Friday, June 15, 2012

Discipline of Whispers of Frozen Time...


Then We Heard The Thunder in the Discipline of Whispers of Frozen Time...
by
Malik Sekou OSEI

The vexing silence of
broken clocks and watches
For some men are odd,
for they dream
in scents and smells,
Some swear,
they have the scent of
nutmeg
As they sleep in
too tight bandanas,
on
their
styles
home.
They swear, they smell
Friday fish of grove.
Where granny who gave the impression
that she had the science of dreams,
down to a science
Then we heard the thunder,
she would whisper...
Any dreams about birds
means good health,
because her motor
car
was at a full stop,
she was still
trying to turn the wheel,
she forgot to wind her watch,
For she has never
been a follower
of
time
she felt as its
victim...
when her dreams would appear
behind close eye-lids
As Ebony men
ride home
at
...night
Through stoic
shades
of
….evening.
The huge of darkness
gives
comfort
of
anonymity
through
foul and never
empty
tunnels
of
travel
trying...
to convince
that
they
are
not "still"
at
stop
called
PLANTATION...
The illusion
of motion
of
a NYC metro card.
THEY...
smile,
when
regal
women
of
Ebony
never
removed
sit across
with
children
and
one
child's
head
deep
in
a
book
trying
to
figure
the complexities
of living—life
with a smile.
Men smile
at the ever
slight
chance
at
motion.
They whisper
in a
child's
ear...
"By the virtue of the more
you know. The less you
can be mislead..."
This
big headed
ebony
boy-child
only
responded
"then we heard the thunder."
Then all the clocks
and watches on the
train began to work.
For the Ebony
Boy-child
understood
that
history
cannot
be understood
behind
the
warmth
of
closed
eye-lids .
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Wednesday, June 13, 2012

We don't have Obama's back or front...

Watch Obama's latest pitch to the homeboys and homebettes of America....
MORE PIMP CHATTER FROM OUR PRES. BUCKWHEAT (CLICK HERE)

By Sekou OSEI
This can't be serious, I guess, if you don't stand for something, then you're fall for anything. I guess the Obama really doesn't care about Black people. I guess Black people are really just that uninformed and gullible. I guess we should be impressed by four years of nothing.
  
Perhaps, in his next ad geared for the African voting base, Pres. Buckwheat should play to so-called Black American stereotypes. The next cmpaign ad should point out that Obama can break-dance and he drinks red kool-aid out of a mayonnaise jar, and digs  ham sandwiches smeared with Miracle Whip. Hey? And ol' Buckwheat can't pass up a 40oz, right?

I guess he understands that he can't approach a Black voting base with intelligent information outside of Black so-called slang and perhaps he should (when talking to us) end all of his sentences with "Son" or "Dog".

Obama is convinced that Black America is too stupid or too mystified by a black face in a high place to see that not only did he never really promise anything to Black, Latino and working class people, but he has actually gone out of his way to exacerbate our misery.
 Let us look at his budget for fiscal year 2013. Proposed by the him, it is a thoroughly cynical exercise. He calls for hundreds of billions of dollars in social spending cuts, further devastating public services and the living standards of poor Black people and the rest of the %99 percent. The lyrical bullshit is combined with populist demogogy about taxing the rich, although "Buckwheat" knows full well that no such measures will pass either the Republican-controlled House of Representatives or the Democratic-controlled Senate.

"Buckwheat" will incorporate $1 trillion over ten years in cuts to domestic social spending already agreed on with congressional Republicans in last year’s negotiations over raising the federal debt ceiling. To these cuts will be added a total of $638 billion in social spending cuts.
We also have to deal with the fact that Buckwheat  signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) into law on New Year’s Eve under the cover of darkness. The bill provides  a more than massive $662 billion hand-out to the US war machine. The bill also guts our civil rights by authorizing the US military to seize individuals anywhere in the world and hold them in a military detention facility indefinitely, without a trial or any other legal recourse.

