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Black activist Angela Davis struck off name of French school for views on ‘systemic racism’

Authorities in the French capital region struck the name of US rights activist Angela Davis from a high school in the Paris suburbs on Wednesday, judging her views on race relations to be too radical.

Circle the Wagons: The Government Is On the Warpath

“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.”—Harry S. Truman

How many Americans have actually bothered to read the Constitution, let alone the first ten amendments to the Constitution, the Bill of Rights (a quick read at 462 words)?

Take a few minutes and read those words for yourself—rather than having some court or politician translate them for you—and you will be under no illusion about where to draw the line when it comes to speaking your mind, criticizing your government, defending what is yours, doing whatever you want on your own property, and keeping the government’s nose out of your private affairs.

In an age of overcriminalization, where the average citizen unknowingly commits three crimes a day, and even the most mundane activities such as fishing and gardening are regulated, government officials are constantly telling Americans what not to do.

Yet it was not always this way.

It used to be “we the people” giving the orders, telling the government what it could and could not do. Indeed, the three words used most frequently throughout the Bill of Rights in regards to the government are “no,” “not” and “nor.”

Compare the following list of “don’ts” the government is prohibited from doing with the growing list of abuses to which “we the people” are subjected on a daily basis, and you will find that we have reached a state of crisis wherein the government is routinely breaking the law and violating its contractual obligations.

For instance, the government is NOT allowed to restrict free speech, press, assembly or the citizenry’s ability to protest and correct government wrongdoing. Nevertheless, the government continues to prosecute whistleblowers, persecute journalists, criminalize expressive activities, crack down on large gatherings of citizens mobilizing to voice their discontent with government policies, and insulate itself and its agents from any charges of wrongdoing (or what the courts refer to as “qualified immunity”).

The government may NOT infringe on a citizen’s right to defend himself. Nevertheless, in many states, it’s against the law to carry a concealed weapon (gun, knife or even pepper spray), and the average citizen is permitted little self-defense against militarized police officers who shoot first and ask questions later.

The government may NOT enter or occupy a citizen’s house without his consent (the quartering of soldiers). Nevertheless, government soldiers (i.e., militarized police) carry out more than 80,000 no-knock raids on private homes every year, while maiming children, killing dogs and shooting citizens.

The government may NOT carry out unreasonable searches and seizures on the citizenry or their possessions, NOR can government officials issue warrants without some evidence of wrongdoing (probable cause). Unfortunately, what is unreasonable to the average American is completely reasonable to a government agent, for whom the ends justify the means. In such a climate, we have no protection against roadside strip searches, blood draws, DNA collection, SWAT team raids, surveillance or any other privacy-stripping indignity to which the government chooses to subject us.

The government is NOT to deprive anyone of life, liberty or property without due process. Nevertheless, the government continues to incarcerate tens of thousands of Americans whose greatest crime is being poor and not white. The same goes for those who are put to death, some erroneously, by a system weighted in favor of class and wealth.

The government may NOT take private property for public use without just compensation. Nevertheless, under the guise of the “greater public interest,” the government often hides behind eminent domain laws in order to allow megacorporations to tear down homes occupied by less prosperous citizens in order to build high-priced resorts and shopping malls.

Government agents may NOT force a citizen to testify against himself. Yet what is the government’s extensive surveillance network that spies on all of our communications but a thinly veiled attempt at using our own words against us?

The government is NOT permitted to claim any powers that are not expressly granted to them by the Constitution. This prohibition has become downright laughable as the government continues to claim for itself every authority that serves to swell its coffers, cement its dominion, and expand its reach.

Despite what some special interest groups have suggested to the contrary, the problems we’re experiencing today did not arise because the Constitution has outlived its usefulness or become irrelevant, nor will they be solved by a convention of states or a ratification of the Constitution.

No, the problem goes far deeper.

It can be traced back to the point at which “we the people” were overthrown as the center of the government. As a result, our supremacy has been undone, our authority undermined, and our experiment in democratic self-governance left in ruins.

