Brainwashing
From The Ramparts
Junious
Ricardo Stanton
Brainwashing
"Avoiding
brainwashing techniques often involves avoiding the brainwashers themselves,
but this is next to impossible. Taking advertising as an example, you can't
avoid them all and attempting to do so can be rather expensive if you still
want to watch television and movies. Your best bet is to cut out what you can
and, when you can't, seek balance. Finding balance is often easiest by simply
providing yourself with the information you need." Adam Dachis https://lifehacker.com/5886571/brainwashing-techniques-you-encounter-every-day-and-how-to-avoid-them
In today's world we are all subjected to constant mind
control, perception management and brainwashing techniques. Potential leaders have
always employed a myriad of means to control the tribe, family, clan and
nation. Humans have always had hierarchical leadership whether it was informal
or formal, recognized or implied. But in our modern world we are targets of
constant manipulation, prompting, coercion, intimidation and fear designed to
make us acquiesce comply and conform. Advanced technology and psychological
manipulation are used by the ruling class and the institutions they create own
and control like organized religion, commerce, government and "education"
to brainwash us into going along with
their agendas.
This is not necessarily a bad thing, there have been
beneficent righteous leaders who adhered to and practiced the notion of Summum Bonum the greatest good for the
greatest number which George G.M. James proved in his book Stolen Legacy was a
concept originated by Africans in the Nile Valley
which later Greek "philosophers" plagiarized.
Western elites have fashioned a social order whereby they
exploit, ravage and manipulate the masses for their personal benefit, wealth
and wellbeing. Their form of governance from ancient tribal times to the
present nation state is "might makes right", they utilize fear,
intimidation and violence to maintain both a domestic and imperialist "order" designed to benefit
themselves.
"Although business
interests eventually replaced the church as the
dominant force behind imperial expansion, the techniques of population
analysis and coercion -pacing and leading the target audience remained the
same. The British East India Company for example was formed in 1600 and given a
'perpetual charter' from the British monarchy for trade in the East Indies and
later, China. In a series of well funded wars spanning centuries, the company
used a private army to effectively annex India
for the British Monarchy and Queen Victoria
eventually became empress of India
in 1876. Instead of using pure might the imperialists exploited researched
tensions between the Indian Moghul emperors and their constituencies. After
successfully breaking down the Moghul rule, the smaller factions were easily
conquered" Douglas Rushkoff from Coercion Why We Listen to What They Say
pages 153-154.
Modern technology allows the ruling class to beam
messages directly into our psyches to manipulate our perceptions of reality and
on a more insidious level program us for what I call "the three B's":
what to believe, what to buy and how to behave.
The ruling class likes to tell us we live in a
"democracy" that there is upward mobility, opportunity and freedom,
and to a limited degree for a limited number of people there is; as long as you
adhere to their criteria. It is not about ethics or morality because this
system is unethical and immoral, it is about not rocking their perch and
threatening their status quo!
For example I was reading a story about Colin Kaepernick
in the New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/07/sports/colin-kaepernick-nfl-protests.html?mcubz=3,
in which the writer used adjectives such as "traitor", "divisive",
"second string" "has been" to cite a few to describe
Kaepernick. While the article mentions the money he has contributed to non
profit grass roots organizations and Kaepernick's quest as a bi-racial man to
discover his African roots, the article in my view did not do him full justice
because he is not the usual unconscious shufflin', shuckin' professional
athlete divorced from his people, who shuns community interaction and the crucial
issues impacting us.
Kaepernick has been white-balled by the NFL just like Muhammad
Ali and Paul Robeson were shunned and persecuted by the ruling class and their
minions. Kaepernick was kicked to the curb just like Craig Hodges of the NBA
was. But I believe that like all our great advocates and heroes Kaepernick will
be vindicated for his stance, not by the ruling class and their acolytes but by
the people.
Don't allow the words and cunning of others to determine
how and what you think. Think for yourself, make up your own mind, act and live
your life based upon your own dictates not the whims or manipulation of others.
