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Was africa peaceful before islam and the whites?

That_Untouchable_cat — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:07:01 GMT

Was Africa peaceful before the intruders infiltrated us?

Or Was Africa, as the white describe it, a land full of tribalism and constant clannish bickering?

Anybody got some information, a link, a video or a website that goes more into this, I would greatly appreciate it.

YahHHh!!!!!!!!

Eka — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:08:39 GMT

I would like to let everyone know I got straight A�s on my report card. I�m on the track team; I made it to cross country states and I�ve only been running for 2 months this month makes it 3. I�m starting a Robotics club at my school and I finally got math I didn�t understand meaning I was challenged; and I hate shakespere but I got a 35/35 on the test!!!! I love to learn and experience and I�m very happy and proud of myself!!!!

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Kwame Kilpatrick - Exclusive FCN Interview

ShakaZulu — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:03:52 GMT

Bismillaah ir Rahmaan ir Rahiim As salaamu 'alaikum.

Kwame Kilpatrick - Exclusive FCN Interview

Wassalaam. ShakaZulu

John Muhammad Alabama sniper?

Will-he-write — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:19:11 GMT

Was John Muhammad the sniper of the Alabama murder? D.C. snipers' first two victims were at ABC store in Montgomery | GadsdenTimes.com | Gadsden Times | Gadsden, AL

Placebos of Black Political Power

Moorbey — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:19:58 GMT

By Ezrah Aharone 11/09

The election of President Barack Obama is shifting America�s axis of race in ways that have yet to be politically quantified. But from a standpoint of Black political leadership, it signals a definite �changing of the guards.� The once-popular preacher/protester ilk of leadership from the 1960s finds itself gasping for 21st century oxygen, as young Black leaders are card-carrying democrats who can now �eyeball� whomever they please.

Perception suggests that African Americans are finally becoming politically powerful as a people. But every industrialized nation with an ethnically diverse population has a general �pecking order� of power, starting with the dominant group most able to leverage capital might into political influence that shapes foreign, domestic, and military policies. All other simulations of power (freedoms of speech, press, assembly etc.) are like political window-dressings of democracy that may boost patriotism, but lack utility for minority people to command such influence.

Similarly, people who�ve taken �Placebo� sugar pills, sometimes experience boosts in health, being that they psychologically expect and believe the tablets contain �medicinal properties� to cure them. In much the same way, America�s placebos (civil rights, integration, citizenship) have given us expectations and beliefs of power, when in reality, they lack the �political properties� of control (sovereignty, independence, statehood) wielded by Euro-Americans . . . Which is exactly why our centuries-old ailments remain largely uncured.

Although upcoming generations of Black leaders are digesting Americanization more easily, I�m reminded of Winston Churchill who remarked that Euro-Americans will always �do the right thing, after they�ve exhausted all alternatives.� And so, racial progress and the rise of Black political leaders cannot be disconnected from America�s habitual militarism and its 21st century requirements for economic survivability . . . Honestly, how much longer could we be coaxed into voting for White multimillionaires and fighting ambiguous wars abroad if we still faced stark Jim Crowness here?

But whether you believe it or not, there remains unvoiced resentment towards civil rights leaders for pricking lasting nerves. Euro-Americans have a known nationalist tendency of not liking to be cited or corrected of their political flaws and flagrances. So naturally this establishment welcomes fresh, race-neutral Black leaders who skillfully steer around the systemic/endemic nature and ramifications of America�s racial inequities, which Obama faultlessly personifies.

Part of his ascension involved soothing the historical burdens of White guilt, while keeping civil rights leaders at arms-length to prevent staining his political immaculacy of White acceptance. As such, he cryptically foretold during his campaign that �he�s rooted in the Black community, but not limited by it.�

My question is � What crime did we commit as a people where someone would have to present such a political defense for himself? If everyone is �equal� why then, conversely, is he �not limited by the White community� since he�s also half-White? Most troubling however is the unseen, unchallenged �source� that compelled him to make this disclaimer since it holds proven capabilities to diminish us, as Black people, beneath the respect and political worth that all people deserve.

Despite such subliminal credence to Whiteness, the repercussions of centuries of Euro-American greed and immoralities are heading homeward to roost. Not only is America experiencing an internal crisis of leadership and financial upheaval, its international integrity and superpower image are jeopardized, as the world community frowns upon its brash war escapades. In response, it has become strategically expedient for Euro-American males to deflect the government�s aggression away from themselves.

