What do I think of the Democratic National Convention so far? I believe that there is more energy at the DNC than at the RNC. More people are speaking out for their interests. I will say that on economic issues, the Democrats are more correct than the Republicans are. The Democrats make more sense. Economic fairness is a great way in trying to grow the economy. On foreign policy matters, both parties are nearly identical. They want to see who is the bigger cheerleader for the American Empire. On social issues, the Republicans and the Democrats disagree the most upon. There were many eloquent speeches shown by the Democrats. All of them expressed emotion, urgency, and words on the families of America. Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick spoke about the economy, health care, love, and many issues that appeal to the concerns of the Democratic National Convention. San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro described his disagreements with the agenda of Mitt Romney. He defended the policies of President Barack Obama as the necessary leader to carry America forward in these times of history. He enters the spotlight with his speech and some believe that he will be the first Hispanic American President of the United States of America. Many people defended the Affordable Care Act. The public is split on whether they support it or not. I recently did receive a rebate check from my insurance company as Alex Wagner talked about. My views are known about the healthcare law. I support many parts of it. It isn't perfect, but it's a first step toward our real goal, which is the universal health care for every American in this country. I believe that there should be revisions to the law without a total repeal of the entire law. All of the law won't exist until 2014 since the law has a long process in order for it to be implemented. Now, the Republicans don't have a serious health care alternative, except to have a totally privatized health care system (and a voucher Medicare system. It's more of the same). In order to have universal health care, you have to have public interventions. First Lady Michelle Obama gave a personalized, emotional speech about the United States. She looked very radiant with her dress. She spoke of her life and her early relationship between her and the President. She described the love she have for her husband despite the huge debt that they had to pay. She outlined her life from humble beginnings in the South Side of Chicago. Michelle Obama didn't overtly criticize Mitt Romney, but she utilized inferences that outlined disagreements with some of the political positions of the Republican candidate. Michelle Obama made a great speech for the most part in describing a vision for America. The issue usually in both of these conventions is what they don't say. The DNC is correct to promote investments in our land, but they ignore how the Democrats are promoting imperialism in many nations overseas. The Democrats aren't truly anti-war and their convention proves it. They are right that we should have health care, but our liberties ought to be preserved. Our liberties are still under threat when a President refuses to rescind the Patriot Act or when he agrees with NATO supporting rebels lynching black men, women, and children in Libya (to be fair, these brutes murdered black people before Obama was President). The victims of drone attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan will not have a voice in the DNC. These victims suffer at the hands of a hypocritical 2 party system. It's easy to criticize a Mormon extremist, but will they call for the end of the war on terror in general? It's fine to want investments in education and our infrastructure, but we need a higher minimum wage too. They are right to advocate no further tax cuts for the wealthy, but it is just as evil as to endorse closet austerity in a long term fashion (Republicans want overt austerity ASAP in a wicked fashion. Some Republicans are rather overt in their hatred of people that look like me. For example, Republicans disrespected an African American camerawoman for just doing her job at the convention. CNN was one of the few mainstream media folks that reported on this story). See, the truth is both parties have to be held into account for what they say and what they don't say during their conventions. The Democrats promoted the Won't Back Down film, so the Democrats aren't the progressive messiahs. Many people are intimidated in following the two party system. Grown men and grown women know full well that this system advocates war mongering, civil liberty violations, and union busting, but they love the system so much. The good news is that real protesters disagree with oppression. The DNC says that no man is perfect. That is true. No man is perfect, but a man can go out and publicly condemn the war on terror and advocate a radical redistribution of economic & political power though. A man can publicly condemn white supremacy in public too. Some Democrats say the other lie that we didn't criticize Bush when he was in office. The truth is that I criticized Bush on his war mongering policies tons of times in public, in the Net, and in other places (for over 10 years). Some protesters have done civil disobedience. It's doesn't matter how much people whine, the White House is wrong to support the TSA's perverted molestation of human beings, to continue the existence of Guantanamo Bay, to promote an assassination of an American citizen without due process of law, to allow the FBI plus other intelligence groups to suppress peaceful protesters, and to promote laws that can cause indefinite detention of people. He can call himself not the President of Black people, but he's a black man that overtly promoted the interests of other ethnic groups & other backgrounds of people too (and he said their names). Now, the Republicans are wrong as well. Mitt Romney is a blatant extremist (and his economic policies threaten the social safety net. Will I vote for Romney? You know the answer to that question. No. I don't believe in cutting voting hours either since folks can't lose the sacred right to vote in America), but no man is beyond critique. I am not going to shine some shoes for the Republicans and I will bootlick or half step to the Democrats. I am an Independent brother. In some of my disagreements with the White House, I don't hate the White House. As many great leaders have said, we should treat all humans the same. I believe that we should love the President as a brother and his family as our family. I do believe that Michelle Obama's speech set the emotional tone of the convention. Michelle Obama made a great speech, which you can make a case was oratorically better than every person in the RNC's speeches. Michelle Obama made an excellent speech whether you agree with her or not.
