatively European ... city where you wouldn't expect that or hope that (war) to happen," he had said.

And this is just the tip of the filthy racist iceberg. I'm not surprised the racism exists, but I am surprised they'd be so ignorant as to let it out so shamelessly , with no thought to it whatsoever.

We'll no doubt hear some apologies , but they don't mean shit. You said what you said and it's out there.

All of that being said, fuck russia and their aggression.

FUCK RUSSIAN IMPERIALISM

 Please read this :

MPP: RUSSIAN IMPERIALISTS OUT OF UKRAINE! SUPPORT THE UKRAINIAN PEOPLE!

February 27, 2022

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Proletarians of all countries, unite!

RUSSIAN IMPERIALISTS OUT OF UKRAINE! SUPPORT THE UKRAINIAN PEOPLE!

On the 23rd of this month and year, at 5 o’clock in the morning, air, sea and land troops of the Russian army in a lightning operation have penetrated into the territory of Ukraine and started their imperialist war of aggression against the country, today in their advance they are at the gates of the capital Kiev with the open purpose to overthrow the government of the country and to establish a puppet administration on all state levels and to impose the “demilitarisation” of the country, that is to put it under a protectorate of the army of the Russian imperialist state.

It might come as a surprise to some, that this war of aggression and occupation of the country by the Russian imperialist atomic superpower took place now when this atomic superpower and the sole hegemonic imperialist superpower, Yankee imperialism, as part of the development of their contradiction in collusion and struggle, had returned to the negotiating table to discuss a general agreement on strategic arms and other problems of “security” and, among these, on the expansion of the imperialist NATO alliance to the countries that formerly belonged to the so-called “Warsaw Pact”, the former semi-colonies of Soviet social-imperialism.

However, it is not a surprise, if one takes into account that since the end of January the Yankee imperialists had made it public that Russian imperialism was going to invade Ukraine regardless and that that was the purpose of the concentration of more than one hundred thousand soldiers on the common border of Russia with Ukraine, calling afterwards for all its diplomatic personnel, citizens, etc. to leave Ukraine immediately and that, a few days before the Russian attack, the genocidal president Biden and other senior representatives of the Yankee imperialism and its instrument NATO had categorically declared that “NATO will not allow Russia to touch a single piece of land of any NATO member country”, which they repeated on every occasion and that in case Russia invades Ukraine, the harshest economic sanctions will be imposed on it. It is well known that Ukraine is not a NATO or EU member. It was an oblique message, with which they sent a clear message that the Yankee imperialists would not risk any direct clashes with the Russian imperialists, thus giving the Russian imperialists carte blanche to unleash their war of aggression against Ukraine. The Yankee imperialists have seen their opportunity to take advantage of the desperate situation of Putin and the Russian imperialists to ease the way for them to engage in a war of occupation which they hope will have very similar consequences for the Russian imperialists as Afghanistan had for the Soviet social-imperialists.

The above facts confirm that the main contradiction in the world is oppressed nations – superpowers and imperialist powers, against all the attacks by revisionists of all stripes who deny the main contradiction in order to deny and attack the definition of Maoism. This oppressed nations-imperialism contradiction remains and will remain in perspective whatever the circumstances that could have repercussions by postponing it temporarily and then becoming the main contradiction again.

The fact that this war of imperialist aggression is taking place in Eastern Europe does not deny the importance of the oppressed nations, it might disorientate that Ukraine is in Europe, but it is one of the countries that were semi-colonies of the USSR. In those countries, no revolutions have taken place, but imperialist rebellion and revisionist decomposition which gave room for bourgeois rampage, for capitalist rampage, thus passing from one hand to another.