$662 billions could put a number of people back to work (you think?)
Congressional Democrats and Republicans ratified the NDAA in a series of House and Senate votes in November and December that beat back nearly all efforts to set limits to the presidential power to arrest and imprison without trial or charge. As Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said during the congressional debate, "the legislation defines the entire world to be part of the battlefield against Al Qaeda (and the rest of the %99 percent), including the territory of the United States itself, making every human being on the planet, including every American citizen, a potential prisoner of the American military."

We didn't need to elect a Black president for this kind of shit. Any garden variety fascist would do.

The NDAA effectively takes away the oldest democratic right-- habeas corpus-- which bars arbitrary imprisonment by requiring that the government to present evidence to a judge or court to justify taking a person into custody. It must be noted that this right was first asserted in England during the Middle Ages and finally established and codified in the course of the English Revolution of the 17th century, which shattered the arbitrary power of the monarchy and established the supremacy of parliament ...I could go on.

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Monday, June 11, 2012

On bashing Barack and the delusional tendency in Black USA


By William PLEASANT
On Sunday, I had a rather interesting email duel with an old friend.
He was scandalized by this blog and its frequent and strident political
attacks on the Democratic Party and the Obama regime.
The exchange below is very ilustrative of the political under development
the afflicts huge sectors of the Black intelligentsia.


From: XXXNYC
Subject: WHAT SIDE ARE YOU ON?? THIS IS A FIGHT!!
To: "William Pleasant" <
wmpleasantiv@com>
Date: Sunday, June 10, 2012, 9:56 AM



Dear Billiam,
This is a fight! You have to decide who is the better candidate: Mitt or Barack?
Neither is perfect...But they have entirely different agendas...
By Bashing barack, you provide ammunition to the republican party to string along uneducated
uncle tom blacks against Barack.
Please reconsider the focus of your Blog...
You say your against Republicans agenda to get rid of Unions,
But your approach is to bash Obama????
WHAT SIDE ARE YOU ON???THIS IS A FIGHT!!!!!
CHOOSE ONE PLEASE
I RESPONDED::::
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 10:55 AM, William Pleasant wmpleasantiv@y wrote:
I am not bashing Obama.
I have no interest in bashing anybody.
If it is a fight--and it is--then we must know the terrain that we battle on and who are our enemies.
Obama is not on our side.
He never was.
He is not a sell-out because he was never bought-in to anything.
That is the bottom line.
That was the case in 2008. It is true now.
That upsets a lot of folks, but the objective circumstances indicate such.
Obama is not the lesser of two evils, he is, in fact, the most effective evil.
We must fight evil.
That is the fight I think worthy.
Sharpton and all the negro apologists for the DP are the enemy now. They articulate a
tactical surrender to Obama and the DP for Blacks, unionists and others. But there
tactic comes with no strategy of empowerment. Fuck them!

MR. XXXNYC shot back:::::

From: <XXXNYC>
Subject: Re: WHAT SIDE ARE YOU ON?? THIS IS A FIGHT!!
To: "William Pleasant" <wmpleasantiv@>
Date: Sunday, June 10, 2012, 4:46 PM

YOUR SAYING THAT THIS IS SOME MAJOR CONSPIRACY THEORY THAT OBAMA IS WAGING AGAINST THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, SO FUCK THEM LETS RUN INTO THE ARMS OF THE REPUBLICANS???
WHAT DO YOU PROPOSE? H

HOW COULD YOU SAY YOUR NOT OBAMA BASHING WHEN YOU HAVE A HUGE PICTURE OF BARACK DRESSED LIKE A PIMP ON YOUR BLOG???
IF WHAT YOUR SAYING HAS ANY VALIDITY WHY IS IT SO ONE-SIDED??? WHAT ABOUT THE RP?????
YOUR SILENCE IS AN ENDORSEMENT FOR THEM--WHILE BASHING OBAMA, OBAMA HAS A HEALTH CARE PLAN.. RP--DONT HAVE ANY PLAN??THEY WANT YOU TO SUFFER RATHER THEN BACK ANYTHING OBAMA PROPOSES

From: <XXXNYC>
Subject: Re: WHAT SIDE ARE YOU ON?? THIS IS A FIGHT!!
To: "William Pleasant" <wmpleasantiv@>
Date: Monday, June 11, 2012, 6:46 PM

