"AMERICA IS A HAUNTED HOUSE. THE GHOSTS OF THE INDIGENOUS AND THE ENSLAVED ANCESTORS ROAM" (Video)

"AMERICA IS A HAUNTED HOUSE"
THE GHOSTS OF THE INDIGENOUS AND THE ENSLAVED ANCESTORS ROAM

I got this quote while listening to James Evans Pallato, on his Media Monarchy radio program, but I don't think he realized what else he was saying. He just said it was a haunted house, I added the part about the ancestors. I always think about that.

This video:  https://youtu.be/Z9qhH3KM0n8

Ironically, them folks have towns rivers and streams that carry the names of these Indigenous people and they have no clue, the average people that is, that each time they say these names they are calling them. Phoebe Snow sang a song called Ancient Places, Sacred lands (names we know so well, yet no one understand)

#Chicago #Missippi #California #Arizona #Waupaca #Wayewiga #Kentucky #Miami

Just to name a few there are so many more.

It makes me wonder if the overlords who foment war understand that killing releases traumatized souls into the ethers. On the other hand, maybe they do and they are a part of a feeding frenzy for entities that get nourishment from death and destruction.

I also wonder if they realize that releasing souls this way is the prime reason why this country is haunted.

What do I mean by that?

Well, when someone is murdered, their soul is ejected from their physicality abruptly and brutally.  If you think about the phrase we so often use, "Rest In Peace" we must have some inkling of what it means, correct?  Why are we hoping that a person who has just made transition, "Rests In Peace?"  Why do we care? And what is that meme all about?

For those folks who have any idea of the many manifestations of the spirit world then they may understand where I am going with this.  And quite frankly, I have heard many Christians say that someone is possessed with  an evil spirit. So there is some subconscious understanding that "spirits" can possess people.

Now, what do evil spirits do??? Well, they wreak havoc. They are not at rest,

and we need only to look at a few horror movies to get the gist of what a not so peaceful rest looks like.

So, back to my premise, America is a Haunted House, filled with the Restless souls of the many people who have died on American soil. Because they were murdered, they are trapped here and will re-incarnate, over and over again, or possess others until they are "laid to rest."

All too often we take our every day colloquialisms for granted, we pay them no mind, we use them without examining or even thinking much about them, we say it and we keep moving on. But we are ignoring a very important aspect of our world and how we relate to it. If we are saying "Rest In Peace" to those who have made transition, if we are saying "He/She was laid to rest." What do we really mean? How can a dead corpse rest? Or rest in peace for that matter?

So, we in America, live in a country that has been drenched in the blood of millions. And like Trump said, on both sides. We can basically start with the invasion of the European into the Americas, north, central and south.  Quiet as its kept, there were people here already. Now, I am not saying that they didn't have their own tribal wars, and of course there may even be some of them souls that are not resting peacefully at all.. However, I would wager, that the indigenous people knew the importance of burying their dead in such a manner so that they could "Rest In Peace" hence they have sacred burial grounds. It's obvious to me that they knew, and they knew enough to call them grounds sacred.

But, after the European got here, well I would also wager, that there were millions upon millions of indigenous peoples who did not get a Sacred Burial ground, who were massacred in a variety of ways and for that matter, whose bodies we walk upon each and every day as this continent was completely inhabited by them.

Understanding that many of their souls, if not all of them who were massacred were released into the ethers but did not receive the proper burial rites, we are looking at those souls roaming around, and incarnating all over the place.

The next chapter…. The enslavement of Africans, bringing many, not all to the so called new world and subjecting them to all manner of torture and trauma.

Those who died during the Middle Passage, were "buried" at sea with no pomp and no circumstance, just thrown over board. Hmmmmm, and so the ocean has become a toxic waste land for these restless and traumatized souls.

And those who got here, well, that story need not be told as it should be know what happened to them for 300 years of chattel slavery and 150 years of mental slavery or I should say psychological warfare.

But let's not stop there, let's add the Civil War, the Spanish American War, the Revolutionary War that were fought right here on American soil. It should cause one to think that this place is truly haunted.

And let's not even talk about the mass Graves of Africans, or their cemeteries that have buildings built right over them.

And where do these outcasts spirits like to hang out? Graveyards for one, old abandoned houses, dark alleyways, old hospitals and asylums, under dark

El Toro Memorial Park

bridges, in depressed areas, in garbage and trash dumps, in old abandoned churches, rusting steel works, crumbling schools and empty factories, etc. I ain't talking about the made up cartoonish Halloween types, so you won't be seeing those too much. I mean the real ones, where folks walk in and get goose bumps, hear noises, things drop, etc.

And while I am talking about this phenomenon, and you are wondering why I got pics in the slide show of haunted houses, well, that's why.  Those abandoned buildings all need to be torn down lest they provide a safe haven for dis-incarnate spirits to reside.