Similar to the Lone Ranger designating Tonto �the leader� (after being surrounded by angry Indians) the establishment hopes Obama and other Black leaders like Attorney General Eric Holder and UN Ambassador Susan Rice, can convey a �placebo appearance� that the US government is no longer a big, bad, all-White wolf with the blood of Black and Brown people dripping from its fangs. Together, they put a converted face of �change� on what otherwise is a contiguous history of �Euro-American hegemony as usual.�

Yes, America is multicultural. Yes, Africans in America are making progress. But in our honest pursuit of political power � via the leadership tutelage of Euro-Americans � it is our spiritual responsibility to question if we, in the process, are becoming proxy participants in a 21st century continuation of the same �interloping for resources� that initially barbarized us and Native Americans, under the pretext of �freedom and democracy.�

Ezrah Aharone is the author of two political books: Sovereign Evolution and Pawned Sovereignty. He is also a founding member of the Center for Sovereignty Advancement. He can be reached at Ezrah@theCSA.org.

Black Males Hit Extra Hard By Unemployment

Hardworker — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:40:52 GMT

The country's spiraling unemployment rate continues to take a particular toll on men. The "he-cession," as it's sometimes called, has hit African-American men especially hard, increasing their unemployment rate to more than 17 percent last month.

Black Males Hit Extra Hard By Unemployment | 89.3 KPCC

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Black People Please Wake Up, Things Are Not Going To Get "Better"

Hardworker — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:22:54 GMT

Black people's only salvation is their unity. Wake up! Please read Hosea 4:6 of the Bible. Believe and come into knowledge and do the RIGHT thing and be saved. God helps those who helps themselves.

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Changing Your Autism Mindset (Hopefully!)

nattyreb — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:51:43 GMT

CHANGING YOUR AUTISM MINDSET
By Marpessa Kupendua
Changing your autism mindset | San Francisco Bay View

Experiencing this enlightened age of �autism� is remarkable after having parented three autistic boys over the past 21 years. During the early 1990s when this diagnosis was said to have been applied in only one out of 10,000 births, it was common for me to defend my highly animated sons to curious people by carefully explaining that they are au-tis-tic � �Did you say �artistic�?� � while handing them info cards from the Autism Society.

Now that autism spectrum diagnoses are estimated in one out of 100 births, [1] all I need do is mention the word and many nod knowingly, yet physically recoil. What has the increased publicity caused them to think they understand? Stating that there has been a failure to communicate is putting it mildly!

During the contestant interview segment on the Oct. 14 Jeopardy! game show, Alex Trebek approached champion Terry Linwood with, �Your son has an affliction. He�s autistic.� Quite a somber word choice given that Merriam-Webster describes an affliction as causing persistent pain, distress and great suffering.

Even the knowledgeable and worldly Alex fumbled during this briefest of talks to this parent about his child, ending by grimly expressing that he hoped a cure was found �for your sake.� Such an eerie foreboding, usually reserved for sentiments which end with �sorry for your loss.� It�s safe to say that this particular question just didn�t fit into a neatly packaged category selection.

It seems that nowadays most folks either don�t want to appear not to know about autism, don�t really care to know, or have seen enough bits of newsbriefs to think that they know. Unfortunately, leaving people to their own ideas has proven to lead to extremely distorted conclusions, such as the repugnant comments made by comic Denis Leary, who wrote: �There is a huge boom in autism right now because inattentive mothers and competitive dads want an explanation for why their dumbass kids can�t compete academically � yer kid is just stupid. Or lazy. Or both.� [2]

Leary apologetically explained later that his remarks were taken out of context � although they appeared in his own book. I appreciate knowing what�s running around in people�s heads as they relegate my sons to that portion of their minds inhabited by short bus jokes, even as it sickens me.

Celebrities such as Dan Marino, Holly Robinson Peete, Jenny McCarthy and most recently Toni Braxton have gone public with their children�s autism diagnoses, each primed to make this a cause that others will get behind. Problem is that people still don�t quite know what that cause is, let alone what getting behind it truly entails, no matter how visible these notables may be. Having seen �Rain Man� does not equate understanding, and even the advent of googling doesn�t seem to compete with what the imaginations of many can convince them is knowledge.

The Centers for Disease Control definition of an autistic is a person who may have significant language delays, social and communication challenges, unusual behaviors and interests, and may also have intellectual disability. [3] But we parents would love to discuss what that doesn�t tell you, which is that our lives include hilarious, amazing and ingenious moments of wonderment, even spirituality and tenderness.

