Fall 2013

Fall 2013

I think that Samantha Lewthwaite is a disturbed person. She should have done something better by advocating more rational actions as a means to build up the social institutions of the world. She is dead wrong in her manifesto. Killing any innocent human being is wrong. She is wrong to advocate terrorism. The war on terror has been a bloody occurrence. The terrorist attack inside of the Kenyan mall was evil. What is also evil was when the CIA funded such mujahedeen terrorists decades ago (via Operation Cyclone under the Carter administration where the CIA funded groups to overthrow a democratically elected government in Afghanistan). What is evil is drone strikes destroying civilians. What was evil was when the White House during the 1980's gave Saddam chemical and biological weapons. What is evil are many laws in the United States that blatantly violate human civil liberties from the policies of the NSA to the Patriot Act. What is evil is covert spying by the federal government against even innocent protestors and even against innocent activists that just seek real change in the world (like economic justice, social justice, and environmental improvement in a radical fashion). What is evil is how the West backed reactionary regimes for decades and now claims some moral high ground in terms of their foreign policy positions. So, the system of white supremacy is evil and the terrorist attack in the mall was evil as well. FOX News is FOX News. They always have shown some hysteria when dealing with the President. They loved to advance the deceptions that led into the Iraq war. FOX News notoriously is in the hands of Murdoch and other reactionaries. Many use FOX News as a means to advance the lie that President Barack Obama is some closet Muslim when he is not. Studies and other forms of documentation have exposed FOX News' biases and errors before. It is not just one network that has been involved in disinformation and deception. So, I want to make that perfectly clear. Real issues deal with NSA spying, the war on terror, civil liberties, TAFTA, the Federal Reserve, the BIS (a very powerful central bank), economic inequality, the Syrian civil war, and other issues.

There are those who want the FED to cancel 2 trillion dollars of government debt as a means to reduce the budget crisis. Even Congressman Alan Grayson and former Congressman Ron Paul (which I do not agree with on many issues) advocate this policy toward the Federal Reserve. Some want to end the Federal Reserve and replace it with alternatives. Grayson and Paulson have co-sponsored a bill to audit the Federal Reserve. Many top economists agree with reining in the Federal Reserve. The cancelling of the Treasury debt that it owns is about forgiving the government's debt. The total U.S. debt is about $16.8 trillion. Canceling the debt will give the government a means to manage its finances. It will prevent a default. Congressman Grayson said the following words on this issue:

"...The debt held on the balance sheet of the Federal Reserve can be canceled without any significant consequence, because it is a bookkeeping artifact corresponding to the money supply. In essence, the government owes this money to itself. If I owe money to myself, I can cancel that debt at will and without consequence, essentially taking it out of my left pocket and putting it in my right pocket. Last year, the Federal Reserve declared a “profit” of roughly $91 billion, much of which came from interest payments from the U.S. Treasury. The Federal Reserve then quickly remitted nearly all of this profit right back to the U.S. Treasury. The Federal Reserve does this every year. Reducing or eliminating this unearned “profit” actually will provide a more realistic view of federal finances..."

Even quantitative easing has not worked greatly. It has been executed by the FED, but it has benefited the supporting the super elite and it is performed via the buying of the U.S. debt ($45 billion each month). Canceling the government debt is not farfetched as it has been advocated by an article from the Financial Times. So, we should increase economic growth and dealing with the public debt. The big banks have been found to manipulate the currency markets, interest rates, oil prices, derivatives, gold and silver, energy markets, commodities, etc. So, the big banks manipulate tons of market. The high level of interconnectedness of these entities leads into financial instability. It is wrong for the government to give the big banks record subsidies and these big banks use them for speculation and other actions that do not help the economy. Even top economists, financial experts, and bankers believe that big bankers are too large and their size threatens the economy. That is why they want to break up the big banks as a means to stabilize the economy. The big central banks have heavy influence on the political including economic policies from Washington, London, etc. Money spent on unnecessary wars and fraud has been horrible for the economy. Reducing fraud, waste, and abuse can go a long way in handling our situation. Republican Senator Tom Coburn notes that the Department of Defense can reduce $67.9 billion over 10 years by eliminating the non-defense programs that have found their way into the budget for the Department of Defense. That is why independent media is important for the truth to be known despite the propaganda of the 1 percent. We should oppose policies form a criminal government. We should arrest 1 percent criminals who are involved in evils from pollution to war crimes completely. The elite in government have violated even legitimate constitutional principles, have used wars of aggression, looting trillions of taxpayer dollars (via their own Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports or the CAFRs), use the oligarchy to harm society, and use the oligarchic media to use deception against the public of the 99%. I have no issue with debt free money as well. Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman correctly concludes that money supply can be kept constant by replacing banks’ authority to create debt with government authority to directly pay for public goods and services with debt-free money. This refutes critics’ argument of inflation, along with the above argument that infrastructure investment reduces overall costs. The money we have is actually debt created by private banks.  Government Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports (CAFRs) have literal multiple trillions in surplus taxpayer assets, as they fraudulently claim deficits “forcing” austerity upon the 99%. For example, California’s own CAFR proves a ~$16 billion claimed budget deficit is absolutely refuted by ~$100 billion in liquid surplus funds and ~$500 billion in claimed investments. That is why economic populists want debt free money to fund our country.



