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4.7.2007
NEOCOLONIALISM 101, EXAMPLE ZIMBABWE
 When one thinks of colonialism one sees occupation forces, invading armies putting down "insurrections" (think Iraq), the wanton murder of civilians in the streets by foreign powers, and the wholesale robbery plain for all who have eyes to see. However, there is now another form of oppression in vogue, after years of resistance from indigenous populations they are said to have won their "freedom."
Whereupon rather than the previous invading forces of colonialism being present in the classical sense, there is a systemic servility imposed, and much more subtle techniques used so that the previous colonial interest can be realized - it still has devastating effects upon the previous colonial object. This is called Neocolonialism, and today we are going to look at it in all it's inglorious splendor, having reached it's apex as part of globalization.
Neocolonialism is the structure embedded in the newly "free" country, which locks all of the doors of the country's prosperity from the inside out, that is, it makes the prosperity of the former colonial enterprise subservient to a system which does not have the interest of the people at heart. What it does is further enrich the former colonial perpetrators.
When this is ruptured by an democratically elected ruler, who has the interest of the people in mind, it unleashes an array of damaging acts meant to bring the country back under the thumb of it's colonial rulers. This can be displayed by looking at Zimbabwe as an example, and it's current president Robert Mugabe. What we are going to look at can be used as a template for what takes place all over the world in the neocolonial nightmare, it is by no means exhaustive but is meant to give you a taste of what the Euro-American enterprise is involved in all over the globe.
Some colonial history is necessary in regard to Zimbabwe, which was formerly the colonial prize of the UK, than called Rhodesia. The history is so twisted and sordid with exploitation and forced labor with pauperism that one could go on forever.
Named after Cecil Rhodes the rabid colonist and racist for his own interest, who built his financial empire on blood diamonds - they were blood diamonds whether you look under the current condition or the original colonial state. Rhodes used his British South African Company with it's own paramilitary force to control Matabeleland and Mashonaland which is present day Zimbabwe. Think of this the next time you want to honor a "Rhodes scholar."
 (1965) Where the present contention lies is in Mugabe taking back land that was stolen by the Rhodes gang in the 1890's, it was taken by force and each soldier that was a participant was given 9 square miles of territory. Of course, this land is the present bone of contention (but not the only one) in Zimbabwe.
For the stupid multitudes that believe that there is starvation in this country because of the land grab, you need to go back to the drawing board, because these farms produced "cash crops" like tobacco, and had nothing at all to do with food that sustained the people. So over 70% of the arable land belonged to 4,500 white farmers who were descendant's of the British settlers.
(picking cotton on white farm land)
It was the land and Mugabe's desire to give back this land to land-poor indigenous population that caused his head on collision with the neocolonial machine empowered by Western governments. A good portion of the farm land was held by absentee landowners, many the Lord's in jolly ol' England.
Because of the aggravated reasoning of the colonial thievery Mugabe had legislation passed that took back 1500 white farms without compensation. It was at this point, in the words of Zimbabwe's foreign minister Stan Mudenge - "all hell broke loose." Suddenly Zimbabwe's President Mugabe, who was democratically elected by a firm majority, became a "fraud and a horrible dictator."
 The imperialist Royal African Society meets in 1999, and their topic is "Zimbabwe - Time for Mugabe to go?" So the neocolonial grinding machine starts it's engine recommending - a military coup, buying the opposition, insurrection, subverting Mugabe's party. Washington get's into the ring a few months later sporting the "Zimbabwe Crisis."
NGO's are marshalled, and their job is to foment discontent and become the conduit for monies to unseat the president. They encourage people to take to the streets and have rallies and foment discontent and further unrest. Sanctions are applied and threats of bombings, all of this is supposed to make the people rise against the democratically elected government led by Robert Mugabe.
Everything is done to effect the people, so that everything bad they are experiencing is reflected by these foreign influences toward the government. In the end of this sordid affair brought on by the neocolonial machine the people are supposed to undo their own government.
All governments that pose a revolutionary alternative get the same treatment, the people are stirred up to give the "natural effect," and the questions about electoral fraud begin to fly. President Bush signed the "Zimbabwe Democracy and Recovery Act" in December 2001, this empowers the President under the US Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to "support democratic institutions, the free press and independent media" in Zimbabwe.
So suddenly these "home grown democratic movements" end up with all sorts of expensive paraphernalia to push their movement. Such as the Zvalawana movement in Zimbabwe - flashy stickers, phone cards, video's and audio, etc. In other words, they are armed with more than radical movements in the west have, their money comes from foreign hostile sources.
 Suddenly, all over the radios and TV's Zimbabwe's government, primarily Mugabe becomes the monster - the volume is turned up really high in the UK. Of course all of these sources are supposed to be democratic, inside and outside of the country all speaking against the government - so what is that supposed to make the Zimbabwe government? You guessed it, undemocratic.
When this is done during election time, as in the last election, and the opposition still loses than that is supposed to put the election into question - as during the 2005 elections. The reason why many of the oppositions tactics have not worked is because Mugabe's regime will not put up with subversion from within.
Take for instance, NGO's which actually work as a fifth column for foreign interest - they must divulge their financing, this cuts them off almost immediately. Media, like CNN which works for foreign interest is not allowed to report from inside of Zimbabwe. People scream that this is not democratic, but this opposition is clearly financed by hostile sources, so the point is moot.
