mia moraru > Recent Status Updates

twinned rices of land dispossession and labor exploitation.
coupled with major environmental/climate disaster causing continual migration from rural to urban areas. slum fires often and devastating.
95% of forcibly displaced ppl remain internally displaced or in refugee camps in neighboring countries.
less than 1% in those camps find a permanent home.

Export Processing Zones: extranational bordered area, no labor protections, 90% women.
Oldest one in Bangladesh made 1983 by World Bank. ~10% members of parliament in 2013=garment factory owners. how convenient.
IMF programming, debt dictatorship. similar to results of FTAs. disenfranchised workers, all forced to work for cheap exports and monoculture agric., land theft
unionizing banned in EPZs, so militarized

preemption became the norm and also justification for permanent wars and coups everywhere. preserving US hegemony. AFRICOM. US forces operating in 70% of countries worldwide. heightened surveillance on all “dissidents” aka non white and non us supremacist ppls.
2005 zero tolerance for border crossing
Secure Communities Initiative-linking police w ice.
by 2014 over 50% if all federal arrests=immigration related

National Security Entry-Exit Regustration System (NSEERS) in 2002. islamophobic.
2003, DHS created, policy that immigration was a national security threat.
‘constructing an enemy of the state as porous and boundless, as anywhere and everywhere, the US justifies waging war against diverse people and regions all lumped together as “Muslim”’ and same with non muslims esp now more and more

NAFTA, which brought 1.3 mill MX farmers to bankruptcy. it literally forced amendments to the MX constitution to change (how is this legal?!) hundreds of FTAs 1995-2016. ensuring flow of goods but then policing flow of PPL.
crisis of displacement, then proletarianized into low wage factory and farm work.
USBP tripled. clinton yrs—normalized most severe consequences of border militarization and mass detention

Monroe Doctrine — US claimed the entire hemisphere to be within its sphere of influence. Civilian Material Assistance at border w vietnam vets.
raegan ordered first stretch of border fencing.
passed Military Cooperation w Law Enforcement Agencies Act 1981.
exponential growth of Prison IC, immigration detention.
consistent coups 1950s onwards, central Am and Haiti, virtually all Haitian asylum claims rejected

nixon strategy to turn large portions of white working class republican, exploiting racial hostility.
Anti-Comm League 1966. Operation Intercept 1969 & exagg. claims that 80% of weed comes from MX.
many acts passed to restrict Mx immigration and make it almost entirely illegal.
#of MXs arrested for unlawful entry 1965-1986 went from 55k to 1.5mill
BP Explorer Program, trained teenagers!
war on drugs 1982+neolibsm

‘…social differentiation of race…is innately constitutive of capitalism…[which] does not produce a universal relation of wage labor, but requires and reproduces the racial hierarchies that underpin all the processes of territorial expansion, dispossession, enslavement, ownership, etc.’
this is all fundamental to the creation of a geopolitical space dominated by the nation-state

Naturalization Act of 1790: “any alien, being a free WHITE person”
USBP formed in 1924 (!!!!!!), first gen recruits from TX Rangers & Klansmen, laying cultural groundwork for these policing forces.
CA inception, state funded militias authorized to kill indig ppl. vigilantes inspired by these and did the same. Anti-Chinese race riots, then reframed settler land possession a form of protection.

criminalization of migrants so rooted in antiblackness and slavery—in TX post annexation, militias patrolling border to prevent black people from escaping to MX, keep slaves in and then calls & plans to deport non-enslaved black ppl.
vagrancy laws and punishment of homelessness and joblessness, which then coerced black ppl to sign exploitative labor contracts.

US border is a tool of colonialism—esp “buying” mexican land (texas etc) and then conquered ppl in those territories while still othering them.
Doctrine of Discovery in 1400s that any land uninhabited by Xians could be claimed and thus formalized justification for genocide. then goals of maintaining white settler majorities/polity/national identity. Johnson-Reed act on national origins quotas, for ex

trumps policies on migration~increased wall funding, capped refugee admissions at the lowest level in decades, made it harder for refugees to establish “credible fear”, restricted asylum claims, cancelling DACA, ordered end to TPS for people from el salvador, haiti, nicaragua, and sudan. this is all just 1st term

‘…colonial domination is necessarily shaped through imagined victimhood: “A feeling of being besieged by the very people whom one is actually colonising.”’
(Ghassan Hage)

‘Most ironic, the migration crisis is declared a new crisis with Western countries positioned as its victims, even though for 4 centuries nearly 80 million Europeans became settler-colonists across the Americas and Oceania, while 4 million indentured laborers from Asia were scattered across the globe and transatlantic slave trade kidnapped and enslaved 15 million Africans.’

borders are about imperial state formation, control, social ordering. especially in the US, border policy replicates operations abroad, continual genocide, exclusion and persecution both at “home” and abroad.
“Illegal migration is a product of migration law. Without legal prohibition, there is no illegality.” (Dauvergne)
‘Police, prisons, and borders operate through a shared logic of immobilization.’