Popular Culture Galore Part 13

I am 30 years old officially now. I feel different than when I was 20. I am more mature than when I am 20. I am physically and emotionally stronger. I feel like I have still great agility. I am more careful in how I outline my information and I still believe in love. Love is great and beautiful, because it can cause radical, positive change in the world. It deals with goodwill, humane treatment, and joy. I am human, so I will love. When I love, I do have feelings of joy, tranquility, and appreciation of human life. I love music. Now, I listen to all types of music. I love African music, old school artists, independent artists, and others. I am definitely feeling the music from so many artists. Music makes me more intellectual, more spiritual, and more inclined to develop my own personal creativity in general. Popular Culture is interesting. I want to make this special point. There is nothing wrong with real music and the arts. Some folks get so obsessive with celebrities that they even want to bash music and art in general. With me, my views are no so rigid on these matters. I feel that we should encourage music and the arts among any human being. Music enriches the soul. It deal with human expression and it allow humanity to adequately express a wide spectrum of emotions including other creative energy. Music is a crucial backdrop of human culture. My people (who are black people) made an incredible mark in the world with music and the rest of the arts. The struggle, the triumph, and the sacrifice of real musicians in the world ought to be respected. A Sister (She knows who she is. She is my special friend and she is just an angel. :) She speaks with a beautiful, northern accent) had to remind me that unique gifts and diversity of musicians (especially among black women) ought not to be minimized or diminished in any fundamental capacity. In other words, it is great that artists do not sound the same. Musicians and artists in general are diverse in their talents, attributes, social mores, and other forms of human expression. These differences ought to be appreciated. When I am becoming older, I further appreciate the genuine greatness of music

Times are changing rapidly in the world. We are near the year 2014 and even I could remember 1996 like it was yesterday. Time is going fast. As time travels, we see new cultural things rise up. Popular culture ever evolves in the globe. On the other hand, the truth remains strong. Regardless of the hate in the world, love is always superior to hate. All human beings deserve basic human rights. I am in a better space in my life now. I feel more happy. I feel more joy in my life with great family and great family. I feel more compassion in my heart and I have more emotional strength than many years ago. I am more spiritual and more moral in my life too. So, that is a great, forthright development in my longevity. I thank God for the blessings in my life. I thank God for my family and friends. I am further inspired to do what is right and I will always love my black people and humanity in general. Love is Love. Now, the Arsenio Hall show is back on television. Miley Cyrus has great controversies in her lyrics and actions. The NFL is debating issues of harassment and bullying. So, there is never a dull moment in the realm of human existence. The reality is that we should treat our neighbors as ourselves. Regardless of someone's physical appearance, race, or background, a human being should be treated with dignity and with profound respect. All human beings deserve happiness, joy, peace, love, and dignity. The dignity of everyone ought to be respected in any generation. When you understand what is most important in life, your soul comes alive and you appreciate camaraderie and justice. All oppressed human beings deserve justice and I want justice for my people. Once we further realize that we are all our brothers' and sisters' keeper, the better off we will be as a society and as a world.

