Nixak*77*
I don't expect Billary Clinton to do jack for Black & Brown folks, except offer-up more 'I feel your pain' rhetoric that her hubby Slick Willy's 'famous' for. The 'Billary Clintons' have made a career out of, 'acting sympathetic' to the the Dims traditional voter base [Blacks, Hispanics, Labor, etc], while cynically Knifing Them in the Back via: NAFTA, Doubling-Down on the 'New Jim Crow' w Slick Willy's 'Crime-Bill, his Welfare Deform law, Billary's seat on WalMart's board, & also re: Haiti, Honduras, Libya, etc!!!
Note Labor [which traditionally does have some currency w the Dims] thought they had a done deal w Obama re: 'Card-check', & civil liberties orgs thought likewise re: closing Gitmo. But when Obama became POTUS, we saw that didn't go NO-Where / were essentially abandoned by him... IMO the BLM folks should expect more of the same from Billary!!!
PS: It seems the BLM folks confronted Bernie, but apparently just had a 'conversation' w Billary- Humm...
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'Liberals' [even some feminists] give porn a pass [or even hype it] under the banner of so-called 'free-speech' & ''freedom of love expression' ala the so-called 'sexual-revolution' [Chris Hedges wrote pieces condemning porn & the hyping prostitution as so-called 'empowering for women' {NOT!}, & caught a bunch of flak from 'liberal' commenters].
While Corp 'conservatives' are on-board w porn - cause it makes them BIG $$$ [though they try to play this low-key]!!! Corporate sectors that have been quietly heavily invested in porn are: Media [print, cable TV, movies & now web-sites] & the Hotel / Motel BIZ!!!
So likewise 'liberals' give 'Gangster Rap' a pass [though some feminists ala Ms Hutchinson condemn it] based on freedom of speech & expression, while corp media promotes it Big-Time cause it makes them BIG $$$!!! FYI: Gangsta Rap = the porno-bastardization of Black rap / hip-hop culture!!!
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I stand by me statement about Hollyweird & its phony so-called 'liberal' image. It's too often portrayed Blacks [along w Hispanics, Native Americans, Chinese, etc] as stereotypes. From 'Birth of a Nation' [glorified the KKK & Lynching], 'Gone w the Wind' [glorified & sympathized Slave-Owning Dixieland], 'Tarzan' [portrayed all Africans as Savages] & 'Steppin Fetchit', Blaxplotation Films ala 'Superfly' [glorified / glamorized Black Drug-Dealing PIMPS]; plus Cowboys & Indians [IE: 'Lone-Ranger' Kimosabe = 'Great Wise One' vs Tonto = FOOL]- to the only best actress oscar Hollyweird as awarded to a Black woman was for Hallie Berry's portrayal of a modern 'Bed-Wench' of a Racist southern deputy [from a family of racist deputies] who helped execute her own Black husband! And Oh that same yr they threw in a best actor oscar for Denzel for portraying a thug n-gg-r rouge cop in' Training Day' for 'good-measure', after failing / refusing to give it to him for portraying Steve Biko, Malcolm X, Reuben 'Hurricane' Carter, or even real life Black Gangster Frank Lucas [in 'American Gangster'- both a better film & role than 'Training Day']- cause apparently for Hollyweird those real-life characters were just too 'Black & so-called 'controversial' [as if His & Ms Berry's roles in 'Training Day' & 'Monsters Ball' weren't 'controversial']!!! And Oh let's not forget Hollyweird's award Hype for 'Precious' [extremely 'controversial'!]!!
And 'Liberal' Hollyweird has been just as big a promoter / glorifyer of GUN-Violence as the NRA & ALEC- going back to Cowboy & WAR films, to now the violence is both more excessively graphic & out-right mindless [Oh 'But it's just BIZ' you see]!!!
PS-FYI: Dr Ball will tell you that the 6 Big Media Corps have deliberately pushed 'Gangster Rap', over all other forms of more positive &/or revolutionary Rap!!! And they've deliberately targeted Black & Brown youth, as their main market for 'Gangster Rap'!!! So while you're lecturing Blacks on 'responsibility', Be sure to go & give that Same LECTURE to the WHITE Execs [mainly men but also women] of those Main Media / Music CORPS- & that lame-ass excuse 'Oh It's Just BIZ'- DON'T CUT IT!!!
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Nixak*77* 4 days ago
All Due Respect to Mr Akuetteh, Mr OBomber is double-talking & talking-down to Africa YET AGAIN! He's chiding Africa about dictatorship & human rights issues [IE: legalizing gay-marriage], yet backs 3 of Africa's most notorious long-time dictators in Ethiopia, Rwanda & Uganda! Rwanda & Uganda are are to their neck re mass Genocide in Eastern Congo, & Ethiopia & Kenya helped stir-up even more chaos in Somalia [at the US' behest] that led to the advent of Al-Shabab!!!
