Real Information in Late March 2014

Honestly, black people have the right to believe in political independence. I don’t have respect for the leadership of the GOP or the Tea Party at all. They tolerate bigotry & extremism from Rush Limbaugh, Savage, Ann Coulter Bill O’Reilly, and others (who advance the agenda of white supremacy). I abhor that agenda 100 percent. With that being said, we have to be real with our economic situation. The privatized Federal Reserve (who blatantly manipulate interest rates) and central banks globally have harmed the infrastructure of nations, deregulated massively national resources, influenced wars, increased unemployment, and grew economic inequality. We know that the QE benefit Wall Street not Main Street heavily at all. The IMF's and the World Bank's massive privatization and neo-liberal policies have disrupted economic progress as well. History shows that. Anyone that refuses to expose the corruption found in Wall Street and refuse to expose corporate corruption is missing the point. So, we should end the system of central, privatized banks, and focus more on public banking including decentralized banks (including independent, cooperative banks as advocated by Ellen Brown, Stephen Zarlenga, Dennis Kucinich, and others). True currency ought to be based on sound money (like debt free money) not debt filled money. Both parties for a long time have advocated bailouts for the big banks, QE, imperialism, unfair trade policies, NSA spying, imperialism including war mongering, etc. That is a fact. So, we need to work in independent organizations that are actively creating solutions in our community. We have the right to protest (and to vote), but protesting is not enough. We have to mentor, work in community based programs, support those who are actively fighting discrimination, support those who are creating grassroots solutions, and advocate economic justice. We need more than economic justice (a higher minimum wage that most Americans support, an ending of unfair tax breaks for the super wealthy, and even a guaranteed annual income are items that I have no issue with). We need social justice too. Racism and discrimination should be opposed with all of our strength not just economic corruption. We are fighting a racial and class struggle for human justice at the end of the day. That means that we have to advocate legitimate regulations against pollution (since lax regulations contributed to the BP disaster and the disaster in West Virginia recently), we have to return our civil liberties that have been stripped from us, we have to advocate workers’ rights, and we should advocate voting rights. 

I agree with you 100 percent. The current President has been heavily insulted in a vicious way. The Belgium newspaper tried to save face. Their perverted depiction of the President and his beautiful wife is disgraceful, evil, childish, and immature. Europe is not some progressive paradise as some have depicted it as well. There is still a strong neo-Nazi racist movement in Europe. Leopold II of Belgium during the 19th century was involved in the deaths of millions of black people in the Congo. So, Belgium has a history of being involved in the atrocities of European imperialism. The newspaper's explanation over its evil action is blatantly a desperate attempt to try to maintain their abhorrent reputation. The satirist trying to justify his action is a true shame. I am not surprised by this since racism and vicious caricatures of black people are global phenomenons. We have to confront these things since nothing changes unless we fight for solutions and confront evil. We have to confront evil in order for good to prosper in the world. I am in solidarity with Brothers and Sisters in Belgium (and others globally). Donald Rumsfeld is who he is. He is a hypocrite. He complains about foreign policy today, but he was involved in the foreign policy disaster of the Iraq War. His role in the Iraq War caused tons of Iraqis and Americans (including others to die) based on faulty intelligence, deception, and other forms of lies. War crimes, destruction of infrastructure, depleted uranium, and torture have festered as a product of the Iraq War. Rumsfeld was an ally of Nixon and other reactionaries, so we know where he stands. He stands for corporate interests. He stands for a retrograde foreign policy that adheres to imperialism not rational thinking. He shook hands with Saddam Hussein back in 1983 too. Neo-conservative policies have only exacerbated issues in the Middle East. He is an unrepentant war criminal. His ape remarks signify how some try to dehumanize the President by saying that an ape can do better than him. That is an insult to the President’s intelligence and his humanity. So, Rumsfeld’s remarks reflect his immaturity and his ignorance. These white reactionaries make no bones about how they feel about us as black people. Therefore, I have no respect for Donald Rumsfeld or his neo-conservative agenda at all. I remember doing research about Belgium and the Rwanda massacres. The Organization of African Unity (OAU) issued a report that had talked about this issue too. That is a great point. Prof Michel Chossudovsky has great research about how America and France are related to the geopolitics of these massacres. Major General Kagame, who led the RPF insurrection, was supported by the US and Britain. Glen Ford and other experts have documented the West's role in their lax responses to the Rwanda massacre too.

