Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will always be remembered by all of us. His legacy and dream lives on today. He came from a family of preachers to be a preacher of social justice and human equality. He publicly opposed discrimination and bigotry. Yet, he actively came out to assist the homeless. He came out to work in programs like Operation Breadbasket as a means to growing the businesses of the black community. He spoke out courageously against the Vietnam War and he did the best that he can to fight against the great scourge of poverty. He was a man that became more radicalized as time went on. In the 1950's, he and others organized the successful Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955. Dr. King said that it is immoral for buses to be segregated since all of us are human beings. All human beings have the right to live in whatever location they desire to and to ride the bus too without discriminatory practices. Back then and even now, reactionaries slander his name. No human is perfect, but Dr. Martin Luther King is right to say that all men are created equal. Dr. King was right to proclaim that a nation that spends more money on military defense than on domestic affairs is approaching spiritual death. Dr. King was also right to speak the truth that all human beings deserve a guaranteed annual income too. So, the slanderers and the reactionaries have no leg to stand upon, because the horn of righteousness including justice will never cease blowing. Mistakes can come, but if a person continues on the right path of social improvement and real tolerance, then society can evolve into better horizons. When you get older, you get to see that there must be economic justice wherefore the starving can have something to eat and a living wage can be a reality for those with extremely low wages presently. It is also important to note the unsung heroes that contributed their efforts to the cause of civil rights, especially in my own area of Hampton Roads. Hampton Roads is filled with real civil rights heroes even today in 2013. In my thinking, we have to apply the democratic thinking and human compassion more in our daily lives. As we know, his legacy is bigger than the "I Have a Dream" speech even though that speech is very important in our psyche. We are now living almost 50 years after the 1963 March on Washington. Even that march dealt with millions of Americans demanding civil rights, economic justice, and an end of racism and all forms of oppression in the world. Dr. Martin Luther King spoke his eloquent words before the Lincoln Memorial. Even today, we are still fighting for jobs and freedom. We have our civil liberties being violated by TSA workers and other unjust laws on the books presently. We still have wars waging in the globe and hunger among even Americans. These complications didn't originate with those in the White House currently, but even the White House (and all of us too) have a responsibility to address these issues. We have the right to speak up for liberty, work in programs that can make a difference, and be active in public to assist our communities wherever we reside in. There is nothing wrong with desiring a cooperative society and a community of freedom where the dignity of every man, woman, and child on Earth is respected. The cooperative concept is the wave of the future and I do embrace that concept. This is what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. desired. He said that we need a revolution of values in the world. He said that this revolution must entail that we need to be from a thing oriented society to a person oriented society. In other words, we should treat our neighbor as ourselves regardless of human being's age, gender, race, nationality, socioeconomic status, physical appearance, and any background. He and others dedicated their lives for the cause of freedom. We are indebted to them. With Coretta Scott King, Dr. King would not be the man that he was. Let's be real here. Also, it is important to recognize the efforts of the young generation that are genuinely fighting for the cause. Their contributions ought to be respected since they represent the future. Regardless of the social generation gap, we still need to cultivate and inspire the youth to continue onward with the path that previous generations laid out for us. We made victories in Selma, Birmingham, St. Augustine, and many areas of the South. Yet, we still have a long way to go in order for us to see the Promised Land for real. If we do what is right, then we can possibly see the Promised Land in less than forty years. The criminal actions among some in the 1% will be exposed and I will continue to publicly show the truth. The reactionaries are hypocrites of course. They complain about welfare sent to the poor, but they readily ignore government subsidies to the super rich. They yell about big government, but ignore the growth of the military industrial complex since the end of WWII. That is why we need an end to militarism. It causes irrational thinking to be more pervasive in our condition and it drains the necessary resources that we could use to further help especially the poor, minorities, and all human beings in the United States of America. We can never diminish the efforts of labor in fighting for workers' rights and a basic standard of living. The massive advances of technology can allow real movements to grow more rapidly in the world. Dr. Martin Luther King was a radical since it is radical to call for an end to societal ills and have massive civil disobedience in order to get that goal accomplished. Massive nonviolent resistance was one of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s core conviction. I respect any person that follows nonviolence for authentic moral justifications. Not to mention that one legacy of Dr. King was activism in the streets. So, when you see activists using cameras to try to expose the truth about 9/11, fluoride, the evils of war, torture, the economy, and other important issues, this has been greatly influenced by the activities of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. including other leaders of the civil rights movement. Any human being regardless of background has the right to protest, to speak out, and to fight for justice and equality point blank period. No one should suffer oppression and this is the beauty of social justice. We have to grow intellectually and realize that there is no shame in advancing progressive solutions to huge problems. You don't have to take it. You shouldn't take it or get over it. You have the right to fight it and defeat evil comprehensively. You can make it with true, constructive action, love, and strength. A radical transformation of society is what we need not stagnation.