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Weather Manipulation
From The Ramparts
Junious
Ricardo Stanton
Weather Manipulation
"The US military has developed advanced
capabilities that enable it selectively to alter weather patterns. The
technology, which was initially developed in the 1990s under the High-frequency
Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP), was an appendage of the Strategic
Defense Initiative – ‘Star Wars’. From a military standpoint, HAARP
–which was officially abolished in 2014– is a weapon of mass
destruction, operating from the outer atmosphere and capable of destabilising
agricultural and ecological systems around the world... Military analysts and scientists are mute on
the subject. Meteorologists are not investigating the matter and
environmentalists are largely focussing on greenhouse gas emissions under the Kyoto Protocol. The
possibility of climatic or environmental manipulations as part of a military
and intelligence agenda, while tacitly acknowledged, is not part of the broader
debate on climate change under UN auspices." The
Ultimate Weapon of Mass Destruction: “Owning the Weather” for Military Use- Professor Michel Chossudovsky https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-ultimate-weapon-of-mass-destruction-owning-the-weather-for-military-use-2/5306386
When
people are skeptical of the official media or government narrative of an
incident or happenstance they are called "conspiracy theorists" as a
means to damage their reputation because of their skepticism and
non-conformity. The term "conspiracy theorist" was first coined by the
CIA to discredit those skeptical of the official narrative about the
assassination of JFK which most sane people realize is a bunch of hooey and
hokum.
People have
been asking me if I thought this rash of severe weather was man made in some
form or fashion? I don't know and I can't say for sure but I do know it is
possible. There is a Website http://www.geoengineeringwatch.org that
specializes in providing information about ecocide and climate manipulation as
a form of warfare, global depopulation and political control. They recently
posted articles with accompanying videos on Hurricanes Harvey and Irma on their
site. Before you dismiss my assertions as
preposterous go to their Website and see the evidence for yourself. Also check
out a piece by the History Channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHJm2EzeKrw
Skeptics
might ask, why would corporations or governments do such a thing? Why would
they turn weather into a weapon then unleash it on their own people? Good
question. Answer, because they are megalomaniacal psychopaths and deviants. Ask
yourself why would elements in the government lie about the way a president was
killed, or provide such a silly explanation how three World Trade Center
buildings collapsed when only two were hit by planes or why would the
government lied and went to war over non-existent weapons of mass destruction?!
We could
also ask why corporations like Monsanto knowingly and deliberately poison the
Earth, why major pharmaceutical companies sell drugs with lethal side affects, why
food processing companies sell products that contain harmful additives or why
the government which is supposed to protect us allows this to happen.
European
elites: the monarchs, Popes, financial and corporate heads and government
officials love war, they love to kill, despoil and wreck havoc in their
maniacal quest for world domination.
Some of you
may be familiar with the fact the US government has a long history of
weaponized weather modification. If not read https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v28/d274
or http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/the-secret-weather-manipulation-program-of-the-vietnam-1689249533.
The US
and several other governments have weather modification programs and weaponized
weather initiatives. In the US
it is called HAARP which stands for High Frequency Active Auroral Research
Program, read about it here.
https://geopolitics.co/2015/06/06/us-air-force-admits-they-can-control-weather/
As for why
the government/corporate elite would do such a thing, there are many reasons
such as: environmental control, ethnic cleansing and tactical superiority
during conflict to name a few. But from my perspective they are psychopaths
hell bent on global domination.
While I can't say for sure the current
hurricanes are man made I can definitely say the US government ignored the
information provided by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric
Administration, the US military and various weather services in the run up to
Hurricane Katrina! Bush's inaction (he did nothing even though he was briefed
about the storm's severity days in advance) which not only allowed New Orleans
a predominantly African-American city to be flooded but his bungling caused
massive loss of lives and property damage resulting in many residents being
displaced and the Black population reduced dramatically.
The US has a
department called the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) which
is a place where government and university mad scientists carry on the legacy
of the Nazis creating fiendish weapons technology making it operational and
usable. Knowing the history of white people, can you honestly say they are not
capable of this. Remember the US
dropped atomic bombs on Japanese civilians!
