President Barack Obama: The Second Term

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President Barack Obama: The Second TermTimes have changed indeed. When he or President Barack Obama was elected President in Novemberof 2008, I was 24 years old. I would not be 25 until December of 2008. Now, in February of 2013, I am29 years old. I am almost thirty years old now. What is wild that people from all over mistake mefor a younger man or even a high school student because of how I look like (I have a youthfulphysical appearance because I eat healthier foods and so forth. I work out as well and I feelrejuvenated in my mind, body, and spirit after a great workout. Also, any human beings regardlessof their physical appearance, color, gender, or any background for that matter should be treatedthe same with dignity and respect. All men are created equal of course. It does not matter whatyou look like. It matters if you do the right thing in your life). I feel more mature as I am getting

older. This month is important for many reasons and it is important to know the contributions of blackhuman beings not only in the past. Black History is being made every day in the present and it willcontinue to flourish in the future as well. As a black man, I respect my heritage and at the same time, Iknow the great intrinsic values found in the whole of the human race too. Black History is not limited orconfined into a small month or some time period at all. Black History is human history and real blackculture ought to respected and truly loved. Tons of men and women of numerous backgrounds (that Iknow in real life) worked hard, did the right thing, and executed compassion for fellow human beings. Allhuman beings should be afforded the same dignity, rights, and respect as anyone else. For years, I knewthat a black man would be in White House, but I didnt realize that it would come so early in my lifetime.Our time represents old issues and new challenges. Our time deals with technology, leadership, andmany different types of issues also. There is also the issue of strength that ought to be elaborated upon.Far too often, some folks believe that strength is how good you can fight physically to harm anotherhuman being. That is not real strength. Real strength is about a person overcoming obstacles.

It is about opposing evil in society and it is about making your spiritual & socialaptitudes stronger as time goes on. It is about standing up for the oppressed and themistreated. It is about handling responsibilities and doing what is right in order for us togrow our talents and blessings that the Creator gave us. I believe in justifiable self-defense, but at times it takes a bigger human being to avoid violence as a means toengineer conflict resolution. See, that is precisely real strength. What goes aroundcomes around. You dont need to worry. If someone mistreated you, then the Creator willdefend you. Just live your life, treat your neighbor as yourself, and never intentionally tryto hurt another human beings feelings in an inappropriate way. I show love for the real


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folks that held it down for the human race. For it is the truth that all human beingsdeserve liberty, love, justice, equality, and the pursuit of happiness irrespective of theirbackground or physical appearance. We have the right to be strong, to be real, and to betrue.

In a span of four years, we witness some of the legacy found within the Presidency of President Barack

Obama. He is a gifted intellectual and an eloquent orator. He worked in communities across America.Yet, the President is filled with great controversy. Some disagree with him for legitimate reasons andothers disagree with him for illegitimate (and sometimes even bigoted) purposes. The President dealswith a litany of vitality important issues ranging from the economy, immigration, health care, otherdomestic matters, and foreign policy matters.The President of the United States of America hasexecuted legitimate policy decisions. Additionally, he subsequently made apparent errors as well. Histotal legacy has yet to be written, but one thing we know for sure. We know for sure that he is ahistoric Presidential figure as the first black African-American President in Americanhistory.

A Short Biography & Inspiration

Barack Obama's biography is ever known in the world. He was born on August 4, 1961 at Kapi olaniMaternity & Gynecological Hospital (now the Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women and Children) in

Honolulu, Hawaii. His father was Barack Obama, Sr. and he was an Kenyan African Luo man fromNyang'oma Kogelo, Kenya. His father was also a Kenyan college professor from the University of Hawaii.

His mother was Stanley Ann Dunham from Wichita, Kansas. Barack Obama lived in Indonesia for awhile and returned into Honolulu as a means to live with his maternal grandparents. His mother divorcedhis Kenyan father and married a man named Lolo Seotoro in March 15, 1963. He or Lolo was a thenIndonesian East West graduate student in geography at the University of Hawaii. Barack Obama was asmart child and he dealt with many issues in his early life. He admitted that the land of Hawaii gave himan opportunity to see different cultures and the concept of the unity of the human race. When a person

gets older, a person understands the unity in diversity (or the great equal value) as foundin the human race. Our diversity and similarities as members of the human familyrepresent our strengths not weaknesses. Barack Obama finished high school and first attendedOccidental College by 1979 in Los Angeles. On February 1981, he gave his first public speech callingOccidental to divest from South Africa in response to South Africa back then agreeing with the immoralityof apartheid. Thank God that apartheid was defeated in South Africa indeed. In 1981, he visited Indonesiato visit his mother, his sister Maya, and to visit the families of college friends (in Pakistan and India) forthree weeks. He transferred to Columbia University in NYC in 1981. He majored in political science with aspecialty in international relations. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1983, which ironically was the


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year that I was born in America. He worked for a year at the Business International Corporation and thenat the New York Public Interest Research Group. In 1985, Barack Obama went to community organizingin the city of Chicago. He worked with the Catholic Church as a means to develop the community ofSouth Side Chicago. He set up a job training program, a college preparatory tutoring program, and atenants' rights organization in Altgeld Gardens. He visited Kenya in the late 1980's and in 1992 with histhen fiance Michelle Obama and his sister Auma. Barack Obama is famous for entering Harvard LawSchool. President Barack Obama experienced a lot of trials and tribulations. He was educated innumerous places and he was on the Harvard Law School review board. His colleagues from Harvardviewed Barack Obama as a man that knew about to bridge the gap of perspectives among liberals &conservatives in the law school.

The truth always explodes like mental awakenings. The President tried to compromise with thereactionaries and they still tried to ruin his Presidency. This policy of attempting to placate extremistsdidn't work when Abraham Lincoln tried to compromise once with the slaveholding tyrants of theConfederacy in the name of national unity. That didn't work since the evil Confederacy wanted topermanently advance slavery and inequality in their territories. It took a Civil War to preserve the Unionand to end the monstrous system of overt human slavery. That is why the nation of the USA had to do inorder for America to defeat the tyrannical Confederacy in order for the Union to be preserved.

Compromising didn't work with Franklin D. Roosevelt either. FDR ended the Great Depression with themore interventionist New Deal plan. The Republicans and the reactionary Dixiecrats opposed him evenwhen the late President Franklin Delano Roosevelt tried to extend certain economic and human rights tothe poor and the working class in America. When President Franklin Delano Roosevelt came along, hetried at first to have compromise with the extreme Dixiecrats. FDR even made an error by agreeing withthe Dixiecrat's support of creating internment camps against innocent Japanese American citizens. Theyor the Dixiecrats still opposed him at every step and hated FDR's progressive economic agenda. That iswhy FDR ended the Great Depression via strong governmental programs. He tried further toextend real economic rights to working people and the poor via a Second Bill of Rights. We asAmericans and as human beings in general didn't compromise when the Civil Rights Movementgrew into new heights during the 1950's and the 1960's. During the 1950's and the 1960's,Presidents and civil rights activists caused civil rights legislation to be a reality in the USA. Therewere hypocrites that opposed civil rights like the Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond. Many reactionary

Republicans and Dixiecrats opposed the agenda of civil rights and other real parts of the social contract.This is the trait of a reactionary in disagreeing with human rights. Even the great reactionary RonaldReagan back in the 1960's made the silly notion that Medicare would be a first step towards theestablishment of a Stalinist America.


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This image shows all of the living Presidents in American history now. The current President is of courseBarack Obama. You see George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Jimmy Carter. This is

from January 7, 2009 where Barack Obama suggested that these men come to have lunch with him. Thisis the first time such a lunch has transpired since 1981. The political establishment and their allies are

heavily friends in a lot of cases. In life, we have to get through the political theater in order for us towitness the real truth.

When the current President Barack Obama made the legitimate, reasonable measure of proposing amoratorium on evictions and foreclosures, it was undermined by both Republicans and Democrats. Theyundermined his proposal. The big picture is that real, progressive transformations will comes by relentlessefforts without token compromise. We know that many Republicans are hypocrites since they claim todisagree with the stimulus, but they accept stimulus money in their own districts like Paul Ryan. I agreewith the stimulus plan when it is used to assist our domestic infrastructure or when it is used to assist ourfellow human beings wisely. That money has sent relief to some of the unemployed. Money to assist the

common people not the oligarchs to do what they want is fine with me. That is why when youhave a centrist so-called pragmatic approach, you will have a centrist, veryslow economic recovery.Radical economic policy can lead into radical economic improvement.So, in these days, legitimate critiques of the President are necessary, but also we ought to talk solutionsas well. A person can balk all day long. Yet, if that person lacks solutions, then that human being is

balking up the wrong tree. I am older, so I do now realize that a person should offer to the public solutionsnot just criticisms against the current political order.


