The OWL

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

"CONTROL"(white); "COMMUNITY" (shared); or "CHAOS" ?

The "Americas"; at these "CROSS"-Roads??

If you missed it; check out Bill Moyers' reporting on the "takeover" of North Carolina! http://billmoyers.com/2014/01/03/the-best-reporting-on-the-north-carolina-takeover/.

The disenfranchised citizenry of that state may be feeling a bit like the Germans in the early 1930s; when moneyed and militaristic interests grabbed power in that nation. With money squeezed from poor blacks over the better part of a century, one individual in North Carolina has effectively "bought" one of our "United" States; to use as he see's fit! Citizens of other states had better "wake up" before its too late for them.

California, under the skilled leadership of Governor Brown, is beginning its "crawl back" toward its glory days of clean, fair, and enlightened government. Caught in the "Curse of Reagan" for decades, (the era in which the people of California distrusted and undermined their own government), that state appears to be throwing off that curse. The people voted, against incredible money spent by the "controllers", to raise their taxes and to bring back good government. Our nation continues to struggle under that "Curse", after Reagan taught the nation to distrust, despise, and to undermine their federal government. The people who followed Reagan and his Repoobs were not bright enough to realize that "government" is the tool by which people "transition" from tribe to civilization. Even those miscreants in our House of Representatives and in the North Carolina State House value government; but, only when its powers lie within their "controlling" hands. Such is the stuff of Fascism!

The disenfranchised citizenry of North Carolina have taken to "hootin' and hollerin" in the streets; in their efforts to regain their lost citizenship. Those who stole their government from them did not use those methods. If you look closely, those methods have NEVER worked (for long)! By failing to stay alert, and allowing others to "vote for you"; you open the door to "Controllers"; at all levels!

Stay Vigilant! There are no media campaigns to inform you about the "Controllers"!

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

R There TWO "Golden" RULES ??

One for "Winners" the Other for "Losers"??

In our "New", 2014, REALITY, are there really 2 Golden Rules?? One that goes like: "Do Unto Others as you would have them DO unto you", and another that goes like: "He who has the GOLD makes ALL the Rules". The Winners version is subscribed to by males (rich, white, privileged); the other taught by whites (in schools and churches) to Losers: everyone else; especially racial minorities and women.

The events and Media messages of the past few years; from the Trayvon Martin Tragedy and "Trial" to "Pope Too"; make it hard for even the most naive to think otherwise! Income disparities, "working" citizens who cannot earn enough to pay their costs of living; massively "unemployed" and "underemployed" segments of our population; tell us that something is "Rotten in this Denmark!!" It is the "smell" of the Republican Party, and its FOX-den of ogres, fellow Propagandists, and the "Tea Party" monster they "hatched" over the past decades of their rule.

Not all minorities are "poor", of course: there are Condi; and "9-9-9"; and "Clarence", Scalia's lawn jockey. Even Oprah was told by some foreign cracker just what the limits were on her ability to "spend" her massive wealth! I learned that in 1962 in Waco, TX, (where Lady Bird and Lyndon's Media Empire held sway), that my money wouldn't "spend" when I was not allowed buy a house like my fellow commissioned classmates from San Francisco State (they were white, of course, and blacks and "Mexicans" had their separate "doors" to contend with). Texas then; and Texas in 2003; the last time I lived there; "Delay and his gang of Repoobs were busy carving up voting districts and the Democrats in the Legislature! Texas will always be Texas, I guess!

The secret to this "Golden Rule" gig is the ability of whites to control "education". Blacks gave them a huge "gift" in the 1960s when they gave whites the right to continue their control over the nation's education; and to "mind-eff" generations of children to believe that "racism" was a thing of the past, and that their "education" was going to save them in the future. We, of course, failed to distinguish between what they taught, and what they practiced! These past several years and their treatment of the first black President of the United States should make it clear to every human being on the planet what their true beliefs are. They see themselves as "winners" and everyone else (including POOR WHITES) as LOSERS in this world of 2014.

