Environmental Poisoning
From The Ramparts
Junious
Ricardo Stanton
Environmental
Poisoning
A recent story in a Philadelphia
newspaper and Philadelphia television stated many gentrified communities in the
Delaware River wards are experiencing a spike in lead poisoning; not in the
drinking water or from paint but from the ground! The article stated the lead comes from old
smelters and factories that were prevalent in the city during the nineteenth
and twentieth century industrial boom. At one time Philadelphia had the most lead smelting
factories in the nation. The lead from these buildings is saturated in the
ground. State and local authorities are bickering over whose responsibility it
is to clean up and remedy the situation.
Lead is
extremely toxic and can cause severe health defects and conditions. Lead
exposure and contamination are major problems throughout modern
America not just in
Philadelphia
or
Flint Michigan.
Most of the information about the dangers of lead poisoning have focused on
children, but lead poisoning is deadly to adults as well. "Here’s what we
do know, though: Even low-level exposure can harm your heart, brain, kidneys,
and reproductive system. Concentrations of less than 5 micrograms of lead per
deciliter of blood—a level the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
considers toxic and at which it recommends public health intervention—can
weaken adult kidney function and increase the risk of kidney disease, according
to the Department of Health and Human Services. There are also hints that this
level of exposure in adults may contribute to seizures, hearing loss,
impairment of cognitive functions (including memory), and the development of
Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS). Scientists are now looking into whether it might
exacerbate cognitive diseases such as Alzheimer’s and dementia...
Scientists
have associated somewhat higher blood lead levels—5 to 10 micrograms per
deciliter—with high blood pressure and an increased risk of death from
cardiovascular disease. That’s because our bodies seem to confuse lead with
calcium, which plays a vital role in muscle contraction. This mix-up causes
tiny muscles around our blood vessels to contract more forcefully than they
normally would have, thereby increasing the blood pressure...
Black Americans already experience higher
rates of cardiovascular health problems than other groups, often due to poor
diet, so lead may
compound an existing problem in majority-black cities like Flint, 41 percent of whose residents live
below the federal poverty threshold." http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/03/flint-lead-exposure-adult-health-effects/
But environmental toxicity is not
just relegated to Philadelphia and Flint Michigan.
In the June 21 edition of the Government Slaves Website http://www.govtslaves.com/these-9-zip-codes-have-dangerously-high-levels-of-toxic-heavy-metals-in-the-municipal-water-supply/
there was an article on environmental toxins with a link to a Natural Science
Journal study of three hundred sixty four municipalities by zip codes with high
limits of lead, arsenic, mercury, cadmium, aluminum and cooper http://naturalsciencejournal.org/ICP-MS-Analysis-364-Municipal-Water-Samples.html
I belong to The Philadelphia Seminar
an organization that brings in guest speakers every month to share ideas and
topics that impact African Americans. Last week we had Glen Ellis and he
specifically told us only twenty percent of the issues that impact our health
have anything to do with doctors, medical insurance, coverage or hospitals. The
other eighty per cent involves personal lifestyle, our habits, our immediate environment,
our mental attitudes and the day to day stress we experience. As an example of
environmental factors, he mentioned lead and the deadly effects lead has on
humans.
Our environmental space plays an
important role in our health or illness. We are also subject to omnipresent natural
and man made electromagnetic frequencies from our computers, televisions, smart
phones and mobile devices. Currently there is a war going on between those who
espouse telling the truth about electromagnetic frequencies and fields and
those who don't. In most cases, the ones who are lying and withholding
information are winning!
"But mention that serious health
effects can result from human-generated electromagnetic fields (EMFs), and
everyone and their dog seem to be able to quote propaganda on how these
frequencies and their emitting devices are 'proven safe'—which defies logic. For
most consumers, information about the health effects of these fields comes from
reports in electronics-based media (internet, radio, and TV) or
tech-ads-dependent media (newspapers and news magazines). And the vast bulk of
the research is paid for by the telecommunications industry, which cares about
its sales and legal liability—not your health. This industry has
spent billions of dollars in political lobbying... Few people are
listening to the real authority to which they have instant access—their own body.
Some of the most commonly experienced effects of EMFs, like depression, brain
fog, attention deficit disorder, chronic fatigue, autism, sleeplessness,
anxiety, and Alzheimer's increase coffee shop and drug corporation profits as
people look for relief. But a drug-dependent fix is different than vigorous
health, especially for the planet." The Effects of Electromagnetic Fields:
What is Penetrating You? Cathee Courter with Peter MacGill http://www.weness.org/emfs/effects-electromagnetic-fields.html
Please pay more
attention to your environment and your body, they speak to us all the time. Environmental
poisoning is real and it impacts all of us. Don't fall for the propaganda and
consumer okey-doke; be alert, be aware and be willing to fight for your rights.
