Breaking The Silence

BLOG DESCRIPTION: This blog is probably going to be the most scientific and logical of all my blogs -- going beyond mere history and into Psychology, Sociology, and Social-Science. This blog is not about notes. It's not about getting followers. Just as I am not your "Social Justice Warrior" or "Radical Feminist". I am just one person that hopes to inform, enlighten and help other human beings. I am just one person who hopes more for the world than all the bullshit that we all choose to pretend doesn't exist. This blog is: - Pro-Human Rights - Anti-Fascist - Anti-War - Anti-Capitalist - Anti-Racist - Anti-Sexist - Anti-Abelist - Anti-Mentalist - Anti-Bullying If you reblog any of my posts and add racist, classist, misogynistic, homophobic, or trans-phobic comments, your comments and your blog WILL be blocked. ABOUT ME: Background: I can describe myself as an Autistic, young women of color. I am a Jamaican-American of dual-citizenship born in the U.S. I am of Sub-Saharan African, South Asian (Indian), European (French, Irish, Scots-Irish), and East Asian (Chinese) descent. I identify with the socio-political concept of "blackness", but I do not eat/sleep/breathe "race" like most people on Tumblr. While this is a hard concept for most U.S. citizens to grasp: West-Indians, in general, regardless of their ancestors' geographical place(s) of origin -- whether they are so-called "monoracial" or so-called "multiracial" or somewhere in-between -- identify with their specific nationality first, the Caribbean region second, and their "race(s)" last. I am no different. [*Jamaica's people includes those of Afro-descent, South-Asians (Indians; Bangladeshi; Pakistani), East-Asians (Chinese; Japanese; Koreans), Whites, Levanites (Syrians; Lebanese), Sephardi & Mizrahi Jews, Romani persons, and Indigenous people -- and ANY and all mixtures of the those! The Afro-descent population, in particular -- and way more than any other Jamaican population -- is mixed. The Afro-Jamaican population is usually also of significant European, South Asian, East Asian, Jewish and Arab ancestry. With a sub-ethnic-group of the Afro-Jamaican population called "Jamaican-Maroons" being Afro-Indigenous. Jamaican Creole(s), Culture(s), Cuisine, Heritage & Nationality is a blend of many of the World's groups, and we are proud of it!] "Out Of Many, One People" -- Jamaican National Motto Sexuality: I am an Asexual "Heteromantic" (As in that I have little to no sexual desires or sexual interest but I'm strictly physically/emotionally/romantically attracted to cis-gendered heterosexual men. I'm pretty much "heterosexual" ... without desiring to be sexual.) Activities: I enjoy writing/reading, drawing, acting/directing, sports (Skate-boarding, Bike-Riding, American Football, Basketball, Baseball, Rugby, Cricket ...etc.), guitar-playing and listening to music. Religion: I am not apart of any organized religion, but I am a very spiritual person that believes in an "Universal Consciousness" and an spiritual after-life. I have explored many religions & spiritualties (including Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Wicca, and Santeria). Education: I'm a young women attending College, who wishes to go to Law School someday. I have always wanted a profession in Law, Medicine, or Politics. You Can "Ask" For Help: For many reasons, I refuse to give my real first name on the internet. If you are depressed, suicidal, or are experiencing abuse, you can always talk to me, though.

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Picture taken of scene where Sandra Bland allegedly “hung herself”, moments after the body was “found” was just released. And of course, no one is buying it.

Police are claiming that Sandra took the trash bag out and tied it to the partition on her shower, and then used it to hang herself with.

Problems with this explanation:

Trash bags/cans are not allowed in jail cells because any lose items are considered a danger to the inmates. If it’s not bolted down to the floor, it’s basically not allowed in a cell

If the police are right and the picture was “taken right after the body was found with no changes made to the scene” then why did they replace the trash bag?

The bag she allegedly used was a “black industrial sized” trash bag, which was not only unlike the white one shown above, but it wouldn’t have been strong enough to hold up her body

The partition she “hung herself” from is shorter than her. Sandra was a little over 6 ft, and the partition was about 5 ft.

There were no lacerations or bruises on her neck consistent with a hanging.

#StayWoke

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The Worst Ethnic Cleansing You've Never Heard Of: Sudan's Nuba Mountains Ordinary people are being bombed in Sudan's Nuba Mountains. American surgeon Tom Catena is the only doctor in a region largely cut off from food, medicine and aid.

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Slavery In Yemen Despite government denials, this investigation uncovers evidence of slave labour in Yemen.

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Children Of The Gaza War

Children in Gaza and across the border in Israel have lived through three major conflicts in six years. In the summer of 2014, more than 500 children were killed in a 51-day war, all but one of them Palestinian. Almost every child in Gaza lost a loved one. More than a third were left traumatised.On the Israeli border, children lived in constant fear of rocket attacks and underground tunnels. Lyse Doucet follows the lives of children on both sides of the conflict in the midst of the war and through the months that followed, revealing how children born so close are growing further apart with each war.