The CDC also probably can�t report that most parents of autistics yearn to crawl inside our children�s heads so that we can �get it� and fully understand their every nuance � a decidedly non-IEP (Individualized Education Plan) objective. [4] Quiet as it�s kept, some of us, perhaps even most of us, believe that at some point in the future our children will at long last pass that mysterious milestone that has kept our worlds disconnected � and we really don�t want anyone, professional or otherwise, to tell us differently, regardless of our children�s age, the severity, the statistics or evaluation scores.

Don�t speak about our children in hushed tones with downcast eyes or, even worse, avoid our presence altogether. We � and more importantly our children � need you in our lives to keep us all connected! We too often feel ostracized, rejected and fearful of your reactions to our children and would just like to feel supported in whatever manner you are able.

It�s frightening to think that if we become hospitalized or otherwise unable to care for our children that many of us have no one we could call on to help out with even the most basic of our household�s needs. Don�t worry about interacting with our children; get over your discomfort and come to see us. Give us a call before you come so we can get ready for company.

Greet and talk with our children like you do anyone else; just don�t pressure them for a response. If their behavior becomes difficult to control, don�t advise us on how to discipline our children � any more than you would want someone to do that with you and your child. It�s OK if you can only deal with our children in small doses, but don�t just disappear altogether. It seems to us that you no longer care when you do and you demonstrate to your own children that autistics are to be shunned as the �others.�

There is also plenty that you can offer us in very practical ways. For example, most of us could use replacement furniture on a very regular basis as many of our children do a lot of rocking, banging, bouncing and jumping and are otherwise unkind to even the sturdiest of pieces. Before you throw away that next item, try throwing it our way first.

We also need help with handiwork, as in patching holes in the walls, securing safe spaces and numerous other small jobs that are a lot for our families to keep up with. Any way that you could offer to assist us would be appreciated; just ask what we need and you may be surprised at how greatly you could positively impact our lives.

Our children would also enjoy an outing with enough supervision of participants who understand their abilities. Many of us have non-autistic children as well and want as much inclusion of all of our children as possible.

Although there are autism �Walks� and lots of talk of a �Cure,� there is no potentially fatal disease process involved. As well meaning as you may be and as important as those activities are, we really don�t want you to talk to us about curing our children whenever we meet.

You represent society at large to us � bus drivers, bank tellers, grocery clerks � and you just may be someone we hope will have our children�s backs in a myriad of ways when they need it the most. You and your children must know that we want our sons not to be discriminated against, abused or taken advantage of and to live as fully and happily within our communities as possible. Sound familiar?

Each of my three very unique individuals won�t have identical futures and, unlike other parents, we�re not daydreaming of packing them off and retiring away peacefully when they reach adulthood. We�re taking it one day at a time � sometimes even one moment at a time � but never, ever counting them out. We�d appreciate it if you�d do the same.

Footnotes
[1] Behind the Autism Statistics - The Atlantic (October 6, 2009)

[2] AGE OF AUTISM: First Michael Savage, then Denis Leary, now Rex Reed

[3] CDC - Facts, Autism Spectrum Disorders - NCBDDD

[4] Wikipedia: In the United States, an Individualized Education Plan, commonly referred to as an IEP, is mandated by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). In Canada and the United Kingdom, an equivalent document is called an Individual Education Plan.

Marpessa Kupendua is a married mother of five, grandmother of four, political and human rights activist. She can be reached at nattyreb@gmail.com.

Subversive Thoughts

Moorbey — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:14:27 GMT

The most violent and dangerous terrorist organization in the United States today: Homeland Security.

Subversive Thoughts

Moorbey — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:04:49 GMT

The most commom way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any": Alice Walker

How America's Wars Are Systematically Destroying Our Liberties

Moorbey — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:55:43 GMT

Welcome Home, War!
ZNet - Welcome Home, War!

How America's Wars Are Systematically Destroying Our Liberties
November 15, 2009 By Alfred W. McCoy
Source: TomDispatch

In his approach to National Security Agency surveillance, as well as CIA renditions, drone assassinations, and military detention, President Obama has to a surprising extent embraced the expanded executive powers championed by his conservative predecessor, George W. Bush. This bipartisan affirmation of the imperial executive could "reverberate for generations," warns Jack Balkin, a specialist on First Amendment freedoms at Yale Law School. And consider these but some of the early fruits from the hybrid seeds that the Global War on Terror has planted on American soil. Yet surprisingly few Americans seem aware of the toll that this already endless war has taken on our civil liberties.

