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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Trump's Trip
From The Ramparts
Junious Ricardo Stanton
Trump's Trip
Donald Trump recently concluded
a much ballyhooed trip to Saudi Arabia,
Israel and Europe.
While a contrived controversy about his alleged ties to Russia rages at home, Trump did
little while he was abroad to promote peace, engender confidence or create
economic good will.
Trump revealed
himself to be one of three things: a complete idiot about world affairs, a
blatant hypocrite by going to Saudi
Arabia the prime supplier of fanaticism and
terror in the world today, or a stooge for the military industrial security complex/Deep
State.
The
corporate media is not going to tell us about the role Saudi Wahabbism plays in
hate and terror on a global level, but I will. "Modern Islamic extremism and terrorism
simply cannot be explained or understood without looking at the history and
influence of Wahhabi Islam. This means that it's important from an ethical and
an academic perspective to understand what Wahhabi Islam teaches, what's so
dangerous about it, and why those teachings differ from other branches of Islam...
Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab
(d. 1792) was the first modern Islamic fundamentalist and extremists. Wahhab
made the central point of his reform movement the principle that absolutely
every idea added to Islam after the third century of the Mulsim era (about 950
CE) was false and should be eliminated. Muslims, in order to be true Muslims,
must adhere solely and strictly to the original beliefs set forth by Muhammad.
Because so many
Muslims lived
(so he claimed) in jahiliyya, al-Wahhab accused them of not being true
Muslims after all. Only those who followed the strict teachings of al-Wahhab
were truly Muslims because only they still followed the path laid out by Allah.
Accusing someone of not being a true Muslim is significant because it is
forbidden for one Muslim to kill another; but if someone is not a true Muslim
then killing them (in war or in an act of terrorism) becomes licit. It would be
hard to underestimate the importance of this principle to modern terrorists and
extremists...
Even though Wahhabism is a minority position
overall in the
Muslim world,
it has nevertheless been influential for other extremist movements throughout
the
Middle East. This can be seen with a
couple of factors, first of which is al-Wahhab’s use of the term jahiliyya to
vilify a society which he does not consider pure enough, whether they call
themselves Muslim or not. Even today, Islamists use the term when referring to
the West and at times even to their own societies. With it, they can justify
overthrowing what many might regard as an
Islamic state by
essentially denying that it is truly Islamic at all."
Wahhabism and Wahhabi Islam: How Wahhabi Islam Differs
from Sunni, Shia Islam https://www.thoughtco.com/wahhabism-and-wahhabi-islam-250235
Make
no mistake, Saudi Arabia is
a Wahhabist state ruled by a family of desert pirates who were recognized and
given status as monarchs by the British Empire
in 1926. Al Saud a Bedouin thief and his family formed a partnership with al
Wahhab's fanatics in 1744 and have
been in cahoots ever since. Most if not all Islamic fanaticism has it's roots
in Saudi Wahhabism which has been exported from Saudi Arabia around the world! https://my.nps.edu/documents/105988371/107571254/DillonWahhabismThesis.pdf/23fc46fb-17a6-41da-83b8-8e312191b5bb
For
Donald Trump to go to Saudi
Arabia bow down to these thugs and give them
additional billions in US arms is an utter disgrace! The corporate media is not
going to tell us the US
partners with Saudi Arabia, Israel and NATO to run their proxy wars in Afghanistan, Iraq,
Libya, Syria, Yemen and other places around the
world nevertheless it is a fact.
From
Saudi Arabia Trump ventured to Israel where he also promised billions of additional
US taxpayer dollars to them while simultaneously cutting funds for social
programs at home in his proposed budget. What's wrong with that picture? What
type of hornet's nest will Trump stir if he follows through with his idea of
moving the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem?
From
Israel Trump flew to Europe to meet with the
Pope, NATO and the G7 leaders. There he chastised NATO members for not paying
their "fair share" while hypocritically calling NATO which for all
intents and purposes is the thug arm of US global imperialism an "organ of
peace". Whew, you can't make this stuff up.
He criticized Germany
for having a thriving economy exporting more goods to the US than the US
exports to Germany.
I wonder why? Could it be German products are better made than the USA's?
People
appear relieved Trump did not make a complete fool of himself and embarrass the
country. Maybe, maybe not; his dance with the Saudi swords made him look like a
doofus in my book. But let's not forget what an idiot George W Bu$h was, how he
led this nation into perpetual wars and debt based on lies and how his
successors both Obama and Trump are building upon that pattern.
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Magic Sounds Reading Program
Magic Sounds Reading Program
Junious
Ricardo Stanton
Elementary
school teachers are exceptional educators and motivators. Their task is to
stimulate inspire and encourage young minds in the joy of learning and prepare
them for the rigors of things to come. Miss Barbara Jackson was an elementary
school teacher who taught first grade in the Philadelphia school district for over thirty
years. During that time she enjoyed interacting with young children discovering
and figuring out ways to make learning fun and easy for her students.