In the specific case of Ukraine, it temporarily came under the semi-colonial domination mainly of Russian imperialism, to whom it handed over its atomic weapons in 1993 in exchange for protecting its security. Then in this century the US, German, French and other imperialists in collusion and struggle began to shake the floor under the dominant pro-Russian regime in the country and there came the so-called “colour revolution”, then the re-establishment of the pro-Russian regime and later the “Maidan revolution”, through the indirect intervention of these imperialists using the so-called “low intensity warfare”, which brought about the change of regime to the one made up of different groups of the big bourgeoisie dependent on various foreign masters such as the current servant of the Yankees Volodymir Zelensky (since 2019).

In short, Russia ceased to be the main imperialist country oppressing Ukraine and yankee imperialism, in collusion and struggle with other imperialist countries, became the main imperialist oppressor of that semi-colony. In the face of this came the direct and indirect aggression (hybrid war) of Russian imperialism in 2014 with the occupation of Crimea, the establishment of two Russian protectorates in the Lower Don and the rest of the country remained as a zone of influence of U.S. imperialism and others.

Now, with its war of aggression Russian imperialism seeks to re-establish its rule, but no longer as semi-colonial but with a colonial character. This is yet to be defined at the present time.

Ukraine, an oppressed country, is the spoils of the imperialist dispute. Therefore in this situation there is being expressed not only the main contradiction but also the contradiction between the sole hegemonic imperialist superpower, Yankee imperialism (the fat dog) and the Russian atomic superpower (the skinny dog), with an economy the size of that of Belgium, and the contradictions, which are also developing in collusion and struggle, of each of these with the other imperialist powers such as Germany, France, etc. We refer to Chairman Mao’s quote on the Suez Canal incident in 1956 (see Chairman Mao’s speech of January 27, 1957).

These problems that we see since the beginning of the 90’s of the last century in Europe, unfortunately not in movement of the class or the people, but to pass from the hands of one imperialist to another, are pushing back borders to how they were before World War II and are stirring up nationalism. All this confirms what Chairman Gonzalo said about Germany after reunification, that from what was foreseen and is confirmed by all these events, its transition to superpower as they dream of, was not going to be easy. These developments from the 1990s to the present, these situations break the balances derived from World War II.

All that imperialist domination of the USSR in Eastern Europe broke up, the Warsaw Pact fell to pieces, basically imperialist rebellion and decomposition of revisionism. Therefore the problem was a new balance, a new confrontation and distribution of forces. These are the facts that are taking place up to now as is very well established in the Report of “The World Scene” of the newspaper Communist International.

What is it up to the Ukrainian people to do? Liberation struggle against mainly Russian imperialism, protracted war; it lacks of its political leadership but the Ukrainian proletariat and people have long experience of struggle, they have made the socialist revolution led by the great Lenin, they have defeated the Nazi invasion as part of the Soviet people and the Red Army in the Great Patriotic War led by comrade Stalin, so they will generate their political leadership, reconstitute their Communist Party as a militarized Marxist-Leninist-Maoist party, in the midst of the armed guerrilla struggle against the invader developing war of resistance, war of national liberation as befits the revolution in an oppressed nation.

Chairman Mao calls us to:

Unite to overthrow imperialism, revisionism and world reaction, this is fully valid today. Let us march firmly and surely to the Unified Maoist International Conference to extend the birth certificate to the new international organization of the proletariat.

As long as there is exploitation on Earth there will not be a new world, therefore the problem is to destroy imperialism, revisionism and reaction, all systems of exploitation, and necessarily socialism will be built. It is enough to see the socialist experiences lived, in a few decades they swept away centuries of exploitation, obviously not totally and completely because time was lacking, but how was it that countries as backward as China or the USSR became a power or superpower. Only socialism is capable of developing the forces constrained by imperialism, revisionism and world reaction. Another thing is that in those processes they have been restored and have become revisionist, that they have shamelessly developed capitalism; it is because they abandoned Marxism, because they restored capitalism, it was because they abandoned the building of socialism, but there too the revolution will arise and socialism will be developed again.