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Stone Cold Justice

This program is the Investigative Journalism Walkley Award winner for 2014.

The Israeli army is both respected and feared as a fighting force. But now the country’s military is facing a backlash at home and abroad for its treatment of children in the West Bank, occupied territory.

Coming up, a joint investigation by Four Corners and The Australian newspaper reveals evidence that shows the army is targeting Palestinian boys for arrest and detention. Reporter John Lyons travels to the West Bank to hear the story of children who claim they have been taken into custody, ruthlessly questioned and then allegedly forced to sign confessions before being taken to court for sentencing.

He meets Australian lawyer Gerard Horton, who’s trying to help the boys who are arrested, and talks to senior Israeli officials to examine what’s driving the army’s strategy.

The program focuses on the stories of three boys. In two cases the army came for the children in the middle of the night, before taking them to unknown locations where they are questioned. A mother of one of the boys described the scene:

“Every soldier stood at the door of a room. I was telling him ‘What do you want with him?’ He said 'Shut up woman.’ And then they started hitting him and pulling him out of bed.”

“They started kicking me with their boots in my stomach, slaps on my face. They pulled me up by my t-shirt and took me out of bed.” Arrested boy

Is this, as many Israelis suggest, simply part of the drive to maintain security? Or is it, as Palestinians claim, part of a much wider plan to make life in the West Bank intolerable for them?

“I think that they want to kick us out of here and drive us away because they don’t want Arabs in this area.”

It’s a claim that’s dismissed out of hand by Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs:

“Let me say this very clearly. There is no such policy. A policy to create fear? There is no such thing. The only policy is to maintain law and order, that’s all. If there’s no violence, there’s no law enforcement.” Yigal Palmor

The United Nations children’s agency (UNICEF) has been investigating these claims and last year released a scathing report finding that “children have been threatened with death, physical violence, solitary confinement and sexual assault.”

As Four Corners discovered, though, Palestinian children have more to fear than the Israeli army. Reporter John Lyons shows clear evidence that Israeli settlers in the West Bank regularly attack Palestinian school children, knowing the authorities will not intervene. He also discovers there are two legal systems operating. One for Israeli children and one for young Palestinians. It’s an impossible situation that may provide temporary security for Israel, but in the long term may well breed a new generation of Palestinians prepared to do anything to gain retribution

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Jewish Ancestry Of Modern-Day Palestinians (Part 2) In recent years, many genetic studies have demonstrated that, at least paternally, most of the various Jewish ethnic divisions and the Palestinians – and in some cases other Levantines – are genetically closer to each other than the Palestinians or European Jews to non-Jewish Europeans. One DNA study by Nebel found genetic evidence in support of historical records that "part, or perhaps the majority" of Muslim Palestinians descend from "local inhabitants, mainly Christians and Jews, who had converted after the Islamic conquest in the seventh century AD". They also found substantial genetic overlap between Muslim Palestinians and Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews, though with some significant differences that might be explainable by the geographical isolation of the Jews and by immigration of Arab tribes in the first millennium. In a genetic study of Y-chromosomal STRs in two populations from Israel and the Palestinian Authority Area: Christian and Muslim Palestinians showed genetic differences. The majority of Palestinian Christians (31.82%) were a subclade of E1b1b, followed by G2a (11.36%), and J1 (9.09%). The majority of Palestinian Muslims were haplogroup J1 (37.82%) followed by E1b1b (19.33%), and T (5.88%). The study sample consisted of 44 Palestinian Christians and 119 Palestinian Muslims. In a 2003 genetic study, Bedouins showed the highest rates (62.5%) of the subclade Haplogroup J-M267 among all populations tested, followed by Palestinian Arabs (38.4%), Iraqis (28.2%), Ashkenazi Jews (14.6%) and Sephardic Jews (11.9%), according to Semino et al. Semitic populations, including Jews, usually possess an excess of J1 Y chromosomes compared to other populations harboring Y-haplogroup J. According to a 2011 study by Balanovsky et al., Haplogroup J-M267 is actually most populous in the Northeastern Caucasus region of Dagestan with the highest frequency in Kubachi (99%), followed by Kaitak (85%), and Dargins (69%). The haplogroup J1, the ancestor of subclade M267, originates south of the Levant and was first disseminated from there into Ethiopia and Europe in Neolithic times. In Jewish populations, J1 has a rate of around 15%, with haplogroup J2 (M172) (of eight sub-Haplogroups) being almost twice as common as J1 among Jews (<29%). J1 is most common in the southern Levant, as well as Syria, Iraq, Algeria, and Arabia, and drops sharply at the border of non-semitic areas like Turkey and Iran. A second diffusion of the J1 marker took place in the 7th century CE when Arabians brought it from Arabia to North Africa. Haplogroup J1 (Y-DNA) includes the modal haplotype of the Galilee Arabs and of Moroccan Arabs and the sister Modal Haplotype of the Cohanim, the "Cohan Modale Haplotype", representing the descendents of the priestly caste Aaron. J2 is known to be related to the ancient Greek movements and is found mainly in Europe and the central Mediterranean (Italy, the Balkans, Greece). According to a 2010 study by Behar et al. titled "The genome-wide structure of the Jewish people", some Palestinians tested clustered genetically close to Bedouins, Jordanians and Saudi Arabians which could indicate a common ancestry or some recent ancestral influx from the Arabian Peninsula. A study found that the Palestinians, like Jordanians, Syrians, Iraqis, Turks, and Kurds have what appears to be Female-Mediated gene flow in the form of Maternal DNA Haplogroups from Sub-Saharan Africa. Of the 117 Palestinian individuals tested, 15 carried maternal haplogroups that originated in Sub-Saharan Africa. These results are consistent with female migration from eastern Africa into Near Eastern communities within the last few thousand years. There have been many opportunities for such migrations during this period. However, the most likely explanation for the presence of predominantly female lineages of African origin in these areas is that they may trace back to women brought from Africa as part of the Arab slave trade, assimilated into the areas under Arab rule.

