News of the Restless

Martyrdumb.

Posted on January 29, 2016 by Sabina Becker

Complete, unedited video of LaVoy Finicum’s truck being pursued by police, then stopped. At the 9:15 mark or thereabouts, he swerves his truck to miss a spike strip, and appears to almost hit an officer. The truck then careens into a snowbank and stops, and he gets out. At first he appears to have his hands up, but a moment later he reaches inside his jacket, where he has a 9 mm pistol stashed. At that point, the police (who have acted with extraordinary restraint up to this point) shoot him dead.

You’ll note that at NO point was Finicum on his knees, much less making an earnest effort to surrender, and he certainly appears to have made good on his prior vow to die rather than go to jail. Unfortunately for Tarp Man, the police were quicker on the draw than he was.

Meanwhile, Old Man Bundy is still alive, and still preaching the same stupidity that got LaVoy Finicum killed. And there’s a tiny rump of “militia” — terrorists, really — still hijacking that bird sanctuary in the name of a total misinterpretation of the US constitution, written by an ex-FBI Mormon conspiracy hack. They’d rather alienate the very people they purport to be trying to “help”, and all in the name of some bogus ideology that’s doomed to fail.

Of all the stupid hills to die on, they picked the very dumbest.

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The Nobodies

Posted on January 28, 2016 by Sabina Becker

Los Nadies [The Nobodies] (2012) from Laura Saenger on Vimeo.

Sorry I’m too tired/busy to post any original material lately, folks. But soon…soon.

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Quotable: Zora Neale Hurston on discrimination

Posted on January 28, 2016 by Sabina Becker

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Oh, that Zora. Slaying two formidable vultures — racism AND sexism — with one stone.

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Music for a Sunday: Time you straightened right out

Posted on January 24, 2016 by Sabina Becker

This one goes out to the late John Bradbury, drummer of the band that started a movement. Two-tone ska that combined black and white, punk and reggae, social justice and fun. Sadly missed.

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Finally, a song for men’s rights!

Posted on January 23, 2016 by Sabina Becker

Because it’s only FAIR, right? RIGHT?

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Wankers of the Week: The Unbearable Whiteness of Being

Posted on January 22, 2016 by Sabina Becker

Crappy weekend, everyone! And an especially crappy one to all my US friends caught in the Nor’Eastern Seaboard. You have my sincerest sympathies, from New York all the way down to DC. Hope you can see your hands in front of your faces, and hope you don’t spend too much of this weekend digging yourselves out. But hey! At least all you have to shovel is snow. So, while you’re waiting for Thor to quit taking an ice-cold dump all over you, take a look at all the shit I dug up for you this week, in no particular order:

1. LaVoy Fucking Finicum. Waaaaa, the feds took away his foster kids, a.k.a. his gravy train! Because it’s not enough to have free land, you also gotta get free money from the gummint, too! And yeah, I bet it did them real good to live on his ranch. Just look at the example he’s setting for them now. He’s pretty much the Ultimate Federal Freeloader and the Ultimate Deadbeat Dad, all rolled up in one!

2. Deepika Fucking Avanti. She claims to be a psychic, but she couldn’t predict the perfectly foreseeable (even without a Sixth Sense!) outcome of discriminating against a same-sex couple trying to rent a home? Well, there’s a shocker. Look who’s a charlatan, in other words. As well as a bigot.

3. Matthew Fucking Langone. Always nice to see an enterprising entrepreneur…unless he’s a cop making money off of overtime arrests AND selling mocking fascist shirts about it on the side. Nice to see his police department has his back in this blatant case of police brutality, too!

4. Thomas Fucking Geisel. I know it’s carnival season, but really: dressing up as a well-known local pimp (and your wife as a prostitute), when you’re the mayor of Düsseldorf, a city already infamous for that god-awful sexist shit? Isn’t that just free advertising for the brothel owners? (Or, worse: PAID advertising for the same?)

5. Marco Fucking Rubio. Daesh isn’t after your family, bozo. Daesh doesn’t even care if you exist. If you’re gonna make lame excuses for buying guns, can’t you at least pick a kinda-sorta plausible one?

