#liberty — Public Fediverse posts
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CW: CW: Imperialism, geopolitics
I am getting rather tired of this
The United States is an imperialist power in decline.
Communist China is an imperialist power on the rise.Both are imperialist powers.
We do not solve imperialism by exchanging one empire for another. We do not become anti-imperialists by cheering for whichever power happens to oppose Washington.
The enemy is not the American people.
The enemy is not the Chinese people.The enemy is imperialism itself.
And we fight it best by refusing to choose between imperialist powers, no matter how many flags they wave, how many slogans they print, or how loudly their little online cheerleaders insist that this empire is somehow the good one.
No.
I choose freedom.
I choose solidarity.
I choose liberty.
I choose human rights.No gods. No emperors. No superpowers.
#AntiImperialism #HumanRights #Solidarity #Freedom #Liberty #AntiFascism #Internationalism #NoToImperialism
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Tras fuga de clientes de Kölbi, diputada del FA pide investigación sobre 5G: “Son decisiones que no se justifican”
La legisladora hizo un repaso de una “cadena de decisiones cuestionables” que el Gobierno ha tomado desde 2023 y que terminaron impactando a la empresa estatal.
La entrada Tras fuga de clientes de Kölbi, diputada del FA pide investigación sobre 5G: “Son decisiones que no se justifican” aparece primero en Semanario Universidad.#5G #Claro #FA #FrenteAmplio #ICE #InstitutoCostarricenseDeElectricidad #Kölbi #Liberty #PaulaBogantes #País #SUTEL #SigridSegura #Tecnología #ÚltimaHora
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《I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”》
#MLKJ #Freedom #Democracy #Constitution #Liberty #Equality #IHaveADream #August28th
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JUSTICE: HOW TO KILL META!
========================The legal math on media is broken. The punitive measures are not effective deterrents.
If you look at the numbers, Meta does harmful things, apologizes, pays a pittance, and still comes out ahead financially.
Zuckerberg sold out his users data to Cambridge Analytica, influencing the US election. Then he appeared before Congress like a contrite little schoolboy - "Oops! I didn't mean to accidentally cut multibillion dollar deals and sell out Facebook users. Honest mistake. I promise not to do it again ( unless the price is right! )"
Because of the math, he still came out ahead.I left Meta's platforms a long time ago.
People who are not savvy, are locked into the Facebook walled garden, because of the Network Effect. ( "I can't leave Facebook. All my friends are on Facebook!" )
Having liberated ourselves, it is our duty to liberate others, who are still trapped, to give them their right to privacy.
Here's a plan of action:
1) Place ads on Facebook, explaining the benefits of #Mastodon
( https://joinmastodon.org/ )1.1) Freedom from Meta's censorship and algorithms.
1.2) A community owned, open social media platform.
2) When a user clicks, guide them through exporting their data from Facebook, and deleting their Facebook account.
3) Give them an optional questionnaire, asking about their interests, and match them with the right Mastodon instance.
4) If they skip the optional questionnaire, pick a random Mastodon instance for them.
5) Give them an option to enter into a Facebook migration registry.
6) Help them set up a Mastodon account and import their data.
7) If they opted into the migrant registry, reconnect them with their former Facebook connections, who also joined the registry. Like a reunion in Heaven with your loved ones. ☺️
#FaceBook #Meta #instagram #WhatsApp #SocialMedia #Fediverse #Mastodon #Technology #Tech #Justice
#FuckZuck #FOSS #Linux #OpenSource #Freedom #Liberty
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Casi 60.000 clientes se fueron de Kölbi hacia otros competidores debido a oferta en 5G, según Sutel
Mientras que Claro y Liberty llevan más de un año brindando el servicio, Kölbi-ICE apenas acaba de adjudicar su licitación para el desarrollo de las redes 5G.
La entrada Casi 60.000 clientes se fueron de Kölbi hacia otros competidores debido a oferta en 5G, según Sutel aparece primero en Semanario Universidad.#4G #5G #Claro #ICE #Impreso #JuanManuelCampos #Kölbi #Liberty #Mercado #País #Portabilidad #Portaciones #Telecomunicaciones #TeodoroWillink
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Tecnología que Kölbi descartó para desarrollar 5G puso a Claro y Liberty al frente de la carrera
Mientras los operadores privados ya suman más de dos millones de clientes en la red 5G, la empresa estatal sigue sin ofrecer el servicio.
