Friday News in early January of 2014

It is interesting to note that one Christie appointee refused to give more information by citing his right to remain silent. Bridget Kelly being fired is interesting, because I am sure Bridget Kelly has interesting words to say about the whole scandal. We don't know all of the facts in this situation. Fort Lee being exploited for political gain where lives were in risk is truly abhorrent. This story is bigger than Bridget Kelly though. All those who found to be involved in this situation should be made accountable. Chris Christie should give a full accounting of his action as it pertains to the situation of the traffic jams. The bridge scandal is an important issue in American society. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R) insisted on Thursday that New Jersey officials may have closed three lanes on the George Washington Bridge in September to study traffic patterns. This contradicts statements Port Authority officials made last year. “What I was told was that it was a traffic study, and there was no evidence to the contrary until yesterday,” Christie said at a press conference apologizing for his administration’s role in shutting down bridge lanes and causing potentially life-threatening traffic jams. “There still may have been a traffic study that now has political overtones to it as well,” he added. But in early December, three Port Authority officials testified that “there was no traffic study being conducted while access lanes from Fort Lee on the George Washington Bridge were closed in September.” Port Authority executive director Patrick Foye, a Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) appointee, testified on Dec. 9 that the study did not exist. New Jersey’s top official at the authority, Deputy Executive Director Bill Baroni — a Christie appointee — had claimed the closings were for a traffic study. Baroni has since resigned. Christie has constantly floated the possibility of a traffic study on Thursday. He said that: "...I don’t know if this was a traffic study that morphed into a political vendetta or a political vendetta that morphed into a traffic study..." FOX News is not reporting on this story as strong as they would if others experienced the same scandal. I wonder why. We all know the reason why. Also, folks like Senator Marco Rubio say that just having marriage alone (without any other public policy) can decrease poverty. The reality is that you have to do more than just build families to handle poverty. The Earned Income Tax Credit have helped the poor and middle class for decades. Kristi Williams, associate professor of sociology at Ohio State University, did some research and found that more than two-thirds of single mothers who married ended up divorced by the time they were 35 to 44. On top of that, marrying and then later divorcing leaves them worse off economically than if they had just stayed unmarried. An evaluation of marriage programs in eight cities found that they didn’t lead to a lasting improvement in marriage rates, relationship quality, or children’s economic wellbeing. On the other hand, they “resulted in modest decreases in fathers’ financial support and parental involvement,” she writes. That is why Kristi Williams said that to decrease poverty deals with human beings having access to comprehensive, age appropriate sexual education, and access to family services. Strengthen the social safety net can develop American single parents and all other families as well. There are single parents families in 16 other high income countries doing better than single parent Americans, because these nations have strong health care coverage, income support, paid time off from work, and other benefits to assist children. Universal preschool and more support for childcare (including raising the minimum wage) and lift many out of poverty. So, single parent households and 2 parent households should be treated with dignity and with respect. They ought to have the adequate resources to flourish and not degraded.



That is the truth. Black human beings being victims of oppression is nothing new. We should know of this information, because the skeptics continue to lie and say that racism is the thing of the past or that black people are not suffering massive oppression in 2014. Now, many black victims of injustice are being prosecuted in an unfair fashion. For a while, many prosecutors try to put black victims of police gunfire in prison. America has been nation for cneturies that have targeted black people for incarceration, death, police surveillance, and prosecution. We know of this for a long time. The criminal justice system on many occassions mocks real democratic principles and equal treatment under the law. America imprisons more human beings than any naiton on Earth. It has 25 percent of all of the world's prisoners, but it has only 5 percent of the world's population. There are laws against this behaivor. Yet, the NYPD fired at Broadnax claiming that he had a gun. We heard this before. Broadnax didn't have a gun. Police tasered him and the NYPD injured 2 innocent bystanders in trying to subdue him. The NYPD should be held accountable for their actions. Now Manhattan’s district attorney, Cyrus Vance Jr., has chosen to prosecute Broadnax for assaulting the two victims who were in fact shot by the police. A young black, unarmed mentally ill man was shot by the police, but he faces 25 years in prison because the cops wounded two bystanders. The man is named Glenn Broadnax. The incident occured in September 14, 2013. He walked into vehicular traffic in Times Square. A young man blinded by a cop's bullet also may face 35 years in prison. His name is Kwadir Felton. The attorney for Felton will argue a motion for a new trial. The attorney says that there was prosecutorial misconduct done by the prosecutor in the trial named Ray Mateo. Brooke Barnett, Felton’s attorney, has since filed a motion for a new trial, citing “prosecutorial misconduct” and calling the state’s evidence against Felton ”absolutely and unequivocally contradicted, clearly causing a miscarriage of justice.” Felton was shot by Jersey City Police Sgt. Thomas McVicar on Jan. 10, 2010 on a Greenville street. The officer was inside a parked vehicle conducting surveillance. The officer claimed that he shot Felton since he believed that Felton had a gun pointed at him. Felton denied having a gun. He testified that he just left a baby shower on his way to his girlfriend's house when he heard someone call his name and say cursing words to him. The witness Cedric Johnson saw Felton and he did not see a gun on Felton at all. We are innocent until proven guilty here. He was found guilty on all counts. Felton said that Jersey City police officers harass him and called him names. So, we know that many cops are totally wicked and nefarious. Felton graduated frm high school from Synder High School. He said that it was one of the greatest feelings that he had in the word. He is gaining his confidence.