The Drug War's evils have been exposed by numerous people. Today, we see that the Drug War has been used by the West as a means to militarized Latin America under the guise of free trade. The U.S. government has used hypocrisy (or claiming to be for freedom and be against gun violence, but use military arms in advancing gun violence and even restrict human liberties via fusion centers plus NSA warrantless wiretapping policies globally) as a means to justify this war. The war on Drug has been a war on youth, women, dissidents, and indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere. Now, we realize the existence of privatized prisons and individuals have been linked to the global drug syndicate with ties to the establishment among many times. The prison system is a revenue maker and even the U.S. military industrial complex has to deal with the large opium crops in Afghanistan. Over 40 percent of America's 2.3 million prison inmates are jailed on nonviolent drug related crimes. America is a prison society today. Congress passed legislation that sent harsh sentences for those with mere possession of marijuana. Revenues in the private prison corporations passed the $1 billion mark in 1998 and are now closing in on $2 billion. Two companies dominate the privatized incarceration industry--Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and the GEO Group, formerly known as Wackenhut Corrections. These two companies control 75 percent of the for-profit incarceration market--and make huge donations to Cabal lackeys. Tough on crime legislation hasn't work to solve our issues. It has only made obscene profits in the world, especially in the corporate world. There has been detention of migrants where immigrants are exploited to this very day. The more human beings in private prisons, the more money they make. ALEC is an extreme reactionary group that is allied with the private prison industry that advances anti-immigrant legislation as found in certain forms of legislation. Russell Pierce is an ALEC member and he is an Arizona state Senator. He is one of the strongest supporters of SB1070. Other copycat laws in other states regularly advance profit for the prison industry in the USA. A consortium that is made up of Corrections Corporation of America, the Geo Group, and the Management Training Corporation, own over 200 prisons and make a profit of close to $5 billion per year. The Drug War allows itself to be used as a cover for military intervention in other nations. It adds to the military budget. It increases the foreign sales of U.S. weaponry. The Drug War increases the underground market of drugs without seeing radical alternatives to it like treatment programs. The documentary entitled, "American Drug War: The Last White Hope" documented all of the truth as found in the circumstances of the War on Drugs. Our civil liberties have been attack in this war as well. Since 1979, Americans using illicit drugs have gone down. A 1998 investigation of Citibank by the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) revealed that Citibank had secretly transferred between $90 million and $100 million of alleged drug money for a Mexican client, using many creative methods to camouflage the movement of the assets. Big banks and drug laundering go hand and hand for long decades in human history.
