Let's Be New In The New Year
Let's Be New In The New Year “We must treat bad habits like enemies; fight them off until they are at bay. And, always be looking for where they might seek an opening for a sneak attack so that can keep them at bay.” Mildred Greene
As we start off on a new year by the Western calender let us not only usher in a new year in name only; lets start the year off with a new look a new lease and approach to life. You have the power to influence your reality ! If your life is going well, think of ways it can go a little better and act on them. If your life is stuck in a rut (someone once said a rut is a grave with the ends missing) you do have the power to change it. Yes many things are beyond our immediate control and we may not be able to change them but there are many situations we can exert our powers of imagination, will and action to alter. Life is not static, it is dynamic always changing. You can make alterations to your life now and over time. If you are in a dead end job, you can learn new skills, return to night school, take a continuing education course, enroll at a community college or professional school to prepare yourself for promotion, a new job or to start your own business. Perhaps you have a passion or a hobby, something you like to do that can earn you a few extra dollars on the side, if so take a risk and the initiative to put yourself out there. Try it and see what happens. If you want to change or a change in our life you will have to do something different.
Human beings are creatures of habit on so many levels. The Dictionary of Psychology defines a habit as: an activity that has become relatively automatic through prolonged practice; relatively consistent pattern of thought or attitudes; an acquired drive such as drug addiction. On the personal level these patterns of thought, emotions and action are called habits, on the family level the collective patterns and repetitions of sameness and conformity are called folkways, on the societal level they are called customs, traditions and the all embracing habits and patterns are called culture. What we eat, how we dance and relate to one another are habitual. So habits influence our lives in so many ways. So if you want to change your life, it may not be enough to just change your way of thinking as important as that is. Change is a long range and all encompassing affair. Real change always begins on the mental level. Energy follows thought is the metaphysical rule. So change first means deciding and determining you want to change and believing change is possible and desirable. Since change is mental it means you will have to start monitoring your thoughts regularly over a sustained period of time until you no longer think in the old patterns and your change thoughts become the predominate pattern in your consciousness. To be successful you be consistent and unwavering in your thought patterns. We must monitor our thoughts and determine to alter our thought patterns. In other words we have to change the way we think and what we think about. For example if you are a pessimist, alter the way you see the world and begin to think optimistically irrespective of your current circumstances. If your self-image is poor, you can change it. You have the power to alter how you imagine (form pictures in your mind’s eye) and think about yourself. You are the artist, the director and the actor; you determine what and how the picture in your mind looks, you say action, cut and you control the mental images. Constantly remind yourself to be conscious of your steam of thought and the things you say to yourself which psychologists call “self-talk”. Our self-talk can and does literally program ourselves for success or failure depending on the content and feeling of your self-talk.
One way to help yourself is to wear an unobtrusive rubber band on your wrist. Every time you catch yourself thinking negative, self-defeating or anger generating thoughts, snap yourself gently with the rubber band. After a while you will get the message and your thinking will change. But just thinking is not enough. You will have to take additional action by surveying your situation and modifying and adjusting your behaviors and social network . Remember it’s not only your personal habits but also the thought patterns of the people in your immediate and extended social circle. If you want to stop smoking, drinking and drugging you have to disassociate yourself from those folks who smoke, drink and drug! If you want a get a better education or improve your income potential, you cannot associate with folks who denigrate education or attempt to discourage you. Change demands thought, strong feeling (faith/confidence) and action. Because we are all creatures of habit we have to create new patterns and behaviors to substitute for the ones we want to replace! We have the pwer to do that, the question is will we exert it. We have to consistently reprogram ourselves through our thoughts expectations and actions.
If we want to change conditions in the community and the society at large; we have to align ourselves with like minded people who also share a strong desire for change who are willing to galvanize and work together to alter our collective reality. For example stopping violence begins with you/us. We have to seriously and honestly check ourselves to make sure we are not hostile, angry frustrated and fearful; that we are not harboring ill will or animus towards ourselves or others. If we are, more than likely we will either explode outwardly or implode internally. Either way those emotions will manifest unless we learn to transmute (change) them. Remember energy follows thought! We can go from being frustrated to being hopeful and optimistic but we have to have something to be optimistic about, a new vision of ourselves and a new goal. Having an image or an idea is the first step. The second step is to believe strongly and expectantly in the realization of the goal. Lastly we must work to actualize the dream/goal. Insanity is doing the same things over and over with the same people expecting things to be different. If we want things to be different we have to think, feel and act differently. Change is possible it’s just not easy. For a truly New Year let’s think, feel and act new.
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US Cowboy Justice In Iraq
US Cowboy Justice
"Saddam’s alleged crimes against humanity were more fiction than
reality—he was ultimately convicted of killing a handful of people in
response to an assassination attempt against him, never mind the
horrific stories of mass graves, containing the bodies of hundreds of
thousands, fantastic charges the puppet government, installed and
micromanaged by the perfidious neocons, were unable to make stick, even
with incessant media hype. Of course, Saddam’s crimes pale in comparison
to those committed by the United States, including the imposition of
sanctions against Iraq, resulting in the murder of more than a million,
500,000 of them children. Saddam did not kill 655,000, the number of
dead estimated by the Lancet to have perished since the United States
invaded. Not unlike a Mafia consigliere, Rumsfeld trotted off to Iraq to
shake Saddam’s hand and sell him weapons to kill hundreds of thousands
of Iranians. Meanwhile, the murderous Israelis sold the Iranians weapons
to kill Iraqis." http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=705
Within easy focus on a bookshelf in my study/studio is a book entitled
Without Sanctuary Lynching Photography in America, I keep it there as
a constant reminder of the deep seated psychopathy and history of
AmeriKKKa. It is a candid and ghastly pictorial chronicle of AmeriKKKa’s
favorite past time: killing, mutilating, castrating black males for
sport, fun and as a means of political control to “keep us in our place”
in the lethal death grip and stranglehold of global white supremacy.