Well well Bill ..you have failed to answer the most pressing questions that l have asked... and its puzzling to me that you repeatedly skip over the question meaning that you either are afraid or you have a subliminal block either way your "Herman Cain"political reasoning is frightening at least and horrifying at most: PLEASE ANSWER THE QUESTION??????
1. Why is you bashing Obama??? (pimp outfit)if you are not..Why is your argument so ONE-SIDED.???? ("Hermancainist" why are you afraid to WRITE/BLOG ABOUT Mitt Romney) with the same vigor, "Hermancainism"
2. If Obama is so terrible, what is your antidote at the polls?: a) Advocating "Not voting" is just what the RP want you to do.
3. Your argument may have some validity but your timing is aweful.The is not about race-based sentimentality(perhaps for you-black man who hates black women), but it about RP's fear/paranoia of "redistribution of wealth" and "hate for Obama to the extent they are willing to drown the nation-so they can make Obama look bad_ then turn around and do all he wants to do" only with their stamp on it."
PLEASE ANSWER THE QUESTIONS, AND GET OFF THE RP PAYROLL AND PUT AN END TO YOUR HERMANCAINIST RHETORIC!
I BEG YOU!!
ON VIEWING THE ABOVE EXCHANGE, Comrade Sekou OSEI commented::::

WOW that was more than a GREAT response to an apologist whose only role is to disarm Black people with racial idealism, Perhaps you should send him a religious Christan tract or Watch Tower. The thing that takes me aback is after all of the history since the 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 2000, and up to now 2012, negros are still politically naive and are still looking for racial validation and racial feel good.
   Perhaps this negro "MR XXXNYC" wants all of us to go out to the sand-box and play nice and not say bad words about "our" president.
REALITY CHECK....
  
Dear William, you can't spend a lot of time talking with negros because they will never learn that if they want to change the quality of their lives then they must prepare for a truggle for power and not to spend their lives trying to struggle to influence the powers-that-be. There is a vast history that shows you that the "Mr. Chuck and his buckdancing sidekicks" pretty-much ignore negros and their complaints.
The reason why I support this site, is because It's one thing to convince a people a "way" to "fight,"  but its quite another to "convince" them to fight. The latter is a waste  is actually a waste of intellectual time.
For most negros are desperate and broken, still looking for a nice white or Black elected official. Thus their range of ideas will always be damaged goods without courage and insight.
What you have to understand that negros are the victims of their own seduction, that why you must never shake hands with them, because they always have hair in their palms.

Apologist will never have the intellectual rigor--not because they are dimwitted-- but because they have no courage, for their argument are almost always around the niceties of sentiment or racial sentiment of not giving this "Buckwheat," who has continued Bush's war and who has begun the recolonization process in Africa with the support for racist Libyans and NATO. These scumbags daily torture, rape and ly nch Libyans who can't pass the brown paperbag test. This goes on under the watch of Pres. Buckwheat. Black people have lost more homes and jobs through sub-prime mortgages and "Buckwheat's" bail-out o the banks fiascos than ever before. Obama rides shotgun on an ever-growing police state. He engages in summary executions and mass murder via drone strikes.I can go on... ever,
Please. Are these negro apologist serious?..
REALITY CHECK.
M. Sekou OSEI
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Wednesday, June 6, 2012

A PIMPER'S PARADISE: Obama and the unions...