So before
you call me a conspiracy theorist nut case, do some research on the evil and
depravity of the corporations and government.
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Work For PEACE
From The Ramparts
Junious
Ricardo Stanton
Work
For PEACE
"Americans no longer fight to keep their shores safe,
Just to keep the jobs going in the arms making
workplace. Then they pretend to
be gripped by some sort of political reflex, But all
they're doing is paying dues to the Military Industrial Complex.
The Military and the Monetary, The Military and the Monetary,
The Military and the Monetary. The Military and the Monetary,
Get together whenever they think its necessary,
They turn our brothers and sisters into
mercenaries, they are turning the planet into a cemetery.' Work For
Peace by Gil Scott Heron
The media hysteria about North Korea's development of
weapons demonstrates just how brainwashed and programmed we are. North Korea was
designated part of the mythical "Axis of Evil" by the dim wit
president George W. Bush and of course the corporate media regurgitated the
NeoCon narrative and lies. Now too many Americans believe the North Koreans are
our enemy and pose an existential threat to the world if not the USA.
Most people don't know the ancient history of Korea nor the modern roles Japan and the Western allies played in the
current situation in Korea.
The Japanese first invaded Korea
in 1592 as part of their imperial assault on the Asian mainland. They were
successful because they has European weapons, muskets and pistols they received
from the Portuguese and their soldiers wore metal armor. The Koreans fought
using bows and arrows. During that invasion the Chinese came to the aid of Korea. They
subsequently defeated and drove the Japanese out. The relationship and antagonism
against the Japanese goes back centuries.
Japan
again invaded Korea and made
Korea
a colony in 1910. The occupation lasted until the Japanese defeat in WWII in
1945. During colonization and after the war Korea was divided into various
zones first by the Japanese who were later replaced by the Russians and
Americans.
The country was divided and many factions attempted to
control the government and land. In June of 1950 North Korean forces invaded
the South and a vicious war ensued which left three million Koreans, over a
million Chinese and 54,000 Americans dead.
The US
bombed Korea to smithereens
using the same strategies they used against Germany
and Japan during WWII and later
Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia: bomb everything in sight,
indiscriminately kill civilians, animals, destroy the infrastructure and lay
waste to the land. The war never ended. A cease fire exists and the North and South
remain separated along arbitrary border lines imposed by outsiders called the "demilitarized
zone" even though the boundaries are some of the most heavily fortified
areas in the world!
The Koreans remember this carnage but the US propaganda
machine trivializes the conflict and paints it as the "good" US
versus "evil" Communism. Rarely mentioned are the horrendous atrocities
committed by the United States.
"The bombing was long, leisurely and merciless, even by the
assessment of
America’s
own leaders. 'Over a period of three years or so, we killed off — what — 20
percent of the population,' Air Force Gen. Curtis LeMay, head of the Strategic
Air Command during the Korean War,
told the Office of Air Force History in 1984.
Dean Rusk, a supporter of the war and later secretary of state, said the
United States bombed 'everything that moved in
North Korea,
every brick standing on top of another.' After running low on urban targets,
U.S. bombers
destroyed hydroelectric and irrigation dams in the later stages of the war,
flooding farmland and destroying crops." The US War Crime North Korea Won't
Forget by
Blaine
Harden https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-us-war-crime-north-korea-wont-forget/2015/03/20/fb525694-ce80-11e4-8c54-ffb5ba6f2f69_story.html?utm_term=.35f03bdc8ca3
The Koreans
remember and this is why their leaders have taken the stances they've taken
over the years. Unlike West Germany
and Japan whose "constitutional
governments" were created by the victorious US following WWII, North Korea is
a sovereign nation. Remember there was no treaty to end the Korean War only a
cease fire agreement!
Given this
reality, given what the US and its allies have done to Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya,
Syria and Yemen, small wonder the North Koreans view the US as a ravaging predatory
jackal. This is why they are taking frantic measures to protect and defend
their sovereignty.
Unlike the US, North Korea has not invaded any
countries since 1950. In this situation, the US is the aggressor nation, the
bully, a global thug trying to take the world's lunch money. Once we know the real
history we can see the reason why the Chinese and Russians are trying to
ratchet down the bellicosity, they know how vicious and genocidal the US can be/is.
