Monday, December 30, 2013

News in the end of 2014


Economic inequality is a serious problem and it has been growing for decades. The cutting of unemployment benefits from 1.3 million Americans is part of the larger symptom of how neoliberal economic policies don't work at all to help the economy. Cutting those benefits does nothing to solve our economic issues. It can grow problems instead of solving them. The unemployment benefits don't make up a major part of federal spending since it would be only 25 billion dollars in 2014 or less than 1 percent of federal spending. So, we should handle short term issues of allowing the benefits to continue. Also, we should deal with the long term issue of poverty, unemployment, the Federal Reserve, and other issues. The policy of cutting the benefits is hypocrisy, because while the Congress refuses to extend quaint unemployment benefits, they will authorize nearly $633 billion in military spending for 2014, money that will go toward funding the war in Afghanistan, overwhelmingly opposed by the American people, and Washington’s preparations for even more bloody military interventions. Military fraud, waste, and abuse are harming the economy in America. Ending imperialism can allow us to gain resources necessary to fund American society. We should deal with public and private debt in a rational fashion too. Also, the federal government has used cuts in the SNAP program or the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. It will be 11 billion cuts over 3 years. Democrats and Republicans are currently negotiating the terms of further cuts in the food stamp program. Just days after Congress passed the budget allowing long-term jobless benefits to expire; the Federal Reserve announced it would continue to keep its benchmark interest rate at near-zero at least into 2015. At the same time, it pledged to continue pumping tens of billions of dollars into the financial markets every month, although at a somewhat reduced level, for months to come. There is the continuing of the redistribution of wealth from the poor to the super rich. Austerity threatens to cut resources from public education, Medicare care for seniors and the poor, pensions, restraints on child labor, health and safety rules, environmental regulations, workers' compensation, public museums, and libraries. Even more evidence see that the ACA will boost profits of insurance companies and corporations while some will have their care manipulated in a wild direction. Human beings have the right to secure their jobs, education, Medicare, pensions, housing, access to culture, etc. My views on economics are the same as Malcolm X, Dr. Martin Luther King, Fred Hampton, and other Brothers and Sisters with amazing intellectual insight and excellent intelligence. The policies of the Federal Reserve benefit oligarchy and not most of the American people at all (with their fractional banking system controlled by select central banks. The FED has been exposed by folks from across the political spectrum. Bill Still has great research on this issue). We know the criminal actions of Wall Street and some big banks hiding trillions of dollars. We should fight for self-sufficiency, allowing the people to form independent banking systems, and to create unique ways to invest in our infrastructure.


There is continued violence in Thailand. There is the Thailand's IMF backed color revolution. There are many comparisons to the events in Thailand to what occurred in Syria, Libya, Egypt, etc. Many criminals are shooting the police and protesters. Many in the color revolution movement want to attack voter registration locations, boycott the elections if they can't win, and attempt to occupy election commission offices in an effort to prevent the will of the people from being recognized in the upcoming special emergency election that the government called for in response to the crisis. These actions violate democratic freedoms. If IMF interests are threaten in a nation, the elite try to control a nation further one way or another. We know that in Libya, Christopher Stevens and other State Department assets entered Libya secretly on (possibly on a Greek merchant ship). Though he supposedly arrived in Libya in April, the state department had him listed as a special representative to the Libyan Transitional National Council at least a month earlier in March. His task was to unify the opposition and stage various events they could use to make the Gaddafi-led government look like monsters in need of a humanitarian bombing campaign. The Libyan destabilization campaign started with the protests in mid-January of 2011. Many of these protesters grew rocks and gasoline bombs. On Feb. 19th the shooting started. “Witnesses” (on the opposition side of course) claimed Gaddafi’s troops were in a helicopter firing on protesters but of course for some reason no one’s cell phone video cameras seemed to work that day. In reality, regime change assets started shooting protesters to make it appear that the government was out of control and killing their own people. The rebel criminals were killing people and when Gaddafi was dead, the whole nation changed. In Syria around the same time, Robert Ford had just arrived in Dec. of 2010 and set to work bribing local opposition party leaders and hiring thugs to destabilize the nation in the hopes that he could make it ripe for regime change like his counterpart was doing in Libya. It wasn’t long before protesters were being killed by masked gunmen so the Assad government could be blamed. NATO bombed Libya. Syria is different where Syria is intact for now. It has been harmed by Western backed terrorist operations for 3 years. Thailand rejected an IMF proposal. The proposal wanted to end rice subsidies to Thailand's indigenous farmers. They make up about two thirds of the working population of the country. The rice subsidy program was so hated by the elites and the oligarchs in the country, that the IMF went overt in opposing it. The IMF wants neoliberalism. Neoliberalism destroys the nation's agricultural base and harms the indigenous economy of Thailand. Bill Clinton harmed the agricultural communities in Haiti via his neoliberal policies. When you wipe out the indigenous farming communities in Thailand, just like in Haiti, you will have scores of unemployed migrant workers fleeing to the industrialized zones (free trade zones) in Thailand looking to take work at pennies a day while their farmlands are handed over to multinational conglomerates or a few local politically connected oligarchs and their families like the protest’s main leader, Suthep Thaugsuban for example. We know that Suthep has ties to the Thai elite for decades. The elite hate any form of protectionism or defending your own manufacturing, agricultural, and economic base from outside globalization. Folks have the right to have their own independence outside of oligarchy. Suthep Thaugsuban has been saying since the beginning that they don’t want a new emergency election but instead he calls for an unelected trifecta of business-first technocrats to rule the nation. So, NGO sponsored color revolutions should be opposed at every level completely. 