To say that Zimbabwe's ills do not come from drought is patently false, particularly since the country is agriculturally based, especially in light of this phenomena happening all over the region. As I said previously, land redistribution did not destroy Zimbabwe's agricultural source, IT WAS DESTROYED BY WHITE AGRICULTURAL CASH CROPS SUCH AS TOBACCO!
To say that sanctions have not destroyed the economy is equally ridiculous, sanctions are not economically neutral. They disrupt assistance to the country, disrupt the flow of trade and cut off investment prospects. The sanctions cannot be isolated in the government, it hurts and can even kill people.
Once again for some emphasis and elaboration, why does the West want Mugabe out? Remember, you can almost use this as a template for all neocolonial activity in other nations. Neocolonial's always want to uproot the policies of revolutionary governments, and they want to replace them with their own repressive policies.
There are five reasons they want to oust him, and none of them have to do with humanitarian reasons. First, Mugabe got rid of IMF (International Monetary Fund) policies in the 90's, because all they were doing was impoverishing the people to pay a debt through currency devaluation, reduction of social programs, and all this to pay debt at any human cost.
 (IMF vultures Africa) Mugabe has also shown signs of resistance to Western design in nearby countries. He has sent troops into the Congo that have frustrated the will of Anglo alliance.
Mugabe's economic policies are not compatible with neo-liberal policies. Recently he announced the nationalization of the diamond mines, now this is a real problem for western powers, nationalization and enrichment of the people. It gets rid of the darling of privatization, that is, all the money going into the pockets of an elite foreign few.
He has demanded that a portion of the earnings be reinvested in the country, and places this as a performance requirement on foreign investors. As an example, they are required to invest in government bonds - this really makes them blow their stacks!
 Fouth reason, British companies dominate Zimbabwe's country, and the British governments and banks want to protect their investments. Neocolonialism lives in the domination of the country through the corporations and the investments, they want a ruler in power who will look after their interests no matter how much it destroys the people! Mugabe is not their man, and he will never be their man and they know it.
The fifth and final reason they want Mugabe out is, they do not want other neighboring countries to get the idea that they can be independent and help their people prosper - they take it as a bad example. Imagine if the other countries took up the same process - why, Africa after a period of time might be free and independent!
As you can see there is neocolonial and neo-liberal interest all over Africa, they have it sliced up like a pie. People in America wonder why there is so much unrest in the world, well, you got a taste of it above, and you can apply it like a template all over the world.
THERE IS NO INTENT AMONG THE EURO-AMERICAN ALLIANCE TO HAVE SOME FORM OF EGALITARIAN GLOBALISM, THEY WANT TO ACCELERATE THE SLAVERY OF THE THIRD WORLD, THEY WANT TO PUT THEIR DIVESTMENT AND DESTRUCTION ON THE FAST TRACK! THIS IS WHAT YOU ARE DEALING WITH IN YOUR GOVERNMENTS, THIS IS HOW THEY OPERATE, AND IT IS TIME FOR THE PEOPLE TO WAKE UP AND PUT A HALT TO THIS MURDEROUS PROCESS!
Posted at 01:50 pm by deadringer
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4.5.2007
 Perhaps the most insidious way to perpetrate a lie is to institutionalize it, that is, giving the veneer of respectability by making it something that everyone participates in and supports. People give their whole lives to institutions and their growth, going to their grave with a smile on their faces believing that they have contributed to the betterment of mankind.
Take for instance, our school system - what a noble career, to try to mold young minds to face the rigors of life. What if the structure of the institution enslaves people rather than furthering their lives, what if it is filled with lies and half-truths that prejudice the young mind? What if it is meant to make one a pliant model citizen, and removes all form of critical thinking from the process of "education?" What if it raises a people who are docile in the face of atrocities committed by it's so called leaders? Yes, this is what we have come to in America.
(We don't need no education, by salihguler, at Deviant Art)
WE DON'T NEED NO EDUCATION What would happen if you suddenly became aware of the fact that there is no rule of law, that it was a ruse, merely and extension of the divine right of kings? That the enumeration of "laws" was merely a convenient way to alienate you from your rights? That there was no rule of law because it was not universally applicable, and only a choice few could gainsay this code? That the usurpation of individual sovereignty that is absorbed by the state means you do not live in a democracy, but some form of plutocracy?
What if suddenly you realized that the idea of representative government is a joke, and that your representatives did not listen to you or the average person they were supposed to represent? That instead they only listened to the powerful as represented in corporations? That there was no one who would go to bat for you, like the mythical Mr. Smith in Washington?
What if you began to see that your elected representatives did not have your best interest in heart? That all of the protections and benefits that you fought so hard for were systematically being removed? So that suddenly you found yourself out on the street with no remedy, left to the cruel elements?
 What if you found out that all of the wars that have been fought, one's that you might have participated in were for the only purpose of enriching the select few? That as time went on it became more and more obvious to you that the only people who benefit in a war are the rich which you cannot find on the battlefield? That all wars did was squander the money of the people so that a few corporations could make out like bandits (literally)?
