I believe in the common fabric of humanity and the value of the individual within society. Understanding, cooperation and humility are critical if we are to prosper within the ecological limitations of our finite planet.
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To Messrs. Blinken, Biden, Ms. Harris; Mr. Trump, the US Congress/Senate and Government, US Mainstream, Social or Otherwise Media, no amount of censorship of the African voice, stance against the collaboration between Africans on the continent, African Americans and Diaspora Africans can stop the current waves of change! The consciousness or self and collective realization already blowing on the great continent of Africa and in the Diaspora is a natural phenomenon given the truism of the statement: there's time for everything! Therefore, if you think or believe Africans are dumb and can only become socio-politically conscious if you, Russians and others prompt them (us) then you're a deeply mistaken and tormented people/system. Africa gave the world (you) life and civilization. And I bet you that no matter the so-called strategic interest or partnership, many of us Africans would be better diplomats than you. First, we're humane, will be honest and will not subscribe to the easily detected Netanyahu's and Israeli manipulations. We will put a big full stop to the disrespect, luring, and commands you all fall for to continue sponsoring the Gaza genocide and regional war. You're wasting free American taxpayer dollars on Israel while Americans suffer. Meanwhile, the academic, science and technological achievements of Africans in America and Europe points to the mind/brain and progressive nature of Africans whom your imperialistic and exploitative vision and mission in Africa help to deprive of the opportunities needed to succeed, grow in Africa and not think of coming to America. It's America's cruel autocracy or dictatorship and not respecting African and other peoples' sovereignties thus contributing to the economic hardship, added to your manipulated crisis/conflicts, and sometimes invasion, and sanctions' regimes for control that keep people coming to America, sometimes ignorantly. And America's deliberate and strategic immigration schemes such as the H-IB, EB-5 (students) and O-1B Visas for technical/specialty and super smart foreigners' and workforce migration helps to keep America going strong and tough in science and technology, etc. Your imperialistic schemes are no longer secret and Africans, the global South are waking up. To you unfortunately, such reawakening can only be possible with foreign involvement and can't be organic. While pleased with your indoctrination schemes and couldn't think and act smart to show the African youths and people any positive evidence of decades of unholy, amoral neocolonialistic presence on the continent but harsh exploitation, you missed the signs of the time. You thought Africans will continue to suck on your Cool-Aid and can't change and rethink for their own good including reasserting their rights to self-determination and sovereignty. By your continuous imperialistic stance, by your conspicuous, ubiquitous subjugation you've now blown whatever opportunity that's left...shame on you!
Asylum Zombies...
From Europe to the U.S., most who fail in their asylum claims, including known criminals and other risks, remain in our communities anyway due to feckless (or politically hobbled) enforcement. The hard left thinks no one should be deported, ever, so for them the entire process is for show.
The rest of us can argue about what asylum standards should be applied, which agency should adjudicate claims, how many appeals should be possible, how long the whole process takes, and how much to spend on it.
But we should at least be able to agree that once an alien has had due process and been ordered deported by a U.S. judge, the law should be enforced. https://lnkd.in/eYaz2Tr8
Arbitrary restrictions on movement deserve more attention from democratic policymakers, multilateral institutions, & civil society.
Explore what measures the democratic community can take to help those impacted by mobility controls: https://lnkd.in/gz-dv4bF
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You spent much of your time in the U.S. Senate and presidential campaign arguing, “We are not going to treat people who are undocumented and cross the border as criminals,” and “an undocumented immigrant is not a criminal.” Now, according to your staff, your position is that “unauthorized border crossings are illegal.” What caused you to change your mind on these issues? Did you learn more that convinced you that your old positions were wrong, unfeasible, or ill-informed? Or is it that those were the positions that you felt were most popular in a Democratic presidential primary, and now you’re running in a general election? What guarantee does any voter have that your new positions won’t be as quickly and quietly abandoned as the old ones once you’re elected?