One chemtrail program is at about 5 billion dollars. There is a new study that is looking at specially adapted aircraft to disperse particles into the upper atmosphere. This program wants to spray sun dimming particles in the upper atmosphere. Folks who endorse this plan feel that it will halt global warming. U.S. scientists wrote information in the journal called Environmental Research Letter. They concluded the following information: "...Planes or airships could carry sun-dimming materials high into the atmosphere for an affordable price tag of below $5 billion a year as a way to slow climate change,” reports Reuters, a process characterized as “both feasible and affordable.” Some want to fly in attitudes to present dangerous sulphur particles in the sky. The co-author Professor Jay Apt of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh told Reuters that inject the atmosphere with sulphur, but then suddenly removing it from the eco-system could cause temperatures to jump (indicating that the program would have to be ongoing in perpetuity). Using giant guns or rockets would be more expensive. The study didn't analyze whether this huge geoengineering program would be a good idea. The environmental impact of such a program wasn't evaluated at all. Another Carnegie Institution for Science proposal wanted the upper atmosphere to be sprayed with aerosols. The New Scientist said that this plan desired to reduce by 20 percent the amount of sunlight that takes a direct route to the ground. A lot of advancements in science and technology aren't revealed publicly until years or sometimes decades later. So, there could be possibly more advanced geoengineering programs going on now via chemtrails. Contrails can linger in the sky for hours and form into artificial clouds. Scientists admit that vapor trails from airplanes are creating artificial clouds that block out the sun.
Reading University’s Professor Keith Shine told the Daily Mail that the clouds “formed by aircraft fumes could linger ‘for hours’, depriving those areas under busy flight paths, such as London and the Home Counties, of summer sunshine.” The report also makes reference to a 2009 Met Office study which found that high-level winds did not disperse contrails that later formed into clouds which covered an astonishing 20,000 miles. Some other geoengineering programs have used artificial aerosols that were in operation for years. One was the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Savannah River National Laboratory in Aiken, S.C. In 2009, they conducted studies that involved shooting large amounts of particulate mater, in this case of porous walled glass microspheres in the stratosphere. Some of these program have caused a 22 percent drop in sunlight hitting the Earth's surface. In 2008, a KSLA news investigation found chemtrails made up of barium falling in the Earth. Chemicals like sulphur (which is being sprayed in the upper atmosphere) is link to harm to human life and the environment. It can cause neurological effects, behavioral changes, heart damage, reproductive failure, immune system harm, hearing defects, harm to the lungs, the disturbance of the hormonal metabolism, and other evil effects on life in general. Geoengineering scientists Mark Watson admitted that injecting sulphur into the atmosphere could lead to acid rain, ozone depletion, and weather pattern disruption. That is why organizations like the Canada based ETC (or the Action Group on Erosion, Technology, and Concentration) want such experiments to cease. Alan Robock (a Rutgers University meteorologist) found that such sulfate chemicals in the could can weaken Asian and African summer monsoons. This will result in the reduce rain needed to irrigate the food crops of billions of people. Geoengineering is dangerous and it's even epoxed by Doug Pharr and Fred Singer.