6. Caitlyn Fucking Jenner. No, dear, you CAN’T win the Repugs over. They’ve made it their electoral strategy to erase you and other LGBT people from the face of the Earth, remember?

7. Stewart Fucking Rhodes. Hello, Oaf Creeper? History called. Says the feds weren’t responsible for the conflagration at Waco. That was David Fucking Koresh’s own doing. And if anyone’s looking to “Waco” anything (since when is that name a verb?), it’s the bozos who hijacked the bird sanctuary. So keep your big, stupid mouth shut about Waco, y’hear?

8. Dominic Fucking Lawson. Hello, Archaic Sexist? The Fifties called, said they want their misogyny back. Blaming women for an improvement in medical working conditions? What, you want your health tended by an overworked, underpaid intern? No? Then hold your tongue. #LikeALadyDoc

9. Don Fucking McLean. While progressive rock greats like David Bowie and Glenn Frey have left us, rejoice! This one-hit wonder from Wingnuttia is still alive, and still beating up his wife. Wish I could finally say Bye-bye, Mr. American Pie…

10. John Fucking Mellish. You can go join #8 in the superannuated sexist corner. And put on a nice, vintage dunce cap, while you’re at it.

11. Meghan Fucking McCain. Ted Cruz is “the thinking man’s Donald Trump”? Girl, please — thinking men don’t vote Republican. The entire party is one big box of burnt-out bulbs at this point.

12. Sarah Fucking Palin. Why?

That’s why. Irrelevant person endorses other irrelevant person! Put a fuckin’ sock in it. PS: Dafuq did I just see? UGH. PPS: And of course, she blames Obama for #13. Because Dubya and his wars of choice are never at fault for anything. And because Personal Responsibility (which Track was presumably exercising when he signed on for Dubya’s war) doesn’t apply to ‘wingers, either.

13. Track Fucking Palin. Meanwhile, the Paliness’s brood also don’t disappoint. Charged with domestic assault, no doubt while bombed out of his empty skull. Attaboy! Gotta keep the side up, after all.

14. Franklin Fucking Graham. Everytime a right-wing closet case thunders about the imaginary evils of Teh Gheys, an angel throws up somewhere over the Fruited Plain, causing violent hailstorms and tornadoes. Seriously, though…I’m just waiting to see how long it takes before he’s caught with his pants down behind a frightened, very under-age boy.

15. Rick Fucking Snyder, AGAIN. He dared to try to spin the corrosive waters of the Flint River as a “natural” phenomenon. Oh sure, like factories belching toxic effluent into the water just GREW there, all by their widdle selves. Pull the other one, dude. PS: Ha, ha.

16. Mat Fucking Staver. No, Kim Fucking Davis is NOT like Martin Luther King. She’s female, she’s white, and she’s prejudiced as all fuck. Couldn’t be more UNlike him if she tried.

17. Aviv Fucking Bushinsky. Want to see some serious anti-semitism at work? Just go to Apartheid Israel, where Bibi’s own aides speak a language of prejudice barely distinguishable from that of Nazi Germany. Or a KKKer in the US.

18. Ayelet Fucking Shaked. Same shit, different asshole. BTW, this is the same toxic turdblossom who referred to Palestinian kids as “snakes”.

19. Ted Fucking Nugent. Racist stochastic terrorist much, ShittyPants McDraftDodger?

20. Ezra Fucking Levant. Meanwhile, in Alberta, guess who’s shriiiieeeeeking about all-gender, single user washrooms in schools, claiming they will somehow lead to “rape”? Yup, the Irrelevant Putz is at it again. Hey, since he’s running out of legs to stand on, what with tar-sands oil tanking and all, he’s got to scream about SOMETHING to keep his shitty “media” site going. Otherwise, he’d have to find himself a real job, and we all know how scarce those are getting in Alberta!

21. Jack Fucking Barnes. So, who says you have to be smart to be a terrorist? Not this guy! He’s as dim a bulb as they come. So dim, in fact, that he can’t even see that what he’s so hellbent on doing is illegal.

