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KPOO wAKE UP Everybody show

2009-12-26T19:39:54Z

http://www.ustream.tv/kpooradio

Live Stream
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/wake-up-everybody-show

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/kpoo-fm-radio-san-francisco-ca

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Kwanzaa

2009-12-26T19:05:14Z

"Paint a picture of tomorrow and you draw from the colours of the past." - Khaleel Muhammad

"History is a light that illuminates the past, and a key that unlocks the door to the future".- Runoko Rashidi

The seven principles of Kwanzaa are:

1. Umoja (Unity)
2. Kujichagulia (Self-Determination)
3. Ujima (Collective work and Responsibility)
4. Ujamaa ( Cooperative Economics)
5. Nia (Purpose)
6. Kuuma (Creativity)
7. Imani (Faith)

Kings Pharaohs Sultans. Call them what you will but giants once roamed the Earth. Giants with a will of caste iron and hearts as fierce as dragons. The sands of time pour backwards; the tombs of history are flung open. Even as the artisan castes hues of reds and blues upon a canvas to inspire hearts with an image of beauty - he can only do so by expressing what came before him and all that he is! The tip of his brush bristles with light as rays of color fall to the blank sheet below... and a masterpiece is realized. So too is the retelling of antiquities past wonders. Empires rise and fall under the artful eye of God.

The waxing and the waning of empires fortunes leave their mark in the traces of our forgetful hearts. Look within. Search deeply. Do you not feel the stirring of something unsleeping? Silence your mind and let your soul resonate in harmony with past moments of days: of trade caravans 300 camels long: of the thrill of casting a glance upon the founding of the pyramids: as the battle cry of victory ring in your ears: of your joy as you gather the harvest on the great day of celebration: as your son takes his place amongst the warriors of the village.
That beacon that blazes in the stillness of your essence was lit from the fires of yesteryear. And with it - at last you realize - you can never relinquish a tie to your roots forged by God Himself. http://www.africanholocaust.net/africankingdoms.htm

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Way of the Rasta: Bob Marley Tribute (documentary)

2009-11-09T13:56:14Z

mY bLOG
http://people.tribe.net/chaz/blog/11c0c6c3-0e0e-4650-907d-06a2baaaac93

What does rasta mean? “Righteousness.”

“I pledged to work for righteousness. God's given me inspiration. God's the boss, he tell me what to do.”
“Man can't do without God. You just can't go without God.”

“what is it to gain the world, and lose your very soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold...”

“Rastaman vibrations gonna cover the earth! Like the water cover the sea!”

“In this bright future you can't forget your past.”

“'Tell the children the truth'”

“Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds
Won't you help to sing these songs of freedom?”

“Conquer the devils with a little thing called love!”

“Excuse me while I light my spliff good God I gotta take a lift”

Bob Marley Forever Loving Jah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0tklHPEtj4

Bob Marley returns to Jamaica (movie)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMqKGkEpW8E&feature=related

Good!

Bob Marley: talkin 'bout Ras Tafari - pt 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpJbzH1xvHk&feature=related

Bob Marley: talkin 'bout Ras Tafari - pt 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00rFqqOh_XI&feature=related

Bob Marley: talkin 'bout Ras Tafari - pt 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeI-gMynK-A&feature=related

Bob Marley: talkin 'bout Ras Tafari - pt 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFw7wzeEEzI&feature=related

Bob Marley: talkin 'bout Ras Tafari - pt 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu6WNH2N9VQ&feature=related

Bob Marley: talkin 'bout Ras Tafari - pt 6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brhiTdHIxEo&feature=related

I Shot the Sheriff - Bob Marley LIVE (intro)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiFa3ZFMjzk

EXODUS - Bob Marley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NHbOqmNVm8

Way of the Rasta (movie)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy492KdDKfk&feature=related

"AFRICA UNITE" Bob Marley (ontro)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L07lXY7hZQw&NR=1

“My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.”

“I've been here before and will come again, but I'm not going this trip through.”

“Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.”

“When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open.”

“The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.”

“Don't worry about a thing, every little thing is gonna be alright”

“Just can't live that negative way...make way for the positive day!”

“My future is righteousness.”

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Did Greeks get their ideas from Africans?

2009-11-09T13:55:33Z

READ
http://history.howstuffworks.com/ancient-greece/greek-philosophers-african-tribes1.htm

It's well-documented that classical Greek thinkers traveled to what we now call Egypt to expand their knowledge. When the Greek scholars Thales, Hippocrates, Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato and others traveled to Kemet, they studied at the temple-universities Waset and Ipet Isut. Here, the Greeks were inducted into a wide curriculum that encompassed both the esoteric as well as the practical.

Thales was the first to go to Kemet. He was introduced to the Kemetic Mystery System -- the knowledge that formed the basis of the Kemites' understanding of the world, which had been developed over the previous 4,500 years. After he returned, Thales made a name for himself by accurately predicting a solar eclipse and demonstrating how to measure the distance of a ship at sea. He encouraged others to make their way to Kemet to study

In Kemet, Hippocrates, the "father of medicine," learned of disease from the previous explorations of Imhotep, who established diagnostic medicine 2,500 years earlier. This early renaissance man -- priest, astronomer and physician -- was described as "the first figure of a physician to stand out clearly in the mists of antiquity" by the British medical trailblazer William Osler [source: Osler]. In Kemet, Pythagoras, the "father of mathematics," learned calculus and geometry from the Kemetic priests based on a millennia-old papyrus.

None of this is to say that the Greeks were without their own ideas. On the contrary, the Greeks appeared to have formed their own interpretations of what they learned in Kemet. Nor did the Greeks ever deny the credit due the Kemites for their education. "Egypt was the cradle of mathematics," Aristotle wrote [source: Van Sertima]. But one could make the case that the Greeks also felt that they were destined to build upon what they'd learned from the Kemites.

The Kemetic education was meant to last 40 years, although no Greek thinker is known to have made it through the entire process. Pythagoras is believed to have made it the furthest, having studied in Kemet for 23 years [source: Person-Lynn]. The Greeks seem to have put their own spin on what knowledge they'd learned.

Plato's education may have expressed it best: The Kemetic Mystery System was based upon a wide array of human knowledge. It encompassed math, writing, physical science, religion and the supernatural, requiring tutors to be both priests and scholars. Perhaps the aspect of the system that best represents this merger of religion and science is Ma'at.

Ma'at (/mi 'yat/) was a goddess who embodied the concept of the rational order to the universe. "This idea that the universe is rational … passed from the Egyptians to the Greeks," writes historian Richard Hooker [source: Hooker]. The Greeks' name for this concept was logos.

In his "Republic," Plato describes a dichotomy between a higher and lower self. The higher self (reason) pursues knowledge, reason and discipline. The lower self -- the more prominent of the two -- is base, concerned with more crude aspects like sex, addiction and other self-serving pursuits. Reason must ultimately win over emotion for a life to be worthwhile. Thus the emphasis of reason over all else was born. And the concepts of spirituality and reason began to diverge.

It is the survival of the Greek interpretation of Ma'at over the Kemites' that may explain why schoolchildren learn that the Greeks provided the basis for our modern world.

Read about some other ideas about why the Kemites have been banished to antiquity- next.

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Beyond Belief--Unconditional Love - An Affirmation

2009-09-12T10:36:34Z

mY bLOG
http://people.tribe.net/chaz/blog/61c76a60-4828-4df3-a2bd-d0e579110364

Zimbabwe - Bob Marley Live
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DFXRceCCuw

Brother you're right, you're right
You're right, you're right, you're so right

Every man gotta right
To decide his own destiny
And in this judgment
There is no partiality
So arm in arms, with arms
We will fight this little struggle
'Cause that's the only way
We can overcome our little trouble

Sister you're right, you're right
You're right, you're right, you're so right
We gonna fight, we'll have to fight
We gonna fight, fight for our rights

Natty dread it ina Zimbabwe
Set it up ina Zimbabwe
Mash it up ina Zimbabwe
Africans a liberate Zimbabwe

No more internal power struggle
We come together, to overcome
The little trouble
Soon we will find out
Who is the real revolutionary
'Cause I don't want my people
To be contrary

Brothers you're right, you're right
You're right, you're right, you're so right

We'll have to fight, we gonna fight
We'll have to fight, fighting for our rights

Mash it up ina Zimbabwe
Natty trash it ina Zimbabwe
I and I a liberate Zimbabwe

Sister you're right, you're right
You're right, you're right, you're so right

We gonna fight, we'll have to fight
We gonna fight, fighting for our rights

To divide and rule
Could only tear us apart
In everyman chest
There beats a heart
So soon we'll find out
Who is the real revolutionaries
And I don't want my people
To be tricked by mercenaries

Brother you're right, you're right
You're right, you're right, you're so right
We gonna fight, we'll have to fight
We gonna fight, fighting for our rights

Natty trash it ina Zimbabwe
Mash it up ina Zimbabwe
Set it up ina Zimbabwe
Africans a liberate

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Roots of "Western" civilization, culture, science, technology and religion

2009-09-10T08:57:57Z

http://www.the7thfire.com/black_civilization/glorious_achievements_of_black_c.htm

The roots of "Western" civilization, culture, science, technology and religion are to be found not in Greece, but in Black Egypt and Nubia-Kush. From as early as 10,000 B.C. to 1500 A.D., Blacks were in the forefront in the development of science, culture and technology. Black empires and civilizations from the prehistoric Zingh Empire of 15,000 B.C. of Mauritania to ancient Khemet (Egypt) and Nubia-Kush, which existed about 17,000 years ago, experimented in various aspects of science and technology. Some of these sciences and technologies were so advanced that stories of flying machines and the invention of advanced machines has been passed down through ancient writings.

Later Black civilizations such as Khemet and Mali experimented and created various sciences and technologies such as the chemical and mystery sciences of ancient Khemet and the surgical sciences of Mali, in West Africa. As early as about 400 B.C., a Black Pharaoh named Pi Di Amen built a model glider to conduct experiments in flight. Centuries before, the Black Egyptians had already invented gunpowder for use in their temples and mystery schools.

The mathematical and astronomical sciences necessary for high technologies such as those used in space technology and industries were first began by Blacks in Khem (Egypt) and Kush (Sudan). These sciences and high technologies were then passed on to the Sumerians, Babylonians, Elamites (all originally Black civilization), Greeks, Hebrews, Romans and Arabs In fact, it was the Black Sabeans of South Arabia, members of the Kushitic branch of the Black African race who established the first civilization in the Arabian Peninsula...thousands of years before the emergence of the Bedouin Arabs

Black medicinal sciences began in Khemet (ancient Black Egypt) and led to later Greek medicinal sciences. These ancient African sciences were copied by the Greeks and others from the ancient Papyrus texts composed by the ancient Khemites and Nubians.

From about 711 A.D. when the Moors, a Black people from Senegal, West Africa and Morocco, invaded Europe. They introduced Black Moorish science, technology, civilization and education to Europe and raised the Europeans from the Dark Ages of about 400 A.D. to 711 A.D. The Black Moors introduced advanced learning to Spain, similar to what had been taking place in Ghana, and at the university city of Jenne in Mali for hundreds of years.

They introduced advanced learning to the cities of Toledo, Seville and Cordoba. These cities became centers of Black Moorish and European scholarship, science and culture, where Europeans and others learned new and advanced sciences, arts and technologies. That led to the European Renaissance of later years. The Black Moors introduced art, architecture, sciences, medicines, animal husbandry and other advanced disciplines to Spain and the rest of Europe. This was the catalyst which led to the European Renaissance

Compared to Africa and East Asia where the Europeans learned more technology from the Chinese such as the making of gunpowder and guns, Western and Eastern Europe, (excluding Rome, Greece, etc.) have very little history of great civilization and achievements before the Middle Ages. Africans and the Blacks of India, have had thousands of years of great contributions to world culture and civilizations.

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The Nile Valley Civilization and the Spread of African Culture

2009-09-07T23:11:52Z

By Yosef ben-Jochannan
http://www.blackherbals.com/nile_valley_civilization.htm

When we speak of the Nile Valley, of course we are talking about 4,100 miles of civilization, or the beginning of the birth of what is today called civilization. I can go to one case of literature in particular which will identify the Africans as the beginners of the civilization to which I refer. And since I am not foreign to the works of Africans in Egypt, otherwise called Egyptians, I think that should be satisfactory proof. This proof is housed in the London Museum that is holding artifacts of Egypt. In that museum you will find a document called the Papyrus of Hunifer. At least you should find it there. It was there when Sir E. A. Wallace Budge used it in his translation as part of the Egyptian Book of the Dead and the Papyrus of Hunifer.

It was there at that time, a copy of which is in the library of Syracuse University in New York, and I quote from the hieratic writing, "We came from the beginning of the Nile where God Hapi dwells, at the foothills of The Mountains of the Moon." "We," meaning the Egyptians, as stated, came from the beginning of the Nile. Where is "the beginning of the Nile?" The farthest point of the beginning of the Nile is in Uganda; this is the White Nile. Another point is in Ethiopia. The Blue Nile and White Nile meet in Khartoum; and the other side of Khartoum is the Omdurman Republic of Sudan. From there it flows from the south down north. And there it meets with the Atbara River in Atbara, Sudan.

Then it flows completely through Sudan (Ta-Nehisi, Ta-Zeti or Ta-Seti, as it was called), part of that ancient empire which was one time adjacent to the nation called Meroe or Merowe. From that, into the southern part of what the Romans called "Nubia," and parallel on the Nile, part of which the Greeks called "Egypticus"; the English called it "Egypt" and the Jews in their mythology called it "Mizrain" which the current Arabs called Mizr/Mizrair. Thus it ends in the Sea of Sais, also called the Great Sea, today's Mediterranean Sea. When we say thus, we want to make certain that Hapi is still God of the Nile, shown as a hermaphrodite having the breasts of a woman and the penis of a man. God Hapi is always shown tying two symbols of the "Two Lands," Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt, during Dynastic Periods, or from the beginning of the Dynastic Periods. The lotus flower is the symbol of the south, and the papyrus plant, the symbol of the north.

But we need to go back beyond Egypt. I used "Egypt" as a starting point, in that of all the ancient civilizations in the world, Egypt has more ancient documents and other artifacts than any other civilization one could speak of. So when you hear them talking about "Sumer" and "Babylon," and all those other places, theoretically, they can't show you the artifacts. Thus my position is, first hand information is the best proof; and I can show you the bones and other remains of Zinjanthropus Boisei about 1.8 million years ago. But no one can show me the bones and remains of Zeus, et al.

So I have the proof and you have the belief.

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Kemetic Mysticism: Shems n Nebedjer

2009-08-19T08:17:42Z

nY bLOG
http://people.tribe.net/chaz/blog/0e9eda9f-648e-4376-973e-bc95a446cb50

Daily program that can be conducted in the early morning hours before one goes out into their day (going forth by day)

Shems is a ancient Egyptian word that means followers and in modern times denotes one who partakes of the culture in an active manner. The term used for the practioners of Kemetic Yoga is Shems n Nebedjer, which means 'Followers of God', or to emulate God through ones physical actions that are guided by virtue and thoughts which are guided by right reason. In this case 'God' signifies the transcendental all encompassing reality that is without name and form but expresses as the lesser divinities which are called Gods and Goddesses which in the Kemetic language are called NETERU.

The correct propitiation of any Neter can lead one to the trascendental reality from which they all emerge from. This process is called SMAI TAWI. Smai Tawi is the ancient Egyptian phrase that means YOGA, which denotes a unification of the higher and lower nature of the human persoanlity. This is also called Heru Smai Set.

The reason why this blog is called Kemetic Mysticism is because these are disciplines that assisst in developing profound levels of inner harmony and peace that are then transformed into God Realization, which is the awakening to, and experience of ones expansive and immortal nature, ones true state of existence. The awakening to ones higher nature is termed NEHAST and is commonly referred to in contemporary times as ENLIGHTENMENT.

This then is the first teaching in the process of Mystic Integration. Mystic Integration means that the personality will develop an internal harmony that transcends the time and space aspect of being into the transcendent reality, the goal of the Egyptian Mysteries. This process is commonly referred to as yoga and the Kemetic term for it is Smai Tawi. The method is Smai Tawi and the aim is to develop a well integrated personality through the study and development of the four aspects of the human personality which are the will, the emotions, the intellect and actions. Therefore, there is a four fold program that can be practiced daily in a harmonious and balanced manner.

The program should start with the reading of scriptures (Intellect), then proceed to the physical postures of the Journey of Ra for 4 to 6 repetitions, after warm up exercises for the large muscles of the legs and lower back, and living by Maat {Righteous and Order} (Action), then proceed to the devotional aspect in the way of chanting words of power (Emotions) and conclude with meditation for 5 to 15 minutes (Will).

This whole series can take from 45 minutes to an hour until one becomes more proficient in all of the areas and the time duration increases. Start slowly and gently refrain from rushing your progress. The end all of this process is the acquisition of wisdom that leads to a penetration of mysteries of life, the mysteries of death, the mysteries of the universe and the attainment of immortality, the ultimate human endeavor and the onlt real and true goal of life.

http://www.kemeticyoga.org/kemetic_mysticism

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What is Kemetic Yoga?

2009-08-19T07:37:05Z

mY bLOG
http://people.tribe.net/chaz/blog/23a136d0-2131-4796-9a5b-f03add145a0b

"The above depiction (in our tribe and my blog) shows the Nile Divinity, Hapi, in dual form, binding the Sema symbol. The one on the left holds the symbol with a papyrus plant (lower self) and the one on the right binds with a lotus flower (higher self). This means that the duality of spirit and matter, temporal and transcendent becomes unified in such a way that ones temporal nature dissolves into the transcendent reality; ones higher nature."

Yoga was practiced in Ancient Egypt, North East Africa, for a very long time. Research has indicated that the philosophy of personality integration, or yoga, was practiced in Egypt for about 10,000 years which is a great expanse of time.

The teaching of yoga that was espoused in the country of Egypt was derived from the meditations and insights by the early sage priests and priestesses. Egypt is not the original term for the country of Egypt. Egypt is a modern term; the original inhabitants of the country called it Kemet, meaning black...

So if yoga was practiced in Kemet for such a long period of time, then the question beckons, what is yoga? The term YOGA is not indigenous to Kemet either. Yoga is a term of Sanskrit origin, one of the languages of present day India. Yoga, when translated into English means to yoke or to bind. Then again, to yoke or to bind what, some may ask. Each human being has an individual consciousness and individual mind upon which they are perceiving the world. No two people think in exactly the same manner, no two people have identical ideas on things, which is a manifestation of individual reality.

However, there is universal consciousness that is beyond the scope of the normal realm of consciousness, or individual reality of people. Hence, the practice of yoga is a personality integration method that allows human beings to bind their individual transitory reality with the universal consciousness. The universal consciousness is stable and unchanging, unmoving, therefore, it is the substantial reality while human beings are existing in transitory phenomenon. When this process is accomplished one can say that they have experienced the way things really are or have experienced reality; universal consciousness.

Yoga is the practice of binding individual consciousness with universal consciousness. This individual reality that you are experiencing is actually only a small reflection of your true nature and yoga is the practice of how to achieve the knowledge of ones abiding and immortal aspect.

In the Kemetic teachings this process of yoga is called Smai Tawi which means UNION OF THE TWO LANDS, not to be confused with physical land masses, but is an explanation of the higher and lower nature witin the human entity. The hieroglyphic inscription for Smai Tawi is Also, the term for union is Smai and is illustrated with a standard that represents the trachea and lungs.

Notice the similarity between union and yoke. In the Kemetic teachings, it shows how every human being is composed of a higher nature and a lower nature. The practice of Smai Tawi is to unite the lower with the higher; in effect, the same understanding comes through from the word yoga. Smai Tawi is illustrated in Divine iconography as:

http://www.kemeticyoga.org/what_is_kemetic_yoga_

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Yoruba, Dogon, Egypt: Vodou That They Doo doo

2009-08-18T20:44:49Z

mY bLOG
http://people.tribe.net/chaz/blog/ea0f8c5b-1bdc-495b-9886-31dd8959c67f

"Today's mathematics is 'Culture'. "

Overall, it's Peace

Ausar = Osiris = Orishas (Language can show us the origins)

Kemetian NTRU/Yoruban Orishas (TREE OF LIFE)

Ausar=Obatala
Tehuti=Orunamila/Ifa
Seker=Babulu Aye
Maat=Aje Chagullia
Herukhuti=Ogun
Heru=Shango
Het Heru=Oshun
Sebek=Eshu
Auset=Yemaya
Nekhebet/Uatchet=Oya

Q: I have heard of the Dogon, Yoruba, and I have heard of Kemet but I thought they were different things. How are they related? How can they all be the same?

A: There are misconceptions surrounding the Dogon, Yoruba, and Kemet. Kemet is a territory much larger than just Ancient "Egypt" KMT is a determined by value and spiritual system. The Dogon and Yoruba are made up of certain bloodlines, Tribes, and People - DOING THE AF RA KA METAPHYSICAL SYSTEM (KMT), whose job it was to protect the highest knowledge of the universe. The bloodlines are dispersed through Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger and in which some turned into Vodou and IMO why there's so much warring and killing amongst our brothers.

Q: Is this connected to Voodou or Yoruba?

A: Yes the origins of these spiritual systems can be found within the Kemetic Initiation System, but be careful some of these religions were changed into witchcraft or paganism.

*Christianity and European influence played a huge role in the development of Vodou.

The Tree of Life can't be attributed to any one part of Afrika "first" although we know it was used and perfected there before the Middle East, Europe or Asia. For those that read Twi, you will notice a number of Ghanian writers, mostly elders have written some obsure books on the Akan-Kemetic connection. There is already plenty of info about how the Yoruba Priest and Kemetic Priests traded spiritual science.

I do not endorse the superiority of any African family, town, culture or tribe over another. This goes against the African spiritual concept, unfortunately, forgotten during years of the British divide and rule policy.

What this article will show, and the point of this blog is to share the similarities OF cosmic orgins and the Tree of Life, in ALL Afurakanu/Afuraitkaitnut (ALL Africans~Black People)

BUT how some of these changed into Paganism and Witchcraft.

"Voodoo is the Dahomey word for Spirit. It is often spelled as Vodou, or Vodoun - the typical Haitian spelling. *Any spirit found in the natural world is vodou. Voodoo is a derivative of KMT, the world's oldest known AF RA KA religions which have existed in Africa since the beginning of human civilization - civilizations and religions estimated to be over 40,000 years old. Voodoo is a direct descendent of the religions of these ancient civilizations. Vodou originates from the western nations of Africa, primarily from the ancient kingdom of Dahomey, which is now present day Benin. Vodou also came from the peoples of the Kongo as well as the Central African regions, including Bakongo, and the Yoruba of Nigeria."

Yes the Dark path...with that old black magic ...imo these are some of the worst - black people killing black people,

Vodoun (also Voodoo) The religion of Vodoun AND yORUBA as currently practiced bears little resemblance to its ancestral practice. Presently there are an estimated 50 million worshippers worldwide. The central belief of the religion is in spirit possession. Ownership of the gods and which i contribute to black on black crime and murder.

This is an nhoma for, by and about Afurakanu/Afuraitkaitnut (Africans~Black People).

Those of you who are Yoruba, Dogon, Akan, Igbo, Ewe, Fon, Bakongo, Bambara, inianka, Goromantche, Ovambo, Kenesu-Kamau (Nubian-Egyptian) as well as all of us others will benefit from the information as well, being that Amen and the TREE OF LIFE is know by all by different but similar names in our various Afurakani/Afuraitkaitnit (African) traditions.

"Once man-god realizes that I AM is not the flesh, or the senses, or the mind, or the intellect: the oppressor [who can only threaten the body, senses, mind, and intellect] looses all power to cause harm." -KMT

Metu Neter:

"We also will see that the religions of Black nations were well acquainted with the dualization (the knowledge of good and evil) of the spirit, and made its unification the foundation of their spiritual tradition." (MA'at)

Bhagavad Gita:

"Use your mighty arms to slay the fierce enemy which is selfish desire."

THIS IS NOT ABOUT THE YORUBA or DOGON PEOPLE, BUT WHAT IS BEING PRACTICED TODAY AS YORUBA RELIGION AND VODOU, IT'S THE SAME THING THAT EGYPT DID TO KEMET AND THE AFRICAN METAPHYSICAL SYSTEM OF THE TREE OF LIFE, MADE 'EM INTO GODS AND SPIRITS, SUPPERSTITIONS, ANIMAL AND HUMAN SACRIFICES, BLODDLETTING - EUROPE DID THIS WITCHERY TO AFRICA AND THE CARIBBEAN DURING SLAVERY...sICkness

This Conditioning happened during slave trade; Voodoo (Vodun) Yoruba, Ifa, Santeria; WITCHERY TRICKOLOGY and deceiving our people, again these are Archetypes of KMT and Africa gone bad - EVIL Superstitions (OR HOW THEY ARE PRACTICED NOW -meaning some could be practicing the Tree of Life through Yoruba or even Chrisitianity for that matter - the matter being, was that there was no matter nor man god nor gods.. but the manifestations of divine -Amen)

tHIS IS wITCHcRAFT

And IMO how brothers and sisters have gone astray, black magick, this is Set-An Satanism trickology -selling each other out, black on black crime and to the death.

"As I reflect upon 'culture' I think about it in regards to the culture and cultures of Original people. Culture is the medium through which a people's knowledge and wisdom continue through space and time. It has been our culture that has served as the drive behind our struggle against colonialism, racism and the continuance of our people into this day and time."

"It is the elements of culture that serve as the catapult for freedom. For within the Nation of Gods and Earths we understand that we can never expel the devilishment (SETH) and influence of the oppressor and have freedom in our cipher unless we bring culture into the cipher and continue to add on to that culture with the world we are looking to bring about. Your culture will empower you and will foster the drive and ability to change and control our destinies. As our people understood, it was and never will be our destiny to be subserviant to external forces."

Voudun is a mixture of our ancient spiritual practices and those who have conquered us (SETH); so like Islam, Egypt, and Christianity those negative cherubs have sneaked in once again and have us giving energy and authority to them. It is best not to worship any Things, People, or Spirits, People, Kemet was not about worshiping deities. Anu is our great great..........the sun and moon are in our veins, part of our DNA. Once we reach the spiritual realm the eloh are there to befreind us not rule us.

Sound created the universe... "YO" of Yoruba is the sound of god "OM" also, music is god AAAMEN

This is Amen (God), and the Source from which all comes. It is also, in the Kamitic spiritual science, the true nature of the hidden God within, which is essentially unconditioned, and which cannot be upset by externals. It is represented at Sphere 0 above the Tree of Life. In the Yoruba tradition, that aspect of God represented by Sphere 0 is called Olodumare. It is also what, as we have seen, the Zulu call the Itongo.

In what ways can the ideas of the Akan, Bantu, and Yoruba be traced back to Ancient Egyptian philosophy?

partial answer to this question:

In a search for the roots of the Yoruba religion one can look to the Kemetians. One has to remember that religion and philosophy are very difficult to separate in some of these early civilizations. What can be deduced from archeological and historic records the Yoruba people migrated from east to west. J. Olumide Lucas in his book The Religion of the Yorubas" traces their history as a civilization back to Egypt. "A chain of evidence leads to the conclusion that they must have settled for many years in that part of the continent known as Ancient Egypt."

In his work Lucas shows that there were similarities in language, religion and customs between these two groups of people.

"Abundant proof of intimate connection between ancient Egyptians and the Yoruba may be produced under this head. Most of the principle gods were well known, at one time, to the Yoruba. Among these gods are Osiris, Isis, Horus, Shu, Sut, Troth, Khepera, Amon, Anu, Khonsu, Khnum, Khopri, Hathor, Sokaris, Ra, Seb, the elemental deities and others. Most of the gods survive in name or in attributes or in both".

In comparing the religions, we find that the Yoruba had a moon deity known as Osu (moon) which is the Egyptian lunar god Khonsu. To find the conclusive proof of this similarity one has to look at the etymological development of the Yoruba language. In the Yoruba language Kh does not exist. By following the consonantŚvowel rules in Yoruba the vowel is dropped and you are left with the word Osu from Khonsu.

If we follow this etymological analysis we find that "Amon exists in Yoruba with the same meaning it has in ancient Egyptian: hidden. The god Amon is one of the first deities known by the Yoruba and the words Mon and Mimon (holy and sacred) are probably derived from the name of that god, according to Lucas. Troth would become To in Yoruba" (Cook, 1974, p. 185).

Following this lead we can see that the development of a monotheistic religion had it roots in the land of Egypt. Although many have claimed that the religion of the Egyptians was polytheistic in fact it was not. Moses even went so far as to declare that Yahweh, like the God of Egypt, was one (Deut. vi.4).

The final cement for an Egyptian and Yoruba connection is the existence of Yoruba hieroglyphics. "To conclude, let us note that Pedrals mentions, on page 107, the Kuso Hill near Ife and the existence of a Kuso Hill in Nubia, near ancient Meroe, west of the Nile 'in the heart of the land of Kush'" From this we can thus consider that a historical connection of facts joins the Egyptian and the Yoruba civilizations together.

AFRIKANS WOULD know that the entites are cherub behind the mask of blood way of life.

what becomes of those who have contracted spirtualy to work with a orisha or lwa and or serve and give power and authority over to them?

Since kemet is the root of thses practice and our anciestors blood run in us whats the difference i see is they used the word worship and not work-with

worship defines as'adoration service, praise

honor our ancestors would mean 'acknowledge, award, venerate,

so whats the difference i learnt the neteru are emanations of divine being, and need not to be wor-ship in flesh or given sacrifices as is required by the orisha and lwa of yoruba & vodou

that animal sacrifice is to close to human sacrifice

When we read the holy tablets we find the lessons & gods of the yoruba & voudun have their own chapters, we have not skipped them; these are cherub biengs, some reptilian in nature & are about power & control who feed off human energy the same way we eat chicken. How does the farmer act when one of his bulls escape? He does whats necessery to get him back to the herd.

KMT

Ta-Nefer Ankh means "World of Beautiful Living", which happens to be our aspiration. We are an organization of members living Kemet Way - the 'Way of Life'. Our endeavor is to create a world of 'optimal life' for everyone and everything. Living the life-style of Kemet Way of course means we are Kemetic, which is similar to one who says he/she is Yoruba, Akan, or Dogon.

Kemet Way is a 'way of life' within the 'African Worldview' like that of Yoruba, Akan, or Dogon; however it is much older than the others and we, African people through the vicissitudes of racism and wars for White-Supremacy have been disconnected from our civilizations. Via Ta-Nefer Ankh we are reconnecting to the current of African civilization, particularly that of Kemet, and pursuing 'optimal living' by creating Kemet-centered communities wherever we happen to live.

What Does Being Kemetic Mean?

Being Kemetic means living a life in harmony and syncretism with creation, endeavoring to achieve 'optimal life' for everyone and everything; sharing abundance, being life-creating and life-sustaining in all relationships, achieving expansion and growth through unity, cooperation and collaboration; and endeavoring to transform the world into a global-society living the 'way of life'.

Being Kemetic means we, like our ancestors, espouse the world view that we are descendents of the creator - Amen (Atum) and are responsible to creation by living a life that is life-creating and life-sustaining.

Most of the West African and Eastern tribes passed through KMT (remember how important the Nile was in this region); The Yorubas, Igbos, Ijaws, Efiks, Fantes, Twi, Nagos and so many others, belong to the Kwa Language speaking group. In this group the dominant usages of "Ka", Kh" and "Kw" indicate common linguistic source in Kemet - In the Yoruba language Kh does not exist. By following the consonantŚvowel rules in Yoruba the vowel is dropped and you are left with the word Osu from Khonsu (Heru). The god Amon is one of the first deities known by the Yoruba and the words Mon and Mimon (holy and sacred) are probably derived from the name of that god, Troth would become To in Yoruba"

The ancient Kemetian religion was practiced throughout East Africa (in Sudan, Ethiopia, and Eritrea, as well aka Egypt)

The ancient Yoruba were one of the most accommodating and the most adventurous people on earth. They were the explorers who went beyond their surroundings. They were the traders who exchanged goods and services. They were the Aromires (sea friendly admirals) and the Olokos (boat owners) who went on 12 months voyage by Irawo-oko (canoe-star), ships, as elephant warriors and priests. They traveled north and south of the Nile, Mesopotamia, from one coast to another, to Asia, Australia and the Americas. Africans were known in Americas before Columbus: Washita in Mississippi Valley 6000 B.C, the Caribs of the West Indies. We all agreed that mankind started from Africa

Many Yoruba do not know where the name came from. Every Ethnic group in Nigeria (their cousins) has taken that advantage to interpret the name, Yoruba. Even before they came in contact with one another, in the recent past.

Combination of OYO and OBA gives YORUBA: O YO-OBA, O YO-ROBA,O YO-RUBA

O YO RA BA IMO these are the sounds of god; Music and the drums

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SOME GOOD NEWS REGARDING AFRICA

2009-08-07T13:14:10Z

March 2009
Tuesday, June 23, 2009 10:15 PM

And now for some good news
Geoffrey York

Johannesburg --There are so many gloomy stories about Africa, from the wars of Somalia to the cholera of Zimbabwe and the chaos of Congo, that it's important to remember how much progress has been achieved by many African countries in recent years.

This is not a continent of hopelessness and despair, even though many people like to portray it that way. Disasters and coups always make the headlines, but there has been remarkable progress on many fronts during the past decade.

As an antidote to pessimism, here are a few examples of good news from Africa, culled from recent reports by Unicef, the Africa Progress Panel, and the Millennium Promise organization. When cynics try to write off Africa as a hopeless place, try quoting a few of these statistics:

Dramatic improvement in Africa's child mortality rate (under the age of 5). The child mortality rate, which was 229 per 1,000 births in 1970, has now fallen to 146 in 2007. Since 1990, the child mortality rate has dropped by 40 per cent or more in countries such as Ethiopia, Malawi, Niger and Eritrea.
The growth of democracy in Africa. There are almost 30 democracies in Africa today, compared to just five at the end of the Cold War.
More peace and less war. There are three civil wars in Africa today, compared to 13 in the 1990s.
Education improvements. Net enrolment in primary schools in Africa increased from 53 per cent to 70 per cent in the past two decades.
Adult literacy has increased from 27 per cent to 62 per cent in the past three decades.
Health improvements. Measles deaths have dropped by 89 per cent in the current decade, mostly because of higher levels of immunization.
Progress in the fight against AIDS. Several countries have significantly reduced their AIDS prevalence rates. More than two million people are receiving AIDS treatment today, compared with just 10,000 people in 2001.
Better governance. Of the 48 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, 31 have improved their governance performance, as measured by the Ibrahim Index.
Progress in the battle against malaria. Countries such as Rwanda and Ethiopia have seen a sharp drop in malaria deaths because of the widespread distribution of mosquito nets and malaria medicine in recent years. Malaria death rates have dropped by as much as 66 per cent.
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clause61 6/26/2009 1:35:13 AM
Sub Saharan Africa has 48 countries with 48 different stories.

In the part of Africa that I live in, I can see significant improvements in wealth creation and governance. There seems to be a genuine attempt to change the way things are done for the betterment of all.

However, the long time politicians and long time bureaucrats and tribal elders are trying to slow things down so they can continue to enjoy the benefits they have been able to extract from the status quo. I worry that as the sub-continent moves towards more free market economies, rule of law, transparency in government and freedom of association, the entrenched interests are going to take action to preserve their current benefits. And it seems to me that anyone over 45 years of age in a position of responsibility is having a tough time making the transition. Their difficulties in making the change will help the vested interests.

While it makes me happy to see progress occurring, I sometimes worry about the pace and the will and ability to stand up to the entrenched interests.

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NY: Conscious Peoples Conference 2009

2009-07-11T17:42:39Z

http://i713.photobucket.com/albums/ww134/ConsciousPeople/ConsciousPeoplesConference2009v1.jpg

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Obama on Africa: Neggro Please!

2009-07-11T17:35:03Z

Social Justice: A Spiritual Perspective
http://spiritualsocialjustice.tribe.net/

Every time they mention Obama they're always mentioning that he is Black ....so i will do the same.

WHITE Jewish Mark S. Smith (author of article) is a Zionist PRICK, shut the fuck up about Africa

oBAMA you are selling your soul ...and for what!? and they will hang your ass just the same

or have we forgotten the true problems of Africa from 500 years to PRESENTLY is the WEST

Obama declares to Africa: End tyranny, corruption
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090711/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama

OK this is a very touchy subject for me... what this blog will show, is how we are being manipulated by the media, shown here is how the administration views Africa, the West manipulates stories and politics for gain, they are still raping and pillaging Africa.

"The 33-minute address was in part a splash of cold water for Africans who blame colonialism for their problems."

(White Jewish Mark S. Smith article quote)

THESE ARE THE GREAT WHITE WESTERN ZIONIST LIES

The horrors that are going on in Africa, Uganda, these young children, injecting AIDS, Hunger, Warring, Pirates, and all of Africa.

are directly related to the WEST.... and their exploitation of the Mother land -still today

The little spoken of cause and real reasons for all the fighting, killing, starvation, and genocide - it's directly related to the West - that's right.

These conditions have been there for some time now - and what we're seeing today are the horrors crimes against humanity and of generations upon generations of abuse and merciless violence, poverty and starvation.... as the world still sits back and does nothing.

THE UN WHO??? Could there be any bigger bunch of puppets...

so today I share the story of SETH and how these very evil man, very evil people, in a very evil place... sit up their with their riches that they exploited and tell these colors that they need to get their country in order ...

but evil begets evil and the real evil hides in trickology ...Obama and some point in time you will have to make a choice, Babylon is falling

Bono wants to know the solution to the starvation and the problems of Africa... it's in pointing out the true criminals, the ones in the West behind it = G-8

Do you remember that movie "The Last King of Scotland" in which Forest Whitaker won an Oscar? Well the character he played was Idi Amin I will show how he played a part in all of this as well, and with him being the pawn of the British to kill his own people.

Ugandan Oil Fields are the 4th best-kept secret in the world

Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 to Divide Africa (THESE PEOPLE ARE RESPONSIBLE)
http://people.tribe.net/chaz/blog/4669c7b9-8ecc-43a2-9306-bd06eb70546f

AIDS proved to be Man made and injected in Africans
http://people.tribe.net/chaz/blog/0fd57349-9453-430a-9e26-d96fff41a83d

Invisible Children: Uganda Killing fields
http://people.tribe.net/chaz/blog/d185cfd3-a6d6-4dd3-b2ca-462cc21b4209

Pirates of Somalia - The Big Picture
http://people.tribe.net/chaz/blog/1944bcc1-584c-49c2-89d8-ff967278e17b

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MJ; either way music Messiah was crucified

2009-06-27T21:23:13Z

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I'm just going to say it... I don't believe it

Respect goes out to his family, close friends, and fans worldwide -

No one...let me repeat that ..."No One" had more impact on the world than Michael Jackson.

And there's really no way of me knowing of what happened and what didn't - i haven't watch the news or anything around it, I didn't want them making a mockery of him - you know how SETH does.

None of this makes any sense to me and it doesn't feel right, and just can’t remember someone just passing this young and us not seeing some type of sign or perhaps them ODing, or something, but not just with an explanation of them waking up with or just passing out with a heart attack.

I’m not screaming foul play yet, but if I were to think of one person one who you would think would be a bill of health (probability had his own doctors in house -and come to find out his doctor was with him) he was in shape, and the fountain of youth, it would be the King (Virgo).

probably didn't smoke, drink, or do drugs, or have a bad diet etc.

I was down with Michael all the way – but really up and to Off the Wall - Thriller and Bad were to overwhelming for me, I was more into Prince at the time, but Michael and the Jackson 5 were such a part of my generational life.

I remember during all the accusations and them trying to tear him down with their modern day lynching
– I saw where he was really coming from and his message to the world.

I really believe he was on a whole different level… he was about magic, and for all of us to retain that innocence and wonder of a child and Love.

