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...doesn't work, folks. It's a Ponsi scheme. Everyone in America, until fairly recently, has been in the way-upline of this veritable "Amway" house of cards. The other 3 billion have been busily playing, "hide the sausage," and the vast majority of the world's population is at risk of suffering the effects of genocide -- but only once.
People DID notice strange things going on in the weeks and months prior to 911. Do you think that because they didn't copy you on the memo that it wasn't important?
GET A CLUE, PEOPLE!!
When the conspirators or their co-conspirators own ALL 6 media outlets, THEY DECIDE what you will see, hear and believe. It's called, "AGENDA SETTING."
As a scholar, I know more than most. I certainly know enough to know when someone is blowing smoke and when someone is just a drunk getting their rocks off.
The towers were downed in a CONTROLLED DEMOLITION sponsored, if not entirely scripted, by the neoconservative cabal presently in charge of this country. I have evidence, deduction and street smarts that have been in operation since at least 1983 that something big and ugly was underway in this country. 9/11 was their "piece de la resistance." Their crowning achievement -- complete and utter befuddlement of an entire country's population. Just like Nazi Germany, only more bold. More ballsy.
Like having the entire world hating you? Like being forced out of the job market because, well, the MARKET decides when you are no longer a viable commodity?
Me, either. Competition has its appeal, but some fights aren't worth fighting. Like old age and death -- they ALWAYS win. Enter that fight and you will lose, or wish you had.
I'd like to propose something novel...how about, "Affirmative Economics." Economics in service of the best interests of the human species, human civilization and human culture. All of them...or as many of them as will fit on the lifeboat.
I think we should roll it out with "Democracy 2.0" and Al Gore's EarthAID concerts this Summer.
"Nappy-headed ho's" is white-guy watercooler talk for, "Ain't Them Jig Girls Something to Watch?" It's jealousy and it's envy sublimated under centuries of oppression. If you've never been forced to walk the streets of a poor neighborhood in order to earn a living -- as a white guy with a formerly good-paying job -- you have NO IDEA how real that oppression is. And these folks grew up IN IT and THROUGH IT.
If you're looking for reasons WHY black athletes perform better than white athletes tend to, you need look no further than this: DO OR DIE.
I spent the evening watching a half dozen Ute Indians talk in circles about their addiction and what it's done to their lives. These very sick, abandoned people WERE TARGETED by a bunch of underaged, smartassed, white bread cops looking to clean up a city that is getting the life sucked out of it from ABOVE, not below.
A white guy would have gotten alot more free passes to drink and drive than these people were given. The message they grew up THROUGH and IN was clear to me: "you are a drunk Indian and a piece of hopeless trash...go die someplace else." It's all over their pre-diabetic faces and the sound of their broken hearts. I was the only white face they'd seen in months and probably the only one willing to reach out, if just a little.
The next time someone wants to bitch about being maligned as a nappy-headed ho, they might try bitching for an entire race of people decimated through systematic, heartless, hollow genocide.
Perhaps if you spoke up for someone who has had it far worse than yourself, you might lend some credibility to your cause. Credibility that gets sucked out of your movement when that backstabbing CIA plant Jesse Jackson shows up to extort money from "whitey."
"I was there when Martin Luther King...he died in my arms." Yeah, right, Jesse. I've seen the pictures. You were safely out of rifle range...but not so far that you couldn't report to your handlers when Dr. King was on the move, you craven SOB.