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What the White House is right on.

The new second term of President Barack Obama is an interesting era of human history. It is a new era ofAmerica indeed in 2013. He sent the olive branch to the reactionaries of the Republican Party and theyballed the olive branch up. This is typical of them since they view any federal government intervention asequivalent to socialism, which is silliness. History is a great teacher. What we see is that compromise ortoken measures never works as a means to need radical crises or injurious situations. Even Friedmanwas wrong to support the dictator Pinochet in Chile and Suharto in Indonesia. This came about not viacompromise, but by dedicated efforts of protests, opposition to oppression, and perseverance.

The current President Barack Obama is an intellectual genius and has great political IQ. It is just for himto call for a moratorium on evictions and foreclosures as a means to stem our economic crisis. A realsingle payer health care must be instituted to include all those who lack sufficient, affordable health carefor even the Affordable Care Act is not perfect (yet, it has some legitimate parts in it). Any reasonablehuman being wants change that we can believe in. Some of the changes in America over theyears have been good and others have been very immoral. Pragmatic centrism will not defeat theexcesses of corporate power. We must restore our beleaguered civil liberties. We have the right toestablish single payer national health care. Real unions ought to have their collective bargaining positionstrengthened. An end to American militarism and imperialism ought to exist. Therefore, the United Statesof America can further work with other nations constructively and reasonably. The big lobbies shouldhave no control over all of the political power in the world. The people ought to have the power to control

the government and create solutions not corporate interests. "Dreams from My Father"is President

Barack Obama's book that outlined his views and aspirations. His total legacy is unknown at this moment.We may never know about his true legacy until decades after 2017. What we do know is that thePresident has a chance to make a real progressive impact in the world stage or have the centrist statusquo. The choice is up to the brother indeed. We all respect the White House's family and I respect thetruth too. Now, first I will show what the President got correct in his Presidency so far. Then, next Iwill present some of his errors. Finally, I will include information on the State of the UnionAddress, and other miscellaneous facts.


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The brother President Barack Obama has gotten many policies correct in the world. Far too often,reactionaries lecture us on individual rights, which I have no issue with. Yet, they readily ignore collectivepower in the lives of all humans. In other words, the value of the individual ought to never beutilized as an excuse to violate the common trust and the common good of the entirepopulace.Now, the President is correct to sign the Claims Resolution Act. This law provided $4.6billion in funding for a legal settlement with Black American farmers and Native Americans farmers who

the government cheated out of their loans and natural resource royalty in years past. I agree with him onsigning the Fair Sentencing Act, which fights against unjust prison sentencing against those withpossessing certain drugs. He expanded Pell Grant Spending, which I have no issue with at all. Thelegitimate portions of the Affordable Care Act like refusing discrimination against folks with a preexistingcondition are things that I have no problem with at all either. The President sent billions of dollars infederal grant to help HBCUs or Historically Black Colleges and Universities. He tasked all federalagencies to develop new strategies to address HIV/AIDS. He extended unemployment benefits formillions of workers among numerous years. President Barack Obama ordered the White House and allfederal agencies to respect the Freedom of Information Act and overturned Bush-era limits onaccessibility of federal documents in 2009. President Barack Obama signed the Improper Payments and

Elimination Recovery Act in 2010. This law was to curb wasteful spending. He signed a nuclear limitation

treaty with Russia in 2010. The agreement calls for both countries to reduce their nuclear weapons by

one-third (1,500) and launch systems by half (800). He signed an Executive Order to promote the federal

government as a model employer when it comes to hiring the disabled in 2010. This includes newefforts to increase the recruitment, hiring, and training for the disabled.

The President of the United States signed the FAA Air Transportation Modernization and SafetyImprovement Act that deal with airplane safety. He also allowed new EPA restrictions on mercury andtoxic pollution. This can reduce carbon emissions. He signed the Omnibus Public Lands Management Actof 2009. This is designed to designate more than 2 million acres of land as wilderness. It createdthousands of miles of recreational and historic trails and protected more than 1,000 miles of rivers. Oneof the greatest positives about the President is his sincere, great love for his wife and family. When youlook at pictures and other images of the White House, you see a Brother loving a strong Sister including

his daughters. So, BLACK LOVE IS ETERNAL AND GREAT TO SEE INCLUDINGHUMAN LOVE. The beautiful Sister First Lady Michelle Michelle Obama was correct to give respect tothe late Jackie Robinson and her wife living now. The First Lady Michelle Obama is right to advance thefight against childhood obesity in America. She is right to organize exercise programs across America.Now, we should always realize that beauty is never monolithic or beauty is diverse in the world. Withoutdiversity, the world would be bland, so we should respect the human family in numerous colors, shapes,sizes, and backgrounds. Regardless of my views on issues, it is very inspiring to witness a family lovingeach other and caring for each other.

So, these policies are legitimate and I see no trepidation from

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The Errors of the Presidency

To be fair, it is time to show the critiques of the current White House. The expression of the following factsis not to personally slander the brother, but the President has to be made known of some errors in orderfor the country to achieve better achievements. In our time, all of us haven't strongly fought for economicjustice, peace, and ending the prison state not just the current administration. Now, the White House hasnot successfully addressed in a radical way on how to reduce the unemployment rate in America,especially in the black community. Economic inequality is still huge in the world not only in America. TheWhite House is not totally responsible for this reality since this economic inequality has been growing fordecades. Huge funds are rolling the profits. The Dow just had its best January since January of 1994.We have 47 million human beings on food stamps now from 17 million in the year 2000. GoldmanSachs made 400 million dollars driving up food prices in 2012 while hundreds of millions aroundthe world existed on the edge of starvation. Some locations in America now make feeding thehomeless illegal. The wealthiest Americans have more wealth than the bottom 150 Americans combined.

America ranks 93rd in the world in income inequality. So, these statistics are real. We need to dosomething about these conditions constructively and radically. He didn't raise the minimum wage to $9.50an hour almost as soon as he made it. We do not see a massive job creation program to address thesebad economic conditions in America. We need a living wage and the real assistance to the oppressed inthe world. We have to end the War on Drugs completely. The reason is that the violation of human civilliberties and the ruination of the lives of men, women, and children too have been the result of thedecades long War on Drugs. The White House has advanced numerous reactionary economic policies inAmerica.

For example, President Barack Obama has advanced Wall Street bailouts and he allowed other austerityplans too. The NSA is reading millions of emails in the world and the White House advances this policywith our taxpayer dollars. On some foreign policy matters, the administration acts as a continuation of theprevious Bush administration. For example, the President presides over Africom and other militarizationpolicies in Africa. Libya has been attacked by US backed NATO forces that caused many civilian deathsand allowing a puppet regime to take over Libyan territory. Many black innocent Libyans havebeen raped, terrorized, assaulted, murdered, and even lynched by brutes or terrorists.Even innocent Syrian Christians and Shias have been killed by U.S. backed terrorist rebels inSyria. The unjust drone attacks in the Middle East and Africa is ever known today. The drone attacksoccur now in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, and across the African continent. Innocent men, women, andchildren have been killed via the drone attacks without due process or international law consideration.There are still some intelligence agencies that may continue the torture programs. There has been anexpansion of the assassination program that has killed American citizens without due process of law inthis administration. For example, U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaki was killed without a trial by jury


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including his teenage son (who was innocent). There has been the advancement of policies thatcircumvent not only constitutional rights, but human rights or international via the authorizationindefinite military detention of human beings (potentially of U.S. citizens under certaincircumstances). Isn't ironic that the man that condemned the Bush's invasion of Iraq (and his violationsof human rights) is now a prosecutor of imperialist wars (and he is using drone missiles and other tacticsas a means to carry out this agenda). In foreign policy, the elevation of Obama's administrator of droneattacks, John Brennana man who under Bush publicly defended tortureto the position of CIAdirector signals an expansion of military aggression and extrajudicial killings. This reality means that westill witness further attacks on democratic rights. So, the President of the United States of America BarackObama is wrong to agree with the Patriot Act extension, the NDAA, with proposing Wall Street insiders &those linked to big banks to be in his cabinet, Presidential secret Kill Lists, with some massive cuts to the

social safety net as justified with the ubituquous phrase of a "balanced approach," and themassive public school privatization. A lot of whistleblowers have been jailed too in this era.