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The Jewish Ancestry Of Modern-Day Of Palestinians In recent years, many genetic studies have demonstrated that, at least paternally, most of the various Jewish ethnic divisions and the Palestinians – and in some cases other Levantines – are genetically closer to each other than the Palestinians or European Jews to non-Jewish Europeans. One DNA study by Nebel found genetic evidence in support of historical records that "part, or perhaps the majority" of Muslim Palestinians descend from "local inhabitants, mainly Christians and Jews, who had converted after the Islamic conquest in the seventh century AD". They also found substantial genetic overlap between Muslim Palestinians and Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews, though with some significant differences that might be explainable by the geographical isolation of the Jews and by immigration of Arab tribes in the first millennium. In a genetic study of Y-chromosomal STRs in two populations from Israel and the Palestinian Authority Area: Christian and Muslim Palestinians showed genetic differences. The majority of Palestinian Christians (31.82%) were a subclade of E1b1b, followed by G2a (11.36%), and J1 (9.09%). The majority of Palestinian Muslims were haplogroup J1 (37.82%) followed by E1b1b (19.33%), and T (5.88%). The study sample consisted of 44 Palestinian Christians and 119 Palestinian Muslims. In a 2003 genetic study, Bedouins showed the highest rates (62.5%) of the subclade Haplogroup J-M267 among all populations tested, followed by Palestinian Arabs (38.4%), Iraqis (28.2%), Ashkenazi Jews (14.6%) and Sephardic Jews (11.9%), according to Semino et al. Semitic populations, including Jews, usually possess an excess of J1 Y chromosomes compared to other populations harboring Y-haplogroup J. According to a 2011 study by Balanovsky et al., Haplogroup J-M267 is actually most populous in the Northeastern Caucasus region of Dagestan with the highest frequency in Kubachi (99%), followed by Kaitak (85%), and Dargins (69%). The haplogroup J1, the ancestor of subclade M267, originates south of the Levant and was first disseminated from there into Ethiopia and Europe in Neolithic times. In Jewish populations, J1 has a rate of around 15%, with haplogroup J2 (M172) (of eight sub-Haplogroups) being almost twice as common as J1 among Jews (<29%). J1 is most common in the southern Levant, as well as Syria, Iraq, Algeria, and Arabia, and drops sharply at the border of non-semitic areas like Turkey and Iran. A second diffusion of the J1 marker took place in the 7th century CE when Arabians brought it from Arabia to North Africa. Haplogroup J1 (Y-DNA) includes the modal haplotype of the Galilee Arabs and of Moroccan Arabs and the sister Modal Haplotype of the Cohanim, the "Cohan Modale Haplotype", representing the descendents of the priestly caste Aaron. J2 is known to be related to the ancient Greek movements and is found mainly in Europe and the central Mediterranean (Italy, the Balkans, Greece). According to a 2010 study by Behar et al. titled "The genome-wide structure of the Jewish people", some Palestinians tested clustered genetically close to Bedouins, Jordanians and Saudi Arabians which could indicate a common ancestry or some recent ancestral influx from the Arabian Peninsula. A study found that the Palestinians, like Jordanians, Syrians, Iraqis, Turks, and Kurds have what appears to be Female-Mediated gene flow in the form of Maternal DNA Haplogroups from Sub-Saharan Africa. Of the 117 Palestinian individuals tested, 15 carried maternal haplogroups that originated in Sub-Saharan Africa. These results are consistent with female migration from eastern Africa into Near Eastern communities within the last few thousand years. There have been many opportunities for such migrations during this period. However, the most likely explanation for the presence of predominantly female lineages of African origin in these areas is that they may trace back to women brought from Africa as part of the Arab slave trade, assimilated into the areas under Arab rule.