Being an astrologer I see it clearly – he was a Peter pan of sorts… and we can’t forget his dancing and energy

Witness protection program, foul play, instantaneous combustion? either way Messiah of the 20th-21st century was crucified

Forever young, Michael Jackson, The King of Pop and Magic Lives forever …

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Iranian Elections: The ‘Stolen Elections’ Hoax

2009-06-27T21:12:04Z

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Zionist puppets and hypocrites?

http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=10921

“Change for the poor means food and jobs, not a relaxed dress code or mixed recreation…Politics in Iran is a lot more about class war than religion.”

Introduction

There is hardly any election, in which the White House has a significant stake, where the electoral defeat of the pro-US candidate is not denounced as illegitimate by the entire political and mass media elite. In the most recent period, the White House and its camp followers cried foul following the free (and monitored) elections in Venezuela and Gaza, while joyously fabricating an ‘electoral success’ in Lebanon despite the fact that the Hezbollah-led coalition received over 53% of the vote.

The recently concluded, June 12, 2009 elections in Iran are a classic case: The incumbent nationalist-populist President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (MA) received 63.3% of the vote (or 24.5 million votes), while the leading Western-backed liberal opposition candidate Hossein Mousavi (HM) received 34.2% or (3.2 million votes).

Iran’s presidential election drew a record turnout of more than 80% of the electorate, including an unprecedented overseas vote of 234,812, in which HM won 111,792 to MA’s 78,300. The opposition led by HM did not accept their defeat and organized a series of mass demonstrations that turned violent, resulting in the burning and destruction of automobiles, banks, public building and armed confrontations with the police and other authorities. Almost the entire spectrum of Western opinion makers, including all the major electronic and print media, the major liberal, radical, libertarian and conservative web-sites, echoed the opposition’s claim of rampant election fraud.

Neo-conservatives, libertarian conservatives and Trotskyites joined the Zionists in hailing the opposition protestors as the advance guard of a democratic revolution. Democrats and Republicans condemned the incumbent regime, refused to recognize the result of the vote and praised the demonstrators’ efforts to overturn the electoral outcome. The New York Times, CNN, Washington Post, the Israeli Foreign Office and the entire leadership of the Presidents of the Major American Jewish Organizations called for harsher sanctions against Iran and announced Obama’s proposed dialogue with Iran as ‘dead in the water’.

The Electoral Fraud Hoax

Western leaders rejected the results because they ‘knew’ that their reformist candidate could not lose…For months they published daily interviews, editorials and reports from the field ‘detailing’ the failures of Ahmadinejad’s administration; they cited the support from clerics, former officials, merchants in the bazaar and above all women and young urbanites fluent in English, to prove that Mousavi was headed for a landslide victory.

A victory for Mousavi was described as a victory for the ‘voices of moderation’, at least the White House’s version of that vacuous cliché. Prominent liberal academics deduced the vote count was fraudulent because the opposition candidate, Mousavi, lost in his own ethnic enclave among the Azeris. Other academics claimed that the ‘youth vote’ – based on their interviews with upper and middle-class university students from the neighborhoods of Northern Tehran were overwhelmingly for the ‘reformist’ candidate.

What is astonishing about the West’s universal condemnation of the electoral outcome as fraudulent is that not a single shred of evidence in either written or observational form has been presented either before or a week after the vote count. During the entire electoral campaign, no credible (or even dubious) charge of voter tampering was raised. As long as the Western media believed their own propaganda of an immanent victory for their candidate, the electoral process was described as highly competitive, with heated public debates and unprecedented levels of public activity and unhindered by public proselytizing. The belief in a free and open election was so strong that the Western leaders and mass media believed that their favored candidate would win.

The Western media relied on its reporters covering the mass demonstrations of opposition supporters, ignoring and downplaying the huge turnout for Ahmadinejad. Worse still, the Western media ignored the class composition of the competing demonstrations – the fact that the incumbent candidate was drawing his support from the far more numerous poor working class, peasant, artisan and public employee sectors while the bulk of the opposition demonstrators was drawn from the upper and middle class students, business and professional class.

Moreover, most Western opinion leaders and reporters based in Tehran extrapolated their projections from their observations in the capital – few venture into the provinces, small and medium size cities and villages where Ahmadinejad has his mass base of support. Moreover the opposition’s supporters were an activist minority of students easily mobilized for street activities, while Ahmadinejad’s support drew on the majority of working youth and household women workers who would express their views at the ballot box and had little time or inclination to engage in street politics.

A number of newspaper pundits, including Gideon Rachman of the Financial Times, claim as evidence of electoral fraud the fact that Ahmadinejad won 63% of the vote in an Azeri-speaking province against his opponent, Mousavi, an ethnic Azeri. The simplistic assumption is that ethnic identity or belonging to a linguistic group is the only possible explanation of voting behavior rather than other social or class interests.

A closer look at the voting pattern in the East-Azerbaijan region of Iran reveals that Mousavi won only in the city of Shabestar among the upper and the middle classes (and only by a small margin), whereas he was soundly defeated in the larger rural areas, where the re-distributive policies of the Ahmadinejad government had helped the ethnic Azeris write off debt, obtain cheap credits and easy loans for the farmers.

Mousavi did win in the West-Azerbaijan region, using his ethnic ties to win over the urban voters. In the highly populated Tehran province, Mousavi beat Ahmadinejad in the urban centers of Tehran and Shemiranat by gaining the vote of the middle and upper class districts, whereas he lost badly in the adjoining working class suburbs, small towns and rural areas.

The careless and distorted emphasis on ‘ethnic voting’ cited by writers from the Financial Times and New York Times to justify calling Ahmadinejad ‘s victory a ‘stolen vote’ is matched by the media’s willful and deliberate refusal to acknowledge a rigorous nationwide public opinion poll conducted by two US experts just three weeks before the vote, which showed Ahmadinejad leading by a more than 2 to 1 margin – even larger than his electoral victory on June 12. This poll revealed that among ethnic Azeris, Ahmadinejad was favored by a 2 to 1 margin over Mousavi, demonstrating how class interests represented by one candidate can overcome the ethnic identity of the other candidate (Washington Post June 15, 2009). The poll also demonstrated how class issues, within age groups, were more influential in shaping political preferences than ‘generational life style’. According to this poll, over two-thirds of Iranian youth were too poor to have access to a computer and the 18-24 year olds “comprised the strongest voting bloc for Ahmadinejad of all groups” (Washington Porst June 15, 2009).

The only group, which consistently favored Mousavi, was the university students and graduates, business owners and the upper middle class. The ‘youth vote’, which the Western media praised as ‘pro-reformist’, was a clear minority of less than 30% but came from a highly privileged, vocal and largely English speaking group with a monopoly on the Western media. Their overwhelming presence in the Western news reports created what has been referred to as the ‘North Tehran Syndrome’, for the comfortable upper class enclave from which many of these students come. While they may be articulate, well dressed and fluent in English, they were soundly out-voted in the secrecy of the ballot box.

In general, Ahmadinejad did very well in the oil and chemical producing provinces. This may have be a reflection of the oil workers’ opposition to the ‘reformist’ program, which included proposals to ‘privatize’ public enterprises. Likewise, the incumbent did very well along the border provinces because of his emphasis on strengthening national security from US and Israeli threats in light of an escalation of US-sponsored cross-border terrorist attacks from Pakistan and Israeli-backed incursions from Iraqi Kurdistan, which have killed scores of Iranian citizens. Sponsorship and massive funding of the groups behind these attacks is an official policy of the US from the Bush Administration, which has not been repudiated by President Obama; in fact it has escalated in the lead-up to the elections.

What Western commentators and their Iranian protégés have ignored is the powerful impact which the devastating US wars and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan had on Iranian public opinion: Ahmadinejad’s strong position on defense matters contrasted with the pro-Western and weak defense posture of many of the campaign propagandists of the opposition.

The great majority of voters for the incumbent probably felt that national security interests, the integrity of the country and the social welfare system, with all of its faults and excesses, could be better defended and improved with Ahmadinejad than with upper-class technocrats supported by Western-oriented privileged youth who prize individual life styles over community values and solidarity.

The demography of voting reveals a real class polarization pitting high income, free market oriented, capitalist individualists against working class, low income, community based supporters of a ‘moral economy’ in which usury and profiteering are limited by religious precepts. The open attacks by opposition economists of the government welfare spending, easy credit and heavy subsidies of basic food staples did little to ingratiate them with the majority of Iranians benefiting from those programs.

The state was seen as the protector and benefactor of the poor workers against the ‘market’, which represented wealth, power, privilege and corruption. The Opposition’s attack on the regime’s ‘intransigent’ foreign policy and positions ‘alienating’ the West only resonated with the liberal university students and import-export business groups. To many Iranians, the regime’s military buildup was seen as having prevented a US or Israeli attack.

The scale of the opposition’s electoral deficit should tell us is how out of touch it is with its own people’s vital concerns. It should remind them that by moving closer to Western opinion, they removed themselves from the everyday interests of security, housing, jobs and subsidized food prices that make life tolerable for those living below the middle class and outside the privileged gates of Tehran University.

Amhadinejad’s electoral success, seen in historical comparative perspective should not be a surprise. In similar electoral contests between nationalist-populists against pro-Western liberals, the populists have won. Past examples include Peron in Argentina and, most recently, Chavez of Venezuela, Evo Morales in Bolivia and even Lula da Silva in Brazil, all of whom have demonstrated an ability to secure close to or even greater than 60% of the vote in free elections. The voting majorities in these countries prefer social welfare over unrestrained markets, national security over alignments with military empires.

The consequences of the electoral victory of Ahmadinejad are open to debate. The US may conclude that continuing to back a vocal, but badly defeated, minority has few prospects for securing concessions on nuclear enrichment and an abandonment of Iran’s support for Hezbollah and Hamas. A realistic approach would be to open a wide-ranging discussion with Iran, and acknowledging, as Senator Kerry recently pointed out, that enriching uranium is not an existential threat to anyone.

This approach would sharply differ from the approach of American Zionists, embedded in the Obama regime, who follow Israel’s lead of pushing for a preemptive war with Iran and use the specious argument that no negotiations are possible with an ‘illegitimate’ government in Tehran which ‘stole an election’.

Recent events suggest that political leaders in Europe, and even some in Washington, do not accept the Zionist-mass media line of ‘stolen elections’. The White House has not suspended its offer of negotiations with the newly re-elected government but has focused rather on the repression of the opposition protesters (and not the vote count). Likewise, the 27 nation European Union expressed ‘serious concern about violence’ and called for the “aspirations of the Iranian people to be achieved through peaceful means and that freedom of expression be respected” (Financial Times June 16, 2009 p.4). Except for Sarkozy of France, no EU leader has questioned the outcome of the voting.

The wild card in the aftermath of the elections is the Israeli response: Netanyahu has signaled to his American Zionist followers that they should use the hoax of ‘electoral fraud’ to exert maximum pressure on the Obama regime to end all plans to meet with the newly re-elected Ahmadinejad regime.

Paradoxically, US commentators (left, right and center) who bought into the electoral fraud hoax are inadvertently providing Netanyahu and his American followers with the arguments and fabrications: Where they see religious wars, we see class wars; where they see electoral fraud, we see imperial destabilization.

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Green is the color of Zionist (Iranian reformist)

2009-06-27T21:04:04Z

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"U.S. financed “color revolution”

"Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh is an Iranian reformist politician" meaning he works with the SETH of Zionist.

"A number of commentators have expressed their idealistic belief in the purity of Mousavi, Montazeri, and the westernized youth of Terhan. The CIA destabilization plan, announced two years ago (see 2nd post) has somehow not contaminated unfolding events."

"The claim is made that Ahmadinejad stole the election, because the outcome was declared too soon after the polls closed for all the votes to have been counted. However, Mousavi declared his victory several hours before the polls closed. This is classic CIA destabilization designed to discredit a contrary outcome. It forces an early declaration of the vote. The longer the time interval between the preemptive declaration of victory and the release of the vote tally, the longer Mousavi has to create the impression that the authorities are using the time to fix the vote. It is amazing that people don’t see through this trick."

"Mousavi played a great role in the Iran-Contra affair and secret negotiations and dealing with USA on helping them free the American hostages in Lebanon, in return for sale of the American weapons and spare-parts that Iran's army badly needed for Iran-Iraq War.[3]"

He is also a member of the Expediency Discernment Council and the High Council of Cultural Revolution.

"In the early years of the revolution, Mousavi was the editor-in-chief of the official newspaper of the Islamic Republican Party, the Jomhouri-e Eslami (Islamic Republic) newspaper. In 2009 presidential election, Mousavi chose green as his campaign color"

*Think if Ralph Nader supporters began a revolution, saying all the votes weren't counted ...they were planning on a revolutuion before the election. Iran didn't kill these people it was Zionist snipers making it look like Iran.

This is so important and how the Devil works ...Seth is trickology, along media lies and distortions to manipulate the truth

this is pivotal for Obama, will he fall in the hands of SETH? well it's not up to him...it's up to all of us - this will be the most dynamic relationship of this century Obama (LEo) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (Scorpio)

this is what 2012 is all about

there's only a few years left ...

everyone sitting around watching ... get up off your ass and adhere to these people telling the truth

this is the beginning of War World III...

stop all those lies of shock TV

OBAMA needs our help - he can't do it alone

do you people know it's going just like the bible says ....even though the bible is not real, they are making it real and programing it

Iran is the last step...

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14120

The U.S. played a role in the events leading up to the massive protests in Iran, since the U.S.-sponsored color revolution formula is well known: a pro-western opposition candidate creates political instability — usually around election time — and uses the demonstrators who support them, who are funneled money through the C.I.A., to help topple the existing regime.

Playing with revolution, however, is a lot like playing with fire — both can quickly get out of control. In the case of Iran this means that the abstract demand for democracy — coming from the Iranian opposition — can soon be overrun by more concrete, “radical” demands. This quote comes from political analyst in the New York Times:

“People in the street have been radicalized, and I do not believe that most of them would today subscribe to Moussavi’s avowed platform” (06/24/09 2009).

It is likely that many Moussavi “supporters” weren’t very fond of Moussavi to begin with, but used his demonstrations to protest the political/economic structure of the government itself.

What is the basis for more thoroughgoing demands from Iranians? For one, unemployment is a huge problem and so is the economy in general. The majority of Iranians are under 30 years old and see little chance of a good future. The New York Times notes:

“This new generation is highly educated and has ambitions for a middle class life that neither the economic nor the social system is able to fulfill… But [the government’s] problems are much deeper than calming the streets. It must go beyond [income] redistribution in order to grow the economy and create jobs.”

Mousavvi himself realizes that the movement has already outgrown him — he’s like a puny cowboy failing to cling to a raging bull. This, too, from the Times:

“It wasn’t supposed to happen this way. Until last week, Mr. Moussavi was a nondescript, if competent, politician — as one of his campaign advisers put it to me, he was meant only to be an instrument for making Iran a tiny bit better, nothing more. Iranians knew that’s what they were getting when they cast their votes for him. Now, like us, Mr. Moussavi finds himself caught up in events that were unimaginable, each day’s march and protest more unthinkable than the one that came before.” (06/19/09)

The protestors who had begun by calling for democracy started to demand the end of the “dictatorship;” the same demand that helped topple the U.S. puppet — the Shah — in 1979. Moussavi has no intentions of going this far; he is part of the regime and has benefited immensely from it. It is probable that his calls for greater civil liberties are mere bluster, since he realizes that once people obtain these liberties, they end up using them to demand things “unrealizable” under the economic system that Moussavi is a product of.

How will these demands be met? After Moussavi is tossed aside, the working and middle-classes of Iran will look for leadership elsewhere, from the left. And this is where the problem lies.

Many are referring to the events in Iran as being “non-ideological,” which is code for “confused.” It also refers to the fact that the 1979 revolution was dominated by socialists, radical nationalists, and the bloody victors, the radical Islamists.

The reason that the left in Iran is so sparse is because of the post-revolution repression of the Ayatollahs, who killed thousands of leftist activists while attempting to cement their own place in power. We are thus left with a vacuum for options. But in the real world vacuums are quickly filled; the Iranians are on the move — this genie will not be easily put back in its bottle.

This movement will be filled with searches for organization and leadership capable of expressing the economic and political wishes of the Iranian people; with the realization that these wishes are not achievable under the current economic and political system. A society-wide radicalization will thus continue. The protests are far from over, even though they may be inconsistent and characterized by both lulls and flare-ups.

The protests in Iran have already begun to wake up Iranian society as a whole. The workers, restricted from striking, have taken notice and some have already come out in support of the movement. It must not be forgotten that the oil workers were the ones who put the nail in the Shah's coffin in 1979. When the organized working class puts its full weight behind the movement, the current regime will dissolve.

This is because unions and other workers organizations represent the general interests of the working class as a whole, making their involvement imperative if the movement is to succeed. If the workers, through their unions, reached out to the middle classes and offered both organizational and leadership experience, the movement would be overpowering.

Once the radical traditions of Iranian society are re-discovered and properly organized, the inevitable conclusion will be a democratic social system, directed towards meeting the needs of its people, not the profits of businessmen or Mullahs.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14120

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Melanin, Consciousness, My disclaimer of being Racist

2009-05-15T07:45:23Z

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"What I would like to suggest is that this same Divine Consciousness created All human bodies with similar levels of neuromelanin because, once you get past the apparent man of flesh, the outer sheath of skin, we are One"

I thought I'd better address these issues of race before others begin to think I'm racist, I'm not, I'm here to dismantle Seth and trickology of evil that continues to condition our view of the world and for those who use deception of Sciencetism, Religion, and the Media to control the masses and social inequality, I'm a spiritual social activist for justice and equality... Mars in Libra opposite Mercury in Aries.

but I want you all to know... I love all my brothers and sisters of any race, nationality, religious or sexual preference maybe not their ideology but I love all people, I might not agree or participate, but I'm here to accept everyone with open arms. But that does not mean I don't ascertain or strive for what is Ma'at; I just want to let you all know l love and accept all cool people; cool white guys and girls, cool black guys and girls and so on....all cool black, brown, red, yellow, orange, cool people of any color, race, or creed.

I love the Jewish people just not Zionism, I like the ideals of Islam, just not the fighting, I like people just not all of their ideas, so this is about making these into divine ideas for all of us, I'm also here to reveal some things that might rock our built up beliefs and value systems and the way we see the world, and lot might be hard to accept at first, but this is the foundation that brings about unification, an integration, of what's so much needed. think about it; "Diversity to be as One". So much could be read into that, but Kemet were saying it 10,000 years ago, it's the same as the word Universe, or Ausar, it's us being in divine harmony, inside and outside, in all our relationships, and not only spiritually united, but united within oneself "Diversity to be as One"

Divine as brought us KMT, it bring a unity, roots, a solid foundation to all our branches of thought, it is the universal tone scale, it bring alignment to every area of our lives, it is a divine order it is the chak-ra's, it is the alignment of the planets, it is a song and dance of life, this was divines message intuited to us by way of cosmology, Astrology lead me to it, these are not ancient Africa truths, these truths are timeless, showing KMT shows these truths through the eons of time.

I always mention Kemet because ancient Egypt is the last proof, the last evidence to this great Metaphysical Intelligence, but just as the story tells us Heru (our hero's journey) is to over throw Seth, what ever that is in our life, tricking us out of our divine presence, It's not about how many things we can get, everything we try to do n the outside is to make us feel good on the inside, why not start on the inside. Think about it we try to make ourselves happy , beautiful, or more secure, but it really only comes from the inside (and that is the true KMT-Amen) but we need to break up the SETH paradigms. This is true brotherhood and sisterhood, true opportunity of 2012 and the power of Aquarius.

It is no coincidence us electing Obama at this time and it's not about the man, but this is in divine order it represents all of us, and it's up to all of us...I mention all the atrocities of Africa not just for the love of our people but each and everyone of us knows how it feels to be treated unfairly, but a lot of us are spoiled and Africa is humbling, reaching out to the ideals of Kemet brings a certain depth within, and a awe of how divine intelligence was brought out into these people, and how all of our cultures matters not how different you think yours is is connected at the root and we are all truly united in myth, and this hero's journey as Joesph Campbell once taught me.

The Major Point of my Contention

was not about race, maybe just a little to be the great Upsetter, to touch on an emotional level, to transform us and grow, but not from hate, just a strong force to overstand injustice, but i was never really about race, but about this divine consciousness, Amen, this Intelligence, at this time in ancient history, as if discrediting the so called evolution of thought.

"I was intentionally emphasizing Race, Africa, and KMT, to show divine (Amen) consciousness not black people's consciousness, by showing that these people had the gnosis and the metaphysical sciences in Kemet, Dogon, Zulu, and Africa 5,000 - 10,000 years ago from a people or a time when others were thought to be intellectually inferior, but basically were superior in a lot of ways.

"Now I want to focus on the the similar levels of neuromelanin, rather than contrasting the different levels of skin melanin. This reflects my spiritual beliefs -- inseparable from any other attributes/neters of the I that is me -- who focus on the man within, while viewing the man without -- the man of flesh -- as illusion/perception."

Melanin and Consciousness

More would not necessarily be a good thing, and less would not necessarily be a bad thing. What seems clear to me is that the Divine Consciousness that permeates All created the human body to adapt, by varying levels of skin melanin, to whatever the terrestrial environment happened to be. In areas of great sunlight, such as near the equator, less melanin would be a bad thing that would lead to skin cancer. In areas with less sunlight, such as Siberia, more melanin would be a bad thing that would lead to vitamin D deficiency and rickets.

What I would like to suggest is that this same Divine Consciousness created All human bodies with similar levels of neuromelanin
because, once you get past the apparent man of flesh, the outer sheath of skin, we are One.

Some whites might want to look at darker hued people and hate them for being different. And, some blacks might want to look at lighter hued people and hate them for being different. But, these perceptions of difference are based on the _apparent_ man without, and not on the One that permeates All, within All, perhaps via the vehicle of neuromelanin.

I am talking about developing the ability to look upon a person, any person, no matter how light or dark or hateful or racist or cowardly or lazy or greedy -- and seeing, with your Third Eye, the pineal gland, the God within that person.

-Istlota

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Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 to Divide Africa

2009-05-11T06:13:20Z

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When you hear of all the problems of Africa, with their skinny bodies and protruding bellies, flies every where, poor, starving, smelling, all the senseless fighting and killing, AIDS being injected, etc. Most of us feel sorry for them and wish we could help, but much like Bono of U2 and recently George Clooney and many other stars, we really want to help but don't know how... many of us just feel hopeless, or that their condition are just to big, and we think it's just a part of life being in a jungle or a desert or just their location..

No no no no no no no no no no... ! Bono are you listening??? the way to change Africa is to point to it's owners and the real criminals through out Europe - It';s how all of you got rich ...now it's time to pay Africa back.

WERE STILL GIVING REPARATIONS TO THE FAKE JEWS...currently today they are killing off over 60 million people

ALL the problems of Africa today were man made and contributed by Western society, the problems were brought to Africa, the stealing of their natural resources, the taken of slaves, AIDS injected now over 40 million today dying, all the toxic dumping in Africa, stealing resources, diamond mines, and the genocides of all these senseless killings, - but what you see are only some black ruthless leader whom they make out to be just this one monster evil man, but they fail to show you who's really behind the scenes, who's given them their orders, the puppet masters i.e World bank, USA, the oil trade in Africa (is the biggest in the world how come we never hear about it?) The Federal Reserve, Zionist, etc on and on.

Article http://wysinger.homestead.com/berlinconference.html

Meeting at the Berlin residence of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck in 1884, the foreign ministers of fourteen European powers and the United States established ground rules for the future exploitation of the "dark continent." Africans were not invited or made privy to their decisions.

1884-1885 - Berlin West African Conference carves Africa into spheres of control

In the second half of the nineteenth century, after more than four centuries of contact, the European powers finally laid claim to virtually all of Africa. Parts of the continent had been "explored," but now representatives of European governments and rulers arrived to create or expand African spheres of influence for their patrons. Competition was intense. Spheres of influence began to crowd each other. It was time for negotiation, and in late 1884 a conference was convened in Berlin to sort things out. This conference laid the groundwork for the now familiar politico-geographical map of Africa.

In November 1884, the imperial chancellor and architect of the German Empire, Otto von Bismarck, convened a conference of 14 states (including the United States) to settle the political partitioning of Africa. Bismarck wanted not only to expand German spheres of influence in Africa but also to play off Germany's colonial rivals against one another to the Germans' advantage. Of these fourteen nations, France, Germany, Great Britain, and Portugal were the major players in the conference, controlling most of colonial Africa at the time.

The Berlin Conference was Africa's undoing in more ways than one. The colonial powers superimposed their domains on the African Continent. By the time Africa regained its independence after the late 1950s, the realm had acquired a legacy of political fragmentation that could neither be eliminated nor made to operate satisfactorily. The African politico-geographical map is thus a permanent liability that resulted from the three months of ignorant, greedy acquisitiveness during a period when Europe's search for minerals and markets had become insatiable.

The French dominated most of West Africa, and the British East and Southern Africa. The Belgians acquired the vast territory that became The Congo. The Germans held four colonies, one in each of the realm's regions. The Portuguese held a small colony in West Africa and two large ones in Southern Africa.

After colonial rule was firmly established in Africa, the only change in possessions came after World War I. Germany's four colonies were placed under the League of Nations, which established a mandate system for other colonizers to administer the territories.

The Congo Free State, conceived as a "neutral" zone to be run by an international association in the interest of bringing science, civilization, and Christianity to the indigenes, received the Berlin Conference's blessings. Belgium's King Leopold II (far left) soon took control, reaping fabulous personal profits through the sale of land and development rights. Scandalously little was reinvested in schools like the one shown here.

BBC News site:

A man who exploited Congo's resources and contributed to up to 10 million deaths.
One man told the BBC: "He left us in poverty. He exploited our raw materials and left us with nothing."

King Leopold's legacy of DR Congo violence
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3516965.stm

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Nefertiti bust 'a fake': expert: Whitewashing History

2009-05-05T19:10:51Z

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I don't know how many tribes I've been kicked out of just for stating these same facts...

it's about time

I told you allllllllll.... Whitewashing! Lie ..."Nefertiti, is a man baby!" (Austin Powers) oh I mean Nefertiti is b l a c k baby! ;-P

Now when are we all going to wake up to what I've been saying about KMT?

This image (posted in our photo section) shows a computer reconstruction of what is the face of Queen Nefertiti (1380-1362 BC) of the 18th dynasty Egypt

Here's what she really looked like
http://wysinger.homestead.com/nefertiti.html

Explore the Evidence : Nefertiti Resurrected : Discovery Channel
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/nefertiti/nefertiti.html

Nefertiti bust 'a fake': expert
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090505/wl_mideast_afp/entertainmentarthistoryegyptgermany

PARIS (AFP) – The bust of Queen Nefertiti housed in a Berlin museum and believed to be 3,400 years old in fact is a copy dating from 1912 that was made to test pigments used by the ancient Egyptians, according to Swiss art historian Henri Stierlin.

Stierlin, author of a dozen works on Egypt, the Middle East and ancient Islam, says in a just-released book that the bust currently in Berlin's Altes Museum was made at the order of German archaeologist Ludwig Borchardt by an artist named Gerardt Marks.

"It seems increasingly improbable that the bust is an original," Stierlin told AFP.

The historian said the archaeologist had hoped to produce a new portrait of the queen wearing a necklace he knew she had owned, and was also looking to carry out a colour test with ancient pigments found at the digs.

But on December 6, 1912, the copy was admired as an original work by a German prince and the archaeologist "couldn't sum up the courage to ridicule" his guest, Stierlin said.

The historian, who has been working on the subject for 25 years, said he based his findings on several facts. "The bust has no left eye and was never crafted to have one. This is an insult for an ancient Egyptian who believed the statue was the person themself."

He also said the shoulders were cut vertically in the style practised since the 19th century while "Egyptians cut shoulders horizontally" and that the features were accentuated in a manner recalling that of Art Nouveau.

It was impossible to scientifically establish the date of the bust because it was made of stone covered in plaster, he said.

"The pigments, which can be dated, are really ancient," he added.

Stierlin also listed problems he noted during the discovery and shipment to Germany as well as in scientific reports of the time.
French archaeologists present at the site never mentioned the finding and neither did written accounts of the digs. The earliest detailed scientific report appeared in 1923, 11 years after the discovery.

The archaeologist "didn't even bother to supply a description, which is amazing for an exceptional work found intact".

Borchardt "knew it was a fake," Stierlin said. "He left the piece for 10 years in his sponsor's sitting-room. It's as if he'd left Tutankhamen's mask in his own sitting-room."

Egypt has demanded the return of the bust discovered on the banks of the Nile since it went on display in 1923, depicting a stunning woman wearing a unique cone-shaped headdress.

One of Berlin's prime attractions it will move into its own hall at the newly renovated Neues Museum when it reopens to the public in October.

Read USA Today Article
http://www.usatoday.com/news/science/2003-08-12-nefertiti-usat_x.htm

Is this Nefertiti? Two months ago, a team of Egyptologists led by British scientist Joann Fletcher of the University of York announced that a neglected mummy collecting dust in a nondescript tomb was actually that of ancient Egypt's most famous female ruler.

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SCIENTISM Pig Virus...Test Gone Wrong

2009-05-02T03:15:04Z

"Do Not Take A Swine Flu Vaccine" (I don't know if this is true or not article below)

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...and WHO declares international concern over swine flu?

"According to Democracy Now!, this swine flu is a lab creation that has "accidentally" escaped. Wake up people. there is a global agenda to lower the population. Google "spermicidal corn" for just one of the population reduction strategies. Also google "bilderburger" to find out who is behind all this (one of the Rockefeller's creations!)"

This is why Scientism has to stop...

Then they act like this is something that happened Naturally, they're SIC and destroying our environment and our livelihood on this planet , so they can venture off to Mars I guess or something like that... they've injected Africans with AIDS (40 million dying and starving), they dump toxic waste in Somalia (hey look ...we have a new hero in captain Phillips (U! S! and "mf-ing" A! ) so lets now bring in these so called "Pirates" and torture them like we do everyone else - these poor Somalians, whom are so famished with their bones protruding through)

Then you got the FDA and health care professionals, with all their lies and drug pushing.

and all the Genetic Engineering...from people to food

STOP TRYING TO PLAY GOD - YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING ...AND YOU'RE SIC INDIVIDUALS
I'M NOT SURE IF THIS IS RIGHT OR NOT BUT

"Do Not Take A Swine Flu Vaccine http://www.federaljack.com/tag/swine-flu/
( Patricia Doyle, PhD) "I am making a plea to everyone who reads this, please, please DO NOT TAKE ANY VACCINE THAT IS PURPORTED TO ‘PREVENT’ THIS FLU."

"Remember 1976 and the so called Swine Flu outbreak that was purported to be a coming pandemic? It only infected recruits at Ft. Dix. Why? Because I believe that the so called Swine Flu virus infected the recruits due to the vaccines they were given. Whether the government developed the Swine Flu 1976 virus and infected the recruits as a means to test the public to see if people would comply with a call to take vaccination against Swine Flu, or the recruits became infected via contaminated vaccine they were given as part of the recruit regimen, that outbreak was as phony as they come. I was one of the people duped into taking a Swine Flu shot and it made me so sick. I was sick in bed for three months after taking the vaccine."

MEXICO CITY (also California, and Texas) - A strain of flu never seen before has killed up to 60 people in Mexico and also appeared in the United States, where eight people were infected but recovered, health officials said on Friday."Mexico's government said at least 20 people have died of the flu and it may also be responsible for 40 other deaths. It shut down schools and canceled major public events in Mexico City to try to prevent more deaths in the sprawling, overcrowded capital. Authorities said they had enough antiviral medicine to treat about 1,000 suspected cases reported so far."

IMPORTANT!

"STOP Scientism and Their MaterialiSIC propaganda must be Stopped!, a bunch of dysfunctional Atheist and nerds who don't have a clue, and trying to seal our doom and tragic fate.

“Thus, Science (and Religion) is a means of conditioning the masses to accept visions (future) that the elite wish to tangibly enact. This process of gradual and subtle inculcation is dubbed "predictive programming." …"Predictive programming works by means of the propagation of the illusion of an infallibly accurate vision of how the world is going to look in the future"…Materialistic Scientism - by E.F. Schumacher

Mexico swine flu deaths spur global epidemic fears (just a quick overview)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090424/ap_on_he_me/med_swine_flu

Main article, In addition make sure to see other articles link on this page as well
http://www.allbusiness.com/medicine-health/medical-science-medical-research/5365812-1.html

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/sci;282/5397/2176

http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6733434/description.html

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Hepatitis+E+virus+transmission+from+wild+boar+meat-a0140206499

http://www.fao.org/docrep/003/t0756e/T0756E05.htm

http://vetsci.sdstate.edu/xnews/FMD.htm

Vegan anyone ?

Really...

Meat could kill you faster....

Like a recombination of :

Canadian Food Inspection Agency - Foot-and-Mouth Disease Hazard Specific Plan - Foot-and-Mouth Disease Overview
http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/anima/heasan/man/fmdfie/fmdfie-2e.shtml

Remember SETH (Set, Satan, Sebek, Darth Vader,Sith) represents 8th faculty on the Tree of Life

First I would like to say SEBEK/SETH/Sith (Intellect) is not all bad, it's the misuse of this Emanation of the Divine; such as Trickology, Liers, and Deception i.e. unethical Politicians, Scientism, Logical Manipulators for selfish gain of Materialism, Lies of PAN slaves of flesh Sensual over gratification and pornography selling and exploitation of Women, consumer consumption for control and power. LIES and LIERS

Think of the current Media and how they twist the truth ... a good sample of course is the likes of Bush and its administration; Condoleezza "chicken head" Rice, and DICK Dr. Evil" cheney...

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Invisible Children: Uganda Killing fields

2009-05-01T03:34:21Z

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"but still, like in Congo, like in Sudan, like it was in Rwanda, Liberia and Sierra Leone, it is only Africans killing Africans and no one cares, after all, the world stand still and has been inactive for the most part in regards to Africa."

The Rescue of Joseph Kony's Child Soldiers (Updated with video interview with Ishmael Beah)
http://therescue.invisiblechildren.com/en/#/event/

play movie
http://therescue.invisiblechildren.com/en/#/watch/

UPDATE: Here's an amazing video interview with Ishmael Beah, child soldier from Sierra Leone, on "The Hour." He's remarkable in his insights, his compassion, and his clarity. This is 10 minutes of pure gold. Please take the time to view it, since he covers every issue with greatness of heart and mind. "There's nothing glamorous about violence....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K4yhPSQEzo&eurl=http://www.aquariuspapers.com/astrology/2009/04/invisible-children---the-rescue-of-josep

SIDE NOTE:

OK this is a very touchy subject for me... what this blog will show are the horrors going on in Uganda, and with these young children and all of Africa, and the little spoken of true cause and real reasons for all the fighting, killing, starvation, and genocide - it's directly related to the West - that's right.

These conditions have been there for some time now - and what we're seeing today are the horrors crimes against humanity and of generations upon generations of abuse and merciless violence, poverty and starvation.... as the world still sits back and does nothing.

THE UN WHO??? Could there be any bigger bunch of puppets...

so today I share the story of a very evil man, very evil people, in a very evil place... but evil begets evil and the real evil hides in trickology

Bono wants to know the solution to the starvation and the problems of Africa... it's in pointing out the true criminals, the ones in the West behind it

Do you remember that movie "The Last King of Scotland" in which Forest Whitaker won an Oscar? Well the character he played was Idi Amin I will show how he played a part in all of this as well, and with him being the pawn of the British to kill his own people.

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Ugandan Oil Fields are the best-kept secret in the world

1986 (24 years)

The government of Uganda claims the LRA has only 500 or 1,000 soldiers in total, along with about 1,500 women and children.[1] The bulk of the soldiers figthing for the LRA are children.

April 25, 2009, events are occurring in 10 countries and 100 cities involving tens of thousands of people coming together to highlight the need to rescue children forcibly kidnapped into an African private army run by an international war criminal.

This event is the result of years of efforts to bring peace to Uganda and end the enslavement of children feeding the meatgrinder of war.

MAIN ARTICLE: Invisible Children

A child goes missing, abducted, in the United States. The police are notified and they issue what in America is referred to as an Amber Alert. Radio stations begin broadcasting descriptions, while TV stations flash pictures of both the abductor and abducted across the screen. Billboards along major roads flash pertinent information regarding the abduction. The police move out in force with helicopters and planes and the Army National Guard may even be engaged. Everything is put into operation to bring a child home to its family. At the same time, they go after the abductor to put him behind bars, so she or he cannot harm any other child.

In another part of the world, on the other side of this globe, in the northern districts of Uganda, 30,000 children have been abducted in the past 18 years. Most every family in the Acholi and now Lango area has been affected. Many families have lost a child through abduction, or their village was attacked and destroyed, families burned out and/or killed, and harvests destroyed by an army of abducted children known as The Lord’s Resistance Army. The countryside is virtually empty and people have moved into safe villages that are supposed to be protected by the government, but that has often been in words but not in deed. At night the children of the north flee into towns to sleep, fearing that they might be abducted. They find safety in numbers in towns such as Gulu where even the local bishops and ministers have joined them as they seek safety from the Lord’s Resistance Army.

This Lord’s Resistance Army is led by Joseph Kony, a former altar boy, self-styled mystic, demonically inspired medium, ruthless leader, and merciless person who has brought Northern Uganda to a virtual standstill. People are frozen in fear, commerce has become non-existent, fields go fallow, villages have been decimated, and children have grown up without a future or hope. There is no peace from Lira to Gulu and all points in-between.

Joseph Kony comes from the Acholi area of Uganda. His aunt is the infamous Alice Lakwena, who led thousands of disaffected Acholi soldiers into battle against President Museveni, who had defeated their army. Soldiers were led to believe by Alice Lakwena that holy oil would keep bullets away, songs would slay their enemy, sticks would become swords, and rocks would turn into grenades and mortars. Alice Lakwena—her last name means messenger—was certainly a messenger of death and destruction. Joseph Kony had this mantle of death and sadness passed on to him from his aunt, who now lives in a refugee camp in Kenya.

Lira, located 215 miles north of Kampala, was one of those sleepy towns in Africa where you could simply be. It hardly made the international news, and one of the few articles I read about it was in “BBC – Focus on Africa,” where it described its background and culture and went to great lengths to describe Lira-Lira, a local potent drink. Its other claim to fame is that the former President Milton Obote had his home here, which you can still see, or what is left of it. I, on the other hand, simply enjoyed the drive along tree-lined roads coming in from the Ugandan savanna to the town of Lira.

Lately, Lira is making news around the world. It is not so much the things the people of the town are doing, but what is being done to them by this wild-eyed jok (jok is a spirit, good or bad) by the name of Joseph Kony, whose Lord’s Resistance Army has been raiding villages, towns, and camps of refuge that have become camps of death and destruction.

War in itself is bad, but this conflict has been going on for 18 years with no resolve in sight. This war is hellish in that the Joseph Kony’s army recruits its soldiers from the villages and schools of northern Uganda through abductions. Thousands of children have been robbed of childhood and, in many cases, of life itself. Boys and girls are turned into ruthless killers who no longer feel, but are numbed within, and their souls have become seared by the atrocities they have seen and in which they have forced to participate.

Children 10 years old are taught to kill, often beginning with their own families. Others are killed and a child is let to live and then the child is commanded to kill in order to stay alive. If children do escape, they will never be the same again.

Joseph Kony claims to want to make Uganda into a state based on the Ten Commandments, but he has broken every one of them. Today no one thinks Kony and his movement represents a loving God and Christianity or Islam, but all know it is about demonic control of children, boys and girls, young men and women, doing the bidding of a crazy man. Many of the leaders in his army were abducted 10 or 12 years ago, but have known nothing else but death and destruction.

In Lira, the name of Joseph Kony and his army of child warriors is dreaded. The town that was on the verge of blossoming in the Northern Ugandan savanna has shriveled up and died. There is fear and anger, thousands more people are without the services so desperately needed. Hospitals and clinics are without medicine. There is a lack of food and water, medical care. But thousands are flocking in for safety; tens of thousands want to remain near just to be safe. Lira, that jewel of the north, has become a scorched piece of real estate and unless a miracle takes place there is no hope.