Plus S.Africa & the US too, proves you can technically have the 'form' of 'democracy', yet have NO real improvement in the conditions of the rank & file [mainly Black & Brown] working-class people. FYI: US so-called 'democracy' has made DAMN sure that 1/8th of all prisoners on the entire Planet, are African American!
Mr Akuetteh briefly spoke of the ICC, which is basically a racist instrument of US & EU neo-colonialism & imperialism, that's been unleashed mainly on Africa [Note: the US refuses to even recognize the ICC's jurisdiction over itself]. Thus IMO Africa should just kick the ICC to the Curb!
OBomber's disrespect for the AU was apparent even on this trip, but was most apparent during UK-US NATO's 8 month so-called 'R2P' bombing campaign on Libya in 2011, when he along w 'Napoleon Complex' Sarkozy & UK PM Cameron [= UK-US NATO] NOT so subtly threatened to blow any AU delegation out of the Libyan sky, for trying to negotiate a cease-fire agreement in Libya back in 2011! That's about a big a diss vs the AU, as it gets!!!
Mr Akuetteh seems to being saying he takes more issue that the US & EU has left Libya to the [AL-CIAeda & ISIS] Wolves, after devastating Libya via 'R2P' 'smart bombs' [a totally predictable outcome of UK-US NATO being unleashed on Libya]- than the fact that UK-US NATO 'R2P' bombed Libya to smithereens in the first place!!! Is it that Mr Akuetteh thinks Khadaffi had been in power too long & thus needed to go- by hook or by crook??!
And it seems Mr Akuetteh is saying he was against AFRICOM BEFORE He Was for It [if I heard him right], due to the rise of Boko-Haran, ISIS, Al-Shabab, etc... If So, Does it occur to Mr Akuetteh that perhaps / maybe these Islamic 'terror' groups just 'conveniently' 'popped-up' across Africa so that they can be used to 'justify' AFRICOM's ever widening grip in Africa??!!
FYI: Boko-Haran arose from the US backed Nigerian Govt's acting in tandem w western Oil Corps, to suppress the rights of Nigerian ethic groups [IE: the Ogoni] in that oil-rich region [IE: the execution of activists ala Ken Saro-Wiwa].
ISIS turned up in Libya AFTER UK-US NATO 'R2P' bombed Khadaffi's govt into Oblivion [bringing CHAOS to what was Africa's most prosperous country], while using that AL-CIAeda linked Racist LYNCH Mob as their foot-soldiers!
And Al-Shabab arose in Somalia AFTER Bush Jr 'persuaded' Ethiopia's regime to invade Somalia & take-out the forming of relative moderate Islamic governing councils that were returning some sense of order to Somalia at that time!
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This person's pushing the old 'it could NOT have been a [govt] Conspiracy, cause it would have involved too many [IE: 1000s] of people'- meme. First of all the official 9-11 'tall-tale' IS a Conspiracy Theory- DUHH!!! Second- I can put together a list of 'Usual Suspects' / 'Persons of Interest' that likely would NOT exceed 50 people [certainly NOT over 100], though my list of material witnesses would exceed 100+ people.
Why only about 4 dozen conspirators, NOT 1000s NOR 10s of thousands like this person is trying to sell??? It's called 'Chain of Command', 'Following Orders', 'Need to Know Basis' based on who's 'In the Loop' & who's NOT [aka 'compartmentalization'], 'Plausible Denial', & Reward vs Retaliation'!!!
This whole 'it could NOT have been a [govt] conspiracy' meme is belied by the historical fact of USG govt programs ala the Manhattan Project, COINTELPRO, MKULTRA, etc. The Manhattan Project literally involved 10s of thousand of people both Military & CIVILIAN at at-least 3 sites [Oak Ridge TN, Los Alamos NV, & the Pentagon] for several Yrs, Yet FDR's own VP HS.Truman did NOT even know about it, till FDR died in office & Truman became POTUS [IE: he was kept 'out of the loop', till he had to be brought 'into the loop']. Heck even when they did the Trinity Nuke [open air] Test, neither the Japanese, Russians, NOR the US general public knew about 'The Bomb', till Truman ordered the nuking of Hiroshima & Nagasaki!!!
And J. Edgar Hoover's infamous COINTELPRO prog went on for at-least a decade & a half or more before it was finally publicly exposed! And we still don't know everything about the CIA's notorious MKULTRA [mind-control?] Prog!!!
Hell IMO most folks could NOT even tell you about USS Liberty Incident, & that's NOT even 'officially' a secret!!!
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FYI: I read that PNAC Manifesto 'Rebuilding America's Defenses' BEFORE reading David Ray Griffin's 'The New Pearl Harbor'!