La entrada Tecnología que Kölbi descartó para desarrollar 5G puso a Claro y Liberty al frente de la carrera aparece primero en Semanario Universidad.#4G #5G #Claro #ICE #Impreso #JuanManuelCampos #Kölbi #Liberty #Mercado #NSA #País #SA #Tecnología #Telecomunicaciones #TeodoroWillink
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"Here I Go Again" is a song by the British rock band #Whitesnake. It was originally released on their 1982 album #SaintsAndSinners through #Liberty in October 1982. The song was written by #DavidCoverdale and #BernieMarsden, and produced by #MartinBirch. The song was re-recorded for their 1987 self-titled album, and was released as the album's lead single. A radio-mix version of the song, featuring a different performance by the band.
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West Liberty Garden Tour returns – Peak of Ohio https://www.allforgardening.com/1934534/west-liberty-garden-tour-returns-peak-of-ohio/ #garden #GardeningOhio #liberty #ohio #returns #Tour #West
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#Trump #DonaldTrump #President #America #USA #Epstein #AI #USPol #News #Funny #Comedy #Satire #Politics #UnitedStates #AISlop #Maga #Republican #Republicans #YouTube #Video #Liberty #StatueOfLiberty The best use of AI you’ll see today!
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Fitch degrada la calificación de Liberty Puerto Rico -- vía Sin Comillas
https://sincomillas.com/fitch-degrada-la-calificacion-de-liberty-puerto-rico/
#Liberty #PuertoRico #LibertyLatinAmerica #bandaancha #ISP #telefoníamóvil #5G #CableTV #Telecom
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In this 3 minute short, Snyder explains the reality of Americans and freedom, that many Americans are authoritarian and prefer an authoritarian leader who tells them what to do, and that a sizable group of wealthy and powerful people prefer having someone like Trump because it lets them do what they want to without interference.
"A Lot of Americans Don’t Like Freedom." Timothy Snyder on Authoritarianism - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VqheNCKr-8I
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Libraries hold a special place in my heart, for reasons both intellectual and sentimental.
Librarians are guardians of knowledge, champions of freedom, and friends of the people. They are community members, dedicated to helping connect poor people with relevant information, so they can improve their minds, educate themselves, and access job resources.
After I became a #whistleblower in 2023, and was made #homeless , this notion was challenged.
Librarians would block my access, call the police, and have me arrested. If you find this hard to believe, please see my whistleblower website. The PDF linked, has an appendix giving the “receipts” ( documents to corroborate my account ).
http://whistleblower.lovestoblog.com/
I had applied to be a board member of the libraries in Hawai’i after attending their meetings, and saw some corruption there.
Scroll to the bottom of this page, and see the photo of the board members. How many native Hawai’ian faces do you see? Any Japanese or brown folks?
https://folkhawaii.com/about-us/
Their former Director of Membership, Bobby Gebbia, lied in court, before the judge and cameras, saying I was a board member, though I was not granted a membership.
In Hawai’i, librarians appear to be part of the occupying forces, whitewashing colonialism, insidiously taking over and erasing the true history of Hawai’i, which I heard from talking to local old timers.
250 years ago, Hawai’i had not heard of Jesus, and had its own deities, ( Goddess Pele, the creator, Kaneloa, etc. )
Then Captain James Cook invaded, and 90% of the natives were wiped out.Then Samson Dole attacked with soldiers, threw out the natives, turned their land into plantations, and turned the natives into day laborers on the plantation, on their own land.
Contrary to popular belief, Hawai’i is not a part of the USA, but a belligerently occupied territory,
1887-1897: Hawaiʻi Rebelled against the USA.
Hawaiʻian people did not choose to be part of the USA.
King David Kalākaua was forced to sign what is called the "Bayonet Constitution". Queen Liliuokalani asserted that Kalākaua's life was threatened: "He signed that constitution under absolute compulsion."Now Hawai’i is full of churches, their own gods are vanishing from memory, thanks to the “librarians”. There’s poverty, a drug epidemic, and seething discontent on the streets. Hawai’ian people are heavily overpoliced, thrown into jail without cause, and denied #justice in the #courts of the occupiers ( #USA ).
All this is hidden from the casual tourist, content to visit a golf course on the sacred land, that has been bulldozed, and be served drinks by little brown people ( usually from the Marshall Islands, Hawai’i locals have mostly left for minimum wage jobs in mainland America ).
Billionaires, like Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, Jeff Bezos, and Oprah Winfrey, “own” huge chunks of the land.
Chinese billionaire, Eva Liu, has controlled the Punalu’u Black Sand beach, with a sweetheart deal ( $1 ), and is proposing erasing this natural landmark, spawning site of the endangered Saddleback Turtles, and building resorts there, in the name of “development”.