Now that we
know, don't go for the North
Korea is a threat okey-doke, don't fall for
the we've got to go to war flim-flam; give PEACE a chance. As Gil Scott Heron
wrote/sang, "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."
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Another Perspective on Charlottesville and Colin Kaepernick
From The Ramparts
Junious Ricardo Stanton
Another Perspective on Charlottesville and Colin Kaepernick
I rarely write about sports
because while it is mostly viewed as a form of recreation and entertainment at
its core it reflects the values and consciousness of our society and folks don't
like to be reminded of that. Some say sports is a form of tribalism a vicarious
way for males (and increasingly females) to engage in a form of ritualized combat,
group identity and belonging. In the US, sports is deeply tribal in the
sense we root for our teams (or countries of origin) during the Olympics,
international contests and tournaments like the World Cup. On the local level
we usually support the neighborhood teams, area college and professional teams
especially if they are doing well.
There is
nothing inherently evil with tribalism it is natural extension of the family an
integral part of human existence/experience. Tribalism was the first social
organization it called for hierarchal leadership, cohesion and cooperation. The
West retains its tribal legacies of the Goths, Huns, Angles, Saxons, Vandals
etc with their cultures of war, invasion and rapine.
The modern nation state has replaced the
indigenous tribe and the clan as the predominant socio-political entity around
the world. Nevertheless, modern nationalism
and patriotism are forms of tribalism. The brouhaha about Charlottesville and Colin Kaepernick are
interrelated examples of tribalism, tribal loyalties and antagonisms. They both
deal with identity politics.
The clash
in Charlottesville
came about because Neo-Nazi and white nationalist (who identify with Aryans)
wanted to demonstrate to preserve a statue of Robert E Lee a famous general in
the Confederate Army who led the Army of Northern Virginia during the war.
There were counter demonstrators who wanted to remove the statue because in
their minds it symbolized an era of human oppression.
People take
sides on the War Between the States although most are woefully misinformed about
the war and have been bamboozled about the real causes of the conflict. The War
Between the States euphemistically referred to as the US Civil War (1861-1865)
was not, I repeat not, fought by either side to end slavery! Both the North and
the South wanted slavery to continue Abraham Lincoln said so himself on
numerous occasions.
Slavery was
the economic engine that drove the whole US economy and both sides profited
handsomely from it. When this country was formed, slavery was sanctioned and
protected by the US Constitution (Article 1 Section 2, Section 9 and Article IV
Section 2). The framers deviously substituted euphemisms instead of the words:
slavery, Africans or Blacks. The end of
slavery would have meant the demise of the bourgeoning US economy,
adversely impacting both the North and South. Cotton was king because of free slave
labor and it was the nation's most profitable crop and export. Once the war was
over and slavery was abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution,
the nation instituted quasi-forms of slavery: share cropping and convict
leasing to reestablish unpaid labor using mostly Blacks!
The Blacks who fought on the Union side during
the war made it their cause and campaign for freedom; but that was not why
Lincoln and the North waged the war. Today 152 years after the conflict, people
still take sides despite the fact most have no clue about the real issues and
reasons for the war.
The war was
really about which faction (Northern bankers industrialists, shippers, brokers
etc or the Southern planters and agriculture) would control the economy and
politics of the nation.
Taking sides
on the War Between The States is a form of tribalism. Tribalism often leads to fanaticism
and violence as we saw in Charlottesville.
When it comes to the War Between the States, race is the elephant in the room.
The propaganda claiming the North fought to end slavery and the South fought to
keep it generates heated debate and raises passions. Ideological battle lines
have been drawn and over time have become quite rigid with flags, symbols and
accompanying propaganda that each side rallies around.
In the
US
sports enthusiasm is akin to tribalism. "After all, we are social animals.
We depend on the tribe for our safety and well-being. When the lion attacks, as
a group we've got a shot. Alone, we're lion chow. When our tribe is doing well
(economically, militarily, public
health, whatever...), our chances go up.