When the US government handed the man we are told is Saddam Hussein over
to the Iraqis to be hung following a sham trial conducted by a kangaroo
court under the auspices of a puppet government set up by the occupying
Anglo-AmeriKKKan invaders it set an international precedent, instead of
the usual quasi-official lynchings like those conducted here in the US
that were sanctioned and approved by the local political establishment,
Hussein’s murder was more official. In this case the US regime was a
fully involved conspirator and participant. Hussein’s murder was pulled
off with the ascent of the AmeriKKKan people and the international
community. On December 30, 2006 Saddam Hussein was murdered, hung by the
neck until he died, just like they used to do to black men in AmeriKKKa.
Despite a frantic full court press by the media mind molding apparatus
to depict Saddam Hussein as a modern day Adolph Hitler, most of us knew
or we found out later there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
The fact of the matter is Bu$h and Co lied to justify their carnage and
plundering. Hussein was not involved with 9-11 in any way nor was he a
supporter of anti-Western terrorists. Saddam did support many victims of
Zionist aggression in Palestine which may be another reason he was
targeted for elimination; in addition to the fact he changed from the US
dollar to the Euro as his oil transaction currency and Iraq has all that
oil! White AmeriKKKan initially thought a relatively easy and casualty
free invasion and occupation of Iraq would lead to more and cheaper gas.
Alas that was not to be even if the anti-occupation resistence had not
flared up and rocked the Anglo-AmeriKKKan invaders on their heels. The
multi-national oil companies had no intention of lowering the prices at
the oil pump (the only reason prices dipped recently was because the
Republicans wanted to woo voters and trick us into voting Republican).
The ruling elites and their puppets plan to continue to gauge the
consumers to keep their profits at record levels. In fact the gas prices
are inching up to former levels as we speak.
Hanging Saddam Hussein was right up Bu$h’s alley. Bu$h a proponent of
cowboy justice executed more people as governor of Texas than any other
governor in AmeriKKKa. So it shouldn’t surprise anyone the AmeriKKKan
government under George W Bu$h pushed the Iraqi government to kill
Saddam Hussein. Keep in mind this is the same Iraqi government Bu$h and
Co. were trying to make the scapegoats to blame for the deteriorating
mess in Iraq. In fact there was public talk of getting rid of them a few
weeks ago. “The cycle of discord and strained reconciliation that has
broken into the open between Iraq’s Shiite-led government and the Bush
administration has revealed how wide the gulf has become between what
the United States expects from the Baghdad government and what it is
able or willing to deliver. Just in the past 10 days, Prime Minister
Nuri Kamal al-Maliki has rejected the notion of an American ‘timeline’
for action on urgent Iraqi political issues; ordered American commanders
to lift checkpoints they had set up around the Shiite district of Sadr
City to hunt for a kidnapped American soldier and a fugitive Shiite
death squad leader; blamed the Americans for the deteriorating security
situation in Iraq; and demanded speeded-up Iraqi control of its own
military... In the past week, Mr. Maliki has added a new, potentially
incendiary grievance against the Americans. In interviews that preceded
a placatory teleconference call with President Bush last weekend, he
said the poor security situation across Iraq was the Americans’ fault,
and demanded a more rapid transfer of command authority over the war.
With apparent unconcern for the war’s growing unpopularity in the United
States, he demanded more American money for the buildup of Iraq’s own
forces, and for reconstruction of the country’s infrastructure, on top
of the $38 billion the Bush administration says it has already spent on
civil and military aid to Iraq since the toppling of Mr. Hussein in 2003
and the nearly $400 billion for America’s own deployments. Mr. Bush
responded by dispatching his national security adviser, Stephen J.
Hadley, on an urgent trip to Baghdad on Monday, and agreeing to work on
ways of accelerating the transfer of authority, especially in regard to
the Maliki government’s ability to control the deployment of Iraqi
troops.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/04/world/middleeast/04assess.html?ei=5088&en=c17b6b25bbddc47a&ex=1320296400&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=print
If the Iraqi government are students of history they better start making
plans to avoid the noose or assassins bullet the US and its criminal
cohorts in London and Tel Aviv will order up in a New York minuet if
they fall to go along with the Western NeoCon/Neoliberal agenda. A
kangaroo court had the audacity to condemn Saddam Hussein who was an
active US puppet in their effort to undermine the fundamentalist regime
in Iran during the ‘80's after the US toppled the Shaw of Iran which
eventuated in the blowback of anti-AmeriKKKan Islamic fundamentalism.
Most of the US claims about alleged war crimes and crimes against
humanity were at the behest of the US during the Iraq-Iran war or when
the US tried to off Hussein and he found out about it and murdered those
involved (after the US abandoned their stooges and left them at Hussein’s
“mercy”). Of course one way to prevent this from coming to light was by
murdering Saddam Hussein following a rigged sham trial. Unlike Southern
lynchings which often were totally devoid of even a sham trial, Hussein
was at least given a sham hearing and then sentenced to hang. What we
just witnessed was an example of AmeriKKKan “frontier justice”.
