war - Forum/Discussions - TheBlackList Pub2024-03-29T09:04:17Zhttps://www.theblacklist.net/forum/topics/feed/tag/warHooray for South Africa!https://www.theblacklist.net/forum/topics/hooray-for-south-africa2024-01-25T17:49:54.000Z2024-01-25T17:49:54.000ZJunious Ricardo Stantonhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/JuniousRicardoStanton<div><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Hooray for South Africa!</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;">Junious Ricardo Stanton</p><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}12366066872,RESIZE_710x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-full" src="{{#staticFileLink}}12366066872,RESIZE_710x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="640" alt="12366066872?profile=RESIZE_710x" /></a></p><p> On December 29, 2023 the government of South Africa went before the International Court of Justice in The Hague to officially file charges against Israel accusing that nation of the crime of genocide against the people of Gaza. This was an historic initiative on several levels; first because Israel has been aggressively conducting illegal territorial expropriation and land grabs and has illegally usurped, stolen, occupied and displaced hundreds of thousand of Palestinians since 1967. Following the 1967 Arab-Israeli war Israel has subjected the residents of Palestine to brutal, ruthless military occupation on their own land, constant assaults on their dignity and person and knowingly and deliberately deprived Palestinians of natural resources such as water, destroyed and expropriated their farm lands displacing them off of their land and illegally detaining them without just cause. <a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2017/06/israel-occupation-50-years-of-dispossession/">https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2017/06/israel-occupation-50-years-of-dispossession/</a></p><p>Israeli settlers have an extremely hostile attitude towards the Palestinians and have worked incessantly to undermine their efforts at indigenous internal organization and self-determination. Israel colluded with it prime enablers the US and UK to create a counterweight to the Palestinian Liberation Organization which vehemently opposed the ongoing settler expansion. Together the US, UK and Israel played a pivotal role in the creation and promotion of Hamas. <a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/02/19/hamas-israel-palestine-conflict/">https://theintercept.com/2018/02/19/hamas-israel-palestine-conflict/</a> <a href="https://tribune.com.pk/story/2302309/how-and-why-israel-helped-create-hamas">https://tribune.com.pk/story/2302309/how-and-why-israel-helped-create-hamas</a></p><p>Hamas started out as a charity organization far less political and militant than the PLO; but once it gained Israeli support it overshadowed the PLO (a classic divide and rule tactic by the Israelis) because many rank and file Palestinians felt the PLO sold them out by negotiating a ”peace” deal with Israel.</p><p>Hypocritically, the United States of America, the greatest purveyor of violence and conflict on this planet today in its role as a global arms seller and instigator labeled both the PLO and Hamas terrorist organizations. This act of psychological projection (ascribing to others what you yourself are guilty of) allows the US to support the crimes against humanity being conducted by it allies and proxies or in the case of Israel its master!</p><p>The details and narratives of the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack which ironically is being called Israel’s 9-11 are highly suspicious. Gaza is one of the most thoroughly policed, spied upon and monitored spaces on this planet; even the Israelis say a mouse can’t move anywhere in Gaza without them detecting it! Similar to the US 9-11, astute people should be asking: how did such a highly sophisticated, costly occupation, intelligence/monitoring system get caught flat footed, how did well armed entities with advanced detection/defense systems like the kind the US and Israel deploy, have such feeble initial responses to these two attacks?!</p><p>The theory both the US and Israel allowed their attacks to occur makes the most sense to me. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-attack-intelligence.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-attack-intelligence.html</a> Allowing it to happen provided Israel with the rational to rapidly do what it has been gradually doing for fifty years: ethnically cleanse Gaza, displace the people either via death or massive destruction and disruption. The attack provided an excuse for Israel to go full speed ahead with their plans for a Greater Israel stretching from the Nile to the Tigris Euphrates Rivers. <a href="https://www.jagranjosh.com/general-knowledge/what-is-greater-israel-why-is-the-idea-not-acceptable-to-the-muslim-community-1621507466-1">https://www.jagranjosh.com/general-knowledge/what-is-greater-israel-why-is-the-idea-not-acceptable-to-the-muslim-community-1621507466-1</a></p><p>The South African government had a Popeye moment “That’s alls I can stands and I can’t stand no more.” witnessing the impact of Israel’s deadly overhanded response to the October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas. After watching drones, missiles and artillery murder innocent civilians and decimate large swaths of Gaza territory, South Africa said enough. South Africa filed charges against Israel in the International Court of Justice charging Israel with genocide! Their presentation laid out the facts of collective punishment and indiscriminate violence against civilians. “In an <a href="https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192/192-20231228-app-01-00-en.pdf" target="_blank">84-page filing</a> to the ICJ, South Africa argued that Israel is committing genocide by killing Palestinians in Gaza, causing serious mental and bodily harm, forced evacuation, widespread hunger, and by creating conditions “calculated to bring about their physical destruction.” It also accused Israel of failing to stem incitement to genocide in the public pronouncements of its officials. During three hours of oral argument, lawyers representing South Africa asked the ICJ to order a suspension of Israel’s campaign in Gaza to protect the rights of Palestinians in Gaza ‘from imminent and irreparable loss.’</p><p>Such ‘provisional measures,’ as they are known, function as a kind of restraining order to stop a dispute from escalating while the court considers the full merits of the case, which could take years. For provisional measures the court need only decide if prima facie, or ‘at first glance,’ the acts complained of could fall foul of the genocide convention… <span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">South Africa presented widely reported evidence that it said showed a “systematic pattern of conduct” by Israel ‘from which genocide can be inferred.’ The UN defines genocide as an act ‘committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.’” </span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">South Africa accuses Israel of genocide and urges top UN court to halt Gaza war by Christian Edwards </span></span></span><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/11/middleeast/south-africa-israel-genocide-icj-hague-day-one-intl/index.html">https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/11/middleeast/south-africa-israel-genocide-icj-hague-day-one-intl/index.html</a></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"> While the ICJ has no power whatsoever to enforce any ruling it may make, we can applaud at least one nation, an African nation that knows first hand the horrors of settler/invader racial oppression that had the courage to do the right thing! Meanwhile Israel and its lapdogs attempt to justify the unjustifiable, defend the indefensible and promote the slaughter of innocents.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"> -30-</span></span></span></p><p> </p></div>What Happened To The Real Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.?https://www.theblacklist.net/forum/topics/what-happened-to-the-real-legacy-of-martin-luther-king-jr2024-01-12T02:37:18.000Z2024-01-12T02:37:18.000ZJunious Ricardo Stantonhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/JuniousRicardoStanton<div><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>What Happened to the Real Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr?</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;">Junious Ricardo Stanton</p><p style="text-align:center;"> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10930014291,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-full" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10930014291,RESIZE_710x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="710" alt="10930014291?profile=RESIZE_710x" /></a></p><p> </p><p><span style="color:#000000;">“<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">If students analyze King’s speeches and life’s work more carefully, they’ll see that he promoted a more radical approach to justice—not one that asks citizens to be neutral on racism or one that merely offers comfort.” </span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Teaching About King’s Radical Approach To Social Justice - Choshandra Dillard </span></span><a href="https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/teaching-about-kings-radical-approach-to-social-justice">https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/teaching-about-kings-radical-approach-to-social-justice</a></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"> The powers that be are attempting to whitewash the true legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Shortly after they had him cut down on a balcony in Memphis Tennessee in April of 1968, the plutocrats and oligarchs who own and run this country determined to destroy the movement he was building; a movement for social justice, equity, peace and prosperity for all Americans. The psychopaths who own and run this country decided to redefine King’s impact, redirect his righteous fervor for social justice and neuter his push for structural change and replace it with a one day of service thus nullifying persistent activism for a systemic metamorphosis of American society. Thus far it is working, our government is spending trillions for overseas wars while homelessness and despair escalate in this country yet not a peep of protest out of the masses!</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"> The ruling elites weren’t able to dissuade or stop the campaign to make King’s natal day a national holiday so they cunningly recast his image into one of a “dreamer” rather than an ardent activist and champion for peace and social transformation. They always promote the “I have a dream” refrain from his August 28, 1963 March on Washington D.C. speech. They never mention the stirring words that preceded his famous refrain; “… It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check; a check which has come back marked ‘insufficient funds’. But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check- a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.”</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"> The campaign to tear down legal apartheid and racial cast in America was winning meanwhile the US ruling elites escalated their imperialist campaign to replace French Neo-Colonialism in Indochina with an American brand determined to snuff out the liberation movement in Vietnam. President Lyndon Johnson put the pedal to the metal and intensified the war effort exponentially. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"> Martin Luther King Jr was one of the few nationally prominent US clergy who stood up against the Military Industrial Complex and courageously denounced the war in Indochina (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Thailand). King disparaged the carnage and war profiteering at the expense of justice, morality and obliterating the grinding poverty experienced by Blacks, whites, indigenous peoples and people of color in this country. His efforts earned him the hatred and hostility of the power elites.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"> King’s national </span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><strong>Poor People’s Campaign</strong></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"> was an embarrassment to the </span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">US </span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">government because it exposed the lies and disingenuous propaganda that portrayed America as the land of the free, home of the brave and a place of unlimited opportunity for all of its citizens. His efforts to mobilize a diverse cross section of Americans to come to Washington and plead their case for social justice and systemic transformation including ending the war marked King as a man to be, to use a CIA term “neutralized”, meaning killed. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"> The FBI tried all kinds of tricks to make King give up even pushing him to commit suicide, </span></span><a href="https://allthatsinteresting.com/fbi-martin-luther-king-tapes">https://allthatsinteresting.com/fbi-martin-luther-king-tapes</a><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"> to no avail. So on April 4, 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed while assisting Memphis Tennessee sanitation works in their struggle for recognition, decent wages and benefits. