One nuclear specialist argued that the Japanese government's reported plan "cannot be considered an action without risk to the marine environment and human health"
NO, HUNDREDS OF NUCLEAR SPECIALISTS HAVE SAID THE SAME THING! The media 'buries' those who speak out against it.
Abe even put a gag order on the press, on physicians who were speaking out about children's cancers there, calling such information "state secrets" and had laws passed mandating jail time for any who ignored the gag order. He stopped testing children for cancer.
WATCH THE VIDEO "The Thyroid Cancer Hotspot Devastating Fukushima's Child Survivors".One document the Telegraph obtained from the government body charged with responding to the 2011 Fukushima disaster reportedly indicates that the Japanese government is perfectly aware that the Advanced Liquid Processing System (ALPS) is failing to eliminate radioactive materials from the water stored at the Fukushima site, despite its claims to the contrary.
The water that has been treated through the ALPS system, the levels of strontium 90 have been found to be 100 times above the safe levels. And in some tanks, these levels are as high as 20,000 times the levels designated safe by the government. According to the Telegraph: “ALPS has consistently failed to eliminate a cocktail of other radioactive elements, including iodine, ruthenium, rhodium, antimony, tellurium, cobalt and strontium.”
Shaun Burnie, a nuclear specialist with Greenpeace, argued that even so-called "safe" levels of tritium are harmful to humans and marine life.
"Its beta particles inside the human body are more harmful than most X-rays and gamma rays," Burnie told the Telegraph, adding that there "are major uncertainties over the long-term effects posed by radioactive tritium that is absorbed by marine life and, through the food chain, humans."
"We are deeply concerned by reports that the Government of Japan has accelerated its timeline for the release of radioactive wastewater into the ocean without time or opportunity for meaningful consultations," the experts said in a press release.
The experts are imploring the government to delay its decision on releasing the radioactive water until after the coronavirus pandemic has been contained, so proper attention can be dedicated to the issue. The concern was raised as public consultations on the release of the plant's wastewater have been accelerated, and opinions will be solicited by next Monday. Such consultations were initially scheduled until after the now-postponed Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The experts -- U.N. special rapporteurs respectively on hazardous wastes, rights to food, rights to assembly and association, and rights of indigenous people -- took note of credible indications that the postponement of the games sped up the government's decision-making process.
With the pandemic also preventing in-depth consultations with relevant stakeholders, the rapporteurs called on the Japanese government to give "proper space and opportunity for consultations on the disposal of nuclear waste that will likely affect people and peoples both inside and outside of Japan."
[Not to mention MARINE LIFE.]
"COVID-19 must be not be used as a sleight of hand to distract from decisions that will have profound implications for people and the planet for generations to come," they said, raising the alarm that a discharge will pose a grave threat to the livelihoods of local fishermen.
Abe and TEPCO will use whatever they can to shirk their responsibilities to the WORLD on a safe, thorough, efficient cleanup and long-term SAFE disposal of this hellacious nuclear mess their lax and greed created. They simply put profit over human and animal and ALL life.
I call it "Abe's Silent Nuclear War", because each new day, that cursed abomination spews radiation into the atmosphere, the environment, the Pacific Ocean and causes death upon death, either soon or in the near AND distant future.
If you look at the Tea Room's posts over the years since Fukushima's meltdowns irradiated all of us, you'll see my utter disdain and disrespect for how the Abe regime and accursed TEPCO have handled this, with ALL nuclear "regulatory" agencies aiding and abetting this CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY.
Russia handled Chernobyl and offered to handle Daiichi, but Abe won't allow it.
Abe, as FOUR former prime ministers have said LIED about the safety of holding the Olympics in Tokyo, LIED about the cleanup, LIED about the dangers to those whom his regime is FORCING back into radioactive villages and homes and LIED about the safety of foods grown/raised/fished there.
Obviously, they aren't blasting hard enough. The international community should call upon Shinzo Abe to demonstrate the safety of the area around the Fukushima Dai'ichi nuclear power plant by moving there himself, by moving his entire family there, and by requiring all Japanese political officials to also move there and hold all their governmental sessions in Fukushima prefecture. Shinzo Abe's silent nuclear war against the world goes on.
I have nothing but contempt for those NOT properly handling this mass-murder, this crime against humanity.