It's been a while since I wrote about the human life issue. Some people will not agree with my views and that's fine. You don't have to agree with me on everything, but these perspectives are a part of my thinking. I am not ashamed of my core convictions at all. I am still here and my views are still the same. Now, I am older and I see the world clearer. Now, Planned Parenthood is the largest provider of abortions in America. PP claims that they do other congenial actions in helping women. That is acknowledged irrespective of some folks denying this reality. They do perform health screenings, breast cancer evaluations, age appropriate sex education, and other legitimate functions for human beings. I can respect that. Yet, in my conscience, something doesn't feel right totally about Planned Parenthood. When I studied both sides of the abortion debate many years ago, I took time to follow my conscience. In my heart and soul, I haven't seen a legitimate argument that justifies abortion on demand (as some advocate today despite what others maintain). I can't in good conscience believe that instruments to shed the blood and rip the limbs of unborn babies precipitously is somehow of the Lord or morally just. There is value in human life even if that life is growing in the womb of the mother. It's a biologically fact that unborn human life has DNA and specialized human compositions while it develops beautifully in the mother's womb. All men are created equal. Choices do exist, but man is not totally an animal. Human beings have supremely complex cognitive abilities that understand morality. Humans aren't raised to be nihilists or embrace the social Darwinist archaic teaching of "dog eat dog." In other words, just because we are humans doesn't mean that we can do whatever we want with our bodies in every fashion. We can't abuse ourselves in many circumstances. We can't utilize indecent exposure in public. We can't use poisons and pesticides in our bodies. So, choice is not unlimited. Choice has its limits. Now, this doesn't mean that people have no choices, but it does mean that choices has its limitations. If Planned Parenthood should overcome its controversial reputation, they must blatantly apologize for its advocacy of eugenics and population control agenda against especially people of color (for decades). This is all historical. Even Henry Ford in 1942 wrote a letter of apology for his anti-Semitic views against Jewish people. Planned Parenthood has never apologized for the eugenics viewpoints of Margaret Sanger and others in that organization at all. Sanger was a member of the racist American Eugenics Society. She allowed many racists to publish lies in her early journal. She wanted all parents to go before her eugenic boards to request a permit to create children. As later as 1950, Sanger endorsed sterilization of human beings deemed "dysgenic types." The reality is that a baby being born in this world has value and worth irrespective of their background or economic standing. Sanger never apologized in her life for visiting a Klan rally back decades ago. Margaret Sanger, of the American BIRTH CONTROL League, was backed by Rockefeller foundation and Carnegie corporation money. When they felt that their links to Nazi Germany were beginning to be known, they changed their names from the American BIRTH CONTROL League, and EUGENICS League etc., to PLANNED PARENTHOOD. Marie Stopes was even worse than Sanger. Many early Planned Parenthood leaders collaborated with pro-eugenics organizations. Eugenics harmed the African American communities and other communities greatly. Many innocent black people were forcibly sterilized via eugenics measures. Professor Henry P. Fairchild was the former Past President of the American Eugenics Society and he was the Vice President of Planned Parenthood. Today, abortion is called by some as reproductive choice or health care decisions. They say that the government has no right to dictate to women their own health care decisions. The government dictates wages. The government dictates environmental & other political policies that effect our bodies constantly. The government dictates certain laws and policies. Even Roe (which abortionists support) set limits on abortion procedures in certain trimesters of pregnancies, so promoting human life is superior to a culture of death. For folks who disagree with abortion, they have the right in my opinion to not allow their taxpayer dollars to fund abortions. Notorious elitists and demographers use abortion not as a means to promote choice, but to advocate the decrease of the human population intentionally. A 2006 meeting attended by the United Nations Population Fund, the International Planned Parenthood Foundation, the European Commission, the World Bank and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the speakers admits to and utterly rejects the use of this “code” language. “No more shrouding our statements in code. Because code just confuses people.”, the speaker said (page 33 in the document). “...It does this cause no service at all to continue to shroud family planning in the obfuscating phrase “sexual and reproductive health...People don’t really know what it means. If we mean family planning or contraception, we must say it. If we are worried about population growth, we must say it. We must use proper, straightforward language. I am fed up with the political correctness that daren’t say the name population stabilization, hardly dares to mention family planning or contraception out of fear that somebody is going to get offended. It is pathetic...” People have the right to have reproductive freedom, but not to the wanton killing of unborn human life for any reason whatsoever though (at every trimester. Even most Americans oppose partial birth abortion). There is a line that human life must be respected and it is not by the dehumanizing the unborn. Even if we're the minority in the world, we have to promote life. The glamorization of the abortion culture in America hasn't improved our nation in a huge degree. In my heart, I feel a subconscious feeling that abortion on demand isn't right. It's not morally right. It's an evil. All human life has value and has worth plus dignity no matter what anyone says. The lesson is that we should at least find some common ground on the issue of abortion. We should make sure that woman are not oppressed by certain rules in a tyrannical fashion (it's wrong to jail women who experienced an abortion. Aiken's comments are inappropriate and wrong. Likewise, I oppose involuntary population control, I oppose forced abortion, and I reject forced sterilization that has occurred in the Third World too) and that human life is respected at the same time. Also, we should work together in building our economy, which can decrease abortion rates as well.
