Thomas Hobbes famously declared that even the worst despot is better than anarchy, this is the antithesis to the ATS position. No true anarchist is a Hobbesian or vice-versa. Yet, the emergence of anarchy entails a de-facto government and that came to light in the case of CHAZ, Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, which was created in downtown Seattle. Raz Simone emerged as the leader of CHAZ, although the legitimacy of his position is questionable: he is not an elected official and it is unclear if he is capable of serving the needs of this nascent “autonomous zone”.
First came a pandemic. Then, looting. Small businesses pick up the pieces as their debt mounts. Reply
A reflection on the problem of interclass and intra-lumpen proletarian conflict.
Many positive things have happened in the uprising. These include the mass participation of normies and civilians (non-revolutionaries) in protests and civil disobedience against the state, along with direct attacks on the state such as the destruction of enemy military bases (police precincts), star chambers (courts), and enemy military vehicles (police cars).
It Can Happen Here (And How It Can) Reply
By Stratton J. Davis
It happened. The people of Lebanon stood up against their government and rejected it’s
currency, the Lebanese pound, in favor of bitcoin. They did this because of how bad the
Lebanese pound has depreciated. It has faced a 20% depreciation since April. As of right now the
Lebanese pound is trading for more than 5,000 per $1 US Dollar. The people of Lebanon would
not stop there, however. They decided to take things a little further.
Fed Chairman: “We’re Not Even Thinking about Thinking About Raising Rates” Reply
By Mike Gleason, Money Metals Exchange
Market volatility has suddenly spiked in recent days came after the Federal Reserve vowed last Wednesday to keep its benchmark rate near zero through 2022.
That’s an unusually long period for the Fed to be projecting rate policy. It reflects the fact that it will take many months and perhaps years for the tens of millions of jobs that were recently lost to return.
Speaking Queerly About Whiteness Reply
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit
Exile in Happy Valley
White people hate to talk about race, even the supposedly woke ones. When they do, the entire conversation is almost inevitably governed by fear. With white conservatives, it’s usually the fear of being made irrelevant by darker bodies. With white liberals, it’s usually the fear of being outed as being just as scared as the conservatives they mock. I’ve never really had much trouble discussing race myself, though that does seem to get me into a lot of trouble. Identity fascinates me, probably because my own has always been so goddamn elusive. In spite of the color of my flesh, I can’t recall a time in my life where I wasn’t treated as an “Other”.
Broken Economy, Broken Society, and the Prospects for Liberty Reply
By Stratton J. Davis
Looking at the daily news these past couples of weeks one may have the pessimistic
opinion that what was left of liberty will soon be gone. Even before the recent riots, which has President Trump and his GOP goons threatening the US people with the use of military force at home, CoronaVirus hysteria shutdown the US economy. This has led to financial ruin for many Americans who could not work or operate their businesses, and also the power of their dollars being crippled due to constant printing of unbacked money by the Federal Reserve along with the illogical and contradictory stimulus checks.
The Conservatives: Not Fit for Any Honest Purpose Reply
By Alan Bickley
Ludwig von Mises Centre
According to The Daily Mail, Madeline Odent is the Curator of the Royston Museum in Hertfordshire. This museum is funded by Royston Council. In the past few days, Mrs Odent has taken to Twitter, giving expert advice on how to use household chemicals to cause irreparable harm to statues she dislikes.
It is, she says, “extremely difficult” to remove the chemicals once they have been applied. She adds that “it can be done, but the chemical needed is super carcinogenic, so it rarely is.” Again, she says: “We haven’t found a way to restore artefacts that this happens to.” Her last reported tweet features a picture of Winton Churchill’s defaced statue in Parliament Square, and says: “Stay tuned for our next edition, where we’ll be talking about marble memorials of racists.”