So far, Russia has not invaded all of Ukraine at all. Crimea has asserted its moral right of self-determination. Putin is not perfect, but he is not Hitler either. Many fascists and neo-Nazis have power in the new puppet Kiev regime. It is a shame that Western power want to recognize the fascist led putsch regime in Kiev. Also, folks should research petrodollars, gas, and oil and how it relates to this crisis. It has a very great deal to do with this crisis also (Russia and China are in unison involving the Ukraine issue. If both nations unite to harm the petrodollar in response to the Western sanctions, then that will cause massive problems globally). I found that 25 percent of the natural gas that Europe uses comes from Russia. Ukraine has only 4 months of natural gas supplies stockpiled. So, we have to realize the interdependence of these events. I believe that the President should go for massive negotiations and more threats against Russia will not solve this problem totally at all. I condemn fascism too since these fascists are harming the democratic rights of the Ukrainian people. At the end of the day, we want an independent Ukraine and an independent Crimea (without imperialist interests). The President still condemned the March 16 referendum that caused Crimea to effectively seceded Ukraine. The West wants Moscow to accept the Western backed fascist coup in the Ukraine. The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov agreed to meet with the foreign minister of the Kiev regime. “We set forth our vision to establish good national dialogue taking into account all residents of Ukraine,” Lavrov told a press conference after meeting with Deshchytsia. In reality, we should never give a veneer of democratic credibility to an illegitimate, fascistic regime in Kiev. There is a debate on whether Kiev will conduct the elections in an orderly fashion. The fascistic and anti-Russian character of the forces on which the Kiev regime rests precludes any meaningful democratic process or any lasting agreement with Moscow. Shortly after Lavrov’s talks with Deshchytsia ended, Ukrainian police operatives shot and killed a key leader of the fascist Right Sector militia, Oleksandr Muzychko. This led to threats from the Right Sector, which played a key role in last month’s putsch that it would retaliate. President Barack Obama will meet to NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the Pope, and Italy’s new Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, and Saudi Arabia (to meet with King Abdullah). The West wants use capitalist techniques as a means to pressure Moscow to give in to their demands on Ukraine. The U.S. even threatens to pressure Russia’s oil and natural gas industry that supplies a third of Europe’s demand and is central to the Russian economy. So, the Western Empire (with its now G7 meetings and its NATO encircling Russia) has been exploitative, evil, and wicked. The Empire is in decline and we have the right to advocate true democratic freedoms not imperialism.