22. Neil Fucking Wampler. What the fuck is a convicted murderer doing with a gun, and why the hell is this even legal? Especially since he pleaded not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity, unsuccessfully, at his murder trial? And most importantly, WHY THE HELL IS HE OUT LOOSE, and why is he hijacking a bird sanctuary?

23. Rafael Fucking Cruz. Well, hello there, Ted Fucking Cruz’s equally obnoxious dad! Still batshit about commies? Yup, still got all the ol’ guano in the belfry. Still thinks that commies hate their own country. And still thinks that public works which ELEVATE a country are somehow commie plots against it. Even when they’re founded by ANTIcommies. Well, all righty, then!

24. June Fucking Fellhauer. You’re 11? You should be thinking MARRIAGE! But only if you’re a girl. Boys don’t have to worry about that purity-culture shit. So says this idiotess, at any rate. Why the hell is Colorado listening to her bullshit?

25. Carly Fucking Fiorina. You’re 4? You should be thinking ABORTION! But only about making it illegal. And preferably while bewildered and scared shitless by an age-inappropriate political talk during a preschool field trip.

26. Mary Fucking Dye. You’re a teenager? You should be thinking VIRGINITY! But again…only if you’re a girl. And you should be telling it to right-wing politicians with a bizarre and inappropriate curiosity about things which are none of their damn business. (And the answer had better be “Yes”, or you’re in deep shit, missy!)

27. Jeremy Fucking Hall. Sure, the porn you showed in class was “just a joke”. And I’m sure the one and only female firefighter there found it funny as shit, because she “chuckled”, yup. What’s not so funny, and not such a joke, is that this sort of thing is part of an overall pattern of institutional sexism and systematic sexual harassment, designed to force female firefighters out of the firehouse. The fact is, porn has NO place on any job training site, even as a “joke”. Maybe that’s why nobody’s really laughing, eh? PS: And a special FUCK YOU to the rest of the volunteer fire department of Spaniard’s Bay, too. Big, spiteful manbabies. And their women, who sound like mega-shrews themselves. PPS: Sign, sign, SIGN.

28. Mitch Fucking Holmes. What’s the matter with Kansas? THIS GUY. Apparently, he has a fetish for neo-Victorian fashions. Unfortunately, even his fellow Goopers in the state gummint don’t share that particular taste.

29. Vitus Fucking Huonder. What’s the matter with the Catholic Church? THIS GUY. Apparently, he really gets off on the idea of gay people being put to death. I’m just waiting to hear how many altar boys he molested back when he was a humble parish priest.

30. Donald Fucking Trump. Golly, it’s always SOMETHING with this guy, isn’t it? And this week, there’s so much to choose from, too. From the Paliness’s meaningless endorsement (basically, “I Quit” endorsing “You’re Fired”), to the fact that his old man was Nazified and poisonous enough to seriously rile up the great Woody Guthrie, he’s looking more and more like a candidate…for another trial at Nürnberg.

And finally, to Dwight and Steve Fucking Hammond. If you ever wonder what provoked the standoff in Oregon (which is, unbelievably, still going on, with no one but a single truck-rustler arrested!), take a good look at these two. Seems they’ve been trying to steal that bird sanctuary’s land for years. And although they’ve had the basic good sense to stand down in this instance, now they’ve inspired OTHER would-be federal land thieves — and frankly, TERRORISTS — to do similar god-awful things. AND threaten to pull a Koresh, to boot. At long last, have these fucking bastards no shame?

Good night, and get fucked!

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Rape law in Germany: a veritable devil’s carnival of injustice

Posted on January 22, 2016 by Sabina Becker

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The memo that “Not All Men” have gotten, but which all men should get. Including white men in general, and Germans in particular.

Hi, me again, harping about Köln, again. Or rather, translating yet another good Störenfriedas piece about just that, plus some rather shocking hypocrisies currently afoot in terms of actual German rape law and how it is currently being implemented:

In Köln there is a saying: “When it rains and the sun is shining, then the Devil is celebrating Carnival.”

