There seems to be some confusion surrounding Rachel Dolezal. Let me shed some light...
Many Americans don't have a good idea of what other peoples of the world consider true self identity. For some Americans, it's like Hollywood, all they know is that you put on this face... which you take off when you tire of it or need to change your personality to something else to fit in with your surroundings.
I can not yet say why Rachel identifies as a 'black woman' but the mere fact that she does is the whole story in a nutshell... which I shall now explain.
I was a little Indian boy who moved from Caroni to the capital city of Port of Spain, Trinidad at around 1968, as I vaguely remember turning 5 (or 6) then. Caroni at that time was a countryside region known for farming and sugar plantations... which was an area largely populated by those of 'Indian' ancestry.
The city's population is majority black, at least 65 to 70% in my estimation, that was in the 1970's. My family was one of about three or four that were of Indian descent amongst our neighbors. My assimilation with the blacks 'on d block' was swift and easy, as mine was the house on the corner where everyone hung out. My home was a multi-use property having a small deli/grocer space in the front where everyone in close vicinity shopped.
I remember the "Black Power' riots of the 1970's. I was of course a kid back then, no more than 9yrs old and would not be allowed outside after dusk, even though outside for me meant sitting or playing on my own stoop with my other friends.
Growing up in a close knit group where it was 'we' against 'babylon (the cops),' I learned quite early on about the injustices meted out against poor people, regardless of your skin colour. I and the other young people grew up listening to songs by Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Jacob 'Killer' Miller and Steel Pulse to name a few. The songs we knew, sang about the 'blackman' and his struggle against government forces (Babylon) who sought to arrest and terrorise us at every turn.
When as a youth, we put on the shield of being a 'blackman' or picked up the spear of being a black man, it was a move that meant you existed as a soldier against the evil forces of Babylon. Many of us would grow up with a 'rasta' mentality which mimicked the struggles of our Rastafarian brethren in Jamaica, fighting against oppression by the Babylon.
The main thing to impress upon you is that any and every person who saw and identified with the struggle against oppression was considered to have identified with the 'Blackman.' Foreigners to our shores were no exception, regardless of color or race, as long as you saw the struggle and stood with us, you were one, with us.
There were whites, browns and blacks who would even go the distance, dread up their hair, give up their old lives and go live in the forests, living off the land and just living a spiritual life with their Jah, their creator. You may have only been there three years or three months... time did not matter, as long as you saw the struggle and picked up that spear, you were one of us.
Rachel Dolezal is a black woman, because she sees the struggle, she stood up against the struggle and she stands with us against the evils and suppression of Babylon against the downtrodden... even here in America. She carries that shield proudly in her current job, and any other she chooses to accept in the future. It is a shield you can't put down, as it is the lens through which you view the world.
Many Americans seem to see the struggle against Babylon as just another form of 'style and fashion' instead of something real that means life and death in certain circles. I don't have to remind you of how many black men have been killed by the police in the past decade. That is the fight of the poor against the forces of Babylon. This is the fight that we see.
That is a struggle that Rachel, in her country, has seen since her youth, has been outraged by... since her youth and has had feelings of disgust for, since her youth. As an adult she has chosen to take up that shield against oppression, she has chosen to take up that spear against the struggle... against the forces of Babylon.
As long as you place that golden nugget of humility within your heart and stand up as a voice against the struggle, you are a 'Blackman' and it is not a struggle that you can take off or shed, like a piece of clothing, because it controls your emotions.... indeed, your very soul.
So don't you dare lift one finger against Rachel for her donning the shield of Blackness, because she does not stand alone, she is one of us.... and we love you Rachel Dolezal and stand by you... 'is ah black ting.'
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Sunday, June 14, 2015
Thursday, June 11, 2015
The Transgender Conversation Continues Here, And On The Brian Lehrer Show At WNYC.
The Facts About BPA And Phthalates... How You Are Poisoning Yourselves And Your Families With It.
This is taken from my book Shock and Awe on America which can be sampled with this link...
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I have projected my own ideas as to what this poison's affects on mankind will be... you decide...
What is evolution? When and why does it occur? It is the way a living entity changes in order to survive or adapt to varying conditions. This occurs when conditions arise which threaten the entity in one way or another. I saw in 2010 a documentary on The Doc Zone by CBC of Canada. It was called “The Disappearing Male.” The report showed that the human male is under the threat of extinction.
“The Disappearing Male,” The Doc Zone, CBC TV, http://www.cbc.ca/doczone/episodes/the-disappearing-male
Are we headed for extinction? The alarming answer is yes. It has been suggested by scientists that we are now experiencing the beginning of the extinction of human beings. All living entities devise ways to avoid extinction, knowingly or not, the question is —have we? When threats to our population occur, the human species as we know it can vanish. The female population will adapt and evolve to compensate and become a new creature or die.
Sperm count in humans is down by half over the last 50 years. Sperm abnormality has increased at an alarming rate. Testicular cancer has doubled in the last 20 years. It is important to note that the animal kingdom is also having similar problems, which suggests that we have a common denominator. This is toxic poisoning to varying degrees. In the Eastern Coastal region of the US, up to 80% of males of certain fish species are found to have changed to become egg bearing.
