We know that the Federal Reserve is bailing out foreign banks. So, for some, the American people and the economy are being harmed by international interests. The Federal Reserve policy benefits big foreign banks. The Federal Reserve has also intentionally locked up bank money so that it is not loaned out to Main Street. The FED policy is about 81.5% of all money has been created by quantitative easing is sitting there gathering dust (in the form of excess reserve). This money ironically is not being used to loan out to help Main Street or the American economy. A large percentage of the bailouts went to foreign banks. A 2010 Fed audit also revealed that of the $1.25 trillion of mortgage back securities the central bank purchased after the housing bubble popped, some $442.7 billion (or more than 35%) were bought from foreign banks. Many of the FED created money is being held by foreign banks. This truth has been documented by the Levy Economics Institute from May in the following words: "...Excess reserves are the surplus of reserves against deposits and certain other liabilities that depository institutions (loosely called “banks”) hold above the amounts that the Board requires within ranges set by federal law. The general requirement is that covered institutions maintain reserves at least equal to ten percent of liabilities payable on demand. For the first time in history, there is statistical evidence that as much as one-half or more of excess reserves are held for United States banking offices of foreign banks..." Zero Hedge reported on the same facts in the following words: "...As per last night’s [Federal Reserve] H.8 update, commercial bank deposits rose by $94 billion in the week ended July 17: the fourth largest weekly increase in history …. This took total commercial bank deposits to an all-time high of $9.54 trillion...The entire difference can be attributed to the $2+ trillion in excess reserves created by the Fed since the start of the [global financial crisis]..." There is as high as 2.1 trillion dollars in Federal reserves with banks. We know that foreign banks continue to be the biggest beneficiary of the FED's monthly $85 billion liquidity largesse. They are the biggest winners during QE2. In fact, the total reserve cash distribution continues to favor foreign banks, which now have a record $1.13 trillion in cash, or $9 billion more than all Domestically-chartered banks, at $1.122 trillion. Global liquidity as created by the FED is highly fungible. There are more mainly European banks benefiting from this reality. The FED is using policies that benefit the super elite at the expense of Main Street (or the U.S. economy including average Americans). The foreign super elite benefits from this action than even some elites in the States. Therefore, the Federal Reserve are sucking the prosperity out of America and shipping it abroad. So, we know what we are up against. We are still fighting for justice, worker rights, and human rights. There is still racial, class, and other forms of injustices in the world. The struggle continues. We know that imperialism is unjust, so unjust wars including occupations ought to cease to exist. We should not be silent in the midst of unwarranted wiretapping. We shall not be silent when we have extrajudicial murders of Black brothers and sisters in cold blood now in the USA. We shall not be silent when reactionaries try to enact foreclosures, evictions, budget cuts of vital public services, cuts to social programs, attacks on worker rights, and police brutality. We shall speak up for not only environmental justice, but universal health care for all human beings in the world. I will never blame the economic crisis in the world on immigrants or other human beings. The struggle for the rights of workers is similar to the February 1968 strike of Memphis sanitation workers. They went on strike as a means to demand recognition and collective bargaining rights through the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees. The racist city administration of Mayor Henry Loeb refused to negotiate with the workers, and a citywide strike support committee was established, headed by James Lawson, a long-time civil rights organizer. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on March 18, 1968 spoke to about 13,000 human beings as a means to call for a general strike in Memphis to force the city administration to recognize the sanitation workers. On March 28, the police rioted on the day of the general strike. They attacked a mass demonstration in downtown Memphis. Federal provocateurs also caused violence in Memphis. The city administration shot dead a 14-year-old African-American youth and declared an emergency, calling in the National Guard to suppress the demonstrations and the sanitation strike. It was only after Dr. King's unfortunate assassination that a deal was reached between the city and the strike workers. So, the value of unions is greatly related to our history in America. We should mobilize ourselves as a means to rebuild American society. We should disagree with corporate greed and advance public need. We need to address the vital issues of poverty, national discrimination, and oppression.