The Presidency of Barack Obama has made other errors and mistakes as well. Sometimes, I know it

is hard to write about such things even years ago. Yet, the truth is no respecter of persons. In other

words, you have to show the truth even if it is unpopular or inconvenient with a lot of human

beings. We do realize that Obama is not to be blamed for all aspects of our situation, so I want to

make that perfectly clear. On January 6, 2005, he voted as a Senator for the endorsement of the

seating of the fraudulent electors form Ohio. These electors gave Bush and Cheney a second stolen

term. Only one Senator named Barbara Boxer of California voted against the policy. Years ago,

Obama's chief foreign policy advisor was Zbigniew Brzezinski. Brzezinski was the man who crafted

the Afghanistan war back in 1979. He agreed with a technocratic society where certain elitists

would govern the huge functions of a complex world society. Brzezinskis 1997 book The Grand

Chessboard helped lay the foundation for the current imperial atrocities, predicting that "as

America becomes an increasingly multicultural society, it may find it more difficult to fashion a

consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the circumstance of a truly massive and widely

perceived direct external threat." We know that the Africom military command is used as a cover as

an excuse for Western corporate interests want to grab African oil and minerals (with competition

against further Chinese influence in the African continent). Those of Africom wants a 15 fold


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expansion in drones and other intelligence gathering. Africom is a military group, so their goal is

about trying to militarily control as much as Africa as possible. That is one of the goals of any

military. European allies and African proxies are involved in this neo-imperialism as well. The

nominated General David Rodriquez could rule AFRICOM. He told the Senate Armed Services

Committee that he wants more drones, spy planes, and satellites, etc. in Africa. We know that the

United States have or is planning on building drone bases in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Niger, Burkina Faso,and even in the Seychelles Islands. Many other Special Forces are in the heart of Africa from Kenya

to South Sudan. You will notice that the left gatekeepers even (including some in the Black

American misleadership class as opposed to real Black American revolutionaries that are really

fighting for the truth) agree with this neoliberal agenda.

The misleadership class fundamentally doesn't give an inch of concern about Africa. They don't care

about Africa, because if they did, they would advocate European imperialists to leave the African

continent and advocate Africans to rule their own lands (with advanced technological

developments without GMOs, without radical population, and without oppression from the World

Bank or the IMF). In the final analysis, Africa is for the Africans and Africans ought to rule all of

Africa. Both mainstream Republicans and mainstream Democrats advance similar policies from

more Wall Street funding to more reactionary foreign policy agenda. Being a revolutionary means it

is just being a decent human being. You can just be an activist, work with real human beings, and

treating fellow human beings with dignity including respect.

A SUMMARY OF THE AFGANISTAN WAR: There is no such thing as a humanitarian

war. It is an oxymoron. 100 billion dollars have been spent in the Afghan reconstruction by

the USA and it has improved little for the Afghan people. The Afghanistan war occurred

when I was a Freshman in college. I remember it like it was yesterday . 2 billion dollars a

week have been spent for over 10 years to fight 55 Al-Qaeda operatives. Hamid Karzai doeslittle to nothing when US/NATO kills even civilians in a regular basis. The Nobel Peace

Prize winner President Barack Obama said that he wants to get the heart of Al-Qaeda when

Al-Qaeda has a long, complex history. Even the U.S. tortured human beings in Afghanistan.

After close to a dozen extended trips to Afghanistan, 3 time Nobel Peace Prize nominee,

Kathy Kelly, the co-coordinator for Voices for Creative Nonviolence spoke to the VORs

John Robles about all of the above and more, painting a horrendously grim picture of the

U.S. success in Afghanistan. Afghanistan is in trouble of suffering more. Kathy Kelly talks

about the corruption as it pertains to the reconstruction effort in Afghanistan. She said that

the 100 billion dollars supposed spent on Afghanistan's reconstruction (of its healthcare,

education, infrastructure, etc.), but into other areas. There is billions spent in the war onterror every week, while starvation, disease, and unemployment are on the rise in

Afghanistan. One out of eleven Afghan women dies in childbirth. One of five children

doesn't live beyond their fifth birthday. 1 in 3 folks in mostly peaceful provinces like

Bamyan lack electricity in the morning. 1 million children suffer from acute malnutrition in

Afghanistan, especially in its southern region. There are 400 new refugees every day that

are driven into Afghan cities via the war. These camps have poorly constructed tents during


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the harsh cold. This is not representative of a humanitarian war at all. The National

Directorate of Security is a secret police agency or the NDS. We know that over half of the

Afghan human beings in jail have been tortured. President Hamid Karzai knows about the

civilian deaths in Afghanistan. There was an USA aerial attack that killed ten human beings

(who were four little girls and a little boy and five women, and one man and they were all

civilians). Karzai says that this act is unacceptable, but not much more. Kelly said that many

Afghanis are held without charge for months and tortured by Afghan authorities. There are

complaints about the Bagram prison having the US doing torture. If the USA experienced,

we will fight invaders to the last person. The night raids in Afghanistan allowed dishes to

be broke, furniture destroyed, and households are hog tied. This isn't me typing these

words down. These words are not just said by Kelly. One staff sergeant doesn't care if these

sick, demented actions would be recruiting grounds for more of the Taliban. Leon Panetta

admitted in December of 2011 that only 55 major Al Qaeda operatives live in Afghanistan.

This is wild. The truth is that Al-Qaeda has roots from Saudi Arabia, the ISI, and Western

intelligence agencies. They are being used as well as the Taliban as a means to advance

militarism in the region and throughout the Earth. A military action can never cause peace

fundamentally. Only peace can create peace. A peaceful, political settlement can solve

the issues in Afghanistan.

Other Errors of the Current White House:

On the growth of income inequality: The richest Americans have captured morethan 100% of all income

On bailouts to the big banks: The $780 billion Tarp bailout to the Big banks peryear. Very few financial criminals have been prosecuted.

On targeting whistleblowers: The Obama administration has targeted morewhistleblowers than all other Presidents combined. Many whistleblowers aretreated as murdering terrorists, which is extreme to say the least

On government secrecy: In March of 2010, the AP documented that under Obama 17 major agencies were 50 percent more likelyto deny freedom of informationrequests than under Bush. The ACLU and a new AP investigation said that the

Obama administration is more secretive than ever.

On Civil Liberties and the Constitution: Many liberals hated the policies of Bushfor trampling liberties, which they are correct about. Yet, some of them are silenton his indefinite detainment policies, extrajudicial assassination without dueprocess of law, illegal spying of even American citizens without warrants, and theseparation of powers being harmed.


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On Military Conflicts: The administration either supports or agrees with wars inLibya, Syria, Yemen, Pakistan, and dozens of other nations. The former chiefmilitary prosecutor at Guantanamo says that Obamas drone surge is as damagingto our country as Bushs torture program.

The May 23, 2013 Foreign Policy speech by the President Barack Obama (at WashingtonsNational Defense University)

President Barack Obama gave his national security speech that tried his best to justify the Western

Empire. I give him credit. He is a great orator and his rhetoric is interesting. Yet, the truth must be knownand we know the truth. The tyrannical DHS and the TSA will be exposed by real Patriots and all othertruth-seekers for real. There is not a single justification for talking about no excuses for the victims ofoppression, but refusing to say no excuses to the big banks or members of Wall Street. He made hishistorical speech at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C. He offered a tortured defense ofextra judicial assassinations. He in the first time publicly acknowledged the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki inSeptember 2011. He was an U.S. citizen. He outlined a contradiction. He tried to defend droneassassination while acknowledging the argument of their illegality and the illegality of much of what theAmerican government has done over the past decade. If his actions were legal and moral, why is heasking for reforms of his policies? The White House is in the defensive about much of their foreign policyideologies. They are aware of this. The ruling class has known this. The White House and the ruling eliteknow that many of these foreign policy procedures are illegal. One woman interrupted the speech anddenounced the administration's policy on drone assassinations and the detention center at Guantanamo

Bay (which Obama wants to end in the future). The words on Awlaki were mentioned as a means for theadministration to try to make the assassination program a fixture of U.S. policy. Americas actions arelegal, Obama insisted, referring to extra-judicial assassinations. We were attacked on 9/11. Within aweek, Congress overwhelmingly authorized the use of force. Under domestic and international law, theUnited States is at war with Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and their associated forces. President Barack Obamaknows full well that the assassination program is unconstitutional and illegal. You don't go around killingor assassinating U.S. citizens without due process of law. He was briefed on the events of strikes in Iraqand Afghanistan. Congress has been briefed on these actions. Al Awlaki was an U.S. citizen and he wasassassinated or killed without due process of law. The Fifth Amendment means something. The WhiteHouse refuses to talk about the kill lists extensively. The government has never provided any evidence of


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its allegations in the court of law. The White House doesn't refer to the due process of law as a means tojustify the killings. He talks about the due process which excludes the intervention of the courts, but onlyuses the executive branch (and his closest advisers).