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">The ruling class then had to decide how to deal with his legacy. </span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Today little or no mention is made of King’s stance against the war nor his push for radical societal transformation. We never hear his speeches about the ravages of war both at home and far away places like Indochina. We are not exposed to King’s words at Riverside Church in New York one year to the day before his brutal murder in Memphis Tennessee where he said, “… Perhaps a more tragic recognition of reality took place when it became clear to me that the war was doing far more than devastating the hopes of the poor at home. It was sending their sons and their brothers and their husbands to fight and to die in extraordinarily high proportions relative to the rest of the population. We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem. And so we have been repeatedly faced with the cruel irony of watching Negro and white boys on TV screens as they kill and die together for a nation that has been unable to seat them together in the same schools. And so we watch them in brutal solidarity burning the huts of a poor village, but we realize that they would hardly live on the same block in Chicago. I could not be silent in the face of such cruel manipulation of the poor…” Beyond Vietnam – A Time To Break Silence.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"> The billionaires and warmongers who own the media are depriving us of King’s conviction, courage and vision. </span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">They deliberately suppress words like this</span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">, “</span></span></span><span style="color:#283741;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. When machines and computers, profit motives, and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.”</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Ironically, </span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">King warned against superficial acts of kindness versus real change. “</span></span></span><span style="color:#202124;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">One day we must come to see that </span></span></span><span style="color:#202124;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">the whole Jericho Road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life’s highway</span></span></span><span style="color:#202124;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.</span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">”</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"> In 2024 as we celebrate Martin Luther King’s natal day and </span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">his </span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">life mission, do not allow the warmongers, the corporations and soulless billionaires belittle King’s true legacy, misdirect and rechannel our energies and act</span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">ions</span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"> in ways that pose no threat to their power and maintain the status quo! </span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">As wars </span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">increasingly</span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"> ravage our planet, do not allow the warmongers, war profiteers, their bought and paid politicians and controlled media trick us into being silent, passive and acquiescing to their evil! </span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Be like Martin Luther King Jr., speak out, act out and live in ways that promote and spread peace.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"> -30-</span></span></span></p><p> </p></div>2024 Predictionshttps://www.theblacklist.net/forum/topics/2024-predictions2024-01-05T14:44:44.000Z2024-01-05T14:44:44.000ZJunious Ricardo Stantonhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/JuniousRicardoStanton<div><p style="text-align:center;" align="justify"><strong>2024 Predictions</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;" align="justify">Junious Ricardo Stanton</p><p align="justify"> </p><p align="justify">“Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to relive them”. George Santayana, American Philosopher</p><p style="text-align:center;" align="justify"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}12346554687,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-full" src="{{#staticFileLink}}12346554687,RESIZE_710x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="710" alt="12346554687?profile=RESIZE_710x" /></a></p><p align="justify">Most of us are oblivious to the fact our present is built/based upon our past and likewise the future is built upon the present. Human behavior is a series of patterns and proclivities we call habits, customs, traits, norms and physiological conditioning. Over time we can discern a continuity or consistency in people’s patterns so much so we can accurately predict their future patterns over time. Much of our behavior is conformity to social pressures from family, peers, indoctrination and the government So when I offer my predictions for 2024 I am not star gazing, casting bones or reading a crystal ball, not at all; I am merely engaging in pattern recognition, trend analysis and extrapolating observable patterns onto the coming days of 2024.</p><p align="justify">Based in this past year and previous years, I can confidently predict: the United States will continue to be the greatest threat to world peace on the planet in its role as the greatest purveyor of weapons and violence on earth. Likewise Israel will continue its ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing in Palestine and the US will provide unapologetic support for that country’s crimes against the people of that region.</p><p align="justify">The United States and its’ allies will continue their proxy war in Ukraine pumping billions of our tax dollars into a futile, unwinnable effort to bring Putin and Russia to heel. This U.S. mischief has been going on long before Putin launched his nation’s <strong>Special Military Operation</strong> in 2022. The US instigated and fomented the mayhem in Ukraine when it spent five billion dollars to overthrow supplant the duly elected president with their hand picked puppet. Things have gone downhill for that woebegone nation ever since. Ukraine cannot win this conflict but the crazies in Washington, London, and Brussels think they can force a military victory/solution there.</p><p align="justify">In 2024 flash additional points for global conflict and war will be: Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, the Red Sea area, the South China Sea and throughout the African continent. In Africa, the effects of 2023 coups will result in additional tensions on the continent as the governments in Niger and Gabon attempt to stabilize and restore confidence within their countries as will: Burkina Faso, Guinea, Chad and Sudan who experienced coups in 2021 and Mali who experienced a coup in 2020. On an up trend, many African governments are attempting to forge regional alliances with their neighboring countries to strengthen their positions militarily and commercially and leverage their proximity and natural resources for their betterment.</p><p align="justify">The world will witness more nations choosing sides, many in the Southern Hemisphere, Latin America and Asia will distance themselves from the US/NATO/Five Eyes Axis and link up with the expanding BRICS alliance that just took in Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates on January 1, 2024. We will see additional nations seek membership in the BRICS alliance. The tide is rapidly turning and the US/NATO/Five Eye/Israeli axis is not the team most nations want to play for or with. This quantum shift will have an extremely deleterious impact on the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency, the US global empire and its standing in the world!</p><p align="justify">In 2024 the fear-mongers in the media/government/Big Pharma cabal will continue to hype and exaggerate viruses during the flu season, pushing mRNA injections while ignoring natural immunity altogether and downplaying our bodies’ ability to defend and heal itself from illness. In 2024 the increasing alarm from insurance companies and their actuarial experts regarding excess mortality, their mounting payout “losses” due to the increase of sudden deaths as more and more younger people drop like flies, will continue being suppressed by the corporate media; which just coincidentally gets most of is advertising funding from Big Pharma! Everything but the mRNA shots will be blamed for the excess mortality in 2024.</p><p align="justify">Look for an accelerated push in the “anthropogenic climate change” scam as billionaire plutocrats/oligarchs push their “Green Agenda” on the world. Yes pollution exists, much of it is due to modern capitalism. If the greedy corporations stopped cutting down whole forests and stopped despoiling the plants that use photosynthesis to turn carbon dioxide into oxygen, we would not face a “climate crisis”! It is these very same extremely rich folks and their corporations who are causing most of the environmental harm and disruption not ordinary folks like you and me. We need to realize this, call them out and hold them accountable!</p><p align="justify">The mind control apparatus suppresses the fact our planet is a living entity; if it were not, no life would exist here. All living things go through changes! The earth has gone through countless changes: ice ages, land shifts and continental divides, sea level rising and lowering, extreme weather, desertification and more before humans emerged on the scene. We are in a living dynamic, vibrant physical environment and we will see changes in the planet just as we see changes in ourselves. In 2024 people will still fall for the climate crisis okey-doke.</p><p align="justify">2024 will produce a highly contentious presidential election as the US becomes more polarized, fractured, uncivil and continues to disintegrate along gender, ethnic, economic and ideological fault lines. There will be little civil debate as the politicians and media talking heads further polarize and weaponize the political process.</p><p align="justify">In 2024 inflation will continue to rise despite what the politicians say. The US dollar is being debased daily as more and more money is put into circulation and the Federal Reserve Banking cartel manipulates interest rates ostensibly to stabilize the economy; but 2024 will see even more sticker sock and a further decline in our standards of living.</p><p align="justify">In 2024 the stresses of the so called COVID “New Normal” will result in the current trends of maladaptive behaviors, rising suicides, declining life expectancy, addiction and depression. The goodnews is all is not lost, we do have the power and agency to uplift and transform the quality of our lives even in the midst of so much turmoil. In 2024 many people will turn to nondenominational spirituality, meditation, and introspection and not be so outer directed thus gaining personal stability in the midst of accelerating change.</p><p align="justify">My intent is not to be a prognosticator of bad news; I’m merely to pointing out trends I think will continue into 2024. Stay well and think for yourself!</p><p align="justify"> -30-</p><p align="justify"> </p></div>Be Skeptical, Question Everythinghttps://www.theblacklist.net/forum/topics/be-skeptical-question-everything2023-10-09T20:51:46.000Z2023-10-09T20:51:46.000ZJunious Ricardo Stantonhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/JuniousRicardoStanton<div><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Be Skeptical</strong> <strong>Question Everything!</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;">Junious Ricardo Stanton</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}12245213677,RESIZE_584x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-full" src="{{#staticFileLink}}12245213677,RESIZE_584x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="513" alt="12245213677?profile=RESIZE_584x" /></a></p><p> </p><p><span style="color:#000000;">“<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">The kind of person who would believe this was a big intelligence whoopsie are the same kind of people who would buy that a handful of semi-literate cave-dwellers halfway around the world single handedly pulled off the greatest terror attack in world history with no assistance from spooks and that buildings with structure fires at the top of them collapse at free fall speed neatly into their own footprints.” </span></span> No, the Hamas Invasion was not an Israeli “Intelligence Failure” Ben Bartee <a href="https://armageddonprose.substack.com/p/no-the-hamas-invasion-was-not-an">https://armageddonprose.substack.com/p/no-the-hamas-invasion-was-not-an</a> </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"> Last week I posted a commentary about the phenomena called <strong>Gaslighitng</strong>, which is psychological manipulation motivated by a desire to control another person’s perception of reality, themselves and their relationships with others. Governments gaslight their citizens all the time, its called propaganda, deceit and Psychological Operations. For example we were gaslighted about the JFK assassination by our government, gaslighted about 9-11 by our government and gaslighted about the 2008 financial crash and most recently COVID-19 by our government in cahoots with the corporate legacy media and other vested interests and agencies. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"> Time has demolished all their lies: it is obvious there was more than one shooter in the JFK murder, that Osama bin-Laden was not the mastermind of 9-11, there were no WMD’s in Iraq, that big bank and hedge fund fraud were the real causes of the 2008 global financial implosion and the so called novel coronavirus “pandemic” actually has a 98% percent survival rate among healthy people! </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"> I could add the gaslighing about Ukraine by proving the US was behind the 2014 overthrow of the duly elected Ukrainian government and replaced by a US vassal. <a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-mess-that-nuland-made-the-consequences-of-ukraines-regime-change/5462392">https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-mess-that-nuland-made-the-consequences-of-ukraines-regime-change/5462392</a>. To this list add the current gaslighting about the Hamas invasion of Israel.