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Saturday, January 31, 2015

SPORTS; TECHNOLOGY; MONEY; WHITENESS: Things "Worshipped" in 2015 ??

A Time To Reflect??

On this Superbowl Weekend: when some of us are beginning to believe that the NFL is growing into a (corrupt) Deity for Americans in the U.s., (given the events in 2014 that kept it in the news -- like "Redskins" A young lady "knocked cold" on videotape; intrusion into the privacy of a parent disciplining a child; "soft-balls" -- to name a few); should we all take just a moment to ponder our New Deities??

You might think; when Religions have to go to war with each other to assert their primacy; both may be about to Die?? The history of mankind includes many cycles of Gods: born; only to war , weaken and die! They are quickly replaced with new Gods. Putin is working on his new Religion in Russia, and citizens of the U.S., losing faith in their governments Federal, and state, and their politics, are seeming to worship things like Organized Sports, Technology, Money, and Whiteness!

Can we "get a grip"; and see what we're doing. In my more than fifty years working on the leading edge of technology; paid for by U.S. taxpayers, in order to win the Cold War,one thing is plain: those who tend to worship technology, and form cults around technology products, are most often those who don't understand the first thing about technological development, and how those developments find their way into products. Many a charlatan enters the picture along the way! Most technologies are grossly misunderstood and misused in early stages of their existence.

We're living in a time when technological break-throughs are focused backward to earlier, uglier times; to re-awaken things like human slavery (wage-slavery, today); and new forms, or methods of warfare (the many faces of "information" technology, which destroy information and substitutes "assertsion" !! In the "Communication Age", the first to die is "communication"! Nobody can Listen, anymore.

Stay Vigilant! The weak of mind are easily confused; then fooled; then LED! 2016 is not that far away! Beware Politicians in Religious Clothing!

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Friday, January 30, 2015

GOD (Ain't Got NO Use for) MONEY !!

DON''T need NO money TO DO "GOOD"

If your GOD requires your MONEY, what meaning does the story of Jesus and the Money-Changers in the Temple, HAVE for you? We know Politicians of the Hard Right (think Republican) NEED Immoral Sums of MONEY to run their campaigns, AND they NEED GOD to run their Campaigns. Do you really think GOD cares at all about Politics?? If so, where do you find that in YOUR Holy Book??

Is this a time when we all have to recall Moses on the Mount, when he warned the Children of Israel of the dangers of worshipping FALSE GODs?? Is this not a time for all of us, regardless of the GOD we worship, to re-read that story?? I don't know about you, but I feel we've been USED by politicians, citing Biblical inspirations, for Immoral ends.

It was reported that two-thirds of eligible voters DID NOT VOTE in 2014. That should be grounds for negating the results of the election! How did we get here? I've come the conclusion that two Democracies, the U.S.A, and Israel, have trod wrong paths after losing their elected leaders to assassination: Kennedy in 1963, and Rabin in 1995. Both Countries have taken sharp political turns to the Hard Right, causing immense hardships for the traditionally marginalized people in each country, and dividing both nations within, while straying from the relationship between these two countries; that began in 1948. Extreme Right Wing Politics has also played a strong hand in a growing, and metastasizing, 21st Century Crusade.

Stay Vigilant! 2016 is looming as the year that provides us an opportunity to find a path that will lead us back to Sanity -- and back to incomes that permit having and raising families! This will be essential, if we are to return to economic growth of 5% or more. Oil collapsed from $145 a barrel to $32 a barrel in 2008! Oil Collapse has returned!

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Wednesday, January 28, 2015

DRUM-MAJORS Ain't LEADERS!!

Make the Distinction

In today's MEDIA, it is easy to mistake DRUM-MAJORS for LEADERS! Sure, they're out in front; they're most often the first thing anyone sees; they often blow whistles, to attract attention to themselves; BUT, they only mark Direction, and Keep the Beat!! THEY SHOULD NEVER BE ALLOWED TO THINK FOR YOU! Most are only interested in promoting THEMSELVES!