(Rupert Lees, Blind)
BLINDWhat would happen if you suddenly saw extra-constitutional agencies, clandestine, suddenly arrayed together at home, under the guise of the protection of the people? That those "rights" which every American claims to possess are stricken from their column? That the very core of their defense against a despotic government, habeas corpus, was summarily removed? That suddenly you found yourself with no privacy, and that you were being watched from almost every quarter - indeed, you find yourself in a virtual panopticon?
WHAT WOULD YOU DO?Indeed, that is the question (above), what would you do? Well I have news for you, what I have just elaborated is the truth. Is this the country you want? If you can't see it than you are blind, it's coming at you like a freight train full speed.
It is time for a reckoning in the Capitol by the people, and I am not talking about a token march where you burn candles and chant, this literally is an all out war. Not only are the people domestically being divested, but this administration is not satisfied with the illegal wars it has started nor the hundreds of thousands it has killed - it is clogging the Persian Gulf with war ships preparing to bomb Iran. You elected leaders have not listened to you, they have been virtual partners in all that I have written above, you have a rogue government in rebellion to the people.
Posted at 08:07 pm by deadringer
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4.3.2007
 We stand on the edge of another tragedy, battleships have amassed in the Persian Gulf. This is going on, I would venture to say, against the will of most of the people in the United States and England. Yet, in the States, the same words are being used that took us into what all see as the debacle in Iraq. It is like a repeat of a defunct movie, yet a good portion of the people sit down and listen to it, many embrace the propaganda, and those who do not just resign themselves to a repeat of another atrocity on humanity. What causes this inaction on the part of the people, why are they seemingly paralyzed?
The collective mind, our synchronicity that creates culture and civilization, unfortunately unbeknown to many, is influenced and terribly enslaved from the cradle to the grave. What is it that makes us march forward to our own collective detriment? Who wields this power of influence - why is it exerted - and what can we do to stop this exploitation? It is imperative that we grasp what is going on that influences us to think and act in predictable ways - to the benefit of the few.
We are subject to use and knowledge of science in an experimental petrie dish called society, where all the tools of human knowledge are being used to mold us to a conformity - by those "who know what's best for us." It is an artificial construction of "reality."
We spend most of our time not as individual's, but communicating with each other - we are the subjects of mass communication. This is turn effects what we "see" and "hear" in a collective sense.
Social experience shapes the details of brain psychology, the infants brain is made to fit into the culture in which it was born. Six month olds can hear and make every sound in virtually every human language.
The very physical existence of neurons to the tune of 50% are naturally forced to commit preprogrammed cell suicide to fit into the larger framework of the cultural pattern! Babies, one or two years old that see another infant hurt, or hear it crying, do not merely ape the child's distress, they share it empathetically.
(actual drawing of a child depicting 9/11)
Children cram their powers of perception into a conformist mold, connecting their attention to what others see. Perceptions become the slaves of social commands - it has been proven that children will come to accept and like food that they have disliked previously by putting them into a situation of peer pressure with other children for a period of time, as an example.
At the age of six there is a virtual obsession to be part of the group. There is group punishment for not having the same group perceptions.
Words are the ultimate repository of the herd influence. What we perceive with words is influenced through generations of men, women, families, tribes, and nations - insights, value judgments, ignorance and beliefs are communicated through words.
Word's literally carry the impact of either life or death in many instances. They (words) can be soothing like a salve or searing like a wound from a sword.
So why all this elaboration, and what does this have to do with our current condition of ineffectiveness and immobility in the United States?
 We are not merely bombarded by a mass media 24 hours a day, we have been influenced to believe certain things since infancy. We have acquired this mindset that is branded on our psyche - not merely and external influence.
We are not merely molded into the corporate image, which is bad enough, but the very way we think has been poisoned. Those in power merely move us by what has been previously embedded in our inner core.
(hypnotized)
No, this is not a step away from what I have been saying - this is the starting point, this is the beginning - our very minds! It would be bad if this were the result of some devious men sitting in a room who plotted everything - but it is worse, it is systemic.
So if we are going to grasp our lack of desire for true and good change, our inertia, we are going to have to accept and embrace the fact that the very warp and woof of our worldview is terribly tainted (to say the least). What we desire, what we want, how we think has all been vitiated by this systemic sludge. It is with acknowledging this, and consciously clearing the proverbial mental deck, that will help us to replace this garbage with what is good not only for us but for the people!
We must be committed to not only the building of the new, but the tearing down of the old - in fact, one cannot be had without the other, and all this begins with terra firma. Not all of what the so-called founding fathers have said was bad, we should be committed to what Thomas Jefferson has said:
"I have sworn upon the alter of God
eternal hostility against every form of tyranny
over the mind of man."
We do not merely fight a corrupt capitalistic system, or a corporate media state, in an external sense - we fight the influence of such in our very hearts. Having said all of this, it is imperative that we understand that our condition is not hopeless, that we can overcome this destructive conformity. At this point it is imperative that we do, otherwise we imperil not only our lives, but those of the entire world.
Posted at 08:08 pm by deadringer
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4.1.2007
See how women and children are abused in a systematic fashion to discourage and ethnically cleanse Palestinians, and those who protest the treatment of the Palestinians. How they are treated to the most humiliating treatment, all by policy. This is what your tax dollars go to support.
THE EASIEST TARGETSGAZA AFTER DISENGAGEMENTCAPTURED PRISONERS, THE WHOLE STORYThese videos are brought to you by "If Americans Only Knew," a worthy cause, please visit their site HERE.Place the edge of the blade into my side, sinking to the floor I am killed by the man with no eyes - robbed of every kind of peace...