These problems have now been attributed to the use of synthetic chemicals on a massive and worldwide scale. One such chemical is Bisphenol A, or BPA, which was invented in 1891, and is used extensively in just about everything that has hard plastic in it, from CDs to plastic containers and even baby bottles. This chemical makes plastic products harder and stronger. It is an endocrine disruptor, meaning it disturbs the proper functioning of the endocrine system and the hormones which these glands produce. These hormones regulate our bodies’ functions. Testosterone is the main disrupted hormone that is of concern in the pending male extinction.
Free download, of “Shock and Awe on America” in different E-book formats at Smashwords.com
I have projected my own ideas as to what this poison's affects on mankind will be... you decide...
What is evolution? When and why does it occur? It is the way a living entity changes in order to survive or adapt to varying conditions. This occurs when conditions arise which threaten the entity in one way or another. I saw in 2010 a documentary on The Doc Zone by CBC of Canada. It was called “The Disappearing Male.” The report showed that the human male is under the threat of extinction.
“The Disappearing Male,” The Doc Zone, CBC TV, http://www.cbc.ca/doczone/episodes/the-disappearing-male
Are we headed for extinction? The alarming answer is yes. It has been suggested by scientists that we are now experiencing the beginning of the extinction of human beings. All living entities devise ways to avoid extinction, knowingly or not, the question is —have we? When threats to our population occur, the human species as we know it can vanish. The female population will adapt and evolve to compensate and become a new creature or die.
Sperm count in humans is down by half over the last 50 years. Sperm abnormality has increased at an alarming rate. Testicular cancer has doubled in the last 20 years. It is important to note that the animal kingdom is also having similar problems, which suggests that we have a common denominator. This is toxic poisoning to varying degrees. In the Eastern Coastal region of the US, up to 80% of males of certain fish species are found to have changed to become egg bearing.
These problems have now been attributed to the use of synthetic chemicals on a massive and worldwide scale. One such chemical is Bisphenol A, or BPA, which was invented in 1891, and is used extensively in just about everything that has hard plastic in it, from CDs to plastic containers and even baby bottles. This chemical makes plastic products harder and stronger. It is an endocrine disruptor, meaning it disturbs the proper functioning of the endocrine system and the hormones which these glands produce. These hormones regulate our bodies’ functions. Testosterone is the main disrupted hormone that is of concern in the pending male extinction.
Another group of chemicals called phthalates are also raising concerns. These chemicals — produced since the 1920s — are used to soften plastic products, rubber ducks, teething rings and toys. What is frightening is that they are also endocrine disruptors.
Parents are overcome with panic and grief knowing that for the last 40 years or more they have been feeding their children with poisoned baby bottles, and they have let their children chew on rubber ducks, pacifiers and teething rings, for as long as anyone remembers, which may have altered their normal growth. The concern is that the chemicals seep out of the products and into the mouths of our babies, a hazard that has been suspected with BPA since the 1930s. When a pregnant mother has these chemicals in her system, it subjects her growing embryo to these startling problems.
The birth of males has dropped by 50% in some places of interest: places with high concentrations of these chemicals. Instead of a ratio of 1 to 1 between boys and girls, the ratio is now 1 boy to 3 girls in some of these locations. Male sexual development has been thrown out of whack because the function of testosterone is disrupted by these chemicals. Within the last 60 years we have invented 90,000 chemicals. As much as 80,000 are in use, while only 15% are tested for effects on adult humans and almost none is tested for effects on either growing children, embryos or fetuses. The chemicals are tested on adults and not on the growing bodies of infants, so while a chemical is deemed safe for adults, the babies who are exposed are more susceptible to harm, as their bodies’ resistance to these harmful chemicals could be hundreds of times less strong.
Sperm counts in most teenage men are half of what their fathers’ were and 85% of their sperm are found to be abnormal, leaving 15% of normal sperm. This means mankind is surviving on a sperm count of 7.5% of normal sperm, as compared with our forefathers’ sperm counts. Could we survive with any less? I think not. We have reached the edge, the brink of disaster. Long ago, sperm banks accepted sperm which had a standard volume of 60,000 counts per milliliter; that count has been reduced to 40,000, then 20,000 and they are now considering reducing the acceptance level to 10,000 per milliliter. Some birth rates in animals in polluted rivers have been found to be 90% below average, clearly showing they are affected as well.
Testosterone controls the sexual development of our male children and when its functions are blocked by chemicals, they are permanently damaged, and the hormone cannot perform the tasks of fetal development that they were supposed to accomplish. Would-be boys cannot become boys. Embryos cannot change to boys and instead become a female fetus. The result is a mix of undeveloped or changed humans with various developmental abnormalities.
Plastics enhance our lives but unfortunately, they are poisoning our unborn children to the extent of bringing about human extinction. Up until about seven or eight weeks old, the embryo is neither male nor female. The embryo grows into a fetus at around that time, and it is the critical time when it is changing to a boy or girl. Sexual hormones, in particular testosterone, then take over and help determine if a child becomes a male or, by its absence or inaction, a female. When the chemicals interfere with this process, the result is abnormal development, both physically and mentally.