Stay Vigilant! Anybody come to MIND??

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"JUSTICE-Delayed" -- Ain't JUSTICE!! ... (Rock Hill, So. Carolina)

"Abused"; then, USED (50 years later)

I certainly HOPE; that YOUNG Blacks no longer BUY this old game of "Justice

for y'all, LATER!!

It worked; for those super Religious, and super Stupid, Blacks, in the last century. Blacks can't afford this stupidity in the 21st Century. If they do, they Guarantee more "Ferguson" events in their future. JUSTICE can not exist in separate packages marked "Black" and "White"! This is an ACT, staged by Whites, to wash their hands of GUILT! Clinton did it, in AFRICA for the Atlantic Slave Trade; The Senate did it, to excuse their refusal to outlaw Lynching. Pay attention! -- who are those who get "shafted" in "Performances" like these?? This explains why, in the Sewer States today, most Black-lives are only "barely different" from life for Blacks at the beginning of Jim Crow. South Carolina was the state used for a Century by Republicans to visit, shout "N*gger", and, then get elected in their Primary. Today there is an "Old-India" woman as Governor (not as vile as the male version in Louisiana), and a "Black (potted) Plant" to represent whites of South Carolina, in the Senate. Some may call that Progress?? Clear your eyes; Free your minds!!

Stay Vigilant! The U.S.A. will forever PRETEND to be a "Nation of Laws", so long as this foolishness is tolerated! Stop accepting these tickets to the "Back of the Bus"!!

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Tuesday, January 27, 2015

blacks: 2015-"POST-FERGUSON" ??

New-Year RESOLUTIONS ??

January 2015 is on it's way out (leaving us with a "close-shave", via a "SNO-CANE" in our Northeastern Region). It's not too late, however, to make that 2015, January, RESOLUTION! If you are, in any way AFRO, and living anywhere in the AMERICAS (North, South, in between); simply imagine the image left via MEDIA; by those of us in the United States, who are, in any part Black, for the whole world to see, in 2014. We're still on our knees, Marchin', and Prayin' ; EXPECTING "Moral Whites" to set us free! Ain't Gonna Happen!!

Not unlike the Kurds in Iraq, Iran, and Turkey, who are universally despised in those countries, we need to learn their lesson, and stand up, man, woman, and child, to throw off our closeted agreements with those who despise us! President Obama has had to fight that opposition, alone, against organized whites in the Republican and Tea Parties. It's time we learn to stand together and fight back. The Trayvon Trial, The Ferguson Slaughter, and the New York City Killing, and their aftermath reactions from white institutions and the white population, in general, should make it CLEAR that new strategies and tactics have to be put in place.

As Individuals, we must realize that no LEADER will lead us. Martin King was about as good as that strategy gets, and he, himself, told us HE would not GET THERE with us. Without renewed and better informed INDIVIDUAL resolve, WE won't get there either!!

After Ferguson, it has been revealed that Police Units across this country have been routinely killing black and brown victims and NOT Reporting the incidents. THERE ARE NO WRITTEN RECORDS! The FAMILIES of the victims KNOW who killed their family members. We can MAKE OUR OWN Records!! Citizens know the NAMES of those Killers! We can surely, in this computer age, compile a DATA BASE?? There are records available of black and brown victims they JAIL; but not for those they KILL. What's UP with that??

Stay Vigilant! I'm sure, if we stop believing that we're somehow INFERIOR, and stop running from our Color, WE can gain ground in achieving the Freedom and Respect we seek!! The Freedom we pray for will not be won for us by any GOD, alone. God(s) expect us to Help Ourselves, effectively, too!!

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Monday, January 26, 2015

Hi-Tech "GODS" Take Over San Francisco ??

"Hubris" on STEROIDS??