The War on Poverty is now over 50 Years Old. We all want the same goal of fighting and ending poverty completely. Many of us disagree with some of the ways to get to that goal. President Lyndon Baines Johnson delivered his speech on wanting to end poverty, joblesness, and hunger in America during his first State of the Union Address on January 8, 1964. “This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America,” Johnson said in the speech, delivered not quite seven weeks after the assassination of his predecessor, John Kennedy. Many of the programs that Congress and the President enacted in this period were part of the Great Society. These programs included: the Social Security Act of 1965 creating Medicare and Medicaid, which respectively provided health insurance to the elderly and introduced federal health care coverage for the disabled and poor; the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which was the first significant legislation addressing institutional racism since the era of Reconstruction nearly a century earlier; and a number of job training, urban development, educational, and nutritional government agencies and initiatives, including the pre-kindergarten educational program Head Start and the Food Stamp program. The War on Poverty was a test of U.S. capitalism and economic policies. The verdict is in. The War on Poverty made some improvements in society, while there is a long way to go. Some of Johnson's programs included tax cuts for the which and the funding of the American war machine. The U.S. economy grew in the 1960's. Soon, came the decline of U.S. industry. Tax cuts came under Johnson. The United States Revenue Act of 1964 reduced the top marginal tax rate from 91 percent to 70 percent, handing over 30 percent of the aggregate tax cut to the top 2 percent of tax filers. Corporate taxes were also reduced. The logic was that these tax cuts would inspire industries to grow jobs. This didn't work. Corporate profits grew by 65 percent over the decedes. Yes, the corporaitons and wealthy stockholders increasingly diverted resources overseas—industrial investment by US corporations abroad increased by 500 percent in the 1960s—and toward financial speculation, in what historian Alfred Chandler has called the mergers and acquisitions “binge” of 1965-1969. The tradition of long-term and stable ownership of stocks was steadily replaced by a purchase strategy that centered on short-term profits. High military spending harmed domestic services too. That is why Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was right to say that the US spent “$500,000 to kill each enemy soldier, while we spend only fifty-three dollars for each person classified as poor.” By the end of the 1960s, one in every ten jobs in the US was tied to the Defense Department budget. We have the liberal reformism of the Great Society. There were wage strikes of the 1970's, and the decline of Western capitalism later on. Today, the ruling class views any government expenditure on social programs as intolerable. The War on Poverty was heavily impacted negativity by the Vietnam War and other issues. Even today, the poor is being regularly scapegoated, demonized, and disrespected by ignorant narrowminded human beings. Much of the poor are poor by no fault of their own. It has been a perverted pasttime for some of the Western elites to demonize the poor in an unfair fashion. It is a shame. The poverty rate was cut in half from 1960 to 1970, but we still have a long way to go in ending poverty (because of the recession and some human beings giving up finding jobs. Underemployment represents a serious problem). In the years between 1965 and 1973, poverty rates plummeted, and especially in urban areas, by about 38 percent. Many of the Great Society problems were cut or eliminated by the mid 1970's. We haven't won the war on poverty, because of unjust wars, economic regressive actions, massive austerity cuts, and massive giveaways to the super rich (and other reasons). Billions of dollars can be spent for imperialism and the military industrial complex, but now we see no serious effort to address poverty in the world. Our social safety net is ever threatened by reactionaries. The solution is not a one size fit all approach though. Every level of government and a wide spectrum of human beings should be part of the solution to assist the poor, to give human beings JOBS, to fight crime, to grow our education, and to see human beings to have a radical, revolutionary improvement of their standard of living (via INVESTMENTS, INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT, ETC.). WE HAVE TO TAKE A MORE HOLISTIC APPROACH WHEN DEALING WITH FIGHTING POVERTY. Classism, Racism and Sexism are inextricably linked to our issues as well. We have to address the structural problems involving poverty. We have to address economic inequality and vast wealth transferred to the top of society. To eradicate poverty, there should be radical policies.


