We Need To Get In The Game
We Need To Get In The Game
Junious
Ricardo Stanton
“Largely the problems we are confronted with today as Afikan
people in America flow from our powerlessness or our inappropriate
uses of power. We’ve been made to think that to even talk about and
think of power is sinful, that to pursue it is immoral and wrong. But
one cannot exist without power. Without power there is no life, a
battery without power is dead. You need power to act, to behave in
the world, to deal with the world.” Amos Wilson from Afrikan
Centered Consciousness Versus The New World Order Garveyism in the
Age of Globalisim. Page 87.
As
we survey our condition in modern America and the world we are forced
to, if we are honest, admit we are in deep trouble as a people.
Despite media depictions of stylish, blinged out black folks wilding
out, overly materialistic, mimicking white people while in reality we
lead the country in poor health outcomes
https://www.kff.org/racial-equity-and-health-policy/issue-brief/how-present-day-health-disparities-for-black-people-are-linked-to-past-policies-and-event
and way too many of us are in poverty, financially as well as
psychologically and morally. Our status in this nation despite a
plethora of elected and appointed public officials is due to our
powerlessness and lack of discipline both on a personal and
collective level!
During our sojourn in this country we have been subjected to
multifaceted and wholesale abuse, denigration, discrimination and
manipulation within a system which has consistently demonstrated a
heartless, callous and antagonistic attitudes towards us. Capitalism
is not designed to provide equity or an even playing field. From its
inception the system was constructed to create a rigid spectrum of
inequality, a few have’s and a massive number of have not’s where
only a few would be able to break the ceiling.
Today
is no different, despite “social advances” and the elimination of
state sanctioned racial caste and apartheid, Black people still
remain on the lower rungs of America’s socio-economic ladder and
the advent of rapid technological applications is going to greatly
exacerbate this situation.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-glass-barrier-to-the-upper-middle-class-is-hardening/
What can we do, how can we best navigate the new social environment
we find ourselves in during a time the powers that be no longer need
us for human labor and others are rapidly replacing us with their
intellectual capital, prowess and ambition. We all can’t be
entertainers and professional athletes, drug dealers or criminals; so
what does the future hold for us?
In a highly automated society
driven by AI how do we carve out a place of usefulness, and success
both personally and collectively? Why aren’t our so called leaders
even asking these questions and challenging us to engage in what is
now being called Game Theory?
What is game theory you ask? “Game
theory tries to understand the strategic actions of two or more
‘players’ in a given situation containing set rules and outcomes.
Any time we have a situation with two or more players that involves
known payouts or quantifiable consequences, we can use game theory to
help determine the most likely outcomes. The
focus of game theory is the game, which serves as a model of an
interactive situation among rational players. The
key to game theory is that one player's payoff is contingent on the
strategy implemented by the other player. The game identifies the
players' identities, preferences, and available strategies and how
these strategies affect the outcome. Depending on the model, various
other requirements or assumptions may be necessary. Game theory has a
wide range of applications, including psychology, evolutionary
biology, war, politics, economics, and business. Despite its many
advances, game theory is still a young and developing science.”
Game
Theory by Adam Hayes
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/gametheory.asp
We
need to get in the game! We need to become viable and rational
players, otherwise we will be further marginalized by the system (The
Game) and consigned to the dust bin of history! Whether we know it or
not we are in The Game, the game of life. The ultimate goal is
survival, how do we not only survive, but thrive and succeed (based
upon our own definition of success) in a predatory and highly
competitive environment? Look at the definition of Game Theory it
speaks about being rational players.
Are we as African people in America rational players, if so why are
we on the bottom of the socio-economic ladder?! If this is a game why
aren’t we playing and engaging as a team within this highly
competitive pluralistic multi-ethnic society with a goal of winning?
Where are our coaches and strategists? Disorganization, racial
amalgamation, integration, assimilation, conspicuous consumption,
consumerism, lethargy and materialism are not winning strategies!
But if you look at our people and our situation this is what we see!
We no long talk about Black Power, that term is not even in our
lexicon any more! We foolishly think that because Barack Obama and
Kamala Harris were selected and allowed to be part of the system,
collectively we have arrived, that we are free and equal. This is
utter nonsense, it is a cunning strategy of the other “team” to
completely throw us off our game!