As Chairman Gonzalo said: All of this further strengthens the main contradiction and leads us to reaffirm that the oppressed nations are the basis of the revolution as the main tendency in the world. I insist, to see that tendency as a historical tendency, as a political tendency and as an understanding that opens the way for the transforming action of the communists to achieve its clearer expression. It reaffirms, in synthesis, that the oppressed nations are the basis of the revolution as the main tendency of history.

RUSSIAN IMPERIALISTS OUT OF UKRAINE! LET US SUPPORT THE UKRAINIAN PEOPLE!

PERU PEOPLE’S MOVEMENT

February 2022

TO REITERATE

 NATO should fuck off of russia, russia should get the fuck out of Ukraine , and biden , putin , trudeau and johnson should all shut the fuck up and be put in prison.

I at least hope the Ukrainians give the russians a bloody nose out of all of this.

CANADA IS NOT INNOCENT

 The west pushes and provokes with their fucking nato expansion, the russians push back with their recognition of the lugansk and donetsk peoples' republics, and then invade. This whole thing is fucked up, and russia should get the fuck out. Simple as that. The amerikkkans should shut the fuck up, and kkkanada should stop with their underhanded business also.

Now biden is threatening some severe economic sanctions. I'm sure that russia is scared to death about that. Fucking stupid amerikkkans.

Condemn the invasion, but retain your critical faculties

Moscow’s bombing and invasion of Ukraine must be condemned by all those who believe in a rules-based international order and peaceful solutions to world problems. Hopefully Russian internationalists can come together to create a peace movement powerful enough to pressure their government.

While criticizing Russian imperialism, however, we shouldn’t lose sight of Canada’s significant role in stoking the divisions within Ukraine that have contributed to today’s crisis. Non-interference in other countries’ affairs is also an important principle of international law.

Yet Ottawa has long sought to destabilize the relationship between Russia and Ukraine. In 2014 Ottawa actively assisted the ouster of President Viktor Yanukovych who was oscillating between the European Union and Russia.

The coup divided the Ukraine politically, geographically and linguistically (Russian is the mother tongue of 30% of Ukrainians and as much as 75% of those in eastern cities). The largely Russian-speaking east protested the ouster of Yanukovych, who was from the region. Many opposed the post-coup right-wing nationalist government, which immediately eliminated Russian as an official language. After a referendum and fighting, the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics were proclaimed in the eastern Donbas region, which Moscow recognized as independent on Monday.

Canada assisted pro-European Union, often far right, protesters that rallied in central Kyiv’s Maidan square from November 21, 2013, to February 22, 2014. Ottawa also quickly recognized the post-coup government despite having sent election observers to monitor the 2010 presidential and 2012 parliamentary elections, which were won by Yanukovych and his Party of Regions. As revealed in a leaked tape between Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and US Ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, US officials midwifed Yanukovych’s unconstitutional replacement.

Canada funded groups behind the EuroMaidan protests. Ottawa and the Ukrainian Canadian Congress have ploughed significant resources into anti-Russian, nationalist, elements of Ukrainian civil society since before the 2004 Orange Revolution. Throughout the protests against Yanukovych, the Canadian embassy’s local spokesperson, Inna Tsarkova, was a prominent member of AutoMaidan, an anti-government group.

A little over a week into the EuroMaidan protests Canada released a statement critical of government repression, which University of Ottawa professor Ivan Katchanovski says was precipitated by far-right infiltrators. In a November 30, 2013, release titled “Canada Condemns Use of Force Against Protesters in Ukraine” Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird declared, “Canada strongly condemns the deplorable use of force today by Ukrainian authorities against peaceful protesters.” Six days later Baird visited Maidan square with Paul Grod, president of the ultranationalist Ukrainian Canadian Congress. From the stage Grod announced Baird’s presence and support for the protesters, which led many to chant “Thank you Canada”. Baird called on Ukrainian authorities to respect the protests and bemoaned “the shadow that Russia is casting over this country.”