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[5] Antoni Slodkowski and Kentaro Hamada, 29 Oct 2013, 'Tepco can't yet be trusted to restart world's biggest nuclear plant: governor', http://planetark.org/enviro-news/item/70199
The oldest casualty of the riots was 77-year-old David Dorn who died protecting Lee’s Pawn Jewelry store in St. Louis from rioter on June 2. Dorn had served as a Louis Police officer for 38 years.Dorn was Black. The youngest killed in the riots was 18-year-old Dorian Murrell who was shot dead in Indianapolis on May 31. Dorian was Black.
Also slain was local business owner and former Indiana University football player Chris Beaty. Beatty was a Black man.
James Scurlock, a 22-year-old black man was shot and killed late on Saturday night outside a bar in Omaha, Nebraska.
On Monday, David McAtee, 53, who ran a barbecue business in Louisville, Kentucky was shot and killed. McAtee was a Black man.
POLITICALLY MOTIVATED. THE TWO-PARTY SYSTEM IS RIPPING THIS NATION APART!
DON'T ALL LIVES MATTER, MAYOR? WHY DON'T ALL LIVES MATTER TO "BLACK LIVES MATTER"(BLM) ? WHY DO ONLY SOME BLACK LIVES MATTER TO BLM? WHY DON'T BLACK COPS AND BLACK BUSINESS OWNERS KILLED BY CRIMINALS, LOOTERS, RIOTERS, DRUG DEALERS, WHY DON'T THOSE LIVES MATTER? WHY DON'T YOUNG BLACK LIVES LOST TO GANG-RELATED 'BLACK-ON-BLACK' CRIMES MATTER? WHY DON'T BLACK WOMEN AND CHILDREN KILLED DURING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SITUATIONS MATTER? WHY DON'T THOUSANDS TO MILLIONS OF ABORTED BLACK BABIES ABORTED EACH YEAR MATTER? WHY DON'T ALL LIVES MATTER?
ABOVE: The Third Precinct police station in Minneapolis was set ablaze Thursday night as violent protests continued in the city.
Quick: name a single white man killed by police this year or last year. Just one. "You probably can’t, can you? I certainly can’t. But, you respond, that makes perfect sense because cops aren’t going around killing white people. Oh really? Did you know that, according to The Washington Post, of the 990 people killed by police in 2015, 494 were white, while 258 were black.(In case math isn’t your strong suit, that’s many more white people than black people.) So why can’t you name any of them?"
FLOYD HAD A LONG RAP SHEET. FACT. It isn't hard to find arrest records for Americans and some Black citizens are pointing out the facts that George Floyd had a long history of crime, arrests and spent yeas in prison. He had a long history of violence and drug abuse. On the day of his death he had taken both fentanyl and methamphetamines, as two autopsy results show. Both drugs are absolutely known to stop human hearts, are known to have KILLED many Americans.
BUT that's NOT what killed George Floyd, is it?
ABOVE: Security camera video of the initial arrest of Floyd.
ABOVE: Video clip taken by a bystander of the incident.
FLOYD'S DEATH WAS BOTH UNNECESSARY AND A CRIME. THE POLICEMAN CHAUVIN HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH THIRD DEGREE MURDER. TWO POSSIBLE CRIMES HAPPENED THAT DAY, FLOYD'S TRYING TO PASS A COUNTERFEIT BILL AND CHAUVIN KILLING HIM.
WAS THE OFFICER WHO KILLED FLOYD A RACIST OR JUST A "TOUGH" COP WHO REGULARLY TREATED ALL THOSE HE ARRESTED IN SUCH A MANNER?
VIDEOS CAN'T SHOW US WHAT'S GOING ON IN HUMAN MINDS AND HEARTS.
Beginning at minute 01:32 of Ms. Owen's video, this is the transcript of what she revealed about Floyd:
Ms. OWENS: Shelby Steele [a Black author] said that the black community is unique from other communities, our culture is unique from other communities because we are the only community that caters to the bottom denominator of our society.
Now, let me explain what that means. It means to say that not every black American is a criminal, not every black American is committing crimes, but we are unique in that we are the only people that fight and scream and demand support and justice for the people in our community that are up to no good.