They also hang around those statues. Those statues are conjuring up the spirits of those depicted. They are talisman, huge no less, but talisman none the less and they attract the dead to them. I am sure that on a dark night, just about midnight, you can see Old General Robert E. Lee walking around there.  And let me stop here, with how their energies are conjured up when people depict dead folks in movies, books and magazines. I'm just saying. Folks are saying they don't deal with the occult, and that the occult is demonic, but they don't seem to realize they are dealing with occult sciences with all these things.

Haunted Prison

These souls are trapped, and cannot escape beyond the veil, so they roam, roam and roam, and every once in a while they can hop a ride..

Me thinks that may be why they need to keep them old statues up there. Maybe they know that it might help them souls rest in peace if they are honored above ground. I don't know, but it does seem curious that such an outcry is being made about these statues.

Folks want to honor their Ancestors with streets, monuments, holidays, etc.  Folks want to acknowledge their history by doing so, and are feeling some kind a way that this may be taken from them.  But I am beginning to wonder now, if there may be some Ancestral influence going on here. These many restless souls who died in battle for whatever they believed was a just cause, and some who knew it was all a hoax, a ploy to keep rivaling factions at each others' necks, but notwithstanding all that, these folks are honored.

Now, I could go into the many other mass killings that have occurred on American soil, you know the MOVE bombing, WACO, Black Wall Street, lynchings, and even more recently the police sending in a drone bomb to kill Micah X. Johnson.

Historic Ohio State Reformatory

How do people in one breath want to honor their dead, and in the other breath care nothing about the dead or death of another? Even John Brown who was called a terrorist back then has been honored, they hung that dude for treason. He was a paid vigilante under the guise of freeing the slaves. He maimed and killed viscously, and like their other war criminals, he gets to be immortalized in the history books.

Black folks had to beg, borrow and steal to even get a Martin Luther King, Jr. HOLIDAY, let alone a statue.

I'm just saying. Folks don't think beyond their noses sometimes.

Those who know, how dangerous this is for the astral plane to receive millions upon millions of the souls of murdered people, have to know the long term impact it can have on any community.  Those who don't know need to think about it before they trot off to war to kill a bunch of people thousands of miles away.  And besides, spirits may stay local for a while, but after a while, they travel, and in fact, may follow you and haunt you all the way to your little home on the prairie. 

Think about it, how many soldiers are committing suicide due to mental disorders that have lead them to alcohol, drugs, or self destructive patterns of behavior that end them up dead somewhere?

If anything, folks really need to think about movies like the "Walking Dead" and any other movie that has Zombie like images or Dead people disturbing folks like in the Amityville Horrors! You may not want to believe it but it's true. And even that burn in hell for eternity is a condemnation that can come back to haunt you.

America is a haunted house and the spirits of those murdered are roaming around, we have the indigenous, we have the enslaved African, we have those who died in wars and we have those who died due to police brutality and the other countless senseless murders for various reasons, organ harvesting perhaps. And I won't even get into what it must be like for the person who has had the organs of such a person transplanted into them. Just imagine what kinds of impact that must have on their psyche.  Could it possibly be the cause of the psychopathy that many of our world leaders seem to have?

Remember, everything is energy…………..

Alcatraz

America is a haunted house and until those souls are put to rest, the

upheavals in this country will persist.

Mental illness will persist.

Acts of violence will persist.

Distortions and dysfunctional relationships will persist.

Negative and destructive emotions coupled with acting out will persist.

And murder will persist locally and globally.

In fact, this will and has permeated the entire globe.

People just don't realize how dangerous to the psyche war is as they engage their youth in the battle and sit back and enjoy the "spoils" of war.  It's that simple, they are spoiled and the spoilage is like a virus that will run through the entire planet.

So, the entire planet is haunted, but since I live here in America, and not South Africa, or Ireland, or Germany, or Gori Island, I am acknowledging the traumatically departed who haunt where I live. You all out there can do the same.

Look around, take note… ask yourself…. Is your country peaceful due to government control, or, is your country peaceful because you have taken responsibility for those who came before you.

Or, is your country restless, anxious, fearful, because of the numerous and oft times untimely deaths of people who lived there.  Be honest…

And finally, I just want to add this little caveat to all you Christians out there.  Why are you fighting so hard to keep statues up?  Isn't that idol worship?  I thought Christians didn't worship idols? Even pledging allegiance to the flag is idol worship. Why does this Christian Country do that?  Is there a logical explanation, if so, can you please leave them in the comment section below??

https://youtu.be/Odd53Y3d2GM

Ancient Places, Sacred Lands

ANCIENT PLACES, SACRED LANDS

Come sit beside me

And hear a story

Of Long ago when

The people lived free

Name the waters

And all the places

High and low

There was a plain they

Called Chicago

It meant a place where

Strong things grow

And Kentucky

Meant the land of Green Meadows

Chorus: Ancient Places, Sacred Lands

Names we know so well

But no one understands

Mississippi

Means “Big River”

And Miami

Means “Great Water”

Arizona

Means a place where small springs flow.

