The Denmark Vesey Perspective Check
Goldman Sachs gave out $4.82 billion in bonuses in 2008, despite earnings of only $2.32 billion that year.Goldman Sachs handed out $16.7 billion in compensation in the first nine months of 2009, according to Bloomberg news service, and that figure may reach $22 billion for the entire year.
After a US Tax-payer "BAILOUT" ... Goldman Sachs is paying it's employees the equivalent of $60 Million per day.
Is the world supposed to be impressed with $100 Million for the people of Haiti?
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Is the world supposed to be impressed with $100 Million for the people of Haiti?
We ain't doing it to impress the world. We're doing it to help the people... and I expect the people are grateful.
This ain't your finest hour, DV... taking the occasion of Haiti's tragedy to stage another of your tired-ass meme shows.
Yeah.
Maybe you are right Undercoverblackman.
Maybe the operative meme isn't the criminally insane distribution of wealth but the "inordinate rate of illiteracy among the world's first black republic" as you so eagerly insist.
DV, it looks like Obama agrees with you.
Business Week
OBAMA UNVEILS US$90b bank fee to recoup Wall Street bailout
Posted: 15 January 2010 0038 hrs
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama lashed out on Thursday at "obscene" corporate bonuses and proposed a fee to raise 90 billion dollars in 10 years from top banks to recoup "every single dime" of a Wall Street bailout.
"We want our money back and we are going to get it," Obama said, terming a massive government bailout of the banking industry as "distasteful" though necessary, adding it left the sector with a heavy duty to taxpayers.
"My determination to achieve this goal is only heightened when I see reports of massive profits and obscene bonuses at some of the very firms who owe their continued existence to the American people," Obama said.
Ah DV, DV, DV, DV, DV....,
see, that's the trouble with the LaRooshian ouevre. By its very design it ill prepares its adherents to directly confront professional panderers.
If any of the myriad Larooshian fronts existed for any purpose aside from stirring up confusion and addicting people to conspiracy theories for private profit rather than public action, you'd simply tell this smelly old harridan to close her legs and keep it moving..,
The (fully.exposed.kneegrow) FEK is like a Black culture spotter/code switcher for a tight-knit, well-capitalized, and highly professional clique of procurers/presenters/profiteers off of Black cultural production.
Think about it, it's what she's always done, whether as a journalist, jr. scriptwriter, and now as a "producer" of colorful narrative accounts of the colorful lives of colored peoples.
Right?
Now then, the question boils down to something very, very simple at its root.
Haiti lacks what Black Americans have lacked for waaaaaaay too long a time;
1. organization
2. continuity of organization
3. people-centric leadership
4. good governance
Of course, for the most part, America in general lacks these same collective attributes, as well.
It's just that the poor always function as the proverbial canaries in a coalmine and will always be the first to feel the bitter collective sting that the lack of these attributes brings when confronted by individuals and institutions who have either privately or publicly organized themselves into unitary corporate organisms.
Not to change subject, but to introduce a modest digression germaine to the present commentary and sad situation unfolding in Haiti, the DoD began studying social networks some years ago, the advent of the Internet (pre-world-wide web mind you) was a terrific boon to this nascent science. One of the things learned early on from the text based traffic of the time was that social distance as defined by frequency quality and duration of information interchanges across the Muslim world was far smaller than it is in any western social context, including that of the U.S. military which prides itself on its "second-to-none" command, control, and communications infrastructure.
The reason the Muslim world holds such dread for the West is not because of the occassional medieval style execution, or, even the suicidal assymetrical warfare tactic, rather, it's the fact that the Muslim world - IN GENERAL - is objectively so much more cohesive than any western collective construct.
You'll recall that there was a time - not that long ago - during which Black folks seemed to be worrisomely well-organized for a shining moment too....,
CNu is school, at the postdoctoral level...