We know that the Syrian rebels and beheading Christians and using child soldiers. These re evil, abhorrent actions. These rebels are unfortunately funded by the White House. Al-Qaeda affiliated rebels are ironically aided by the Western governments. They are beheading innocent Christians still and using 14 year old child soldiers. It is a shame and a disgrace. It is immoral to fund the rebel troops that kill innocent citizens. Syria should never be thrown back into an even more reactionary state of affairs if the rebels win. Even some Democrats agree with funding these murderous, terroristic rebels. Some of the Syrian rebels massacre innocents in public beheading sessions where they applause and cheer. This is total perversion and demonic. Much of the mainstream media refuses to report on this reality. Even Reuters from August of 2012 admitted that the President secretly went ahead and enabled support for Syrian rebels while bypassing any form of checks or balances. There is the June 2013 headline that reads ‘Syrians behead Christians for helping military, as CIA ships in arms’ in The publication, and we’re still letting this happen. The report in the Washington Times reported more information on the story in the following words: "...A priest and another Christian were beheaded before a cheering crowd by Syrian insurgents who say they aided and abetted the enemy… The reported beheading of the two Christians comes about the same time America has started sending arms to rebel fighters, the Wall Street Journal revealed this week.” The CIA is wrong to give the rebels weapons as a means to perform their horrendous brutality against innocent human life. Missionaries in Syria have talked about this situation. The rebels kill Christians who do no convert and pay excessive taxes to the rebel army. The rebels want Christians to convert to Islam or die. Some kill Christians in the center of town as a means to scare friends and family from challenging the Syrian rebel army. The House and the Senate Intelligence Committee approved the continued support of the Syrian rebels even after the funding officially runs out for this fiscal year. The Syrian war continues that pits Sunni rebels against the regime of Bashar Al-Assad (who is an Alawite). Western imperialists carved up the Middle East after the First World War. This was done via the secret Sykes-Picot treaty of 1916. Since then, the West played the Shiites, Sunnis, and Kurdish forces against each other. There have been thousands of human beings that died as a product of the Syrian civil war. Many establishment liberals are wrong to support the evil rebels. One of them was Abu Sakkar. He is the commander of a rebel militia fighting in Qusayr. He cut an internal organ out of the body of a dead government soldier and bite it. This same commander has been widely quoted calling for the slaughter of all Alawites. According to the London Guardian (14 May), before forming his own militia late last year, “Sakkar was a well-known member of the Farouq Brigades,” a “militia with mainstream leanings” that “became one of the rebels’ best resourced fighting forces” due to financing from Qatar and Saudi Arabia. This situation is very similar to the events of the late 1970's when the West aided the mujahedin. In Afghanistan, reactionary Sunni mujahedin (holy warriors)—among them, Osama bin Laden—were armed, funded and trained by the U.S., Pakistan and Saudi Arabia to kill Soviet soldiers. The Red Army had entered the country at the request of the modernizing nationalist People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) regime, in order to defend the USSR’s southern flank and to prop up the besieged government. The PDPA’s introduction of minimal social reforms—especially those benefiting women, such as the lowering of the bride price—had provoked a jihad led by the landlords, tribal chiefs and mullahs. As the CIA undertook its biggest covert operation ever in support of the mujahedin, Afghanistan became the front line of the imperialist crusade to destroy the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union is gone and now NATO is used as a bulwark in the world today. This system of white supremacy (which even some alternative media figures refuse to talk about. We know their names) is linked to the current agenda of imperialism plaguing the world today. It has even more influence and evil than the current White House. So, we know how to put the truth into real perspective. Today, we witness the continuation of the war on terror. Also, it is important to note that the Syrian rebels are not real Muslims. They are not representative of all followers of Islam. These rebels are in violation of any real faith tradition. They are extremists that exploit religion as a means to carry out great evil against humanity. So, the rebels are indeed wicked and work for the imperialists indeed.
