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Re: Colonial Crimes
By: christianbethel Date: July 13, 2022, 1:36 pm
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Re: Colonial Crimes
By: 90sRetroFan Date: December 13, 2022, 12:33 am
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NEVER FORGIVE. NEVER FORGET.
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Re: Right-left (Judeo-)Christian divergence
By: guest98 Date: May 28, 2023, 3:28 pm
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HTML https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/nicaragua-govt-accuses-catholic-church-money-laundering-freezes-accounts-2023-05-27/
Nicaragua accuses Catholic Church of money laundering, freezes
accounts
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Nicaraguan police said on Saturday they are investigating
several dioceses of the Catholic Church for money laundering, a
day after local media reported that the bank accounts of
parishes in the Central American country had been frozen.
The police, loyal to the government of President Daniel Ortega
which has clashed fiercely with Nicaragua's bishops, said that
since May 19 they found "hundreds of thousands of dollars" in
Church facilities in various parts of the country.
Investigations "confirmed the unlawful removal of resources from
bank accounts that had been ordered by law to be frozen," the
police said in a statement.
The police statement said the bank accounts were linked to
religious figures convicted of treason and other crimes, and
that the investigations confirmed the funds entered the country
irregularly.
The police said the investigation also confirmed "other illicit
activities, which are still being investigated as part of a
money laundering network that has been discovered in the
dioceses in different departments."
Last February, a Nicaraguan court sentenced high-profile
government critic Bishop Rolando Alvarez to 26 years in prison
for treason and cybercrimes, after he refused to board a plane
amid the expulsion of 222 other political prisoners.
Ortega also suspended ties with the Vatican in March, shortly
after Pope Francis compared his administration to the Nazi
dictatorship of Adolf Hitler.
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Re: Colonial Crimes
By: guest98 Date: June 21, 2023, 3:48 pm
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HTML https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-65926622
It's OK for deportation to be "white".
Windrush: Hundreds with chronic and mental illness sent back to
Caribbean
[quote]
Hundreds of long-term sick and mentally ill people from the
Windrush generation were sent back to the Caribbean in what has
been described as a "historic injustice", the BBC has found.
Formerly classified documents reveal at least 411 people were
sent back between the 1950s and the early 1970s, under a scheme
that was meant to be voluntary.
Families say they were ripped apart and some were never
reunited.
The revelations - which echo the Windrush scandal, in which
hundreds of Commonwealth citizens, many from the Caribbean, were
wrongly deported - have sparked calls for a public inquiry into
the repatriation policy.
Those sent back were among thousands who moved from British
colonies to the UK in the decades after World War Two. They were
known as the Windrush generation, named after one of the first
ships to arrive in the UK, the HMT Empire Windrush. This year
will mark the 75th anniversary of the first arrivals.
BBC News has now unearthed documents in the National Archives
revealing the scale of the policy. Some experts now think the
scheme may have been unlawful because not all the patients had
the mental capacity to agree to leave.
June Armatrading's father, Joseph, was one of those sent back.
Like other people from the Caribbean who travelled to the UK
after the war, Joseph was British. His birthplace - St Kitts -
was a British colony and still administered directly from
London, and he was a British passport holder.
Joseph arrived in the UK in 1954 and lived in Nottingham with
his wife and five daughters. However, he began struggling with
his mental health in the 1960s and was diagnosed with paranoid
psychosis. In 1966, he was returned to St Kitts. He never saw
his family again.
June, who is now 65, said her mother told her and her sisters
their father had "abandoned" them.
She grew up always believing her father didn't love them,
causing her a "massive, big heartbreak".
Yet the BBC has seen a letter, written by Joseph, asking to
return to the UK so he could rejoin his family. Little is known
about what happened to Joseph after this.
And in previously confidential letters, government officials
admitted the procedure of repatriating Mr Armatrading had "not
been correct". He had been wrongly stripped of his passport, the
papers revealed.
When we showed the letters to Ms Armatrading, she was shocked.
"I'm upset. It's upsetting, it's really upsetting… how dare
they?" she said. "This was a vulnerable man. You're supposed to
look after your vulnerable people, and they didn't. They just
left him - they abandoned him."
"The intent and effect of legislation that was passed in that
period [1960s and 70s] was to restrict some kinds of migration
and not other kinds. It was primarily aimed at what was referred
to at the time as 'coloured immigration'."
"Lives have been destroyed. The state now owes it to the
descendants of people to provide them with answers and some sort
of redress."