Don't be too surprised, then, when, in the midst of some future crisis, advanced surveillance methods and other techniques developed in our recent counterinsurgency wars migrate from Baghdad, Falluja, and Kandahar to your hometown or urban neighborhood. And don't ever claim that nobody told you this could happen -- at least not if you care to read on.

Think of our counterinsurgency wars abroad as so many living laboratories for the undermining of a democratic society at home, a process historians of such American wars can tell you has been going on for a long, long time. Counterintelligence innovations like centralized data, covert penetration, and disinformation developed during the Army's first protracted pacification campaign in a foreign land -- the Philippines from 1898 to 1913 -- were repatriated to the United States during World War I, becoming the blueprint for an invasive internal security apparatus that persisted for the next half century.

Almost 90 years later, George W. Bush's Global War on Terror plunged the U.S. military into four simultaneous counterinsurgency campaigns, large and small -- in Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and (once again) the Philippines -- transforming a vast swath of the planet into an ad hoc "counterterrorism" laboratory. The result? Cutting-edge high-tech security and counterterror techniques that are now slowly migrating homeward.

As the War on Terror enters its ninth year to become one of America's longest overseas conflicts, the time has come to ask an uncomfortable question: What impact have the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq -- and the atmosphere they created domestically -- had on the quality of our democracy?

Every American knows that we are supposedly fighting elsewhere to defend democracy here at home. Yet the crusade for democracy abroad, largely unsuccessful in its own right, has proven remarkably effective in building a technological template that could be just a few tweaks away from creating a domestic surveillance state -- with omnipresent cameras, deep data-mining, nano-second biometric identification, and drone aircraft patrolling "the homeland."

Even if its name is increasingly anathema in Washington, the ongoing Global War on Terror has helped bring about a massive expansion of domestic surveillance by the FBI and the National Security Agency (NSA) whose combined data-mining systems have already swept up several billion private documents from U.S. citizens into classified data banks. Abroad, after years of failing counterinsurgency efforts in the Middle East, the Pentagon began applying biometrics -- the science of identification via facial shape, fingerprints, and retinal or iris patterns -- to the pacification of Iraqi cities, as well as the use of electronic intercepts for instant intelligence and the split-second application of satellite imagery to aid an assassination campaign by drone aircraft that reaches from Africa to South Asia.

In the panicky aftermath of some future terrorist attack, Washington could quickly fuse existing foreign and domestic surveillance techniques, as well as others now being developed on distant battlefields, to create an instant digital surveillance state.

The Crucible of Counterinsurgency

For the past six years, confronting a bloody insurgency, the U.S. occupation of Iraq has served as a white-hot crucible of counterinsurgency, forging a new system of biometric surveillance and digital warfare with potentially disturbing domestic implications. This new biometric identification system first appeared in the smoking aftermath of "Operation Phantom Fury," a brutal, nine-day battle that U.S. Marines fought in late 2004 to recapture the insurgent-controlled city of Falluja. Bombing, artillery, and mortars destroyed at least half of that city's buildings and sent most of its 250,000 residents fleeing into the surrounding countryside. Marines then forced returning residents to wait endless hours under a desert sun at checkpoints for fingerprints and iris scans. Once inside the city's blast-wall maze, residents had to wear identification tags for compulsory checks to catch infiltrating insurgents.

The first hint that biometrics were helping to pacify Baghdad's far larger population of seven million came in April 2007 when the New York Times published an eerie image of American soldiers studiously photographing an Iraqi's eyeball. With only a terse caption to go by, we can still infer the technology behind this single record of a retinal scan in Baghdad: digital cameras for U.S. patrols, wireless data transfer to a mainframe computer, and a database to record as many adult Iraqi eyes as could be gathered. Indeed, eight months later, the Washington Post reported that the Pentagon had collected over a million Iraqi fingerprints and iris scans. By mid-2008, the U.S. Army had also confined Baghdad's population behind blast-wall cordons and was checking Iraqi identities by satellite link to a biometric database.

Pushing ever closer to the boundaries of what present-day technology can do, by early 2008, U.S. forces were also collecting facial images accessible by portable data labs called Joint Expeditionary Forensic Facilities, linked by satellite to a biometric database in West Virginia. "A war fighter needs to know one of three things," explained the inventor of this lab-in-a-box. "Do I let him go? Keep him? Or shoot him on the spot?"