One of the strangest pictures of the establishment comes from the famous 1972 Rothschild ball. On December 12, 1972, Marie-Hélène de Rothschild held a Surrealist ball at Château de Ferrières, one of the family’s gigantic mansions. These events were very secretive. Yet, photographs of the Ball have surfaced on the web. The images look similar to the movie from the Eyes Wide Shut masked ball and it is similar to a Lady Gage style pop video. Much of the images mask the obvious with fun and games. Yet, the big picture is that there is an occult elite that loves MK Ultra themes, occult symbolism, etc. that is found in so many music videos, movies, and other media in real life. The Rothschild invitation is written in reverse. You must have a mirror to read it. Inversion is a big deal in many occult circles. The Château de Ferrières was lit in red to make it appear as if it was on fire. Scenes from Roman Polanski’s movie about Satan “9th Gate” were filmed there. In “Eyes Wide Shut”, the occult ritual takes place in another Rothschild mansion, Mentmore Towers in the UK. There is one guest wearing a multiple faced mask. A similar mask can be seen in once against the Eyes Wide Shut movie (a film based on Rothschild balls). Debauchery has been done by the super-rich elite for thousands of years. Designs of birdcages are found everywhere. One human being wears a horned head, which is typical of the elite. Another person wears horned antlers on her head. There is Salvador Dali doing his Dali face in front his famous depiction of Mae West. Salvador Dali is an innovator of surrealism and surrealism and the occult have many ties or relationships. Many masks are shown. Also, on the dinner table, there are dismembered dolls and cracked skulls. This imagery is found in music videos now. It is about the occult elite loving dehumanization, MK Ultra culture, and other decadent perversions. There is some sick mannequin cadaver thing on the dinner table too. The images from the parties are serious stuff. It is disturbing to say the least. History repeats itself because of these same parties back in 1972 exist now in 2013. Many of the elite hate real morality, so they use eccentric behavior as a means to compensate their wicked deeds. This is unbelievable, but this stuff is very real. So, truth is stranger than fiction.


 As the Vigilant Citizen website have eloquently mentioned, the "Now You See Me" movie has a lot of real similarities to the entertainment industry in real life. The film is about famous magicians and they perform incredible magic tricks like a bank heist. The catch is that the film deals with a shady organization called "The Eye" ironically enough that controls these entertainers. There is a lot of action in the movie, but the message pretty much shows how an occult inspired elite controls the entertainment business. The movie has many implausible scenarios. The movie deals with the idea of the closer you look, the less you see. Magicians distract audiences with illusions as a means to show their actions. Also, in real life, the real magic of harm is done by the elite under guise of illusions and distractions found in modern day Western society. The movie has the police chase, the bank heist plot, and the explosions to keep the viewers' eye occupies, while the real story unfolds. The movie details a symbol of the real entertainment industry. That industry is ruled by elite forces and the masses are deceived by master illusionists. The movie shows 4 magicians being invited to join something via a tarot card with an All Seeing Eye on it. A hooded figure watches them. The back of the invitation card has the image of the All Seeing Eye (which has many meanings). The entertainment industry in real life shows occult imagery all of the time. The four magicians are selected as a means to excel in their magic. They appear to use real, occult magic. The characters of the magicians are Henley Reeves (an escapist having the High Priestess tarot card), J. Daniel Atlas (he is an illusionist with the Lovers card), Merrit McKinney (a mentalist with the Hermit card), and Jack Wilder (a sleight of hand illusionist with the Death card). Jack Wilder is the youngest of the crew. He has the Death card which foreshadows his ritual sacrifice. The magicians come into a strange apartment with strange contraptions in it. There are riddles there as an initiation ritual. The elite's plans are shown and they become big time entertainers. They join the Eye and they are in Las Vegas. The fame comes to them. They are the Four Horsemen group now, but in real life the Four Horsemen are found in the Book of Revelation. They are the harbingers of the Apocalypse giving pestilence, war, famine, and death. A lot of the occult elite exploit the Book of Revelation as a means to advance their agenda. The Four Horsemen magicians follow orders from the Eye. The Secret society controls them. They perform in a stage in the shape of a giant eye. The All Seeing Eye is found all over the movie. There is the logo of the Four Horsemen magicians as well. The actions of the Eye are influence in the magician's actions. It is interesting to note that the people behind the movie did not create a fictional symbol to represent the secret society. They used the most important symbol of today’s occult elite – one the most important symbols of various powerful secret societies.  This symbol of the All Seeing Eye including others are also already used all around mass media. That image is a common image of the symbolism of the occult elite.





