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The Government Of Turkey Is Bombing Christian Villages, And Have Already Bombed Seven Christian Villages

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<p><strong>By Theodore Shoebat</strong></p>
<p>The Government of Turkey is bombing Christian villages in Iraq and they have already bombed seven Assyrian Christian villages. According <a href="http://www.aina.org/news/20150812142018.htm" target="_blank">to one story:</a></p>
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<p>The German public TV channel ARD reported yesterday that Assyrian villages in the Qandil mountains were hit by the recent Turkish air strikes against the PKK, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party.<br />
The villages hit by air strikes were Sharanish, Baz, Barwary Bala, Hayes, Dawoodiya and Margerija.</p>
<p>One Assyrian village the German reporter visited is Sharanish, located in the district of Zahko, near the Turkish border. Sharanish has hosted 60 Assyrian families from the Nineveh Plain who were driven out by ISIS in August of 2014. Among the displaced Assyrians are many from the Assyrian city of Baghdede.</p>
<p>A displaced Assyrian said in the interview “the airplanes are over our heads. They bomb the area and we do not know where we can escape to.”</p>
<p>In Dawoodiya there is a refugee camp with 700 families.The majority of the refugees are Yezidis from Shengal, but about 20% of them are Assyrians from the Nineveh Plain and Mosul.</p>
<p>There were no injuries or fatalities caused by the air strikes, but there was extensive property damage.</p>
<p>An Assyrian resident told AINA the PKK should not place its camps and warehouses so close to villages, as this endangers the residents.</p>
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Protests Rock Guatemala As President Faces Threat of Impeachment

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<h2>Protests Rock Guatemala As President Faces Threat of Impeachment</h2>
<span>Protests Rock Guatemala As President Faces Threat of Impeachment</span>
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<div>This article originally appeared on <span><a href="http://www.guardiannews.com/" rel="nofollow">The Guardian</a></span></div>
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<p>Pressure to impeach President Otto Pérez Molina over his alleged involvement in a major corruption scandal that has thrown the country into political crisis is mounting, as protesters continued to demand the increasingly isolated president’s resignation.</p>
<p>Guatemala’s congress is due to receive a formal request to remove the president’s immunity from prosecution on Thursday, after it was greenlit by the supreme court earlier this week.</p>
<p>A major day of action kicked off early on Thursday, with marches and roadblocks across the country. Urban groups, which have spearheaded regular protests since the scandal broke in April, on Thursday sought to unite with rural and indigenous organizations who have orchestrated the road blocks.</p>
<p>By mid morning, thousands, including large groups of students, began marching in several cities. Demonstrators were seen carrying signs which read, “No to corruption,” and “I have no president, resign now.” Protesters also gathered on social media, using #RenunciaYa.</p>
<p>Hundreds of schools and businesses closed in support of the protests while the organization grouping Guatemala’s most powerful business leaders issued a statement demanding that Pérez Molina step down, and urged Congress to withdraw his immunity from prosecution.</p>
<p>The attorney general’s office released its own statement calling on the president to resign, “to prevent ungovernability that could destabilize the nation.”</p>
<p>Pérez Molina, meanwhile, has been losing support by the day. On Friday, the powerful private sector called for his resignation. Since then, five of his cabinet ministers and eight deputy ministers have resigned. On Tuesday, Guatemala’s ambassador to the UN also resigned with others likely to follow suit.</p>
<p>“Guatemala is in the middle of one of its worst-ever institutional crises. It is also a historic moment of opportunity to start a real social and institutional transformation,” said Alvaro Pop, a leftwing deputy in congress. “My hope is that Thursday’s day of action will create enough pressure to make the president’s prosecution unavoidable.”</p>
<p>The crisis is also unfolding in the runup to the presidential elections on 6 September. Sitting presidents are banned from seeking re-election, but Pérez Molina is said to have strong ties to the candidate leading in the polls: Manuel Baldizón of the party Líder.</p>
<p>The corruption racket at the centre of the current crisis was revealed in April by the UN-backed anti-corruption group the International Commission Against Impunity In Guatemala (CICIG), working with the Guatemalan attorney general. Under the scam, known as “La Línea” after a hotline that was used in the case, officials received bribes from importers in exchange for reducing tariffs the importers were required to pay.</p>
<p>The scam is rooted in a long tradition of customs corruption in the country, as successive military governments tried to raise funds for counterinsurgency operations during Guatemala’s 36-year-long civil war.</p>
<p>The CICIG investigations have so far lead to formal judicial procedures against dozens of officials, including Pérez Molina’s former vice-president, Roxana Baldetti.</p>
<p>Baldetti, who was arrested last week, was ordered to remain in jail on Wednesday awaiting trial on charges of conspiracy, customs fraud and bribery. The charges are based on allegations that she accepted $3.7m in bribes. Baldetti, who resigned in May, was denied bail because she was considered a flight risk as she holds an Italian passport.</p>
<p>The investigation into Baldetti relied heavily on wiretaps in which alleged members of La Línea refer to “the Big Boss,” “the Lady” and “the owner of the ranch,” which prosecutors believe were code names for Baldetti and Pérez Molina.</p>
<p>While some hope the crisis could trigger the kind of reform necessary to establish a working democracy in Guatemala, many also fear it could trigger confrontation and institutional chaos.</p>