A future is already imaginable in which a U.S. sniper could take a bead on the eyeball of a suspected terrorist, pause for a nanosecond to transmit the target's iris or retinal data via backpack-sized laboratory to a computer in West Virginia, and then, after instantaneous feedback, pull the trigger.

Lest such developments seem fanciful, recall that Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward claims the success of George W. Bush's 2007 troop surge in Iraq was due less to boots on the ground than to bullets in the head -- and these, in turn, were due to a top-secret fusion of electronic intercepts and satellite imagery. Starting in May 2006, American intelligence agencies launched a Special Action Program using "the most highly classified techniques and information in the U.S. government" in a successful effort "to locate, target and kill key individuals in extremist groups such as al-Qaeda, the Sunni insurgency and renegade Shia militias."

Under General Stanley McChrystal, now U.S. Afghan War commander, the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) deployed "every tool available simultaneously, from signals intercepts to human intelligence" for "lightning quick" strikes. One intelligence officer reportedly claimed that the program was so effective it gave him "orgasms." President Bush called it "awesome." Although refusing to divulge details, Woodward himself compared it to the Manhattan Project in World War II. This Iraq-based assassination program relied on the authority Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld granted JSOC in early 2004 to "kill or capture al-Qaeda terrorists" in 20 countries across the Middle East, producing dozens of lethal strikes by airborne Special Operations forces.

Another crucial technological development in Washington's secret war of assassination has been the armed drone, or unmanned aerial vehicle, whose speedy development has been another by-product of Washington's global counterterrorism laboratory. Half a world away from Iraq in the southern Philippines, the CIA and U.S. Special Operations Forces conducted an early experiment in the use of aerial surveillance for assassination. In June 2002, with a specially-equipped CIA aircraft circling overhead offering real-time video surveillance in the pitch dark of a tropical night, Philippine Marines executed a deadly high-seas ambush of Muslim terrorist Aldam Tilao (a.k.a. "Abu Sabaya").

In July 2008, the Pentagon proposed an expenditure of $1.2 billion for a fleet of 50 light aircraft loaded with advanced electronics to loiter over battlefields in Afghanistan and Iraq, bringing "full motion video and electronic eavesdropping to the troops." By late 2008, night flights over Afghanistan from the deck of the USS Theodore Roosevelt were using sensors to give American ground forces real-time images of Taliban targets -- some so focused that they could catch just a few warm bodies huddled in darkness behind a wall.

In the first months of Barack Obama's presidency, CIA Predator drone strikes have escalated in the Pakistani tribal borderlands with a macabre efficiency, using a top-secret mix of electronic intercepts, satellite transmission, and digital imaging to kill half of the Agency's 20 top-priority al-Qaeda targets in the region. Just three days before Obama visited Canada last February, Homeland Security launched its first Predator-B drones to patrol the vast, empty North Dakota-Manitoba borderlands that one U.S. senator has called America's "weakest link."

Homeland Security

While those running U.S. combat operations overseas were experimenting with intercepts, satellites, drones, and biometrics, inside Washington the plodding civil servants of internal security at the FBI and the NSA initially began expanding domestic surveillance through thoroughly conventional data sweeps, legal and extra-legal, and -- with White House help -- several abortive attempts to revive a tradition that dates back to World War I of citizens spying on suspected subversives.

"If people see anything suspicious, utility workers, you ought to report it," said President George Bush in his April 2002 call for nationwide citizen vigilance. Within weeks, his Justice Department had launched Operation TIPS (Terrorism Information and Prevention System), with plans for "millions of American truckers, letter carriers, train conductors, ship captains, utility employees and others" to aid the government by spying on their fellow Americans. Such citizen surveillance sparked strong protests, however, forcing the Justice Department to quietly bury the president's program.

Simultaneously, inside the Pentagon, Admiral John Poindexter, President Ronald Reagan's former national security advisor (swept up in the Iran-Contra scandal of that era), was developing a Total Information Awareness program which was to contain "detailed electronic dossiers" on millions of Americans. When news leaked about this secret Pentagon office with its eerie, all-seeing eye logo, Congress banned the program, and the admiral resigned in 2003. But the key data extraction technology, the Information Awareness Prototype System, migrated quietly to the NSA.

Soon enough, however, the CIA, FBI, and NSA turned to monitoring citizens electronically without the need for human tipsters, rendering the administration's grudging retreats from conventional surveillance at best an ambiguous political victory for civil liberties advocates. Sometime in 2002, President Bush gave the NSA secret, illegal orders to monitor private communications through the nation's telephone companies and its private financial transactions through SWIFT, an international bank clearinghouse.

