Seems pretty clear from this that Peters and the other holdouts on drug price reform are foregrounding Sinema deliberately to draw fire away from them and their industry-funded objections.https://t.co/I1TAZnzKiG
It’s somewhat old hat at this point to point out that Christopher Columbus — in whose name children are off school and mail isn’t delivered today — was a homicidal tyrant who initiated the two greatest crimes in the history of the Western Hemisphere, the Atlantic slave trade, and the American Indian genocide.
Here are just a handful of specific cases, mostly culled from Laurence Bergreen’s recent biography, Columbus: The Four Voyages, of almost unimaginable cruelty inflicted by Columbus and his crew during their time in the Caribbean.
1) Columbus kidnapped a Carib woman and gave her to a crew member to rape Bergreen quotes Michele de Cuneo, who participated in Columbus’s second expedition to the Americas (page 143):
“While I was in the boat, I captured a very beautiful woman, whom the Lord Admiral [Columbus] gave to me. When I had taken her to my cabin she was naked — as was their custom. I was filled with a desire to take my pleasure with her and attempted to satisfy my desire. She was unwilling, and so treated me with her nails that I wished I had never begun. I then took a piece of rope and whipped her soundly, and she let forth such incredible screams that you would not have believed your ears. Eventually we came to such terms, I assure you, that you would have thought she had been brought up in a school for whores.”
2) On Hispaniola, a member of Columbus’s crew publicly cut off an Indian’s ears to shock others into submission After an attack by more than 2,000 Indians, Columbus had an underling, Alonso de Ojeda, bring him three Indian leaders, whom Columbus then ordered publicly beheaded. Ojeda also ordered his men to grab another Indian, bring him to the middle of his village, and “‘cut off his ears’ in retribution for the Indians’ failing to be helpful to the Spaniards when fording a stream.” (Bergreen, 170-171)
3) Columbus kidnapped and enslaved more than a thousand people on Hispaniola According to Cuneo, Columbus ordered 1,500 men and women seized, letting 400 go and condemning 500 to be sent to Spain, and another 600 to be enslaved by Spanish men remaining on the island. About 200 of the 500 sent to Spain died on the voyage, and were thrown by the Spanish into the Atlantic. (Bergreen, 196-197)
4) Columbus forced Indians to collect gold for him or else die Columbus ordered every Indian over 14 to give a large quantity of gold to the Spanish, on pain of death. Those in regions without much gold were allowed to give cotton instead. Participants in this system were given a “stamped copper or brass token to wear around their necks in what became a symbol of intolerable shame.” (Bergreen, 203)
5) About 50,000 Indians committed mass suicide rather than comply with the Spanish Bergreen explains, page 204:
“The Indians destroyed their stores of bread so that neither they nor the invaders would be able to eat it. They plunged off cliffs, they poisoned themselves with roots, and they starved themselves to death. Oppressed by the impossible requirement to deliver tributes of gold, the Indians were no longer able to tend their fields, or care for their sick, children, and elderly. They had given up and committed mass suicide to avoid being killed or captured by Christians, and to avoid sharing their land with them, their fields, groves, beaches, forests, and women: the future of their people.”
6) 56 years after Columbus’s first voyage, only 500 out of 300,000 Indians remained on Hispaniola
Population figures from 500 years ago are necessarily imprecise, but Bergreen estimates that there were about 300,000 inhabitants of Hispaniola in 1492. Between 1494 and 1496, 100,000 died, half due to mass suicide. In 1508, the population was down to 60,000. By 1548, it was estimated to be only 500.
Understandably, some natives fled to the mountains to avoid the Spanish troops, only to have dogs set upon them by Columbus’s men. (Bergreen, 205)
7) Columbus was also horrible to the Spanish under his rule
While paling in comparison to his crimes against Caribs and Taino Indians, Columbus’s rule over Spanish settlers was also brutal. He ordered at least a dozen Spaniards “to be whipped in public, tied by the neck, and bound together by the feet” for trading gold for food to avoid starvation. He ordered a woman’s tongue cut out for having “spoken ill of the Admiral and his brothers.”