<p>“The judicial cases and the social mobilization are pushing open the door of opportunity,” said Iduvina Hernández, an expert on state-sponsored criminality in Guatemala. “The politicians are pushing open the door of danger.”</p>
<p>Hernández expressed concern that supporters of the president would seek to provoke violent confrontations during Thursday’s day of action, in an effort to contain the political pressure on him to resign.</p>
<p>Hernández also cited widespread rumours that the president could seek to avoid prosecution by getting his supporters in the military to stage a short-term coup that could provide him with a route to political exile.</p>
<p>The rumours were fuelled by the aggressive tone of Pérez Molina’s vigorous rejection of the calls on him to resign in a prerecorded address to the nation on Sunday. He has not been seen in public since Friday and is said to have spent the weekend unsuccessfully trying to negotiate deals in Latin American embassies for political exile.</p>
<p>Some protesters have demanded the general election be postponed, both because of the crisis and because it is plagued with accusations of irregularities. Others warn that suspending the vote could lead to an institutional vacuum.</p>
<p>Edgar Gutiérrez, a political analyst who supports the idea of postponing the elections, said he fears a “dirty” but large electoral victory for Baldizón would buy Pérez Molina time to ride out the pressure.</p>
<p>“The president and his allies have been cornered by the judicial investigations and the population but they are buckling down,” he said. “The risk they they will take desperate measures to avoid opening up to justice and keep power is big.”</p>
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<p>Pressure to impeach President Otto Pérez Molina for his involvement in a major corruption scandal that has thrown the country into political crisis is mounting.</p>
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<p>The Natural History Museum and 350.org launched a collaborative campaign calling on the country’s top science and natural history museums to dump all stocks in oil, coal and gas.</p>
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Lead Whistleblowers Sue FBI, NSA, DOJ For Malicious Prosecution and Civil Liberties Violations

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<h2>Lead Whistleblowers Sue FBI, NSA, DOJ For Malicious Prosecution and Civil Liberties Violations</h2>
<span>Lead Whistleblowers Sue FBI, NSA, DOJ For Malicious Prosecution and Civil Liberties Violations</span>
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<div>This article originally appeared on <span>Tech Dirt</span></div>
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<p>This should be fun. A bunch of whistleblowers that were hounded, surveilled and prosecuted/persecuted by the U.S. government are banding together to sue all the big names in domestic surveillance.</p>
<p>Thomas Drake, Diane Roark, Ed Loomis, J. Kirk Wiebe and William Binney have filed a civil rights lawsuit against the NSA, FBI, DOJ, Michael Hayden, Keith Alexander, Chris Inglis, Robert Mueller and a handful of others. They will be represented by Larry Klayman, who has some experience suing intelligence agencies.</p>
<p>The claims arise from the government's treatment of these whistleblowers after they started making noise about the NSA's surveillance programs. More specifically, the lawsuit points to the short-lived internet surveillance program THINTHREAD, which was ignored and abandoned in favor of something more expensive, but less protective of Americans' communications.</p>
<p><em>"Plaintiffs worked in various roles on developing and perfecting a candidate program called THINTHREAD which was capable of performing the technical work desired by the NSA for surveillance of the internet efficiently, effectively, and at very low cost.</em></p>
<p><em>"THINTHREAD was put into operation successfully but only on a demonstration basis. It was approved to demonstrate that it worked, but not officially commissioned for actual operational use.</em></p>
<p><em>"Despite the Plaintiffs demonstrating that THINTHREAD actually worked, the NSA ignored THINTHREAD as a candidate for performing the desired surveillance of the internet and telephone communications, because THINTHREAD was inexpensive and highly effective, yet Lt. General Michael Hayden had made a corporate decision to “buy” externally rather than “build” internally the solution deemed necessary to harvest internet data.</em></p>
<p>$4 billion went into another program called TRAILBLAZER (THINTHREAD's internal development cost, by contrast, was only $4 million), along with five years of development. In the end, TRAILBLAZER never worked properly and was abandoned by the NSA in 2006.</p>
<p>This wasteful "funneling" of funds to preferred government contractors was reported to the Department of Defense by four of the whistleblowers, under the heading of waste, fraud and misuse of taxpayers' money. The DoD wasn't happy. It issued a scathing internal report.</p>
<p>But the NSA wasn't interested in having its faults pointed out. It sent the DOJ after the whistleblowers, using an unrelated leak of information about the NSA's expansive domestic surveillance programs to the New York Times as the impetus for a series of raids.</p>
<p>According to the filing, the raids were retaliatory. The government had already determined the plaintiffs had nothing to do with the leaks reported on by the New York Times. And it used faulty affidavits to justify the corresponding raids.</p>
<p>"In fact, the affidavit for the search warrants are themselves based upon an illegal, warrantless phone tap and refer to a conversation illegally intercepted between Plaintiff Roark and Plaintiff William Binney, although misrepresenting the call’s contents. Further, the ultimate pretext for the search, a paper describing THINTHREAD at a high level that Binney had given the FBI, was falsely claimed by NSA to be classified. Thus, the search warrant affidavit is not only false but illegal."</p>