No longer are we the rulers of this land. We have long since been deposed and dethroned, replaced by corporate figureheads with no regard for our sovereignty, no thought for our happiness, and no respect for our rights.

In other words, without our say-so and lacking any mandate, the point of view of the Constitution has been shifted from “we the people” to “we the government.” Our taxpayer-funded employees—our appointed servants—have stopped looking upon us as their superiors and started viewing as their inferiors.

Unfortunately, we’ve gotten so used to being dictated to by government agents, bureaucrats and militarized police alike that we’ve forgotten that WE are supposed to be the ones calling the shots and determining what is just, reasonable and necessary.

Then again, we’re not the only ones guilty of forgetting that the government was established to serve us as well as obey us. Every branch of government, from the Executive to the Judicial and Legislative, seems to be suffering this same form of amnesia. Certainly, when government programs are interpreted from the government’s point of view (i.e., the courts and legislatures), there is little the government CANNOT do in its quest for power and control.

We’ve been so brainwashed and indoctrinated into believing that the government is actually looking out for our best interests, when in fact the only compelling interesting driving government programs is maintain power and control by taking away our money and control. This vital truth, that the government exists for our benefit and operates at our behest, seems to have been lost in translation over two centuries dominated by government expansion, endless wars and centralized federal power.

Have you ever wondered why the Constitution begins with those three words “we the people”? It was intended to be a powerful reminder that everything flows from the citizenry. We the people are the center of the government and the source of its power. That “we” is crucial because it reminds us that there is power and safety in numbers, provided we stand united. We can accomplish nothing alone.

This is the underlying lesson of the Constitution, which outlines the duties and responsibilities of government. It was a mutual agreement formed by early Americans in order to ensure that when problems arose, they could address them together.

It’s like the wagon trains of the Old West, comprised of individual groups of pioneers. They rarely ventured out alone but instead traveled as convoys. And when faced with a threat, these early Americans formed their wagons into a tight circle in order to defend against invaders. In doing so, they presented a unified front and provided protection against an outside attack.

In much the same way, the Constitution was intended to work as an institutionalized version of the wagon circle, serving as a communal shield against those who would harm us.

Unfortunately, we have been ousted from that protected circle, left to fend for ourselves in the wilderness that is the American frontier today. Those who did the ousting—the courts, the politicians, and the corporations—have since replaced us with yes-men, shills who dance to the tune of an elite ruling class. In doing so, they have set themselves as the central source of power and the arbiters of what is just and reasonable.

Once again, we’re forced to navigate hostile terrain, unsure of how to protect ourselves and our loved ones from militarized police, weaponized drones, fusion centers, Stingray devices, SWAT team raids, the ongoing military drills on American soil, the government stockpiling of ammunition, the erection of mass detention centers across the country, and all other manner of abuses.

Read the smoke signals, and the warning is clear: the government is on the warpath.

As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, if we are to have any hope of surviving whatever is coming at us, it’s time to circle the wagons, folks.

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ABOUT JOHN W. WHITEHEAD

Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute. His most recent books are the best-selling Battlefield America: The War on the American People, the award-winning A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, and a debut dystopian fiction novel, The Erik Blair Diaries. Whitehead can be contacted at staff@rutherford.org. Nisha Whitehead is the Executive Director of The Rutherford Institute. Information about The Rutherford Institute is available at www.rutherford.org.

Marine Le Pen Scorches Macron Government Over Mass Immigration Policies That Led to French Riots

Marine Le Pen, the leader of the main opposition party in France, in a fiery speech Tuesday eviscerated President Emmanuel Macron’s immigration policies that ultimately led to the widespread riots consuming France.

Le Pen, who leads the National Rally party, and ran for president three times in the country, directed her remarks to Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne, who was present at the National Assembly.

“My question is addressed to the Madam Prime Minister. At a time when our country has just been delivered to plunder, plunder and an insensate fire, I would like to ask you the question that all French people ask themselves: what have you done with France?” Le Pen asked.