My mind has become the play room of spiders, which crawl all over my soul without solace from dusk to dawn - a beast has broken my bones, and I crawl toward the door for rest...
Words lash me like whips, spoken by harsh cold steel lips, they speak and do abhor - put the chain in my flesh, lead me with the rest to the darkness of no more, sever the nerve of being born...
The tragedy of an infants cry with no milk while men laugh with scorn, the shriek of a woman as her clothes are torn - while men beat upon a glass wall, in agony they writhe...
Nations stumble and empires crumble, but all we hear is the sound of hollow wind - which moans over the wasteland of men, we feel that we advance but it is towards disaster, plunge the knife in my side faster!
Posted at 10:03 pm by deadringer
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3.31.2007
SEPTIC THINK (STINK) TANKS
 (Heritage foundation) I could not think of a better title to summarize the mental fecal matter that has spewed forth the last few decades. You can look anywhere and these almost omnipresent dens of delusion have their two cents somewhere in every disaster the American people have suffered. Devoid of any sense of worldview, having merely a "back yard" view, they have beset the planet with their lunacy, both foreign and domestic.
 These scabs on the human race are repeatedly employed by the government and multi-national corporations, to steer the American people in the direction of profit at any cost and to complete any elite agenda given as a mandate to what is supposed to be a government of, for, and by the people. The arms of corporate media are open wide to these vermin, and the halls of power in Washington are teeming with them. They are proof positive that you can prostitute any given discipline for the right amount of money.
(Funding breakout by elite use)
These selective imbeciles are used to influence the opinion of the people (not just here, but all over the world), they write in newspapers and appear on TV shows and can be heard across America on the overindulged field of "talk radio." The write reports as "academics," supposedly debunking anything but the view of the status quo, as an example on the Iraq debacle. They are corporate darlings that are in the employment of big oil, trying to derail any ideas regarding clean air which might infringe on big oils profit margin, and so on.
(American Enterprise Institute droppings)
They are the self-proclaimed champions against "liberal academia," and they want a Burger King slogan type of education - "have it your way" and live in a bubble of fantasy academics. They are the crusaders for the "family," while they promote the destruction of that very unit by their support of corporate and elite ideas which will divest them of any tools for survival. They provide politicians with the citations that propel us down the fascistic road of destructive empire.
 They brought you the destruction of a livable wage, and the thoughts and language that disemboweled the work unions. At the same time they bring the anti-gay (in the name of the family) harangue, and the anti-abortion brigade. All in all there is about 80 of them that have had unfettered access to Washington, and are the brain of lobby's which grovel for corporate pork. They say they have the right "values," but their message translates into an unmerciful and self-serving quagmire that just serves the few at the expense of the many.
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
They have "experts" that know what the rest of the world needs, here we have and expert telling us what Central America needs - and it is not freedom nor independence from the "National Security Interest" which always equals the enrichment of the Fortune 500, and is enacted by the "National Security State." This always translates into the impoverishment of the target country(s), the rip off of their resources, and the exploitation of the work force.
They are the people who have unleashed the atrocities that followed 9/11, that have brought this army of "think tanks" to the fore, indeed, the very people who wrote this piece of trash PNAC come from those stinking septic tanks! They have marshalled an entire army of "thinkers" that reads like a who's who of these tanks. They come from academic disciplines, orientalists which vilify your view of over a billion people of Islam.
It has resulted in the deaths of millions of innocent people! It has domestically gutted the budget for the care of the American people, and once again, all it does is enrich the few elite. Here are some of the names and affiliations of the authors in alphabetical order:
Morton Abramowitz - Century Foundation
Elliot Abrams - Heritage Foundation
Richard V. Allan - Hoover Institute
Nina Jensen - Bang - Coalition For International Justice
Roger Barnett - National Institute For Public Policy
Gary Bauer - American Values
William J. Bennet - Heritage Foundation
Jeffrey Bergner - Hudson Institute
Dick Cheney - American Enterprise Institute
Steven C. Clemons - New America Foundation
Seth Cropsy - Heritage Foundation, AEI, Hudson Institute
Helle Dale - Heritage Foundation
Midge Dector - Heritage Foundation
Nicholas Eberstadt - AEI
Edwin J. Feulner - Heritage Foundation
Hillel Fradkin - Heritage Foundation
Reuel Gerecht - AEI
Bruce Jackson - International Institute For Strategic Studies
Mark P. Lagon - AEI
Lewis Lehrman - Heritage Foundation, AEI
Todd Lindberg - hoover Institute
Edwin Meese - Heritage Foundation
Joshua Mauravchik - AEI
Richard Perle - AEI
Danielle Pletka - AEI
Donald Rumsfeld - Hoover Institute
Henry Sokolski - Heritage Foundation
John Tkacik - Heritage Foundation
Malcolm Wallop - Heritage Foundation
Paul Weyrich - Heritage Foundation
Larry Wortzel - Heritage Foundation (director)
Dov Zakheim - Heritage Foundation
These are all part of well known members and contributors, but it also has less well known foundation members, various cousin media connections, those with personal financial interest, and those with government agency connections. With just the major foundation members mentioned it's 129 published contributors on their web site, they represent about 35%. The link can be found HERE.
