The Eight Stages of Genocide by Gregory H. Stanton highlight how human rights deteriorate through the process of genocide as it’s being inflicted, in which guns or machetes are the weapons. Climate Disintegration is the new gun, refusing refugees is the new machete, while they are all in our backyard — the Earth. Human activities make Earth warm faster, and those human activities lead to “direct effects ... in (the) wars that will start as a result.”
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Natural Disasters Spark Civil Wars
The long-standing belief that natural disasters, particularly drought, feed armed conflict, now has scientific support. The findings represent a warning that the worst aspects of global warming may not lie in the direct effects, as bad as they may be, but in (the) wars that will start as a result.
The state can deliberately prevent human aid after a natural disaster or a war - resulting in atrocity, resulting in crimes against humanity, or resulting in genocide. Consequently, “Genocidal intent can, “in the absence of direct explicit evidence, be inferred from” circumstantial evidence (Jelisic, ICTY, Trial Judgment § 47). When proving genocidal intent based on an inference, “that inference must be the only reasonable inference available on the evidence” (Krstic, ICTY, Appellate Judgment § 41).” Now that we know where we’re going, let’s see where we’ve been.
The Inuit in Alaska were the “canary in the coal mine.”
Canada’s Arctic disproportionately impacted by climate change
Natan Obed, president of the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, said Canada will actually miss out on the true rewards of climate action if it excludes indigenous perspectives.
“For the Inuit, in our homeland, we are on the forefront of climate change,” Obed said.
“When we talk about a global temperature increase of 1.5 or two degrees Celsuis, we don’t quite know what that means for the Arctic.”
Scientists have documented Arctic air temperatures warming twice as fast as elsewhere on the planet. Obed said the model his community has been using predicts the Arctic will experience two to four times the rate of warming felt elsewhere.
But the dominant culture doesn’t think of the Inuit as “canaries,” do they???
8 Stages of Genocide 1. Classification
...We distinguish and classify objects and people. All cultures have categories to distinguish between “us” and “them,”...
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The authors also warned that people living in and near the Arctic would be badly affected, and called for communities to be provided with equipment and skills to survive. They took evidence from a variety of settlements in the region, finding many signs of stark changes already under way.
I once heard a relative referred to as a “sand — nig**r”
The 8 Stages of Genocide 2. Symbolization:
We use symbols to name and signify our classifications...
Go Washington...
The 8 Stages of Genocide 3. Dehumanization:
Classification and symbolization are fundamental operations in all cultures. They become steps of genocide only when combined with dehumanization. Denial of the humanity of others is the step that permits killing with impunity.
Once again, the Inuit were the canary in the coal mine with land melting beneath them, and nothing is done. Related, African Americans were the canary in the coal mine being “stranded in a flood and (were) allowed to die” — and nothing was done.
Reporter's notebook: George W. Bush and the week Hurricane Katrina hit
Pres Bush summons reporters to the Marine One hangar at his ranch (adjacent property, really) to make 1130am/ct [central time] statement on the forthcoming Hurricane Katrina - promising to do everything in the federal government power to respond and minimize suffering. He also spoke of the completed draft constitution in Iraq. And its importance. No questions.
White House Got Early Warning on Katrina
In the 48 hours before Hurricane Katrina hit, the White House received detailed warnings about the storm's likely impact, including eerily prescient predictions of breached levees, massive flooding, and major losses of life and property, documents show.
A 41-page assessment by the Department of Homeland Security's National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center (NISAC), was delivered by e-mail to the White House's "situation room," the nerve center where crises are handled, at 1:47 a.m. on Aug. 29, the day the storm hit, according to an e-mail cover sheet accompanying the document.
Were the destructive forces of nature being conveniently used?
Katrina victims blame racism for slow aid
“They died from abject neglect,” retorted community activist Leah Hodges. “We left body bags behind... The people of New Orleans were stranded in a flood and were allowed to die.”
Angry evacuees described being trapped in temporary shelters where one New Orleans resident said she was “one sunrise from being consumed by maggots and flies.” Another woman said military troops focused machine gun laser targets on her granddaughter’s forehead. Others said their families were called racial epithets by police.
“No one is going to tell me it wasn’t a race issue,” said New Orleans evacuee Patricia Thompson, 53, who is now living in College Station, Texas. “Yes, it was an issue of race. Because of one thing: when the city had pretty much been evacuated, the people that were left there mostly was black.”
African Americans were the canary in the coal mine being “stranded in a flood and (were) allowed to die” — and nothing was done. Who died? They didn’t care, especially the ones who shot civilians.
New Orleans Police Officers Plead Guilty in Shooting of Civilians By CAMPBELL ROBERTSONAPRIL 20, 2016
NEW ORLEANS — A legal journey that was set off more than a decade ago with the shooting of unarmed citizens by police officers in the desperate days after Hurricane Katrina wound toward a close on Wednesday when five former officers pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiracy, obstruction of justice and civil rights charges.