You cannot fully understand about the Caribbean human beings without knowing about the Afro-Caribbean community. There are other ethnic groups that live in the Caribbean of course, but Afro-Caribbean have a very special cultural and societal influence in that region of the globe. Many of them suffered the unjust treatment of slavery, the exploitation in plantations, and other forms of oppression. Yet, the Afro-Caribbean human beings stood triumphally up for justice and great reforms. They fought against British, Spanish, French, and Spanish imperialism including imperialism. They make up more than 22 million human beings in the world. There was a black Spanish seafarer named Pedro Alonso Nino who piloted one of Columbus's ships. Pedro came back to Europe in 1499. The brother Sam Sharpe led the Jamaican Baptist War slave rebellion against British imperialism. He was hanged for fighting for human liberation from slavery. Just before he was hanged for his role in the rebellion, Sharpe said "I would rather die among yonder gallows, than live in slavery." The rebellion caused two detailed Parliamentary Inquiries which arguably contributed to the 1833 Abolition of Slavery across the British Empire. Sharpe died in 1832 and he was named a national hero in 1975 by the Jamaican government. Also in 1975, Sam Sharpe Teachers' College in Granville, a suburb of Montego Bay, was founded and named in his honor. He is also on the modern Jamaican $50 dollar bill. Cuba was the last emancipated island of the region. From back then centuries to now, Afro-Caribbean freedom fighters have always advanced the cause of black human liberation. Marcus Garvey was a famous Afro-Caribbean that advanced the interests of the pan-African movement. He led the UNIA movement that allowed black human beings all over the Diaspora to be unified in the theme of growing black African cultural identity. The black, red, and red symbol of black African heritage started with Garvey and his adherents back in the early 20th century. Aime Cesaire grown his negritude movement. He was a politician from Martinique that was one of the founders of the negritude movement in Francophone literature. He lived from 1913 to 2008 in 94 years. He even taught Frantz Fanon. In 1941, Aimé Césaire and Suzanne Roussi founded the literary review Tropiques, with the help of other Martinican intellectuals such as Rene Menil and Aristide Maugee. Aime Cesaire wanted progressive action, an end to European colonial racism and civil plus social engagement. In 1960, he published the biography entitled, "Toussaint Louverture," which is about the life the Haitian revolutionary under the same name. He made great contributions to poetry and other forms of literature in the world. Caribbeans did not just birth reggae music, calypso, hip hop, and Rastafarianism. A lot of folks need to eliminate the stereotypical perception that the Caribbean is only about carnival, vacations, and so forth. The transparent reality is that Caribbean culture is multifaceted, dynamic, and rich. It birthed a lot of revolutionary human beings like Kwame Ture, who grown the Black Power movements in America. Africans in the Caribbean used clubs called Nations to preserve African language, culture, religion, and music. Paul Bogle, George William Gordon, and other freedom fighters worked with others in fighting for their liberation. Franz Fanon and Stuart Hall were theorists that were Afro-Caribbean as well. In the 21st century, many blessings have come about in the Caribbean. Portia Simpson Miller is the Prime Minister of Jamaica, which underlining the growing power of Afro-Caribbean women in daily life. There have been successes in development, but some parts of the Caribbean still have poverty and joblessness in Haiti and Jamaica. These issues ought to be addressed indeed. There was the West India author named Derek Walcott that published "Omerosm" which was an epic poem about the Caribbean back in 1990. Tim Duncan, Bob Marley, Orlando Hernadez, Patrick Manning, Colin Powell, Usain Bolt, Nicki Minaj, and others are of Afro-Caribbean descent. We have a long way to go in terms of racial equality and other reforms, but we can still fight for truth and cultural self-assertiveness among any human being indeed.