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Random thought On Current Events
Random Thoughts On Current Events “Say it loud, I’m Black and I’m proud.” - James Brown
On December 25, 2006 the legendary entertainer, entrepreneur and cultural icon James Brown made his transition into the spiritual realm. Brown led a whirlwind life rising from poverty and obscurity to become one of the most influential musicians, performers and innovators in modern music history. Brown, through hard work, perseverance and using a keen insight into showmanship distinguished himself from a plethora of very talented peers such as Little Richard, Ike Turner, Jackie Wilson and Fats Domino. Brown over his long career experienced the highs and lows, successes and frustrations the AmeriKKKan entertainment industry specializes in, amassing and losing a series of fortunes but he always rose from the ashes to reinvent himself and be more influential than he was before.
Brown was always a well liked dynamic performer; in 1968 Brown released a single entitled
Say It Loud, I’m Black and I’m Proud which received massive radio air play on black oriented radio stations (something that probably wouldn’t happen today) and it became the anthem for black grass roots racial pride and militancy. Brown lent his name and talent to help fund the bourgeoning urban civil rights struggle. Even before he recorded and released that song, Brown appeared on and headlined on Georgie Woods (a popular Philly DJ and the vice president of the local NAACP) all star Freedom Show in 1965. Woods used the proceeds generated from the show to support the direct action programs, demonstrations (which required bail money) and boycotts the Philadelphia NAACP, which was much more militant than the national NAACP, initiated. Later Brown was a prominent figure helping to quell the anger and frustration blacks felt when Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated. The white ruling elites observed Brown’s influence and used him to help restore order. They even recruited Brown to help give the white bread Republican president Richard Nixon a veneer of credibility with blacks.
Brown lived large and actually perchased three AM radio stations at a time when the medium was shifting from AM to FM because the FM signal was clearer with less static. Nevertheless Brown became a hero in the African-American community because of his phenomenal music and his entrepreneurship even though he subsequently lost the radio stations due to his debt and tax problems. However, changes in the music industry, economics and other forces motivated Brown to alter his style especially after many of his band members defected in the late ‘60's. Brown took innovative new musicians like Fred Wesley and the Collins brothers; Catfish and Bootsy into his band and didn’t miss a beat. These musicians helped Brown revolutionize music, elevating funk to a household word. The rest as they say is history. Brown and George Clinton who also employed Bootsy Collins in his
Parliament Funkadelic bands became icons of funk and now they are the two most sampled artists the Hip Hopers use to funk up their recordings.
As Africans in AmeriKKKa pay respects to the mane who called himself “the hardest working man in show business” and the “Godfather of Soul” let us also look at his influence as an artist, performer and social icon.
Say It Loud I’m Black and I’m Proud was the first of many consciousness raising message songs recorded by Brown. Songs like:
Money Won’t Change You But Time Will Take You Out,
How You Gonna To Get Respect You Haven’t Cut Your Process Yet?
Talkin Loud and Saying Nothing, I Don’t Want Nobody To Give Me Nothin Open Up The Door, I’ll get It Myself ,
It’s A New Day,
Don’t Be a Dropout are a testament to what art can do to ignite, energize and inspire a people. James Brown, Cutis Mayfield and later Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff led the charge to program and saturate our people with positive racially uplifting messages. Our enemies saw what these artists and music were doing to energize the
Black is Beautiful and
Black Power movements. The record company executives at the behest of the ruling elites (many are one and the same) moved to undermine this positive influence; just as they would do a generation later when they moved to suppress the influence of conscious Hip Hop artists like Public Enemy, KRS-One and Paris attempting to eclipse conscious artists like them by using decadent, retrograde, socio-pathic performers/groups like NWA and 2Live Crew.
This is a critical lesson we must learn as we Bring Back Black! We must recognize the power of art and promote artists who are affirming Africaness, black power and higher consciousness. I do a music program on the Internet on the Blake Radio Network’s
www.Blakeradio.com Music Massage Channel called
Message In The Music. I play conscious artists from Gamble and Huff’s Philly International stable, Gil Scott Heron, Curtis Mayfield, Nina Simone, Public Enemy, Immortal Technique, Tracy Chapman, Sounds of Blackness, Stevie Wonder, India Arie and others. What we do at conscious Internet radio stations like Blake, LIBradio and Harambeeradio.com is play music that has a message that reaffirms African genius, beauty and power and promotes our need for ongoing struggle for liberation. As James Brown’s moral remains are laid to rest, let us keep his spirit alive by encouraging, resurrecting and promoting artists who have the vision, talent, courage, perseverance and resilience of James Brown. Let us bring black back by replicating what James Brown did when he recorded, released and performed Say It Loud I’m Black and I’m Proud.