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">I urge you to be very skeptical and question everything because the gaslighting, lies and deceit are becoming even more pervasive and intense. For example we need to ask ourselves how did the Israeli government with one of the most well funded (with US taxpayer money) </span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">most technologically </span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">equipped, thorough, global spy organizations (known as the Mossad) fall asleep at the switch and not know that </span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya</span></span></span> <span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">(Islamic Resistance Movement) aka Hamas was planning an “invasion”, before hand nor pick it up as it was unfolding?! How does a highly effective global spy/clandestine organization not know what is going on right next door?!</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"> We are expected to believe that Hamas a “militant” group of Palestinians deemed a terrorist organization by the West but who have no airplanes, no tanks, no armored vehicles, no advanced technology only small arms weapons somehow launched an invasion that caught one of the most heavily armed and weaponized nations on the planet completely by surprise! How could that happen; especially after all the tension and acrimony Israel’s recent attacks on sacred Islamic religious sites in Jerusalem and Gaza caused, in addition to the usual Israeli harassment, brutalization and occupation of Palestine. (This is similar to the canard about 9-11, we are expected to believe some cave dwelling Saudis in Pakistan somehow circumvented the most expensive global military and security/intelligence apparatus in the world to pull off 9-11!).</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">We have been conditioned to accept any and everything the media tells us about Israel and the rightness of everything Israel does no matter how foul or in humane. Israeli officials are calling for a complete siege of Gaza which is a war crime! “</span></span></span><span style="color:#1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family:Merriweather, Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">The Israeli defense minister on Monday </span></span></span><span style="color:#990000;"><span style="font-family:Merriweather, Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/defense-minister-announces-complete-siege-of-gaza-no-power-food-or-fuel/">announced a “complete siege” on Gaza</a> </span></span></span><span style="color:#1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family:Merriweather, Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">and said Israeli forces were fighting “human animals” as Israeli airstrikes have been bombarding the enclave, which is home to about </span></span></span><a href="https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/where-we-work/middle-east/occupied-palestinian-territory#:~:text=Children%20are%20caught%20up%20in,West%20Bank%2C%20including%20East%20Jerusalem."><span style="color:#990000;"><span style="font-family:Merriweather, Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">one million children.</span></span></span></a></p><p><span style="color:#1a1a1a;">‘<span style="font-family:Merriweather, Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed,’ said Israeli Defense Yoav Gallant, according to </span></span></span><em><span style="color:#1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family:Merriweather, Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">The Times of Israel</span></span></span></em><span style="color:#1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family:Merriweather, Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">. ‘We are fighting human animals, and we are acting accordingly.’...US officials expect Israel to launch a ground incursion into Gaza soon, and the Biden administration is providing full support, including </span></span></span><span style="color:#990000;"><span style="font-family:Merriweather, Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2023/10/08/biden-tells-netanyahu-more-military-aid-is-on-its-way//">new military aid</a> </span></span></span><span style="color:#1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family:Merriweather, Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">and the </span></span></span><span style="color:#990000;"><span style="font-family:Merriweather, Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2023/10/08/us-deploys-aircraft-carrier-strike-group-to-support-israel/">deployment of an aircraft carrier strike group</a> </span></span></span><span style="color:#1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family:Merriweather, Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">to the region as a show of force. Gaza has over 2 million residents and has been under an Israeli blockade since 2007, and has come under frequent Israeli bombings since then, leaving the people living in the enclave in a dire situation. Gaza is one of the most densely populated places on earth, meaning a full-scale Israeli invasion will incur substantial civilian casualties.” </span></span></span><span style="color:#1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family:Merriweather, Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Israel Announces a ‘Complete seige’ of Gaza, Says They Are Fighting ‘Human Animals’ Dave Decamp </span></span></span><span style="color:#1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family:Merriweather, Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"> <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2023/10/09/israel-announces-complete-siege-of-gaza-says-theyre-fighting-human-animals/">https://news.antiwar.com/2023/10/09/israel-announces-complete-siege-of-gaza-says-theyre-fighting-human-animals/</a> </span></span></span><span style="color:#1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family:Merriweather, Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Notice the overkill reaction by Israel; penalizing a whole group of people because of the actions of a small organization or that people’s leadership is a war crime!</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">We need to question our country’s foreign policy and the support for Israel, especially since this latest “war” has the potential to provoke a regional conflagration or an all out global war. Already the US is calling to increased aid and spending to Israel. <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2023/10/08/biden-tells-netanyahu-more-military-aid-is-on-its-way/">https://news.antiwar.com/2023/10/08/biden-tells-netanyahu-more-military-aid-is-on-its-way/</a> Why, the US already sends them billions annually. <a href="https://sgp.fas.org/crs/mideast/RL33222.pdf">https://sgp.fas.org/crs/mideast/RL33222.pdf</a> </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"> Don’t fall for the gaslighting, question everything!</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"> -30-</span></span></span></p></div>Africa Is Not Toeing the US Line on Ukrainehttps://www.theblacklist.net/forum/topics/africa-is-not-toeing-the-us-line-on-ukraine2023-04-13T21:16:28.000Z2023-04-13T21:16:28.000ZJunious Ricardo Stantonhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/JuniousRicardoStanton<div><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Africa Is Not Toeing The US Line on Ukraine</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;">Junious Ricardo Stanton</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}11027772262,RESIZE_180x180{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-full" src="{{#staticFileLink}}11027772262,RESIZE_180x180{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="11027772262?profile=RESIZE_180x180" /></a></p><p>“When President Biden announced sanctions against Russia over their February, 2022 invasion of Ukraine, he called it a battle of democracy over tyranny. He expected Africa to rally to the US lead. Unsurprisingly, not one of Africa’s 54 countries as joined US sanctions against Russia. Many are neutral; some even supporting Russia’s war to prevent NATO’s eastward expansion to Russia’s borders and gain independence of Ukrainian Donbas from Kyiv aggression that has killed thousands of Ukrainians there.” Africa All Out 54-0 Against Joining Biden’s Proxy War on Russia by Walt Zlotow Posted on <a href="https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2023/04/04/africa-all-out-54-0-against-joining-bidens-proxy-war-on-russia/">April 4, 2023</a> <a href="https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2023/04/04/africa-all-out-54-0-against-joining-bidens-proxy-war-on-russia/">https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2023/04/04/africa-all-out-54-0-against-joining-bidens-proxy-war-on-russia/</a></p><p>I’ve been saying for a good while now the world is choosing sides and the US/NATO/Israel axis is not the team the Global South, the Arab block, Asia nor Oceana (except for Japan, New Zealand and Australia) want to join or play with. When Russia initiated its <strong>Special Military Operation</strong> in Ukraine over a year ago the US responded by issuing multilevel sanctions against Russia and some of its citizens. Uncle Sam expected the rest of the world to dutifully go along and acquiesce to everything the US wanted.</p><p>But so far US policymakers who by the way paid for and executed the 2014 coupe d’état that toppled the democratically elected Ukrainian government and replaced it with a pro US quisling, are not having much success getting the rest of the non-Western world to go along with their plans. The Biden administration has been scrambling to get African leaders back in the fold with no success! Good for our African kin, they see the handwriting on the wall.</p><p>The US has sent the big guns to visit the African continent to get the various leaders on board with their numerous agendas such as: COVID vaccines, support for the US in Ukraine, trade and commerce etc. The African have been reluctant to go along with the US agenda. Interestingly the African continent is the lowest vaccinated continent on the planet and the COVID infection rates continent wide are extremely low! <a href="https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/">https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/</a> Their rejection of the vaccines paid off. Africa is buying into the climate crisis narrative but not like other regions around the world because the continent is facing real challenges with desertification, draught and food security.</p><p>The US Secretary of State, the Vice President, the First Lady and a host of lessor diplomates have visited the African continent in an effort to persuade African leaders to sign on to their various agendas. The US even sponsored a <strong>US- African Leaders Summit </strong>from December 13-15 2022 in Washington D.C. to discuss a myriad of issues supposedly designed to engage Africans as equal partners in trade, regional matters, advancing “peace and security” and reinforce the US-African commitment to “democracy and human rights.” <a href="https://www.state.gov/africasummit/">https://www.state.gov/africasummit/</a> </p><p>This is noble sounding verbiage and goals but the reality on the ground is far different. The track record of the US is not good when it comes to dealing with Africa and Africans. Thus far their overtures don’t seem to have produced the desired results. For example, African leaders have not taken America’s side in the proxy war against Russia, and for very good reason. It is the US not Russia that is engaged in mischief and neocolonial skullduggery in Africa.</p><p>“For starters, the US was delusional Africa would follow America’s proxy war on Russia. It’s the US, not Russia that is bombing Africans in Somalia, Niger and possibly others. It was the US, not Russia that supported colonialism and neo-colonialism in Africa to suppress nationalist movements assumed to be led by commies. Even if Marxists were involved, that was none of Uncle Sam’s business. Since 2008, US trained officials attempted at least 9 African coups… Instead of sanctimonious, self-serving adulations of American ideals, President Biden might consider ending US drone strikes in Africa killing many. Stop bullying African leaders to blindly support our proxy war. Remove our 29 African military bases and bring home the troops defiling Africa sovereignty. No more African coup plotting might help as well.” Africa All Out 54-0 Against Joining Biden’s Proxy War on Russia by Walt Zlotow <a href="https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2023/04/04/africa-all-out-54-0-against-joining-bidens-proxy-war-on-russia/">https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2023/04/04/africa-all-out-54-0-against-joining-bidens-proxy-war-on-russia/</a></p><p>Uncle Sam finds himself in a dilemma and a conundrum of his own making. All of a sudden, the US wants to recognize Africa, partner with the various nations and respect their sovereignty. However this new stance belies their real history on the continent, a history of assassinations and coups instigated by the US <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-36303327">https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-36303327</a>, .Our African brethren are hip to the game and seem to be saying, “Actions speak louder than words.” Africans are fully aware of the US ongoing history of imperialism and neocolonialism. <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/01/26/burkina-faso-coup-us-military/">https://theintercept.com/2022/01/26/burkina-faso-coup-us-military/</a></p><p>The most obvious example of the waning influence of American foreign policy is how the world and Africans in particular are refusing to go along with the US proxy war in Ukraine. “ “The African response to the war in Ukraine surprised the US and Europe. Not one country in Africa has joined the US led sanctions on Russia and the dominant stance of the continent has been neutrality. The US and its European allies expected strong support from Africa and strong condemnation of Russia. Instead, they got neutrality from most, a lack of condemnation of Russia from many, and the blame being placed on the US and NATO by several.” The War In Ukraine and How Africa Surprised the West by Ted Snider <a href="https://original.antiwar.com/ted_snider/2023/04/02/the-war-in-ukraine-and-how-africa-surprised-the-west/">https://original.antiwar.com/ted_snider/2023/04/02/the-war-in-ukraine-and-how-africa-surprised-the-west/</a> . Yea, good for our African brethren!