All those who have been following media reports for the last two weeks on the topic of sexual violence could be attending such a devilish carnival; that’s how contradictory the reports and the demands are. On the one side are the events of New Year’s Eve in Köln, after which suddenly justice minister Heiko Maas made the long-delayed new rulings on the rape law a top priority. Even sexual harassment will now, since it’s not just white German men doing the groping anymore, finally be punishable. The talk shows, tabloids and opinion pages threw themselves on the subject; a new hashtag, #ausnahmslos (#noexceptions) was created. Sexual violence, as everyone from Internet- and print-feminists to the CDU and PEGIDA agreed, should finally, finally be consequently punished. So far, so good, so worth supporting — if only it were not this racist component shining through so many of the demands, and which culminated in the mushrooming “civil defence forces”.

But at the same time — and in the face of all demands for hard punishment for sexual assault, ad absurdum — German courts are drifting in a quite different direction. TV star Gina-Lisa Lohfink has been ordered to pay 24,000 euros to two men because she accused them of rape. She was punished for false accusation, even though there was a video of her and both men, in which she kept saying “Stop!” The judge refused to recognize this as evidence of rape, and instead ordered her to pay a fine. A disturbing signal for all victims of sexual violence, yes, even for all women. Not only because this video exists, which shows that this sex was not consensual, but because Gina-Lisa Lohfink is also being punished for having the courage to accuse these men. So what’s up with “No Means No”? Isn’t “Stop” also “Stop”? How can it be that a rape charge could turn into a fine for the victim?

The willingness to testify against sexual assault is close to zero because the act of laying rape charges is in itself a humiliating and very burdensome experience for the victim. Victims’ rights groups have long been calling for anonymous evidence-gathering, non-public trials, accompaniment for victims, and an end to the unspeakable character examinations to which they are being subjected. No wonder that the number of unreported rapes is estimated to be as much as ten times higher than the reported number. Of this low number, only a laughable 8.4% of perpetrators are ever sentenced.

Under #ichhabenichtangezeigt (the German equivalent of #BeenRapedNeverReported) and #whyisaidnothing, women have been saying for years why they never accused their tormentors: out of shame, fear and insecurity. And if there is now the danger that during a trial, they will go from victims to apparent perpetrators, this victim/perpetrator reversal is a catastrophic signal that bids fair to make rape even more of a punishment-free crime than it already is. In the best case, perpetrators can even get rich off the victims, should they have the guts to lay sexual assault charges.

This judicial decision is not the only such case. Yesterday, in Frankfurt, the trial against Claudia D. began. Jörg Kachelmann is demanding criminal damages for assessments which he ordered to prove his innocence in a rape trial against him. The judge declared that he considered the claim valid; Kachelmann has a good chance of winning. There’s even talk of a criminal trial for Claudia D. For his part, the judge in that case, Michael Seidling, says: “Today’s verdict of not-guilty does not mean that the Chamber is convinced of Herr Kachelmann’s innocence, and thus a counter-claim of false accusation against the plaintiff.”

Another example: The General Students’ Committee [newspaper] of the Goethe University of Frankfurt reported on a student who publicly called himself a pickup artist. He considered his personal rights to have been violated, and took out a restraining order. That could be costly for the committee. Media who report critically over sexual violence run the risk of the personality of the perpetrator could be seen as more worthy of protection than public information or a discussion over just such sexual violence. Pickup artists have repeatedly whitewashed rape in the past, or even called for it overtly.

These court decisions send out a fatal signal. They let already cowed women know that they could be held criminally responsible if they can’t provide sufficient proof against the perpetrators. It’s foreseeable that before such a background, even fewer women will dare to accuse their tormentors, and the voices of white men, who act as though a rape accusation is virtually always a false one and a perfidious power play by frustrated women, will get ever louder.

The British interior ministry conducted an investigation in 2005 to find out what percentage of rape accusations were in fact false ones. About 8% were classified as such by police — although a later investigation determined that this classification was deliberate and unjustified. The actual number of false accusations lay at just 3%.

It’s a dangerous trend that can be observed in German courtrooms. It contradicts politicians’ calls for harder and more consequent punishments for rape and sexual harassment. It intimidates victims and empowers perpetrators, including potential ones. The political discussion around the tightening of rape laws will turn into a hollow racket, should the perpetrator/victim reversal gain any more ground.

