Kwanzaa is just a conveniet post-xmas retailing scheme hatched by the FBI snitch Ron Karenga. Hallmark makes Kwanzaa cards. Its revolutionary relevance begins and ends there.
Comrade William PLEASANT
Monday, December 26, 2011
Sunday, December 25, 2011
Friday, December 23, 2011
Some Commie Christmas Reflections 2011...
I have worked like a mad dog for a month on a research project.
I expected to get paid for my labor today. Unfortunately, my
clients skipped town for the holidays. I will get my check, no
doubt, but I must wait until AFTER CHRISTMAS.
"Good grief! B-B-But I have been a good boy. I ate my broccoli and brushed my
teeth every day. Why am I being punished by St. Nicholas? It's not fair..."
I failed. I hate to fail.
Failure today looks like not being able to "celebrate"
Christmas in the appropriate manner. This is depressing to me now.
I missed the retailer-designated target of December 25th.
So, now I must suffer the social indignities that come with
blowing my lines in a kindergarten costume pageant.
Phuck this schitt!
My problem is that I have allowed alien class,
consumer fetishism to drive me to the brink of suicide.
Jingle Bells have made me forget who the hell I am.
I am a revolutionary intellectual!
And the emmen-effen enemy can stick that in its Christmas stocking!
MERRY XMAS, AMERIKKKA!
MERRY XMAS, AMERIKKKA!
Comrade William PLEASANT
--30--
Thursday, December 22, 2011
B-Movie Reflections 2011
By Comrade Sekou Osei
America has become just another "B" movie, where people live in fantasy lands, where all you have to do is disconnect from reality,
and just feel good,
through positive thinking, where you don't need to read
to understand life and living,
where you just need nice pictures and imagery,
your life
doesn't need an
"understanding"
to gather a greater clarity.
Now all the people need is the fake warmth of American exceptional feel good.
For
persons never have achieved much of anything and thus they want you
to
believe
that they are exceptional people,
because of the loquaciousness of their
empty altruism.
Where accommodating selective amnesia is not selling out,
but getting in your deeper spiritual self.
For it's the most important thing that can change the world
and your conditions, by deeply meditating
in the deepness of your navel
and achieving as some would argue "wisdom"
Where life has become an old useless amusement park,
where only words have any importance
as we smile
at the old and peeling paint
as we celebrate the colors
and pretend that they are very
bright
and
inspiring
As a people without power,
we are encouraged against interracial sex
because we were forced here not to work
and make profits for white colonial capitalist,
but to give sex.
Thus we fall in love with a Black Concubine of Corporates Capital, thus
we
inspire
our children by them.
So they say.....
thus that they only understand our relation to history,
we have become the prudent adolescents, never to grow up.
Where people understand kingdoms a thousand years ago,
in reality before Black-was-Black,
and we don't know or understand yesterday,
where history is the celebration of non-existent memories
and not the harsh practice of history for real power.
Life has become a
colorful tea party of an African revolution
of the mind, and not much else.....
But, never the "state."
Where, time is spent hours with old woman with terrible false teeth
who smoke cheap cigarettes trying to convince them that they are
African queens
in another life, and pretend that we are educating
them about this
"life."
For it cannot be accepted that they just don't care, for they celebrated the
pragmatism of a slave as they pass out tracts like dogmatic Christian Nigerians,
whose pacifist moral grounding let them celebrate the brutal Black men in uniform,
in Buffalo soldier platoons.
Whose art and culture has declined to a point where they can
only produce
"Soap-operas" over-done and over-acted
in Black face.
Where we all become so proud of Black men elected to office, who just carry out
The role of a corporate harlot, for white people of money,
i.e., the children of former
slaves masters;
"But he be articulate...."
Where, Ebonee queens in colorful headdresses can only give you a Multi-level
marketing scam to upward mobility. To be Cliff and Mutha Fukin Clair Hunstable in
dashiki's with eight middle class kids.
Where they explain away the reality,
we all just need to be positive
and
accommodating,
because we are polished and articulate, thus an African King of yesteryear.
Thus, our crowd has only become culturally conscious entertainers,
hoping to sell the CD.
For the thing that we have come to achieve is our spiritual love
of the depth of our navel,
and we repeat the wisdom as if it's real, for the powers only give one
ticket to a "B" movie.
History is on our side, but not time.
--30--
and just feel good,
through positive thinking, where you don't need to read
to understand life and living,
where you just need nice pictures and imagery,
your life
doesn't need an
"understanding"
to gather a greater clarity.
Now all the people need is the fake warmth of American exceptional feel good.
For
persons never have achieved much of anything and thus they want you
to
believe
that they are exceptional people,
because of the loquaciousness of their
empty altruism.
Where accommodating selective amnesia is not selling out,
but getting in your deeper spiritual self.
For it's the most important thing that can change the world
and your conditions, by deeply meditating
in the deepness of your navel
and achieving as some would argue "wisdom"
Where life has become an old useless amusement park,
where only words have any importance
as we smile
at the old and peeling paint
as we celebrate the colors
and pretend that they are very
bright
and
inspiring
As a people without power,
we are encouraged against interracial sex
because we were forced here not to work
and make profits for white colonial capitalist,
but to give sex.
Thus we fall in love with a Black Concubine of Corporates Capital, thus
we
inspire
our children by them.
So they say.....
thus that they only understand our relation to history,
we have become the prudent adolescents, never to grow up.