</p><p style="text-align:center;"> -30-</p><p> </p></div>The ICC Warrant Against Putinhttps://www.theblacklist.net/forum/topics/the-icc-warrant-against-putin2023-03-20T15:41:01.000Z2023-03-20T15:41:01.000ZJunious Ricardo Stantonhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/JuniousRicardoStanton<div><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>The ICC Arrest Warrant Against Putin</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;">Junious Ricardo Stanton</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}11000428680,RESIZE_180x180{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-full" src="{{#staticFileLink}}11000428680,RESIZE_180x180{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="11000428680?profile=RESIZE_180x180" /></a></p><p>“The International Criminal Court allegedly <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/17/europe/icc-russia-war-crimes-charges-intl/index.html"><strong>issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin</strong></a> on Friday, supposedly for trafficking children from Ukraine to Russia. However, since neither Ukraine nor Russia are members of the ICC (neither are the US, Israel or China, <a href="https://asp.icc-cpi.int/states-parties"><strong>incidentally</strong></a>), it is entirely performative and means nothing. In fact, doing so on the anniversary of the Iraq invasion was likely designed to prompt very intense discussion on Western hypocrisy.” <a href="https://off-guardian.org/2023/03/20/this-week-in-the-new-normal-58/">https://off-guardian.org/2023/03/20/this-week-in-the-new-normal-58/</a></p><p> </p><p>The insanity escalates and is growing like a malignant cancer. On March 17, 2023 the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin for allegedly transporting Ukrainian children to Russia. A news release regarding the warrants states, “Today, 17 March 2023, Pre-Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Court (‘ICC’ or ‘the Court’) issued warrants of arrest for two individuals in the context of the situation in Ukraine: Mr Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and Ms Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova. Mr Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, born on 7 October 1952, President of the Russian Federation, is allegedly responsible for the war crime of unlawful deportation of population (children) and that of unlawful transfer of population (children) from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation (under articles 8(2)(a)(vii) and 8(2)(b)(viii) of the Rome Statute). The crimes were allegedly committed in Ukrainian occupied territory at least from 24 February 2022. There are reasonable grounds to believe that Mr Putin bears individual criminal responsibility for the aforementioned crimes, (i) for having committed the acts directly, jointly with others and/or through others (article 25(3)(a) of the Rome Statute), and (ii) for his failure to exercise control properly over civilian and military subordinates who committed the acts, or allowed for their commission, and who were under his effective authority and control, pursuant to superior responsibility (article 28(b) of the Rome Statute).” <a href="https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/situation-ukraine-icc-judges-issue-arrest-warrants-against-vladimir-vladimirovich-putin-and">https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/situation-ukraine-icc-judges-issue-arrest-warrants-against-vladimir-vladimirovich-putin-and</a></p><p>As an observer one who seeks truth amidst the deceit, lies and propaganda the International Criminal Court is at best a sham. First of all the International Criminal Court does not represent all the nations in the world. Only one hundred and twenty-three nations are signatures and participate in the ICC which is located in The Hague in the Netherlands. <a href="https://asp.icc-cpi.int/states-parties">https://asp.icc-cpi.int/states-parties</a> Ukraine, Russia, Israel, the United States nor China are members of the ICC.</p><p>The recent action by the ICC may not even be legal because according to the ICC’s Website a nation that is a participant can be referred to the ICC for prosecution, “The ICC is only competent to hear a case if: the country where the offence was committed is a party to the Rome Statute; or the perpetrator's country of origin is a party to the Rome Statute. The ICC may only exercise its jurisdiction if the national court is unable or unwilling to do so. The ICC only has jurisdiction over offences committed after the Statute’s entry into force on 1 July 2002.” <a href="https://www.government.nl/topics/international-peace-and-security/international-legal-order/the-international-criminal-court">https://www.government.nl/topics/international-peace-and-security/international-legal-order/the-international-criminal-court</a> This is why the US has never been referred to the ICC for its numerous crimes against humanity, it is not a member of the ICC!</p><p>A nation or case may also be referred to the ICC according to the ICC’s Website in these situations: “Various parties have the right to refer a case to the ICC: any State Party to the Rome Statute, irrespective of any involvement in the alleged offence; the Prosecutor of the ICC; the United Nations Security Council.” <a href="https://www.government.nl/topics/international-peace-and-security/international-legal-order/the-international-criminal-court-i">https://www.government.nl/topics/international-peace-and-security/international-legal-order/the-international-criminal-court-i</a></p><p>Why am I sharing this? Because the ICC warrant is meaningless since neither Ukraine nor Russia are signatures to the treaty that created the ICC! This is pure theater, hokum, it is Western propaganda designed to inflame public sentiment against Russia. In my opinion this propaganda stunt is comparable to the PR campaign run by Hill and Knowlton that told the lie Saddam Hussein’s army smashed babies’ heads who were in Kuwaiti incubators in a hospital natal ward! <a href="https://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0906/p25s02-cogn.html">https://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0906/p25s02-cogn.html</a> It’s the same psychological con game. Don’t fall for the okey-doke!</p><p> </p><p> -30-</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p></div>Martin Luther King Jr. vs. The Great Resethttps://www.theblacklist.net/forum/topics/martin-luther-king-jr-vs-the-great-reset2023-01-13T04:30:14.000Z2023-01-13T04:30:14.000ZJunious Ricardo Stantonhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/JuniousRicardoStanton<div><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Martin Luther King Jr. vs The Great Reset</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;">Junious Ricardo Stanton</p><p> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10930014291,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-full" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10930014291,RESIZE_710x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="710" alt="10930014291?profile=RESIZE_710x" /></a></p><p>"I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a ‘thing-oriented’ society to a ‘person-oriented’ society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism and militarism are incapable of being conquered." -- Martin Luther King </p><p> </p><p> As we pause to celebrate the ninety-forth anniversary of the birth of Martin Luther King Jr. perhaps we should ponder and contemplate what Martin Luther King Jr would say about current events, the war in Ukraine, COVID lockdowns and the insane income and wealth gaps that currently exist. We know that King railed against the war in Southeast Asia and was planning a Poor People’s Campaign with massive demonstrations and live-in in Washington D.C. His goal was to raise awareness about the entrenched socio-economic inequities in America and to force the government to change its priorities and policies when he was shot down in Memphis Tennessee on April 4, 1968.</p><p> What would King’s positions be on these issues and topics in 2023? As an older man what would King’s approach be to addressing and attempting to solve the existential issues of the day? If we look at what he said then, can we extrapolate what his positions might be today on the issues of war, greed, avarice, poverty and in this modern era transhumanism? Would he be censored, deplatformed and silenced like so many others? Would he be silenced by a bullet or an injection supposedly to mitigate a virus?</p><p> Unlike the ‘60’s when there was: a modicum of free speech, the right to peacefully, assemble, protest and dissent; today’s authoritarian environment would offer major challenges to a man of conscience and action like Martin Luther King Jr. In all probability he would be cut off from mainstream media access, denied a platform to speak to denounce the government’s actions overseas and here at home. If he were on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter he would in all likelihood be suspended and or deplatformed!</p><p> In 2023 he would be censored but unlike during the 1950’s and ‘60’s when it was only the FBI and local police who incessantly monitored and tracked him electronically, today Martin Luther King Jr. would be surveilled by the fascistic Deep State meaning the, police, military, intelligence community and corporate America! How would King address this country’s ongoing metamorphosis into a fascist police state?</p><p> Would King have the same uncompromising courage today he had in 1968? Would he be willing to stand virtually alone in 2023 against what he called in 1968 the triplets of racism, materialism and militarism? In 2023 would King add eugenics, genocide and transhumanism to that group? What would he say about them?!</p><p>King was valiant, he was courageous but how would he be able to get his message out in today’s environment of censorship and suppression? How would he use today’s technology to organize and galvanize a following, raise consciousness and exhort others to decisive action?</p><p> What would Martin Luther King Jr. say about Anthony Fauci, Bill Gates, Klaus Schwab and the other megalomaniacal plutocrats who are conspiring to usurp the natural order, who are engaged in planetary terraforming, transhumanism and attempting to disconnect us from our Divinity?! What solutions would he offer to derail and checkmate their nefarious agenda?</p><p> Would today’s King challenge Klaus Schwab, the World Economic Forum, the World Health Organization, the CDC, FDA and the various national governments like he challenged LBJ, the US Military Industrial Complex and the American people to reorient their moral compass towards Peace, Love and Brotherhood instead of war, greed, hedonism and covetousness? What would Martin Luther King Jr. think of Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum’s <strong>Great Reset</strong>? Would he call them out on their hypocrisy, mendacity and disingenuousness?</p><p>Would he tell them to give all their money to the poor, forsake megalomania and worldly power and dedicate themselves totally to the service of humanity? Would a ninety-four year old Martin Luther King Jr. be able to spark the radical revolution of values he spoke so passionately and eloquently about in 1968 or would his modern message fall on deaf ears?</p><p> Martin Luther King Jr. is not here for us to see, but we still are. We can choose to allow the plutocrats to misdirect us to days of service and temporarily doing good or we can make the difficult changes King advocated, a change and shift of values. We can change from materialism, desensitization and selfishness to core values of empathy, integrity, self and collective transformation. Today is a good day to decide.</p><p style="text-align:center;"> -30-</p></div>2023 Predictionshttps://www.theblacklist.net/forum/topics/2023-predictions2022-12-29T16:53:16.000Z2022-12-29T16:53:16.000ZJunious Ricardo Stantonhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/JuniousRicardoStanton<div><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>2023 Predictions</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;">Junious Ricardo Stanton</p><p> </p><p>Prediction: to declare or indicate in advance <em>especially</em>:<strong> </strong>foretell on the basis of observation, experience, or scientific reason - Merriam Webster Dictionary</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10921780460,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-full" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10921780460,RESIZE_710x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="710" alt="10921780460?profile=RESIZE_710x" /></a></p><p> Every year I offer predictions about what we will see and experience in the coming year. I am not especially clairvoyant, I’m not a seer, prophet or oracle; nor do I claim or pretend to be any of these things. I make my predictions based upon current and past trends, events and my observations by studying them, but most importantly by discerning the consciousness, values and motivations of people.