You would be hard-pressed to find, you know, a Jewish person who has spent five stints in prison who commits a crime and dies while committing a crime, and that the Jewish people champion and demand justice for.
You will be hard-pressed to find this in White America .
You'll be hard-pressed to find this even in Latino America.
If there is a person that spends multiple times in prison, you are not going to see a bunch of Latinos coming out demanding justice for this person even if... and I want to be very clear what I am saying, is not any defense for Derrick Chauvin. I hope Derrick Chauvin gets the justice that that he deserves to be, you know, implemented upon him, and that the family of George Floyd deserves justice for the way that he died.
But I also am NOT going to accept the narrative that this is the best the black community has to offer for whatever reason.
It has become fashionable over the last five or six years for us to turn criminals into heroes overnight and it is something that I find to be despicable, and there's something that I refuse to stand by any longer, and I'm not going to play a part in it no matter how much pressure comes from black liberals and black conservatives as some token of people wanting you to believe that this is the only way you can be black is you have to say this was wrong and that this, you know, this person was amazing.
I won't do that.
George Floyd was not an amazing person and, as soon as this video [of Floyd's death] hit the internet, I did just basic searches.
Everyone jumped on it and called and was looking at the police officer and everyone agrees that the police officer was wrong and the police officer has been arrested.
So that is not the reason I'm not discussing, that is not something that has been misconstrued in the media.
He [Chauvin] has been turned into the devil that he is and there is no reason for us to harp on that any longer because White Americans are not uplifting Derrick Chauvin as a victim or pretending that he's an amazing human being.
But George Floyd is being uplifted as an amazing human being.
And for those of you who have not yet seen the clips and did not pursue or wait for more clips to come out, first and foremost, George Floyd, at the time of his arrest, was high on fentanyl and he was high on methamphetamine.
This came back in both of his autopsy reports.
If you pursue the denial on one transcript, you can see the person describing, which is what made the person fearful, because he tried to, you know, to use a bill that I guess was a fake bill to purchase something.
And then he was outside acting weird, and they, in their police call, said that this person was obviously distorted on drugs.
When he is put into handcuffs and is put against the wall, a baggie of what looks to be like cocaine or something, it's white, it's a white baggie that he drops onto the floor that you can see in an image if you look up the clip. The media is refusing to circulate it.
You can find it on Twitter if you use DuckDuckGo and look up George Floyd baggie.
You can watch the clip yourself with your own eyes.
He had drugs on him at the time of his arrest.
Now, barring all of that, nobody thinks that he should have died during arrest, but [what] I find despicable to me is that everyone is pretending that this man lived a heroic lifestyle when he didn't, and I want to talk about what his lifestyle was leading up to this moment and why I refuse to accept the narrative that this person is is a martyr, or should be lifted up, in the black community and that we should be buying t-shirts with his name on it .
Okay, so here we have, first and foremost, let's start from the bottom of his record and, by the way, I am NOT saying that if you have a record you don't deserve a second chance.
I think people get arrested, and some people can serve time in prison, and I believe in second chances but I do draw a line when it comes to second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth to tenth chances.
1998, he [Floyd] spent 10 months in prison for theft with a firearm that was the first prison stint that I could find on him.
In 2002, he spent eight months in prison for a cocaine offense.
In 2004, just two years later, he spent another ten months in prison for a cocaine offense.
In 2005 he spent another ten months in prison for having less than one gram of cocaine on him again.
In 2007, and this was the biggest instant that I had, that made me realize this was a horrible human being, that I would, I am, NOT going to pretend he was a good person.
In 2005 a woman who was pregnant received a knock at the door and she went to the door and the person pretended to be someone that worked for the water department, so she opened her door and quickly realized that the person at her door did not work for the water department and attempted to slam it.
At the moment that she was attempting to slam it a Ford pulled up and another five men jumped out of the car and one of which was George Floyd came up to the door and they forced their way inside to her home, inside of her home, mind you. This woman is pregnant. At that point, George Floyd took out a gun and pressed it to her stomach and she was screaming, begging for her life and he put her inside of her living room and instructed one of his criminal friends that was with him to watch her and to make sure she didn't leave the living room. So, he was playing guard while they ransacked her home looking for drugs and money. They did not find drugs. They ended up taking, I believe, her wallet and her cell phone. Fortunately for her, her neighbor observed what was going on and caught the license plate of the people as they pulled off and called 911 and... they were able to track down the car of which George Floyd was the driver and they arrested him. Two years later he was sentenced to five years in prison for that instance.