The President said that he didn't want the state to use drones in U.S. soil. Thats who Anwar Awlakiwas, Obama alleged, before making a series of unproven accusations. He was continuously trying to killpeople. He helped oversee the 2010 plot to detonate explosive devices on two US-bound cargo planes.He was involved in planning to blow up an airliner in 2009. When Farouk Abdulmutallab, the ChristmasDay bomber, went to Yemen in 2009, Awlaki hosted him, approved his suicide operation, helped him tapea martyrdom video to be shown after the attack, and his last instructions were to blow up the airplanewhen it was over American soil. None of this gets to the essential issue. The Constitution requires thatcharges of illegal activity be proven in a court of law. No court has ever determined the validity of any ofthese claims, and therefore the killing of Awlaki was unconstitutional. A reform of the drone attacks havebeen proposed by the White House as a means to give it a rubberstamp to carry out imperialism. It is truethat Western society has caused a dangerous precedence of torture, illegal wars, and other evils in ourmidst. The President wants to have military commissions in America as a means to end GuantanamoBay. He said that we must confront terrorism when the US/NATO alliance has funded terrorists in Libya,Syria, and throughout the Earth. The CIA is a terrorist organization. So, the truth is that there is nojustification for the war crimes in Iraq or Afghanistan. There is no justification for the torture in varioussites globally. There is no justification for neoliberalism or imperialism done in the globe as well. Token

cosmetic changes can never justify this war on terrorism at all. This imperialism done by the West hasnothing to do with democratic values or freedom. It has to do with the oligarchy gaining more profit, aneoliberal version of globalization to be enhanced, and for human beings to be controlled more by theelite in the world.


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NkosiSikelel' iAfrika

President Barack Obama in the Motherland of Africa

President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, and the rest their family has visited Africa

starting in June of 2013. It is a historic moment in our history. The visit marks a changing timewhere improvements are in Africa along with huge challenges as well.The President visitedAfrica as a means to connect with his black roots and to advance Western interests in theMotherland. I will be fair here since I am a fair man. Yet, Western interests historically, as weknow, have been detrimental to the real interests of our African brothers and sisters. The WhiteHouse wants to extend U.S. relations or influence in Africa. President Barack Obama recentlyvisited South Africa. South Africa is dealing with the issues of healthcare, HIV/AIDS, education,poverty, and other matters. There is controversy with this visit though. Africom and other U.S.troops are stationed in Africa. Some U.S. military operations are commonly executed in the Hornof Africa, West Africa, etc. as a means to advance U.S. interests irrespective of the needs ofAfricans. This is done as a means for the West to expand Western hegemony (in competition

with China's influence in Africa) including the gaining or exploitation of African resources likeoil. Obama has supported the evil overthrow of the Libyan government (where terrorists wereaided by NATO as a means to lynch black men, women, and children for racist justifications).Now, the President said that he wants African youth to have self-sustainability and prosperity.He denies that he wants to exploit Africa, but he is the President (of course, he will say that).First Lady Michelle Obama is correct to fight for educational improvement in the Motherland. Ihave no issue with that. I do have an issue with Africom, imperialism, and Western funding oftyrants in Africa though. Many South Africans protested Barack Obama, because of the U.S.


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imperialism existing in the world including Mama Africa. The protesters have shown signsoutlining their disapproval with some of the policies from the White House. There are manyfolks in this anti-imperialist campaign, which is based in Johannesburg. They want justice to theMarikana and Cape Town communities. Western imperialism is a disgrace and Africa hassuffered under neo-colonialism and obscene militarization. That is why Africom ought to leave

Africa, drone attacks should end, and real strategies for Africa by Africans ought to flourish.Africans should control their own lands not the West or China. Revolutionary fervor has alwaysbeen huge in Africa for thousands of years. America wants more trade in Africa, because China isdoing better in trading with African countries than America is. This is why Somalia is beingdestroyed by Western actions. In the final analysis, the West wants to expand their interestsand those interests deal with the growing of the Western Empire. Ironically, the U.S. Empire isdecline. So, Africans should advance their own self-determination. Africans are rejecting thedivide and conquer strategies of the enemy completely.

As for the President, I do not hate the Brother. He is a man. Yet, I do have disagreements withhim, nothing more or less. I believe that the Sister First Lady Michelle Obama is always highlyelegant, intelligent, very beautiful, and ought to be treated with dignity and respect. I just feelthat the administration should address the agenda of AFRICOM (which deals withmilitarization and slick actions against African peoples) and end imperialism in Africa. The waron terrorism is a notorious disgrace and it ought to end ASAP. Also, education in Africa shouldbe enhanced of course and Michelle Obama is right on that issue. The beauty of Africa is great tobehold. As an African American, Africa is forever etched in my mind, body, spirit (as we area spiritual people), and soul. It is part of my ancestors. Africa has a great history and legacy

from the lands of Kush to the modern day African scientists, engineers, mathematicians,athletes, musicians, actors, actresses, political leaders, judges, lawyers, theologians, andother contributors to human civilization in general. That is why we should continue tofight for pan-African black liberation worldwide. We have brothers and sisters living in thefour corners of the Earth, but we are one people. We are one.


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The New Secretary of State in 2013

The Skulls and Bonesman John Kerry is the new Secretary of State of America. John Kerry was in theSkulls and Bones since 1966. John Forbes Kerry is the famous U.S. Senator and he has a history ofbeing in league with the establishment on a number of issues. Kerry agrees with the rebelsdestroying Syria in making some token pro-Western regime. John Kerry is in the blue bloodline ofoligarchs. Kerry could be more aggressive than his predecessor Hillary Rodman Clinton. The foreignpolicy of America is overseeing the destroying of sovereign and independent nation states of theworld that don't agree with Western policies. Also, we have chaos and warlords as well. The divideand conquer strategy of the elites is being implemented every day in the world in terms of foreign policymatters. John Kerry wants to increase the aid to the Syrian rebels (some of whom that his owndepartment view as terrorists). He was the richest Senator in the United States. Richard Kerry is his fatherand Richard was a Foreign Service officer for the U.S. State Department being involved in United Nationsaffairs. His paternal grandparents were Jewish parents and converted to Roman Catholicism in the early20th century. Their names were Fritz Kohn and Ida Lowe (from Budapest). Fritz Kohn committed suicidesince his shoe store went bankrupt. John Kerry is a Roman Catholic to this day. His mother was

Rosemary Isabel Forbes. The Forbes were of the blue bloods that came into Massachusetts back inthe mid 1700's. The famous Forbes family has an individual named Ralph Bennett Forbes (hemarried Margaret Perkins. She was a daughter of the Perkins family). Perkins and Co. partneredwith the British East India Company. The BEIC shipped opium from India to China, and teafrom China to Europe including North America.


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The Forbes were allied with the Cabots, the Cushings, etc. These individuals were known drug runners.John Murray Forbes managed the acquisition by the Perkins interests of Alexander Graham Bellsinnovations in the telephone. His son became the president of the American Bell Telephone Company in1879. Many of these New England bloodlines were tied to the Skulls and Bones. The Bushes wereincluded in the New England families. The Skulls and Bones have members dedicated to advancing theagenda of the establishment. They are heavily linked to world history. Skulls and Bones member HarveyBundy was the roommate of John Kerry. Harvey is the grandson of Harvey Hollister Bundy (he workedclosely with the U.S. Secretary of War Henry Stimson during WWII. The Skull and Bones clique ofStimson, Bundy, Robert Lovett, and George Harrison that were involved in the dropping of two atomicbombs on Japan, which was unjust). Decades later, Harvey Hollister Bundy's two sons named Williamand McGeorge (along with Averill Harriman would advocate the U.S. military escalation in Vietnam). All ofthese men were Bonesmen. So, John Kerry's life is filled with controversy including the Skull and Bonessecret society. John Kerry was known heavily for the 2004 campaign. He could not win that election,because of his perceived flip flopping on issues and his refusal to call an end to the Iraq & Afghan wars.In 2004, John Kerry made the class prejudice comments that disadvantaged students need to study hardand get good grades or else they would have to join the U.S. military and get stuck in Iraq. Teresa HeinzKerry is his wife and she was a registered Republican until 2003. Now, he is increasingly became a warmonger. He wants the ouster of Assad and wanted a no fly zone over Libya. His views on the Middle Eastis the same as the establishment Democrats and the establishment Republicans. Right now, we knowmuch about John Kerry and the future will show his true actions as the new Secretary of State.