The new Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York City has great responsibilities. He won by a landslide in his election. His support is growing in the great city of NYC. I am glad that Bloomberg is out. Bloomberg is known for his anti-human civil liberty policies and his race baiting rhetoric. Some have viewed Bill de Blasio under many terms. Some even try to call de Blasio a socialist since when he is not even. Ironically, the socialist Kshama Sawant won a campaign for City Council in Seattle with a lot of union and community support. A 20l2 national Pew poll discovered that 49% of people under the age of 29 had a favorable reaction to the word “socialism,” and the two most looked-up words in the Merriam-Webster online dictionary last year were “socialism” and “capitalism.” Regardless of how you feel about socialism, human beings have the right to be ideologically diverse in their views. We have experienced a failure of real wages over 40 years and economic issues growing since the 2008 crash (and the current great recession). Well, we know what works and what doesn't. We know that the ruling 1% should have accountability. We know that disparities have grown. We realize that real estate, finance, and insurance interests run heavily New York City. We know that there are 50,000 individuals making more than $500,000 a year and 60,000 persons, mostly children, are homeless on any given night. We should work for the people. There should be single payer health care where health care is a human right. Health care is not some privilege for the few. There should be policies to fight poverty live having a living wage, sick days, pensions, and vacations with pay. There should be quality, affordable housing in NYC for the homeless and all human beings. Tenants and occupants should be treated fairly. The illegal stop and frisk action of the NYPD should be gone. Judge Scheindlin made her decision that the stop and frisk of 600,000 persons a year, mostly young people of color, had their 4th and 14th amendment rights violated. Stop and frisk is about the daily terror that the police meter out against innocent human beings that enforce the dictates of the status quo. There should be an end of the police surveillance of innocent New Yorkers. Spies should be out of mosques and Muslim community. Even the FBI and the DHS monitored innocent Occupy Wall Street protesters. We can't be naive either. DeBlasio has been called a change figure similar to other politicians. Regardless of who is Mayor, we know that we should continue to fight for justice. New York City and any location should have real hope and real action to benefit the human race. We don't need a nefarious Empire. Both parties have members that only give lip services to the call of the people to have universal health care truly, workers' rights strengthen, the raise of the minimum wage, and other real policies. Now, we have the greatest consolidation of financial wealth in all of human history. The top 1 percent loved the Citizens United ruling, which called corporations person and called money speech. Many big banks have gotten huge wealth and folks suffer. We have the real issue of corporate lobbyist dominating legal procedures in the world. We see the raiding of pensions in Detroit. NYC deserves relief from tyranny, poverty, and despair. New York City is a city that deserves freedom, justice, equality, and human liberation (which deals with the end of the system of white supremacy completely).



When we see how popular culture works, we see more of the truth. We see that the elite revel in the perverse acts of greed, obfuscating the truth, imperialism, dehumanization, economic exploitation, and sexual exploitation. We also know about the role of CIA in this situation. The CIA have funded and controlled scores of U.S. student, labor, religious, political, and artistic organizations. This is documented in the 2008 book called, "The Mighty Wurlitzer" whose author is Hugh Wilford. The elite have subverted many private and public institutions in the West as a means to maintain control and power over the people. During the Cold War deception, tons of innocent people were killed. That is why when you do the research, you see that there isn't much difference between monopoly capitalism and Stalinist, authoritarian Communism. Under Stalinist, authoritarian Communism (as opposed to the other variations of communism and socialism), the state own the corporations and the Big Banks own the States. Under monopoly capitalism, the corporations own the State, and the Big Banks own the corporations. Both system allows select central banks to have a political, cultural, economic, and spiritual monopoly in the world. The concept of a monopoly is detrimental to social progress and real justice in the world. Central banking among select banks like the FED or the BIS (which is not exposed a lot) is abhorrent. We know about the illusion of democracy in the West. The establishment use mainstream educational system (funded by foundations), mainstream religion, and the mass media to teach folks acquiesce to a deceptive system. It is as simple as that. Some are exploiting laws in Colorado when dealing with marijuana as a means to make economic corporate profit not as a means to really address the evils found in the War on Drugs. The War on Drugs should be abolished and we should not look out for solely self interest. We should be concerned with altruism and have concern for the community. Many Secret societies come into play. Many high level Secret Societies act as executioners of the policies of the elite. Here are some examples. Many revolutions, policies, actions, and even wars (like the Opium Wars, etc.) were executed by members of Freemasonry, the Skulls and Bones, and other Secret societies. Many low level members of the Secret societies don't know the real deal, while the leadership knows what the deal is. Today, the elite want the centralization of wealth, imperialism, and other evils as a means to have Western domination of world society. Some in popular culture advance materialism, depravity, and other forms of wickedness. That is why when we express the universal spiritual ideals of Truth, Justice, Human Dignity, Equality, and Love, the world becomes better.



 By Timothy