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US-Led Bombing Campaign in Syria Killed 1,600 Civilians and Left Raqqa ‘Most Destroyed City in Modern Times’: Study

by Steven Woskow | Apr 28, 2019 | Blog

Julia Conley at Common Dreams reviews the results from a study conducted by Amnesty International and Airwars.

The report—”Rhetoric vs. Reality: How the ‘Most Precise Air Campaign in History’ Left Raqqa the Most Destroyed City in Modern Times“—is detailed on the interactive website created by investigative news organization Airwars and the human rights group Amnesty International*-USA which carried out what they call the “most comprehensive investigation into civilian deaths in a modern conflict.”*

The research collated almost two years of investigations into the assault on Raqqa, the groups said in a statement, and “gives a brutally vivid account” of the enormous number of civilian lives lost as “a direct result” of thousands of coalition air strikes and tens of thousands of US artillery strikes in Raqqa from June to October 2017.

Use of Facial Recognition in Airports Draws Anger

by Steven Woskow | Apr 27, 2019 | Blog

Eoin Higgins at Common Dreams:

We’re basically capturing that picture at the boarding gate, providing it to U.S. Customs and Border Protection,” said Farrell. “They’re identifying the traveler.”

“It’s actually the U.S. government that’s implementing the biometric matching system that does all the hard analysis and crunching of the data,” Farrell added.”

Oh, I thought this was another evil corporation behind this. Now that I know the government is involved I’m OK with it. After all, what do I have to hide. I’m sure the’re doing it for our safety.

Israel’s Fifth Column Suffers Crushing Defeat At Hands of the First Amendment

by Scott Horton | Apr 26, 2019 | Blog

Why does Israel and its partisans hate free speech so much?

It’s because stealing and killing and lying is at the core of Israel’s national strategy and daily public policy, and they’re slightly worried the U.S. government might one day stop letting them take money right out of your paycheck so they can spend it torturing children.

America’s greatest ally? The only western democracy in the Middle East?

It sure doesn’t seem like it.

Police: Criminals

by Scott Horton | Apr 26, 2019 | Blog

Watch one attack a 9 year old boy for fun.

Joe Biden: The Architect of America’s Disastrous War on Drugs

by Steven Woskow | Apr 26, 2019 | Blog

My prediction is Joe Biden will not be the Democratic nominee. He has a lifetime record of supporting the worst policies. The younger Progressive Democrats will not support him in the primaries.

Brittany Hunter at Foundation for Economic Freedom reminds us that Joe is a long time supporter of the War on Drugs.

They sure kept this quiet.

In 1998, Biden’s daughter Ashley was arrested for cannabis possession in Louisiana. While others arrested for the same offense faced sentences sometimes spanning decades, Ashley Biden was never convicted of any drug-related crime. In 2014, Hunter Biden was discharged from the Navy after testing positive for cocaine. Like his daughter, no charges were ever filed against Biden’s son.

Cops’ Massive Counter-Insurgency Sweeps in NYC Target the Innocent

by Scott Horton | Apr 26, 2019 | Blog

How can any actual human — that is, non-government employees — support this evil drug war? Or the state at all at this point?

You think it’s “sending the ‘right message'” to children that you’d let the government destroy the society in the name of drugs when they can’t get rid of them anyway, even if they wanted to which they don’t because they’re corrupt and in on it?

Possibly, you’re a idiot.

You Love Government So Much

by Scott Horton | Apr 26, 2019 | Blog

Don’t you? Yeah, you do. Don’t lie.

What would we ever do without them, you cry.

Update: “Half of all black kids in the U.S. will receive a visit from child services, according to one study by the American Journal of Public Health.”

HALF.

“Prior to this [happening to me, a well-paid, white government employee], I would never have called myself a supporter of Black Lives Matter [because they were obviously just a bunch of complaining n-words, who deserve whatever they get because I’m not one of them],” said Adam. “My view of law enforcement has completely changed.”

The Currency of Life

by Ryan Burgett | Apr 26, 2019 | Blog

At tax time each year, I am always reminded of the value of life. While we pay taxes using money, the reality is that we ultimately only have one real currency to spend, and it is our lives. Our lives are each unique, one of a kind, and they are the most valuable resources on the earth. But, like all valuable resources, our lives are limited. We only have one life to live, and we measure that life in terms of time.

Imagine that your life will last eighty-five years. That means that you have eighty-five years of life to spend or 744,600 hours to spend. Over the course of your life, whether you realize it or not, you are spending that time. Every moment is a value judgment of what you want to spend your time on. If you spend two hours watching an enjoyable movie, you have traded two hours of your seven hundred something thousand hours to gain the pleasure and enjoyment that came from watching it.

When you work at a job, you are literally trading chunks of your life, of your limited time, to gain another kind of currency that is more easily traded for goods and services. If you spend X number of hours of your limited life to gain Y amount of money, that money is actually the physical manifestation of your time investment. It is the physical manifestation of the time that you spent to receive it. If you hold that money in your hand, you are holding the physical manifestation of part of your life.

As an agorist, I realize that I own my life. I know that my time is mine to spend, and the things that I trade parts of my life for are mine to keep. Tax time reminds me of the value of life because taxation is, unfortunately, where a group of people decide that they are allowed to literally steal chunks of your life from you. As they see it, your life is theirs to spend.

Agorism is fundamentally opposed to this way of thinking because agorism understands that our lives are our own and what we do with our lives are up to us. There will only be one me in all of human history. There will only be one you in all of human history. It feels like an understatement to say that life is invaluable. There is no adequate word to describe how valuable each of our lives are. We each exist for a short time, and live a completely unique life with entirely unique experiences. Nobody will ever live your life ever again. This currency of each of our lives can only be spent once.

So, make the most of your life. Do your best to spend it in ways that best benefit you and your family, not megalomaniacs on counterfeit thrones.

Originally posted at: https://technoagorist.com/4

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