<p>The lawsuit also attempts to use the breadth and reach of known surveillance programs as proof the government knew the whistleblowers had nothing to do with the NYT leak.</p>
<p>"Moreover, as later revealed by Edward Snowden, the NSA was even then, with the assistance of cooperating telephone and telecommunications companies, conducting mass interception and surveillance of all telephone calls within the domestic United States for the very purpose – at least so they claimed – of detecting both external and internal threats against the national security of the United States.</p>
<p>"Therefore, through those phone and internet records, the Defendants had actual evidence at the time of the false affidavit and retaliatory searches and seizures that none of the Plaintiffs had communicated with the The New York Times or other journalists, except that Plaintiff Drake on his own had spoken confidentially with regard to public and /or unclassified information to the Baltimore Sun."</p>
<p>The end result of the FBI, NSA and DOJ's actions in response to whistleblowing (largely performed through proper channels) is a host of alleged civil liberties violations and other abuses, starting with the violation of 1998's Whistleblower Protection Act. From there, the whistleblowers allege violations of their First, Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights, along with malicious prosecution, intentional infliction of emotional distress and abuse of process.</p>
<p>It will be interesting to see where this goes. The government likely won't be able to dismiss the suit quickly, but the plaintiffs are going to run into a ton of immunity claims that will be buttressed by invocations of national security concerns. Their lawyer – Larry Klayman – has occasionally displayed his inability to distinguish between actionable claims and conspiracy theories, a tendency that doesn't improve the plaintiffs' chances of succeeding. But of all the outcomes I imagined for the stories of Drake, Binney, et al, taking these agencies on directly in federal court wasn't one of them.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150824/19361332053/whistleblowers-band-together-to-sue-fbi-nsa-doj-malicious-prosecution-civil-liberties-violations.shtml" rel="nofollow">Originally published by Tech Dirt</a></p>
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<p>No street protests are necessary, no confrontations with riot police, to stop payment on a credit card or student loan – the financial system is vulnerable to a few million mouse clicks.</p>
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<p>Spending more than twice as much as the last three White House races combined, the unregulated fundraising juggernauts backed by unlimited contributions from wealthy donors threaten to completely shape – and control – the 2016 race.</p>
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California Academy of Sciences Divests from Fossil Fuels

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<h2>California Academy of Sciences Divests from Fossil Fuels</h2>
<span>California Academy of Sciences Divests from Fossil Fuels</span>
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<p>Responding to pressure from environmental groups, the California Academy of Sciences has made public its efforts to cut all financial ties to fossil fuel companies.</p>
<p>Executive director Jonathan Foley made the announcement in a public letter on the Academy’s website just hours after <a href="http://gofossilfree.org/museums/" rel="nofollow">The Natural History Museum and 350.org began a collaborative campaign</a> calling on the country’s top science and natural history museums to divest from fossil fuels.</p>
<p>“Here at the Academy, we’re committed to ensuring that our investment strategies align with our commitment to global sustainability,” Foley said in his letter. “So we’ve started to do exactly that.”</p>
<p>The Academy has already removed all direct investments in fossil fuel companies and started to phase out oil, gas and mineral land leases given to it by donors.</p>
<p>The Natural History Museum and 350.org targeted five of the country’s top science and natural history institutions specifically for its campaign. The others are the American Museum of Natural History, the Field Museum, the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and the Natural History Museum of Utah.</p>
<p>The Academy of Sciences is the only institution that has publicly responded to the campaign thus far.</p>
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<p>Lindsay Meiman, spokeswoman for 350.org, said Foley’s quick public announcement was his way to clarify that the Academy was already working to “disentangle itself from the fossil fuel industry.”</p>
<p>“This statement was a direct response to our call on museums to cut all ties with the fossil fuel industry,” Meiman said.</p>
<p>In January, the Academy had implemented a gift policy to no longer accept donations from fossil fuel companies.</p>
<p>And with future plans to eliminate all ties with fossil fuel investments from its endowment plans, Meiman called Foley’s announcement “one of the strongest statements we have seen around fossil fuel divestment.”</p>
<p>However, Foley’s announcement is not part of a long-range plan. Rather, he said he would work in the coming months with the Academy’s board of trustees and financial partners to make a specific plan for the future.</p>
<p>Several institutions from across the country – ranging from universities to pension funds – have already cut their connections to fossil fuel investments in the past few years for both environmental and financial reasons.</p>
<p><strong>Financial Impetus</strong></p>
<p>Plunging fossil fuel stocks as a result of sinking oil and coal prices is one financial cause for divestment.</p>
<p>Matt Dempsey, spokesman for the Independent Petroleum Association of America, said it’s important to note that any organization announcing divestment doesn’t necessarily mean it is cutting ties with the fossil fuel industry. He said the organization might have had little or no ties to begin with.</p>
<p>“You have to ask: How much did they have invested in fossil fuels to begin with?” Dempsey said.</p>