Posted at 02:36 pm by deadringer
3.29.2007
ELITE OPPORTUNISTS CREATE IGNORANT RACISTS
 When we look at prejudice in the world I think it is important to understand that there are two things going on. First, you have an elite which uses this to their advantage, marshals a cadre of so-called "scholars," with a pliant cloistered corporate media - which may not even be racist. Than, second, you have those who are the recipients of this elite propaganda, which actually believe what is being portrayed about any given people. The elite come in two flavors, ruling and non-ruling (corporate) elite.
The elite are primarily interested in wealth and the power that comes with that wealth - it is the ultimate addiction. They use racial prejudice in several ways - to naturally divide a people whether the people live domestically together, or in different countries. By doing this they ensure no one unifying to undo their monopoly of however they are accumulating wealth.
Than you have the dupes that swallow the elite swill, everything which the elite put into action. The prejudice that is promoted by these lies is bad, but you wonder what is worse - the people who have swallowed the racist trash, or those who promote the trash through official major media (owned by the elite), and who turn a nations institutions against these people so that they appear in a bad light. One does it for money and power, and the other believes it because they are systemically sledgehammered!
 These two elite work in concert with each other (ruling and corporate), the state is merely the instrument with a visible face of the government. Let me give you one example of a part of the elite apparatus - law enforcement. Law enforcement and it's counterpart, the judicial system, is applied differently to certain races - both brown and black.
All you have to do is look at the prison system, you will find a majority of black and Latino let's say for drug related reasons (as an example). However, if there was an equal application of the law you would find more white people, but you don't (majority application).
This is because all of the law enforcement is put in the communities of color - on purpose, it is like a standing army. Statistics tell us that drug use is prominent among the white population (aprox. 73% the majority), and respectively both black and Latino is less than 20% and the minority - because of the disproportionate application of law enforcement, and it's aggressive actions in communities of color, you find people of color filling the prison industrial complex. There is no war on drugs, poverty, terrorism - just a war on certain people!!
Needless to say, this use of racism and division is to advance the power of the elite. How? First, it endears a certain part, the privileged to the elite (whether they are aware of this or not). Second, it ensures that by debasing one part of the population that there is more crumbs to throw to the "privileged (while they stupidly thank God they are not like 'those people')," and the crumbs look like cake to the masses because of the disenfranchisement of other races (foreign and domestic).
Third, it allows the elite to continue in their oppression because they have used both major corporate media and the states institutions to give the appearance of the inferior nature of the targeted race. The elite try to put a smoke screen up about the use of this weapon by allowing a very tiny (less than a fraction of 1%), but very visible fraction to "make it"(visible on purpose - entertainment, sports, business, politics, etc.).
Plus, it does not matter which ruling elite you look to, they both serve the rich and powerful - the conservative rides his patriotic pony as he divests the poor, the liberal puts a band aid on the death blow given to the poor and minority, the democrat lays the foundation and the Republican builds the edifice - good cop bad cop on steroids!
This is bad enough when it is used domestically, causing both the disenfranchisement, destruction, and death of specific races. If you look very carefully at the targeted races, you will find what I said earlier - people of color. Which is worse, racists or the elite that use this as a tool? They are both bad - but the ones who promote it for financial gain need to be wiped off the face of the earth!
In the foreign sphere the countries of origin are not poor, they are very rich countries in resources, it is just the people that are poor by the exploitation of the corporate and ruling elite! Africa continues to be raped, because it is very rich in resources - we find central and south America rich in resources being assaulted (look for the attack on Venezuela soon), and the new comers - people of "Middle Eastern" descent, who we are ramping up with a racial and prejudicial campaign. IF YOUR NEIGHBORS CAN BE DEMONIZED WITH PEOPLE BELIEVING IT, CAN'T YOU SEE IT IS MUCH EASIER TO DO IT ON FOREIGN SOIL? THIS IS DUE TO THE BUBBLE EFFECT CREATED BY ELITES IN THE OFFENDING COUNTRY.
Looking at this in the light of the recent immigration issue, it is just another ramp up of the same elite racial divide story (see my previous articles, "Walkout," and "Where's The Future!"). The junta of ruling and corporate elite plunder countries south of our boarder, setting up veritable dictators and a small aristocratic core in these countries - the people flee here, where there is some democratic landscape still left intact (created by the people, not the government) - but eroding swiftly. The enemy are the entrenched elite that remove viable jobs and opportunity with global so-called treaties, and they use minorities as the scapegoat!
The question of the hour (or the centuries for that matter) is what are the people going to do about this? Are you ignorant of the fact that this process employed by the elite is the same the Nazi's employed? Will they continue to be duped and blinded by the elite illusion of race and threat? Will there be a massive awakening where we will stop this nonsense once and for all?
WE HAVE SEEN THIS DEVELOP FROM SLAVERY AND DESTRUCTION OF OUR INDIGENOUS POPULATION, TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY STATE AND CLANDESTINE DESTRUCTION, TO EMPIRE AND NOW TO OPEN WAR ON ENTIRE NATIONS IN THE MIDDLES EASTERN REGIONS. IT STARTED DOMESTICALLY AND SPREAD RAPIDLY TO OTHER COUNTRIES, AND NOW IS READY TO ENGULF THE WORLD. The answer lies with the people, and our ability to gain an equal platform to undo this vermin.
