America has serious economic issues. We have seen poverty, wage stagnation, and social mobility problems among tons of Americans. There is also record income inequality. America doesn’t have the highest standard of living in the world and we don’t have unlimited economic opportunity because of our depression in this nation. These figures detailing economic issues in the USA come from mainstream government agencies like the General Accounting Office, the Congressional Budget Office, the Social Security Administration, and the Bureau of the Census and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The financial oligarchy is omitting how bad our financial straits are now. These figures demonstrate that America is a country of mounting social disparities, in which those who labor and produce all the wealth have less and less to show for it, while those who collect the profits of this labor, while playing a parasitic, destructive and thoroughly reactionary role, see their wealth accumulate to astonishing levels. 2 ne reports prove the social polarization in America. It’s between the rich and the rest of society not just between the rich and the poor. The Social Security Administration on October 20 found that the median income of American workers in 2010 was $26,364. This figure isn’t much higher than the official poverty level of $22,025 for a family of four. A family makes even twice the official poverty level faces real hardships and insecurity. It is no exaggeration that the SSA report proves that the poor could meant the majority of Americans. The CBO report shown in October 25 found that the richest 1 percent of all U.S. households saw a 275 percent increase in their income between 1979 and 2007. This is more than doubled their share of the national income. The income of this layer nearly tripled. The income of the middle 60 percent of the population rose only 40 percent over 28 years. The income of the poorest 20 percent rose by only 18 percent. It has been doubled of the unemployment rate for workers aged 55 or older. Workers 65 and older have made less than 11 dollars an hour. In this sector of the population have more rates of having food stamps, etc. Student loans have topped 100 billion dollars in 2010. Total student loan debt has passed the $1 trillion mark in 2011, exceeding the total of credit card debt. Students are borrowing twice as much as they did only ten years ago to pay for their college education. Many of the graduates are returning to live with their parents since they don’t find jobs to settle on their own. Folks can’t sell their own homes or buy new ones. Americans workers are finding it harder to get food, adequate shelter, and decent medical care. It’s a decline of laissez faire capitalism with roads, bridges, hospital, social infrastructure, etc. collapses. People are cutting schools, libraries, hospitals, and other public services as well. The redistribution of wealth has been from the poor and working class to the financial elite. So, the poor and the working class must have its own program in supports jobs, a decent education, a real retirement, and other social rights. The Democrats claims to defend the workers, but their leadership are as corporate as the Republicans are. The growing OWS movement has won support in less than 2 months. So, we should have a real tax system, the building of our infrastructure, and an end to the war on terror.
The government wants federally funded street lights that are capable of recording conversations. These Intellistreets system is being installed in major cities. These high tech street lights are being found in cities. They are used to help the DHS in making security announcements and acting as talking surveillance cameras. These cameras can record conversations as well. The privacy threat is posed by Intellistreets to a whole new level. There are privacy concerns relating to the new street lights. The company behind these developments is called Illuminating Concepts. They went on the defensive issuing a press release claiming that the devices don’t represent a big brother intrusion. Yet, Patriots have exposed Intellistreet as a Big Brother system. The Department of Energy backs the devices rolled out in Detroit, Chicago, and Pittsburgh. They act as Minority Report style advertising hubs and Homeland Security alert system. ABC 7 said that they can record conversations. The company behind the street lights denies that they have received DHS funding for the system. In the aftermath of the controversy generated last week, ABC 7 reports that owner Ron Harwood is now “working with Homeland Security” to implement the high tech network, which is connected via a ubiquitous Wi-Fi system. Harwood told the Detroit Free Press that the cameras can make people safer, happy, and how government can work together with business (in order to have economic, environmental, and social benefits). Harwood believes that the technology doesn’t represent a privacy risk. The reality is that the street lights have been created publicly and not in secret. The video clip shows the street lights used to transmit Orwellian security alert like “pay attention please….please stand by for a public safety announcement,” and “this is a security alert”. Every “security” announcement you’ve heard in airports and subways can now be brought to street level. The street lights can give audible warnings to individuals. It can mimic the talking surveillance cameras in the UK. They can shout out order via loudspeakers to tell people to pick up litter or leave the area. The reports want the cameras to occur greatly in cities throughout America by spring. These things violate the Fourth Amendment. A high tech police state is solely growing in America. Intellistreets is one example of the Brave new world. These systems are growing without any public discourse, legal oversight, etc. Citizens are tracked now by surveillance cameras and the government record private conversations. Now, they want to record conversations on the street under the guise of “safety and security” (under Homeland Security that is occupying America in a new level).