When it's doing poorly, our chances go down. So it feels good to belong to a
winning tribe, and not so good—threatening, in fact—to belong to a group that's
losing.
Think
about all the ways we support the tribe. We subconsciously choose our views on
many issues so they match the views in the groups we most strongly identify
with, a theory called
Cultural Cognition. We vote for our tribe
(political party). We fight to the death for our tribe in everything from gang
wars to wars between nations (tribes). In fact, if you look at a lot of the
wars and mass violence in recent history they were about nothing BUT tribe;
Protestants v. Catholics in
Northern Ireland,
Serbs v. Croats v. Muslims in the Balkans, Hutus and Tutsis in
Rwanda."
David Ropeik
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/how-risky-is-it-really/201110/the-tribal-roots-team-spirit
The issue of Colin Kaepernick
refusing to salute and pay homage to a US tribal symbol (the national anthem
which is at its core a racist song written by a bigot) divides us into tribal
camps/groups: those who see his actions as an affront to the nation (their
tribe) and those of us who think he is taking a noble long overdue stand.
In both the
Charlottesville
and Kaepernick controversies, race and power are the underlining factors. Tribal
groups, their rituals, symbols and identities feel threatened and under attack.
The people who relate to the Confederate flag and statues feel their heritage
is under assault and they fight to sustain their values (as immoral as they
are) and their passion is gaining.
It doesn't
take much for white folks to resort to violence so clashes like what happened
in Charlottesville
will increase as the various tribes (the Right and Left, liberal, conservative
are merely ideological tribes) feel more and more helpless due to current political
and economic uncertainty. These feelings of helplessness and fear will embolden
the tribes as they seek security during uncertain times. On the national level
both political parties enflame their members which divisive rhetoric.
Likewise the
NFL is a very profitable corporate tribe. The NFL doesn't want anything to damage their multi-billion
dollar golden goose, least of all what they view as an uppity mixed race
athlete who identifies with African-Americans. So they've done the same thing
to Kaepernick they did to Paul Robeson, Muhammad Ali and Craig Hodges; they
white-balled him to marginalize him and teach their other contract athletes not
to get out of their place.
Paul
Robeson was so influential and feared, he was shunned by the big civil rights
organizations of his time. Muhammad Ali was hugely popular and garnered the
support of millions because of his stand against the draft and the Vietnam War.
It remains to be seen how many will rally around Colin Kaepernick, there are
signs he is making a dent in people's consciousness. However, the NFL and the
network tribes are major adversaries.
As far as
the tribal/cultural wars percolating in the US, the conflicting tribes are
becoming more vociferous and increasingly demonstrative. Will the clashes intensify
into a major internal war, or will the upcoming NFL season provide a
distraction and respite from the commotions?
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So Much Going On So Much Propaganda So Little Truth
From The Ramparts
Junious
Ricardo Stanton
So Much Going On, So Much Propaganda, So
Little Truth
"Never allow an insult
propagated to go unanswered by you. Be ever vigilant to down anything by way of
propaganda that dishonors or discredits you. Don't help the other fellow to
carry on propaganda against yourself or your race." Marcus Garvey from
Marcus Garvey Life and Lessons edited by Robert A. Hill and Barbara Bair page
291
Last week following a rally to
support Cheyney University,
the Philadelphia Inquirer Editorial Board wrote an Op-Ed piece about Cheyney University and indirectly Heeding
Cheyney's Call that was so disingenuous I could not let it go unchallenged. Their headline read Cheyney problem isn't racism: it's failing to compete for students. In
an article attributed to the whole Editorial Board rather than one individual, the
piece blatantly minimized the role racism has played during the ninety-five
year history since the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania purchased the school from
the Quakers in 1922. It dishonestly stated "Cheyney’s predicament
certainly has a racial component, but the solution must go beyond that
perspective. It thrived in the 1960s when it was known as Cheyney
State Teachers
College and served as the principal institution in Pennsylvania training
African Americans to become teachers. But it has struggled to find its niche in
post-segregation America."