On December 27 Canada’s chargé d’affaires visited protest leader and journalist Tetyana Chornovol in the hospital after she was violently attacked. Three weeks earlier Chornovol was widely reported to have participated in seizing Kyiv City Hall. A former member of a far-right party, Chornovol had previously been arrested on numerous occasions and was subsequently charged with murder for throwing a Molotov cocktail at the Party of Regions headquarters during theEuroMaidan protests.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper repeatedly expressed support for the protesters and criticized Yanukovych. On January 27 he slammed the Ukrainian president for “not moving towards a free and democratic Euro-Atlantic future but very much towards an anti-democratic Soviet past.”

The next day Ottawa announced travel restrictions and economic sanctions on individuals close to the elected president. At the press conference to announce the measures Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander said, “you [Yanukovych] are not welcome in Canada and we will continue to take strong action until the violence against the people of Ukraine has stopped and democracy has been restored.” Ottawa subsequently slapped travel bans and economic sanctions on dozens of individuals aligned with Yanukovych.

At the height of the protest, activists used the Canadian embassy, which was immediately adjacent to Maidan square, as a safe haven for “at least a week”. The protesters gained access to a mini-van and other Canadian material. In a story a year after the coup the Canadian Press quoted officials from allied European nations accusing Canada of being “an active participant in regime change.”

At least some of those allowed to use the Canadian embassy were from the far right. In “The far right, the Euromaidan, and the Maidan massacre in Ukraine” professor Katchanovski reported, “the leader of the [far right] Svoboda-affiliated C14 admitted that his C14-based Maidan Self-Defense company took refuge in the Canadian embassy in Kyiv on February 18 and stayed there during the Maidan massacre.”

On February 19 and 20, more than 50 were killed in violence that was widely blamed on government security forces. But Katchanovski shows that far-right activists were in fact responsible for many of these deaths.

The killings precipitated the collapse of the government. After Yanukovych was ousted, Ottawa sought to shore up the unconstitutional government. Soon after, Baird “welcomed the appointment of a new government”, saying, “the appointment of a legitimate government is a vital step forward in restoring democracy and normalcy to Ukraine.” But the country’s constitutional provisions dealing with impeachment or replacing a president were flagrantly violated.

Days after the coup Baird led a delegation of Conservative Party MPs and Ukrainian-Canadian representatives to meet acting president, Oleksandr Turchynov and new prime minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk. Canada’s foreign minister announced an immediate $200,000 in medical assistance for those injured in the political violence. Subsequently, Ottawa announced $220 million in aid to the interim government. Harper said, “I think we really have to credit the Ukrainian people themselves with resisting the attempt to overturn their democracy and to lead their country back into the past.”

After the coup Canada’s PM was the first G7 leader to visit the interim government. Alongside Baird and Justice Minister Peter MacKay, Harper told the acting president, “you have provided inspiration and a new chapter in humanity’s ongoing story of the struggle for freedom, democracy and justice.” During his visit to shore up the US and Canadian installed government Harper accused Putin of seeking to destabilize international security and return the world to the “law of the jungle.”

Canadian officials stayed mum about the significant influence far-right nationalists had within the interim leadership. In subsequent weeks a wave of violence swept Ukraine with right wing nationalists perpetrating many killings, including a massacre that left 50 dead at Odesa’s trade union hall.

Over the years since 2014 fighting intensified, waned, then intensified again in the Donbass region. Some 14,000 have died. The Ukrainian military has been responsible for the bulk of the death in recent years. Fighting escalated again over the past couple of weeks. The pretext Putin has offered for invading is to protect those in the Donbass and Ukrainian Russian speakers more generally.

While other geopolitical dynamics are also at play, the 2014 coup is important to understanding the horrific violence now on display.

In his investigation of Euromaidan activists’ use of the embassy in Kyiv Canadian Press reporter Murray Brewster writes, “Canadians are not very popular in some quarters and occasionally loathed by pro-Russian Ukrainians.”