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The Sun Will Rise Again: Ethiopian Jews Experience Racism & Discrimination In Israel

Ethiopians have long complained about unfair treatment and police violence by Israeli authorities. Thousands of Jews of Ethiopian origin are treated as third-class citizens. Israel champions itself as the "only democracy" in the Middle East claiming to treat all its citizens equally and fairly. However, Ethiopian Jews are increasingly protesting against the regime’s racism and police brutality. Some 135,000 native Ethiopian Jews live in Israel (around 2% of the population), including over 50,000 that have been born inside the occupied Palestinian territories. Tens of thousands of Ethiopian Jews affected by famine were airlifted to Israel in the 1980s and 1990s after a rabbinical ruling that they were direct descendants of the biblical Jewish Dan tribe.

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Tibetan Situation: Critical [Full Documentary] 

Tibet Situation : Critical - Full Documentary by Jason Lansdell, is an extensive look at the current situation in Tibet and for Tibetans in exile. It covers the history of Tibet, before and after the Chinese invasion. The clips in this film are from a wide range of documentaries and news organisations, as well as never before seen footage. The main focus and theme of Tibet Situation : Critical is to show the brutality of the Chinese Government against the Tibetan people, as well as an end segment explaining how you can help…  Copyright Disclaimer  Under Section 107 in the Copyright Act 1976. Allowance is made for “fair use” for purpose’s such as criticism, comment, news, reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tip the balance in favor of fair use.“

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Tibet: The Story Of A Tragedy

This Buddhist film contains some old footage of Tibet and goes back to 1938 to the Sheffer mission sent by the German Third Reich.

Composed of exceptional scenes this documentary reports the history of the Tibetan people who, as the commentary says, have been oppressed in silence for forty-five years.

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The Chinese Occupation Of Tibet

MUST SEE: http://this-is-not-humanity.tumblr.com/post/123657599333/tibetan-situation-critical-full-documentary

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Breaking: Terrorist Attacks Globally This Morning

There have been three separate reported terrorist attacks this morning in France, Kuwait, and Tunisia. Its unknown whether these attacks are connected.

-A gas plant was attacked outside of Lyon, France this morning when terrorist rammed the security barricade leaving a decapitated head staked at the gates alongside what appears to be ISIS flags.

-27 are reported dead in Tunisia after gunmen stormed a resort, reportedly targeting foreigners.

-At least 25 are dead in Kuwait following a suicide blast at a Shia Mosque.

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I.S.I.S. Murders & Injures Dozens At Shi'ite Mosque During A Friday Ramadan Gathering

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Terrorists Kill 27 in Tunisia Beach Assault

Gunmen open fire on beach packed with tourists; death toll expected to rise.

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Israeli Soldiers Beat A Palestinian Man For Asking A Question

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Israeli soldiers brutally beat Palestinian dad

This video shows Israeli soldiers brutally beating and taunting a Palestinian man near Jalazone refugee camp near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on Friday.

It was broadcast by the Palestine Public Broadcasting Corporation and has been shared widely on social media.

According to Al Jazeera Arabic, the victim of the attack, Shadi al-Ghobashi, had come out of his home in the refugee camp to tell the soldiers to stop firing tear gas that was causing suffering to his family, including his children.

Occupation forces were reportedly using tear gas to suppress protests by local youths against Israeli land theft in the area.

Blows and obscenities

The video shows three Israeli soldiers confronting al-Ghobashi as he speaks to them. One of them strikes him with his rifle. Al-Ghobashi, unafraid, raises his arms to defend himself. The soldiers begin shoving him and shouting obscenities at him in Arabic and Hebrew.

A soldier begins to kick him. The situation seems to calm down momentarily, but then one of the soldiers runs at al-Ghobashi, striking him and shouting more obscenities as al-Ghobashi raises his arms in self-defense.

The soldiers repeatedly shout at him to “shut up” and “don’t touch anyone.”

“One more word and I’ll fuck up your mother,” a soldier shouts.

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Palestinians protest against Israel continuing to steal their land to build Jewish-only settlements - illegal under international law - near Arroub refugee camp, north of the West Bank city of Hebron, Palestine, June 6, 2015. Founded on the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, the fascist state remains steadfast in its goal to take over the whole of Palestine.

(Photos: Mussa Qawasma / Reuters)