Another woman was “stripped and placed on the back of a donkey … to be whipped” as punishment for falsely claiming to be pregnant. He “ordered Spaniards to be hanged for stealing bread” (Bergreen, 315-316). Bergreen continues:
He even ordered the ears and nose cut off one miscreant, who was also whipped, shackled, and banished from the island. He ordered a cabin boy’s hand nailed in public to the spot where he had pulled a trap from a river and caught a fish. Whippings for minor infractions occurred with alarming frequency. Columbus ordered one wrongdoer to receive a hundred lashes — which could be fatal — for stealing sheep, and another for lying about the incident. An unlucky fellow named Juan Moreno received a hundred lashes for failing to gather enough food for Columbus’s pantry.
8) Settlers under Columbus sold 9- and 10-year-old girls into sexual slavery This one he admitted himself in a letter to Doña Juana de la Torre, a friend of the Spanish queen: “There are plenty of dealers who go about looking for girls; those from nine to ten are now in demand, and for all ages a good price must be paid.”
9) Indian slaves were beheaded when their Spanish captors couldn’t be bothered to untie them Benjamin Keen, a historian of the Spanish conquest of the Americas, noted that multiple sources confirmed accounts of “exhausted Indian carriers, chained by the neck, whose heads the Spaniards severed from their bodies so they might not have to stop to untie them.”
I want you to read this. I want you to understand what is happening on school boards across the country. And how Black educators are being targeted. Most of all, how there is a concerted action to take us back to the 50s. #TruthBeTold#ProTruthhttps://t.co/YfiQrBeKcg
many school boards are having thier open meetings virtual, not due to the virus, due to “yell Queada” showing up disrupting meetings, Police have made arrests
Raise the price and cut back on the amount in the package or bottle in this case. the greed rolls on. so sick of our greed no matter what vulture crapratism
I’m sure they’re saying it’s all absolutely essential, now that they’re being forced to pay a living wage, and all. But here’s an idea: instead of screwing the customer, or exploiting your employees, how about holding your nose, biting the bullet, and take it out of your obscene profits??
Aint Supposed to Die A Natural Death
Yep. Just commented to my sister a few days ago that I bought a bottle of Alaga syrup and it was hardly bigger than a soy sauce bottle.
polarbear4
A recent report revealed that 25% of new Covid cases in LA County (US's largest) were in the fully vaxxed. The best explanation is that people got vaxxed then let their guards down, abandoning masks and distancing.
This was massive failure of education that killed people.
The percentage of people who get breakthrough covid, out of all the millions who have been vaccinated, set a very different scenario. But let’s not waste a perfectly good conspiracy theory.
polarbear4
“The darkness you inevitably succumb to is afraid of how radiant your soul truly is.”
Not so much in the Hudson Valley but some in the Catskills. To have good color, colder crisp nights (especially under freezing) are needed. This year it hasn’t gone below 40, even in the mountains, with no hint of below freezing in the next 10 days. Unprecedented in the 20+ years that I have been up here.
were about 1/3 in to it, we are having an unusual warm Oct temps 10 -15 above normal for high and low, looks like next week will be normal temps
Aint Supposed to Die A Natural Death
Pleasant memories. When my kids were young and I was off from school for the summer, we used to rent a cabin in the Catskills (Liberty, NY) for the summer. My husband would come up on weekends.
It certainly is. I vividly recall being on a bike run (motorcycle trip) that went up through NY state. We went as far as about 45 miles from the Canadian border. The scenery was simply outrageous, and this was during the summer. 🙂
If you want to find someone to blame for the Fed's rolling ethics scandals, blame the structure of an institution that invests enormous power in unknown staffers. This is the story of Michelle Smith, chief of staff to Fed chairs for 30 years:https://t.co/tI5tVoFnld
4. Overall, the suicide rate — a key barometer of mental health — for American youth aged 10-24 rose by a whopping 60% from 2007 to 2018. In addition to rising teen gun violence and also "deaths of despair," including overdoses. So what's going on? https://t.co/AzO1BqWXaG
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Tuesday that adding dental, hearing and vision benefits to Medicare in Democrats’ social spending package is “not negotiable,” drawing a firm line on an issue progressives have been championing.
“This to me is not negotiable,” Sanders said on a call with reporters. “This is what the American people want.”
Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, added that Sanders’s view is also “the position of the House Progressive Caucus,” adding further heft to the position.
Progressives have long been pushing for expanding the Medicare benefits in President Biden’s Build Back Better package, but the new comments illustrate how key the issue is for them.
It adds to the complications for Democrats as they try to fit in an array of priorities while shrinking the overall size of the package below the original $3.5 trillion, given concerns from moderate senators.
