Our Moral Compass Is Still Working “100% of the African Americans in the poll-- 109-- now believe that the Iraq war was unjustified. Zero percent of the African Americans polled support the appointment of Alito to the Supreme Court. 80.3% oppose it and 19.7 percent are not sure. That helps explain the huge drop in support PA Senatorial candidate Bob Casey sees from African Americans when they learn his positions. How huge? Casey loses virtually 50% of his African American support (think Philadelphia and Pittsburgh) I was shocked until I checked the poll's issue question demographics and found how strongly the African American Community feels about those two issues.” www.opednews.com/articles 01-29-06
A recent Zogby/ People public opinion poll on a wide range of topics indicated not one African in AmeriKKKa polled thought the invasion and occupation of Iraq was justified. Now I know most thinking people are skeptical about public opinion polls because they are often used as propaganda or disinformation tools to sway public opinion one way or anther. But in this case I am hearted for several reasons. First Zogby is an honest pollster. Thus far he and his group have maintained their integrity and have not been bought off by the political elites unlike many public relations firms and professional pollsters who are in fact on the CIA and White House payrolls. John Zogby’s company, Zogby International is known for tackling the tough questions, looking at the critical issues in AmeriKKKan social and political life and treading where most corporate connected pollsters fear to go. For example a recent Zogby poll revealed a majority of AmeriKKKans favor the impeachment of George W Bu$h for illegal spying on US citizens.
“By a margin of 52% to 43%, Americans want Congress to consider impeaching President Bush if he wiretapped American citizens without a judge's approval, according to a new poll commissioned by AfterDowningStreet.org,, a grassroots coalition that supports a Congressional investigation of President Bush's decision to invade Iraq in 2003. The poll was conducted by Zogby International, the highly-regarded non-partisan polling company. The poll interviewed 1,216 U.S. adults from January 9-12. The poll found that 52% agreed with the statement: ‘If President Bush wiretapped American citizens without the approval of a judge, do you agree or disagree that Congress should consider holding him accountable through impeachment.’ 43% disagreed, and 6% said they didn't know or declined to answer. The poll has a +/- 2.9% margin of error.” In 2004 Zogby International published their Impressions of America study a six nation survey of altitudes towards AmeriKKKa by Arabs in Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan and United Arab Emirates; countries that are generally pro Western. The Zogby International survey found that most Arabs in these countries held negative opinions about US foreign policy www.aaiusa.org/PDF/Impressions_of_America04.pdf .
The latest Zogby Peoples poll is interesting because it included Africans in AmeriKKKa. This in itself is unique because most polls, surveys and studies totally ignore black people. How many homes in black communities do you know that keep a Neilson log of the television shows they watch? How many blacks do you know who keep an Arbitron rating logbook? When was the last time a white person asked you your opinion on anything? Not that that matters because Africans in AmeriKKKa are very opinionated and hold strong feelings on a myriad of issues, it’s just that most whites could care less and most see us as invisible. The fact that none of the respondents to the Zogby question supported Bu$h is also a good sign. It means we have not fallen for the okie-doke or cracked under the pressure of fascist jingoist media propaganda, White House intimidation or right wing demagoguery. Good for us! We are still sane. Perhaps the Bu$h administration’s callous response to Hurricane Katrina and the suffering black folks in New Orleans pissed enough of us off that nothing Bu$h says or does resonates with us. Perhaps we knew all along the invasion of Iraq was morally reprehensible as well as a tactical folly. According to the Zogby poll black folks are also opposed to the Alito nomination to the US Supreme Court. Perhaps we know Alito or someone like him will tip the scales to full fledged fascism and give Bu$h and his ilk the votes needed to go buck wild creating a fascist police state. Maybe the stories about Bu$h ordering illegal spying on US citizens strikes a cord and we remember the massive abuses of COINTELPRO, the state sanctioned terror of the Jim Crow era or maybe we have something in our genetic memory that makes us uneasy and skeptical about someone like George W Bu$h.
I like to think the Zogby poll reflects a sanity and savvy within the African-AmeriKKKan community. I like to think black folks have not allowed ourselves to be hoodwinked and bamboozled by the media mind control apparatus. I like to think we oppose the invasion and occupation of Iraq because it is the humane, righteous and just thing to do! I like to think we oppose Alito because we know intuitively he is no good; because we know, anyone a man like Bu$h would recommend and nominate is morally flawed from the jump. While there aren’t many black spokespersons out front in the limelight like Martin Luther King Jr was in 1967 denouncing the war in Vietnam, to our credit black folks are hip to the real deal. We’ve stopped signing up to be cannon fodder in the white man’s imperialistic military misadventures, his wars for oil, US dollar hegemony, drugs and to be the world’s bully. Good for us! Perhaps our moral compass is still working?. Maybe just maybe we can influence world events just by saying no to war, injustice, US state terror and exploitation at home and abroad! Last month I purchased the book
Without Sanctuary a graphic pictorial chronicle of lynchings and mutilations of blacks by whites throughout the United States. I display it prominently in my library/study/studio. I use it to keep me focused and to remind me never to fall for the Bu$hzzaro world newspeak okie-doke that war is peace, occupation is liberty, callousness and neglect are concern and compassion, ruthlessness and greed are humanitarianism or that white power is to be trusted. Zogby International didn’t ask me and probably won’t but I’m hearted and encouraged to know so many Africans in AmeriKKKa recognize Emperor Bu$h is morally naked, and they see the AmeriKKKan Empire for what it really is. Maybe just maybe all those good white folks (whoever and wherever they are) will wake up in time to turn Bu$h and Cheney out.
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Consciousness As The Roots of Power
Consciousness As The Roots of Power “The European is largely our creation. When we look at our behavior, we still see that to a good extent it is our behavior, our values, our consciousness, the kind of personalities we have established on ourselves- our tastes, our desires and needs- that maintain the European in his position. Let’s examine the Civil Rights Movement and the apartheid system of the South. When blacks decided just to get off the buses and walk, the system changed. When they just stopped sitting behind the white driver, just changing that relationship changed the nature of power in tat sytem. When they decided to walk side by side, when hey decided to walk abreast and ally themselves collectively, the relationship changed. They had not aligned that way before. When they kept their monies in their pockets, sat on those stools and blocked the other people from them and changed the nature of the interaction between themselves and whites, the nature of hte system changed. Therefore, we have tremendous power. It depends upon how we align ourselves as a people and how we decide to relater to other people in the world. They cannot have what they have unless we are what we are.” Amos N Wilson Afrikan Centered Consciousness Versus The New World Order p 89-09
During the late 1960's Africans in AmeriKKKa shocked the world by shouting and demanding Black Power. This cry emerged following major success in dismantling the psychologically smothering system of apartheid in the South. Emboldened by our brothers and sisters successes against virulent racists and mounting court reversals to the long standing legalized racial caste in the South the movement gathered momentum and spread throughout the country. Based upon the victories of King and the SNCC the movement spread to the urban centers that were experiencing their own versions of racist oppression and marginalization. Africans long subjected to the vilest forms of dehumanization and abuse began to rise up and demand their human rights. Long bottled up frustrations exploded in cities like Newark New Jersey, the Watts section of LA and Detroit, forcing the ruling elites and their surrogates to scramble to put a band-aid on deeply rooted spreading cancer. The cry Black Power sent shivers of fear up and down the spines of most white folks in AmeriKKKa. In their demented and fear ridden psyches they envisioned hordes of blacks exacting vengeance and reparations on their sorry behinds. So appealing to their fears the ruling elites used code words and phrases to let them know counter insurgency measures were coming. People like J Edgar Hoover, George Wallace, Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew openly called for Law and Order which was their promise to repress the surging black empowerment movements. Even while they were passing Civil Rights legislation, open housing acts, equal opportunity banking, voter rights and such, they were ratcheting up COINTELPRO, militarizing local police departments and unleashing the power of the state to undermine, sabotage and ultimately destroy any vestiges of unity, leadership and organization within our communities. Intimidation, murder, frame ups, kangaroo courts and incarceration were used to rid our communities of effective leadership and resistance to the racist status quo. Meanwhile they made cosmetic and superficial changes to lower some barriers and open society a bit to make it appear AmeriKKKa had evolved and transformed itself into a truly equalitarian society. The media made it taboo to discuss race or show the real deal. But as we look around we can see the real deal. Hurricane Katrina ripped the blinders off. We see the rampant police brutality and abuses just like during the ‘50's and ‘60's, we see the joblessness, homelessness and discrimination, we see incarceration rates higher and more draconian now than during the prison and convict leasing programs following the Civil War! The cries for Black Power have been muffled, the white ruling elites have manipulated the media and foisted controlled “leaders” on our community to make sure any such cries are quickly muted or co-opted to cries for “green power”, “people power” or some other nonsense.