There is the issue of Russia and the American Empire. We see the American Empire declining in the Middle East. Empires have declined and ended throughout human history. We all wish for imperialism and unjust empires to end completely. There are many American allies in the region that seek new alternatives to the actions of Washington. Many reactionaries and neo-cons did not view the Cold War as ending. They want to strategically contain and weaken Russia and China. The West wanted to control the Middle East and use tensions against Iran and Syria. This hegemonic power structure is among America and Moscow (including Beijing). Since the end of WWI, the West has carved the Middle Eastern lands into many parties. The West has been involved in foreign meddling and bitter rivalries among regional dynasties and powers. Times are changing and regional events evolve constantly in the Middle East. The evil of the Pax Americana was never peaceful. The empire is dying. U.S. dominance in the Middle East came after WWII. It grown and in 1979, the Iranian revolution came. Later, the steady decline of American influenced continued under the huge, monumental blunders of the U.S. government of George W. Bush Jr. Then Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was very sure in 2006 that American domination in the broader Middle East would expand. She said that even after Israel's 2006 war on Lebanon that the map in the Middle East would change to the profit of America. Israel lost the war and the American Empire continues to fall. Hamas has influence in the Gaza Strip. The economic blockade, political sabotage, a mini-civil war with Fatah, nor the series of wars launched by Israel have removed the Hamas-led government in Gaza. In Lebanon, Hezbollah's influence has increased dramatically. The West wants puppet regimes in the Middle East. The U.S. has not totally neutralized its enemies in the Middle East. There is no regime change yet in Damascus. An interim deal reached in the Swiss city of Geneva was between America and Iran. Many American allies sensing the decline of the Western empire are seeking relationships in Tel Aviv, Riyadh, etc. The Egyptian military rule Egypt now. Russian ships are near Egypt now. The Russian port calls were matched on the diplomatic levels by the Kremlin on November 13, 2013. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu arrived with large delegations to Egypt in what Lavrov described as a “historic” event. The two cabinet ministers were sent to Cairo by the Kremlin as feelers to get a sense of the mood in Egypt. Some speculate that Egypt is using Russia to be a bargaining chip as a response to U.S. cutting some military aid to Egypt. The Russian Federation gives arms to Egypt and Syria. It is the second largest provider of military hardware to Iraq too after the USA. Russia aids Iran too. Russia has more leverage in Middle Eastern policies. They even started a strategic dialogue with Lebanon's Hezbollah. Along with Iran, Russia has been a major influence in Damascus and helped Syria withstand regime change. The terrorist attack on the Russian Embassy in Damascus is a testimony to Russia’s important influence. The Western influence is in competition with the Russian influence inside of the Middle East. 

