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The agents of the U.S., Saudi Arabia, and Qatar are using the same trick in trying to cause another Spring in the Sudan. There have been protests being used as a smokescreen for unfolding U.S.-Saudi-Qatari backed violence seeking regime change in Sudan. The Associated Press outlined a Spring in Sudan (which was inhabited by blacks for thousands of years and today in 2013) having an ongoing Spring like unrest. It has transpired in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum. It is led by Sudan's Western backed opposition called the National Umma Party and various faux NGOs and "independent media" organizations (that have been created by the West to prop it up). Research confirms that Western entities influence this uprising since some in the West want Western friendly client regimes. Sudanese protesters want the regime to end. The activists claim to not be unified in their leadership or have support from political parties. Yet, even the AP had to admit the following: "...One of Sudan’s most prominent opposition leaders, Sadiq al-Mahdi of the National Umma Party, told worshippers at a mosque in the district of Omdurman that al-Bashir has been spending the state’s budget on “consolidating power” and failed “to lift the agony off the citizens’ shoulders.” After the sermon, protesters marched through the district, a longtime opposition stronghold, chanting “the people want the downfall of the regime,” the slogan heard in Arab Spring uprisings that began in late 2010 and have led to the ouster of the leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen..." These activists have a leader in the name of Sadiq al-Mahdi of the National Umma Party,  who was literally leading the protesters out into the streets. Some of these protesters are turning into violence. There have been angry protesters torching police and dozens of gas stations including government buildings. This is when the students are chanting for al-Bashir's ouster. Sudan's 500 Words Magazine has its columnist Reem Shawka writing about this issue. Their website is advancing the U.S. Institute for Peace “Sudanese and South Sudanese Youth Leaders Program.” Like Thailand’s deceitful US-funded propaganda front Prachatai, 500 Words could be funded by the U.S. government. The U.S. State Department has an agenda for Sudan indeed. The U.S. State Department and its National Endowment for Democracy wants to have malleable pro-Western states in the Middle East including Africa. The 500 Words' editor in chief Moez Ali has his own page on Open Democracy and it is funded by the Open Society Institute, the Oak Foundation, the Sigrid Rausing Trust, TIDES, and many others. Also, the U.S. Institute of Peace has advertised for an ad on 500 Words. The U.S. Institute of Peace have played an instrumental role in the Western engineered Arab Spring (which has been exploited by the West to use proxies as a means to overthrow targeted nations). We have more information on opposition leader Sadiq al-Mahdi. This man is a member of the EU-US-Saudi-Qatari run Arab Democracy and the Club de Madrid (that has former President Bill Clinton as full members among others). The Club de Madrid is backed by Wall Street and London’s myriad of “international institutions” and foundations including the World Bank, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Ford Foundation, Walmart, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Microsoft, and others. Al-Mahdi was Oxford educated according to his official Club de Madrid biography, so he is a blatant agent of our oppressors. His direct association with the Muslim Brotherhood is important, as this is the organization that as far back as 2007, under then US President George Bush, began receiving US-Saudi-Israeli support to prepare the violent overthrow of several nations, including in particular, Syria. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh in his 2007 New Yorker article, “The Redirection: Is the Administration’s new policy benefiting our enemies in the war on terrorism?” would reveal US-Saudi-Israeli support behind funding and arming the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria. The Muslim Brotherhood has been used as a means to undermine Assad. Even al-Turabi is linked to al-Qaeda and he claims to want reform in Sudan. Sudan shares borders with NATO overthrown destabilized Egypt and Ethiopia. Libya and Egypt has many U.S.-Saudi-Israel-Qatari backed terrorist organizations including the Muslim Brotherhood (although, the new regime in Egypt has harmed liberties in some cases worst than the previous regime). There was a recent attack in Nairobi, Kenya by al-Qaeda backed terrorists. We see the growth of AFRICOM incursions in Somalia possibly. Wesley Clark admitted that the U.S. government wanted to overthrow Sudan as a means to advance geopolitical interests of America (from oil to other resources). We see the opposition being portrayed as pro-democracy when many of those factions are not. There has been an unprecedented amount of resources to be used as a means to reorder North Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, the rest of Africa, etc. Sudan should improve itself, but imperialism is evil as well.

