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- [Reddit holds yet another AMA with Sophie Richardson, the "China director" at the US soft-power regime change agency Human Rights Watch. The comments expose her as not speaking chinese, and spreading blatant lies about China.](https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/hwi7ub/i_am_sophie_richardson_china_director_at_human/)
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- [A case study in Anti-Chinese racism.](https://medium.com/@rsahthion/a-case-study-in-racist-anti-chinese-sentiment-fuelled-by-american-bots-and-western-propaganda-f0a69978d568)
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- [RodericDay - A thread about the key sources for Uyghur Genocide (Especially Adrian Zenz).](https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1287411708374454273.html)
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- [Zenz makes a claim that 500,000 tibetans (1 out of every 3 working age Tibetans) are in forced labor camps.](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZedong/comments/ixmy9p/china_has_somehow_put_16_of_the_entire_tibetan/)
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- [Breaking down the BBC's visit to XinJiang.](https://medium.com/@sunfeiyang/breaking-down-the-bbcs-visit-to-hotan-xinjiang-e284934a7aab)
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- [More sources debunking this here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XiHrkJ_zudQZP1hBIBCgJKKAfAILxEG0cmQGrNH8pIU/mobilebasic).
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- [Biden - We need more arrests, triple the police, prosecuters, judges, and prison cells.](https://twitter.com/areltah/status/1266428868547747848?s=20)
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- [Biden - Lock em' up.](https://twitter.com/BethLynch2020/status/1266810765362843650?s=20)
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- [Biden on George Floyd protesters - "Shoot em in the leg instead of the heart."](https://twitter.com/jaboukie/status/1267565376885448706?s=20) [Then goes on to suggest an additional $300M in funding for police.](https://twitter.com/ajitxsingh/status/1270713176145793024?s=20)
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- [Biden: "Socialism will never happen here. I beat the socialist ( Sanders, who immediately began campaigning for him )"](https://www.mediaite.com/news/joe-biden-torpedoes-bernie-sanders-in-pitch-to-wisconsin-voters-worried-about-socialism-i-beat-the-socialist/)
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### Greta Thunberg
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- Search for Obama on this [List of US Atrocities](https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/us_atrocities.md). [More here](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/galon6/anyone_know_of_any_good_resources_on_obamas/fp2nfrx/), [2](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/cdamsp/what_are_your_opinions_on_obama/etswenc/), [3](https://twitter.com/wallacemick/status/1261744000396152842?s=20)
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### Ruth Bader Ginsberg
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### Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Much credit to [David Kinder's current affairs article, the rise of the Ruth Bader Ginsburg cult.](https://www.currentaffairs.org/2016/03/the-rise-of-the-ruth-bader-ginsburg-cult)
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- [Ruled against the Oneida tribe over a dispute regarding its territorial claim, her majority opinion stating: "We hold that the tribe cannot unilaterally revive its ancient sovereignty, in whole or in part, over the parcels at issue."](https://michaelleroyoberg.com/uncategorized/on-the-notorious-rbg-and-sherrill/) [2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Sherrill_v._Oneida_Indian_Nation_of_New_York)
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- [In Navajo Nation v. United States Forest Service, she ruled against the Navajo nation, who have consistently protested US encroachment of a US forest-service run ski resort on Navajo territory known as the sacred San Francisco Peaks.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navajo_Nation_v._United_States_Forest_Service)
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- [In Inyo County v. Paiute-Shoshone Indians, the Paiute tribe asserted that it was against their privacy policy to allow Inyo county district attorneys to investigate their employees. They stated that their tribe's status as a sovereign nation made them immune to state processes under federal law and asserted that the state authorized the seizure of tribal records. RBG concurred with the rest of the supreme court in dismissing their complaint suit.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inyo_County_v._Paiute-Shoshone_Indians_of_the_Bishop_Community)
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- [In Inyo County v. Paiute-Shoshone Indians, the Paiute tribe asserted that it was against their privacy policy to allow Inyo county district attorneys to investigate their employees. They stated that their tribe's status as a sovereign nation made them immune to state processes under federal law and asserted that the state authorized the seizure of tribal records. RBG concurred with the supreme court in dismissing their complaint suit.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inyo_County_v._Paiute-Shoshone_Indians_of_the_Bishop_Community)
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- [In Salazar_v. Ramah_Navajo Chapter, the issue in question was whether the US government, when it enters into a contract with a Native American (Indian) tribe for services, must pay contracts in full, even if Congress has not appropriated enough money to pay all tribal contractors. In a 5-4 decision, Ginsburg sided with the minority that stated the government shouldn't have to pay.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salazar_v._Ramah_Navajo_Chapter)
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- [In Atkinson Trading Co. v. Shirley, the supreme court unanimously ruled against the Navajo nation that charged a hotel occupancy tax for providing services (police, fire, and ambulances) for fee land (non-indian territory within indian territory). The court ruled that the tribe's imposition of a tax upon nonmembers on non-Indian fee land within the reservation was presumptively invalid without establishing that the tax was related to a consensual relationship with Atkinson.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atkinson_Trading_Co._v._Shirley)
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- [In Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma v. Manufacturing Technologies, Ginsburg dissented with the majority, who ruled that an Indian Nation were entitled to sovereign immunity from contract lawsuits, whether made on or off reservation, or involving governmental or commercial activities.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiowa_Tribe_of_Oklahoma_v._Manufacturing_Technologies,_Inc.)