We need to wake up and realize what is happening, do what it takes
to seriously get in the game and play to win on our terms!
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Our Village Is Not Well
Our Village Is Not Well
Junious
Ricardo Stanton
“Crime
and criminal behavior regardless of temporal or cultural definition,
occur not in a vacuum, but within a complex matrix of interpersonal,
social, intergroup relations and other eco-psychological forces.
Crime and criminality, their existential vicissitudes and emblematic
meanings, can only be usefully and appropriately deciphered and
pragmatically dealt with within the context of these forces. Crime
and criminality are social phenomena and are reflective of the social
system within which they occur.” Amos Wilson, Black on
Black Violence The Psychodynamics of Black Self-Annihilation In
Service of White Domination
page 11-12.
We
are witnessing/experiencing an escalation of internecine violence
within our communities so much so, people are adapting to the psychic
and emotional trauma, pain, suffering and loss in ways that are
becoming normalized. Before you castigate me for saying this and say
I am blaming the victim, let’s look at the definition of the words
norm or normal. Psychologically a norm is defined as: “a
representative standard or value for a given group, any pattern,
standard or representative performance for a group. (Dictionary of
Psychology page 306). In the field of Sociology a norm is defined as:
“shared rules and expectation guiding behavior in a society or
group, maintaining social order, defining cultural values, and
shaping interactions. The four types of social norms are:
folkways,mores, taboos and laws.
https://www.simplypsychology.org/norms-and-values.html
Normal means that people within a particular group follow and
conform to the values behavioral norms of their group.
By
this reckoning violence and dysfunctional behaviors are the norm in
many parts of our communities. Does this mean we are violent people
by nature? Not necessarily, it means we have been conditioned,
programmed and or induced to see violence as a value or acceptable
behavior. As we grapple with the escalating violence perpetrated on
all levels of our society we have to look for a cause a reason and
work to remedy and rectify this deadly pattern.
I
maintain America is a land of traumatized people. We have been
programmed by the ruling class to believe this is a land of
opportunity and for many it is/was. But at what cost? Many of the
European colonists who came to these shores were fleeing trauma and
social disruption in their homeland; religious persecution, political
conflict, incessant wars and economic privation. Most were sent here
to enrich the Pope’s, Western monarchs and the monopoly trading
companies who sponsored their voyages and chartered their colonial
establishments.
The
European settlers were traumatized because they were totally
unprepared for the climate, rigors and the struggles to survive so
many died. The indigenous inhabitants were traumatized by the
violence inflected upon them by the whites who blatantly disregarded
their culture, intruded onto their physical spaces, expropriated
their lands and disrespected their humanity. The Africans who were
forcibly brought here had already been traumatized by the wars, their
initial capture, kidnapping, bondage, the passage here and the
brutality of enslavement. The process repeated itself with each
successive wave of European immigrants, bonds persons, enslaved
Africans and the indigenous people they displaced!
We
have not healed from this collective devastation, yet we are
programmed to celebrate as if none of these atrocities ever happened.
Now there is a movement afoot to prevent even teaching and discussing
it. To add insult to injury the socialization and indoctrination
processes inflicted on our ancestors were designed to dehumanize
them, make them/us feel inferior, subhuman and less than in every way
possible. We have been subjected to generations of psychic trauma,
physica and emotional abuse.
Once
mechanization and heavy industry replaced human labor and agriculture
as the nation’s economic mainstays, we were deemed unnecessary,
unneeded and a liability. In fact during the War Between The States
1861-65 President Abraham Lincoln was planning to send people of
African ancestry to either Africa, the Caribbean or South America.
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jala/2629860.0014.204/--abraham-lincoln-and-the-politics-of-black-colonization?rgn=main;view=fulltext.
However his plan was thwarted by an assassin’s bullet. Since then
America has been wrestling with the question, what to do with its
formerly enslaved population and their descendants?
A
racist ideology permeated US culture since colonial times and
Afro-Americans always fought back against the lies and derogatory
stereotypes perpetuated against us. The ebb and flow of multi-
generational struggles throughout our sojourn here prompted the
oppressors to double down on ways to eliminate us either through
state sanctioned programs to physically decrease our numbers
(genocide) or through menticide, destroying our minds with
initiatives like forced sterilization, abortions, ecocide,
COINTELPRO, incarceration and miseducation.
