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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!

Sunday, December 29, 2013

DOES "2014" = "DISINTEGRATION"??

Does the "White-Bubble" "Burst"??

Bill Maher, (on his show, which bears his name),states that "white Conservatives" live in a "bubble" that does not permit any reality other than their own to "penetrate" it's shell. I submit that all who "shadow-box" with racism (all colors, all genders, all income classes, both Parties) tip-toe around racial issues while safely ensconced in their protective "bubble". It allows them to feign ignorance when caught in an openly questionable racial stance.

As the 2014 "off-year" election approaches, stresses within both major political parties are building to a breaking point that might "disintegrate" our "Democracy" in ways not foreseen . The shifting Red (neck?) states and Blue (blood?) states reveal very little of what is really going on. Having 'dumped' poor whites from their midst, the more wealthy whites are re-forming to rid their political party (Republican/Corporate) of the most extremely religious, racist, gun-nuttiest, Conservative, 'Exceptional'; (take your pick) elements. Under these pressures, these elements are "morphing" from Tea Party Nuts, into "Ducks". Whites have to really stay on their toes to navigate our racial waters today! Throw in Women, Gays, Lesbians, Bi-Sexual s, and Transgender folk; along with non-white immigrants, living-wage advocates, and those who hide behind the labels of "Libertarian" or "Independents" (all of whom practice their own versions of color racism), and you can easily see how 2014 could reveal the full dimensions of the "Obama-Phenomenon"! 'New' Party(s) could emerge!

Which side will win?? That depends on which combination of interests gets the most voters to the polls in 2014, while "suppressing" the vote of the other side. Democrats have the numbers, but are weak on their commitment to "Democracy" and "Equal Opportunity/Treatment". Republicans have the most MONEY, but have to successfully disguise the new racism they will need; to continue to concentrate power in the hands of a dwindling white, and corporate-controlled portion of our total population.

MEDIA, all sides, all stripes, all colors; is in HOG HEAVEN. The money that can be spent in 2014 may dwarf the riches of the Gold Rush of the mid-1800s! It will virtually all go to Media in one or more of its many manifestations.

Stay Vigilant! Each person must STAND THEIR GROUND in this battle, and VOTE!!!

Saturday, December 28, 2013

OBAMA: "DEVIL" or "JESUS" ??

Is it Race? or: Liberal v. Conservative??

2013 disappears into history in the next 3 days! It began with the 2nd Inauguration of President Barack Obama. Those dedicated organizations that worked for the past five years to defeat any and all things favored by the first black President; tripled-down this year to smear him with the blame for those things that Cheney/Bush did during their turn at the wheel. Bush has openly refrained from "piling on", while Cheney gets a new, young, heart; and a second chance to destroy this country! No jail in sight, yet, for those most guilty of committing $13Trillion in damages to our country.

Yesterday's Blog concerned Reconstruction, that period in our history that came after our Civil War in the mid-1800s. If we're facing another Reconstruction, where was the Civil War to proceed it? It has been taking place, slowly, since the 1960s. This time, not only free labor vs. slave labor interests are involved, but there are a host of other, surrogate, issues involved: women issues, health issues, maternity issues, regional issues, education issues, same-sex marriage issues, Immigration issues; the list grows daily!

The Obama election in 2012, brought racial issues to the fore, both here and around the world. The reaction of the citizenry to his election, twice, has been un-mistakeable, in both racial and regional terms. The whites in the South (not all, but a dominant faction) see President Obama as "the Devil" and have not veered from that view. Blacks, and Liberal whites, throughout the nation, have seen the first black President as a "Jesus" figure that can accomplish all sorts of "miracles" with no help from anyone! Those are the opposition forces in play.

Both factions have un-realistic, even childish, views of the President. The MEDIA is piling on, as they see that they can help drive the poll numbers against the President. Fake scandals, stealth insurgencies in State politics, propaganda campaigns in the media, are the weapons used in this new Civil War. Even some of the President's staunchest supporters are being swayed by the Media campaigns.