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- The Obama era was one of the greatest decreases in working class and [black wealth](https://jacobinmag.com/2017/12/obama-foreclosure-crisis-wealth-inequality) in history: home equity decreased by ~$17k between 2007 and 2016. His housing policies led to millions losing their homes. While Wall street banks recieved $29 Trillion in bailouts, $75 Billion in relief was set aside for housing foreclosures and mortgage assistance. Instead of being paid to families, this was paid to mortgage servicers, and the services found ways to pocket the money and continue foreclosures: by the end of the program, less than 20% of the funds were used, and most had dropped out of the program due to foreclosures. The Obama administration refused to prosecute the fraud, or any of those responsible for the 2008 financial crisis.
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- On May 25, 2020, Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin pinned George Floyd with his knee on Floyd's neck [for over 7 minutes](https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2020/05/26/george-floyd-man-dies-after-being-arrested-by-minneapolis-police-fbi-called-to-investigate/), killing him in a manner reminiscient of Eric Garner. Bystander Darnella Frazier [filmed the encounter](https://www.facebook.com/darnellareallprettymarie/posts/1425401580994277). During that time, Floyd moaned, sobbed, "Oh Mama, oh Mama," begged, "Please, please, I can't breathe, I can't breathe" at least 11 times. Other distressed witnesses joined in with "Bro, you've got him down, at least let him breathe, man," and, "He's not even resisting arrest ... he's human, bro." One of the cops responds, "This is why you don't do drugs, kids." After about four minutes, Floyd lost consciousness. Though a witness charged, "You just really killed that man, bro," Chavin kept his knee on Floyd's unmoving neck for another four minutes. Afterwards, protests erupted in dozens of US cities, [with over 50 cases of police brutality. ](https://nitter.net/i/status/1266751520055459847) Many police posed for US Media-friendly photo ops with protesters, then [immediately tear gassed, shot pepper balls, and cleared them from the area.](https://twitter.com/karaokecomputer/status/1267393445603115008?s=20) Over 11k people have been arrested, and several killed, including a 13 year old. [A massive, documented list of all the cases of police brutality in the wake of these protests, in every US state](https://github.com/2020PB/police-brutality).
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- On May 11th, 2020, [27 year old EMT Breonna Taylor and her boyfriend were at their apartment in Louisville Kentucky, when police, doing a no-knock-no-announce raid, stormed in and blindly fired more than 20 shots, killing her.](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/black-woman-shot-killed-after-kentucky-police-entered-her-home-n1205651) Her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, returned fire, thinking they were intruders. The police were searching for [two drug suspects who were already in police custody, who lived more than 10 miles away from Taylor's house](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Breonna_Taylor). Kenneth Walker was charged with first degree assault and attempted murder, while the cops were placed on paid leave. Walker's case was brough to a grand jury, but after protests erupted, he was released by the judge, and the district attorney moved to dismiss all charges against him. No charges have been brought against the cops who murdered Breonna Taylor.
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- On May 11th, 2020, [27 year old EMT Breonna Taylor and her boyfriend were at their apartment in Louisville Kentucky, when police, doing a no-knock-no-announce raid, stormed in and blindly fired more than 20 shots, killing her.](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/black-woman-shot-killed-after-kentucky-police-entered-her-home-n1205651) Her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, returned fire, thinking they were intruders. The police were searching for [two drug suspects who were already in police custody, who lived more than 10 miles away from Taylor's house](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Breonna_Taylor). Kenneth Walker was charged with first degree assault and attempted murder, while the cops were placed on paid leave. Walker's case was brough to a grand jury, but after protests erupted, he was released by the judge, and the district attorney moved to dismiss all charges against him. As of Septemeber 2020, the only charge brought, was against one officer, none of whose bullets killed Breonna Taylor, but for "wanton endangerment", since he fired shots into the walls of other apartments. The [other officers who murdered Breonna Taylor went free, and the nation erupted in protests.](https://www.liberationnews.org/officers-who-murdered-breonna-taylor-not-held-accountable/)
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- During the 2020 coravirus pandemic, it was found that a law that empowered police to arrest those for not social distancing, lead to [80% of those arrested being black and latino](https://www.bakersfield.com/ap/national/nyc-politicians-outraged-after-nypd-reveals-80-of-social-distancing-arrests-have-been-minorities/article_d7c6ff24-d527-50ca-9a52-643957422b32.html).