Condemn Russia’s invasion but understand that Canada has often been the opposite of a force for good in that part of the world. It is important now, as war hysteria inevitably grows, that we do not fall into the trap of uncritically supporting “our side”. That way leads to escalation and the threat of nuclear annihilation.

MORE SMUG PRIVILEGED LIES

 It's actually worse having someone pretend they're on the side of the poor and oppressed but are really on the side of the rich and powerful, instead of having some conservative schmuck being blatant about where his allegiance lies. At least you know where you stand with those assholes , instead of someone smiling as they stab you in the back . Fucking smarmy little fuck....

Reaction to Haitian strike exposes Liberal lie on ‘feminist foreign policy’

 

A government truly committed to a “feminist foreign policy” would support Haitians striking to boost their 70-cents-per-hour wage. But thus far Canadian officials have responded to the workers’ action by paying a celebratory visit to a sweatshop and ignoring protests repressed by Canadian-funded police.

At the start of last week thousands of Haitian apparel workers launched a strike for a higher minimum wage. Thousand have taken to the streets in Port-au-Prince calling for a tripling of their 500 gourdes daily salary (CDN $6.20). The largely female workforce stitches shirts and other apparel for brands like Gap, Walmart, Target, JCPenney as well as Canadian apparel giant Gildan.

The Canadian government has a long history of promoting Haiti’s export processing zones as a means of “development”. On Friday Canadian officials visited a Canadian run sweatshop and tweeted a photo of women happily sewing shirts at an industrial park in the north of the country. In a 2007 speech then president of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), Robert Greenhill praised the Haitian garment industry. At a Canadian Institute for International Affairs conference Greenhill “was extremely sanguine about the positive effects that would flow from the reactivation of Haiti’s export processing zones.” Two years later international development minister Bev Oda told the Ottawa Citizen, “Haiti would have been historically a large producer of textiles and garment exporting to North America. It lost that industry and now we’re looking at how we can rejuvenate the industry there.”

While they promote Haiti’s export processing zones, Canadian officials have remained mum on the workforce’s effort to boost their $6.20 pay for nine hours of work. Canadian officials have also stayed silent about police repression of the strikers.

Police in Port-au-Prince have beaten protesters and fired significant amounts of teargas at them. On February 15 Ambassador Sébastien Carrière met Haiti’s police chiefs, tweeting “Canada is pleased to have been able to engage with leaders of the HNP [Haitian National Police] in order to reinforce Canadian and Haitian collaboration in the security sector.” Over the past decade Ottawa has channeled $100 million into the force, which the Liberals now label “feminist” assistance. A month ago the Trudeau government announced a $15 million contribution to the Haitian national police under its Feminist International Assistance Policy.

Apparently, the Liberals are a little confused and perhaps historically ignorant of what “feminist” means. They may be unaware that feminists have often led strikes, especially those of women.

Still, you’d think an expression of support for Haitian apparel workers would be particularly appropriate during Black History Month. Haiti’s sweatshop owners are largely light skinned while the workforce is almost entirely Black.

A Canadian statement supporting the strikers call for an increased minimum wage would have an impact. Ottawa is extremely influential in Haiti and the country’s de facto leader Ariel Henry is almost entirely dependent on the Core Group of foreign ambassadors.

Last month Trudeau, Joly and international development minister Harjit Sajjan hosted a meeting of foreign ministers “to find sustainable solutions to challenges faced by Haiti and its people.” One of those most obvious challenges is a 70-cents-an-hour minimum wage.

If the Trudeau government were serious about its “feminist foreign policy” they’d mark Black History Month by expressing support for Black women making $6 a day sewing T-shirts in facilities largely run by white men.

LEATHERFACE....AGAIN AND AGAIN.....