A Short Summary of the Syrian Civil War

It is obvious what the civil war in Syria is all about. The United States, Saudi Arabia, andIsrael are in unison in wanting the war in Syria to continue (as a means to overthrow Assadand install a pro-Western leader in Syria). We realize that all 3 nations worked together inwanting to overthrow the Syrian government via sectarian extremists back in 2007. Now,


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we witness even the reactionary regime of Qatar sending tons of weapons to the militantsin Syria. We know that Al-Qaeda's Syrian franchise called Jabhat al-Nusra is the bestarmed and most well equipped militant front in the conflict.... These U.S., Saudi, andIsrael backed terrorists continue to use a myriad of horrendous atrocities against allof the Syrian population from Sunnis, Christians, and even Sunni Muslims. The

Western establishment wants the destruction of Syria. They just use democracy andsectarianism as guises in the midst of their real agenda of continued imperialism. Even theU.S. Department admitted that Syria faces a threat from al-Qaeda. They want a blockade ofarms and aid from reaching the government to fight terrorists. These terrorists are in everymajor Syrian city. Since 2007, the U.S., Saudi Arabia, and Israel wanted to use groups likethe sectarian Muslim Brotherhood including groups sympathetic to Al Qaeda as a means tooverthrow Assad. Even in 2013, Sunni Muslims are being murdered if they refuse toparticipate in the destruction of the current Syrian state. The rebels made a mortarbombardment of Damascus University. This killed 15 and injured dozens more. There wasthe recent brutal slaying of 2 prominent Sunni Muslim clerics, which one of them wasbeheaded. His body was paraded in the streets of Aleppo and his head hung from themosque where he preached in. So, these criminals had no respect for religious freedom at

all. The West lied and said that these victims were pro-government.

The truth is that these forces are funded, armed, directed, and supported by overseasgroups. These groups are not representative of all of the Syrian people at all. This proxywar has violated international law. The West has given weapons to these weapons viaJordan and NATO member nation Turkey. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry claims thatWestern delivery of weapons to the rebels is directed to moderates. Yet, the most armedand militarily equipped rebel group is that Al-Qaeda terror front Jabhat al-Nusra. The APsaid that the Syrian opposition activists estimate that there are 15-20 different brigadesfighting in or around Damascus. Many have the al-Qaeda flags. The NY Times in their June2012 article mention that the CIA is said to steer arms to Syrian opposition groups. Theseagents are working in southern Turkey. The New York Times more recent March 2013

article, Arms Airlift to Syria Rebels Expands, With Aid From C.I.A.Arms Airlift to Syria Rebels Expands, With Aid From C.I.A.Arms Airlift to Syria Rebels Expands, With Aid From C.I.A.Arms Airlift to Syria Rebels Expands, With Aid From C.I.A., outlines informationthat it is admitted that weapons are being funneled into Syria across both its borders withTurkey and Jordan. So, the CIA is funding military aid sent to Syrian opposition fighters viaArabic governments and Turkey. We know that Qatar and Saudi Arabia have been sendingmilitary materials via Turkey to the opposition in early and late 2012. In Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hershs 2007 New Yorker article, The RedThe RedThe RedThe Redirection: Is theirection: Is theirection: Is theirection: Is theAdministrations new policy benefiting our enemies in the war on terrorism?Administrations new policy benefiting our enemies in the war on terrorism?Administrations new policy benefiting our enemies in the war on terrorism?Administrations new policy benefiting our enemies in the war on terrorism? theconspiracy of the U.S., Saudi Arabia, and Israel to use the Muslim Brotherhood or even al-Qaeda related groups to aid the destruction of Syria has been mapped out since at least2007. Long term, the Western elites want to undermine or control Iran. So, Syria is beingattacked by foreign assault and terrorist proxy groups. These terrorists are violating

international and national laws. The Syrian people have the right to handle their ownaffairs without imperialism or terrorist bombings of their own sovereign territory. TheWest could even use terrorist proxies in Iran, China amongst the Uighurs. The region ofthe Uighurs is rich in oil and gas resources. The U.S. is allied with the separatist Uighurmovement.


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North Korea

The situation in North Korea is important to know, to research, and to discuss about.Korea was slaughtered by Japanese imperialists in the early 20th century. During the1950's, North Korea lost 30% of its population as a result of the U.S. led bombings in Korea.The mainstream media portrays North Korea as some aggressive nation that is a threat toglobal security. We can't know about the Koran peninsula without understanding aboutthe Korean War. During that war, 20 percent of North Korea's population during the Koreawar was killed by extensive bombings. General Curtis LeMay was involved in themassacres. North Korea was destroyed of its 78 cities and thousands of hervillages. Official South Korean government sources estimate North Korean civilian deathsat 1,550,000. Refugees came from Yongdong on July 26, 1950. Hundreds of refugees weremassacred by U.S. soldiers and warplanes at bridge at No Gun Ri (eight miles away) theday before. LeMay bragged about killing civilians in the Korean War and WWII. If similar

acts occurred in America, Americans would say that these acts are a threat to nationalsecurity. General Curtis Lemay acknowledges that [we] eventualGeneral Curtis Lemay acknowledges that [we] eventualGeneral Curtis Lemay acknowledges that [we] eventualGeneral Curtis Lemay acknowledges that [we] eventually burned down everyly burned down everyly burned down everyly burned down everytown in North Korea anyway, some way or another, and some in South Korea too.town in North Korea anyway, some way or another, and some in South Korea too.town in North Korea anyway, some way or another, and some in South Korea too.town in North Korea anyway, some way or another, and some in South Korea too. So, inthe inner mind or consciousness of many North Koreans, the USA is seen as the aggressorwhen ca. 2 million deaths came in the Korean War. The actions in the Korean War definegenocide under the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment ofthe Crime of Genocide. Today, the DPRK is now having a conflict with the White House.On February 12, 2013, the DPRK conducted its third nuclear test. The Security Councilthen issued Resolution 2094 (S/Res/2094(2013)) on March 7 imposing additionalsanctions on the DPRK, including a set of financial sanctions which are intended toreimpose substantial financial hardship on the DPRK.

These financial sanctions are part of the focus of Resolution 2094. Some sanctions againstNorth Korea have been agreed to by China. Korea is now divided when it had been unifiedfor 1000 years. The Pentagon has used war games in Asia for a while and there has beenagitation in the region. It seems that Washington has used a show of force and this force(from aircraft, etc.) has caused North Korea to show more reactions. The rhetoric from KimJong-un is in direct response to this years month-long U.S.-South Korea war games, whichhe interprets as a possible prelude for another war. It is said that Kim Jong-un actions aredone as a means to cause some bilateral discussions on peace. The Wall Street Journal and


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even CNN admitted that this Pentagon playbook has been created in months in advance (orapproved by the Obama administration earlier in the year). There is nothing defensiveabout B-52 and B-2 nuclear strategic bombers coming near South Korea. The Pentagonalso exploited the opportunity to announce the boosting of anti-ballistic missile systems inthe Asia Pacific and to station two US anti-missile destroyers off the Korean coast. It is easyto see that the United States has a stronger military than North Korea and America wantsgeo-political domination of Asia. The United States is allied with Japan and SouthKorea. Ironically, China is hesitant in massively funding North Korea, because of NorthKorea's perceived instability. There is still debate in Beijing over whether to continue tosupport Pyongyang. China, historically, used North Korea as buffer of Western influence,but they know that the West can exploit tensions in that part of the world as an excuse tohave a military buildup. North Korea has threatened to use missiles on the American coastif necessary. China has mobilized troops near the North Korean border. The only solutionis for all sides to come to the peace table, end militaristic threats, and fight to not make

the barbarism of war a reality.

One of the slickest evils now is the warmongering campaign against North Korea. TheWestern media is lying in claiming that North Korea has massive nuclear missiles that candestroy America or the leader of North Korea is on par with Hitler. Even Mike Adams iswrong to assume that North Korea has a nuclear warhead on a missile. Even the Pentagonand the intelligence services dont agree with that claim. The reason that folks like MikeAdams would make such a claim since they hate Communism (when radical neoliberalactivists and radical reactionaries have been involved in eugenics, racial oppression, andneo-feudalism for centuries long before Karl Marx was ever born). His or Adams'libertarian extremism is something that I can never accept philosophically or personally atall. I have no issue with a watchful eye on government, but not eliminating government inall forms of education, having no public schools, having no public health care at all, etc.