And NO I Don't believe 4 guys [Arab or NOT] who NEVER actually flew any jets of any-kind before, can fly jet air-liners like experience 'Top Gun' Jet-fighter pilots, near the very edge of those planes performance limits!!!
OBL was a very rich guy w many contacts thru-out the Arab / Muslim World, & Arab & Muslim countries have many EXPERIENCED & CERTIFIED jet pilots [both airliner &/or military]. Thus IMO he could have [& IMO would have] easily recruited at-least 1 or more of those Many EXPERIENCED & CERTIFIED Arab / Muslim Jet Pilots looking for & ready for 'Martyrdom' against the 'Infidels', & could have 'sweetened the deal' by promising that their families would be well compensated for the rest of their lives [something a very wealthy OBL could easily afford to do]!!! But rather we've been sold the WTF 'tale' that 4 rank amateurs hit 3 out 4 targets, knocking down FOUR Bldgs [FYI: WTC-7 was NOT even hit by a plane- DUHH!]!!!
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Some Key Excerpts from the Bush-Cheney-NeoCON's Sept 2000 PNAC manifesto, 'Rebuilding America's Defenses':
} Transform U.S. Armed Forces: The Pentagon must begin now to exploit the “revolution in military affairs,” sparked by the introduction of advanced technologies into military systems; this must be regarded as a separate and critical mission worthy of a share of force structure and defense budgets.
CANCEL “ROADBLOCK” PROGRAMS such as the Joint Strike Fighter, CVX aircraft carrier, and Crusader howitzer system that would absorb exorbitant amounts of Pentagon funding while providing limited improvements to current capabilities. Savings from these canceled programs should be used to spur the process of military transformation.
EXPLOIT THE “REVOLUTION IN MILITARY AFFAIRS” to insure the long-term superiority of U.S. conventional forces. Establish a two-stage transformation process whichmaximizes the value of current weapons systems through the application of advanced technologies, and, produces more profound improvements in military capabilities, encourages competition between single services and joint-service experimentation efforts.
INCREASE DEFENSE SPENDING gradually to a minimum level of 3.5 to 3.8 percent of gross domestic product, adding $15 billion to $20 billion to total defense spending annually.
Deter Soviet Expansionism: deter rise of new great-power competitors [IE: Russia & China];
Exploit Transformation of War - To preserve American preeminence through the coming transformation of war made possible by new technologies.
To meet the requirements of the four new missions highlighted above, the United States must undertake a two-stage process. The immediate task is to rebuild today’s force, ensuring that it is equal to the tasks before it: capable of winning multiple, simultaneous theater wars; these forces must be large enough to accomplish these tasks without running the “high” or “unacceptable” risks it faces now. The second task is to seriously embark upon a transformation of the Defense Department.
The fourth element in American force posture – and certainly the one which holds the key to any longer-term hopes to extend the current Pax Americana – is the mission to transform U.S. military forces to meet new geopolitical and technological challenges. While the prime directive for transformation will be to design and deploy a global missile defense system [ala the one the US & NATO is now installing in Eastern Europe- aimed at Russia’s strategic deterrent], the effects of information and other advanced technologies promise to revolutionize the nature of conventional armed forces. Moreover, the need to create weapons systems optimized for operations in the Pacific theater [aka the ‘Asian Pivot’] will create requirements quite distinct from the current generation of systems designed for warfare on the European continent and those new systems like the F-22 fighter that also were developed to meet late-Cold-War needs.
In fact, work on the key elements of such a missile defense system, especially those that would operate in space, has either been so slowed or halted completely, so that the process of deploying robust missile defenses remains a long-term project. If for no other reason, the mission to create such a missile defense system should be considered a matter of military transformation.
Alas, neither [Clinton] Administration strategists nor Pentagon force planners seem to have grasped this elemental point; certainly, efforts to fund, design and develop an effective system of Missile defenses do not reflect any sense of urgency. Nonetheless, the first task in transforming U.S. military to meet the technological and strategic realities of a new century is to create such a system.
Creating a system of global missile defenses is but the first task of transformation; the need to reshape U.S. conventional forces is almost as pressing.
For the United States to retain the technological and tactical advantages it now enjoys, the transformation effort must be considered as pressing a military mission as preparing for today’s theater wars.
In general terms, it seems likely that the process of transformation will take several decades and that U.S. forces will continue to operate many, if not most, of today’s weapons systems for a decade or more. Thus, it can be foreseen that the process of transformation will in fact be a two-stage process: first of transition, then of more thoroughgoing transformation. The breakpoint will come when a preponderance of new weapons systems begins to enter service, perhaps when, for example, unmanned aerial vehicles [aka DRONES] begin to be as numerous as manned aircraft
Executing the variety of missions outlined above depends upon the capabilities of the U.S. armed services. For the past decade [IE: during Clinton’s & Gore's 2-Terms], the health of the armed services has steadily declined. Not merely have their budgets been dramatically reduced, their force structures cut and their personnel strength sapped, modernization programs starved and efforts at transformation strangled.
