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The Angry Hippies' Podcast: Episode 69 - Killing a Culture!

In this all new, lengthy and loaded episode of the podcast Rob dives into a whole host of stories sent in and topics brought up by listeners like forest fires in Spain, caring about animals’ suffering, Trayvon Martin, aggressors with guns, armed white supremacists patrolling Sanford in case of race riots, American society’s recent history of executing black men, Bernie Goetz, Amadou Diallo, Patrick Dorismond, Ousmane Zongo, Tim Stansbury, Sean Bell, Oscar Grant, Ramarley Graham, Orlando Barlow, Travares McGill, Ronald Madison, Kiwane Carrington, Victor Steen, Steven Eugene Washington, Jimmell Cannon, Wendell Allen, losing agency over our bodies, Supreme Court votes for degrading detainees, following up on Fluoride, reverse osmosis filtration, Koch brothers, and decolonization before diving into the state of racism in the US. Rob covers a number of stories in this arena, including talks of racial bias affecting perception of threats and violence, the ‘shooter bias’, studies prove American racism threatens safety of people of color in the country, Obama has faced severe racial bias as President, hate crimes, Shaima Alawadi, Islamaphobia in the US, Anna Brown, left to die on floor of jail for demanding treatment for pain hospital denies she had, blood clots in her legs moved to her lungs, black women often dismissed/labeled as angry, former Colombian President says US drug war a failure, Obama administration continues to dismiss claims of failure and calls for legalization, federal discrimination lawsuit brought against NYPD, racism in highest NYPD ranks, targeting black communities in New York, Howard Morgan, four white cops shoot Howard Morgan and leave him for dead, and Morgan sentenced to 40 years. Rob then discusses illegal drug checkpoints, police breaking laws to enforce them, more Arizona anti-choice antics, pregnancy begins two weeks prior to conception, limiting access, Michigan GOP illegally passed 96% of legislation since Republicans took hold in 2011, routing democracy, dismantling democracy, CISPA, Obama says he’ll veto new anti-piracy legislation moving through Congress, more Monsanto madness, Monsanto versus Vermont, GMO labeling requirements, poisoning food supply and lobbying to lie about it, Gov. Walker versus equal pay, women aren’t as driven in careers as men, Republican climate change, experience trumps science, Judges admit to jailing children for money, privatizing prisons, private prisons call to kept at 90-95% capacity, Catholic Church tried to erase native culture from Canada through abuse and torture of children in special schools, sexual abuse and torture inflicted on children in attempts to kill an entire culture. With poetry, music and more.

• 1300s White People: THOU ART BRINGERS OF THE PLAGUE!
• 1400s White People: THY MOORISH SKIN DOTH MARKETH THOU AS EVIL!
• 1500s White People: LOL WE SHALL NOW STEAL YOUR ALGEBRA AND SHIT
• 1600s White People: WHY HULLO THURRR, STEADY SOURCE OF INCOME AND OPPRESSIVE SLAVERY!
• 1700s White People: WHAT DO YOU MEAN THESE NATIVES WANT TO BE TREATED LIKE HUMANS, NOT SMALLPOX GARDENS?
• 1800s White People: WE SHALL FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTS TO OWN YOU ALL! PROPERTY! LIBERTY! JUSTICE FOR US! NOT YOU!
• 1900s White People: LOL @ trying to sit at our COUNTER! DIS MINE!
• 1990s White People: what is this thing called rap and how may I obtain street cred, ahem, yo?
• ....and 2000: WE ARE ALL THE SAME ACTUALLY WE ALL BLEED RED REALLY SO LIKE, STOP CALLING US RACISTS! WE ARE ALL HUMAN!

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kemetically-ankhtified:

atane:

This is a story that isn’t getting the traction in the press that it should. I posted the case about Howard Morgan not long ago here.

Morgan was a veteran police officer in Chicago. He is black. He was shot 28 times by 4 white officers. 21 of those shots were administered to the back of his body. Morgan never fired a weapon, and a witness corroborated that. In fact, one of the officers took Morgan’s weapon away from him. Morgan was acquitted of aggravated discharge of a weapon in 2007. 

Some key facts via this online petition

Howard Morgan’s van was crushed and destroyed without notice or cause before any forensic investigation could be done.

The State only produced 3 of the 28 bullets shot into and taken from Howard Morgan’s body, whereby the rest of the 25 bullets could have shown whether or not the police officers who shot Mr. Morgan shot him with his own gun after taking it from him.

Howard Morgan was never tested for gun residue to confirm if he even fired a weapon on the morning in question.

The State never produced the actual bullet proof vest worn by one of the officers who claimed to have allegedly taken a shot directly into the vest on the morning in question. The State only produced a replica.

Despite all this, and the fact that Morgan was earlier acquitted of firing his own weapon, Morgan was found guilty of attempted murder of the 4 white officers who shot him 28 times, with 21 of those shots having entry points on the back of his body. How does one not fire a weapon, get shot 28 times by four officers, and then be found guilty of attempted murder? It doesn’t make sense.