Now you can say the media is portraying it like he was just getting his life together, after, you know being released in 2014 following that incident . He was just getting his life together and moved and was gonna start afresh.
I'd like to believe all of those things and there's a gap and he never got in trouble for five years until this incident when the police were called on him again but you are defying common sense to believe that this person suddenly became an exemplary character but happened to be high on fentanyl and methamphetamine and trying to use a fake bill to purchase something, and so, in my opinion, George Floyd was a criminal. He was a criminal and just because he was a criminal doesn't mean he deserved to die at the knee of a police officer.
But it does mean that I am NOT going to play a part of the broken black culture that always wants to martyr criminals, who wants to pretend they were these upstanding human beings that just wanted to help society, that just wanted to reach out at and uplift society, where he has a rap sheet that is long, that is dangerous.
He was an example of a violent criminal his entire life, okay?"
OWENS MAKES SOME VALID POINTS, SPOTLIGHTS SOME LITTLE-KNOWN FACTS, BUT ALSO MAKES SOME BAD ASSUMPTIONS.
How many innocent people have received counterfeit bills as part of change from breaking a big bill? Whether or not he was trying to pass counterfeit money that day has nothing to do with Chauvin pulling him out of a secure police car, throwing him on the sidewalk and choking him to death, does it? We've all seen footage of arrested people trying to kick out the windows of a squad car, banging their heads against the shield between the front and back seats, screaming and cursing all the way to the jail, etc.
Chauvin should have just left him in the police vehicle. If he had, Floyd might still be alive today.
HOWEVER, the claim by some that Floyd died from the combination of illegal drugs in his body and that alone or maybe that combined with the stress of being arrested is what killed him may be correct, maybe it was just a coincidence that the choking appeared to kill him. How can we know for sure, either way?
IS POLICE BRUTALITY A FACT IN AMERICA? YES, IT IS. But NOT just against Black people. Many of other races, including numerous White people have been killed by police brutality. BUT, just as all Blacks are NOT criminals, neither are all cops brutal.
To me, it would be a good idea for Black cops to speak up about what being a cop can mean. It means that every minute a cop is on duty can be his/her LAST minute, that a simple traffic stop, any arrest attempt, serving a warrant, responding to any 911 call may be the last thing they do n earth, that young children, teens, women, the elderly, all races from all walks of life have suddenly turned on cops and killed them.
It's a high-stress, deadly dangerous, low-paying occupation and the psychological evaluation of those who can't handle such a dangerous job is, to me inadequate. Those unfit to handle it, who can "go off" at any moment, who have quick, uncontrolled tempers, personal vendettas against any particular race or ethnic group, against anyone just are NOT properly weeded out.
There should be monthly psychological evaluation and daily accessible help for those who are becoming unable to handle such a job. Law enforcement officers (LEOs) should be assured that they can get help handling any psychological problems that arise.
On the other hand, ALL Americans, including the Black community should teach their children from birth that they are expected to obey all laws, that there will be NO excuse for lawbreakers, NO sympathy, NO looking the other way. DO THE CRIME, DO THE TIME, PERIOD, THE END.
Lawbreakers disrupt entire communities, affect multiple lives, drag their families through the mud with them. We can't allow lawbreakers to be excused just because they're poor, just because they had a rough life, just because they're Black or Asian or Latino, Native American, Middle Eastern, or White.
Children must learn early that they must obey the law, that they MUST NOT become criminals, that they must LEARN, SO AS NOT TO PERISH on some street or anywhere else because they CHOSE to commit a crime.
Let them be made aware that their CHOICE to commit crimes can kill them, and that NOBODY will make ANY excuse for them, or see them as heroes.
They can CHOOSE TO LOSE by becoming criminals or they can CHOOSE to be law-abiding members of this society we call America.
STOP TEACHING CHILDREN THAT THEY ARE HYPHENATED AMERICANS! FORCE MAINSTREAM MEDIA (MSM) TO STOP DEALING OUT RACE CARDS IN EVERY ARTICLE.