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Re: Colonial Crimes
By: guest98 Date: July 2, 2023, 4:15 pm
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HTML https://www.timescolonist.com/islander/monique-keiran-canada-day-was-humiliation-day-for-chinese-immigrants-7226248
Canada Day was 'Humiliation Day' for Chinese immigrants
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Immigration has driven population growth in this country since
1995. About one-quarter of us have experienced being a landed
immigrant or permanent resident in Canada at some point in our
lives. StatsCan tells us this was the largest proportion since
Confederation.
With sustained immigration levels since the 1980s, Canada’s
diversity has increased. The 2021 census counted more than 450
ethnic and cultural origins, 200 places of birth, 100 religions
and 450 languages (more than 70 of which were the languages of
our own Indigenous peoples) among Canada’s residents.
By the early 2040s, half of Canada’s population will comprise
immigrants and their Canadian-born children.
A different story was playing out 100 years ago. Canada was
encouraging immigration then — until last year set a record for
the proportion of Canadians who had been immigrants, 1921 had
held the honours — but only certain immigrants were welcome back
then.
Those welcome were white, of European ancestry, and preferably
either spoke English or came from countries renowned for growing
grain. Knowing the words to God Save the King was a bonus.
As for other groups, July 1, 1923, demonstrated how welcome some
of those were.
While Canadians paraded in the streets, waved flags, and
celebrated Dominion Day and the opportunities this country
offered them, Canada’s Chinese Immigration Act, 1923, came into
effect. Also known as the Chinese Exclusion Act, it prevented
all Chinese not born in Canada — except diplomats, some
businesspeople and university students — from coming to Canada.
And it applied not just to Chinese nationals but to people of
Chinese descent who were British citizens. Predating the
draconian apartheid laws of South Africa by 25 years, the
Exclusion Act required all Chinese living in Canada, even those
born here, to register with the government and carry photo
identification as evidence of their compliance with the
regulations of the act, or risk fines, detainment or
deportation.
The effect was immediate. Wives and children of Chinese men
already in Canada could not join them. The lack of Chinese women
in Canada limited the Chinese community’s growth. Many older
men retired to China after the act came into effect, and during
the Great Depression, unemployed Chinese were encouraged to
return to China.
Because of the timing of the act’s implementation,
Chinese-Canadians at the time referred to Dominion Day (now
Canada Day) as “Humiliation Day.”
Leading the push for the Chinese [anti-] Immigration Act was
British Columbia, which had seen the greatest amount of
Chinese immigration of all provinces. Many of these immigrants
were invited. Canada needed cheap labour to build railways
through hazardous, forbidding mountain terrain, dig ditches in
cities, be servants to middle- and upper-class families and
shovel manure.
In short, they needed desperate people to come to Canada to do
dirty, dangerous and poorly paid work that nobody else wanted to
do.
But when these new Canadians and their kids starting opening
grocery stores, restaurants, laundries and successful freight
businesses, white Canadians felt threatened.
Hostility increased after the First World War. Poor economic
conditions were blamed on visible minorities. Veterans’
associations and trade unions feared that Chinese workers would
underbid other groups of workers, limiting employment
opportunities for European Canadians.
Political leaders in B.C. responded. Some developed and applied
community-based “solutions.” George Jay, a white British
immigrant, lawyer and Victoria School Board chair, helped
develop a policy that required students of Chinese descent to
pass an English test before they could attend public school in
Victoria — a policy that didn’t apply to children of other
nationalities. In 1920, he moved more than 200 Chinese
students attending public schools — even those who spoke perfect
English — to segregated facilities on Kings Road and in Rock
Bay, sparking a year-long strike by Victoria’s Chinese students.
(The Greater Victoria School District decided in 2020 to rename
the elementary school Jay had named for himself. The new name is
not yet decided.)
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Re: Colonial Crimes
By: guest98 Date: July 14, 2023, 3:41 pm
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It's OK for debt slavery to be jewish/"white"
Nations where 3.3bn live spend more on debt than health, schools
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Approximately 3.3 billion people – almost half of humanity – now
live in countries that spend more money paying interest on their
debts than on education or health, according to a new United
Nations report.
“Half our world is sinking into a development disaster, fuelled
by a crushing debt crisis,” UN Secretary General Antonio
Guterres told a press conference launching a report on Wednesday
on the state of the world’s debt.
“In 2022, global public debt reached a record $92 trillion and
developing countries shoulder a disproportionate amount,” the UN
chief said.
Because such a “crushing debt crisis” is concentrated mostly in
poor developing countries, it is “not judged to pose a systemic
risk to the global financial system”, Guterres said.
“This is a mirage,” he said.