How Che Guevara Taught Cuba to Confront COVID-19 Reply
by Don Fitz
Beginning in December 1951, Ernesto “Che” Guevara took a nine-month break from medical school to travel by motorcycle through Argentina, Chile, Peru, Colombia, and Venezuela. One of his goals was gaining practical experience with leprosy. On the night of his twenty-fourth birthday, Che was at La Colonia de San Pablo in Peru swimming across the river to join the lepers. He walked among six hundred lepers in jungle huts looking after themselves in their own way.
Aunt Jemima is changing its name—and Twitter users suggest Aunt Karen Reply
By Bryan Rolli
DailyDot.Com
Aunt Jemima, the syrup and pancake mix brand, will receive a new name and image. Parent company Quaker Oats acknowledged Wednesday that the brand’s “origins are based on a racial stereotype,” according to NBC News.
The change is long overdue, as the 130-year-old brand image originated from a minstrel show character, a racist stereotype of a Black woman. But the retooling of the Aunt Jemima brand raises a big question: What will Quaker Oats rename the beloved syrup?
Twitter users didn’t miss a beat in their response: Aunt Karen.
Did Policing Really Come From Slavery? 1
It was more about class control on a general level. Modern policing systems began Europe during the Industrial Revolution as a means of controlling the working class. In America, it assumed a racial dimension because of America’s racial caste system, which made America somewhat different from the more ethnically homogeneous societies in Europe. But the purpose of state policing system was always about controlling the “dangerous classes.”
Hannity: America is at a tipping point Reply
Hannity says the nation is currently at the tipping point between “law and order” and “total anarchy.” Guess which one I’m voting for? The Spiro Agnew impersonators at FOX are so out of style.
Gutfeld on when rioters come to your house Reply
I’m not a fan of these FOX characters but it is interesting how the insurrectionists have attacked Democratic Party officials, CNN, the AFL-CIO, black politicians, a Native American Center, minority/immigrant owned businesses, synagogues, etc. as well as cops, police precincts, courts, Confederate/Spanish Empire monuments, corporations, churches, etc. At least they’re being consistent in attacking not only the entire spectrum of establishment and quasi-establishment institutions but also the iconography of virtually all major tribes as well.
Tucker: There are two versions of the law Reply
Yeah, one for the state and one for us. Although that’s not really what Carlson is talking about.
Aunt Jemima Changing Name & Logo, Along With Uncle Ben Reply
Kyle’s commentary in this is pretty good.
Resistance Libs gift MILLIONS to warmongering John Bolton Reply
Watch this guy end up in the Biden administration if Sleepy Joe wins the election.
Saagar Enjeti discusses John Bolton’s new book that details his time inside the White House.
Fauci ADMITS LIVE government lied about masks to preserve supplies 1
Just like the traditional white collar priesthood, the newer white coat priesthood doesn’t mind “bearing false witness” when it’s convenient.
Krystal and Saagar react to Dr. Fauci’s interview where he admits health officials downplayed the importance of masks to save PPE for healthcare workers.
Why a small town in Washington is printing its own currency during the pandemic Reply
The Hustle
Wayne Fournier was sitting in a town meeting when he had his big idea.
As the mayor of Tenino, Washington (population: 1,884), he’d watched the pandemic rake local businesses. Residents couldn’t afford groceries. Long lines snaked outside the local food bank. For more than a month, the downtown area looked almost abandoned.
To bring back the economy, Fournier needed to act. “We were talking about grants for business, microloans, trying to team up with a bunch of different banks,” he tells The Hustle. “The big concern was, ‘How do we directly help families and individuals?’”
And then it hit him: “Why not start our own currency?”
Atlanta police call in sick to protest murder charge against officer who shot Rayshard Brooks Reply
This may not be a winning strategy for the Blue Lives Matter tribe.
By Katie Shepherd
Hours after the Fulton County district attorney announced felony murder and other charges against the former Atlanta police officer who fatally shot Rayshard Brooks, a 27-year-old black man, in the back, a number of Atlanta police officers called in sick just before a shift change Wednesday evening.