What the
editorial board deliberately failed to mention was, during the 1960's students
picketed, demonstrated and took over buildings to protest the state's biased
treatment of the school. I know because I was involved in those protests and I
was part of student government when the state begrudgingly began to give the
school more attention and funding.
The Board
also failed to mention that President Wade Wilson (from 1969 to1980) was a wise
and visionary leader who leveraged the student unrest, demonstrations and
protests to get more funding, buildings and degree programs from the state.
The
Editorial Board neglected to do its homework and due diligence and blamed Cheyney
for its failings, conveniently overlooking and omitting something called the Performance
Based Funding Formula employed by the Commonwealth that negatively impacted the
PASSHE system.
In theory the
formulas are supposed to generate increased efficiency, enrollment, retention
and graduation rates and fund raising on the part of the university. Critics of
performance based funding say these policies do not generate the goals they are
put in place to accomplish. "The
most instructive findings come from case studies of Indiana,
Pennsylvania, Tennessee,
and Washington,
all of which based their policies on the seven principles identified by
advocates. In Indiana,
universities have become more selective and less diverse while also not
improving degree production. In Pennsylvania,
universities did not produce more degrees even after operating under
performance-based funding for nearly a decade. After Tennessee increased the financial incentives
and redesigned its policy, universities did not improve their graduation or
retention rates. And in Washington,
the state’s community colleges responded not by producing more associate’s
degrees but by increasing short-term certificates. Despite each state having
goals related to improving college completions, their performance-based funding
policies have not yet achieved the desired results." Why Performance-Based College Funding Doesn’t Work https://tcf.org/content/report/why-performance-based-college-funding-doesnt-work/
During
a meeting Heeding Cheyney's Call had with outgoing Chancellor Brogan in 2014,
he stated PBF was not working and the schools would receive additional funding.
But of course the Inquirer Board didn't include this information since they had
another agenda which was to discredit HCC and Cheyney.
The Board
also mentioned the Keystone Honors Program but failed to inform their readers
the program was created as the result of intervention by the US Department of
Education's Office of Civil Rights in 1999 when the OCR hammered out a binding
agreement to remediate the Commonwealth's long history of underfunding and
discrimination. The Inquirer also ignored the fact the Commonwealth has failed
to live up to that agreement by underfunding the Keystone Honors
Academy in the agreed
upon amounts.
All these facts are public record but somehow
the Inquirer's "Editorial Board" chose to indict Cheyney for failing
to diversify its student population. Here's another fact the Inquirer failed to
mention, unlike many schools in the PASSHE system Cheyney has never
discriminated on the base of skin color, ethnic origin, creed or philosophy. In
fact at one time Cheyney was the most integrated school in the PASSHE system!
What the
Inquirer did was patently disingenuous; but then we must remember the Inquirer
is part of the fake news industry, purveyors of propaganda and disinformation.
Don't believe their hype!
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Help Us Save Cheyney University
Help Us Save Cheyney
University
Junious Ricardo Stanton
On Tuesday
August 1, 2017 Heeding Cheyney's Call an alumni coalition of which I am a proud
founding member, along with distinguished clergy, elected officials such as
Philadelphia Councilman David Oh, Congressman Dwight Evans, Karen Warrington
from Congressman Brady's office, State Rep Stephen Kinsey and State Senator
Vincent Hughes along with a hundred other concerned alumni, community and
political activists held a press conference and rally outside the Philadelphia
office of Governor Tom Wolf.
The purpose
of the rally was to persuade Gov. Wolf to become more involved in saving
historic Cheyney University. I say more involved because
since his inauguration in 2015 Gov. Wolf has voiced support for saving Cheyney
and has assigned his staff to work with
Heeding Cheyney's Call to remedy its troubles. But now Cheyney is facing an
existential crisis and only Gov. Wolf can save this venerable institution from
imminent demise.
We called
on the Governor to directly intervene on Cheyney's behalf by calling the Middle
States Commission on Higher Education whose offices are in Philadelphia and
tell them the Board of Governors of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher
Education (PASSHE) has called for a search for a permanent president, that only
letting a contract for a consulting firm to conduct the search is holding the
process up. We also are asking Gov. Wolf to intervene and vouch for Cheyney's
fiscal sustainability until a new administration can be put in place to put
Cheyney on a solid financial footing.