The Non Alignment movement is one of the courageous and historic stands for equality and anti-imperialism in the world today. The Western Empire have been evil and it must be opposed at every turn. This movement is made up of 2/3s of the world's nations. They voted unanimously in support of Iran's nuclear power rights. The Nonaligned movement believe that Iran has the sovereign right to exist like any other nation. Washington, London, and Paris promote the policy of human killing sanctions in Iran. Covertly, America have used Marine divisions, Special forces, and drone attacks illegally inside of Iran. A strangling economic and oil embargo makes Iran suffer. Historically, the Iraqi sanctions murdered millions of men, women, and children in Iraq. 120 nations of the Nonaligned Movement voted to support Iran's right to produce nuclear energy and enrich their own uranium in the process. I have concerns about nuclear power, but a nation has the right to promote their own national sovereignty. The West is hypocritical in lecturing Iran on human rights abuses when the Western war on terror colonizes and violates human beings' rights all day everyday. We need to keep going and advocate just policies, peace, and nation-state cooperation without war mongering. It isn't just the Republicans promoting war mongering. It's some of the Democrats too. Many Democrats try to justify American imperialism from the covert bombings in Yemen plus Somalia, to the drone attacks in Pakistan. Now, there has been new calls for increasing the minimum wage in America. I agree with those proposals completely. Low wage jobs dominate our economic scene (in about 60 percent of all job growth). That should change since wages ought to increase. People from Jesse Jackson Jr. to Ralph Nader advocate an increase of the minimum wage to at least $10 an hour. Recent studies prove that an increase of the minimum wage will not cause massive economic harm to America long term. There is a huge public support for this policy. Ralph Nader said that: "...Polls show over 70 percent of the American people consistently want a minimum wage kept up with inflation.” Adjusted for inflation, the 1968 minimum wage would now be $10.35, rather than the current $7.25. The United States, said Nader, has “the lowest minimum wage in the western world.” Too much corporate influence have dominated our society. That is one reason why the special interests don't like any increase of the minimum wage at all. As you can see, the majority of even the mainstream media is either centrist or reactionary on economic issues.
Afro-British people have a long history. There were Africans in London during the 1500's doing various activities. There was the black trumpeter named John Blanke from 1511. Cornelius was another black man living in London from 1593. The slave trade caused more black settlement in London and throughout the United Kingdom. The UK have heavily involved in the evil tri-continental slave trade (between Europe, Africa, and the Americas). Liverpool is an old black British community. Some Liverpudlians can trace their ancestors back in the city back ten generations. There were seamen, traders, and some freed people in Liverpool. Racism and discrimination was very common there just like in the Americas. Back then, Afro-British activists that fought for freedom were Olaudah Equiano, Ignatius Sancho, and Quobna Ottobah Cugoano. These black heroes wanted slavery to end in Britain. Their efforts including other caused the end of the slave trade by 1807 and the slave trade was banned in the British empire by 1834. Massive anti-immigration laws in the 19th century prevented black Africans from residing in the UK. Black communities still grew in the 19th century and the 20th century. After WWII, many blacks from the British West Indies came into England. Even in the 1960's to 1981 racist laws prevented immigration into Britain. Even in America, there was the 1965 Immigration Act that promoted immigration (although America has its own sins too on these issues). David Pitt in 1975 promoted black power and equality. He opposed racism and wanted equality for all people in the UK. In 1992 the number of blacks in Parliament increased to six and in 1997 they increased their numbers to nine. There are still issues of unemployment with black people in London and issues of discrimination. Many Afro-British human beings have made great contributions and most Afro-British people love their own black heritage. Today, there are tons of Black British people in the public eye or made huge contributions to society. We know about Tini Tempah, Noami Campbell, Diane Abbott, Taio Cruz, Idris Elba, Estelle, Joceyln Jee Esien, Paul Ince, Shingai Shoniwa, and so many other people.
By Timothy
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