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- On October 12th, 2019, yet another police officer went into a home, and [shot and killed the inhabitant, 28-year-old Atatiana Jefferson, in Fort Worth, TX.](https://www.fox4news.com/news/woman-fatally-shot-inside-her-home-by-fort-worth-officer) It began with a neighbor who called 911, after seeing a house with the door open - “When I made that non-emergency call, I didn’t say it was a burglary. I didn’t say it was people fighting. I didn’t say anything to make them have a gun. All they needed to do is ring the doorbell,” neighbor James Smith said. The officer has been placed on paid leave.
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- On Augist 24th, 2019, Minneapolis police arrested black teen Elijah McClain, beat him, held him down, [and injected him with ketamine, killing him.](https://twitter.com/TheSharkPunch/status/1274774156848984064?s=20) [Ketamine injections (forced drugging) are a widespread practice used by police to subdue suspects.](http://archive.is/SJ9B1)
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- US police officers routinely commit sexual assault and rapes: most go unreported, but over [1200 incidents, including over 400 rapes were committed over a 9 year period from 2005-2013.](https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/19/us/police-sexual-assaults-maryland-scope/index.html)
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- In the period following WWII, the US capitalist-controlled media, advertising, and consumer products industries propagandized and glorified the ideal of the housewife-consumer, in order to sell products, make labor space for returning soldiers, take advantage of women's unpaid labor in the home, and to help build a new workforce and potential army to combat the soviet union. This sparked an era of regression with respect to the feminist victories of the previous 50 years, and caused psychological damage and demoralization to an uncountable number of women. Women who remained in the labor force were primarily only allowed in subordinate positions such as secretaries, cleaning women, elementary school teachers, saleswomen, waitresses, and nurses. This is chronicled in the [Feminine Mystique](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feminine_Mystique).
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- In September 2020, it was revealed that [ICE had performed mass hysterectomies on immigrant women in several detention centers,](https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/like-an-experimental-concentration-camp-whistleblower-complaint-alleges-mass-hysterectomies-at-ice-detention-center/) reminiscent of the long-standing [US policy of sterilization of black and brown women.](https://theintercept.com/2020/09/17/forced-sterilization-ice-us-history/) [2](https://newrepublic.com/article/159390/immigration-detention-hysterectomy-forced-sterilization)
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- From the 1880s onward, many US states (27 + Puerto Rico in 1956) operated a system of [forced sterilization](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_sterilization#United_States) of women, rooted in white supremacy. The principle targets were the mentally ill, Native Americans, and blacks. For example, in [Sunflower County Mississippi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunflower_County,_Mississippi), 60% of black women living there were sterilized without their permission. An estimated 3,406 Indian women were sterilized.[[63\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States#cite_note-Lawrence-63) California eugenicists in 1933 began sending their literature overseas to german scientists and medical workers, sparking the beginnings of Nazi Eugenics. In the end, over 65,000 individuals were sterilized in 33 states, in all likelihood without the perspectives of ethnic minorities. The US enacted a system of forced sterilization in Puerto Rico since its takeover by the US in 1989: [a 1965 survey of of Puerto Rican residents found that about one-third of all Puerto Rican mothers, ages 20-49, were sterilized.](https://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/book-excerpts/health-article/forced-sterilization/) 148 female prisoners in two California institutions were sterilized between 2006 and 2010 in a supposedly voluntary program, but it was determined that the prisoners did not give consent to the procedures. In [Madrigal vs. Quilligan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrigal_v._Quilligan), many unsuspecting women were coerced to sign paperwork to perform sterilization, while others were told that the process could be reversed. None of the women were fluent in English. 10 latina women were sterilized, and the doctor was found innocent. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_sterilization#United_States),[2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_sterilization#cite_note-71),[3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrigal_v._Quilligan)
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- US elites in the 18th and 19th centuries pushed a narrative of *domestic purity*, or the *cult of true womanhood*, for women as a way of pacifying her with a doctrine of "separate but equal"-giving her work equally as important as the man's, but separate and different. Inside that "equality" there was the fact that the woman did not choose her mate, and once her marriage took place, her life was determined. One girl wrote in 1791: "The die is about to be cast which will probably determine the future happiness or misery of my life.... I have always anticipated the event with a degree of solemnity almost equal to that which will terminate my present existence." Marriage enchained, and children doubled the chains. One woman, writing in 1813: "The idea of soon giving birth to my third child and the consequent duties I shall he called to discharge distresses me so I feel as if I should sink."
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