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The American Empire, A Pathocracy In Action
From The Ramparts
Junious Ricardo Stanton
The American Empire, A Pathocracy
In Action
"Pathocracy from Greek pathos,
'feeling, pain, suffering'; and kratos, 'rule' A totalitarian form of
government in which absolute political power is held by a psychopathic elite,
and their effect on the people is such that the entire society is ruled and
motivated by purely pathological values. A pathocracy can take many forms and
can insinuate itself covertly into any seemingly just system or ideology. As
such it can masquerade under the guise of a democracy or theocracy as well as
more openly oppressive regimes." https://pathocracy.wordpress.com/definition/
Several
weeks ago I described America
as an empire in decline and promised to revisit this topic in successive weeks.
Although the United Sates is only two hundred forty one years old, it is
already a global empire albeit one in rapid decline. Since its inception this
country has engaged in a murderous, expansionist imperial rampage to the point
it now defines itself as the preeminent and indispensable nation in the world.
This self-delusional narcissism has fueled an increasing megalomania and push
for total global hegemony. This psychopathy is promoted by the ruling class's
mind control apparatus/propaganda machine designed to recruit canon fodder for
the ubiquitous wars, interventions and covert ops the ruling class uses to
acquire and maintain their ill gotten resources, spoils and booty from around
the world while controlling the masses here in the United States.
When we
examine American society critically we are struck by the acute hypocrisy and
schizophrenia it demonstrates. We notice the leaders speak of liberty while
becoming rich off of the African slave trade and modern prison labor, they
speak of peace while waging incessant war, they talk of equality yet maintain
egregious gender, color and class disparities in wealth and opportunity, they
talk about life yet engage in global ecocide and genocide.
This perverse
mentality springs from the consciousness and cultural norms of the European
ethos, harkening to their ancestral love of violence, rapine, plunder and
looting. Today the ruling class wear expensive suits whereas their Goth,
Visigoth, Osteogoth, Vandal, Frank, Jute, Pic, Anglo, Saxon, Norman ancestors
wore
animal skins and crudely fashioned clothing; nevertheless
their mentality is the same. Today
they speak of Judaeo-Christian values as the foundation of their culture yet just
like the Roman Empire, they use religion as a
tool for imperialism, conquest and subjugation, then turn around and use the
same religion as a tool of indoctrination to oppress and dominate their victims
to make them docile and acquiesce to their debasement.
Astute
folks refer to America
as a pathocracy, a nation ruled by psychopaths, worshipers of evil and
practitioners of demonic occultism. America for all intents and
purposes is a criminogenic society.
http://disinfo.com/2010/10/pathocracy-is-civilization-the-creation-of-psychopaths/,
http://barbariansinsuits.net ,
http://drsircus.com/world-news/psychopaths-rule-our-world-medicine-politics-and-war/
, http://www.wanttoknow.info/mk/liftingtheveil#15
The signs
are all omnipresent yet most don't see them because we have been brainwashed,
hoodwinked and bamboozled to view the world through a prism fashioned by our
psychopathic overlords; a prism that severely distorts reality, creates
illusions and stimulates mindless consumption, obedience and compliance.
The
cumulative psychopathy is metastasizing throughout this society. The
plutocrats' mind control apparatus glorifies degeneracy, decadence, war,
self-indulgence, narcissism and exploitation all day all the time. When we look
at our own communities we see the deleterious impact of media consumption, the self-indulgence,
narcissism and mindless adulation of the "celebrities" and
degenerates the ruling class set before us to imitate. The hoochie momma,
squeezer, thug and playah stereotypes promoted in books, by the record companies,
videos, reality shows, radio, and movies have psychically reengineered our
people and are contributing to our maladaptive responses to our condition in
this country.
It is time for us to wake up and fortify
ourselves against the moral rot engulfing this nation and the world. It is
imperative we have our own media, one that focuses on liberation, empowerment
that speaks our truth. The great Marcus
Garvey spoke and wrote about the importance of propaganda how we should use it
to fight the negative stereotypes perpetrated by our enemies and create
positive images of ourselves, that tell our history and provide a vision for
our future. (Marcus Garvey Life and Lessons edited
by Robert A. Hill and Barbara Bair Lesson 16 page 289). We need more serious books,
more righteous Websites, more Internet radio, television and streaming venues
to tell our stories and bombard our psyches with positive images and messages.
We must exert our energies to establish, support and maintain our own media to
tell our stories from our perspective to accomplish our goals and not those of
our adversaries.
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Saving Cheyney University
Saving Cheyney University
Junious
Ricardo Stanton
On Monday
evening June 6, Heeding Cheyney's Call
held a rally to provide information, status updates and dispel rumors the
historic institution, the oldest institution for higher learning in the United
States for African-Americans, is about to close.