 I've ranted on about Leatherface before and will continue to do so . Today I made a mixed tape of rarities and B-sides that I will listen to on the way to work tomorrow .

Frankie Stubbs is truly a poet , and can write the most beautiful heartfelt songs .

I will never tire of their music .

Listen to their cover of Abba's Eagle . Now go and listen to everything they've ever done.

Thank you.

NO WAY AT ALL

 No one can tell me they're surprised that the amerikkkan injustice system would kill an innocent Black man when it's suspected that a white fuckin' kkkop probably committed the crime ?

Fuck the racist capitalist system and everyone who upholds and defends it....

Rodney Reed − overturn his conviction and death sentence! 

By Gloria Rubac posted on February 17, 2022

Rodney Reed’s birthday was Dec. 22. This was the 24th birthday and holiday season he has spent away from his children, his five brothers, his mother and his large loving family — while entombed in solitary confinement on death row in Texas. 

Rodney Reed in court, 2015. WW PHOTO: Gloria Rubac

Reed was given an indefinite stay of execution on Nov. 15, 2019, by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the highest criminal court in Texas. The stay came only five days before he was to be legally lynched in Huntsville, Texas. 

His case was then sent back to the trial court to determine if Reed’s claims of innocence were valid.

Due to COVID-19, the evidentiary hearing was repeatedly postponed but was finally held in July 2021 in Bastrop County, where Reed had been convicted. Numerous new witnesses and overwhelming evidence of Reed’s innocence were presented during the two-week hearing, contradicting much of the State’s evidence in Reed’s original trial. 

But the presiding judge, J.D. Langley, adopted nearly verbatim the State’s proposed order in Reed’s case, which included several obvious factual misrepresentations.

The Innocence Project in New York, representing Reed, filed a “Memorandum and Objections to Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law” with the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Feb. 1. “Because the judge abandoned his duty to be a neutral, independent fact finder, the CCA should reject the trial court’s copy-and-pasted order,” the Innocence Project declared in a strongly worded press release. 

The statement continued: “The trial court judge overseeing Rodney Reed’s July 2021 evidentiary hearing abdicated his role as an unbiased, deliberative, independent fact finder and rubber-stamped the State’s proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law. . . .

“The judge’s cut-and-pasted order shows that he failed in his duty to carefully and independently assess the credibility of 47 witnesses. Having adopted the State’s proposed order wholesale, the court found all 20+ witnesses on Mr. Reed’s behalf to be not credible and found all 20+ witnesses on the State’s behalf to be credible.” 

Evidence of Reed’s innocence

Jane Pucher, senior staff attorney at the Innocence Project and one of Mr. Reed’s attorneys, said: “The abdication of the judge’s duty cannot be tolerated, especially when an innocent man’s life is at stake. The CCA entrusted Judge Langley with making impartial findings and independent assessments of witnesses’ credibility, supported by the evidence. That did not happen.” (innocenceproject.org)

Rodney Reed, an African American man, was convicted by an all-white jury in 1998 of killing a white woman, Stacey Stites, with whom he was having an affair. She was found murdered; and for almost a year, the primary suspect was her fiancé, Jimmy Fennell, a cop with a history of violently abusing women. Fennell recently finished doing 10 years in prison for the kidnapping and rape of a woman he had stopped for a traffic violation.

The only evidence connecting Reed to Stites was from their being together sexually during a date the night before she disappeared.

