Now, we see the Crimeans
vote on whether they will joining Russia or not. They voted to accept independence. Recently, John Kerry and Sergei Lavrov met in
London. The U.S. so far has failed to accept U.S. demands. America and Russia
are in geopolitical opposites. Washington wants its way. Kerry wants Crimea to
remain part of the Ukraine. He said that Russia endorsing the right of Crimeans
to secede as a backdoor annexation of Crimea. Crimeans have the right to choose
their future freely. So, Kerry wants the rules of Washington enforced. Lavrov
said Russia respects “the declaration of the will of the Crimean people in the
coming referendum of March 16.” “We have confirmed our stance…repeatedly,” he
stressed. Ukraine’s crisis is not Russia’s doing, he added. Russia on Saturday
vetoed a Security Council resolution on Crimea’s referendum. UN envoy Vitaly
Chirkin said that the referendum was illegal. Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady
Gatiolv said that the UN resolution was unacceptable to Moscow. Gennady can’t
support the resolution. The resolution wanted to reject the results of the
referendum. He also said the following information: “…We do not think that the
Security Council ought to interfere in the decision by the legitimate
authorities of Crimea regarding the organization of a referendum as this is not
prohibited by the UN Charter or other international law…” Lavrov said that
Crimea means immeasurably more to Russia than the Comoro Islands to France or
the Falklands to Britain. Vladimir Putin wanted to stress the legitimacy of
Crimea’s referendum. Crimea’s referendum is legal, because sovereign people
have the right to choose their own future. The UN Charter provisions affirm it.
The Charter has certain words: “…The organization is based on the principle of
the sovereign equality of all its Members...and free people everywhere…” It
promotes “friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle
of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, and to take other
appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace.” On September 18, 2014,
Scottish citizens vote up or down on independence. It’s their choice. Opponents
don’t claim illegality. Under provisions of the October 1970 Declaration on
Principles of International Law, Crimeans may legally secede. The World Court’s
July 2010 advisory opinion on Kosovo’s declaration of independence affirms
their right to do so. Crimeans can opt out of Ukraine if it wants to. They can
declare independence and they can vote to join Russia. Even on July 4, 1776, 13
American colonies declared independence from Britain. Resisting tyranny is an
universal right against illegitimate putschists controlling the Ukraine. There
has been no massive invasion of Crimea by Russia at all. Moscow’s only
Crimean-based forces relate to its Black Sea Fleet. Russian/Ukrainian 1997
Friendship Treaty terms authorizes numbers up to 25,000. There are about 16,000
present in Crimea. Crimean self-defense forces are duplicitously called Russian
ones. There is no evidence of election rigging in Crimea too. Crimeans rejected Kiev Putschists. The hardline neocon John McCain promotes war mongering in the region of Eastern Europe. He
supports lawless aggression against nonbelligerent countries. NATO is expanding
to Russian borders. McCain even called Ukrainian neo-Nazi putschists
“patriots.” Ronald Reagan once called the Afghan mujahedeen fighters or today’s
Taliban the moral equivalent of our founding fathers. On Saturday, illegitimate
Kiev putschist legislators voted to dissolve Crimea’s lawful parliament.
Effective immediately, they said. Crimeans reject their authority.
Tons of great human beings are totally right
that Africa have made huge contributions to human civilization in general. Our
ancestors not only created great civilizations and efficient government
infrastructures for thousands of years. Our ancestors also advanced common
morality, ethics, and numerous firm truths that persist even in our generation.