Heeding
Cheyney' Call is a grassroots, coalition made up of alumni, students, higher
education advocates and activists who were called together in 2013 by the late great
Professor Edgar "Sonny" Harris to save the school. Harris was a
former professor of mathematics and mathematics instruction at the university
who served for many years as the president of the faculty union and the retired
faculty union. In 2013 he became increasingly alarmed at the declining
enrollment, escalating deficits, lack of viable leadership and willful neglect
on the part of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE).
Harris called one of his mentees,
activist attorney Michael Coard and several other alumni (myself included) who
began meeting to investigate exactly what the status of the university was and
strategize how to reverse the dangerous trends and save the school.
After a
series of meetings with US Department of Education officials, the US Department
of Education Office of Civil Rights staff, federal, state and local elected officials a
press conference was called to announce our intent to revisit the 1999 federal
consent decree agreement between the University and the US Department of Education's
Office of Civil Rights. Heeding Cheyney's Call as we call ourselves began
searching for an attorney or law firm willing to take on the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
on behalf of the university in federal court. Following our press conference in
October of 2013, Governor Tom Corbett and his staff presented counter claims
that they had adequately funded the university. After a public rebuttal of
their claims by Michael Coard, the Governor's office reached out and offered to
meet with HCC.
After eight
months of face to face meetings and attempts to negotiate with the Corbett
Administration, in July of 2014 Corbett's team informed us they were not going
to give Cheyney any additional funding. HCC
decided to file a federal lawsuit in October of 2014 several weeks prior to the
upcoming gubernatorial election. We engaged Joe Tucker who agreed to handle the
work pro bono and he quickly went into action building a solid case.
Once the
paperwork was filed, HCC prepared for a protracted legal battle but Gov.
Corbett lost the November 2014 gubernatorial election. His successor Governor
Tom Wolf indicated he wished to avoid the expenses and potentially negative
consequences of litigation. Heeding Cheyney's Call entered into good faith
negotiations with Gov. Wolf and his staff and the process moved along smoothly;
so much so HCC agreed to ask the presiding judge to set it aside while we
worked out a settlement. The case was withdrawn without prejudice in January of
2016. We have the option of reopening it!
Since 2010 the university has experienced a
fifty-three percent decrease in enrollment from 1,406 undergraduate students to
a mere 660 in 2017. The university is also burdened with escalating debt due to
loans from PASSHE to keep it operational, and because the federal government
has delayed paying owed financial aid monies to the university. The university
also experienced challenges with the NCAA but avoided sanctions because they
self-reported violations.
Due to the press the university's fiscal
position was generating, the Middle States Commission on Higher Education
returned to campus to look at Cheyney despite having granted the university full
reaccreditation status in 2014. The new Middle States team discovered Cheyney
lacked the financial wherewithal to sustain itself and carry out its mission. They
were especially concerned about Cheyney's declining enrollment and lack of
permanent leadership. Middle States subsequently placed the university on probation
in November of 2015. Cheyney has two years to rectify its shortcomings, November
19, 12017 is the deadline.
The
Commonwealth has steadfastly declined for over two years to initiate a search
for a permanent president and despite several high ranking PASSHE officials managing
and stabilizing the departments of enrollment, financial aid and the bursars
office, the university failed to meet its enrollment projections for Fall 2016.
Now PASSHE says it cannot lend Cheyney any additional funds.
The state
convened a special Task Force charged with coming up with a new institutional
model for mission, operations and sustainability. The Task Force was composed
of a Wolf administration cabinet head, legislators, PASSHE Board of Governors and Cheyney Council of
Trustee members. They published their final report in May. The report proposes
a radical reconfiguring of the university. It specifically recommends exploring
ways to monetize Cheyney's real estate, tearing down several buildings, cutting staff and discontinuing NCAA Division
II sports.
Cheyney is
one of several PASSHE schools experiencing fiscal and enrollment difficulties: Mansfield, Clarion, California
and Edinboro are the others. Each of these schools have historically been
stepping stones for working class families to acquire a college education. Their
demise would be catastrophic for the state. http://www.pennbpc.org/sites/default/files/20170608_RisingCostsPaper.pdf
It was in
response to the Task Force's report that Heeding Cheyney's Call convened
Monday's meeting. HCC is asking everyone concerned about saving Cheyney to do
three things immediately: call Governor Tom Wolf, (717) 787-2500, Chancellor
Frank Brogan (717) 720-4000 and the PASSHE Board of Governors Chairperson Cynthia
Shapira (717) 720-4028, demand they rethink the Task Force recommendations and
work to immediately resolve the chronic systemic causes of Cheyney's problems.