The OTO is an old order that uses magical rituals as a means to maintain their agenda. The OTO has a history with Hollywood. The All Seeing Eye is common in the OTO, the Freemasons, and other similar organizations. The OTO wants the Aeon of Horus to reign in the world ruled by the law of Thelema.  In the movie, one of the books used to research The Eye is called “The Guardians of Horus."  The layout of its cover closely resembles the cover of actual OTO books, complete with rectangular borders and a title in golden, embedded, capitalized letters. The film shows many folks being programmed to do strange actions when talking about the Eye. Jack Wilder appears to die in a car crash. Yet, he is still alive and the public doesn't know that. Thaddeus, an ex-magician, now makes a career out of creating DVDs “debunking” magicians. When he goes against the elite-backed Horsemen, things do not end well for him. He is framed by the Eye and thrown in jail. By the end of the movie, the Four Horsemen do not know what is going on. This is like in real life. Many puppet musicians do not know about corporate exploitation, occult rituals, and the occult elite exploiting their lives. The puppets just do the bidding of the rulers of the industry. At the end of the film, the Horsemen see closed up boxes and they were used by the Eye for exploitation. They were manipulated all along. The elite uses real magic. Crowley defined magick as “the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will”. The goal of the entertainment industry is to cause change. But that change takes time … years, decades and generations. The movie shows changes all of the time. The distraction is the overt magic tricks and the real magic is the elite transforming society to fit its needs via the mass media. CGI is real, but the elite wants genetic control, militarism, imperialism, and centralization of power into their own hands. The movie shows a metaphor about how in real life that many artists and performers are recruited by the elite to advance it agenda. The Eye is based on real secret societies that have influence in Hollywood. So, we see the truth and we know the real including the deal. That is why we should fight evil by doing good.


One of the biggest evils found in popular culture is its advancement of the wicked, nefarious American Empire. We know that the entertainment industry and mainstream popular culture is dominated by elite corporate interests. The 1 percent heavily works in contrast to the interests of the rest of humanity. We know that we should be careful on how humanity is portrayed. Then and now, black human beings and others have been degraded, stereotyped, and lied about by the pop culture including the entertainment industry. We know that the Hollywood and TV industry is filled with the lies of white supremacy. White Supremacy with its capitalist power structure influences that system. Also, many blacks are in that industry and are used as scapegoats for the overall evil system of the white supremacy power structure. Now, we know that Kanye West is wrong to glamorize a Confederate flag on his jacket. The Confederate flag is the symbol of our enemy. The Confederacy was a scourge in the world. Jefferson Davis, Albert Pike, and other Confederates were wrong in their cause. It or that flag was used as a means to harm, abuse, and kill innocent black men, black women, and black children. It is inappropriate in my eyes. I can't co-sign that jacket at all. I can never use the flag of my enemy on my body at all.  We know that popular culture has been exploited by the ruling elite as a means to advance not only American capitalism and empire (it is to ferment the agenda of white supremacy. That is why we must show Black power and Black Unity in the world). The agenda of the elite is neoliberalism and other evils. Even the show SCANDAL like many shows debase Black Love and glamorize the lying stereotype of an adulterous woman who uses sex as a means to gain political power (and influence over the Presidency). It is as worship of corruption, Empire, and whiteness (since the white male President is viewed as flawed but sympathetic). The reality is that the black male and the black female should speak the truth for real and validate and affirm each other without white validation (from white people). The show was based on Judy Smith. She handles crisis management situations in real life. She had a key role in getting Clarence Thomas confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court despite Anita Hill’s charges of sexual harassment. She also helped clean things up for the Republicans during the Iran Contra Scandal. As recently as May of this year, the real life character behind “SCANDAL” represented Paula Deen, the White TV Cooking Show maven who outraged Black America for allegedly admitting she fantasized about “owning slaves." You could not make this stuff up. So, numerous human beings are color are used in the midst of controversies as a means to be placed as scapegoats for the overall crimes of white supremacy. Now, we realize that Black Women are Queens and heroes. Black Women should be treated with dignity and respect. It is just that some of our people have made errors among both genders. The song New Slaves talks about the rise of mass incarceration and private prisons. The situation is that the agenda of the Western Empire deals with finance capital hoarding of wealth, neoliberalism, austerity, mass incarceration, the growth of the surveillance state via the NSA, Homeland Security, etc. There is the privatization of prisons, schools, and government services. Now that agenda is not just agreed to by Republicans. Some mainstream Democrats love that agenda as well. Shows that love imperialists and the oppressors or videos that degrade black men or black women are not things that we should co-sign at all. We have to be real and reject saying the N word, the B word, the H word, etc. We are strong human beings. We are not those words at all. So, folks like Kanye West and Kerry Washington are our Brothers and our Sisters. They should not be degraded at all. They are the victims of oppression. They are not the originators of our oppression neither should they be scapegoated for the evils found in Hollywood or in popular culture at all. We have to look in our own mirror and improve our lives also (not just expose the system of white supremacy and the evil 1 percent in charge of the system). We should show compassion and empathy with each other as black males and black females. Also, when you have Sinead O'Connor telling Miley Cyrus that she is sending the wrong message about true femininity, then you know that we have a problem in the world. There is nothing wrong with love, but we can never exploit love as a means to advance the sexual exploitation of males or females. O'Connor is right that the music industry in its leadership want money and could care less about the dignity of the human beings in it. The reality is that males and females should be treated as equals, inspired to express their full potentials, and not give a single care about the haters nor the enemies of humanity. In the final analysis, all human beings need love, attention, dignity, justice, and respect. So, there is nothing wrong with Black Love at all. Also, we should respect black females too. We are in this situation together. Males and females are equally important in the eyes of the Creator and the more some folks realize it, the better we can get the work of justice and equality completed in the world. 

