Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Times are Changing (Life is coming alive)

Charges were dropped against a pro-life man that was made by the police. This pro-life advocate was beaten by the police. The man said in Massachusetts that the police beat him after he was passing out pro-life literature in a fair. He said that the police arrested or handcuffed him behind his back. The conservative website named Mass Resistance published the account of the incident. The man's name is Peter D'Attilio. He was not only detained and arrested. His vehicle was improperly searched for pro-life literature. The webstie calls the dropping of the charges against Peter as a victory for the pro-life movement. The Franklin, MA police departments charges were dropped by the judge. At the hearing on Thursday, Feb. 9, in Wrentham District Court, Judge Stephen Ostrach berated the prosecutor for pursuing what were clearly false charges. The government according to Mass Resistence is going after Peter. They had someone follow him and listen to his conversations with his attorney at the courthouse. During the February 9, 2011 hearing, the judge first took a few minutes to read the police report. The police report had many inaccuracies and misrepresentions. The judge was able to see that the charges against Peter were Peter. This event is suprising, because the judge challenged the prosecutor about the arrest. The judge criticized the prosecution about the charges and the accusation of Peter resisting arrest. As the prosecutor attempted to defend the police actions, things just got worse for him. Finally, the judge dismissed the case, to the visible dismay of the prosecutor. This is a victory, because the human civil liberties ought to be protected. They ought to be protected among any human being whether they are pro-life or not. No human being should intimidated into not expressing their views peacefully.



It's obvious to see that the financial oligarchs want to control and economically rape Greece. In February 12, 2012, the Greek's banker controlled parliament passed more extreme austerity measures after more of them were passed before. The new policy desire to cut 15,000 public workers in 2012 and 150,000 by 2015, there is a cutting of private sector wages by 20%, and there are the lowering of monthly minimum wages from 750 to 600  euros. There will be cutting fast disappearing monthly unemployment benefits from 460 to 360 euros; and and a reducing pensions many Greeks need to survive by 15%. Now, the elite bankers want to maintain the 130 billion euro bailout. Now, one issue is that there is a huge debt crisis in Greece. The country is having trouble paying down the debt, while the kleptocrats still want huge cuts in services. These cuts are demanded by the IMF, the EU, and the European Central Bank. The IMF has been responsible for recessions globally from Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Greece's major parties have capitulated to the austerity agenda of the elite. These parties are the social democratic Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) led by banker-sacked former prime minister George Papandreou, the center-right New Democracy under Antonis Samaras; and the hard right Popular (or People's) Orthodox Rally (LAOS) lead by Georgios Karatzaferis. Nonetheless, at midnight on Sunday, after hours of perfunctory debate, MPs rubber-stamped measures (199 to 74 with 27 abstentions) party leaders agreed on earlier despite tens of thousands raging in Syntagma Square outside parliament throughout the day and night. Clashes also occurred in Salonika, Patra, Volos, Crete and Corfu. Expect more ahead by growing numbers unwilling to accept social injustice destroying their ability to survive. The working class in Greece have even lower wages. The youth's future is threaten because of these neo-feudal financial policies. There is violence in Greece. Police have fought protesters. Buildings have been burned. Banker appointed prime minister Lucas Padademos, a former ECB vice president, lied saying "l...iving standards of Greeks would collapse and the country would be dragged into a spiral of recession, instability, unemployment and misery." unless predatory cuts are made. The reality is that the austerity cuts have caused Greece's manufacturing to decrease. Unemployment is at 20%. The industrial output in Greece decreased by 11.3 percent.  Hosptials and schools in Greece lack supplies, medicines, and other resoruces. There is unprecendented homelessness throughout the nation of Greece. The bankers still want more wealth confiscation. Some populists want the Argentina model to work for Greece. Argentina faced economic ruin. So, Buenos Aires halted all debt payments to domestic and foreign creditors. IMF loans made things worse until a $100 billion in debt reality was restructed. Stiff haircuts were imposed on creditors of around 65%. Most decided something was better than nothing. In 2010, holdouts finally capitulated on similar terms. Sustained economic growth followed from 2003 through 2007. Vital debt restructuring and a devalued currency assured it. Greece should promote its national sovereignity and make exports more competitive, create fiscal stimulative policies, and monetize debt freely. The oligarchs (who make the rules, pressure, bribe, and use force to get their way) shouldn't demand tribute that can harm the youth, workers, retirees, and the rest of the working class. The financial system in Greece is in trouble. The bankers want to end of the benefits of the people and the democratic freedoms of the people from Greece. The Greeks are going into the streets with their views to their credits. Bailouts to Wall Street banks in America that started the crisis hasn't radically decreaed our unemployment rate at all. We in America need radicalism without moderation.

The NYPD made a record stop and questions search in the realm of 1,900 times per day. In 2010, the NYPD broke its previous all time record of stop and frisk actions. The 2010 number is 601,055 street stops. Then, the number was higher in 2011 in the realm of 684,330 stop and frisks. Ray Kelly's dream team is allowing this to occur. At press time, video from 1 Police Plaza showed a trio of triumphant beat cops sneaking up behind Kelly with a giant tub of Gatorade. The Wall Street Journal found records of the stop and frisk statistics. They found out that only 12% of the 684,330 number have been arrested or recieved summonses. The others were not charged at all. In 2010, only 14% of the people stopped and frisked were arrested. According to the NYCLU, more than 4 million people have been stopped and frisked since the program began in 2004. The vast majority of the people stopped and frisked are of course people of color. For example, in 2010, 84 percent of those stopped by the police were Black Americans or Latino Americans. Only 9 percent of the people stopped are white. Last year, the racial breakdown kept on that trend: 87% were black or Latino, and 9% were white. They NYPD (via its spokesman Paul Browne) claims that the stops saved lives since homicides were down 4% by 2011. But homicides were down 4% in 2011, and NYPD spokesman Paul Browne tells the Journal, “Stops save lives.” Browne argues that 8,263 weapons, including 819 guns, were recovered as a result of stops. But NYCLU director Donna Lieberman says the NYPD has “...cut off oversight and important questions by saying crime is down…crime rates were going down before the skyrocketing stop-and-frisk campaign. Once again we see a massive expenditure of resources for a tactic that fails to uncover criminal activity in all but a little more than 10% of the cases.” The Fourth Amendment is important. That Amendment says that a person can't be unjustly detained without due process or probable cause. There can never be unreasonable searches and seizures at all. The stop and frisk actions are immoral, because it views innocent citizens as guilty before proven innocent. Our country should exist with the principle of everyone being innocent until proven guilty. We have a civil liberty crisis in America. That is why people are right to desire to want the Patriot Act, the NDAA, warrantless wiretapping, and the USA Military Commissions Act.