After the New York Times exposed these wiretaps in 2005, Congress quickly capitulated, first legalizing this illegal executive program and then granting cooperating phone companies immunity from civil suits. Such intelligence excess was, however, intentional. Even after Congress widened the legal parameters for future intercepts in 2008, the NSA continued to push the boundaries of its activities, engaging in what the New York Times politely termed the systematic "overcollection" of electronic communications among American citizens. Now, for example, thanks to a top-secret NSA database called "Pinwale," analysts routinely scan countless "millions" of domestic electronic communications without much regard for whether they came from foreign or domestic sources.

Starting in 2004, the FBI launched an Investigative Data Warehouse as a "centralized repository for... counterterrorism." Within two years, it contained 659 million individual records. This digital archive of intelligence, social security files, drivers' licenses, and records of private finances could be accessed by 13,000 Bureau agents and analysts making a million queries monthly. By 2009, when digital rights advocates sued for full disclosure, the database had already grown to over a billion documents.

And did this sacrifice of civil liberties make the United States a safer place? In July 2009, after a careful review of the electronic surveillance in these years, the inspectors general of the Defense Department, the Justice Department, the CIA, the NSA, and the Office of National Intelligence issued a report sharply critical of these secret efforts. Despite George W. Bush's claims that massive electronic surveillance had "helped prevent attacks," these auditors could not find any "specific instances" of this, concluding such surveillance had "generally played a limited role in the F.B.I.'s overall counterterrorism efforts."

Amid the pressures of a generational global war, Congress proved all too ready to offer up civil liberties as a bipartisan burnt offering on the altar of national security. In April 2007, for instance, in a bid to legalize the Bush administration's warrantless wiretaps, Congressional representative Jane Harman (Dem., California) offered a particularly extreme example of this urge. She introduced the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act, proposing a powerful national commission, functionally a standing "star chamber," to "combat the threat posed by homegrown terrorists based and operating within the United States." The bill passed the House by an overwhelming 404 to 6 vote before stalling, and then dying, in a Senate somewhat more mindful of civil liberties.

Only weeks after Barack Obama entered the Oval Office, Harman's life itself became a cautionary tale about expanding electronic surveillance. According to information leaked to the Congressional Quarterly, in early 2005 an NSA wiretap caught Harman offering to press the Bush Justice Department for reduced charges against two pro-Israel lobbyists accused of espionage. In exchange, an Israeli agent offered to help Harman gain the chairmanship of the House Intelligence Committee by threatening House Democratic majority leader Nancy Pelosi with the loss of a major campaign donor. As Harman put down the phone, she said, "This conversation doesn't exist."

How wrong she was. An NSA transcript of Harman's every word soon crossed the desk of CIA Director Porter Goss, prompting an FBI investigation that, in turn, was blocked by then-White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales. As it happened, the White House knew that the New York Times was about to publish its sensational revelation of the NSA's warrantless wiretaps, and felt it desperately needed Harman for damage control among her fellow Democrats. In this commingling of intrigue and irony, an influential legislator's defense of the NSA's illegal wiretapping exempted her from prosecution for a security breach discovered by an NSA wiretap.

Since the arrival of Barack Obama in the White House, the auto-pilot expansion of digital domestic surveillance has in no way been interfered with. As a result, for example, the FBI's "Terrorist Watchlist," with 400,000 names and a million entries, continues to grow at the rate of 1,600 new names daily.

In fact, the Obama administration has even announced plans for a new military cybercommand staffed by 7,000 Air Force employees at Lackland Air Base in Texas. This command will be tasked with attacking enemy computers and repelling hostile cyber-attacks or counterattacks aimed at U.S. computer networks -- with scant respect for what the Pentagon calls "sovereignty in the cyberdomain." Despite the president's assurances that operations "will not -- I repeat -- will not include monitoring private sector networks or Internet traffic," the Pentagon's top cyberwarrior, General James E. Cartwright, has conceded such intrusions are inevitable.

Sending the Future Home

While U.S. combat forces prepare to draw-down in Iraq (and ramp up in Afghanistan), military intelligence units are coming home to apply their combat-tempered surveillance skills to our expanding homeland security state, while preparing to counter any future domestic civil disturbances here.

