Tuesday, September 29, 2009

BAD NEWZ KENNELS

Life and death.  Man and Animal.  Black and White.  Perception.  One of the key aspects in my desire to move to Chicago was to be in a more culturally diverse environment.  We love to consider America a melting pot of many cultures . . Los Angeles often gets credit for being the best example of this.  Well on the whole, we may be mixed in a pot, but little has melted.  Chicago, in my experience living in the United States, easily has the greatest variance of ethnicities and nationalities.  You've all heard of the rough and tough south side of Chicago, well the west side is not a featured destination either.  My new home is about a mile east of this "bad" part of town.  My neighborhood in Los Angeles was approximately ten miles west of South Central.  Both cities have huge black populations, and the "bad" part of town is where you'll find the greatest concentration. 


When I grew up Southern New Hampshire, there existed nearly a 99% caucasian population.  Boston, our closest major city, had a long standing reputation for racism.  From its large Irish contingency to long time Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey's well documented bigotry in management and player personal selection.  Growing up in the 80s & 90s, I was exposed to some of the greatest developments and expressions in Black American history.  I think I was born with an affinity for the underdog, from my earliest memories I was pulling for and amazed by the feats of the superstar African American.  From Kool Moe Dee, Eric B. & Rakim, and Public Enemy . . to Jim Rice, Andre Dawson, Hakeem Olajuwon, and Walter Payton . . posters decking my bedroom walls.  In all out respect and curiosity, I went forward and tried to learn what I could about black culture (hip hop turned out to be a much better source for truth than my public education on the subject).


Brand new to the Land of Lincoln, re-education on the man starts now. We've all been taught of  the Civil War, The Emancipation Proclamation and the rest.  I've made it a mission to fully realize our 16th president; his agenda and achievement.  As Union as Illinois is, it is easy to assume Chicago as one of the key areas of the first free black societies.  I've relished my new place among such a varied population here.  As many black men on the lake front bike path as white . . reciprocal respect.  In Los Angeles, on the whole, neither ethnicity showed much respect or interest in the other.  I see the strongest ambition amid strength in the black people of Chicago.  Former collegiate athletic standouts, leaders in discipline and industry.  Diversity breeds progress.  Chicago is it.          


The following exploration is rated "T"(for truth).


Approximately four hundred years ago, settlers in "the new world" began trafficking human beings from Africa.  Slave ownership and labor remained a common and legal aspect of American life until more than two hundred and fifty years later with the passing of the 13th Amendment.  The black race has been free from the bonds of slavery in the United States for less than one hundred and fifty years.  Do some quick thinking and you discover that wasn't all that long ago.  After "earning" their freedom, African Americans congregated in outlying neighborhoods of Americas largest cities. We can only imagine the conditions of this new found freedom and the tumultuous adjustment into society.  Try to imagine looking for paid work after generations of being housed, fed, told what to do and how to do it.  When one was fortunate enough to find a willing employer, how much less would they earn per day than an existing employee?  How long would this trend continue?  How would any such person or family make enough to move out of their impoverished surroundings?  Add to this one hundred years of segregation after two centuries and a half of slavery . .


Fast forward to the 1960s where the Civil Rights movement finally brings segregation to its official end.  CIA had been formed just over a decade prior, operations foreign and domestic well under way.  Blacks in America had proven themselves more than resilient since released from captivity.  Athletes like Jesse Owens, Jackie Robinson, and Bill Russell had been on stage for all the world to appreciate for some years.  Blacks were adapting to American society at a surprising rate, apparently not good for the powers that be.  It was time to bring illegal drugs to the ghetto.  For now we'll skip the in-depth study into which federal and local government agencies were directly responsible for this influx, but it's long past due that we recognize what has happened here.  Of equal importance, the assassinations of Malcolm X and Dr. King.  These conspiracies have been well researched and uncovered by many brave souls over the past 40 years.  Most information can be easily accessed for those willing to learn.  I may write at length on these events in the future, for now, I encourage all to begin unlearning what they have learned.  The same evil forces that have committed these acts are alive and flourishing in the world still today.  If

you don't know the past, you can't know the future.


So lets all accept that "urban" or "inner-city" life in America is common place for drug dealing and abuse.  Try to stay with me in following this thread of circumstance.  If not from the intelligence and military community, where would these government projects and ghettos come by such increments of narcotics?  Continue along and recognize that nearly 9 out of 10 prison inmates in this country are black and nearly 1 of 10 people in this nation are locked up.  Keep up with me and discover the majority of Americas largest prisons are corporate owned and operated, and business is booming. From shackles to cells; mental, social slavery.  Think it over.