Unless we pull our "heads out" and learn to organize effectively; I guess they're RIGHT!

Stay Vigilant! Decide who is against YOU as you vote in 2014!!

Monday, January 6, 2014

has 'REPUBLICAN' become 'UN-AMERICAN' ??

Do we see a "MEAN-Retreat" ??

White folk hating, and cheating, and otherwise abusing non-whites is "As American as Apple Pie". Also is not letting non-whites or women vote, or, have access to good medical care; etc., etc. But when a political party leads an effort to "dump" poor whites under the "economic bus"; that's down-right "Un-American"!! (REMEMBER: the majority of POOR in this country are WHITE today -- 50 years after the War on Poverty!)

The Cheney child that is most like Dad and Mom tried to float her mean-streak in her current run for a seat in the United States Senate. She withdrew today; citing "family health" problems. Details were not provided, but Dad just got a new, young, heart and has been on T.V. saying his health has never been better! So, go figure.

Romney clearly is planning some kind of U-Turn politically, with his newly-released PR pic featuring a tiny black child on his knee. Perhaps he remembers Daddy Bush introducing his "little brown one", years ago. As I remember, "W" benefited from that with record Hispanic votes, some time later.

Boehner is feigning "surprise" that his captors in the Republican Party were not "serious" when they recently shut down our federal government (Repoobs are doing quite well in State governments). He, too, is signalling "retreat" from the mean and evil stance he has held against Obama's Presidency (not clear yet about his feelings against the man in the office).

Pope-Too is busy trying to erase the filth and slime spread around in this country and abroad by this crowd and their fellow-travelers, since the advent of Nixon, and Reagan, who kicked this crap into higher orbit some seven years later. In the wake of those two "Republicans", we have seen the bankruptcy of the country, both fiscally and morally; a deep division that defies our ability to pretend we're "United" in any way; and poor whites crying as they have to give up their pick-up trucks because the Republicans cut off their unemployment checks!! Now that is down-right UN-AMERICAN; no doubt about it!

No matter what the Repoobs do at this point, Obamacare is the law of the land, unemployment still reigns; as the Republicans reneged on the "JOBS" they promised in 2010, and November 2014 looms!

If we finally have the "Repoobs on the Run", let's ALL get together and FINISH THE JOB in November.

Don't let ANY of the escape retribution! Any white voter who thinks their salvation lies with any aspect of this bunch has their head "up and locked" in a place where the 'Sun Don't Shine' !!!

Stay Vigilant! DO THE JOB in 2014, and look hard and long at ANYONE vying for 2016!!

Saturday, January 4, 2014

The "AMERICAS"(2014): Religion; Race; Poverty; DEATH??

"Pendulum" Swing??

Glory Be!! There are stirrings that Boehner may be ready to crawl out of his hole and become a functioning Speaker of the (whole) House of Representatives!! Could it be that the "Wack-Jobs" from Dixie have pushed this country beyond some limit and it is now ready to take retribution on all those who have impoverished, looted, "trashed", and otherwise made this nation "dysfunctional" over these past 40 years or more? We can all pray it is so!

With the Inauguration of Mayor Bill de-Blasio in New York, and the first stirrings of real "Progressive-ism" in this country in the 21st Century, a new day may be dawning. From the posture taken by the Clinton's at their appearance at that affair, we might suspect they smell "something is up"! It reminded me of the look on Hillary's face when Obama gave his famous Convention Speech some years back.

I recommend two books for those who follow this trend: Americas, by Peter Winn, and Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America. In 1830, De Tocqueville noted that the fate set for Blacks and Native Americans by the founding leadership were DEATH: the Blacks through life-ending toil; and Natives through Extermination; as the early settlers confiscated their lands. Read up on President Andy Jackson and his cronies; the likes of Houston, Austin, and Boone.