Contrary to the media mind control apparatus propaganda, we are not powerless, we can fight City Hall, Wall Street and Washington. Human beings are sentient and powerful beings. We are not idle spectators in our experiences. We have a say in the quality of our lives even if it means risking a beat down for protesting or demanding our human rights. If we take a page from the Civil Rights era, say the Montgomery bus boycott, we can still use those tactics to achieve cohesion and empowerment. Just using what the old folks called GP (general principle) we should not spend one dime in a store or retail chain that disrespects us! For example I have not purchased gasoline from Texaco since it was revealed how their executives treated black workers and the racial epithets they called them were documented by tapes back in the ‘90's. That’s just one example. The white man gets away with what he does because we have internalized the psychopathic notions of his divinity and invincibility, despite ample evidence to the contrary. With all his super weaponry and his willingness to use them on humanity, we have seen him get his butt kicked and chased out of Vietnam, Somalia and its only a matter of time before his is run out of Iraq. Are the Iraqis, Somalis and Vietnamese smarter than we are? Are they more courageous or more determined to be free? The rest of the world uses what we did in the ‘50' and ‘60's as their blueprint for social change. King used Thoreau and Ghandi’s ideas and tactics of passive resistance, civil disobedience and boycott to bring down racial cast in Montgomery Alabama. Adam Clayton Powell Sr and Leon Sullivan used economic boycotts effectively to force social change. These will still work today but we must have a consciousness of empowerment, a consciousness of a Marcus Mosiah Garvey “Up you mighty race you can accomplish what you will” and the dogged determination of a Fanny Lou Hamer “I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired” to make it work. Marcus Garvey was an unabashedly proud African who dared to dream of redemption for Africa and Africans world wide. What type of dreams do you have for yourself and our people? Why has the word struggle disappeared from our vocabulary? Why have psychopaths, madmen and devils set the moral agenda for not only their people but for us? This is totally unacceptable. We can do better. If the world is to survive and prosper, we must do better. It is clear we cannot depend upon our oppressors for relief and justice because they are totally incapable of it. If it is to be, it is up to us! We have to develop a consciousness of possibilities, the ability to dream, imagine, visualize and forge a new world order based on our African traditions. Not the NWO of the Iluminati, David Rockefeller or the Bu$h crime family but using the Akan concept of Sankofa looking back to fashion a new world based upon the ancient concept of Ma’at (Divine Order, Harmony, Equilibrium, Truth, Justice, Righteousness and Reciprocity). It begins in and with each of us and radiates outward in all we do, in our daily activities, in our business transactions, our motivations and goals. It means we cannot acquiesce to a fascist regime hell bent on an empire. Our consciousness and actions must reflect our commitment to Ma’at. It is doable. Anything less means we allow the planet to be plunged into an abyss of Eurocentric degradation, perversion perpetual war, privation and rapine.
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Gran Theft New Orleans
Grand Theft New Orleans “New Orleans residents are hopping mad and full of defiance. A proposed building plan has been unveiled, and under the plan the mostly working class and poor residents of the hardest hit areas, some two-thirds of the city that includes more than half the homeowners, would not be allowed to move back and begin rebuilding their homes for at least four months. During this four-months, residents would have to demonstrate the existence of sufficient “critical mass” in their neighborhoods by showing, for example, that half of the population planned to return and rebuild. Neighborhoods that failed the test would either be reduced in size or plowed under, and a new city agency, the Crescent City Redevelopment Corp., would buy out homeowners or seize their property through eminent domain. These areas would be returned to wetlands and green space. The estimated cost would be $12 billion and which the city would seek to receive from us taxpayers via the federal government. This is a calculated and cruel scheme to permanently depopulate low-income areas of New Orleans, and build up more affluent residential areas, as well as tourist districts. We believe connected elitist interests and cronies of local and state politicians will end up with the land at fire-sale prices and further enrich themselves. Tens of thousands of working class New Orleans residents, stripped of their homes and their jobs and scattered across America, as a result of incompetence, collusion and theft by government and its thieving appendages as our country sinks to new lows. The city is being given to the elite, privileged and wealthy. Isn't that the way it is supposed to be? You have to have a reward for creating and directing hurricanes.” Robert Chapman www.theinternationalforecaster.com/trainwreck
On Sunday January 22, 2006 I had Del Jones The War Correspondent www.whattheproblemis.com on my Internet radio program and we discussed the ongoing domestic holocaust against African people and the government’s recent dry run for a military takeover and lock down of a major urban area namely New Orleans. There have been subsequent Congressional hearing on New Orleans that were telecast on C-Span where the residents verified our worst fears, the US government engaged in ethnic cleansing, “Black survivors of Hurricane Katrina said Tuesday that racism contributed to the slow disaster response, at times likening themselves in emotional congressional testimony to victims of genocide and the Holocaust. The comparison is inappropriate, according to Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla. ‘Not a single person was marched into a gas chamber and killed,’ Miller told the survivors. ‘They died from abject neglect,’ retorted community activist Leah Hodges. ‘We left body bags behind.’ Angry evacuees described being trapped in temporary shelters where one New Orleans resident said she was "one sunrise from being consumed by maggots and flies." Another woman said military troops focused machine gun laser targets on her granddaughter's forehead. Others said their families were called racial epithets by police. ‘No one is going to tell me it wasn't a race issue,’ said New Orleans evacuee Patricia Thompson, 53, who is now living in College Station, Texas. ‘Yes, it was an issue of race. Because of one thing: when the city had pretty much been evacuated, the people that were left there mostly was black.’” www.sfgate.com
Following the Congressional hearings which were energized by charges of racism and deliberate government complicity in genocide by the New Orleans residents who testified before the Congressional Committee. Raising the specter of race caused the corporate media to back off and downplay it as an issue despite the fact the whole world saw first hand for themselves just how inept and callous the US government’s response was to the crisis. Moreover, people heard about the numerous abuses by the military and Blackwater mercenaries who were called in to “restore order” by setting up a hostile military environment, simulating martial law but who did little to search for or save the residents most who were still in need of rescue, food, water, health care and shelter. Del shared with our listeners how FEMA used the catastrophe as a dry run to test the modern configurations of the King Alfred Plan and Rex 84 fascist programs designed to set up martial law, a totalitarian governmental police state featuring massive relocation, displacement and even internment. The allegations of ethnic cleansing by the New Orleans residents were pooh poohed by the white Congressmen and the media but as time passed we are now seeing just how on point the residents really were.
In his latest post Robert Chapman explained what is going on in New Orleans, how most of the poor and working class neighborhoods are being abandoned by the government with plans to take them over via eminent domain and turn them into wetlands and green space. Referring to the plan Chapman stated,
“This is a calculated and cruel scheme to permanently depopulate low-income areas of New Orleans, and build up more affluent residential areas, as well as tourist districts. We believe connected elitist interests and cronies of local and state politicians will end up with the land at fire-sale prices and further enrich themselves. Tens of thousands of working class New Orleans residents, stripped of their homes and their jobs and scattered across America, as a result of incompetence, collusion and theft by government and its thieving appendages as our country sinks to new lows. The city is being given to the elite, privileged and wealthy. Isn't that the way it is supposed to be? You have to have a reward for creating and directing hurricanes. Behind this theft is G. W. Bush's good friend N.O. developer J. C. Canizaro. We are currently checking to see if he is connected to the Traficanti's. Canizaro is a commission member. All we get from lizard blood Bush is personal contempt and indifference toward the suffering of the city's poorest residents. In Bush's visit he visited the rich and connected only and in his own unequally moronic way displayed his ignorance and callous stupidity...The Latin Quarter has come to life and the city's wealthier areas have as well. The poor and middle-class areas are a shambles. Our President is giving the city $3.1 billion to fix the levees, but experts say $32 billion is needed. Our government has allocated $25 billion for relief; $250 billion is needed. We believe the disaster was deliberately caused and the part of government is a classic case of gross negligence and a colossal misallocation of resources away from social needs and infrastructure and into the private bank accounts of the rich and super-rich. Washington and local politicians and the elitists will rape what is left of the city.” www.theinternationalforecaster.com/trainwreck.
The Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Kelo vs. City of New London will be used to facilitate the theft of the black people of New Orleans’s homes and lands using eminent domain what one dissenting Justice called reverse Robin Hood stealing from the poor to give to the rich and connected. We already saw the no bid contracts to Bu$h cronies, that was the first phase. Subsequent phases will be the acquisition of the homes and lands of the poor and working class neighborhoods. The residents won’t be able to reclaim their homes and also will not be able to afford the new homes, condos and apartments that will be constructed. What we are seeing is grand theft New Orleans. New Orleans was just one of the models the plutocrats will use to continue the massive transfer of wealth from the working poor and lower middle classes to themselves. The new Federal Reserve, and Bu$h imperialist policies will also be used to erode the wealth and lifestyle of the rest of AmeriKKKa as well as dismantle the social welfare programs that serve as a safety nets for the least of us. It is all part and parcel to their agenda to bring about a radical change in AmeriKKKa . Their goal is to usher in wage and debt peonage, massive unemployment to force more and more young folks into the waiting arms of the US imperialist military as canon fodder for the elites perpetual wars the one party fascists plan to wage around the world, unless people of good will and conscience determine to derail their agenda.
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Grand Theft New Orleans
Grand Theft New Orleans “New Orleans residents are hopping mad and full of defiance. A proposed building plan has been unveiled, and under the plan the mostly working class and poor residents of the hardest hit areas, some two-thirds of the city that includes more than half the homeowners, would not be allowed to move back and begin rebuilding their homes for at least four months. During this four-months, residents would have to demonstrate the existence of sufficient “critical mass” in their neighborhoods by showing, for example, that half of the population planned to return and rebuild. Neighborhoods that failed the test would either be reduced in size or plowed under, and a new city agency, the Crescent City Redevelopment Corp., would buy out homeowners or seize their property through eminent domain. These areas would be returned to wetlands and green space. The estimated cost would be $12 billion and which the city would seek to receive from us taxpayers via the federal government. This is a calculated and cruel scheme to permanently depopulate low-income areas of New Orleans, and build up more affluent residential areas, as well as tourist districts. We believe connected elitist interests and cronies of local and state politicians will end up with the land at fire-sale prices and further enrich themselves. Tens of thousands of working class New Orleans residents, stripped of their homes and their jobs and scattered across America, as a result of incompetence, collusion and theft by government and its thieving appendages as our country sinks to new lows. The city is being given to the elite, privileged and wealthy. Isn't that the way it is supposed to be? You have to have a reward for creating and directing hurricanes.” Robert Chapman www.theinternationalforecaster.com/trainwreck
On Sunday January 22, 2006 I had Del Jones The War Correspondent www.whattheproblemis.com on my Internet radio program and we discussed the ongoing domestic holocaust against African people and the government’s recent dry run for a military takeover and lock down of a major urban area namely New Orleans. There have been subsequent Congressional hearing on New Orleans that were telecast on C-Span where the residents verified our worst fears, the US government engaged in ethnic cleansing,
“Black survivors of Hurricane Katrina said Tuesday that racism contributed to the slow disaster response, at times likening themselves in emotional congressional testimony to victims of genocide and the Holocaust. The comparison is inappropriate, according to Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla. ‘Not a single person was marched into a gas chamber and killed,’ Miller told the survivors. ‘They died from abject neglect,’ retorted community activist Leah Hodges. ‘We left body bags behind.’ Angry evacuees described being trapped in temporary shelters where one New Orleans resident said she was "one sunrise from being consumed by maggots and flies." Another woman said military troops focused machine gun laser targets on her granddaughter's forehead. Others said their families were called racial epithets by police. ‘No one is going to tell me it wasn't a race issue,’ said New Orleans evacuee Patricia Thompson, 53, who is now living in College Station, Texas. ‘Yes, it was an issue of race. Because of one thing: when the city had pretty much been evacuated, the people that were left there mostly was black.’” www.sfgate.com
Following the Congressional hearings which were energized by charges of racism and deliberate government complicity in genocide by the New Orleans residents who testified before the Congressional Committee. Raising the specter of race caused the corporate media to back off and downplay it as an issue despite the fact the whole world saw first hand for themselves just how inept and callous the US government’s response was to the crisis. Moreover, people heard about the numerous abuses by the military and Blackwater mercenaries who were called in to “restore order” by setting up a hostile military environment, simulating martial law but who did little to search for or save the residents most who were still in need of rescue, food, water, health care and shelter. Del shared with our listeners how FEMA used the catastrophe as a dry run to test the modern configurations of the King Alfred Plan and Rex 84 fascist programs designed to set up martial law, a totalitarian governmental police state featuring massive relocation, displacement and even internment. The allegations of ethnic cleansing by the New Orleans residents were pooh poohed by the white Congressmen and the media but as time passed we are now seeing just how on point the residents really were.
In his latest post Robert Chapman explained what is going on in New Orleans, how most of the poor and working class neighborhoods are being abandoned by the government with plans to take them over via eminent domain and turn them into wetlands and green space. Referring to the plan Chapman stated,
“This is a calculated and cruel scheme to permanently depopulate low-income areas of New Orleans, and build up more affluent residential areas, as well as tourist districts. We believe connected elitist interests and cronies of local and state politicians will end up with the land at fire-sale prices and further enrich themselves. Tens of thousands of working class New Orleans residents, stripped of their homes and their jobs and scattered across America, as a result of incompetence, collusion and theft by government and its thieving appendages as our country sinks to new lows. The city is being given to the elite, privileged and wealthy. Isn't that the way it is supposed to be? You have to have a reward for creating and directing hurricanes. Behind this theft is G. W. Bush's good friend N.O. developer J. C. Canizaro. We are currently checking to see if he is connected to the Traficanti's. Canizaro is a commission member. All we get from lizard blood Bush is personal contempt and indifference toward the suffering of the city's poorest residents. In Bush's visit he visited the rich and connected only and in his own unequally moronic way displayed his ignorance and callous stupidity...The Latin Quarter has come to life and the city's wealthier areas have as well. The poor and middle-class areas are a shambles. Our President is giving the city $3.1 billion to fix the levees, but experts say $32 billion is needed. Our government has allocated $25 billion for relief; $250 billion is needed. We believe the disaster was deliberately caused and the part of government is a classic case of gross negligence and a colossal misallocation of resources away from social needs and infrastructure and into the private bank accounts of the rich and super-rich. Washington and local politicians and the elitists will rape what is left of the city.” www.theinternationalforecaster.com/trainwreck.
The Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Kelo vs. City of New London will be used to facilitate the theft of the black people of New Orleans’s homes and lands using eminent domain what one dissenting Justice called reverse Robin Hood stealing from the poor to give to the rich and connected. We already saw the no bid contracts to Bu$h cronies, that was the first phase. Subsequent phases will be the acquisition of the homes and lands of the poor and working class neighborhoods. The residents won’t be able to reclaim their homes and also will not be able to afford the new homes, condos and apartments that will be constructed. What we are seeing is grand theft New Orleans. New Orleans was just one of the models the plutocrats will use to continue the massive transfer of wealth from the working poor and lower middle classes to themselves. The new Federal Reserve, and Bu$h imperialist policies will also be used to erode the wealth and lifestyle of the rest of AmeriKKKa as well as dismantle the social welfare programs that serve as a safety nets for the least of us. It is all part and parcel to their agenda to bring about a radical change in AmeriKKKa . Their goal is to usher in wage and debt peonage, massive unemployment to force more and more young folks into the waiting arms of the US imperialist military as canon fodder for the elites perpetual wars the one party fascists plan to wage around the world, unless people of good will and conscience determine to derail their agenda.