In 2022, the Hawai’ian people had a setback in court.
( Hawaiian Kingdom v. #Biden ; December 14, 2022 )Librarians have been instrumental, in manipulating minds, and pushing through these insidious #imperialist agendas, and disenfranchising and displacing the local people.
#Earth #environment
#library #libraries #librarian #librarians #liberty #hawaii
#bigisland #imperialism #colonialism #capitalism
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Empresas de telefonía móvil deberían poder elegir tecnología “sin ningún tipo de intromisión”, dice experto de entidad global
El especialista de la GSMA, organismo internacional sobre telecomunicaciones, se refirió al caso de Costa Rica y la exclusión de empresas chinas del 5G.
La entrada Empresas de telefonía móvil deberían poder elegir tecnología “sin ningún tipo de intromisión”, dice experto de entidad global aparece primero en Semanario Universidad.#5G #AlejandroAdamowicz #Claro #GSMA #Kölbi #Liberty #País #Tecnología #Telecomunicaciones #ÚltimaHora
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Fabis Statue of Liberty (1986) by American pop artist Andy Warhol. In the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh. #andywarhol #andywarholmuseum #theandywarholmuseum #fabisstatueofliberty #opart #popart #popartist #yellow #liberty #ladyliberty #france #francesgift #giftoffrance #giftfromfrance #statue #famousstatue #civicstatue #civicgift #foreigngift #art #arting #artist #artmuseum #pittsburgh #city #allamericancity #modernart #greatart #greatartist
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A quotation from Frederick Douglass
What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.
Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) American abolitionist, orator, writer
Speech (1852-07-05), “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Corinthian Hall, Rochester, New YorkMore about this quote: wist.info/douglass-frederick/8…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #frederickdouglass #savagery #perspective #civilrights #cruelty #dishonesty #enslavement #fourthofjuly #holiday #hypocrisy #independence #injustice #insincerity #liberty #pretense #slavery
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Spring in Budapest (I) by valyeszter
https://tmblr.co/Z7VXvxjh5RAfCq00
#cityscape #building #buildings #artitechture #city #sky #vintage #photography #street #budapest #hungary #citylife #window #architecture #structure #lightsandshadows #shadows #landscape #citycenter #house #walk #spring #afternoon #gellérthegy #gellerthill #gellert #blossoms #almond #liberty #bridge
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Faith and the Founding: The Religious Roots of the Original Thirteen Colonies
As America celebrates 250 years of independence, it's worth looking beyond the Declaration of Independence to the diverse religious foundations of the original thirteen colonies. Contrary to popular belief, not every colony was founded for religious freedom. Some sought wealth, others provided refuge for persecuted believers, and together they shaped the ideas of faith, liberty, and government that continue to influence our nation today. -
@FotoVorschlag #FotoVorschlag "USA"
Im Musée d’Orsay steht das Modell für die Freiheitsstatue in New York, die 1886 von Frankreich an die USA als Geschenk zur Unabhängigkeit übergeben wurde. Das Modell wurde 1875 von Frederic Auguste Bartholdy entworfen.
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A quotation from Frederick Douglass
The 4th of July is the first great fact in your nation’s history — the very ring-bolt in the chain of your yet undeveloped destiny. Pride and patriotism, not less than gratitude, prompt you to celebrate and to hold it in perpetual remembrance. I have said that the Declaration of Independence is the ring-bolt to the chain of your nation’s destiny; so, indeed, I regard it. The principles contained in that instrument are saving principles. Stand by those principles, be true to them on all occasions, in all places, against all foes, and at whatever cost.
Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) American abolitionist, orator, writer
Speech (1852-07-05), “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Rochester, New YorkMore about this quote: wist.info/douglass-frederick/2…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #frederickdouglass #America #DeclarationofIndependence #fourthofjuly #independenceday #liberty #patriotism
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Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation we began by declaring that “all men are created equal.” We now practically read it “all men are created equal, except negroes.” When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read “all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and catholics.” When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty — to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Letter (1854-08-24) to Joshua SpeedMore about this quote: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/2555…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #lincoln #abelincoln #abrahamlincoln #America #createdequal #DeclarationofIndependence #despotism #equality #liberty #prejudice #racism #tyranny #xenophobia
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The European Court of Human Rights ruled GCHQ's mass surveillance UNLAWFUL.