The city of Detroit is still suffering. Wall Street has harmed Detroit too. There have been corporate interests that have caused the dissolution of Detroit. Also, there have been black bourgeoisie scapegoats following orders as well like Kevyn Orr. Detroit has been disenfranchised, because they power is heavily controlled by managers. There has been a recent unannounced cut off of electricity. This was done by Chief Compliance Officer Gary Brown. This happened in September 11th where many frightened human beings were stuck in elevators in 90 degree plus heat. One has been injured after the horrendous incident. He tried to justify the sick action via his sick words: "...We did start calling our customers prior to taking them down and asking them to turn off air conditioners, but they weren't responding as fast as we would like them to so we had to send them a strong message by turning the power off..." The oligarchy has arbitrary power in Detroit. We know that Judge Rhodes will decide if the imposition of an unelected dictatorship in Detroit represents a constitutional crisis or not. Brown follows the orders from EFM Kevyn Orr, who follows orders from Wall Street interests. Orr was a bankruptcy lawyer. Now, he is trying to strip Detroit of its assets and privatize its services for the benefit of Wall Street banks. The blackout in Detroit exposes it faulty infrastructure and it was an exercise of arbitrary power that allowed human rights to be further violated. The Judge will decide on whether Detroit should handle its own affairs. The threat of privatization is ever real in the world. We are still fighting for self-determination and real Power in the world. Brown resigned from his $75,000 a year City Council position to sign on as Orr’s lieutenant for $225,000 – and, of course, an inside track in the corporate looting that will accompany Detroit’s fiscal dissolution. Wall Street wants Detroit to suffer austerity and mega thefts of its resources. The establishment hates Detroit as evident on the sick comment made by five time mayor Tom Menino saying that he will blow up Detroit and start over. If a person other him say similar comments in public about a mostly white city or mostly white area in America, he would be criticized by the media and even investigated by the DHS for possible terrorism charges. Yet, saying that garbage to Detroit (which is 85 percent black) is fair game to these elitist racists. Even the White House insults black Americans with the bootstraps line all of the time. Detroit needs democratic freedom from unelected bureaucrats. The confiscation of property is real there. “This [Emergency Financial Manager] law has been applied in cities and school districts where the majority population is African American, and I find this to be racist in both its aims, and its application,” Bill Hickey, a 50-year resident of the city, told the judge. Indeed, more than half of Michigan’s Black population has been disenfranchised, a shocking state of affairs that is generally treated as a non-event – or, maybe, in the popular consciousness, it is the world as it should be. It is a matter of the human rights of folks living in Detroit. Last November, a large majority of Detroiters and 53 percent of Michigan voters rejected the Emergency Manager legislation, but Republican governor Rick Snyder rammed it through the legislature, anyway. We know that a new survey says that 75 percent of Detroit residents do not want any cuts in public employee's pensions and 78 percent oppose selling any precious works at the Detroit Institute of Art. The bankruptcy was imposed on them by the powers that be. The reality is that we should be political independents. Republicans and Democrats have advanced austerity, imperialism, bigotry, anti-poor moves, and other moves against self-determination for over 100 years. We need to support the interests of the poor and all oppressed human beings of the world. The reactionary elitism among both parties has been wrong and immoral. Even the current White House executes some of the same policies as the Bush/Cheney regime from the war on terror to the Wall Street bailouts. The Bush tax cuts are extended. There was a shutdown of Senator Leahy's "Truth Finding Commission" that was designed to investigate Bush Cheney crimes. So, we know the truth. The truth is that political independence is what we need. We need to fight this class struggle, we need racial justice, we need economic justice, and we need social justice as well. We need to be comprehensive in our outlook and actions indeed.