By William PLEASANT

When Barack Obama promised CHANGE during his 2008 presidential campaign he was definitely not talking about changing the traditional post-war relationship between organized labor and the Democratic Party.
The June 5th Wisconsin gubenatorial recall election should have made this point emphatic to all. Pres. Buckwheat and his DP minions allowed the Republican Party to stomp organized labor's passionate attempt to unseat the reactionary incumbent Gov. Scott Walker and install the liberal Democratic Mayor of Milwaukee Tom Barrett. Despite millions of man-hours spent collecting recall petition signatures and millions more spent on canvassing and get-out-the-vote campaigns, organized labor was undone at the hands of the Republicans, with the tacit assistance of the Obama regime and the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
(Walker raised more than $30 million--mostly from out-of-state corporate donors and the Republican National Committee. Barrett's campaign ran on less than $4 million--mostly from unions and small private donors.)
Obama and the DNC offered next to no concrete support to the recall drive (less than $500K), which began over a year ago when Gov. Walker rammed a bill through the Wisconsin legislature that effectively outlawed collective bargaining rights for state employees.
Scott Walker's anti-union antics in Wisconsin were a KOCH-financed experiment to see how much union-busting would be tolerated under the Obama regime. The KOCH BROTHER'S hypothesis was proven: Obama and the Democratic Party establishment did not support organized labor. In short, organized labor and its supporters in the liberal/progressive camps were actually politically disarmed by their material relationship to the Democratic Party.
The same can be said for the Black, Latino, Asian, Native social sectors. They are all political sitting ducks. The KOCH BROTHERS and fellow supporters of a fascistic AMERIKKAN SPRING are licking their chops now, as they prepare for a multi-state coupe de grace to public
sector collective bargaining rights.
Liberal post-recall pundits now scratch their heads and ask: "What if President Obama had campaigned for Tom Barrett? (Though Obama made fund-raising trips to nearby Minneapolis and Chicago last week, the president declined to make even a brief detour to campaign for his fellow Democrat.) The most Obama & Co. had to offer Barrett (i.e., organized labor) was a single TWEET of support on election eve!!!! Vice President Joe Biden didn't even TWEET.
The truth of the matter is that an Obama appearance in Wisconsin would still have been too late and too little. The political substance of Pres. Buckwheat and his party's support for labor had already been exposed over a year ago. When Wisconsin labor unionists occupied the state capitol in protest to Scott Walker's anti-union legislation, the Obama crew went AWOL. Obama and Biden were conspicuous no-shows.
Marxists are not scratching their heads in the wake of the Wisconsin debacle. Organized labor, like other resisting social sectors, has been double teamed by Democrats and Republicans since the 1980s. When then-president Ronald Reagan crushed the Air Traffic Controllers Union, without even a whimper from the Democratic Party, the ideological Right was given the historical high sign that the organized labor sector was political fair game. With military precision, the Right pushed through right-to-work laws and a string of roll-backs of 30 years of worker shop-floor gains.
Purged of its socialist and communist leadership during the 1950s and 60s, and ideologically misled by social democratic opportunists, organized labor ( especially its militants) were grazed silly on the notion that the Democratic Party was the party of labor. Labor's advance was equated with the fortunes of the Democratic Party, which was at least the "lesser-of-two-evils." The organized labor movement's social policy agenda became structurally chained to the Democratic Party. In the name of unity with the only mainstream political institution that would tolerate its social presence, organized labor again and again kow-towed to the whims of the Democratic Party leadership.
In this arrangement, the establishment of an independent, pro-labor party was impossible. That would mean that labor would need go into strategic opposition to the Democratic Party. This is the historical essence of Barack Obama's pimp game against US labor. In short, Obama correctly surmises that it would be absurd to pay for what he and only he can get for free--i.e., the money and slavish support of organized labor's leadership, and the disciplined activism of the rank-n-file.
Obama flashed his rear-end to labor and progressive voters in Wisconsin this week because he knows that come November 2012 they will stampede to the polls on his behalf, come hell or high water. His strategy is highly similar in respect Black and Latino voters.
As far as Obama is concerned, his streetwalkers have already officially lined up to pleasure him. Despite three years of deliberate neglect and disrespect at the hands of the Obama regime, labor unions have rushed to endorse the incumbent, starting a year before his party offers even a crumb of political concession and before the national convention!
National Education Association (NEA) – July 4, 2011
United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) – October 20, 2011
National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) – November 16, 2011
Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) – November 17, 2011
Service Employees International Union (SEIU) – November 19, 2011
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) – December 6, 2011
Communications Workers of America (CWA) – February 2, 2012
American Federation of Teachers (AFT) – February 7, 2012
International Association of Machinists (IAM) – February 24, 2012
United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipefitting Industry (UA) – March 1, 2012
United Steel Workers (USW) – March 4, 2012
Laborers International Union of North America (LIUNA) – March 8, 2012
AFL-CIO – March 13, 2012...
This list continues to grow week by week. Meanwhile, rank-n-file labor unionists groan under the political boot of a presidential candidate who promised in 2008 that if “American workers are being denied their right to organize and collectively bargain when I’m in the White House, I’ll put on a comfortable pair of shoes myself. I’ll walk on that picket line with you as president of the United States of America.”