NATO and EU lowkey fraying, if we go back to before (all solo) with no genuine structural change..we’re sorta back to the start of the 20th C in terms of issues in europe.
unity of europe like this has been unprecedented historically. and people are forgetting the benefits of it and the drawbacks of separation/conflict it easily brings.

france & germany always been sus of each other. creation of EU majorly influenced this; they’re now forced to be on the same side and trust.
euro launch in 1999 but a lot of countries were not ready for it. ‘…the euro is not just a currency—it is also an ideology’
ppl upset bc this kind of deal means the rich have to bail out the poor countries.
GIUK gap & english channel v important+strategic.

yoram hazony among many who criticize opponents of SA apartheid & milosevic’s serbia. insane.
‘This kind of toxic ideology fuels Israel’s daily reality in Pal by propagating the lie that Palestinians are inherently violent and irrational: Israel needs to keep them in a high-tech cage because the alternative is genocide against the Jews.’
and that’s exactly the fucking rhetoric of 3rd reich

Modi had fb remove posts critical of his govt.
but then so much genocidal rhetoric against muslims in india is left up on FB
spokespeople always say diff things and always hypocritical, changes situation based.
Andrew Bosworth (Meta officer) admitted there’s ‘a cost’ but they “believe so deeply in the connectiveness of social media etc.” ugh.

‘The role of social media platforms in this febrile context swiftly becomes a matter of life and death. And yet most of them are unwilling to act responsibly…Ultimately, if people die, who’s responsible at FB or Insta, and who would be held accountable? The answer is that it’s likely nobody would take the fall.’

palestinians self censor a lot bc of all this. Daren Tatour wrote poem w “Resist, my people, resist them” and got months of house arrest bc of it.
AI biased bc fed w info that palestinians are inherently violent so there content should be more monitored.
BUT THEN content that explicitly calls for and PLANS organized attacks on palestinians and others, get left up.

for ex posts about Al-Aqsa mosque attacks (by IOF & settlers) were mass removed bc FB ‘had mistakenly designated it as a location associated with a terrorist organization’ insane.
these companies have no real incentive to correct these/have better measures. always profit>ppl.
Israeli official stated that goal of Nimbus was so german govt unable to access info on IDF for the ICC.

facebook & other socmedia censor palestinian and oppressed groups WAY MORE. blame it on less arabic speakers, there r usually israelis in top positions at FB etc, they can claim it’s a ‘technical glitch’, 2021 leaked docs proved that FB execs ‘didn’t want to curtail extreme speech against minority groups in fear of offending conservative partners’ VOMIT

so many cases of israeli hacking tech used by fucked up people.
used ti target american BDS supporters, lgbtq//ppl using grindr in indonesia and azerbaijan, harvey weinstein to kill media stories of his assaults, isabel dos santos to dig dirt on angola govt, ROMANIAN SENIOR OFFICIAL to target the top corruption prosecutor (laura kovesi) in 2016!!!!!!!

honestly so fun and suspenseful but falling hundreds of feet into unknown depths of cloud world just to land on slimy mushrooms at the bottom and SURVIVE is truly hilarious

sooo US chapter made it very clear where this man's loyalties and biases lie. brushing over genocide/settler colonialism/manifest destiny and straight to why us is 'correctly' dominant over everybody else.
yawn

C companies+workers spreading across world, military will follow.
‘C will struggle to become agile over the next decade.’
econom. locked in and moving w confidence but ‘if we don’t buy they don’t make’, and could lead to mass unemployment and w the crammed pop in urban areas, this could easily lead to social unrest on a new scale

diplomatically C will try to carrot stick SE As nations away from US. court & threaten
pushing & pushing agenda until competitors back off.
C intends to become 2ocean power: Pacific+Indian.
British announced ‘freedom of navigation’ operations in SCS, v provocative.
C wants to reduce reliance on Straight of Malacca; burma coastline has pipelines linking BoBengal to SWChina.

‘All great nations spend peacetime preparing for the day war breaks out.’

sigh.

catch 22–needs to keep industrializing as modernizes but then threatens food production/arable land.
C wants to rival US navy. anywhere C could go by water, they pass by allies of US
C must secure routes thru S C Sea for goods and resources to make them. options are diplomacy or navy but best guarantee are pipelines roads & ports.