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Daily Archives: March 3, 2018
From NATO Libyan war to Manchester terrorism
This video says about itself:
Blowback: NATO, Libya, and Suicide Terror
27 February 2018
May 22, 2017: A suicide bomber walks into a pop concert in Manchester and blows himself up. There’s a lot we don’t know about the attack, and likely never well, but what we do know is that the attack on Manchester, and other similar attacks, may, in part, be blowback from Western foreign policy.
Soon after the Arab Spring arrived in Libya in February 2011, the Western powers, in the form of NATO, decided to intervene and help topple Gadhafi. Libya quickly descended into violence and chaos, enabling ISIS to sweep into the vacuum. Though many of the Libyan rebels who had protested Gadhafi were ordinary Libyans seeking freedom, some of them were “jihadi militias” and Salman Abedi, the suicide attacker, had been trained to fight in Libya alongside these “jihadi militias”.
Hosted by Mehdi Hasan.
Abedi, born in Britain, was brought by the British ‘intelligence’ service to Libya for fighting as a child soldier in a jihadist militia. That totally fucked him up.
The British government has admitted that it “likely” had contacts with two Islamist groups, the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) and the 17 February Martyrs Brigade, for which the 2017 Manchester Arena bomber, Salman Abedi, and his father reportedly fought during the 2011 war in Libya: here.
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Amazon.com, tax dodgers
This video from the USA says about itself:
You Won’t Believe How Much Taxes Amazon Paid Last Year
3 March 2018
Guess how much Amazon paid in taxes? Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, the hosts of The Young Turks, have the answer. Get money out of politics: here.
“Jeff Bezos is the richest person in the world, with a personal net worth of $108 billion. In 2017, Bezos’ company, the internet retail giant Amazon, reportedly took in $5.6 billion in U.S. profits.
So, how much did Amazon pay in income tax on that bounty? Hang on, we’re getting some news…what? What’s this? Amazon effectively paid zero dollars in federal income taxes in 2017? Oh.
Amazon is projecting a $789 million windfall from the Republicans’ tax bill, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, which may have factored into its reason for withholding taxes this year. Bezos—like many other nominally liberal capitalists—claims to disagree with Donald Trump’s policies, while quietly lapping up the Republicans’ regressive tax breaks.
You may be asking: How is this legal? Isn’t Amazon an American company? Aren’t companies required to pay federal income tax? Hello?
Amazon’s global headquarters is not in Seattle, but in the tiny landlocked nation of Luxembourg (Amazon employs more than 40,000 people in Seattle, compared to 1,500 people in Luxembourg). The European Union has accused Luxembourg of giving illegal tax breaks to Amazon and has ordered the country to recover $295 million in back taxes from Amazon.”
Read more here.
Turns out the median salary at Amazon is $28,000 a year.
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Woodcock in the snow, video
This 3 March 2018 video is about a woodcock in the snow at the Grevelingendam causeway in Zeeland province in the Netherlands.
Italian left in the elections
This video says about itself:
Power to the People: The Italian left inspired by Latin America
3 March 2018
In an election marked by the rise of racism and fascism, a new left-wing political party is trying to make it to the Italian Parliament.
In Italy, where fascism was born, far-right violence is a growing feature of political life once again: here.
See also here.
Red-backed shrike on video in Sweden
17th century painting, battle re-enacted in the Netherlands
This video from the Netherlands says about itself:
3 March 2018
2018 Hendrick Avercamp – Live Painting @ Slag Om Groll
Live event filmed by Paul van Druten
with Canon Legria Mini X Pocket Camcorder
This video is about people in 17th century clothing skating in Groenlo town in Gelderland province.
In this way, they commemorated both 17th century Dutch painter Hendrick Avercamp, and the 1627 battle of Groenlo.
The 17th century was a ‘little Ice Age‘ for the Netherlands, with many icy winters and many people skating. Hendrick Avercamp was one of many painters depicting that then.
In that, Rembrandt was not a typical Dutch painter.
Though Rembrandt was born close to the Rhine river, where, as we know from other painters, in many winters, usually more severe in the seventeenth century than now, many citizens of Leiden came for skating, he seems to not have liked winter and skating.
As of all his paintings, only one is a winter scene.
This re-enactment was also about the 1627 battle of Groenlo. When the army of the Dutch republic drove the Spanish army from the town. That battle is reenacted year after year; but now for the first time on ice.
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Saudi royal air force killing Yemeni girls
This 20 April 2018 video is called 20 civilians killed in airstrike in Yemen.
This video, censored/deleted by YouTube, from Yemen used to says about itself:
28 February 2018
Five girls were killed today and three others injured in an air strike which was launched by the US-backed Saudi-led coalition on Hodeida province, a military source said.
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