</p><p> Human beings are creatures of habit. We repeat things over and over again often unconsciously, without thought or preparation. However there are those among us who are exceptionally greedy, evil and megalomaniacal. Current events are rarely random, spontaneous or unprovoked and even when they are, there are always causative factors. Human beings like most mammals are hierarchical beings, there is always a pecking order, an interpersonal and group power dynamic involved; whether it is based on charisma, beneficence, competence, cunning, brute force or all of the above. This is how we have ordered society from time immemorial. We always had, will have leaders, influencers and check holders even in informal groups. Often the real leaders are behind the scenes. Today we often refer to them as the shot callers or the powers that be (TPTB).</p><p>Behind most of the major events occurring in the world today are the powers that be. Based on this reality and the fact humans are creatures of habits molded by people in “authority” whether they are out front and transparent or covert and clandestine we can predict future events and trends; so here are my predictions for 2023.</p><p>Last year I wrote: “<strong>Prediction:</strong> the price gauging by Pfizer, Moderna and J&J in particular and Big Pharma in general will continue into 2022 and beyond. These inoculations can not, will not eradicate COVID, the fear porn and hysteria will continue. <u>The media will continue to suppress the fact Coronaviruses mutate which is why vaccines can not and will never eradicate them!</u> Look for the Pi Rho, Sigma Tau variants in 2022.”</p><p>In 2023 I predict Big Pharma, the government, media and the powers that be will continue their fear porn campaigns about omnipresent contagious pathogens, they’ll continue to push vaccines and boosters while totally ignoring the proven science about the human immune system as a powerful protector and healing agent.</p><p>I predict the powers that be will continue to gaslight us about their mRNA concoctions being safe and effective despite the overwhelming evidence and increasing studies proving they are directly related to death, massive harm and adverse health effects to millions of people!</p><p>Last year I predicted inflation would continue to soar, I wrote: “We are being lied to; it is not supply chain disruptions causing escalating prices, it is the increased money in circulation which is devaluing the currency whereby the increase in the money supply lessens the purchasing power of the dollars in existence. Inflation is actually caused when the Federal Reserve Bank (a consortium of privately owned banks) increases the money supply in circulation!”</p><p> In 2023 I predict the inflation rate will continue to rise, that the policies of the Federal Reserve Bank will not dampen inflation and their interest rate increases will cause economic decline (stagflation and recession) and suffering for the working poor and middle class. We will continue to experience the disastrous effects of economic policy on our purchasing power and our ability to keep up with the rising costs of living.</p><p> Full disclosure, I did not foresee the US withdrawing from Afghanistan in 2021 after twenty years of occupation, nor the Russian “Special Military Operation” in Ukraine in 2022. However I do now believe both of these events are directly related. The US has been trying to weaken Russia politically and economically since Putin stopped the US and NATO from doing to Syria what they did to Libya and Iraq.</p><p>In 1967 Martin Luther King Jr. said, “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today is my own government.” That trend will continue as the US becomes more and more directly involved in the Ukrainian conflict. In 2023, I predict the US and its NATO lapdogs will escalate the “proxy war” in Ukraine to the point it spirals into a regional conflict. I predict many of the troops that left Afghanistan in 2022 will be redeployed to Eastern Europe in 2023. How intense this escalation will be or how long it will last I cannot say. I will say it will be just as if not more perilous than the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis that almost plunged the world into a nuclear holocaust.</p><p>In conjunction with this trend, I also predict the world will continue to choose sides. The US/NATO/Israel alliance is not the team most of the world will chose to play with or for. More and more nations will choose the BRICS alliance; more will partner with Russia and China which will in turn create more tension and angst in the West in general and the US in particular. I hope saner heads prevail but that has not been the trend in recent years otherwise we wouldn’t be where we are now.</p><p>Fratricide, homicides, mass shootings and interpersonal violence were off the hook in 2021 and 2022. Sadly I predict this trend will continue in 2023. Mental illness, substance abuse and suicide are rampant in this country! The misery index is sky high. Nevertheless, I am an optimist at heart. I believe we can do and be better personally, as a people and as a nation. Pray for Peace, wisdom, sanity, optimum health and prosperity in 2023, we’ll need it!</p><p> </p><p> -30-</p></div>Taking Stock of 2022https://www.theblacklist.net/forum/topics/taking-stock-of-20222022-12-15T18:14:55.000Z2022-12-15T18:14:55.000ZJunious Ricardo Stantonhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/JuniousRicardoStanton<div><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Taking Stock of 2022</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;">Junious Ricardo Stanton</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10911143079,RESIZE_180x180{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-full" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10911143079,RESIZE_180x180{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10911143079?profile=RESIZE_180x180" /></a></p><p>As we prepare to enter a new year, it is imperative we look back and considers certain aspects of the past year. In many ways 2022 was extremely volatile and contentious and it appears 2023 will be more of the same.</p><p> We are living through the most contentious era of public health policy in history! The corporate media, government, Big Pharma, unelected and unaccountable individuals/entities conspired using the guise of addressing a supposed novel virus to alter the world as we knew it. In 2020 COVID-19 was used as a pretext to shut down global economies which sent millions into unemployment, creating destitution and dependency on government largess which in turn furthered the bankruptcy of many Western nations, ushered in totalitarian measures, set in motion major supply chain shortages and accelerated an already existent agenda of eugenics and depopulation. Now some of the ruling class is calling for a pandemic amnesty. <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/covid-response-forgiveness/671879/">https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/covid-response-forgiveness/671879/</a> They want us to forget about it, get over it and move on. That is probably not going to happen given the acrimonious attacks the government, media and Big Pharma unleashed on skeptics and free thinkers; how the powers that be suppressed discussion, dissent and debate on the COVID issue! <a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/dear-friends-sorry-announce-genocide/5782022">https://www.globalresearch.ca/dear-friends-sorry-announce-genocide/5782022</a></p><p>2022 is coming to a close and we need to examine a few things so we are better prepared to enter the New Year. We need to pause amidst the daily grind and take stock of our lives and what is going on around us locally, nationally and internationally. We need to be more aware of what is happening and discern whether or not the direction we are heading personally, professionally or as a community is the best for us.</p><p>One thing is certain we have not been told the truth, we have been lied to, deceived and duped. <strong>Project Censored</strong> is a media watchdog organization that monitors the news and what is not reported and they compile an annual list of the top most intensely censored stories of the ending year. You can see their list at <a href="https://www.projectcensored.org/category/top-25-censored-news-stories-2022/">https://www.projectcensored.org/category/top-25-censored-news-stories-2022/</a></p><p>Take a look at this list you will find some extremely interesting topics and egregious issues on it. For me numbers: 21, 20, 19,18,12,11,10,7,6, and 2 stick out the most but there are a series of other topics such as “dark money” and its influence on politics and policy we need to be aware of.</p><p>The war in Ukraine is another issue we have been lied to about. In February 2022 following a 2014 US sponsored coup d’etat in Ukraine, fourteen years of Ukrainian attacks on Russian speaking people in the Donbass region of Ukraine and the US moving to extend Ukrainian membership in NATO Russia initiated what Putin calls a <strong>Special Military Operation </strong>designed to protect Russia’s interests and eliminate the neo-Nazi attacks on Russian speaking people. Putin’s response was similar to the US’s reaction to Russia building missile sites in Cuba which triggered the Cuban Missile Crisis in October of 1960. That almost led to nuclear war. As we close out 2022, the US and NATO is engaged in an indirect war against Russia. Economic sanctions are an act of war, supplying weapons and tactical assistance to Ukraine for use against Russia is an act of war, training troops and sending mercenaries to fight against Russian troops is an act of war! Make no mistake this could go full blast in 2023!</p><p> For what, why? Ukraine is a failed state. It is a money laundering and kickback machine taking our tax dollars to make the Military Industrial Complex, the Democratic Party and certain political hacks like Hunter Biden rich. Very little of this is reported in the corporate mainstream or digital media. <a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/defense-aid-ukraine-tops-20-billion-new-275m-package-announced/5801981">https://www.globalresearch.ca/defense-aid-ukraine-tops-20-billion-new-275m-package-announced/5801981</a> , <a href="https://www.cato.org/commentary/nato-vs-russia-proxy-war-ukraine-could-become-real-war">https://www.cato.org/commentary/nato-vs-russia-proxy-war-ukraine-could-become-real-war</a> </p><p>As we enter 2023 the world is choosing sides and Uncle Sam is not the team most of the world wants to play on or with! What is called the <strong>Global South</strong> is not drinking Uncle Sam’s Kool-Aid. “The Global South is made up of <strong>Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Pacific Islands, and Asia, excluding Israel, Japan, and South Korea</strong>. It is generally seen as home to Brazil, India, Indonesia and China, which, along with Nigeria and Mexico, are the largest Southern states in terms of land area and population.” <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_North_and_Global_South">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_North_and_Global_South</a></p><p>Most of the nations on this list have rejected the US/NATO position on Ukraine and many are siding with Russia attempting to join the BRICS alliance and strengthen ties with Russia and China.</p><p>As we close out 2022 we are seeing the West attempt to counter this trend and persuade Africa to align with them. Germany sponsored a German-African Business Summit in Johannesburg South African on December 6-8 and the US held the fourth US African Leaders Summit on December 13-16 in Washington D.C. Both of these meetings were attempts by the West to bribe, cajole and persuade African leaders to side with them. Time will tell how this plays out.</p><p>As we leave 2022 let’s determine to be more aware of the world around us, take more interest in and engage in ways that improve ourselves and the world.</p><p> </p><p> -30-</p></div>Don't Fall for the Flim Flamhttps://www.theblacklist.net/forum/topics/don-t-fall-for-the-flim-flam2022-03-03T16:38:42.000Z2022-03-03T16:38:42.000ZJunious Ricardo Stantonhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/JuniousRicardoStanton<div><p style="text-align:center;"><strong><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10167448456,RESIZE_400x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img src="{{#staticFileLink}}10167448456,RESIZE_400x{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10167448456?profile=RESIZE_400x" width="300" /></a></strong></p>
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<p><em>“The network behind this coup had actually started planning for the coup back in 2011. That’s when <a href="http://washingtonsblog.com/2016/09/three-big-lies-pervade-americas-news-media.html">Eric Schmidt of Google, and Jared Cohen</a>, also now of Google but still continuing though unofficially as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s chief person tasked to plan ‘popular movements’ to overthrow both Yanukovych in Ukraine, and Assad in Syria.”</em> How and Why The US Government Perpetrated the 2014 Coup In Ukraine by Eric Zuesse <a href="https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2018/06/04/how-and-why-the-u-s-government-perpetrated-the-2014-coup-in-ukraine/">https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2018/06/04/how-and-why-the-u-s-government-perpetrated-the-2014-coup-in-ukraine/</a></p>