She
attended and graduated from Cheyney
State Teachers
College where she was trained to teach the basics
of reading, mathematics and civics. She favored the phonics approach to
teaching reading because her methods instructor at Cheyney emphasized phonics
and encouraged her to use it to teach reading.
When she
began her teaching career, phonics was the standard method but subsequently the
Philadelphia School District switched to the sight
word approach. She found her students were
not doing as well using that method. Being a true teacher who wanted her
students to succeed, she went back to teaching phonics. "I was about ten
years into teaching, I was seeing the children weren't grasping reading the way
I thought they should so I tried all kinds of ways to get them to do better. I
developed magic sounds, I was already teaching phonics but this was an easier
way than the traditional phonics. One day I sat down and wrote it out I showed
it to a friend of mine and he couldn't believe it."
She saw her students responded well to the
program and over the years she modified
it to suit the skills and personalities of her classes. After a while she realized
she had created an innovative reading program which she called Magic Sounds.
Being an astute teacher, she recognized the children liked repeating the vowel
sounds coupled with consonants to make up words or parts of words. She
discovered her technique made reading easier for her students.
She caught
flack from some of her principals but remained steadfast and persistent in her
belief that phonics was the better reading teaching method. Plus school administrators
couldn't really discipline her because her students always outperformed the
other first grade classes in the school.
Miss Jackson wanted to share the program with
other teachers, parents and the public so she went into a professional
recording studio, recorded the lessons then used her notes and lesson plans to
create a workbook to accompany the audio lessons. As time passed Miss Jackie,
as her students called her, was forced to keep up with the technology. At first
she used vinyl records. When cassette tapes came out she created cassette tapes
for her lessons, then DVD's and later memory sticks. Now she is working on an
animated program and workbook.
Though
retired she still tutors students one on one occasionally and she keeps busy
refining and reworking her reading program she calls Magic Sounds. She has
expanded to offer a few additional learning products. She is proud of the reading
program and the success it has had helping students of all ages learn to read
using phonics. "You can use the program to teach toddlers and babies to
read. If the mother watches the DVD and becomes familiar with the sounds then
she can teach her baby. The child will learn very fast and efficiently because
phonics is a natural way to learn to read because that is the way children
learn to speak. In the first year babies babble, they say da,da, dada and ba,ba
and baba; these are the short sounds. They don't say mama or mommy until later.
In all the
years I've been doing this I've never had one program returned." She
declared proudly.
With much
of education in crisis especially in urban areas, with dwindling resources,
widening achievement gaps and an emphasis on test score results, a program like
Magic Sounds is a medium parents, teachers, mentors and educational advocates
can get behind and support.
Miss Jackie spends much of her time filling
orders for the program and shipping them out of her home. "I do most of
the work myself I don't have a large staff. I used to have a friend who served
as a salesman but he died." She has created a Website,
www.magicsoundsphonicsfirst.com and she sells her programs Online. The cost is
$20 which includes shipping and handling. For more information about Magic
Sounds reading made easy, you can E-mail her at magicsoundsreadeasy@gmail.com
or call (215) 849-5543.
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ps, you can listen to my podcast interview with Barbara
Jackson at https://soundcloud.com/junious-ricardo-stanton/akoben-miss-barbara-jackson-magic-sounds-reading-technique
It's Time To Stand Up For Right
From The Ramparts
Junious Ricardo Stanton
It's
Time To Stand Up For Right
"Stand
for something or you will fall for anything. Today's mighty oak is yesterday's
nut that held its ground." - Rosa
Parks
There was a time Afro-Americans were
the moral compass of this country. Due to the insane system of slavery and
oppression that ensnared our ancestors in a vicious environment that attempted to break their
spirits and sap their will to resist, numerous ancestors stood up to urge their
peers to struggle, resist and hold on for a better day.
In 1827 Freedom's Journal the first
African American newspaper was started by Rev. Samuel E. Cornish the pastor of
the African Presbyterian Church of New York and John Russwurm the first Black
man in the US
to receive a college degree. Their paper called for self-determination and
freedom. The banner of their very first edition read, "We Wish to Plead
Our Own Cause." In the first
editorial they said, "We wish to plead our own cause. Too long have others
spoken for us. Too long has the public been deceived by misrepresentations in
things which concern us dearly ..."
While the paper didn't last long due to lack of financial support, it
was a seminal effort in self-determination and self expression.
David Walker was born in North Carolina around
1796 of an enslaved father and free mother; so he "enjoyed" free born
status. His status as a free Black
allowed Walker
to gain an education. He subsequently moved to Massachusetts in 1825. There he became active
in the abolition movement and the proprietor of a successful second hand shop
that sold mostly sailors clothing and uniforms. In 1829 he wrote and published
a radical call for the abolition of slavery entitled Walker's Appeal To The Slaves of The United States of America a
detailed account of the status of enslaved people. In it Walker was implacable in his hatred of slavery.