Marine Le Pen: ‘While our country has just been delivered to the looting and looting, I would like to ask you the question that all French people ask themselves: what have you done with France?’ #FranceRiots #FranceHasFallen #FranceOnFire pic.twitter.com/89VuKHrpQQ

— Paul Golding (@GoldingBF) July 4, 2023

“You, who has been carrying out the same policy as your predecessors for 40 years, what have you done with our country by implementing zones of unlawful use?” she asked, referring to the government’s longstanding policy of “no go zones” in France to accommodate the Muslim foreigners they’ve allowed to flood into the country.

“What have you done when you let yourself be communalized, criminalized? What have you done when you let the ignorance of our culture prosper, the hostility towards the legal authority of the state, the illegitimacy of our laws and the hatred of our people?”

“What have you done to transform our country among the most courteous, the most elegant, and the softest of the Earth to make it a hell, where it is consumed with public buildings that burn, however, in the future?” she continued.

“This spectacle afflicts the whole world and our country which was so admired for its intellectual brilliance and its power, today arouses pity when it is not irony.”

Le Pen called for the Prime Minister to roll back the government’s disastrous immigration policies and reassert the rule of law in France.

“What is happening, we predicted it despite great adversity, I say it with sadness and gravity, unfortunately we were right,” Le Pen said. “At the moment when you are about to serve us again, at the cost of billions, to a ninth border plan, I call you to the courage of self-criticism, to the humility to admit the dramatic failure of your policies,” she said.

“First and foremost, we must stop anarchic immigration. Yet you are aggravating the problem of communitarianism, even separatism, and to spread it in any village,” she continued. “We must then regain control in all districts of France, restore the authority of the parents, rebuild the school, the crusade of the Republic, give justice its firmness, without which it will remain powerless to protect the French.”

“Faced with economic and judicial security chaos, will you finally admit that the only possible solution is national?” she concluded to raucous applause.

As the migrant-driven riots burn down France, Macron has responded with pitiful remarks blaming video games for the violence, threatening rioters with meager fines, and calling for crackdowns on free speech.

Le Pen lambasted Macron’s “naive” response to the riots on Wednesday over his inability to understand the “urgency” of the crisis.

WHO warns of imminent ‘extreme weather events’

The international body predicts a major uptick in droughts, floods, hurricanes and other natural disasters

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus has said climate change will drive a surge in “extreme weather events” in 2023, pointing to record-breaking temperatures around the globe this week.

Speaking during a Wednesday press briefing, Tedros said the “climate crisis” is now among the “major factors determining human health outcomes,” warning that global warming could ultimately produce a “wave of hunger, migration and disease.”

“Over the coming months, we expect a range of extreme weather events, including droughts, floods, hurricanes, and heatwaves, all of which harm human health,” he said, also noting that Monday marked the “hottest day on record” for average temperatures around the world.

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A “prolonged drought” and heat wave in the Horn of Africa has already had a major impact, putting great strain on local healthcare services, Tedros added. Containing Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda, the region recently suffered its worst drought in decades, with nearly 60 million people now food insecure.

Some countries have seen the “highest levels of severely malnourished children” in years, largely thanks to famine, the WHO chief said. While the drought in the region has “given way to heavy rain and flooding,” hunger levels there “are expected to remain high.”

Data released by the US National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) on Monday showed an average global temperature of 17.01 degrees Celsius (62.62F), an all-time high that easily beat the previous record of 16.92 degrees.

Locales from Texas to China to Antarctica have also been in the grips of major heat waves, which some climate scientists have attributed to overall global warming and a stronger-than-usual El Nino warm-weather pattern this year.

El Nino is a periodic weather cycle in which warm air is pushed away from the tropics in the Pacific Ocean, having far-ranging effects on temperature and rainfall around the world. The warm phase can produce extreme weather, including hurricanes, and recent research suggests such events have become more frequent over the years allegedly due to the effects of climate change.

Pentagon declassifies VIDEO of Russian jets ‘harassing’ US drones

The incident follows several other run-ins between US and Russian jets in recent weeks

The US military has accused Russian pilots of “harassing” American drones flying over Syria, claiming several aircraft engaged in “reckless” behavior and forced the UAVs to take evasive action. The Pentagon has released footage purporting to show the encounter.