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THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE: Just like mom, apple pie and Chevrolet...



By William PLEASANT

The Atlanta-based Center for Disease Control (CDC} "does not know of a virus or condition that would reanimate the dead (or one that would present zombie-like symptoms),” agency spokesperson David Daigle declared last Friday. Zombie-mania has seized US pop consciousness. It all began May 26 in Florida after 31-year-old Miami resident Rudy Eugene stripped off all his clothes, attacked a homeless man and attempted to chew off his face. Eugene, naked and growling, only ceased his attack after police shot him several times, according to eyewitnesses. A day later, a New Jersey man stabbed himself 50 times, cut out his own intestines and threw them at police. By the end of the week a Seattle man had killed six people, including himself, in a shooting spree that started in a local cafe.
Meanwhile in Baltimore, .Alexander Kinyua, a 21-year-old Morgan State University student, allegedly confessed to killing and dismembering his housemate, fellow Morgan State student. Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie. Kinyua , a son aof a Morgan State physics professor, also claimed that he ate his victim's heart and portions of his brain. Baltimore police found the remainder of Agyei-Kodie's body in the dumpster of a neighborhood church.
Luka Rocco Magnotta, the Canadian porn actor accused of killing and dismembering a man and mailing body parts to politicians and several schools, will not fight extradition following his arrest in Germany, a Berlin police official said Tuesday. Magnotta told a Berlin magistrate that he will return voluntarily to stand trial for the ritual murder of Jun Lin, a Chinese student at Canada's Concordia University. Canadian authorities accuse Magnotta of dismembering Lin, mailing one of his hands and one of his feet to Canadian politicians and posting a video of the grisly act on the Internet...A Florida couple allegedly kills a young girl,then goes on Facebook to brag about partying and argue about disposal of the body....A 14-year-old boy has been charged with murder in the death of his 9-year-old half-sister, whose body was found attached to a rope hanging from a tree, Alabama authorities said Friday....T.J. Lane, a 17-year-old has been charged with three counts of aggravated murder in the school shooting deaths of three students and the wounding of three others, according to an indictment released Tuesday. A psychiatrist who examined Lane testified earlier that that Lane sometimes loses touch with reality and suffers from hallucinations, psychosis and fantasies. Lane has admitted taking a .22-caliber pistol and a knife to the high school and firing 10 shots at a group of students sitting at a cafeteria table at the start of the school day....Police say a Nebraska mom who disappeared last month with her son strangled the 10-year-old boy before strangling herself in the woods of an Iowa state park. Council Bluffs police said Monday that Charlotte Schilling, 41, of Plattsmouth, Neb. and her son, Owen, both died with plastic zip ties around their necks in a murder-suicide. The Schillings were missing from May 10 until their bodies were found May 20 in Lake Manawa State Park, south of Council Bluffs in western Iowa, about 20 miles north of Plattsmouth. Council Bluff's police say Charlotte Schilling tried to commit suicide with a plastic zip tie in November, but a family member intervened then. Once a zip tie is tightened, the only way to loosen it is to cut it off, so police said after Schilling tightened one around her own neck enough to restrict breathing it would have been difficult for her to remove it......And the litany of bizarre murders and gratuitous violence grows day by day, it seems.

America is terrified. Is the ZOMBIE APPOCALYPSE UPON US?