Frank Aconoma admitted that he wants white supremacy. He wanting white supremacy is by definition racism. As black people, we want to abolish and end the system of white supremacy (which is a system that brutalized nations, harmed human rights, and caused discrimination), so a system of justice can be instituted. These people are extremists. That wicked organization or the Klan have been directly involved (in all levels) in depriving black people of human rights, in destroying religious buildings, doing rapes, and committing murder. Just because someone is not lynching a person or killing someone, doesn't mean that person is disqualified from being a racist. So, Frank Ancoma is wrong. That is why black people should reject the reactionary aims of that group and advocate true liberation for all black people globally. Malcolm X back in February 4, 1965 in Selma, Alabama (to SNCC youth) gave a great description of that nefarious white supremacy group. Here are his following words: "...I hope I haven’t put anybody on the spot. I’m not intending to try and stir you up and make you do something that you wouldn’t have done anyway. I pray that God will bless you in everything that you do. I pray that you will grow intellectually, so that you can understand the problems of the world and where you fit into, in that world picture. And I pray that all the fear that has ever been in your heart will be taken out, and when you look at that man, if you know he’s nothing but a coward, you won’t fear him. If he wasn’t a coward, he wouldn’t gang up on you. He wouldn’t need to sneak around here. This is how they function. They function in mobs-that’s a coward. They put on a sheet so you won’t know who they are-that’s a coward. No! The time will come when that sheet will be tipped off. If the federal government doesn’t take it off, we’ll take it off..." Malcolm X was right in his words. Also, Malcolm X never became an integrationist to the establishment after his trip to Mecca. What he did change was his views on race, race relationships, and the possibility of an eventual brotherhood. He changed some of his views and he became more progressive while not changing his overall core convictions. After Mecca, he continued to travel in Africa and held numerous discussions with many revolutionary Africans. Malcolm X understood that racial oppression was not just about bigotry, but it also involves economic, political, social, and cultural exploitation from the oppressor. Malcolm X became an internationalist and he wanted to execute actions as a means to internationalize the struggle. He accurately saw that racism and capitalism are linked and that you can’t have capitalism without racism (for capitalism in essence causes competition, divisions, and exploitation leaving many human beings suffering). We need to formulate a politically independent means to address the needs of our people and the rest of humanity. We know that the modern capitalist system use brainwashing techniques and other means to worship selfish individualism at the expense of the suffering including the poor. We (as black people and freedom loving human beings in general) are a majority while the capitalist elite is a minority. So, there is nothing racist about an organization that is all black in it of itself. There is something racist about institutions of oppression that seek to harm society at large via discrimination and injustice. So, we need no token concessions. We just want freedom. Society must be revolutionary changed to benefit the entire human race.

This story is so touching. Misty Copeland is certainly inspiring human beings all over the world. The gifts of dance and ballet are blessings. When we help another human being in a decisive way, then we are blessed too. That is what life is all about. It is about learning our value and giving our time plus efforts as a means for us to assist the human race. Her story represents how people can overcome challenges and be strident in living their lives. I wish the best for Misty Copeland. There can be no true black liberation without black women's empowerment. Black Women from Ella Baker to Fannie Lou Hamer have made great contributions in the black struggle. In fact, Malcolm X woke up a great deal even before his Hajj. Yet, after his Hajj, he accelerated his understanding of the world in a transformative way. The Sister Vicky Garvin coordinated much of Malcolm X's travels into Africa. The Sister Selma Sparks was a leader in the OAAU's newspaper called the Blacklash. She conducted interviews with Malcolm X and Malcolm X allowed women to have a leadership role in the OAAU itself. Lynne Shifflet was the office manager of the OAAU. Do I like Caribbean music? Yes, I love Caribbean music. I have Caribbean blood in my mother's side of my family. I like Billy Ocean's music, I respect Bob Marley's music, I heard of Peter Tosh's talent before, and so many other talented human beings. Yes, Reggae and African music are similar. Much of the music from the Caribbean have African, European, and even some Indian influences. There is a strong Indian population in Trinidad now. The drum sounds that are found in many Caribbean songs come from Africa. Music from Haiti (with Voudou), the Dominican Republic (with merengue), Trinidad (with its calypso sound, which is heavily found in Carnival celebrations), etc. have roots from Africa. One Sister named Dandelion is correct to know about the African links to reggae. Michael Vick not only paid his debt to society. He has worked in pro-animal programs that deal with rational treatment of animals. If a man expresses legitimate contrition over his mistakes and does actions that prove that he truly has a change of heart, then folks will have to move on. PETA is silly and ignorant to judge this man harshly over events that he was made accountable for before. PETA has it extremism too. Michael Vick should continue on what he is doing, ignore the haters, and express the great talent that God has given him. It is ironic that many refuse to forgive black people, but they want to forgive others who are assaulters, murderers, and other criminals. Michael Vick is a very intelligent, articulate black man. I have seen his interviews before. I wish the Brother the best in his life.

By Timothy