<p>Foley has not yet announced the magnitude of the California Academy of Sciences fossil fuel divestment – or made clear whether the divestment decision was at all driven by financial rather than environmental circumstances.</p>
<p>“It’s exactly what the Academy is exploring at the moment,” said Academy spokeswoman Haley Bowling.</p>
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<p>The Natural History Museum and 350.org launched a collaborative campaign calling on the country’s top science and natural history museums to dump all stocks in oil, coal and gas.</p>
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<p>No street protests are necessary, no confrontations with riot police, to stop payment on a credit card or student loan – the financial system is vulnerable to a few million mouse clicks.</p>
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<p>Spending more than twice as much as the last three White House races combined, the unregulated fundraising juggernauts backed by unlimited contributions from wealthy donors threaten to completely shape – and control – the 2016 race.</p>
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“Don’t Owe, Won’t Pay”: Why Everything You’ve Been Told About Debt Is Wrong

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<h2>“Don’t Owe, Won’t Pay”: Why Everything You’ve Been Told About Debt Is Wrong</h2>
<span>“Don’t Owe, Won’t Pay”: Why Everything You’ve Been Told About Debt Is Wrong</span>
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<div>This article originally appeared on <span><a href="http://www.yesmagazine.org/" rel="nofollow">Yes! Magazine</a></span></div>
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<p>The legitimacy of a given social order rests on the legitimacy of its debts. Even in ancient times this was so. In traditional cultures, debt in a broad sense – gifts to be reciprocated, memories of help rendered, obligations not yet fulfilled – was a glue that held society together. Everybody at one time or another owed something to someone else. Repayment of debt was inseparable from the meeting of social obligations; it resonated with the principles of fairness and gratitude.</p>
<p>The moral associations of making good on one’s debts are still with us today, informing the logic of austerity as well as the legal code. A good country, or a good person, is supposed to make every effort to repay debts. Accordingly, if a country like Jamaica or Greece, or a municipality like Baltimore or Detroit, has insufficient revenue to make its debt payments, it is morally compelled to privatize public assets, slash pensions and salaries, liquidate natural resources, and cut public services so it can use the savings to pay creditors. Such a prescription takes for granted the legitimacy of its debts.</p>
<p>Today a burgeoning debt resistance movement draws from the realization that many of these debts are not fair. Most obviously unfair are loans involving illegal or deceptive practices – the kind that were rampant in the lead-up to the 2008 financial crisis. From sneaky balloon interest hikes on mortgages, to loans deliberately made to unqualified borrowers, to incomprehensible financial products peddled to local governments that were kept ignorant about their risks, these practices resulted in billions of dollars of extra costs for citizens and public institutions alike.</p>
<p>A movement is arising to challenge these debts. In Europe, the International Citizen debt Audit Network (ICAN) promotes “citizen debt audits,” in which activists examine the books of municipalities and other public institutions to determine which debts were incurred through fraudulent, unjust, or illegal means. They then try to persuade the government or institution to contest or renegotiate those debts. In 2012, towns in France declared they would refuse to pay part of their debt obligations to the bailed-out bank Dexia, claiming its deceptive practices resulted in interest rate jumps to as high as 13 percent.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, in the United States, the city of Baltimore filed a class-action lawsuit to recover losses incurred through the Libor rate-fixing scandal, losses that could amount to billions of dollars.</p>
<p>And Libor is just the tip of the iceberg. In a time of rampant financial lawbreaking, who knows what citizen audits might uncover? Furthermore, at a time when the law itself is so subject to manipulation by financial interests, why should resistance be limited to debts that involved lawbreaking? After all, the 2008 crash resulted from a deep systemic corruption in which “risky” derivative products turned out to be risk-free—not on their own merits, but because of government and Federal Reserve bailouts that amounted to a de facto guarantee.</p>
<p>The perpetrators of these “financial instruments of mass destruction” (as Warren Buffett labeled them) were rewarded while homeowners, other borrowers, and taxpayers were left with collapsed asset values and higher debts.</p>
<p>This is part of a context of unjust economic, political, or social conditions that compels the debtor to go into debt. When that injustice is pervasive, aren’t all or most debts illegitimate? In many countries, declining real wages and reduced public services virtually compel citizens to go into debt just to maintain their standard of living. Is debt legitimate when it is systemically foisted on the vast majority of people and nations? If it isn’t, then resistance to illegitimate debt has profound political consequences.</p>
<p>This feeling of pervasive, systemic unfairness is palpable in the so-called developing world and in increasing swathes of the rest. African and Latin American nations, southern and Eastern Europe, communities of color, students, homeowners with mortgages, municipalities, the unemployed ... the list of those who strain under enormous debt through no fault of their own is endless. They share the perception that their debts are somehow unfair, illegitimate, even if there is no legal basis for that perception. Hence the slogan that is spreading among debt activists and resisters everywhere: “Don’t owe. Won’t pay.”</p>