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How They Dupe and Bamboozle Us
How They Dupe and Bamboozle Us “One of the most powerful ways of by-passing critical rationality in America has long been the posture of religious piety and moralism. That’s how the Music Man sells River City on a boy’s band. “These leaders must have integrity, they’re so religious,” I heard on my call-in radio show. People who have been betrayed by the false piety of the Jimmy Swaggarts and Jim Bakkers of the world will still assume that one who speaks often enough of his great faith can be trusted. That’s the way that the wolf of unbridled self-aggrandisement hides behind the sheep’s clothing of false righteousness. (That’s how political leaders who are only serving their lust for power and their greed can get legitimacy and compliance.) There is another venerable template in American political culture: the pattern of rhetoric by which governing elites inflame peripheral issues to distract their followers from seeing the truth of their exploitation. In the South, race long served as the imflammatory distraction to enable the few to dominate the many. In our times, the pseudo-alliance to preserve white purity has been largely replaced by a pseudo-alliance to maintain moral purity. What’s not noticed is that while the leaders just keep these hot-button moral issues (like abortion and gay rights) festering, unresolved, they make sure that the agenda of the rich and powerful (the regressive tax cuts, the dismantling of environmental regulation, etc.) actually gets accomplished. While the con itself is not new, the scope of today’s successful deception of the American people is unprecedented.” What Makes Americans Susceptible to Manipulation? by Andrew Bard Schmookler www.nonesoblind.org
It is truly amazing to see just how thoroughly effective the media mind control apparatus is at brainwashing supposedly intelligent humans into falling for the lamest okie-doke imaginable. Throughout human history the masses have allowed an elite few to lead rule and manipulate them. In by-gone eras many of the leaders were motivated by a higher calling and held accountable by the tribe or clan to live upright and represent. Our African ancestors established the first systematic articulation of ethics they called Ma’at. The Africans spread this notion of divinely ordained teleological order, rectitude, righteousness, truth, equilibrium, justice harmony and reciprocity as they spread out and populated the earth. Behavioral deviants, lepers, mutants and social outlaws who refused or could not abide by the notions of Ma’at were banished from the group. Subsequently due to isolation and perversion they incestuously inbreed with each other resulting in a pale skinned genetically mutated culturally abhorrent psychopathic species. This species has made it’s impact felt since 2,000 BCE. When they overran the darker skinned peoples of Sumer and likewise when they poured into the Indus Valley and destroyed the Harrapan cultures after a long series of wars. Today their genetic and cultural descendants rule the world using brute force to intimidate and frighten, they use lies, disinformation and deceit to manipulate the masses to maintain their hegemony over their own people and the rest of humanity. The tools of their trade are lies and deceit coupled with brute force, torture and terror. Western history is replete with examples of their modus operandi: the ongoing internecine tribal invasions and warfare, the Spanish inquisition, the ruthless and brutal efforts of the Catholic Church to suppress the Reformation, the Salem Witch trials and the stark savagery Europeans have unleashed on people of color everywhere they encountered us on planet earth.
Today we live in an increasingly technological age where advanced technology is used to dummy down, misinform and manipulate the masses. We are now learning the US is using this technology to illegally spy on and monitor the communications and the comings and going of the citizenry. In many ways consumer technology we use and believe is so vital for our daily living are merely Trojan Horses we unwittingly allow into our lives and homes that will eventually defeat and debase us. Most AmeriKKKans are not critical thinkers. This is by design and purpose. An uncritical and mindless people are viewed as sheep to be sheered and lead around by those more cunning, powerful and ruthless. An example of the gullibility of the AmeriKKKan people is the official version of 9-11, espoused by the government, the corporate media and the 9-11 “Whitewash” Commission. Their narrative that a band of Muslim fanatics operating out of caves in Afghanistan were able to either by pure luck or astute planning circumvent the multi- billion dollar intelligence, military and civil defense systems of the United States is highly unlikely yet most AmeriKKKans unquestionably accept this nonsense as fact. Only an misinformed idiot would believe this stuff unless the mechanisms they depend upon for news and information keeps repeating this madness over and over while suppressing and discrediting any questions or challenges to such an improbable narrative. Our addiction to the medium of television is the Trojan Horse that allows the ruling elites to brainwash us and we not even realize what is being done to us.
“Television, including video tape recording (VTR), is one of the most effective media for persuasion. It offers many advantages for propaganda operations, and its wide application in other fields contributes to its acceptance and use. It is appropriate for use in limited, general, and cold war and is particularly effective in FID (Foreign Internal Defense) and consolidation operations... Television is an all encompassing-mass communication medium. Like radio, it makes use of the sense of hearing to convey an idea. Like printed material, it makes use of the sense of sight, adding the element of motion. And like the motion picture, it combines sight, sound, and motion. Television is immediate; in effect, it places the viewer in two locations simultaneously, creating the illusion of participating in a distant event.” www.theunjustmedia.com/Propaganda/Propaganda The more we uncritically watch television and unwittingly internalize the subtle and overt messages contained in the programming the more at risk we place ourselves to be brainwashed, indoctrinated and duped. The media is the conduit for a message and the primary message of AmeriKKKan media is white supremacy, global dominance and fascism. One way to thwart their intentions is to consume less media, period. When you do read or watch television do so with a skeptical and critical eye. Ask yourself, is this true? Ask yourself why should I believe this stuff? Ask yourself what messages are they trying to instill and how are these images affecting me? Start being aware of the modifiers, the adjectives, adverbs and other descriptive words used in the articles which will give you a better idea of how the story is being slanted. Start paying attention to the pictures and images in the papers and on the newscasts. They will give you insight into how the images are being used to manipulate your opinions and emotions. Note the placement of black people in commercials and in scenes in the movies and on television. Ponder the fact we are in a global war and everything our oppressors use are designed to gain an advantage for them. How they dupe us is by promoting and selling technology they will use to brainwash, dominate and subjugate us. Now that you know, act accordingly.
The Timeliness and Relevance of Dr. King’s Anti- War Stance
The Timeliness and Relevance of Dr. King’s Anti- War Stance “They must see Americans as strange liberators. The Vietnamese people proclaimed their own independence in 1945 after a combined French and Japanese occupation, and before the Communist revolution in China. They were led by Ho Chi Minh. Even though they quoted the American Declaration of Independence in their own document of freedom, we refused to recognize them. Instead, we decided to support France in its reconquest of her former colony.Our government felt then that the Vietnamese people were not "ready" for independence, and we again fell victim to the deadly Western arrogance that has poisoned the international atmosphere for so long. With that tragic decision we rejected a revolutionary government seeking self-determination, and a government that had been established not by China (for whom the Vietnamese have no great love) but by clearly indigenous forces that included some Communists. For the peasants this new government meant real land reform, one of the most important needs in their lives. For nine years following 1945 we denied the people of Vietnam the right of independence. For nine years we vigorously supported the French in their abortive effort to recolonize Vietnam. Before the end of the war we were meeting eighty percent of the French war costs. Even before the French were defeated at Dien Bien Phu, they began to despair of the reckless action, but we did not. We encouraged them with our huge financial and military supplies to continue the war even after they had lost the will. Soon we would be paying almost the full costs of this tragic attempt at recolonization.” Martin Luther King Jr April 4, 1967
One year to the date before he was assassinated Martin Luther King Jr. Delivered a powerful speech in New York City at the Riverside Church. In it King outlined why he had chosen to speak out against the escalating war in Vietnam. He cited his calling as a preacher, he addressed the fact he was a Nobel peace Prize recipient, he noted the connection between the anti-war movement and the human rights struggle, he talked about the hypocrisy of sending the poor overseas to fight a war to guarantee rights and privileges they hadn’t experienced or enjoyed at home and at one point he declared he was speaking out to save the soul of AmeriKKKa. he said,
“If America's soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read Vietnam. It can never be saved so long as it destroys the deepest hopes of men the world over. So it is that those of us who are yet determined that America will be are led down the path of protest and dissent, working for the health of our land.” King understood the moral implications of AmeriKKKa's imperialist war in Southeast Asia. In his mind AmeriKKKa's imperial over reach of 1967 was sapping AmeriKKKa of what little moral vitality it had left. Little did King realize how right and on point he was! The ruling elites felt gravely threatened by King's bold and courageous stance against the war and his initiatives to address the glaring inequities in income, wealth and privilege in AmeriKKKa, so they targeted him for assassination.
If you lived through that era as I did, and you listen to Martin Luther King Jr’s
Beyond Vietnam Time To Break Silence speech as I have and if you are keenly aware of what is going on now in Iraq, Afghanistan, Columbia and post 9-11 AmeriKKKa; and you listen to some of the music of mid ‘60's to early ‘70's era like Marvin Gaye’s
What’s Going On?, Sam Cooke’s
Change Is Gonna Come, Cutis Mayfield’s
People Get Ready, Bill Wither’s
I Can’t Right Left Handed or Gil Scott Heron’s
Winter In America as I have recently, you get the sickening feeling this is deja vu all over again! The lyrics of those songs bring back memories of resistance and dissent against the AmeriKKKan imperialist war in Vietnam and the AmeriKKKan fascist police state with its COINTELPRO, Operation Chaos, Richard Nixon’s enemies list and draconian King Alfred Plan! Things are equally as bad if not worse today. Back then communism was the bogeyman of choice, today it is amorphous terrorists under every bed that Bu$h and Co. are using to scare and dupe the masses into accepting his dictatorial powers! Today as then, we have an unpopular war based on lies, cooked CIA intelligence that is escalating out of control as it drains and ruins the nation’s treasury and demoralizes us as we sink deeper into the abys of immorality, fascism and criminality.