It’s noteworthy that neither female activists of #ausnahmslos nor other corners of feminism have much to say about these developments. Even the self-styled defenders of female integrity have little interest in it. The reason for that is easy to see: Without exception, all the men named here who have been accused of rape, plus the aforesaid pickup artists, are white, and not “north-African” refugees. They are average German men. The victim/perpetrator reversal is thus not just the expression of a new, institutionalized sexism with old familiar misogynist coloring. It is at the same time symptomatic of the racist component in dealings with sexual violence. So, while they’re busy hunting down the “north-African” rapists of New Year’s Eve out there, in here white men are sitting in judgment of women who accuse white men of rape.

The devil would take pleasure in it.

Links as in original.

So there you have it. Rape law in Germany blatantly favors the accused, at least if he’s a white guy and a native-born local. If he’s a refugee, he’s likely to get deported. (And under the proposed tighter sanctions, he’s even more likely to be deported.)

Is there any question of white male privilege in Germany? Men who rape women, even if they’re caught doing it on video, can get off scot-free, and can even sue the victim of their aggressions for damages. Pickup artists, whose profession is basically to make money teaching men to rape, are getting off scot-free…and can sue anyone who reports accurately on their bullshit. If you’re a powerful white man who can afford a good attorney, you can victimize the same woman over and over again — first by raping her, then by suing her for having the gall to accuse you, however truthfully. A more blatant rape culture, in which institutional sexism and institutional racism are blood brothers, could hardly be imagined.

And this article doesn’t even touch on the legal megabrothels, which routinely truck in “exotic” women from Africa and Asia, as well as non-German white ones from Eastern Europe, to be sexually used and abused without limits, and all for a low, flat rate. Nor does it touch on the human-trafficking mafias who deal in this kind of human cargo. Those institutions, too, contribute to the racist-sexist rape culture of Germany, and in no small way.

And oh yeah, just a reminder: There are white Germans among the “north-African” accused rapists of Köln, too. But I don’t expect any of them will be deported. In fact, given the general tenor of rape proceedings in Germany, I imagine they’ll all be let off…scot-free, and possibly free to sue their victims for damages, too.

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Quotable: David Bowie on drugs, sobriety, and surviving

Posted on January 20, 2016 by Sabina Becker

David Bowie reminisces about how he and Iggy Pop went to Berlin and lived there on and off for some three years while coming off drugs. According to the YouTuber who posted this (on the 11th): “The interview was recorded in 1997 a few day’s after his 50th birthday.” At about the 4:50 mark, he makes the insightful comment that surviving addiction and coming out the other side made a better person of him. And, paradoxically: he doesn’t regret having done those things, but he wouldn’t advise his son to do them, either.

Bonus: Here’s Iggy, in a 1990 interview (uploaded the same day as the one above!), talking about how getting out of Los Angeles, at Bowie’s suggestion, saved HIS life, too:

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Quotable: Will Rogers on trickle-down economics

Posted on January 19, 2016 by Sabina Becker

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Shocking revelation: Venezuelan National Assembly guards are former DIGEPOL torturers!

Posted on January 19, 2016 by Sabina Becker

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There are a few letters missing from this particular game of Scrabble. D-I-G-E-P-O-L, to be precise. And A-D. And H-E-N-R-Y R-A-M-O-S A-L-L-U-P. But who’s counting?

Ah, Venezuela. Land of terror, where an evil, dictatorial socialist government has abolished the old practice of keeping political prisoners, torturing them, and then “disappearing” them, dead or alive-but-soon-to-be-dead, like the Argentine junta or Pinochet’s henchmen in Chile, but actually before them…and after them, too. Well, kids, it looks like the Bad Old Days are on their way back. Because guess who’s guarding the newly right-wing National Assembly in Caracas. And guess who brought the baddies back…

Terrifyingly, a political analyst has said on television that the intelligence service, that is to say, those who are currently guarding the National Assembly, have been transported from the vaults to the current period. That is to say, the security guards of the National Assembly belong to a mess which was called DIGEPOL.