<p>Challenges to these debts cannot be based on appeals to the letter of the law alone when the laws are biased in favor of creditors. There is, however, a legal principle for challenging otherwise legal debts: the principle of “odious debt.” Originally signifying debt incurred on behalf of a nation by its leaders that does not actually benefit the nation, the concept can be extended into a powerful tool for systemic change.</p>
<p>Odious debt was a key concept in recent debt audits on the national level, most notably that of Ecuador in 2008 that led to its defaulting on billions of dollars of its foreign debt. Nothing terrible happened to it, setting a dangerous precedent (from the creditors’ point of view). Greece’s Truth Commission on Public Debt is auditing all of that nation’s sovereign debt with the same possibility in mind. Other nations are likely taking notice because their debts, which are obviously unpayable, condemn them to an eternity of austerity, wage cuts, natural resource liquidation, privatization, etc., for the privilege of staying in debt (and remaining part of the global financial system).</p>
<p>In most cases, the debts are never paid off. According to a report by the Jubilee Debt Campaign, since 1970 Jamaica has borrowed $18.5 billion and paid back $19.8 billion, yet still owes $7.8 billion. In the same period, the Philippines borrowed $110 billion, has paid back $125 billion, and owes $45 billion. These are not isolated examples. Essentially what is happening here is that money—in the form of labor power and natural resources—is being extracted from these countries. More goes out than comes in, thanks to the fact that all these loans bear interest.</p>
<p>What debts are “odious”? Some examples are obvious, such as loans to build the infamous Bataan Nuclear Power Plant from which Westinghouse and Marcos cronies profited enormously but which never produced any electricity, or the military expenditures of juntas in El Salvador or Greece.</p>
<p>But what about the huge amount of debt that financed large-scale, centralized development projects? Neoliberal ideology says those are to the great benefit of a nation, but now it is becoming apparent that the main beneficiaries were corporations from the same nations that were doing the lending. Moreover, the bulk of this development is geared toward enabling the recipient to generate foreign exchange by opening up its petroleum, minerals, timber, or other resources to exploitation, or by converting subsistence agriculture to commodity agribusiness, or by making its labor force available to global capital. The foreign exchange generated is required to make loan payments, but the people don’t necessarily benefit. Might we not say, then, that most debt owed by the “developing” world is odious, born of colonial and imperial relationships?</p>
<p>The same might be said for municipal, household, and personal debt. Tax laws, financial deregulation, and economic globalization have siphoned money into the hands of corporations and the very rich, forcing everyone else to borrow in order to meet basic needs. Municipalities and regional governments now must borrow to provide the services that tax revenues once funded before industry fled to the places of least regulation and lowest wages in the global “race to the bottom.” Students now must borrow to attend universities that were once heavily subsidized by government.</p>
<p>Stagnant wages force families to borrow just to live. The rising tide of debt cannot be explained by a rising tide of laziness or irresponsibility. The debt is systemic and inescapable. It isn’t fair, and people know it. As the concept of illegitimate debts spreads, the moral compulsion to repay them will wane, and new forms of debt resistance will emerge. Indeed, they already are in places most affected by the economic crisis, such as Spain, where a strong anti-eviction movement challenges the legitimacy of mortgage debt and has just gotten an activist elected mayor of Barcelona.</p>
<p>As the recent drama in Greece has shown us, though, isolated acts of resistance are easily crushed. Standing alone, Greece faced a stark choice: either capitulate to the European institutions and enact austerity measures even more punishing than those its people rejected in the referendum or suffer the sudden destruction of its banks. Since the latter would entail a humanitarian catastrophe, the Syriza government chose to capitulate. Nonetheless, Greece rendered the world an important service by making the fact of debt slavery plain, as well as revealing the power of undemocratic institutions such as the European Central Bank to dictate domestic economic policy.</p>
<p>Besides direct resistance, people are finding ways to live outside the conventional financial system and, in the process, prefigure what might replace it. Complementary currencies, time banks, direct-to-consumer farm cooperatives, legal aid cooperatives, gift economy networks, tool libraries, medical cooperatives, child care cooperatives, and other forms of economic cooperation are proliferating in Greece and Spain, in many cases recalling traditional forms of communalism that still exist in societies that aren’t fully modernized.</p>
<p>Debt is a potent rallying issue because of its ubiquity and its psychological gravity. Unlike climate change, which is easy to relegate to theoretical importance when, after all, the supermarkets are still full of food and the air conditioner is still running, debt affects the lives of growing numbers of people directly and undeniably: a yoke, a burden, a constant constraint on their freedom. Three-quarters of Americans carry some form of debt. Student debt stands at more than $1.3 trillion in the United States and averages more than $33,000 per graduating student. Municipalities around the country are cutting services to the bone, laying off employees, and slashing pensions. Why? To make payments on their debts. The same is true of entire nations, as creditors—and the financial markets that drive them—tighten their death grip on southern Europe, Latin America, Africa, and the rest of the world. Most people need little persuading that debt has become a tyrant over their lives.</p>