Posted at 05:45 pm by deadringer
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3.26.2007
ISRAELI SOLDIERS UNLEASH ATTACK DOG ON ELDERLY PALESTINIAN WOMAN
I WANT YOU TO SEE THIS VIDEO, IT REVEALS WHAT IS TAKING PLACE IN OCCUPIED PALESTINE BY A SINGLE BRUTAL INCIDENT. YOU SHOULD SEE IT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, BECAUSE I KNOW THEY WILL TAKE IT DOWN SOON - TOO REVEALING:
ISRAELIS UNLEASH VICIOUS ATTACK DOG ON OLD PALESTINIAN WOMAN HER NAME IS YUSSRA SUBAIH RABAYA'A OF AL OBAIDIYA VILLAGE
ISRAELI SOLDIER ASSAULTING HANDICAPPED PALESTINIAN
YOUSUF QARAWI BEATEN TO DEATH IN OCCUPIED EAST JERUSALEM
13 AL-'AROUB SCHOOL STUDENTS ABDUCTED BY IOF
IOF DESTROYING ANCIENT CITY OF NABLUS
ALL IN MARCH 2007, BUT NOT EVEN A FRACTION OF THE ABUSE
CHILD BEHIND THE WALL
Behind the wall, far away in a field, a child cries, for his eyes long to see the touch of a loving family of his own -
Chased
down the streets of desire he lights upon the warmth of a flame, but he
cannot stay, for he only knows the way of coldness -
Not able to
open his eyes he stumbles through life, and can hear the sighs of
others unfulfilled dreams. Which way should he go down this road
through terrible lands, walking upon glass on bended knee, yearning to
be free -
Some hold signs but their whole design is to deceive -
so he falls into traps that mercilessly snap and tear the flesh from
his legs -
He learns to crawl like a snake, slithering through menacing hands, he traverses the land, looking for destiny -
Now
being so terribly cold he fears he will never know that which he seeks,
so he floats upon the murky waters of what he conceives life to be,
neither seeming friend or foe can find his heart, feeling about in the
dark, of what will sadly never be.
Posted at 07:02 pm by deadringer
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3.25.2007
MONOLITHIC CORPORATE MEDIA
 Welcome to the corporate media service, guaranteed garbage 24 hours a day! A well informed people are a well armed people? Than we are the most helpless and exposed people on the planet. Non-stop mind job, turn the TV channel - same thing, same subjects, same coverage - SAME LIES. The public air waves owned by a few corporations, whose interest is the interest of the few, the elite, "those who know whats best for you." Freedom of speech? It does not exist, it is a myth - who has access to truth?
Truth is not aired, this revolution will not be televised! Without the platform to be heard there is no First Amendment - it is a another myth! What really counts gets no air time, or a passing mention so you can forget or assume that what is vital is unimportant.
Every government department, local-state-federal, gets a makeover! Oh yeah, they are fighting for your protection - they really care for you, and they are all doing everything in their power to serve you, bullshit.
Where did the police departments come from? Have you ever seen a show about that? Did they just arise from the sheriff's department, as an extra added arm of law enforcement? No, I'll tell you where they came from - in the North they came from the hired ranks of thugs used by corporations to split the heads open of working people on strike! What about the South? They were the armed gangs hired by the landed/moneyed slave holders to capture the run away slaves! This is just one tiny example among many.
Boy, what roots eh? Ever heard of it on TV? Was it taught to you in school? No....when there is a strike who do the police show up to oppress - the corporate owners?
BAD BOY'S WHATCHA GONNA DO?Please read this carefully - these agencies are not here for you, they are here for corporate/moneyed interests, the monolithic corporate media is here to re-write history for you and to mis-direct you. It is a disinformation conglomerate, it tells you lies that it calls news and than it proceeds to play before your eyes fantasies of why all of these agencies exist.
They, these agencies, are here to eat your substance out and to divest you of any so-called unalienable rights that you think you have. The media is here to make sure you believe these lies. They play over and over again, in their TV entertainment programs, a mirror image of what society is supposed to be - what is right and wrong, what is good and what is not good, and what you should desire to attain.
 The corporate media is part of the war machine. Indeed, corporate interests have investment in war as well as their media face - it is an unholy alliance! They have psyops agents, ex CIA and FBI sitting on their staff (by the way, the FBI came from Pinkerton Detectives - you know, the guys that protected the interests of the railroads and banks? All moneyed concerns, etc). Their interest is to elicit the war spirit, and to get you to follow along like sheep to the slaughter.
I could go on forever about the evils of monolithic corporate media, but it is up to you to come to these conclusions - I am only presenting facts. What can we do? It is up to us not to support the corporate drones, and to provide alternate media like GNN Guerrilla News Network, as an example you can find their site HERE . In the meantime it would be worthwhile to start a concern to take back the airwaves from these corporate whores who pay pennies on the dollar to fill our minds with lies and junk - it's a sweet deal, they get to make a bundle of money as long as they broadcast the lies of those in power. As a Democratic Revolutionary movement, we should demand that these corporate whores be charged more for the use of the airwaves. That the money generated by this taxation should be put in an alternate media fund for the people's access - without government regulation.