Where people understand kingdoms a thousand years ago,
in reality before Black-was-Black,
and we don't know or understand yesterday,
where history is the celebration of non-existent memories
and not the harsh practice of history for real power.
Life has become a
colorful tea party of an African revolution
of the mind, and not much else.....
But, never the "state."
Where, time is spent hours with old woman with terrible false teeth
who smoke cheap cigarettes trying to convince them that they are
African queens
in another life, and pretend that we are educating
them about this
"life."
For it cannot be accepted that they just don't care, for they celebrated the
pragmatism of a slave as they pass out tracts like dogmatic Christian Nigerians,
whose pacifist moral grounding let them celebrate the brutal Black men in uniform,
in Buffalo soldier platoons.
Whose art and culture has declined to a point where they can
only produce
"Soap-operas" over-done and over-acted
in Black face.
Where we all become so proud of Black men elected to office, who just carry out
The role of a corporate harlot, for white people of money,
i.e., the children of former
slaves masters;
"But he be articulate...."
Where, Ebonee queens in colorful headdresses can only give you a Multi-level
marketing scam to upward mobility. To be Cliff and Mutha Fukin Clair Hunstable in
dashiki's with eight middle class kids.
Where they explain away the reality,
we all just need to be positive
and
accommodating,
because we are polished and articulate, thus an African King of yesteryear.
Thus, our crowd has only become culturally conscious entertainers,
hoping to sell the CD.
For the thing that we have come to achieve is our spiritual love
of the depth of our navel,
and we repeat the wisdom as if it's real, for the powers only give one
ticket to a "B" movie.
History is on our side, but not time.
--30--
Friday, December 16, 2011
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Is Frantz Fanon in the house?
On December 6, 1961, FRANTZ FANON died in
Bethesda, Maryland, in the custody of the CIA.
“Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well.”--FRANTZ FANON
Celebrate Comrade Dr. Frantz Fanon now and forever!
--William PLEASANT/Sekou OSEI
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Friday, December 2, 2011
Why no 'People-of-Color' in the OWS Movement?
Why aren't Latinos and Blacks embracing the OWS movement?
Well, because we have been occupying the sewers of US society for several centuries and resisting, while most cornfed white liberals and social dems have stood aside and watched. The very question is the essence of offay narcissism. Try this answer: The OWS Movement is not a revolutionary activity. White folks deciding to do open-air marshmallow roasts in defiance to Monopoly Capitalism just has very little social attraction in The 'HOOD.
To the extent that Latino and Black and Native and Asian peoples' expressions of political resistance are currently INSTITUTIONALIZED in the US, those expressions are more radical and more sharply defined than anything articulated by today's bands of white park sitters so far. Why should so-called People-of-Color go RIGHT?
On the operative level, why should we colored folks believe that non-violent civil disobedience can produce structural change in America's current ruling order (overthrow) when we have already torched cities on behalf of justice, fairness and human rights (mild reform)? Do not forget that the teargas and rubber bullets and other machines of militarized policing were quality tested on colored flesh first--from The West Bank to Chicago's Westside.
In OWS, we see White Middle America embracing mass street theatre. That is a good thing. We applaud that, as anyone who would do so upon witnessing a crawling child taking its first steps. Bravo! But the child had to learn from those who can walk. Will the OWS follow the leadership of the organic US political resistance? The answer to that question will determine the movement's failure or success.
The question is not whether we will join OWS but whether OWS will join us. We are already in motion. OWS is either standing still or going home to the suburbs to lick its wounds in perfectly white excepitionalistic fashion. OWS simply has no means to lead People-of-Color. No pseudo-sociological, multi-culturalistic moralizing can avoid that fact. There is simply no way of attracting Blacks and Latinos to OWS by promising a more comfortable political (and military, by the way) cul-de-sac. Nope, we homeboys and homebettes are smarter than that.
For example: The OWS folks have failed so far to even articulate a strategy that challenges America's two-party electoral political mindfuck. There is nothing attractive about that for Black and Latino people who live in fear every day in their living rooms (if they are lucky enough to have a living room). They see no utility in facing the same terror on a city hall lawn. There is NO POWER in the Occupy Wall Street Movement. And there never will be power until it ( the un-colored) follows the fury of the historical resisting and rising class.
--30--
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Friday, November 25, 2011
Thursday, November 24, 2011
OWS: A 4TH WORLD Thanksgiving Greeting 2011
A Communiqué from the ANG Public Information Bureau:
To the Peoples of the Fourth World
To the Mass Media
The Fourth World -- 11.22.2011 -- The international blog-journalists
association, the Aboriginal News Group (ANG), a stateless, independent
media guild organised by persons representing a broad variety of
independent viewpoints and comprised principally of concerned
individuals from Autochthonous/First Nations communities, wishes to make
public its support for the international #Occupy movement and to declare
our solidarity with all those who are taking an active part in
pro-democratic street demonstrations and in the international digital
efforts that support the public communications challenges of this
important struggle.
We also wish at this time to state our support for our Brothers and
Sisters struggling bravely against violent state and neo-colonialist
repression in Egypt, Syria, Libya, Palestine and especially within the
continental United States, the presumed ideological and spiritual home
of political freedom, objective justice and genuine democracy.
Having said that,
We, the ANG, go further by appealing to all Indigenous peoples around
the world and the grassroots organisations that represent them to
peacefully and non-violently sustain this international movement by
standing up to their respective Tribal governments in order to
#Decolonize the state and corporate occupied ancestral territories that
rightfully belong to the nations and peoples of the Fourth World.