In Latin America during the modern era, Latin American nations have been heavily influenced by the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the U.S. Treasury Department. The West wanted Latin America to experience a neo-liberal economic system. Many Western corporations in the 1980's and the 1990's wanted Latin America to be more in align with American political policies. Even in the late 1990's and the rest of the 21st century, Latin American countries have executed a backlash against the Washington Consensus agenda of neoliberalism. U.S. economists like Joseph Stiglitz and Dani Rodrik have criticized policies made by the IMF. The reason is that they felt that some policies sent from the IMF were a one size fits all and these policies exploited the natural resources of Latin America. Not to mention that it is a historical fact that the West has funded reactionaries as a means to overthrow even some democratically elected governments of Latin America during the Cold War plus beyond. In recent years, left wing political parties and movements have risen to power all over Latin America and South America. Many nations wanted more national sovereignty. In the 21st century, the left tide in Latin America has grown even more. Hugo Chavez is still powerful in Venezuela. Many reactionaries want him to go away literally. There is Lula da Silava and Dilma Rousseff in Brazil. Fernando Lugo in Paraguay and Nestor and Cristina Kirchner in Argentina are other left wing leaders. Many of these leaders describe themselves as socialists, leftists, Latin Americanists, or anti-imperialists. The anti-imperialist struggle has always been strong in Latin America and South America indeed. The BBC even reported that in 2005, that out of 350 million human beings living in South America, 3 out of 4 of them lived in nations that are ruled by left leaning Presidents being elected during the preceding 6 years. Many Latin Americans legitimately reject the consensus policies of open markets and privatization, which has been pushed by Americans. The term to describe this important movement has been named "pink tide." Many of the young even in Chile are fighting against neoliberal extremism. Students in Chile speak to the fight that education is a human right not a privilege. In 2011, the Chilean working class fought against low wages, labor flexibilization, the firing of civil servants, and mining development. In addition, people angrily voiced their opposition to the construction of coal-fired thermal power plants that threaten their health and the environment. Camila Vallejo is the President of the University Students Confederation. She is fighting against market based education in Chile. The Chilean student movement is influencing Chile and all over Latin America as a whole. The battle against poverty and unemployment is still being fought in London, Madrid, Belfast, Mexico City, New York City, Athens, Barcelona, and all over the world. Right now, Latin America and parts of the Caribbean are growing social justice and building consensus. Social, political and economic transformations have been taking place through democratic processes in countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil throughout the past decade. The end results of these actions have been a reduction in poverty, lower income disparity in the region, an increase of social services, and direct participation in political processes.
Sirius and human history are linked. Sirius is one of the biggest concepts of the occult. Sirius is also found heavily in mainstream astronomy too. Among a lot of ancient civilizations, Sirius or the Dog Star has been surrounded with stories and lore. It has been called the brightest star in the sky. Sirius is found in the constellation of Canis Major the Big Dog. That is why it is called the Dog Star. It is twenty times brighter than the sun and twice as massive. Sirius has been revered and studies by civilizations in the four corners of the Earth. The Mystery Schools revered the sun, but they secretly held Sirius is high esteem as well as the source of the sun’s power. To occultists and Freemasonry, Sirius is the real light that shins in the East. There is mythology about Sirius being the home of the great teachers of humanity. To the ancient Egyptians, the Sirius is a very important star in the sky. The ancient Egyptians called Sirius Sothis and it was associated with Isis or the mother goddess of Egyptian mythology. Osiris, Isis, and Horus are in the Egyptian tripartite family system in deities. Anubis or the dog headed god of death and the teacher of humanity Thoth or Hermes was linked esoterically with Sirius. To the ancient Egyptians, Sirius was linked to the annual flooding of the Nile during the summer. The Dog Star came went coming of the hot and dry days of July and August, which is related to the dog days of summer. There are occult researchers that believe that the Great Pyramid of Giza is linked in alignment with the stars, especially Sirius. In ca. 2500 B.C., Orion associated with the god Osiris is aligned with the King’s Chamber while Sirius associated with the goddess Isis is aligned with the Queen’s Chamber. In Chinese astronomy, Japanese astronomy, Native American tribes in America, and other human cultures, Sirius is called a wolf, a dog, or the guardian of souls. The Dogon tribe of Mali knew of Sirius in complex terms. The Dogon has an ancient tradition that a teacher from above gave man knowledge, which is very similar to the stories of civilizations in the world over. In the Tarot, Count de Gebelin used the Star card as representative of Sothis or Sirius. In Freemasonry, Sirius is the Blazing Star of Masonic Lodges. Sirius to Masons, is a symbol of deity or omnipresence (this is the concept of God being everywhere in the Universe). In Freemasonry, man must achieve perfection or enlightenment to understand dualism in nature like good/evil, masculine/feminine, black/white, etc. and via metamorphosis. According to Albert Pike, the offspring of the sun and the moon was the blazing star or Horus. According to Chris Pinto, (who is a great filmmaker); the light from the American dollar bill comes not from the sun, but from Sirius. The Great Pyramid of Giza is said to be aligned with Sirius. Alice Bailey said that Sirius is a star of initiation. Sirius to the occult is a life giver or a mystical tie to humankind in general.
By Timothy
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