Some embryos develop into a male body but that is itself a physical change. Accompanying that physical change is also a mental change needed to make the human embryo a complete male or female. Things can go wrong. Some boys may not get the required corresponding male wiring in the brain; consequently, they have a male body with a female brain — in other words, a girl trapped in a boy’s body. This happens in reverse as well: a female body with a male wired brain — a boy trapped in a girl’s body. We see this quite often, in alarming numbers, in our modern, chemically poisoned society.
Things do not always go wrong in that simple way either; it sometimes gets really mixed up and complicated. For example, a boy may retain a girl’s genitals or breasts, or a girl may grow a boy’s genitals. We see this phenomena increasing as well.
Soon there may not be enough traditional males with properly functioning genitalia and normalsperm counts to carry on the human species as we already survive on only 7.5 % of traditional levels. Is the species evolving or going to evolve to a point where a person will be able to impregnate her or himself? Hermaphroditism opens that door to a new possibility. We see it elsewhere in nature. It is a natural occurrence of some species after millions of years of evolution and threats to its survival. We see asexual reproduction in turkeys, sharks, starfish, bees and other species. It is not a new occurrence.
The emergence of such sexually diverse groups of people has a profound effect on society and societal development. Some may speculate that gay people, transgendered and hermaphrodites are sometimes the results of these chemical interferences in the embryonic and fetal stages of a child’s development. Others may seek different explanations, including religious ones. I will leave that type of speculation up to you, as each person has his or her own ideas.
One thing is certain; we are threatened by something more devastating than any bomb, or any and all the plagues gone by, and our evolution may be the only way to survive. Since the 1970s, the drop in the birth rate of boys has resulted in as many as three million less boys being born and consequently, three million more girls and mixed sexes. With the invention of new synthetic chemicals and medicines, the problem grows even larger and finding solutions becomes more immediate, more urgent. Evolution may be our only way out of extinction, if we still have time.
This link is to the Brian Lehrer radio show on WNYC, where they furthered the Trans conversation, it was taped today, June 11th 2015. The call in participants are mindblowing in their inputs and knowledge, you can't miss this.
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Monday, June 8, 2015
Republican Presidential Candidates Chastise Hillary Clinton's Support For Alien Martians, Transformers And Neptunian Voters.
This reporter has heard it from good sources on the 'grapevine,' that there are some Republican presidential candidates who have started to pile on their insults, against their Democratic presidential opponent Hillary Clinton. In the past republican politicos have been heard in their numerous secret circles, speaking out against what they perceive as massive incidents of voter fraud, committed by so called 'N' and 'M' people.... it is now suspected that their concern has evolved to include a recently emerging group that they are calling the 'T' people.
When this reporter heard about their strange references to "the N-word, the M-word , and the T-word' people, I was first confused about this alphabetical type secret language, often referred to as some sort of 'Dog Whistling' in their secret cabalistic code... but after some intense journalistic investigations, I am now able to present to you their secret intentions a bit more clearly.
Republicans have long since been known amongst themselves as the authentic American 'Patriots,' unlike the so-called Native Americans whom they suspect are just some sort of foreign group sent here possibly by the Japanese or another Asian group. These real Republican Patriots contend that they are overwhelmingly concerned that certain 'alien' forces have been committing voter fraud since the ancient days that caused said 'Patriots' to think up of the 'Southern Strategy.'
Republicans have in the past used various ways to disenfranchise these 'N-word' people... the 'N' meaning the aliens from the planet Neptune. It is rumored that these 'N' people are the descendants of the 'Negroid' race which was imported from Neptune centuries ago, and consequently enslaved on America's cotton plantations.
There has also been a republican claim and indeed a push back against the 'M-word' people... aliens from the planet Mars, who are said to make frequent secret trips, from their bases in a nearby land that is riddled with criminals and drug cartels known as Mexico, sneaking over the southern borders of Arizona, Texas, California and New Mexico, to commit voter fraud and then sneak back over the border to Mexico in the dead of night.
In order to make a sustained and collective push against these alien groups, many Republican held states have been passing laws that require these 'aliens' to get some specific forms of 'ID' in order to vote. It is speculated that by making the aliens become disenfranchised, this will deter them from voting and thereby prevent them from swinging an election toward their Democratic presidential opponent.
It has also been learned by this reporter that their hope is this voter ID will also be able to disenfranchise the newest threat that they fear is looming, called the 'T-word' people, who are largely believed in conservative circles, to be shape shifters from a still unknown Galaxy. They are called "Trans-formers,' as they are said to have the ability to transform their appearance by a trick called 'crossdressing' and in some cases actually transform their anatomy from male to female and even back to male again if they so choose, with different variations between male and female; for instance sometimes having both female and male attributes at the same time.
It is believed that because this Voter ID has only two distinctions on the document requiring the holder to declare being either a male or female only, that the "T" people will not be able to get said ID as there is no distinction for "T' gendered people on the document.... only M for male gender and F for female gendered persons, thereby shutting the 'T' aliens out of the voting process.
Last week Hillary Clinton called out certain GOP presidential hopefuls as being part of the secret cabal of disenfranchisers. While some of them lashed out at Clinton, one GOP hopeful could not take the hiding any longer and has since confessed to a group of his supporters, that he was in fact a closeted 'T' person and had he known in his younger years, that he could have confessed that he was a female living in a male body, and be allowed to then shower in the girls bathroom, he would have confessed since the days of his youth.