The most recent atrocity was 200 people killed when a refugee camp was overrun by the LRA. The defense militia was helpless and the army far away. President Museveni came and blamed Kony’s army. Kony’s army is a rag tag group of children that believes in the mystical powers of their leader, children who run into the line of fire believing that the bullets can do no harm, and their weapons are often from the Sudanese military. The Ugandan Army, on the other hand, are for the most part adult men, well equipped and trained, who have helicopters, trucks and tanks but no victory. After 18 years, this war goes on and now Lira is another city dying in the north of Uganda.

Lira and the Kony Rebels is a never-ending story of children dying, of children being abducted, a loss of childlike innocence, and yet no one seems to care, it is just another story from Africa. Here in northern Uganda there is no Amber alert, there no news headlines across the bottom of Television screens, there is only the silence after another town or school are raided and children are taken. Then reads something here and there about this situation.

They may think it is interesting, sad, horrendous, but still, like in the in Congo, like in Sudan, like it was in Rwanda, Liberia and Sierra Leone, it is only Africans killing Africans and no one cares, after all the world stood still in the spring of 1994, and been for the most part inactive in regards to Sudan. Here we are in Uganda, East Africa with no Interpol alert; no helicopters out searching for one abducted child, much less 20,000 abducted children. There are no hourly updates, just President Museveni who periodically says that Joseph Kony and his children’s army will be defeated, even he is trying to get UN help.

Lira today is overwhelmed with people who have fled there to find a place of refuge, to find safety from the threat of the Lord’s Resistance Army. The town has been become overcrowded with ten of thousand of refugees seeking protection, needing food, shelter and medical attention. I recently read the appeal of the Mayor of Lira for help, food, tents, and medicine since the local hospital and clinics were simply without.

Is there a solution to the problem to "the war in the north?" That is how this conflict is referred to in Uganda. There are solutions, from military ones that have not yet succeeded, to one of cutting off the bases and support in Sudan by the Sudanese government. There is the one attempted by religious leaders of northern Uganda, the one of a treaty leading to a peaceful resolution. None of them have yet worked, but people still need relief, still need food and shelter, medicines and care

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The Specter of Scientism

2009-04-27T04:24:53Z

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The West is enthralled to the worldview of scientism, which marginalizes all values but capitalist consumerism. To counter scientism and ground progressive values, we must access intuitive spiritual knowledge, which reveals an ethical dimension at the heart of reality. But for us to ground progressivism, which is metaphysical movement not a political one. MA'AT A quest for a humane and equitable planetary culture.

Science and Spirit, and the dangers of scientism and the pressing need to counterbalance science with an intuitive and spiritual way of knowing.

"Scientism is the worldview held by a majority of people in the Western world that claims that all that ‘is’ and all that ‘can be known’ is verifiable or falsifiable through the scientific method, and that which cannot be so measured is simply opinion, belief, or fantasy. It cannot be known and sensibly talked about and hence should be relegated to the private sphere."

"…scientism has so deeply sunk into the consciousness of most people in the society who have ever undergone the ‘mind treatment’ that is dumped onto children by the public school systems and massively reinforced by the media, that by the time they are adults they swear loyalty to the dominant religion of scientism in their personal lives, their lives in the workplace or profession, and in their public statements about what they believe and profess."

"scientism is used by the globalized capitalist order to marginalize everything but self-interested consumerism, since after all values such as social justice, peace and love aren’t scientifically verifiable, so can only be matters of private opinion, not public knowledge."

Scientism: the practice of pseudo-science where personal, political, financial, and egotistic factors override the scientific method and the open, questioning attitude of true science to form a closed, institutionalized environment. It is characterized by a defensive and religiose atmosphere of paranoia toward new and well-supported challenges and understandings.

We define a follower of scientism as as a person with a closed, uncritical, unwarranted faith in the current establishment theories.

Mainstream science has a cadre of militant "true believers" that can be characterized as having adopted current or popular theories as a religion. These scientistic storm-troopers have taken upon themselves the mantle of crusaders against any effective heresy. They don't generally get exercised over just any crackpot challenge; it must present a perceived real threat to their faith.

The technical proficiency of the engineers that accomplish the space exploration missions is quite impressive, and that must be acknowledged. However, the results that come back from these probes often times almost elicit disbelief in the theoretical scientists that design the mission experiments and sensor equipment.

http://www.mikamar.biz/scientism-1.htm

Darwin’s Rottweiler and the Public Understanding of Scientism
http://www.arn.org/docs/willia

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Obama on Cuba: allowing travel and money transfers

2009-04-13T20:15:08Z

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WASHINGTON – The White House says President Barack Obama is allowing Americans to make unlimited trips and money transfers to family in Cuba. It says Obama also is easing other restrictions.

Presidential spokesman Robert Gibbs made the announcement Monday during his daily briefing with reporters.

Gibbs says Obama is helping bridge the gap among divided Cuban families and fulfilling his campaign promises with the changes.
It has been known for more than a week that he would announce them ahead of his attendance this weekend at a Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago.

A special assistant to the president, Dan Restrepo, also made the announcement in Spanish.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is allowing Americans to make unlimited trips and money transfers to family in Cuba and easing other restrictions Monday to usher in a new era of openness toward the island nation ruled by communists for 50 years.
The formal announcement was being made at the White House Monday afternoon, during presidential spokesman Robert Gibbs' daily briefing with reporters, a senior administration official told The Associated Press. The official spoke on condition of anonymity before the announcement.

With the changes, Obama aims to lessen Cubans' dependence on the Castro regime, hoping that will lead them to demand progress on political freedoms, the official said. About 1.5 million Americans have relatives on the island nation that turned to communist rule in 1959 when Fidel Castro seized control.

Obama had promised to take these steps as a presidential candidate. It has been known for over a week that he would announce them ahead of his attendance this weekend at a Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago.

"There are no better ambassadors for freedom than Cuban Americans," Obama said in a campaign speech last May in Miami, the heart of the U.S. Cuban-American community. "It's time to let Cuban Americans see their mothers and fathers, their sisters and brothers. It's time to let Cuban American money make their families less dependent upon the Castro regime."

Other steps taken Monday include expanding the things allowed in gift parcels being sent to Cuba, such as clothes, personal hygiene items, seeds, fishing gear and other personal necessities.

The administration also will begin issuing licenses to allow telecommunications and other companies to provide cell and television services to people on the island, and to allow family members to pay for relatives on Cuba to get those services, the official said.

Last May, former President George W. Bush announced a new policy that people living in the United States could include cell phones in gift parcels sent to Cubans. At the time, Bush aides said that U.S. residents could pay for the cell service attached to phones they send.

However, though American cell phones with service contracts from the U.S. work on some parts of the island, service is not always reliable and depends on the phones' specifications.

Sending money to senior government officials and Communist Party members remains prohibited under Obama's new policy. Restrictions imposed by the Bush administration had limited Cuban travel by Americans to just two weeks every three years. Visits also were confined to immediate family members.

Francisco Hernandez, head of the exile group the Cuban American National Foundation, was once a staunch supporter of travel restrictions but supported Obama's announcement, saying he hopes it will inspire both sides to reconsider long-held positions.

It will help Cubans become more independent of the state "not only in economic terms but in terms of information, and contacts with the outside world," said Hernandez, who was imprisoned by the Cuban government for nearly two years after participating in the 1961 failed Bay of Pigs invasion.

Miami travel agent Tesie Aral said her phone has been ringing nonstop in anticipation of the announcement, with a tenfold increase last Friday alone.

"People were already planning to travel more based on their ability to go every 12 months," said Aral, owner of ABC Charters. "Whether they can travel more frequently than that depends on the economy."

Also in that Miami speech nearly a year ago, Obama promised to depart from what he said had been the path of previous politicians on Cuba policy — "they come down to Miami, they talk tough, they go back to Washington, and nothing changes in Cuba."

"Never, in my lifetime, have the people of Cuba known freedom. Never, in the lives of two generations of Cubans, have the people of Cuba known democracy," he said then. "This is the terrible and tragic status quo that we have known for half a century — of elections that are anything but free or fair; of dissidents locked away in dark prison cells for the crime of speaking the truth. I won't stand for this injustice, you won't stand for this injustice, and together we will stand up for freedom in Cuba."

He also promised to engage in direct diplomacy with Cuba, "without preconditions" but with "careful preparation" and "a clear agenda."
Some lawmakers, backed by business and farm groups seeing new opportunities in Cuba, are advocating wider revisions in the trade and travel bans imposed after Castro came to power in Havana.

But the official said that Obama is keeping the decades-old U.S. trade embargo, arguing that that policy provides leverage to pressure the regime toward normalized relations with the U.S.

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MUSLIM SLAVE TRADE: LEGACY AND DIFFERENCE

2009-04-12T20:48:41Z

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"It was said that the definitive issue in the African Holocaust was not systems of enslavement, as they are as old as humanity, but the chattlization of a people to mere commodities, labor units, devoid of language religion and culture. The issue is the continuing legacy of enslavement and social reality of Africans living in the shadow of histories greatest Holocaust: This is the arguing point between Africans and Europeans. Cultural disownership, poor education, inferiority complex, drugs, HIV, is not the result of neither the Arab trade or the inter-African slave system. Therefore, it is fundamental that the focus of the issue with the European trade be restated—it is about legacy."

Arab enslavement of Africans was radically different from its European counterpart. It was more complex and varied depending on time and place. Thus the slavery seen in Iraq with the zanj was not similar to slavery in Zanzibar. Also 'Arab' is not a racial group, some Arabs are African and some are White and Jewish.

One of the biggest differences between Arab slaving and European slaving was that slaves were drawn from all racial groups and they were rarely used as a means of crop production; slaves were not the economic engine behind Arab economies. Arab slavery generally lacked large droves of sugar plantations where slaves toiled to the crack of a whip in the hot sun .

Unlike the European trade in enslaved Africans the physical remnants of this trade are very hard to measure. There are no Ghettos, mental institutions or prisons holding African people. Many women stolen from Africa were stolen to serve the infamous Arabian harems; their children were thus born free to Arab fathers and thus would have been heirs to wealth and status, fully and equally assimilated into the population.

Many African people thus rose to great stations by virtue of their Arab fathers. The infamous eunuchs were infertile, and the other men who were enslaved would have gradually married non-African women, hence facilitating the absorption of African culture and lineage into an Arab one. The contrasting differences between racial definitions on the Arabian continent as oppose to Europe assist in blending the majority of Africans stolen from Africa into the general population of Arabia. However, in the West there was no transcending “racial stigmas.”

SLAVERY IN ARABIAN SOCIETIES ( FROM DARK VOYAGES)

While Europeans targeted men in West Africa, the 'Arab' trade primarily harvested the women of East Africa to serve as domestic slaves, wet nannies and sex-slaves in the infamous harems. This trade trickled over millennia is estimated to have taken 10 million Africans via the Eastern route to India, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey, and also via the Trans-Saharan route to North Africa and the Mediterranean, where in slave markets such as Ceuta, Morocco, Africans were purchased to work as servants in Spain, Portugal, and other European countries.

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ARAB-MUSLIM AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE

2009-04-12T20:37:37Z

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is an inquiry into the Arab-Muslim slave trade. Why should we be interested in this subject today?

http://galliawatch.blogspot.com/2008/06/arab-muslim-slave-trade.html

Because the misery, the poverty, the long demographic stagnation and the current developmental delays of the black continent, are not merely the consequences of the transatlantic slave trade, as many imagine. The transatlantic drain is well known and has been debated for decades. Studies and syntheses on this slave trade are legion.

And yet, even though one cannot speak of degrees of horror or a monopoly on cruelty, it is possible to declare that the Negro slave trade and the wars provoked by the Arab-Muslims were, for black Africa through the centuries, much more devastating than the transatlantic trade. Likewise the Islamization of many Negro-African peoples and all that it engendered, such as jihad, were no less the source of innumerable implosions. But to this day, only the genocide of black peoples by the Arab-Muslim nations has not been clearly acknowledged by those who research the responsible parties. Even though this crime is historically, juridically and morally forbidden.

When did it begin and in what region(s)?

In the 7th century A.D., the Arabs, having conquered Egypt, proceeded to enslave numerous peoples of Nubia, Somalia, Mozambique, and elsewhere, during the first Islamic expansion. The Nubians had been harshly dealt with in the fierce attacks by Arab forces. They defended themselves courageously, but faced with superior numbers and the determination of the soldiers of the jihad and the repeated assaults by Arab jihadists, the Nubians preferred to negotiate peace, concluding in 652 the treaty known as Bakht. This treaty committed the vanquished African monarch to turn over annually a supply of 360 captives to become slaves in the Arab-Muslim world.

Thus it was that a large-scale Negro slave trade was for the first time invented by Arab-Muslims. I use the term Arab-Muslim because after the Bakht, this trade became trans-Saharan and Eastern, implicating more and more peoples and regions and extending far beyond the Arab world. The traders who took part were also Berbers from the Maghreb, Turks of the Ottoman Empire and Iranians, hence Persians. Many African captives were sold by the Arabs as far away as India, since the king of Bengal possessed about 8000 slaves in the 15th century. The majority of men deported at the start of this trade came from the population of Darfur. It all began there, and apparently it has never ceased.

What were the specific forms and motivations of this slave trade compared with the transatlantic trade?

In the Arab world - the Wahhabi system (Saudi Arabia) for example - did not favor economic and social development through the hard work of its inhabitants. It condemned them to an endless need for servile labor furnished by the Negro trade. Moreover, for an Arab of those times, a man is never poor so long as his neighbor possesses something. The Holy War came in handy, if you wanted to become rich. Since every believer had the obligation to lead a jihad, they said, it was imperative to subject and enslave the non-converted.

They took the Koran abusively as a pretext to stage raids on their infidel neighbors, stripping them of all they possessed. And so it was that with a clear conscience and using methods that were convenient as well as blessed, most of these converted Arab tribes ended up not living from their own resources.

Thus the permanence of the plague of the Negro slave trade and of Arab-Muslim slavery in Africa was due to the traditions of these peoples dating from a time when they could not, out of debauchery and laziness, do without servile men to infuse strength and new blood into them. For example, in the middle of the 19th century, one third of the population of Oman was African or of African origin. In Arab societies, Africans played a central role. They had no specific function but they took part in a great many common activities.

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Crescent Moon, Planet Venus, and Muslim Religion for Imperialism (and the African Slave trade)

2009-04-12T14:29:55Z

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This is work in progress - to all my beautiful Arab, Islamic, and Muslim brothers and sisters

"Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh"

This thread is very critical of the Islamic religion and Muslims, and I still don't know what's true or false, but as I ascertain intuitively in my searches I ask for Divine guidance, but these are just notes for now, i will be researching this topic and doing the due diligence, and with all do respect, the truth must be told. The world has suffered enough. Before this thread is done we will rejoice.

One of passions are to find the correlations religions and of KMT (Ancient African Egypt)

I will be making changes and corrections as I go (others input are welcome), I also have some verifying still left to do.

"Any great truth can will stand any great challenge with a smile on her face”

The Original Hebrews (Ethiopia) were not a Abraham Religion...

"ALL Abrahamic Religions are plagiarized invention for the purpose of providing a religious justification for Imperialism." -Dog Star

The Arabs with Islam (Muslims) Jews with Judaism, and Christians with Christ

“Islam and Mohammed an invention for Arab Imperialism."

“Islam is an invention for the purpose of providing a religious justification for Arab Imperialism (or at least fight off the Christians). The Conquest is the reason and explanation for Islam, not the other way around.”

"the life of Mohammed in Mecca and Medina is a myth, base on fiction."

Ma'at (kmt) was the first and most developed system of morality and ethics in the ancient world for over 6000 years in Ancient Kmt (what became Egypt after the invasions). Semites and whites invaded, occupied, and destroyed ancient Kmt along with the North African civilization, economy, government, educational system, health care system, moral and ethical system, cosmology, writing system, family, architecture, civil engineering system---everything. Their knowledge taken, translated, transfered, repackaged, these indigenous Africans were run out of their own lands/enslaved/devastated/forced backwards.

These destroyers of Black life even fashioned three religions that became world religions as their race conquered, colonized and converted subjugated black, brown, red and yellow skin people around the world.

Wherever the destroyers went (with sword, blade, knife, gun, cannon or nuclear bomb, germ warfare, guile and missionaries) they forced their culture via steel weapons and religion on the people that they enslaved and destroyed.

Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are the religions of the enslavers of African people, the occupiers of African land, and the destroyers of African civilization. Semites wrote the Torah hundreds of years after Moses died, with decades of revisions. Westerns wrote their Bible in Rome after the Nicaea Conference hundreds of years after they said Jesus died and rose from the dead; they adapted the "old testament" from the ethiopians and Kemet.

All three religions were used as justifications to invade, pillage, conquer and destroy indigenous Black civilization and people, running them off their land, for thousands of years culminating with the holocaust of Black enslavement globally and the seizing of the entire continent of Africa for Arabs, Jews, and Europeans.

History of pre-lslamic Arabia.

The kingdoms of South Arabia, known to have flourished from the 1st millennium Bc, included the kingdoms of Ma'in, Saba, Qatabdn, Awsdn, Hadramawt, and Himyar. With a decline in economic fortunes after the 1st century BC because of changes of Greco-Roman trade routes to India, the centre of population and cultural influence shifted northward from the Yemen to the Hejaz, which was ruled in the early Christian centuries by Ethiopia.

Though the religion of South Arabia was polytheistic, the monotheistic communities of Jews and Christians in the Hejaz gained in influence. The break of the Ma'rib Dam in the Yemen (C. AD 575), which brought about the collapse of irrigation in the area, was an event which later Islamic tradition saw as dramatizing the eclipse of ancient South Arabian culture.

In the official cults of the South Arabian kingdoms, the devotees venerated most highly a triad of deities that were astral in character: the moon god, the sun goddess, and the god equated with the planet Venus.

Each of these deities bore a variety of names, depending on the region, or on a particular attribute of the divinity. Chief among the triad was the moon god, who was the protector of the principal cities. The people of the various kingdoms and areas referred to themselves as his offspring, each under a different name: the Sabaeans were the children of Ilumquh ("God Is Power"), the Minaeans the children of Wadd ("Love"), the Qatabdnians the children of 'Amm ("Uncle"), and the people of Hadramawt the offspring of Sin (the name of the moon god in ancient Babylonia).

In each region other names of the moon god appear, derived from aspects of the lunar cycle or other attributes. Next among the triad was Venus, the morning and evening star, named 'Athtar, who also had a variety of attributes. Third was the sun goddess, whose principal name, Shams, was common to the various kingdoms, like 'Athtar, but whose paired epithets, describing contrasting aspects, varied locally.

Among the peoples around the northern perimeter of Arabia, "god," in the most generic sense, was El, or in a longer form of the same name, Ilah. His veneration at a very early stage is attested by his appearance in theophoric names, that is, personal names of which one element is a divine name (the biblical name Gabriel is an example). Among nomadic tribes in particular, a residual sense of El as being the god par excellence remained until the time of Islam.

http://www.bible.ca/islam/library/islam-quotes-britannica.htm

"Akhenaten did not like the existing logos of the sun god, so to his credit, came up with a unique new logo and symbol. Islam, on the other hand, merely copied the 2500 year old "crescent moon" logo of the Kemetic moon god and didn't bother to hire a graphic design artist. The crescent moon is found on top of every mosque and even at the Kaba on top of the Maqam Ibrahim, is virtually identical to that used in Babylonian and Kemetian moon god "Sîn" worship at Harran in 2100 BC."

Muslim Slave Trade

White Arab Slavery pre-dated the European Christian African slave trade by a thousand years and continued for more than a century after the Europeans had abolished the practice. Gordon estimates the number of slaves “harvested” from Black Africa over the period of the Muslim Arab slave trade at 11 million – roughly equal to the number taken by European Christians for their colonies in the New World.

“Despite the long history of slavery in the Arab World and in other Muslim lands, little has been written about this tragedy,”

decries a “conspiracy of silence. . .[that] has blocked out all light on this sensitive subject.” Among scholars in the Arab world, the author points out, “No moral opprobrium has clung to slavery since it was sanctioned by the Koran and enjoyed an undisputed place in Arab society.”

at times the Islamic version of slavery could be more “humane” than the European colonial version, he provides many facts which point out that the Muslim variety of slavery could be extremely cruel as well.

We'll cover the Arab/African slave trades up until the mid-20th Century, noting that Saudi Arabia only abolished the practice in the early 1960s. Unlike the European nations and the USA, the Arab nations did not abolish African slavery voluntarily out of moral conscience, but due to considerable economic and military pressure applied by the great colonial powers of time, France and Britain. Slavery is still practiced in two Islamic nations: The Sudan and Mauritania.

The 'Oriental' or 'Arab' slave trade is sometimes called the 'Islamic' slave trade, but a religious imperative was not the driver of the slavery,

Long before the birth of the prophet Mohammed people worshiped the pre-Islamic lunar deity some called Allah. Allah had three daughters; al-Lat, al-Uzza and Manat. Allah was very similar to the god the Hebrews called Yahweh also a lunar deity.

This is an excerpt from a sacred text that proclaims three pre-Islamic deities to be daughters of Allah.

“Near it is the Garden of Abode . Behold, the Lote-tree was shrouded (in mystery unspeakable!) (His) sight never swerved, nor did it go wrong! For truly did he see, of the Signs of his Lord, the Greatest! Have ye seen Lat. and 'Uzza, And another, the third (goddess), Manat? These are the exalted cranes (intermediaries) whose intercession is to be hoped for. What! For you the male sex, and for Him, the female? Behold, such would be indeed a division most unfair!”[1]

The moon initially represented the female principle [the sun was male] which the Bedouins of Arabia worshipped long before it was incorporated it into Islam. Mohammed’s wife the 40 year-old Khadijah [Her name is said to meaning: a child born prematurely] and 15 years his senior, was a devout Catholics along with her Uncles and they taught Catholic the religion to Mohammed. After that point according to the legend, he began to see visions.

“When her husband received his first revelation from the Angel Gabriel, she was the first person — among both male and females — to convert to Islam. According to some sources, it was Khadijah's parental cousin, Waraqah ibn Nawfal, who informed Muhammad of his prophet-hood soon after his vision of the angel.”[2]

There was no such religious belief as Islam at that time, there was only recycled Christianity [which was recycled Judaism which as recycled Egyptian religions] traditional astrological beliefs and pre-Islamic worship combined.

"The White + Arabs who originally enslaved the true ‘people of the book’ and helped the Europeans murder millions of innocent Africans and still do. You can't look at northern Africa and the so-called near East and find the original African peoples in the majority, we have been pushed aside, killed, enslaved and marginalized by those who call themselves Arabs."

We'll also look at the brief history of Islam and the similarities that exist between Islam and the Universal [Catholic] Church.

What are the commonalities between the Catholic Church and Islam?

From a cursory look they seem separate religious practices with one based in so-called apostolic succession and the other based in the Mohammedan Caliphate. There is some proof the Catholic Church invented Islam to fight the onslaught of zealous Jews and Christians and to gain a foothold in the Biblical Holy-land called Israel/Palestine.

"The people who reside in the mid-east are not the original inhabitants. The ones who claim the history of Sumer and Akkad are not the African who first penned cuneiform. They are a mixture. These same people are the ones who now claim Egyptian and Nimrodian history. They are the co-opting Arab nations that have nothing to do Africa."

The great African civilizations, which inhabited the cities along the River Hapi (European name, Nile) Zambezi, Congo, Limpopo, Gabon, Tana, Awash, Keiro, Niger, Volta, Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, were the sons of Cush. Cushites migrated throughout Africa/Ethiopia/Nubia/Egypt. The Four Rivers in Genesis flowed in - out, and around the continent of ancient Africa. The biblical Adam and Chavvah (Eve) were Africans.

Again, please don’t look to a modern map for any information concerning ancient African geography. The Europeans have hacked up Africa so much; it does not begin to look like it did originally.

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Racism: Euro academicians, historians; denied Africa any achievement.

2009-04-11T19:24:48Z

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It is now an accepted fact that Africa is the birthplace of Man and Human Societies and the birthplace of civilization. Nonetheless, for a very long time European academicians and historians denied Africa any achievement.

They argued first that the Africans were sub-human creatures not capable of building any form of civilization. However, these Europeans came later to accept the humanity of the African but as a primitive man without past of future. Why did the Europeans hold these views about Africa and the Africans? Why the Africans were considered sub-human and primitive?

These views were the product of two eras: The era of the Atlantic Slave trade (16th to the 19th century) and the era of European colonization of Africa (19th to 20th century). The era of the Atlantic Slave Trade witnessed the forceful removal of millions of Africans to be sold into slavery in the New World where they worked in mining industries and the agricultural plantations that capitalists of Europe developed there.

Indeed, the enslavement of Africans grew rapidly to become the most dominant factor in the economic system of Europe so much so that Europe owed its subsequent prosperity and power to the labor of these African victims of slavery. Henceforth, the Europeans became interested in the African as a commodity, and as chattel. The African was thus seen as sub-human, an animal that worked under the whip for the European master.

It was during the period of the Slave Trade and later in the nineteenth century that more than one hundred books about Africa and Africans appeared in Europe. The authors of these books, many of whom were slavers themselves, had a vested interest in the continuation of the Atlantic Slave Trade. Therefore, their biased writings bristled with stereotypes and myths about the Africans that they deliberately invented. For example, the slave trader, John Houston, wrote that the Africans "exactly resemble their fellow creatures and natives, the monkeys." Even the Scottish philosopher, David Hume, described the African as "naturally inferior to the white."

A summary of these views was given by the German philosopher, Hegel, in the famous Jena lectures (Berlin 1830), wherein he declared that the Africans were sub-human and thus had no history. Yet these Europeans were not ignorant of the African past and culture. In fact the Axum civilization in Ethiopia, civilization of the Ghana, Mali, and Songhay empires in West Africa and the civilization of great Zimbabwe in southern Africa were very familiar to Europeans, but they deliberately suppressed all information that pointed to African civilizations and achievements.

The attitude of Europeans towards Africa and its people during the era of the slave trade can be captured in the quotes below:

William Bosman: "a New and Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea" (1704) were: "They tell us that in the beginning God created Black as well as white men, and they tell us that God having created these two sets of men, offered two sorts of gifts, gold and the knowledge of reading and writing. Giving the blacks the first election they chose gold, and left the knowledge of letters to the whites. God granted their request, but being incensed at their avarice, resolved that the whites should forever, be their masters, and that they were obliged to wait on them as their slaves."

From a map published in Paris in 1761 we read:

"It is true that the center of the continent is filled with burning sands, savage beasts and almost inhabited deserts. The scarcity of water forces the different animals to come together to the same place to drink. It happens that finding themselves together at a time when they are in heat, they have intercourse with another, paying regard to the difference between species. Thus are produced those monsters which are to be found there in greater numbers than in any other part of the world."

Ekowa sidebar:

To all you co-called Black Greeks, out there: Alpha, Sigma, Kappa’s; et al. Your ritual of ‘Crossing Over’ in to the Fraternity or Sorority is to traverse the burning sands of Egypt/Africa. This is the picture of a slave-thief, running back to Greece after stealing the knowledge and culture, to perpetuate the falsification of African History. You have adopted the system of the oppressor and he is laughing at your ignorance.

‘Know Thyself’

Here is European contribution of Ignorance! David Hume European philosopher wrote in 1768:

"I am apt to suspect the Negroes to be naturally inferior to the white. There never was a civilized nation of any other complexion than white.”

6th Century A.D. Jewish interpretation of Genesis:

"Now I cannot beget the fourth son whose children I would have ordered to serve you and your brothers. Therefore, it must be Canaan, your first born, whom they enslave. And since you have disabled me doing ugly things in the blackness of night, Canaan children shall be born ugly and black.

Moreover, because you twisted your head around to see my nakedness, your children’s hair shall be twisted in kinks and their eyes red. Again, because lips jested at my misfortune, theirs shall swell. And because you neglected my nakedness, they shall go naked and their male members shall be shamefully elongated. Men of this race are called Negroes. Their forefather, Canaan, commanded them to love theft and fornication; to be banded together in hatred of their masters and never to tell the truth."

The German philosopher Hegel whom I quoted earlier and who had never been to Africa was of the opinion that:

"In Negro life the Characteristic point is the fact that he has not yet attained the realization of any substantial objective existence-as for example, God and religion the Negro exhibits the natural man in his completely wild and untamed state. There is nothing harmonious with humanity to be found in this type of character Africa should never be mentioned for it is no historical part of the world. What we properly understand by Africa is the unhistorical, undeveloped spirit, still in the conditions of mere nature. Africa had to be presented here only as on the threshold of the world's history. The Negro has no movement or development to exhibit."

The Hegelian dialectic – Thesis – Antitheses-Synthesis:

Create a problem.
Fuel it with fear, by seeing the problem over and over.
Come with the solution to the problem
Now, that is the system of White Supremacy at work! They lie about history and we let them lie.

by Debay Tadesse

PhD Student
Howard University

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Heliopolis: Kemetic "City of Light" a.k.a Anu = Naharayim (True Israelites)

2009-04-11T18:08:15Z

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"Ethiopia/Nubia/Sudan fathered the children of the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia/Naharayim = TRUE ISRAELITES

Great website
http://www.essaysbyekowa.com/What's%20in%20a%20Name.htm

This topic was based on a discussion we had in another tribe ,,,the latest article.

"Egypt’s pyramids point towards city of Sun God"
http://www.sindhtoday.net/world/81652.htm

*this blog basically proves Africans were the people of the bible and the true Hebrews (it was allegory of Kemet)

In Africa the Nile and the City of Light was Anu or Heliopolis and it equates with the Naharayim.
Aram-naharaim = "Aram of the two rivers" (which is now Iraq, Iran, Israel, Syria,and the Suez Canal)

Q: So why is this important??

A: MESO-potamia - is certainly not an ancient word it means the middle of the two Rivers: Tigris and Euphrates' but original name is Garden of Eden - NAHARAIYM = True Israelites

When we look at the ancient map or Egypt of KMT we see the city of Anu/Heliopolis is at the mouth of the Nile that pours into the Mediterranean (previously named the Ethiopic Sea. At the top of the Nile River is the city of ON or ANU, or the Greek - Heliopolis.

The Greek Heliopolis, the Hebrew On and the Egyptian ANU were one in the same.

http://www.essaysbyekowa.com/What's%20in%20a%20Name.htm

The Biblically created Adam (atom unit) that we see in the pages of Genesis was said to have lived in Gan-Eden of the Earth called Eden/Aden in the Hebrew language or Gent in Amharic the language of present day Ethiopia [Habashan]. The Gan-Eden in my mind, by all accounts was like a nursery, in the midst of the Earth planet where mankind grew a flourished.

The definition of the Hebrew word Eden means: Pleasure, delicate and delightful. [2]

The historical geographic origin of Eden is given as Mesopotamia. The name Fertile Crescent was given to this geographical area long after the Deluge account. The interesting thing about the name MESO-potamia is that it make the reader think is somewhere in the middle. MESO meaning: Middle, division, intermediate, central.[3]

This central MESO area had to be attached to something to make it the middle. The Webster's Dictionary states MESO--potamia is the middle of S.W. Asia between the Tigris and Euphrates River which is now Iraq, Iran and Syria. Words do not appear out of thin air. Most African (Semitic-Hamitic) languages have a root word or surest and to expands upon the word is affixed with a pre-fix or suffix.

Example:

Sus in Hebrew means horse. Sus-Ah means her horse. The ‘Ah’ ending makes it a feminine statement, or in this case possessed by a woman.[4]

The idea that Mesopotamia is apart of Asia is a recent racist notion. I consider racism an essential component to the system of white supremacy. All of the area was considered part of the African family lands. Just as Israel/Palestine was also a part before the Biblical revisionist, European historians, Map makers and finally the Engineers and Architects of the Suez Canal surgically removed it from its roots. The original inhabitants of all the lands were Africa.

At the beginning of the Ethiopic Sea, which is now called the Mediterranean along the Nile River was the City of Anu or On. Anu meaning Light or Sun - the City of the Sun where originally the Aten was worshipped as the sole God long before it was moved to Tel Amarna by Ankhenaten and worship was renewed. Here again the tem Aten was a name among many names of the representation of God which in this case was the disk of the Sun. Anu also means men or people.

NAHARAIYM is the real name of the Fertile Crescent and related is the Nile Valley and not to the Middle East. The term Middle East is a recent terminology. In this case the ending or suffix to the word Nahara is IYM, YAM or YIM meaning people, children or plurality.

This could easily mean the ‘Children of the River Nile’ - the Children of Light, The Children of the River that flows to the Sea -the children of LIGHT or the DAYLIGHT and The Children of the Men.

The Nile was called the Hapi: Hapi (Hapy) was the character of the Nile and also the Horus’ 4th son. Although the Tigris and Euphrates were fertile areas - the clincher to point nativity of Aram Naharayim as the source of LIGHT, that was On or Anu!

The Egyptians had centers of worship throughout Khemet. Thebes -Heliopolis-Memphis and Hermeopolis all studied a different aspect of the worship of the One-God, which the original African Egyptians understood as the ONE whose attributes were many (Tree of Life). These centers did not conflict with one another’s doctrine originally and the original priests worked together, nor were they at odds with one another.

Imhotep the Father of Medicine...ad infinitum, was a priest of ANU or Heliopolis and was also considered the 'son of Ptah the primal; creator who was studied in Memphis or Mennufer.

The City of ON/ANU is also the city that Joseph the son of Jacob who later was named ISRAEL frequented, his youngest son, Benjamin was called the Son of ON or Ben-Oni by his mother. Israel was also buried and embalmed in Egypt. and was he was said to be married ANU-SET the daughter of the Priest of ON, Pot-i-Fera. Joseph also named one of his sons Ephraim ( Ephran) - which may be the root word for AFRICA the name used to identify our lands by those on the outside.

'Pharaoh called Yosef the name of Tzafnat-Oa'neach and gave him as a wife On'snat, the daughter of Poti-Fera priest of On (Heliopolis). Then Yosef went out through all the land of Egypt...."

'Two sons were born to Yosef before the year of the famine came: Osnat the daughter of PotiFera priest of ON (Heliopolis) bore to him. Yosef called the first M'nasheh [causing to forget], 'Because he said, God has caused me to forget all the troubles I suffered at the hands of my family.' The second he call EPHRAHIM [fruit or fruitful], 'For God has made me fruitful in the land of my misfortune.' CJB Gen 41:45-52

"There were four major Temple systems in KMT that have left intact records of the creation stories (Tree of Life). Each Temple in KMT told the story of creation (a.k.a Trinity) in a way that fit their lifestyle, environment, and understanding. The Temple of Iunu (Heliopolis) was dedicated to Atum, The Temple of Khemenu (Hermopolis) was dedicated to Tehuti, the Temple of Waset (Thebes) was dedicated to Amun, and the Temple of Mem-nefer (Memphis) was dedicated to Ptah. There were many elements of the story common to all of KMT for its entire 4,000 plus year history."

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word "Nigger" came from the Khemit term for 'GOD'

2009-04-11T02:10:59Z

thanks Heather...

"Never forget that the word "Nigger" came from the Khemit/Egyptian term for 'GOD' and that the word is 'N-G'R' or 'NET-GER'. - Bro. Alim Bey

"NGA" is original name for Queen. 'Niger' means King in Ibo and Niger-IA means Queen. Those countries were the lands of kings and queens - Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization

"The root word NGR existed in ancient Egyptian Sacred writings and hieroglyphs...and has divine origin and meaning." - Ernie A. Smith, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Linguistics and Doctor of Internal Medicine

N-ger-s refers to ...The Goddess Neggur (Hathor) who is one of the oldest female deities of ancient Kemit (Egypt) who was worshipped thousands of years before Genesis and the Bible existed. - Sir E. A. Wallis Budge, (1857-1934), Egyptologist

"Nugarmatta: Term used by Africans of the Ghana Empire to call themselves" -writings of Ibn Buttata in National Geographic Magazine

"Remember to know a thing or a person's real name is to know its power. To pronounce it correctly is to free its energy. To deny your real name is to deny your power and energy." - Anonymous

"In conclusion it is time that Negroes, pan-negroes (pan-africans, melanesian negroids, indo-negroids) and blacks worldwide know that the so-called negro is of the godhead and should start believing it, having self-confidence, belief in self and in their ability." -Bro. Alim Bey

"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge." - Hosea 4:6

Mad Props to Sistar Shaba Shabaka (RIP) author of Nigger-A Divine Origin. Wise woman, before you left, you knew what was coming down the pipes.

Peace and Blessings,

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Eddie Griffin (comedian) secrets to how we built the pyramids

2009-04-10T18:13:10Z

This is really good... only 2 min

famed comedian Eddie Griffin he tells the secrets of how the Kemetians really built the Pyramids

SCIENCE OF PYRAMID CONSTRUCTION
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LHpMjQtjsE

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Prince Beats The King (Of Pop)

2009-04-10T04:08:32Z

http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart_watch/32895/week-ending-april-5-2009-a-prince-beats-a-king-of-pop/?page=3

Who would you say has amassed more top 10 albums, Prince or his one-time arch-rival, Michael Jackson? As of this week, the answer is Prince, and that's true even when you give Michael credit for albums he recorded with his brothers. LotusFlow3r, which enters The Billboard 200 at #2, is Prince's 14th top 10 album. Jackson has notched 13--seven on his own and six with the Jackson 5, later known as the Jacksons. Though Prince and Jackson have been considered rivals since the early ‘80s, Prince owes a big debt to Jackson's trailblazing.

1999 was released five weeks before Thriller, but it hit the top 10 only after Thriller had clocked a few months at #1--and, significantly, only after Jackson's mega-hits "Billie Jean" and "Beat It" broke down MTV's resistance to playing videos by black artists. 1999 ultimately logged 11 weeks in the top 10, no match for Thriller's 78 weeks, but enough to establish Prince as a star. Prince's follow-up, logged 24 consecutive weeks at #1, spawned five hit singles and brought Prince an Oscar and three Grammys.

LotusFlow3r, a Target exclusive, sold 168,000 copies this week. It fell less than 4,000 units short of debuting at #1

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Not Easily Broken

2009-04-09T04:21:21Z

I thought we could start a Black movie review...???

Men were created to be heroes, Dave tells us through narration. But as time has progressed, “the world took away man’s reason for being a man,” he says, “and it turned the world upside down.”

Not Easily Broken
http://www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/noteasilybroken/

I got a chance to watch this movie and though it was great, it was still good and hit on some subjects of today's relationships

I found some very interesting points in there and some that we've touched on as well...

One has to do with Men and in todays society, with technology, and woman in the changing world of economics, and the end of industrial world.

In the movie it was shown that he wasn't needed - he had blew out his knee his rookie year and lost his dream of becoming a professional athlete, so he did the next best thing - he started a small construction company - his wife was a Real Estate agent and made more money than him, to keep up with her lavish lifestyle (as he put it) and she was alway treating him like he wasn't as important because she was the major bread winner, and he was upset that she wouldn't fulfill her womanly duties (his words).

She became Mars and He was wanting to have a baby

It went on to show how whatever he tried to do he wasn't needed... modern convenience had stopped him from doing the things men used to do in the movie you saw how they were to do it now with some new technology.

Women with todays modernization less and less is needed from a strong man to provide for her.. A man wants to feel needed.

This is something I think the movie was trying to hit on - just because women may make more money, does not mean women do not need men or that's not what being a man is all about - she was so concern about living beyond her means to keep up with the Joneses - her man and husband was not getting the feminine, nurturing, and loving he so desired - then he came across a women expressing her femininity. And needing his strong shoulder.

I see this happening all the time ..and I think it's a big issues in the world and our social conditioning around it

so that's the topic today - OK I wrote that really fast I hope that it makes sense

Not Easily Broken (Movie quotes)

The movie’s opening scene depicts Dave and Clarice’s wedding where their pastor warns them that it is often “hard to keep the good even in a good marriage.” Life will try to knock them down, he says, so he instructs them that God is to be the third member of their marriage because as Scripture advises, “a cord of three strands is not easily broken.”

Because the story is told from the male character’s point of view, the film also offers some valuable commentary on the God-given roles of men. Men were created to be heroes, Dave tells us through narration. But as time has progressed, “the world took away man’s reason for being a man,” he says, “and it turned the world upside down.” He also uses his role as a mentor to teens to encourage other fathers to be the best dads they can be. His conversations with his gym buddies also offers women a rare glimpse into how men really feel about their relationships.