TEACH INSTEAD THAT WE ARE ALL AMERICANS, THAT WE ARE ALL MEMBERS OF THE HUMAN RACE.
WHEN MSM FANS THE FLAMES OF THE RACE WAR THEY CREATED AND KEEP ALIVE TODAY, DAMN THEM PUBLICLY AND LOUDLY AND FORCE THEM TO STOP IT.
WE ARE OF THE HUMAN FAMILY AND EVERY FAMILY HAS BOTH GOOD AND BAD MEMBERS, BUT LET'S CALL THEM WHAT THEY ARE, FAMILY OR NOT.
WE MUST NEVER PROTECT THOSE WHO CHOOSE TO DO ILLEGAL THINGS. WE MUST ALL STOP CONDONING ILLEGALITY AND LEARN TO LIVE BY THE LAWS OF OUR SOCIETY, BY THAT CONSTITUTION THAT LAYS DOWN CLEARLY THAT ALL HAVE INALIENABLE RIGHTS. WE DON'T HAVE TO FIGHT FOR THOSE RIGHTS. AND NOTHING EXCUSES THOSE WHO WANT TO TAKE ANY RIGHT FROM US.
"The speed with which the mainstream media forgot all about coronavirus, ‘social distancing’ and masks to de facto promote a race war with coverage of riots and looting in the Twin Cities makes one wonder about their priorities.
Just days ago, the sanctimonious shills on cable channels were clutching their pearls in concern over Americans failing to maintain ‘social distance’ and going out in public without masks, while wringing their hands about the 100,000 deaths attributed to the pandemic in the country so far.
Then George Floyd died with a Minneapolis police officer kneeling on his neck. Within three days, protests turned to looting, then rioting, then arson. Minneapolis and St. Paul burned, as local authorities ordered police to stand down and let it happen.
Mind you, these are the same authorities that just days prior would have threatened to arrest and fine people for not wearing masks, or for daring to reopen their businesses against government orders. The sheer cynicism of this anarcho-tyrannical whiplash boggles the mind.
It pales in comparison with the media, however, who practically salivated over the prospect of a racial conflict and tied themselves into pretzels to defend the indefensible, to excuse vigilantism and always, always, always invoke race. Someone whose memory reaches beyond last week might wonder if these same people’s panic-mongering about the coronavirus was really based on ‘science and facts’ or if it may have possibly been motivated by political agendas.
Or one might reach into the far distant past – say, last August – and recall that infamous struggle session staff meeting at which the New York Times decided to pivot from ‘Russiagate’ to seeing everything through the prism of racism. It certainly worked for them – the race-baiting ‘1619 Project’ recently won a Pulitzer, just like the paper’s equally fabulist ‘Russiagate’ coverage.
How did it work out for the torched neighborhoods of the Twin Cities, though? And as copycat riots spread to other cities, how will it work out for America?
Forget Hydroxychloroquine or Bill Gates’ vaccines! Turns out the REAL cure to coronavirus is a media-manufactured race war!
The only cure to media-induced panic is more media-induced panic!
WE ARE SAVED!
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Insulated in their fortresses of power and actual privilege, the mainstream media and their political allies don’t know – and don’t care. It really seems as if, to them, the pandemic was an opportunity; chaos is a ladder, and so what if the entire country burns, as long as they can be kings of the ashes?"
TRUTH, from Russia, with...love? Well, truth is truth, no matter who tells it. SOCIAL MEDIA BIAS AND CENSORSHIP
WE ALL KNOW FROM READING IN THE MSM, THEY LEAN WAY LEFT. EVEN FOX HAS GONE LEFT.