Part
of their plan was to induce us to hate ourselves and trick us into
engaging in self-negation. American culture is violent, violence is
an accepted form of “entertainment” a cultural norm, in films,
video games, TV, Social Media etc. Black people consume an inordinate
amount of mass media and we’ve internalized the messages and values
embedded within it without knowing how it impacts our psyches. This
has become the norm. Media forms our worldview, shapes our desires
and aspirations and determines our behavior. “In order for Blacks
to assault, rape, rob and murder each other with notorious and
self-destructive intensity, to be estranged from their own bodies and
therefore subject them to all manner of health and physical
carelessness, neglect and self-mediated abuse to them, to make them
hosts to all manner of insatiably unhealthy appetites, they must
internalize Eurocentric racist hostility towards themselves;
internalize and claim as their own the European contempt for the
color of their skin and the physiognomy of their bodies. These Blacks
must take Eurocentric lies for truth and truth for lies and act
accordingly. They must see their bodies as the cause of pain and as
their enemy and consequently subject them them to disrespect and
murderous mutilation. They will destroy others who are clothed in a
body like their own for they must be the enemy too.” Amos Wilson,
Black on Black Violence The Psychodynamics of Black Self-Annihilaton
In Service of White Domination
page106.
Unless
and until we grasp this reality and develop ways to counter this
program of menticide, we will continue to witness and experience the
maladaptive, self-destructive values and norms we see occurring in
our neighborhoods daily. We have to be honest with ourselves and
admit our village is not well and then begin the arduous work to heal
ourselves.
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Mission Creep Towards All Out War
Mission Creep Towards All Out War
Junious
Ricardo Stanton
As we observe world
events we are witnessing alarming trends and patterns that do not
bode well for the prospects of peace and stability. The immediate
blimps on the global radar are the Ukraine-Russian conflict, Israel’s
genocidal assault on the Palestinians and the Yemen Houthi attacks on
shipping lanes in the strategic Red Sea targeting ships heading for
or supportive of Israel. Each one of these conflicts is inching
towards a tipping point that could easily lead to further escalation,
spiraling totally out of control, given the war mongering mindsets of
the parties involved.
In most wars the
largest causalities are civilians; innocent men women and children
not directly engaged in the fighting. In Gaza alone the main
causalities have been civilians, hospitals, non military targets
which by international law and moral standards are war crimes.
“Fresh
evidence of deadly unlawful attacks in the occupied Gaza Strip,
gathered by Amnesty International, demonstrates how Israeli forces
continue to flout international humanitarian law, obliterating entire
families with total impunity. The organization carried out an
investigation into four Israeli strikes, three in December 2023,
after the humanitarian pause ended, and one in January 2024, that
killed at least 95 civilians, including 42 children, in Rafah, Gaza’s
southernmost governorate at a time when it was supposedly the
‘safest’ area in the strip, but where Israeli forces are
currently gearing up for a ground operation. Such an operation will
likely have devastating consequences for more than a million people
who are crammed within an area of 63 km2 following successive waves
of mass displacement. In all four attacks, the organization did not
find any indication that the residential buildings hit could be
considered legitimate military objectives or that people in the
buildings were military targets, raising concerns that these strikes
were direct attacks on civilians and civilian objects and must
therefore be investigated as war crimes.”
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/02/israel-opt-new-evidence-of-unlawful-israeli-attacks-in-gaza-causing-mass-civilian-casualties-amid-real-risk-of-genocide
Israel
has denied water and cut off fuel supply lines, food and humanitarian
aid supplies to the Palestinians, which is clearly
a
war crime! Even the optics of the ongoing war are proving Israel has
lost whatever moral ground it may have had following the October 7,
2023 attacks by Hamas, which in and of itself is
questionable given Gaza is one of the most monitored and surveilled
areas in the world!
https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/10/30/israel-palestine-gaza-hamas-war-idf-high-tech-surveillance/
In
Ukraine the Western media continuously promotes the canard Russia’s
Special Military Operation is an unmitigated imperialist attack on an
innocent country. The fact is Ukraine is one of the most corrupt
places on the planet and the US spent over
five billion dollars to topple the duly elected government of that
country in 2014.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957
We
are not being told by the US media sock-puppets that the neo-Nazi
element within the Ukrainian government was waging an eight year war
against break away provinces who subsequently asked Russia for help
and Russia responded.
https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/opinion/the-war-on-donbas:-why-we-must-all-stand-against-fascism.