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BABYLON wILL fALL...Exodus!

2009-03-22T00:19:12Z

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It won't be long now...

The Roots of Babylon.

"We know where we're going
We know where we're from
We Leaving Babylon-
We goin to our Father's Land (Ausar).... Exodus!"

Bob Marley ... Turn it up! and eVeRyBoDy gEt ThE funK up!!! ...not now, but right now!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NHbOqmNVm8

This was my reply to a thread in our Crossroads of Religion tribe.

>"Pope visits Africa, reaffirms ban on condoms"<

basically saying all the atrocities of the Catholic Church and the Christian faith upon Africa and the Ethiopians and them being responsible for the the genocide since its inception AND TODAY.

Paul:

"In some ways I wish you and GStar etc. never taught me these things. Life would be simpler right? Ignorance truly is bliss.
these kind of things really get me down. I can't understand how people can treat one another like less than animals. Whether those people are Ethiopians in this example, terrorist suspects in Guantanamo Bay, prisoners at Abu Gharib, protestors tazered for no reason by police or whatever else, it really really sickens me. I fail to understand why this can be allowed to happen by even the wealthiest of people. How can anyone have that much hatred that they would do these things to people? If I were to have one wish, I would gift the world with actual empathy. It is sorely lacking."

Oba:

"Some day, you will overstand the whole truth, and then this same truths will set you free from Babylon works"

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No doubt ..Great post Oba and great thread. I'm not sure if there's been a greater a organized Evil than the Roman Catholic Church and the Christian faith, but we can't just stop there, Babylon

"Babylon" goes well beyond the allegory of Rome...

The word Babylon is by no means an arbritary word that's only used to describe oppression. Babylon was one of the first cities to ever stand on Earth. It is quite clear that there is much to be learned about this mythical city that will help us to better understand the modern"Babylon system". I believe that the modern definition of Babylon describes a type of mentality that is common to all the institutions that are labeled as being "Babylon" it's the same of what I've been saying, yet using the term SETH-The Sith (in Star Wars) SEBEK (Sphere 8) Divine Intellect corrupted into Deception and Tricklogy. SETH http://people.tribe.net/chaz/blog/b0a9382b-1613-446b-8244-1200d50726dd

Think of the Media, Politictians, and ours is the fight of and with Heru (our hearts intelligence)

peopledoyouunderstand? the Heart consciousness (Heru - where the name Jesus originally really comes from kills of Seth (Tricklogy)...we don't have to live this way - all of us have been conditioned as to "that's just the way it is" But don't you believe them.

War, Poverty, Injustice etc ...all made up

It's a LIE... our whole history is lie, all of our religions are a lie, everything being taught in college is a lie.

Babylon was an actual place, but now and how we use it means the same as Seth - a devilish evil selfish mind; Consumerism and Capitalism. (more on this in the next post)

"Babylon" origin of Paganism itself. Many historians and religious scholars trace this festival all the way back to Ham’s grandson Nimrod, the founder of Babylon and the Babylonian mystery religion."

The Hebrews were Canaanites (the true authors of Kabala) and were a Black People. The Jews got their language, religion & culture from the Canaanites. The people of the Bible were primarily Black African people. Moses was an Egyptian priest, Black Samson had dreadlocks. Solomon declares, "I am black" as does Job; "My skin is black..." (Sol. 1:6, Job 30:30) Simon was a Canaanite.

Canaan is an ancient term for a region encompassing present-day Israel, the Palestinian Territories, Lebanon and Jordan, plus adjoining coastal lands and parts of Egypt and Syria. The Hebrew Bible identifies Canaan with Lebanon — foremost with the city of Sidon[citation needed] — but extends the "Land of Canaan" southward across Gaza to the "Brook of Egypt" and eastward to the Jordan Valley, thus including modern Israel with the Palestinian Territories

COLCHIANS, PHOENICIANS AND CANAANITES

We now know that modern humanity originated in Africa, and that all modern humans can ultimately trace their ancestral roots back to the African continent. Herodotus, the European father of history, regarded Colchis, a land located along the western slope of the Caucasus Mountains near the Black Sea, as an African colony. He not only pointed to the Colchians' black skin and woolly hair, but also to their oral traditions, language, methods of weaving, and practice of circumcision. Saint Jerome, writing during the fourth century, called Colchis the "Second Ethiopia." Two hundred years later, Sophronius, patriarch of Jerusalem, described an "Ethiopian" presence in the same region. Even today, in the same district about which Herodotus wrote, lives a numerically minute black-skinned, woolly-haired community.

http://blackhistory.tribe.net/thread/4c10200f-5a81-459a-ba77-c8f03ea434a6

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Marijuana INC: Inside America's Pot Industry - Oaksterdam University

2009-03-14T19:18:24Z

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“The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.” - Bob Marley

“I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?” - Willie Nelson (Taurus)

VIDEO: Rebel Music (3 O' Clock Roadblock) - Bob Marley & The Wailers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMOApEQkMo0

“And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat (meaning you should not eat dead animals)t” - Bible quote

"The best herb I smoke in Jamaica and Africa. African - Rasclot! Them people cure it in a banana. In a banana skin. A green banana. They wrap it up in a banana so when you get it, it compressed and, I'll tell you, it great! In Nigeria and Ghana, love that herb! Good herb, mon." - Bob Marley

Marijuana INC: Inside America's Pot industry
http://www.cnbc.com/id/28281668/

"While it may not be traded on Wall Street any time soon, marijuana has become a booming cash crop. CNBC’s Trish Regan goes behind the scenes to explore the inner workings of this secretive industry, focusing on Northern California’s “Emerald Triangle,” now the marijuana capital of the U.S. In this scenic pocket of America, the pot business, much of it legal under state law, now makes up as much as two-thirds of the local economy. "

Based on the website it looks like Mendocino will be the focus of the story. The CNBC website has a slideshow and a preview.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=994945722&play=1

Oaksterdam University
http://www.oaksterdamuniversity.com/

"Oaksterdam University was founded in 2007 to provide students with the highest quality training for the cannabis industry. Our faculty in comprised of the most recognized names in the California cannabis legalization movement. We are located on the corner of 19th and Broadway in beautiful downtown Oakland, with convenient access to BART. Whether you are a student looking to change careers, someone who wants to brush up on horticulture skills, a business owner who wants to train their current staff, or someone who wants to open their own business, Oaksterdam University welcomes you."

Be a part of this budding industry. There are over 500 medical cannabis dispensaries in California creating thousands of new jobs and millions of tax dollars. Become a freedom fighter at Oaksterdam University and earn a living while helping to end cannabis prohibition.

Humboldt article and blog
http://humboldtherald.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/marijuana-inc/

"Yeah, man. It's time to let de people get good herbs and smoke. Government's a joke. All dey wan' is ya smoke cigarettes and cigar. Some cigar wickeder den herb. Yeah, man, ya can't smoke cigar. Smoke herb. Some big cigar me see man wit', God bless! Me tell him must smoke herb." -Bob Marley

Hemp quotes
http://www.hempfiles.com/php/quotes.php

I, rebel music

Why can't we roam this open country
Oh why can't we be what we want to be
We want to be free

3 o'clock - roadblock, curfew
And I've got to throw away
Yes I've got to throw away
Yes I've got to throw away
My little herb stalk

I, rebel music
I, rebel music

Take my soul and suss me out
Check my life if I am in doubt
3 o'clock - roadblock

And hey Mr. Cop, ain't got no
(What you say down there)
Ain't got no birth
certificate on me now

I, rebel music
I, rebel music

Take my soul and suss me out
Check my life if I am in doubt
3 o'clock - roadblock
And hey Mr. Cop, ain't got no
(What you say down there)

And hey Mr. Cop,

hey Mr. Cop,

(What you say down there)

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SEBA: Guiding Principles of Moral Living

2009-01-28T06:33:28Z

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[Moral Living]

We all seek guidance in one way or another from others on how to handle various situations and make decisions. When questions of morality are involved-right and wrong, good and bad--- people are often directed to sources outside of themselves.

Over 6,000 years ago KMT recognized that most of what we need to get through life with purpose and meaning already exists within our hearts; we simply have to learn basic moral principles and how to honestly listen to ourselves, humble ourselves, admit our wrongs to ourselves, correct ourselves, and live each day understanding that we are judged in this life and the next based on what we do in this world.

We confessed our innocence, admitted our guilt, showed remorse and restitution when we harmed others, we paid reparations to those deserving/demanding it, we showed reciprocity to those who helped us, and we devoted each day to perfection. Look at ancient African Kmt. This is the Cosmology moral system that we could model, Those with integrity will face this moment with self renewal in mind.

While there are so many things that are out of our hands, there is a lot that we control; namely who we choose to become and how we respond to situations. We can be honest and change or continue to lie to ourselves

You are so much more than you know; you are more than they have made you out to be; mighty people wake up, get up, stand up and with the heart of Auset face every fear imaginable and over come every hurdle, every roadblock, every setback until we finish what must be done. Maat means balance, justice, rightness, matching force with Yin. The force energize those listening to their hearts today. We will not rest until justice has been secured and the great wrongs have been made right. We are a force of ages unleashed from those who sought to make little of our value. Billions of years went into our making; we were meant to be. Live life as a mirror of what we were created to be not what they have have tried to lower us to be

Twenty-one billion years of this majestic forward flow of history, unfolding in Africa with the earliest civilizations emerging along the Nile, struggling for life, generating surpluses, giving birth to classes, private property and a state apparatus to manage indigenous African class, gender, ethnic, and cultural relations.

Settlements became villages, towns, cities, regional chiefdoms, kingdoms, then confederations, federated nations and empires in KMT, each eventually undergoing its natural internal birth-death-rebirth cycles. For thousands of seasons the Black African race developed life, culture, language, education, science, morality, government, and a system of justice reflective of the best of who we were over time.

KMT, an indigenous African civilization covered the longest time span of any civilization known to history. Its monuments are the most massive and longest lasting. Its records, chiefly in stone, were carved into mountains and buried in great underground temple structures. Extensive in time and massive in the volume of their architecture are the remains of KMTian civilization. The earliest of these fragments date back more than seven thousand years.

The place of settlement of Kmtian civilization was the Nile river system that poured from the interior of the African continent to a delta region, 4,144 miles in length. Annual floods left their rich black silt deposits to nurture the soil along the lower reaches of the river. Massive outpourings of river water irrigated sometimes rainless desert countryside. Skillful engineering drained the swamps, adding to the cultivable area of a narrow valley cut by the river through jagged barren hills. Deserts on both sides of the Nile and a massive mountain area on the eastern flank for centuries protected this indigenous African civilization/nation against foreign agressors. Within this natural sanctuary the KMTians built a civilization that lasted with minor break, over 4,200 years...

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Principles of Kmt Method

2009-01-28T06:28:29Z

Kmt Research

Cosmology Method
http://people.tribe.net/chaz/blog/2825cbbe-835a-4eac-8f55-4f0caeceaf4f

Ancient African Kmt viewed reality in motion, understanding cycles, spirals, reincarnations( birth, death, rebirth). Their method of thought, especially in the old kingdom period (3352-2216) was cosmological which is a synthesis of philosophy, theory, method, and practice.

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Barack Obama's Inaugural Address in Full

2009-01-23T05:38:13Z

mY bLOG:
http://people.tribe.net/chaz/blog/ddfc46ce-e7b2-4a9a-b42a-aa68819672d0

IMPORTANT: Obama lays out Middle East vision - See article for details
http://spiritualsocialjustice.tribe.net/thread/0346c441-6831-4868-a4b1-94c4744139ea

Barack Obama has been sworn in as the 44th US president. Here is his inauguration speech in full.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/obama_inauguration/7840646.stm

My fellow citizens:

I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors. I thank President Bush for his service to our nation, as well as the generosity and co-operation he has shown throughout this transition.

Forty-four Americans have now taken the presidential oath. The words have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters of peace. Yet, every so often the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging storms.

At these moments, America has carried on not simply because of the skill or vision of those in high office, but because we, the people, have remained faithful to the ideals of our forbears, and true to our founding documents.

So it has been. So it must be with this generation of Americans.

Serious challenges

That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred. Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age. Homes have been lost; jobs shed; businesses shuttered. Our healthcare is too costly; our schools fail too many; and each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet.

We have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord

These are the indicators of crisis, subject to data and statistics. Less measurable but no less profound is a sapping of confidence across our land - a nagging fear that America's decline is inevitable, that the next generation must lower its sights.

Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real. They are serious and they are many. They will not be met easily or in a short span of time. But know this, America - they will be met.

On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.

On this day, we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn-out dogmas, that for far too long have strangled our politics.

Nation of 'risk-takers'

We remain a young nation, but in the words of scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation: the God-given promise that all are equal, all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness.

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Zionist story to control the world through the Jews

2009-01-15T05:09:42Z

Zionism is actually a German European capitaliSic movement

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http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761576458/Zionism.html

“The Zionist process began in the 18th century with the Haskalah (Hebrew, “enlightenment”), a movement inspired by the *European Enlightenment* and initiated by the *German Jewish* philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. The Haskalah marked the beginning of a move away from traditional religious orthodoxy and created a need for Jewish national feeling to replace religion as a unifying force. Initially, however, the trend was toward assimilation into European society. The liberal Jewish reform movement in*Germany sought to reduce Judaism to a religious denomination, allowing Jews to adopt German culture. The achievement of political equality by European Jewry began in revolutionary France in 1791 and spread over most of Europe during the next few decades.”

In the 1890s Theodor Herzl, a Jewish journalist living in Austria, advocated reestablishing a Jewish state in Palestine. Herzl believed Zionism (the reuniting of Jewish people in Palestine) would match "a people without a land with a land without a people."

Palestine was already inhabited, however. The countryside was home to Arabs, most of them Muslims, while the larger towns contained both Arabs and Jews. Some of the Jews were long established there, while others were religious pilgrims from Europe who had come to live near the holy sites in Jerusalem and other cities. (Because the vast majority of Palestinians were Muslim Arabs, the term Palestinians now usually refers only to them, not to the Jews of Israel. Most Palestinians are Muslims.) The land was ruled by the Ottoman Empire, but the Ottomans saw little of value in Palestine and neglected the area. Consequently, poverty, disease, and malnutrition were widespread. Nonetheless, the area served as a land corridor between Europe, Asia, and Africa and thus had strategic importance. It was also near the Suez Canal, which, when opened in Egypt in 1869, connected the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea. Palestine was therefore important to the British, who occupied Egypt in 1882 and depended on control of the canal for its fortunes.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries the Zionist movement gained strength in Europe, and large numbers of Jews immigrated to Palestine. The movement focused on self-reliance through agriculture, and many immigrants settled in the countryside. To do so, Jews had to buy land from local Arab holders of small tracts and from absentee Arab landlords of large areas. As a result, Jews and Arabs came into increasing contact; at times, Jewish purchases led to the displacement of Arab peasants from the land. Although the Ottoman government sought to slow the Zionist movement, Jews established a significant and expanded presence. Their success furthered the world debate about whether and how to establish a Jewish homeland, and it also created apprehension among Arabs.

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FUCK THE POLICE: Demand Justice for Oscar Grant! BART Station Oakland

2009-01-13T03:43:57Z

People Demand Justice for Oscar Grant!

Warring graphic Youtube video of the police shooting of Oscar Grant

The New Year's Day death of 22-year-old Oscar Grant in Oakland, California, led to violent protests in the area after several videos of the incident Jan 9, 2009

Bart Police shooting in Oakland KTVU report
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKy-WSZMklc

POLICE SHOOTING AT BART STATION - OSCAR GRANT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmJukcFzEX4

NWA- fuck da police
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QLL9MZXLIQ

Article
http://revcom.us/a/153/Oscar_Grant-en.html

Oakland, CA. January 1, first day of 2009. 22-year-old Oscar Grant III was murdered in cold blood—shot in the back by a cop as he lay on a BART train platform.

Yet another Black youth killed by the police. But this time in front of dozens of people. And this time captured on cell phones and cameras and quickly blasted around on the Internet.

Police say they had responded to a report of a verbal altercation on the train. The AP news reported: “In grainy cell-phone videos played over and over on the Internet, police officers force an unarmed black man to the ground and hold him face-down on a crowded train platform. Suddenly one of the officers draws his gun and fatally shoots the man in the back—then looks up.” (AP, January 9, 2009)

John Burris, the attorney for Oscar Grant’s family who have filed a 25-million-dollar lawsuit, said witnesses told him that cops taunted the group of youth with racial epithets, including the “n” word. Very few mainstream news reports have mentioned this.

The funeral for Oscar was held six days later, on January 7. That night, decades of pent-up anger at police brutality and outright murder, like the killing of Oscar—exploded onto the streets in righteous rebellion. 250 police tried to contain the hundreds of protesters, attacking with tear gas, charging into the protesters, cordoning off blocks; but people refused to back down, regrouping again and again in angry resistance that went on for hours. Over 100 people were arrested .
Lies and Coverup

As videos of the murder spread on the internet and then to national TV, the system’s machinery of lies, justifications and protecting its armed enforcers immediately sprung into motion.

BART and the Alameda County District Attorney (who could file criminal charges against Johannes Mehserle, the cop who killed Oscar Grant) promised a full investigation. But as we go to press, 11 days after the murder, Mehserle—who was on paid leave until he submitted his resignation on January 7—has not been detained, let alone charged with the murder of Oscar Grant.

BART officials have suggested that Mehserle might have intended to “only” taser Oscar Grant, but pulled out the wrong weapon. What bullshit! That a cop, trained in firearms, would mistake a lightweight plastic taser for his heavy steel automatic weapon. And tasering Grant would have still been a case of police brutality.

Oscar Grant III was an apprentice butcher who worked at an Oakland grocery store and had a four-year-old daughter. His sister Adreena Grant told Revolution, “He took care of my niece. He did what he had to do. He worked. He never pushed nobody away. Maybe go out clubbing every now and then, but he was a good man. Always took care of Mom when she needed help. He would never say no to anybody and it’s messed up because he would not get to see his nephew be born. He died for nothing. He didn’t do no wrong. He was always doing right. If he ran into a homeless person he would give him money, food, whatever he needed. I just want some justice. I want the man [who did this] behind bars, doing 25 to life.”
Grief, Anger, Rebellion

January 7 began with sorrow threaded with anger as hundreds of people packed the funeral for Oscar Grant.

After the funeral, over 500 people protested at the Fruitvale BART station. People sat and stood on the turnstiles holding up homemade signs. After rallying at the station and closing it down, youth of all colors led a march of people of different nationalities, old and young, to downtown. They chanted, “We are all Oscar Grant.” “When the people of Oakland are under attack, what do we do? Stand up fight back!” “When the people of the world are under attack, what do we do? Stand up and fight back!”

A CBS news report posted on SFGate.com described the situation that started about 6:30 pm and went on until around 11 pm: “A dumpster was set on fire, protesters rocked a police car…about ten minutes later we saw a bunch of officers running after someone on a bicycle. 8:09 pm a car was engulfed in flames...5 minutes later vandals attacked a McDonald’s, one hurling a trashcan at the windows.” Some youth are shown in media photos during the night, laying down on their stomachs with their hands behind their backs—in front of lines of cops—dramatizing Oscar Grant’s position when he was murdered. Others stood with signs taped to their backs, “Please don’t shoot.”

In a video posted at SFGate.com a CBS 5 reporter recounts how the pastor at Oscar Grant’s funeral says he understands people’s anger, but urges calm. The video then cuts to a Black man saying, “We tired of calm. That’s that ‘we shall overcome’ stuff over there. We doing something different over here. We taking action.”

The media reported that dozens of cars were burned and businesses had their windows broken. But more than one bystander interviewed that night was focused on the injustice of the murder and its implications, and not on the property damage.

Ken Epstein, a reporter for the Oakland Post told CBS Channel 5: “I was writing a story for the paper about how upset people are and how unjust the killing of Oscar Grant was and my car was being burned up. But at the same time I really understand how outraged people are and I’m outraged myself.”

Thyen Tran, a 24-year-old Vietnamese whose family’s nail salon window was broken, said he understood the anger of the protesters. Referring to the cops who murdered Oscar Grant, he said: “It doesn’t make sense, using brutal force. It doesn’t feel good, because No. 1, I’m a minority, and No. 2, I’m a young kid.” (New York Times, January 8)

In a personal letter to the family of Oscar Grant, Cornelius Hall, whose son Jerrold was killed with a shotgun blast to the back of his head by a BART cop in 1992, wrote: “I understand your pain although I will never know what you feel nor will anyone else. Stay focused in your quest for justice although you may get tired at times.” He then added from his own experience, and that of many other families who have lost loved ones, “BART will try to demonize your son in order to make his image look bad. Hold your head up high with the memory of his love.”
Brutal Enforcers

Emmett Till was killed in 1955 by white racists for the “crime” of whistling at a white woman—when lynching was as common and American as apple pie. Today it is mostly the police—who openly, as the police—carry out brutality and terror against Black youth and Black people in general.

Oscar Grant was a young Black man coming home from celebrating the new year. This was all the excuse the cop needed to end his life execution-style. Maybe Oscar was too loud, too proud, too Black. Maybe he was too calm during the taunts of the police. Or maybe it was for nothing at all.

Like Sean Bell, killed by the NYPD in 2006, while out celebrating before his wedding day.

On the eve of the Obama inauguration, there is all this talk about a so-called “post-racial America,” how this country, with its racist past, has now been “redeemed.” But in fact, these continuing police murders show just the opposite—that the systematic oppression of Black people is so deep and so integral to the U.S. system of capitalism that the only way it can be uprooted is through a revolution that gets rid of this system and brings into being an entirely different and far better socialist system as a part of emancipating all of humanity. This is a huge and extremely important subject that is gone into in depth in the special issue of Revolution newspaper #144: “The Oppression of Black People, The Crimes of This System, and the Revolution We Need” (available at revcom.us).

And for those who try to argue that these murders are an “aberration”—they need to confront the fact that there is in fact a real epidemic of police murder of Black youth in cities all across this country.

Adolph Grimes is another Black youth who didn’t live past the first day of 2009—shot and killed by the New Orleans police in the early morning hours of January 1. 22-year-old Grimes had been living in Houston since Katrina and was back visiting family for the New Year’s holiday. He was sitting in a parked car outside his grandmother’s house when plain-clothes police shot him 14 times, 12 in the back (according to the New Orleans coroner).

Powerful resistance can change the equation in society where too many people accept the unacceptable. It can give heart to those put under a constant death sentence by this verdict. It can call forth many more people to join in taking this on. And it can be a powerful force in building a revolutionary movement aimed at getting rid of this murderous system.

WE ARE ALL OSCAR GRANT! THE WHOLE DAMN SYSTEM IS GUILTY!

FIGHT THE POWER, AND TRANSFORM THE PEOPLE, FOR REVOLUTION.

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Washington bears guilt for Gaza war crimes

2009-01-10T03:04:14Z

Social Justice: A Spiritual Perspective
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http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/dec2008/pers-d29.shtml

The Israeli massacre of Palestinians in Gaza is a war crime for which not only the government of Israel but also that of the United States bears full responsibility.

The relentless bombing campaign, which in its first 48 hours has left at least 600 dead and 2,000 wounded, is a deliberate slaughter of innocent civilians and an act of state terror. The toll of casualties, many of them women and children, is certain to rise. As Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Lieutenant-General Gabi Ashkenaz put it, "This is only the beginning."

The pretense that this assault is an act of retaliation for the recent scattered rocket attacks that have been carried out against Israeli territory from inside Gaza is preposterous. Israel, with the collaboration of Washington, has been preparing the current bombing campaign and threatened ground assault for months, under the cover of the supposed cease-fire with Gaza's Hamas-led administration.

"These people are nothing but thugs," said White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe, who insisted that Israel was only acting to "defend itself" against "terrorists."

This is the official story that is largely echoed by the mass media and endorsed by the leadership of the Democratic Party.

Few bother to point out that not a single Israeli was killed by the homemade rockets that supposedly justified Israel launching its Gaza bombardments and killing 400 (one Israeli died in a rocket attack afterwards.) Such a disproportionate response is hardly an aberration. During the last eight years, barely a score of Israelis have died in rocket and mortar attacks from Gaza. During the same period, Israeli forces have killed nearly 5,000 Palestinians.

Nor is there much concern over the fact that Israel chose to launch its bombing in the most crowded and desperately poor urban area on the face of the earth precisely at the hour that schoolchildren were making their way home. Under these conditions, ritualistic US statements urging Israel to "avoid civilian casualties" amount to mocking the victims.

Having maligned an entire people as "thugs," the White House has given the green light for a bloodbath. More importantly, it has provided the indispensable resources for carrying out this crime, assuring Israel more than $3 billion a year in US military aid and supplying the IDF with the deadly tools of its trade—F-16 fighter jets, Apache attack helicopters, TOW and Hellfire missiles and the fuel and spare parts needed to keep them in operation.

The dispatches from inside Gaza provide a graphic accounting of what Washington got for its arms and money.

Safa Joudeh, a freelance journalist in Gaza City, writes: "There were piles and piles of bodies in the locations that were hit. As you looked at them you could see that a few of the young men were still alive, someone lifts a hand, and another raises his head. They probably died within moments because their bodies were burned, most had lost limbs, some of their guts were hanging out and they were all lying in pools of blood."

Ewa Jasiewicz reports from Gaza: "We saw a bearded man, on a stretcher on the floor of an intensive care unit, shaking and shaking, involuntarily, legs rigid and thrusting downwards. A spasm coherent with a spinal chord injury. Would he ever walk again or talk again? In another unit, a baby girl, no older than six months, had shrapnel wounds to her face. A relative lifted a blanket to show us her fragile bandaged leg. Her eyes were saucer-wide and she was making stilted, repetitive, squeaking sounds."

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz carried a report from its correspondent on the scene: "Relatives search among the bodies and the wounded in order to bring the dead quickly to burial. A mother whose three school-age children were killed, and are piled one on top of the other in the morgue, screams and then cries, screams again and then is silent."

The New York Times, hardly known for its sympathy for the Palestinians, acknowledged: "Still, there was a shocking quality to Saturday's attacks, which began in broad daylight as police cadets were graduating, women were shopping at the outdoor market, and children were emerging from school.

"The center of Gaza City was a scene of chaotic horror, with rubble everywhere, sirens wailing, and women shrieking as dozens of mutilated bodies were laid out on the pavement and in the lobby of Shifa Hospital so that family members could identify them. The dead included civilians, including several construction workers and at least two children in school uniforms."

This is not self-defense; it is premeditated mass murder. The aim of the "shock and awe" campaign, as the assault on Gaza is widely described in Israel, is similar to that conducted by the US against Iraq—regime change.

Neither the Zionist regime nor Washington accepted the victory of Hamas in the 2006 Palestinian election—hailed by the Bush administration (before the results were known) as part of a flowering of democracy in the Middle East wrought by American militarism.

In response, the US and its Israeli ally did their best to provoke a Palestinian civil war and military coup and, when this proved ineffective in ousting Hamas from power in Gaza, subjected the territory's one-and-a-half million people to relentless collective punishment. They imposed a siege that choked off supplies of food, medicine, potable water and electricity, condemning masses of people to poverty, unemployment, hunger and disease. The present killing represents a qualitative escalation of this merciless policy of making life for the people of Gaza so intolerable that the Hamas regime would fall.

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Stop Israeli and US backed Massacre in Gaza!

2009-01-10T02:30:37Z

"Why don't these people just get out and move, I'm so sick of this evil sh*t - these are not even the real Jews any way" -Dog Star

killing women and children civilians....thousands

My Blog
http://people.tribe.net/chaz/blog/91b7da2c-e7b8-4531-8ceb-cd468d320312

http://revcom.us/a/152/gaza-Everest-en.html

Shortly after darkness fell on Saturday night, January 3, Israel launched a massive land invasion of Gaza involving 9,000-10,000 soldiers, tanks, helicopters, and heavy artillery, engineering and intelligence forces, with the support of Israel’s Air Force, navy, and secret police and spy agencies. The ground invasion came after Israel, for the first time, unleashed an artillery barrage on Gaza, striking a mosque and killing at least 11 people. By the next day, Israeli forces had reportedly cut Gaza in half, “bisecting” it between north and south.

Seven straight days of Israeli bombing before the invasion had already resulted in an estimated 460 killed and 2,285 wounded (with the numbers increasing by the hour). Now more carnage looms with The New York Times (January 4, 2009) already reporting “Wounded civilians poured into the emergency room of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Sunday, including women and children.” And Israel’s ban on journalists from entering Gaza means that much death and destruction has gone unreported.

In a despicable display of Nazi-like threat and false show of concern, Israel dropped leaflets over northern Gaza telling residents: “For your own safety, you are asked to leave the area immediately.” Yet Palestinians are trapped in Gaza by Israel. Where are they supposed to go?

This raises the specter that many people, unable to leave, will be murdered. And according to a March 2008 report on Israeli Channel Two (after a visit from U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice), Israel’s strategy may be “for the removal of tens of thousands of Palestinians from the northern Gaza Strip, namely from the region that the resistance uses for the launch of these rockets, and to move them toward Gaza City and to confine them there.” (See http://arablinks.blogspot.com/2008/03/after-meeting-condi-israeli-officials.html)

The forced removal of a civilian population is the textbook definition of ethnic cleansing and a war crime.

In the past several days the U.S. government has made its support for Israel’s murderous assault on Gaza crystal clear. The U.S. was informed before Israel launched its attacks (and was reportedly involved in months of Israeli planning), and now CNN reports (January 4, 2009) that the U.S. military was “aware in advance of Israel’s plans to enter Gaza.”

So it is telling that on the very day of Israel’s invasion, President Bush gave his first public statement on Gaza—condemning Hamas, raising no criticism of Israel, and opposing a ceasefire, but instead justifying Israel’s attack: “This recent outburst of violence was instigated by Hamas—a Palestinian terrorist group supported by Iran and Syria that calls for Israel’s destruction.”

The same day, Secretary of State Rice strongly backed Israel and condemned any cease-fire that didn’t meet Israeli objectives. And the day before, a White House spokesperson said any decision on a ground invasion would be Israel’s to make—in other words, a bright green light for Israel from the U.S.

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Future of the 21st Century - Time For The End of Slavery

2008-12-30T18:06:10Z

My Blog: A World Enslaved
http://people.tribe.net/chaz/blog/e57844d8-48e8-48f5-a3dc-5c94f0eb3798

We are all enslaved in a way, but today i would like to talk about the global international and domestic problem of women and children abroad.

One of my primary concerns as a man of conscience and blogger has been to spotlight the stench of injustice AND Inequality in all its forms, but today is about slavery and the current global state of affairs... we are all slaves at times or one way or another to money or our desires but nothing like this... Also legal injustices of the world and current prisons systems, to monetary, racial and/or social discrimination, all kinds of inequality - wherever it's happening, that we may all affirm and do whatever moves us to end these abominable viruses upon humanity.

I've spent years focusing on the Social issues of Alternative Economics FIAT-MONEY AND ZIONISM (Seth) needs to go, Educational SLAVERY of our schools and information, Women slavery, slaves globally and now children slaves of the African chocolate meatgrinder feeding America cheap chocolate on the backs of starving African children or the diamond mines of Africa killing children while these idiots today with the likes of p diddy and russell simmons etc and all the current African American sell out cultures the so called hero's and "who are making it" a lot of money but aren't worth Sh*t even these sports players and/or movie T.V. personalities all are talking about "Flossing "yet and at the expense of their own people and children. Sellouts and for What? - Get real

WE NEED A NEW SET OF VALUES ...It's time to get rid of Money

Today I found a very valuable article sketching a larger global picture of slavery that offers a broader view of the larger issue.

This seems a perfect time for this piece given the larger trends already set into motion on a meta-level. If we are supposed to learn "to love our neighbors as ourselves" then perhaps our persistent focus on that which afflicts our sisters, brothers, and children of the world might eventually yield a lessening of the suffering.

That's why some of my articles help us "remember" some things. This "concentration of consciousness" used to be called "Witnessing." Historically, "witnessing" was, is, and continues to be is an important function in the collective consciousness remembering its Divine Estate. While direct action is always good, ANY action is also good. Different people of conscience have different skills.

Ultimately, the purpose of being here is the extinguishing of ALL the sources of destructive human relationships through us consciously imagining and living a better way. Our challenge is not to turn away from witnessing what could be in the face of what has been.

If Divine Freedom is the true estate of the human being, then slavery is truly a horrible illusion. It's time for all forms of slavery to end, and the Oneness of All Our Relations, the group of Souls that we ALL are together, to reclaim our collective freedom on our Path of Return.

For your consideration, via the ever-fantastic TruthOut, http://www.truthout.org/122108D

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BLACK JEWS AND HEBREWS

2008-11-16T08:42:46Z

My Blog
http://people.tribe.net/chaz/blog/195ab28c-949f-457c-b4ea-20b2c97be20a

"ALL Abrahamic Religions are plagiarized invention for the purpose of providing a religious justification for Imperialism." -Dog Star

The Arabs with Islam (Muslims) Jews with Judaism, and Christians with Christ

"Zionism is not Judaism, and the rejection of Israel is not anti-Semitic."

The world's best kept secret...

The people who call themselves Jews today are not the real Jews …
The Real Jews are from Ethiopia, a black race

Historians are now recognizing that the majority of eastern so-called
"Jews" are actually "Khazars" and have NO Semitic roots whatsoever!

The Khazars are not the true descendants of the Israelites of the Torah.

The original Biblical Jews were a Black African people who were ruthlessly
persecuted by the Romans.

As predicted by Jesus, in this war Jerusalem was overthrown, the
Temple was destroyed and the Black Hebrews were scattered.
(Mat. 24:15-21, Luke 21: 5,6, 20-24) The loss of life was appalling.
So many Hebrews were slain that the whole lake of Galilee
was red with blood and covered with corpses. The noted historian,
Josephus estimated that one million one hundred thousand perished in the
siege of Jerusalem alone, a massive genocide.

* Seeking to escape destruction, millions of original Black Biblical Jews fled into AFRICA!

* Centuries later, their descendants were captured and sold into slavery in the Americas!

If the original Jews were Black, where did whtie Jews come from?

members.tripod.com/jrmoore1...jews.html

If the original Jews were Black, where did these Caucasians who call themselves Jews come from? There are two main types of white Jews, the Edomites and the Khazars. The Edomites are the descendants of Esau, who was born ruddy (red) and hairy.

This describes the white man who is all shades of red, and hairy, according to Gen. 25:25; "And the first came out red all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau."

Esau was the albino, fraternal twin brother of Jacob, who was the father of the original Black Israelites. Rom 9:13 states, "As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated."

The white Edomites and Black Israelites were constantly in conflict with each other, in fact, the Edomites fought the Black Jews in the Roman-Jewish War, but later in history, the Edomites (Idumeans) were conquered and forced to become Jews.

These so called Jewish people are the descendants of Esau's grandson Amalek, who, around 730-740 AD, were converted to the laws and statutes of Judaism, thus becoming Jews, but this group was not a descendant from the house of Israel either.

Khazars make up over 90% of the so-called "Jews!"

These so called Jewish people are the descendants of Esau's grandson Amalek, who, around 730-740 AD, were converted to the laws and statutes of Judaism, thus becoming Jews, but this group was not a descendant from the house of Israel either.

Their flourishing empire which extended from the Black Sea to the Caspian, and from the Caucasus to the Volga, was located between two major superpowers, the Eastern Roman Empire in Byzantium (Christianity), and the followers of Muhammad (Islam). The Khazar empire, representing a third force, could only maintain its political and ideological independence if it neither accepted Christianity nor Islam, since they did not want to become subordinate to either the authority of the Roman Emperor, or the Caliph of Baghdad.

For that reason, the Khazar king embraced the Jewish faith and ordered his subjects to do the same, which is how Judaism became the official state religion of the Khazars who now make up 90% of the so-called Jews of today. They were circumcised and started to use Jewish names. They also studied the Torah and Talmud, spoke and wrote in Hebrew, observed Hanukkah, Pesach and the Sabbath, and had synagogues and rabbis.

So as a political ploy they all converted to Judaism during the Middle Ages, and use a corrupted form of Judaism to hide behind, while continuing their treachery right into modern times.

The Khazars have labelled themselves Zionists and "Jews" to deceive the world in furthering their own plans for global and political conquest. The Political Program for World Dominion is wrapped neatly in the cloak of religion.

What is a Hebrew Israelite?
http://people.tribe.net/chaz/blog/1c319b5d-1b1d-4908-9058-210c100f4b58

BLACK HEBREWS ORIGINALS OF THE BIBLE
http://people.tribe.net/chaz/blog/9c2ddeac-9c8b-4697-8b26-5a6bb39eaa21

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African Americans and the Prop 8 vote

2008-11-08T04:17:30Z

African Americans make up only 5% of California's population

basically, you all didn't get off your butts and advocate ... stop hating
http://people.tribe.net/chaz/blog/5e3c859a-2435-4cdc-8933-b4928cb02c61

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Daring to Dream of a Black President

2008-11-07T17:38:51Z

*I thought you might like to read this...be sure and post your views too-i'd love to read them!

Daring to Dream of a Black President
By , The Independent
Posted on November 4, 2008, Printed on November 7, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/story/106044/
With Obama on the brink of victory, America's leading black voices share what it means to them.

Maya Angelou, novelist: 'If he wins, it means my country has agreed to grow up'

I never thought I'd see a black president in the White House in my lifetime. I didn't even dare dream it. I feel like a child approaching Christmas, you can't believe election day is finally here. It's been so long since we've had people -- Asian and black, white and Spanish-speaking -- come together and say YES. Some did during the civil rights struggle but not as many as today. What it means if Mr Obama is voted in, is that my country has agreed to grow up, and move beyond the childish idea that human beings are different.

I'm talking to friends in the UK, in Italy, in China who can't vote, who cannot press anything other than the point home, so I know the world is watching. We have lain so long in the undergrowth of ignorance. Can we really be saved from the rage of consumerism where we identify ourselves by our spending: 'I'm a shopper'. What kind of stupidness is that? Buying things we cannot afford and do not need.

I'm no prophet, I'm no seer, I'm a beseecher -- so I have been out to thump the drum for Mr Obama. I started out in Senator Hillary Clinton's camp and I thumped the drum for her.

When it was proven that the majority of people wanted Senator Obama, she stepped out of the race and began to thump the drum for him, and so did I.

I think he has simply proven to everybody that he is very intelligent -- and by that I'm referring to what used to be called common sense, which is terribly uncommon these days. You can see him thinking before he speaks, which should be a presidential prerequisite but rarely is. Most of the candidates all the way back, save for two or three, seem to just punch a button. There's a question and they punch number seven and out comes an answer, which had been stored up.

Senator Obama has proven that he knows how to be a president to all the people, not just the rich and mighty, not just to whites, not just to blacks, but all the people. I'm so excited, the excitement can hardly be contained. How will I be spending election night? On my knees. Maybe getting off them to have a very nice Scotch and then getting back down on my knees again.

Toni Morrison, novelist: 'Things are different now. A lot of white people are different'

This election is critical, vital to more than just people in the United States. It's going to make a big, big difference which way it goes. The worst thing is not Senator Obama losing, it's who wins. I am encouraged by the polls and by him but I have lived long enough to know that elections have been systematically stolen. Luckily, I think everybody knows that and is sending about 5,000 lawyers to the polls.

I don't believe in the Bradley Effect -- there were a lot of reasons he lost. And this time is different. First of all the country is different. Secondly he's different. And thirdly a lot of white people are different. Several weeks ago I read about the Reverse Bradley Effect, where whites down in the south say they are voting Republican because of their neighbours!

I think the situation is dire, I cannot think of a large issue where things are going right, and Senator Obama will have an extremely difficult time. But there are two things that one should remember. The first is a cliché, but he himself has said it, 'It's not about me, it's about other people'. He cannot do it on his own, he needs the force of those who voted for him. The second thing -- and one of the reasons I really respect him -- is that he surrounds himself with really smart people, and not just smart people that say what he wants to hear. He likes the dialogue, the questioning, the one who tells him the truth as opposed to the one who strokes ego.