More supporting facts 

The Innocence Project alerts people to these facts in the case of Rodney Reed:

1. The murder weapon, a belt, was never tested for DNA. 
2. The State’s forensic experts have admitted to errors in their testimonies, which led to Reed’s conviction and death sentence.
3. Renowned forensic pathologists have concluded that Reed’s guilt is medically and scientifically impossible.
4. Fennell’s best friend at the time of the crime, Bastrop Sheriff’s Officer Curtis Davis, has now revealed that Fennell gave an inconsistent account of where he was on the night of the murder. When asked to explain this discrepancy, Fennell declined to testify, because his answers might further incriminate him.
5. An affidavit from an insurance salesperson stated that Fennell threatened to kill Stites while applying for life insurance.
6. A confession by Fennell has come to light. On Oct. 29, 2019, Arthur Snow, a former member of the Aryan Brotherhood and Fennell’s prison mate, disclosed that Fennell had confessed to murdering Stites stating, “I had to kill my n*****-loving fiancée,” in a conversation.
7. Reed’s crime was that he, a Black man, was romantically involved with a white woman in a small conservative Texas town, where tributes to the Confederacy still sit on the grounds of the courthouse where Reed was tried. 

On Dec. 17, 2020, the Innocence Project filed a request for “Grant of Application for Writ of Habeas Corpus” in trial court and with the CCA, because the district attorney at Reed’s trial illegally hid statements taken from Stites’ co-workers. These affirmed that she and Reed knew each other and were involved. At trial, the  DA repeatedly stated that Reed did not know Stites. The DA also suppressed statements from Stites’ and Fennell’s neighbors about loud domestic violence arguments between Stites and Fennell. 

Under the 1963 U.S. Supreme Court case Brady v. Maryland, the State had an affirmative duty to turn over all evidence favorable to Reed’s defense. Instead, the State has hidden evidence pointing to Reed’s innocence for more than two decades. 

This evidence could have exonerated him from the very beginning. 

Reed’s family and supporters will hold a 2:00 p.m. CST press conference March 4 outside the Texas Criminal Court of Appeals to urge the court to deny Judge Langley’s biased ruling that simply copies the position of the State. 

Letters of support for Reed can be sent to Rodney Reed #999271, Polunsky Unit DR, 3872 FM 350 South, Livingston, Texas 77351.

FILMAGE

 Now on to more pleasant topics.

Yesterday, I finally saw Filmage , a documentary about the most influential pop punk band ever , The Descendents .

It is totally worth your time and very well done. There of course is a huge focus on Bill Stevenson, legendary drummer and brains behind the band , and also drummer for Black Flag. He is fucking amazing. See it. Please.

THE SKY IS NOT FALLING.HE'S AN IDIOT.

 Let's try and look at this whole trucker protest in ottawa objectively, shall we ?

Smarmy little fuck trudeau would have us believe that the white power hordes had occupied the nation's capital , and wanted to bring the country to it's knees .  I have zero doubt that there were many extremely conservatively minded people involved in this , including some racists, but it most definitely was NOT a white power thing. If you managed to see footage from outside of the ridiculous kkkanadian media, you would have seen a different story.

An English newspaper sent two reporters to the protest for several days, looking for that kind of sensationalism , and found none. It is also important to note that this particular paper do not agree with what the truckers were protesting for , but they found no evidence of nazi control of it.

I saw footage on Russian tv that actually showed a dreadlocked Black man putting a canadian flag on top of a truck. I sort of doubt that he was part of any aryan type of movement either. 

If you believe we have a "free press" in this country, you are blindly mistaken. They are involved in keeping and promoting the dominant narrative during this entire "pandemic" , and if you disagree, you will be labelled as a conspiracy theorist and/or a lunatic racist.

Not like our progressive prime minister :

 

Yes, that was him in 2001 . No, not as a wacky university student, but as a teacher at a private school . He's obviously a genius.

Good day to you.

FUCK THEIR ONE SIDED BULLSHIT

 The government either outright denies any negative consequences regarding their precious vaccine, or they downplay it and make it almost impossible for anyone who has gotten sick from it to get any real help.

Read this next fucking story and tell me that the government is doing the right fucking thing.....

B.C. man who had rare, extreme 

reaction to COVID-19 vaccine still 

waiting for exemption, 

government support

Wed, February 9, 2022, 1:28 p.m.