The deadly assault in Nairobi, Kenya was tragic. The upscale mall in Kenya was harmed by terrorists. The media portrayed the violence as being a product of mindless fanatics. The terrorist act was evil and unjustified. The roots of the situation deal with Western intervention in Somalia to a great degree. The Kenyan government carried out a military intervention in Somalia with the blessing of the USA. This is the same war on terror action that may have escalated the mall attack. Kenyan troops with help from Israeli commandos recaptured the Westgate mall on Tuesday four days after an assault by 10 to 15 heavily armed Islamist militants. The Somali based Al Shabab militia took responsibility for the attack. It killed more than 60 human beings and injured more than 170. Some believe that British and American Al Shabab members have participate in the attack. Since English is heavily spoken in Kenya as Kenya was once ruled by England, some of the attackers spoke English. Al Shabab claimed that it wanted to punish Kenya for its 2011 invasion and continued occupation of southern Somalia. The nature of Al Shabab's target, a shopping center frequented by foreign tourists, attests to the narrowness of Shabab's aims--the tourism industry is Kenya's largest source of foreign exchange. Some want Kenya to work closer with America in anti-terrorism policies. The U.S. military and its spy agencies work closely in the region. They work in nations like Uganda, Kenya, and Rwanda. These nations sent troops to occupy Somalia after the U.S. backed Ethiopian invasion of 2006. As the New York Times noted during the siege at the mall, "Kenya is a crucial American partner, whose security forces work closely with their Western counterparts to contain Islamist militants in the region." Even the current Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta is indicted now by the International Criminal Court for financing and directing death squads during the violence that killed more than 1,200 human beings (and uprooted hundreds of thousands after the disputed 2007 election. He is the son of Kenya's prominent founder Jomo Kenyatta). Uhuru is one of the richest men in Africa. President Barack Obama skipped a trip to Kenya, because of Kenyatta. After the attack, he telephoned Kenyatta to reaffirm the strong partnership between America and Kenya. For years, U.S. operatives have been used in Somalia. Once, Americans supported the Somali dictator Barre. Later, when the Cold War was over, clans overthrew Said Barre. Somalia is ruled by private fiefdoms. Once America supported warlord Mohammaeed Farah Aidid, but he desired independence. This influenced the famous Battle of Mogadishu, in which 18 U.S. Special Forces troops died. Black Hawk Down was a film that talked about this battle in harsh detail. According to Somali specialist Stig Hansen, who wrote Al-Shabaab in Somalia, some of the Somali fighters were veterans of the U.S. proxy war in the 1980s against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. The United States and Saudi Arabia had financed and coordinated this first major venture into "international jihad," drawing Muslim militants from around the world, which gained fighting experience and brought an international outlook back to their home countries when they returned. Some of these Somali veterans of the Afghan war were later founders of Al Shabab. Militias rule Somalia now. There is harsh poverty, lack of health care, etc. inside of Somalia. Al Shabab developed in ca. 2005. So, now we see that Al Shabab wants more recruits. The whole situation is all in the war on terror era with AFRICOM involved in fighting in Africa too. AFRICOM is an imperialist operation that seeks to grow Western hegemony inside of the Motherland.