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Peace is A Personal Choice
Peace Is A Personal Choice “They wage the wars in the name of peace. Ain’t they got no shame? Naw, they ain’t got no shame.” Nikki Giovanni from her poem
Great Pax Whitey As the “holiday season” approaches we should be mindful (have our minds/consciousness filled with understanding) one of the tenants of the Christmas story that has come down through the ages is, “Peace on Earth Good Will towards Man.” Those who propagated the religion as a tool of imperialism don’t believe or practice it but that doesn’t stop those of us who have a higher consciousness and calling from applying this idea on a practical level. Those of us who celebrate Kwanzaa also understand this period of the year reaffirms and reinforces our commitment to actualize and manifest a healthy, wholesome and harmonious self, family, community and world. So in the midst of the ruling elites’ push for militarism, despite their shameless deceit as they clamor for more wars, as they rob and plunder the globe and its people; let us not succumb to their madness, their insensitivity, callousness, hubris and greed. Looking at our communities we see escalating violence and self-destruction. The black on black fratricide and murder rates in our cities are climbing as the year comes to an end. Is this what our ancestors struggled and died for trying to remain human and sane in this hell hole only to see their progeny embrace the notion that being social predators and cannibals destroying what vestiges of civility we have left is cool ? Can the CREATOR/SPIRIT be pleased with what we are doing or allowing to happen on our watch? I don’t think so.
We are where we are in life because of the choices we have consciously or unconsciously made. We always have options of thought and action. We are where we are in life and history because of the actions or inactions we and our ancestors have taken. The important thing we must never forget or lose insight of is, we are powerful beings with the ability to think, emote, choose and act. Our reality is not written in stone. We can alter it by our choices, beliefs, values, emotions and actions. We don’t have to accept things the way they are, we can change them. Our venerated ancestors Fanny Lou Hammer uttered these words and acted upon them, “I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired.” Her ideas and actions challenged a viciously onerous system and helped free her people from color and racial caste and oppression. Change for her was difficult she paid a price she sacrificed but her actions inspired a people to press on and to confront the evils of AmeriKKKan apartheid and oppression.
Just as Boukman, Callie House, Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Fanny Lou Hammer, Rosa Parks, Huey P Newton. Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr and countless others dared to think and act in a grand manner and fashion to serve and free our people so can we. Righting wrongs is not easy, it’s hard arduous work. Especially when doing wrong is firmly entrenched in the DNA, psyche and culture of a people like our oppressors. Doing the right thing, speaking out for peace, justice, and rectitude can be stressful in a predatory, exploitative and murderous culture! Be that as it may, we still have moral choices and options. We can choose to acquiesce to evil or we can choose to be and do right! We can choose to remain silent and betray humanity or we can speak up and act in ways that challenge the status quo. We can act with our dollars. We know who the corporations are that profit from war, we can quietly stop doing business with them, their affiliates and subsidiaries. We can stop supporting media that lie, that promote untruth, war and violence. We may not be able to confront the fascists personally but we can still do the right thing!
Peace demonstrations are fine but peace is a personal choice. What profit the world if on the way to a peace demonstrations we loose it and fall into road rage or we’re disrespectful to someone? Peace is an inside job. Peace is only possible if we believe it to be so and act accordingly in our own daily lives. It’s not about George W Bu$h, Dick Cheney the NeoCons or Zionist warmongers. They are who they are and we see them for what they are. They are not going to change on their own. Real change begins with you and me. If and when the majority of the people in this country emphatically say no to war, our people stop signing up for the military and folks demand their elected officials push for peace, things will change. Until you and I are at peace personally with ourselves and community don’t expect peace to come on its own. Peace is a personal choice. Peace in this case is a verb, a state of being. Africans worldwide and other Aboriginal peoples have a moral duty to embrace peace, live peace otherwise the planet is doomed. .being at peace undermines Europeans’ main stratagem, divide and conquer playing one person group nation against another. Living in real peace will force them to reveal themselves and their motives; because we know their history and their tricks we will see them as the warmongers they are. They can’t kill or imprison us all or even attack the majority without exposing themselves as the psychopaths they really are. Remember deceit is their primary tool. That’s why and how they can wage war in the name of peace, how they dehumanize in the name of liberation and kill in the name of freedom.
Say no to war, strife and disharmony. Say yes to peace. Discover the peace within yourself, allow it to radiate outward in all you do, take as stand with your actions in integrity with your inner peace. Peace.
Suppose This Was By Design?
Suppose This Was By Design?