Another unexpected breath of fresh air in the GOP hopefuls, has since birth had a male body but has long been rumored to be something other than male, and is in fact the alleged (by Stephanie Miller) first love of one of the oldest Senators, who is a real war veteran and who was once captured by the Vietcong when his airplane crashed in WWII. This fresh air candidate does have a classic female name and says that a recently confessed Transformer, who has chosen to keep both her male and female attributes in her anatomy, was welcome in the GOP circle if he is elected as President. While this suspected 'T' person seems ready to put 10,000 troops on the ground, his alleged (by Stephanie Miller) love interest has previously boasted of wanting to 'bomb, bomb,bomb,bomb bomb Iran.'
While the current outcry by GOP hopefuls against Clinton's first launched salvo at them, is that she does not have her ear to the pulse of the American people, the Presidential race is still young and has many months to go and many months to change. This reporter looks forward to bringing you the up to the minute details as they happen.... on the front lines.
When this reporter heard about their strange references to "the N-word, the M-word , and the T-word' people, I was first confused about this alphabetical type secret language, often referred to as some sort of 'Dog Whistling' in their secret cabalistic code... but after some intense journalistic investigations, I am now able to present to you their secret intentions a bit more clearly.
Republicans have long since been known amongst themselves as the authentic American 'Patriots,' unlike the so-called Native Americans whom they suspect are just some sort of foreign group sent here possibly by the Japanese or another Asian group. These real Republican Patriots contend that they are overwhelmingly concerned that certain 'alien' forces have been committing voter fraud since the ancient days that caused said 'Patriots' to think up of the 'Southern Strategy.'
Republicans have in the past used various ways to disenfranchise these 'N-word' people... the 'N' meaning the aliens from the planet Neptune. It is rumored that these 'N' people are the descendants of the 'Negroid' race which was imported from Neptune centuries ago, and consequently enslaved on America's cotton plantations.
There has also been a republican claim and indeed a push back against the 'M-word' people... aliens from the planet Mars, who are said to make frequent secret trips, from their bases in a nearby land that is riddled with criminals and drug cartels known as Mexico, sneaking over the southern borders of Arizona, Texas, California and New Mexico, to commit voter fraud and then sneak back over the border to Mexico in the dead of night.
In order to make a sustained and collective push against these alien groups, many Republican held states have been passing laws that require these 'aliens' to get some specific forms of 'ID' in order to vote. It is speculated that by making the aliens become disenfranchised, this will deter them from voting and thereby prevent them from swinging an election toward their Democratic presidential opponent.
It has also been learned by this reporter that their hope is this voter ID will also be able to disenfranchise the newest threat that they fear is looming, called the 'T-word' people, who are largely believed in conservative circles, to be shape shifters from a still unknown Galaxy. They are called "Trans-formers,' as they are said to have the ability to transform their appearance by a trick called 'crossdressing' and in some cases actually transform their anatomy from male to female and even back to male again if they so choose, with different variations between male and female; for instance sometimes having both female and male attributes at the same time.
It is believed that because this Voter ID has only two distinctions on the document requiring the holder to declare being either a male or female only, that the "T" people will not be able to get said ID as there is no distinction for "T' gendered people on the document.... only M for male gender and F for female gendered persons, thereby shutting the 'T' aliens out of the voting process.
Last week Hillary Clinton called out certain GOP presidential hopefuls as being part of the secret cabal of disenfranchisers. While some of them lashed out at Clinton, one GOP hopeful could not take the hiding any longer and has since confessed to a group of his supporters, that he was in fact a closeted 'T' person and had he known in his younger years, that he could have confessed that he was a female living in a male body, and be allowed to then shower in the girls bathroom, he would have confessed since the days of his youth.
Another unexpected breath of fresh air in the GOP hopefuls, has since birth had a male body but has long been rumored to be something other than male, and is in fact the alleged (by Stephanie Miller) first love of one of the oldest Senators, who is a real war veteran and who was once captured by the Vietcong when his airplane crashed in WWII. This fresh air candidate does have a classic female name and says that a recently confessed Transformer, who has chosen to keep both her male and female attributes in her anatomy, was welcome in the GOP circle if he is elected as President. While this suspected 'T' person seems ready to put 10,000 troops on the ground, his alleged (by Stephanie Miller) love interest has previously boasted of wanting to 'bomb, bomb,bomb,bomb bomb Iran.'
While the current outcry by GOP hopefuls against Clinton's first launched salvo at them, is that she does not have her ear to the pulse of the American people, the Presidential race is still young and has many months to go and many months to change. This reporter looks forward to bringing you the up to the minute details as they happen.... on the front lines.
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Wednesday, June 3, 2015
Pope Francis Ridiculed By Rick Santorum Over Climate Change.
Pope Francis does not know who the heck Rick Santorum is... neither does 99.98% of the globe, so Google him!
The Pope is a rather extrordinary man, in that he actually has a Master's degree in Chemistry.... probably the only Pope in the world to have one right now, I imagine.