I WAS CENSORED COMPLETELY OFF TWO MAJOR SOCIAL MEDIA SITES YEARS AGO, NOT BECAUSE OF MY MULTITUDE OF NEGATIVE COMMENTS ABOUT POOR OLD GEORGIE BUSH AND HIS HORRID FATHER AND THEIR KISS-ASS RELATIONSHIPS WITH HOUSE OF SAUD, OR ABOUT THEIR LIES THAT LED US TO UNENDING, UNCONSTITUTIONAL, UNDECLARED "WARS" IN THE MIDDLE EAST, BUT BECAUSE OF MY MANY NEGATIVE COMMENTS ABOUT OBAMA'S LOVE AFFAIR WITH ISLAM AND BECAUSE I POSTED EVERY PASSAGE IN THE "PURE QURAN", THE 'UNTRANSLATED' QURAN USED EXCLUSIVELY IN ISLAMIC NATIONS. WHICH CLEARLY STATES ALL MUST SUBMIT TO ISLAM AND THAT THE ENEMIES, THE HERETICS, THE CHRISTIANS AND JEWS SHOULD BE ELIMINATED FROM THE EARTH. ALTHOUGH I PROVED THOSE QUOTES DID COME FROM JUST THE QURAN, NOT FROM ME, THAT NOT ONE WORD WAS MY OWN, I WAS STILL BANNED.
I WAS GETTING CLOSE TO BEING BANNED FROM TWITTER FOR THE SAME REASONS.
YET TWITTER ALLOWS ALLOWS ISLAMIC CALLS FOR JIHAD, ALLOWS CELEBRITIES TO CALL FOR THE DEATH OF THE POTUS, TRUMP, ALLOWS VIDEOS OF VIOLENT ACTS BY HAPPY LOOTERS AND RIOTERS. I SAID SO AND, WELL, GOODBYE TWITTER. UP THE ORGANIZATION! I'M PUSHING THE ENVELOPE ON YOUTUBE. WON'T BE LONG UNTIL I'M BANNED FROM THAT AS WELL.
AGAIN, RUSSIA HAS NOTED THAT TENDENCY OF SOCIAL MEDIA TO BAN AND CENSOR JUST THE CONSERVATIVE ACCOUNTS. I"M NEITHER PARTY AND I DOUBT ANYONE IN THE GOP WOULD SEE MY POSTS OR TWEETS AS "CONSERVATIVE"...EXCEPT SOCIAL MEDIA.
"It looks as if the white dove of peace has been replaced by the blue bird of war that Twitter has formally declared on free speech with its recent gagging of the president of the United States. The angsty relationship between the platform and the POTUS hit new lows following the platform’s fact-checking of Donald Trump’s tweets on Wednesday.
Twitter has now gone a step further, replacing Trump’s tweet with one which can only be viewed by clicking on a warning hiding it from view. I, part of the public, am indeed interested: how was Trump glorifying violence? While hiding Trump's tweets, Twitter is still leaving potentially deadly posts online during a tense period in the city of Minneapolis. With its constant overreaching, has the platform finally bitten off more than it can chew? Perhaps it's time for an exodus onto another platform. In 2018, Bloomberg reported that if Trump left Twitter he would take a fifth of its valuation with him. Indeed, there are other social media outlets out there which hold free speech close to their hearts.
Trump’s executive order and announcement of an investigation into Twitter’s biases is a big step in the right direction, but I fear it is too little, too late. The rot has sunk into the entirety of the tree, and it is probably unsaveable. If, before, the social media giant’s biases were only affecting certain people’s digital lives, now they are also endangering lives in the physical realm. Clearly, that is not a tenable business model. "
The question isn’t some sort of abstruse imponderable. In fact, it has a simple two-word answer: the media.
In case you didn’t realize this, the media is out to maximize its own bottom line; it’s not out to maximize your enlightenment. It wants clicks and ad revenue. To get what it wants, it has to sell a story and stir controversy.
It knows that “White Cop Kills White Man” won’t get anyone up in arms. People are killed every day in one way or another, and we’re pretty much numb to it. We don’t care.
Racism, on the other hand, is a hot topic. Racism sells. “Another Black Man Killed by White Cops” makes for a great story. Here’s an example from earlier today. This is what the front page of the New York Times online looked like this morning:
Those many who look only at the front page are being fed a story of what they will assume is yet another white cop baselessly shooting yet another unarmed black man in a long litany of such shootings (and the New York Times is expressly guiding us towards this assumption by describing this as “the latest in a long string of deaths of black people at the hands of police”).