“There, all the events which are only our wish on the Western front that is Egypt are happening before our eyes today. The total disintegration of Lebanon, into five regional localized governments as the precedent for the entire Arab world… the dissolution of Syria and later Iraq, into districts of ethnic and religious minorities, following he example of Lebanon, is Israel’s main long range objective on the eastern front…Syria will disintegrate into several states along the lines of its ethnic and sectarian structure. As a result there will be a Shi’ite Alawi state, the district of Aleppo will be a Sunni state and the district of Damascus another state which is hostile to the Northern one… Every kind of inter-Arab confrontation will help us to prevail in the short run and will hasten the achievement of the supreme goal, namely breaking up Iraq into elements like Syria and Lebanon. There will be three states or more around the three major cities, Basra, Baghdad and Mosul, while Shi’ites in the South will separate from Sunni north which is mostly Kurdish. The entire Arabian Peninsula is a natural candidate for dissolution.”/ - Oded Yinon, taken from Matthias Chang’s Future Fastforward The Zionist Anglo-American Empire Meltdown pages 153-54
Much ado about nothing was made over the Baker-Hamilton a.k.a. The Iraq Study Group report that was released a few weeks ago. The corporate mind molding apparatus promoted the report’s findings and recommendations that actually reiterated a lot of what we already knew: the Iraq occupation is a debacle, the anti-occupation forces have stymied the US military and sectarian violence is at an all time high. What the Baker Hamilton report does specifically focus on is the oil in Iraq. The good ol’ boys in the multinational oil consortiums the Baker-Hamilton Commission really represent are finally getting their money’s worth out of the Iraq Study Group; who are touting privatization and expropriation of Iraq’s oil resources. Most of us suspected the reason Bu$h and the NeoCons invaded Iraq was so they could control and steal Iraqi oil. Another lesser known reason they invaded Iraq to force regime change on the Iraqi people was to punish Saddam Hussein for having the audacity to switch from the US dollar to the Euro as Iraq’s currency for oil transactions
What the Baker-Hamilton report did not mention nor recommend was a long standing plan to divide Iraq into three separate ethnic regions. The Iraq Study Group did not suggest that option but several plutocratic puppets like Senator Joe Bidden and Leslie H Gelb have floated the notion. “Iraqis have had three such governments in the last three years, each with Sunnis in key posts, without noticeable effect. The alternative path out of this terrible trap has five elements. The first is to establish three largely autonomous regions with a viable central government in Baghdad. The Kurdish, Sunni and Shiite regions would each be responsible for their own domestic laws, administration and internal security. The central government would control border defense, foreign affairs and oil revenues. Baghdad would become a federal zone, while densely populated areas of mixed populations would receive both multisectarian and international police protection. Decentralization is hardly as radical as it may seem: the Iraqi Constitution, in fact, already provides for a federal structure and a procedure for provinces to combine into regional governments. Besides, things are already heading toward partition: increasingly, each community supports federalism, if only as a last resort. The Sunnis, who until recently believed they would retake power in Iraq, are beginning to recognize that they won't and don't want to live in a Shiite-controlled, highly centralized state with laws enforced by sectarian militias. The Shiites know they can dominate the government, but they can't defeat a Sunni insurrection. The Kurds will not give up their 15-year-old autonomy. Some will say moving toward strong regionalism would ignite sectarian cleansing. But that's exactly what is going on already, in ever-bigger waves. Others will argue that it would lead to partition. But a breakup is already under way. As it was in Bosnia, a strong federal system is a viable means to prevent both perils in Iraq.” Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Leslie H. Gelb http://uniteourstates.com/about/pages?id=0032
For those of you who don’t know the players in this scenario, Joseph R Biden is a six term US Senator from Delaware (a Democrat) and Leslie H Gelb is the president of the Council on Foreign Relations one of the prime pushers of the New World Order agenda. Biden and Gelb are floating a trial balloon for media consumption; as per their orders from their ruling elite puppeteers. They are advocating dividing Iraq into three autonomous ethnic regions controlled by the Sunnis, Shi’ites and Kurds respectively. The truth of the matter is this is not a new or novel idea at all. The fact of the matter is, the undeniable mess we see going on in Iraq is part of a plan to balkanize the whole region as part of a Zionist plan for what the imperialist Ashkenazim call Eretz Yisrael (greater Israel) a Zionist controlled stretch of land which will span the territory from the Nile to the Euphrates. This Iraq balkanization is part of a multi pronged strategy. Biden and Gelb offer their plan as a solution to the abysmal military occupation of Iraq which was deliberately created by the Zionist/NeoCons who lied about WMD and Saddam Hussein being a threat to the US and its allies (Israel).
That’s right I said all this is deliberate! Anyone who would think a country even one as disparate as Iraq would passively allow a foreign imperialist force to invade, occupy and plunder their nation is seriously out of their mind. As stupid as George W Bu$h is, the US military leadership and his handlers knew full well there would be an anti-occupation response. Only a complete idiot would believe he could invade and bomb a country after continuing a starvation and bombing campaign that had been going on for thirteen years and expect the citizens not to hate him!! Hello, is anyone awake? Not only did the invasion and occupation of Iraq increase the atmosphere of anti-AmeriKKKanism, the real axis of evil AmeriKKKa, Britain and Israel have been busy, hard at work fomenting ethnic animosities, strife and uncivil war in Iraq to further destabilize the nation. The British forces in Basra actually got caught doing it last year!
“The arrest of two British agents disguised as Shiite ‘terrorists’ with a car full of explosives in Basra has provided solid evidence that British occupation forces are involved in Iraq's so-called sectarian terror bombings, which, until now, have been mysterious, unclaimed and unexplained acts of senseless violence. The on-going wave of ‘false flag’ terror bombings is the realization of the Zionist strategy and is meant to foment civil strife leading to the Balkanization of Iraq. After shooting and killing Iraqi police and civilians in Basra, two British agents from the Special Air Service (SAS) or a branch organization of the special forces, disguised as suicide bombers from the Mehdi Army, were caught ‘red-handed’ in a car loaded with explosives. Unable to secure the release of the two disguised terrorists from the local police, British forces took extraordinary action and bulldozed the police compound and jail in Basra and threatened Iraqi police officers at gunpoint until the Queen's agents of terror were turned over. The front pages of the leading British papers on Sept. 20 carried dramatic photos of a burning tank involved in the first attempt to release the men, but the more significant and largely obscured story was in the details of the two British terror agents ‘whose arrest set Basra ablaze,’ as the Daily Mail wrote.” Exposed - The Zionist Strategy To Balkanize Iraq by Christopher Bollyn http://www.iamthewitness.com/Bollyn-Balkanize_Iraq.html
Don’t fall for the okey-doke, this mess was all planned years ago. Yes the US invasion of Iraq was based upon lies but the fact of the matter is; the US went in with the full intention of occupying and remaining in Iraq indefinitely. To do so they had to create a situation in Iraq that facilitates the occupation, pacification and looting of the country. The US ruling elites, their British counterparts and Likud Party warmongers are pulling the strings to make this happen. Divide and rule is the name of their game. Their plan is moving along quite well thank you. So what if Bu$h has to be made to look like a blathering imbecile, he is part and parcel to the execution of the Zionist plan. Their ultimate objective is to break Iraq up into “manageable” ethnic regions so they can rule the area more easily. The Likud Party’s objective is to trick (via manipulation, white mail and threats) the AmeriKKKans into doing their dirty work for them. From the Zionist perspective it is better that US citizens rather than Israelis, serve as cannon fodder; better the US bankrupt itself on Israel’s behalf than Israel bankrupt itself to accomplish their goals! Most of the dirty work has already been done with the US ruling elites thinking they will gain what they want most, the oil and US dollar hegemony. The US has already invaded and deposed the existing government, written a Pro Western Iraqi Constitution, the US has set up the Iraqi puppet government and returned the US dollar as the official medium of trade). The US is furthering the Zionist agenda by depopulating the land (over 600,000 innocent Iraqis have been starved, maimed and murdered and thousands of Iraqis have been forced to flee and turned into refugees). meanwhile US oil companies will gain control of the natural resources (see the Baker-Hamilton plan for US oil companies’ expropriation of Iraqi oil) and the US, Britain and Israel will continue to exploit existing ethnic differences and animosity to undermine any chances of a united anti-occupation resistance.