Political news are everywhere. We should be for freedom, community, culture, and civilized life. We know the errors of the Republicans and the neo-cons. Many of them seek to imposed violations of cherished human liberties and promote never ending warfare in the globe. Numerous Republican candidates in 2012 alone have spewed evil, racist, and poor-scapegoating garbage in public. They make no apologizes and they love their evil. So, we know where the GOP is at and their nefarious agenda. The Left gatekeepers have been exposed recently as well. Large foundations like the Rockefeller Foundation including the Council on Foreign Relations fund this large movement. Some of them supported the Libyan rebels against Qadadfi. These rebels were found to be CIA/NATO funded lackeys that lynched Black Libyans too. Qaddafi wasn't perfect, but Libya had a higher standard of living (with education, health care, and other infrastructure) before the imperialist NATO bombings of Libya.  Now, Libyan leaders are torturing and killing political prisoners. This is so bad that even the mainstream media has no choice, but to report on this reality. Some of the Left gatekeepers revere Leon Trotsky. Trotsky was funded by the Schiff family and Wall Street bankers. The Wall Street bankers funded the 1917 Russian Revolution. This is all documented by the literature of the late Antony Sutton. The Pilgrim Society-influenced international bankers funded both sides of the Cold War. The Bolsheviks murdered religious people and used policies against human civil liberties. I don't agree with free market fundamentalism for our economy, but Communism was a control mechanism to stir revolution from true social democratic principles to a form of totalitarianism (as Stalin's form of communism violated human freedoms all of the time). Some in the liberal establishment believe that abortion on demand should be made until birth literally. Some of them believe that everything revolves around class when race plays a huge role in world history. The system of white supremacy refutes the notion that race play a minor role in the mechanications of world events via the world elite. It was a group of white supremacists using European banking money to fund the enslavement of the world with gun boat diplomacy and economic warfare. It's ironic about the liberal establishment. Kwame Ture made an excellent analysis of them. Kwame Ture wrote that they act as a moderate abitrator of the status quo. In other words, the mainstream media talks a good game, but in reality they will support the mainstream (like the war on terror, austerity, population control efforts, etc.). mixed with token change. For example, the typical mainstream liberal would oppose the Iraq War, but support the bombings in Libya plus military intervention in Syria. They will claim to be for the worker internaitonally, but agree with more trade agreements including the evil policies of the IMF plus the World Bank. They (or the establishment liberal) claim to want change, but they refuse to radically restructure society and to radically redistribute the wealth. They desire the system to be perserved in order for change to come , but real change can never transpire in a wicked system. Change can only come when you destroy an evil system and create a better system.

The recent February 2012 Grammy Awards was interesting, gloomy, and controversial all at the same time. Conservative Christians have criticized it for the controversial act of Nicki Minaj. Also, nationalists and leftists have criticized it for accusations of cultural exploitation & corporate greed. What is not known among a lot of peopel is that the Grammys recently eliminated music categories. Many of these categories dealt with music from various cultures. There were 31 categories gone like Latin jazz, other Latin music, four R&B categories, zydeco, Hawaiian and Native American music. That is why tons of people protested about it. The protesters wanted recognition of unique forms of music for music shouldn't be eliminated into a few genres. Music is the universal language and cultural respect is more important to promote than the corporate control of our society in general. The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences – the body that gives out the Grammys eliminated these categories. Some have said that this policy is racist and singanls vampire capitalism. I can't really disagree with that assumption, because the stripped music categories ought to be known by folks in the world. This music have value that fans ought to have access to. Diverse music from black and Latin peoples are apart of Ameican music. For America is a social experiment of diverse ethnicities and cultures. Why do they only cut this music?” asked multiple Grammy award winner Carlos Santana, who protested outside the awards ceremony with many other musicians. “I think they're racist. You can't eliminate black gospel music or Hawaiian music or American Indian music or Latin jazz music because all this represents what the United States is, a social experiment.” Other award recipients who have publicly spoken and written demanding the organization to restore the stricken categories are Herbie Hancock, Eddie Palmieri, Paul Simon Bill Cosby, Esperanza Spalding, Bonnie Raitt, Stanley Clarke, David Amram, Pete Escovedo, Oscar Hernandez and Larry Harlow. Folks have no choice, but to sue and protest. Some people are doing this action now (or suing the National Academy of Recording Arts and sciences). It's like a war. A select few of corporations are monopolizing our music. This is one reason why people are complaining on the lack of quality of music in the 21st century, because the corporations show a limited spectrum of music publicly. In the final analysis, the executives of musical corporations shouldn't dictate how can listen to music. The people and the artists should possess that role alone. We don't need or advance cultural genocide. The diversity of music ought to be maintained and respected.

By Timothy

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