Thus This- ‘Process of Transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is Likely to be a Long One, Absent Some CATASTROPHIC & CATALYZING Event – Like a New PEARL HARBOR.’ {
Thus this Bush-Cheney-NeoCON PNACer cabal called for US 'Full Spectrum Dominance' of the land, seas, air, outer-space & 'cyber-space', which would take a HUGE Increase in USG DOD spending! So in order to get the US 'public' fully on board, they needed a 'New Pearl Harbor' Event! And almost exactly 1 YR later they got 9-11-2001, ON THEIR OWN WATCH!!!
PS: This PNAC manifesto names Saddam &/or Iraq as a threat to the US at-least 30Xs, vs exactly ZERO Xs for OBL &/or Al Qaeda- NOT even naming them as it briefly mentioned Clinton's cruise-missile attacks on alleged Al-Qaeda bases in Afghanistan & Sudan [which was really Sudan's main pharmaceutical factory]. So obviously Saddam was HIGH on the Bush-Cheney-NeoCON {s}Hit-List even before Sept 2000 = 2 months BEFORE they HI-Jacked the 2000 POTUS Election!!!
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Nixak*77* a month ago
What's ironic is not just that Baltimore, a predominately African American city, has a major park named after the Confederacy's commanding Gen Robert E Lee, but also that Maryland though a pre Civil War slave-state, NEVER even joined the Confederacy!!!
Yet there are those who insist that NO-One today is affected by slavery in any way, shape or form- even though there are STILL Today plenty of symbols, monuments, school text-books, etc- Glorifying the Confederacy [= Slave-States' tradition of SLAVERY] that go well beyond the just Confederate Flag!!! And they ain't just in Ole Dixie-land states either- IE: There's a land-mark &/or street named after Robert E Lee even in NYC!!!
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Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt - Chris Hedges on RAI (3/3)
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Nixak*77* rltmlt a month ago
The Dims were NEVER a 'progressive' party. At best FDR style Dims were a centrist mildly 'liberal' party- under FDR, JFK, & Jimmy Carter.
FYI: The Democrat party BEGAN as a DIXIECRAT platform for notorious Slave-Owning / Injun Killin Andrew Jackson's 1828 POTUS bid! And the Democrat party remained the party for Dixiecrats past the end of the Civil War, & thru-out most of the Jim Crow era [NOTE: From 1860 - 1932 the GOP 'Party of Lincoln' was actually considered more the so-called 'progressive' party than the Dims, which is why Blacks voted faithfully for the GOP from 1866 to 1932].
Even w the advent of FDR & JFK the Dixiecrats still had far more influence in the ['liberal' centrist] Democrat 'Party of FDR' than did Progressives. Heck HS.Truman & LBJ were themselves {quasi}Dixiecrats. Then after Carter we got the Corp DLC Dims of the Billary Clintons, Al Gore & Obama ['ironically' Carter {GA}, Slick Willie {AR}, & Gore {TN} are all from traditional Dixiecrat states].
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Hedges: } 'Part of my frustration w Sanders is that he's clearly cut a deal with the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party is part of the problem. He won't critique the Democratic Party. And that's not hypothetical, because when I did an event w him in New York w Kshama Sawant, Bill McKibben & Naomi Klein, we asked him [Sanders] beforehand why WON'T he run as an independent... And he [Sanders] said, 'I don't want to end up like Nader' [Note: according to Nader, Sanders & Liz Warren won't even return his calls & emails]. And he's right, he would have become a pariah. He would have been stripped of his committee chairmanships. The Democratic establishment would have attempted to crush him, even when he ran for reelection in Vermont. He's not wrong, because I watched what they've done to Ralph...' {
- In the 'wake' of the 2000 POTUS {s}'Election' debacle, the Dims & their apologists sycophant shills, have spent far more time & effort demonizing Nader, than [publicly] Analyzing just how the Bush Boys HI-Jacked FL from under Gore's nose! [Some go so far as to blame Nader for Bush Jr's Iraq Attack Pt2!]- Let alone how Gore himself BLUNDERED by managing to LOSE both his own & Slick Willy's home states of TN & AR, which if Gore had won both [or even either] it would likely have made FL a moot-point.
Thus so-called 'independent socialist' Bernie Sanders 'acts like' he's really going to 'put the brakes on' the 'Billary Express' to the Oval Office, by running as a Dim.
PS: The Dims' got Sanders running so scared of the Nader treatment, he WON'T even return Ralph's phone calls!!! I bet if Sanders' Repug colleagues [IE: Jeb Bush] called him, he'd return their phone call!