Indeed, in September 2008, the Army's Northern Command announced that one of the Third Division's brigades in Iraq would be reassigned as a Consequence Management Response Force (CMRF) inside the U.S. Its new mission: planning for moments when civilian authorities may need help with "civil unrest and crowd control." According to Colonel Roger Cloutier, his unit's civil-control equipment featured "a new modular package of non-lethal capabilities" designed to subdue unruly or dangerous individuals -- including Taser guns, roadblocks, shields, batons, and beanbag bullets.

That same month, Army Chief of Staff General George Casey flew to Fort Stewart, Georgia, for the first full CMRF mission readiness exercise. There, he strode across a giant urban battle map filling a gymnasium floor like a conquering Gulliver looming over Lilliputian Americans. With 250 officers from all services participating, the military war-gamed its future coordination with the FBI, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and local authorities in the event of a domestic terrorist attack or threat. Within weeks, the American Civil Liberties Union filed an expedited freedom of information request for details of these deployments, arguing: "[It] is imperative that the American people know the truth about this new and unprecedented intrusion of the military in domestic affairs."

At the outset of the Global War on Terror in 2001, memories of early Cold War anti-communist witch-hunts blocked Bush administration plans to create a corps of civilian tipsters and potential vigilantes. However, far more sophisticated security methods, developed for counterinsurgency warfare overseas, are now coming home to far less public resistance. They promise, sooner or later, to further jeopardize the constitutional freedoms of Americans.

In these same years, under the pressure of War on Terror rhetoric, presidential power has grown relentlessly, opening the way to unchecked electronic surveillance, the endless detention of terror suspects, and a variety of inhumane forms of interrogation. Somewhat more slowly, innovative techniques of biometric identification, aerial surveillance, and civil control are now being repatriated as well.

In a future America, enhanced retinal recognition could be married to omnipresent security cameras as a part of the increasingly routine monitoring of public space. Military surveillance equipment, tempered to a technological cutting edge in counterinsurgency wars, might also one day be married to the swelling domestic databases of the NSA and FBI, sweeping the fiber-optic cables beneath our cities for any sign of subversion. And in the skies above, loitering aircraft and cruising drones could be checking our borders and peering down on American life.

If that day comes, our cities will be Argus-eyed with countless thousands of digital cameras scanning the faces of passengers at airports, pedestrians on city streets, drivers on highways, ATM customers, mall shoppers, and visitors to any federal facility. One day, hyper-speed software will be able to match those millions upon millions of facial or retinal scans to photos of suspect subversives inside a biometric database akin to England's current National Public Order Intelligence Unit, sending anti-subversion SWAT teams scrambling for an arrest or an armed assault.

By the time the Global War on Terror is declared over in 2020, if then, our American world may be unrecognizable -- or rather recognizable only as the stuff of dystopian science fiction. What we are proving today is that, however detached from the wars being fought in their name most Americans may seem, war itself never stays far from home for long. It's already returning in the form of new security technologies that could one day make a digital surveillance state a reality, changing fundamentally the character of American democracy.

Alfred W. McCoy is the J.R.W. Smail Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of A Question of Torture, among other works. His most recent book is Policing America's Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State (University of Wisconsin Press) which explores the influence of overseas counterinsurgency operations throughout the twentieth century in spreading ever more draconian internal security measures here at home.

[This article first appeared on Tomdispatch.com, a weblog of the Nation Institute, which offers a steady flow of alternate sources, news, and opinion from Tom Engelhardt, long time editor in publishing, co-founder of the American Empire Project, author of The End of Victory Culture, and editor of The World According to Tomdispatch: America in the New Age of Empire.]

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What is a man pt. 3 of 3

THE MINISTER — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:55:44 GMT

An esoteric study

PART 3

Yes, there were people on earth other than Adam and Eve. That is why God asked �Who told you that?� - Genesis 3:11, because God knew that they had spoken to someone else. However, even the writer did not describe this individual as another man, but a �serpent,� a lowly creature that was �more subtle that any beast of the field.�

A strange individual that did strange things that were outside the life-giving cycles of God. If we were to describe them from a Hebrew perspective they would be �Mu-zahr� called �strange� which is the root of the word �Mahm-zer�, which means �a strange person or a bastard�.

This particular individual was strange, a bastard child who was without his natural father. He had taken on the ways of another father, another god, another mind that was contrary to the mind of his original / natural Creator. Let us look at the word �bastard� according to the random house collegiate dictionary.

Bastard - 1) A person born of unmarried parents; an illegitimate child. 2) Something irregular, inferior, spurious, or unusual. 3) Slang, a vicious, despicable or thoroughly disliked person.