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<p> The COVID-19 fear porn, the lies and disinformation about inflation and the growing income inequality in the US and the truckers convey (the media basically ignores them) have all been magically replaced on the front pages and the cable news networks by “coverage” of the Russian assault on Ukraine. The Western spin masters/machine is cranking up their usual disinformation, obfuscations and lies to cover the truth behind what is really going on.</p>
<p> The truth is the United States under President Barack Obama instituted a coup d’état in 2014 in Ukraine to set up a pro-Western quisling government. To see beyond the Western propaganda okey-doke and flim-flam please read the articles on these Websites: <a href="https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2018/06/04/how-and-why-the-u-s-government-perpetrated-the-2014-coup-in-ukraine/">https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2018/06/04/how-and-why-the-u-s-government-perpetrated-the-2014-coup-in-ukraine/</a>, <a href="https://mronline.org/2022/02/24/what-you-should-really-know-about-ukraine/">https://mronline.org/2022/02/24/what-you-should-really-know-about-ukraine/</a>, <a href="https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2014/mar/19/facebook-posts/united-states-spent-5-billion-ukraine-anti-governm/">https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2014/mar/19/facebook-posts/united-states-spent-5-billion-ukraine-anti-governm/</a>. These articles offer another perspective on what is really going on in Ukraine and name some of the key people and forces behind the happenings. For another eye opening reality check watch the YouTube audio of a conversation between Assistant US Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and US Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt talking about their plans for the coup and beyond <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV9J6sxCs5k">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV9J6sxCs5k</a></p>
<p> The US government and their media sycophants lie and demonize leaders to create antipathy towards them to justify the wars, “police actions” and interventions the US ruling class and its allies launch against them to toppled their governments, steal their natural resources or for geostrategic reasons. The US government and the ruling elites’ mind control apparatus are making Vladimir Putin out to the bad guy in the Ukraine situation just as it made Osama bin-Laden a villain (they said he orchestrated 9-11 from a cave in Afghanistan, still no solid proof of that), Saddam Hussein (they said he planned 9-11 and had WMDs, both lies), Muammar al-Qaddafi (NATO bombed his country, savagely murdered him and turned Libya into a failed state) and Bashar al-Assad (the US lied and said he gassed his own people). Do you see a pattern here? Now the US media is saying Vladimir Putin is an unhinged, deranged megalomaniac but say nothing about an obviously cognitively declining Joe Biden!</p>
<p> The US political class and media have been demonizing Putin for years. Hillary Clinton and the Deep State claimed Putin interfered with the 2016 presidential election. A special prosecutor is still investigating that and several Clinton operatives were behind “Russiagate”. There are rumors indictments will be forthcoming; I’ll believe that when it happens. (The ruling class rarely gets indicted or goes to jail.) In contrast nothing was said about Mark Zuckerberg’ Facebook and Cambridge Analytica’s actual attempts to influence the election outcome. <a href="https://www.npr.org/2018/03/20/595338116/what-did-cambridge-analytica-do-during-the-2016-election">https://www.npr.org/2018/03/20/595338116/what-did-cambridge-analytica-do-during-the-2016-election</a> What’s up with that?</p>
<p> We don’t question what the “experts” and government officials say because their pro-war barrage is constant; it unrelentingly repeats the same message over and over again. If you do ask questions, dissent or offer another perspective you are denounced as a traitor, a tin foil hat wearer, “conspiracy theorist” or crazy. They ignore you, marginalize you or unleash the full force of their brainwashing attack machine against you.</p>
<p> But even before the next Hitler de jure is manufactured and paraded before the public 24/7/365, we are prepped, brainwashed and programmed for war. The US loves war. The US has been on a constant war footing since before there was a United States of America.. This country has been at war 93% of its total existence. There have only been only twenty-three years when this country has not been at war during its entire existence!</p>
<p> If you want to know how they do it I suggest you read Mathias Chang’s book <strong>Brainwashed for War, Programmed to Kill: The Military Media Industrial Complex Behind The Cold War, the Vietnam War & The War on Terrorism</strong></p>
<p> What we are being told by the corporate media and their digital platform cohorts is not the truth about Ukraine or much of anything else for that matter. Ukraine is not the victimized fledgling democracy being brutalized by big bad Vladimir Putin. Ukraine has been in the crosshairs of US imperialism for quite some time now. The US facilitated a coup in 2014 that helped Neo-Nazis gain a foothold in the government. <a href="https://marktaliano.net/eight-years-ago-us-nato-installed-a-neo-nazi-government-in-ukraine-by-prof-michel-chossudovsky/">https://marktaliano.net/eight-years-ago-us-nato-installed-a-neo-nazi-government-in-ukraine-by-prof-michel-chossudovsky/</a></p>
<p> Last but not least Joe Biden and his son Hunter are neck deep in Ukraine side hustles. But for the most part the corporate media ignored these facts. You can see an official investigation final report here: <a href="https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/HSGAC_Finance_Report_FINAL.pdf">https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/HSGAC_Finance_Report_FINAL.pdf</a></p>
<p> There is more to this Ukraine situation than meets the eye, don’t fall for the flim-flam! </p>
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<p> </p></div>The War on Terrorism Is A Scamhttps://www.theblacklist.net/forum/topics/the-war-on-terrorism-is-a-scam2015-10-19T17:57:11.000Z2015-10-19T17:57:11.000ZJunious Ricardo Stantonhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/JuniousRicardoStanton<div><p> <b>From The Ramparts</b></p><p> Junious Ricardo Stanton</p><p><b> The War On Terrorism Is A Scam</b></p><p><b> </b></p><p><b> </b><i> "<a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Boko+Haram">Boko Haram</a> is an Islamic sect in northern <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Nigeria">Nigeria</a> that rejects Western-style education, secular governance, the authority of the Nigerian state, and Islamic interpretations that run counter to its own teachings. <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Muhammad+Yusuf">Muhammad Yusuf</a>, the group’s leader until his death in 2009, could potentially be labeled a “Wahhabi” – except that other “Wahhabis” in northern Nigeria rejected many of Yusuf’s ideas and were horrified by Boko Haram’s use of violence. "</i> <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/Africa-Monitor/2011/0609/Is-Nigeria-s-Boko-Haram-a-Wahhabi-group">http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/Africa-Monitor/2011/0609/Is-Nigeria-s-Boko-Haram-a-Wahhabi-group</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> On October 14th President Obama notified Congress he was sending 300 troops to Cameroon along with his beloved aerial killing drones to counter the influence of the fanatical Islamic group <b>Boko Haram</b>. This was barely covered in the corporate mind control apparatus, the few outlets that did cover it parroted the government narrative that the troops plus a ninety man advance force are being sent to Cameroon to assist the Yaounde government and will remain in that country quote "until their support is no longer needed."</p><p> The problem with this scenario is the US has been trying to get its claws into Africa since the Bu$h administration under the guise of "fighting terrorism" in their bogus global war on terror. <b><i>Boko Haram</i></b> and the assorted "terrorist organizations" operating in Africa are merely pretexts for the US to set up bases and military operations on the continent. It is all part of a nefarious scam to enable the US and its allies to bum rush the world under the auspices of being the world's police going after terrorists.</p><p> The truth is, the "terrorists" are part of a long running Western scam used to further the ambitions of Western governments dating back to before WWI when the British used a fanatical Muslim sect to destabilize and undermine the Turkish-Ottoman Empire in what would become known as the "Middle East". The sect known as Wahhabi after their fanatical founder Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab. Wahhab was born around 1703 and he attempted to purge Islam of ideas and practices that arose after the third century that Wahhab considered heresy, secular and un-Muslim. "Wahhab was further dismayed at the widespread laxity in adhering to traditional Islamic laws: questionable practices like the ones above were allowed to continue, whereas the religious devotions which Islam did require were being ignored. This created indifference to the plight of widows and orphans, adultery, lack of attention to <a href="http://altreligion.about.com/od/bahaifaith/a/obligatory_pray.htm">obligatory prayers</a>, and failure to allocate shares of inheritance fairly to women. Wahhab characterized all this as being typical of <i>jahiliyya</i>, an important term in Islam which refers to the barbarism and state of ignorance which existed prior to the coming of Islam. Wahhab thus identified himself with the <a href="http://islam.about.com/od/muhammad/tp/ProphetMuhammadHub.htm">Prophet Muhammad</a> and at the same time connected his society with what Muhammad worked to overthrow." Wahhabism and Wahhabi Islam: How Wahhabi Islam Differs from Sunni, Shia Islam <a href="http://atheism.about.com/od/islamicsects/a/wahhabi.htm">http://atheism.about.com/od/islamicsects/a/wahhabi.htm</a></p><p> What made Wahhab so radical was his solution to Muslim apostasy was murder. "Because so many <a href="http://islam.about.com/od/basicbeliefs/g/muslim.htm">Muslims</a> lived (so he claimed) in jahiliyya, al-Wahhab accused them of not being true Muslims after all. Only those who followed the strict teachings of al-Wahhab were truly Muslims because only they still followed the path laid out by Allah. Accusing someone of not being a true Muslim is significant because it is forbidden for one Muslim to kill another; but if someone is not a true Muslim then killing them (in war or in an act of terrorism) becomes licit. It would be hard to underestimate the importance of this principle to modern terrorists and extremists." ibid</p><p> Wahhab forged an alliance with Muhammed Ibn Saud, a chief of a tribe of desert raiders (thugs and robbers) in Najd, Ibn Saud. The deal protected Wahhab from various local leaders and Wahhab's followers pledged loyalty and tithes to Al Saud. Later Saud's descendants allied themselves with the British prior to and during WWI to undermine the Turkish Ottoman Empire and take over the territory the Ottoman Empire held.</p><p> The British took over the lands formerly occupied by the Ottoman Empire and set up the House of Saud as their puppets and proxies in Saudi Arabia. The House of Saud continued their alliance with the Wahhabi fanatics to the present day. The British hit the jackpot when oil was discovered in Saudi Arabia in 1933. The Wahhab -Saud relationship continued to flourish even today.</p><p> Following WWII the United States became the major heir to European imperialism. The US struck a deal with the House of Saud. In exchange for protection of the Kingdom, its Saud rulers and Wahhab supporters (protection formally provided by the British) the House of Saud agreed to sell oil in US dollars only; thus creating today's Petrodollar.</p><p> Meanwhile the Wahhabist fanatics who took up arms in support of the House of Saud and their British backers to oust the Turks (remember the movie Lawrance of Arabia?) maintained their tight relationship with the royal family to this very day. The US and its Western allies turned to the House of Saud and its Wahhab cohorts when they were looking for proxies and patsies against Russia during the Cold War. The Wahhabi had already spread their fanatical form of Islam into Eastern Europe and Asia centuries before.</p><p> The US recruited Osama bin-Laden who was a Wahhabi and many like him to form the <b><i>Mujahedeen</i></b> and the US CIA funneled money arms and training to them through the Saudi and Pakistani governments as they used them to fight Russia in Afghanistan. With the success of the Russian campaign, the US CIA stepped up the use of Wahhabi fanatics to destabilize regimes by funding, arming and training them. Radical Islam has also been used to traffic drugs and destabilize sovereign states. "The International Community has stated on numerous occasions that organized crime groups originating from the Balkans pose one of the main security threats to the Union (Council of the EU, 2003; Europol, 2006; UNODC, 2008). Moreover, the fast expansion of radical Islamist networks in the Balkans has become another point of concern after 1991. In weak post-conflict states Wahhabis have been using radical Islam as a platform for political ideas and activities as well as to legitimize political, economic and social behavior. " Globalization and Transnational Crime Globalizing the Western Balkans: Transnational Crime, Fundamental Islam and Unholy Alliances <b><a href="https://etudescaribeennes.revues.org/5871?lang=en">https://etudescaribeennes.revues.org/5871?lang=en</a></b></p><p> The US helped the radical Islamic fanatics cause mischief in Central Russia, Yugoslavia, Kosovo and Bosnia. Which explains why Putin drew a line in the sand against ISIS, ISIL and Daesh fanaticism in Syria. He knows what they are capable of.