DHS is at it again. The Department of Homeland Security boss Janet Napolitano addressed a joint session of the Major Cities Chiefs Association and the Major County Sheriff's Association winter meetings on Monday. The meeting had the DHS and their allies to boast about the federal government's actions. These actions include them to violate and cause irrelevant Posse Comitatus. Napolitano conflated gun violence, active shooter incidents, and violent extremism. A press release on the DHS website outlined the information. The DHS underscored the Department's collaboration with law enforcement to counter what they deem as "violent extremism." The FBI and the DHS have worked together in a new training resource web portal that wants to get access to hundreds of countering violent extremism training materials, case studies, analytic products, and other resources. The DHS wants to create a platform for communication and information sharing about countering violent extremism among law enforcement agencies across the nation. There has been a lot of criticism after the DHS document on "rightwing extremism" came about. The DHS have since used its words carefully. “Groups and individuals inspired by a range of religious, political, or other ideological beliefs have promoted and used violence against the homeland,” the Countering Violent Extremism DHS page states without naming specific groups or individuals. The DHS also created a "Homegrown Violent Extremism Lexicon" the blurs the lines between Second Amendment activists (under the phrase of militia extremists and sovereign citizen extremists (to racist skinhead extremists, lone offenders, and unwitting co-optees or a target of the FBI as it manufactures’ fake terrorism).We know that the DHS is very willing to use the gun violence after Sandy Hook massacre as a means to integrate state and local partners with the DHS, which can trample down the concept of Posse Comitatus (and the real principle of separation between local law enforcement and the federal government). “DHS will expand ongoing efforts to prevent future mass casualty shootings, improve preparedness, and strengthen security and resilience in schools and other potential targets while working with partners at all levels of government,” the DHS press release dated January 28 states. So, the DHS wants to work with local enforcement in trying to prevent future shootings. Their "Active Shooter: How to Respond" handbook talks about how potential active shooter victims to “find a place to hide where the active shooter is less likely to find you… behind large items” and “[b]lockade the door with heavy furniture.” Also, Houston residents have been rattled by government fire and helicopters. The federal government is acting in the wrong when it doesn't inform citizens when it conducts questionable military exercises in residential neighborhoods. This has been going on for years and decades. KTRK-TV in Houston reported that the U.S. Army along with other agencies did something. They took over the Carnegie Vanguard High School in Houston on Monday. Alarmed residents called the police and complained about gunshots and helicopters. The Army didn't give any details about why the training came about. This similar act of a military came after another outrageous training exercise in Florida last week. Last Thursday, the military helicopters simulated combat over a freeway in downtown Florida. Federal troops rappelled down on building and mass transit platforms as stunned residents hit the deck as they respond to machine gun fire echoing across the city. These evil acts are trying to desensitize human beings to accept the tyrannical militarization of society, especially in enclosed urban communities.
We either have economic stagnation or full employment. It is as simple as that logic. No one wants an economic collapse. There has been a bipartisan act in Washington, D.C. to advance quasi austerity. We know that austerity never worked in the past and the present. Great Britain has proven to the world that austerity hasn't worked and it has brought a deeper recession in the world. Britain may even go into its third economic collapse in four years. It has a 0.3% decline in its GDP in the last quarter. It has the worst year for manufacturing on record. David Cameron advanced austerity when he elected. He did it and now Britain has the worst economy on record since back to 1830. This time was before the reign of Queen Victoria. U.S. history shows something different from FDR. When FDR came into office, he instituted stimulus programs that directly created job. He created a lot of infrastructure that is still with us to employ human beings. In 1936, FDR and Congress got the economy moving. They discussed about deficit spending. They wanted to cut the funding of the New Deal as a means to decrease the deficit. When they did this, there was the Roosevelt recession of 1937 and 1938. Roosevelt understood his error and he started to stimulate the economy again. The recession ended and growth returned in America. Even before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. economy was growing. The lesson is that radical deficit reduction will cut to human needs and you can have a recession if that policy will exist. An economic collapse is heavily linked to massive deficit cuts. When you have high unemployment, the deficit as a percent of GDP is right. If we reduce unemployment, the deficit will strink. There is a chart from St. Louis Federal Reserve shows the deficit as a percentage of GDP (red line) vs. the unemployment rate (blue line); for 60 years the pattern has held. When unemployment drops, the deficit as a percentage of GDP drops. When unemployment rises, the deficit rises. Job creation is one solution that can solve our issue. Jobs are a solution to many economic complications. We need a full employment program as a means to lower the deficit and lower our unemployment rate. Full employment can help fight poverty, hunger, eviction, foreclosure, personal debt, and retirement savings issues. It is taboo in our political system to even talk about full employment, a guaranteed annual income, or disagreement with laissez faire capitalism.