Bastardly - 1) Bastard, baseborn. 2) Worthless, of no value. 3) Spurious, counterfeit.

From these two definitions, it can be clearly seen that this individual doctrine, or lifestyle was born out of an illegitimate relationship with God and the creation thus bringing forth an illegitimate child that was irregular, inferior, unusual, despicable, baseborn, worthless and counterfeit. Thus we can see how the male species of the human family that walks upon the earth today are called �mankind� and not man. All of those that hold fast to the doctrine of the serpentine beast have allowed themselves to enter into an illegitimate relationship with God and creation thus they are less than a man and are in no way, fashion or form, in the image of God. Thus what we see today, mankind or a kind of man, is a semblance of man in that they possess the genital organs of a male, but their character and spirit are far below the standards of what man originally was.

It is hard to imagine how Adam and Eve could have allowed anyone or anything that had the spirit of a serpent to convince them to forsake the glory of the Almighty God. In the beginning man was a universal being in tune with all of the forces of creation. There was no need for a written law such as the Ten Commandments, the Law handed down by Moses. Originally man was in tune with all of the Laws that governed him and the creation. His mind, being in touch with the universal mind of God, allowed him to think and his thoughts would manifest. Man that was created in the beginning in many respects is unimaginable today.

Man since this reproach in Genesis has continually evolved further away from God. He has entered into regressive cycles that have brought him down from a high spiritual state to a very base, carnal and physical state that is seen today. Consider Genesis 6:1-3 which reads:

�And it cam to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them that the Sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair and they took them wives of all whom they chose. And the Lord said, my spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh; yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
Now, in reading this scripture, we must reflect back on how two distinctive characters began to dwell on the earth. As stated earlier in this writing there were people dwelling on the earth during the time of Adam�s formation, however, Adam after disobeying the instructions? Laws of God, allowed two doctrines to dwell in his mind, which were made manifest with the physical birth of Cain and Abel. Each was different in character and spirit. Cain was more carnal-minded and Abel, spiritual. Cain slew Abel because of his envy of Abel�s acceptance unto God (Genesis 4:1-10). However, the spiritual line continued with the birth of Seth (Genesis 4:25). With the continued evolution of time the spiritual sons yielded more to their physical nature and desires, thus causing God to be angry.

�And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the Lord that He had made man on the earth, and it grieved Him at His heart. And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and the beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

This scripture reaffirms that man�s corruption polluted the whole creation, bringing forth the wrath of God, whereas originally man�s life was eternal.

Therefore, in the course of this writing one must chart the way back to the Sacred abode of God�s mind, to cause mankind to become revolutionized, to change, to be the man that God had intended to dwell I the creation in the beginning.

THE END PART 3

NOTE: THIS HAS BEEN AN �AMMIYAH MINISTRIES� ESOTERIC EDUCATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS BY DR. RAHAMEEM KEDAR BEN ISRAEL D.d. B.Msc.

Subversive Historian

Moorbey — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:10:37 GMT

Supreme Court Rules Against Segregated Buses

Back in the day on November 13th, 1956, the United States Supreme Court
ruled against segregated seating on public buses in Montgomery, Alabama.
Affirming a federal court ruling on Browder v. Gayle, the decision was a
victory for the longstanding Montgomery Bus Boycott that had begun the
year before. Organizers had been planning to challenge the southern city?s
segregationist policy, when Rosa Parks was arrested on December 1st, 1955
for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white person. Five days later,
an overwhelming number of African-Americans heeded the call to stay off
the public buses in protest. A campaign quickly took shape as the
Montgomery Improvement Association was formed to carry out the ensuing
boycott with a young Baptist minister named Martin Luther King Jr.
appointed as president. Adherents organized carpools or walked to work
rather than break the boycott as the MIA challenged the segregationist
policy in court.

The Montgomery Bus Boycott would be called off in the month following the
Supreme Court ruling. As Dr. King said ?it is more honorable to walk in
dignity than ride in humiliation.? Now someone go tell Rush to hush?

For Uprising, this is your truth professa? saying it?s no mystery why they
conceal our people?s history

Listen to this segment:
http://www.archive.org/download/Dail...9_11_13_sh.mp3

Do We Blame White People For Our Failures?

Hardworker — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:37:01 GMT

Today Black people are very much responsible for their selves.

Success and failure is determined by who?

is success being like the people who put Black people in the situation that Black are in?

Is failure not being able to match up to the standards of who put Black people in this situation?

Exactly what is success and failure?

And who determines what it is?

Is it you?

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