When someone confronts corporate power, then you are waking up. We see corporateoligarchs infiltrating the government. This is a reality since $30 trillion sits hidden inoffshore tax havens and the majority of that money is own by wealthy Americans. We needmoney for the people not for militarism. One out of three large corporations pays no taxesin a given year. Even the lost revenues that are found in tax havens are not even discussedin the six mainstream media companies with interlocking boards of directors. Both majorparties have ties to the corporate elite. As for immigrants, immigrants are here to stay. So,the reality is that citizenship rights should be given to those that want to become citizens orhave legal residence. If all workers have decent wages, and real working conditions, thenall Americans will benefit. The rising of the minimum wage into a living wage will benefitall Americans and prevent folks from being economically exploited. Also, I will never vote

against my own interests. My people marched, protested, and sometimes died in the 20My people marched, protested, and sometimes died in the 20My people marched, protested, and sometimes died in the 20My people marched, protested, and sometimes died in the 20ththththcecececentury to fight for the Civil Rights that we are still fighting for today.ntury to fight for the Civil Rights that we are still fighting for today.ntury to fight for the Civil Rights that we are still fighting for today.ntury to fight for the Civil Rights that we are still fighting for today. Now, Secretary ofNow, Secretary ofNow, Secretary ofNow, Secretary ofState John Kerry has meet with South Korean leaders, Chinese leaders, and others in theState John Kerry has meet with South Korean leaders, Chinese leaders, and others in theState John Kerry has meet with South Korean leaders, Chinese leaders, and others in theState John Kerry has meet with South Korean leaders, Chinese leaders, and others in theregionregionregionregion. Yet, he refuses to meet with the leaders of North Korea as a means to solve thiscrisis. John Kerry said that North Korea should not test a missile. The big picture is that theWest wants Asian dominance. The current President is very neoliberal and reactionarywhen it comes to foreign policy and even some domestic policies (especially when it dealswith the economy). There is a propaganda campaign to make North Korea as the most


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nuclear prone regime in the globe when the facts show the truth as being opposite of whatis being presented by the mainstream media. We know that the Obama administration is acontinuation of many of the political policies from the previous Bush administration. Muchof the Obama team accepts the Milton Friedman Chicago School of economics. Theadministration is trying to cut cost of living adjustments after promising not to do so backin 2008. The track record of the current administration is real. When you have the VicePresident Joe Biden calling for a new world order, then you know what time it is.

China in Our Age

The U.S. and China held a two day discussion about issues in California. The Chineseleader, who met with President Barack Obama, is President Xi Jinping. There have beenrecent U.S./China tensions for a while now. Washington has accused China of cyber warfareagainst America. Some extremists want to have conflict with Beijing over the hegemony inAsian territories. That is why the Obama administration is using basing deals, military

exercises, shows of force, and other diplomatic machinations in the Asia-Pacific region.Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger spoke about President Barack Obamameeting with Xi. He said the following words in the summit at the Asia Forum last Tuesdaywith these words: "...We are in a situation that we have a common set of problems, if wedont solve them jointly, the whole world will be divided in every part between people whohave been pressed to join one model or another. That will be a disaster for the two countriesand for the world. The U.S. wants to have the U.S. economic and strategic pressure. Obamawants Beijing to comply with what he feels is economic fairness in the world. That meansChina must accept U.S. currency manipulation and U.S. corporations to influence Chineseeconomic services. America wanted Beijing to have the pretext of discussing the Pentagon'sallegations (of China and the People's Liberation Army hacking U.S. government

including military facilities). Washington has not shown conclusive evidence to provetheir allegations. America wants Beijing to follow more economic and strategic concessions.Strangely, America has been involved in cyber-espionage, targeted malware attacks, andonline surveillance. The West allowed the Stuxnet computer worm to attack Iran's nuclearfacilities. The U.S. surveillance state wiretapped the Associated Press. It has collected thephone records of tens of millions of Americans. It has tapped directly into the central serversof Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, Paltalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube and Apple to collectpersonal user data. Unsubstantiated US allegations of cybercrimes against China pale beforethis onslaught.

The U.S. wants national security and intelligence officials to use U.S. cyber-attacks. These

actions are to advance: "...US national objectives around the world. The directive stated:The secretary of defense, the DNI [Director of National Intelligence], and the director of theCIA shall prepare for approval by the president through the National Security Advisor aplan that identifies potential systems, processes and infrastructure against which the UnitedStates should establish and maintain OCEO [Offensive Cyber Effects Operations]capabilities. These are pre-emptive attacks against foreign countries. The domestic cyber-attack would require the authorization of the President except in the case of an emergency.There is the issue of North Korea. Washington is using bluster at North Korea as a means to


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increase its pivot to Asia. That is why in March; the U.S. used practice bombing runs withnuclear capable B-52 and B-2 bombers near North Korea. North Korea responded with amissile launch. Washington increased its military presence in the region, expanded its anti-ballistic missile system, and wanted Beijing to break economic including political ties withPyongyang. China used North Korea as a buffer state between itself and South Korea (or the

U.S. ally in the region). Some in China distanced themselves from North Korea, because theydid not want America to escalate its military presence in East Asia. China even cut offfinancial ties with North Korea's largest foreign exchange bank. They leaked contingencyplans for the replacement of Kim Jong-Un to the German press. North Korea now wantedtalks with Seoul and reopened the hotline which was shut down during the March stand-off. The Pentagon will have joint exercises in Japan in of southern California. China wantedthese exercises to be called off. The USA refused to do so. Imperialism by the West is stillcommon.

*China also needs to stop forced abortions, restrictions on the Internet, the evil one childpolicy, and other violations to human liberties as well. So, both nations need to clean their

own houses.

A Neglected Issue

One of the most unreported stories in American society is the plight of black Americans. Everything in theUniverse is not golden. It is disgrace that even in America; millions of human beings go hungry at all. Theeconomic misery against Black America has been around for centuries, but it still persists in this era ofterrorism. There has been little to no attention given to the high unemployment rate of African American in

rural and urban communities in America. This circumstance has not radically improved since2009. Even with a slow moving economic recovery, black participation in the labor market has beenmoving downward because of the negative effects of the recession. The White House has madeproposals and formulate meetings about this issue for years, but no radical solution to address hugepoverty that especially affects low income human beings in the USA as well. The underemployment rateis measured by the extent to which people who usually work full time can't find full time employment.These are made up of human beings who are unemployed completely and folks who work less than fulltime or less than 35 hours a week. This is due to human beings who have an inability to find moreemployment, because of economic circumstances. This underemployment rate doesn't include themillions of U.S. citizens who are institutionalized in prisons. Dr. Reginald Clark researched the


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unpublished reports of the underemployment rates of various ethnic groups from 2009 to the present. Therate of UNDER-employment for Hispanic Americans has DROPPED from 15% in 2009 to 12% at the endof 2012. This represents an improvement of about 20%. The rate of UNDER-employment for WhiteAmericans has DROPPED from 10% in 2009 to 8% at the end of 2012. This represents animprovement of about 20%. The rate of UNDER-employment for Asian Americans has DROPPEDfrom 8% in 2009 to 6% at the end of 2012. This represents an improvement of about 25%. But thepicture for Black Americans is in the opposite direction. The rate of UNDER-employment forBlacks has INCREASED from 16% in 2009 to 20% at the end of 2012. This represents a 25%WORSENING in the rate of Black underemployment during Obamas first term in office from 2009 through2012. This misery among many Black Americans is not just reflected in those statistics. At least 2 millionBlacks are in prison and have trouble finding employment. Half the African Americans in prison only havenonviolent drug offenses. This corrupt tough on crime garbage has contributed to the harm of the blackcommunity.

This nonsense has existed for decades. If these 2 million Black human beings were out of jail and cannotfind full time work, then the Black underemployment rate would be 30 percent. The White House's jobcreation policies is not necessarily stimulating hiring in geographic areas where African Americans mostlyreside (except in some areas). The African American unemployment rate is still at 14.3 percent. Since2009, hundreds of thousands of jobs from Blacks have been lost, especially full time jobs. This deals withthings from family wage, home ownership, education, benefits, consumer debt, etc. When you get down

to it, Obama's economic policies are heavily neo-liberal and not revolutionary. That is why accordingto Think Progress: "...Corporations have been the overwhelming beneficiaries of Obamaspolicies. Over 88% of all the dollars obtained between 2009 and 2011, 88% of nationalincome growth, went to corporate profits, while just 1% went to wages.So, the highunemployment rate in the Black Community is a result of the establishment or the powers that be ignoringthe employment issues in the Black community as found in urban and rural areas. It is only in February of2013 when President Barack Obama said overtly that he acknowledged the deleterious role of the federalgovernment's job creation policies on the severe depression in the low income African Americancommunities. He wants to partner with cities as a means to fight this issue. Yet, he made no specificdemands, except sending kids to good schools (when many of these schools are expensive), get goodjobs which don't exist, and buy nice homes when there is an economic inequality issue in the USA. I willadmit that this issue existed long before President Barack Obama was in the White House, so I want tomake that clear. The White House is not responsible for all facets of our economic situation. For

centuries, the Maafa (created by white supremacists and not all white people) caused a path ofoppression or the system of white supremacy that contributes to economic injustices then and nowagainst my black people.