I suggest you Google the
Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence speech, reread it or listen to it. Then ask yourself if you substituted the worlds and socio-political rhetoric about Iraq for King's verbiage about the socio-political realities of the Vietnam era, wouldn't that speech be as relevant for today as it was in 1967? The sad reality for me and for most of you the answer would have to be a resounding yes! Alas, AmeriKKKa is just as ruthless and bloodthirsty in 2006 as it was in 1967. The AmeriKKKan executive branch is just as morally bankrupt today as it was in 1967! One major difference is that in 1967 there was a vocal, vigorous, energized and large scale anti-war movement flourishing despite the illegal activities of the FBI’s COINTELPRO and the CIA’s Operation Chaos that spied upon them, illegally opened people’s mail, falsely arrested, railroaded and framed people, abused their legal rights and even assassinated them because they refused to go along with the war agenda of the Johnson and Nixon administrations. The ruling elites learned a lesson from thatera and adopted an all volunteer army which did away withthe draft so their imperialist wars and follies around the world lessen the direct impact on families today. Nevertheless, George W Bu$h and his NeoCon fascists have resurrected the illegal anti-dissent policies of Johnson and Nixon and plan to use Samuel Alito and similar ideologues on the US Supreme Court to justify the destruction of civil liberties and procedural rights and make it legal. Remember everything Adolph Hitler did following the Reichstag fire and passage of the Enabling Acts in Nazi Germany was legal; even the concentration camps and murders merely because Hilter said so and the German people acquiesced to his usurpation of power. White AmeriKKKans have acquiesced to Bu$h’s aggressive and illegal abrogation of constitutional powers. Bu$h is hoping Alito and the rest of his sycophants on the Supreme Court will make everything he and his fascist cohorts are doing legal. Just as previous Supreme Courts did nothing to stop the extermination of the Native Americans nor the enslavement, oppression, degradation of Africans prior to the NAACP legal challenges to AmeriKKKan racial apartheid in the 1940's and ‘50's Bu$h and Co will get a free ride to dictatorship! It took a Henry David Thoreau to challenge the US government’s involvement in slavery in the mid 1800's. It took a man like John Brown to take up arms to destroy the evil institution of slavery and it took Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr to galvanize black people to directly confront racial cast in Montgomery Alabama in the 1950's. Martin Luther King said in effect, to remain silent in the face of great evil was a betrayal of humanity. Where are the Henry David Thoreau , Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr of this generation? Are there any people willing to break the silence and stand up for what is right?
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Class Warfare In AmeriKKKa
Class Warfare In AmeriKKKa “In no other country is the existence of social class, not to mention class struggle, so vehemently denied as in the United States. But in no other country are the class divisions so deep. And nowhere else is class war practiced with a viciousness that equals that of the American ruling class. It has taken less than 24 hours for the strike of transit workers to expose before the eyes of the world the brutal reality of American society. The strike exemplifies the unbridgeable class divisions in American society, in which a corrupt and reactionary financial oligarchy utilizes the most brutal methods to smash all resistance to its lust for profits and personal wealth. One has only to look at the cast of characters leading the assault on transit workers to get a sense of the real social issues at stake in this conflict. First, there is Michael Bloomberg, who spent lavishly out of his vast personal fortune of more than $5 billion to buy the mayoralty. He had the effrontery to go before cameras Tuesday to denounce bus and subway workers as 'selfish,' 'thuggish,' 'disgraceful' and 'shameful.' Second, there is real estate mogul Peter Kalikow, with a net worth of more than $1 billion, who is negotiating on behalf of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). Third, leading the anti-transit worker hate campaign of the gutter media is Rupert Murdoch, the owner of the New York Post and Fox News. His personal fortune is estimated to be approximately $8 billion. These individuals pocket in one day more than even the highest paid transit worker takes home in a year. These are the people demanding that transit workers—whose wages barely cover basic necessities in New York, one of the most expensive cities in the world—sacrifice their wages, pensions and benefits in order to meet the interest payments to rich investors, who augment their fortunes by purchasing high-yield MTA bonds.” http://wsws.org/articles/2005/dec2005
As the corporate mass media pumps out pablum to keep the intellectually immature populous duped, distracted and bamboozled so the class warfare being waged against them in AmeriKKKa is not evident; the ruling elites continue to gorge themselves at the expense of the poor, working and lower middle classes. No clearer example is plainer than the recent New York transit workers strike. The local New York City media (and for the most part the national news outlets) demonized the striking workers as if they didn’t have a right to earn a decent living. Most media consumers are unaware the corporate media suppresses news and information that would reveal wages for most workers in AmeriKKKa let alone New York City the most expensive city to live in in AmeriKKKa, have remained stagnant or declined in recent years. Why is it the media suppresses this type information but readily promotes the silly affairs and goings on of celebrities and athletes? Because the media is in cahoots with the elites who control the economy and make public policy.
“In a capitalist ‘democracy’ like the United States, the corporate news media faithfully reflect the dominant class ideology both in their reportage and commentary. At the same time, these media leave the impression that they are free and independent, capable of balanced coverage and objective commentary. How they achieve these seemingly contradictory but legitimating goals is a matter worthy of study. Notables in the media industry claim that occasional inaccuracies do occur in news coverage because of innocent error and everyday production problems such as deadline pressures, budgetary restraints, and the difficulty of reducing a complex story into a concise report. Furthermore, no communication system can hope to report everything, hence selectivity is needed. To be sure, such pressures and problems do exist and honest mistakes are made, but do they really explain the media's overall performance? True the press must be selective, but what principle of selectivity is involved? I would argue that media bias usually does not occur in random fashion; rather it moves in more or less consistent directions, favoring management over labor, corporations over corporate critics, affluent whites over low income minorities, officialdom over protestors, the two-party monopoly over leftist third parties, privatization and free market ‘reforms’ over public sector development, U.S. dominance of the Third World over revolutionary or populist social change, and conservative commentators and columnists over progressive or radical ones.” Monopoly Media Manipulation Michael Peranti
The corporate media policy makers are committed to furthering the class interests of the media owners and shareholders. Thus, in a fascist climate such as we currently live in, the slant spin and focus will be decidedly anti- organized labor but pro wealth distribution policies away from the poor and working class into the coffers, bank accounts, portfolios and spread sheets of the ruling elites and their super rich associates. Recently the New York city press vilified the Transit Workers Union that went out on strike for increased wages and benefits but said little or nothing about the outrageous sums of money Wall Street paid in bonuses in December.
“The news of the gargantuan payouts on Wall Street aroused little interest from the mass media. The Times, like New York City’s tabloids, relegated the story to its business pages. What a contrast to their reaction to last month’s New York City transit strike, when 33,000 workers making an average salary of $50,000 dared to walk out in opposition to management’s demands for concessions! For three days, Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post and other sections of the mass media could not contain their anger. They denounced the workers as ‘rats,’ calling them ‘overpaid’ and ‘greedy,’ and demanding that they be fired and their leaders thrown in jail. Meanwhile, the media shed crocodile tears for lower-paid workers, portraying them as the real victims of the strike. It should be pointed out that the bonuses paid out by Wall Street for 2005 alone would be enough to cover the wages of every New York City transit worker—at the highest scale and with overtime—for at least 10 years. Where is Murdoch’s outrage and that of rest of the city’s media now? None of them are calling Paulson, Fuld and Mack ‘greedy rats’ for taking in tens of millions, while 20 percent of New York City’s population is attempting to survive on annual incomes of $7,000 or less.” http://wsws.org/articles/2006/jan2006/wall Similarly little was said last November when Congress citing budgetary constraints cut $50 billion in funds benefitting college students, child support enforcement, Medicaid and food stamp programs while slashing taxes that will benefit primarily he richest one per cent of AmeriKKKans.
“House Republicans, after weeks of negotiations, narrowly passed a budget bill early Friday to cut $50 billion from Medicaid, food stamps, student loans and other programs over the complaints of Democrats that Congress is squeezing students, the elderly and the poor to pay for tax cuts for the rich. The House approved the bill 217-215, after GOP leaders agreed to demands from moderate Republicans to jettison a measure to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska and to slightly reduce proposed cuts to food stamps. Still, the vote was so politically sensitive that House leaders didn't begin debate until 10 p.m. Thursday and didn't pass the measure until nearly 2 a.m. -- when most news reporters gone and only a few C-SPAN junkies could witness the fiery floor action. No Democrats voted for the bill, and 14 Republicans opposed it. House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco said in a floor speech that cutting money for Medicaid, child support enforcement and foster care as the House prepares to vote on $70 billion in tax cuts was a ‘sin.’” http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article
The aggressive attacks on the poor and organized labor have been going on for over twenty years starting with the decertification of the US Air Traffic Controllers Union by the Reagan administration and not a whimper of support for the Air Traffic Controllers by the national leaders of the AFL-CIO. The disastrous and fiscally irresponsible NeoCon agenda George W Bu$h is pushing calls for a continuation of Reagan’s polices: tax cuts for the rich, cut backs and elimination of social welfare programs, erosion of the lower middle class lifestyle through outsourcing and job transfers, increased government expansion (Homeland Security) and a continuous bloating of defense spending to siphon off any possibility the money will be used for domestic improvements. Class warfare is taking the poor and working class out. This by design and unless there is a major shake up of the status quo from the bottom up, the trend will continue unabated for the foreseeable future.
