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seems right-on to me...

The World Liberal Opportunists Made

By Chris Hedges

The lunatic fringe of the Republican Party, which looks set to make sweeping gains in the midterm elections, is the direct result of a collapse of liberalism. It is the product of bankrupt liberal institutions, including the press, the church, universities, labor unions, the arts and the Democratic Party. The legitimate rage being expressed by disenfranchised workers toward the college-educated liberal elite, who abetted or did nothing to halt the corporate assault on the poor and the working class of the last 30 years, is not misplaced. The liberal class is guilty. The liberal class, which continues to speak in the prim and obsolete language of policies and issues, refused to act. It failed to defend traditional liberal values during the long night of corporate assault in exchange for its position of privilege and comfort in the corporate state. The virulent right-wing backlash we now experience is an expression of the liberal class’ flagrant betrayal of the citizenry.

The liberal class, which once made piecemeal and incremental reform possible, functioned traditionally as a safety valve. During the Great Depression, with the collapse of capitalism, it made possible the New Deal. During the turmoil of the 1960s, it provided legitimate channels within the system to express the discontent of African-Americans and the anti-war movement. But the liberal class, in our age of neo-feudalism, is now powerless. It offers nothing but empty rhetoric. It refuses to concede that power has been wrested so efficiently from the hands of citizens by corporations that the Constitution and its guarantees of personal liberty are irrelevant. It does not act to mitigate the suffering of tens of millions of Americans who now make up a growing and desperate permanent underclass. And the disparity between the rhetoric of liberal values and the rapacious system of inverted totalitarianism the liberal class serves makes liberal elites, including Barack Obama, a legitimate source of public ridicule. The liberal class, whether in universities, the press or the Democratic Party, insists on clinging to its privileges and comforts even if this forces it to serve as an apologist for the expanding cruelty and exploitation carried out by the corporate state.

 

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Did Volcanoes kill off Neanderthals?
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/01/100922-volcanoes-eruptions-neanderthals-science-volcanic-humans/

 Irani Green Dissidents Sew Mouths Shut
(Google translation from Norwegian)  http://tinyurl.com/2595w63

How Right-Wing Billionaires and Business Propaganda Got us into the Economic Mess of the Century
http://www.truth-out.org/joshua-holland-how-right-wing-billionaires-and-business-propaganda-got-us-economic-mess-century63462?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TRUTHOUT+%28t+r+u+t+h+o+u+t+%7C+News+Politics%29

NJ residents say man fell from sky...but where is he?
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/local&id=7669913

 A Story Waiting to Pierce You: Mongolia, Tibet and the Destiny of the Western World
A new book by Peter Kingsley, one of my favorites
http://www.peterkingsley.org/Details.cfm?ProdID=60&category=2

Pronouncing the 7 Greek Vowels
 The 7 main Greek vowel sounds are important in Western occult tradition and in the proto-Kabbalah of the classical mediterranean. The sounds correspond to the lower spheres of the Tetraktys and the lower Sephira of the Tree of Life. This is a language site, not an occult one--It includes and MP3 of the pronunciation ...of Greek vowels (click on the little professor image).   http://www.class.uh.edu/mcl/faculty/pozzi/grnl1/intr/0.2.1.pract.vow.htm

The Revolution will not be Tweeted
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/10/04/101004fa_fact_gladwell?currentPage=all
 

There's a legend of a lady on the mountain
Who lives alone beyond the Mecca plain
And with her hands she makes it through the winter
She never goes against the grain

To be someone is to be someone alone
To be someone is known as solitude
To learn to sing below the surface
You must adjust your altitude

Break the news, Pepote Rouge is coming to town
We stand accused, Pepote Rouge, of bein' hellbound
She had a vision, and now she holds the key
You don't know what you want, 'til you find out what you need.

Intro

I was stranded on the damn coast when a lady
Called to me in a voice so soft and low
Her words resounded like a fountain of truth
And then she faded like a rainbow

Her golden spaceship with the mother of the earth
Carved in stone, the queen of avatars
Where seventy children were given birth
She then returned back to the stars

Break the news, Pepote Rouge is coming to town
We stand accused, Pepote Rouge, of bein' hellbound
She can help us find our way and get across
You don't know what you gained 'til you find out what you lost.

Intro

Pepote Rouge come down from the mountain
And lead our people into the light of day
For they are lost and know not where they're goin'
And all their leaders are cast in clay

Now disbelief and mass confusion
Spreading wild across the land
You can call it love or call it wisdom
To be or not savin' a drowning man.

Break the news, Pepote Rouge is coming to town
We stand accused, Pepote Rouge, of bein' hellbound
She can show us just where we went wrong
You don't know where you're goin' 'til you find where you belong.