He vigorously denounced the forced ignorance and white religion slavery imposed
upon his enslaved brethren. Walker was equally contemptuous
of the colonization movement organized by prominent whites whose goal was to
get free Blacks to immigrate back to Africa.
Walker urged enslaved Africans not to turn
the other cheek but to use violence in their righteous quest for freedom. Walker's provocative pamphlet so unnerved white America a
bounty of $500 dollars was placed on his head, $1,000 if he was captured alive.
Walker was advised of this by friends who urged
him to flee to Canada,
but he refused. He was mysteriously
found dead in 1830. Many suspected he had been poisoned but "official
records" say his death was due to tuberculosis.
Throughout our sojourn in the
wilderness of North America there have been countless courageous souls known
and unknown who stood up for freedom, dignity and self-determination in small
and large ways from one on one resistance to leading large scale rebellions and
social movements. As this nation devolves into an oppressive police state very
reminiscent of the constant monitoring by the Pattyrollers and militia during
slavery, it is time for us to stand up and stand for something. It is time to
reinsert the words struggle and liberation into our vocabulary and lexicon.
The voices of our ancestors,
countless sheroes and heroes call out from the spirit realm to encourage us to
stand for something meaningful and good. Mrs. Rosa Parks the courageous
catalyst for the Montgomery Bus boycott once said, "Stand for
something or you will fall for anything. Today's mighty oak is yesterday's nut
that held its ground."
We can not
afford to rest on our laurels or boast about our victories during the Civil
Rights movement because many of those same victories are being undermined as we
speak. Sadly there is no mass movement to address these issues or right these
wrongs. It's time we stand up for freedom, human rights, economic justice,
PEACE and well being for all humanity.
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The Monkey Is Showing His Behind
From The Ramparts
Junious Ricardo Stanton
The Monkey Is Showing His Behind
There is an
African saying, "the higher a monkey goes up the tree, the more it shows
its' behind." We are seeing Donald Trump show his behind. Many people
voted for him because they thought he would usher in a new era of government
featuring less taxes, less military intervention and war, an America first
outlook, create and bring jobs back to the US. Trump won the election by
garnering the most electoral college votes and after one hundred days he is
well on his way up the tree and we are seeing his behind.
We are
seeing just how ill equipped he is and how the deep state has muffled all his
talk about friendly relations with Russia. We are seeing how he has flip-flopped
on just about every campaign promise he made. Now only his most ardent
supporters and the Fox Cable talking heads are the only ones who aren't having
buyers remorse (not that a Clinton
presidency would be better).
Just like
on the campaign trail where Trump played loose with reality (alternative facts)
he routinely uttered outrageous characterizations of his opponents and their
policies, now in the White House Trump looks like the reality show personality
he is. For him, everything is hyperbole,
spin and there is no rhyme or reason to the things he does.
When Trump
was talking about establishing friendly relations with Russia he was ridiculed, mocked and
scorned by the deep state's acolytes in the corporate media, the D.C. beltway
group think lemmings and the warmongers in the military intelligence security
hydra. He caved in immediately. Now Trump is on board with saber rattling and
bellicose rhetoric against people who have done nothing to the U.S.
Trump drank
the Democratic Party's Kool Aid about Russia hacking the presidential
election despite the fact the CIA, NSA, DIA, FBI and Five Eye Alliance have
produced no evidence whatsoever to prove these claims are factual. Whew.
Unlike the US, North Korea
has not invaded anyone, North Korea
has not engineered coups in foreign lands and North Korea doesn't have over eight
hundred military and covert ops bases around the world! North Korea can't launch a nuclear missile at
the US
mainland because they don't have the capability. But Trump and his advisors (except Banning)
are cheerleaders for "all options are on the table" blustering
against North Korea.
They never talk about coming to the table to work out a binding peace agreement
to end the Korean War! Trump is revealing
he is just like his predecessors a gullible stooge in the grip of the deep
state.
On the home
front, Trump and his Republican Party buddies who have their own agenda are
using his popularity as a cover to gut the New Deal and Great Society programs
like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
These
charlatans made a big deal about the fact they passed a Health Care bill to
supposedly keep their promise to repeal and replace Obamacare. But the fact of
the matter is they didn't do any such thing. Most of the two hundred seventeen
Congress critters who voted for the bill hadn't even read it!! They held a love fest and mutual admiration
society bash at the White House after the vote each taking turns patting
themselves on the back for passing a House version of a bill that will need
passage in the US Senate then reconciliation with the Senate version then
passage of the compromise bill and then signage by Trump. All that for a bill
that is deeply flawed which will hurt citizens much more than Obamacare did
(not that Obamacare was a good bill it wasn't).
Trump is
showing he doesn't give a hoot about the American people, only his super rich
buddies. There is an article in Forbes that details how the GOP health bill
injures just about everyone. Please read the article at https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnwasik/2017/05/05/how-gops-healthcare-bill-hurts-everyone/#6954714b5cf2
As Trump
goes farther up the tree (a metaphor for the D.C. political landscape) the more
he reveals how controlled by the establishment he really is.
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