Chorus: Ancient Places, Sacred Lands

Names we know so well

But no one understands

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7 Most Haunted Prisons in America

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Giles Clarke has photographed Salvadoran gangs in cages

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How Ancient Cultures Explained Eclipses. (Video)

How Ancient Cultures Explained Eclipses. 

A Shout Out to My Flat Earther Buddies.

This video is taken from an article called "How Ancient Cultures Explained  Eclipses". It is featured in an online publication called "the Conversation" and was written by Roger Culver, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Colorado State University.

I recently saw a couple of videos posted by Flat Earthers who say that the coming Eclipse is a lie and proof that we live on a Flat Earth.  They say that astronomers are hard press to prove that the Sun which is 93 million miles away and yay big could possibly be eclipse by a moon that is so much smaller and so much closer to the Earth.

Personally, I am not too sure about this argument for the flat earth because that type of shadowing can be done when you position beam of light at a certain distance where it can be obstructed by another object in its path, causing a third object in the line of sight, to have a shadow cast upon it. But let's take a look at what the Ancient Cultures have said.

This video: https://youtu.be/6O9GBmtDJBc

How ancient cultures explained eclipses

by Roger Culver, Colorado State University

A 1765 painting of Helios,
the personification of the sun
 in Greek mythology. Wikimedia Commons

On August 21, a total solar eclipse will be visible across parts of the United States.
As the Earth and moon sweep through space in their annual journey around the sun, the three bodies align in such a way that the Earth passes into the shadow of the moon. Observers then witness a sun that is gradually covered and uncovered by the moon’s disk – a spectacular celestial event.

But until astronomers were able to explain this phenomenon, a solar eclipse could be a terrifying event. In many cultures throughout human history, the sun was seen as an entity of supreme importance, crucial to their very existence. It was regularly worshipped as a god – Amun-Ra to the Egyptians and Helios to the Greeks – or as a goddess, such as Amaterasu for the Japanese and Saule for many Baltic cultures.

One reason the sun served as a god or goddess in so many cultures was its awesome power: Looking directly at it would severely damages the eyes, a sign of the sun diety’s wrath.
So the idea that the sun deity could be temporarily extinguished in a total eclipse inspired a number of imaginative explanations. Most involve some sort of evil entity trying to devour the sun. Such myths undoubtedly arose from the fact that during the early stages of a solar eclipse, the sun appears to have a bite taken out of it.

The various creatures include the Vikings’ sky wolves Skoll and Hati, a Chinese dragon, a Vietnamese frog and assorted Roman demons. In many cultures, it was believed that such creatures could be driven off by creating as much loud noise as possible: yelling, ringing bells, and banging pots and pans.
Perhaps the most creative version of this strand of mythologies comes from certain branches of Hindu culture. In that version, the mortal Rahu is said to have attempted to attain immortality. The sun and moon told the god Visnu of Rahu’s transgression. As punishment, Visnu decapitated Rahu.

Ever since, Rahu has sought to exact vengeance on the sun and the moon by pursuing them across the sky to eat them. Once in a while – at the time of an eclipse – Rahu actually catches the sun or the moon. In the case of a solar eclipse, Rahu slowly devours the sun, and it gradually disappears into Rahu’s throat – only to reappear from his severed neck.

Rahu swallowing the moon.
Anandajoti Bhikkhu, CC BY

In other branches of Hindu culture, the “sun eater” took the more traditional form of a dragon. To fight this beast, certain Hindu sects in India immersed themselves up to the neck in water in an act of worship, believing that the adulation would aid the sun in fighting off the dragon.
Other cultures had equally ingenious explanations for – and defenses against – a total solar eclipse. Eskimos thought an eclipse meant that the sun and moon had become temporarily diseased. In response, they’d cover up everything of importance – themselves included – lest they be infected by the “diseased” rays of the eclipsed sun.

For the Ojibwe tribe of the Great Lakes, the onset of total eclipse represented an extinguished sun. To prevent permanent darkness, they proceeded to fire flaming arrows at the darkened sun in an attempt to rekindkle it.
Amidst the plethora of the myths and legends and interpretations of this strange event, there are seeds of understanding about their true nature.

For example, the famed total solar eclipse of May 28, 585 B.C., occurred in the middle of a battle between the Medes and the Lydians in what is now the northeast region of modern-day Turkey. The eclipse actually ended the conflict on the spot, with both sides interpreting the event as a sign of the displeasure from the gods. But based on the writings of the ancient Greek historian Heroditus, it’s thought that the great Greek philosopher-mathematician Thales of Miletus had, coincidentally, predicted its occurrence.

Chinese, Alexandrian and Babylonian astronomers were also said to be sophisticated enough to not only understand the true nature of solar eclipses, but also to roughly predict when the “dragon” would come to devour the sun. (As with much knowledge back then, however, astronomical and astrological findings were relayed only to the ruling elites, while myths and legends continued to percolate among the general population.)