14 judges dissented. Three quoted Orwell's 1984:
"There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment."
https://thomaster.substack.com/p/gchq-mass-surveillance-declared-unlawful
#GCHQ #Surveillance #ECHR #Privacy #BigBrotherWatch #Liberty #Orwell #InvestigatoryPowersAct #Snowden #HumanRights
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France Shows Windows the Door!
≠========{The Government of France has launched a sweeping initiative to switch from Windows to Linux. This move will save France, Billions of Euros each year, improve security, and move towards Sovereignty.
https://newsgroup.site/france-government-linux-migration-windows-2026/
India should follow this excellent example.Microsoft ( MSFT ) is expected to be a in a death spiral, as more and more countries decide to save money.
my
My article on Microsoft:
https://rant.li/ashwin/castles-made-of-sand#Earth #EqualRights #Justice #FreeSoftware #Linux #Windows #Software
#MSFT #Microsoft
#India #DigitalSovreignty #Freedom #Liberty #Security #Tech
#Stocks #StockMarket #StockPicks
#France #Europe #EuroStack
#Government #GovernmentEfficiency #GovernmentSpending
#Finance
#bangalore #GovernmentOfIndia -
Gobierno de Chaves no vería adjudicación de 5G: ICE pide nueva prórroga para adjudicar hasta mediados de mayo
La licitación 5G del ICE acumula un retraso tras otro mientras los competidores de Kölbi ya ofrecen el servicio desde hace meses.
La entrada Gobierno de Chaves no vería adjudicación de 5G: ICE pide nueva prórroga [...]#5G #Atraso #Claro #Contratación #Ericsson #ICE #Kölbi #Liberty #Licitación #Nokia #País #RodrigoChaves #Samsung #Sicop #Tecnología #ÚltimaHora
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Gobierno de Chaves no vería adjudicación de 5G: ICE pide nueva prórroga para adjudicar hasta mediados de mayo
La licitación 5G del ICE acumula un retraso tras otro mientras los competidores de Kölbi ya ofrecen el servicio desde hace meses.
La entrada Gobierno de Chaves no vería adjudicación de 5G: ICE pide nueva prórroga [...]#5G #Atraso #Claro #Contratación #Ericsson #ICE #Kölbi #Liberty #Licitación #Nokia #País #RodrigoChaves #Samsung #Sicop #Tecnología #ÚltimaHora
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#Beggs, #Mounts, #Liberty, #Glenpool, #SouthTulsa and #BrokenArrow should be paying attention for this second one.
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“An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws.” —Thomas Paine
#Country #Nation #USA #America #ThomasPaine #FoundingFather #Freedom #Liberty #HumanRights #Dictatorship #Law #Justice #Power #Misuse #Independence #Constitution #tRump #Activism #Resist #Protest #Antifa #Republicans #Shutdown #National #Patriot #Democracy
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“A constitution defines and limits the powers of the government it creates. It therefore follows, as a natural and also a logical result, that the governmental exercise of any power not authorized by the constitution is an assumed power, and therefore illegal.”
Thomas Paine
#Country #Nation #USA #America #FoundingFather #Freedom #Liberty #HumanRights #Dictatorship #Law #Justice #Power #Independence #Constitution #tRump #Activism #Resist #Protest #Antifa #Republicans #Shutdown #Democracy
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“When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.”
Thomas Paine
#Country #Nation #USA #America #ThomasPaine #FoundingFather #Freedom #Liberty #HumanRights #Dictatorship #Law #Justice #Power #Misuse #Independence #Constitution #tRump #Activism #Resist #Protest #Antifa #Republicans #Shutdown #National #Patriot
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“No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or an absolute legislative power, as the consequences will be the same to the people.”
Thomas Paine
#Country #Nation #USA #America #ThomasPaine #FoundingFather #Freedom #Liberty #HumanRights #Dictatorship #Law #Justice #Power #Misuse #Independence #Constitution #tRump #Activism #Resist #Protest #Antifa #Republicans #Shutdown #National #Patriot
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There is Danger from all Men. The only Maxim of a free Government, ought to be to trust no Man living, with Power to endanger the public Liberty.
John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Diary (1772, Spring), “Notes for a Oration at Braintree”Sourcing, notes: wist.info/adams-john/6021/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #johnadams #absolutepower #checksandbalances #corruption #freedom #government #humannature #liberty #politics #power #tyranny
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"Concerned at the UK Government’s intentions to review the #HumanRights framework and #JudicialReview we have come together to state:
While every system could be improved, and protecting #rights and #freedoms for all is a balancing act, our #HumanRightsAct is a proportionate and well-drafted protection for the fundamental #liberties and #responsibilities of everyone in this country.