There are other health care priorities with powerful backers competing for a limited amount of dollars.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), for example, is a major proponent of extending enhanced financial assistance to help people afford premiums under the Affordable Care Act.
And House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) is pushing hard for a provision to expand Medicaid in the 12 GOP-led states that have so far rejected the expansion.
The original House version of the package fully funded both the ACA and Medicaid provisions, but did not start Medicare dental benefits until 2028, a move that helps save money.
Sanders has criticized the House bill for waiting too long to begin the dental benefits.
He also noted that parts of the health care industry are opposed to the Medicare expansion provision. The American Dental Association, for example, has been pushing to target the provision only to low-income people, given concerns about lower payment rates for dentists under the Medicare program.
“I do understand that the health care industry does not like this idea, but maybe, just maybe, we stand with the American people,” Sanders said.
“There are millions of seniors who have rotting teeth in their mouths or are unable to hear what their grandchildren are saying,” he added.
Odd that Mondaire Jones is not one of the signers.
We can't negotiate the reconciliation bill down to nothing.
With 8 NYC Members, we wrote to @SpeakerPelosi & @SenSchumer to ask them to keep the current level of funding for immigration, public and affordable housing, and transportation in low-income areas.
Sen. @BernieSanders uses his coveted e-mail list to raise money for Buffalo Mayoral Candidate India Walton. Sanders rarely uses the list to directly fundraise for candidates. Walton- who won the Dem primary- is fending off a write in campaign from incumbent Byron Brown. pic.twitter.com/E9xViLEi0G
The redistrict wars roll on in Wi Federal judges freeze Wisconsin redistricting lawsuit, will step in if needed
A panel of three federal judges on Wednesday paused a consolidated redistricting lawsuit, but doubled down that it will step in to draw the maps if necessary.
The suit, which was originally filed as two separate actions by two liberal legal groups, found itself in limbo when the Wisconsin Supreme Court last month made the unprecedented decision to accept original jurisdiction over a redistricting lawsuit.
The panel said it will pause the federal case until at least Nov. 5, but asked the involved parties to update the court on that date about “the Wisconsin Supreme Court proceedings … with a joint submission, setting out any points of disagreement.”
Regardless of what happens in the state’s high court, the federal judges wrote, they are still planning on holding a trial on the matter in January, despite the wishes of Republican lawmakers. The goal of the panel is to complete the trial by Jan. 28 so, if necessary, it can draw the maps by March 1 of next year.
“Over the last six decades, when Wisconsin has had divided government, it has frequently failed to enact redistricting plans, and the federal courts — not the Wisconsin Supreme Court — have drawn Wisconsin’s maps,” the judges wrote in their order. “When these cases were filed, it seemed likely that the federal courts would be called upon once again. But the recent decision by the Wisconsin Supreme Court to take up the redistricting issue suggests that this pattern may not repeat itself.”
You’ll only want to eat these grown-up mac and cheese recipes from TikTok “Federal rights are at stake, so this court will stand by to draw the maps — should it become necessary,” the judges concluded.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court agreed along ideological lines in September to hear the redistricting case brought before. The decision was decried by the court’s liberal justices.
Writing on behalf of her two colleagues, Justice Rebecca Dallet proclaimed in her dissent that “now is not the time and this petition is not the way.”
“Although I trust my colleagues as jurists, I do not share their confidence that we can simultaneously be legislators, cartographers and mathematicians,” she wrote.
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https://twitter.com/davidsirota/status/1447399656661471236?s=20
No surprise to us denizens of the Nest.
thanks much, jcb💗🐳🌊🐋❤️
https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/2014/10/13/6957875/christopher-columbus-murderer-tyrant-scoundrel?__twitter_impression=true
wow.
Any serious student of world history is all too familiar with this garbage. it is all too familiar, and the sicko mindset is alive and well today.
🤣🤣🤣
sabina and her sister gretchen believe that she is fighting for “everyone’s freedom, whether you know it or not.”
imho, i have better hills to die on.
kind of makes me mad that no one saw fighting for bernie that way, but vax is?
still love her but geesh.
many school boards are having thier open meetings virtual, not due to the virus, due to “yell Queada” showing up disrupting meetings, Police have made arrests
“yell Queada” 🤣🤣😂😅
+100!
Uh huh or stop buying Heinz products. Let them eat that cake.
+100!
def.