The Black Nubians created the Meriotic alphabet as well. In ancient Aksum, we
see great wealth, great trade, and elaborate castles. We see that ancient Aksum
had its own written language too. Ancient Ghana was a rich and power gold
kingdom. Great morality and prosperity existed in the Mali Kingdom. Songhai was
an Empire that was larger than Mali with its scholarly culture including its
complex government. Songhai had tons of brothers and sisters with wit,
civility, and industry. Today, strong and perspicacious black human beings
exist, who are helping out their communities day in and day out. We have every
unquestionable right to defend our black human dignity against narrow minded,
prejudiced, and ignorant folks who reject the true beauty of Africa. Bountiful
gifts among black humanity are expressed on how our people today are artists,
teachers, scholars, lawyers, judges, political leaders, musicians, scientists,
engineers, authors, architects, business leaders, etc. Subsequently, we have to
continue to advance self-determination, and a respect for our black identity.
Pan Africanism is important to understand as well. We need to learn these
facts. Haiti was the first black Republic in the Western Hemisphere. Haitian
created a very successful revolution against French imperialists, but many
Western nations harmed Haiti via trade barriers, coups, and subsidy policies
that harmed the Haitian economy even in modern times. Today, some Brothers and
Sisters are in many organizations fighting the neoliberal policies harming
Haiti. The Maroons were heroic in fighting for liberation. They utilized
guerrilla warfare strategies and excellent maneuvers to fight the oppressor. We
have to fully understand our history from the actions of George Padmore to
others. Malcolm X was right in saying that he have to understand history, our
culture, and African political developments. In the final analysis, we are all
Africans as Kwame Ture said on many occasions. Yes, there is power in calling
ourselves Africans. It is our true identity and it represents our common
humanity. Many Brothers and Sisters then and now are down for the cause of
justice and pan-Africanism. We have to respect our black personhood (and
realize the knowledge of self. That means that we should understand our being
and our intrepid power). Also, we can never forget the power of the collective
(or the community). Black African tradition talks about the village, the
community, etc. So, we should always fight the good fight. We should condemn social
nihilism when some want to call black people the N word and so forth. We should
know about the work of Olaudah Equiano, who fought against the tyranny of
slavery. We should learn about the pan-African efforts of Kwame Nkrumah. The
daughter of Nkumah named Samia Nkrumah has increased her political power too.
She is the Chairwoman of the Convention People’s Party. I have hope for the
future, but nothing changes unless we fight against oppression. Our
prepossessing diversity in our capacity to live our lives is characteristic of
our great vitality. Our cause for black liberation is an honorable cause. So,
Brothers and Sisters should keep on showing the truth.
Regardless of what
some think of all of Bernice King’s views, she is 100 percent correct to
advocate economic justice. I love her oratory ability. Now, she is also tom
mention that African Americans are not completely free 150+ years after the end
of 1865. Also, we have to have to maintain that fighting spirit that our
ancestors had to fight continually institutionalized racism. We have to do more
than owning and controlling the resources in our community. We have to fairly
advance workers’ rights and be non-exploitative when dealing with our
community. In other words, we must reject materialism. Materialism validates
nothing, but it has corrupted society throughout human history. Corrupt
institutions harm societies as well. So, Booker T. Washington was right that
yes we as black people do need to develop skills and social/economic
infrastructure as a means to grow our power base (Booker T. Washington was
incorrect to ignore how selfish, individualist capitalism plays a role in
harming the community. There is nothing revolutionary about getting money. It
is nothing new. What is revolutionary is how to use resources, and energy
collectively to end white supremacy via legitimate organization &
cooperative power. We have to resist evil). We see how capitalism was behind
the behind of the torture death of about 200,000 Guatemalans, the death squads
in many countries, the suppression of the labor movement, and the economic
exploitation of the Third World. That is why a more democratic, just society is
superior to the status quo. Consumerism is a death culture since it is linked
to greed and avarice that kills humanity. Yet, WE.B Du Bois and Malcolm X were
right also that the whole system is based on prejudice and discrimination. Our
economic empowerment and our self-determination in the future must require the
transcendence of capitalism itself. We must deal with grow our solidarity and
our community beyond the paradigm of the market. When work is done
cooperatively, then we can see changes. Many legitimate activists agree with
democratic cooperatives as a means to assist black humanity. I have no issue
with this action. Therefore, we should thrive to reject the current system and
formulate a new system to benefit us as a whole. We must respect cooperation
for cooperation is the principle involved in creating a true civilization, of creating a community, of establishing justice, and of advancing decency. We have to be end white supremacy (and
their ideals. For example, we have to view black people as Brothers and Sisters.