Advances in modern astronomy have given us detailed explanations for solar eclipses, to the extent that their time and location can be predicted centuries into the future and reconstructed from centuries ago.

Of course, mythologies surrounding total solar eclipses still exist today. Some conspiracy theorists say this year’s eclipse will cause the end of the world – perhaps a testament to the endurance of the superstitious side of the human psyche.

Roger Culver, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Colorado State University
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article.

What's hidden behind the walls of America's prisons? (Video)

What's hidden behind the walls of America's prisons?

This video: https://youtu.be/WhIctHl2DTI

Heather Ann Thompson, University of Michigan
Few Americans fully appreciate just how many of their fellow citizens are ensnared in the criminal justice system.
Some may have heard that there are about 2.3 million people behind bars, but that figure tells only part of the story. Yes, in a stunning array of 1,719 state prisons, 102 federal prisons, 901 juvenile correctional facilities, 3,163 local jails and 76 Indian Country jails, as well as in military prisons, immigration detention facilities, civil commitment centers and prisons in the U.S. territories, we physically contain more human beings than any other country in the world. In addition to those actually locked up, there are another 840,000 Americans being supervised on parole and an additional 3.7 million people being monitored on probation.
Consider this: The world’s most populous city, Tokyo, and the U.S.‘s most populous state, California, have fewer residents combined than the up to 100 million U.S. citizens who now have a criminal record.
As important, these historically unprecedented rates of containment, and the deep stigma of a criminal record, aren’t experienced equally in this country. America’s incarceration crisis is suffered staggeringly and dis-proportionally by communities of color.
That so many are blissfully unaware of just how many people are, or have been, subject to containment or control is, perhaps, unsurprising. Prisons are built to be out of sight and are, thus, out of mind. Somehow, even though these institutions contain human beings, including children, and even though we are the ones who cough up the billion of dollars that it costs to run them, we are expected simply to trust that they are operated humanely and that they in fact make our society safer.
As a historian of crime and punishment who has been inside of America’s prisons and has documented severe abuses that have taken place within them, I know this trust is not warranted. It is past time that the public has unfettered access to these public institutions so that we can know exactly what happens behind prison walls.

The fight to see inside

There is, in fact, a long history of the public being kept away from prisons so that corrections officials could run them as they wished. For much of the 19th and into the 20th century, state politicians’ deeply ingrained fear of federal encroachment on their power more generally translated into the so-called “hands-off doctrine” when it came to how they ran their prisons. Prison authorities, it was understood, had the right to do what they wanted to those in their charge.
Of course prisoners routinely tried to bring attention to the abuses that happened to them. But time and again, and most notably in the infamous 1871 case Ruffin v. Commonwealth, their bid to be treated as human beings was formally denied. In fact, according to the court in this case, prisoners were “slaves of the state.”

Chain gang street sweepers in
 Washington, D.C., circa 1909

Chain gang street sweepers in Washington, D.C., circa 1909.

In the 1960s and 1970s, though, in response to escalating protests in penal facilities and in cities across the country, prisoners finally gained some rights. In turn, the public began to learn a bit more about what was happening to them behind bars.
It was, for example, deeply significant when the Warren Court opined in a 1974 case, Wolff v. McDonnell, that

“a prisoner is not wholly stripped of constitutional protections when he is imprisoned for crime. There is no iron curtain drawn between the Constitution and the prisons of this country.”

However, at the moment that more light was being shone on prison conditions because of specific judicial rulings, it was also clear that serious limitations on the public’s access to these institutions would remain and, overtime, actually increase.
In 1974, the court ruled in Pell v. Procunier that prisoners’ First Amendment rights were in fact limited. In this case the court held that journalists, the people who might hear prisoner accounts of abuse and share them with the public, “have no constitutional right of access to prisons or their inmates beyond that afforded to the general public.” As Ted Kennedy noted passionately before his colleagues in the Senate, this decision was alarming since, as he pointed out, “the public cannot regularly tour the prisons and interview inmates.”
Another significant blow to the public’s access came in 1987 when a decision was rendered in the case Turner v. Safley. The court ruled that prisoners’ rights to speak to the media existed only to the extent that prison authorities didn’t have a reasonable justification for restricting those rights. And the lid on access lowered even farther in the 2003 case Overton v. Bazzetta. The court ruled, in short, that if prison administrators wished to bar visitors to prison, their desires trumped other constitutional considerations such as the First Amendment rights of prisoners.
The court even found that prison officials could prevent visits between prisoners and their kids if the restrictions on visitation were related to “valid interests in maintaining internal security.”