We hear,often, of the immense change Hi-Tech "Workers" have brought to Silicon Valley, San Francisoc, and next, the NATION?? Those living in San Francisco are in the "Cross-Hairs" of their impact. The metrics of their livelihood are under attack: rents, home prices, food, transportation, and many more costs, are "soaring" The City, today, is a "far cry" from the City I found when I arrived in 1959. Intact, egalitarian, highly affordable, "ethnic" sections of the city were common., and were the mainstay of the City's "Charms"! The City was welcoming to everyone, even at a time when Blacks and Jews were nationally "marginalized". The City was guilty, then, of residential segregation, kept alive by the Real Estate Industry, promptimg "Fair Housing" groups to come into play to find housing for affected groups. Only the real estate businesses were visibly "discriminatory". Today, Hi-Tech "Gods", who are unfit to claim a fraction of the respect accorded to the likes of Feynman and Oppenheimer, by those of us who remember them, NOW claim to rule over all aspects of life in the City!

In Silicon Valley, were my daughter was a founding member of a successful Company now trading in the NASDAQ, these new Technocrats are venturing into redefining "Relationships" in a way that holds very little promise for the average citizen, who does not even know much about atoms. They are toying with "Polyamory", I am told. Rather than choose between Science or Religion, the stupid among us are endeavoring to make Technology, GOD?? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyamory

Stay Vigilant! Take Charge of your OWN MIND!!

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Sunday, January 25, 2015

"SHOOT-em-UP" ? or: DIPLOMACY ??

Knee-Jerk "Reach" for the GUN??

There's "High-Anxiety" on our Hard Right, and they're showing early tendencies of a nervous breakdown, as they realize that President Obama knows what he's doing -- and has been proven, by events, to be CORRECT: both, in his views and his strategies.

Craven John, and Sniveling Mitch are "stuck" in the "muck" they played in to obtain and secure their positions in our Congress. John has taken extreme steps in his outreach to the likes of Netanyahu. John appears to be the best Netanyahu can do in his frantic efforts to save his political hide in Israel U.S. Jews will have to choose where their Allegiance lies??.

The "muck" defines Republican "Conservatism", and is a cancerous mixture of racism, chauvanism, white supremacy, and tribal survival; all stirred into a "stew" in which "Conservatives" will have to navigate their way to 2016.

Internationally, things are tenuous, at best: Deflation threatens in the E.U.; death of the Saudi Prince; collapse of the Yemini government; just to name a few. Netanyahu's meddling can only make things worse. Under the cover of all of these events, Putin is steadily eating away at Ukraine.

Enter Clint Eastwood, whose career has spanned "Rowdy Yates" to "American Sniper". He stopped by the Repoob Convention in 2012, to talk to an empty chair and "disrespect" President Obama for that crowd of "Conservatives". Clint Capitalizes on the "mass guilt" our public feels for not "getting involved" in Iraq or Iran; and for leaving the heavy sacrifices to 1% of our population. Hollywood created "shoot-em-ups" from the real story of white, male, "gun-slinger-misfits", who fled to the West in the early 1800s to terrorize Native Americans, Hollywood turned them into "moral" figures such as "Cowboys" and 'Texas Rangers". The Military we got from our post-9/11 invasion of the Middle East gave us Abu Ghraib, and the American Sniper. The "bonding of brothers" phenomenon that occurred among them in Iraq, borders on white tribalism; a tribalism that will not permit a participant to return to "normalcy".

The Irony is that Mountain Men (black and white) coexisted in peace with Native Peoples. When the Gunslingers arrived, along with the Wagon Trains of white settlers, EVERYTHING transitioned to the sorry history we all know.

Stay Vigilant! "Conservatives want us to stay stuck in their "muck". The rest of us know we have to MOVE ON. James Fallows, of the Atlantic Monthly, decribes the "Tragedy" that has befallen our Military over the interim between 1945 and today.

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