The FCC has proven itself to be an agency of corporations which bow to the powers that be - they have done nothing but further consolidation of media ownership in order to further control the flow of information. After all, it is easier to control a few obedient big owners who have equal interest of the enriched few, than to try to control a plethora of questionable (questionable to the the powers that be) owners!
A group independent from government should be formed, and their sole purpose is to be a voice of free speech for the people. So plug your ears, turn off the media garbage, and resist this onslaught of disinformation. What the eye see's, and the ear hears, the mind believes.
Posted at 10:15 pm by deadringer
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3.24.2007
ROAD TO PALESTINIAN INDEPENDENT SOVEREIGN STATEHOOD
 When the countries which are supposed to be the "leaders" of the world fail to bring a resolution and peace to the central hot spot, the major eyesore of the Middle East, it is time for others to step up and fill the gap. It is way past time for those nations, which have repeatedly voted in favor of UN resolution 242 and 181 and the right of return, to step up to the plate and give substantive support in public with real time actions toward the recognition of Palestinian sovereign statehood (put your actions where your vote lies).
It is way past time for the peace charade to end, too many people have died because of the game of mere appearance with no reality. By this time it should be clear the the United States can no more broker an even handed deal between the parties of Israel and the Palestinians because there plainly is NO intention to do so.
One has only to look at the peace plans strewn over the landscape, they are patently disingenuous and in favor of Israel. Even when there was a ray of hope, in the middle of these muddled and one sided agreements, Israel scuttled the process by wanton acts of violence and intolerable activities.
The plain fact of the matter is that Israel does not want peace, there is no acceptable peace partner because Israel dreads peace, and when there is a partner whoever it might be (any warm body will do) the terms become intolerable - and these terms are embraced by the supposed "neutral" United States as the said "impartial broker" and it's European allies. It is an absurd seesaw which remains as the only game in town.
If it is not the ridiculous accusation of the supposed Palestinian leader who is rejected out of hand as a "terrorist," while Israel practices the same terrorism - it is you must recognize Israel as she exists today, embrace all of the previous agreements which have been extracted from a former corrupt Palestinian leadership, and totally disarm.
In other words recognize Israel in all of her acts and current illegal usurpation of the Palestinian territory, accept previous agreements like Israeli duty to "keep law and order" in the occupied territories (as one example), disarm yourself (Palestinians) while you are indiscriminately attacked daily, with NO similar demands upon Israel, and other such complete nonsense which leads to nothing but the further demise of the Palestinian people!
So stop all of the fake photo opts, it is time to remove the United States as the "impartial" broker, and the allies of the developed world as the cheerleaders of the sick game. It is time to replace these disingenuous intermediaries with countries that have recognized and voted for the real peace process that recognizes UN resolution 242 and 181, the Palestinian right of return, and the unmolested independent state sovereignty of the Palestinian people turly enacted and jealously protected. It is time to move from mere rhetorical condemnation (indeed, way past time) to solid action.
 The first and foremost reason why the Palestinians cannot achieve independence is because of Israeli oppression - if it cannot reach the minimum requirement for statehood than the impediment MUST be removed. The Palestinians cannot achieve effective government control when their duly elected leaders are not recognized, and the Israeli Zionists go so far as to kidnap and assassinate them!
They cannot engage freely in foreign relations because they are hemmed in and restricted by an illegal occupation. How can they establish control over a population when they are curfewed to death, their forces are compromised by movement, and they are crippled by design? It is impossible to establish the basic criteria of Statehood under these conditions - therefore there must be concentration on removing the purposeful Israeli impediment! When this is not addressed by those who are supposed to be "independent peace brokers" and the status quo remains it is doomed to nothing but "predetermined" failure.
So back to my original premise, it is time for these nations which have voted against the injustice against the Palestinian to people to make an end run around the hegemonic game of the peace process. It is time for the majority to step out of their UN nest of comfort and DEMAND that other players enter the fray of this not negotiation, but FULL PUBLIC RECOGNITION and active participation in the Palestinian nation. To denounce the disingenuous process of the ethnic cleansing, and eventual national genocide of the Palestinian people - because this is the end result of the current course if it is not stopped.
So I PETITION the nations who feign sympathy by the UN vote to step outside the self-imposed bounds of hegemonic control, from beneath the tyranny of economic threat and slavery. Do this en mass, the faltering empire cannot disown all, and cannot afford to appear further unrighteous in such a acute cause.
I PLEAD with those countries which suffered under the cruel yoke of colonial and neo-colonialism in the name of humanity, by everything that is just and true FREE PALESTINE! If I were a man of God, as Romero was, I would COMMAND you in the name of the Almighty to act swiftly and decisively to free Palestine. We have nothing to lose but our subjugation to an unjust empire, and we have a new independent and sovereign nation of Palestine to gain and the peace that will ensue.
CHALLENGE FOR HUMANITY - PART 6WHO'S THE TERRORIST?THE WAY WE LIVE IN PALESTINE(close to 50% of the population are children) 6 TIMESTHE WALL OF HATEI AM FOR YOUCULTURE
"The mark of Cain won't sprout
from a soldier who shoots
at the head of a child
on a knoll by the fence
around a refugee camp--
for beneath his helmet,
conceptually speaking,
his head is made of cardboard.
On the other hand,
the officer has read The Rebel;
his head is enlightened,
and so he does not believe
in the mark of Cain.
