State of Siege

This video is a reflection on the South African and global lockdowns of 2020 and 2021, the congruence of this totalitarian control with the siege on information and Gaza and the optimism of rebellion and revolt from the 1960s through to the 2020s.
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Video clip - Black Panther Bobby Searle was bound and gagged and chained to a chair during the trial of the Chicago 8 in 1968. Searle had persistently protested for his constitutional right to lead his own defence, which was denied. For more information see "7 Reasons why the Chicago 8 trial Mattered" (www.history.com/news/chicago-8-trial-importance ).
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Picture - Chelsea Manning, whistleblower about US war crimes in Iraq, persecuted by US
administrations under Obama and Trump.Show more

For more information see "The government is torturing Chelsea Manning
(www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/06/the-government-is-torturing-chelsea-manning-does-anyone-give-a-damn/).
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Picture - Indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad,
by a crew of a US helicopter gunship.

For more information see "Collateral Murder" video
(https://collateralmurder.wikileaks.org/), scroll down one row of images and click on the Collateral Murder photo.
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Picture - Julian Assange, publisher of the "Collateral Murder" video and other evidence of
US war crimes.

For more information see "Years of CN assailing Assange. (www.consortiumnews.com/2020/05/05/25-years-of-cn-assailing-assange-january-31-
2011/)
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South African police brutality.

Unverified video shows police officers assaulting resident.

Photo shows police officers manhandling protesting refugees in Cape Town.

No available information on police custody deaths under lockdown. By early April 2020 eight deaths reported, with (then) 25 people reportedly "dead from the coronavirus" (i.e. a total of 33 deaths, almost 25 per cent of which attributable to police violence). Since lockdown
start, 200 more complaints of police assault and torture than at the same time in 2019.
For more information see "Assault most common complaint...
(https://ewn.co.za/2020/05/08/assault-most-common-complaint-against-saps-ipid-tells-parly)
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Gazan children defiant amidst the rubble.

The latest bombardment of Gaza has wreaked the most destruction of all of Israel’s nine attacks since 2006. For a summary of the attacks until 2014 see “Israel’s recent wars on Gaza” (https://separating.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Israels-Recent-Wars-on-Gaza-2006-14.pdf)

The 2008 attack (Operation Cast Lead) resulted in extensive destruction of housing, damage to service and economic infrastructure and the deaths of over hundreds of people (mainly civilians). For the Goldstone Report findings with regard to the wilful destruction of civilian life and social and economic infrastructure, see “International Law and its Breaches with respect to the Occupied Palestinian Territories” (https://separating.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Summary-of-breaches-PHendler2.pdf)

The current (2023) attack has been widely condemned as violating the UN Convention on Genocide. There is a significant body of literature on the genocidal aspects of Zionist colonization of the Palestinian people. In this regard see Professor Martin Shaw, “Palestine in an International Historical Perspective on Genocide” (https://martinshaw.org/2010/06/26/palestine-in-an-international-historical-perspective-on-genocide-2/) and also Palestine and Genocide Revisited (https://martinshaw.org/2013/05/24/palestine-and-genocide-revisited/).

Activist and investigative journalist Chris Hedges, quoting Raoul Hillberg, the recognised scholar on the German genocide of European Jewry, has written about the way a strategy of genocide developed incrementally by the Third Reich (German State) towards the Jews, and by analogy Hedges has argued that this is also true of Israel’s developing policy towards the Palestinians (2018). (https://www.truthdig.com/articles/israel-is-captive-to-its-destructive-process-2/)
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2015/2016 Student revolt.

Stellenbosch university was not immune to the student revolt, and the picture shows student throngs taking over Merriman Avenue on the campus. Led by Open Stellenbosch, the student activists demanded decolonisation of their curriculum as well as the dissolution of the university council (https://separating.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/call_for_dissolution_SU_Council.pdf)

For critiques of the student revolt as elitist petite bourgeoise, see Wahbie Long’s “Let’s transform our schools first” (https://separating.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Lets-transform-our-schools-first.pdf) and his “Why black consciousness misses the mark” (https://separating.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Why-Black-Consciousness-misses-the-mark.pdf)
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Belmarsh Maximum Security Prison in England is where Julian Assange is being held as a
political prisoner/prisoner of conscience, pending his likely extradition to the US where he
will stand trial for breaking the 1917 Espionage Act.

For more information see "Indictment and arrest of Julian Assange"
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indictment_and_arrest_of_Julian_Assange)

For video of Assange inside Belmarsh see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wotKpVy8HXo
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) declared a global public health emergency on 30 January 2020.

On 28 February 2020 the WHO announced a vaccine campaign by Glaxokline Smith in
partnership with the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI).

On 11 March 2020 the WHO declared coronavirus a world-wide pandemic.