I know we have become accustomed to the notion George W Bu$h is an idiot and rightly so; but we must not forget he is the useful idiot of the NeoCons, Zionists and corporatist fascists. We must understand that despite the fact much of the dysfunction we see in Iraq follows a US military pattern dating back to the Korean War, in this particular case; it is by design.
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Black Is Back
Black Is Back
Several weeks ago an Akoben, (the Akan word for a call to action), was sounded on the Internet. It was called An Open Letter to Black America Its Time To Bring Back Black. In it three African centered activists called for the emergence of a new level and type of leadership in the African-American community. Bob Law a long time talk radio host and radio executive, Jim Clingman an entrepreneur, nationally syndicated columnist and community activist and Amefika Geuka a West Palm Beach Florida educator and the founder of the Joseph Littles Nguzo Saba Charter School sent out the letter which generated considerable buzz on the Internet. In the letter they chastised black America for acquiescing and accepting a feeble caricature of leadership under the auspices of folks Law, Clingman and Geuka considered wrong headed, ineffective and self sabotaging. “These nationally prominent Black leaders and organizations have actually abandoned the specific needs of Black people, Case in point: Black Americans have never received proportional benefits for the time, energy, and resources that they have devoted to voting. No major party or candidate has delivered benefits to Black people in return for their votes. Still these nationally prominent Black leaders tell Blacks simply to vote, while politicians hide behind mythical concepts and broad groupings, like people of color, minorities, poor people, multi-culture, and diversity in order to justify doing nothing specifically for Blacks in return for their votes. Unless the politician or political party is committed to repairing the damage done to Blacks by centuries of historical inequities, telling Blacks to just vote is to engage Blacks in nothing more than a keep busy activity. Too often these nationally prominent leaders have engaged in a flawed analysis of the problems confronting Blacks, and as a result have offered inadequate solutions.” An Open Letter To Black America, It’s Time To Bring Back Black.
Clingman and his friends challenged black people who thought dynamic ethnocentric race first leadership was lacking, to come together and plot a new vision and agenda for our people. Clingman set up a meeting for Saturday December 9, 2006 in Cincinnati to begin the arduous task and process of what they called Bringing Black Back. The letter got the ball rolling. Subsequently Bob Law had Jim Clingman on his Philadelphia radio program on WURD 900 AM to promote the meeting. The co-conveners started popping up on Afrocentric Internet radio stations talking about the Bring Black Back campaign, informing and exhorting the listeners to be catalysts for the resurrection and manifestation of the Black Power, Black Is Beautiful, Up You Mighty Race sentiments many feel are latently percolating in the psyches of Africans in America. When he first put the call out to selected individuals, Clingman figured he would have about thirty people show up because the participants would have to come on their own, make their own travel and lodging arrangements and pay their own way. As the date of the meeting approached, even those who sent their regrets stated they were interested and asked Clingman to count them in on future meetings/sessions.
As more people responded, Clingman had to change the venue of the meeting from the University of Cincinnati to Cincinnati State facilities to accommodate the growing interest. Folks began arriving Friday night, getting acquainted, interacting infused with the energy and passion of their purpose. On Saturday about a hundred folks showed up ready to Bring Back Black. In addition to Clingman, Geuka and Law, nationally known entrepreneurs, African centered media owners, academicians, educators, mentors; IT professionals, students and activists like Dr. Claude Anderson, Haki Madhubuti, Chike Akua, DeLacy Davis, Ali Sulahuddin, Keidi Obi Awadu and Dalani Aamon were in attendance to lend credence and credibility to the bourgeoning movement. The attendees were intergenerational with several teenagers in attendance. Folks came from California, Louisiana, Florida, Chicago, Indiana, Atlanta, New York, Philadelphia and places in between.