Once again, history always clears out bigotry. Malcolm X worked with Yuri Kochiyama. Yuri is an Asian American that stood up for the civil rights of black Americans and many other human beings of color. I believe that Malcolm X is more than qualified in speaking up for black African liberation than racists. Malcolm X believed in equality for all people regardless of skin color. Many Asians worked with the NAACP decades ago and in other black civil rights organizations. Malcolm X supported international cooperation among human beings of color to end Western oppression not worshipping Uncle Sam. Malcolm X emphasized the parallels between the African-American struggle for equality and the Asian, Latino, and African campaigns against European colonialism in 1965. Many Black Panthers worked with Hispanic organizations decades ago. There was the 1967 agreement among Black and Brown groups to fight for human rights. Folks need to know their history. Dr. King supported a coalition of human beings of color to try to end poverty via the Poor Peoples Campaign. It is true that Dr. King and Malcolm X would have strong disagreements with the White House on some issues. I have too and I have made this known, but this revolves around immigration. It is strange for some Americans to lecture on immigration when this country was founded by the illegal theft and murder of human beings of color. For centuries, people of color have assisted our black human beings for liberation. To assume otherwise, either someone is a racist or they do not know history. This doesn't mean that we as blacks should bow to non-blacks or anything like that. We should never tolerate anti-black hate crimes done by racist Hispanics at all or tolerate discrimination against our people. We have the right to promote black interests and individuals are correct that Barack Obama has not done enough to advance our black interests. Also, I made critiques about Obama for years on Africom, civil liberties, etc. We should respect and advance real Black power, but I will never accept white racist lies as a means to go along with Black power at all. Afro-Latinos are black and black Africans deal with the immigration issue. Some want to omit that since they want present the falsehood that this issue only deal with non-black Latinos, especially Mexicans. Some can follow the Glen Beck neo Confederate xenophobia doctrine all they want, but I have a right to disagree with that archaic point of view. We as blacks carried the torch for human rights, but that doesn't mean that we hate our neighbor in the process. Afro Latinos are black and there are groups in Brazil and across Latin America that respect their blackness despite discrimination in that part of the world. I respect their movement and their love of their black African heritage. Not all Latinos are black, but Afro Latinos are black. There are more blacks in Brazil than the States, so this American arrogance of denying that some Latinos are black when there organizations in that region calling themselves black is Western American arrogance. We are black African regardless if we live in Brazil or Detroit. A massive economic development program is needed in America. Also, we can easily have a comprehensive approach in handling our border and dealing with the folks already here. No one is agreeing with illegal immigration morally, but Obama deported a record number of undocumented human beings. So, he is not soft on this issue. If we can end the Great Depression, if we can end Jim Crow, and if we can go into the Moon, then we can solve this issue and have rational legal immigration not xenophobia. I believe in helping my family, but what I don't agree with is scapegoating an ethnic group that did not originate our oppression. Our oppression is caused by the system of white supremacy not human beings with a brown skin tone at all. Our system being broken is not a lie. When you have unjust laws, immoral wars, the unjust War on Drugs, officials calling for reform, a massive issue of trafficking in the Canadian border (when the Mexican border has had a radical decrease in illegal immigration) and you have a militarization of society, then our system is broken. There are still immigrants in this country, but we should reform our system. Some e seem to omit that the immigration bill is hardly some amnesty since punishment and border security are included in the bill. When I am provoked, I will drop the truth on you. I knew by instinct that others will respond in an anti-undocumente worker fashion too. Either we will have the Glen Beck, Michael Savage approach to this issue or a rational approach. If we want improvements for our people, then we need a radical solution involving the redistribution of economic and political power progressively. We can call for the ending of the Drug War and fight for real reforms. We can do it without following the path of a Michael Savage. I still believe in the Dream.