While by
all accounts our rally was a huge success: we received excellent press
coverage, we had a hundred people out in sweltering heat and received the
verbal and written support of extremely influential people several who were
unable to attend; we still need your help whether you have a Cheyney connection
or not! We are asking folks to call or E-mail the offices of Pennsylvania
Governor Tom Wolf (717) 787-2500, Fax
(717) 772-8284 or write to him at Office of the Governor, 508 Main Capital
Building Harrisburg, PA 17120 thanking him for his continued support of Cheyney
but ask him not to sell Cheyney's land, cut back on degree programs and to
notify Middle States he will vouch for Cheyney's fiscal sustainability. We are
asking you to do the same thing, contact PASSHE Board of Governors Chairlady
Cynthia Shapira (717) 720-4028 Fax (717) 720-4011 or mail her at the
Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education Dixon University Center 2986 N. Second Street Harrisburg, PA
17110-120. Finally
reach out to Cheyney University Interim President Aaron Walton (610) 399-2275
or write to him at 1837 University Circle Cheyney PA, 19319 and ask them nor to
carry out the Task Force's agenda to cut degree programs, sell Cheyney's land
or eliminate NCAA sports programs.
If enough
of you sacrifice just a few minutes of your time to do this, we can save Cheyney University the oldest institution of
higher learning for African-Americans in this nation. Cheyney started out as
the African Institute. The name was subsequently changed to the Institute for
Colored Youth, Cheyney, later became the Cheyney Training School
for Teachers, Cheyney State Teacher's College, Cheyney State College and
finally Cheyney University of Pennsylvania. This institution has a major legacy
of education, social activism, training and pedagogy primarily for
African-Americans but unlike most colleges in Pennsylvania, Cheyney has never refused
entrance to anyone based upon skin pigmentation, national origin, ethnic
background and history or religious orientation.
You ask,
why should I help save Cheyney? Because higher education is in crisis in twenty
first century America,
especially Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania
ranks forty-ninth in college affordability. Only one state in the nation costs
more for its in state students to attend public colleges that is New Hampshire. http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/local/education/93251-colleges-in-pa-unaffordable-for-most-low-and-middle-income-families Pennsylvania
spends more on prisons, incarceration and corrections than it does for higher
education. http://www.pennlive.com/news/2016/07/pa_prison_budget_tops_higher_e.html
These
public policies do not bode well for working class families especially people
of color in Pennsylvania!
This means if you live in Pennsylvania and you
want to attend a Pennsylvania public college
or university it will cost you more than anywhere else in America except New Hampshire. As Cheyney goes so goes
PASSHE. The fact of the matter is PASSHE is in trouble but Pennsylvania's elected officials try to
suppress this fact. https://billypenn.com/2017/05/02/what-pushed-pennsylvanias-public-universities-to-the-brink-of-collapse/.
Cheyney is
an HBCU the first institution of higher learning for Africans in America
and many HBCUs is facing existential challenges. Frankly unless we intervene many HBCUs will not survive.
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/02/28/a-look-at-historically-black-colleges-and-universities-as-howard-turns-150/
If you care about quality, affordable
higher education then you will join us in the fight to save historic Cheyney University.
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How Safe Is Your Drinking Water
From The Ramparts
Junious
Ricardo Stanton
How
Safe Is Your Drinking Water?
"Tap water from
48,000 public water utilities was found to contain multiple cancer-causing
agents from arsenic, dioxane, chromium 6 to nitrates, according to researcher
with the Environmental Working Group. Researchers published the findings of
their five year study in an online database, searchable
by zip code or a local utility’s name, with findings on tap water in public
water systems in all 50 states." http://www.blacklistednews.com/Cancer-causing_pollutants_detected_in_most_tap_water_across_US_-
study/59995/0/38/38/Y/M.html
How safe is
your drinking water? A new study by a group calling itself the Environmental
Working Group discovered 48,000
municipal utilities throughout all fifty states contained multiple cancer
causing carcinogens! For years conspiracy theorists have long maintained
"the government" or nefarious secret entities were poisoning our
water supply but now it seems, like so many of their theories there is verifiable
truth in their claims.