We demand that the international community not just talk about
Aboriginal/First Nations rights but that they actually substantiate
their coquettish rhetoric by standing aside and allowing the people of
the Indigenous world to actualise their own political, economic and
cultural development without undue interference, coercion or other forms
of subversive repression routinely utilised against Indigenous Peoples
and movements.
We believe that the time for an intellectual, cultural and spiritual
insurrection in the minds and hearts of the Peoples of the Fourth World
is NOW.
As original human beings of Mother Earth and as rational citizens of the
world, we are appalled by the belligerent and Machiavellian disregard
displayed by ‘elected’ governments and establishment politicians, the
international moneyed-classes and the obtuse attitudes of
conservative-citizens who sanction government mistreatment against the
cordial, democratic exercise of public dissent.
The malevolent conduct of the ownership-classes of the world have proved
them to be a group of people beyond reason, compassion or common-sense.
Through their own negative actions, the authoritarian conservative
social dynamics stubbornly opposed to the belated rise of international
People’s Power has demonstrated itself to be a threat to the hard-won
democratic freedoms of all logical-thinking people.
The extant power structure has shown that they are willing to go to
virtually any extreme, no matter how revolting, in order to preserve the
unfair global arrangement that places Anglo-phone, vulture-capitalist
hegemony above the rights of defenceless peoples, the working masses and
the planet’s already weakened ecosystem.
For the past several months, the global public has been witness to
numerous intensely vicious and grossly irresponsible examples of
state-sponsored brutality. From Tahir Square in Egypt to the campus of
The University of California, Davis in the United States, the use of
systemic violence by military and civilian law enforcement against
cool-headed, law-abiding, non-violent civilian protesters and other
non-combatants has lamentably become the norm.
The indecent, unnecessary and illegal use of indiscriminate
pepper-spray attacks, evening protest-ground raids and
nightstick-assaults being employed by many law enforcement departments
and their officers is without a doubt a frightful and revealing symptom
of a sociopolitical system that is out of control, out of touch and
utterly resistant to the public demand for authentic, representative
democracy.
This is the situation all across the world. And as Original Peoples and
caretakers of Mother Earth we are calling for an immediate end to the
madness.
We stand together with the people of the #OWS Movement in the struggle
against neoliberal exploitation of the Fourth World, the poor and the
working-class.
We Demand:
An immediate end to institutional anti-Indigenous genocide!
An immediate end to racial, cultural, spiritual, judicial, educational,
territorial and economic discrimination against Original Peoples!
That Indigenous governments and NGO’s charged to represent Indigenous
Peoples represent them, not the colonial, neoliberal and landed gentry
classes!
That there be an immediate end to opportunistic anti-Indigenous violence
from racist civilians, unsympathetic law enforcement and predatory
paramilitary forces who engage in violence against Indigenous peoples.
That there be an immediate end to the abhorrent escalation of sexual
brutality perpetrated against our women around the world and that this
issue be addressed by an international, Indigenous-led council of review
and recommendation.
That the repression against the global Indigenous Community END NOW!
Democracy!
Social Justice!
Indigenous Autonomy!
Please Circulate--LIBERATOR
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
OWS: The dance from tragedy to farce
Here is the emerging character of the "New American Democracy" under Obama:
The State simply engages in wholesale armed assault on citizens who even stand in the vicinity of non-violent protests. This military repression is now an equal opportunity policy. Thusly, middle class white students find themselves biting the rubber bullets usually reserved for "the Negroes of the world."
This is NOT a replay of the 1960s, hippie nostalgia aside. Obama is riding shotgun on a categorical shift in the tactics the ruling stratum will use to hold onto its privilege. Again, repeat after me: BARACK OBAMA IS NOT YOUR FRIEND NOR YOUR SAVIOR (Black or otherwise).
Don't believe that? Then the proof of the pudding is in the eating.
The escalating brutalization of US protesters is occuring under an erstwhile left-leaning and Black president. How is Obama trying to stop the urban paramilitary assaults? How is Obama simply ignoring the lawlessness? The farce that Marx speaks of is the stuttering and stammering highjinks of the US palace Left , as it avoids answering the questions above and stating the obvious.
Comrade Sekou OSEI
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Election 2012: Barack Obama IS NOT THE ANTICHRIST!
I AM!
"Better sell-out in Washington than serve in Heaven!
My Demonic Party members and myself take great offense to some dizzy, Bible-thumping folks asserting that Pres. Barack Obama (a.k.a. Buckwheat) is the ANTICHRIST. Nothing could be further from the truth. Obama wishes he had the integrity of an Antichrist. Obama is an impostor!
Hell, I actually stand for something: ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT, ONE WORLD RELIGION, ONE WORLD ECONOMY. That's ambitious stuff, don't y' think?
That's real policy you can really fear I'll make happen. BELIEVE that! We HOPE you understand how serious we are.
Hey man, Obama couldn't even stand up for single-payer health insurance in the
US! What are these fools shootin' at him for???!!!
So, my fellow Americans, when you cast your vote in 2012, don't be deceived by an immitation false prophet. Pick a genuine beast for a CHANGE.
The apocalypse is in your hands.
The apocalypse is in your hands.
Thank you and may Satan bless you."