Many Republicans are trying to use slick means in trying to suppress the black vote and the Democrats scatter it as Glen Ford wrote. The deal is that many Republicans are trying to change laws. The Republicans want to exploit a Black state lawmaker's absence in Virginia as a means to advance a redistricting bill. This bill will increase the GOP's chances to take decisive control of the state Senate. Many Congress folks felt that it was more important to attend President Obama's inaugural than to advocate justice. The Republican redistricting plan will increase the number of majority Black districts to six from the current five. The catch is that getting enough African American together in making a new Black district will move Blacks out of districts represented by white Democrats. This will weaken the Democrats' chances of taking the Senate. The Democrats disagree with this policy since they feel that they will lose political power. Both parties want power. The Republicans want to strengthen their influence in Virginia and the Democrats want to scatter the Black otters around, so they can win elections in a small margin. The Republicans want to keep black human beings from voting, while the Democrats want black human beings to be in the imperfect Democratic establishment. So, both major parties want to use actions as a means to gain control. The establishment liberal and conservative black politicians have used their corporate backing to stifle real independent black politicians. One example is how former Black Republican Denise Majette defeated Cynthia McKinney for Congress in 2002 inside of Georgia. This was in a Black majority district and Majette only won 15 percent of the African American vote. Republican New Orleans former Mayor Ray Nagin won office in a city too. Philadelphia’s law and order mayor Anthony Nutter won in 2007 won since he appealed to the Democratic establishment. City Councilman Charles Barron or a former Black Panther won half of the black vote, but he still lost by a landslide in a majority black congressional district to Hakeem Jeffries (who loves school privatization). So, these realities outline the fact that both parties have dirt. It is still time for us to carve out of own independent interests for black people wherever they live in the world.
It is not a secret that America and the West are having an overt invasion of Africa. America is deploying troops in 35 African nations. These nations include Libya, Sudan, Algeria, Niger, etc. The Associated Press reported on this story on Christmas Day. The mainstream media is not talking about this story at all. The real reality is that this invasion has nothing to do with Islamists since the Western intelligence community aided such Islamists for decades. The West wants to cause the conquering of the resources that are found in Africa. The West is having a geopolitical rivalry with China. The West has executed violence in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and other places in the world. Typically in the world, the establishment wants western journalism to justify war mongering on the guise of fighting Islamic extremism, which is similar to the Cold War's fight against "godless" Communism. This is very similar for the scramble for Africa back in the late 19th century. The U.S. African Command or Africom has built a network of supplicants among collaborative African regimes that want American bribes and armaments. Africom staged Operation African Endeavor. This came last year. It was about the armed forces of 34 African nations taking part in this military rill, which was led by the U.S. military. U.S. officers are in every level of command of Africom from the general to the warrant officer. Africa has a great history of liberation like Patrice Lumumba and Nelson Mandela. Now, we have a colonial elite in the 21st century again trying to conquer Africa as Frantz Fanon said is like a promotion of a capitalism rampant via camouflage. There is the location of Eastern Congo. This area has a great deal of strategic minerals. It is ruled by the rebel group called the M23. The M23 is influenced by Uganda and Rwanda (these nations are known allies of America). France and NATO harming Africa have been in the making for a long time. Many folks legitimately opposed Mubarak and other dictators. Now, there is a struggle for the future of the Middle East and Africa. NATO has bombed places in Africa like Libya. Muammar Gaddafi ruled over Africa's largest oil reserves. Sirte was reduced to rubble and the British SAS directed the rebel militias and this has been exposed as a racist bloodbath. The Taureg have fled home across Algeria to Mali. The Taureg wanted a separate state since the 1960's. As the ever watchful Patrick Cockburn points out, it is this local dispute, not al-Qaeda, that the West fears most in northwest Africa in the following terms, “poor though the Tuareg may be, they are often living on top of great reserves of oil, gas, uranium and other valuable minerals." Cameron from the UK has ordered troops to Mali now. There is a RAF drone going in Mali. They want to fight jihadists. The Islamic terrorism line has been used an excuse for the West to try to steal African riches. Mark Curtis’s Secret Affairs: Britain’s Collusion with Radical Islam (Serpent’s Tail) or John Cooley’s Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism (Pluto Press) or The Grand Chessboard by Zbigniew Brzezinski document how much of Islamic terror has been prop up by Western influence. The mujahedeen evolved into Al Qaeda. The mujahedin was a creation of the CIA, the ISI, the MI6, and other militants. Operation Cyclone caused the Soviet Union to leave Afghanistan, but the extremists still remained. Therefore, we know the truth. The truth is that terrorism is wrong regardless of who does it.
By Timothy
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