The internet conspiracy mill has kicked into full gear over the last three weeks. There must be some hidden hand behind this string of atrocities. Is, as the fundamentalist Christians readily assert, THE END TIME at hand? Has Satan loosed his minions on a an unrepentent USA? Some internauts have even called the CDC dismissal of a zombie epidemic a massive government cover-up that denies the real cause of zombification, namely cat feces. As one theory goes, the US is experiencing an outbreak of taxoplasmosis, a disease caused by the single-cell parasite Taxoplasma gondii that can be found in the poop of the average American house cat. "The Toxoplasma, when living inside humans, is linked to causing significant changes in behavior, including neuroticism, increased aggression and schizophrenia. Mamalian studies of Toxoplasma infections have demonstrated that this organism affects levels of dopamine, norepinephrine, and other neurotransmitters, which are well known to be affected in persons with schizophrenia,” according to a 2003 article in the CDC’s “Emerging Infectious Diseases” publication. Is the kitty litter industry behind the CDC cover-up? It would have the most to lose if the truth got out. Right?
Well, let's blame US social debauchery on Puss 'n Boots.

Half-baked biological theories and religion-driven superstitions just won't do for marxists. Far from spook-show fixtures, ZOMBIES in America are real and actually symptomatic of decadent material conditions coupled with bi-partisan ruling class policy.
A quick review of the cases of wilding cited above will reveal one common factor. Each of the alleged perpetrators had a history of mental health problems. They exhibited anti-social behaviors days, weeks or even years before their alleged acts of violence. They were sick. In the case of Baltimore's Alexander Kunya, the student was well known for eccentric behavior. Par ex: He regularly walked through the Morgan State campus sporting camouflage face paint and brandishing a machete!!!!
Nobody paid attention. Nobody intervened. All the signs of impending horror were present. But as monopoly capitalism goes through its terminal decay, it is no longer capable of monitoring nor treating mental illness. The institutions in American society charged with mental health maintenance have always been weak, to say the least. Today, in the wake of growing social and economic destabilization and displacement experienced by vast sectors of society, they are literally disintegrating—as a matter of deliberate policy..

Poor people are much more likely to experience mental illness and to stay crazy for longer periods than those who are not sociologically defined as poor. That is a well known fact. Sociologists who look at inequality as an issue in mental health/psychiatric research are divided in their views as to whether people become poor because they are mentally ill and thus unable to function (social selection) or they become mentally ill because of being poor (social causation). In 2012, no theorizing is required. People are becoming increasingly pauperized and increasingly insane in the USA. On a daily basis, the legion of Zombies grows.

According to a 2011 National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) report: “One in 17 people in America lives with a serious mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, major depression, or bipolar disorder. About one in 10 children live with a serious mental disorder. In recent years, the worst recession in the U.S. since the Great Depression has dramatically impacted an already inadequate public mental health system.

From 2009 to 2011, massive cuts to
non-Medicaid state mental health spending totaled nearly $1.6 billion dollars. And, deeper cuts are projected in 2011 and 2012. States have cut vital services for tens of thousands of youth and adults living with the most serious mental illness. These services include community and hospital based psychiatric care, housing and access to medications. To make matters worse, Medicaid funding of mental health services is also potentially on the chopping block in 2011. The temporary increase in federal funding of Medicaid through the stimulus package will end on June 30, 2011. Medicaid is the most important source of funding of public mental health services for youth and adults, leaving people with mental illness facing the real threat of being cut off from life-saving services. Communities pay a high price for cuts of this magnitude. Rather than saving states and communities money, these cuts to services simply shift financial responsibility to emergency rooms, community hospitals, law enforcement agencies, correctional facilities and homeless shelters.”

Moreover, “As most people know, mental health care services are not covered by health insurance packages and health plans to the same degree as physical health care services. Not only are there usually more services excluded as covered benefits, but those services that are covered are often subject to higher co-pays and are capped at a maximum number of covered treatments."

That is the best that working people with insurance can expect.

"Less well known is the fact that those with severe mental illness (SMI) are less likely to have health insurance coverage of any kind. McAlpine and Mechanic (1999) estimate that while 11.4% of those with no measured mental disorders lack health insurance coverage, 20.4% of those with SMI and 18.2% with less severe mental disorders lack coverage.” Delays in Treatment for Mental Disorders and Health Insurance Coverage
by Catherine G McLaughlin, Ph.D, Senior Associate Editor (2004)