Dr. Triplesix Faustus, D. Sc. (Univ. of Georgia)
Friday, November 18, 2011
Thursday, November 17, 2011
We need a revolutionary leader today?
Federal prosecutions of financial crimes are now at a 20-year low under the Obama regime. Ronald Reagan actually had a better record of jailing white-collar thugs. The Occupy Wall Street folks demand that the financial market laws be enforced in the interest of the 99%. That's not going to happen with Our Little Rascal at the helm.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Is there a cure for Obamamania?
by Malik Sekou OSEI / William PLEASANT
Oh, well...Let us say it again: Pres. Barack "Buckwheat" Obama is simply the glib stand-up comedy warm-up act for the main event, namely the economic rape of poor and working American people. All the cheap t-shirts, wall calendars and preacher-borne allusion to how far Black people have come to finally have one of their own (????) in the White House will not change that fact. Obama is not a sellout to the Black-led working class agenda. He was never bought into it. That is why he was enthroned by the corporate elite in the first place. And he has more than repaid his benefactors, literally with the blood of poor people.
Obama is not the lesser of two evils, vis-a-vis the Democrat and Republican brands (with or without condom) of rape. He is the clear and present evil, a class enemy. Black people know this in their bones. The slums of America resound with their cries of misery. They know that Buckwheat has forsaken them, but they fear to speak up. Remember the millions of Black folks who stampeded to the polls on behalf of a Black savior in 2008? Well, they have nothing to show for that nearly unananimous act of devotion, except growing heartbreak.
But an army of cultural nationalist fakirs, chicken wing preachers, party hacks and tired Social Democrats (the Democrats' Socialists), has been employed to insist that the horror in the streets of urban America is merely a speed bump on the road to Buckwheat's Promised Land. They tell the howling masses that their steep and rapid cultural and economic decline can in no way be blamed on Buckwheat and his policies. And even if it is overly apparent that our blood is on Buckwheat's hands, then we are urged to forgiveness. This is the yarn that Buckwheat had to stab the poor in the back with a steak knife first in order prevent the mean 'ol Republicans from gutting us with a butcher knife. He was doing us an act of mercy, after all. Any writer who dares fail to genuflect before this--the sum of Obama's progressive aspects--is made to pay through public denunciation as a "race traitor" and/or puppet of the right.
A political madness has seized the Left inteligentsia in this country. Obamamania--driven by Black sentimentalism and hippie nostalgia--coupled with the Social Democrats' (Communists', too!) lesser-of-two-evil electoral paradigm, has left poor people in the US politically disarmed and disorganized today. This social backwardness will not abate until there arises a broad and organized independent political OPPOSITION in this country. That means a pro-working class formation that is not afraid to flush Buckwheat and his Democratic Party turds down the toilet. As cultural workers and social activist, how do we contribute such a development? The first step is to go for the jugular vein of hegemonic American political pragmatism in word, song and vision.
Capitalism and private enterprise are still seen as the proper and only vehicles for mass economic stability and actual development. Polite conversation, even among erstwhile socialists, completely avoids the fact that monopoly capitalism is an utter failure at meeting the needs of people on a global scale. Today, even the relatively priviledged workers in Europe are crying bloody murder. Meanwhile, legions of people from Mexico and Central America risk their lives to slip into the US every year to ESCAPE monopoly capitalism in their countries where it, as a system, has uttely descended into outright barbarism. Can we, as progressive social changers, stand up and insist that exploitation and abuse are not NATURAL, i.e., some sort of divinely ordained, biologically-determined order of things? Can we insist that exploitation and abuse cannot be accommodated? President Buckwheat can't and won't do that. He is not a leader of working and poor people. Can we say that? That is what is called for today.
Nearly three years into an administration that has overseen the biggest transfer of wealth from the public treasury to the financial elite in history—with no strings attached—and that has refused to take any serious measures to address the worst jobs crisis since the Great Depression, a period in which poverty and social deprivation have soared alongside record corporate profits and CEO pay, Buckwheat and the Democrats now present themselves as the saviors of jobs and social justice. Can we exposed their posturing as a genocidal lie. Or do we fear that Obama and his crew are all that stand between the poor and the herd of right wing buffoons in the Republican Party? Do we really believe in ourseleves, in the decency and power of the people?
What do we do with the collapse of MF Global, once headed by DP honcho and New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine? Some $633 million of clients’ funds--mostly pension funds--are still unaccounted for. The corporate 7-11 was robbed by men in blue suits, while the cops (Obama's Securities and Exchang Commission--SEC) munched doughnuts in the parking lot. That was no accident.
Corzine’s career typifies the revolving door between the boardroom and government office, and the intimate ties that bind the Democratic Party to Wall Street. The multi-millionaire banker/politician, now under criminal investigation for stealing clients’ funds, is a major fundraiser for the Obama reelection campaign. He hosted Obama’s first fundraiser this year at his posh Manhattan apartment. Are we afraid to point that out, to teach the deliberately befuddled working class and poor that corruption comes in both dominant political party wrappers?
The US Palace Left hailed the crumbs of Obama's pseudo-populist American Jobs Act as heavenly gifts. Like every other measure proposed by his administration to "create jobs," this caper was just a corporate welfare package of business tax cuts and other regressive measures, including cuts in payroll taxes for employers as well as employees that will drain the Social Security trust fund. Can we say that crumbs are crumbs, that the entire cake belongs to the people who produced it?