The idea and purpose of the meeting was for grass roots folks to fashion ways to assert African empowerment in a positive way, to begin a dialog and lay the foundation for an unabashedly Afrocentric empowerment agenda. While there were informal discussions and exchanges, the goal was to reach a consensus and commitment to begin the process of building institutions integrating education, economic empowerment, political development, community service, communications, technology and spiritual development to raise consciousness and improve the conditions of Africans in America and ultimately throughout the diaspora. For many the meeting was a reunion. Anthony Philips of Camden New Jersey said it was like a MATAH reunion because so many MATAH folks were in attendance.
Following the general sessions, breakout groups met to create a foundation for specific programs and reported back to the attendees. A follow up meeting is being planned and a continuing process is being formulated. The position papers, video and audio of the meeting will be posted on Websites and plans for the next step will be disseminated via the Internet and other media. Overall the conveners were satisfied with the first meeting and they plan to continue working to get the movement up and running. “This has been a rewarding experience; it has been a humbling experience. The attendance for this gathering exceeded our expectations; I’ll round it off to about a hundred because some people were here and had to leave and others are still coming in. I just appreciate everyone for coming. We have people here from coast to coast; Miami Florida, LA, New York and points in between and we’re just proud to be part of this and work with this group of people to accomplish our mission which is to bring back black.” Clingman stated.
Amefika Geuka was equally pleased. “We’ve had such and excellent turnout under the circumstances. What I mean by that is all of these folks knew they would have to get here on their own, at their own expense, take their own time to come and that we only wanted folks who were serious and seriously in love with black folk and committed to doing something about those things that we always talk about. So the very fact that so many folks actually came knowing those were the ground rules and parameters speaks well for where we go. This is the first event of this type, so we’re going to have some ups and downs and ins and outs trying to please too many people. And some folks not quite getting what we are trying to do in terms of self-discipline and some things got away from where we wanted them to go but aside from that this is a tremendous success because we have all these people here who are the type of people they are we’re going to get to where we want to go. The plan is that we will establish the task forces for each of the eight divisions that would comprise the organization and those task forces will be charged with the responsibility of hammering out the meat and potatoes of the structure, determining what direction we’re going in, how we’re going to go about it and how things that are being done fit into that. Those groups will have to meet several times before the next gathering in ninety to one hundred days to give a report on their progress of what each group is doing that fit in with that and what things need to be expanded. That means those groups will have to meet once or more before the next larger gathering; and hopefully we will have major national convention, convocation, conference whatever name you want to call it sometime next year to celebrate the launching of the organization.” Geuka explained.
To join, become involved or for more information on the Bring Back Black movement go to www.Blackonomics.com or call (513) 489-4132.
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The War Con Game Continues
The War Con Game Continues
“Who provides the profits – these nice little profits of 20, 100, 300, 1,500 and 1,800 per cent? We all pay them – in taxation. We paid the bankers their profits when we bought Liberty Bonds at $100.00 and sold them back at $84 or $86 to the bankers. These bankers collected $100 plus. It was a simple manipulation. The bankers control the security marts. It was easy for them to depress the price of these bonds. Then all of us – the people – got frightened and sold the bonds at $84 or $86. The bankers bought them. Then these same bankers stimulated a boom and government bonds went to par – and above. Then the bankers collected their profits. But the soldier pays the biggest part of the bill. If you don't believe this, visit the American cemeteries on the battlefields abroad. Or visit any of the veteran's hospitals in the United States. On a tour of the country, in the midst of which I am at the time of this writing, I have visited eighteen government hospitals for veterans. In them are a total of about 50,000 destroyed men – men who were the pick of the nation eighteen years ago. The very able chief surgeon at the government hospital; at Milwaukee, where there are 3,800 of the living dead, told me that mortality among veterans is three times as great as among those who stayed at home. Boys with a normal viewpoint were taken out of the fields and offices and factories and classrooms and put into the ranks. There they were remolded; they were made over; they were made to ‘about face’; to regard murder as the order of the day. They were put shoulder to shoulder and, through mass psychology, they were entirely changed. We used them for a couple of years and trained them to think nothing at all of killing or of being killed. Then, suddenly, we discharged them and told them to make another ‘about face’! This time they had to do their own readjustment, sans [without] mass psychology, sans officers' aid and advice and sans nation-wide propaganda. We didn't need them any more. So we scattered them about without any ‘three-minute’ or ‘Liberty Loan’ speeches or parades. Many, too many, of these fine young boys are eventually destroyed, mentally, because they could not make that final ‘about face’ alone.” Gen. Smedley D. Butler War Is a Racket 1935
As we watch the AmeriKKKan Empire implode on itself and we pretend not to know what we really know; the rulers of this country are evil and insane beyond comprehension, the message of truth gets lost amidst the propaganda and deceit the ruling elites use to foment incessant wars, carnage and plunder. The Eurasians are a war loving species who have played the same game throughout their history, modifying it as they transformed themselves from marauding nomads raping, pillaging and plundering everywhere they went to warmongering settlers with an insatiable lust for war. In ancient times the Aryan modus operandi was for the whole pack or tribe to share in the bounty and booty of their plunder with the leader and his inner circle taking the most. As barbarian sacking and pillage gave way to “mercantile capitalism” colonialism and later, neocolonialism the imperialism game changed so the ruling elites get the most while the peons they use as cannon fodder get scraps or a bump in their standard of living due to the plunder and expropriation of raw materials which result in new finished consumer products. Nowadays Indo-European barbarian tribes don’t wander around looking for settled communities to invade, loot and plunder. They don’t send in their missionaries and anthropologists to scout the people they plan to invade, exploring ways to undermine their indigenous values and culture so they can use their tried and true strategy of divide and rule to subjugate the natives who outnumber them.