Access abroad

Notably, other prison systems, most famously those in countries such as Sweden and Norway, are much more transparent. The primary goal of prison, officials in these countries maintain, is to return people to the society improved. And, thus, they insist, prisons must have oversight to ensure that they are run humanely.
Not only are Scandinavian prisoners assigned a special officer “who monitors and helps advance progress toward return to the world outside,” but Norwegian prisons boast an “explicit focus on rehabilitating prisoners through education, job training and therapy … [and the] priority of reintegration.”
Even in countries not known for their human rights, such as Singapore, prison officials explicitly connect the humane treatment of the incarcerated to the broader public good. As their corrections officials put it, “by rehabilitating our inmates, society can continue to be safe even when these offenders leave prison.”
The principle that the public has a responsibility to run prisons humanely was in fact adopted by the United Nations back in 1955.
When the U.N. revised and again adopted its “Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners” in 2013, thereafter dubbed the “Nelson Mandela Rules,” not only was it endorsing the idea that penal practices must be humane and prisoners treated like people, but it also made clear that humane treatment depended upon outsider access to prisons. According to the U.N., “services and agencies, governmental or otherwise” interested in prisoners’ well being “shall have all necessary access to the institution and to prisoners.”

Why access matters

Even a cursory glance at our nation’s history indicates that such access is not only desirable, but necessary.
The abuses that went on in this country’s 19th-century penal institutions, both in the North and in the South, are well-documented, and it is now obvious that the 20th century did not bring much improvement.
One need only read of the pain and suffering the men locked up at the Angola Penitentiary in Louisiana endured in the 1950s. Here, men willingly cut their own Achilles tendons so that they might avoid the abuses of the guards driving them in the prison’s cotton fields. Or we can look at the horrific torture endured by the men at Attica in the wake of their 1971 protest.

A work crew heads to the fields at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola in 2001. AP Photo/Bill Haber

Throughout American history unspeakable abuse of men and women has been allowed to happen behind prison walls because the public had no access.
And, if we pay close attention to what has been happening much more recently behind bars, it is clear that the closed nature of prisons remains a serious problem in this country.
In September 2016, prisoners at facilities across the country erupted in protests for better conditions. In March and April of 2017, prisons in Delaware and Tennessee similarly exploded.
In each of these rebellions, the public was told little about what had prompted the chaos and even less about what happened to the protesting prisoners once order was restored.
In fact, when we, the public, just dig a little, it is obvious that much trauma takes place behind bars while we aren’t watching.
In a juvenile facility in Florida it is now clear that over the course of many decades in the 20th century, prison officials murdered scores of young boys. In facilities such as Rikers Island, young people today experience physical abuse and some have died in custody. And not just children, but vulnerable adults as well, suffer tremendously, and daily, because they are at the utter mercy of officials who don’t have to answer to the public.
Indeed, it is only when there is a particularly dramatic abuse, or a death that simply can’t be hidden, that the public gets any glimpse of what life on the inside is like for so many Americans.
It wasn’t until concern was raised about babies being born with brain damage that we learned that women are shackled during childbirth in our prisons. It wasn’t until brave health care professionals came forward that we learned about the many broken bones and internal injuries prisoners were suffering at the hands of their captors. It wasn’t until prisoners ended up dead with marks on their body indicating to outside coroners that they had been tortured that we knew about the traumas that the mentally ill are suffering in prison. And, sadly, it isn’t until we hear of cases being filed on behalf of children that we finally learn how many of them have suffered sexual and physical abuse and about how much emotional distress they suffer from being kept in utter isolation.
More recently, until journalist Nell Bernstein managed to get access to our nation’s juveniles facilities, the public was blissfully unaware of the alarming fact that “More than a third of youth reported that staff used force unnecessarily, and 30 percent said that staff placed them into solitary confinement as discipline,” or that the amount of physical forced used on children in these facilities is “staggering.”
Here is but one account that Bernstein was able to share with the public of a 12-year-old boy who, when his mother was allowed finally to visit him, was found “rail-thin,” with his eyebrows shaved off, a dent in his temple and with a “huge black eye, a busted lip, and a bruise on his rib cage in the shape of a boot.” When she asked him, appalled, how he had gotten so injured he explained flatly, “Mom, this is what happens…A guard did this. They want you to know who’s boss.”

Volatile and dangerous workplaces

It isn’t just those who have been sentenced to serve time in prisons who suffer from the public’s lack of access to those institutions. The men and women who work inside of them also pay a high price.
Every American prison is, of course, severely overcrowded and, therefore, they are not just hellholes for the incarcerated, they are also volatile and dangerous workplaces.
Like prisoners, correction officers also end up injured and killed behind bars and, also like prisoners, they too experience high rates of suicide as a result of the terrible conditions. And, also as with prisoners, the only way we hear just how terrible things really are for guards is when something particularly awful happens to one of them and protests erupt, as they did in states such as Alabama in 2016.