I think the promise with Senator Obama is that we return to an idea known as "the common good" and we have not had that in eight years. I mean, you can't get sick in America, you will be bankrupt. This administration has been very clear in its assumption that privatisation is best. There are jails where you have to pay room and board, you get into debt and when you get out you have to pay it back. And some people who do not have means to borrow go out and steal again. I know that the Democrats are more inclined to take the right position and not regard taxes on the extremely rich as some sort of insult to them.

What am I going to do on election night? I have three choices: I can go to some friends; I was invited to go on a TV show; but I think under the bed may yet prove the safest place to be.

Samuel L Jackson, Actor: 'There's been a warrior culture here. It's time that ended'

We have been through eight years of pretty much lunacy and madness. In America, we have tended to think that we are the greatest living things on the planet and our leadership has exemplified that. There's been a sort of warrior culture here, and it's time that ended. Obama is the president to take us to the next place. He's not part of the establishment, number one. He doesn't have that sense of entitlement that others have had. What he does have is a sense of empathy for people who are on the lower rung of society and he doesn't want to give the people with all the money all the breaks.

It's not just about what an Obama victory will mean to the African American community, it's for the nation in general. It means something for the little Asian kid, or the little Hispanic kid, for everybody of a different origin than Anglo-American. It actually means that the lie that they told us all these years -- that you can grow up to be anything you want to be in America, even the president -- might actually be true now. Until this election, it was just a fantasy -- you had to be white to be president. The closest we got to it was when Jimmy Smits was elected president on the West Wing or Morgan Freeman being president on screen.

I grew up in the segregated South, and there's probably still two generations who grew up next to "Whites Only" signs. We were part of that time in America when we were second-class citizens, so no, I didn't expect to see this in my lifetime. It's really wonderful and revelatory in terms of how far we have come so fast. And hopefully it will signify a major change in how we are perceived in the world community. Obama represents what we hope America can be.

But I will not be comfortable until 5 November. I was in the UK for the 2000 election. When I went to bed in Liverpool that night, Bush had lost, when I woke up the next morning Bush had won. Until I go to Obama's inauguration in January, I won't really believe it. And I'm definitely going, I've made hotel reservations already.

Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader: 'I just wish Martin Luther King was here to share the joy'

It will be the sixth time I've voted for Barack Obama. When he ran for the State Senate I voted for him in the primary and the general; when he ran for the US Senate I voted for him in the primary and the general; and in his run for the presidency I voted for him in the primary and will be voting for him in the general. I will spend election day on the phone, encouraging people to go out and vote. I will not be letting up until the polls close.

Our struggle in America for civil rights started out with the right to vote and now Mr Obama is on the doorstep of the White House. We got the right to vote in 1965, that's 43 years ago, and we have kept evolving over those years. America is a country that continues to grow, it's maturing. This election says to Europe, Africa and Asia that democracy is real and that we must rise above limitations of race and gender to achieve our purpose.

The people of America are ready for a black president now. Senator Obama's race is self-evident, he didn't make an issue out of it. He's reached out to people across the divide and had universal appeal by focussing on the real issues.

There's a great sense of joy. I just wish Dr [Martin Luther] King were here to share it. He would be overjoyed. But he would also know that we have challenges beyond the election. He would be proud of where we are but he would remind us that we are not all the way there yet, until we wipe out poverty and illiteracy and end these unnecessary wars.

Jay-Z, rapper

Rosa Parks sat so that Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so that Obama could run. Obama's running so that we all can fly. I can't wait until 5 November and I'm going to say 'Hello, Brother President'. I can't tell you who to vote for. All I can do is tell you to vote."

Spike Lee, director

I say it's very simple, we have BB, "before Barack," and AB, "after Barack."

This coalition that he's got: black, white, Hispanic, Asian, gay, straight, whatever. It's come together and this has never been done before and I think this thing is preordained or whatever we want to call it. I'm not going to say it's God, but this is not a mistake, this is happening now. He's here when his country is at it's lowest in many many years.

Even though I live in Manhattan, I still vote out of Brooklyn, so 4 November I'm going to be the first in line in Brooklyn. Then I'm going to get a flight to Chicago and I'll be there all day.

Tiger Woods, Golfer

I've seen him speak. He's extremely articulate, very thoughtful, I'm just impressed at how well, basically all politicians really do, how well they think on their feet. Especially those debates. It's pretty phenomenal to see them get their point across. But I just think that he's really inspired a bunch of people in our country and we'll see what happens down the road.

Alonzo Mourning, basketball player

I need to be part of this because this is part of the history of our nation and I do have a voice in the community -- I have a presence and it's beautiful to be able to use it on behalf of something I believe in. Some athletes worry something like this might affect their sponsorship deals, but I'm not afraid. Obama has given real leadership. I'm not ashamed to say I'm with him all the way.

Stevie Wonder, musician

He's a combination of JFK and Martin Luther King. With that, he can't lose. I see a time when we will have a united people of the United States. And that is why I support Barack Obama.

James Blake, tennis player

I am proud. I am very proud of Barack Obama. I believe in him and I believe that he will do good things for this country. I hope the country gives him that opportunity.

© 2008 The Independent All rights reserved.
View this story online at: http://www.alternet.org/story/106044/

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Top 5 Body-Language Moments Of Election Day

2008-11-06T05:31:25Z

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathlyn-and-gay-hendricks/the-top-5-body-language-m_b_141328.html

5. The Exploding Veep

The first big dose of revelatory body language came for us the morning of Election Day, when we finally saw the tape of Dick Cheney endorsing John McCain. If you missed it, here's the key moment: At the peak of the speech, Cheney belted out the punchline, "I believe the right leader for this moment in history is John McCain." A split-second after these words left his mouth, he exploded into a coughing fit of epic proportions.

It was as if his body, after a lifetime of concealment and control, could no longer keep from erupting when forced to utter another lie.

4. All The Way Hume

We switched over to Fox News from time to time, in order to get the far-right spin on the events of the evening. We were particularly interested to see what some of their cocky bombasts would look like eating large helpings of crow. In body language terms, voice-flags are those vocal tones and tremors that communicate hidden emotions. Brit Hume's voice-flag was the one that stood out like a sore tongue. Throughout the evening, each time he was forced to announce one more McCain loss, he unconsciously lowered his voice to a sepulchral depth usually reserved for state funerals.

It was as if he was grieving more than the loss of his favorite candidate--he was mourning the declining fortunes of his employer and the movement it has trumpeted.

3. Taking The Tics Out Of Politics

In an earlier post we commented on the stunning array of tics, twitches and jaw-clenches that played across John McCain's face during the campaign. If you study the tape of his concession speech on election night, though, you'll see very little of that kind of body language. Why? Where did it go?

The answer is simple but has profound consequences for health and happiness. The reason McCain's facial flickers were so quiet is that he wasn't trying to be two people at once. It requires body tension to feel anger but pretend it isn't there. It takes effort to seal off fear, and even more effort to whistle along pretending it was never there. "A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways," says the Book of James, and during the campaign, McCain's instability played across his face incessantly. Now, though, John McCain does not have to pretend to be anything he isn't. He doesn't have to be an honorable man trying to live inside his skin with a fear-mongering alien bent on winning by sowing seeds of hate. He's the better for it, and so are we.

2. The Crowd At Grant Park

We watched Obama's victory speech in a room with people ranging in age from 10 to 63, and all of us had tears in our eyes. Looking around the room, we saw the same emotions on our faces as we saw in the crowd at Grant Park. Some of them were crying tears of relief, others tears of pride, others pure elation. Beyond emotion, though, the amazing phenomenon was the size of the crowd. We wondered what other event and what other person could inspire a couple hundred thousand people to stand out in the admittedly not-so-cold at midnight. They were there to celebrate Obama and to see history being made, but the looks on their faces told a deeper story: They were there to celebrate the triumph of love and hope over fear and divisiveness.

1. Power, Joy, Grief And Fatigue = One Whole Person

When Obama took the stage, we saw a man embodying a complex array of feeling. He looked tired, of course, and who wouldn't be? A ten-year-old in the room, who hadn't heard of the death of Barack's grandmother, said "He looks sad." It takes a deeply integrated person to let his grief be visible on a night of overwhelming victory. This is a key to his personality, and bodes well for the future of his presidency. It takes enormous strength to let your vulnerabilities rest so comfortably in yourself that they can be readily seen.

There was one emotion we're glad was missing from Obama and the crowd in Grant Park: any sense of triumphant glee. We couldn't help wondering if it would have been present in McCain's supporters had the tables been turned. John McCain had to silence a few boos and jeers from his audience, but by and large they just looked sad, tired and meek.

Finally, we were deeply moved by Obama's body language at the end, in the easy way he brought forth the other members of his and Biden's family to share the stage. He seemed to melt into them, as if he knows deep in his bones that none of this is really about him as an individual ego. There's a huge difference between needing to be the center of things and simply being in the middle of things. Somehow, despite all the adulation and glory (as well as the relentless attacks mounted by the other side) Obama still knows what he's known all along: he's one of us.

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Stevie "OBAMA" Wonder- Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours

2008-11-05T04:24:34Z

WE DID IT!!! YAY!!! (I'm doing a dance ha-ha)

My Blog
http://sanfrancisco.tribe.net/template/pub%2Coc%2CDetail.vm?topicid=26648fb8-adeb-4e65-bd0c-e76568d3282b&plugin=blog&inst=2313265

"Not by the color of skin (We all Win), but by the content of our hearts"

Here I AM... Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours ;-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inXC_lab-34

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MLK was Not! was a Republican!

2008-11-02T21:06:52Z

My Blog
http://people.tribe.net/chaz/blog/3ee7e1ec-f441-439d-8b38-6b831d8d23ca

These articles are being spread around
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=16500

I'm having this heated debate on tribe
http://heateddebate.tribe.net/thread/e60413ba-5723-4237-85f7-02e04ff399a7

NOTE: A lot of my comments on this blog are replys to the other post in this heated debate - FYI I love all my bothers and sister; white, black, red, brown, yellow, orange, green, and purple - we belong to the human race.

I would just like to say before I begin is that it shouldn't be about race, but that's the level that they've brought it to and it's not all about Obama, it's about all these beautiful WHITE people of this country who has stepped forward and selected Obama to Champion this country back to us - remember the Govt. is supposed be ours and work for us.

It's just when people try to manipulate the truth that upsets me...

here's what they posted:

"It should come as no surprise that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican. In that era, almost all black Americans were Republicans. Why? From its founding in 1854 as the anti-slavery party until today, the Republican Party has championed freedom and civil rights for blacks. And as one pundit so succinctly stated, the Democrat Party is as it always has been, the party of the four S's: slavery, secession, segregation and now socialism"

Chaz: W stop spreading all these LIES, King was not a Republican, and in his era he was down with JFK.

And BTW black people were responsible for wining the Civil war and keeping the Union - Lincoln and his Republican party didn't care about freeing the slaves, they were only concern about saving and keeping the union, it was only when the North were getting beat so bad by the South that the North was out of any options, Lincoln then as a last ditched effort enlisted black warriors and black citizen to join the fight. If it weren't for these black soldiers we would not have a UNITED States today.

You keep posting these same articles and it's still a lie....Talk about things you know.

All parties and most of America (Still) are Racist

It never ceases to amaze me how low you people will go ...

I'm not a Republican nor a Democrat BTW -Dog Star

Everything out a Republicans mouth is a lie, or a manipulation of the truth and it's beyond me how anyone of you Republicans can talk any crap with what the Bush (Republicans) administration has done in hijacking this country and stripped us all of our rights and freedom and messed up the economy the worst since the great depression, along with an illegal war, and then to spy on all of us with a s called Patriot Act - we've lost our rights of privacy - i bet they are even looking at this blog right now- and now they've taken over our banks and our housing and financial institutions. Fascism and Police states are just up ahead...

but THANK GOD for Obama- he's heaven sent

BUT it's the beautiful WHITE people who are getting him there to get rid of those other DEVILS out of Office.

BUSH CHENEY RICE AND RUMSFELD AND MCCAIN ...Even Powell endorses OBama

And it was actually because of King and the Kennedy's connection that Black people began four decades of voting for liberals.
Tthe Government was spying on them before John and Jack Kennedy and the democratic party it's one of the reasons why the Kennedy's got shot. I suggest you leaving Texas and venturing out to the real world.

The Devil J Edgar Hoover (republican) has been in the FBI stirring up trouble since Calvin Coolidge (1924) he had King, the Kennedy's, and Malcolm x shot en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover

Martin Luther King was a Baptist minister.

"The Democrats held a narrow majority in Congress, and many of the Democratic seats were held by Southerners who opposed civil rights legislation. The president (Kennedy) needed the white Southern vote to win reelection in 1964. So Kennedy adopted a cautious approach to civil rights, emphasizing enforcement of existing laws over the creation of new ones."

"Kennedy pushed civil rights on many fronts. He ordered his attorney general to submit friends of the court briefs on behalf of civil rights litigants. He appointed African Americans to positions within his administration, named Thurgood Marshall to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York, and supported voter registration drives."

"But such an approach was problematic. By not addressing civil rights publicly and comprehensively, Kennedy was forced to address racial incidents on a case by case basis -- often after they had escalated to violence. In May, 1961, racists attacked Freedom Riders traveling by bus from Washington, D.C. to Birmingham, Alabama. Kennedy sent federal marshals to protect the protesters. But even armed marshals could not guarantee protection."

Controversial Ad Links MLK, GOP False Assertion About Civil Rights Leader Angers Americans

Washingtonpost
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/18/AR2006101801754.html

When a black conservative group ran a radio ad proclaiming that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican, reaction was swift. "We've gotten some e-mails and telephone calls filled with vitriol," said Frances Rice, chairman of the National Black Republican Association. "They've called me Aunt Jemima, a sellout, a traitor to my race."

In the battle for the black electorate, liberals, who make up the overwhelming majority of black voters, have long disagreed with conservatives over ideology, public policy and economic strategies to better the lives of African Americans. But when conservatives placed the civil rights movement in a Republican context, African Americans said, they crossed a line.

"To suggest that Martin could identify with a party that affirms preemptive, predatory war, and whose religious partners hint that God affirms war and favors the rich at the expense of the poor, is to revile Martin," said the Rev. Joseph Lowery, the former president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which the slain civil rights leader helped establish.

Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), who marched with King in the 1960s, called the ads an "insult to the legacy and the memory of Martin Luther King Jr." and "an affront to all that he stood for."

Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele (R), who is running for the U.S. Senate, denounced the King ad, and Donald E. Scoggins, president of Republicans for Black Empowerment and a former member of the association, said it was a terrible idea.

Republicans railed against the radio ads, with the sharpest criticism coming from former members of the black Republican association.

"The vast majority of black Republicans I know would not have approved of the ad," Scoggins said.

It is true that Southern Democrats, many of whom called themselves "Dixiecrats," blocked the social and political progress of black Southerners for decades. Among them was Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.), a former local leader in the Ku Klux Klan. Byrd has said he regrets his affiliation.

In 1960, King was arrested for trespassing during a sit-in and held in Georgia's Reidsville prison. Fearing for his son's life, Martin Luther King Sr. appealed to presidential candidate John F. Kennedy to secure his release.

When King was freed, his father vowed to deliver 10 million votes to the Democrat, even though Kennedy was only a reluctant supporter of civil rights. That began four decades of black people voting for liberals.

The younger King voted for Kennedy, and for Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson four years later. In that election, King publicly denounced the Republican candidate, Barry Goldwater.

Today, the vast majority of black voters are Democrats, including former ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young and former presidential hopeful Jesse L. Jackson, two former King aides.

That is why the ad was "a joke," said Christopher Arps, a former spokesman for Rice and the association. "Anyone with any sense knows that most black people were Republican at one time. But it's a far stretch to think that in the '60s Martin Luther King was a Republican."

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Rev. Wright is Right about how U.S. Government Uses

2008-11-01T08:40:27Z

"You can call me a conspiracy theorist all you want - It's never wrong to tell the truth." - Dog Star

My Blog Hello! Hello!
http://people.tribe.net/chaz/blog/c57eab9a-deb6-4e77-b255-757d871c0b45

Rev. Jeremiah Wright is Right about how U.S. Government Uses Blacks for Medical Experiments, Including AIDS. What Rev. Wright is saying about the way the U.S. government has treated blacks in the last 200 (500) years is remarkably accurate to anyone who has bothered to actually study American history. We live it everyday. Millions PURPOSELY injected with AIDS in Africa http://people.tribe.net/chaz/blog/0fd57349-9453-430a-9e26-d96fff41a83d 40 million today dying because of genocide.

I wanted to re-post this...Originally posted by Feather (who's amazing! please see her websites and her youtube videos http://people.tribe.net/heatherlsalmon)

I'm seeing so much racist garbage posted and said on Barack it's amazing, I mean all these lies, there's no end what these Devils will do and say, from Fox news to CNN - can't believe that we still live in a Racist society like this, US is still a bunch of hillbillies, but you want know something? you can't stop the dunk - IT"S OVER! Obama WILL be our next President - so get over it.

Learn more and empower yourself now

Rising Down
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Every anywhere heights plains peaks or valleys
Entrances exits vestibules and alleys
Winding roads that test the firm nerve
fortune or fatal behind the blind curve
The engine oil purr lights flash to a blur
speed work through the earth make your motor go scurrr
tonight at noon watch a bad moon rising
identities in crisis and conflict diamonds
blindin staring at lights till they cryin
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grapes of wrath in a shapely glass
ingredients influential on your ways and acts
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made it way before they made the map
or a GPS this is DEF leader

"It's never wrong to tell the truth."

http://www.naturalnews.com/z023131.html

(NaturalNews) Regarding the current controversy about Rev. Wright and U.S. Presidential candidate Barack Obama, Rev. Wright is actually quite correct about the U.S. government's exploitation of black Americans for medical experiments (and worse). What Rev. Wright is saying about the way the U.S. government has treated blacks in the last 200 years is remarkably accurate to anyone who has bothered to actually study American history. For starters, I recommend you read A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn, which will give you quite a horrifying account of how the FBI sought to assassinate black leaders, how law enforcement authorities looked the other way when crimes were committed against blacks, and many other difficult-to-believe (but true) facts about the history of America.

But that's just the beginning. The real horrors become even more clear when you look at the history of blacks being used for medical experiments in the United States. The Tuskegee experiments only scratch the surface. In reality, the history of conventional medicine in the U.S. is filled with true accounts of black women, black prisoners and black babies being openly used in extreme medical experiments where they were injected with deadly substances, denied medical treatment to see what might happen as the disease progressed, and even used in government-sanctioned experiments like the EPA's recent experiments on toxic chemicals in low-income children, which happened just a few years ago in New York.

Skeptical that any of this really happened? Maybe you just haven't learned any of this yet. To help you out, I've published a list of just a few of the medical experiments conducted on blacks, minorities and prisoners in the United States. You can read the list yourself here: http://www.naturalnews.com/019189.html

Part two is here: http://www.naturalnews.com/019187.html

One account included in that list reads as follows:

1963: Chester M. Southam, who injected Ohio State Prison inmates with live cancer cells in 1952, performs the same procedure on 22 senile, African-American female patients at the Brooklyn Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital in order to watch their immunological response. Southam tells the patients that they are receiving "some cells," but leaves out the fact that they are cancer cells. He claims he doesn't obtain informed consent from the patients because he does not want to frighten them by telling them what he is doing, but he nevertheless temporarily loses his medical license because of it. Later, Dr. Southam becomes president of the American Cancer Society.

As you can see, not only are these human medical experimentation doctors NOT convicted of their crimes against blacks and minorities, they are promoted to top positions in the medical establishment!

It gets worse: The genocide continues even today

And yet, despite all the horrifying history of medical experimentation on blacks and minorities in the United States -- much of it sponsored by the U.S. government -- the situation is even worse today because conventional medicine is engaged in a deliberate effort to deny black people access to the truth about sunlight, vitamin D, cancer and skin color. As NaturalNews readers well know, the reason breast cancer and prostate cancer rates are so much higher in black women and men is because dark skin pigmentation blocks the healing UV rays that create vitamin D in the skin, thereby leaving black men and women chronically deficient in vitamin D. That deficiency, in turn, greatly boosts their rates of cancer -- by nearly 500%! (The cancer industry loves this, by the way. It means lots of repeat business for cancer drugs and mammograms in the future.)

But instead of educating black men and women about this simple connection, the modern cancer industry (and medical establishment) refuses to tell black people the truth, thereby enslaving them in a system of high-profit medical treatments, all while pretending they have no idea why breast cancer is so much more aggressive in black women. Read my article, Vitamin D Recommendation Missing From Breast Cancer Task Force Report on Black Women at http://www.naturalnews.com/022151.html

Today, I've posted a scathing audio podcast on this topic, accusing the modern medical establishment of being engaged in crimes against blacks through its unwillingness to tell people the truth about why dark-skinned individuals need far more sunlight than white-skinned individuals. This audio podcast dares to tell the truth about the racist policies of modern medicine, and why Big Pharma wants to turn the bodies of black men and women into profit centers. You can listen to it right now at:http://www.naturalnews.com/Index-Podcasts.html

Of course, this profit exploitation motive isn't limited to blacks. Whites, Asians and everybody else are also targeted for medical profits, but blacks are disproportionately impacted by the lack of truthful information about cancer and vitamin D due to their unique skin pigmentation. In other words, the intentional censorship of factual information about sunlight, vitamin D and cancer results in far more harm to black people than anyone else!

Obama sticks his head in the sand
Barack Obama, for his part, is now pretending the U.S. government never conducted medical experiments on blacks, or that it's "un-American" to even talk of such things. These are the typical lies you'll hear from any politician running for office, especially when that office is in a country where 99% of the people have been kept in the dark about these matters. In reality, I say it's un-American to treat black people in the way they've been treated throughout American history. I say that all of us -- white, black, Hispanic, Asian, Hispanic, etc. -- have the right to be treated with dignity, with respect, and with our basic human rights intact. No person, no matter what their skin color, should be used for medical experiments, and when those experiments have taken place, it is the duty of honest citizens and the few remaining honest journalists to publicize those events in order to help ensure they never happen again.

Obama was quoted in the press yesterday as saying about Dr. Wright, "But when he states and then amplifies such ridiculous propositions as the U.S. government somehow being involved in AIDS. ... There are no excuses. They offended me. They rightly offend all Americans and they should be denounced."

In other words, Obama is saying that anyone speaking out about the U.S. government's exploitation of blacks and its involvement in the AIDS virus should be denounced. Note carefully that he did not say the U.S. government's medical experiments on blacks should be denounced! Rather, the people warning others about such activities should be denounced!

Or, put another way, Obama wants people to just shut up and pretend the U.S. government never committed these evils against blacks. He doesn't want the truth to come out. He's running for President, after all, and it's better to just whitewash important issues than to have to deal with them honestly and openly.

It is never the wrong time to tell the truth
Some say that merely bringing up these topics is divisive and destructive to the country. To that naive criticism, I say this: As a human being, it is my responsibility to do everything in my power to stand up for those less fortunate. From the black babies injected with contagious diseases who couldn't fend for themselves, to the foster care children who were "recruited" for the EPA's experiments on chemical toxicity, these babies and children need people like you and me to come to their defense.

They are defenseless: The poor, the young, the children without parents... these unfortunate ones are being swept up into Big Pharma's deadly medical experiments and the U.S. government's dangerous experiments for military and industrial purposes. Who will defend them if not us? And how will we ever make sure we don't repeat these true horrors of American history if we're not even willing to admit they happened in the first place?

Rev. Wright is telling people the truth about how the government has treated blacks, and it makes Obama nervous. Obama is living in a state of denial, which is actually great practice for becoming U.S. President. Those skills will come in quite handy during future press conferences. What better way to become the first black President of the United States than to deny the history of how the U.S. treated blacks in the first place?

For the record, I don't know for sure whether the government introduced AIDS into the population, but I've read a lot of books on epidemics and the AIDS virus in particular (including books by Len Horowitz, who I highly recommend as an author), and I can state with certainty that I highly suspect AIDS was, in fact, engineered by the U.S. government and intentionally introduced into the population as either a weapon of genocide or a population control measure. It all sounds quite sinister, but once you learn about what the CDC, FDA, EPA and USDA have already done to harm and kill so many people in the last few decades, it's not a stretch of any kind to consider the possibility that the government may have also been involved in the creation and release of the AIDS virus.

My main point, however, is that regardless of what you think about AIDS and the government, at the very least we should all be able to openly discuss these ideas and debate them without being instantly denounced for merely bringing up the subject.

Remember, those who are the quickest to denounce so-called "conspiracy theories" are those who are least capable of standing up to honest debate. It's the same for many issues: Vaccinations, fluoridation, 9/11 terror attacks, the AIDS virus, the war on Iraq and many more. Candidates like Obama don't want the American people to actually think for themselves or question the status quo, because the minute people start questioning the status quo, the whole fragile U.S. economy and Big Brother power centers would start to crumble. The continuity of the U.S. empire depends, in large part, on the continued ignorance of the American public about what's really true.

Recommended reading: Emerging Viruses: AIDS And Ebola : Nature, Accident or Intentional? by Leonard Horowitz

By the way, if you're a member of a black church and you're interested in learning more on this topic, I'd be thrilled to visit your church and present some of this information about cancer, sunlight, skin pigmentation and the conspiracy to deny black men and women access to the information they need to prevent cancer and save their own lives. Just contact me through the NaturalNews offices, and if I'm in your part of the country in the future, I'd be happy to stop by and talk to your church congregation about what's really going on with the cancer industry and its blatant exploitation of black men and women in this country. It's not a happy topic, I realize, but it's one that needs to be told. And I'm not afraid to tell it like it is.

Because here's the truth in all this: I have information right now that could prevent 90% of all cancer in black men and women. And I'd be thrilled to share that information with people. I personally find the black community to be very open to this information, probably because they are rightly skeptical about the way the medical establishment has treated them for so many decades. They know they're being lied to, used and exploited by wealthy corporations and corrupt government officials. They know it! They just don't know where to turn for real answers to this cancer problem.

Mother Nature has the answers, folks, and it's time we told the truth about cancer so that we can end the pain and disease in the black community that has caused so much suffering (and generated so much money for Big Pharma and the cancer industry). It's time to stop the genocide and start the healing. If we're going to move forward, together, as a nation of people who truly have equal rights and equal opportunities, then we've got to stop the cancers, stop the censorship and start the healing. It's the only way to move forward.

Here are some resources where you can learn more:

Downloadable MP3 Audio: Health Ranger Show #30: The Racist Cancer Industry, Blacks and Chemical Enslavement

Special Report: The Healing Power of Sunlight and Vitamin D (Free download)
www.naturalnews.com/Index-Specia...

Timeline of Genocide: The history of medical experiments on black, minorities and others in the United States, mostly by the U.S. government: http://www.naturalnews.com/019189.html

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Africans in Asia (Really Good) documentary

2008-10-03T18:14:15Z

This is really really good! and informative

Sambho and Nagas...Africans in Asia and the origin of Buddha and all eastern religions

Africans in Asia P1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8bWK7Pc38E&feature=PlayList&p=887F38617597FC01&index=0

African in Asia pt..2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZlI0L3D4CI&feature=PlayList&p=887F38617597FC01&index=1

Africans in Asia pt.3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMx9fkfJuZw&feature=PlayList&p=887F38617597FC01&index=2

African s in Asia pt.4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRBBMq13rHY&feature=PlayList&p=887F38617597FC01&index=3

Africans in Asia pt.5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtxZUcxRtik&feature=PlayList&p=887F38617597FC01&index=5

Africans in Asia pt.6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvKOgpMb7As&feature=PlayList&p=887F38617597FC01&index=4

Africans in Asia pt.7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czLwU7u7biE&feature=PlayList&p=887F38617597FC01&index=6

Africans in Asia pt.8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7waOkhwU7n0&feature=PlayList&p=887F38617597FC01&index=7

Africans in Asia pt.9
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P7mT3L2Ms8&feature=PlayList&p=887F38617597FC01&index=8

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What is a Hebrew Israelite?

2008-05-27T20:18:02Z

http://www.thelawkeepers.org/whatis2.htm

Israel is a nation of people where those who practice Judaism are members of a religion and not a nationality as such. Jews, on the other hand, are people of various nationalities who have abandoned their own cultures and adopted the religion of Judiasm. One may change his or her religion many times. On the contrary, one may never change who you are at birth, namely your nationality.

It is logically impossible to think of Russian Jews, Polish Jews, Spanish Jews, British Jews, French Jews, Hungarian Jews, American Jews, and even Arab Jews as a single nation. An Israelite is a descendent of the ancient nation of Israel. a Jew is a member of a religion called Judaism which attempts to practice the laws, traditions and customs of ancient Israel. In many instances Israelite culture has been modified in the Jewish religion.

Today the term Jew is erroneously assumed to be synonymous with Israel. This is due in part to the fact that what was strictly a religion has conviently taken on a nationalistic connotation with the establishment of the Zionist movement in Israel. Zionism is a movement which developed in Europe as an attempt to find a homeland for Jews who were being severely persecuted throughout Europe. The word Jew was non existing word among ancient Israelites.

The history of the Old Testament alone would reveal that the "chosen people" were descendants of a man named Israel. As a result, they are called Israelites not Jews. In fact, there is no such concept as a Jewish people in the Holy Scriptures. We find that the word Jew first appeared in the books, 1st Kings, 2 Kings, and Jeremiah in the Old Testament as an incorrect translation of the Hebrew word for Yehudah often pronounced Judah in English.

Thus, the word Jew arose as a derivative from the word Yehudah which identified a particular family or tribe. It would have been insulting for a Danite (one from the tribe of Dan) or a Gadite (one from the tribe of Gad) to be erroneously referred to as being of the tribe of Judah/Yehudah. The tribe of Judah was the last Israelite tribe to go into captivity.

The identity of the descendants of the Biblical Israelites and their divinely appointed purpose would raise some contentious issues which are not merely based upon the personal preferences or idiosyncracies of men. The roots of the dispute are found in the Holy Scriptures and therefore reminds us that the ultimate resolution of the matter also resides with the Holy One of Israel. Moreover, we cannot forget that ancient Biblical geneology is directly related to nations on the earth today.

The struggle of Esau and Jacob in the belly of Rebekah conceptualized what later became a struggle to inherit the land of Israel, the blessing given to Abraham by Almighty God. In 2 Kings 8:20, Edom rebelled against King David's occupying forces winning their freedom and ultimately choosing a king of their own. Yet, while they revoted against Judah's rule, years of a lifestyle under Judah's laws, the Torah, had made an enduring impression.
As the nation of Israel went into obscurity, the Edomites continued to adopt Israelite practices more and more.

Obviously they realized the effect of living by great principles of law, from which they were able to build and bind a brotherhood affording them true national unity. Moreover, they came to understand that righteousness, justice and moral living were the keys to the preservation of their communities.

In fact, it was Israel's gradual decline over a number of years, that provided the spiritual vacuum that allowed Edom to assume the Israelite mantle.

While some nations have remained purer than others in terms of mixture and adulteration, others have amalgamated and assimilated to the extent that there is no trace of their ancestral past. For example, the Israelites were slaves in many African and Asiatic territories. In their undone state, they were easily identified. Yet, the name of Israel itself was fading from memory.

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BLACK HEBREWS ORIGINAL OF THE BIBLE

2008-05-24T03:49:56Z

For years, people of the world have been led to believe that the people of the bible were white people, when in fact they were black.

everything you’ve been taught is a lie.

Black Jews ruled the world from ancient times until the Enlightenment. King Tut and Socrates were Black Hebrews. And centuries later, many of their kin survived Rome’s terror and rose to prominence in Europe—Shakespeare, King Arthur, Mozart—all were black and Jewish.

Western people have rewritten history, obscuring the true identity of God’s chosen people and erasing the evidence of their accomplishments in the world.

“IT WAS BLACK HEBREWS WHO LIVED IN THE ORIGINAL ISRAEL OF THE BIBLE”

http://stewartsynopsis.com/Isreal.htm

The European Jew–A Question of Identity! What! European Jews?

What! European Jews? The African Jews of the Bible!

The current State of Israel was set up by the US, Britain and the United Nations in 1948.

The Scriptures tell us who they are: Most people have come to incorrectly associate the term Jew with Israel. While all Jews are Israelites, most Israelites are not Jews. It’s clear in the Scriptures, yet it is one of the greatest misconceptions Christians have.

An Israelite is a descendant of Jacob, whom God named Israel (Gen. 32:28). Jacob (Israel) had twelve sons, of which only one was named Judah. The term Jew is the English translation of the Hebrew Yehewdiy means “descendant of Judah”–The Tribe of Judah–the Ethiopian Jews are descended from Jews who accompanied Menelik, the son of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, from Jerusalem to Ethiopia.

Israel included the city of Jerusalem and was named after Judah. In fact, Judah became the name of the southern kingdom when Israel divided into two kingdoms about 2900 years ago. The ancestry of Joseph is traced back to Judah. So is the ancestry of King David. In Jacob’s blessing of his 12 sons, in Genesis 49, he described Judah as a lion cub, saying that he would have his hand on the necks of his enemies and that he would be praised by his brothers. Jacob’s blessing of Judah, in Genesis 49:8-12, includes a passage that is traditionally understood by Christians to mean that Judah’s descendants would rule over the land of Israel, culminating with Jesus.

Christians believe the Jewish homeland was given to the Jews in perpetuity by God Himself. The Bible says that whoever blesses Jewish people shall be blessed and whoever curses them shall be cursed. The original Israel of the Bible was encompassed up to Egypt and through Syria and part of Iraq. That is what the Middle East dispute is about. That is why the Arab world is rebelling.

The Tribe of Judah–the Ethiopian Jews are descended from Jews who accompanied Menelik, the son of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, from Jerusalem to Ethiopia. More scientific theories place the Falasha in the Agau family of tribes. Isaiah 11:11 strongly implies that there was an established Ethiopian Jewish community in the days of that prophet, approximately 740 BC.

European Jews and others in different parts of the world were barely aware of the Falasha for many years. The Falasha thought they were the only remaining Jews. They continued to follow Judaism as it was practiced before the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem. Most Westerners and Protestant churchmen learned of the existence of the Ethiopian Jews from James Bruce’s five-volume work, Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, published in Edinburgh in 1790.

The Garden of Eden was located in the Tigris-Euphrates Region of Africa. Ham had four sons, and his sons are the people of the African Continent–the Ancient Egyptians, Ethiopians, Somalia’s, Canaanites. Genesis Chapter 50 Verses 7-11, scripture describes ALL the Hebrews as looking like the ancient Egyptians.

Genesis 2:10 – “And a River went out of Eden to water the Garden; and from thence it was parted and became four heads.”

Genesis 2:13 – “And the name of the second river is Gihon; the same is it that compasseth the whole Land of Ethiopia.” Rishon and Gihon are located in the Tigris-Euphrates Valley. The Pishon and Gihon Rivers mentioned in Genesis 2: 11-13, wind and turn through the Land of Havilah, somewhere in the Persian Gulf. Today the names of the rivers are the Great Zab (South of Nineveh), and the Little Zab; the Diyala River flows into the Tigris at Baghdad, Iraq.

There were two Ethiopian nations in ancient times–Eastern and Western Ethiopia. There was an Ethiopian civilization in Southern Mesopotamia (Babylon), and the Ethiopian Tribes called themselves Babylonians.

Genesis 10:8 - “Cush begat Nimrod. The word Cush means Ethiopia. Cush is the father of Ethiopians. Nimrod ruled over the cities of Babylon, Erech, Accad (Akkad). The cities are situation in the Land of Shinar (Sumer).

In Genesis 11:26-26 Abraham was one of the fathers of the 12 tribes of Israel. Abraham’s father (Terah) came from the Land of Ur or the Chaldees. The Chaldeans are a Cushite Tribe. The Sumerians/Ethiopians/Mesopotamians (Elamites) settled from Mesopotamia to Europe. Currently this area now includes: Southern Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Northwest India.

Webster’s Dictionary (Gazetteer Section, p. 849) defines Sumerian as: The pre-Semitic population of the Lower Euphrates Valley. Sumer preceded Babylonia. The dictionary says there is a blood relationship between Dravidian Tribes of India and Ethiopian Sumerians (Elamites). Archeologists have found skeletons of the ancient Dravidian and Nedda types in Ur and Kish.

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Medical Whistleblowers Duesberg and Faber…

2008-05-21T23:30:27Z

…receives “Semmelweis Clean Hands Award”

“……..May 13 Tuesday, Peter Duesberg of the University of Berkeley, and Celia Farber, freelance contributor to Harpers and other magazines, [were] will be among twenty people honored at the Library of Congress by the Semmelweis Society for their achievements in blowing the whistle on bad behavior in science and medicine…..”
http://www.scienceguardian.com/blog/whistleblower-awards-in-washington-for-duesberg-and-farber.htm#comment-5884

A streaming audio with Celia Farber. Click blue square ‘play’ to listen:
Part 1: http://www.podnova.com/channel/166885/episode/21/
Part 2: http://www.podnova.com/channel/166885/episode/20/

In this June 08 issue of ‘Discover’ magazine, Peter Duesberg is interviewed:
http://discovermagazine.com/2008/jun/15-aids-dissident-seeks-redemption-and-a-cure-for-cancer

A streaming audio on the Robert Scott Bell show, with Duesberg. Click blue square ‘play’ to listen:
http://www.podnova.com/channel/166885/episode/74/

Semmelweis Society International
http://semmelweis.org/

Thanks for reading, and listening.

T.

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Beginnings: The Ultimate Answer to the Ultimate Questions!

2008-05-10T17:23:25Z

"God is consciousness and the fusion into action and manifestation, the potential for all that is, out of ....itself -
i.e. dIVINE masterbastion into Love" -Dog Star

"From Pisces to Aries and then all over again, round and round" -Dog Star

KMT Ontology and Cosmogenesis
http://people.tribe.net/chaz/blog/541348c7-3a51-45bc-abcb-30c2b523ce1b

The Ultimate Answer to the Ultimate Question! (Consciousness is that–which–creates–itself."
http://people.tribe.net/chaz/blog/b1242955-f8b0-49dd-9bc5-0d1229ae82a0

Beginnings (Pic of Nwn -dIVINE orgasm)
http://people.tribe.net/chaz/blog/3988f8b7-a6c8-4358-abc1-e0edf4bf9c6a

KMT

It is written that this part of the cosmos that we know of, this universe, this galaxy, this solar system, and this sun structured itself over 21 billion years ago. Billions and billions of years of jet blackness, dark black matter, dark black energy, and black holes then came light and life.

There was a time when only blackness prevailed in everything and in all things. In the beginning all was black. There was no universe but there was dark black energy, the immortal unity and struggle of female/male matter and spirit, pure energy and impulse, that created itself out of itself. Blackness and darkness led to light---not the other way around.

In a majestic struggle between matter and anti-matter bonded energy eventually formed elementary particles, elements-stars-planets-solar systems-galaxies-complete universes. These solar organisms bonded together with gravitational forces which formed solar systems and clusters of galaxies. This gravitational soup became the cosmic webbing of the infant universe which continually expanded-changed-developed.

From this universe came our galaxy, then our solar system. Within this solar system formed a sun-nine planets-moons-asteroids-comets with all being electro-magnetically held together by precisely balanced gravitational attraction and repulsion. Constantly in motion, having no days off, moving at colossal speeds stars are suns with their own rings of planets revolve on their axis and turn with the entire galaxy as it turns on its own axis.

Each star---its own universe on fire---is a blazing fiery solar hurricane. Its entire surface is in a state of bubbling, erupting, burning, hot agitation with colossal fiery heat waves passing over the turbulent stars burning hot surface. Galactic fire streams shot out as gigantic streams of internal heat, pulsating, throbbing, illuminating, pouring forth into space in the form of radiation---giving live to planets and their moons. Physical gravitational fields connect the particles allowing them to interact and thus exist.

Without this nothing would connect the stars in the galaxies or the substance itself within the starts and planets. There would be no solar systems, stars, or planets, without electromagnetic fields. Nothing would connect electrons and protons in atoms into molecules and molecules into tissue. From elementary particles to nucleus from nuclei and electrons there came atoms from atoms came molecules from molecules and their aggregates gaseous-liquid-solid bodies formed bodies that make up stars and their satellites, the planets and their satellites.