If any of the myriad Larooshian fronts existed for any purpose aside from stirring up confusion and addicting people to conspiracy theories for private profit rather than public action, you'd simply tell this smelly old harridan to close her legs and keep it moving..,
That was such a delicious piece of rhetorical candy, I thought it was worth sampling again.
awesome post, thanks for showing people how the US has a direct role in all this!
"The reason the Muslim world holds such dread for the West is - is objectively so much more cohesive than any western collective construct." CNu
.... last year's meme.
Well LeVar,
You know what they say. If the only tool in your tool box is a hammer ...
Every problem looks like an episode of Star Trek.
lol ahhhhhhh... (that tickled me)
CNu ... you Sci-Fi Negros would be so much more effective if you knew there was no such thing as "the West".
West of what?
"West" ... is an artificial construct. A Hegelian Head Fake. A memetic wild goose chase. The sucker half of a false dichotomy.
A meme designed to frame the mechanical world view of corny technocrats and mechanics who build clocks but can't tell time.
The war waged against Islam, is not waged by the "West".
The war waged against Haiti is not waged by the mere "West".
For We Wrestle Not Against Flesh and Blood But Against Spiritual Wickedness in High Places.
Goldman Sachs gave out enough bonuses last year to convert Haiti into Beverly Hills.
With the money just given to the bankers in a scheme euphemistically called a "Bailout" Haiti could have had it's own professional football team.
So you can talk all that "asymetrical suicidal symmetry text based intramural time travel Levar Burton / L Ron Hubbard / Nipsy Russel Chinese mathematics shit you want.
Haiti was a crime scene before the earthquake.
Your little Technocracy Style Laundry List of what Haitians and Black Americans "lack" lacks imagination.
It lacks soul.
Which is why it don't sell.
So LeVar you a technocrat.
I'm an artist.
You still eat pork.
I'm the hardest.
No bumps on my face.
Makes me the smartest.
lol.
my man.
Is the world supposed to be impressed with $100 Million for the people of Haiti?
Maybe not, Denmark. But why don't you mention how much money in FOREIGN AID the United States has given to Haiti since the start of the Clinton Administration?
Any idea how much money that is?
... it's what she's always done, whether as a journalist, jr. scriptwriter, and now as a "producer" of colorful narrative accounts of the colorful lives of colored peoples.
Awwww Craig, come on now. You're trying a tad bit too hard.
You know your wife dug "The Corner"... and your black friends was all up in "The Wire."
And you know, come April, you're gonna ask the missus to pony up for pay cable again -- recession be damned -- so you can watch "Treme."
Brother DV - I am not understanding your linkage here.
If we spend $1,400 per year on the Big 3 Entitlements in the USA - have you calculated how much this amounts to?
Why is it that you don't make note of the CREDIT LIMIT that the American system of economics produces and thus we are able to break something off to Haiti whereas Brazil and India are not quite able to do so?
Well, Haitians have nothing valuable to offer us.
Jews have...well...ummm...their friendship?
[quote]1. organization
2. continuity of organization
3. people-centric leadership
4. good governance[/quote]
(I will attempt to have a civil discussion)
My friend CNulan I don't agree that this list is FUNDAMENTAL ENOUGH.
Organization, Continuity, People-Centric, Good Governance does not address the PURPOSE and CONSCIOUSNESS that a people need to use their individual talents as an INSTRUMENT for a prosperous nation.
There is a need for a general consciousness regarding what the people believe at the spiritual level and the standard of living that they see for themselves.
The people need to submit themselves to a SYSTEM. Within the SYSTEM they shall struggle to achieve their ends, as those who disagree will also engage them.
They need institutions. As much as the THEORY BASED KNEEGROW (TBK) loves the "Revolutionary Brother" - when YOU ARE THE SYSTEM that former REBEL must become an EXECUTIVE who spreads the prevailing line and propagates and perpetuates it among the progeny.
Education, Law & Order, Health and Economy all are built upon the points that are listed above.
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