Did one of them “focuse(d)machine gun laser targets on her granddaughter’s forehead”? Now they all work for Trump Bannon. It’s alright my Democratic Party who I vote for — give ‘em whatever they fucking want fight, fight, and fight some more. We can not afford to under react.
To me, if intent to commit genocide is shown by disallowing human aid or by exhibiting willful negligence prior to a disaster, then the state has used a disaster to kill. Moreover, as long as there are private contractors like Blackwater,
The Secret History of Hurricane Katrina
According Jeremy Scahill's reporting in The Nation, Blackwater set up an HQ in downtown New Orleans. Armed as they would be in Iraq, with automatic rifles, guns strapped to legs, and pockets overflowing with ammo, Blackwater contractors drove around in SUVs and unmarked cars with no license plates.
using a disaster to kill will be a possibility, along with “deportations and executions.” And as long as there are those who idealize Joseph Stalin, using a disaster to kill will be more of a possibility, along with “deportations and executions.”
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Holodomor Facts and History:
The term Holodomor refers specifically to the brutal artificial famine imposed by Stalin's regime on Soviet Ukraine and primarily ethnically Ukrainian areas in the Northern Caucasus in 1932-33. In its broadest sense, it is also used to describe the Ukrainian genocide that began in 1929 with the massive waves of deadly deportations of Ukraine's most successful farmers (kurkuls, or kulaks, in Russian) as well as the deportations and executions of Ukraine's religious, intellectual and cultural leaders, culminating in the devastating forced famine that killed millions more innocent individuals.
How is history rhyming and repeating? Illegitimate President Trump Bannon is denying refugees’ humanity, while sending them back to perish with his pen - and - ink witchcraft; similarly, would the “lover - of - the - dark - side -of - the - Force ‘Darth Vader is Power’” fascist deny the humanity of others enough for “executions?”
“Denial of the humanity of others is the step that permits killing with impunity. The universal human abhorrence of murder of members of one's own group is overcome by treating the victims as less than human.”
My answer? I say Bannon sees refugees and everyone else as mere statistics.
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"...that scalp still has bloody flesh on it!!!!" — email exchange after the 2010 incident. The email surfaced in a libel suit brought by Sherrod against Breitbart News
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Michelle Goldberg, "Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism" p.160. ...Constitutional lawyer Edwin Vieira discussed Justice Anthony Kennedy's majority opinion...which struck down that state's antisodomy law...Vieira accused Kennedy of relying on "Marxist, Leninist, Satanic principles drawn from foreign law... "What to do about Communist judges in thrall to the Devil? Vieira said, "Here again I draw on the wisdom of Stalin. We're talking about the greatest political figure of the twentieth century...He had a slogan, and it worked well for him whenever he ran into difficulty. No man, no problem.'"
“When one person dies, it's a tragedy, but when a million people die, it's a statistic.” So said Joseph Stalin, who was the dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) from 1929 to 1953.
“When a million people die, it's a statistic.” Stalin “solved his problems” with a “brutal artificial famine imposed” by his regime. How will “Satan is power” Steve Bannon “solve his problems”?
“Lenin,” he answered, “wanted to destroy the state, and that’s my goal too. I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of today’s establishment.”
It’s a fair question.
It’s a fair question indeed. Furthermore, Donald Trump’s Steve Bannon’s Muslim Ban parallels with this:
The St. Louis sailed from Hamburg to Havana in 1939. Aboard were 937 passengers, almost all of whom were Jews fleeing from Hitler’s Third Reich.
Does this new fascist dictator Trump view desperate refugees merely as “statistics”? Perhaps that’s what “Satan is power” Steve Bannon murmurs in his ear.
Will illegitimate Trump deliberately prevent human aid - resulting in atrocity, resulting in crimes against humanity, or resulting in genocide? Yes. Also, he won’t have an intelligent rationalization to quote as people die from one catastrophe to the next. I think he’ll tweet just one word —
“Sad.”
From pipelines to refugees, everything Trump does is connected
Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines are racist by design, cutting through sacred indigenous land in order to line the pockets of executives and investors like Trump, who, as recently as 2015, held $250,000 of stock in TransCanada, and still has thousands invested in the Energy Transfer Partners, the company behind the Dakota Access pipeline.
The climate crisis those pipelines and Trump’s other proposals threaten to drive forward are already helping to force refugees out of places like Syria, exacerbating droughts that have fueled conflict there.
(this is a redraft of Climate Disintegration is a Human Rights Issue)
To conclude this diary, my sentiments are the same as Keith Olbermann’s. I too, am so very sorry.