Rick Santorum impresses upon me that he is somewhat of a mystic. Rick obviously has the power to predict the future and can see that the globe is under no threat from global warming, which causes climate change.
Rick is a deeply religious and honest man, so I believe that if he ever saw a threat on that scale, he would be shouting it from the rooftops... I'm sure. BTW,
Rick Santorum has a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science, which he obviously thinks qualifies him to challenge the Pope's ideas and ideals.
So the toss up is between a republican politician and a real scientist... I think the real scientist will have a more credible and factual argument. We have all heard republican politicians saying multiple times over...'I am not a scientist,' so I think Rick's point will be rather unfounded in facts.
The Pope made recent statements, reminding us that the Earth is the creation of God and that we must protect His creation against all ills, of which climate change is one of the most concerning... From ThinkProgress...“Safeguard Creation,” he said. “Because if we destroy Creation, Creation will destroy us! Never forget this!... Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few: Creation is a gift, it is a wonderful gift that God has given us, so that we care for it and we use it for the benefit of all, always with great respect and gratitude... But when we exploit Creation we destroy the sign of God’s love for us, in destroying Creation we are saying to God: ‘I don’t like it! This is not good!’ ‘So what do you like?’ ‘I like myself!’ – Here, this is sin! Do you see?”
Unfortunately for the Pope, Rick did not appreciate the overall tone of his speech and responded on some unknown radio show with the following rebuke... From MSNBC... 'Santorum, a devout Catholic and far right conservative, has expressed disbelief in climate change — and evolution, for that matter — and routinely rejects evidence scientists present on both matters.... Santorum describes himself as a “huge fan” of the pope, but on “The Dom Giordano Show” on Monday, he said “the church has gotten it wrong a few times on science, and I think that we probably are better off leaving science to the scientists and focusing on what we’re really good at, which is … theology and morality.”
The Pope is a rather extrordinary man, in that he actually has a Master's degree in Chemistry.... probably the only Pope in the world to have one right now, I imagine.
Rick Santorum impresses upon me that he is somewhat of a mystic. Rick obviously has the power to predict the future and can see that the globe is under no threat from global warming, which causes climate change.
Rick is a deeply religious and honest man, so I believe that if he ever saw a threat on that scale, he would be shouting it from the rooftops... I'm sure. BTW,
Rick Santorum has a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science, which he obviously thinks qualifies him to challenge the Pope's ideas and ideals.
So the toss up is between a republican politician and a real scientist... I think the real scientist will have a more credible and factual argument. We have all heard republican politicians saying multiple times over...'I am not a scientist,' so I think Rick's point will be rather unfounded in facts.
The Pope made recent statements, reminding us that the Earth is the creation of God and that we must protect His creation against all ills, of which climate change is one of the most concerning... From ThinkProgress...“Safeguard Creation,” he said. “Because if we destroy Creation, Creation will destroy us! Never forget this!... Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few: Creation is a gift, it is a wonderful gift that God has given us, so that we care for it and we use it for the benefit of all, always with great respect and gratitude... But when we exploit Creation we destroy the sign of God’s love for us, in destroying Creation we are saying to God: ‘I don’t like it! This is not good!’ ‘So what do you like?’ ‘I like myself!’ – Here, this is sin! Do you see?”
Unfortunately for the Pope, Rick did not appreciate the overall tone of his speech and responded on some unknown radio show with the following rebuke... From MSNBC... 'Santorum, a devout Catholic and far right conservative, has expressed disbelief in climate change — and evolution, for that matter — and routinely rejects evidence scientists present on both matters.... Santorum describes himself as a “huge fan” of the pope, but on “The Dom Giordano Show” on Monday, he said “the church has gotten it wrong a few times on science, and I think that we probably are better off leaving science to the scientists and focusing on what we’re really good at, which is … theology and morality.”
He continued, “When we get involved with political and controversial scientific theories, I think the church is probably not as forceful and credible.”
Well Rick, I agree with you on that... when you republicans get involved in scientific theory, you guys are not credible.
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Sunday, May 24, 2015
Black People Treated Like Dogs To The Slaughter, To Be Corralled, Controlled And Killed.
This is the worst title I could have thought of, and I am not going to defend the truth of it in any way... The police have to do that with their actions. The police have to defend their own records and thereby show that this abhorrent title deserves no quarter... because according to their actions, they operate as if Black people are less than human.
Black people are not just innocent Lambs to the slaughter, they are now treated like Dogs to the slaughter, without even the human love and compassion afforded to real dogs. Everyone knows if you kill a dog you get more severe sentences than if you killed a black person. This is borne out in the court verdicts.
The actions over the past decades have shown that when the rubber meets the road, when it really mattered, the Police all over the country as a cohesive group, have let down the citizens of this great country. The police who have been charged to protect and serve, have instead corralled,controlled and killed the very individuals they were sworn to protect, the very victims whose taxes pay their salaries, the very victims whose kids play with their kids in kindergarden and attend the same schools.
Every week we see multiple killings of unarmed people who if nothing else, deserved the benefit of the doubt. Police justice is swift and uncompromising, better suited for a military grade action in a foreign country. The Police of today is not the domestic themed protector of the innocent civilian but they are more like an invading force led by Attila The Hun. My heart is heavy thinking of just who they mean to conquer.