Counting on the Republicans to block the jobs bill, Obama readied his "We Can’t Wait" road show, in which he staged announcements in various cities of token executive actions supposedly addressing urgent social issues such as home foreclosures and student debt. In fact, all of the measures Obama has announced have been thoroughly vetted by the banks to insure that they do not in any way encroach on their profits. Can we insist that Barack Obama is at best an imbecilic failure? Can we show that, even with the best of intentions, he cannot put the Humpty Dumpty of monopoly capitalism together again?
Buckwheat's reform agenda is utterly substanceless when compared with the concerete needs of the prople. For example, he recently spoke at a Head Start center in the Philadelphia suburb in Yeadon, Pennsylvania. In the name of "reform" and "accountability," Obama announced a new rule that will defund Head Start programs across the country on the pretext that they have failed to meet national achievement standards. This represents an extension of the so-called "reform" agenda that has shut hundreds of schools and laid off hundreds of thousands of teachers. It was just a sugar-coated and Blackfaced version of GW Bush's NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND hoax. In other words, just another unfunded federal mandate that ultimately punishes poor local jurisdictions. Never forget: THERE IS NO NATIONAL STANDARD OF LOCAL SCHOOL SYSTEM FUNDING.
The political venom that intoxicates and paralizes poor and working people in the US must be eliminated. To say that Buckwheat and his Democratic Party minions are the current active ingredients of that psycho/cultural poison would be an under statement. The notion that the oppressed and repressed must somehow accommodate themselves to the lawlessness and savagery of the ruling strata as the NATURAL ORDER of human organization has to be confronted and smashed without mercy. In our capacity as cultural workers, our challenge is to discover the ways that our gifts and charms can be applied as a progressive anecdote.
--30--
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Monday, November 14, 2011
Bad coaches / Good business
By Nana Ama Tanks for LIBERATOR
The Penn State scandal is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the abuse of youths in erstwhile "positive" settings, such as sports programs, boy scouts and grade schools. Across the US, young men and women are routinely subjected to sexual exploitation by adults in authority. Has there been an increase in instances of child molestation? That has yet to be determined. But what is certain is that new communication technologies and the willingness of parents and victims to speak out have made it increasingly difficult for pedophiles to hide.
Nonetheless, the right wing points to the decline in what it calls morality (i.e., the rise of homosexuals in polite public forums, and the sexual liberation of women) as the driving force in what it percieves as an escalation in criminal sexual perversity. Of course, this notion is simply a pseudo-sociological figleaf for naked homophobia. The truth of the matter is that it is quite lawful that current US institutions would not only tolerate but actually encourage the abuse of children--as they do poor women, immigrants, the disabled and other specially vulnerable strata of society.
As capitalism implodes, the socially vulnerable increasingly become consumables in the productive process--be it making sneakers in a sweatshop or making a Big 10 football brand. This is the operative definition of FASCISM, in scientific materialistic terms. But that is a subject for another posting.
The Penn State fiasco hit the headlines because it threatened a multi-billion dollar entertainment factory. But what happens when the stakes or much more modest?
Nana Ama Tanks illustrates below how a BAD COACH can be allowed to not only walk on charges of child molestation, but also get a pat on the back when the victims and the "program" are small and non-white.
--William PLEASANT/ Sekou OSEI
Fifteen years ago multi-millionaire Lou d'Almeida was seen, in his car, performing oral sex on a young boy. Lou d'Almeida is founder and coach of the renowned "Gauchos", a South Bronx basketball program for young South Bronx boys, ages 8-14 years old.
Former member and tutor for the "Gauchos" Joseph Luethke, witnessed d'Almeida sodomizing a young "Gauchos” basketball member in a car parked a few steps from the "Gauchos" gymnasium entrance. He reported it to then "City Sun" journalists, Milton Allimadi, who broke the story in 1996. The "Daily News", "The Times" and "Sports Illustrated" initially declined to publish the story and did not do so until the "City Sun" article was released.
Recruitment of new members dropped as news of d'Almeida's predilection for young boys spread. "Team Work Foundation Inc.", the funding arm of the "Gauchos" program, started to waiver in their support. Leading sneaker and sports apparel manufacturer "Adidas" refused to honor their commitment to provide sports equipment and sneakers to the program. "Getting free stuff" was a major draw to enrolling young boys in the program.
It was reported in 1999 that d'Almeida, due to public scrutiny and pressure, was forced to step down and relinquish all duties relative to the "Gauchos" program.
Former member and tutor for the "Gauchos" Joseph Luethke, witnessed d'Almeida sodomizing a young "Gauchos” basketball member in a car parked a few steps from the "Gauchos" gymnasium entrance. He reported it to then "City Sun" journalists, Milton Allimadi, who broke the story in 1996. The "Daily News", "The Times" and "Sports Illustrated" initially declined to publish the story and did not do so until the "City Sun" article was released.
Recruitment of new members dropped as news of d'Almeida's predilection for young boys spread. "Team Work Foundation Inc.", the funding arm of the "Gauchos" program, started to waiver in their support. Leading sneaker and sports apparel manufacturer "Adidas" refused to honor their commitment to provide sports equipment and sneakers to the program. "Getting free stuff" was a major draw to enrolling young boys in the program.
It was reported in 1999 that d'Almeida, due to public scrutiny and pressure, was forced to step down and relinquish all duties relative to the "Gauchos" program.
