Abdeslam

"Probably" and "more than likely" will go completely unnoticed by closeted and avowed white racists. If these qualifiers were meant to give balance to the story of this Arab hunt by the imperial powers of Europe, Reuters, the source of this breaking news, makes no other attempt in its reportage of the capture or kidnapping of "Salah Abdeslam, the 26-year-old French suspect".

"French"? That is novel. While the Le Pen family can sell their racism as a political party, an Abdeslam would be spied on, undermined, and locked up. Ask not for whom the bells of liberty, equality, fraternity ring: they ring not for you!

Reuters:

"The Belgian federal prosecutor's office also said an Algerian killed during that earlier operation was probably one of the people French and Belgian investigators were seeking in relation to the Islamic State attacks in Paris on Nov. 13.

"Public broadcaster RTBF said it had information that Abdeslam, whose elder brother blew himself up in Paris, was 'more than likely' one of two men who police have said evaded capture at the scene ... "

The police have never been beyond harassing, detaining, or arresting the extended family members of actual militants, especially our African and First Nation militants. But to their own credit, some extended family members have willingly joined the revolutionary struggle - and I do not mean Bernie Sanders' usage of the word.

Wherever Abdeslam falls, it is the European system and its police forces who remain the guilty ones. The 26-year old is either another Arab with a French passport who was barred from assimilating into the country of his birth, but always seen only as a foreigner coming from the land of his ancestors; because France is a racist country. It solidified its white racism in its 18th century revolution and hardened it in its allegiance to Nazi fascism and the weakest, most symbolic Resistance movements in wartime Europe.

Or Abdelslam is a modern-day freedom fighter trying to correct the 100-year nightmare imposed on Western Asia when Europe began to invent one failed state after another [ending with Israel], and arming the worst sort of people to maintain these failed states. These worst sorts are not only the presidents and sheiks of these Western Asian Bantustans, but they are the best friends of the fascists states of Western Europe and the US.

The peoples of this region have endured a 100-years war and the sabotage of their development - economic and cultural. And the insurgents know it; that is why they escalate their tactics, which Reuters will splash on their news feeds, while the mercenaries from the alien worlds of Europe are hidden from broadcasts, escalating their tactics tenfold with arsenals and royal navies.

The dumb American is left apoplectic about brown people and Allah, believing the world is uncivilized when it is he himself.

It is well passed time to call it as it is. I know this is alien to the aliens - the whites and their apologists. I am supposed to condemn the Paris attacks as if Tangiers never happened. I am supposed to be full of angst and ire about a white thief in North Korea, and to beat my chest that North Korea is the "worst place on earth." I am supposed, in other words, to be an apologist for white civilizatiion You see, these white adventurers who imposed fake sheiks and shahs on Western Asia are no different to me than that white boy who went to North Korea and felt just as entitled to steal something that had great meaning to those people. Silly that the apologists are saying it was just this, or just that. Silly and telling. The aliens do not respect anyone's culture or beliefs. These things and those things are just trash to them waiting to be recycled and refurbished by the white world. These are the guilty people, and even if the justice for them is random - while injustice towards the wretched of the earth is perpetual - I celebrate it.

Fifteen years for the theft, and give him 15 more for the crocodile tear show he put on for the cameras.

Like my Moroccan friend, Chakib, used to say when a European tourist got robbed in Marrakesh: "we're just taking back a little of the lot stolen from us."

Another Direct Shot at Our Dying Unions as the Past is Brought Back

I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired, and I'm undone. I don't know who's deserving more of my unbridled wrath right now, the fake right wing, the fake left wing, or the inconsequential group of "organizers" who are forever placarded and parading and chanting bullshit to corral people to vote for the fake left wing.

Rebecca Friedrichs is a 30-year public school teacher in California (Orange County: where else?!) who hates unions. She leads a lawsuit of 10 California teachers who want the California Teachers Association to cease charging them for the services which yielded Friedrichs, etal, their work contracts, benefits, and retirement packages. The services were done by the CTA with the school districts.

By becoming a teacher in California, you can elect not to join the union. I was a member of United Educators of San Francisco. Had I elected not to join, I would have been charged a fee to essentially cover a portion of the costs for the benefits afforded me in the negotiated contract.

She is quoted as saying, “Americans of all political preferences would rise up against such tyranny if their rights were squelched by corporations, yet teachers unions have been legally trampling the free-speech rights of teachers throughout our nation for decades through forced dues used to fund their one-sided political agendas.” [Guardian UK, 1/9/2016]

Tyranny? I smell Ayn Rand! Friedrichs thinks she can negotiate her own contract, benefits, and retirement package. I hope it is not vicious to wish that some crusading investigative journalist looks in to her finances. A trust fund? A rich spouse? Maybe she's German NAZI princess.

Certainly as a school teacher she must know that unions are the main reason for the rise in women's wages, and their death has seen the decline in these wages over the last few generations. If she does not know the tyranny of industrial feudalism, wage slavery, child labor I wonder what she is teaching in these history classes ... ahh, but this IS Orange County.

Her case, Friedrichs vs the California Teachers Association has been catapulted to the US Supreme Court. The issue is: being made to pay this fee to an organization she does not belong to compromises her rights under the First Amendment.

Forty years ago, the high court ruled these fees legal and appropriate, but this was before the war on trades-unions had put public employee unions in its cross-hairs. This was before the court was staffed heavily with neocons and neoliberals. Pensions still had a few years life in them in the late 70's, now they are an extinct species.

Forty years ago was before the pandemic of right-to-work states had reached a fever pitch. With liberal Wisconsin gone now, and the Koch brothers in battled mode, anything is possible. We will all be right-to-work states soon.

I reserve particular ire right now for the crusading left, which keeps playing in to the hands of the Democratic Party. SEIU and its Campaign for $15. Black Lives Matters. Occupy. Et cetera. They mobilize people under leftist Democratic Party goals, then fall in line behind Democratic Party super-stars.

I should be tired of saying they need to fall in line behind the militant trades-unionists, anarchists, communists and start shutting machines down that they do not seize. This is not the 21st century we are headed for but the 19th century.

These fake leftists have given up so much by making their arguments about wages and not who owns the means of production, or why we should be exterminating management altogether.

Improving industrial feudalism is what Democrats do. It is not an improvement. Stop it.

When Margot Honecker was asked to assess the "revolution" that brought the Berlin Wall down and reunified Germany, she recounted what has happened to these capitalist economies and how they they've been worse, not better, for workers: "The past was brought back. No one can name that 'revolution'."

I cite Honecker because the attitude of the neoliberals is that these modifications and innovations, bail-outs and stimulus packages to our economies are seen somehow as groundbreaking things, when really they are things Charles Dickens reported as a journalist and put into his novels.

To call Friedrichs vs CTA a last straw is feeble when there have been 100 years of straws to choose from. The patient, to mix my metaphor, has been on life-support in ICU for a long, long time. Given the reaction of the business unions, I wonder if there is any brain function left.

I am all for pulling the plug. Let this corpse die, and take its riffraff, fake socialists with them, like Bernie Sanders and Kshama Sawant, not so workers can go off in this libertarian capitalist fantasy world where they can negotiate their own wages and benefits. No. But rather, so the whining from leaders of the business unions that the sky is falling will be silenced - the sky has already fallen, baby!!

If the machines cannot be taken, shut them down. If they cannot be shut down, burn them down. If workers cannot be allowed to own and run their business, burn those down too. If management won't be housebroken, lock them out. If there is a past to be brought back it is the militant past that reacted to the best and worst of industrial capitalism.