Barriers to access

When ordinary citizens learn of atrocities committed behind bars, most are appalled, but the sad reality is that the public actually has few legal tools at its disposal to insist on the access it needs to protect guards or prisoners.
Yes, the American public does have some “right to know” what the officials we pay are doing via the 1966 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). This piece of legislation was intended to facilitate “the watchdog function of the public over the government” and it was meant to give citizens “the knowledge necessary to evaluate the conduct of government officials.” All who supported the passage of FOIA understood that “access to the government information necessary to ensure that government officials act in the public interest.”
When one group tried to get documents from the Bureau of Prisons, for example, it was denied access to files for 14 years and, even then, it took a law suit to settle the matter. As journalist Jessica Pupovac points out, “Restrictive prison policies continue to be an issue – and a problem – for journalists.” Of course, for those without press credentials, finding out what is happening behind bars – having any idea what behaviors and actions their tax dollars are making possible in America’s vast carceral network – remains virtually impossible.
How then might Americans ever know what actually goes on in the criminal justice system that they fund, the penal institutions that their loved ones populate in ever greater numbers and in the many other apparatuses of containment they are told will keep them safer?
The answer to that question is not at all clear, but the imperative of continuing to loudly demand public access to our public penal institutions is. Access is a responsibility even if it has yet to be a guaranteed right.
As history and present-day headlines make clear, the public must know what happens in prisons. Not knowing is what makes it possible for unimaginable suffering to take place in the name of safety and security. There is no reason for us to make this Faustian bargain, and countless, human, reasons why we must not.
Editor’s note: This story has been modified to add a sentence about racial disparity in the criminal justice system.
Heather Ann Thompson, Professor of History and Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article.

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2.3 million people behind bars,
up to 100 million,
staggeringly and dis-proportionally,
billion of dollars/,
historian,
“hands-off doctrine,
Ruffin v. Commonwealth,
Wolff v. McDonnell, 

Pell v. Procunier,

Ted Kennedy, 

Turner v. Safley.

Overton v. Bazzetta,

valid interests in maintaining internal security,
Scandinavian, 

Norwegian, 

Singapore,

United Nations,

19th-century penal institutions,
Angola Penitentiary, 

Attica,

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Delaware,

Tennessee, 

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facility in Florida,

physical abuse,

died in custody.
shackled during childbirth, 

broken bones and internal injuries, 

tortured,

mentally ill, 

utter isolation,

Nell Bernstein,
account,
severely overcrowded,
injured and killed,

suicide, 

protests,
Freedom of Information Act,
denied access,

Jessica Pupovac,

Mozilla Joins George Soros’s Efforts In Launching A Strike Against “Fake News” (Video)

Mozilla Joins George Soros’s Efforts In Launching A Strike Against “Fake News”

AUGUST 11, 2017

By Aaron Kesel

Mozilla, the non-profit organization which runs the Firefox Internet browser, said Wednesday it was launching an effort against “fake news,” as fact-checking software backed by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and George Soros got its first run-out in public to shape our Orwellian nightmare of future truth arbiters.

Mozilla said it was “investing in people, programs and projects” in a new initiative to “disrupt misinformation online” calling for a “Mozilla Information Trust Initiative,” or MITI for short, Business Insider reported.

They further stated the “Internet's ability to power democratic society suffers greatly” because of fabricated stories, such as the “Pope endorsing Donald Trump for the U.S. presidency” or a “dead FBI agent killed in a mysterious fire with information on former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton” – just two examples of stories that turned out to be bogus.

Mozilla’s innovations director, Katharina Borchert, told AFP that the organization was working on tools for Firefox and better online education with media groups, universities, and tech activists.

The “Mozilla Information Trust Initiative” comes just as an automated real-time fact-checking engine dubbed the “bullshit detector” was demonstrated in London.

The group that created the fact-checking engine, Full Fact foundation, is backed by Omidyar and our favorite billionaire tycoon Soros.

The organization stated its software is “capable” of spotting lies in real-time and

was used to fact-check a live debate at the House of Commons. How that objective was achieved isn’t clear since it’s likely automated A.I., but algorithms are not 100% accurate.

“As the proponents of propaganda and misinformation become more sophisticated in their use of technology, it is important that fact checkers do not fall behind in our fight against it,” Full Fact said.

“This is an important investment in the future of fact-checking,” Stephen King, of the Omidyar Network, told The Guardian.

“You only have to look at the number of initiatives that have risen up to address this challenge, either by tech companies or other organizations to see how worrying this phenomenon is to so many,” Borchert added.

I worry more about those who want to act as fact checkers, blatantly ignoring propaganda and fake news by the MSM while targeting alternative media and dictating what is and isn’t important for public consumption.

“Whether it’s become a big enough priority is perhaps a better question,” Borchert said, arguing that it was time for rival news organizations to “rally around” each other to confront the spread of fake news.

Then you have Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales, planning to launch a crowd-funded news service called Wikitribune to help combat fake news.

So you have all these people, some of whom have even once advocated for a free and open Internet, now advocating for controlling the flow of information under the moniker of “fake news.”