Air Forces Central, the air component of US Central Command (CENTCOM), issued a statement on Wednesday alleging “unsafe and unprofessional” flying by the Russian jets as they interacted with several Reaper drones.

“While three US MQ-9 drones were conducting a mission against ISIS targets, three Russian fighter jets began harassing the drones. Against established norms and protocols, the Russian jets dropped multiple parachute flares in front of the drones, forcing our aircraft to conduct evasive maneuvers,” Air Forces Central head Lt. Gen. Alex Grynkewich said in the press release.

The command later released a video of the run-in, with what appear to be Russian aircraft seen releasing flares near the drones, leaving descending trails of smoke.

Regarding Russia’s unprofessional behavior while reacting with U.S. aircraft over Syria, please see the video of today’s encounter.
For the full statement by Lt. Gen. Alex Grynkewich, Commander, 9th AF (AFCENT) visithttps://t.co/WKDYPiPT96 @CENTCOM @DeptofDefense @usairforce pic.twitter.com/nmSSBxUojO

— US AFCENT (@USAFCENT) July 5, 2023

Though not captured in the footage, Grynkewich added that one Russian pilot had positioned his jet in front of a UAV and “engaged [its] afterburner, thereby reducing the operator’s ability to safely operate the aircraft.” He went on to urge Russian forces in Syria to “cease this reckless behavior and adhere to the standards of behavior expected of a professional air force.”

The encounter follows several similar incidents in the skies over Syria this year, with Grynkewich telling the Wall Street Journal that there had been 60 separate run-ins between March and April alone. Last month, CENTCOM announced that it would respond with a new deployment of F-22 Raptors in the region, citing “increasingly unsafe and unprofessional behavior by Russian aircraft.”

Moscow has similarly accused Washington of dangerous flying in Syria. In May, Rear Admiral Oleg Gurinov, deputy head of the Russian Center for the Reconciliation of Warring Parties in Syria, said US warplanes continued to commit “gross violations” of established deconfliction protocols.

“US Air Force pilots continue to activate weapons systems when approaching in the air with Russian Aerospace Forces aircraft performing planned flights in eastern Syria,” he added.

Another episode involving Russian military jets and American Reaper drones in March saw the advanced US aircraft plunge into the Black Sea. While US officials also said the incident was another case of reckless flying, Moscow denied striking the UAV. The Russian pilots were later personally decorated by Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu, who commended them for preventing a “violation by the US MQ-9 drone” in closed airspace.

Meta launches Twitter rival Threads but faces delays in Europe over privacy concerns

Facebook behemoth Meta officially launched Threads, its text-based rival to Twitter, on Wednesday, with more than five million sign-ups in the first few hours – but its release in Europe has been delayed over data privacy concerns.

Self-driving Tesla cars expected ‘later this year’, Musk tells AI conference

Electric car giant Tesla is set to realise fully autonomous vehicles “later this year”, CEO Elon Musk said Thursday, in the billionaire’s latest forecast for the long-anticipated milestone.

🔴 Live: Zelensky promises ‘tangible response’ after deadly strike on Lviv

A Russian missile attack killed at least four people in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, and rescuers were searching through the debris of an apartment building for survivors and casualties, local officials said early on Thursday. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky told CNN he had wanted a counteroffensive against occupying Russian forces to start sooner than it did in June and that he had urged Western allies to quicken the supply of weapons. Follow our live blog for the latest updates on the war in Ukraine. All times are Paris time (GMT+2).

Black Transgender ‘BLM Supporter’ Identified as Alleged Philly Mass Shooter

The deadly mass shooting in Philly on Monday night, which the media hyped on the hope the shooter was a white guy, was allegedly carried out by 40-year-old black transgender “Black Lives Matter supporter” Kimbrady Watson Carriker.

From the NY Post, “Gunman arrested for Philadelphia mass shooting which left 5 dead is BLM activist who wore women’s clothes: sources”:
On his Facebook page, Carriker posted two pictures of him wearing a bra, a women’s top and earrings with his hair braided long in March, three months before the alleged shooting.