Subsequent reports revealed other elements at play in d’Almeida’s life. Johnette Howard of Sports Illustrated, wrote an article which said that in 1969, Lou d’Almeida was charged with second degree manslaughter in the shooting death of a 20-year-old acquaintance, Gerald Gerardo. The article further revealed that coach d’Almeida and the Manhattan District Attorney, Gino Gallina, concocted a deal whereby the original charge of second degree manslaughter would be (knocked down) reduced to criminally negligent homicide. d’Almeida in turn was required to testify against a former associate of his the D.A.’s office had identified as a known member of organized crime (Mafia). The deal was struck. The D.A.’s office spoke favorably on d’Almeida’s behalf to the judge and d’Almeida was convicted and sentenced to a five year probation.
However when d'Almeida showed up at the sixth annual Gala "Gauchos" fundraiser in September 2010 at the new Yankee Stadium, he was greeted with applause and accolades.
Last summer 2010, a team of "Guerilla Journalism" reporters interviewed a reporter from a large nation-wide news publication who has spoken with one of coach d’Almeida's alleged victims. The reporter requested his name not appear in print. The reporter said that he "found his [alleged victim] story to be credible, absolutely believable", but for “fear of legal action, our lawyers decided not to publish the story, however yes, yes we think d'Almeida is a pedophile."
To date "Lou d'Almeida has not denied the sexual abuse of a minor allegations" states Mr. Milton Allimadi, fromer writer of the City Sun.
To date "Lou d'Almeida has not denied the sexual abuse of a minor allegations" states Mr. Milton Allimadi, fromer writer of the City Sun.
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PSU and the Martyrdom of Saint Joe
Malik Sekou OSEI and William PLEASANT
The student riots at Pennsylvania State University last week proved once again that the Great American Stupid Machine is still in full effect. Indeed, hundreds of Penn State students ran amok in support of the recently fired head football coach Joe Paterno. Windows were broken, fires were set and public property was abused on the State College., PA campus. But there were no tear gas clouds, no stun guns, no baton-wielding palace guards on hand to answer the veritable uprising. Not one rubber bullet was fired! Unlike young folks who have recently taken to the streets across the country to protest joblessness, political corruption and economic disparity, who are routinely abused by the police and arrested, the Penn State mob had its night of wilding and safely returned to its dormitories, punished by little more than a mild tounge-lashing. America cannot tolerate youths who rage against their political degradation, but vandalism on behalf of wounded college team pride is obviously not only swallowed as just the youngsters sowing their righteous oats, but encouraged by the mass media. For who could stand idly by and watch the unjust crucifixion of Joe Paterno?
Coach Paterno was, more or less, the eternal saviour of Pennsylvania's white male identity, to the extent that it was represented by the Penn State football program. Last week, Paterno, after nearly 50 years on the job and after being enthroned as the winningest coach in college football history, was given the boot by the university board of trustees. The university president, Graham Spanier, was also shown the door. Heads continue to roll at Penn State. Why were they, the epitome of big college success, so ungratefully cast out of the kingdom? The story is by now well known to all. Paterno, his staff as well as school administrators tacitly and sometimes actively participated in a cover-up of child abuse perpetrated by another Penn State icon named Jerry Sandusky. Sandusky, a veteran assistant football coach and Paterno honcho, currently faces at least 40 felony pedarasty charges. In short, Sandusky has been accused of child sexual molestation. He allegedly liked to screw little boys and he got away with it for years under the protection of Paterno, et al.
Homophobic sensationalism aside, we must examine, as Marxists, why a routine case of serial child rape not only provoked a riot but continues to keep lips flapping from one end of the TV dial to the other. Indeed, people who work with children have been known to take sexual liberties with their charges. Some professions actually attract criminal sexual deviants. Sadists like to be police officers and prison guards. Buggerers go in for cub scout master and assistant school principals gigs. And when it comes to amateur youth sports, the coaching profession is a lightening rod for child molesters. They love it! Where else can a combination of adult social authority, naked physicality and naive juvenile trust pruduce such a harvest of readily available and terrorized victims? The Pennsylvania prosecutor's evidence strongly suggests that Sandusky was just a run-of-the-mill perverted sports coach. The case should end there and the trial should begin. But the consternation over Sandusky's locker room antics has little to do with the barbarism of child sexual abuse or the fact that he preyed upon "at risk" youngters--namely impoverished Black middle school boys--and everything to do with commodity aesthetic.
Money and intimidation make these sorts of messy matters fade away under usual circumstances. Right? The Church may be able to pray itself to social forgiveness, but the Penn State football program does not run on the grace of God. It runs on cash and it produces a surplus that is socially gobbled by everyone from the hot dog slingers in the stands to the blue-suited moguls who own the mass media in this country.
Neither school honor, pride nor moral integrity led the calculated actions of Paterno, his staffer nor the school administration. Looking bad as a consequence of Jerry Sandusky's misbehavior was really never the issue. Sandusky could have been booted from the university and thrown to the wolves a decade ago if that was the case. There was ample evidence suggesting that his relationships with the children he interacted with were less than wholesome. Paterno and Company were never interested in protecting the reputation of Penn State. They were entirely invested in protecting the Penn State BRAND NAME. Why? Because that is where the college sports treasurechest is hidden.