He's spent time in museums,
and when he aims
his rifle at a boy
as an ambassador of Culture,
he updates and recycles
Goya's etchings
and Guernica."
AHRON SHABTAI
GAZA STRIP
Posted at 01:18 am by deadringer
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3.22.2007
It should be no surprise that the government that was framed as having been derived from the people will be seen as a cruel joke in history on the American people. In light of recent events, to name three as an example - total clandestine surveillance of the American people, and tracing their financial activity, and the destruction of habeas corpus - we should recount how far we have fallen from our supposed beginnings.
I imagine there are some who think that a Constitution written by a monied elite would eventually trickle down to the masses, now those with that wish are like a pile of bones bleached white in the desert of their anticipation. So, why should there be any outrage over the current atrocities like unchecked surveillance, or the destruction of habeas corpus?
People fancy themselves as free, it was an original concept, or at least a foundational hope of the American people - and those in power voiced it back to them in the founding documents. The opposite of freedom many saw as slavery, or having to answer to a visible despot that held complete sway.
In the old world the only people who had to carry papers to identify themselves were slaves, which proved their ownership to a given master. However, as time progressed we have allowed ourselves to be so identified that we are no better than those in early slavery. We say that it is for the purpose of identity - but we find ourselves legally in the position of slaves because to whom is our identity proved?
(Regazzo - The Essense of Slavery)
We have allowed our institutions, our government, to reverse it's at least "stated role," of being built for our benefit - it has become the master. It becomes the master when it penetrates with a watchful eye all the activity of the people. That which was created to serve the people, in the name of War (it always has it's excuse) enslaves the people.
Rather than a diligent people that watches it's government, we have become a people who are watched by the government. We have a government that does not listen to the people per se, but to a propertied elite. An elite which protects itself through numerous "legal findings" as a corporation(s), which is now a super-person(s).
We are slaves because we really own nothing, that is, we own nothing as it was originally conceived at this nations beginning. There used to be an ownership of, let's say, real estate in an outright sense - it was called "allodial ownership." That was the real "ownership society," now the ownership society consists of your ass being owned!
Go look it up in a dictionary.....wait a minute, let me save you some time, you will not find it there, because it has disappeared from common English language. It meant that one could own their land and homes FREE from FEE'S and DUTIES. Free from taxation, or entities that could place liens on your property.
Everything that is good, and was supposed to be for the people, has gravitated to a small enclave of elites. Some say that a plutocracy and a democracy cannot co-exist, but was there ever a true democracy?
The only thing current modern governments stand for is for those who are of the propertied, by the propertied, and for the propertied. Propertied in the sense that they are the only ones listened to, and are able to hold sway so that rule is always in their favor (not just someone who thinks they "own" some property).
I could go on and on about why you should be outraged. The real reason we should be outraged is that everything this country is supposed to stand for regarding the people is a lie, it has been a lie from the beginning!
What we are experiencing today, with this surveillance and documents like the Patriot Act is the mere outward expression of what we have been living as a reality for a long time. Those in power are emboldened - what was once done in secret is now in the open. What we have to decide is simple - will we be a nation of good little slaves to an engorged elite, or will we be a free people. I AM CONVINCED THAT THIS IS OUR LAST CHANCE FOR "A NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM," AND THIS TIME IT MUST REALLY BE FOR THE PEOPLE!
As I began to read the lyrics to the song "For The Workforce Drowning," written by the group Thursday they gripped me. I knew when i read them that I had to write them down for you to read. They depict the pain of the wage hour worker in this merciless, and almost hopeless system of capitalism. This is probably the most revolutionary music I have heard in a long time. Read them for yourself:
Falling from the top floor your lungs
fill like parachutes
windows go rushing by.
People inside,
dressed for the funeral in black and white.
These ties strangle our necks, hanging in the closet,
trapped in the cubicle;
without a name, just numbers, on the resume stored in the mainframe, marked for delete.
Please take these hands,
throw them in the river,
wash away the things they never held
please take these hands,
throw me in the river,
don't let me drown before the work day ends.
9 to 5! 9 to 5!
And we're up to our necks,
drowning in the seconds,
ingesting the morning commute
lost in a dead subway sleep,
we lie wide awake in our parents beds,
tossing and turning.
Tomorrow we'll get up
drive to work,
single file
with every day
like it's last.
Waiting for the life to start, is it always just always ahead of the curve?
Please take these hands
throw them in the river,
wash away the things they never held
please take these hands,
throw me in the river,
don't let me drown before the workday ends.
Just keep making copies
of copies
of copies
when will it end?
It'll never end,
'til it gets so bad
that the ink fills in our fingerprints
and the silhouette of your own face becomes the black cloud of war
and even in our dreams we're so afraid the weight will offset who we are
all those breaths that you took have now been canceled in your lungs.
Last night my teeth fell out like ivory typewriter keys
and all the monuments and skyscrapers burned down and filled the sea.
Save our ship
the anchor is part of the desk
we can't cut free,
the water is flooding the decks
the memos sent through the currents
computers spark like flares
I can see them.
They don't touch me,
touch me.
Please someone,
teach me how to swim.
please, don't let me drown,
please don't let me drown.
(when you are done listen to the song again, or read this as you listen)
Posted at 05:45 pm by deadringer
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