We should never hate humanity unfairly, especially black people). Black people
should be loved and never degraded at all. That is why when you have a program
that uplifts the spirit of the people is greater to the status quo than guns
alone. When you have a real idea, it can change the world. You have to have
principles to know what you are fighting for. We see the growth of cooperative
communities. We see that the war against reaction is on. There has been a spike
in the activities of far right and white racist groups since Obama’s election.
There is nothing wrong with social justice and a revolutionary, democratic community. Obviously,
America is not post racial at all. One important ingredient of CHANGE involves
the PEOPLE. You need people to engineer true change. It is the PEOPLE not
Lincoln, FDR, Kennedy, Johnson, Obama, or other well-meaning liberals that by themselves that caused massive worldwide social change. I believe in self-defense and I also
believe in nonviolent revolution too. Nonviolent revolution has worked wonders
to end fascists regimes globally and even the authoritarian Stalinist regimes
of Eastern Europe. We should use modern technology too. In a matter of seconds
or minutes, we can contact a Brother from Trinidad, a Sister from Ghana, or
another Sister from South Africa. We can invent new alternatives of
communication to open channels of expression and revolutionary thinking (which
translates into action). At the end of the day, we are fighting for an agenda
of equality, freedom, and liberation.
According to NY
State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli, the average bonus payout for Wall Street
employees grew by 15 percent in 2013. The average employee bonus hit $164,530
in 2013, the third-highest figure on record, including both cash bonuses and
deferred compensation payouts for earlier years. The total cash bonus pool for
Wall Street hit $26.7 billion. So, we know about the record profits that have
transpired for Wall Street and Main Street is still suffering. There are
economic problems and there should be solutions. When I look at this proposal,
it is modest and not extremist as the reactionary classify this proposal as.
When you have many workers having to work multiple jobs to survive, then we
have a wage complication in America. The reactionaries erroneously believe that
even a 1 percent of a tax increase on the super-rich is wrong. There should be
an increase of the minimum wage, and other things. We need economic justice not
the status quo. Ireland has huge household debt The Irish banking system is
suffering and some want to nationalize the banks. This may occur in America,
because we have debt issues in America too. History documents how immoral
physical slavery and debt peonage was for the human race globally. European
financiers wanted the American Civil War to make America to be ruled as a
colony by them. Yet, they were not necessarily interested in maintaining
physical slavery. They wanted the European plan of using capital to exploit
labor by controlling the money supply while letting the laborers feed
themselves. n July 1862, this ploy was revealed in a notorious document called
the Hazard Circular, which was circulated by British banking interests among
their American banking counterparts. It admitted that chattel slavery would be
destroyed, so Europeans wanted to control labor by controlling wages (they
wanted the capitalists to fund the war and reject the greenback when the
international bankers could not control at all). This debt peonage is similar
to the modern banking system where money is issued privately by bankers and
then lent to the government rather than issued as greenbacks by the government
itself. A private central bank created money by printing it or entering it as
an accounting entry. Later, it lends it to the federal government in exchange
for government bonds or debt. U.S. money is now created as a debt to private
bankers. Banks create the principal but not the interest necessary to pay back
their loans, so more money is always owed back than was put into the money
supply in the first place. More loans must therefore continually be taken out
to cover the interest. This has spiraled the economy into increasing levels of
debt and inflation, in a futile attempt to repay principal and interest on a
debt that is actually impossible to repay. This debt peonage has harmed the
people and makes the corporate elite dominate their loves for food, shelter,
and health care. The American system was strong. It allowed paper money to be
issued by local provincial governments not only to pay their own expenses but
as commercial loans. Pennsylvania back then had a publicly owned bank issuing
paper notes and lent them to farmers. The money returned to the government, so
it didn’t inflate the money supply. Since the government issued and spent an
additional sum of money on public works, enough money was kept in the system to
pay the interest on the loans and prevent the debt spiral afflicting the
private banking system. The Pennsylvania system worked so well that it
completely funded the provincial government without taxes or inflation.