He also regularly posts about supporting Black Live Matter, including supporting workers who protested in the Strike For Black Lives in July 2020.

Police said the 40-year-old male suspect was armed with a rifle, pistol, extra magazines, a police scanner and bullet proof vest when he fatally shot four men on the street and then chased and killed a fifth man inside a home.
The media isn’t interested in sharing the guy’s picture.

“On Facebook, Carriker was seen posting in support of Black Lives Matter, and follows the Black Lives Matter Philly Facebook page,” The Post Millennial reports.

“‘Black lives matter today; there will be jobs available. Equal opportunity finally. Just tell us where your quitting so we can send someone over,’ Carriker wrote in one Facebook comment responding to a story of workers going on a Strike for Black Lives,” TPM continued.

“Carriker also posted to Facebook a story titled ‘how do you know if an evil spirit is following you,’ as well as one titled ‘Philly anti-violence grant program shows promising results, despite some hiccups, new evaluation shows.’”

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He also regularly posts about supporting Black Live Matter, including supporting workers who protested in the Strike For Black Lives in July 2020.

Here’s an older mugshot of his which was shared on social media.

“On Facebook, Carriker was seen posting in support of Black Lives Matter, and follows the Black Lives Matter Philly Facebook page,” The Post Millennial reports.

If this was a white guy we’d be having a “national conversation” on “white supremacy” but instead we need to have a “national conversation” on “gun violence.”

“In recent years, Philadelphia has been plagued by gun violence, with more deadly shootings than far bigger cities. But there have been 212 homicides in 2023 so far, a decline of 19 percent from 2022, according to the Office of the Controller,” the New York Times, who is not sharing the accused shooter’s picture and is only describing him as a “male suspect,” reported.

“The city government has rolled out an array of efforts to address the crisis, including grants for community groups, violence intervention programs and earlier curfews,” the Times continued. “And it has sued the gun-friendly state legislature for pre-empting its authority to enact stronger local gun laws, like reporting requirements for lost or stolen guns. But the sheer number of guns in the city has made the problem difficult to tackle.”

When are we going to have a national conversation on the dangers of trangenderism?

Macron Mulls Social Media Ban in France

French leader Emmanuel Macron told mayors on Tuesday that his government could consider controlling access to social media across France “when things get out of hand.”

This follows days of rioting in the country following the shooting dead by police last week of a teenager of North African descent in a Paris suburb.

“We need to think about the use of these [social] networks by the youth,” Macron said to a group of around 250 mayors whose municipalities had been impacted by the violence, according to The Guardian, citing a video from French broadcaster BFM TV. “When things get out of hand, we may need to regulate them or cut them off.”

Macron added that he believes this to be a “real debate that we need to have in the cold light of day.”

Last week, Macron said social media companies had played a “considerable role” in the unrest across the country. An unnamed French official told news agency AP on Friday that personal details of the police officer who shot the 17-year-old boy had been leaked online.

The French president also called upon various social networks to display a “sense of responsibility” when it comes to moderating content on their platforms, and to take down posts which might encourage violence.

Ministers met with representatives of TikTok and Snapchat on Friday – with justice minister Eric Dupond-Moretti proposing afterwards that legal measures could be initiated to penalize social media users who participate in illegal acts.

Critics have said, however, that any suspension of social media would represent a restriction of free speech. “Cut social media? Like China, Iran, North Korea?” said Olivier Marleix of political party Les Republicains. “Even if it’s a provocation to distract attention, it’s in very bad taste.”

On Wednesday, an anonymous official from Digital Minister Jean-Noel Barrot’s office backtracked on Macron’s statement in comments to Politico: “The president said it was technically possible, but not that it was being considered. Nothing should be ruled out on principle.”

Macron’s government has been faced with widespread riots and looting since the death of the teenage boy during a police traffic stop on June 27, which has inflamed tensions of racism and police brutality across the country.

Around 4,000 people were arrested from Friday onwards, according to figures on Tuesday. The violence appears to have tapered off since, with just 17 arrests linked to the violence reported overnight.

Macron has also proposed issuing fines to youths who participate in riots.