We know about the Bloomberg legacy and the backlash against much of his policies. We have Bill de Blasio winning the Democratic mayoral primary. The political race for the new mayor of NYC will be interesting and dynamic. We know about the federal judge ruling that NYPD's stop and frisk being racially biased and unconstitutional. De Blasio is battling Republican candidate Joe Lhota for mayor of New York City. Bloomberg is a lame duck now. Bloomberg also was silly to accuse de Blasio of racism for featuring his interracial family in a campaign ad. Bloomberg claimed that the low-income New Yorkers aren't really poor because the subways have air conditioning, and said he wanted "all the Russian billionaires to move here." Bloomberg did not want even Christine Quinn to be the new mayor, but folks like Schumer, Hillary Clinton, and even fellow billionaire Mort Zuckerman. Quinn was compelled to disobey the mayor and stop obstructing a bill granting workers the right to a handful of sick days each year, which Bloomberg considered a governmental intrusion on the freedom of business owners to work their employees into the hospital. The fact that Quinn managed to significantly water down the bill wasn't enough to keep Bloomberg from issuing a veto. The City Council then overturned led by a reluctant Quinn. Now, we realize that enriching the rich at the expense of the poor is immoral. Stop and frisk has nothing to do with the massive decrease in crime inside of NYC. De Blasio has got the support of some unions. He said that he wants to reduce economic inequality; he wants universal pre-Kindergarten (with a modest tax increase on the wealth residents), etc. So, grassroots activism should continue in NYC. NYC citizens deserve a living wage, great unions, they deserve health care, and true civil liberties. We do hope for the best in New York City.

 

 

 

We know about Brother George Jackson. He was a member of the prison rights movement. He even created a Black Panther Party in San Quentin prison. There has been over 42 years since his death in August 27, 1971. We still have some of the same issues in prison today as they were back then. Now, the prison population has radically increased and America imprisons more humans than any nation in the world. George Jackson wanted human rights to be real for all prisoners of the world. He was born in Chicago and grew up mostly in California to black working class parents. In 1961, he was accused of sticking up a gas station for $70. He was represented by a public defender and he pled guilty. He began serving a sentence of one year to life. He was in prison, but he was very intelligent. He studied there and wrote information eloquently. We wanted to politically organize in America's prisons and jail as a means to create revolutionary solutions to societal ills. He made two bestselling compilations of his letters. They are called Soledad Brother and Blood in My Eye. His words were felt across class and racial lines in California including all over the Earth. In January 1970, George Jackson was accused of the murder of a prison guard. On August 7 of the same year, his younger brother Jonathan Jackson staged a doomed rescue attempt at Marin County courthouse. This was when four people died and several were wounded. Angela Davis was prosecuted for murder and conspiracy. George Jackson's life ended on August 21, 1971 in a hail of gunfire. These circumstances were strongly suggest to be a setup and assassination staged by California prison officials. More than 20,000 human beings showed up for his Oakland, California funeral. His influence was great. He inspired the organization of prisoner rights movements globally. Many then and now confront the prison state. We have threats today. We have many Congressmen and women, mayors, state legislators, judges, and sheriffs involved in the growth of the prison population. We have seen the U.S. prison population grow five and six fold all over the seventies, eighties, nineties, and in the new century.  Even some of the black bourgeoisie have no intention of empowering, educating, and helping the black working class. Today, we see folks having hunger strikes in California and prison organizations in Ohio, Georgia, New York, Virginia, etc. Both Democrats and Republicans have been complicit in mass incarceration and other evils in the prison state. Justice ought to continue in the world. Voting fraud in North Carolina is very small. The North Carolina law is highly immoral since the purpose of voting is to get as many citizens to vote not to restrict the days on when you can vote. When you restrict those days (and not allow citizens of the state to vote in whatever precinct that they want), there will be some who will lack their opportunity to vote. Human rights are superior to states rights. The North Carolina voting ID law is the worst voting related law currently. It restricts many forms of human voting and advances a limited voter ID requirement (when expansive requirements will do as a means to allow human beings to vote). What these new strident voter ID requirements do is that it disproportionately disenfranchise many low-income voters, student voters and voters of color. Similarly, cuts to early voting limit longstanding get out the vote efforts in African American communities, in addition to preventing lower income voters who tend to have less job flexibility on election day from voting. You have recent immoral voter purges in Florida before, so this is not some fantasy. The DOJ has every legal right to sue in this situation. It is part of the federal jurisdiction to protect citizen voting rights nationwide, which is just beyond states' rights. Using that states rights logic, if states voted to have unjust laws, then states have the right to do it without any recourse from the citizenry (that is silly since any unjust law made by any state have the right to be legally opposed by any citizen).

By Timothy