“The real class warfare in America today is top-down, as it has been ever since Ronald Reagan. The proposed Bush tax cut, which would bestow 43 percent of the money on the top 1 percent of earners [see Robert McIntyre, "Tax Wars," page 23] is just the beginning. The general conservative assault on social endeavor is occasionally principled and libertarian, but can be usefully understood in terms of class. The rich don't need government because they can simply opt out--to private schools, exclusive clubs, gated communities, personal physicians, nannies, limousines, and helicopters. The rest of us depend on basic public services and social infrastructure. Starve Medicare, and you ration health care for those with a limited ability to pay. Cut federal help to schools, and you deny upward mobility to the children of the nonrich. Refuse to address the job-family straddle faced by working parents, and you assault every child whose parents cannot afford expensive private day care. That's class warfare, big-time. Collective purpose is not just about social investment. Deregulation has been a back-door form of class warfare. A generation ago, industries such as airlines, electric power generation, trucking, telephone service, hospitals, and banks were all government-regulated. Supposedly, deregulation would help consumers, but its practical effect has been a mixed bag. Airline fares have come down on average (along with service), but prices today are a crazy quilt, and average prices actually fell at a faster rate before deregulation. The whole airline system is now a mess. Likewise, electric power. Ditto banks. Ditto telephones.” Top Down Class Warfare Robert Kuttner http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww? So don’t go for Bu$h’s okie-doke that the economy is getting better, yeah it might be for CEOs and shareholders but not for working folks. IBM which is in relatively healthy shape finance wise recently froze its pensions for long time workers. What does that tell you? What do you think companies like Ford and GM who are in deep trouble are going to do with their pension plans which by the way, are severely underfunded? How will IBM’s move impact hourly wage earners and working class folks in other businesses? Isn’t deliberate pension plan under-funding another example of class warfare? Is anyone paying attention?
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The Chickens Are Coming Home To Roost
The Chickens are Coming Home To Roost “The only thing keeping the dollar atop its fragile perch is the fact that other countries have been willing to lap up the $600 billion of American red ink every year via the trade deficit. That amounts to roughly $2 billion per day or nearly 7% GDP. Currently, China is holding $769 billion, the vast majority of its foreign exchange reserves. This is a humongous sum by any measurement and represents approximately 30% of China’s gross domestic product. Regrettably, the Bush administration’s wasteful spending makes the dollar look like a bad long term investment, so China will either have to change its strategy or face a huge loss on its reserves. It’s a thorny predicament and one that China needs to handle delicately. If they move too aggressively it could trigger a sell-off and send the dollar plummeting. It is unlikely that China will act recklessly, but even the mere suggestion of change has put the markets on edge. Gold futures already jumped 4% in one week as large institutional buyers are voting with their feet that the dollar is headed for the dumpster. In fact, since Bush took office, gold has gone from the $200 range to $540 on Friday; a sure sign that investors have lost confidence in Washington’s ability to curb spending.” http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11501.htm
There are numerous problems with lies and liars. One is they have to keep repeating the lies over and over for fear the truth will come out which, invariably happens. Another common problem is, they tell so many lies they cannot possibly remember all the lies they’ve told so subsequently they trip themselves up in their own lies. This is what is happening to George W Bu$h and his NeoConartist buddies. They have told so many bodacious lies they now have to scramble to cover them with new ones. For instance they call themselves “conservatives” and Bu$h promised to bring moral integrity to Washington, be a “straight shooter”, a uniter rather than a divider, provide fiscal responsibility and security for the nation. Bu$h’s policies and “leadership” have failed miserably to keep AmeriKKKa strong fiscally or safe. Under Bu$h the nation is more divided than any time since the Civil war. When Bu$h was given the presidency by the US Supreme Court in 2000, the US was in the throws of a recession. Bu$h foolishly cut taxes benefitting the richest one percent of the population which exacerbated the growing US deficit and began a run on the surplus that had accumulated during the previous administration. So they have to lie and say things are getting better but they aren’t. They have to be more secretive and sneaky, so now the Fed has dropped reporting M3 so the masses won’t know what’s going on with the money supply, credit and dollar reserves. Bu$h’s abysmal failure protect the nation from 9-11 despite ample time and warnings from the FBI, CIA the foreign intelligence services of France, Germany, Morocco and Israel and direct warnings from foreign leaders like Vladimir Putin of Russia and Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, the NeoCons unrestrained agenda to launch their insane crusade against Islamic nations with geo-strategic oil reserves and their simultaneous domestic agenda designed to undermine the civil and procedural liberties of US citizens under the guise of “national security” are having a disastrous impact on AmeriKKKa. The chickens are coming home to roost.
Following 9-11 the world embraced AmeriKKKa with sympathy and empathized with the suffering and trauma we were experiencing. Rather than capitalize on this support and good will, Bu$h and Co. used 9-11 as an excuse to embark on a fanatical campaign of war, plunder and rapine that has utterly destroyed all the credibility and favorable opinion the world felt for the US following 9-11. The world now views George Bu$h and AmeriKKKa as a wolf, preying on the weak and defenseless. Afghanistan was invaded despite the total improbability 9-11 could ever have been executed by Islamic fanatics living in caves in Afghanistan without at least some complicity by the US intelligence, civil and military establishment! The proof of this is the glaring fact no one has been reprimanded, publicly rebuked, disciplined demoted or fired in the FAA, FBI, CIA, NSA, Joint Chiefs or any other agency charged with defending and protecting AmeriKKKa from attack! Think about the implications of this for a moment, there were absolutely no repercussions whatsoever?! At least President Roosevelt tried to make Pearl harbor appear like a sneak attack by demoting the US Hawaiian military commanders at Pearl Harbor. In Bu$h’s case General Richard Myers who was head of NORAD was even given a promotion!!! The NeoCons bum rushed their fascist agenda through Congress using fear and intimidation passing legislation that by-passed Congressional oversight and started a spending spree that is now drowning the nation in debt and demoralization as the Nazification of AmeriKKKa precedes at a quickening pace. Bu$h has stated, “You can fool some of the people all of the time. These are the ones we should concentrate on.” Well it almost worked. But now his lies and the lies and machinations of the corporate media have caught up with them. They have told so many lies, they can’t keep them straight and every day another lie is exposed and challenged. There is an Internet report on the true costs of the Iraq War. Take time to peruse it at http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11495.htm it will open your eyes to the monumental con job Bu$h and Co have run on AmeriKKKa.
The chickens are coming home to roost, make no mistake about it. A recent article insinuated China was considering diversifying its store of foreign exchange currencies, dropping some of the US dollars it holds in reserve. Such a move would send shock waves throughout the global economy. Even if China doesn’t do it, the hint or threat alone would be devastating considering the fact Cina helps bail the US out to the tune of two billion dollars a day because of Bu$h’s failed fiscal witchcraft.
“It is becoming increasingly clear to many that the war in Iraq is about preserving a bankrupt American Century model of global dominance. It is also clear that Iraq is not the end. What is not yet clear and must be openly debated around the world, is how to replace the failed Petro-dollar order with a just new system for global economic prosperity and security. Now, as Iraq threatens to explode in internal chaos, it is important to rethink the entire postwar monetary order anew. The present French-German-Russian alliance to create a counterweight to the United States requires not merely a French-led version of the Petro-dollar system, some Petro-euro system, that continues the bankrupt American Century, only with a French accent, and euros replacing dollars. That would only continue to destroy living standards across the world, adding to human waste and soaring unemployment in industrial as well as developing nations. We must entirely rethink what began briefly with some economists during the 1998 Asia crisis, the basis of a new monetary system which supports human development, and does not destroy it.” A New American Century? Iraq and the hidden euro-dollar wars http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/ENG401A.html. The present situation is becoming untenable and the US like all empires before it is suffering from the fatal hubris of imperial overreach. To make matters worse more OPEC members are considering shifting from dollars to euros as their medium of exchange an event that would devastate the debt ridden US economy.