<p>What is harder for them to see, though, is that they could ever be free of their debts, which are often described as “inescapable” or “crushing.” That is why even the most modest challenges to debt legitimacy, such as the aforementioned citizen audits, have revolutionary implications. They cast into question the certainty of debt. If one debt can be nullified, maybe all of them can – not only for nations but for municipalities, school districts, hospitals, and people too. That’s why the European authorities made such a humiliating example of Greece – they needed to maintain the principle of inviolability of debt. That’s also why hundreds of billions of dollars were used to bail out the creditors who made bad loans in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis, but not a penny was spent bailing out the debtors.</p>
<p>Not only does debt have the potential to be a rallying point of near-universal appeal, it also happens to be a unique political pressure point. That’s because the results of mass debt resistance would be catastrophic for the financial system. The Lehman Brothers collapse in 2008 demonstrated that the system is so highly leveraged and so tightly interconnected that even a small disruption can cascade into a massive systemic crisis. Moreover, “won’t pay” is a form of protest easily accessible to the atomized digital citizen who has been sundered from most forms of political association; arguably, it is the only form of digital action that has much real-world impact.</p>
<p>No street protests are necessary, no confrontations with riot police, to stop payment on a credit card or student loan. The financial system is vulnerable to a few million mouse clicks. Herein lies a resolution to the dilemma posed by Silvia Federici in the South Atlantic Quarterly: “Instead of work, exploitation, and above all ‘bosses,’ so prominent in the world of smoke stacks, we now have debtors confronting not an employer but a bank and confronting it alone, not as part of a collective body and collective relation, as was the case with wage workers.” So let’s organize and spread awareness. We needn’t confront the banks, the bond markets, or the financial system alone.</p>
<p>What should be the ultimate goal of the debt resistance movement? The systemic nature of the debt problem implies that none of the policy proposals that are realistic or reachable in the present political environment are worth pursuing. Reducing rates on student loans, offering mortgage relief, reining in payday lending, or reducing debt in the Global South might be politically feasible, but by mitigating the worst abuses of the system, they make that system slightly more tolerable and imply that the problem is not the system – we just need to fix these abuses.</p>
<p>Conventional redistributive strategies, such as higher marginal income tax rates, also face limitations, mostly because they don’t address the deep root of the debt crisis: the slowdown of economic growth worldwide, or, as a Marxist would put it, the falling return on capital. More and more economists are joining a distinguished lineage that includes Herman Daly, E.F. Schumacher, and even (though this is little known) John Maynard Keynes to argue that we are nearing the end of growth – primarily, but not only, for ecological reasons. When growth stalls, lending opportunities disappear. Since money is essentially lent into existence, debt levels increase faster than the supply of money required to service them. The result, as Thomas Piketty described so clearly, is rising indebtedness and concentration of wealth.</p>
<p>The aforementioned policy proposals have a further defect as well: They are so moderate they have little potential to inspire a mass popular movement. Reduced interest rates or other incremental reforms are not going to arouse an apathetic and disillusioned citizenry. Recall the Nuclear Freeze movement of the 1980s: Widely decried as naïve and unrealistic by establishment liberals, it generated a vocal and committed movement that contributed to the climate of opinion behind the START agreements of the Reagan era. The economic reform movements need something equally simple, graspable, and appealing. What about the cancellation of all student debt? What about a jubilee, a fresh start for mortgage debtors, student debtors, and debtor nations?</p>
<p>The problem is that canceling the debts means erasing the assets upon which our entire financial system depends. These assets are at the basis of your pension fund, the solvency of your bank, and grandma’s savings account. Indeed, a savings account is nothing other than a debt owed you by your bank. To prevent chaos, some entity has to buy the debts for cash, and then cancel those debts (in full or in part, or perhaps just reduce the interest rate to zero). Fortunately, there are deeper and more elegant alternatives to conventional redistributive strategies. I’ll mention two of the most promising: “positive money” and negative-interest currency.</p>
<p>Both of these entail a fundamental change in the way money is created. Positive money refers to money created directly without debt by the government, which can be given directly to debtors for debt repayment or used to purchase debts from creditors and then cancel them. Negative-interest currency (which I describe in depth in Sacred Economics) entails a liquidity fee on bank reserves, essentially taxing wealth at its source. It enables zero-interest lending, reduces wealth concentration, and allows a financial system to function in the absence of growth.</p>
<p>Radical proposals such as these bear in common a recognition that money, like property and debt, is a sociopolitical construct. It is a social agreement mediated by symbols: numbers on slips of paper, bits in computers. It is not an immutable feature of reality to which we can but adapt. The agreements that we call money and debt can be changed. To do so, however, will require a movement that contests the immutability of the current system and explores alternatives to it.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/the-debt-issue/don-t-owe-won-t-pay-charles-eisenstein-debt-20150820" rel="nofollow">Originally published by Yes! Magazine</a></p>
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Pope Francis Praises Books That Promote Homosexuality To Children. One Of The Books Is So Vile That The Mayor Of Venice ...