The Kardashian family 2013 Christmas card outlines the mainstream, corporate controlled entertainment industry and its wickedness & contradictions in full display. A lot of folks have in set views on the Kardashians. You know my views on the Kardashians. It is what it is. Now, the Christmas card is interesting since it has a lot of symbolism in it. The card is less about spirituality and more about materialism and the decadence of Western society. The card was shot by the elite photographer David Lachapellle. The card is grim and summarized the entertainment rule all of the way through. The industry is not only allied with the murderous military industrial complex. It is allied with Big Pharma, and the rest of the corporate engines of control over the masses of society. The industry is ruled by shadowy elite (with their bankers and billionaires head of the corporations running distributions and media conglomerates) that readily promotes a toxic culture. There is much symbolism in the card that deals with the occult, the industry, Illuminist themes, etc. The shot deals with an abandoned movie theater. The movie theater seems to be destroyed and vandalized. Tons of things are going on in the card from left to right. Kim Kardashian is there in the card posing with a revealing outfit. Her image, which is Eurocentric, is highly lusted by many. The reality is that humanity is diverse and humanity should be treated with dignity and respect. Yet, there is nothing wrong with loving and appreciating the beautiful black African phenotype either. 

Black is Beautiful. 

Her fame and family links are many reasons why she is where she is now. There is a dollar sign to her, which is self-explanatory. Money and profit lusted after has been a reality of companies during this time of the year. The Jenner sisters pose in a strange way. They pose in front of 2 All Seeing Eye pyramids. The All Seeing Eye found in the One dollar bill has many reasons. There are dismembered mannequins (which is a symbol of mind control and the debasement of human life. Mind control and the debasement of human life have been common among the CIA, the industry, and other factions of world power for eons of human history). There is the image of the Mother and Child archetype, which is a mockery of Mary and Jesus Christ. Kyle wears a vulva shaped headdress. She looks like a high priestess. The sisters stand on a pile of celebrity magazines, representing garbage (since many of such magazines advance distraction, lies, disinformation, and non-relevant issues to build up humanity). Ironically, they build their careers on such magazines though. Behind the sisters at the base of the pyramid is an image of the box of Wheaties. It has the image of Bruce Jenner when he was an Olympic athlete. Khole Kardashian poses while sitting on the backseat of a car. Kourtney's son Mason lays on it. The rest of the family either looks distress or full of happiness. The whole money transactions in life can be complicated. Many celebrities lust after fame, but fame has its price. It is not all it cracked up to be. There are images of African mothers and babies in the background. This is ironic since many celebrities adopt African babies and these babies are stripped from their African mothers constantly. Also, many celebrities exploit celebrities of black African descent (or black people in general) as a means to gain profit or to seek cultural exploitation. Many do not care about black people at all, which is historic. This card outlines what the industry is all about. It deals with mind control, superficiality, materialism, exploitation (even of children), and distraction. P.S. Christmas came from paganism and many Christians then and now oppose it for various reasons. So, we should focus on loving our families, working to enrich humanity, rejecting materialism, loving Africa, and rejecting token fame (and embrace true happiness in our lives). It is as simple as that. 