One Saudi Prince defects from the Saudi Royal Family. Prince Khalid Bin Al-Saud has announced his defection form the Al-Saud royal family. He outlined his defection via his statement. He called on other princes to break their silence and reveal the truth for sake of God. The Saudi prince referred to his "sufferings" under the reign of the Al Saud regime. He called those experienced as being bitter. He told these revelations to the Saudi twitter writer Mujtahid and Saudi activist Saad al-Faqih (he lives in London currently). He said that he thanked God that helped him understand the truth about the Saudi regime via a “direct horrible personal experience” so that he could have a taste of what people suffered from throughout the country. “With pride, I announce my defection from Al Saudi family in Saudi Arabia,” he wrote in his statement. Some of his statement reads the following words, “This regime in Saudi Arabia does not stand by God’s rules or even (country’s) established rules and its policies, decisions, and actions are totally based on personal will of its leaders.” “All that is said in Saudi Arabia about respecting law and religion rules are factitious so that they can lie and pretend that the regime obeys Islamic rules.” He criticized the royal family for considering the country as its own property while silencing all voices from inside and outside the government calling for any change and reforms. Khalid Bin Farhan said that the ruling family has deliberately pulled the country to the current condition where cries of oppressed people are ignored. “They don’t think about anything but their personal benefits and do not care for countries' and people’s interests or even national security,” he added. He said that the current issues in Saudi Arabia are not temporary or superficial. They relate to unemployment, low wages, and unjustified distribution of common wealth, facilities, and services. These problems are very deep and real. According to the Prince, there is huge political and financial corruption including the abuse of power by the regime. This fraud is found in the Parliament and the judiciary system. The Saudi prince said that everything that the pro-reform opposition says about the country's political, economic, judiciary, social, and security condition (including their abuse of religious values) are true. He said that the situation is even worse than what is said in criticisms. He wants anyone who cared for the future of Saudi Arabia to join him and the reform stream and break their silence on Al Saud corruptions. It is easy to see that the Saudi elite have sold out their own people for the Western imperialists in many capacities form funding CIA back rebels to economically exploiting the Middle East's resources for profit (at the expense of human rights and other progressive freedoms). Many of these monarchies of the Persian Gulf are filled with the evils of brutal theocracy, the suppression of women's rights, and the harm to religious liberty. That is why protests by human beings against these reactionary regimes from Qatar to Saudi Arabia continue to persist. The absolute monarchies are certainly a threat to world security and human freedom indeed. That is why such regimes fear their own populations. They rely on the support of the United States and the British for aid. Some of them even work or cooperate with the Israeli Mossad. Now, the good news is that sincere freedom fighters are in the Persian Gulf who are dedicated for real change in the world. They want freedom and human rights indeed.
We know about illegal orders in the military. There were the details of My Lai. My Lai was a Vietnamese village. It was destroyed by the U.S. soldiers. Men, women, and children were killed by Western military forces. The military selected the fall guy for the massacre named Lt. Calley. In the armed forces, folks were subjected to numerous classes on when to follow or when not to follow orders. There are illegal orders and legal orders. If someone was following what they knew to be an illegal order, not only would the person that gave the illegal order to be held responsible, but the person that carried out the illegal order could also be charged. On many cases, folks follow orders immediately. Inside of the battlefield, quick decisions are made. The fog of war means that in the midst of war, there are controversial actions taken and debates had. Some folks follow orders even if it means putting your life on the line. There are numerous unspeakable horrors of war spanning throughout human history including the Vietnam War. We have rules as found in the Geneva Convention on the Laws of War. We have seen the war on terror for almost 15 years now. Many of these invasions and operations from the West now in the war on terror contradict the precepts from the Geneva Convention. The American soldier is in a predicament. There is the issue of obeying constitutional law and international law. Many folks refuse to violate the oath of protecting and defending the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. Manning was a Private First Class. He was allowed to access sensitive information that showed beyond a reasonable doubt that the American military was committing atrocities and crimes. These acts were not only against his moral code. They were against military law and the Geneva Conventions. We know about the Western military crimes of depleted uranium (a weapon of mass destruction) and destroying cities like in Fallujah with air strikes, artillery, and armor. Some imperialists murdered men, women, and children indiscriminately and all for intents and purposes destroying the city. The war on terror is wicked filled with undeclared wars. When Manning brought this matter to his superiors, he was ignored. This is what many soldiers experience when confronted with horrific crimes. Private Manning wanted to go to the public with this information. Yet, the American government views him as equivalent to a terrorist enemy. Bradley Manning showed a lot of courage to release the information to Wikileaks. He was in front of a court martial after being tortured for months by the military. He was forced to remain in solitary confinement for months being in a cold dark cell. He was treated like an animal in direction violation to all military law and the Geneva Convention (that relates to the treatment of prisoners). Most of his defense has been deemed inadmissible (by the folks in charge of his Court Martial). The United States military once proclaimed that if a soldier saw wrongdoing and violations of the Geneva Convention on the Laws of War, that soldier should go to a higher authority and report it, and if it was within his power, he should try to stop it. The Private did report it, but the report of these violations fell on deaf ears. Manning is paying the price for doing the right thing. The war on terror includes wars filled with invasions of other nations against all International Law, National Law, the Geneva Conventions, etc. We have seen an observer call on Apache attack helicopters to fire on journalists walking with their cameras on a city street, and once they were wounded and lying on the street and when people ran to help them, the Apaches were ordered to fire on the rescuers. Manning let the world see this. Still, no charges were filed against the individuals responsible for these actions. Bradley Manning is suffering because of executing courageous actions. We shall not be intimidated. The truth must be known and imperialism is always immoral.
