tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post8369352578096798649..comments2024-03-28T16:08:29.578-04:00Comments on Sardonicky: Assimilate In the O-BorgKaren Garciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15612731479365562803noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-67266509728082515842017-01-28T14:14:50.003-05:002017-01-28T14:14:50.003-05:00RE Bill Sprague "This "democracy" h...RE Bill Sprague "This "democracy" has 2 great lies that it must get past before it can get "over" things: 1) genocide (on the natives) and 2) slavery." <br /><br />Yes, and land theft from the natives.<br /><br />Elizabeth Martínez writes "its part of our creation myth, or origin myth, which is the story people are taught of how the nation came into being" see What is White Supremacy? <br /><br />http://soaw.org/resources/anti-opp-resources/108-race/482-what-is-white-supremacy<br /><br />To admit the truth as you articulated is to admit the USA is a nation born of white supremacy. The truth of white supremacy is still too unacceptable to many Americans. I have written about this issue too. For example, the American Civil War is not resolved in the minds of people living in my town, see https://nosueorg.blogspot.com/2016/11/dear-president-obama.html<br /><br />http://www.nosue.org/civil-rights/<br /><br />Racism in America is attributable to millions of people with who hold a white privilege racist attitude. White privilege racism is ambient throughout American society.<br /><br />Since there is virtually no likelihood of changing the hearts and minds of white privilege racists, the remedy is to take their money. This approach essentially bankrupted the White Aryan Resistance with a $12.5 million judgment. Another approach is to admit millions of immigrants to settle in white strongholds, to dilute white supremacy power.<br /><br />The white privilege class in America owes the descendants of African American slaves back pay for 246 years of labor. The first were bought in 1619. The last were freed in 1865. In the intervening 246 years, slaves labored to make America what it is today. See "American Slavery to Freedom after 246 years. Photos Ex Slaves 1900-1940" https://youtu.be/6Ce-Qidhn8M<br /><br />Back pay is owed to the descendants of slaves, among other things. "reparations" are seen by too many as a special right. The concept of back pay is better understood. 246 years of slave labor needs to be paid. Back pay is legitimate compensation. <br /><br />Another outstanding debt, damages for kidnapping African people from the continent of Africa, and the Atlantic Slave Trade that brought them to be sold as chattel property in the United States. Damages for wrongful death; damages for involuntary servitude; damages for rape; damages for assault and battery; And from 1865 forward, damages for the horrors after the American Civil War, lynching, murder and other crimes, Jim Crow, and peonage, slavery by another name. You didn’t build that, slaves built it for you. Slaves built the White House. Now slaves need to get paid.<br /><br />peonage, slavery by another name <br />http://www.pbs.org/tpt/slavery-by-another-name/home/<br /><br />The Lenape people claimed in a federal lawsuit the Walking Purchase of 1737 cheated them of their lands in the Lehigh Valley. The court ruled that the case was nonjusticiable, although it acknowledged that Indian title appeared to have been extinguished by fraud. This ruling held through the United States courts of appeals. The US Supreme Court refused to hear the case.<br /><br />See The Delaware Nation v. Commonwealth of PA et al., No. 04-CV-166, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of PA, Memorandum and Order, November 30, 2004<br /><br />http://www.paed.uscourts.gov/documents/opinions/04d0550p.pdf<br /><br />http://www.nosue.org/native-american/Neilhttp://nosueorg.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-25637263125282475142017-01-23T20:17:29.223-05:002017-01-23T20:17:29.223-05:00Jay: Watching DTrump making what appear to be inte...Jay: Watching DTrump making what appear to be intelligent decisions such as TPP, NATO, being 'friendly' to particular Russians, etc. made me wonder if real concern for the American people was involved. I then saw replays of some of his plans as president which reminded me that it was coming from the head of a human who was truly delusional and definitely mentally ill. I felt a chill down my spine and wondered what all his grandiose plans regarding meetings with heads of countries were really all about. <br /><br />I now truly believe it is the ultimate test of his power and 'wisdom' to rearrange the chess pieces of the world and bring the spoils back to his people (HIS PEOPLE)who also have visions of grandeur to keep their image of what a Great America really should and could be. My gut told me I had hit the jackpot of what is in store for all of us unless I too was becoming delusional.<br /><br />All those choices of horrors to run the country under him fit in with the picture<br />I now see clearly.<br />Let me know what you and others see ahead for us Jay, unless others around him recognize what is in store and manage to hogtie him.<br /><br />I think the magnificent Women's March got the message. After all we are brought up to sniff danger to our loved ones and you note he is avoiding our obvious existence. He has the markings of a complete predator.Pearlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-73065543230619002902017-01-23T18:21:56.115-05:002017-01-23T18:21:56.115-05:00It took TNC 15,000 words to make his case and you&...It took TNC 15,000 words to make his case and you're refuting it with 8?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-53424419595643841922017-01-23T18:05:40.419-05:002017-01-23T18:05:40.419-05:00After eight years we’ve finally gotten rid of a pr...After eight years we’ve finally gotten rid of a president who betrayed ALL the promises he made to get elected. He had a gift for turning hope into misery for millions.