Swirling in the Universe are time, space, nature, and other aspects of Creation. Yet, the Creator is ever constant, omnipotent, compassionate, and full of love for justice among all peoples of every single background (among the entire human race). It’s a new decade now. Technology once again is evolving rapidly from I-Pads, I-Phones, and to firm, futuristic devices existing in Planet Earth. The worldly game is still the same. Why is that? The game deals with the promoting of the current system filled with vice, discrimination, poverty, deception & lies, manipulation, and other satanic ideologies. God does deal with humor; God does not promote a worldly game filled with supremacist ideas like selfishness & injustice. Only righteousness can cure injustice. The evil game is etched in a large portion of Western society. Western society in many ways has been a disgrace plainly speaking. The reason is of its empire building, materialism, and objectionable system that have allowed Europe & America to reap what it has sown. If you reap economic exploitation, war mongering, cultural degeneracy (with shows like Maury, Jerry Springer, and a host of reality TV shows from Vh1, MTV, etc. presenting a mockery of human life) and poor scapegoating, then you saw economic depressions & other serious complications. I live in America. Therefore, I have the just right and justification to speak about the pernicious errors in America since I know American culture. I respect real American people. I just don’t worship America, nor the church, nor the troops, nor the mosque, nor the synagogues, nor the temples, and neither the flag. I worship God alone. You have to damn the system since the system is not just. How can you classify this system just when there is record unemployment in minority & poor communities? How can you call this system just when you have health disparities and people dying in attempting to receive medicine (then have reactionaries in a Republican debate wanting people to die if they can’t get health care)? How can it be right when people have self-hate or embrace a slavery mentality in order to make in this society. It makes no sense.
Halloween is over, but the truth remains though and unbending like concrete. Halloween as truth seekers realize existed from the pagan Druid celebration of Samhain (that promoted demonic spirits, human sacrifice, and other deprave parts of human degeneracy). It was promoted by Roman Catholicism as some great holiday centuries after Samhain was done by Celtic priests. That is precisely why I refuse to support or celebrate some unholy day masquerading as some good old wholesome pro-children fun. I love to research. Therefore, I always realized what Halloween was all about. Doing evil is not a way to have justice. To have justice, you must efficiently do the right thing that can solve our problems in ghettoes of the world, to educate children, and to bring authentic, modernized infrastructure (to those suffering from poverty). We should give compassion to all peoples in the modes of peace & liberty. I don’t follow some trends to suit the agenda of political correctness. I respect my own unique worth and dignity to represent the ideas of human brotherhood, forgiveness, and salvation from injustice & oppression. Yet, I don’t deal with my enemies with naivety. I fight my enemies and we know who the enemy is. It isn’t a secret ;). I won’t stop, because a real man judges a person on the character and behavior of that person not on their physical appearance or what they are born to be. I won’t stop since standing up for real justice is better than worshipping the status quo. I won’t stop, because I’m too old to accept foolishness or ineptitude.
We (or those of us of black African descent like me) have to be careful not to be white-identified (or thinking solely from an Eurocentric, white supremacist mindset), especially if we decide to into an university or an Ivy League environment. You can’t promote the Black Nation, the growth of black children, and unifying black men & black women when you lay up with a white supremacist system (literally and figuratively). I prefer women romantically of black African descent. I am of black African descent again. It doesn’t matter if we live in North American, Latin America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, etc. we are still an African people. We live all over the world. We can’t fail our ancestors. We have to do what is right and to have an undying love for our black people. This has been said by the Brother Kwame Ture from 1968. Also, the more black unity among a black man and a black woman has (and more pro-African cultural identification), the more prosperous we are emotional & culturally. You can’t integrate with your enemy and have a victory. You fight oppression by promoting Black Power without regret. BLACK UNITY is more than a slogan, but a means of survival. Unity in a population causing success applies to biological animals in the animal kingdom and it applies to the human race. That’s common sense 101. So, we should build & help in our community in a higher level. Also, we who are black men should publicly and privately praise all Black women (like we do our mothers, sisters, daughters, aunts, grandmothers, nieces, cousins, etc. in a regular basis). I came from a Black Woman, so Black women deserve total respect including black men. Black Unity is a must in the 21st century. The major enemy is white supremacy and its corrupt institutions harming our people. Have you also noticed that the self hating blacks suffer high levels of suicide, a slavery mentality, low self confidence, a bowing down to white society, etc. While, the self affirming black people have an extremely high level of confidence, social strength, intellectual maturity, and a great deal of moral conduct. The growth and raising of strong black families is great to behold.
By Timothy
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