Bill O'Reilly made recently disrespectful, racist, and ignorant views on the black community and our issues. You know me. I will respond to his lies. Bill O'Reilly made the lie that African American culture today is all about degeneracy, violence, and other fragrant evils. In other words, the black community is responsible for its own oppression collectively not the system of white supremacy, not discrimination, not a racist criminal justice system, and not police terror in the streets of black community. He ignores the fact that many black leaders have criticized many musicians using the N word and other controversial, vulgar language in their lyrics for years and decades. He ignores the many single black mothers that have raised exceptionally gifted children and have been great role models for our community. A real family is very diverse and we are all family in the black community. Our situation never came from single black mothers trying to live a better life. Our situation came from the Maafa and centuries of oppression by the oppressor. Many black human beings have talked about the black family for generations. For O'Reilly to lie and assume that no major black leaders have talked about family issues is silly by me. An adulterer like him has no merit on that issue. For him to slander Sister Michelle Alexander and Martin Luther King III as the grievance crowd is to show his white supremacist mentality. The truth is that anybody has the right to call for justice in an imperfect society. Folks have the right to disagree with police brutality, to disagree with discrimination, and to oppose the evil system of white supremacy day in and day out period. Blacks and whites do drugs at about the same rate, but far more blacks go to jail for it and get longer sentences than whites do, and that is a fact. O'Reilly lies about that fact. The ironic thing is that even President Barack Obama has for years called on black men to step up and act as positive role models to black youth (I don't agree with all of Obama's Booker T. Washington stuff, but this is a fact). O'Reilly just lies and denies the reality of the President doing it. Many African Americans grow up in segregated communities with little economic opportunity or development, decreased employment opportunities, long term unemployment, and failing public schools. Racist reactionaries like Bill O'Reilly and Dinesh D'Souza believed that blacks have cultural inferiorities and these cultural issues are causing African Americans to suffer not other factors like discrimination, and socioeconomic factors. The reality is that racism shapes the communities of America and it harms the poor. The reality of foreclosures, redlining, and predatory lending have harmed some in the African American community. Now, we know that mainstream U.S. capitalism was built on the labor black slaves. When slavery overtly ended in the States by 1865, the capitalists of the North and South stoked racism as a means to divide the workforces, drive down wages, and increase their profit margins. The new poor include folks that are very educated and still can't receive a job or receive very low wage jobs. So, the solution is that all levels of government and all Americans will have to contribute their time and effort to fight poverty and economic inequality (from institutions, organizations, religious bodies, all levels of the government, charities, and the whole nine yards). I will never be a reactionary and blame all poor human beings for poverty itself. Many times, poverty is a systemic problem brought about by neoliberalism, oppression, and other socioeconomic issues. Poverty is complex. Also, we need radical solutions. Today, our economic recovery is stagnant because most low wage and service sector jobs are being created. These anti-poor policies, shrouded in anti-Black rhetoric, were underpinned by the politics of "personal responsibility," which looked to shift the blame for poverty and unemployment away from inherent problems in the system--as they were identified in the 1960s by everyone from the Black Panther Party to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.--to the individual failings of Blacks themselves. So, the racists blame the black people (who are victims) of their own oppression instead of the white supremacist elite in charge of the whole corrupt system in the first place. When 650,000 jobs have been lost every month since December, it's difficult to mount an argument that the problem of unemployment is a moral one. The corporate elite have personal irresponsibility when they receive trillions of dollars in bailouts, but they want the government to refuse to even bailout the poor and workers in cities including other locations throughout the American landscape. We have to address racism and class oppression in the world. We have to address economic inequality, low wages, and health care complications. Industrialized nations mostly have universal health care while we do not in the United States of America. The American dream has been distorted by some. Some want the American dream to be the dream of supremacists that want all humans (especially black human beings) to be colorblind not loving their blackness, to want humanity to confirm to a wicked economic system, and to want society to bow before imperialism (including worker exploitation) not justice.
By Timothy
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