<br /><br />Whatever the new guy is at bottom, whatever he did yesterday, whatever he’s got up his sleeve for tomorrow, today he did something worthy of his office. He drove a stake through TPP. At least one good deed to his credit.Jay–Ottawahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10360356126450612113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-48754133381105036732017-01-23T13:28:29.313-05:002017-01-23T13:28:29.313-05:00"Donald J. Trump is no anomaly. He is simply ..."Donald J. Trump is no anomaly. He is simply the most vocal, disgusting, in-your-face, TV-ready villainous manifestation of the corrupt global plutonomy in all of American history."<br /><br />Not true ... Trump just killed the TPP today and will renegotiate NAFTA. I will admit that Trump is a capitalist pig.Jamiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06188981127650112105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-32361372065410787922017-01-23T12:24:36.896-05:002017-01-23T12:24:36.896-05:00TPP is dead. Yay Trump!TPP is dead. Yay Trump!annenigmanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-38609866148704034482017-01-23T11:51:53.025-05:002017-01-23T11:51:53.025-05:00Let's face it: the Congress hated the fact th...Let's face it: the Congress hated the fact that Obama was a black MAN from Day Zero. It's all about MONEY, not the size of one's phallus (wallet would be more like it, but hey, that's just another bulge in one's pants). I'm getting quite old now and when I look back over all the stuff that's happened in the last 70 years I come up with the fact that I've been lied to by our gummint over and over again. At the same time that everyone's clucking about the fact that the electorate is so stupid. This "democracy" has 2 great lies that it must get past before it can get "over" things: 1) genocide (on the natives) and 2) slavery. Without actually DOING SOMETHING about those creases in the story of "our" democracy? And no, Ta-Nehisi Coates was incorrect in his Atlantic Monthly article: reparations (MONEY) are NOT what it's all about and giving me a casino is not making it either.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17327375585331783745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-38932800574617439652017-01-22T20:05:35.012-05:002017-01-22T20:05:35.012-05:00My theory is that the Clintons went global to thwa...My theory is that the Clintons went global to thwart federal campaign finance laws, which prohibit contributions from foreign individuals and organizations.Nonni Mussnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-20922428629966792232017-01-22T19:13:15.349-05:002017-01-22T19:13:15.349-05:00“Why do these people always have to go global when...<i> “Why do these people always have to go global when there is so much to be done here at home?” </i>—annengima<br /><br />Perhaps because “these people” hope that global memories—at least of those who weren’t “droned” into Hellfire-missile-oblivion in obscure foreign lands—will be shorter than those of us ‘here at home?’”<br /><br />The impression that I get from reading news and opinion from many different sources is that although Obama leaves with a high <i> <b> personal </b> </i> favorability rating here in the U.S. of A., his rating with respect to his <i> <b> policies </b> </i> is pretty much in the toilet, across race, gender AND class. <br /><br />Who wants to bankroll a snobby, professorial, policy wonk whose policies nevertheless failed so many people on so many fronts? (Somewhere I once read a quote from Bertrand Russell—made in a somewhat different context, to be sure—to the effect that some ideas are so ridiculous as to be believed only by very learned people. I think Obama falls into that gullible category,) <br /><br />Hence, the global push. Having run out of suckers locally, Obama is casting his bait (for money) farther afield.<br /><br />Meanwhile, I’m sure that Zuckerberg will be eager to hear ME out on his “listening tour”—NOT. The funny thing about all of these listening tours is that the “listener” will inevitably hear only what he/she wants to hear, spoken to him/her solely by a select band of sycophants, and NOTHING else. <br /><br />Which is why Hillary’s presidential hopes went up in smoke in the first place.Zeenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-43219400599078245022017-01-22T15:58:05.872-05:002017-01-22T15:58:05.872-05:00Poor Obama will be competing for attention, if not...Poor Obama will be competing for attention, if not dollars, with Mark Zuckerberg. I do wonder if Obama's following and donations will dry up like the Clinton's did after they lost the election and they had to shutter the doors of the Clinton Global Initiative. <br /><br />Why do these people always have to go global when there is so much to be done here at home? The national donation pot too small? Positioning for UN Secretary-General? President of the World Bank? International Monetary Fund? Or maybe he just wants to travel globally on the Foundation dime, especially now that the CGI is defunct and all those petrodollars are now available. <br /><br />Anyway, Zuck's 2017 resolution is a 50-state 'listening tour' ala Hillary Clinton. Wikileaks also revealed that Zuck asked the Clinton team by email for a tutorial on politicking (BIG mistake!) His 2016 resolution was to eat only meat from animals he raised and killed himself which he claims makes it taste better. He also says he wants to go hunting sometime. He should go with Obama since he's admittedly "good at killing". They'd make quite the syndicate. <br /><br />http://fortune.com/2011/05/26/mark-zuckerbergs-new-challenge-eating-only-what-he-kills-and-yes-we-do-mean-literally/ <br /> annenigmanoreply@blogger.com