"Just a Nigger Warehouse." Construction Underway of Playground Surrounded by Barbwire at D.C.'s Cruddy, Boarded Up Homeless Shelter with No Hot Water, A/C or Heat

Fortress D.C. [photographs by Vince Brown]. Making sure there is a decisive borderline between the white gentrifiers and the criminalized Black poor, the D.C. Govt has created its very own white supremacy megaplex near the Stadium-Armory Metro station. All on a single litter-strewn campus sits a clinic for meth rehabilitation and sexually transmitted diseases, two jails (the CTF and the main jail), the former city morgue and the crumbling down D.C. General, an old hospital which now functions as the City's emergency homeless shelter. This architectural and spatial arrangement keeps the Black 'lost and found' out of sight and out of mind. 

As explained by Mike Davis, in this racist environment 'white people's security has less to do with personal safety than with the degree of personal insulation, in residential, work, consumption and travel environments, from unsavory groups and individuals.'  

Finding that "D.C. General is a playground desert" [MORE] and merging urban design, architecture and the police apparatus into a single, comprehensive security effort, D.C. has started construction on a playground at its super foul homeless shelter. As you can see the playground is temporarily surrounded by barbed wire or a cage. Or perhaps the cage is permanent to keep the Black children more self contained and in greater confinement.  

Maybe a little cleaner place to stay than an alley, the shelter/hospital built in the early 20th century features no hot water, a/c or heat [MORE] and is often beset by dysfunction, decay and disease. For instance records show that a young Black girl woke up with so many insect bites on her legs and her bottom that she had to be taken to the hospital. [MORE] Sometimes, it is the estimated 600 children living there who suffer the most. [MORE]

Nearly all of its residents are Black or Brown. That is, it is occupied solely by niggers, which means victim[s] of white supremacy. [In the absence of white supremacy, niggers would not exist. MORE] This situation would never be tolerated if white children lived there. 

The city will spend approximately $450,000 to construct the playground and it is scheduled to be completed at the end of September. The Homeless Children's Playtime Project led the effort to have the playground built. [MORE]

The Department of Parks and Recreation website shows the closest public playground at 17th and C streets SE, about a half-mile walk from D.C. General. The playground is located on an unfenced triangle area of grass, sandwiched between three roads.

Although some white folks might be consciously oblivious to the racist warehousing of Blacks, to most white folks that is the entire point - and powerless pariah groups, such as homeless Black people, hopefully read the meaning immediately.

PCP in DC ["lunched out" off water in service of white domination]

A horror movie by National Geographic about genocide [MORE]

No Such thing as "Gentrifiers Guilt" in System of White Supremacy: Israel [honorary whites] Claims Nearly 1,000 Acres of Palestinian [non-whites] Land Near Bethlehem

From [HERE] Israel on Sunday laid claim to nearly 1,000 acres of West Bank land in a Jewish settlement bloc near Bethlehem — a step that could herald significant Israeli construction in the area — defying Palestinian demands for a halt in settlement expansion and challenging world opinion.

Peace Now, an Israeli group that opposes the construction of settlements in the West Bank, said that the action on Sunday might be the largest single appropriation of West Bank land in decades and that it could “dramatically change the reality” in the area.

Palestinians aspire to form a state in the lands that Israel conquered in 1967.

Israeli officials said the political directive to expedite a survey of the status of the land came after three Israeli teenagers were kidnapped and killed in June while hitchhiking in that area. In July, the Israeli authorities arrested a Palestinian who was accused of being the prime mover in the kidnapping and killing of the teenagers. The timing of the land appropriation suggested that it was meant as a kind of compensation for the settlers and punishment for the Palestinians.

The land, which is near the small Jewish settlement of Gvaot in the Etzion bloc south of Jerusalem, has now officially been declared “state land,” as opposed to land privately owned by Palestinians, clearing the way for the potential approval of Israeli building plans there.

