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"Oh Shit! ... GMO Food Sterilizes People ... And It's Really A Form of Population Control?"
"There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized."
Alexander King, Bertrand Schneider - founder Club of Rome - The First Global Revolution, pp.104-105
"In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill ... All these dangers are caused by human intervention and it is only through changed attitudes and behaviour that they can be overcome. The real enemy, then, is humanity itself."
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Were We All Kunta Kinte? Or Are We Also Mansa Musa?
Barry Goldwater 1909-1998
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. "
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad
"It Is Easier To Change A Man's Religion Than It Is To Change His Diet"
Private Prison Industry
2,000,000 human beings in American prisons and counting
IS THIS LITTLE GUY A PERSON?
The founders of the American state understood that the proper functioning of a democracy required an educated electorate. It is this understanding that justifies a system of public education and that led slaveholders to resist the spread of literacy among their chattels. But the meaning of "educated" has changed beyond recognition in two hundred years. Reading, writing, and arithmetic are no longer sufficient to decide on public policy. Now we need quantum mechanics and molecular biology. The knowledge required for political rationality, once available to the masses, is now in the possession of a specially educated elite, a situation that creates a series of tensions and contradictions in the operation of representative democracy.
"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
Margaret Sanger. Woman, Morality, and Birth Control. New York: New York Publishing Company, 1922. P
"We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population. and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members."
Louis Pasteur
"The Microbe is nothing. The terrain is everything."
Beverly Johnson. Beverly Hills. 1978
"Bra! Tell Me About It!"
"Most of the trouble I have had in advancing the cause of the race has come from Negroes."
Ted Turner - CNN founder and UN supporter - quoted in the The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor, June '
"A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal."
Lord Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science On Society (Routledge Press: New York, 1951).
"At present the population of the world is increasing at about 58,000 per diem. War, so far, has had no very great effect on this increase, which continued throughout each of the world wars.. War has hitherto been disappointing in this respect, but perhaps bacteriological war may prove effective. If a Black Death could spread throughout the world once in every generation, survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full. The state of affairs might be unpleasant, but what of it?"
Denmark Vesey For President 08
1. Troops Out Of Iraq Immediately. Like By Monday. 2. Money Owed To Haliburton and War Contractors Be Given Directly To The Iraqi People 3. Complete Electoral Reform 4. No Corporate Conglomerate Will Be Allowed To Control More Than 5% Of News Market 5. Federal Reserve Abolished 6. For-Profit Prison Industry Abolished
*George Orwell (1903-1950) English novelist, critic
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness... If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear... The great enemy of clear language is insincerity... The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it... To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle... For a creative writer possession of the truth is less important than emotional sincerity.
“The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society will be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values.” – Zbigniew Brzezinski
God Don't Make No Mistakes
Gordon Parks 1912-2006
"I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand."
Great Grandmother Harris
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DMGizzle! Gorgeousity... Im vibin' fam for real
Saw Salif in Boston a few years ago...out of this world.
Would have loved to have seen Fela Kuti before he died, and still hope to see his son Femi.
Ali Farka Toure is on my car CD right now.
Alot of good music...and even some Ethiopian stuff, but West African music is what I like most.
Listening to Talking Timbuktu as we speak.
50 Cent's new album "Before I Self Destruct" is next up in the iTunes. Followed by an Itzhak Perlman sonata.
I'm from the planet Earth. Don't promote no certain section.
That West Africa vs East Africa meme is as Plantation Negro when a MD pops it as it is when a Crip pops that West Coast vs East Coast nonsense.
Nobody is talking anything vs. anything. Did you NOT state"
"What's blacker than Ethiopian?".
But it seems I've often read you glorifying the achievements of Ethiopia never, in my recollection, mentioning any of the vast other people occupying the mother continent, who share about as much culture, language and phenotypic anatomy with Ethiopians as they do with Estonians. I'm just asking you to check yourself here.
You asked the question, I answered it.
Talking Timbuktu with Ry Cooder is OK, but I prefer the undiluted Ali Farka Toure.
Yea DV did take that comment a li'l too far, but this is also a dangerous statement that needs to be checked too:
"the vast other people occupying the mother continent, who share about as much culture, language and phenotypic anatomy with Ethiopians as they do with Estonians"
...Salif Keita, Ali Farka Toure, Youssou Ndour, Hugh Masekela, Baaba Mal and Fela Kuti - a few of many African musical giants.
KonWomyn,
My quote about the "vast other people" is factually correct. It's long been a mistake to think that the inhabitants of our home continent are a homogenous people, all striving for some "Black" or "African" unity. Folks in Mali have more genetic homogeneity with Europeans than they do with Zulu's from the southern tip of the continent. Why anyone would think a continent twice the size of Western Europe would have less diversity is beyond me. Check it out for yourself. Or hell, ask somebody from Eritrea or Somalia how they feel about Ethiopians...and they are more closely related.
DMG,
Nah, I know all about that I'm from Zimbabwe born n bred - well take away 5yrs spent at varsity in CapeTown, South Africa. It's annoying that pseudo-Africa my Africa peops who like to think of only pre-slave Africa as though it gives them more sense of being African or tout Walter Rodney as the neocolonial gospel to understanding contemporary Africa, despite how ill-fitting a Rodney analysis might be. Sadly, that's why some of these people seem to think Mugabe is a hero - but fall short on criticizing him for his human rights abuses and economic plundering of the country...
I'm interested in genetic similarities between people - one professor was telling me that if a West African man spent 20 years in Germany - when he died you wouldn't be able to tell the difference. And if you compared the DNA of a Papua New Guinea man with a Nigerian - both unmixed - you can't tell them apart.
KonWomyn,
Depends on what you are looking at genetically. We share over 99% of our genes with chimpanzees. And I don't think where this man spent 20 years would have an impact on his genome. And the reason you can't tell much of a difference between Nigerians and Papua New Guineans is simply that they are both human. But, I disagree, you would be able to figure out from where they originated to some degree of precision and accuracy.
Color of skin and hair type are only a tiny part of our genetic makeup, but makes a large impact on how we view people.
Getting back to our hosts original commment. It his his opinion that Ethiopians are the pinnacle of blackness, I happen to disagree (as is my right to have an opinion) and wonder when he plans to talk about groups other than the Egyptians and Ethiopians.
I too find the deification of Mugabe unsettling. Although I believe nations should be governed by the majority, license to commit murder and human rights abuses based on past racial abuses is not justified.
It's long been a mistake to think that the inhabitants of our home continent are a homogenous people, all striving for some "Black" or "African" unity. Folks" DMG
Uh.
Who thinks any such thing?
I don't even know any marginally intelligent children who think like that.
"Getting back to our hosts original commment. It his his opinion that Ethiopians are the pinnacle of blackness," DMG
lol. Not exactly. I think I'm the pinnacle of blackness.
I simply asked, "what is Blacker than Ethiopian"?
I have yet to view a response.
The celebration of what we call Ethiopia and what you call "east Africa" is actually a celebration of the birthplace of humanity.
Not an example of nonsensical sectarian and irrelevant ethnic partisanship.
While you and your white boys inventory "genetics", I am interested in the roots and origins of ideas and memes more than the measurement of noses and hair texture.
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