Raise the price and cut back on the amount in the package or bottle in this case. the greed rolls on. so sick of our greed no matter what vulture crapratism
I’m sure they’re saying it’s all absolutely essential, now that they’re being forced to pay a living wage, and all. But here’s an idea: instead of screwing the customer, or exploiting your employees, how about holding your nose, biting the bullet, and take it out of your obscene profits??
Yep. Just commented to my sister a few days ago that I bought a bottle of Alaga syrup and it was hardly bigger than a soy sauce bottle.
Not really getting what the misleading info in the Dr. Tom Frieden tweet is though.
The percentage of people who get breakthrough covid, out of all the millions who have been vaccinated, set a very different scenario. But let’s not waste a perfectly good conspiracy theory.
not sure about “the darkness you inevitably succumb to,” maybe the darkness in our souls-no succumbing. lol
but absolutely love the radiance in the photo.
Native American clothing is really beautiful as well as being highly symbolic.
T and R x 2, jcb!! 🙂 Hope you are beginning to seer the full fall colors up your way. 🙂 Happy to report the tropics are quiet storm-wise.
Not so much in the Hudson Valley but some in the Catskills. To have good color, colder crisp nights (especially under freezing) are needed. This year it hasn’t gone below 40, even in the mountains, with no hint of below freezing in the next 10 days. Unprecedented in the 20+ years that I have been up here.
The Adirondacks are going off.
were about 1/3 in to it, we are having an unusual warm Oct temps 10 -15 above normal for high and low, looks like next week will be normal temps
Pleasant memories. When my kids were young and I was off from school for the summer, we used to rent a cabin in the Catskills (Liberty, NY) for the summer. My husband would come up on weekends.
Upstate New York is awesome!
It certainly is. I vividly recall being on a bike run (motorcycle trip) that went up through NY state. We went as far as about 45 miles from the Canadian border. The scenery was simply outrageous, and this was during the summer. 🙂
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smdh
GOPuke Party 2. Well, I am already checking out alternatives like the People’s Party.
Is anyone considering Andrew Yangs new party?
Let us know the scoop if you check it out.
She looks like a private equity robot. 💩
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/576394-sanders-expanding-medicare-benefits-not-negotiable-in-package
Odd that Mondaire Jones is not one of the signers.
The Progressives have got to stand behind Bernie if they want to increase their ranks next year.
The redistrict wars roll on in Wi
Federal judges freeze Wisconsin redistricting lawsuit, will step in if needed
A panel of three federal judges on Wednesday paused a consolidated redistricting lawsuit, but doubled down that it will step in to draw the maps if necessary.
The suit, which was originally filed as two separate actions by two liberal legal groups, found itself in limbo when the Wisconsin Supreme Court last month made the unprecedented decision to accept original jurisdiction over a redistricting lawsuit.
The panel said it will pause the federal case until at least Nov. 5, but asked the involved parties to update the court on that date about “the Wisconsin Supreme Court proceedings … with a joint submission, setting out any points of disagreement.”
Regardless of what happens in the state’s high court, the federal judges wrote, they are still planning on holding a trial on the matter in January, despite the wishes of Republican lawmakers. The goal of the panel is to complete the trial by Jan. 28 so, if necessary, it can draw the maps by March 1 of next year.
“Over the last six decades, when Wisconsin has had divided government, it has frequently failed to enact redistricting plans, and the federal courts — not the Wisconsin Supreme Court — have drawn Wisconsin’s maps,” the judges wrote in their order. “When these cases were filed, it seemed likely that the federal courts would be called upon once again. But the recent decision by the Wisconsin Supreme Court to take up the redistricting issue suggests that this pattern may not repeat itself.”
You’ll only want to eat these grown-up mac and cheese recipes from TikTok
“Federal rights are at stake, so this court will stand by to draw the maps — should it become necessary,” the judges concluded.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court agreed along ideological lines in September to hear the redistricting case brought before. The decision was decried by the court’s liberal justices.
Writing on behalf of her two colleagues, Justice Rebecca Dallet proclaimed in her dissent that “now is not the time and this petition is not the way.”
“Although I trust my colleagues as jurists, I do not share their confidence that we can simultaneously be legislators, cartographers and mathematicians,” she wrote.
Share your opinion on this topic by sending a letter to the editor to tctvoice@madison.com. Include your full name, hometown and phone number. Your name and town will be published. The phone number is for verification purposes only. Please keep your letter to 250 words or less.
This won’t even get that far in godforsaken Floridumb!