Ross Wightman was diagnosed with Guillain-Barré syndrome shortly after his first dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. (Submitted by Ross Wightman - image credit)

Ross Wightman can't help but feel isolated.

He's unable to walk like he used to, and his vaccine status means he can't even go out to watch his kids play sports.

The father of two isn't against COVID-19 immunization — in fact, he's still recovering from his first shot.

Wightman was given a dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine in April 2021. Within days, he started to have excruciating back pain. Then came the tingles on the side of his face — and then, paralysis.

"It's been a roller coaster for me," he told CBC News from his home in Lake Country, B.C., just north of Kelowna.

"It hit me hard right away. I had the paralysis from the waist down, full facial paralysis. I had trouble chewing and swallowing."

Wightman was diagnosed with Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS), a rare condition that affects the nervous system. It can cause paralysis, muscle weakness, and even death.

He spent two months in the hospital, and the condition has left Wightman unable to work as he tries to access slow-moving government support for vaccine injury.

He's also been unable to get a vaccine exemption, with health officers saying they can't prove his GBS was caused by the AstraZeneca shot — and advising him to get a second dose of a different COVID-19 vaccine.

GBS diagnoses following a COVID-19 vaccination are extremely rare — about one in 700,000— according to data from the B.C. Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) and Health Canada.

There have been 10 reports of individuals hospitalized with GBS within 30 days of a COVID-19 vaccine since December 2020, all of whom have been discharged, according to the BCCDC. More than 10 million doses have been administered in B.C.

Submitted by Toby Wilson

Of more than 76 million vaccine doses administered in Canada, about 0.01 per cent have had serious side effects, according to Health Canada. Most tend to be allergic reactions.

However, Health Canada says data indicates there have been higher rates of GBS in the general population since the introduction of the AstraZeneca vaccine, at 117 total events.

"It is known that rarely vaccines are associated with [GBS] as a very significant side-effect," said Dr. Brian Conway, medical director of the Vancouver Infectious Diseases Centre.

"On odds, though, vaccines remain very safe and it remains much more beneficial to be vaccinated."

Submitted by Ross Wightman

Seeking support

Wightman has yet to receive any compensation under Canada's Vaccine Injury Support Program (VISP), which has only approved just a handful of applications nationwide.

"It's very easy to get down and frustrated, so we just keep trucking and are grateful for our friends," he said.

VISP applications have been open since June 2021. The program is designed to offer families compensation for lost wages, permanent injuries and even death. Applications are reviewed by a medical board.

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As of Nov. 1, 2021, 400 claims had been received, but less than five have been reviewed and approved. The next round of data will be made available on June 1.

Wightman said his application has been passed around to several different case workers, but he says little progress has been made.

His wife, Nicole, also hasn't been working as she takes care of him and their kids while she navigates the application process.

"When something like this happens, we need to make sure these people are taken care of, and not left to fend for themselves," she said.

Burden of proof

Wightman spends his days at physiotherapy for two hours as he attempts to slowly regain both the strength, movement and weight he lost following his initial diagnosis. His walking has improved with the use of orthopedic shoes.

But he's yet to qualify for a B.C. vaccine exemption.

He says the medical health officer who originally reviewed his case said that while there was a temporal relationship between the vaccination and the GBS diagnosis, they were unable to prove whether it was caused by the vaccine. There was no evidence of another cause.

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Interior Health would not comment on Wightman's case citing privacy concerns. However, it did say it generally recommends "that people who have had reactions to AstraZeneca complete their immunization series with an mRNA vaccine."

Wightman says he was told by the medical health officer to get a second dose of either Pfizer or Moderna, but he would prefer to have a vaccine exemption given the severity of his illness.

He says his doctor has also submitted a request on his behalf.

While he waits, between his condition and his vaccine status, he spends a lot of time alone.

"I can't watch the kids go play baseball, I can't watch them go ice skating," he said. "Maybe I'm becoming a little numb to it because it's a weekly occurrence, but it hurts for sure.