 There is even some Hollywood propaganda with the movie called, "Captain Philips." The movie obscures the U.S. crimes in Somalia. It portrays the heroes vs. savages archetype that is common among Western supremacist thinking. The movie is about the 2009 hijacking of the Maersk Alabama commercial container ship by Somalia pirates. Pirates have been popularized with the recent Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy. Those pirates are portrayed as almost heroes when Western pirates abandon their own, kill, and do other horrible actions. Many European pirates centuries ago lack human compassion. Tom Hanks plays the eponymous Captain Philips. He urges the Somali pirates to treat their wounded. He expresses paternal concern for his captors. —“What are you, sixteen, seventeen? You’re too young to be out here doing this”; conveys indignation over the pirates’ conduct—“Is this how you do business? By shooting people?”; and repeatedly tells the hijackers that they could leave, right now, with $30,000, no questions asked. The impression is that the pirates are acting out of greed not desperation. The actors portraying the pirates were Somalis. Many Somalis now are starving. The film shows Philips at the end of the film shown arms tied to the wall. It shows a crucifixion image that falls short of his role as a Christ figure. The ship’s chief engineer told CNN, “it was the captain’s recklessness that steered them into pirate-infested waters.” Crew members said that Phillips pursued this dangerous route in order to save money. Now the crew is suing the shipping corporation for putting them in harm’s way, with Phillips playing a nasty role in the lawsuit. To quote a Businessweek headline on the topic, “Hero of Captain Phillips Movie Portrayed as Villain in Lawsuit." There is great controversy in the film. The Somalis are portrayed as convenient villains for Hollywood in the past. Blackhawk Down viewed the Somalis as ruthless and bloodthirsty. Americans were shown as honoring every life. The facts do not support this narrative. The real Blackhawk Down incident was about 1,000 Somalis being killed as U.S. rangers dropped into a crowded marketplace. The film was so distorted in its depiction of Somalis that the Somali Justice Advocacy Center in California called for a boycott of the movie. They said that “portrays Somalis as violent savages”. The Maersk Alabama was carrying some humanitarian aid, but it ignores the U.S. extensive cries in the region. The U.S. supported the brutal dictator Siad Barre. He lost power in 1991. The U.S. so-called "humanitarian mission" called "Operation Restore Hope" killed 7,000 to 10,000 Somalis. It resulted in a civil war, famine, and political chaos. In 2001 the U.S. closed Al Barakaat or a money transfer company. It was claimed it was used to funnel money to al-Qaeda. The reality is that the organization had no link to al-Qaeda. Thousands of poverty stricken Somalis depended on the money transferred via Al Barakaat from family abroad. Somalia specialist Michel Del Buono stated that the decision to close al Barakaat was “equivalent to killing civilians." The U.S. financed warlords in Somalia as have been found in 2006. These warlords formed death squads that terrorized Somalia. They killed anyone who supported Islamic movements. Some of those captured by the death squads were turned over to the U.S. for money where they were tortured. Religious factions fought the warlords back. The factors are united in the group called the Union of Islamic Courts. The UIC gave aid to the malnourished Somalia. They almost united all of Somalia by 2006. The UIC was seen as by the Bush administration as too independent. So, the U.S. backed Ethiopia's invasion of Somalia. Ethiopia is a great nation with wonderful people. It is just the West used a divide and conquer strategy that pitted black African brothers and sisters against one another (which is one of the sick things that one can do). It was U.S. proxy war with U.S. troops in the ground in 2006. The U.S. air power gave support and the invasion turned into a brutal 2 year occupation. It displaced hundreds of thousands and killed 16,000 civilians. Rob Wise at the Center for Strategic and International Studies says the Ethiopian occupation transformed al Shabaab from a very weak force in Somalia to “the most powerful and radical faction in the country." So, the film never gives the U.S. role in making Somalia a failed state without a coast guard.

There have been European, Asian, and Gulf companies dumping toxic and nuclear waste into Somalis coastal waters. These waters are unregulated. Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, the UN envoy for Somalia, said, “There is uranium radioactive waste, there is lead, there are heavy metals like cadmium, and mercury, there is industrial waste, hospital, and chemical wastes.” He continued, “Radioactive waste is potentially killing Somalis and completely destroying the ocean.” So, we see that 20 years of famine, civil war, and the destruction of the ocean including fishermen that caused piracy. In 2007 the UN noted that Somalia had higher malnutrition rates, more bloodshed, and fewer aid workers than Darfur. Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah described Somalia’s plight as “the worst on the continent." It is easy to see that the West is complicit in the destruction of Somalis for 20 years. Hollywood is wrong for ignoring this history and slandering the Somali people. I reject war and imperialism.


By Timothy