College sports, particularly football and basketball, are multi-million dollar industries, rooted in the virtual enslavement of young athlete/performers. Their exploits on the court or on the field provide reason for billion-dollar stadium construction contracts, great goo-gobs of licensed knicknacks--ranging from t-shirts to customized automobiles--and super-lucrative broadcast fees. Penn State football is actually an industry, a factory of sorts that yearly generates billions of dollars for the university and its clients. Students and athletes actually play the role of temporary workers in this production arrangement. Grazed silly on school spirit and team rivalries, students and atheletes provide the leading cast of the Penn State football spectacle.
But quite frankly, there is little difference between a gang of bleecher-bound folks hollering at two packs of dudes chasing a ball and wallowing in the dirt at Podunk Junior College and the same activity going on at the Rose Bowl. It's just a game, after all. But when the same category of spectacle is invested with millions of dollars and promises to generate billions of dollars in return, then we witness the transubstantiaton of spectacle/commodity to brand. Penn State footbal, the fans, the soap opera of players and coaches are a single package, no different from candy bar. But in the case of Penn State, as with other big college sports programs, the candy is the wrapper, the inards are actually generic. Hard value in the form of cash was added to Penn State--literally the nam PENN STATE.
Return is made on that investment by the fact that once the final whistle is blown on a Penn State football game, the students, fans or just plain bored folks across the US can wear Penn State, drive Penn State, even eat Penn State licensed goods. Moreover, various products lines also pay a pretty penny to ride the coattails of the Penn State brand through multi-milion dollar sponsorships.
In the end, the Jerry Sandusky scandal and the subsequent cover-up campaign exposed large segments of the US public to the extent to which big college sports industries will go to protect their brand appeal. That is the big story, and it won't go away soon. But the cries of the victims will quickly fade to oblivion. So what if a dozen or so Black boys had to be sacrificed to a pervert? They were just consumables in the productive process of making Penn State make money, as far as the Joe Paterno, the college administration, the fanatical boosters and the gluttonous brodcast outlets were concerned.
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Israel's War Dance: The Political Theatre of the Absurd (Made in the USA)
Facts First:
- The settler regime in Palestine possesses at least 300 nuclear warheads, ultimately funded and maintained by the United States government and its NATO partners.
- Israel is not a signatory to the nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT), therefore its nuclear program is not subject to any UN inspection regimen nor regulation. In concrete terms of international law and custom in regard to nuclear weapons, Israel is a longstanding renegade, with the active political backing of the US government.
- Israel has a history of engaging in un-provoked military attacks on neighboring nations.
- Iran has no nuclear weapons whatsoever. Of course, it can have such weapons if it wants to, as with any nation possessing the funds, technical facility and will to go nuclear.
- Iran is a signatory to the NPT and has consistently allowed UN inspection of its nuclear facilities.
- Iran has no history of military aggression anywhere.
Nonetheless, Israeli PM Benny Natanyahu is currently threatening Iran with wholesale attack. Meanwhile, the US and its NATO underlings sit in the amen corner. What is going on here? What is the war cry all about? Why would Barack Obama even consider condoning and supporting a 3rd party attack on a nation that is at peace and poses no strategic threat to the US? Why would he risk a confrontation that would further cripple the US and European economies by driving the price of petroleum through the roof? Why provoke a conflict that could readily escalate into a global war by dragging in the Chinese and the Russians (real nuclear powerhouses)? Maybe the answers to these questions have next to nothing to do with a real or imgained or "existential" threat posed by the Islamic Republic of Iran and everything to do with the symbiotic relationship between the Israeli settler regime and the corruption of the US government.
Israel's frenzied sabre rattling today and its seeming support from the US and its lackies stems from a singular political act, namely the adoption of UN Ssecurity Counsel Resolution 1929. On June 9, 2010 , the Security Council backed the imposition of a fourth round of sweeping sanctions against The Islamic Republic of Iran. UNSC Resolution 1929 called for an expanded arms embargo against Iran, as well as "tougher financial controls." It proclaimed:
"[Resolution 1929 (June 9, 2010)] ...[A}ll States shall prevent the direct or indirect supply, sale or transfer to Iran, from or through their territories or by their nationals or individuals subject to their jurisdiction, or using their flag vessels or aircraft, and whether or not originating in their territories, of any battle tanks, armoured combat vehicles, large calibre artillery systems, combat aircraft, attack helicopters, warships, missiles or missile systems .... , decides further that all States shall prevent the provision to Iran by their nationals or from or through their territories of technical training, financial resources or services, advice, other services or assistance related to the supply, sale, transfer, provision, manufacture, maintenance or use of such arms and related materiel, and, in this context, calls upon all States to exercise vigilance and restraint over the supply, sale, transfer, provision, manufacture and use of all other arms and related materiel." (Security Council Imposes Additional Sanctions on Iran, Voting 12 in Favour to 2 Against, with 1 Abstention, Includes complete text of UNSC Resolution 1929, UN News, June 9, 2010 )
Both the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China caved in to US pressures and voted in favor of UNSC Resolution 1929. In November, following a decree issed by president Dmitry Medvedev, Moscow announced the cancellation of its military cooperation agreement with Iran pertaining to the S300 air defense system. Without Russian military aid, Iran was a "sitting duck." Its air defence system depends on continued Russian military cooperation.
These developments strike at the very heart of the structure of military alliances. They prevent Russia and China to sell both strategic and conventional weapons and military technology to their de facto ally: Iran. In fact, that was Washington's major objective of Resolution 1929. It had nothing to do with nuclear weapons!