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<p><strong>By Theodore Shoebat</strong></p>
<p>Pope Francis gave his praise to number of books that promote homosexuality, written by homosexual activist Francesca Pardi. One of the books is so vile that the mayor of Venice banned it. According to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/28/pope-francis-sends-letter-praising-gay-childrens-book" target="_blank">the report:</a></p>
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<p>The hippos, kangaroos and penguins adorning the cover of Piccolo Uovo (Little Egg) give little hint of the political and religious storm the children’s book has caused. While following the adventures of an egg may seem harmless enough, its discovery of different family types – including same sex – has prompted a backlash by conservatives who accuse Italian author Francesca Pardi of promoting a pro-homosexuality gender theory.</p>
<p>In the book, the egg encounters a pair of gay penguins, lesbian rabbits successfully bringing up a family, as well as other family models, including a single parent hippo, a mixed race dog couple, and kangaroos that have adopted polar bear cubs.</p>
<p>The book, however, was met with disapproval by Venice’s new mayor, Luigi Brugnaro, who in June banned Piccolo Uovo and about 50 other titles from schools. The decision led more than 250 Italian authors to demand their own books be removed from the city’s shelves, a move one writer described as a “protest against an appalling gesture of censorship and ignorance”.</p>
<p>Now Pardi has found an unlikely supporter in Pope Francis, who through his staff has written to the author praising her work. “His holiness is grateful for the thoughtful gesture and for the feelings which it evoked, hoping for an always more fruitful activity in the service of young generations and the spread of genuine human and Christian values,” wrote Peter B Wells, a senior official at the Vatican secretariat of state.</p>
<p>The letter, dated 9 July and recently seen by the Guardian, was a response to a parcel of children’s books sent by Pardi to the pontiff in June. The collection from her publisher, Lo Stampatello, including seven or eight books which deal with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues (LGBT), was accompanied by a heartfelt letter from the author describing the attacks she has come under in recent months.</p>
<p>“Many parishes across the country are in this period sullying our name and telling falsehoods about our work which deeply offends us,” she wrote. “We have respect for Catholics … A lot of Catholics give back the same respect, why can’t we have the whole hierarchy of the church behind us?”</p>
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<p>There are major homosexual rings in the Vatican, what I like to call “homosexual hornets nests.” I myself have had experience with the homosexual infiltrators in the Catholic Church.</p>
<p>While we were doing some work in Texas we were told of a man named Msgr. Michael Yarbrough (also known as Michael Yarborough), of Holy Trinity Catholic Church, and how he is a deviant priest who forcefully kissed a young man named Hector Escalante on the lips, and how he was supporting a pro homosexual group called Call to Action. Here is a photo of Msgr. Michael Yarbrough:</p>
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<p>Well, we decided that we were going to bait Msgr. Michael Yarbrough. I visited him in a confessional booth where I told him my age and apparently it registered an interest and he asked me if I wanted to come and hang out with him. He fell for the bait. I found it very odd that a priest of his high position, with a very busy schedule, would all of a sudden want to spend time with me.</p>
<p>I accepted his offer, and gave him a call, and asked him if we would meet at a book store. He said that he preferred that we meet in his office. I found this quite disturbing because it was in his office where he kissed Hector Escalante. When I did research on Msgr. Michael Yarbrough, I found a 2002 report written in the San Antonio Express which <a href="http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news3/2002_04_28_Michael_PunishingThe_Fernandez_AND_Ortiz_Dietz_2.htm" target="_blank">stated</a>:</p>
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<p>Hector Escalante complained that Monsignor Michael Yarbrough kissed him on the lips and groped him <strong>in his office</strong> in 1998 when Escalante was 27, on his last day on the job as a St. Matthew’s Parish employee.</p>
<p>Yarbrough admitted kissing him but said Escalante misunderstood the gesture, which the priest said was common among men in his family. He denied groping Escalante.</p>
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<p>Imagine, a man kissing another man on the lips as “common.”</p>
<p>I told Msgr. Michael Yarbrough that it would be better that we meet in a book store, to which he agreed. I asked him how much time he had, and he said, as long as I wanted. After doing some more research, I also found out that on top of kissing a young man on the lips, Msgr. Michael Yarbrough is a also a major donor to a pro homosexual group, called Call to Action, and I found his name on a list made by Call to Action designated as “major donors”. I took a snapshot of the list with Msgr. Michael Yarbrough’s name highlighted:</p>
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<p>So, we had the meeting at the bookstore, and after some conversation, I busted him on his heresies and his scandals, and also paid a visit to his church where I was eventually kicked out by his followers (who probably know nothing on how evil this heretic is). Here is the video:</p>
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<p>For years we have seen how the Vatican covers up for sexual predators and deviants, heretics and debased theologians. But we have never seen how the agents of the Vatican cover up for such evildoers in their private conversations. Well, Shoebat.com is now giving you this exclusive video showing you how the conniving is really done.</p>
<p>I confronted Deacon Ron Walker, an official of the Vatican, asking why the Church has done nothing to punish Robert L. Kincl, a priest and canon law judge who was appointed by the Pope himself, who teaches that if two men masturbate each other they do not commit sin, and who himself defended confirmed child molester priest, Fr. Robert Hrdlicka. This is after Shoebat.com filed a complaint against Kincl after we caught him teaching us depravity.</p>
<p>Deacon Ron Walker and the Bishop of Austin, Joe Vasquez, and Vicar General Daniel Garcia, did nothing to have Robert L. Kincl punished, even after they promised to take care of this evil. Shoebat.com realized that they were just patronizing video.</p>
<p>Here is the video:</p>
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<p>Robert L. Kincl, who was appointed by the Pope, had befriended us as a fan of Shoebat.com acting as conservative, yet referred to homosexual fondling as permissible in the conversation. Having been shocked at his remarks, I told Kincl:</p>