The Act guarantees the rights to #FreeSpeech and expression, to life, to #liberty, to security, to privacy, to assembly, and to #FreedomOfReligion or belief. It prohibits torture and guarantees fair trials and the #RuleOfLaw.
Judicial review is an indispensable mechanism for individuals to assert those rights and freedoms against the power of the state." https://humanrightsact.org.uk/
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Rarely do private companies find themselves punished for using #shell #companies to move capital and avoid taxes.
The fine accountants at Ernst & Young cooked up a complicated scheme in 2008 for a restructuring of #Koch #Industries via shell entities in Luxembourg,
a notorious tax haven, with the reasonable expectation that the ruse would never be revealed.But then someone leaked a raft of private documents from #Mossack #Fonseca, a law firm in Panama that specializes in the creation of shell companies.
The info dump became known as the #Panama #Papers, and among its many revelations was Koch Industries’ bid to reinvent parts of the company, on paper,
as tax-avoidant Luxembourg shell companies.According to the Center for Public Integrity, the essence of the Koch Industries deal was to
“reorder the ownership of many subsidiaries and centralize them under Luxembourg companies that are all served by internal corporate finance companies,
akin to a company’s own bank.”Maybe that’s where the Koch siblings got the idea to get behind #DonorsTrust
—a sort of house bank for the array of political entities and think tanks they fund.Of course, as with all of the organizations funded by Koch, they’re not in it alone.
#Betsy and #Dick #DeVos helped fund DonorsTrust, according to Mother Jones.
And then there are the many Koch-network “pass-through” groups, such as "Freedom Partners"
and the "Center to Protect Patient Rights",
which function much the way that shell companies do in the world of private capital:
-- they add layers of obfuscation over the provenance of the dollars flowing from one right-wing organization or institution to the next.For instance, there’s the #Wellspring #Committee,
a pass-through funded in part via the Koch network, whose director, Ann Corkery, also sat for six years on the board of the #Becket #Fund for #Religious #Liberty,
a pro-bono law firm, according to tax filings.With its portfolio of so-called religious freedom cases,
the Becket Fund gained notice as the firm representing the principals of the #Hobby #Lobby company in
a 2014 Supreme Court challenge to a mandate in the Affordable Care Act
for employer-based health insurance to cover,
without a co-pay, the costs of prescription #contraception.One type of private company is the “#closely #held” variety, which may occasionally trade stock publicly, but has only a few shareholders.
The Supreme Court’s decision in favor of Hobby Lobby (number 106 on the 2016 Forbes list of the nation’s top private companies) specifically cited its “closely held” status as a qualification for its exemption from the ACA contraceptive mandate.
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MAKE IT / GUIDE:
I2PD Browser Set Up Scripts Using SSH Key Authentication (utilizing 24/7 remotely hosted i2pd router)
#HumanRights #Linux #privacy #librewolf #bash #i2prouter #tech #i2pd #proxy #anonymous #anonymity #peertube #video #liberty #libre #freedom
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There are 4 boxes in defense of #Liberty. #SCOTUS just added #BumpStocks to the 4th box.
It's time #Faux #Conservatives realize that liberals understand the #2ndAmendment, it's purpose, and how and when to establish and release a #WellRegulatedMilitia.
The #ProudBoys and #IIIPercenters will melt facing the #NationalGuard, under the orders of an actual #CommanderInChief.
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Police make 630 arrests of #climate #protesters in #London in one month
Liberty condemns ‘staggering and shocking’ statistic as #AntiProtest legislation is enacted
by Sandra Laville and Damien Gayle, December 4, 2023
"Police have made at least 630 arrests of peaceful protesters campaigning against new #OilAndGas production in the past month, as the authorities exploit new powers under the government’s anti-protest legislation.
"The mass arrests of more than 470 people – some individuals were arrested more than once – was condemned by #CivilRights group #Liberty as 'staggering and shocking'.
"The protests involve slow marching along roads and are a form of peaceful civil resistance analogous to the 'freedom' rides in the US in 1961, when individuals protested against segregated public transport, says #JustStopOil.
"Evidence gathered by the Guardian over the last four weeks reveals some people have been held in police custody for long periods after arrest.
"A 23-year-old was arrested within five minutes of joining a demonstration on 13 November, and held for 56 hours in custody before being presented to court, according to his testimony to the Guardian.
"A 19-year-old student was held for three nights in a London prison despite being given bail by a magistrates court. The student is considering a case of false imprisonment.