Municipal water contamination came to the
public attention when it was discovered the water supply in Flint Michigan
was contaminated with lead and other toxic elements. The alarming truth is Flint is not the only
city facing lead contamination issues. http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-lead-testing/,
http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/28/us/epa-lead-in-u-s-water-systems/index.html. But nation
wide it's worse than that. The study released by EWG reveals the drinking water
in 48,000 public utilities contains cancer causing agents and carcinogens! And
this doesn't include well water or places where there aren't public utilities.
Lead is
lethal but the other stuff the study revealed is extremely toxic and dangerous
to our health. Go to the Environmental Working Group's Website to see for
yourself. https://www.ewg.org/tapwater/?_ga=2.88663451.1405934153.1501259550-1516571146.1501259550#.WX3sWI7Qc7B.
Locate your state on the map and then click it to see the water quality results
and status. You can click the state where family and friends live to see how
safe or at risk they may be. The report for each state contains the names of
each utility, the violation points, a list of the contaminants, the number of
people served and impacted and contaminant levels above the legal limit.
For years health
advocates and conspiracy theorists alike have been saying fluoridated water
doesn't protect against tooth decay, that it is a dangerous and harmful
additive. "
What is known is
that fluoride is toxic. In fact, the number one reason for poison control calls
concerning fluoride are for children who’ve eaten toothpaste. [2] [3] Long-term
ingestion is harmful to the brain, digestive system, heart, bones… even the
tooth enamel it’s supposed to help. " https://www.globalhealingcenter.com/natural-health/9-shocking-dangers-of-fluoride/
In his book
The Trillion Dollar Conspiracy (Harper
Collins) researcher Jim Marrs has this to say about fluoridated water. " Most
people don't realize that fluoride is a key ingredient in Prozac and many other
psychotropic drugs. Prozac whose scientific name is fluoxetine is 94 percent
fluoride ... Today, two thirds of all
municipal water and most bottle water in the United States contain sodium fluoride.
Fluoride is a poisonous waste product of aluminum manufacture that accumulates
in the human body. The use of aluminum cookware has been strongly linked to
Alzheimer's disease a progressive brain disorder that gradually destroys a
person's memory and ability to learn, reason and make judgments. A Christian
Science Monitor survey in 1954 showed that seventy-nine of eighty-one Nobel
Prize winners in chemistry, medicine and physiology refused to endorse water
fluoridation. Nevertheless, every US Public Health Service surgeon general
since the 1950's has supported putting this rat poison ingredient into America's
water supply." page 100-101
Don't just
take my word for it do some research on your own. Here is some additional
information that I think my interest you and jumpstart your investigation into
this aspect of water toxicity, "The US Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) lists fluoride among about 100 chemicals for which there is 'substantial
evidence of developmental neurotoxicity.' Experiments on animals reveal that
fluoride accumulates in the brain and alters mental behavior (Mullenix 1995).
There have been over 100 animal experiments showing that fluoride damages the
brain and impacts learning and behavior."
Fluoride Dangers: Top 10 Dangers of Fluoride http://www.cheeseslave.com/top-10-dangers-of-fluoride/
Here are
several Websites you can check out to
get more information on fluoride and other public water toxicity issues: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/08/unsafe-levels-of-toxic-chemicals-found-in-drinking-water-of-33-states/,
http://www.mbschachter.com/dangers_of_fluoride_and_fluorida.htm, https://www.nrdc.org/stories/whats-your-drinking-water,
https://www.nrdc.org/stories/whats-your-drinking-water
One way to
ensure safer drinking water is to drink distilled water. Experts advise not to
drink distilled water stored in plastic bottles. Some advocates say the best
way to insure clean healthy drinking water is to distill it yourself. Here is a
YouTube video that demonstrates how. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISHJt7nsPGA.
Take your health into your own hands.
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