There is a critique of the role and function of the WHO in this regard. For more information see : "Covid-19 Coronavirus: The Crisis" (https://www.globalresearch.ca/covid-19-coronavirus-crisis/5706741)
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Bill Gates has developed views on epidemics and pandemics as being the single largest
threat to humanity. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is dedicated to facilitating the
research and development for vaccines that can meet these threats.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation were centrally involved in Event 201 on 18 October
2019, which was a simulation of Coronavirus Covid-2019. The event simulated economic collapse and a 15 per cent contraction of economic activity, as an outcome three months
after the start of the virus. The event also projected a 'later' simulation of economic collapse world-wide.
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Critics of the Gates Foundation say it avoids economic restructuring and political changes to address poverty and social marginalisation. It's focus facilitates pharmaceutical companies injecting potentially lethal toxins into people, and a form of social control through 'digital health certificates'.
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The Foundation says that high child mortality incentivise poor families to have more children, contributing to overpopulation. Saving children's lives removes that incentive and could achieve a 15 per cent reduction in population. It denies planning to implant micro-chips in bodies for digital registration.
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For more information on Gates' views on epidemics see interview by Ezra Kein(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AEMKudv5p0&feature=embrelend)
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For more information on Event 201's simulation of global economic collapse see Covid-19 video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFZSU-sLFXc)
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For more information on the criticism of the Gates Foundation and their response see"Did Bill Gates admit vaccines are ........ to depopulate the world?" (https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bill-gates-vaccinations-depopulation/); and, "False Claim: Bill Gates planning to use micro-chip implants." (https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-coronavirus-bill-gates-micr-idUSKBN21I3EC)
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US military encirclement of Russia and China.

Underlying the US military encirclement of and aggression towards Russia and China, is the need to defend the petrodollar, i.e. the system which requires that all oil transactions are made in US dollars, and also that petrodollar surpluses are invested in Western banks for the purchasing of US treasury securities. A graphic illustration of petrodollar recycling uses the Saudi Arabia national oil company as an example (https://separating.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Petrodollars-US-SA-scaled.jpg)

Russian and Chinese attempts to trade oil in their own currencies threatens the petrodollar and thereby US economic stability. While much has been written about this, for the layperson the complex effects of dollar denominated oil prices on both the US economy and the rest of the world, is like a siege on the brain of the living. (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303548869_Petrodollar_Recycling)
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Mother nature on the run from industrial waste.

Pictures of sorted plastic and glass waste and plastic in the oceans - Typical quantity of
glass bottles and plastics disposed on the Hendler household, Stellenbosch, every two to
three weeks.

Assume that this household's income is in the top five per cent of Stellenbosch
households.

Assume that this consumption of non-durables is typical for that segment.
There are approximately 48 000 households in the Stellenbosch municipal area.
Five per cent = 2 400 households.

Therefore, every two to three weeks this quantity of plastic and glass waste, multiplied 2400 times, is disposed of in Stellenbosch by the top five per cent of income earning households.

For more information on the pollution of the ecosystem by plastic see "The world's plastic
pollution crisis explained" (https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/habitats/plastic-pollution/)

For more information on the pollution of the ecosystem by glass and plastic see "Breaking
down the environmental impact of glass and plastic" (https://sunrisesanitation.com/breaking-down-the-environmental-impact-of-glass-and-plastic/)
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Economic siege on informal sector.

Informal sector traders have for a long time been dominated by formal sector companies, and under regulatory siege by the governmental authorities. In 2013 Stellenbosch municipality destroyed the livelihoods of informal traders near the town common (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3U2K-KRmTI).

Further news and analysis about this and related topics is at Stellenbosch Transparency (https://stellenboschtransparency.co.za/videos/)
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Cartoon of Israel's apartheid Wall.

Israel's apartheid Wall represents a state of siege of the West Bank.

For more information on Israel's apartheid regime see "Israeli practices towards the
Palestinian People and the question of apartheid" (UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia) (https://stellenboschtransparency.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/ESCWA-2017-Richard-Falk-Apartheid.pdf)
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The hegemonic siege of germ theory.

In 2020, 2021 and 2022 entire societies in the global community were besieged (or “locked down”) as part of the war against the SARS Cov2 virus, and basic human rights (like freedom of movement, freedom to assemble and petition and freedom of speech) were suspended.

Do discrete organisms (i.e. viruses) cause (bring about) specific illness conditions? Or is inflammation in its various forms a reflection of poisoning of the body arising from toxins in the environment (terrain)?

“The Contagion Myth” (https://drtomcowan.com/products/the-contagion-myth/) discusses these approaches to diagnosing illnesses, weighs the historical evidence and concludes that not only do viruses not cause disease but viruses have not been proven to exist.
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Picture - Palestinian protesters removing Israeli barbed wire on the boundary between
Gaza and Israel, 2018.

Gaza has been under a land, sea and air siege from Israel since 2006.

Between 2006 and 2014 Israel attacked Gaza seven times, causing thousands of civilian
deaths and maiming, and also wanton destruction of housing, buildings and infrastructure.

Author Max Blumenthal writes that the siege that Israel has laid to Gaza restricts access to
its border crossings, enforces severe curbs on its exports, and devises complex
mathematical formulas to regulate the caloric intake of each resident. A January 2008 Israeli
military study called "Food Consumption in the Gaza Strip - The Red Lines," estimated the
required daily caloric intake in Gaza at 2 279 per person "in order to maintain the basic
fabric of life"

South Africa's lockdown was said set to destroy the informal and small business sectors and
the formal sector will not escape unscathed. Mass unemployment is on the cards for a long
time. Already people in former black townships were experiencing a hunger crisis. Will the
siege of our townships and suburbs degenerate into a Gaza-type siege?

For more information on the siege of Gaza see "Gaza, the world's largest open-air prison"
(https://www.nrc.no/news/2018/april/gaza-the-worlds-largest-open-air-prison/