'Your allies insist you were not the “border czar,” even though in March 2021, President Biden announced you would “lead our efforts with Mexico and the Northern Triangle and the countries that help — are going to need help in stemming the movement of so many folks, stemming the migration to our southern border.” Stipulating that your allies prefer the term “migration czar,” where were all those migrants headed toward? Wasn’t it the U.S.–Mexico border? How can you or anyone else contend that you could be the administration’s point person for “migration” without having any role in, or responsibility for, our policies and the enforcement of them at the border? Just what did you do in this position?'
INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL ARREST
WARRANT FOR NETANYAHU
Multiple reports that the International Criminal Court is set to issue an arrest Warrant for Israeli PM Netanyahu, and that Biden is doing everything he can to stop it. How much more money, diplomatic cover, and resources will America pour into a genocide before the people wake up and say enough. And when will the United States government be put to the stand for its crimes against humanity and primary role in this genocide? If justice isn't served in this life, it shall certainly be so in the next. But has there ever been a point in
modern history where the hypocrisy of American government and foreign policy has been so blatant?
Why Is This Nowhere in the Conversation Over the Border Crisis?
Let's be clear about the dynamics on the border. We are dealing with a refugee crisis, not an "invasion," as many like to define it for political purposes. And here's the rub, even if you disagree with my characterization — and especially if you agree.
The border is corrupted on both sides of the fence. What gets into this nation outside our laws more often than not involves the assistance at some level of corrupted US law enforcers — someone paid to look the other way or who is otherwise compromised by criminal organizations making money off the refugee crisis and drug war.
It's widespread, and the rub is you can have 100 honest law enforcers, but it only takes a handful at key locations to ensure borders are compromised, both in terms of the flow of contraband, drugs and human beings. And criminal organizations are expert at dirtying up law enforcers via temptation, dragging them irrevocably into their camp.
That is nowhere in the conversation that I see.
There is simply too much money involved, hundreds of billions of dollars annually, most of it generated by the failed war on drugs. If you ban something everyone wants — refugees seeking a better life or drugs that Americans consume in vast quantities — you simply make the trade in contraband and human beings more profitable.
Read my book, "Dispatches from the House of Death," if you want to understand the nitty gritty of it and how the war on drugs fuels corruption in the United States and Mexico.
So long as underpaid US law enforcers can be corrupted by the waves of money coming at them from the proceeds generated by that war for drugs and human smuggling, we will always have an immigration crisis on the border.
So there is, in my view, no solution other than comprehensive reform of our immigration system and of our failed war on drugs. Ask yourself who is better on that policy.
Does building a wall and creating mass concentration camps make illegal trade more or less profitable? Or is immigration reform and a rethinking of our drug war a better approach?
The former increases profits because it decreases supply, not demand, thereby raising profits for criminal organizations.
The latter reduces the opportunity for profits as I see it because it reduces the supply of contraband [and related demand, if done right] as well as the demand [and related supply] for risking your life to cross the border by paying off ruthless coyotes.
But you will make that call at the voting box in November. At least give this some thought.
There may well be something to that old street saw that "cops always have the best dope."
Some sneaky legislators snuck a TikTok ban into important legislation on foreign aid over the weekend. Will it work? Is TikTok going to be banned?
Check out the video for more.
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What happens when 'friend' countries with strong Freemasons networks conspire with Australian politicians and security services to overthrow without a referendum the Section 100 constitutional rights to water (freedom from The Crown) of young Australians, on behalf of private equity, communists and organised crime (just take a look at Anthony Pratt's coterie)?
==> Take a look at the Australian Water Holdings asset stripping operation. And the asset stripping operations of ASIO and ASIS re East Timor back in 2002. And look at the culture of the AFP and ASIO, targeting young Australians but not old, crusty, treasonous crooks. Give some thought to the countries that would be involved in stripping the rights to freedom from young Australians. The diaspora of which countries would you expect to see involved? Hint: there's a pattern. They were formerly democracies that have had a bit of a streak of the authoritarian totalitarianism about them of late. They are part of a far-right extremist network (with communist sympathies where that comes in handy).