</p><p> "In over 100 pages of testimony, filed in a federal court in New York earlier this week, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/04/us/zacarias-moussaoui-calls-saudi-princes-patrons-of-al-qaeda.html?_r=0" target="_blank" title="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/04/us/zacarias-moussaoui-calls-saudi-princes-patrons-of-al-qaeda.html?_r=0">Moussaui</a> drops several House of Saud-related bombs. Not least that among leading al-Qaeda donors prior to 9/11 we find former Saudi intel chief Prince Turki al-Faisal (also a former great buddy of Osama bin Laden); notorious former ambassador to the US and failed sponsor of hardcore jihadis in Syria, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, aka Bandar Bush; darling of Western markets (and Rupert Murdoch) Prince al-Waleed bin Talal; and a who's who of Saudi Arabia's top Wahhabi clerics. None of this is any novelty for those among us who since Afghanistan in the 1980s have been following the extraordinarily murky adventures of Wahhabi-sponsored/derived jihadism. </p><p> The information is even more relevant when compared to an upcoming book by Michael Springmann - the former head of the US visa section in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. In Visas for al-Qaeda: CIA Handouts that Rocked the World, Springmann essentially details how, "during the 1980s, the CIA recruited and trained Muslim operatives to fight the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Later, the CIA would move those operatives from Afghanistan to the Balkans, and then to Iraq, Libya, and Syria, traveling on illegal US visas. These US-backed and trained fighters would morph into an organization that is synonymous with jihadist terrorism: al-Qaeda." The Dirtiest Secret of the War on Terrorism Pepe Escobar <a href="http://www.sott.net/article/292413-The-dirtiest-secret-of-the-War-on-Terror">http://www.sott.net/article/292413-The-dirtiest-secret-of-the-War-on-Terror</a></p><p> When the US and its thug allies used fanatical Wahhabi foot soldiers to overthrew Muammar Gaddafi in Libya many of the fanatics left Libya and migrated into other areas. This brings us to Obama sending US troops into Africa. Many of the fanatics spread their radical fundamentalism to Africa. Keep in mind they are being supplied, protected, funded and used by the West to destabilize countries that have resources the US/West covets, pose a threat to US, Western or Israeli hegemony or as a pretext to pump up the US arms manufacturers contracts, and the US police warfare state.</p><p> <b>Boko Haram</b> is one such case. Even though they are not Saudi or Arab they subscribe to the radical tenants of Wahhabism. " Similarly to ISIS, Boko Haram bases its ideology on the Sunni faction of Wahhabism. Its core mandate to oppose Westernisation and, principally, Western education, now has a more general aim to quash and humiliate the Nigerian government . Boko Haram’s non-subordinate attitude towards the government or laws is typical to Wahhabism, placing itself far above the kafirs’ span of influence. Just like in the case of ISIS, Boko Haram is led by a charismatic and powerful persona – Abubakar Shekau, who, in 2015, was listed in Time magazine as one of world’s 100 most influential people. Since the start of Boko Haram by its founder Mohammed Yusuf, the organisation is believed to have killed <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-18020349">over</a> 10,000 people. Today, the audacity of Abubakar Shekau only escalates the degree to which Boko Haram is feared in the region." Back to basics: What ISIS, Al-Shabaab and Boko Haram have in common, and how they preach water and drink wine <a href="http://mgafrica.com/article/2015-06-08-back-to-basics-what-isis-al-shabaab-and-boko-haram-have-in-common">http://mgafrica.com/article/2015-06-08-back-to-basics-what-isis-al-shabaab-and-boko-haram-have-in-common</a></p><p> Oh, by the way Cameroon has large deposits of petroleum (oil). <a href="http://oilprice.com/Energy/Oil-Prices/Cameroon-Ramping-Up-Oil-Production-As-Prices-Moving-Down.html">http://oilprice.com/Energy/Oil-Prices/Cameroon-Ramping-Up-Oil-Production-As-Prices-Moving-Down.html</a> That's all you really need to know about this situation.</p><p> </p><p> -30-</p><p></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p class="attachment"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}3828841458,original{{/staticFileLink}}" target="_blank">boko-haram-file-large-169.jpg</a></p></div>King's Words Expose AmeriKKKahttps://www.theblacklist.net/forum/topics/king-s-words-expose-amerikkka2014-01-14T03:41:29.000Z2014-01-14T03:41:29.000ZJunious Ricardo Stantonhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/JuniousRicardoStanton<div><p><b> From The Ramparts</b></p><p> Junious Ricardo Stanton</p><p> <b>King’s Words Expose AmeriKKKa</b></p><p><b> </b></p><p><i>“One of the most persistent ambiguities that we face is that everybody talks about peace as a goal. However it does not take the sharpest eyed sophistication to discern that while everybody talks about peace, peace has become practically nobody’s business among the power wielders. Many men cry Peace! But they refuse to do the things that make for peace.”</i> Martin Luther King Jr.</p><p> </p><p> When his murder was ordered and carried out by elements within the US government, Martin Luther King Jr was engaged in a protracted struggle to secure human rights for the masses of Americans and a campaign to stop the US imperialist and genocidal war in Southeast Asia. Among the notable white clergy of that day, like Norman Vincent Peale, Bishop Fulton Sheen, Billy Graham and others on those critical issues, King stood alone. His peers remained silent giving tacit accent to the evil going on around them.</p><p> King was asked to come to Memphis Tennessee to support striking sanitation works who were demanding a living wage. The workers were mostly Black and their union was stymied in their negotiations with the city administration. Simultaneously King was preparing for his national <b><i>Poor Peoples Campaign</i></b> to organize and mobilize thousands of poor people to converge on Washington to bring attention to the plight of unemployed, under employed, under paid and poverty stricken people of all colors. King recognized the insidious nexus between the war in Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia) waged against mostly brown and yellow people by an imperialist army made up of lower class White, Black and Brown people, an economy increasingly expending its resources on war and the glaring poverty at home.</p><p>King and his staff were making headway galvanizing people to support the Poor People’s Campaign and their call for an equitable redistribution of wealth. Speaking of poverty in American King said, “All too many of those who live in affluent America ignore those who exist in poor America; in doing so the affluent Americans will eventually have to face themselves with the question that Eichmann chose to ignore: How responsible am I for the well-being of my fellow? To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.” From, <b><u>The Words of Martin Luther King Jr. Selected and With an Introduction by Coretta Scott King</u></b> Newmarket Press 1984 page 18</p><p> For his calls for an end to the Vietnam War, new American values and for a more equitable distribution of wealth, King was killed. The same mentality and values that motivated the ruling elites to wage that war, the same megalomania, callousness and greed that existed then exists now, even more so. King knew intuitively America was in moral decline and said so publically. King’s articulation went against the popular narrative and justification of evil commonly known as “American exceptionalism” which says, America is special, America is beyond the pale of moral judgment and no one can stand in her way. At the root of American exceptionalism is European psychopathy that results in genocide, ecocide and perpetual war.</p><p> King prophesied America’s deepening moral decline when he said, “Mammoth productive facilities with computer minds, cities that engulf the landscape and pierce the clouds, planes that almost outrace time – these are awesome, but they cannot be spiritually inspiring. Nothing in our glittering technology can raise man to new heights because material growth has been made an end in itself. And, in the absence of moral purpose, man himself becomes smaller and the works of man become bigger. Gargantuan industry and government, woven into an intricate computerized mechanism, leave the person outside. The sense of participation is lost, the feeling that ordinary individuals influence important decisions vanishes and man becomes separated and diminished.” Ibid page 19</p><p> King articulated the very essence of Western man’s dilemma, his deepening sense of alienation from himself and all creation, the loss of his humanity, his oblivion of his divinity and steady degeneration into a mindless, soulless automaton. The US in particular and the West in general have become like the Cyborgs in their science fiction movies and television shows, more machine than human. Sadly we are witnessing more and more of this every day.</p><p> What would King say about Barack Obama a “Nobel Peace Prize” winner, continuing the warmonger legacy of his predecessor George W. Bush? What would King say about Obama’s new wars and the bombing innocent people with drone technology? What would King say about the bourgeoning wealth and income gaps in this country? What would King say about the apathy and numbness of the masses, the moral deafness, blindness and muted voices of the so called leaders? What would he say about the bulging bank accounts of the clergy and their silence against the atrocities committed around the world by the American empire? King stood pretty much alone opposing those conditions when he was alive; today we have no one with King’s charisma and moral vision and the moral purification of this nation worsens every day. Once King remarked to Harry Belafonte he feared he was trying to integrate Blacks into a burning building .That was in 1968; what would King say about America if he were alive today?</p><p>By all accounts the United States is morally bankrupt. This nation was always driven by the criminality of the ruling elites and the trading companies (corporations) that founded it like: genocide, slavery and greed. The ruling elites manipulated the masses into doing their bidding no matter the consequences. So slaughtering people, animals and defiling the environment for profit and thrills were deemed “progress”, ideal values to be embraced and emulated. The result of this mentality is the US is a criminogenic banana republic, a nation ruled by psychopaths, criminals and degenerates.</p><p> A recent report by the Center for Responsive Politics revealed the current US Congress and Senate are stocked with millionaires whose fortunes have increased yearly while the fortunes of most Americans are heading in the opposite direction! These legislators supposedly represent the people and make the laws to benefit the whole but their actions are making them richer and richer while their actions leave us poorer by the day. You can see the steady grow in their wealth in the graph from Opensecrets.org I’ve provided.</p><p>The Website OpenSecrets.org states, “Of 534 current members of Congress, at least 268 had an average net worth of $1 million or more in 2012, according to disclosures filed last year by all members of Congress and candidates. The median net worth for the 530 current lawmakers who were in Congress as of the May filing deadline was $1,008,767 -- an increase from the previous year when it was $966,000. In addition, at least one of the members elected since then, Rep. <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N00035278&cycle=2014">Katherine Clark</a>(D-Mass.), is a millionaire, according to forms she filed as a candidate. (There is currently one vacancy in Congress.) Last year only 257 members, or about 48 percent of lawmakers, had a median net worth of at least $1 million. </p><p>Members of Congress have long been far wealthier than the typical American, but the fact that now a majority of members -- albeit just a hair over 50 percent -- are millionaires represents a watershed moment at a time when lawmakers are debating issues like unemployment benefits, food stamps and the minimum wage, which affect people with far fewer resources, as well as considering an overhaul of the tax code… Similarly, the median net worth for all senators increased to $2.7 million from $2.5 million, but in that body it was the Republicans who were better-off. Senate Democrats reported a median net worth of $1.7 million (a decline from 2011's $2.4million), compared to Senate Republicans, at $2.9 million (an increase from $2.5 million).” <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2014/01/millionaires-club-for-first-time-most-lawmakers-are-worth-1-million-plus.html">http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2014/01/millionaires-club-for-first-time-most-lawmakers-are-worth-1-million-plus.html</a></p><p>Based upon these facts and figures, the massive disconnect between Congress and ordinary Americans makes complete sense. It speaks volumes about the values and real motives of those who “serve” in government. The system’s widespread corruption is so obvious it is no longer possible to keep it a secret. The question is, since it’s clear these politicians no longer serve us, who are they serving, and whose side are they really on? It appears most have made deals with corporate devils to get where they are and now they are lining their pockets at our expense. In America greed, corruption and avarice are promoted and rewarded while honesty, compassion and altruism are ostracized.</p><p>King’s words shed insight and light on what is happening today. He said, “The physical casualties of the war in Vietnam (we can substitute the words War on Terror) are not alone the catastrophes. The causalities of principles and values are equally disastrous and injurious. Indeed they are ultimately more harmful because they are self-perpetuating. If the casualties of principle are not healed, the physical casualties will continue to mount.” Ibid page 86</p><p>The casualties of principle King spoke of and the parallel moral rot are spreading like wildfire. They have metastasized from top to bottom throughout the whole society. It is evident in our values and behavior whether in high rise corporate suites or high rise housing projects. The affect of this ethical decay is everywhere, it permeates the whole culture. Only the comatose and self-deluded cannot see and feel America is on the verge of moral and economic implosion.</p><p>Woe to America and the world if this pattern continues. As slaveholder, rapist pedophile and third US President Thomas Jefferson wrote, “I tremble for my country when I reflect that god is just and his justice cannot sleep forever.”</p><p> </p><p> -30-</p><p> </p></div>What the difference between war and gang banging.https://www.theblacklist.net/forum/topics/what-the-difference-between2011-06-27T13:34:53.000Z2011-06-27T13:34:53.000ZKWASI Akyeamponghttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/KWASIAkyeampong<div><p>What's the difference between war and gang banging. How do we war and then with a straight face tell our youth that the happiness is not a warm gun?</p>