Twenty-one billion years of matter and antimatter flowing down the majestic cosmic ladder from universes to super clusters, galaxy clusters, galaxies, star clusters, quasars, pulsars, stars, solar systems, planets, other celestial bodies to molecular complexes, crystals, molecules, atoms, elementary nuclear particles, photons, force fields, quantum levels, to sub-quantum elements. These solar organisms bonded together with gravitational forces, which formed solar systems and clusters of galaxies.

This gravitational soup became the cosmic webbing of the infant universe, which continually expanded, changed, developed. This process resulted from explosions of anti-matter and matter which produced the bonded energy which eventually formed elements, stars, planets, solar systems, galaxies, and complete universes. The materials of these solar organism such as stars, gas, energy particles, cosmic debris, planets, asteroids, comets, nebulae, black holes, etc., are bonded together by gravitational forces which form solar systems and clusters of galaxies which are continually expanding, moving, changing.

In sum, from this universe came our galaxy. Then our solar system. Within this solar system formed a sun, nine planets-moons-asteroids-comets with all being electro-magnetically held together by precisely balanced gravitational attraction and repulsion. This system was and is constantly in motion, having no days off. It moves at colossal speeds.

click on blog to see the totality
http://people.tribe.net/chaz/blog/3988f8b7-a6c8-4358-abc1-e0edf4bf9c6a

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UNIVERSITY OF KMT IS NOW IN SESSION

2008-05-10T06:55:52Z

My Blog
http://people.tribe.net/chaz/blog/69bbfa0b-2d4b-4a71-967e-6bc13e3eba14

Lessons from Dr. Diop

bio
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheikh_Anta_Diop

bio
http://www.cwo.com/~lucumi/diop.html

One of my Mastery teachers Video

Dr.Cheikh Anta Diop pt.1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IufD0A4GnP0

Dr.Cheikh Anta Diop pt.2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE5wm_Gq63Q&feature=related

Dr.Cheikh Anta Diop pt.3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMPRj8Y1IZU&feature=related

Dr.Cheikh Anta Diop pt.4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mGeny2ZXSc&feature=related

Dr.Cheikh Anta Diop pt.5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxumGNZDjQw&feature=related

Dr.Cheikh Anta Diop pt.6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxumGNZDjQw&feature=related

In line with the conclusions of multi-disciplinary scientist Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop, the University of Kmt Press publishes concise scientific findings centered on re-engineering African material culture and rebuilding modern African civilization.

In every area of modern life, ancient Kmt left solid lessons and guiding principles to live by. We should return to our source, build on our best, modernize each area that Ancient African Kmt made advanced contributions in, extract the fundamental lessons, redeem and restore indigenous civilization before the predatory invasions into north Africa, and stand on our ancient's tradition of excellence. The mental, moral, and martial contributions of ancient African Kmt civilization are unmatched in human antiquity.

The present eclectic, confused, frail, fragmented, contaminated, hodge-podge cesspool of stillborn hybridized slave ideas claiming to be African-centered must be jettisoned if Dr. Diop's vision for the redemption, resurrection, and renaissance of spiritual civilization is to be realized within this lifetime. This is the only foundation on which a new modern/scientifically productive world can be built.

Walking around branded with the mark of capitalistic and ego slavery in name, clothes, religion, ethics, holidays, habits, family, architecture, miseducation, calendar, health care, literature, history---everything---has to end. We are equal to all people; no one standing above us, t no one has justification to rule. Never again should we stand behind any race, culture, gender, or class. We respect ourselves first, then we respect those who respect us.

We do not hate anyone, but we do not allow those who hate, harm, and harbor ill will toward us to have their way with us.

The lessons of torment are clear: never again; even if we have to chase our tormentors into the next lifetime. Do it. Never again should these politicians have a standing in our lives it is us they should be representing; never again should we feel them distroying innocent people. Never again will they take advantage of us. This time they will know that they are in a fight for their very lives. There is a steep price, this time. As with any initial psychological reaction, fear is natural, cowardice is not.

Our ancestor showed us to face every fear and to overcome every fear. Face each new day with the knowledge that we control our own destinies if we would just stop being cowards, stop bending over, stop accommodating, stop giving up without even a fight. Our wonderful ancestors taught us to make a stand in this life, in this day. We are judged in this world by what we do; make a good account of yourself.

Our ancestors taught us that we are responsible for our own freedom and independence, we must take it, not beg for it; we are also responsible when others harm us, denigrate us, discriminated against us, or enslave us. We should not help them. We are given life at birth, it is our responsibility to make something out of it regardless of what we face. We get out of life what we give; so, we are at our best when we give our best for the best.

We seek exactitude, fundamental improvement, and certainty in all that we do. We honor precision and perfection, not posturing and fantasizing. Our track records should speak for themselves. It is not what we have to endure, the obstacles, the difficulties, the often intimate harm done to us---it is what we do about it. Are you gonna lay down and get walked over again, and again, or, are you gonna get up and fight with intelligence, heart, toughness to win? This is the central question of our time.

Never again should we grovel to others, especially those who harm us. We all come into this world and go out the same; what separates us is what we do with our lives in between birth and death. We should be self reliant. We should work for and earn what we get in this life---no handouts, no crumbs, no begging. We should know how to do things, scientifically. A talker just talks, but a master teacher affects eternity: We should master modern engineering, architecture/construction, manufacturing, mining, transport, urban planning, government, morality/ethics and societal management.

We should be independent of former, and still present, enslavers: you cannot learn freedom from enslavers, you cannot have equality when one group always has to have more than you, you cannot learn morality from scriptures written by conquerors/invaders, you cannot win when you always have to be their loser, their foil, their clown, their entertainment, their stooge.

We are responsible for this, even though others caused this mess. Soberly, we must honestly look at ourselves, and face, directly, our past and present, eye to eye, toe to toe, heart to heart, soul to soul. Our ancestors taught that we should always ask the very best of ourselves, then give much more. Perfection means doing the best that you can do with what you have. Freedom is living without regrets, and without fear. We should judge on merit alone, and receive based on what we have earned.

No favoritism, no nepotism, no "hook-ups." Don't cheat people; don't slander the good names of people. Work hard; earn what you get in life. Trust only those trustworthy. Keep your word; keep your promises. Credit only what is done, what people do, for the foulest deeds are clothesed in the fairest words. Treasure hearts; stay clear of those who busy themselves with the affairs of others and neglect their own people. Work for those who work for you; care for those who care about you. Some are brave with words but do nothing. Stay clear of them.

Like the honorable Kemeties, we must face all fears a thousand times, get up off our knees. No pity/no excuses/no handouts. Step back into the jaws of death, heedlessly, a million times if we must, until we take back the soul of what we should have been (and can again be)---had we not been taken advantage of in the worst of ways.

In the end, when it time to meet our final day, we are respected in the company of our ancestors, the best of them, those who had measured up in earlier life. This is judgment. No angels, no pies in the sky, no milk and honey, no virgins, no chosen people, no fairy-tales, no toothfairies, no more actions without planning and preparation. Just truth, justice, fairness and accountability in this world.

This is Maat. This is what our ancients in Kmt practiced. This is what we must relearn.

MAAT CODE OF LIFE

We have the moral and historical obligation to professionally organize misery, suffering, enslavement, and exploitation, not merely to end this miserable condition but to give new meaning to this life, to make dreams come true, to give new hope, to love and live again without the pain, to feel life beyond the storms, to feed our hungry, clothes those naked, to shelter the homeless, educate the ignorant, to create wings that fly, to make wrongs right, to pick up those who fall, to lift those who lost their reach, to strengthen those who are weak, to lend voice to those unable to speak, eyes to those who cannot see, legs to those who cannot walk, and heart to those who are in fear. Our obligation is to carry this out scientifically in accordance with the ancient moral principles of Maat.

Skill is the essence of the movement to improve; movement is driven by purpose, purpose is direction feuled by focus and precision. Precision is effort toward perfection.

Maat is justice, balance, rightness, discipline and direction.

Self-cultivation requires discipline, humility, honesty and self respect.

Work hard, be honest, give your best, and be perfect in effort daily.

Show humility; strive for perfection, do the best job that you can do.

With skill, preparation, discipline and perseverance, you can reach any goal.

Overcoming fear is freedom; overcoming guilt comes from giving your best to all that you do.

Discipline will liberate you from bad habits; honest will free you from guilt and shame.

Effort will move you toward perfection. Perfection is having given all that you had, having done the best you could under the circumstances, having gotten the most out of yourself.

Be perfect, in this world and in this lifetime.

You are measured by what you do---not prayers, not pleadings, not how many times you drop to your knee, not how many times you say you are sorry.

Live Maat so that your heart may be judged light as a feather.

Judgment comes.

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Rev. Wright Right: Vast Wright Wing Conspiracy

2008-05-02T15:37:13Z

"Politically speaking , I think Obama handled it the best he could have" - Chaz ' dog star

Rev. Jeremiah Wright is Right about how U.S. Government Uses Blacks for Medical Experiments, Including AIDS
Feather's Blog http://people.tribe.net/heatherlsalmon/blog?topicid=b1ca4281-f861-4eed-9d1a-3d276cf02122

ALSO here's something else from a Tribe member in which I thought this was great

The Vast Wright Wing Conspiracy (Justice Putnam blog)
http://people.tribe.net/justiceputnam/blog/2d21af6f-16e6-4f8b-90b8-ae88407a22f1

by Justice Putnam

Malcolm X had just sent another reply to another Instant Message from Thomas Jefferson. Adams, even though a neighbor of Jefferson's from across town, had replied more and more infrequently these last generations to even regular snail mail; so Malcolm took up the slack. Though Adams was enthralled with the modern Navy, he hated texting and the internet tubes. Nixon, Reagan, Hoover and Jackson never replied to Jefferson's missives; and he had sent them many. It was probably because mail delivery is rather spotty in Hades. Plus, there is no broadband there and interference from the heat disrupts the wireless signal. Kennedy and both Roosevelts carried on an infrequent correspondence; and Lincoln as well, but they were engaged with other pursuits in heaven, so Jefferson and Malcolm X began to Instant Message each other daily. After all, they lived only light years away from each other in Limbo; wireless is free, the signal strong and never disrupted.

It seemed Jefferson was worried about Obama's chances for the Presidency with this Reverend Wright oratory causing such concern.

T-Jeff: "I'm afraid my southern brethren will take the good reverend's rhetoric all too personal."

Mal 10: "As well they should; I'm still picking shards of Plymouth Rock out of my skull."

T-Jeff: "But that's the point, my good friend. Plymouth Rock may have landed on you; but they landed on Plymouth Rock and need to feel grateful. Reverend Wright is not respecting their gratefulness."

Mal 10: "It's hard to respect folks who will put you in chains, crush your dreams and keep you separate, inferior and feared; and then harp that you are not grateful enough for your good fortune."

T-Jeff: "I was just speaking with Sally about that this morning when she was washing my clothes. I could tell she was getting a little snippy when I corrected her grammar and spelling on a letter she was writing to Martin Luther King. After all I've done for her, she seemed a bit, well... ungrateful. Then it struck me; if not for the economic necessities in the forging of this Nation, she might have become the Queen of The Congo that was her birthright."

Mal 10: "That's what I like about you man, even though you're a manipulative, white landowner who is formed by the Enlightenment; your profession of guilt keeps me in this amorphous corporeal state so I can continue to point out the inequities still!"

T-Jeff: "Well, my dear friend, I'm not taking the bait. But I'm still concerned about this Wright fracas. It's important for the survival of The Great Experiment that Obama convince The People to vote him to the Presidency. Bringing up that the Black Community was infected with HIV and flooded with drugs by the government is a little over the top, no?"

Mal 10: "On this we agree, I find it impossible that a society and government that would infect the Tuskagee Airmen with syphilis; who would test insecticides on black communities; who would impose poll taxes, literacy tests and voter ID laws; who would buy drugs from the Contras to sell guns to the Iranians; who would incarcerate black men at rates that are astronomical is capable of such heinous acts. Reverend Wright is surely stretching it a bit."

T-Jeff: "So what can be done about this Wright Wing of the Black Community?"

Mal 10: "It's surely a conspiracy, another tactic to disenfranchise the Black Man. I'm not disagreeing with Wright's premise, mind you. I was a target in my day; hell they went after Martin the way they're going after Jeremiah. They'll use any means necessary to achieve their ends; even if it means using our words against us, even if those words are the truth."

T-Jeff: "Yes, you're correct. It is a vast conspiracy. I feel so helpless, though. Not quite in hell, but definitely not in heaven."

Mal 10: "I know what you mean, man. I know what you mean."

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Did We Sell Each Other Into Slavery?

2008-04-30T05:44:01Z

http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/30/145.html

The single most effective White propaganda assertion that continues to make it very difficult for us to reconstruct the African social systems of mutual trust broken down by U.S. Slavery is the statement, unqualified, that, "We sold each other into slavery." Most of us have accepted this statement as true at its face value. It implies that parents sold their children into slavery to Whites, husbands sold their wives, even brothers and sisters selling each other to the Whites. It continues to perpetuate a particularly sinister effluvium of Black character. But deep down in the Black gut, somewhere beneath all the barbecue ribs, gin and whitewashed religions, we know that we are not like this.

This singular short tart claim, that "We sold each other into slavery", has maintained in a state of continual flux our historical basis for Black-on-Black self love and mutual cooperation at the level of Class. Even if it is true (without further clarification) that we sold each other into slavery, this should not absolve Whites of their responsibility in our subjugation. We will deal with Africa if need be.

The period from the beginning of the TransAtlantic African Slave so-called Trade (1500) to the demarcation of Africa into colonies in the late 1800s is one of the most documented periods in World History. Yet, with the exception of the renegade African slave raider Tippu Tip of the Congo (Muslim name, Hamed bin Muhammad bin Juna al-Marjebi) who was collaborating with the White Arabs (also called Red Arabs) there is little documentation of independent African slave raiding.

By independent is meant that there were no credible threats, intoxicants or use of force by Whites to force or deceive the African into slave raiding or slave trading and that the raider himself was not enslaved to Whites at the time of slave raiding or "trading". Trade implies human-to-human mutuality without force.

This was certainly not the general scenario for the TransAtlantic so-called Trade in African slaves. Indeed, it was the Portuguese who initiated the European phase of slave raiding in Africa by attacking a sleeping village in 1444 and carting away the survivors to work for free in Europe.

Even the case of Tippu Tip may well fall into a category that we might call the consequences of forced cultural assimilation via White (or Red) Arab Conquest over Africa. Tippu Tip s father was a White (or Red) Arab slave raider, his mother an unmixed African slave. Tip was born out of violence, the rape of an African woman. It is said that Tip, a "mulatto", was merciless to Africans.

yy The first act against Africa by Whites was an unilateral act of war, announced or unannounced. There were no African Kings or Queens in any of the European countries nor in the U.S. when ships set sail for Africa to capture slaves for profit. Whites had already decided to raid for slaves. They didn t need our agreement on that. Hence, there was no mutuality in the original act.

The African so-called slave "trade" was a demand-driven market out of Europe and America, not a supply-driven market out of Africa. We did not seek to sell captives to the Whites as an original act. Hollywood s favorite is showing Blacks capturing Blacks into slavery, as if this was the only way capture occurred. There are a number of ways in which capture occurred. Let s dig a little deeper into this issue.

Chancellor Williams, in his classic work, The Destruction of Black Civilization, explains that after the over land passage of African trade had been cut off at the Nile Delta by the White Arabs in about 1675 B.C. (the Hyksos), the Egyptian/African economy was thrown into a recession. There is even indication of "pre-historic" aggression upon Africa by White nomadic tribes (the Palermo Stone).

As recession set in the African Government began selling African prisoners of war and criminals on death row to the White Arabs. This culminated as an unfortunate trade, in that, when the White Arabs attacked, they had the benefit of the knowledge and strength of Africans on their side, as their slaves. This is a significantly different picture than the propaganda that we sold our immediate family members into slavery to the Whites.

In reality, slavery is an human institution. Every ethnic group has sold members of the same ethnic group into slavery. It becomes a kind of racism; that, while all ethnic groups have sold its own ethnic group into slavery, Blacks can't do it. When Eastern Europeans fight each other it is not called tribalism. Ethnic cleansing is intended to make what is happening to sound more sanitary. What it really is, is White Tribalism pure and simple.

The fact of African resistance to European Imperialism and Colonialism is not well known, though it is well documented. Read, for instance, Michael Crowder (ed.), West African Resistance, Africana Publishing Corporation, New York, 1971. Europeans entered Africa in the mid 1400 s and early 1500 s during a time of socio-political transition. Europeans chose a favorite side to win between African nations at a war and supplied that side with guns, a superior war instrument. In its victory, the African side with guns rounded up captives of war who were sold to the Europeans in exchange for more guns or other barter. Whites used these captives in their own slave raids.

These captives often held pre-existing grudges against groups they were ordered to raid, having formerly been sold into slavery themselves by these same groups as captives in inter-African territorial wars. In investigating our history and capture, a much more completed picture emerges than simply that we sold each other into slavery.

The Ashanti, who resisted British Imperialism in a Hundred Years War, sold their African captives of war and criminals to other Europeans, the Portuguese, Spanish, French, in order to buy guns to maintain their military resistance against British Imperialism (Michael Crowder, ed., West African Resistance).

Eric A. Walker, in A History of Southern Africa, Longmans, London, 1724, chronicles the manner in which the Dutch entered South Africa at the Cape of Good Hope. Van Riebeeck anchored at the Cape with his ships in 1652 during a time that the indigenous Khoi Khoi or Khoisan (derogatorily called Hottentots) were away hunting. The fact of their absence is the basis of the White "claim" to the land.

But there had been a previous encounter with the Khoi Khoi at the Cape in 1510 with the Portuguese Ship Almeida. States Eric A. Walker, "Affonso de Albuquerque was a conscious imperialist whose aim was to found self-sufficing colonies and extend Portuguese authority in the East&He landed in Table Bay, and as it is always the character of the Portuguese to endeavor to rob the poor natives of the country, a quarrel arose with the Hottentots, who slew him and many of his companions as they struggled towards their boats through the heavy sand of Salt River beach." (Ibid. p. 17). Bartholomew Diaz had experienced similar difficulties with the indigenous Xhosa of South Africa in 1487, on his way to "discovering" a "new" trade route to the East. The conflict ensued over a Xhosa disagreement over the price Diaz wanted to pay for their cattle. The Xhosa had initially come out meet the Whites, playing their flutes and performing traditional dance.

In 1652, knowing that the indigenous South Africans were no pushovers, Van Riebeeck didn t waste any time. As soon as the Khoi Khoi returned from hunting, Van Riebeeck accused them of stealing Dutch cattle. Simply over that assertion, war broke out, and the superior arms of the Dutch won. South African Historian J. Congress Mbata best explains this dynamic in his lectures, available at the Cornell University Africana Studies Department. Mbata provides three steps: 1) provocation by the Whites, 2) warfare and, 3) the success of a superior war machinery.

There are several instances in which Cecil Rhodes, towards the end of the 19th Century, simply demonstrated the superiority of the Maxim Machine Gun by mowing down a corn field in a matter of minutes. Upon such demonstrations the King and Queen of the village, after consulting the elders, signed over their land to the Whites. These scenarios are quite different from the Hollywood version, and well documented.

It has been important to present the matters above to dispel the notion of an African slave trade that involved mutuality as a generalized dynamic on the part of Africans. If we can accept the documented facts of our history above and beyond propaganda, we can begin to heal. We can begin to love one another again and go on to regain our liberties on Earth.

Respectfully,

Oscar L. Beard, B.A., RPCV
Consultant in African Studies
P.O. Box 5208
Atlanta, Georgia 31107

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Then came the invaders

2008-04-28T03:45:09Z

http://www.ukmtpress.com/id299.html

At its highest point, its territory stretched for more than 4144 miles along the Nile River from the heart of Central Africa to the delta region of North Africa. Before the waves of predatory invasions, the Black race and civilizations flourished in the Nile Valley. African Kmt civilization was intersected by an intricate federation of 42 centralized African states. This was the first national federation, the first federal government, the first nation in world history, the first centrally planned economy, the first monarch---all build exclusively by the indigenous Black population.

Originators of:

Science, government, architecture, education, writing, medicine, military science, sport and recreation, martial arts and wrestling, socialized health care, mass transportation via the Nile River, morality and ethics, music and arts, civil engineering, manufacturing, mining, construction, psychology, Ka, agriculture, advanced marriage and family rituals and roles, religion, philosophy, cosmology---everything essential to civilization was in place 2300 years before nomadic whites in Northern Europe left their perma-frost caves.

Networks or waterways, bridges, and tunnels ran through extraordinary valleys and mountains: its cities, schools, towns, forts, temples, pyramids, its palaces, its monuments were architectural marvels on sand, carved out of the sides of mountains, and surrounded by lush agricultural valleys. From the very beginning, African rulers of African Kmt ruled with an iron fist. From top to bottom, rules were strict, precise, just, and enforced if broken. From the top to the bottom of this tight, decimal-tired matrilineal, pyramidal system of government which was the most advanced achievements in practice anywhere in the world from 3400 BC to 656bc Africans nourished African Kmt Civilization---that great African civilization of antiquity. Agricultural tribute and public labor was demanded; food, clothing and shelter was provided from a centralized staff.

5. The necessities of life were redistributed and stored for times of need among Africans. And was collectively owned in such a way as to ensure that food, clothing, shelter, natural resources, especially water, were shared and used communally. This was a planned economy; there is no evidence of slavery; workers on state managed temple projects were provided for as if they were in a modern nation who has the welfare of its popuulations at heart. Food, clothing, transportation, health care, old age care, education/skilled trades---all of these were organized and ensured by the state government. Study 3320-2300bc carefully. Communal property ownership was reinforced by the tradition of communal labor, seasonal public work projects organized around the cycles of the Nile River.

African men and women loved each other, married early and stayed together, while raising large close-knit extended families. Law was based on Maat Principles, organized around the 42 Confessions of Innocence. Right and wrong were made clear. And punishment, if some one knowingly violated the norms of the society was just, swift, and severe. Taxes were linked to age grades, work capacity and healthiness. There was a natural order, an order based on the unity and struggle of opposites, the war of goodness over evil, the equilibrium of truth, justice, and righteousness prevailing over evil.

Then came the invaders to tear up 8600 years of African nation-building.

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Chattel Slavery Vs. Servitude

2008-04-28T02:28:47Z

http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/30/013.html

Femi Akomolafe
http://femi.akomolafe.com/

Very often, the embalmers of Western history have tried to gloss over the sordid trade in African slaves by Europeans, for over four centuries, by putting up the argument that lot of Africans also made a fortune in the dealings. From these 'mythorians' we often hear the stories that slavery was rampant in Africa before the Europeans came along.

Not only is slavery been argued away, the colonial oppression of Africa is also been massaged to make it appear less cruel. We are told that the colonies also enjoyed the fruits of colonization. Christianity and Western-styled education are often cited as the 'benefits' Africans derived from colonialism. These apologists then asked why must it be that all the opprobrium are directed against Europeans alone?"

Even more unfortunate is the fact that some Africans (Uncle tom Sell outs), especially those in the diaspora, have bought into these pseudo-arguments.

I shall try to put slavery in proper historical perspectives, and show how the chattel slavery introduced by capitalism differs from all other forms of slavery.

To those who said Africans benefit ted from slavery and colonialism, one can argue, with the same [twisted] logic, that the countries conquered by Nazis also enjoyed the fruits of Nazism. We can say that Holland, which was conquered and oppressed by German Nazis, also benefited from their forced oppression. We can argue that the French, the Belgian, and the Dutch people who were forced into labor camps also benefited! This manner of thinking is, of course, simply outrageous.

As any student of history knows, it was not only in Africa that slavery was rampant in ancient times. The Hebrew, Greek, Roman history tells of slavery. Watching slaves butchered each other was a game enjoyed by the decadent rulers of the Roman Empire.

The Jews, like many other people, have been enslaved several times. But does the fact that they have been oppressed several times in the past lessen the enormity of the holocaust

The Atlantic slave-trade was different from all these earlier slavery in several respects. Most enormously important is that it was the first form of slavery that was solely motivated by commercial incentives. In earlier times slaves were used as domestic workers and soldiers, since there were no plantations or industrial factories where millions of slave-labor was needed

It was the large-scale capitalist mode of production which required cheap labors that induced the slave trade. It was the Industrial Revolution in Europe that made it necessary to traffic in human lives on a colossal scale.

Slaves in earlier times enjoyed social and individual rights - like marriage, freedom to raise a family, speak their language and worship their gods, rights which were denied the African slaves exported to the Americas. Africans captured and taken into the new world were stripped of all their personality and humanity - they could not even bear their own names.

It was capitalism that introduced chattel-slavery. "In the welter of philosophical arguments for and against the slave trade, the one cogent and inescapable argument in favor of it is easily hidden: in spite of its risks, illegality, and blighted social status, slave trading was enormously profitable. Despite the popular assertion that free labor was cheaper, the price of slaves continued to go up and to compensate for the risks of the trade."

In older times, slaves were not regarded as properties of their masters, manumission was possible and occurred frequently. Since slaves in those days were generally captured soldiers, they're treated humanely, because the possibility always existed that a military or spiritual giant could arise from their tribe and turn the tide in their favor. Moses was such a figure.

These are some of the qualitative differences, between the Atlantic slavery and earlier forms of slavery. They are important differences which the ideologists, masquerading as scientists and historians, want to gloss over.

"Slaves became profitable after the discovery of the New World had established a seemingly insatiable demand for workers on the plantations. Slavery was not new to Africa, but it had existed primarily in its domestic form-involving rights as well as duties.

In Born the kings sent slaves to govern their provinces and Hausa kings also often ruled through slaves. In Yorubaland, slaves of the ALAFIN often attain great power. It was the Europeans who turned slavery into an industry and introduced such well-documented barbarities as the rigors of the 'middle passage' (across the Atlantic).

What these imperialist mythorians are striving to achieve is a situation whereby Black people will continue to blame themselves for all the enormous crimes visited on them by the white people.
Language, they say, defines those that uses it. The fact that slavery in Africa does not have all the negative connotations and brutalities associated with the chattel slavery, could be seen from the Yorubas who have the same word 'ERU' for both slaves and prisoners of war.

To them both are unfortunate victims of wars. They are kept to serve terms and there are strict rules on how they should be treated. They are never engaged in plantations (there were none) with their mouths padlocked, they are not chained like cattle in pens.

And whereas the few Africans who participated in slavery had been well-documented, those who fought tenaciously against it remain unsung.

It is natural for the guilty to look for parallels, so as to diminished the enormity of his crime, so it is with the Europeans. They are busy collecting bogus anthropological findings and presenting same as historical fact to lessen their culpability in the greatest crime ever committed against a people, in the history of the world. Their assault on history should not be allow to go unanswered.

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3 NYPD Cops Cleared In 50-shot killing of Groom

2008-04-25T15:04:06Z

(CBS/AP) Three New York City Police Department detectives (who were UNDERCOVER AT THE TIME) have been acquitted of all counts in the 50-shot killing of an unarmed man on his wedding day. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080425/ap_on_re_us/police_shooting_7

Rev. Al: "Freeing Bell cops would be verdict worthy of Old South"

Invoking an infamous Mississippi race murder, the Rev. Al Sharpton charged Wednesday that an acquittal in the Sean Bell trial would reward defense lawyers for blaming the victims of the 50-shot fusillade.

Sharpton, speaking at City Hall, ripped lawyer Paul Martin for saying it was the "attitude" of Joseph Guzman - shot 16 times - that ignited the gunfire.

"If we say Friday that people's attitude gets them shot by police, are we going to say next that it's all right for people to assault women because they look like that's what they wanted?" Sharpton asked.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2008/04/23/2008-04-23_rev_al_freeing_bell_cops_would_be_verdic.html

Martin made the remark during his closing argument in the case against three NYPD detectives. Guzman was the person who "had the attitude to go get a gun and come back and use it," Martin said.

Guzman has denied threatening anyone with a gun, and Sharpton was outraged by the argument. "This smacks of Emmett Till - of reckless eyeballing," the civil rights activist said.

Till, 14, was murdered in Mississippi for whistling at a white woman in 1955. His killers were acquitted.

(CBS/AP) NEW YORK, April 25, 2008
The fiancee of a man killed in a hail of 50 police bullets on his wedding day arrived at a courthouse Friday to hear a judge decide

Michael Oliver, Gescard Isnora and Marc Cooper were charged with manslaughter, reckless endangerment and assault in the 2006 slaying of Sean Bell.

Shouts of "No!" and "Not guilty!" erupted in the crowd outside the courthouse as word of the verdict spread. Some people wept on each other's shoulders.

Justice Arthur Cooperman delivered the verdict in a Queens courtroom packed with spectators, including the victim's fiance and parents. The ruling brings an end to a nearly two-month trial.

Sean Bell, a 23-year-old UNARMED black man, WAS shot to death outside a strip club in Queens on Nov. 25, 2006 - his wedding day - as he was leaving his bachelor party with two friends., HIS two UNARMED companions were wounded, by UNDERCOVER officers at a strip club in Queens.

The shooting sparked protests and raised questions about police firepower and undercover tactics.

Defense attorneys painted the victims as drunken thugs who the officers believed were armed and dangerous. Prosecutors sought to convince the judge that the victims had been minding their own business and that the officers were inept, trigger-happy aggressors.

"This F-Troop of a unit caused the death of an innocent man and caused the injury of two others," prosecutor Charles Testagrossa said, referring to the classic TV sitcom. "This was a slipshod operation, with no real planning."

Bell's fiancee, parents and their supporters, including the Rev. Al Sharpton and other activists, have demanded that the officers be held accountable. Sharpton said he has sought to temper outrage over the shooting of three unarmed black men and let the trial take its course.

In the hours leading up to the verdict, Bell's parents and his grieving fiancée, Nicole Paultre Bell, took part in a prayer vigil at church in Queens, reports the Daily News. Meanwhile, the accused cops, who are on modified leave, laid low.

The defendants, who were investigating reports of prostitution at the Kalua Cabaret, say they became alarmed when they heard Bell and his friends trade insults around the 4 a.m. closing time with another patron who appeared to be armed.

In grand jury testimony, Isnora claimed that he responded by trailing Bell, Guzman and Trent Benefield to Bell's car. He insisted that he ordered the men to halt and that he and other UNDERCOVER officers began shooting after Bell bumped him with his car an UNMARKED police van while trying to LEAVE.

Guzman and Benefield both played down the dispute outside the club. They also testified that they were unaware police were watching them and that the gunfire erupted without warning.

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Ra Un Nefer Amen Class on Youtube

2008-04-25T02:29:37Z

Ra Un Nefer Amen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra_Un_Nefer_Amen

these two books are such my inspiration and resource

Metu Neter Vol. 1: The Great Oracle of Tehuti and the Egyptian System of Spiritual Cultivation
http://www.amazon.com/Metu-Neter-Vol-Spiritual-Cultivation/dp/1877662038

Metu Neter Vol. 2: Anuk Ausar, The Kamitic Initiation System
http://www.amazon.com/Metu-Neter-Vol-Kamitic-Initiation/dp/18776620

Ra Un Nefer Amen / pt. 1
http://youtube.com/watch?v=nPmDZiPmRXE

Ra Un Nefer Amen / pt. 2
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8nqM8_qiXOY

Ra Un Nefer Amen / pt. 3
http://youtube.com/watch?v=0tda1DJEnq8&feature=related

Ra Un Nefer Amen / pt. 4
http://youtube.com/watch?v=eIU71aFV-oc&feature=related

Ra Un Nefer Amen / pt. 5
http://youtube.com/watch?v=r637fQqH4FE&feature=related

Ra Un Nefer Amen / pt. 6
http://youtube.com/watch?v=r637fQqH4FE

Ra Un Nefer Amen / pt. 7
http://youtube.com/watch?v=r637fQqH4FE&feature=related

Ra Un Nefer Amen / pt. 8
http://youtube.com/watch?v=UNoZJtG7iJI

Ra Un Nefer Amen / pt. 9
http://youtube.com/watch?v=qHjZoErvvUU&feature=related

Ra Un Nefer Amen / pt. 10
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mpZcax9qCOk&feature=related

Ra Un Nefer Amen / pt. 11
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zNUtVhEIUQU&feature=related

Ra Un Nefer Amen / pt. 12
http://youtube.com/watch?v=HqFI-yWUvZ8&feature=related

Ra Un Nefer Amen / pt. 13
http://youtube.com/watch?v=eg2WEMV7KU0

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Ptah, KMT, origins of Buddha (Putah or Phutah)

2008-04-13T18:11:13Z

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Ptah was corrupted by the greeks and others into Putah (buddha) and Phutah.
Hence, Hat-Ptah-Ka, becomes A-futah-ka. (afuraka). Hat-Ptah-Ka and
Afuraka have the same meaning cosmologically. (More on this later, as
it relates to Ptah's functioning as fashioner of the World)

Hat-Ka-Ptah is often spelled Hat-Ptah-Ka. 'Het' was condensed into 'At' by
the greeks and others (note: Het-Heru becomes Hathor and Athyr)

THE BUDDHA AND BUDDHISM IN INDIA

"Buddhism appeared in India during the sixth century B.C.E. and came in the form of a protest against Hinduism. Buddhism opposed the arrogance of caste, and preached tolerance. It should not be surprising, then, that it developed a large and rapid following in the regions of India where the Blacks had survived in substantial numbers. On the emergence of Buddhism in India."

" Buddha was an Kemetian priest, chased from Memphis by the persecution of Cambyses. This tradition would justify the portrayal of Buddha with woolly hair. Historical documents do not invalidate this tradition...There is general agreement today on placing in the sixth century not only Buddha but the whole religious and philosophical movement in Asia with Confucius in China, Zoroaster in Iran. This would confirm the hypothesis of a dispersion of Egyptian priests at that time spreading their doctrine in Asia."

Putah (Egyptian) Equivalent to buddhi. {SD 2:632}

First A Prayer for Universal Peace Given to the Lord Ptah, the Face of Universal Truth

Hotepu Neb Ptah, Nofra Har Maat! Peace Offerings to the Lord Ptah, the Beautiful Face of Universal Truth!

Hail and sublimation unto You, O Ptah, You abundance of peace offerings, Granted heartily to the aspirant of Truth! Our lips bow down to the Earth to kiss Your Feet, where all of Your children come To decorate the Great Pedestal of Truth Upon which You stand.

The Scent of Your Truth wafts through Our nostrils, bedecking our hearts with The beautiful stillness of Your Lotus Body, Creating awe of You and demanding Obeisance!

You alone give the Foundation of Peace to Those who would aspire to It, And You by Yourself bestow the Gifts of The Divine Nectar to those who desire To drink.

You are the Lord of the Ark of Millions, the Neb-Ra-Djar, the Pilot of the Raft upon the River of Eternal And Everlasting.

In Your Temple every day are placed Mountains of offerings; foodstuffs, fragrant Green vegetation, the perfumes of lotus Blossoms, sweet nectars and pure water, Frankincense and myrrh, and saffron oil to Please the Heart of Your Majesty- In life and health and strength! It is to capture Your Heart- O King of Peace and Truth- that the Divine Fire is made at Your Feet Daily, that sweet music is used to decorate the Air in Your Chamber with joy, and that Your Servants aspire to the Lap of Peace That is Your Own Sublime Embodiment.

Hail to You, O Ptah, O Father of Creation, Lord of Forms, Host of Millions of Glorified Creations, the Complete Embodiment of Your Own Creation, the Summation of The Universe, and Eternal Mind within the Void! You are Hap, the Bull, Generator of the Universe. You are Hap, the Waters of the World, the Feeder of Life whereupon all peoples feed. You are the Sustenance of the Soul, The One Who releases the Spirit trapped in its body, And the Great Mind that expands the Universe.

Unto Yourself You take all forms, The Forms of which You are made. Unto Yourself You take all life, All life being that of which You are Made.

If there is a seed, You are the Fire that Quickens it. If there is a fire, You are the Air that breathes Through it. You are the Sokham bound within all matter In the Cosmos, and the Cosmos that speaks Through all matter.

Form, and the life that moves through Form; these You are in Your Function Of Father of the Universe and Lord Of All Life!

Thus, let all of Your Ears be inclined Towards us, O Master of the Heart's Divine Intelligence, and let the magnitude of Your Love surround us like a beautiful pool whose Waters comfort and enwrap the heart in Pure, never ending peace!

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Canaanites, Ham, African; True Origins the Hebrews

2008-04-12T20:34:22Z

Hebrew people (the real Jews) originated in Africa

The Hebrews were Canaanites (the true authors of Kabala) and were Black People. The Jews got their language, religion & culture from the Canaanites. The people of the Bible were primarily Black African people. Moses was an Egyptian priest, Black Samson had dreadlocks. Solomon declares, "I am black" as does Job; "My skin is black..." (Sol. 1:6, Job 30:30) Simon was a Canaanite.

Canaan is an ancient term for a region encompassing present-day Israel, the Palestinian Territories, Lebanon and Jordan, plus adjoining coastal lands and parts of Egypt and Syria. The Hebrew Bible identifies Canaan with Lebanon — foremost with the city of Sidon[citation needed] — but extends the "Land of Canaan" southward across Gaza to the "Brook of Egypt" and eastward to the Jordan Valley, thus including modern Israel with the Palestinian Territories

COLCHIANS, PHOENICIANS AND CANAANITES

http://www.cwo.com/~lucumi/westasia.html

By RUNOKO RASHIDI

"It is undoubtedly a fact that the Colchians are of Egyptian descent. I noticed this myself before I heard anyone mention it."

--Herodotus, The Histories

We now know that modern humanity originated in Africa, and that all modern humans can ultimately trace their ancestral roots back to the African continent. Herodotus, the European father of history, regarded Colchis, a land located along the western slope of the Caucasus Mountains near the Black Sea, as an African colony. He not only pointed to the Colchians' black skin and woolly hair, but also to their oral traditions, language, methods of weaving, and practice of circumcision. Saint Jerome, writing during the fourth century, called Colchis the "Second Ethiopia." Two hundred years later, Sophronius, patriarch of Jerusalem, described an "Ethiopian" presence in the same region. Even today, in the same district about which Herodotus wrote, lives a numerically minute black-skinned, woolly-haired community.

Phoenicia was the name given by the Greeks, in the first millennium B.C.E., to the coastal provinces of modern Lebanon and northern Israel, although occasionally the term seems to have been applied to the entire Mediterranean seaboard from Syria to Palestine. Phoenicia was not considered a nation, in the strict sense of the word, but rather as a chain of coastal cities, of which the most important were Sidon, Byblos, Tyre and Ras Shamra. To the Greeks the term Phoenician, from the root Phoenix, had connotations of red, and it is likely that the name was derived from the physical appearance of the people themselves.

The Phoenicians were a coastal branch of the Canaanites, who, according to Biblical traditions, were the brothers of Kush (Ethiopia) and Mizraim (Kmt)--members of the Hamite ethnic group. In other words, the Bible states that the ancient Canaanites, Ethiopians and Egyptians were all African nations. Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop claimed that "Phoenician history is therefore incomprehensible only if we ignore the Biblical data, according to which the Phoenicians, in other words, the Canaanites, were originally Negroes, already civilized, with whom nomadic, uncultured white tribes later mixed."

While acknowledging the Biblical data, Diop cautioned that the economic relations shared by the Kamites and Phoenicians should not be minimized in explaining the strong sense of solidarity which generally existed between them. There was frequently a Kamite presence: military, diplomatic, religious or commercial, both in the Canaanite hinterland and the Phoenician city-states themselves, and Diop goes on to state that, "Even throughout the most troubled periods of great misfortune, Egypt could count on the Phoenicians as one can count more or less on a brother."

The Phoenicians were the great seafarers of their time and dominated the Mediterranean shipping lanes. Phoenician inscriptions have been found as far north as central Turkey and as far west as Tunisia where the famous ancient city of Carthage was founded. It was among the Canaanites that one of the most important and meaningful inventions in human history is attested--the alphabet.