There
are other issues we are being kept in the dark about but I haven’t
the time nor the space to address them now.
My primary concern is that in all of these situations the United
States government, using our tax dollars is actively supporting the
oppression, murder and genocide in Gaza and Ukraine; to the tune of
billions of dollars not for our benefit or safety but the bottom line
of US predatory capitalists. “Billions
of dollars of profit for shareholders is to be made from selling
American gas to Europe indefinitely. Billions
of dollars are to be made by shareholders from selling weapons of
mass destruction to Ukraine and possibly other former Soviet Union
nations now in NATO, indefinitely.
Billions
of dollars of profit for shareholders are to be made from selling
financial services loans to a failing Ukrainian government
indefinitely. For America, the war in Donbas is no more than a
vehicle to create profit with the bonus of further marginalising and
isolating Russia in a continued economic war of global dominance.”
The
War on Donbas: Why we must all stand against fascism. By Fra Hughes
https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/opinion/the-war-on-donbas:-why-we-must-all-stand-against-fascism,
Israel
is also a huge beneficiary of US largess in the form of weapons and
money .”The
United States has quietly approved and delivered more than 100
separate foreign military sales to Israel since the Gaza
war
began
Oct. 7, amounting to thousands of precision-guided munitions,
small-diameter bombs, bunker busters, small arms and other lethal
aid, U.S. officials told members of Congress in a recent classified
briefing.
The
triple-digit figure, which has not been previously reported, is the
latest indication of Washington’s extensive involvement in the
polarizing five-month conflict even as top U.S. officials and
lawmakers increasingly express deep reservations about Israel’s
military tactics in a campaign that has killed more than 30,000
people, according to Gaza’s health authorities. Only two approved
foreign military sales to Israel have been made public since the
start of conflict
$106
million
worth
of tank ammunition and $147.5
million of
components needed to make 155 mm shells. Those sales invited public
scrutiny because the Biden administration bypassed
Congress
to
approve the packages by invoking an emergency authority.” US
floods arms into Israel despite mounting alarm over war’s conduct
by John Hudson
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/03/06/us-weapons-israel-gaza/
NATO
is sleep walking into a wider conflict as they continue to send
weapons, materials and soldiers to Ukraine. Russia has warned French
president Macron French soldiers will be a prime target if they enter
the war on Ukrainian soil. Putin allies tell Macron: Any French
troops you sent to Ukraine will suffer fate of Napoleon’s army, by
Andrew Osborn
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-allies-tell-macron-any-french-troops-you-send-ukraine-will-suffer-fate-2024-02-28/
. Threats and counter-threats are not the best ways to resolve a
tense situation, hopefully saner heads will prevail, but don’t
count o n it.
Mayhem,
murder and genocide are being waged in our name by our government to
profit warmongers, eugenicists
and land grabbers! Are you comfortable with this?! If not, what are
you going to do about it? If you say you are for peace, what are you
doing to
slow
down or halt the creep to all out war/
all war all the time?! As Gil Scott Heron sang in his song Working
For Peace,
“We’ve got to work for Peace Peace ain’t coming this way If we
only work for Peace If everyone believed in Peace the way they say
they do. We’d have Peace. The only thing wrong with Peace is that
you can’t make no money from it. The Military and the Monetary.
They get together whenever they think its necessary. They’ve turned
our brothers and sisters into mercenaries. They are turning the
planet, into a cemetery... So this is a song about tomorrow. And
about how tomorrow can be better. if we all ‘Each one reach one,
Each one teach one.’ Nobody can do everything but everybody can do
something. Everyone must play a part. Everyone got to go to work,
Work for Peace. Spirit Say Work, Work for Peace. If you believe the
things you say, go to work. If you believe in Peace, time to go to
work. Can't be wavin your head no more, go to work”
Do
what you to make peace a reality. Make up your mind to hit them where
it hurts the most their bottom lines: boycott Israeli products, stop
supporting media and video games that promote war. Boycott Ukrainian
products, find out where the wheat in our baked goods comes from and
if its from Ukraine stop buying it until the war is over! Speak
up/out demand your elected officials stop funding wars, think for
yourself make up your own mind to choose truth over lies and peace
over war!