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<p>Kwasi</p></div>Lovers of War From the Ramparts Junious Ricardo Stanton Lovers of War “Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshhttps://www.theblacklist.net/forum/topics/lovers-of-war-from-the2010-05-29T19:17:16.000Z2010-05-29T19:17:16.000ZJunious Ricardo Stantonhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/JuniousRicardoStanton<div> <span style="font-weight:bold;"> From the Ramparts</span><br /> Junious Ricardo Stanton<br /> <span style="font-weight:bold;"> Lovers of War</span><br /><br /> <span style="font-style:italic;"> “Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations. This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence – economic, political, even spiritual – is felt in every city, every Statehouse, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.”</span> President Dwight D Eisenhower’s Farewell Address January 17, 1961<br /><br /> As many of US citizens celebrate “Memorial Day”, a day set aside to remember the fallen soldiers in the countries numerous wars and hostile actions we really need to examine the significance, roots and origins of this so called holiday. Since its inception the United States has engaged in two hundred eighty four domestic and foreign wars/military actions. When you add the genocidal campaign against the Native Americans which total about seventy-seven and these include a series of wars against one or more tribal groups then add the times the militia were called in to suppress slave uprising by our ancestors who languished in brutal bondage you are looking at over three hundred sixty one wars and genocidal initiatives at home and around the world. Keep in mind this number doesn’t include the off book covert operations, mercenary or labor related situations where the Army, Marines or National Guard were called in to quell a disturbance on behalf of the ruling class.<br /> <br />Memorial Day was created to observe and pay homage to the fallen and it was spun as honoring those who gave their lives in defense of “freedom”, “liberty” and “democracy”. Why is it we have not asked ourselves why is war used by whites as the primary means to bring “peace”? It should be clear from these mind boggling figures of military interventions large and small known and highly classified and the eventual outcomes, that peace was never the actual objective in the first place. When we consider there has not been one year free of war, killing, fighting or intimidation of some degree since even before this country was founded, any sane person would have to either conclude, the world is a very unsafe and hostile place or Europeans are a war loving people. When you review the historical record you find the Native Americans, Africans and other First World people welcomed the Europeans upon initial contact but it was the whites who breached the peace and initiated hostilities and war. Obviously we have to conclude whites love war, fighting and blood letting. When you look at the immediate ancestors of the whites we see every day, the Angles, Saxons Jutes, the Lombard, the Goths, Franks, Normans, Vikings, Huns, Khazars et al; you can comprehend why they love war so much.<br /> <br />The human psyche needs a reason to justify slaughter, carnage and war, unless you are dealing with a psychopathic people who have crafted and maintain a culture of war. But even then, the leaders need to give the dolts who will be used as cannon fodder a noble reason, a plausible pretext to kill, rob and plunder and put their lives on the line. The best way is to make people think they have been attacked, that their tribal or national pride has been insulted or some other group is trying to take something from them. <br /> <br /> We have been brainwashed by whites to see Europeans as purveyors of morality, high culture and refinement, in direct contradiction to our actual history, experiences and relationships with them! The fact is that the only morality culture and refinement they have ever brought to the world is the immorality of incessant war, a culture of aggression, assault and domination and a refinement of killing using weapons of mass destruction.<br /> Dwight Eisenhower warned us in his farewell speech on January 17, 1061 when he was leaving office of the dangers of a culture subsumed by war. He said, “Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers. The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present – and is gravely to be regarded. Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.” <br /> <br /> Unfortunately the people didn’t listen or grasp the implications of what he was warning them about. Since then the US has devolved to the point where forty years after Martin Luther King Jr said in a 1967 speech denouncing the Vietnam War , “The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today is my own government.” By all accounts this is even more true today then ever before. As we “celebrate” Memorial Day, let us wake up to the truth about this country and its love of war.<br /><br /> -30-<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>What Would Malcolm X Say About Barack Obama?https://www.theblacklist.net/forum/topics/what-would-malcolm-x-say-about2009-05-13T04:57:21.000Z2009-05-13T04:57:21.000ZJunious Ricardo Stantonhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/JuniousRicardoStanton<div><b>From the Ramparts</b>Junious Ricardo Stanton<b>What Would Malcolm Say About Barack Obama?</b><i>“You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.”</i> Malcolm XOnce Malcolm Little, a.k.a. “Detroit Red”, “ Red” and Satan joined the Nation of Islam and became Malcolm X, he experienced an ongoing personal transformation and growth that continued until his murder in 1965. During his sojourn within the NIO Malcolm’s hard work, eagerness to learn, charisma and skills enabled him to rise within the organization to become their national spokesman. Malcolm’s keen insight into both human nature, history and global socio-political dynamics enabled him to speak truth to power, terrify slave minded Negroes, vex and confound Europeans of all stripes and persuasions while igniting the flame of Black consciousness that still flickers today.Malcolm’s publicly stated intention and plan to take the United States before the World Court and charge the US government with genocide and human rights violations made him persona non grata to most white people. Malcolm uncompromisingly told the truth about the U.S. evil empire much to the chagrin of the powers that be. Malcolm’s words cut to the quick and ossified the government’s propaganda, lies and hypocrisy. To neutralize Malcolm’s plan, the US government along with other state and local law enforcement and intelligence agencies cunningly exploited a feud and split between Malcolm’s new organizations the Organization of Afro-American Unity, Muslim Mosques Inc and the Nation of Islam. The state apparatus adroitly used this public rift and break up as the backdrop and cover for his assassination.Malcolm wasn’t the first black man to threaten to expose US hypocrisy, human rights violations and war crimes against its own citizens as well as the world to a world judicial body. A generation before Malcolm X, Paul Robeson also was in the process of exposing US governmental criminality and brining the US up on charges to the United Nations and World Court. The US government went after him, using tactics they would subsequently incorporate into COINTELPRO ten to twenty years later. COINTELPRO was a vicious counter insurgency program initiated by the US government to stifle dissent and squash the truth. COINTELPRO and whatever its predecessors were code named, was used to not only get rid of Malcolm but also Martin Luther King Jr. and a host of other black leaders and spokespersons over the years. Many including myself believe a COINTELPRO counter insurgency plan is still active and operational today.With Paul Robeson, the US government initiated a program designed to discredit him. The demon label back then was “communist”, it was akin to calling someone a terrorist today. The government took away his passport and prevented him from making a living as a singer, actor and activist. From the government’s perspective men like Paul Robeson and Malcolm X were serious threats to their bogus image as a bastion of freedom and democracy. What set Malcolm aprt from Paul Robeson was Malcolm actively sought the assistance and support of African and Asian leaders in his quest to bring the US before the world Court. To off Malcolm, the U.S. government helped hype an atmosphere of antagonism towards him which led to his murder. The Black men who pulled the triggers unwittingly did the bidding of their oppressor, “ the blue eyed devil.”As we pause to acknowledge his natal day and honor the legacy of Malcolm Little, a.k.a. Detroit Red, a.k.a Malcolm X a.k.a. El Hajj Malik El Shabazz a.k.a. Omawole (The Son Who has come home the name he was given when he visited Nigeria) , I wonder what he would say about Barack Obama and the current US system? I wonder what Malcolm would say about the mindless sycophantic idolization of Barack Obama by most black folks? While he was alive, Malcolm railed against the Democratic Party because it was controlled by sheet wearing racists from the South. He chided Negroes for putting so much faith in the Democratic Party. Malcolm exhorted Black folks to not continuously fall for the okey-doke of white liberals and the government. “Today our people can see that we are faced with a government conspiracy. This government has failed us. The senators that are filibustering against you and my rights, that’s the government. Don’t say its Southern Senators, this is the government; this is a government filibuster, it’s not a Southern filibuster. Any kind of activity that takes place on the floor of the Congress or the Senate, that’s the government. Any kind of dilly-dallying, that’s the government . Any kind of pussy footing, that’s the government. Any kind of act that is designed to deprive you and me of getting full rights, that’s the government that’s responsible. Any time you find a government involved in a conspiracy to violate the citizenship or the civil rights of a people then you are wasting your time going to that government expecting redress. Instead you have to take that government to the World Court and accuse it of genocide and all the other crimes that it is guilty of today.” Malcolm demanded that Black politicians represent the interests of the Black community. Malcolm would be the first to point out Obama avoids identification with Black people and our issues and struggles!Malcolm’s keen insight into global politics would make things extremely uncomfortable for President Barack Obama, especially since Obama is pursuing the same imperialist policies of George W Bu$h in Afghanistan and Iraq. Malcolm railed against the US involvement in Vietnam long before such dissent was popular. What would Malcolm say about Obama’s buck dancing and shuffling to the military industrial complex and staying in Iraq? What would Malcolm say about Obama not investigating and prosecuting Bu$h, Cheney, Rice, Powell et al as war criminals?What would Malcolm say about Obama’s tap dancing to Wall Street’s tune and his bailing out the banks while ignoring the plight of Main Street’s poor folks? What would Malcolm say about Obama’s failure to address a “black agenda” while kissing up to other ethnic groups? I suspect Malcolm wouldn’t have too much positive to say about Obama other than he was a good family man, if that in fact is the case. He would look at Obama’s actions: the millions of campaign money he took from corporations and Wall Street banks, Obama’s failure to end the wars, bring the troops home and his dismal record of helping poor and working class folks during a worsening economic downturn that was caused by the same banks Obama is now helping. Just as Malcolm exposed the hypocrisy and ruthlessness of the political system of his day, I think he would shoot holes through the Obama phenomena. Based upon his past, his intelligence and his integrity, I can’s see Malcolm X giving Obama a pass or a passing grade.-30-</div>