“What happens if global investors continue pulling out of the United States — and the dollar keeps falling? Many market players expect it to fall another 20%. Other countries that have lost money in the dollar’s fall may continue buying more euros. The other shoe may drop, too. OPEC may decide to officially re-denominate their oil in euros (since most of the organization’s customers are in Europe anyway). OPEC economists have been considering this “no-brainer” scenario for sound financial reasons — even though they feared U.S. wrath and retaliation. Indeed, many believe that a deeper reason for the U.S. attack on Iraq was its decision in 1999 to require payments for its oil for food program in euros.” Iraq, the Dollar and the Euro, Hazel Henderson http://www.theglobalist.com/DBWeb/StoryId.aspx?StoryId
The US is in deep doo doo, the chickens are coming home to roost big time. The problem is Joe and Jane Sixpack are being duped and lied to about the real deal. Sadly they and the rest of us, will be caught totally unprepared by the economic fall out as well as any military blow back. If the Iranians with the tacit support of the European Union pull off their new oil exchange bourse this year using the Euro as their exchange currency it will signal the end of US dollar hegemony and possibly touch off WWIII as both a global economic and military conflict. The scandals, the lies, the trade and budget deficits are caching up to Bu$h and Co. But they also provide a convenient cover and distraction to obscure the real crisis facing this administration. Bu$h and Co, are panicking as the chickens come home to roost. Their dilemma now becomes what to do about it without revealing the truth to the AmeriKKKan people. Thus they’ll resort to doing what they do best, lying, which will alienate more people as their lies unravel and more chickens flock back home to roost. They will need the continued cooperation of the corporate media to vigorously promote their lies. It will be a vicious circle. It will not be a pretty picture for the Bu$hes, the NeoConmen nor the AmeriKKKan people. But the Law of Karma and the consequences of their actions cannot be evaded.
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The Real Criminals
The Real Criminals “Crime and criminal behavior regardless of temporal or cultural definition, occur not in a vacuum, but within a complex matrix of interpersonal, social, intergroup relations and other econo-psychological forces. Crime and criminality, their existential vicissitudes and emblematic meanings can only be usefully and appropriately deciphered and pragmatically dealt with within the context of these forces. Crime and criminality are social phenomena and are reflective of the social system within which they occur. To discuss crime and criminality without reference to a social system is to engage in meaningless discussion.” Dr. Amos N. Wilson
projection: attributing one’s own traits, attitudes, or faults to others.- Dictionary of Psychology
It is becoming increasingly clear to even those who employ the ostrich syndrom, (sticking their head in the sand to avoid see what is going on around them) that AmeriKKKa is a full fledged criminal state. Even if by some chance you are so dim-witted you actually believe the government’s version of what happened on 9-11, you cannot believe the lies George W Bu$h and Dick Cheney continue to tell about the need to spy on innocent AmeriKKKans, for bypassing the established FISA Court protocols or that AmeriKKKa doesn’t torture people or that AmeriKKKa is not a bloodthirsty immoral nation. How can you not believe this? Look at the content of the entertainment industry, all the violence killing and war. Notice all the movies and television series promoting war, invasion and empire. Do you think this is purely coincidental? It is part of a mind control and psychological warfare campaigns directed at the AmeriKKKan public by the ruling elites and their corporate media partners in crime If you know the history of this country or you are of African ancestry or Native American descent, you know first hand the sordid horrors our people have been subjected to right up til now. If you doubt what I am saying go to www.withoutsanctuary.org and peruse the pictures there. Look at the expressions on the faces of those white men, women and children and ask yourself, do you believe George W Bu$h the man who as governor of the state of Texas executed more human beings than any sitting governor in recent history, when he utters nonsense like, “We do not torture.”? AmeriKKKa is and always has been a psychopathic enclave from its days as a colony for the nations of France, England, Holland and Spain. The genocide of the indigenous inhabitants is a testament to that, no matter how their mythmakers dress it up and try to obfuscate it in fancy gobbledegook and double speak. Honest AmeriKKKans are forced to admit this is true and are forced to look themselves in the eye in the mirror of reality and decide if they will allowing global terrorism to continue in their name? Will our consciences and morality win out over our stock portfolios and ebbing middle class lifestyles? It remains to be seen.
Most astute analysts and historians admit the aggressive policy of economic thuggery backed by imperialist military intervention did not begin with George W Bu$h and his NeoConmen cabal, it has been continually in progress since WW II under both Democratic and Republican administrations. “The wars in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Iraq are part of the same ‘military road-map’. Confirmed by military documents, the US war agenda not only targets Iran, Syria and North Korea, but also its former Cold War enemies: Russia and China. We are dealing with a global military agenda characterized by various forms of intervention. The latter include covert military and intelligence operations in support of domestic paramilitary groups and so-called liberation armies. These operations are largely devised with a view to creating social, ethnic and political divisions within national societies, ultimately contributing to the destruction of entire countries, as occurred in Yugoslavia. Meanwhile, the US sponsored ‘democratization’ agenda consists in intervening in countries’ internal affairs, often with a view to destabilizing national governments and imposing sweeping ‘free market’ reforms. In this regard, the illegal invasion of Haiti following a US sponsored military coup, which was also supported by Canada and France, is an integral part of Washington’s global military agenda.
War and globalization are intimately related processes. Military and intelligence operations support the opening up of new economic frontiers and the remolding of national economies. The powers of Wall Street, the Anglo-American oil giants and the U.S.-U.K. defense contractors are indelibly behind this process. Ultimately, the purpose of America’s ‘War on Terrorism’ is to transform sovereign nations into open territories (or ‘free trade areas’), both through ‘military means’, as well as through the imposition of deadly macro-economic reforms. The latter, implemented under IMF-World Bank-WTO auspices often serve to undermine and destroy national economies, precipitating millions of people into abject poverty. In turn, so-called ‘reconstruction programs’ imposed by donors and creditors in the wake of the war contribute to a spiraling external debt. In a twisted logic, ‘war reparations’ financed by external debt are being paid to the US invader. Billions of dollars are channeled to Western construction conglomerates such as Bechtel and Halliburton, both of which have close links to the US Department of Defense.
Confirmed in national security documents, a central objective of this war is the conquest and confiscation of Middle East oil wealth. In this regard, the broader Middle East – Central Asian region encompasses some 70 percent of the World’s oil and gas resources, more than thirty times those of the US. The Anglo-American oil giants in alliance with Wall Street and the military-industrial complex are indelibly behind America’s war agenda. The next phase of this war is Iran and Syria, which have already been identified as targets. Iran is the country with the third largest oil and gas reserves (10%) after Saudi Arabia (25%) and Iraq (11%). The US is seeking with the complicity of the UN Security Council to establish a pretext for the bombing of Iran, which is presented as a threat to world peace.” http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code Of course Bu$h calling Iran a threat to world peace is the kettle calling the pot black. The US and its tag along cohorts, Britain and Israel are out to bum rush the world and set up a global criminal axis using electronic surveillance, peer to peer spying, and ruthless police state tactics that will make COINTELPRO and Operation Chaos appear tame. They will accomplish this in the US by passing laws in the corrupt and compliant Congress so everything they do is legal (Watch how Bu$h is able to get Congress to extend the USA PATRIOT ACT despite wide scale uneasiness about his motives and his illegal abrogation of Constitutional rights. ) The best Congress money can buy will probably acquiesce to the NeoCon cabal and continue the Nazification of AmeriKKKa full speed ahead.
Perhaps the Bu$h fascism train will be derailed by the ongoing Plamegate investigation, or the inquiries into illegal NSA spying or the broiling Abramoff scandals. Bu$h seems undaunted and is pressing on with his fascist agenda. Remember everything Hitler did after the Reichstag fire in Germany was legal because the German parliament rolled over and played dead just like the US Congress is doing for Bu$h. Looking at the immoral and criminal history of AmeriKKKa, the slaughter of the Native Americans, constitutionally supported slavery, racial cast and state sanctioned apartheid, the '60's and '70's war in Indo-China and the recent invasion of Iraq that has been the cause of over 100,000 of innocent Iraqis being killed, maimed and displaced; is it any wonder things are going the way they are in AmeriKKKa.? The next time you hear George W. Bu$h use 9-11 as an excuse for his criminal behavior and his “war on turreriss”; ask yourself, who is the real criminal?
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Countdown To War?