How about all the fake news spread by the CIA and intelligence services called planted propaganda usually for pushing war? Especially as a new report questions the veracity of claims made by a shady firm Cloudstrike that “Russia hacked the election” – how about that fake news?

Putting the future of what we believe in anyone’s hands, let alone artificial intelligence, seems reckless; but a system backed by Soros and Omidyar seems like a dangerously stupid idea that can only lead to a path paved toward Orwellian censorship the likes of which even George Orwell couldn't have imagined.

Aaron Kesel writes for Activist Post and is Director of Content for Coinivore. Follow Aaron at Twitter and Steemit. This article is Creative Commons and can be republished in full with attribution.

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Links of Interest:

Office for National Statistics: About us

https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus

Kenya election: Fake CNN and BBC news reports circulate

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-40762796

The new site will be free to use, but also accept donations from monthly “supporters” who will then be able to suggest topics to be covered - while the site also says it will publish full transcripts of interviews where possible as part of transparency plans.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/wikipedia-jimmy-wales-launching-site-combating-fake-news-wikitribune-fact-checking-a7700501.html

U.S. Repeals Propaganda Ban, Spreads Government-Made News to Americans

http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/07/14/u-s-repeals-propaganda-ban-spreads-government-made-news-to-americans/

Business Insider 

http://uk.businessinsider.com/mozilla-new-initiative-counter-fake-news-2017-8?r=US&IR=T

Katharina Borchert, told AFP

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/mozilla-and-fact-checker-engine-join-fight-on-fake-news/

The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/08/fake-news-full-fact-software-immune-system-journalism-soros-omidyar

Jimmy Wales, planning 

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/wikipedia-jimmy-wales-launching-site-combating-fake-news-wikitribune-fact-checking-a7700501.html

fake news

http://www.independent.co.uk/topic/fake-news

report 

https://www.thenation.com/article/a-new-report-raises-big-questions-about-last-years-dnc-hack/

Activist Post 

http://www.activistpost.com/

Mozilla Joins George Soros’s Efforts In Launching A Strike Against “Fake News”

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Untying the YouTube Knot (Videos)

The Title of this video is "Untying the YouTube Knot"You know, over the past few months, YouTube has been giving its content creators the blues. Some righteously and others not so much.  I was surprised that they came at me, but I am beginning to think that it was because of my video series debunking the rumor that Michelle Obama was a man, that got me so many views and subs, that my channel was no longer under the radar.

I really couldn't understand why YouTube is acting so crazy, demonetizing my vids and now suppressing my views. It really doesn't make any sense to me because I have a really small channel compared to some. But at this point, I am convinced it's the message and not the size of your channel.

I even saw someone complaining about their views being suppressed back in 2015 before the big hooplah about the advertisers.  So, the Passive aggressive way of getting at you and staying on you is basically getting fine tuned as they blame it on the Algorithms, etc.

So, I just wanted to let my subscribers and visitors know what I am going to do. I believe that when one door closes another opens and many times the other door has more opportunities. I strongly believe that YouTube is gonna see what a bad move it was for them to squeeze out their content creators.

Of course, they are big enough that they feel they can do so, and suffer minor scraps and bruises. But the fact that they would do that to the folks who made YouTube what it is today, shows the level of loyalty they have and therefore they cannot be trusted with their new partners, the big Dogs!!! 

Everybody is in it for the money, and if the Big Dogs see YouTube is not loyal, they won't trust them either. Instead of squeezing us out they should have created another Platform where we could flourish, but instead, they are using passive aggressive means to get us out. Suppressing views and demonetizing most channels, and then actually shutting others down. And they are doing it left and right.

When you look at the trending pages, even if your interests are extremely different, you don't see what you used to see, now you see weirdness.  Then you gotta go search for your channels, when they used to be right there prominent on the Home Page.

Some channels are completely GONE, gone, others have moved to their back up and some have created 2 and 3 other channels only to have them shut down.

So, for me, I always say, if it don't fit, don't force it. Content creators are creative folks, and YouTube is just causing other folks to draw them in on other platforms. These platforms may not be as fancy as YouTube, but they are options and in a little bit, they will pan out to be a much better option than YouTube, because the content creators will not only leave, but take their subscribers with them. I don't know whose idea it was to put the squeeze on us, but I don't think it was well thought out.

When you are married for several years, you just don't get up and leave, unless you really don't need what you are leaving behind. Quiet as it's kept, YouTube needs us, so kicking us out in the cold, will only make them wish they hadn't. The funny thing will be if they try to bring us back. How many of us jilted lovers will crawl back to YouTube, no questions asked. I am sure some will, but we should not come back, because YouTube kicked us to the curb for no real reason except their cash register, and that's not a good foundation for any relationship.

So, I want to let you all know what I have done and what I will be doing in the future.