Now the ruling elites and their operatives (both covert and overt) scour the world for natural resources, viable markets to pirate and human resources they can monopolize and exploit. They still use the same old’ bum rush where they go in and steal the resources but they now have to use cunning and sophisticated propaganda to convince the suckers they need for cannon fodder that this latest adventure is a noble and glorious cause. Unlike their Aryan ancestors who reveled in war, rapine and bloodletting, modern Westerners must convince themselves and the rest of the world (who should be hip to their game by now and know better) they are peace loving, civilized humanitarians. How do they do it? They trick the people by lying. Herman Goering a Nazi war criminal and Hitler’s second in command explained how it was done, in Germany and around the world. “Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England, nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a parliament, or a Communist Dictatorship… The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. IT WORKS THE SAME IN ANY COUNTRY.” Herman Goering, Adolph Hitler’s second in command testifying at his war crimes trial.
Just prior to WWII retired US Marine Major General Smedley D. Butler wrote a pamphlet entitled War Is A Racket. I suggest you go online and either purchase it or read it. It is just as timely and apropos today as it was in 1935, even more so because we should know better!!! By the way, Smedley who was by all accounts an honest man, helped thwart a fascist coup attempt against President Franklin Delano Roosevelt lead by prominent super rich AmeriKKKan fascists like Irenee DuPont, Al Smith who conspired with a consortium of DuPont, J.P. Morgan bank representatives, leading industrialists from Bethlehem Steel, Goodyear and Wall Street bankers to usher in corporatist fascism in the 1930’s. (I’ll bet you didn’t learn about that in school. Check it out at http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/Coup.htm or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot ) Smedley hit it right on the head when he said, “But don't forget – the soldier paid part of the dollars and cents bill too. Up to and including the Spanish-American War, we had a prize system, and soldiers and sailors fought for money. During the Civil War they were paid bonuses, in many instances, before they went into service. The government, or states, paid as high as $1,200 for an enlistment. In the Spanish-American War they gave prize money. When we captured any vessels, the soldiers all got their share – at least, they were supposed to. Then it was found that we could reduce the cost of wars by taking all the prize money and keeping it, but conscripting [drafting] the soldier anyway. Then soldiers couldn't bargain for their labor. Everyone else could bargain, but the soldier couldn't. Napoleon once said, ‘All men are enamored of decorations...they positively hunger for them.’ So by developing the Napoleonic system – the medal business – the government learned it could get soldiers for less money, because the boys liked to be decorated. Until the Civil War there were no medals. Then the Congressional Medal of Honor was handed out. It made enlistments easier. After the Civil War no new medals were issued until the Spanish-American War.
In the World War, we used propaganda to make the boys accept conscription. They were made to feel ashamed if they didn't join the army. So vicious was this war propaganda that even God was brought into it. With few exceptions our clergymen joined in the clamor to kill, kill, kill. To kill the Germans. God is on our side...it is His will that the Germans be killed. And in Germany, the good pastors called upon the Germans to kill the allies...to please the same God. That was a part of the general propaganda, built up to make people war conscious and murder conscious. Beautiful ideals were painted for our boys who were sent out to die. This was the ‘war to end all wars.’ This was the ‘war to make the world safe for democracy.’ No one mentioned to them, as they marched away, that their going and their dying would mean huge war profits. No one told these American soldiers that they might be shot down by bullets made by their own brothers here. No one told them that the ships on which they were going to cross might be torpedoed by submarines built with United States patents. They were just told it was to be a ‘glorious adventure.’ Thus, having stuffed patriotism down their throats, it was decided to make them help pay for the war, too. So, we gave them the large salary of $30 a month. All they had to do for this munificent sum was to leave their dear ones behind, give up their jobs, lie in swampy trenches, eat canned willy (when they could get it) and kill and kill and kill...and be killed… Yes, the soldier pays the greater part of the bill. His family pays too. They pay it in the same heart-break that he does. As he suffers, they suffer. At nights, as he lay in the trenches and watched shrapnel burst about him, they lay home in their beds and tossed sleeplessly – his father, his mother, his wife, his sisters, his brothers, his sons, and his daughters. When he returned home minus an eye, or minus a leg or with his mind broken, they suffered too – as much as and even sometimes more than he. Yes, and they, too, contributed their dollars to the profits of the munitions makers and bankers and shipbuilders and the manufacturers and the speculators made. They, too, bought Liberty Bonds and contributed to the profit of the bankers after the Armistice in the hocus-pocus of manipulated Liberty Bond prices. And even now the families of the wounded men and of the mentally broken and those who never were able to readjust themselves are still suffering and still paying.” War Is A Racket Chapter 3.
War is still a racket only this time it’s GE, Lockheed Martin, Bechtel, Halliburton, Dyncorp, Boeing, the private bankers and the Carlyle Group that are raking in the profits and blood soaked money as they push to establish a fascist corporate plutocracy in the US. The War Con Game/Racket will continue unless and until the people of the world say enough! As Smedley said in the closing of his book, “To summarize: Three steps must be taken to smash the war racket. We must take the profit out of war. We must permit the youth of the land who would bear arms to decide whether or not there should be war. We must limit our military forces to home defense purposes.” Smedley Butler made his transition in 1940 but his words live on. Perhaps we should revisit them during these insane times.
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