The city was left scrambling to cover absences as the Atlanta Police Department tried to tamp down rumors of a mass police walkout that spread widely on social media.
The Military Must be De-Funded Along with the Police 1
The USA accounts for 35% of all global military spending, most of which is corporate welfare.
By Dan Kovalik
As Vijay Prashad explains in his book, Red Star Over The Third World, domestic fascism in the West has reflected the West’s pre-existing colonial practices abroad. Citing Martinique communist Aimé Césaire, Prashad explains: “What had come to define fascism inside Europe through the experience of the Nazis – the jackboots and the gas chambers – were familiar already in the colonies. . . . [F]ascism was a political form of bourgeois rule in times when democracy threatened capitalism; colonialism, on the other hand, was naked power justified by racism to seize resources from people who were not willing to hand them over. Their form was different but their manners were identical.
John Bolton’s bombshell Trump book: eight of its most stunning claims 1
Trump vs. Bolton is the ultimate heel vs. heel match. It sounds like Bolton may be lobbying for a position in a future Biden administration. Not a good sign. One of the best things Trump has done to date is ditching this guy.
By Max Benwell
The Guardian
Donald Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton has made a series of explosive claims about the US president in his new book The Room Where It Happened, according to numerous news reports and an excerpt.
Most notably, Bolton claims Trump asked China to use its economic power to help him in the 2020 election, and tried to kill criminal investigations as “favors” for dictators whom he liked.
The Return Fire Movement: Self-preservation is a human right Reply
Remembering the great Robert F. Williams.
By JR Valrey, Black New World Journalists Society
San Francisco Bay View
“An unarmed people are slaves or are subject to slavery at any given moment” – Huey P. Newton, co-founder and Minister of Defense of the Black Panther Party
After a few weeks of rebellions in dozens of cities nationwide in response to the police murders of George Floyd in Minneapolis and Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Black people, in the Bay Area and beyond, have begun to plan to live in a post-COVID-19 society and a post-2020 rebellion society, which basically translates into us realizing en masse that we have nobody to depend on but ourselves for protection, safety and everything else. This is not a new concept for some, but it is very new for others.
Anyone watching television in the US has watched Black people ruthlessly shot down by police since the dawn of the Obama regime. White vigilante murders of Black people are also on the rise, with the murder of Trayvon Martin, who was barbarically stalked and murdered by George Zimmerman in Florida. And just a few days ago, Robert Fuller, a Black man, was found lynched in Palmdale, California – hanged in front of City Hall.
Missouri woman fatally shot by sheriff’s deputy during traffic stop Reply
A young white woman is killed by the pigs in a small Midwestern town. I have said for years that the US police state is now so massive that it has spread way beyond the inner-city black communities and into the rural areas, smaller towns, and even the suburbs among the middle-classes. That’s why the recent uprising has been so popular.
By Jackie Salo
New York Post
A 25-year-old Missouri woman was gunned down by a sheriff’s deputy during a traffic stop over the weekend — and her parents aren’t buying authorities’ claims that she threatened to shoot the officer first.
Hannah Fizer was driving to work Saturday night in Sedalia when she ran a red light and was stopped, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol.
Authorities say Fizer told the deputy she had a gun and threatened to shoot him — prompting the officer to open fire on her. She died a short time later.
But her father, John Fizer, said Monday that she never carried a gun — and he doesn’t believe she would have become aggressive with the officer.
Officers charged in Rayshard Brooks shooting Reply
Former officer Garrett Rolfe faces 11 charges including felony murder after the district attorney reviewed evidence from bodycam, dashcam and cellphone video.