The Black Panther Party members are our heroes. They sacrificed their time, effort, and strength to defend the black community for real. They were the real deal as evident on how the FBI literally murdered many of them, slandered them, and stalked them. The history of the Black Panther Party is ever real. The Black Panther Party deals with the politics of being anti-imperialism and wanted to use the community directly as part of the solution to issues. Real power justly flows from the people or from the bottom up. Liberation can never come from the elites or the super-rich directly totally at all. They believed that they were fighting a class struggle and they were explicit opposed to capitalism (as they believed in socialistic ideals). They were against Western empire and wanted to end the war in Vietnam and the colonial exploitation in Africa and other areas of the Third World. Many of them worked in free breakfast programs and free medical clinics as a means to help humanity. Fred Hampton gave many speeches that denounced black capitalism. The Black Panthers (among males and females) studied literature from Amilcar Cabral, Franz Fanon, Malcolm X, Basil Davidson, Daniel Mannix, Malcolm Cowley, and so many other authorities. The BPP"s Ten Point Programs greatly outlines the agenda of the BPP in full display. During the time of the BPP, Muhammad Ali, Dr. King, and SNCC denounced the war. One great book about how the murder of Brother Fred Hampton is the 2009 book entitled, "The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther" by Jeffrey Haas. The book proves that Fred's bodyguard was a police informer or a provocateur who urged the Panthers to do illegal acts and got them guns. He drew up a floor plan of the apartment, including where Hampton slept, so the police knew exactly where to find him. A second autopsy, performed at the request of Haas’s team, showed that the two gunshot wounds to Fred’s head were fired at a downward angle at close range. For real Black Power is about building the confidence and power base of black people. It is never about unwarranted hatred against human beings of any color or race at all. Black Power is about community development and it is about Black Love in action too. So, Fred Hampton was set up and murdered by the FBI and the Chicago Police. There was a strong anti-colonial movement by Brothers and Sisters in Zimbabwe, Guinea-Bissau, Angola, and Mozambique. Community organizing has been a great action of revolutionary change. Without community development, nothing changes. Also, we all realize that the struggle for black liberation is not over. We still have many bourgeoisie politicians that want reform not revolution. In other words, we are battling against attacks to our economic freedoms, our social freedoms, our civil rights and basic environmental protection. We are battling against militarism too. We have to deal with the mass incarceration of our Brothers and increasingly our Sisters. So, we are fighting for political and economic self-determination as black people. 

More and more human beings are talking about Mark Dice. Mark Dice is famous for his comments about popular culture. He talks about the Illuminati and his views. He recently discussed such issues on Sway's radio show. Mark Dice is a type of person that is a reactionary. He uses ad hominem attacks against human beings that he disagrees with. He has arrogance since he mocks human beings who don't know about the war on terror, civil liberty issues, and other real issues in the world. Instead of mocking people, he should educate human beings on community development, on spiritual empowerment in a compassionate fashion, and oppose neoliberalism. Back in the day, we once didn't know about true wisdom. We should have humility and a great sense of humbleness toward humanity, so many human beings can see the truth. Now, he is not wrong on all issues. He is right that groups like the CFR, the Bilderberg Group, the Trilateral Commission, etc. exist. They exist and their members include many high level political figures, media moguls, corporate executives, and other super rich elites. There is the agenda of transhumanism promoted in the world. The Bavarian Illuminati existed before and it was created in 1776 by Adam Weishaupt. It is accurate that many political leaders have advocated the new world order or one world government. Dice goes off in the deep end by speculating on celebrities claiming that many celebrities are knowingly followers of the Illuminati or using ad hominem attacks against folks while claiming to be so spiritual. Yes, Mark Dice said racist comments before. I wrote about this issue before. Here is a recap. On a video, he used the N word to a black woman. He said that places called Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd are total ghettoes. He said that a rapper (named ASAP Rocky) looks like he has been smoking crack and that he is a rhyming rat. He said that many black people follow primitive tribalism. Mark Dice mocks black people with using sick slang. He is also a sexist, which is common for racists. So, this male Mark Dice is a reactionary racist (who has more in common to FOX News than folks like look like me. Obviously, I am a black man) that exploits information as a means to promote an agenda. His acts hurts not helps true human liberation and revolutionary movements in the world. The real issue is not to being paranoid about the Illuminati. The real issue is talking about building our communities for real. We should learn about the real meanings of symbols, we should oppose imperialism (and the wicked actions of the FBI, the CIA, etc.), endorse independent economic solutions, believe in love for humanity, and we should fight for human civil liberties. That is the point. 


By Timothy



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