Countdown To War? “Iran is about to begin pricing its oil in euros. Unfortunately, just about everyone would benefit--except the United States- Without some form of U.S. intervention, the euro is going to establish a firm foothold in the international oil trade. The U.S. dollar has been the strongest currency of the world for more than half a century, with about 70% of percent of all currency reserves in American dollars. This could be a logical explanation for why the Islamic republic would be the U.S.’s next target. This is closely related to the fact that oil, the most important commodity traded in the world, is mostly priced in U.S. dollars. The majority of countries that are oil importers have to buy their oil in U.S. dollars, which forces them to keep most of their foreign currency in dollars.” http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/review
The news out of Iraq is not good despite Bu$h’s mantra that “the democratization” of Iraq will eventually stabilize the region. No one in their right mind believes that. It’s wishful thinking, fantasy or pure BS! The US is bogged down in a no win occupation of Iraq that in spite of recent calls for withdrawal of US troops by a minority of US Congress and Senate members, is not going to happen any time soon. Why? Because the “democratization” of Iraq was never the real goal. That’s just the okie-doke the ruling elites used to justify their imperialist aggression. You cannot impose "democracy" on another country. One country cannot dictate how another country sets up its government and political system and say with a straight face the people of the second country are free and self-determining! But that’s exactly what the US is doing in Iraq. At first Bu$h rejected open elections. The NeoConmen’s original plan was to have an AmeriKKKan proconsul like Paul Bremer or John Negroponte administer the colony and set up a puppet regime like they did in Afghanistan with a pro-Western/CIA connected and trained stooge like Ahmed Chalabi as its titular head. The plan fell apart when the most influential Muslim clerics in Iraq who took a wait and see position after the invasion demanded direct elections and Bu$h was forced to concede for fear they would incite wholesale jihad against his illegal occupation amidst a growing resistance tothe US occupation. So now there are over 130,000 US troops in Iraq still unable to pacify the region and the long standing ethnic and religious divisions will one way or another be the undoing of Bu$h’s plan of imperial overreach. He was motivated to invade Iraq to placate the rabid right wingers in Israel’s Lukid Party and save the US dollar’s hegemony as the world’s preeminent exchange currency. Now Bu$h has other problems. Early on in his administration, he identified Iraq , Iran and North Korea as “an axis of evil” and he has been constantly rattling his military sabers at each of them. Iraq was the first to experience the shock and awe of US military overkill and regime change Based on trumped up lies about WMD and ties to 9-11, Bu$h invaded Iraq and toppled Saddam Hussein. The real reason he did so was because in 2000 Saddam Hussein began trading Iraqi oil and oil for food in euros rather than US dollars. At the time the US dollar was stronger than its European Union counterpart currency. However by 2002 the euro had eclipsed the US dollar and several additional OPEC nations began contemplating switching from the dollar to the euro as their prime currency exchange. Globally this would have been disastrous for the US as the agreement to make the US dollar the world’s primary petrol exchange currency and the US military’s readiness to back it up was the only thing keeping AmeriKKKa from being reduced to a second rate player on the world stage!
The AmeriKKKan economy is not what it used to be and a shift from the dollar to the euro would mean more central banks would exchange their supply of dollars for euros or call their Treasury Bill notes causing a virtual run that could sink the US economy. In 2004 Iran announced plans to open an international oil exchange in March of 2006 with the (disastrous for the US) intention of trading all their oil in euros rather than US dollars. This is the real reason (in addition to the fact the destabilization and castration of any Arab country benefits Israel) the US is circulating reports Iran is producing nuclear weapons. If a country producing nuclear weapons was such a big deal, why didn’t Washington use the military option against India or Pakistan for developing nuclear weapons; or for that matter why doesn’t the US ever chastise Israel for having nuclear weapons? Ask yourself this question, which country do you think would be more likely to use nuclear weapons (don’t count the US because it has already done so in Japan and Iraq), Israel which has a history of preemptive strikes against Arab nations or Iran? The US and Israel crying crocodile tears over Iran’s nuclear program is a repeat and replay of the same thing they said about Saddam Hussein and his supposed WMD. That is pure disinformation and propaganda for the dolts, imbeciles and simpletons’ consumption. The real reason the NeoConmen are about to risk WWIII is because Iran is months away from pulling the rug out from under US global economic hegemony. How will this play out is anyone’s guess because a US or Israeli strike against Iran probably will not go unretaliated. Iran will strike back at both targets in Israel and at US troops in Iraq. Plus Iran has treaties and alliances with Russia and China and support of other OPEC nations so it could escalate into a regional if not global armed and economic conflict sucking in NATO on one side and galvanizing increased Islamic hatred against the US and Israel on the other while raisig the cost of oil for everyone! The immediate target of global Muslim ire, would be the puppet governments in Saudi Arabia and Egypt who stood by and allowed the US and Israel to attack Iran. In addition to the scandals (illegal NSA domestic wire taps, the Enron and DeLay trials and recent Abramoff deal) and economic woes facing the Bu$h administration; the Iran oil bourse poses an major challenge for AmeriKKKa’s future as a global power. Don’t depend on the corporate media for information about this! Look to the foreign papers, Websites and alternative news because this is potentially one of the biggest stories of 2006. Keep your eyes and ears open as well as your mind!
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Imani (Faith)
Imani (Faith) Imani (Faith)
“To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.” Today January 1, 2006 the first day of the New Year is the final day of the official Kwanzaa celebration. The last day of Kwanzaa is the first day of a new year, how fitting that we use the celebration of Kwanzaa as a springboard to catapult us into a new year with renewed vigor, understanding and comprehension of the glorious tasks before us: self and group transformation and liberation! Unlike the “holidays” celebrated by our enemies which turn out to be nothing more than a day or time of debauchery, revelry and crass consumerism, Kwanzaa is a time for us to meditate on profound ideas and honestly look at our situation. Kwanzaa does not promote escapism, it forces us to admit we are in a monumental struggle of cosmic proportions. Perhaps that is why Kwanzaa has come under relentless attack this year by the ultra right fascist forces. Our enemies fully understand Kwanzaa holds up a mirror that reflects our situation but which at the same time provides an alternative to the menticide and degradation the West is marketing under the guise of normalcy, progress and success. It is imperative we meditate on and manifest the principles of the Nguzo Saba in our lives daily. Today’s principle in Imani, Faith. Faith is a vision or an idea of potentiality backed by steadfast confidence it the realization of this idea or paradigm. The key to actualizing faith is unswerving belief in our vision, no matter what. We must have the confidence that we have it within ourselves to actualize abstract notions such as
Ma’at, freedom, higher consciousness and transformation! We must believe these things are possible with every fiber of our being. Otherwise it will be easy for us to be tempted by the illusions, siren songs and bling-bling of the West. We must establish a higher priority than mere existence. We must use unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, purpose and creativity to visualize a new us and a new world. To accomplish this we must believe in ourselves because it is through our own work, our own efforts and our uncompromising faith our victory will be achieved. We must trust ourselves, we must develop the self-discipline to keep our promise to the Creator, our ancestors ourselves and our people we will stay the course no matter the obstacles, resistence or oppression. Without this trust and confidence our best efforts boil down to mere talk, babble and bs.
Faith is important in times like these. Without faith it would be easy to become demoralized (bereft of morals) and succumb to the lifestyle and immorality of our oppressors. Without a clear vision and confidence in ourselves and our vision it would be easy for us to become discouraged (fearful) and discombobulated. Our disorganization and disorientation is the prime goal of our enemies. This is the only way they can prevent our victory. The psychological warfare they use on us, the brainwashing to convince us we are less than, not good enough and not ready for prime time are part and parcel of their nefarious plan to keep us mentally enslaved disoriented and impotent. But Imani, faith allows us see through the fog of their deceit and keeps us on track and task. Faith elevates us and empowers us to move beyond the degradation and death our enemies intend for us. Faith is the power that kept our ancestors holding on despite the unspeakable horrors they experienced. Faith kept them sane despite the unfathomable terrorism that was unleashed upon them and faith provided the vision, hope and promise of a new day. The faith of our ancestors animates us today. As powerful as that faith has been and is, we must embrace a faith of our own! We must acknowledge the need for struggle and envision exactly what our victory will look and feel like. We mus see it in our mind’s eye so vividly the powers of the UNIVERSE are impelled/compelled to manifest them through a cooperative partnership that will result in the establishment of
Ma’at. We must have faith in our own righteousness, that we are the embodiment of the DIVINE and as such we deserve to actualize ourselves and become what the CREATOR created and intends us to be! We must have faith, confidence and the undaunted assuredness of our own worthiness. We must believe we are worthy of victory and our faith will motivate us even in dire times like these. Faith is active, while an inner assurance is important, true Faith demands visualization which is active, real faith demands mental certainty and faith provide the courage to live in integrity to what we say we believe. According our faith it will be done unto us!
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