The controversial verdict in Cleveland is the latest nail in Lady Justice's coffin. The verdict in favor of Officer Brelo's innocence in the shooting deaths of two unarmed civilians, is in the least a heart breaking one.
Police officials would be quick to weigh their long history of defense and control of violent entities, against the charges that they have indeed long since lost sight of just who the real criminals are, and of their duty to protect civilians or just to profile and kill them without mercy. Sometimes it seems the war has changed from between the forces of Justice against the criminals, to just a war between Black and Blue, with no concern for the merits of the evidence when it reaches to court.
I have heard it said in defense of the Police that the public just don't understand the difficulty of the job. It is said that these killing tactics do not outweigh the need to have a Police force and if anything the Police is owed a debt of gratitude by the public.
I have also heard that being a Police Officer is not done by holding a draft, it is a job which is freely applied for by each and every individual. If an officer feels that they can't do the job properly, then it is a simple thing to quit, leave, retire, before someone gets hurt.
It is a job that requires a lot from an individual and most if not all who join the Police, does so with the intention of repaying the community that loved and nurtured them in their younger years.
There is no shame in realizing that the job is not for you, it is not a job for any and everyone to do, so get out while you are still ahead, before innocent life is taken.... become a priest, an engineer or a teacher. You will not be loved any less.
Let the Police defend their honor against the title of this post, because I certainly can't.
Black people are not just innocent Lambs to the slaughter, they are now treated like Dogs to the slaughter, without even the human love and compassion afforded to real dogs. Everyone knows if you kill a dog you get more severe sentences than if you killed a black person. This is borne out in the court verdicts.
The actions over the past decades have shown that when the rubber meets the road, when it really mattered, the Police all over the country as a cohesive group, have let down the citizens of this great country. The police who have been charged to protect and serve, have instead corralled,controlled and killed the very individuals they were sworn to protect, the very victims whose taxes pay their salaries, the very victims whose kids play with their kids in kindergarden and attend the same schools.
Every week we see multiple killings of unarmed people who if nothing else, deserved the benefit of the doubt. Police justice is swift and uncompromising, better suited for a military grade action in a foreign country. The Police of today is not the domestic themed protector of the innocent civilian but they are more like an invading force led by Attila The Hun. My heart is heavy thinking of just who they mean to conquer.
The controversial verdict in Cleveland is the latest nail in Lady Justice's coffin. The verdict in favor of Officer Brelo's innocence in the shooting deaths of two unarmed civilians, is in the least a heart breaking one.
Police officials would be quick to weigh their long history of defense and control of violent entities, against the charges that they have indeed long since lost sight of just who the real criminals are, and of their duty to protect civilians or just to profile and kill them without mercy. Sometimes it seems the war has changed from between the forces of Justice against the criminals, to just a war between Black and Blue, with no concern for the merits of the evidence when it reaches to court.
I have heard it said in defense of the Police that the public just don't understand the difficulty of the job. It is said that these killing tactics do not outweigh the need to have a Police force and if anything the Police is owed a debt of gratitude by the public.
I have also heard that being a Police Officer is not done by holding a draft, it is a job which is freely applied for by each and every individual. If an officer feels that they can't do the job properly, then it is a simple thing to quit, leave, retire, before someone gets hurt.
It is a job that requires a lot from an individual and most if not all who join the Police, does so with the intention of repaying the community that loved and nurtured them in their younger years.
There is no shame in realizing that the job is not for you, it is not a job for any and everyone to do, so get out while you are still ahead, before innocent life is taken.... become a priest, an engineer or a teacher. You will not be loved any less.
Let the Police defend their honor against the title of this post, because I certainly can't.
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Friday, May 22, 2015
Dick Cheney's Pre-Iraq Video Interview Raises War Crimes Questions.
Well the title is correct and says it all. Dick Cheney was the Secretary of Defense during Operation Desert Storm, for President George H W Bush. After that Desert Storm operation, Mr. Cheney was interviewed and asked why did we not go the extra distance and capture Saddam Hussein. Mr. Cheney said quite confidently that if we were to capture Saddam, that would have created a power vacuum which would have been quite disasterous.
Mr. Cheney also pointed out that there were 146 American troops who died and to incur any more casualties while toppling Saddam's regime would not be feasible as Saddam was not worth additional American lives.
Fast forward to Operation Shock and Awe and it seems Mr. Cheney, now Vice President in 2003, thought that the price, which eventually proved to be losing over 4000 American soldiers and having tens of thousands wounded and having more than one hundred thousand suffer with PTSD was a good day at the park....that we 'won' the war somehow and it was well worth the price paid in blood and national treasure, to capture and topple Saddam.
Knowing that his prediction of a fractured Iraq being shredded to pieces, by the 50 plus other radical entities like Al Qaeda that we knew of then, and also the neighboring countries as he mused in his interview, raises the question that he should be at least held responsible by the Haig, for all the events that happened since then as a direct result of Shock and Awe.
Knowing that this war would have brought the terrible results that Mr. Cheney predicted, he should not have allowed it... to do so is tantamount to mass murder. He shows that by going ahead with the war in such a non-chalant manner, while not considering the consequences and loss of human lives important enough, Mr. Cheney should be tried for war crimes.