They were students of [Luis] Posada Carriles, the terrorist who, in one of his résumé’s “legends”, has caused the explosion of a Cubana Airlines plane, with more than 70 personas aboard, in mid-flight, and dozens of deaths besides, as if it were nothing.

The DIGEPOL was an Acción Democrática edifice, whose maquette was drawn up by the Dulles brothers in the USA. The screams which emerged from this house of terror were lost among its walls, and left their marks among dozens of devices they used to produce bloodshed and death…Burning the eyes with lit cigarettes, alligator clips on the testicles, chains which they slowly tightened around the neck, plunges into bathtubs full of water with plastic bags on the head, belaying-pins inserted into the anus, kicks, electrical currents, infernal noises in the ears, are some of the great things the AD party used in those macabre satanic rites in a basement, on those who raised their voices against Rómulo [Betancourt], [Raúl] Leoni, [Jaime] Lusinchi…

And later, the exit during the wee hours of the morning, with the human cargo in a panel truck to a cliff, a river, a seaside bluff, so that the corpse would disappear, and if it reappeared, as it did in the death of [Alberto] Lovera, they would say it was a common crime.

The analyst alerted the public about these “guards”, who were there, carrying in their souls the same psychological imbalance of those years, but now more “technified”. The criminal in the service of the police never stopped being one, because that’s something that in his underworld which he finds indispensable to his pleasure and that of his bosses.

Fortunately, if this serves for anything (parents and grandparents, seniors, you need to tell your children and grandchildren, your friends, that it was this house of crime, called DIGEPOL, run by the AD party. You must read them the manuscript, and remind them that there were not only big criminals like Hitler, Franco, Mussolini, Stroessner, Pinochet and others in past times in other countries, but in more recent ones in Venezuela. Rómulo Betancourt, [Raúl] Leoni, [Rafael] Caldera, Carlos Andrés Pérez, and other sickos who tortured and killed their great political enemies.

At the service of [Henry] Ramos Allup, the disciples of Posada Carriles are walking the halls of the National Assembly and yes, the MUD brought them there.

Something bad is going on. Reopening eyes to those who burned their long-ago victims is not seductive. Involving the country in the diatribe of fear, of raids, of breaking down doors, of blows with the butt of a rifle to the chest, while a mother cries in the wee hours for her missing child, is not resplendent.

We are not fearful, we don’t perceive fear as a perturbing question; fear is something that bubbles up in those who don’t know what produces it, and are suddenly surprised. For this reason we call upon the youth, the political dreamers, the patriots, the Venezuelans who, from a lecture hall, a high-school class, are making mental notes to bring happiness to the Venezuelan homeland in the future. For this, we alert the youth. The believers in medieval politics, the “shoot first and ask later”s, are at the service of the National Assembly and were brought there, according to the analyst, by another representative of the AD party, which produced deaths and disappearances in Venezuela: HENRY LISANDRO RAMOS ALLUP.

Translation mine.

The DIGEPOL, later known as DISIP, was Venezuela’s feared and hated political police during the days of the “democratic” Fourth Republic, or Punto Fijo, era. They were trained and financed by the CIA, and did their bidding locally. Under the auspices of “freedom” and “democracy” (note the quotes, there for a reason), they would kidnap leftist activists in the dead of night, transport them to their torture facilities, and do pretty much every awful thing imaginable to them. And then dispose of them, just as secretly, in mass graves, as happened in the massacres of Yumare and Cantaura, or dumped them in a river (like the mighty Orinoco, Venezuela’s own Amazon), or the sea. Sometimes their dirtywork would come back to haunt them; leftist professor Alberto Lovera reappeared as a semi-decomposed corpse, with the dungeon-chain still wrapped around his neck. Tsk, tsk, how careless.

And now the students of the same death squads, led by the CubanaBomber, Luis Posada Carriles, are ba-ack…as “security guards” (again, note quotes) to the National Assembly. Just as old torturers and assassins of the Argentine junta reappeared as “security guards” for banks and other enterprises of ostensibly legal organized criminals in Buenos Aires: