null musings

My name is Zack. Enjoy your stay. Come back real soon. 'Til then, try to keep it real.

[rosyln]

Life in Gaza

[the-uncensored-she-deactivated2]

Don’t you know that slavery was outlawed?” “No,” the guard said, “you’re wrong. Slavery was outlawed with the exception of prisons. Slavery is legal in prisons.” I looked it up and sure enough, she was right. The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution says: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” Well, that explained a lot of things. That explained why jails and prisons all over the country are filled to the brim with Black and Third World people, why so many Black people can’t find a job on the streets and are forced to survive the best way they know how. Once you’re in prison, there are plenty of jobs, and, if you don’t want to work, they beat you up and throw you in a hole. If every state had to pay workers to do the jobs prisoners are forced to do, the salaries would amount to billions… Prisons are a profitable business. They are a way of legally perpetuating slavery. In every state more and more prisons are being built and even more are on the drawing board. Who are they for? They certainly aren’t planning to put white people in them. Prisons are part of this government’s genocidal war against Black and Third World people

Assata Shakur’s autobiography (via the-uncensored-she)

Slavery. Alive and well in the US of A. Freedom.

[bubbledumbitch]

[jazzcochina-deactivated20180807]

Same.

[za7ch]

That one time.

[thegamefreaks]

[it8bit]

Mario Scene on the Streets of Cork

Image by Brambledown

(via:gamefreaksnz)

[wretched--world]

[tofuplanet]

za7ch will like this.

[za7ch]

Yep.

[postscarcityorbust]

[za7ch]

Poor 1 percent, they've had a rough ride.

[whatvandals]

by MadAsHell

(Leila Jarman / Mike Leisz)

[n-o-t-s-u-r-e]

[za7ch]

I do!

[gameraboy]

Unlock your imagination

[za7ch]

Done

[za7ch]

[za7ch]

Here's something I just put out. Enjoy! Listen/purchase: 1 by za7ch

[za7ch]

A political chiptune song? The fuck?

Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again. But man is no abstract being squatting outside the world. Man is the world of man – state, society. This state and this society produce religion, which is an inverted consciousness of the world, because they are an inverted world. Religion is the general theory of this world, its encyclopaedic compendium, its logic in popular form, its spiritual point d’honneur, its enthusiasm, its moral sanction, its solemn complement, and its universal basis of consolation and justification. It is the fantastic realization of the human essence since the human essence has not acquired any true reality. The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion. Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness.

[za7ch]

Was going through some older SC shit of mine and saw this only had a few plays. Maybe worth another listen the two or three that see this? Nah, didn't think so either.

[anarcho-queer]

Police Officers Who Shot at Two Innocent Women 103 Times Won’t Be Fired or Suspended

The eight Los Angeles police officers who shot at two women over 100 times will not lose their jobs. They won’t even be suspended. They’ll just get some additional training.

They’ll need it, since the shooting happened at the height of the manhunt for cop-killer Christopher Dorner, when police mistook two women delivering newspapers in a blue Toyota Tacoma pickup truck for one man hellbent on revenge in a charcoal Nissan Titan pickup truck and shot at them 103 times. One of the women, who was 71 at the time, was hit twice in the back. The second woman was hit by broken glass. I would say those cops should get some training in target practice, but then it’s probably best for innocent newspaper carriers that they don’t.

A commission found that the officers violated department policy when they thought the sound of a newspaper hitting the pavement was a gunshot and opened fire on two women who were, again, doing absolutely nothing wrong except driving a truck that didn’t even look like the one they believed their suspect to be in.

The officers faced suspension or even firing, but police chief Charlie Beck elected instead to let them all return to duty once they undergo some additional training, according to a memo obtained by the AP. The officers have not been named, so you’ll probably never know if the guy writing your speeding ticket once shot at an innocent senior citizen. 

Shortly after the women were mistaken for Dorner, another police officer shot at another pickup truck. This one was black Honda Ridgeline. Brian McGee drove his cruiser into the truck and opened fire three times. The man inside the truck was not hit, but he sustained back and head injuries. The city of Torrance, where the incident took place, gave him $20,000 to replace his truck which was, again, a black Honda Ridgeline and not a gray Nissan Titan.

In January, prosecutors found that the officer was “justified in using force to stop the vehicle and in discharging his firearm” and declined to press charges.

[za7ch]

that one time (our chiller thriller) by broken satellite http://ift.tt/PbJkF8

[za7ch]

4l0m by L-tron http://ift.tt/1gN5ln6

[za7ch]

Mainframe by PopSTAR http://ift.tt/1eWJZ7M