Mr. Cheney also pointed out that there were 146 American troops who died and to incur any more casualties while toppling Saddam's regime would not be feasible as Saddam was not worth additional American lives.
Fast forward to Operation Shock and Awe and it seems Mr. Cheney, now Vice President in 2003, thought that the price, which eventually proved to be losing over 4000 American soldiers and having tens of thousands wounded and having more than one hundred thousand suffer with PTSD was a good day at the park....that we 'won' the war somehow and it was well worth the price paid in blood and national treasure, to capture and topple Saddam.
Knowing that his prediction of a fractured Iraq being shredded to pieces, by the 50 plus other radical entities like Al Qaeda that we knew of then, and also the neighboring countries as he mused in his interview, raises the question that he should be at least held responsible by the Haig, for all the events that happened since then as a direct result of Shock and Awe.
Knowing that this war would have brought the terrible results that Mr. Cheney predicted, he should not have allowed it... to do so is tantamount to mass murder. He shows that by going ahead with the war in such a non-chalant manner, while not considering the consequences and loss of human lives important enough, Mr. Cheney should be tried for war crimes.
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Saturday, May 16, 2015
America As A 'Christian Nation' Invented By Businessmen In The 1930's
From Salon.com ... 'Excerpted from “One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America” by Kevin Kruse. Published by Basic Books. Copyright 2015 by Kevin Kruse. Excerpted with permission of the publisher. All rights reserved.'
'The rites of our public religion originated not in a spiritual crisis, but rather in the political and economic turmoil of the Great Depression. The story of business leaders enlisting clergymen in their war against the New Deal is one that has been largely obscured by the very ideology that resulted from it.'
'Previous accounts of the tangled relationship between Christianity and capitalism have noted the “uneasy alliance” between businessmen and the religious right which helped elect Ronald Reagan and end the New Deal order, but the careers of the Christian libertarians in the 1930s and 1940s show that their alliance was present at the creation of the New Deal. Their ideology of “freedom under God” did not topple the regulatory state as they hoped, but thanks to the evangelism of conservative clergymen such as James Fifield, Abraham Vereide, and Billy Graham, it ultimately accomplished more than its corporate creators ever dreamed possible. It convinced a wide range of Americans that their country had been, and should always be, a Christian nation.'
'In the early 1950s, the long crusade of the Christian libertarians apparently reached its triumphant climax with the election of Dwight Eisenhower. But the new president proved to be transformative in a sense his corporate backers had not anticipated. Although he was certainly sympathetic to the secular ends they sought, Eisenhower proved to be much more interested in the spiritual language they had invented as a means of achieving those ends. Uncoupling their religious rhetoric from its roots in the fight against the New Deal, he considerably broadened its appeal, expanding its reach well beyond the initial circle of conservative Protestants to welcome Americans across the political and religious spectrum. In doing so, Eisenhower ushered in an unprecedented religious revival, one that temporarily filled the nation’s churches and synagogues but permanently altered its political culture. From then on, the federal government, which the Christian libertarians had long denounced as godless, was increasingly seen as quite godly instead. Congress cemented these changes, adding “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance and adopting “In God We Trust” as the nation’s first official motto. Hollywood and Madison Avenue, meanwhile, helped promote this understanding of America as a religious nation and Americans as an inherently religious people.'
'The new rituals of public religion crafted in the Eisenhower era were seen at the time as symbolic flourishes with little substance to them. But the rites and rhetoric that Eugene Rostow dismissed as mere “ceremonial deism” in 1962 were soon revealed to have incredible political power. National controversies over school prayer—which unfolded first in the Supreme Court and then in Congress—demonstrated that the symbols and slogans of the Eisenhower era, instituted less than a decade earlier, had quickly been embraced by many Americans as ironclad evidence of the nation’s religious roots. As conservatives fought to restore school prayer and to roll back other social changes in the turbulent 1960s, they rallied around phrases like ”one nation under God.” As a result, the religious rhetoric that had recently been used to unite Americans began to drive them further apart. At the decade’s end, Richard Nixon helped complete this polarization of the nation’s public religion, using it to advance divisive policies both at home and abroad.'
'This history reminds us that our public religion is, in large measure, an invention of the modern era. The ceremonies and symbols that breathe life into the belief that we are “one nation under God” were not, as many Americans believe, created alongside the nation itself. Their parentage stems not from the founding fathers but from an era much closer to our own, the era of our own fathers and mothers, our grandfathers and grandmothers.This fact need not diminish their importance; fresh traditions can be more powerful than older ones adhered to out of habit. Nevertheless, we do violence to our past if we treat certain phrases — ”one nation under God,”"In God We Trust” — as sacred texts handed down to us from the nation’s founding. Instead, we are better served if we understand these utterances for what they are: political slogans that speak not to the origins of our nation but to a specific point in its not-so-distant past. If they are to mean anything to us now, we should understand what they meant then.'
This is really an interesting read, and the author has done some excellent investigative journalisn to bring this information to us. It comes at an important time in this nation's enduring efforts to forge ahead amidst a collage of global threats and alliances, both monetary and religious.