After you do that please send HCC an E-mail at HeedingCheyneysCall@gmail.com,
leave your name and phone number, the date, time and person you spoke with. Your
participation, whether you went to Cheyney or not, is crucial to our success
keeping the oldest institution of higher learning for African Americans in this
nation open, alive and thriving! Please make the calls.
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From the Ramparts
Junious Ricardo Stanton
America An Empire
In Decline
"The American Empire invaded,
occupied or bombed 14 countries in less than 30 years – timeline The real reason
for singling out these countries is the petrodollar system, a
scheme that enables America to stay afloat despite being more than $17 trillion
in debt. The existence of petrodollars is one of the pillars of America’s economic might, because it creates a
significant external demand for the American dollar, allowing the United States
to amass enormous debts without defaulting." The American Empire Is In
Decline Like All Others Before http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/american-empire-decline/ri15586
The
American Empire like all empires before it,
will not last forever. Studies indicate an empire lasts about ten
generations or two hundred years. The typical empire goes through several
stages over a period of years, but because of the massive technological advances that have
occurred during its rise the lifespan and decline of America is being accelerated.
The
Europeans who came to these shores came not as explorers and seekers of freedom
as their propaganda and myths tell us, but as conquerors, colonizers,
plunderers and murderers. With that mindset is was inevitable they would
initiate strife, conflict, and genocide everywhere they set foot. That was the
first stage of empire, settlement.
Once the
Europeans established a toehold here they began their conquest in earnest which
is the second phase of empire, expansion. Next they exploited the natural resources,
established commerce and attempted to universally subjugate and enslave the
native inhabitants but in some cases like the Canary islands, Tasmania,
North America and Australia
the invading whites exterminated most of the indigenous peoples they
encountered.
Taking
advantage of African free labor and the technology of the motherland the
colonists and the new country of America became wealthy beyond
measure. Their wealth was based upon war, land seizure, slavery and rapine.
They cultivated a mentality of expansionist entitlement, greed and hubris which
fueled further growth. They created myths about themselves to justify their immorality
and hubris. This false identity and reality made it easy for them to up the
ante on their system of pillage until they became a global empire. But their
wealth led to crass materialism, hedonism, decadence and depravity which sowed
the seeds of decline.
Today after
two hundred forty one years as a nation, America stands astride the world
daring anyone to challenge its military supremacy, its predatory economic
system or its dream of global hegemony, what they call "full spectrum
domination".
But in
their gluttony, megalomania, and hubris they fail to recognize the symptoms of
their imminent demise. Like all empires America thinks it will last
forever. Not so. The stitching holding the empire together is rapidly unraveling
as we speak. It is only a matter of time before internal decay and hubris cause
it to implode and collapse.
Like the
Roman and British Empires before it, the American empire is going through many
of the same stages. America
is at the point of imperial overreach where its neocolonial outposts and
conquest are draining it of resources as the
plutocrats rake in the spoils while domestic income inequality widens
and socio-economic conditions for the ninety-nine per cent worsen.
America is in a
state of decline, the numbers reveal it for all willing to see beyond the
propaganda and lies.
America
is awash in debt, national, corporate and personal. This debt will eventually
drown the empire. "On November 7,
2016, debt held by the public was $14.3 trillion or about 76% of the previous
12 months of GDP).
[5][6][7][8] Intragovernmental holdings stood at
$5.4 trillion, giving a combined total gross national debt of $19.8 trillion or
about 106% of the previous 12 months of GDP.
[7] $6.2
trillion or approximately 45% of the debt held by the public was owned by
foreign investors, the largest of which were
Japan and
China at about $1.09
trillion for
Japan and $1.06
trillion for
China
as of December 2016.
[9]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_of_the_United_States
This is
unsustainable over the long haul. No
amount of taxation or fiat money creation will be able to balance the books or
prevent collapse. Much of this debt is fueled by war and imperial overreach.
The US
maintains over 800 known military bases in seventy countries around the world. The
true cost is unknown due to the so called off book covert military and CIA
sites but a conservative figures is $150 billion annually. In addition to the military
bases the US
in engaged in numerous wars, interventions and covert ops as we speak. The
bogus War on Terror alone has cost $4.79 trillion with a T. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_of_the_United_States
and this doesn't include the $2.97 billion for research and development in the
super secret Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) or the
military budget the Trump just raised!
Another major
indicator of decline is the corruption and malfeasance on all levels of US
government. Whole federal departments like Defense, Medicare, Medicaid and
Housing and Urban Development have been suborned and are ripe with corruption
and fraud.
This is
also prevalent on the state and local levels. Go to https://thefailedsystem.wordpress.com/2016/02/15/corrupt-states/ to read a good synopsis of state corruption
especially the part about the link between the level of corruption and the
health of the residents in the state.
The topic
of America's
decline is too extensive and too important to treat in one article so I will
offer additional evidence in future articles.
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