SOURCES:
African Origin of Civilization, by Cheikh Anta Diop
African Presence in Early Asia, edited by Runoko Rashidi and Ivan Van Sertima

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Africans Invented “The Olympics” Model

2008-04-07T21:03:00Z

http://www.jablifeskills.com/content/view/1923/35/

The world’s earliest known sports games date to 5200 BC Egypt. Sports are physical activities involving competition with oneself, with a standard, with other competitors, or with the elements of nature.

Sports are performed for the purpose of benefiting one’s body, mind, spirit, strength, agility, skill, speed, and/or alertness. Ancient Africans engaged in sports out of necessity (e.g. long distance running as a major form of transportation), for fun, for self-defense, or for religious purposes.

An example of a religious oriented sport, the Sympathic Magic wrestling bouts in Southern Nigeria were done to encourage the growth of crops through higher powers. Being the one universal high god, Amun (Amen, Atum, Amon-Ra, Atom-Re) was naturally seen as being in charge of crops.

The “sympathetic” part came from the ancient African tradition of believing all things in the universe are linked by invisible bonds, regardless of time or space. The wrestling bout itself was a devotional honoring of Amun for creating these bonds. The “magic” part was the belief that everything possesses an inherent spiritual force of its own -- its magical Substance -- that can be stirred into activity by certain rites and rituals.

Thus, the ritual associated with the wrestling bouts were designed to be generators of magical forces in order to influence Amun, “the king of the gods,” to produce crop abundance.

At this point, it is important to note that the 5th century BC Greek historian Herodotus said that “the names of the gods came to Greece from Egypt...for the names of all the gods have been known in Egypt from the beginning of time.”

Typically, the Greeks (and also the Romans), after borrowing all of their gods and goddesses from Egypt, would rename them (Ashby, African Origins p. 262). Thus, Amun, the Egyptian god, was renamed Zeus and Zeus became the top god of the Greeks (but not at the elevated God level of Amun).

Contact sports were common in ancient Africa. The first documentation of boxing -- found in the hieroglyphics decorating walls of Egyptian tombs as well as on stone slabs and vases -- date to 4000 BC. Salim Faraji (“Montu Scholar,” Amen-Re Theological Seminary Press) mentioned that on the walls of 3000 BC tombs of Egyptian pharaohs were the practices of wrestling, boxing, and free fighting.

Such contact sports were actually the Yoga of the pharaohs and were extensively studied and initiated in Greece by the Greeks. On the walls of tombs of various princes of the Amenemhet period (19th century BCE), says Faraji, several murals depict over 400 combatants engaged in empty-hand combat, wrestling, grappling, boxing, and stick fighting.

These are among the earliest documentations of human beings engaged in Martial Arts. There were also images of a boxer face to face with a dancer -- both apparently taking part in a choreographed drama that, like the ballet, is partly appraised on style, refinement, and grace.

Now let us bring several points together. First are the numerous African athletic events (e.g. boxing, wrestling), starting at least in 4000 BC.

Second, the successful African athletes who engaged in athletic contests were glorified in Africa -- particularly if the winners also showed style, refinement, and grace in their wide range of acrobatic and dance-like maneuvers.

Third, religious African athletic bouts were in connection with rites honoring the god Amun. These three, as an entire “package,” were borrowed by the ancient Greeks. Starting either in 884? BC or 776 BC, the Greeks held athletic festivals every four years at Olympia.

These festivals, called “The Olympics,” were performed in connection with rites honoring Zeus. From that point onward, the Greeks have been falsely credited with being its originator. But in reality they were simply Greek versions of the African model.

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Africans Invented Philosophy

2008-04-07T21:01:31Z

http://www.jablifeskills.com/content/view/1922/35/

One of my medical school classmates asked the instructor why so many questions were repeated on the final examination year after year. His response: “In medicine, the questions don’t change but the answers do.”

The same can be said about philosophy. The English word “philosophy” originated in Kamit (Egypt) as “seba” (wisdom) and millennia later was translated into Greek as “Sophia,” loving wisdom (Asante, African Intellectual Heritage p. 259).

For Africans, Wisdom is the ability to intuit the will of God and then make what is thought, felt, expressed, and done to be in harmony with God’s will (Amen, Metu, Neter p. 86). Otherwise, philosophy deals with life-shaping values concerning profound things that underlie human and supernatural life. For this reason, philosophy is called “the mother of the sciences.”

The world’s original philosophers came from three waves of Africans. Primitive Africans inquired into and devised explanations for the profound events occurring in their lives -- things like natural disasters, crops, birth, death. The second wave were those Africans, perhaps 60,000 years ago, who were concerned about reaching the “Heaven Afterlife.”

The later arriving third wave of Africans brought in different types of philosophies that had God at its core and Order as its structure. Both were well formed by ?5500 BC, perhaps by the Black Egyptian Hermes Trismegistus.

Originally called Tehuti and later Thoth (pronounced T-ho-t, with three syllables), he crystallized African philosophy by saying that God is a “Big Mind” who creates all and maintains the cosmos in beautiful order. His basic philosophy is that each individual ought to undergo “rebirth” by the actual transformation of human consciousness into divine consciousness. To reach this state of spiritual enlightenment involves the pursuit of what lies beyond one’s physical mortal existence.

This pursuing of answers to the transcendental (stepping from human consciousness into divine consciousness) questions of life is the way to “know thyself.” The “know thyself” search is called Mystical Philosophy. To “know self” is to have insight into one’s own divine nature and that insight provides one with a new way to look at life.

The process for “knowing thyself” -- i.e. first known in the world as Egyptian Yoga -- is the highest of all philosophical systems. Incidentally, Yoga was developed first in Egypt (Kamit) (Ashby, African Origins p. 88, 54, 211, 585). Mystical (Ritual) philosophy literature includes the Egyptian Book of Coming Forth By Day (c 10,000-5,000 BCE), the Coffin Texts (c 2040-1786 BCE), and the Papyrus Texts (c 1580 BCE).

The Memphite Theology, a unique form of the Kamitan (Egyptian) religion, is highly philosophical. By emphasizing those forms of intellectual development that lead towards intuitional realization of the nature of self (Ashby p. 217, 540), it says the world is composed of neteru -- divine energy (cosmic forces) -- that constitute all physical phenomenon. One of these neterus, the god Ptah, emerged from a primeval ocean and created order in the universe by his will and the power of thought (mind).

The gods and goddesses (who are Ptah’s thoughts) go on to form the elements of nature and the cosmic forces that maintain nature (Ashby p. 217, 540).

These effects are the result of Ptah’s thoughts being transformed into “word” (i.e. vibrations). Such harmonious fashioning of the physical around the spiritual is analogous to a grand symphony in which every melody has been exquisitely combined to compose one magnificent order of harmony. From this Memphite myth came the African concept of Wholism.

A third foundational philosophy is MAAT (love in action). Its theme is that the Supreme Spirit is in all God’s creations and therefore, regardless of what one thinks, feels, says, or does, one is interacting with God. Maat is the path to promoting human order (i.e. displaying the right relations with and behaviors toward all human beings).

With the appearance of human beings in need, Maat is displayed when one takes advantage of the opportunity to grow through selfless service -- and without developing resentment or taking attacks personally. Maat is the way to develop purity of heart

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Afuraka/Afuraitkait (Africa)

2008-04-06T15:58:14Z

Note: I'm Not into Paganism, Neo-Paganism or African Paganism; in which I believe is/has been distorted Gnosis
of our inner and spiritual Cosmology of self (Divine) into Materialism and Sensationalism.

I believe Deities (Tree of Life) are within us,

my definition of Witchcraft is "the masquerade ball of the ego-soul in man and woman."

I believe just like the corruptions of symbolisms of Africa by other western religions; worshiping Idols, misunderstood allegory etc
Most of the traditions like Voodoo, Yoruba, Candomble, Shango, Santeria, and Obeah...if not understood right (imo)
have been distorted as well -Dog Star

Mikyia mo (Greetings),

I thought I'd post this message that someone wrote on a different message board awhile back.

I saw that there was a discussion on the origin of the name of the continent in one of the threads here. I thought that because of some of the information, this might be best suited for the Spirituality forum. Post is below:

Mikyia wo (Greetings),

I understand your rationale for using Equatorial. It can be a
functional english term designating our people.

I use the terms Afuraka/Afuraitkait (Africa) and
Afurakanu/Afuraitkaitnut (Africans) for several reasons.

The name Africa is not of european/arab origination. 'Amen' is used
by christians with the false definition "so be it" attached to it. Of
course, Amen is The Great God, Whom along with The Great Goddess
Amenet constitute the Supreme Being. The word 'hero' in english is
derived from 'Heru', phonetically and conceptually. The name 'Africa'
also is our own designation.

The term 'ka' means 'soul'. The metut/symbol is that of two arms
raised in a perpindicular fashion. However, we must look at the
term 'Qa' (as written in Budge's Hieroglyphic Dictionary, Vol. 2;
also, Queen Hatsheptsut's Tekhen/Obelisk). The term 'Qa' or 'Qaqa'
or 'Qiqa', is phonetically, 'Ka', 'Kaka', 'Keka'. The metut/symbol is
that of a man with his two arms raised in a perpindicualar fashion.
If you look closely, the two arms are the same two arms in the
metut/symbol/term "ka" (soul).

'Qa', 'Qai' or 'Qaqa' or 'Qiqa' (Ka, Kai, Kaka, Keka) is defined
variously as "the land above the banks of the river". The 'high'
land. The 'exalted' land. The 'raised' land. The "high ground upon
which the God of Creation first stood". It is the raised-land where
the eight primordial Deities converged to create the egg from which
Ra/Rait would emerge.

Ka, Kaka, Ke, Keka phonetically are the same terms as Qa, Qaqa, Qi,
Qiqa. Let's look at the Yoruba language. There are 5 sacred hills.
The sacred hill/raised-land in Yoruba is called oKe. The
specific 'ke' or 'oke' (hill) called 'oke ara' is defined as
the "hill upon which the manifestations of god first descended at the creation of
the world" .

In the Twi language of the Akan people, 'Koko'(Kaka) means 'hill'
(Twi-English Dictionary, by Paul Kotey). In Mayan, 'ka' means 'soil'.
(Amaru-ka; soil-land of Amaru--Amaru is the "plumed serpent", thus,
Amaruka 'America' is the 'land of the feathered/plumed serpent (Amen-
Ra)

When Ra moves through matter He has the title "Afu Ra". (See the
temple of Seti I, Shat em Duat, 3rd Hour of the night for the title
of Ra being "Afu Ra" as opposed to "Af" or "Afu")

The first raised land (Qa/Ka), raised up above the surface of the
water, is the "Ka of Afu Ra" Afuraka. Of course, Rait (Rat) is the
Creatress of the world, just as Ra is the Creator. The feminine form
of the name is thus the "Kait of Afu Rait" Afuraitkait.

One of the definitions according to Budge for the term "nu"
is 'children'. Also, it refers to a plurality. Again, in the Twi
language of the Akan, the term "nom" (phonetically "noom") is a term
for the plural, hence 'oyere' (wife) 'oyerenom' (wives); 'nua'
(sibling) 'nuanom' (siblings); Nana (Elder/Elderess) Nananom
(Elders/Elderesses). The Akan plural 'nom' is derived of the
Kamau/Kenesu (Egyptian/Nubian) 'nu'.

The term 'af' [spelled with the metutu of a "reed" (A) and a "horned
viper" (F)] in Kamit means 'flesh' as in house or place of residence.

Your flesh is a house or place of residence for your spirit. Another
word for place of residence/house temple is spelled 'af' or 'aft'
[spelled with the metutu of the eagle (A) instead of the "reed" for
letter (A), the "viper" for (F) and the determinative for an enclosed
space/temple/house.]

When Ra is moving through matter (e.g. 12 hours of the night), when
His energy is inside of the Earth and making the Earth vibrant,
Earth/matter becomes the 'flesh of Ra'. Afu Ra. Again, in Twi the
word for fertile land (land with life-giving energy moving through
it, i.e. cultivatable land) is called "afuw" or "afuo". Now, just as
the name of the Deity in Akan culture called 'Asuo Gyebi' is often
pronounced 'Asur Gyebi' So is "Afuo" also pronounced "Afur".

This is the reason why the land where some Akan people settled after having
"Descended from Heaven by golden chain" is called "Koko-Afuo" Koko (hill/raised
land) Afuo (land that is full of life; plantation; farmland). Today
this land is called Kokofu in Ghana. Koko-Afur is none other than
Afur-Koko.

There is much more to this, as this is a brief summary. There is also
the fact that the term Hat-Ka-Ptah is often spelled Hat-Ptah-Ka (See
King Piye/Piankhi's victory stele). 'Het' was condensed into 'At' by
the greeks (note: Het-Heru becomes Hathor and Athyr). Ptah was
corrupted by the greeks and others into Putah (buddha) and Phutah.
Hence, Hat-Ptah-Ka, becomes A-futah-ka. (afuraka). Hat-Ptah-Ka and
Afuraka have the same meaning cosmologically. (More on this later, as
it relates to Ptah's functioning as fashioner of the World)

Finally, Our descent from the original Afurakanu/Afuraitkaitnut, the
original people of Afuraka/Afuraitkait; our descent from those who
remained in Afuraka/Afuraitkait to receive the [inner truths] of Spirits and of the
inner Goddesses and Gods; [some say] our ability through Ka-Nu/Kat-Nut (Melanin) to
receive and transmit the fullness of that Divine energy; Our
INCARNATION and RE-INCARNATION through these families; it is these
things [in total] that define us as Afurakanu/Afuraitkaitnut.

It matters not where we go now on Earth or are born on Earth, we remain
Afurakanu/Afuraitkaitnut in the physical world and the Ancestral realm.

This is simply because our various Ancestral traditions state our
civilizations around the world are a testament to the Divine Order
(manifest by the Tree of Life) operating within the worlds blood, our families.

There is much, much more to this, however we can definitely say with
truth that we are Afurakanu/Afuraitkaitnut (created by and children
of, Afu Ra and Afu Rait. Our bodies were formed from
the original, black, raised land (Ka). Cosmologically and culturally,
this unites all of us who are roots of the Tree of the world.

Ma asomdwoee-Hetep

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Kemet Pages

2008-04-05T16:59:40Z

Introduction Kemet Pages

http://www.ebonyminds.com/kemetpages/history.htm

The ancient name of the country we now know as Egypt

Egypt is NOT in the Middle East as the American and world government is now trying to say. It is in North Africa. Archeological science precludes the possibility that anyone other than black people could have built the pyramids, sphinx, obelisks or other great structures of ancient Kemet since Europe was still in its prehistory at the time of their building. Rather than admit that Black people built these structures, HIStory is branded in Schools and in Hollywood.

This is beyond ludicrous. Visit the History to see just how far back our heritage goes.

Because the peoples of ancient Kemet wrote their spiritual legacy in heiroglyphics on walls their message is still
extant despite numerous invasions by European and Arab hordes.

HERE is a Source of Spiritual Renewal For Black People

History

This should really be called "ourstory." We know all about his story--even the parts we weren't supposed to know.
It's our story we are interested in here.

Any description of the history of ancient Kemet is a description of the history of the world. Our brothers and sisters of the Nile go waaaaay back. History is a relative term. Since people around the world were at various stages of development at any given point in time what is prehistory for one group is only ancient times for another. Even if you're not a history buff you may find the following brief history of Kemet quite interesting.

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Awusi and Ananse (Ausar and Set)

2008-04-05T16:23:22Z

Mikyia mo (Greetings),

http://www.africancultureonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10549

Below is a story about how Ananse became the owner of the desert.

It is important for many reasons, one being that this is actually an ancient story from Keneset and Kamit (Nubia and Egypt) about Ausar and Set, which our Akan Ancestresses and Ancestors have quite naturally passed on to us.

Note that Akwesida is also called Awusida. Awusi is the Obosom of Sunday/Awusida. This Obosom is also called Asi. This Obosom is the same in name and function as Awusir (Ausir, Ausar, Asir) in Kamit. He is also the same in title and function in the Igbo tradition. Agwu-isi (Akw-esi in Akan) is how His name is spelled in Igbo. (See After God is Dibia, by J.A. Umeh for information about Agwuisi's function in Creation).

Awusir (Ausar) in Kamit has the title Kam-Ur, which means the Great Black one. It is said that His body makes up the whole of the Tuat as well as the Black fertile strip of land on the banks of Hapi, the Nile. This is one of the reasons why Egypt is called Kamit (the Black country). Ra (The Creator) gave Ausar rulership over the Blackland, Kamit.

Set is called Desher in Kamit. Desher means "Red". He is the Great Red One. Set was given rulership over the deserts by Ra. The word for Red Land in Kamit is "Desher-t". Of course, this is where desert comes from. The hot red lands belong to Set. The Red Land encroaches upon the Black Land every year and then retreats as the Black Land expands again after the flooding of the Hapi/Nile. This is Kam-Ur and Desher, Awusi and Ananse ( Ausar and Anan-Set) battling one another for rulership of the country.

Note that the planet Sobeg (Mercury) is governed by Set in Kamit. Of course, Awuku (mercury) is governed by Kweku Ananse(t) in Akan.

Note also that when Ausar (Ausir/Awusi) is connected with Ra, He operates through the Sun. He even has the title Ausar-Ra (This is Oosaala a title of Obatala in Yoruba). Awusi is the Obosom of Sunday. Awusi/Akwesi ends up with well-watered fertile land (Kamit) while Ananse ends up with the dry land (Deshert).

Here's an Akan version of our ancient Ancestral story: (emphases are mine)

Ma asomdwoee-Hetep (peace)....

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The African, and Spiritual, Origins of Carnival

2008-04-05T16:14:46Z

http://www.theafrican.com/Magazine/carnival.htm

It has become the received teaching in all the countries of the New World where Carnival has become an institution -- notably in Rio de Janeiro, New Orleans, and Port of Spain -- to ascribe its origins to white planters and costumed balls, rather than to its palpably African roots [1]. I want in this article to ground the Carnival firmly in Mother Africa, where it rightfully belongs.

The first point I would make in this regard is simply to note that everywhere in the New World where there is Carnival, you find the creative presence of an African genius. In Rio, you have African and Portuguese, in New Orleans you have African and French, and in Port of Spain you have African and again, French. It is also present throughout Hispanophone America, where African energy is again present, expressed now through an Hispanic voice. The one constant in all of these variations of carnival is an African presence.

But really, we shouldn't end there. In the Bahamas, Carnival is known by another name ... Junkanoo. There, the British never participated to any significant extent, and therefore there was no attempt at European expropriation; so that historically there has never been any doubt as to the African root of this festival. Junkanoo is known also in Bermuda, where again it is an undisputed African engine that propels this form of cultural expression ... Jamaica also, where it is now a faded if not entirely lost cultural expression, now being resuscitated by the import of Trinidad-style carnival. Even in North America, few people are aware that Junkanoo was celebrated in North Carolina and other parts of the American South at one time.

There, for a time, it even crossed cultures and was adopted by Anglos, only subsequently to die out.[2] One can speculate as to why Junkanoo died out in North Carolina and other parts of the American South; my speculation would be that it died of racial disdain -- it is from the word Junkanoo that we get the derogatory terms "kooner" and "coon", as in "acting like a ...", a folk etymology which reveals the disdain in which this African form of cultural expression was held. Even African-descended folk, I'm sure, many of them, especially "church-folk", would have been persuaded to look down upon the Junkanoo. So that even where there is a large African population in the New World, namely the United States other than New Orleans, where it would appear to be an unknown, or at least alien, cultural expression, we find that it once existed. I therefore assert that everywhere in the New World where Africa is found, we also find carnival, or carnival by some other name such as junkanoo, or "crop-over" (its Barbadian form), except of course where it died a victim of racial disdain and/or racial self-hatred.

In making this assertion, a clear corollary is that the African carnival has nothing at bottom to do with Lent, Christmas, or the Christian calendar. For those who don't know, the carnivals of Port of Spain, Rio de Janeiro, and New Orleans, also a host of others throughout the Caribbean, Latin America and Europe, are celebrated on the Monday and Tuesday before Ash Wednesday, and so are linked with the Christian church calendar. (Truth be told, the Christian calendar is littered with pagan retentions, most notably Christmas and Easter. Christianity was always alien to Europe and has never really been tried by the Europeans, but it certainly was used by them as an arm of conquest. But I digress.)

Likewise, the Junkanoo celebrations of the Bahamas, Bermuda, Jamaica, and North Carolina, are associated with the Christmas season. But there is no organic connection. The African-inspired carnivals have an origin and substance of their own, but at least in this aspect of outward form, they assume a European cloak. But it is assuredly a cloak of convenience. As in the carnival itself, separation must be drawn between the mask and the masquerader. No, the African carnival took on a European mask because the structures of European domination permitted it no other choice.

It is on this outward appearance that the repeated lie is based that carnival is a European creation. I do not deny that French, Portuguese, and Spanish colonialists, whether in Port of Spain, New Orleans, Rio de Janeiro, or wherever else in Latin America, celebrated their own form of carnival in the costumed balls and parties that they had in the days and weeks prior to Lent. Nor do I deny that the British colonialists of the Bahamas, Bermuda, Jamaica, North Carolina and elsewhere gave themselves over to merriment and debauchery in the "holiday season" of Christmas and New Year. No doubt that is true. Junkanoo merely took the occasion for merry-making afforded by the enslaver's calendar to re-create a palpably African tradition right here in the New World. And the carnivals of the Catholic enslavers provided yet another opportunistic avenue of expression for what always was, and remains today, a fundamentally African form of cultural expression in all the Lent-related carnivals.

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Historical Harlem to be Destroyed

2008-03-27T00:37:41Z

I haven't been active on Tribe in a while, but when this came up, I thought of sharing in this forum.

New York City is proposing (and will approve) a rezoning plan that will allow for the destruction of the buildings on 124th, 125th, and 126th St almost the entire way across the island. While it is a commercial area now, once this is approved and enacted, the area will be dominated by large apartment buildings with minimal (and inadequately priced) low-income housing. The proposal will allow for the destruction of 4 of the 5 historical landmarks the city knows are within this border. The city has not been particularly vocal, or inclusive, of the community during this approval process.

My goal here is to raise awareness. I just want people to know what is going on, and have an educated opinion on it.

125th Street is a contemporary historical location for many black (and other minorities) ACROSS the US.

Please, get involved! Even if it is only here by discussing this proposal. If you want to do or know more, contact me and I will let you know!!

City’s Sweeping Rezoning Plan for 125th Street Has Many in Harlem Concerned

The street may not be much to look at now, say people who grew up in Harlem during the 1950s and 1960s, but back then, 125th Street seemed like the bustling center of the world.

At Moore’s book shop, a lawyer named Thurgood Marshall was often seen browsing through volumes of African-American history, while at the corner of Lenox Avenue, Malcolm X could be heard proselytizing as a young boxer named Cassius Clay, later known as Muhammad Ali, listened intently among the crowd.

Up the street, Aretha Franklin or Stevie Wonder performed periodically at the Apollo Theater, and Fidel Castro once conferred with Nikita Khrushchev over lunch at the Hotel Theresa. Blumstein’s may not have been Macy’s, but it did have black mannequins and, at Christmastime, a black Santa Claus.

The street has long been in decline, though national chain stores like Starbucks have taken an interest in it more recently. Now the Bloomberg administration has proposed the most sweeping zoning changes for the street since 1961, when there was a citywide rezoning and 125th Street was at the heart of African-American cultural life.

The rezoning, which is expected to be approved by the city’s Planning Commission in the coming weeks, is part of package of city plans that call for the thoroughfare to be transformed from a low-rise boulevard lined with businesses like hair salons and buffet-style soul food restaurants into a regional business hub with office towers as high as 29 stories and more than 2,000 new market-rate condominium apartments, as well as hotels, bookstores, art galleries and nightclubs.

The corridor between 124th and 126th Streets from Broadway to Second Avenue would be rezoned, which could ultimately force out more than 70 small businesses and their 975 workers and might lead to the razing of some of the street’s century-old buildings.

Although the city has said it will not require any residents to move out, the proposal has caused widespread fear that thousands of longtime African-American residents will eventually have to move as the area becomes more expensive. Even now, some apartments in Harlem sell for $2 million or more.

Still, even opponents of the plan agree that new development on 125th Street is necessary to reduce unemployment and to improve the area’s $17,452 median household income, which is about one-third the rest of Manhattan, according to a 1999 Planning Commission report.

What opponents say they do not want is for the street, which has been an incubator for pioneering arts and social movements, to be turned into another Manhattan cookie-cutter strip with expensive shops and shaded by skyscrapers.

“One hundred twenty-fifth Street, like everywhere in the world, must change,” said Dabney Montgomery, 84, an informal community advocate who has lived in Harlem for 52 years. “But we are interested in change that will benefit the people of Harlem. The rezoning would make 125th Street into another 86th Street. That, we don’t want.”

Amanda M. Burden, chairwoman of the Planning Commission, who since her appointment in 2002 has presided over some of the most extensive rezoning undertaken for two generations, said she was not intent on making 125th Street another generic boulevard.

Ms. Burden said she had spent more time studying the 125th Street proposal — including attending 30 to 40 meetings and walking the street on several occasions — than she had on any other project, including Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn and Columbia University’s expansion in western Harlem.

“It’s one of the most renowned streets in the world, and there was a great time on 125th Street when people came from all over the world to enjoy its night life and culture,” she said. “It’s not what it was.”

Last year, the American Planning Association named 125th Street one of the “10 Great Streets in America,” calling it the “Main Street of black American culture.”

The street, the group said, has “managed to maintain a strong identity through periods of tremendous population growth and infrastructural strain, disinvestment and urban renewal.”

But residents, who often call Harlem a village and refer to 125th Street as its Main Street, say they worry that its personality will not survive rezoning.

“This would be signing Harlem’s death warrant,” said Craig Schley, executive director of a group called VOTE People, which opposes the rezoning. “It is part of the continuing ‘Katrina-fication’ of Harlem, carried out with a pen instead of a hurricane. They intend to remove people in this area, plain and simple.”

Community Board 10, which represents central Harlem, voted against the 24-block rezoning last year, saying that the plan includes far too little housing that most Harlem residents could afford and that any new housing should be placed on 124th and 126th Streets because it would harm the commercial character of 125th.

The community board also said the proposed 29-story height limit was too high and would cause cultural fixtures like the Apollo Theater and the Studio Museum of Harlem to be dwarfed. There is currently no height limit on the street, but building height became an issue recently when developers unveiled proposals for skyscrapers along the street, including a 21-story building for Major League Baseball.

“Harlem is one of the few places left in the city where you can see the sky,” said Franc Perry, the community board chairman. “You’re able to get some fresh air and see the sun, and it’s not blocked by high rises.”

City Councilwoman Inez E. Dickens, who represents central Harlem, said she was concerned about portions of the plan but believed the need for change was paramount. Ms. Dickens’s position is critical to the prospects of the rezoning because most other council members would be unlikely to oppose her when the plan reaches the City Council.

“It is quite clear to me that in doing nothing, our village loses,” she said. “Keeping 125th Street as is only satisfies the status quo. If we are truly to affect the unemployment rate, especially amongst the young black and Latino males of our community, then we must pursue our involvement in inevitable change.”

The street, which in recent years has emerged from a years-long decline symbolized by boarded-up storefronts, has served as both Harlem’s Main Street and as a cultural touchstone for leading figures, including Bill Clinton, who has an office there.

During a recent weekend day, with temperatures hovering around freezing, members of the Communist Party were recruiting on a corner of 125th Street while volunteers for various presidential campaigns were handing out fliers on the other side of the street. A group of Black Hebrew Israelites was denouncing white people near the Apollo, vendors were selling books, incense and DVDs they had laid out on the sidewalk, and a man opened his coat to display watches for sale.

Rap, gospel and soul music came from speakers set outside the street’s small stores as visitors from Europe and Japan riding on red tour buses took it all in.

While only a few years ago pedestrians on the street had been almost exclusively black or Latino, there are now significant numbers of whites and Asians who have moved to Harlem to find apartments more affordable than in much of the rest of Manhattan.

Ms. Burden, the planning chairwoman, said the city’s proposals would help maintain the street’s vitality and culture by requiring large developers to set aside ground-floor space for arts and entertainment uses and by encouraging smaller developers to do the same through an incentive program.

Ms. Burden played down the notion of widespread displacement, saying that more than 90 percent of the housing in the area was “rent protected,” including the neighborhood’s several large public housing complexes.

The idea that the street needed development hit her, she said, when she attended a recent Roberta Flack concert at the Apollo with a friend who works on the street.

After the concert ended, Ms. Burden said, she asked her friend where they should eat. “Downtown,” the friend replied.

“There should be a million different eateries around there, and this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to frame and control growth on 125th Street,” Ms. Burden said. “The energy on the street is just remarkable, and it’s got to stay that way.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/21/nyregion/21rezone.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=125th+rezoning&st=nyt&oref=slogin

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HERE IT IS! The Great KMT African Philosophers

2008-03-26T06:22:38Z

Here it is...the story of U beyond space and time

This book says all with insightful simplicity and precision... here is our future enriched in our past
rich in culture and so much discovery, not only on a metaphysical level, but Divine...its time for the thoth be told ;-)

My Blog
http://sanfrancisco.tribe.net/template/pub%2Coc%2CDetail.vm?topicid=42799978-28b2-453a-9b54-96e316494619&plugin=blog&inst=2313265

blessed are we for this author and his gifts - i am here to share Kmt and him to the world

*Start at Chapter one: The African Mind
Egyptian Philosophers: Ancient African Voices From Imhotep To Akhenaten
http://books.google.com/books?id=N7ha5wzmU2kC&pg=PA31&lpg=PA31&dq=the+ancient+egyptian+philosophers+Molefi+Kete+Asante++suppose+you+walked+out+your+front+door&source=web&ots=It4i81FPpM&sig=3GbFvGb4KsQ_k9GwQ2Vvxuj4Bls&hl=en

http://www.asante.net/index.html

We must be a better, aware, awake, spiritually people and process a higher consciousness than those who have stolen our African Cosmic heritage, culture, history and birthright -and turned it into madness - who have tried to removed the female and black principles of our true history and culture from the universe.

We teach nothing new, but are going back to the very beginning; the pre -history, before what we call modern human history today existed. Our pride is not puffed up because of these truths of Mother Africa's great pass, but are humble in the fact that other great civilizations that even pre-dated Kemet were thought was lost forever to history.

It matters not who was first to receive the spiritual Maat' and Tantric messages of light, but very important to know that the one true Great mystery of the universal was moving within the consciousness and super consciousness of other beings and Africa's great part in history was cut out and hidden but we shall return it back to it's rightful place (right smack in the center of your heart). This is not about race pride, but truth.

We extend our hands in fellowship to all spiritual systems who wish to stand as a vanguard to usher in the NEW AGE; THE AGE OF TRUTH where all the children of Mother Earth so shall again rise in higher consciousness and spiritual power, and the feminine Goddess fires will again start to reawaken and then roar into a mighty flame to help dispel this Dark Age of our current human history. We extend fellowship to all who wish to help humankind accomplish Supreme Divinity and spiritual enlightenment.

this is not about race, a people, or nationality, though these are important in understanding how these insights were lost and/or fragmented
but divines message intuited through the people of cosmosis gnosis ;-)

This about love and all of Human awakening for a new brighter future of Now.

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Dr. Molefi Kete Asante

2008-03-25T04:24:11Z

One of the great Authors of Africa and Kmt

http://www.asante.net/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molefi_Kete_Asante

Dr. Molefi Kete Asante is Professor, Department of African American Studies at Temple University. Considered by his peers to be one of the most distinguished contemporary scholars, Asante has published 61 books, among the most recent are Encyclopedia of Black Studies, (2004), co-edited with Ama Mazama, Race, Rhetoric, and Identity: The Architecton of Soul, Erasing Racism: The Survival of the American Nation, (2003), Ancient Egyptian Philosophers (2003), Scattered to the Wind, Custom and Culture of Egypt, and 100 Greatest African Americans. The second edition of his high school text, African American History: Journey of Liberation, 2nd Edition, (2001), is used widely throughout North America.

He has published more scholarly books than any contemporary African author and has recently been recognized as one of the ten most widely cited African Americans. In addition, Black Issues in Higher Education recognized him as one of the most influential leaders in the last 15 years. Asante completed his M.A. at Pepperdine and received his Ph.D. from UCLA at the age of 26 and was appointed a full professor at the age of 30 at the State University of New York at Buffalo. At Temple University he created the first Ph.D. Program in African American Studies in 1987. He has directed more than 125 Ph.D. dissertations. He has written more than 300 articles for journals and magazines and is the founder of the theory of Afrocentricity.

Asante was born in Valdosta, Ga., one of sixteen children. He is a poet, dramatist, and a painter. His work on African culture and philosophy has been cited by journals such as the Journal of Black Studies, Journal of Communication, American Scholar, Daedalus, Western Journal of Black Studies, and Africaological Perspectives. The Utne Reader called him one of the “100 Leading Thinkers” in America and Asante was recommended in a survey as one of the 25 influential African male leaders of the last two hundred years. In 2001, Transition Magazine said “Asante may be the most important professor in Black America.” He has appeared on Nightline, Nighttalk, BET, Macnell Lehrer News Hour, Today Show, the Tony Brown Show, Night Watch, Like It Is and 60 Minutes. In 2002 he received the distinguished Douglas Ehninger Award for Rhetorical Scholarship from the National Communication Association. The African Union cited him as one of the twelve top scholars of African descent when it invited him to give one of the keynote addresses at the Conference of Intellectuals of Africa and the Diaspora in Dakar in 2004. He was inducted into the Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent at the Gwendolyn Brooks Center at Chicago State University in 2004.

Dr. Asante is the founding editor of the Journal of Black Studies (1969) and was the President of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee chapter at UCLA in the 1960’s. In 1995 he was made a traditional king, Nana Okru Asante Peasah, Kyldomhene of Tafo, Akyem, Ghana. Dr. Asante has been or is presently a consultant for a dozen school districts. An activist scholar, he believes it is not enough to know, one must act to humanize the world.

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MAKEDA QUEEN OF SHEBA (The symbol of Beauty)

2008-03-19T17:54:49Z

I was watching a PBS Special or some sort of documentary and they had The Queen of Sheba all distorted

first the story, then the meaning of the myth

QUEEN OF SHEBA (960 B.C.) (Haile Selassie Emperor of Ethiopia descendant of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.)

http://wysinger.homestead.com/sheba.html

"I am black but comely,
O ye daughters of Jerusalem,
As the tents of Kedar,
As the curtains of Solomon,
Look not upon me because I am black
Because the sun hath scorched me."
(Song of Solomon)

MAKEDA - QUEEN OF SHEBA (The symbol of Beauty)

Although most of Black history is suppressed, distorted or ignored by an ungrateful modern world, some African traditions are so persistent that all of the power and deception of the Western academic establishment have failed to stamp them out. One such story is that of Makeda, the Queen of Sheba, and King Solomon of Israel.

Black women of antiquity were legendary for their beauty, power and lover affairs. Especially great were the Queens of Ethiopia; Queen of Sheba (960 B.C.), Candace of Meroe and her defeat of Alexander the Great (332 B.C.), Amanirenas, Amanishakhete, Nawidemak, Amanitore (Acts 8:26-40), Shanakdakh, and Malegereabar.

Ethiopia was also known as Nubia, Kush, Aksum, Abyssinia and Sheba. One thousand years before Christ, Ethiopia was ruled by a line of virgin queens. The one whose story has survived into our time was known as Makeda, "the Queen of Sheba." Her remarkable tradition was recorded in the Kebra Nagast, or the Book of the Glory of the Kings [of Ethiopia], has been held in the highest esteem and honour throughout the length and breadth of Abyssinia for a thousand years at least, and even to-day it is believed by every educated man in that country to contain the true history of the origin of the Solomonic line of kings in Ethiopia, and is regarded as the final authority on the history of the conversion of the Ethiopians from the worship of the sun, moon, and stars to that of the Lord God of Israel.

The Bible tells us that, during his reign, King Solomon of Israel decided to build a magnificent temple. To announce this endeavor, the king sent forth messengers to various foreign countries to invite merchants from abroad to come to Jerusalem with their caravans so that they might engage in trade there.

At this time, Ethiopia was second only to Egypt in power and fame. Hence, King Solomon was enthralled by Ethiopia's beautiful people, rich history, deep spiritual tradition and wealth. He was especially interested in engaging in commerce with one of Queen Makeda's subjects, an important merchant by the name of Tamrin.(1)

Solomon sent for Tamrin who "packed up stores of valuables including ebony, sapphires and red gold, which he took to Jerusalem to sell to the king."(2) It turns out that Tamrin's visit was momentous. Although accustomed to the grandeur and luxury of Egypt and Ethiopia, Tamrin was still impressed by King Solomon and his young nation. During a prolonged stay in Israel, Tamrin observed the magnificent buildings and was intrigued by the Jewish people and their culture. But above all else, he was deeply moved by Solomon's wisdom and compassion for his subjects.

Upon returning to his country, Tamrin poured forth elaborate details about his trip to Queen Makeda. She was so impressed by the exciting story that the great queen decided to visit King Solomon herself.(3)

To understand the significance of state visits in antiquity in contrast to those of today (for example, President Clinton's trips to confer with foreign heads of state), we must completely remove ourselves from the present place and time. In ancient times, royal visits were very significant ceremonial affairs. The visiting regent was expected to favor the host with elaborate gifts and the state visit might well last for weeks or even months.

Even by ancient standards, however, Queen Makeda's visit to King Solomon was extraordinary. In 1 Kings 10:1-2, the Bible tells us:

"1. And when the Queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the Lord, she came to prove him with hard questions.

"2. And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bear spices and very much gold, and precious stones. And when she was come to Solomon she communed with him of all that was in her heart."

1 Kings 10:10 adds: "She gave the king 120 talents of gold, and of spices very great store and precious stones; there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the Queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon."

We should pause to consider the staggering sight of this beautiful Black woman and her vast array of resplendent attendants travelling over the Sahara desert into Israel with more than 797 camels plus donkeys and mules too numerous to count. The value of the gold alone, which she gave to King Solomon, would be $3,690,000 today and was of much greater worth in antiquity.

King Solomon, and undoubtedly the Jewish people, were flabbergasted by this great woman and her people. He took great pains to accommodate her every need. A special apartment was built for her lodging while she remained in his country. She was also provided with the best of food and eleven changes of garments daily.

As so many African leaders before her, this young maiden, though impressed with the beauty of Solomon's temple and his thriving domain, had come to Israel seeking wisdom and the truth about the God of the Jewish people. Responding to her quest for knowledge, Solomon had a throne set up for the queen beside his. "It was covered with silken carpets, adorned with fringes of gold and silver, and studded with diamonds and pearls. From this she listened while he delivered judgments."(4)

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MATRIMONY means "pay homage/tribute to the woman"

2008-03-11T05:36:33Z

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MATRIMONY etymologically means "to pay homage or tribute to the woman"

meaning marriage was all about the Woman (imo)

matremoine, from L. matrimonium from matrem (nom. mater) "mother" + -monium, suffix signifying "action, state, condition."

wed O.E. weddian "to pledge, covenant to do something, marry,"weddia "to promise,")

Let me preface my statements here, by saying that man, as with most higher-formed mammals, are and have always been largely and instinctively monogamous by nature, even amidst concepts such as polygamy and polyandry.

The most primitive form of marriage can perhaps be traced back to the paleolithic age, when humans (Black people essentially and initially) began developing the system known as agriculture.

Agriculture in earliest times, was a practice that was largely governed and maintained by women. As men were largely shepherd, hunters and fishermen, women maintained the land, which allowed them to remain closer to the household, which they also maintained domestically in the males' absence. This was the beginning of matriarchy and matrilenny, as the power of the woman (in this case, the Black woman) was realized on an implicit, and in some cases explicit level.

During this same age of human development, there was only a small portion of the population of humans that there is now; barely over several hundred million scattered all about the world. Humanity lived in equilibrium with the rest of the world, and this was reflected in his mindset and overall actions with the environment, and of course his fellow humans. Thus, the mating ritual was less strengent and less defined, because there was very little need for it to be so.

However, as the various populations began to increase (along with all that this entailed), various aspects of social order had to be established, for the sake of maintaining over all harmony.