It’s only if you were to click into the actual story that you would see, first, that cops are actually being hurt in this (“About 16 police officers in Charlotte, N.C., were injured when a standoff between law enforcement and demonstrators turned ugly overnight after an officer fatally shot a black man on Tuesday afternoon”); second, if you read significantly down, that the guy who was shot might have had a gun himself (which, apparently, the police have now recovered), so it’s not yet clear who’s at fault (“Police officials said the officer opened fire because Mr. Scott, who they said was armed with a gun, ‘posed an imminent deadly threat’”),; and third, if you read WAY down towards the very end, that the officer who did the shooting was actually BLACK (“It identified the officer who fired his weapon as Brentley Vinson, an employee since July 2014. Officer Vinson is black, according to local reports”). This is How the Media Invents Racism … and Why You Think There’s an Epidemic of Cops Killing Blacks.
The inescapable conclusion is that the headline and the accompanying text are calculated to inflame racial tensions as much as possible (and drive clicks and the New York Times’ ad revenue, etc.), while all the real information that tells a very different story is buried somewhere in the text.
Or take this story The Guardian published to brighten up our New Year’s Eve in 2015. The headline says “Young black men killed by US police at highest rate in year of 1,134 deaths.” The text tells us that “Despite making up only 2% of the total US population, African American males between the ages of 15 and 34 comprised more than 15% of all deaths logged this year by an ongoing investigation into the use of deadly force by police.” Outrageous, right? Well, yes … but not in the way The Guardian likely intended. The Guardian has taken three groups — the young, men and blacks — who are each independently more likely to be killed by police because of the higher prevalence of adversarial police interactions between these groups and police, combined them into a single package “young black men,” and purported to give us the shocking results. And we should be shocked. We should be shocked that this brand of disgusting and undoubtedly conscious manipulation of the news has no consequences for those responsible for it.
This kind of systematic distortion of reality by the media — failing to cover police shootings of white people, flooding every police shooting of a black person with coverage, failing to distinguish between justified and unjustified shootings, ignoring or burying the race of the cops involved and using misleading statistics to perpetuate lies — is why you likely cannot name a single white person killed by police this year. It is also why you may think we’re living amidst a sudden and inexplicable epidemic of cops killing blacks, whereas the only real epidemic is an epidemic of the media talking about an epidemic of cops killing blacks, of the media trying to make a huge deal of every black person shot by police so that you get the misimpression that there’s something bigger going on.
The irony of the media’s irresponsible approach to the issue is that police brutality and police violence are serious issues.
Instead of focusing on those issues as a nation united by a cause and mobilizing a cross-racial movement focusing on police conduct and police brutality, what we have is a divisive, polarizing story that leads people into a false dichotomy of being on the side of blacks or being on the side of whites & cops. In cynically maximizing its own profit margin at our expense, the media is needlessly inflaming racial tensions while taking the spotlight away from the real issue in need of resolution.
It is time for us to wake up and take back our narrative from the media moguls trying to steal it away to line their own pockets. It is time for us and for all of those who have been worked into a racial frenzy by the media and sent on the dead-end warpath of #Blacklivesmatter to mobilize all their energy and all their indignation to hold the true culprit’s feet to the fire.
If you want to fight racism, fight actual racism and not its illusory specter. Fight the race-baiting media, the real racists for whom a racial angle and fanning the flames of racial animus higher and higher represents little more than a quick buck."
THE TEA ROOM SECONDS THAT! THINK, READ, LEARN, SO THAT YOU DO NOT PERISH, AND QUESTION EVERYTHING. I WOULD ADD THAT POLITICIANS ARE ALSO GUILTY OF FANNING THE FIRES OF RACIAL TENSION, EACH "PARTY" CALLING THE OTHER RACIST AND EACH PARTY'S BIG NAMES BEING FOUND GUILTY, AT SOME POINT, OF MAKING RACIST REMARKS.
NO POLITICIAN IS INNOCENT OF DOING SO.
THE DUMBING-DOWN OF AMERICA HAD SEVERAL REASONS BEHIND IT, NOT THE LAST OF WHICH IS SO WE WON'T QUESTION WHAT WE'RE TOLD TO BELIEVE, SO WE DON'T FACT_CHECK EVERYTHING, DON'T READ ENOUGH TO BE PROPERLY INFORMED, DON'T OPEN OUR MINDS TO THE REAL POSSIBILITY WE'RE BEING LIED TO AND CONTINUALLY MANIPULATED AND ROBBED OF OUR FREEDOMS SO WE CAN JUST GO ON BEING SHEEP, OR WORKER BEES.