Benjamin Franklin said that the major reason on why the American Revolution
occurred was because Parliament forbade the colonies form issuing their own
money. By 1913, the United States had the same private central banking system
that England had. Money supply now is inflated with more debt. This causes a
shrinking of dollar value increasing debt peonage. The government should issue
its own money instead of borrowing it from banks that issue it. If real money
was used to pay for real goods and services like roads and bridges, sustainable
energy development, health services, and the like, demand and supply would
remain in balance and inflation would not result. A government with a properly
designed and monitored system of publicly-issued money could fund itself
without taxes, inflation or debt. Publicly owned banks or nationalized banks
are the wave of the future. They threaten the private banking system. Public
banks operating for the benefit of the public is great.
The War on Drugs
is complex. What we do accurately realize that the current state of the
judicial system has been decrepit. It has sent many innocent human beings to
jail for extended periods of time and it has given unfair sentences especially
unto black men and black women. If the judicial system was truly fair, then
Eric Holder would never propose the things that he is proposing. Mandatory
minimum sentences are archaic and they should be banned in my opinion. I
believe that nonviolent drug users should not have any prison time. Holder’s
proposal is limited in scope. Drug abuse among nonviolent human beings is an
addiction issue and a medical issue. We have to advance more treatment to those
who have drug addiction and who are nonviolent. Any draconian, unfair
sentencing ought to be gone. Revolutionary criminal justice acts can not only
reduce the number of human beings in prison, but it can improve the economy,
and give human beings who paid their debts to society total human rights (with
them not being able to vote or to be deprived of economic opportunities). We
have a long way to go to fully address the War on Drugs and the brutality of
mass incarceration. Every stone should be unturned as a means to find the total
truth about how Kendrick Johnson passed away. This development is a step in the
right direction, because these subpoenas can be utilized in good use.
Witnesses, school authorities, etc. should be placed under oath as a means to
get as much accurate, credible information possible. All of us are in unison
with the family of Kendrick Johnson. There has to be more questions answered
especially after the second autopsy contradicted the findings of the first
autopsy. The Feds and the rest of the authorities should do their jobs. Also,
school officials not just students should be subpoenaed too. We express total
sympathy to the family and friends of Kendrick Johnson. In America, we see much
public acceptance of almost all crimes done by our government. Some pretend to
love the due process of law, but condemn to death any foreign leaders that are
opposed to the U.S. propaganda establishment. We know that the same big business
entities collaborate with the corporate media as a means to advance a narrative
that is in favor of Western imperialist interests. Many people obsess with
Putin as a means to justify the US/EU/NATO attempt to make Ukraine a puppet
regime. Ironically, the coup in Ukraine came around in the time of the Sochi
Winter Olympics. The neo cons want to even provoke a militarist incident with
Putin in the Ukraine. The Empire is continuing. They are planting propaganda
stories even in the Russian News channel called RT. Abby Martin said that he
doesn’t support Putin’s intervention in the Crimea even though she doesn’t know
much about the Ukraine situation. Liz Wahl resigned over her saying that she
can’t support the lies from Putin. So, the real truth is that both America and
Russia are not perfect at all. Both nations have huge racism, white supremacist
movements, and other evils. The West is much hypocritical to deny Crimea its
right of self-determination because even America was created as a result of a rebellion
against the British Empire.
By Timothy
2 comments:
See the interview linked within.
http://continuingcounterreformation.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-reincarnation-of-polish-lithuanian.html
Thanks for the Link.
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