Voting rights, public education, Immigration, privacy concerns, Gay and Lesbian rights in the work-place, and in marriage law, School to Prison, and School to Athletics; both new Plantation Systems, are in place wherein the victims are mostly black and brown males, and the new "Masters" are the owners of Teams or Franchises, or Investors in Private Prisons -- all of these are battlegrounds in the slowly evolving Civil War this nation is engaged in today,have been for past decades, and will be well into the future. The maturity and sophistication of voters in the States will determine who wins and who loses the Civil War. Big money, world-wide, has a huge stake in the outcomes. Mitt Romney declared to CPAC, that the battle-grounds must be the State Legislatures. Urban vs. Rural interests, and which will be funded and/or politically represented are at issue.

As the Tea Party yields to The Ducks; historically weak states like Louisiana (Lousy-Weesy), and Florida (Flaw-ida) take leading roles in the battles. The citizenry, and our Democracy, face life-or-death political challenges as we head into 2014!

Stay Vigilant! You don't want to "sleep" through off-year election (2014)!

Friday, December 27, 2013

21st CENTURY "RECONSTRUCTION" .. (global)??

The "FINAL" Design??

Snowden has discovered "police states"; Pope-Too is busy "cleaning-up" Catholicism; "Over-Policing" is catching attention from "white"-folk in the United States.

If you want to see what a "police-state" was really like in the U.S., watch Lana Turner, Susan Kohner, and Juanita Moore's performances in the movie: Imitation of Life! The 1959 film, appeared in the last year of this country's "dark decade" of Segregation, Lynching, and Jim Crow. See how even small white children were "enforcers" of "The Law" during that time, and how stultifying the atmosphere was, for everyone; especially those non-whites who were the subjects of the laws. That decade, the first following the War Years, was most violent, in terms of the "Color Line". The next darkest-decade, during my lifetime, was the 2000-2009 decade -- when the "angry white males" rose up to present us, and the world with a series of atrocities, the likes of which NONE of us had ever seen before; (except, for some people during World War II).

In the year 2008, of our most recent dark-decades, the Right-Wing Extremists "breached" the Color Line, ever-so-briefly, to eject the poor among them (welcomed into the "Middle Class" by Reagan). Today they must subsist, along with other "non-includeds" within the new "Reconstruction"; currently under design by the Rich, for the planet. Whites, before 2008, weren't concerned about "policing", because they were still "the police". "Advances" championed along with changes in the legal "Race-Law" structure, mattered little, because, as the 1959 film vividly portrays, the new "social fabric" was already set. Racism had become fully "institutionalized" by then; seeping into the bones, so to speak, of citizens of all colors.

Those poor, and angry, white males, changed organizations and names over the years since 2000, from "angry white males"; to Republicans; to "Tea Party folk"; and now, "Ducks" from Down-the-River? i.e. Louisiana).

Across the planet, realignments are taking place as Income Inequality realities sink in. Those not born to wealth and privilege will continue to see their life-styles decline, and witness increased difficulty finding enough income to sustain a family. The Republicans, here, have gleefully decided that all persons who have not found new jobs, since they wrecked the economy in 2008, are "lazy" and should lose their Unemployment Protections.

Add to this the shenanigans of the world's Christians to "launder" scandals and money over past Millenniums; along with their complicity in chattel slavery, and we see the world's MONEY BOYs, and other "players" busy fashioning the 21st Century "Reconstruction"! What goes around, comes around??

Stay Vigilant! As you watch the movie; remember; it was produced before "Women's Lib" !

Wednesday, December 25, 2013

TRIBALISM: THE "ULTIMATE" EVIL???

The "Veneer" continues to disappear?