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Real Life Zombie Apocalypse
Real Life Zombie Apocalypse
Junious
Ricardo Stanton
“Philadelphia’s
low-income Kensington neighborhood continues to be overrun with
sleepwalking ‘zombies’ as overdoses caused
by the street drug known as tranq
continue
to rise. Also
known as ‘tranq dope’ or ‘zombie heroin,’ tranq is made up of
xylazine, an animal tranquilizer, that
is mixed in with other drugs,
notably fentanyl. Tranq is known to depress breathing, lengthen
overdoses and cause skin ulcers and sores that can last for months.
This last symptom is what makes people addicted to tranq get referred
to as ‘zombies.’” Philadelphia’s
Zombieland Kinsington neighborhood continues to suffer from spread of
“tranq” drug by Arsenio Toledo
https://www.opioids.news/2023-04-06-philadelphia-zombieland-kensington-suffer-from-spread-tranq.html
For
decades the US media has been feeding us films, television stories
and video games featuring themes about what they call Zombie
Apocalypse;
whereby whole cities or a
country succumbes
to life within an abject dystopian society devoid of laws, structure
and decency. In the video games, films and TV series, society is
split between
Zombies and those still attempting to live and survive within the
context of a collapsing or a collapsed social structure. You may be
familiar with them, they has such titles as: Night
of The Living Dead,
The
Walking Dead,
Fear
The Walking Dead,
Zombie Apocalypse,
Z
Nation,
The
House of The Dead and
Sate
of Decay
to name a few.
We’ve
also been exposed to open air drug markets with zonked out drug
fiends in television series like The
Wire
or films like New
Jack City
and films/TV
shows
depicting drug use by professionals like The
Wolf of Wall Street and
of course the gangster genre films like Scarface
and Goodfellas.
But
those were make believe, fictional stories and themes made for films,
television and video games to make a profit for the producers and the
studios. This genre has become extremely popular and rakes in
hundreds of millions of dollars for their producers.
Unfortunately in 2024 there are real life Zombie apocalypses going on
throughout the US and little is being done about them. We are
witnessing a national catastrophe of drug addiction and overdoses
that are devastating this nation. “Data from the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
has revealed that drug
overdose killed the equivalent of a large plane full of Americans
every
other day in 2022. Citing
reporting delays, officials believe the final count could be around
109,680, which would be a record high. The figures represent a
plateau from the previous year when 109,197 overdose deaths were
recorded...The figures from the CDC were based on reports submitted
to the National Vital Statistics System, which monitors births and
deaths nationwide. The reports revealed that there were 105,452
overdose deaths from drugs in 2022. However, the figure is still
provisional because of the time taken for deaths to be cataloged and
the cause of death to be determined. There is another few thousand
still expected to be reported. Based on the provisional figures,
overdose fatalities are expected to have increased by 0.5 percent in
2022 compared to 2021.” Drug
Epidemic: Data reveals drug overdose killed 110,000 Americans in
2022. by Zoey Sky
https://www.opioids.news/2023-05-30-drug-overdose-killed-over-100000-americans-2022.html
Contrary
to stereotypes the ghetto drug dealer and mobsters are not the ones
driving the drug addiction epidemic. The real culprits were the big
pharmaceutical companies and physicians who were responsible for
getting millions of Americans hooked on opioid drugs. “America’s
drug crisis can be traced back to the 1990s, when greedy
pharmaceutical companies started to aggressively market opioid
painkillers as a “safe and effective way” to treat chronic pain.
These
companies were able to convince doctors that the risk of addiction
was low. As a result, many doctors wrote prescriptions for millions
of patients in the country. When opioid painkillers ran out, many
addicted users looked for more on the black market. Others
switched to heroin as a cheaper and more accessible alternative. This
greedy move triggered today’s crisis, with manufacturers now lacing
supplies of drugs like heroin with fentanyl.” ibid
Drug
overdose deaths are on the rise in America, most recent CDC data
reveals. Most of these deaths are the result of fentanyl overdoses.