The attacks on affirmative action by reactionaries are not new. It has occurred for decades.Diversity has been given a bare agreement by the Supreme Court, but they have attacked andwanted to destroy affirmative action for years and decades. The modern affirmative actionsystem has been attacked since 35 years ago. Affirmative action was created as a means forAfrican Americans to receive redress over oppression and discrimination. So, theestablishment tries to use token diversity as an excuse to not really address thestructural systems of white supremacy, poverty, and other evils harming humanity inAmerica. The recent Supreme Court decision was about diversity in education not affirmative

action. The Bakke decision in 1978 ended the so-called "quotas" for racial minorities. From thatyear on, public institutions have been forbidden from pursuing measureable results via programof inclusions of previously excluded classes of human beings. These views have been spokenof by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and even President Lyndon Johnson. The Court reluctantlyaffirmed the principle of the 2003 University of Michigan Law School decision called Grutter vs.Bollinger. That decision means that public educational institutions can claim a compellinginterest in fostering diversity on campus (of using race as one factor out of many to create adiverse campus environment). So, the Supreme Court hates affirmative action so much thatthey want to use diversity as a way to disguise their hatred. Now, Dr. King in his 1964 book,


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called "Why We Can't Wait," mentioned that compensatory or preferential treatment for theNegro an idea that he heartily endorsed. For it is obvious, Dr. King wrote, that if a man isentering the starting line in a race 300 years after another man, he first would have to performsome impossible feat in order to catch up with his fellow runner. Dr. King rightfully wanted aBill of Rights for the disadvantaged (or give preferences for black Americans just like veteranshave). How ironic that those anti-affirmative action extremists cite Dr. King as a source of their

"race neutral" rants when Dr. King believed in affirmative action. President Lyndon Johnsonshistoric speech to the 1965 graduating class of Howard University marked the definitivebeginning of affirmative action as public policy. Johnson riffed on Kings metaphor: You do nottake a man who for years has been hobbled by chains, liberate him, bring him to the starting lineof a race, saying, 'you are free to compete with all the others,' and still justly believe you havebeen completely fair. This is the next and more profound stage of the battle for civil rights. Weseek not just freedom but opportunity not just legal equity but human ability not just equalityas a right and a theory, but equality as a fact and as a result." Equality and compensatorytreatment have harmed with Bakke. Today, we know the July 2003 decision; it allowed diversityto come about, but never as a means to address racial injustice or demand real results. After Dr.King was assassinated, many of upper middle class abandoned the movement as a means toadvance corporate interests, the system of mainstream capitalism, and to be under the 2 party,

corporate system (instead of advancing revolutionary solutions). Ironically, special privileges forthe super-rich remains. For the rich, they have legacies, inheritances, tax breaks, corporatesubsidies, some companies pay no income tax at all, etc. If the super can have all of this andthey have oppressed the world for millennia, then the poor and other minorities deserve real

justice as well. We will continue to fight for justice in the world completely. There is no doubtabout that.

The only real solution is a living wage, a radical redistribution of economic and politicalpower, real universal health care, radical educational reforms, and a strong nationalemployment plan that can benefit all Americans. On the other hand, many blacknationalists (made up of real, strong Brothers & Sisters) are right in wanting us (who areblack human beings) to develop our own infrastructure, our own power base, our ownsystems, etc. as a means to more directly assist our own black people.


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The 2013 State of the Union address

The 2013 State of the Union address made by President Barack Obama was a combination of numeroustruths and errors. It had legitimate words in it and it was mixed with the audacity of Empire not theaudacity of hope. It was not change that you can believe. It was change that I don't want to believe on. Hesaid that by the end of next year the war in Afghanistan will be over. It won't, because there will be a smallcounterinsurgency force in the nation of Afghanistan after most U.S. ground forces leave the nation by theend of 2014. He said that he wanted to assist Libya, Yemen, and Somalia including Mali. Tell that tovictims of lynchings and drone attacks in those nations. His actions including the actions of Bush Jr. havegrown the global war on terror. The corporate friendly free trade agreements like the Trans-PacificPartnership are still in existence. The White House said that they want some freedom for the individualsliving in the Middle East, but democratic rights are lacking in Bahrain, Qatar, and especially Saudi Arabia(these countries are Western allies indeed). Iran can't have nuclear weapons according to the WhiteHouse (they just want sanctions in Iran that will harm the human standard of living of innocent humanbeings of Iran). The immoral targeting of American citizens via assassination is truly a troubling portion ofPresident Barack Obama's foreign policy. This NATO agenda is a continuation after the Bushadministration. It is easy to decipher that the Pentagon's agenda is to have western hegemony inthe world in competition against Russia plus China. Where necessary, through a range ofcapabilities, we will continue to take direct action against those terrorists who pose the gravest threat toAmericans, he declared. This is in reference to him supporting the drone program. The President saidthat wants to continue the killing with leaf of transparency and legality, pledging to engage withCongress to ensure our targeting, detention and prosecution of terrorists remains consistent with ourlaws and system of checks and balances He had to say something like that after a Justice Departmentwhite paper would issue some pseudo-legal justification for this war on terror reality (which is heavilyunchecked by judicial or congressional oversight). We have a growing police state at home. I can't believethat he or brother Obama supported the imperialist French harming Mali in trying to maintain militaryjuntas at the expense of the deaths of innocent Tuareg scapegoats. Now, he or Mr. Obama loves to usethe middle class word. He rarely talks in public about the poor. He or President Barack Obama braggedthat he already slashed $2.5 trillion from the deficit via mostly spending cuts. He has proposed more cuts

to Medicare and Medicaid. Republicans like Rand Paul and Paul Rubio want even more cuts to our socialsafety net via their response to the State of the Union made by the President. For the record, Nugent iswrong on many issues. He or Ted Nugent is much worse than Rand Paul and Rubio put together. ThePresident said that he wants more infrastructure funding as a means to grow the economy. He wantsmore manufacturing jobs in the USA. He hailed the return of manufacturing by Caterpillar, Ford, Intel andApple to American shores, neglecting to mention that US corporate in-shoring was based on massivecuts in workers wages and benefits.


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He made a proposal to raise the minimum wage to 9 dollars an hour. This is a good thing since a higherminimum wage can assist families, but some want it to be higher as a means to comprehensively handlethis issue. The Tea Party crowd is really sick to advocate folks working below the povertyline in America to just suffer with extremely low wages. As for universal pre-K, I have no issuewith it as long as it is voluntary (and it is affordable without indoctrination, corruption, and so forth). Westill have high unemployment in near Depression levels in some locations of the USA. Poverty, hunger,

and homelessness are still high. Corporate profits and CEO pay check reach record heights, whileworkers' wages continue to be low. Two statistics provide a sense of the scale of social inequality inAmerica. During Obamas first term, 93 percent of all income gains went to the richest 1 percent ofAmericans, and over the period 2007-2010, US median net worth declined by 38.8 percent. Our socialinequality ought to be really addressed in America. Wall Street interests continue to harm wages andworking conditions in America. The solution is a radical national public program to handle poverty in thiscountry. We have what is left of the social reforms of the 1930s and 1960s. Now, one of the mostimportant sections of the speech deals with the gun rights issue. President Barack Obama believes in guncontrol. I believe that law abiding citizens should not have their gun rights restricted. Yet, I do agreewith a comprehensive approach in handling this issue like addressing poverty, endingthe Drug War, ending the prison industrial complex, ending gun trafficking, promote gunsafety, and to have other common sense solutions. We deserve a vote, but not tyranny.We should have more peace. It is very hypocritical for some to lecture us on gun control when they

advocate war mongering in the Middle East and the Motherland via drones, bombs, wars, and allying withterrorists as a means to fight in the war on terror. The state ought to have no monopoly of guns orammunition at all. The GOP's responses were made by Rubio and Paul. They outlined thesame old talking points of reactionaries. They ignore the fact that the government hascreated jobs and opportunities for thousands of years in the world. They ignore thateconomic fairness is superior to Austrian economics. They definitely ignore about howan alert and progressive citizenry can change the whole world . His speech talked about theenvironment and energy. So, the speech dealt with a combination of legitimate words (involving Fairnessin Paycheck act, in support of the Voting Rights Act, and believing in equality) mixed with proclamationsof Empire including quasi austerity rhetoric.