Richard Dieter, of the Death Penalty Information Center http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/Bio-PicRCD2.pdf was featured on C-Span this morning. It seems that most thinking whites; in religion, government, and politics, are still struggling to rid themselves of the stains of their "original sins" against the peoples they dragged here in chains and those they found here occupying the lands they coveted. The Death Penalty is dying a slow death in this country after hundreds of years. They seek mightily to get rid of the "root", while maximizing the "loot"; it would seem. Only deeply religious and racist Hell Holes below our Mason-Dixon line seem to hold fast to the Death Penalty as a method of "crime fighting" in this country.

Texas, Florida, and Oklahoma (where the Natives were ultimately consigned to die) are the top three states still using the Death Penalty. In addition to racism and Religion, these regions remain stubbornly poor.

"Progressive-ism" in 2014, in this country has both a Liberal, and a Racist-Conservative "Wing". "Pope-Too" has appeared to breathe some amount of "Liberalism" back into Catholicism. "Papa Duck" of the Dynasty serves those deep-South racists, who, in 2014, still have problems with Catholics and Jews.

Both Progressive "Wings" are struggling with POVERTY! Both seek redress that involves an increase in MONEY for their followers. Northern Progressives seek hikes in the minimum wage; Southern Progressives seek ways to "distance", "suppress" and otherwise marginalize blacks and other non-whites. Catholic rulers in Mexico in the 1700s developed elaborate systems to racially categorize the inhabitants of those lands, for purposes of exploitation. The Planter class in the early American Colonies, adapted and expanded the system of racializing slavery and servitude.

Stay Vigilant! 2014 will determine whether our citizenry has had a "belly-full" of this crap!

Wednesday, January 1, 2014

BUILD!!; Don't "BURN"! : Don't just "BITCH"!!

A 2014 "New Year Resolution" for ALL??

As 2013, and the years prior, recede into History, it should become obvious to all of us by now what the "real" dimensions of our problems are. It is obvious to many, by now, what we must ALL DO to work our way beyond the dysfunction of the past and build toward a safe and sane future. Our Congress, the Hard Right factions across our planet, and the world's religions have all left us with a sad reality: White Privilege, in all countries and regions, has an incredible staying power. From new Royal babies, to a "Pope-Too", to "Tea Parties" and "Duck" Dynasties, and various "Tribes"; elements of those among us who profit most from White Male Privilege (first inflicted upon our planet in 1492) are entrenched, powerful, and unwilling to share power outside their own "interests".

Those who don't benefit from these factions, or the wealth and power they wield, have only one option: BUILD groups that reflect our "interests". This long after the Presidential Election of 2012; it is clear from the actions of these factions that they will not yield or share any of their wealth or power -- not even with duly elected (twice) U.S. Presidents, if they are the "wrong" color. They do so when they know their numbers are dwindling: they cannot overcome the destiny portended by demographics! The past several years have revealed the depths to which they will stoop to make this message painfully clear. Our economy, our social contracts, our values, our support for our Constitution, have all been permanently compromised by these factions. The amount of wealth they have been able to extract from us and transport abroad in the past two decades is beyond belief!

In spite of it all, it is still possible for all people of good will, and sane values, to come together to build and protect a new economic and social structure. That will continue to isolate those who hold and abuse power today. We have to scrupulously avoid reverting to religious and tribal practices of the past. Syria makes it extremely clear how fast and thoroughly economies and wealth can be destroyed!! Racism, prejudices, and tribal allegiances can exact an unbearable price. South Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, and Israel are examples.

Stay Vigilant: Old attempts at "reforms" have been directed toward making the "excluded", "exploited", and "suppressed" feel more "comfortable" in their "Place" within the global social and economic order. Such an attempt, yet again, must must not succeed this time! "Pope-Too" and "Papa" Duck are current attempts to reassure "whites", and make them "less insecure" in their fears and suspicions of non-whites. These old factions will continue to hog the world's microphones, cameras, money, fire-power, and political power. Whites will be told that their "Charity" and "Foundations" will "make the past evils go away". Non-whites will be asked to relax and leave everything to the whites. This will not work! Non-whites have to find ways to enforce their own controls; discover their own voices; their own images; and build and protect their own wealth! Employ their own children! Technology makes this possible today. Learn to Communicate, Coordinate, Cooperate, and trade directly with one another. Only by doing this can non-whites learn to trust each other and put an end to the exploitative old ways!