“Powerful synthetic opioids such as fentanyl continue to drive the
death rate up precipitously.
Fentanyl,
a synthetic opioid that is about 50 times more potent than heroin,
has been on the rise in the U.S. for years. The deadly synthetic
opioid is inexpensive to make, easily transported, and has been
increasingly smuggled over the southern border by Mexican cartels. As
little as two milligrams of fentanyl weighing the same as a few
grains of salt can cause a fatal
overdose,
according to the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). Because it is
frequently cut with other drugs, users may often be unaware that they
are consuming the powerful substance, which can be deadly even in
small doses. Synthetic
opioids caused about 23 deaths for every 100,000 people in 2022, 4%
higher than in 2021. Meanwhile, deaths due to natural opioids such as
heroin decreased. Deaths involving cocaine also spiked 12% in 2022.
Deaths involving psychostimulants such as methamphetamine also
increased 4%. Overdose death numbers for 2023 have not yet been
reported.” Drug
Overdoes Deaths Smashed Records Again in 2022
https://www.yourdestinationnow.com/2024/03/drug-overdose-deaths-smashed-records.html
Now
new concoctions of opioids made with more lethal drugs is fueling a
rise in overdoses and deaths throughout the US. “As if fentanyl
wasn’t deadly enough, now most of it contains “tranq dope” that
depresses breathing and rots the flesh. Necrosis is now a “side
effect” of using fentanyl because most of the street drug now
contains random doses of xylazine, leading to rotting flesh,
amputation, and irreversible overdosing. The DEA is reporting that
last year at least a fourth of all seized fentanyl contained
xylazine. Even the prescription opioid pills sold on the street now
contain the zombifying drug, killing more than 300 Americans each
day... According to the CDC, over 100,000 Americans died from August
2020 to August 2021 from drug POISONINGS, and two-thirds of those
involved synthetic opioids. Philadelphia and New York City are at the
epicenter of the zombie apocalypse, where over 90 percent of the
lab-tested dope samples contain the zombie
drug xylazine.
Let’s repeat that. Nearly all the lab-tested dope samples contain
the flesh-eating, human overdosing drug that’s supposed to be only
for putting animals to sleep for surgery” Zombie Drug Tranq
secretly mixed with fentanyl Rots human tissue, leading to
amputations and more overdose deaths in 48 US states by S.D. Wells
https://www.opioids.news/2023-03-29-zombie-drug-tranq-secretly-mixed-with-fentanyl.html
Throughout
America we are witnessing the rise of drugged out Zombies, the
creation of enclaves of zonked out drug addicts strung out on lethal
drugs that are destroying families, ruining communities and causing
irreparable harm and death. There are billions of dollars in profits
and nefarious agendas at work here. Unfortunately unlike the movies,
television shows and video games there are no heroes coming to the
rescue. We’ll have to be the ones who bring sanity and healing to
ourselves and our environment.
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Haiti In The News...
Haiti In The News...
Junious Ricardo Stanton
We are subjected to
daily propaganda, distortions of reality, out and out lies and at the
very least statements totally devoid of historical context, analysis
or veracity. For example we are now being bombarded with news about
the collapse of law and order in Haiti without any insight into the
who, what, why and hows of this situation. Nowhere in the corporate
or social media do we get any background as to why Haiti is in such
deplorable condition, who the actual players are who have
orchestrated the collapse or who is benefiting from the situation
there.
Would it surprise
you to know the United States has had an antagonistic relationship
with the republic of Haiti since it was founded following the first
successful slave revolution in this hemisphere in 1804? When the
inhabitants of that part of the island rose up and overthrow the
French colonial slavocracy, the US was petrified! The Haitian
Revolution was a severe blow to European slavery and African
subjugation throughout the hemisphere.
The main source of
labor in the early US was human in the form of servitude/enslavement
and after the Haitian Revolution, the white oppressors were terrified
Blacks (and whites who were in servitude) would do the same thing
here. So Thomas Jefferson, a slave owning documented pedophile who
was president at the time, refused to recognize the new Haitian
government and subsequently placed an embargo on the island nation!