Morgan is set to be sentenced in April. More info here.

u get shot 28 times

and YOURE guilty???

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The Angry Hippies' Podcast: Episode 68 - Phony 2012!

In this brand new episode of the podcast, Rob goes over some listener feedback which takes the dialog through topics like organized religion, government granted freedom, spirituality, EU economy, distractions, US Gov’t distractions, HR347, suppressing voices of dissent, US Government’s legislative reaction to ‘Arab Spring’, and more before moving on to the current events portion of the program. There Rob covers billionaire Kenneth Griffin’s comments on the rich need more influence on the government, Mitt Romney, the One Percent, NAACP asks UN to look into racial US voter suppression, manipulating democracy, legislative attack on Black and Latino voters, the Lakota Freedom Delegation, Native American tribes, Russell Means, Lakota Nation, sovereignty from United States, atrocities from US government, right-wing talk radio caught in Rush’s wake, advertisers losing taste for angry political hate speech, Pat Robertson reverses stance on Marijuana, 700 Club host weighs in on failure of the War on Drugs, Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman, racist Florida vigilante justice, Sanford police department fails Martin family, racism interferes with justice, South Dakota removing Native American children from homes and tribes, non-accordance with Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978, systemic erasure of Native American culture, abstinence only sex education introduced and vetoed in Utah, damaging impact of sexual misinformation, Shelley Hilliard, violence against transgender community still prevalent and unreported, LBGT community ignoring plight of the Transgender members, resources and programs just not available for transgender individuals, White Saviors, Invisible Children, Kony 2012, LRA, Rosebell Kagumire, Betty Bigombe, stereotypes of helpless Africans persist, US military intervention in Uganda, establishing a false narrative, ignoring Uganda’s recovery, US Military intervention’s impact around the world, anniversary of My Lai Massacre, war atrocities, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, listening to the people, poetry, and more.

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The Angry Hippies' Podcast Episode 66 - Debating GOP, Current Events, Rampant Racism

In this brand new episode of the podcast, Rob dissects the Arizona GOP Presidential debates, looking at Christian extremism, contraception, immigration, entitlement spending, Medicaid, food stamps, welfare, privilege, Iran, nukes, securing the border, and more before moving on to feedback from listeners. At which point the discussion covers scripted Presidential campaign, illusions of choice, programming our troops to hate, anti-science movement gaining ground, AAAS, climate change denial, sliding into a scientific dark age, veganism for cats, experimentation, and other topics before getting into the heart of the show. The current events section touches on NSA versus Anonymous, stateless terrorists, hackers pose a threat gov’t can’t understand, Iowa senate opposes animal activism, agricultural production facility fraud, undercover activists forbidden, corporate control of ‘truth’, single parenthood equals child abuse in Wisconsin, Sen. Glenn Grothman, Republican’s desperate to define ‘family’, Seattle food forest, free self sustaining public food forest, urban permaculture, BP profits while Gulf still suffers, offshore drilling for oil, environmental disaster, Iran nuke threat is a diversion, Israel admits threat neutralized, EU and US leaders continue push for war, Occupy the Vote, November 6, NDAA, SOPA, PIPA, ACTA, voting out reps who no longer represent the people, college for snobs, education leads to loss of faith, Santorum’s education flip-flop, fluoride in the water supply, controlling through toxic poisoning, and the health risks posed by sodium fluoride. After which Rob goes into the rampant racism in the US today with stories of Billy Crystal’s Oscar night blackface asshattery, Hollywood’s history of racism and exclusion of people of color, Jada Williams, Frederick Douglass Foundation of New York Spirit of Freedom award, educational slavery, illiteracy, racist reaction from the school, and Rush Limbaugh’s years of overlooked and accepted racism, music, and more.

The Angry Hippies' Podcast: Episode 66 - Contraception Coverage!