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Miscellaneous Issues in Our Age

There have been reactionaries trying to harm the U.S. Postal Service in the world. More of the post office

is being privatization. The news media talks about the Post Office having crisis of cutting back Saturdaydelivery, layoffs, closing offices, etc. Some of the crises are imposed in society. According to DaveJohnson, this crisis is being manufactured as a means to destroy our government and handle the piecesto the billionaires. The reality is that USPS is still the 2nd largest employer in America unlike Walmart.Unlike Walmart, the employees of the USPS are unionized, pay reasonable wages and benefits, andreceive no government subsidies. Wal-Mart is known for paying little that employees qualify forgovernment assistance. Since at least 1996, those in the GOP wanted to use schemes as a way toprivatize the Postal Service. Back in 2006, Republicans in the Congress pushed through a requirementthat the Postal Service pre-fund 75 years of retiree costs. The Postal Service has to pay now foremployees who are not even born yet. No other government agency -- and certainly no company -- has todo this. The Postal Service can break even. While the internet and recession have eaten into some of thePostal Services letter business, magazines, books, newsletters, prescriptions, advertising, DVD serviceslike Netflix and many other services still depend on the Postal Service for delivery. And many people forone reason or another still send letters. In a democracy these people are supposed to count, too. The

Republicans in Congress forced the Postal Service to remove public use copiers from Post Offices andeven blocked the Postal Service from setting up a secure online system that allowed Americans to makemonthly bill payments. The USPS Sis meant to be for the people not for privatizers. Now, the elite want toharm the postal service since it is a public service. Even the fiscal cliff has been manufactured heavily byWall Street interests as a means to force cutbacks in the things that we do in improving our standard ofliving. The privatization of all public assets is a known goal of the elitists including theCATO Institute. That institute is heavily funded by the Koch brothers. Note: Frederick W.Smith, Chairman & CEO, FedEx Corporation was on the Board of Directors of Cato Institute. FedEx isalso a funder of the Cato Institute. Cato's funders also oppose unions because they enable workingpeople to bargain for a larger share of the pie, and the Postal Service is unionized -- the largest remainingunion. The CATO's Tad DeHaven hates unions as well. The USPS is known to give mail to ruralcommunities which internet access is limited. The USPS received no taxpayer dollars even.


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The CPAC Conference of 2013

CPAC of 2013 is a controversial conference to say the least. Many of the college age kids were

in the conference. This is a political conference since CPAC means Conservative PoliticalAction Committee. There is no evidence that the free market is neither perfect nor divine.There is no evidence that trickled down economics is divine or that war mongering is great toadhere to at all. The conference stands for the Republican agenda. Those in that conferencewant to focus on the next generation of conservatives. Their title is about "America's Future:The Next Generation of Conservatives."Their meeting includes a lot of fear mongering,rumors, and ad hominem attacks with those that disagree with them. There has beencontroversy in that event. There has been one CPAC participant that tried to defend slavery,which is sick and immoral. One audience member lied and said that slavery was good forAfrican Americans. This was in National Harbor, Maryland. The audience member was 30 yearold Scott Terry from North Carolina. After the presenter, K. Carl Smith of Frederick DouglassRepublicans, answered by referencing a letter by Frederick Douglass forgiving his former

master, the audience member said For what? For feeding him and housing him? Severalpeople in the audience cheered and applauded Terrys outburst. That is CPAC for you. It isone thing to be a conservative for whatever reason. It is quite another to try to defend anyportion of the Maafa. Like usual, Terry had a Rick Santorum sticker, wore a Confederate flagemblazoned t-shirt, and wanted segregation too occur in America. He said that he wantedblack human beings to be subservient to whites. This racist mentality is common amongnumerous members of CPAC and the Tea Party movement. Even an African American audiencemember was challenged in the event by bigots in the event. The token K. Carl Smith tried toblame a black reporter instead of the white racist audience member for the wholecontroversy. That is typical for folks like that. The reporter just asked a question, which shehad every right to do.

You know why I could never be a Republican or a CPAC supporter. Well, there you go. Thereality is that slavery is always wrong and all men are created equal. To be fair, not everyCPAC believe in the ignorant, unintelligent words from Scott Terry. Now, Mitt Romney, MarcoRubio, and other spoke in the CPAC event as well. When you look at the truth, the truth isapparent and abundant. Paul Ryan's budget is nothing more than the reiteration of hisprevious offerings that includes huge cuts to Pell Grants including necessary parts of thesocial safety net. Sarah Palin made a slick, ad hominem attack filled speech about thePresident. He compared the White House to a reality TV show, but she was once on a realityTV show from TLC. That is hypocrisy. Palin made the racist comment that the President


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should allow authorities to check his ID or questioning his citizenship. The GOP is in acrossroads. They can oppose the Violence against Women Act or go into the 21st century.They can follow the McCarthyite views of Cruz or embrace tolerable, accurate thinking. Now,it is not just one party involved in evil. The UN recently said that the U.S. drone war inPakistan violates international law.

*There has been a large discussion about Dr. Ben Carson. Dr. Ben Carson is a great surgeon amongAmericans. Dr. Carson is a neurosurgeon. He claims to be non-partisan and to be above the political fray.Yet, he speaks at the establishment conservative CPAC convention. He is allied with the conference

since he speaks at it. What is the truth about Dr. Carson? I have researched this controversy to see thetruth. The truth is apparent. Dr. Ben Carson is right to believe in the power of the individual and personalresponsibility. Yet, I believe that he omits the structural imperfections in the society that influencespoverty and oppression. Sometimes, we need revolutionary change with help from the public sector toonot just from the private sector as privatization has harmed communities throughout the world. WardellConnerly, Shelby Steele, and Clarence Thomas are even more extreme than Dr. Ben Carson in wantingto end affirmative action, Head Start, and other social programs that are public. Also, folks like Steeleomit the huge voter suppression efforts by the reactionaries against the brothers and sisters of America(including other human beings). Dr. Ben Carson in his 2013 CPAC speech was in error to make thefollowing words: "...Nobody is starving on the streets (of America). We have always taken care ofthem. We have churches which actually are much better mechanisms for taking care of the poorbecause they are right there with them. This is one of the reasons we give tax breaks tochurches... The truth is that folks are starving in America every single day and over 40 millionAmericans lack health care in the USA alone. The churches can contribute to help the less fortunate, butalso the government too as a part of maintaining the general welfare of society. Dr. Ben Carson madecontributions in the field of medicine. He is the first surgeon to separate conjoined twins and the youngestman to head a surgical department. Dr. Ben Carson has a great work ethic and a commitment toexcellence. Dr. Ben Carson knowingly or unknowingly presents words that try to give reactionaries ajustification to try to destroy completely the social safety net in America. Carson believes in the falsehoodthat any poor person that is not middle class or rich lacks drive, initiative, is dependent on thegovernment, or has personal failure. Some folks are poor, because of discrimination, oppression, andsocioeconomic factors. These human beings still have a huge work ethic, but they are scapegoated by acorrupt society. Many even black conservatives benefited from the system or public assistance. Wardell


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Connerly received assistance to grow his business form the 8 (a) Program. Even Justice ClarenceThomas was a beneficiary of Affirmative action. There is still systemic oppression against Americans.Individual success means nothing if collectively my people are suffering massively. Dr. Ben Carson madethe false statement that socialism was a reaction to America since Europeans wanted to redistributedwealth. Socialism was a term attributed to both Pierre Leroux and Robert Owen in ca. 1827. Socialistideals about common and public ownership transpired all throughout human history in the thousands ofyears of human history. Modern socialism came in reaction to the industrial revolution. Carson is wrong toassume that people don't want to talk about God. The First Amendment allows humans to talk about God.I love to invoke God in public and in private, but I will not use religion as an excuse to have ill feelingstoward those of different backgrounds for all humans without exception ought to have equal protectionunder the law. Dr. Ben Carson refuses to talk about race or racial oppression. When Dr. Carson criticizedthe Affordable Care Act, Dr. Carson wanted a health savings account for newborns not a universal singlepayer health care system. Fox News loves him since Dr. Carson is a critic of the Barack Obamaadministration. Dr. Carson says that he is Independent ideologically, but he shares similar political viewsas Sean Hannity. The reality is that rugged individualism never worked neither does the bootstrapsphilosophy. What works are radical changes in society that ends cartel-capitalism. Dr. Carson ought to berespected for his legitimate achievements in medicine. He has the right to his views without ad hominemattacks and invectives. Yet, folks have the right to disagree with him on some issues as well. I don't agreewith him on some economic and other political issues. He is right that black people have the right tohave independent thinking and the Democratic Party and the GOP ought not to be worshipped as

deities at all. Dr. Ben Carson has great character in his life and he loves his family. I just disagreewith him on some issues. Also, Dr. Ben Carson needs to realize that white supremacy is an enemy that

ought to be rid from the face of the Earth. The establishment conservatives are still thewolves and the establishment liberals are still the foxes. They are 2 sides of the samecoin and we as human beings have the right to build our own chessboard not bowingdown to the Republican/Democrat chessboard. I will be about my business and the truth.

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