Jefferson’s action began a sixty year policy of slight and enmity
against Haiti and its people.
Jefferson “owned”
hundreds of enslaved persons of African ancestry, he like his peers
feared the enslaved here would rise up and do to them what the
Africans in Haiti had done; take control of the land and resources
and drive out the slavers! America’s antipathy towards Haiti never
waned and in fact grew more bellicose as time passed.
To see a timeline
of US policies, interventions and meddling into Haitian affairs go
to:
https://library.brown.edu/create/modernlatinamerica/chapters/chapter-14-the-united-states-and-latin-america/moments-in-u-s-latin-american-
, https://haitianstudies.ku.edu/haiti-brief-history-complex-nation.
https://socialistproject.ca/2021/07/haiti-neo-colonialism-to-neoliberal-brutality/
It is this backdrop and backstory of European imperial animus that
frames the current situation in Haiti. Haitians are a proud people
who have demonstrated they can govern themselves but the ongoing
intervention of outside predatory forces have created a hell on earth
for the Haitian people.
The corporate media
serves the interests of it owners, the oligarchs who control and run
the world.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/katevinton/2016/06/01/these-15-billionaires-own-americas-news-media-companies/?sh=2e85a4ed660a,
It is they who determine what information we get, what slant or
perspective it provides and whose side they promote. What we’ve
discovered since the COVID experiment is that these oligarchs will
aggressively suppress and censor any information that conflicts with
their narratives, interests or bottom line.
https://www.tutorialspoint.com/media-and-its-role-in-creation-of-reality
. These oligarchs have their own agenda and biases.
History has shown
they have an anti-African bias. It wasn’t just the US government
that abused the Haitian people, suppressed freedom and foisted
oppression upon them it was NGOs and individuals too. For example
Bill Clinton and George W. Bu$h ripped off the Haitians with their
bogus flood relief scam
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2016/11/what-the-clintons-did-to-haiti
In a milieu such as
this, it is incumbent upon us to: protect out minds from propaganda
and deceit, search out the truth, dig deep, scour and sift the
information to embrace what is in our best interests and well being.
For example we need to ask who are these gang leaders, where do they
get their weapons, equipment and clothing and who is supporting them?
Is there any honest intel on them and who can we count on to provide
accurate assessments about what is going on on the ground and in the
board rooms of the oligarch’s organizations.
Why should we care
about what is happening in Haiti, what does what is going on there
have to do with us? Well, because our situation is very similar to
theirs’. Our community is destabilized, our indigenous leadership
has betrayed/failed us, all too often it has been put in place by the
oppressor, just like in Haiti. We suffer from the effects of colorism
and shadeism here just like Haiti. In Haiti the mulattoes form the
elite strata and the sell outs working on behalf of outsiders are
foisted upon the masses by outside forces much like in our
communities here.
Health conditions
for the masses are horrible in Haiti just like here. the Haitian
economy has been deliberately devastated via disinvestment,
exploitation, land use manipulation and control just like in
America. Most Haitians live in poverty and are of African ancestry as
are we. The Haitians are demonized and stereotyped by the media just
like we are. In short we have a lot in common with the people of
Haiti and it behooves us to recognize their plight and empathize with
their struggle because we have the same one!
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Sign of The Times
Sign of the Times
Junious
Ricardo Stanton
“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a
revolutionary act.” Eric Arthur Blair aka George Orwell
Astute people today realize we are living in a time of universal
deceit! Not only does the media lie, their owners are attempting to
propagate a new reality, a “new normal” where wrong is enshrined
as right, where insanity is pushed a being sane, where recklessness
and lack of moral control are promoted, where moral depravity is
celebrated, where the bounds of decency are evaporating, where
megalomaniac psychopaths call the shots and coerce us to acquiesce to
their fiendishly anti-life agenda and where people are so panicked,
zonked out and dumbed down they go along with this lunacy.
What
is happening in this country is not organic, it is not a natural
evolution nor
is it
“progress”. Rather it is a deliberate devolution, a planned
destruction of the current order to make way for a wholesale
authoritarian
reconfiguration of society
through mind control, perception management, social reengineering and
institutional reorganization, what the perpetrators of this wicked
agenda are calling The Great Reset!