This type of collusion between business powers and religious entities has been seen as far back as ancient times. This is how the ruling classes from even before the time of the Romans, controlled the flocks... kept the people in line. The Kings and Noblemen would enlist the help of the churches, temples, synagogues in order to subdue the people.... for a hefty price of course. The hirearchy of the churches lived in lavish comforts fit for royalty, and they were revered as such... even today.
It is my suspicion that as the middle ages winded down, the population was getting so disillusioned and rowdy that King James in the early 1600's was advised by his mother to rewrite and produce a new version of the Bible, which was then offered to the people by the church, as 'Inspired by God,' in order to subdue them and again bring them back under the control of the Kingdom. This is the King James version of the Bible that we know today.
'The rites of our public religion originated not in a spiritual crisis, but rather in the political and economic turmoil of the Great Depression. The story of business leaders enlisting clergymen in their war against the New Deal is one that has been largely obscured by the very ideology that resulted from it.'
'Previous accounts of the tangled relationship between Christianity and capitalism have noted the “uneasy alliance” between businessmen and the religious right which helped elect Ronald Reagan and end the New Deal order, but the careers of the Christian libertarians in the 1930s and 1940s show that their alliance was present at the creation of the New Deal. Their ideology of “freedom under God” did not topple the regulatory state as they hoped, but thanks to the evangelism of conservative clergymen such as James Fifield, Abraham Vereide, and Billy Graham, it ultimately accomplished more than its corporate creators ever dreamed possible. It convinced a wide range of Americans that their country had been, and should always be, a Christian nation.'
'In the early 1950s, the long crusade of the Christian libertarians apparently reached its triumphant climax with the election of Dwight Eisenhower. But the new president proved to be transformative in a sense his corporate backers had not anticipated. Although he was certainly sympathetic to the secular ends they sought, Eisenhower proved to be much more interested in the spiritual language they had invented as a means of achieving those ends. Uncoupling their religious rhetoric from its roots in the fight against the New Deal, he considerably broadened its appeal, expanding its reach well beyond the initial circle of conservative Protestants to welcome Americans across the political and religious spectrum. In doing so, Eisenhower ushered in an unprecedented religious revival, one that temporarily filled the nation’s churches and synagogues but permanently altered its political culture. From then on, the federal government, which the Christian libertarians had long denounced as godless, was increasingly seen as quite godly instead. Congress cemented these changes, adding “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance and adopting “In God We Trust” as the nation’s first official motto. Hollywood and Madison Avenue, meanwhile, helped promote this understanding of America as a religious nation and Americans as an inherently religious people.'
'The new rituals of public religion crafted in the Eisenhower era were seen at the time as symbolic flourishes with little substance to them. But the rites and rhetoric that Eugene Rostow dismissed as mere “ceremonial deism” in 1962 were soon revealed to have incredible political power. National controversies over school prayer—which unfolded first in the Supreme Court and then in Congress—demonstrated that the symbols and slogans of the Eisenhower era, instituted less than a decade earlier, had quickly been embraced by many Americans as ironclad evidence of the nation’s religious roots. As conservatives fought to restore school prayer and to roll back other social changes in the turbulent 1960s, they rallied around phrases like ”one nation under God.” As a result, the religious rhetoric that had recently been used to unite Americans began to drive them further apart. At the decade’s end, Richard Nixon helped complete this polarization of the nation’s public religion, using it to advance divisive policies both at home and abroad.'
'This history reminds us that our public religion is, in large measure, an invention of the modern era. The ceremonies and symbols that breathe life into the belief that we are “one nation under God” were not, as many Americans believe, created alongside the nation itself. Their parentage stems not from the founding fathers but from an era much closer to our own, the era of our own fathers and mothers, our grandfathers and grandmothers.This fact need not diminish their importance; fresh traditions can be more powerful than older ones adhered to out of habit. Nevertheless, we do violence to our past if we treat certain phrases — ”one nation under God,”"In God We Trust” — as sacred texts handed down to us from the nation’s founding. Instead, we are better served if we understand these utterances for what they are: political slogans that speak not to the origins of our nation but to a specific point in its not-so-distant past. If they are to mean anything to us now, we should understand what they meant then.'
This is really an interesting read, and the author has done some excellent investigative journalisn to bring this information to us. It comes at an important time in this nation's enduring efforts to forge ahead amidst a collage of global threats and alliances, both monetary and religious.
This type of collusion between business powers and religious entities has been seen as far back as ancient times. This is how the ruling classes from even before the time of the Romans, controlled the flocks... kept the people in line. The Kings and Noblemen would enlist the help of the churches, temples, synagogues in order to subdue the people.... for a hefty price of course. The hirearchy of the churches lived in lavish comforts fit for royalty, and they were revered as such... even today.
It is my suspicion that as the middle ages winded down, the population was getting so disillusioned and rowdy that King James in the early 1600's was advised by his mother to rewrite and produce a new version of the Bible, which was then offered to the people by the church, as 'Inspired by God,' in order to subdue them and again bring them back under the control of the Kingdom. This is the King James version of the Bible that we know today.
Free download of “Shock and Awe on America” in different E-book formats at Smashwords.com
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