In this brand new episode of the podcast, Rob dives into some feedback on the previous show which brings up a discussion of vegan cats, speciesism, imposing human morals and ideas onto other species, cut flowers and wasted resources, water shortages, corporations buying water rights, inappropriate police behavior, undercover adults entrapping teens, targeted teens, and the drug war before moving on to the current events. This section covers a plea for financial assistance for the Davis family, Troy Anthony Davis, Virginia Davis, Martina Davis, loss of three family members last year, Heartland Insider, think-tanks, Heartland Institute, lobbyists in disguise, climate deniers, climate change, Progressive Podcast Australia, environmental disasters, climate disasters now impact 4 out 5 US citizens, extreme unnatural weather patterns, confusing climate change issue through curriculum, corporate paid for denial of climate change, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, reclassifying everyday behaviors as mental illness, DSM, rape treated as a mental illness, rebellious teens now diagnosable, pathologising criminal behavior, wage theft, businesses stealing money as business model, intimidating vulnerable employees into silence, little recourse for wage theft in Florida, Jeb Bush dismantled Dept of Labor, tens of millions lost to wage theft per week in US, New Hampshire Rep Kyle Jones says laws requiring employers to give lunch breaks are unnecessary, social media policing of corporate malfeasance, regulate yourselves, meanwhile corporations known for denying employees breaks, media participating in fear mongering, drive to war with Iran, same tune as Iraq just a different narrative, no lessons learned from Iraq, media complicit in pushing politicians and corporations agendas, buying news, paid messages passed off as commentary, Bush Administration using media as a mouthpiece, Alabama bigotry breaking state, strict immigration policy leads to crumbling state infrastructure, cost-benefit analysis of bigoted policy, 2.3 billion dollar cost to economy, jobs left by immigrants unemployed Alabamans refusing to fill„ NYPD’s 30 years of illegal arrests, Judge orders city to pay for violations of constitutional rights, fluoride in water supply, Nolan Finley suggests adding birth control sterilants to water to control and limit poor population in Detroit, victim blaming, blaming poor for deindustrialization when they are a result, Rihanna, Chris Brown, Grammy Awards, domestic violence, women don’t matter in patriarchal society, Jay-Z, industry silence, internet blames Rihanna, Grammys were the real victims, celebrity abusers of women get a pass, Bill Murray, Gary Oldman, Woody Allen, Mel Gibson, Usher forced to apologize for Chris Brown slight, lack of Republican support for reauthorization of Violence Against Women Act, law grants eased immigration access to those fleeing abusive situations, GOP objects, Contraception coverage, patriarchy, reproductive health, misogynistic and patronizing media and political discussion on contraception, women’s voices going unheard, insurance coverage biases, moral objections to coverage points, Santorum weighs in on debate, Obama may be playing stealthy game of reelection chess, high cost of insurance, Forks Over Knives, industrial price gouging, over-reactionary off-duty Deputy draws gun in Wal-Mart, poetry, and more.

theafrosistuh:

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The true identity of Ludwig van Beethoven, long considered Europe’s greatest classical music composer.  Said directly, Beethoven was a black man. Specifically, his mother was a Moor, that group of Muslim Northern Africans who conquered parts of Europe—making Spain their capital—for some 800 years.

In order to make such a substantial statement, presentation of verifiable evidence is compulsory. Let’s start with what some of Beethoven’s contemporaries and biographers say about his brown complexion.:

” Frederick Hertz, German anthropologist, used these terms to describe him: “Negroid traits, dark skin, flat, thick nose.”

Emil Ludwig, in his book “Beethoven,” says: “His face reveals no trace of the German. He was so dark that people dubbed him Spagnol [dark-skinned].”

Fanny Giannatasio del Rio, in her book “An Unrequited Love: An Episode in the Life of Beethoven,” wrote “His somewhat flat broad nose and rather wide mouth, his small piercing eyes and swarthy [dark] complexion, pockmarked into the bargain, gave him a strong resemblance to a mulatto.”

C. Czerny stated, “His beard—he had not shaved for several days—made the lower part of his already brown face still darker.”

Following are one word descriptions of Beethoven from various writers: Grillparzer, “dark”; Bettina von Armin, “brown”; Schindler, “red and brown”; Rellstab, “brownish”; Gelinek, “short, dark.”

Newsweek, in its Sept. 23, 1991 issue stated, “Afrocentrism ranges over the whole panorama of human history, coloring in the faces: from Australopithecus to the inventors of mathematics to the great Negro composer Beethoven.”

And yet Western “scholars” want you to believe that Beethoven looked like:

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DJ Mydnyt - Taco Night (for Mayor Maturo)

This is a track I put together for the new podcast I’m working on tonight. Kind of a sneak preview for any listeners out there. If you haven’t seen the story yet about East Haven’s racist cops being arrested by the FBI and their racist mayor Joseph Maturo taking up for the officers in his own very bigoted way, the story is linked below…ps. borrowed a little bit from Dave Chappelle’s Killing ‘Em Softly comedy routine to help make the point!

http://www.courant.com/community/east-haven/hc-east-haven-police-fbi-arrests-0125-20120124,0,4014487.story

http://www.wpix.com/videobeta/c7142d48-0ff9-44ba-8fac-701272b56097/News/East-Haven-Mayor-I-Might-Have-Tacos-For-Dinner

vegtablez:

“You don’t come back in here until you’ve apologized to every person in this room, Because you just exercised a freedom that none of these people of color have. When these people of color get tired of racism, they can’t just walk out, because there’s no place in this country where they aren’t going to be exposed to racism. They can’t even stay in their own homes and not be exposed to racism if they turn on their television. But you, as a white female, when you get tired of being judged and treated unfairly on the basis of your eye color, you can walk out that door, and you know it won’t happen out there. You exercised a freedom they don’t have. If you’re going to be in here you’re going to apologize to every person of color in this room. And do it now.”

“I’m sorry there’s racism in this country—

“BULLSHIT! No, you’re not going to say ‘I’m sorry there’s racism.’ You’re going to apologize for what YOU just did.”

“I will not apologize because it’s not a matter of race always—”

“OUT.”

Jane Elliot is a champ.

Powerful video! Hopefully she is not the only person holding these kinds of seminars in schools. Need more of this awesomeness in the world!

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