Financial markets may seem not to be suffering yet – but
billions of people are and the levels of public debt “are
staggering and surging”, he added.
“In Africa, the amount spent on interest payments is higher than
spending on either education or health. Developing countries in
Asia and Oceania [excluding China] are allocating more funds to
interest payments than to health,” the report states.
“Similarly, in Latin America and the Caribbean, developing
countries are devoting more money to interest payments rather
than to investment. Across the world, rising debt burdens are
keeping countries from investing in sustainable development,” it
adds.
Guterres said a growing share of debt is held by private
creditors who charge sky-high interest rates to developing
countries.
As an example, he cited African countries that on average pay
four times more for borrowing than the United States and eight
times more than the wealthiest European countries.
“Another 16 are paying unsustainable interest rates to private
creditors [and] a total of 52 countries – almost 40 percent of
the developing world – are in serious debt trouble.”
UN trade chief Rebeca Grynspan stressed on Wednesday “the sheer
magnitude and speed at which public debt has grown”, pointing to
a more than fivefold surge since 2000, “significantly outpacing
global GDP [gross domestic product] growth that has only tripled
in the same period”.
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The evil practise of usury needs to be permanently abolished,
and all usurer's should be exterminated.
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Re: Colonial Crimes
By: original sin Date: November 2, 2023, 8:53 pm
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106th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration: Britain’s original
sin
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The war on Gaza comes on the 106th anniversary of the Balfour
Declaration - which changed the lives of Palestinians forever.
For centuries, the Ottoman Empire controlled Palestine, until it
was conquered in 1917 by advancing British troops during the
first world war.
The British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour, wrote a letter to
a prominent member of the British Jewish community saying his
government was in favour of 'the establishment in Palestine of a
national home for the Jewish People. At that time, only 8% of
Palestine's population was Jewish.
The letter also said, "nothing shall be done which may prejudice
the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish
communities in Palestine".
But after the war ended in 1918, the newly created League of
Nations "mandated" Palestine to British control, with the
language of the Balfour declaration written in.
And in 1948, after the second world war, British occupiers left
Palestine, the newly-formed United Nations declared the creation
of the state of Israel, and more than 700,000 Palestinians lost
their land.
To explain more about this, Mahjoub Zweiri joins us here in our
Studio. He's a Professor of Middle East Politics at Qatar
University.
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Re: Colonial Crimes
By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 28, 2023, 4:38 pm
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[quote]Europeans love to deny genocides.
Mostly because they make them look bad.
So, I thought I’ll compile a continuous list because I’m kinda
all for it when Europeans are remembered for who they really
are: pale monsters.[/quote]
Easy-to-read version:
HTML https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1727801899171139630.html
This seems like a promising account in general:
HTML https://twitter.com/bookdellector
[quote]endthewest[/quote]
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Re: Colonial Crimes
By: rp Date: December 2, 2023, 8:42 pm
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Never forgive, never forget
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Re: Leftist vs rightist moral circles
By: antihellenistic Date: April 18, 2024, 10:49 pm
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[quote]Nearly all the world history books produced during the
1980s and early 1990s that Bentley examines focus on how
Europeans came to establish economic, cultural, and ecological
hegemony over the world and how non-European cultures sometimes
“succumbed” to European “numbers, weapons, and disease” but
occasionally fought heroically against European “deculturation.”
Among his favourites is Daniel Headrick’s three-volume Tools of
Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth
Century; The Tentacles of Progress: Technology Transfer in the
Age of Imperialism, 1850–1940; and The Invisible Weapon:
Telecommunications and International Politics, 1851– 1945. He
says of these volumes that they “explore the technological
dimension of European imperialism….how Europeans rapidly
extended their influence throughout the world during the age of
the new imperialism” (19). Even books on the history of tiny
islands, informed by ethnographic insights such as Greg Dening’s
Islands and Beaches: Discourses on a Silent Land: Marquesas,
1774–1880 (1988) and David Hanlon’s Upon a Stone Altar: A
History of the Island of Pohnpei to 1890 (1988), are celebrated
as “world histories” insomuch as they discuss how “Europeans
approached the islands in large numbers equipped with firearms,
alcohol, and exotic diseases,” and how the cultures of these
islands were destroyed by white settlements, weapons, and
diseases (25). Works on the indigenous peoples of North America
are also listed as insightful studies of a hemispheric encounter
that “brought demographic collapse, ecological imbalance,
dependence on trade goods from abroad, heightened intertribal
tensions, psychological despair, alcoholism, and deculturation”
(26).[/quote]
Source :
The Uniqueness of Western Civilization by Ricardo Duchesne page
55
Recall :
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