WP: Why Black Lives Matter has gained momentum in a country where police shootings are rare

What a joy these people must be for Britain.

Washington Post: Amid anger and anxiety over two fatal police shootings in the United States, Black Lives Matter protests have erupted in Britain, where police patrol unarmed and have fatally shot very few people over the years.

In the days after the police shootings in Louisiana and Minnesota — and deadly sniper fire in Texas, where five officers were killed and others were wounded — hundreds have protested in solidarity.

In London, many have showed support — marching on Westminster, congregating in Windrush Square in Brixton and clogging Oxford Street — holding up signs saying “Stop Killing Us” and “How Many More,” and chanting “hands up, don’t shoot” and “black lives matter.” Others have been tweeting with the hashtag #stopkillingthemandem, Jamaican slang for a group of men that has been adopted by Britain’s youths.

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Ethiopian-born Jews on life in Israel: ‘It was always my dream to come to Jerusalem’

Gee, I wonder why. Could it be that Israel is a first-world country while Ethiopia is a typically backward and brutal black country?

American Jews were thrilled to declare Ethiopians “Jewish” but Israelis were not as excited as they live with them.

Ethiopians have an average IQ around 70.

Washington Post:

But Tamano-Shata said the barriers she faced pushed her to seek a career in politics. In college, she became the voice of the student protests, standing in the midst of large crowds with a microphone, to decry discrimination against her community.

After gaining a seat in the parliament in 2013, she made headlines when she offered to donate blood but was told that Israelis of Ethiopian origin were not allowed to donate for fear of spreading HIV. She has been pushing for change even since.

“I believe in integration,” she said. “There are so many programs for Ethiopian immigrants, but it’s all about keeping them separate from Israelis.”

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Eroticized Rage

From Neil Strauss’s book The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships:

“The payoff of anger is mastery, control, or power,” Lorraine continues. “So the anger makes you feel better and one up. And when you use sex to restore power or feel better about yourself in a similar way, this is what’s known as eroticized rage.”

Eighty-eight percent of sex addicts, she tells, us, came from emotionally disengaged families. Seventy-seven percent came from rigid or strict families. And sixty-eight percent say their families were both distant and strict.

“Being overcontrolled as a child sets you up to lie as an adult,” she concludes. “So the theory of sex addiction is that when you feel out of control or disempowered, you sneak around and act out sexually to reestablish control and regain your sense of self.”

This is where she loses me. “Can you give a specific example?” I ask.

“Well, she replies, “what’s your story?”

“I cheated on my girlfriend.”

“Strict mother.”

“Yes.”

“Mom wasn’t emotionally available, so you’re taking out your dick and using it to look for love. And sex is healing the anger at Mom for not being available.”

“So I fuck other women to get back at my mom?”

“And to have an emotionally safe way of getting the affection, acceptance, and comfort you never got from Mom.”

“I don’t know. It felt like my mom was always there for me.”

“Was she there for you…or were you there for her?”

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Killing Drug Dealers Seems Like A Good Idea To Me

This leader of the Philippines sounds like Donald Trump.

REPORT: Nine more killed in Philippine ‘war on drugs’

MANILA: Nine people were killed overnight in the Philippines, authorities said Saturday, as police and suspected anti-drug vigilantes pushed ahead with President Rodrigo Duterte’s controversial war on crime.

Duterte won the May 9 election by a landslide, largely on a pledge to kill tens of thousands of drug dealers and other criminals, and has urged the police, civilians and even insurgents to help in the killings.

More than 100 suspects have been killed in the seven weeks since Duterte’s election.

One pre-dawn raid in the town of Matalam, about 900 kilometres south of Manila, left eight “drug personalities” dead on Saturday, including a woman, regional police spokesman Superintendent Romeo Galgo told reporters.

One other person was arrested on suspicion of drug offences, Galgo said, adding that three pistols and four grenades were found on the dead suspects.

In Manila, police said they found an unidentified dead man, his entire head wrapped in tape, on a poorly lit road late Friday. His torso was covered with a cardboard sign reading: “I am a Pusher”.

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USA Today: ‘Tech companies break silence on racial justice’

All of the major tech companies support the terror organization Black Lives Matter.

John Rivers tweets:

* If I was a White Googler, how could I feel safe when my company was openly supporting an Anti-White Terrorist Group like #BlackLivesMatter?

* If @google supported the KKK – every Black Employee would sue for a Hostile Work Environment. Whites can do the same for #BlackLivesMatter.

* I think @google supporting Anti-White Terrorists would create a Hostile Work Environment for their White Employees.

* Now that #BlackLivesMatter is murdering Whites in Racial Terror Attacks, why are @google, @twitter & @pandora supporting them?

* #BlackLivesMatter has killed more Whites in the past two years than the KKK has killed Blacks in the past twenty.

* The Left doesn’t argue White Racism. They just say – Everybody knows Whites are Racist. Now it’s your job to disprove it.

USA TODAY: SAN FRANCISCO — Silicon Valley leaders — who rarely speak out on racially charged issues — are breaking their silence. The question is: Will they do more than talk?

In a series of posts on social media that followed the shooting deaths of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling — black men killed in separate police encounters in the course of one day — some of the nation’s most influential technology companies lined up in support of racial justice with the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag.

• “We stand in solidarity with the fight for racial justice,” Google tweeted.

• “These tragedies must lead to action. We join the voices demanding racial justice now,” tweeted Twitter.

• Dropbox CEO Drew Houston tweeted, “What a terrible time for this country. #BlackLivesMatter” Through a spokeswoman, Houston said he tweeted because he and Dropbox care about these issues deeply.

​• Apple CEO Tim Cook tweeted, “Senseless killings this week remind us that justice is still out of reach for many.”

• “We join the millions mourning in Baton Rouge, Falcon Heights and Dallas and we stand with those committed to change around the world,” tweeted Microsoft.

• “The images we’ve seen this week are graphic and heartbreaking, and they shine a light on the fear that millions of members of our community live with every day,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote on his Facebook page.

But while tech leaders have been strong with their words, actions have been absent.

Save for Google, which has contributed more than $5 million in grants to racial justice organizations the past year, most tech companies have taken few tangible steps to address the issue. That’s in contrast to how they’ve used their clout as sought-after employers and cash-rich companies to influence other issues, from bills that impact LGBTQ people to immigration reform.

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