But UNSC Resolution 1929 was based upon a fundamental hoax. It upholds the notion that Iran is an upcoming nuclear power and a threat to global security. It also provides a green light to the US-NATO-Israel military alliance to threaten Iran with a pre-emptive punitive nuclear attack, using the UN Security Council's blessing.
The US-led posture in the UN Security Council was grounded in intelligence documents that supposedly substatiated its charges against Iran. They were the EVIDENCE that Iran was hatching an aggrssive nuclear weapons arsenal.
This carnard goes back to a November 2005 New York Times reportIn November by William J. Broad and David E. Sanger entitled "Relying on Computer, U.S. Seeks to Prove Iran's Nuclear Aims". Wahington's evidence against Iran resided in an allegedly stolen laptop computer, according to the NYT.
The contents of the computer allegedly included "a series of drawings of a missile re-entry vehicle" which allegedly could accommodate an Iranian-produced nuclear weapon. Sanger and Broad reported:
This carnard goes back to a November 2005 New York Times reportIn November by William J. Broad and David E. Sanger entitled "Relying on Computer, U.S. Seeks to Prove Iran's Nuclear Aims". Wahington's evidence against Iran resided in an allegedly stolen laptop computer, according to the NYT.
The contents of the computer allegedly included "a series of drawings of a missile re-entry vehicle" which allegedly could accommodate an Iranian-produced nuclear weapon. Sanger and Broad reported:
The Americans flashed on a screen and spread over a conference table selections from more than a thousand pages of Iranian computer simulations and accounts of experiments, saying they showed a long effort to design a nuclear warhead, according to a half-dozen European and American participants in the meeting.
The documents, the Americans acknowledged from the start, do not prove that Iran has an atomic bomb. They presented them as the strongest evidence yet that, despite Iran's insistence that its nuclear program is peaceful, the country is trying to develop a compact warhead to fit atop its Shahab missile, which can reach Israel and other countries in the Middle East."(Relying on Computer, U.S. Seeks to Prove Iran's Nuclear Aims - New York Times, November 13, 2005)
These "secret documents" were subsequently submitted by the US State Department to the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA, with a view to demonstrating that Iran was developing a nuclear weapons program. While their authenticity has been questioned on several occasions, a recent article by investigative reporter Gareth Porter confirms unequivocally that the mysterious laptop documents are fake. The drawings contained in the documents do not pertain to the Shahab missile but to an obsolete North Korean missile system which was decommissioned by Iran in the mid-1990s. :
When IAEA analysts were allowed to study the documents, however, they discovered that those schematics were based on a re-entry vehicle that the analysts knew had already been abandoned by the Iranian military in favor of a new, improved design. The warhead shown in the schematics had the familiar "dunce cap" shape of the original North Korean No Dong missile, which Iran had acquired in the mid-1990s. ...
The laptop documents had depicted the wrong re-entry vehicle being redesigned. ... (Gareth Porter )
No. The means may be the same but the political objectives are entirely different. War on Iran is out of the question. It is even doubtful that if the settler regime launches a strike on Iran--and suffers nearly guaranteed military pulverization at the hands of the furious Iranis--then the US will intervene on Israel's behalf. The "accidental'" open mike session last Thursday in Cannes between Obama and French Pres. Sarkozy made clear that Benny-boy Netanyahu (Likud) has no friends, and the Political Theatre of the Absurd is open for business. What Natanyahu does have is desperation. The Cannes "gaffe" has was just gasoline on the fire. The settler colony in Palestine is politically isolated. Its only good suite is the system of corruption that guides US foreign policy in the so-called Middle East. Israel's threat on Iran is just a sort of political blackmail. It is an attention-getting device--a vaudeville routine--designed to poltically mobilize the US government and US mass consciousness--via the corporate mass media--to put out more on Israel's behalf--namely, more money, more free weaponry and more political self-humiliation before the world. Isreal is a very needy urchin these days more than ever.
Today, Sen. John McCain, the chief bottom bitch of the US arms industry--a ferocious beneficiary of in the "special relationship"--complained, "Israel is under more pressure and probably in more danger than they've been since the 1967 war. That kind of comment is not only not helpful, but indicative of some of the policies towards Israel that this administration has been part of."
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said the chat between Obama and the French leader was "decidedly unpresidential." Abraham Foxman, ADL mouthpiece, pleaded that the Obama regime would "do everything it can to reassure Israel that the relationship remains on a sure footing and to reinvigorate the trust between President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu, which clearly is not what it should be." In short, the pro-zionist la costa nostra is on the run.
Our Little Rascal, Barack Obama, is as cynical as he intelligent. He will play the game, extorting larger and larger bribes from the pro-zionist mafia while delivering fewer and fewer benefits to his paymasters. They will simply need to pay more for less. And in this election season, they will be forced to bleed green.
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During the 60s, the FBI encouraged the most comically extreme Black cultural nationalist organizations in order to discredit and split the left. The more preposterous the organization, the better. Using that criterion, Karenga's United Slaves stood at the top of the heap.
Despite popular historical notions that conflate all the Black activists of the '60s, the Black Panthers were not racist 'Afro' supremacists. They did not promote armed revolution. But those were the FBI-inspired central planks of Karenga's United Slaves. Karenga's United Slaves were simply dashiki-sporting wannabe fascists, who gleefully gunned down Black Panthers and other Black Leftists while adopting absurd, manufactured "African" names.
J. Edgar Hoover could not have wished for a better crew of brothas.