Noam Chomsky: This Uprising Is “Unprecedented” In US History Reply
One thing I think the present uprising indicates is how far leftward US culture has moved in the past few decades. When the Rodney King/LA riots happened, they were mostly limited to the LA area and a few other places. This time the uprising was nationwide and spread to small towns. Also, when George H. W. Bush sent out federal troops to quell the uprising in 1992, it wasn’t even controversial. This time around, the Deep State vetoed Trump’s interest in doing the same.
Officer who shot Rayshard Brooks charged with felony murder 1
These court cases aren’t going to resolve anything. If this cop is convicted, he will be viewed as a victim of mob justice. If he is acquitted, it will be seen as just another case of the system looking out for their own.
New York Amsterdam News
The Atlanta officer who fatally shot Rayshard Brooks in the back after the fleeing man pointed a stun gun in his direction will be charged with felony murder and 10 other charges, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
Faith leaders express concerns after protesters gather outside Stoney’s home Reply
Ironically, the mayor is also being lambasted for not being tough enough on rioters, looters, and protestors.
NBC12 Newsroom
RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) – Black leaders in Richmond say a group protesting Tuesday night went too far when they showed up at the mayor’s downtown apartment building and got inside.
The mayor was home at the time. Now they say that message is getting drowned out by the actions of just a few.
“The invasion on the mayor’s residence is so troubling to me. Where we live is our sacred space,” said State Delegate Delores McQuinn, (D) 70th District.
Police say protesters entered apartment building during march before toppling another Confederate statue Reply
An elderly black man in my neighborhood told me yesterday that some of the recent protests and riots in the area reminded him of the Brown Shirts marching in old footage of the Third Reich.
Protesters tore down another Confederate statue in Richmond on Tuesday night.
The statue that stood on the Richmond Howitzers Monument, erected in 1892 to commemorate a Civil War artillery unit, was toppled from its pedestal by protesters using rope. The monument is at the intersection of Harrison Street and Grove Avenue, adjacent to VCU’s Monroe Park campus.
This is the third Confederate statue and fourth statue overall taken down during protests in recent weeks. Other statues torn down include Confederate president Jefferson Davis on Monument Avenue, Confederate Gen. Williams Carter Wickham in Monroe Park, and Christopher Columbus in Byrd Park.
Police said the statue was moved to a safe location Wednesday morning.
Earlier Tuesday night, more than 150 protesters gathered in Monroe Park before marching through the city.
Arthur Ashe statue vandalized with ‘White Lives Matter’ graffiti Reply
The Arthur Ashe statue is located a few blocks from my residence. So far we’ve seen not only a wave of vandalism of Confederate and Columbus monuments in the area but also the vandalism of a synagogue and now this. A lot of people in my neighborhood, from elderly black male blue-collar workers to young white female college students to Salvadoran food service workers, are worried there is going to be another Charlottesville in the area. There’s already been at least one armed confrontation plus an incident of a cop driving his car into a crowd of protestors.
The Richmond statue of Arthur Ashe was vandalized with “white lives matter” graffiti tags late Wednesday morning, setting the community further on edge followings weeks of protest and vandalism throughout the city.
After photos of the vandalism on the statue honoring the civil rights activist and tennis icon were shared to social media earlier in the morning, a Richmond Times-Dispatch reporter saw a man in a blue shirt spraying the phrase on the statue at approximately 11:35 a.m. At that time, the statute had already been spray painted with “white lives matter” in white paint, though “BLM” appeared to be painted over some of the messages in red as well.
SHOCK POLLS show record unhappiness, optimism for the future Reply
Krystal and Saagar react to studies that find Americans are the unhappiest they’ve been in fifty years.
Scores of Indian, Chinese troops KILLED after brutal hand to hand combat Reply
At one point, I thought the BRICS might be able to emerge as a unified, effective opposition block to the Atlanticist domination of global capitalism. The more I observe East-West relations and the performance of Eastern nations, in addition to the ongoing conflicts in the East., the more skeptical of that I become.
Krystal and Saagar discuss a bloody brawl that occurred late Monday night along a disputed border between India and China.
