Violating court order, Israeli occupiers forcibly remove Bab Al Shams village from Palestinian land | The Electronic Intifada »
Demonstrating the illusory nature of the rule of law in Israel when it comes to the rights of Palestinians, Israeli occupation forces on Sunday morning violently expelled dozens of Palestinians who had on Friday established a village they called Bab Al Shams on privately-owned Palestinian that has been seized for Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank.
As Haaretz reported:
Israel’s Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the Palestinian outpost, built in the geographically sensitive area known as E-1, could remain for six days while the issue of the removal of the tents was being discussed. [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu ordered the evacuation immediately, however, despite the court’s ruling.
Netanyahu vowed that Israel’s plans to colonize the land would go ahead. [++]
“[The court] has made its decision, now let them enforce it!” - Asshole Jackson
Joseph Richardson - “When Plutocrats Blame the Poor”
too tired to comment properly but:
- This sort of stuff is of course emblematic of the general decades-long trend provided by NeoLiberalism and now Austerity measures (an arm of NeoLiberalism). Things weren’t great before this trend started, but now it’s like an Accelerationist’s wet dream.
- So each time any sort of gov’t official announces an Austerity measure or a budget cut or the closing of a program that provided something potentially beneficial (like NEH or NHPRC funding) much less fundamental (like welfare and entitlement programs or the postal service) one should be reminded that such cuts are 100% unnecessary and enforced only and purely to the benefit of the already powerful.
- In the face of differentials of Power, the Law is irrelevant. As are regulations. Individuals and smaller businesses are subject to the Law and regulations, but larger corporations will always find a way around, through, and over… As much as these corporations enrich the government, as much as these things are institutionally entwined, the government is fine with that.
- Archives/Library/Information Professional friends… This is what I mean when I say “Fuck Google in the Eye”, yes they do amazing things with information technology, with linked data, with digitization, but by operating as a monstrous corporate entity they are effectively stabbing all your colleagues in the back as they grow and monopolize. Remember this next time you see a pathetically funded professional position or the lack of one all together. People in Publishing can recognize this with Amazon, it’s time Archivists and Librarians began recognizing this with Google.
I’m sick of the old “if at first you don’t succeed” approach to legislating the internets. We managed to stop SOPA in the States and C-38 here, only have to them just reappear.
I recently watched The Terminator which got me thinking about quotes from The Terminator and ideas from The Terminator and… well… there are certain moments where you can think of the the Terminator and the quotes referring to it as our good ol’ representational-democratic states. This one stands out:
Kyle Reese: Listen, and understand. That terminator is out there. It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.
So yknow, that’s the government in a nutshell. It isn’t about votes and petitions and what you think is democracy and the will of the people. It’s about all those horrible things like the State itself and its efforts at self-preservation (including whatever mode of Capitalism it is in). When it comes to these internet laws (really when it comes to anything the State truly wants or feels that it needs) there will be no reasoning or bargaining. There is nothing even approaching remorse or fear on the part of the State. And it will not stop, ever, until you (or it) are dead.
Like the Terminator, “it’s just being systematic”
So I hear they’re debating health care in the Supreme Court…
photo of a “free” market offered, affordable plan for everyone…
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The law also gives the industry the power to seize private property for any part of a drilling operation. On page 65, it states, “a corporation empowered to transport, sell or store natural gas or manufactured gas in the Commonwealth may appropriate an interest in real property” for “injection, storage and removal” of hydrocarbons. However, it does not require the industry to notify any town government of leases it has acquired or of a future interest in using any property—for say, a pipeline or processing facility. Neither homeowners nor other businessmen seeking to develop property are protected if the gas industry intends to use their land.
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The law also prevents heath professionals from discussing medical impacts. On page 99, it requires oil and gas companies to tell medical professionals what chemicals are used in drilling fluids—but only after they sign “a statement of need and a confidentiality agreement.” However those details—the chemicals in drilling fluid and medical significance—it states a page later, are secret and “shall not be a public record.
Fracking Democracy: Why Pennsylvania’s Act 13 May Be the Nation’s Worst Corporate Giveaway
1. Sorry, Pennsylvania, but you’re fucked.
2. How, exactly, can you be a politician in favor of this and not realize you are truly fucking your constituents who you, allegedly, serve? How is it not painfully obvious to all who might say something (ANY other politician, the news, the law/courts, their own fucking consciences if there is such a thing) that by signing something like this you’ve obviously been bought by these companies?
3. If you’re the sort of asshole who defends this sort of thing (“Jobs! It’ll create jobs!” I can hear such shitheels saying already), like whoever that dumbfuck was arguing with OneFootInTheGrave over this sort of thing, you can go take a long walk into a fracking hole and disappear forever.
Newt Gingrich, who hopes to be the GOP nominee, and is also crazy. (via wilwheaton)
This is actually the most purely Presidential thing Newt Gingrich has said. He really comes off as an American President saying something like that. A regular Andrew Jackson or Barack Obama. Who the fuck cares about the law when you’re the leader of the “free world”? Thus it’s always been so.