But the mayor of the nearby Palestinian town of Surif, Ahmad Lafi, said the land belonged to Palestinian families from the area. He told the official Palestinian news agency Wafa that Israeli Army forces and personnel arrived in the town early Sunday and posted orders announcing the seizure of land that was planted with olive and forest trees in Surif and the nearby villages of Al-Jaba’a and Wadi Fukin. [MORE] and [MORE]

Mind Shampoo? How You Are Being Mind Controlled & Don't Know it

According to Dr. Blynd 

Media - A mind shampoo and conditioning process of the Greater System --" the media is the mirage."  2) the psychotherapist for the Greater System -- a conditioning process and a subdivision of Commerce. 3) the guardian of the Commodity and Spectacle. 4) the misinformation cul de sac. 5) reconditioned reality. (See "Greater System", Spectacle Society & Camera).

Dr Bobby Wright Black Mentacide & White Psychopathology

Report: US Doctors [mostly white] Participated in Torture of Detainees [mostly non-white] at CIA, US Prisons

From [HERE] and [HERE] Doctors and psychologists working in US military detention centers helped to design methods of torture for terrorism suspects, according to an independent report supported by the Institute on Medicine as a Profession and the Open Society Foundations released [press release] on Monday. The report, entitled "Ethics Abandoned: Medical Professionalism and Detainee Abuse in the War on Terror," examines various charges that the Department of Defense (DOD) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official websites] "improperly demanded that US military and intelligence agency health professionals collaborate in intelligence gathering and security practices in a way that inflicted severe harm on detainees in US custody." Such methods, the report asserts, forced doctors to violate ethical and medical principles in order to inflict "torture and cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment" on detainees. While acknowledging that some steps toward improvement have been taken by the DOD in recent years, the report urges that further changes need to be made so that medical professionals are not made to undermine their own ethical standards.

This report is the latest incident in a long string of medical condemnations of enhanced interrogation techniques . Medical personnel present as part of the Bush administration's enhanced interrogations at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] collected and analyzed data in order to develop more effective interrogation procedures [JURIST report], according to a 2010 report by the advocacy group Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) [advocacy website]. In April 2009 the International Committee of the Red Cross [official website] released a report [text, PDF] alleging that medical professionals violated codes of medical ethics [JURIST report] by participating in and assisting in ill-treatment of Guantanamo Bay detainees. In September 2007 doctors from 16 countries wrote a letter [JURIST report] condemning the US military for its treatment of detainees, particularly the policy of force-feeding to counteract hunger strikes. A month earlier, a commentary [text] published in the Journal of the American Medical Association [journal website] asserted that force-feeding was a violation of medical ethics [JURIST report].

United States of Genocide: Putting the US on Trial for Genocide against the Peoples of Korea, Laos, Viet Nam, Cambodia, Iraq, Libya and (other Non-Whites) Elsewhere

This article from 4th Media is about genocide. These issues should be considered through the lens of the racism/white supremacy dynamic - all the populations discussed involve non-white victims. In photo, massacre of Iraqi Children by US Troops in 2003 [MORE]  

Racism (white supremacy), is the local and global power system and dynamic, structured and maintained by persons who classify themselves as white, whether consciously or subconsciously determined, which consists of patterns of perception, logic, symbol formation, thought, speech, action and emotional response, as conducted simultaneously in all areas of people activity (economics, education, entertainment, labour, law, politics, religion, sex and war); for the ultimate purpose of white genetic survival and to prevent global white genetic annihilation -in a world in which the vast majority (90%) of people are classified as non-white (Black, Brown, Red and Yellow) by white skinned people, and all of the nonwhite people are genetically dominant (in terms of skin coloration) compared to the genetic recessive white skin people.” [MORE] 

Iraqi child damaged by chemical weapons

From [HERE] The United States of America was built on a foundation of genocide against the Indigenous peoples of North America. In fact, all successful settler colonial societies are founded in genocide. The process is one of dispossession – the erasure of one group identity and the imposition of another on the people and/or on the land.

But genocide is not merely the foundation of the US nation state, it is also the foundation of the US empire. The US habit of genocide has not died, but has transformed. The US has become a serial perpetrator of genocide with the blood of many millions of innocents spilled in pursuit of imperial hegemony...[MORE]

Vietnamese children damaged by chemical weapoons

Permanent War Inc. and Reserving the Right to Bomb Niggers. Every major military action by the US since World War II has first and foremost been an act of genocide. I do not state this as a moral condemnation. If I were seeking to condemn I would try to convey the enormous scale of suffering, death, loss and misery caused by US mass violence.