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<p>How can you, as a priest, be so liberal toward such a sick evil as two men fondling each other, or as two men having a “relationship” just as long as they are not going with other men. It is evil and it is reprobate.</p>
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<p>I also told him:</p>
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<p>It is not tolerable for you, as both a priest and a canon law judge, to be permissive to somebody having a homosexual relationship just as long as they are not being promiscuous with other men. It is deplorable, and in the words of St. Paul, “worthy of death” (Romans 1:32).</p>
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<p>Kincl defended his position and responded with a rejection of the Old Testament and a twisting of St. Paul’s condemnation of homosexuality in Romans, stating</p>
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<p><strong>We do not follow the Hebrew Scriptures.</strong> We follow Jesus Christ <strong>who never mentioned gay relationships.</strong> When St. Paul mentioned such a relationship he was referring to the promiscuousness of the Romans using sodomy.</p>
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<p>Shoebat.com decided to investigate Kincl and found that he has a dark past. In 1993, Kincl worked as a Commander in charge of clergy at the U.S. Navy, and while he was in the service he defended another chaplain confirmed to be guilty of child molestation, named Robert Hrdlicka.</p>
<p>The investigation revealed that Robert L. Kincl had even <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2003/jul/5/20030705-120850-9217r/#ixzz33jCPbVZz" target="_blank">written the authorities</a>, not to charge the pedophile who molested the young boys, but urged them to send him back to serve as a chaplain:</p>
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<p>Catholic chaplain Lt. Robert Hrdlicka pleaded guilty to molesting boys in 1993. Before his sentencing, six other Catholic Navy chaplains and the church’s archbishop for the military services urged authorities to send Lt. Hrdlicka to a church-run treatment center.</p>
<p>“It is my fervent hope and prayer that he will be able to return to the active ministry as soon as possible,” wrote then-Cmdr. Robert L. Kincl.</p>
<p>Instead, Lt. Hrdlicka went to prison.</p>
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<p>Shoebat.com looked up Kincl’s My Life page, to find out that after all these years Kincl is still friends with Hrdlicka the pedophile, since he is on his friends list, of which I took snapshots:</p>
<p><a href="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/ted-kincle-photos-4-1-copy.jpg"><img alt="ted kincle photos 4-1 copy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-53771" height="550" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/ted-kincle-photos-4-1-copy.jpg" width="302" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/ted-Robert-Hridlicka-copy-2.jpg"><img alt="ted Robert Hridlicka copy 2" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-53761" height="189" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/ted-Robert-Hridlicka-copy-2.jpg" width="620" /></a></p>
<p>Just as we have Muslims, like Bergdahl, who have infiltrated the military, we have people like Kincl who have infiltrated both the military and the Catholic Church, with their depravity.</p>
<p>Kincl is now serving as a priest in <strong>Our Lady’s Maronite Catholic Church alongside Msgr. Don Sawyer.</strong> When I confronted Sawyer on Kincl, Sawyer vehemently defended Kincl.</p>
<div id="attachment_53756" style="width: 395px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/bob-kincl.jpg"><img alt="Robert L. Kincl, depraved priest who defended another child molesting priest " class="size-full wp-image-53756" height="345" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/bob-kincl.jpg" width="385" /></a>
<p class="wp-caption-text">Robert L. Kincl, depraved priest who defended a child molesting priest</p>
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<div id="attachment_53759" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/sawyer-copy.jpg"><img alt="Don Sawyer, Msgr. at Our Lady's Maronite Catholic Church where Kincl serves" class="size-full wp-image-53759" height="353" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/sawyer-copy.jpg" width="630" /></a>
<p class="wp-caption-text">Don Sawyer, Msgr. at Our Lady’s Maronite Catholic Church where Kincl serves</p>
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<p>Shoebat.com decided to contact the Diocese of Austin to file a complaint, and spoke with the Very Reverend Daniel E. Garcia as the Vicar General for the Diocese of Austin, and Chancellor and Secretariat Director for Administration, Deacon Ron Walker, who were under Bishop Joe S. Vásquez of the Diocese of Austin.</p>
<p>We asked them how could someone who supports homosexuality and defended a pedophile still be serving as a priest and not be excommunicated, to which Deacon Ron Walker, rolling his eyes, said that the Church’s main objective would be to reconcile him with God, and not excommunicate him.</p>
<p>It seems that the Diocese of Austin could care less if one of its priests supports homosexuality and defended a pedophile.</p>
<div id="attachment_53764" style="width: 610px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/7244534_600x338.jpg"><img alt="Bishop Joe S. Vásquez" class="size-full wp-image-53764" height="338" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/7244534_600x338.jpg" width="600" /></a>
<p class="wp-caption-text">Bishop Joe S. Vásquez</p>
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<div id="attachment_53766" style="width: 378px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/FrDanny25th1.jpg"><img alt="Vicar General Danny Garcia of the Diocese of Austin" class="size-full wp-image-53766" height="480" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/FrDanny25th1.jpg" width="368" /></a>
<p class="wp-caption-text">Vicar General Danny Garcia of the Diocese of Austin</p>
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<p><a href="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/ron-walker.jpg"><img alt="ron-walker" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-53767" height="285" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/ron-walker.jpg" width="450" /></a></p>
<p>Why is this man serving as a priest when the Catholic Church, in its teachings, forbids homosexuality?</p>
<p>It is not surprising to see how far reaching homosexuality has gone in the Vatican. What other deviancies will enter the Vatican in the next decade remains to be seen. Whatever happened to normal sin? In the good old days, steeling a chicken perhaps constituted such sin, but these days, its sleeping with it.</p>
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