"The protests over the past four weeks coincided with the British government confirming in the king’s speech its plans to grant new #NorthSea oil and gas licences every year.
"Police are using new powers to make the #MassArrests under section 7 of the Conservative government’s Public Order Act 2023, which bans any action that 'interferes with the use or operation of any key national infrastructure'.
"According to data gathered by Just Stop Oil and not disputed by the Metropolitan police, almost half of the arrests were carried out under #Section7. The offence carries a prison sentence of up to 12 months.
"The 19-year-old student, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was held in a London prison for four nights after his arrest under section 7. After the first night in prison, he appeared by video link for a court appearance. He was bailed by the court, and should have been released. The student was held for a further three nights in a prison cell, according to testimony given to the Guardian.
"'I consider that I was illegally imprisoned over the three nights of that weekend and will be taking a case of wrongful imprisonment,' the student said.
"Another 19-year-old student who was arrested and also cannot be named for legal reasons, was held for 50 hours in a London police cell, from a Monday morning to Wednesday at 1pm.
"She was charged under section 7 of the act after 24 hours in custody, but held for another day-and-a-half in custody before being taken to court.
"'I remember asking for my medication, and I didn’t get it,' she said. 'I asked multiple times. One of the officers said: ‘Why didn’t you have it with you?’ I said: ‘I didn’t expect to be held for 50 hours in a cell.’ And the officer said: ‘What, after what you have done?’
"'Like I was a murderer or something, they just wanted me to feel bad.'
"Jun Pang, a policy and campaigns officer for Liberty, said: 'We all have the right to make our voices heard on the issues that matter to us. The staggering number of people arrested in recent weeks, many under this new legislation, shows just how sweeping and dangerous these powers are. It’s shocking to see hundreds of young protesters criminalised simply for standing up for what they believe in.'
"Scotland Yard said 630 arrests had been made of Just Stop Oil protesters since 30 October, and 328 people went on to be charged. The rest have been released on police bail.
"JSO data shows at least 276 people have been charged: at least 125 were charged with blocking key national infrastructure under section 7 and 125 with the lesser offence of wilful obstruction of the highway."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/04/police-arrest-climate-protesters-london
#SlowMarch #SlowMarches #BigOilAndGas #UK
#CriminalizingDissent #EnvironmentalActivists #ClimateActivists #ClimateJustice #ACAB #Fascism #SilencingDissent
#CorporateColonialism #EcoActivists #Censorship #HumanRightsViolations -
#Liberty #HealthShare is what’s known as a "health care sharing ministry," a nonprofit alternative to medical insurance rooted in Christian principles.
Hundreds of thousands of people rely on such organizations for basic health coverage. They promise no red tape, lower costs and compassion for the sick.
Although Martin wasn’t religious, she found comfort in Liberty’s pledge to “carry one another’s burdens.”
Martin received treatment that pushed her cancer into remission. But 18 months later, it returned, this time in her lungs. She was dying.
What Martin didn’t know when she joined Liberty was that she was sending her money to members of a family with a long and well-documented history of #fraud.
For generations, members of the #Beers family of Canton, Ohio, have used #Christian faith to sell health coverage to more than a hundred thousand people like Martin.
Instead they delivered #pain, #debt and financial #ruin, according to an investigation by ProPublica based on leaked internal documents, land records, court files and interviews. They have done this not once but twice and have faced few consequences.
Patriarch Daniel J. Beers, 60, lies at the center of the family network. He was a leading figure in a scheme in the 1990s involving a health care sharing ministry that fraudulently siphoned tens of millions of dollars from members, court records show.
Two decades later, he played a key role in building Liberty into one of the nation’s largest #sharing #ministries, several of the nonprofit’s current and former employees told ProPublica.
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We talk plenty about #liberty and #equality, but who will champion #community?
I believe neglecting this political and cultural virtue is central to why we live in such an atomized age.
In short, a thick sense of community has been in decline for many of us during the past half-century plus, and a big part of that has to do with how we’ve come to treat the concept of community so abstractly.
#community #communitarianism #localism #politicalphilosophy #appalachia https://commonappalachian.substack.com/p/liberty-equality-andcommunity-in
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"When Is It Going to End?" Jim Jordan Destroys Dr. Fauci and to he Says He Doesn't View Covid Restrictions As A "Liberty Thing"
#COVID #news #jimjordan #FauciIsAlwaysWrong #fauci #fauciislying #lockdown #liberty #COVID19 #vaccines