Obviously, I cannot totally depend on my channel like folks with hundreds of thousands of views can, for revenues. However, the idea that they are suppressing my views is a bit infuriating. They went from demonetizing to the back way of doing so, by saying, ain't nobody watching my videos and I know much better than that. In fact, I am wondering why the analytics say 1,620 view in the passed 48 hours but the actual view count on the vids, ain't changing, sounds a bit fishy to me.

I am at Patreon, but I really have no patrons, even though I did the whole patreon push.

I am on Vidme and that's pretty cool, got a couple of subs there.  Vidme, is straight no chaser, just upload your vids within the parameters of your membership, or upload by adding a URL of a video from somewhere else, which is really, really a cool feature and wallah, there's your vid, with the description, thumbnail and all! Pretty niffty I might add.  So come over there an check me out.

I am on blaqspot.com, which is an alternative to Facebook and a decent place for African Americans, who primarily want to support a black owned business and get other opportunities like showcasing your business, uploading vids, and pics, networking, blogging, and announcing events, it's pretty cool. When Blaqspot.com first started off it was free to join, but now they are asking for $5/month membership fee. It makes sense to me cause it takes money to do much of anything in this country! I like it because I know that my posts will be appreciated by a small group of folks who will holler back at me and let me know they saw it!

I am still on Facebook, but my days there are numbered. I really don't care for it anymore, and since I don't get much traction over there, I am slowly weaning myself off it.  They offer the opportunity to post ads, but if you don't have a large following, your ads won't do much as far as getting them duckets into the bank!!

I am still on Google+ as well, I like the interactions there much better, I also like the groups they have and the networking. People respond to what I post, I share theirs, and of course, Google offers so much other junk to rope you in, it ain't funny. But no revenue. That is only through YouTube.

I am also on Minds.com, it's seems to be a budding platform similar to FaceBook but not quite as overloaded with the newsfeed. There you get points for being on there, and they can be cashed in or used to purchase whatever they got going over there, but I get a kick out of watching my points increase.  Minds.com is working on sharing revenues with their content creators, but I gotta read the fine print about a hundred more times before I can make any sense of that.

I want to give a special shout out for the folks over there at BitChute though! I joined the platform about 6 months ago, and had no idea I was even accepted until someone posted a comment under one of my vids. I was like, really???? Then when I went there, I saw my channel and all my YouTube videos from the past 6 months. I was like, wait-a-second, when did that happen???? I ain't complaining or anything, but I was not prepared for that! And that was soo cool.

Now they are using some sort of bit torrent thingamajig, and don't get me lying, I ain't got a single clue how that works or what the heck that is… but they were able to suck all my vids off YouTube via my YouTube ID and there were my vids, looking just as pretty and nice and wonderful and right there! I also have the option of uploading which is a new feature as they were mainly dependent on the torrent option, whatever the heck that is. If you know what that means, feel free to clue me in, in the comment section cause I am like "duuuuh" when it comes to that technology.

But what was super special was when I sent them a thank you message and got a response right away from the Big Guy over there who said he had been watching my vids for a long time on YouTube, and that I was one of the first folks to sign up, probably after I heard about it on the Corbett Report. Ditto, ditto, but I had no idea I was one of the first ones to sign up.

You know how you get that tingly feeling when you think nobody notices you and then all of a sudden someone does and you are like wow, and you didn't even know it?? But even more than that, that you are appreciated!! That's what I am talking about. Heck, I went to a small college and live in a small town and it's the smallness that's the greatness if you ask me. So BitChute might be small now, but they care and so I just wanna say thanks for that, and ask you all to come over and check me out there.

I am gonna move my I Ching videos over there. I was thinking of filling up another channel with just those types of videos, but some of them are still political, and YouTube has already demonetized a few of them. I mean, they are psychic reading videos, but because I am talking about Donald Trump, War, Syria, 911, and all they demonetized them, I couldn't believe, especially since I thought, they wouldn't dare demonetize those vids. They even demonetized my video on Michelle Obama that got the most vids on my whole channel!! And after it have been there for 2-3 months.  And, along with demonetizing they are suppressing views.

It's frustrating, infuriating and depressing. You do all this work, not only for the money but because you have something you want to share with your subs and you can't even tell if they even saw it, but you know they did, by the comments, cause pretty much, out of the hundred who watch it maybe one or 2 will leave a comments, so if you have 35 views and 10 comments, well that's pretty fishy, don't you think?? Well, I do anyways.

So, I am still juggling, this one woman show, trying to determine what the what, but I may just make my vids and upload them to the other platforms… cause you know what, it don't make no sense that YouTube is giving us such a hard time!

I just wanted to let you all know where I was, and what I am thinking about doing. And what I will probably be doing from now on. Since I can upload to those platforms, I ain't making no money over here on YouTube anyways, might as well stretch out there and get more exposure on these other platforms and build up an audience there. At 65, going on 66, ain't nobody got time for that!!

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