We find ourselves being subjected to stimuli and media content
designed to make us pliable and susceptible to the globalist
overlord’s agenda; a campaign that includes: induced hysteria over
nonlethal microbes (the so called novel Coronavirus), the bogus
notion of a climate crisis (the Earth is a living entity, if it were
not we could not sustain life on this planet and all living things go
through changes) and global social reengineering.
The
plutocratic elites further their plans through the ownership
and control of mass
media, the education systems and government. They own the mass media!
A handful of conglomerates own just about all the major media in the
world.
https://www.webfx.com/blog/internet/the-6-companies-that-own-almost-all-media-infographic/
So
when they want to get us to go along with their plans they use the
media to condition us to think the way they want us to think, believe
what they want us to believe and react the way they want us to react.
The best way to do this is to blanket the airways, print and digital
media with their spin, propaganda and lies then
suppress all
counter narratives and ideas. To double down on their mendacity they
reinforce their narratives by “fact checking” any content that
runs counter to their party line/propaganda.
These
“fact checkers” are in fact in the employ of the misanthropes and
megalomaniacs who want to rule/run the world. It
is the “fact checkers” job to debunk, obfuscate, demonize or cast
doubt on anything that challenges their masters’ fake reality. The
fact checkers are in cahoots with their owners/employers to propagate
lies and deceit! It is
becoming more and more obvious the so called fact checkers are part
and parcel of the globalist mind control apparatus.
“As
time went on, the attempts to censor became more brazen and obvious.
Then
the Twitter files and other FOIAs generated proof of what many
suspected all along. These entities were funded either directly or
indirectly by government or by other dark-money sources as quid pro
quos for other relationships they had cultivated with interested
parties. In
other words, they were not some independent, science-based entities
at all but rather hit squads with a hard political agenda. What was
actually happening here was a form of censorship laundering.
Government wants to censor but cannot so it turns to the social-media
company to do the dirty work. To make this hand-in-glove racket less
obvious, the companies would outsource to a fact-checking
organization, making the lines of control even more blurry. Sometime
within the last several months, the whole racket seems to have
unraveled. I
rarely see the fact-checks cited at all. Or maybe they are cited
ironically: what is declared false came to be seen as a badge of
honor, a confirmation of core truth. That might seem crazy but these
are the times in which we live. Nothing is as it seems.” The
Fact Check Racket Finally Unravels Tyler Durdan
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fact-check-racket-finally-unravels
The
billionaire class uses their money through “philanthropic”
grants, sponsorships, advertising, business deals, bribes, extortion
(think
Jeffrey Epstein, Mossad
and CIA
honey traps) and
intimidation to get what they want. Bill Gates is a prime example.
His Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation literally controls much of what
we see read and hear via media.
https://www.cjr.org/criticism/gates-foundation-journalism-funding.php
The Rockefeller Family’s Foundation has been doing the same thing
for a century.
https://resource.rockarch.org/story/war-of-the-worlds-rockefeller-philanthropies-disinformation-and-media-literacy-in-the-1930s/
In
October of 2019 a group of “influential” individuals and
institutions came together to convene the last drill and simulation
before the roll out of their
COVID “pandemic”. It was called Event
201.
It was sponsored by globalists
like: the Bill and Belinda Gates Foundation, The World Economic
Forum, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and
a few others. Most people are unaware of Event
201
or the
ongoing
series
of
simulations
and drills that
had
preceded Event 201 like Crimson
Contagion
during 2019 or that simulations have been going on since 2001!
https://thefreedomarticles.com/9-simulations-drills-laws-prepared-for-the-coronavirus/
When
you look at the recommendations of Event
201
especially number seven you can see their brazen plans for censorship
and suppression.
https://centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/tabletop-exercises/event-201-pandemic-tabletop-exercise#recommendations
In other words they planned to censor, control and eliminate any
counter discussion, narratives or questioning of their nefarious
plans
and methodology; meaning this was not about public health best
practices but about control and
manipulation!
This is a sign of our
time, we
are living in a time
of universal deceit!
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