Story From Trip South

'Some years ago I went South and took all of the household with ME. We stopped in New York for a time and held services. While there, a woman came and contacted ME and testified and sang praises and was rejoicing because she had found ME, but when it came to following ME -- surrendering all and attaching herself to MY party -- she was unwilling to do it. So we went on to the South without her, but her spirit had found its rest with ME and when we arrived in the South, we found it had gone on ahead and found itself another body, for when we arrived, this body came and attached herself to the party and would not leave and the voice and the actions and the movements were identically the same as they had been in the other body in New York.

'She stayed with us all through the trip and when we returned to New York she got up and testified and sang praises in the meeting, and the first woman was there and heard her voice coming from this other body and she came to ME and said, `Oh, FATHER, YOU've got me, I can't get away.' And she cried and carried on, but it was too late then. Now that person lived afterwards for three or four years but spiritless. That is why it is essential to be led by the Spirit of GOD,

`For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God,'

and when your soul goes to Heaven you go to Heaven too.

'That is why so many people lack prosperity today, because their souls went home to GOD and they would not go. If you keep soul and body together you will always be prosperous. I will not be separated from MY Mind, MY Soul and MY Body. I keep them all together in Heaven and hence, I have the key to all underground treasures.'

-- Father Divine
Notebooks of John Lamb, Installment #4

The Black Panther Party Platform
(October 1966)

What We Want
What We Believe

1. We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our Black Community.

We believe that black people will not be free until we are able to determine our destiny.

2. We want full employment for our people.

We believe that the federal government is responsible and obligated to give every man employment or a guaranteed income. We believe that if the white American businessmen will not give full employment, then the means of production should be taken from the businessmen and placed in the community so that the people of the community can organize and employ all of its people and give a high standard of living.

3. We want an end to the robbery by the white man of our Black Community.

We believe that this racist government has robbed us and now we are demanding the overdue debt of forty acres and two mules. Forty acres and two mules was promised 100 years ago as restitution for slave labor and mass murder of black people. We will accept the payment as currency which will be distributed to our many communities. The Germans are now aiding the Jews in Israel for the genocide of the Jewish people. The Germans murdered six million Jews. The American racist has taken part in the slaughter of over twenty million black people; therefore, we feel that this is a modest demand that we make.

4. We want decent housing, fit for shelter of human beings.

We believe that if the white landlords will not give decent housing to our black community, then the housing and the land should be made into cooperatives so that our community, with government aid, can build and make decent housing for its people.

5. We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present-day society.

We believe in an educational system that will give to our people a knowledge of self. If a man does not have knowledge of himself and his position in society and the world, then he has little chance to relate to anything else.

6. We want all black men to be exempt from military service.

We believe that Black people should not be forced to fight in the military service to defend a racist government that does not protect us. We will not fight and kill other people of color in the world who, like black people, are being victimized by the white racist government of America. We will protect ourselves from the force and violence of the racist police and the racist military, by whatever means necessary.

7. We want an immediate end to police brutality and murder of black people.

We believe we can end police brutality in our black community by organizing black self-defense groups that are dedicated to defending our black community from racist police oppression and brutality. The Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States gives a right to bear arms. We therefore believe that all black people should arm themselves for self defense.

8. We want freedom for all black men held in federal, state, county and city prisons and jails.

We believe that all black people should be released from the many jails and prisons because they have not received a fair and impartial trial.

9. We want all black people when brought to trial to be tried in court by a jury of their peer group or people from their black communities, as defined by the Constitution of the United States.

We believe that the courts should follow the United States Constitution so that black people will receive fair trials. The 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution gives a man a right to be tried by his peer group. A peer is a person from a similar economic, social, religious, geographical, environmental, historical and racial background. To do this the court will be forced to select a jury from the black community from which the black defendant came. We have been, and are being tried by all-white juries that have no understanding of the "average reasoning man" of the black community.

10. We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace. And as our major political objective, a United Nations-supervised plebiscite to be held throughout the black colony in which only black colonial subjects will be allowed to participate for the purpose of determining the will of black people as to their national destiny.

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

 

We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly, all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to supper, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariable the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.

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A Doctored History: Interview with William F. Pepper

Quotes: "The real history, uncovered by Dr. William F. Pepper, former attorney to the King family and to the now-deceased Ray, is much more sinister. When I spoke with Pepper on the eve of the 42nd anniversary of King's death, he stated unequivocally that factions of the United States government were involved in the assassination and that "it was effectively a policy decision." [...]

"Pepper, who was a former associate of King in the anti-war movement, has written two books on the issue, "Orders to Kill" and "An Act of State," the latter of which was recommended by Coretta Scott King, the widow of King, for "everyone who seeks the truth about King's assassination." [...]

"They threatened the ruling forces of America directly.In terms of the anti-war movement, had his opposition to the war been successful, it would have gone straight to the bottom lines of major American corporations involved in energy, oil and gas, as w...ell as military contractors and indeed, the huge civilian contracting entities that were involved in doing things like reconstructing the Cam Rahn Bay area and port. So, in terms of the opposition of the war, he would have greatly affected the profits of those American corporations who were benefiting from the war."



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