As the interaction between Man and Woman was and still is the most quintessential and primordial of all human interaction, that was one of the primary customs that saw a more solid regiment in undertaking.

It is evidenced that largely agricultural societies, such as that in Africa proper, Southeast Asia, and Central/South America saw the greatest change, since these (our) people developed systems of belief that not only reflected their ideals of social order (marriage including), but also in some cases centered around it.

In most of the earliest religions, we see Woman as the divine mother of all that is surveyed, while Man is the father and Keeper (Protector) of all that she creates.

This is highly reflective of how social order was established, again especially in proto-agricultural societies and even beyond.

At some point during this time, male/female interaction begins to shift from being an oftentimes implicit understanding of harmonial balance, to a stated agreement, whether explicit or implicit, between all parties involved.

People then began to measure their worth based upon their innate ability to accomplish things......I'd advise the reader here, to not look at this as necessarily a bad thing; in order to establish an order of social harmony, there must be a guage of value with respect to persons. If you can't cook, how are we going to eat? If I can build a house, where are we going to live?

Roughly at the same time, or at the very least a short time after.

It must be understood, that because of a populace in which women have always outnumbered men, and the stated domain that was naturally woman's as far as domestic endeavors went, matriarchy and matrilenny were a very natural result of developmental course.

Unlike today, a woman's worth and value was instantly recognized. Back then, to say "this is a good woman" would have ultimately a redundant statement; likewise, to say "this is NOT a good woman" was to make an exception to the rule.

As individual worth and value were developed, standards of measurements for these values were also brought into play. This was the development of assets. If a woman can cook, perform domestic endeavors, knew the land well enough to farm it, and was viewed as fertile, then all that she needed was a man who was suitable to protect her and her assets, as well help her to use those assets to further their own prosperity, as well as that of the entire social order, to which they belonged.

This was shortly after when the dowry custom was brought into practice; men, who ate more and took up more space than women did, needed to prove his "worth/value" to the woman that he was capable of procuring "assets" of his own.

It must be understood that man's (males) rulership was formally established to this end and this end only.

However, for a man, in his duty of "protection" to be able to do this in a society where women outnumbered him, sometimes grossly so, he would have had to take on more than one wife, i.e. enter into more than one "agreement" with more than one woman.

Thus, the birth of polygamy: the *Marriage of one man to more than one woman.

It must be explicitly understood, that contrary to the popular belief that is widely held today, polygamy was not a custom that is abused for the benefit of the male's satisfaction.

In fact, proper polygamy sees the male has having very little benefit whatsoever; if a man has 3 wives, then this means that he has 3 agreements in which he must uphold (each woman betrothed to him only has one), he has3 independent sets of assets that he must protect and maintain, and, if it is decided within the agreement, he has 3 sets of families to procreate and raise.

This is the equivolent to someone have 3 40+-hour-per-week full time jobs.

In societies where men were drastically outnumbered by women almost 5:1 or 7:1, men were being raised with the understanding that he was going to eventually have to enter into a polygamous arrangement for the good of all (given the circumstances as explained here, we can begin to see where post-modern males get their phobia of marriage from . This only further solidified the shift of marriage as a natural part of life, to an "institution".

http://destee.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40831&page=4&highlight=institution+marriageM

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Dead Prez - I'm An African

2008-03-09T04:28:38Z

Turn it up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDR6w2UPgpw

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Ethiopia and the Origin of Civilization

2008-02-28T18:20:42Z

http://www.nbufront.org/html/MastersMuseums/JGJackson/EthiopiaOriginOfCivilization.html

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IMHOTEP, THE WORLD'S FIRST MULTI-GENIUS

2008-02-28T18:05:17Z

[AFRICAN MEDICINE]

Imhotep One human being of the ancient world who has left a profound impact on history was the world's first multi-genius Imhotep, the sage, scribe, chief lector priest, architect, astronomer, magician and chief physician to the king. Imhotep received accolades for his literary mastery that earned him recognition in modern times as; "the first man of science in recorded history," "the real Father of Medicine and healing," and "the world's first doctor". Sir William Osier also commented that, "The first figure of a Physician to stand out clearly from the mists of antiquity."

Imhotep lived at the court of King Zoser (Djoser) of the Third Dynasty around 2980 B.C. and established such a reputation as a physician and healer, that during the later stages his adoration grew into deification, where he was worshipped as a god for the next 3000 years in Egypt, Greece and Rome.

Imhotep, as a physician, was accepted as the author of the Edwin Smith Papyrus which describes more than 90 anatomical terms and 48 injuries. In Memphis, Imhotep also founded a school of medicine known as Asklepion that remained famous for two thousand years. This was occurring well over 2,000 years before the Western Father of Medicine Hippocrates was even born.

Imhotep, who also performed surgery and dentistry, diagnosed and treated over 200 diseases including some related to diseases of the abdomen, bladder, rectum, eyes, skin, hair, nails and tongue. He extracted medicine from plants and cured such diseases as spinal tuberculosis, gallstones, appendicitis, gout, mastoid diseases, rheumatoid and arthritis.

Imhotep and the native Black Egyptians were skilled at detecting diseases by observing the shape, colour or condition of the visible areas of the body like the skin, hair, nails and tongue. They also possessed knowledge of the position and functions of the stomach, lungs, and other vital organs. Furthermore, Imhotep was familiar with the circulation of the blood system some 4000 years before it was identified in Europe, since Egyptian civilization had endured for 6000 years, and would have allowed its greatest thinkers and scientists to effectively carry out major research to an advanced level in many fields.

Imhotep As Imhotep's fame increased after his death, he was first worshipped as a medical demi-god from 2850 B.C. to 525 B.C. before being elevated to full deity by 525 B.C., replacing Nefertum in the great trinity at Memphis (Nefertum, Sekhmet his mother and Ptah his father). Kings and queens bowed at his shrine.

Imhotep was identified as the son of Ptah, Father of the Gods in the Turin Canon, - (an ancient Egyptian manuscript in the Egyptian Museum of Turin, Italy, written during the 19th dynasty which chronologically lists the Egyptian kings from ancient times to Rameses II), - and addressed with glowing terms of supplication such as, "turn thy face towards me, My Lord Imhotep, Son of Ptah. It is thou who dost work miracles and who are beneficent in all thy deeds."

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BUDDHA

2008-02-28T18:01:03Z

Buddha of India was Black. That is why his woolly hair is always shown in corn rows, or in a pepper corn style with small stiff curls. Original statues of Buddha clearly show him to be Africoid, with the wide nose, thick lips and frizzy, nappy, hair which are distinctive Negro characteristics. In most ancient temples throughout Asia where he is still worshipped, he is shown as jet Black. In fact, in most of the ancient temples of Asia and India, statues of the gods and goddesses have Africoid features with woolly hair in the pepper corn style, while some even have dreadlocks. These pictures of Buddha portray him in no uncertain terms as Negroid with kinky, coiled hair, a flat nose and full lips.

Note the ears of this modern Massai man from Kenya and compare to the Buddhas.

The Greek Buddha There are absolutely no historical records that portray Buddha as Aryan or White, and the only time in history that he changes colour is through a statue like this one that was displayed in Greece.

The first people who conceptualized and worshipped the divine image of the Negroid mould of humanity were Negroes, who actually started the practice of Buddhism, the world's first missionary religion.

Buddha was an Enlightened Master from the Sakya clan of the Naga Race, and was the first man on earth to preach the great principles of equality, liberty and fraternity. He caused the Nagas to become conscious of their own mind power as opposed to the mantra power.

Buddhism, whose doctrines include the Golden Rule, was established 500 years before Christianity in the area now called the Middle East (Africa). Buddha is not a name but a title meaning Enlightened One, Blessed One, or to Become awake. Over the centuries, there have been several recorded Buddhas like Gautama, Sakayanumi, and Siddhartha. Black Buddhist missionaries introduced Buddhism to China, Japan and other countries.

It is clear therefore that Buddhism did not start in Japan nor China, yet it is professed and practiced by millions of devotees throughout Asia. Under the Black King Ashoka, the religion of this Negro God was spread throughout Europe, even into the remotest parts of Britain.

Buddhism started on the India Continent where the first inhabitants were Black people who had migrated from Ethiopia some 50,000 years earlier, establishing what is known as the Indus Valley Civilization.

There were two types of Blacks from Africa who created the first civilization of mankind. One was the Nubian, who had broad features and Woolly, Nappy hair, while the other had the aquiline nose with straight hair,(Dravidian) but both were early descendents straight out of Black Africa.

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HANNIBAL OF CARTAGE

2008-02-28T17:51:19Z

Hannibal Barca Hannibal Barca, who was the greatest military leader and strategist of all time, was born in 247 B.C. when Carthage, the then maritime power, had started to decline.

Hannibal accompanied Hamilclar, his father, in a battle against the Romans when very young, and he succeeded his father and became supreme commander of the peninsula seventeen years later.

Hannibal, the North African Hercules is the black man hailed by scholars and military historians as the father of military strategy. Hannibal performed the astounding feat of marching his army and war elephants through the Alps to surprise and conquer his enemies in 218 B.C. With only 26,000 of his original force of 82,000 troops, he defeated Rome which was the mightiest military power at the time, with an army of a million men. For the next fifteen years Rome was defeated in every battle.

Hannibal’s tactics are still taught today in leading military academies of the U.S.A., Europe & other lands, and to this very day his genius as a strategist, warrior, statesman and economist, along with his example of moral courage, is an example to be emulated by all members of the African, Afro-American, West Indian and Black Communities across the globe.

In one battle led by Scipio, the Romans put 80,000 men on the battle grounds to defeat Hannibal. When Scipio attacked with his entire army, Hannibal had so studied the layout of the field and had organized his men in such a way, that they surrounded the Romans. He then turned his war elephants loose and crushed them first before sending in his African swordsmen behind them to complete the slaughter. Scipio Africanus admired and praised his noble enemy, and the two adversaries developed a friendship.

In another battle, Rome sent 90,000 men led by Varro and Emilius. With only 50,000 men, Hannibal placed the weakest part of his army in the centre contrary to the best military rules, knowing that he could not win if he had used his main force. With his veterans and cavalry on both wings, the Romans attacked them in the centre just as Hannibal had envisaged. When they were sure of a victory by overcoming the centre, Hannibal's flank then closed in and killed 70,000 men and 80 senators, including Emilius.

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Afrikan Origins of Civilization

2008-02-28T17:27:01Z

Free your mind - Return to the Source

http://www.geocities.com/joao_marri/index.html

Ancient Black (Egyptian) History

Have you ever noticed or asked why many of the Egyptian artefacts have the nose and lips missing? It clearly suggests that the carvings have been distorted or the facial features disfigured so that the world cannot see the flat nose and full lips which show the Negroid features, but they are still very apparent and clear even after all the attempted destruction to hide the fact that the ancient Egyptians-Afrikans, were Black, and that they were the ones who created the world’s first civilization.

Did you know that:

* The Polish Pope when he returns to Poland visits the holiest shrine there, the shrine of The Virgin of Czestochowa or The Black Madonna, the first virgin and Black Child, who later evolved into Mary and Jesus, before becoming WHITE with the help of Michelangelo and other artists who painted all the Deities to resemble themselves, in an attempt to hide the truth.

* In Egyptian mythology, the Egyptian God Osiris was chopped into 14 pieces. His wife, Goddess Isis, found all the pieces which were buried in different places along the Nile, except his penis. A temple would be erected on each site, but in place of the penis, an Obelisk was erected to symbolize the creative principle of Osiris. In America it is known as the Washington Monument.

* The earliest images found in the catacombs of Rome show Jesus the Christ as an Afrikan with woolly hair. Why do Black people continue worshiping the false, white Italian images painted by Michelangelo? As Europe prospered, it presented the global world with a WHITE Jesus when the Bible was being translated from Hebrew to Greek to Latin to English, fooling the world into believing in a WHITE Saviour for soul salvation. What is wrong with the Black version being embraced and promoted by Black people?

* During the dark ages in Europe, the Moors - Black Afrikans - built hundreds of public baths at a time when bathing was not popular in Europe. They built centres of learning, collected and translated ancient Egyptian and ancient scientific texts which provided the ingredients for the European Renaissance in Europe, thus bringing Europeans out of the Dark Ages.

* The original oriental people of China were Black Afrikans who took the art of fighting known as the Martial Arts into China. The Afrikans were the ones who discovered that the movements of animals could be used effectively to develop their fighting skills. Also, Ancient Chinese Medicine dates back to the Shang Dynasty founded by the Afrikan, King T'ang.
* The ancient Egyptian Pharaohs who built the pyramids and the sphinxes were Black. How many are aware that the Pharaohs referred to in the bible were Black Afrikans?

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brothaz n sitaz pay attention

2008-02-27T16:24:15Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwXSPAcy3XI

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the Tao of Maat

2008-02-22T18:21:38Z

My blog
http://people.tribe.net/chaz/blog/8a9fc02c-947a-4cea-8fc7-3d4db2c3952f

KMT Ancient Metaphysical Egypt Tribe
http://tribes.tribe.net/kmt?_click_path=Application%5Btribe%5D.Tribe%5Bc5fd2d34-d3fd-4a5b-80ca-5874cdc6a257%5D

Everywhere in Kemet
is god speaking.
why not be polite and
Listen to Her?

stop the chase and be a witness

The unnamable is the eternally real.

Free from Knowledge, you realize the mystery.
Caught in Science, you see only her manifestations.

Yet mystery and manifestations
arise from the same source.
This source is called darkness or your inner blackness [KMT - ancient black metaphysical egypt]

Darkness within darkness.
The gateway to all understanding.

Do the Tao Now - Maat

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Consciousness: bite-size Afro-knowledge-base platform

2008-02-08T16:11:42Z

http://consciousness.co.za/index.php

Consciousness is a bite-size knowledge-base platform aimed at the sharing of relevant information and promotion of objectivity amongst the people of the world. In the sharing of opinions, experiences, know how, facts and truth we believe the emancipation and growth of the human being is inevitable.

Consciousness by definition is the objective awareness of ones external and internal existence; through the emancipation and growth of this awareness one is less likely to be oppressed by the forces that be ( in other words, ultimate liberation). For the sake of relevance, throughout this virtual portal the ideology of consciousness is divided into these four dimensions: Spiritual( most significant of the dimensions), mental, emotional and physical.

The most valued principal this portal stands for is 'ubuntu' ( the brotherhood of a people ), through this brotherhood humanity at its purest form is reflected upon. You are encouraged to participate via the mailing of any relevantly processed data.

Throughout history humanity has been at constant war with the oppression of individual freedom. From slavery, poverty, abuse of any form, violence, racisim, corruption, obesity, addiction, depression, zenophobia, suicide, immorality etc. man has been struggling. In no way is this portal a formula for the obliteration of this phenomenon, but a grave aid in the historical and revolutionary resistance thereof.

With the intergration of ubuntu and love let us walk the paths paved by our ancestors in the upliftment of human righteousness.

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We, the Wombmen, descendents of Royalty

2008-02-08T15:59:52Z

My blog
http://people.tribe.net/chaz/blog/b6e585c6-7239-402e-981c-b440f663138d

I give Ises and humble thanks for the Ispiration given to
InI by the Power of the Ancestors Birthed from the Nile.
Behold, I Rastafari Family, the Khamite (Kemetic) peo-
ples who hold our hidden Identity as the first doctors,
teachers, priests and healers of this Earth. As I speak to I
Sistren, I will be using the Khamitic Dynasty and the
first language of our Nile Peoples, Mtu NTR. I do hope
that the Sistren and Bredren will seek further Knowl-
edge on these things, for they are a part of InI.

We, the Wombmen of Rastafari are descendents of a
looong line of Black Afrakan Queens and Divine Minds
of Wisdom and Truth. As the Bobo Ashanti preach: We
are Black Royalty in Flesh! We are the Sacred Femi-
nine: Mothers, Sistahs, Lovers and Teachers represent-
ing the whole of Iration. We ARE Iration! For without
the Womb of man, the Wombman, there is no Life.

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Biblical Origins In KMT (Ancient Egypt)

2008-02-03T19:58:46Z

Here's one of the most profound resources on the comparable mythology of Kmt and the origins of both Judaism and Christianity.

*Please see links lower part of the page
http://home.austarnet.com.au/calum/egypt.html

An example of the information contained within the site:

Matthew - The scribe of Taht-Matti

Intro

Most of the facts are literally rock solid evidence left to us by those very same spiritual people who revered and respected their Gods, and had done so for thousands upon thousands of years. Their Story, Their Gods lay almost forgotten, in Tombs, in the Pyramids, and beneath the Desert Sands, awaiting the day when religious tolerance could sweep away the clouds and mists of the Bible Fairy Stories. Saved from defacement by bigoted priests, all knowledge of the meaning of the colourful hieroglyphic texts was erased from the mind of man. Until, that is, the time was right. The Stories of the Ancient World have now been deciphered and studied. It is the wish of those Ancients that you listen now to the legacy left behind by an Amazing and extremely knowledgeable People.

But first we have to blow away the smokescreens and veils that a later people created to cloak the truth and turned to serve their own interests. In so doing they changed their entire history and heritage. They called the first five books of the Bible, the Torah. A misnomer if ever there was one, for the ancient texts of Egypt now reveal that it is very far from being the Truth. We should not be too hasty to judge them, for we have the advantage of being able to read the original texts, whilst they had only the tales handed down orally from one generation to another.

The Bible is full of confusion.

Some of the confusion is clearly attributable to the Scribes trying to fit old legends passed down from time immemorial into their World as they knew it around 600 BCE. In the New Testament the contradictions are so obvious that it has been conjectured that they are deliberate, and the many instructions telling the reader to seek and learn were added so that one could learn the scripture's more divine meaning.

You have the choice to maintain a closed mind, ignore the evidence put before you, or to evaluate it without bias from previous convictions that may turn you away from what is staring you in the face.

We have no idea exactly when the Bible was written, or for what reasons. All we know is that it was handed down orally for perhaps a thousand years, until any words were written. We do know that it is full of contradictions and tales that have proved to be wrong. We do know that it has been altered many times. We do know that in translation from Greek to other languages there are mistranslations, which completely alter the meaning. For example there is no Book of Joshua in the original Greek Version, but a Book of Jesus instead. Also there is no mention of the Red Sea in the Hebrew version, but a Sea of Reeds, which bordered the Mediterranean. We do now have some corroboration in the form of the Dead Sea Scrolls, but these were in the hands of Roman Catholic Priests for many years, who delayed any publication for years, giving rise to accusations that the Scrolls were tampered with.

Ancient Egyptian texts, including the Gnostic Gospels found at Nag Hammadi, remain virtually intact. The Egyptian texts date back at least three thousand years, and some to the Old Kingdom and even earlier. They predate the Dead Sea Scrolls by a minimum of one thousand years. It is true that some of these have been defaced, but only by the Priests of Amen who were trying to remove any trace of Akhenaten, the religion of the Hyksos Pharaohs, and the Hebrew God, Aten who in Greek became Adhon or Adonis. Fortunately thousands of the missing stones bearing texts from the days of Akhenaten have been recovered, painstakingly identified and put back into their original order, so that they can be read once more.

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Be Wise, Be Solomon

2008-02-03T19:23:32Z

inquiry into Solomon; true meaning and origin ...(this is still under my investigation of validity) ;-)

Solomon, Sheba, and Menelik are fictional characters.
The basis of the story is taken from that of Ausar, Auset and Heru in their stellar aspect.

The abode of Ausar in the sky is called "Sah" in Kamit. This is the Orion constellation. Hence Ausar is called "Ausar-Sah". Yet, Ausar also has a title, "Heri Meht". (hri mht, in the metutu/glyphs). Heri means "he who is above; chief; leader; king". Meht means "north; northern territory". Heri Meht thus means "King or Chief of the Northern Territory". North Kamit was sacred to Ausar as the place where He was resurrected and made His entrance into the Heavenly realm (Sah/Orion) to function as a God in Nature.

"Heri" (Hri) was corrupted into Hori, Holi, Sholi (the aspirated 'h' was sometimes corrupted from 'h' into 'sh'), Soli, and Sol. (There was no 'l' in ancient Kamit, only a rolling 'r'. The 'l' came later with the greeks). "Meht" was corrupted into Met, Meh, and Men. "Herimeht" was thus corrupted into Horimeht, Holimeht, Sholimeht, Sholimen and Solimen/Suliman/Solomon.

Sheba & Menelik

Auset takes up residence in the star system Sapadet (spd.t), often called 'Sirius'. The root word "Sapad" (Spd) means 'to provide'. Auset is thus called "The Great Provider". She is the Queen of the star system Sapadet, and is therefore known as 'the Queen of Sapad.t', or Sapad, which was corrupted into Shabat, Shabad, Shaba, and Saba (Sheba).

Auset, as the Queen of Sapadet (Sheba) also has the title "Rekhit" meaning "wise one" in the language of Kamit. Rekhit was corrupted into "Lekhit" by the whites. The masculine form "Rekh" was corrupted into "Lekh".

When the constellations Ausar-Sah (Osiris-Orion/Heri Meht/Solomon) and Auset Sapadet (Isis-Sirius/Queen of Sapadet/Shaba/Sheba) unite in the sky, they occasion the appearance of a star called Heru am Tuat or Heru am Spdt (Horus in Sothis). This is the stellar Heru, son of Ausar and Auset. As Auset is called "Rekhit" (Lekhit), this Heru is called the "son of Rekhit (Lekhit)---son of the wise one".

The term "per" or "pera" means "product of, offspring of" in the
language of Kamit. "Pera Rekhit" thus means, "offspring of Rekhit---offspring of the Wise one".

Also, "per and pera" meaning "offspring" were corrupted into "ben and bena and ibn" meaning "son/offspring" in hebrew and arabic. In the Kebra Negast, you'll find that Menelik is defined as "son of the wise one"---"bayna lekhim". This is a corruption of the Kamau "pera rekhit". Hence the derivatives---pena lekhit, bena lekhit, bena lekhim, bena lekh, mena lik, menelik.

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Gardasil Ingredient list...abridged

2007-12-14T18:33:37Z

http://student.biology.arizona.edu/ad/senile.html

While cleaning up my desk area this morning, i happened upon the Gardasil Ingredient list. I picked one up at the school, with the semester finally being over i've actually had time to read the little brochure..ill just type it

GARDASIL is a non infectious recombnant, quardivalent vaccine prepared from the HIGHLY PURIFIED VIRUS-LIKE PARTICLES (VLP'S) OF THE major caspid protein of HPV types 6,11,16, and 18....lots more medical jargon about how they culture the VLP'S..

here is the kicker

the purified VLPs are absorbed on preformed ALUMINUM containg adjuvant (amorphous aluminum hydroxyphosphate sulfate) *any chem majors?*

skipped some more info

each .5 ml dose of th evacine contains approx. 225 mcg of aluminum,9.56mg of sodium chloride(salt) .78 mg of l-histidine , , 50 mcg of polysorbate 80, 35 mcg of sodium borate , and water for injection.

the product does not contain a perservative (im guessing they are alluding to thimerisol) or antibiotics.

and over the course of whatever time period the 12 year old girl is goin gto have 3 injections =675 mcg of aluminum...floating around in the childs system

ALUMINUM...the new hotness for your brain.
__________________
FUCK YO CULTURE!

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Roots

2007-12-01T19:09:46Z

Does anyone here still recall both the book, which was penned by Alex Haley, as well as the TV movie? Does the story still resonate in your life?

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Camille Cosby's Important Comments!!!

2007-11-30T22:12:18Z

Hi All.

Did you know that our right to VOTE will expire in the year 2007? (black folks)

At the recent NAACP Meeting, President Bush finally meet with the leaders and assured them that he would sign the right to vote bill for another 25 years.

My only concern is: Do the other race have to be subjected to a right to vote extension? Personally, the President, if he really wanted to show Good faith, should have abolished this bill and made it simply a right with no limitations. But then maybe I am living in a dream world. However, I know IT CAN BE DONE!! Voting Rights Act-Expires for blacks in 2007.

Below you will find a speech that Bill Cosby's wife gave at a function. Everyone please read this and pass it on to as many African Americans you come in contact with.

Camille Cosby just made a reference about the Voting Rights Act in her most recent open letter on racism. This is extremely important. We are in the 21st Century and we were wondering, and when I say 'we', I mean others of us out there who wonder if everyone else out there knows what the significance of the year 2007 is to Black America ?

Did you know that our right to VOTE will expire in the year 2007?
Seriously! The Voters Rights Act signed in 1965 by Lyndon B. Johnson was just an ACT. It was not made a law.

In 1982, Ronald Reagan amended the Voters Rights Act for another 25 years. Which means that in the year 2007 we could lose the Right to vote!

Does anyone realize that African Americans are the only group of people who require PERMISSION under the United States Constitution to vote!

In the year 2007, Congress will once again convene to decide whether or not Blacks should retain the rights to vote (crazy but true).

In order for th is to be passed, 38 states will have to approve an extension. This is ludicrous! Not only should the extension be approved, but also the ACT must be made a law.

Our right to vote should no longer be up for discussion, review and/or evaluation.

We must contact our Congress-persons, Senators, Alder persons, etc., to put a stop to this! As bona fide Citizens of the United States , we cannot 'drop the ball' on this one! We have come too far to let government make us take such a huge step backward. So please, let us push forward to continue to build the momentum towards gaining equality.

Please pass this onto others, as we are sure that many more individuals are not aware of this. I urge all of you that are able, to contact those in government that have your vote and make them aware of our combined concern for this issue.

One voice!...... One Vote! You cannot complain, if you do not
participate.....local, State, & national.....

When I received this one I had no choice but to pass it on. Please do the same!

Be HAPPY, BE HEALTHY, BE SAFE AND BE BLESSED TODAY...

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Teen Jailed for Consensual Oral Sex Freed

2007-11-30T19:22:33Z

"The case has always been about much more than age or consent -- it was also about race. Wilson is black and his sex partner is white."

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/story?id=3782694

Genarlow Wilson spent two years in prison for having consensual oral sex at a New Year's Eve Party. He was 17 at the time -- his partner was 15.

The encounter was videotaped and prosecutors charged the honor roll student, football star and homecoming king with aggrevated child molestation.

After Wilson was convicted and sentenced to 10 years in prison, Georgia legislators changed the law that landed him in jail. They did not, however, make the new law retroactive to Wilson's case.

"I was shocked. I just knew my life was over," Wilson said on "Primetime."

The court overturned the sentence, calling it "grossly disproportionate to the crime."

State legistalotrs applauded the court's decision.

"I said all along that the sentence that this kid received for having a consensual relationship was cruel and unusual. It was harsh punishment," Georgia State Sen. Emmanuel Jones said.

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Mos Def Rallies For Jena Six,

2007-11-23T20:44:35Z

http://www.nobodysmiling.com/hiphop/news/87883.php

Mos Def is joining community leaders to support six Black teenagers who face criminal charges for allegedly beating up a White student in a racially-charged section of Jena, Louisiana.

The Brooklyn artist, who recently appeared on HBO’s “Real Time With Bill Maher,” spoke candidly about the controversial incident, calling on everybody from “Will Smith to Jay[-Z]” to help out in anyway possible.

Earlier this week, Mos Def wrote an open letter asking “African-Americans of influence, and all concerned parties” to join him in the “fight against racial inequality and show solidarity for these young people, who are being treated very harshly by the law.”

The rapper/actor will attend a Sept. 20 rally to protest the sentencing of one of the six students, Mychal Bell, who has already been found guilty of aggravated second-degree battery and conspiracy charges.

Bell, who is 17 years old, may face up to 22 years in prison.

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Do u remember? our Secred Blackwoman!

2007-11-19T01:26:51Z

*Disclamer: this post is not intended to come off as racist nor disrepectful to any of our brothers and sisters of all nationalities and races
just to point out what "those" people did, not you...it's to bring back the family in general and especially our black families

Where ol where is our Sacred Marriage?

From Niggas to Gods Vol. II
Escaping "Niggativity"

http://3rdeye.8m.com/remember.html

I remember. I remember all that we suffered together. I remember being mobbed, attacked and captured in my homeland, together with this Blackwoman. And when I looked at, she cried for me.

I remember. I remember being locked-down in the dark nasty holes of slave-ships, laying puddles of filth and body waste, between living and dead bodies for almost a hundred days, together with this Blackwoman. And when I looked at her…she cried for me.

I remember. I remember being as helpless as a child, chained from neck to ankle, barely alive, walking off that slave ship into this strange land 9000 miles away from home, in the possession of this inhumane beast of a man, a devil. Helplessly, I walked off that ship together with this Blackwoman. And when I looked over at her, she cried for me.

I remember. I remember my body being stripped totally naked, as I was placed up on an auction block, surrounded by, bidded on, and sold by all these yelling savage ghost faces, my mind went into a blur totally humiliated. Together, I was there with this Balckwoman. I looked up. And when I looked into her eyes, she cried for me.

I remember. I remember being slaved, and worked hard in the hottest sun under the constant threat of brutality, day in and day out, day in and out, day in and day out, damned day in and damned day out!!!!!!…together with this Blackwoman! And when I looked up, she even cried for me…she cried for "me"!

I remember. I remember being frustrated and angry and broke out of the plantation fleeing, and running, knowing nothing else to do, and the beasts tracked me, caught me and brought me back, in front of everybody. Tied me to a tree naked, burned me with fire-stoked iron prods, slashed me with bloody leather whips until my open flesh just wrapped around the whip itself, as they slid it through my wounds pulling back for another slash. Bloodied and numb, I fell to the ground, broken and defeated again…she carried me back to cover and nurse my wounds. Together we were, again…I didn’t have the strength to look at her. She cried and cried, and cried for me.

Yes, I remember. I never was the same after that. I remember… I remember my woman being attacked and thrown down to the ground, out in the field by one of these beasts! As that bitch attempted to rape her, I grabbed him by the back of his neck and broke his slimy spine with my bare hands! I tried to rip his damn skull off!!!

Half decapitated he lay at my feet, but I did not run. At gun point they walked me to the oak tree, where many had been before me. They swung a rope around the branch and put a noose around my neck. Emotionless, I stood on the platform waiting to hang. And I looked up, and there she was again, looking at me, with one single tear falling from her eye. I remember, our eyes locked it seemed forever…we just look and gazed.

The slavermaster walked up behind her to snatch her back out the way so that they could hang me, but she wouldn’t move. And before he could grab her again she shoved a knife through his throat. Another one ran up behind her, and she cut him down. The whole time she never stopped looking at me. And before my eyes, they shot her to death. And when I looked at her, she died for me. Silently, I never stopped looking at her…I watched…I hung…I closed my eyes.

Do YOU remember...???

PEACE

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3rdEye "The God Cipher" ending Niggativity

2007-11-19T00:42:37Z

http://3rdeye.8m.com/main.html

Welcome to the site of enlightenment. You have entered the realm of the 3rdeye. What is the 3rdeye you ask? The 3rdeye is your extra-sensory perception which gives you the ability to see though the bulls..t that we have endured for the past 6000 years and the struggle still continues. As long as you are paid, can drink your 40oz., smoke your blunts, and wear you Tommy Hilniggas your content. Its time to tear down those walls of niggativity and build a foundation of God Cipher Divine.

Time to rise MAN, WOMAN!! It's time to learn about who you truly are, the past, present, and future. It's time for you to open your 3rdeye and see yourself from the outside looking in. This site will provide you with references and facts, not opinions. The 3rdeye WILL spark the thought process and enlighten your mind. You are the chosen people. It's time for you to RISE UP and take you place upon the throne. You are the lost sheep. God's chosen few.

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Kenneth Clark's "Doll Test" Brown v. Board of Education

2007-11-17T20:33:20Z

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/brown-brown.html

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and its legal offspring, the Legal Defense and Educational Fund, developed a systematic attack against the doctrine of "separate but equal." The campaign started at the graduate and professional educational levels. The attack culminated in five separate cases gathered together under the name of one of them--Oliver Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.

Aware of the gravity of the issue and concerned with the possible political and social repercussions, the U.S. Supreme Court heard the case argued on three separate occasions in as many years. The Court weighed carefully considerations involving adherence to legal precedent, social-science findings on the negative effects of segregation, and the marked inferiority of the schools that African Americans were forced to attend.

The Supreme Court announced its unanimous decision on May 17, 1954. It held that school segregation violated the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. The following year the Court ordered desegregation "with all deliberate speed."

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Should African Americans Call themselfs African American

2007-10-26T20:54:58Z

Check this vid out and tell me your thoughts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8brM_UsKgk'm

I'm bit offened. Because I feel like he is totally ignorant of what's going on with AA here in USA. IT'S THE SAME THING THATS GOING ON IN SOUTH AFRICA. Dummy!

We insist on seeing each other in a different light, when the truth is they perfected oppression on the AA and then they took it to Africa. It take a human 15-25 thousand years to evolve. We have only been gone a few hundred and all of a sudden we are no longer related. Please.

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Writing Contest for Spiritual Writers....

2007-10-14T21:49:18Z

Greetings,

In honor of the 7th Annual Community Ancestral Feast hosted by Forces of Nature Metaphysical and Spiritual Center of Seattle, WA ,SpiritMovin, a group dedicated to writings related to african and native spirituality, is holding a contest for writing that relates how your Ancestors have helped you to overcome adversity, protected you, or warned you of an impending situation that required your attention.

You may submit up to 3 entries, none to exceed 1000 words.

To enter go to this link:

www.writerscafe.org/contests/2768/

Live Peacefully,
Forces of Nature Metaphysical and Spiritual Center
Seattle WA

www.fonspiritualcenter.org

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Marcus Garvey: Look for me in the Whirlwind

2007-09-25T20:18:04Z

http://www.marcusgarvey.com/

"Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm, look for me all around you, for, with God’s grace, I shall come and bring with me countless millions of black slaves who have died in America and the West Indies and the millions in Africa to aid you in the fight for Liberty, Freedom and Life."

-First Message to the Negroes of the World from Atlanta Prison

By Marcus Garvey, The Negro World, 10 February 1925

www.hartford-hwp.com/archive...421.html

All I have I have given to you. I have sacrificed my home and my loving wife for you. I entrust her to your charge, to protect and defend her in my absence.

After my enemies are satisfied, in life or death I shall come back to you to serve even as I have served before. In life I shall be the same; in death I shall be a terror to the foes of Negro liberty. If death has power, then count on me in death to be the real Marcus Garvey I would like to be. If I may come in an earthquake, or a cyclone, or plague, or pestilence, or as God would have me, then be assured that I shall never desert you and make your enemies triumph over you.

Would I not go to hell a million times for you?

Would I not like Macbeth’s ghost, walk the earth forever for you? Would I not lose the whole world and eternity for you? Would I not cry forever before the footstool of the Lord Omnipotent for you? Would I not die a million deaths for you? Then, why be sad? Cheer up, and be assured that if it takes a million years the sins of our enemies shall visit the millionth generation of these that hinder and oppress us.

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Jena 6 Case: Mychal Bell Not Granted Bond

2007-09-24T20:57:51Z

New Outrage in the Jena 6 Case:
Mychal Bell Not Granted Bond

http://www.rwor.org/a/102/jena-6-mychal-bell-en.html

On September 21, 17-year-old Mychal Bell, who has been in prison since December 4, 2006 and was the first of the Jena 6 to be convicted, was not granted bond by the court. He still remains in jail. This new outrage came the day after tens of thousands of people from all over the country converged on Jena, Louisiana to demand that the Jena 6 be freed. The lawyers could not comment further on the situation and at this time there is no information as far as to the next step of the legal battle.

Outside the LaSalle Parish courthouse people waited to hear the results of the court hearing. Community members, young and old, the media, and supporters of Jena 6, who had stayed in the area from the protest the day before, sat on the lawn and lined the blockade outside the courthouse eagerly anticipating the decision.

When Melissa Bell, Mychal's mother emerged from the courthouse tearful, surrounded by family, people shouted from the lawn: “Stay strong!” “We're with you 100 percent.” “We ain’t going nowhere.” “We're gonna be back until this is over.” People followed after her chanting “No Justice, No Peace!” with their fists in the air. King Downing, a National Coordinator from the ACLU, said, “I have the feeling that people will feel they need to get back to Jena”—referring to the tens of thousands of people who demonstrated the day before in Jena.

He talked about how all these people will be returning to their homes across the country after demanding “Free The Jena Six! Drop all the Charges!” and then finding out that Mychal Bell will not be released. And he said, “We need to get ready to come back.”

This new development in the case underscores even more the fact that this struggle to free the Jena 6 must go forward and grow. Revolution newspaper has heard reports that in response to this latest outrage, people widely are calling for protests—from high school students wearing black in support of the Jena 6 starting this Monday, to informal street rallies and organized meetings.

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The Story of the Jena 6

2007-09-24T20:50:25Z

http://www.rwor.org/a/102/jena-story-en.html

It is a late summer day in September 2006, the beginning of the school year, in the small town of Jena, Louisiana. A Black student ASKS FOR PERMISSION to sit beneath the shade tree in front of the high school. A tree known as a “WHITES-ONLY TREE.”

The principal says they can sit wherever they want, so they do.

The next morning when students come to school, three NOOSES are hanging from the tree.

Tina Jones, the mother of Bryant Purvis, one of the Jena 6, told Revolution:

“To Black people that is offensive because you know over the years Black people were hung in trees. So I mean we felt like the white people were saying, ‘Well if you sit under this tree, we’re going to hang you.’ That’s how us, as Black people felt, even though the white people said it was a prank. How could it be a prank when something like that was done to Black people over the years?”

After dozens of Black students courageously stand under the tree in a defiant act of protest, the principal and superintendent bring in District Attorney Reed Walters and local police officers to an all-school assembly. The DA threatens Black students, telling them that if they do anything else about the nooses: “I can take away your lives with a stroke of my pen.” Police officers are stationed in the halls of the school that week.

Meanwhile, no real punishment for the students who HUNG THE NOOSES. The school board steps in to prevent them from getting expelled and they only get a three-day suspension.

On November 30, 2006, the main school building is mysteriously burned to the ground. That weekend when Robert Bailey, a 17-year-old Black student, tries to attend a school dance, he is punched in the face, knocked on the ground and attacked by a group of white youth. Only one of the white students is arrested—and then only given probation and asked to apologize.

The night after that, a white youth pulls a gun on a group of Black youth. A Black youth wrestles the gun away to prevent the white youth from using it. And for this he is arrested and charged with theft.

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New GAO Study on African American Children in Foster Care

2007-09-20T08:54:48Z

CWLA Praises New GAO Study on African American Children in Foster Care

July 30, 2007, Arlington, VA -- CWLA today praised Congressman Charles Rangel for requesting the General Account Office Report on the high rate of African American children coming into and remaining in foster care. Congressman Rangel, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, released the ground breaking new report on racial disproportionality in foster care in the U.S. and called for federal assistance to find permanent homes. The report found that there was a significant overrepresentation of children of color in the nation's child welfare system. The GAO study (GAO-07-816) found that the level of poverty, lack of support services and racial bias as well as other factors resulted in African American children representing more than one-third of the children in foster care.

The report recommended that Congress consider amending federal law to allow federal reimbursement for legal guardianship and called on HHS to assist state efforts to find permanent homes for African American children and reduce the disproportionate number of children in foster care.

"We commend Congressman Rangel for his leadership on this critical issue in our nation's child welfare system", said Christine James-Brown, President and CEO of CWLA. "We hope this report will build momentum toward a solution to this challenge that must include legislation that would extend Title IV-E funding to kinship families" she continued. CWLA has rejected as inadequate an Administration proposal to replace Title IV-E with a state optional block grant.

Given that African American children are more likely to be placed in kinship care, action is needed to provide kinship caregivers with access to an array of needed supports and services such as counseling, child care, affordable housing, and substance abuse treatment. Currently there are two bills in Congress that would expand Title IV-E funding to kinship placements. S 661 was introduced by Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME). A House companion bill HR 2188 is being sponsored by Representative Danny Davis (D-IL) and Representative Tim Johnson (R-IL).

Since 1920, the Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) has been the nation's pre-eminent organization dedicated to ensuring that disadvantaged and vulnerable children are protected from harm and have the tools and resources they need to grow into the healthy and happy adults we want them to become. CWLA is the trusted authority for professionals who work with children and the only national organization with members from both public and private agencies, providing unique access and influence to all sectors of the children's services field.

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