A "lump of coal": The entire planet will richly deserve this "gift" for the Holidays if we fail to come to grips with the fact that "Tribalism" is what lies beneath most, if not all, of the planets most serious issues. I Blogged early in 2012 that the Presidential Election in the United States would be a "Rorschach Test" for this nation. See BLOG: (RORSCHACH" Election 2012), (9-9-2012). Time has proven my prediction to be accurate.

Since my early college days in San Francisco in the 1960(s), I've known how the Europeans used tribal hatreds as tools to control the populations they exploited in Africa during the Colonial Period. Those lingering hatreds have exploded periodically, as in Rwanda, and, today in the Sudan. Even if it takes the bankruptcy of every European Country that grew rich off of Sub-Saharan Africa; no citizen of this country should fight and die to protect their riches! Failure to put out these fires that are erupting could wind up bankrupting the entire planet!

Tribes have their own religions, and are very often willing to kill others in the name of those religions. Empires that are formed by successful tribes, also design their own Gods. No more, please! In the 21st Century we should strive mightily to keep World War III (nuclear; in the long run) from occurring.

The "veneer" that covers tribalism and related religious hatreds is often "race". As malignant "Ducks" arise in our Media, and in Pots of Rot, like the deep South states ( "Lousy-weezy", for example) and careen down the highways of "progress" in this country; we learn of new road hazards that now compete with the "terrified family" we're warned to look out far on road signs along the freeways as we enter San Diego. We should now be careful not to tip over barrels of crackers along the roadside? The "Ducks" would appreciate that, apparently! They don't care much for immigrant families that try to dodge cars on the freeway, apparently.

Seriously, folks! Tribalism is nothing to joke about. It can snuggle into the house next door to you -- with guns loaded and cocked! If we don't have a political party that will stand clearly against this crap, WE CAN INVENT ONE! It shouldn't take too long in these days of the internet.

Stay Vigilant! 2014 is Nigh! Time to prepare to vote (early, earnestly, if not often).

Monday, December 23, 2013

TOURE': "MOLLIFY" ?? or: 'STEP'N FETCHIT"??

Black Millenials are 'Seriously' MisEducated!!

"Puh-leeze"!! Tour'e: not EVEN in Jest! I flipped to MSNBC's The Cycle, just in time to hear Toure' suggesting (in jest, he claims) that black shoppers "mollify" (sp) white shop owners to appease white fears and induce them to take black income as you shop in their stores! I guess Toure' should read about Oprah's Purse Incident.

(Check out earlier Blog on THE OWL. (8/10/2013)

First of all, inducing people to take your money flies in the face of common sense, and "smart shopping". Any person or group who violates "market principles" to the extent of limiting choices of select groups of participants, are engaged in the death of capitalism. They are pleading for the establishment of replacement "markets"! Rather than induce your ENEMIES to take your money; learn to establish and and control YOUR OWN market! If its anything like the "Rock 'n' Roll" market, they stole the products from blacks in the first place! It's just plain STUPID!! My grandparents generation knew enough to protect their own wealth! What happened to their great grand-kids? Just more evidence of the power of whites to "mind-eff" of the world's non-white young?? Non-whites have to learn how to NOT to value, or think more, of any person or group than that person or group values you or your "group". Chances are, the whites invented your "group" designation!

There were a number of black, and famous, people in our past who believed in the crap that Toure' alludes to. Most prominent, perhaps, was "Step 'N Fetchit" who allowed white actors in early Hollywood race films to "tee" golf balls, using his black "head" as a "tee"! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepin_Fetchit

In their defense, Segregation was so egregious, blacks had to suffer inhumane indignities in order to feed their families and to build and protect their communities. Fast forward to this day, and, we find the disappearance or dysfunction of those black communities! Using the "cover" of "humor" or "satire"; these weak Millenials are herded into organized sports, "comedy" and other "careers"; all in the name of "entertainment" for whites. As the old ghetto kids used to say (some things ain't funny, MoFo!).

Stay Vigilant! Continue this backward approach to spending your money, and stay poor, and unemployed!