My purpose instead is to correct a terrible misconception of US actions – their nature, their meaning and their strategic utility. This understanding which I am trying to convey is a very dangerous notion with an inescapable moral dimension because the US has always maintained that the suffering, death and destruction it causes are incidental to military purposes – they are instances of “collateral damage”.

But, with all due respect to the fact that US personnel may face real dangers, these are not real wars. These are genocides and it is the military aspect that is incidental. In fact, it is straining credulity to continue believing in a string of military defeats being sustained by the most powerful military in the history of the world at the hands of impoverished Third World combatants.

The US hasn’t really been defeated in any real sense. They committed genocide in Indochina, increasing the level of killing as much as possible right through to the clearly foreseen inevitable conclusion which was a cessation of direct mass violence, not a defeat. The US signed a peace agreement which they completely ignored. The Vietnamese did not occupy US territory and force the US to disarm and pay crippling reparations.

There is no question that the US has committed actions which fit the description of genocide. Genocide does not mean the successful extermination of a defined group (there is no such thing as “attempted genocide”). It was never conceived that way, but rather as any systematic attack on “a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such.”

Those who deny US genocides usually only deny that there is any intent to commit genocide. The UN definition of genocide (recognised by 142 states) is:

… any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;

(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

The US has committed these acts many times and in many different countries. Some people object that this is some watered down version of genocide that risks diluting the significance of this “ultimate crime”. [MORE]

US used white phosphorus in Iraq

CitizensforLegit

US troops used white phosphorus as a weapon in last year's offensive in the Iraqi city of Falluja, the US has said. "It was used as an incendiary weapon against enemy combatants," spokesman Lt Col Barry Venable told the BBC - though not against civilians [Yeah, right!], he said. The US had earlier said the substance - which can cause burning of the flesh - had been used only for illumination. BBC defence correspondent Paul Wood says having to retract its denial is a public relations disaster for the US.

Dr Bobby Wright: Black Mentacide is the deliberate, systematic destruction of a group's mind

Noam Chomsky: Who Owns the World?

genocide preconditions: U.Va. researcher creates racial data map online

TimesDispatch

A demographic map showing the racial distribution of the population of the United States has garnered national attention for its creator, a University of Virginia researcher.

Dustin Cable, a statistician in the Demographics and Workforce Group at UVa's Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, used Census data and a computer template to create an interactive map of the United States with 308 million data points.

Each point represents a person counted by the Census Bureau, and the dots are color-coded by race. This allows users to look at the population density, distribution and racial segregation in one easy-to-use map, which allows users to scroll and zoom in and out.

"I wanted to create a visual of that 2010 Census data in a level of clarity not typically seen in Census maps," Cable said.

The map gained instant acclaim on the Internet. Writers at popular websites such as Gawker, Slate and Wired magazine highlighted the map, praising its ease of use and artful presentation. Writers also noticed a trend in diverse metropolitan areas - people of different races still tend to cluster in separate areas.

Qian Cai, director of the Demographics and Workforce Group, called the map "a masterpiece." It conveys a lot of information that would usually have to be plumbed from dozens of charts, tables and maps. Cable's map, she said, replaces "thousands of pages of reports."

It's also a great example of how researchers can make data accessible to the general public, Cai said. That's becoming increasingly important as the volume of data increases and it plays a bigger role in policymaking and research, she said.

"Everybody is talking about data-based decision making ... so more people are data users," Cai said. "To be able to present data in an easily understandable way is crucial."

Cable developed the map using a template created by Brandon Martin-Anderson, a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Martin-Anderson's original map, developed with the Python programming language, was black and white and did not include the racial data Cable added. He made the coding available so people could build off the map, he said.

"The Census just gathers so much information ... you could ask any demographic question at all," Martin-Anderson said. "You could do a dot map coded by income, coded by household size, coded by anything you could think of."

Martin-Anderson said he liked Cable's adaptation, in part because smaller-scale racial distribution maps, showing racial distributions in Chicago and other metropolitan areas, inspired him to create the original national dot map. But those other racial distribution maps lacked the scale, the simple interface and beauty of Cable's map.

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