HOPE and VICTORY

POWER KILLING ROOM Can you guess whose being killed?

"After this warrant, it is all irrelevant. We cannot negotiate with war criminals," Jalal al-Galal, spokesman of the rebel National Transitional Council (NTC) told Reuters." It appears that the UN has all but snuffed out any resolve for any negotiated terms for allowing the posterity of the regime of Gaddaffi  and his targeted family members.  Any room for reasonable doubt on and all accusations have been cut-off.  If the same court  would have been so zealous in issuing warrants to others whose acts of violence and mass murdering have historically far exceeded the alleged  ones of Gaddaffi it would seem that the justice playing field would be level.  We will be calling for a International Reconciliation Conference versus this theater of blood that appears to be indiscriminately claiming the lives of innocent victims who just so happen to be in the line of fire.  A humanitarian intervention appears to be doing what the...

Sherwood Ross  pretty much hits the nail on the head in his first paragraph in a recent submission in  Counterpunch .   "In case you didn't know it, what's called a "recession" in White America is called a "depression" in Black America. During much of last year white unemployment held steady at around 8.8 percent. Down the block, though, it was about 12 per cent for Latinos and in Afro neighborhoods across town it averaged 16 per cent. And as unemployment spiked at 24 percent for white teens last year it hit 45 percent for black teens, according to the Kirwan Institute at Ohio State University". No, this is not Pakistan, Afghanistan, Somalia, or Libya where drones are having a holiday, but it is America where the drones of poverty keep unloading missiles of mass destruction even in a so-called post-racial era.  Since the drones carry weapons they can successfully cause much collateral damage as opposed to liberation and empowerment. What are dro...

Has anyone noticed the real meaning of words "many are called but few are chosen"?  Well, I've got the answer. It means that most people are quiet on issues that concern for fear (founded or unfounded) of repercussions. It means that people are either being programmed to follow the road of least resistance at strategic times when a response is needed. Allow me to give some examples for areas of activity where this reality is evident: War and Crime Most people refuse to talk against the war(s) because they would be classified as unpatriotic and the fear of being audited by the IRS, he fear of being labelled a terrorist; or the fear of losing 'so called' friends.  It's easy to talk against a murderer (Presidents, Secretaries of State, Ministers of Defense not included) when its done by ordinary citizens. But it seems strange that most Americans don't seem to grasp that they are accessories to murder at the largest level when we license a select few...

By aggressively taking the lead in Libya, embattled President Sarkozy clearly hopes to shore up his political fortunes on the home front. Facing the worst approval ratings of any French president ever, Sarkozy is even at risk of being eliminated in the first round of the next presidential elections which are scheduled for April 2012. Current opinion polls have him finishing third after top-rated National Front leader Marine Le Pen and Socialist heavyweight and current IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Knowing full well that the vast majority of French voters support Operation Odyssey Dawn and view it as a welcome opportunity to reassert France’s leadership on the global stage, Sarkozy is desperately trying to cast himself in the tradition of General Charles de Gaulle. Ulf Gartzke FrumForum Blog, 3/7/2011 Well it's beyond dispute that Colonel Qaddafi has been anything but gentle at times in dealing with his citizens.  For that, no man should be proud....

I really wanted to succeed in the legal industry and thought that becoming a successful lawyer meant hat I had to be good in my professional role playing, every step of the the way. These are the words of a successful lawyer who has become a partner in a successful white law firm. In order to be successful in society one must be able to role play—act like the people who are already considered successful or the people who have the power. Hence, role playing can be a required path to becoming somebody or it can be a chosen path because you just want to be like someone else. The evidence of racial role playing was quite evident in my early childhood environment. Blacks did things that white people did because this is what a normal society would accept. At my high school in Houston in the 60's, most of the beauty queens were high yellow. Back then, In a black person's mind, high yellow was the equivalent of being as closest to white as possible. Trying to be like someone else...

"They're off my diet. They just really don't fit with (health food store) Whole Foods. I had it for enough years that I don't miss it. You can't continue to eat things that are not good for you." Aretha Franklin   Just what is off her diet , no one actually knows.  According to recent news reports, the 'Queen of Soul' appears to have swore off eating soul food, alluring to years of thriving on fat that originates from the pig.  I can this be interpreted?--no more ribs, no more beacon, no more chitterlings, no more sausages, etc.    What is really lost in a health scare (it's been denied that pancreatic cancer is involve) episode is the question "Should soul food be classified as unhealthy"?  Or, is soul food  the same as junk food?  Or, just what is soul  food? Healthy Soul food Cooking Solutions Soul Food and Southern Cooking.com Let me introduce you to the concept of preparing and enjoying healthier soul food meals. It's def...