Monday, December 30, 2013

"Ultimate" DEMOGRAPHIC "Reality"??

Ms. Buffett's "Insight"
Will Non-White Women "Decide" our Planet's Fate??

In this last Blog of 2013, I reflect on a Charlie Rose show entitled: Three Generations of Buffetts (10/23/13). Reminiscing on their late mother (and wife), they shared her insight that the world will change fundamentally when women realize that they are the real "slaves" (emphasis added).

This insight should make us all "sit up straight"! Of course, she was right! All the powerful forces in our world have been harnessed to keep us all from realizing this! Think about it:

All of the wealth (post 1492) of European Culture sprang from the loins of non-white women.
"Abortion" in the U.S. is about white babies; very little else.
White Privilege cannot survive without white, male, babies.
Africa, and the Middle East continue to be controlled by European "interests".
The wealth from chattel slavery in the Americas is beyond measure.
The Nazi's "Final Solution" was the ultimate in global, white racism.
Extreme Right-Wing politics is inextricable from white privilege.
"Christian" religious practices provide the mainstay of white privilege.
Religion and Tribalism serve global white privilege: (Think "Syria")!
"Women" were declared "minorities" in Civil Rights legislation in the U.S. to "insure" white privilege.
If non-white women "wake up", they may still have time to "save" their children.
Europeans "mine" wealth from non-whites, today, through "Foundations" and "Charities". Non-white women, because of what they believe, and teach their children, hold the fate of our planet in their hands. They certainly will be the principal players in the fate of their own children. As the 2013 film, The Help dramatized; momentous change is possible when non-white women "wake-up"!! We struggle to revive the Middle Class in the United States; following the calamitous attack it suffered in 2008. In this country, the Rich WILL NOT pay the nation's bills; the Poor CANNOT pay the nation's bills; therefore, the Middle Class has ALWAYS been the default Bill Payers! Ergo, no Middle Class: No economically viable nation! Non-white women hold the key, starting with Affordable Health Care, to the economic revival of the United States. If you think about it.!! I'm sure you'll be able to add to this list. Consider what these insights mean to you and your future. HAPPY 2014!!

Stay Vigilant! Don't be distracted from the REAL issues that impact your life!

"CRIMINAL" MEDIA??

Global "Economy"; Global "Crime"' Global "criminal" MEDIA??

The German Nazis learned; from the Propaganda Programs they used to overthrow German Democracy in the 1930s, that the LIE is more important that the TRUTH! When TRUTH shows up to expose the LIE -- IT NO LONGER MATTERs!! We all saw this work in MEDIA response to the Trayvon Martin tragedy, and trial. We may now be seeing it again in the BENGHAZI affair??

Go back and carefully examine the media treatment of Benghazi; beginning with Mitt Romney "springing" their "trap", positioned to destroy President Obama's chances for re-election. It was immediately obvious that the "timing" of Romney's splash in the MEDIA was "off". The MEDIA immediately switched emphasis to deny any connection to the VIDEO. We now know, with careful reporting from the "legitimate" media (NY Times) that it WAS the VIDEO!!! Does the TRUTH really matter at this late date??

What did Romney really know, and how did he know it?? Why did NO MEDIA investigate that Video more carefully, at that time?? Is this an "aha!" moment? If so, who wins? Who loses? Is this proof positive that our Constitution faces severe limitations when confronting advances in technology that yields the global MEDIA, and global CRIME? We really need to think more carefully about the short-comings of our First Amendment "protection"??

Stay Vigilant! "Protect" your Democracy!