So a short lived, confused, contaminated season of freedom for the black man in America yields unfavorable results.  Is is deliberate or an unwelcome side affect of Americas sad policies since the Civil War?  Race riots, gang violence, drug wars, urban unrest . . what strength is required to overcome such odds?  In what profession can a man rise above it all and move forward?  Professional sports. Entertainment.  You can cut your education short, focus on athletics.  So you have the abilities and talent to rise up and out of your impoverished environment . . but what about your crew?  Your friends and family? Recruiting begins . . cash, gifts, clout.  Your crew begins to reap the benefits, old habits become more elaborate and accessibility to all things increases . . . Drugs, Dice, Dominoes, Dog Fighting.


I began my blogging too late it seems to really slam the following point home the way I first intended.  The NFL season is in full swing and major media outlets and their followers are neck deep in fantasy football, weekly predictions, and overall Sunday fever.  But if you can think back just a few months you'll remember the biggest story-line to follow, other than Brett Farve's misadventures, was Michael Vick and his dog fighting ring; Bad Newz Kennels.  Check out the media frenzy these days over each and every development with Vick's return . . all is forgiven once you are back entertaining the masses. 


In my experience, American's will do everything in their power to do two things.  First, to avoid any form of original, independent thought.  Second, to find anyone else to point a finger at.  To concentrate as much negative energy towards another group or individual in efforts to distract themselves and like minded individuals from exploring their own shortcomings.  Racism, to a great extent can be boiled down to just this.  Keeping a creed at arms length.  Keeping a race of humans in a box.  Stereotyping an ethnic group to an extent that they might never break free and be known for their individual, unparalleled contribution to society.


Dog Fighting is illegal in all nations but one.  It is savage, violent, primal.  I do not have any statistics to back it up but I would venture that the United States is the dog capital of the world.  Personally, I have a stronger connection with dogs than anyone I know . . I am a self-proclaimed dog whisperer.  Yet, since the day the Mike Vick story first broke, I was his biggest defender.  Not that the activities he was involved in were acceptable or right, I was just ready from the jump to come to my own conclusions on the matter.  Pavlovian America was ready to react, all at the same time, all with the same mind.  No one has been trained, apparently, to value human life over canine.  In fact, it seems American dogs are more valuable than Middle Eastern human beings . . at least, that's what the media taught me.


My perspective on this matter has gone on much longer than I had originally intended therefore I will have to save my perception of our 43rd president and his role in all this for another day.  The smoke and mirror, sleight of hand "shell game" the media's been playing and projecting for nearly a century has to end.  An awakening at an unprecedented scale is required, the question is who will lead the charge in this effort?  What leaders in which fields will bring our national illness to light?  Who is willing to trade the comfortable lie for the cold, hard truth?  Understanding a problem is half way to its solution.

Thursday, September 10, 2009

COLLAPSE

It was the first day of class, senior year of college; Boston, MA.  I woke to my phone.  It was Torino calling from Connecticut; "The World Trade Center's gone dude".  I turned on the local broadcast, twin towers standing, heavy black smoke billowing from the top of each.  "They're not gone bro, they're just smoking a bunch" I replied.

"That must be old footage pal, they're gone".


As you know, the backbone of my platform expressed in these posts is encouragement for everyone to think for themselves.  To identify what motives the media has which determine what they reveal to the public and why.  I hope we might all look upon the world from a fresh, unbiased perspective, a clean slate from which everyone can examine reality as it takes place.  So lets do this, clear our minds of all the lies and noise, erase the history you've been prescribed, take a deep breath, relax.  Relax in the knowledge that you are stronger and smarter than you've been given credit for.  You are unique from everyone else on the planet and have the ability, the duty, to think independently.


"It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority.  By definition, there are already enough people to do that." - G. H. Hardy


Eight years ago we were taken advantage of by the greatest power in the world.  We were cheated, lied to, hurt, many lost their lives.  More than a half century had passed since our nation felt such so violated.  Countless victims continue to feel the physical and emotional damages nearly a decade later, and will continue to suffer until their end.  Families, friends, first responders, firemen, police, citizens of New York.  The people of the United States.  The impact that sent shock waves through our culture has only scratched the surface when compared to the true implications and actual events leading up to and unfolding that day.


Before I go on I must make a clear point.  The evidence collected by some of the greatest thinkers and investigators, since that fateful day, is overwhelming to a point that the official story is little more than an insulting joke.  As our nation has fallen once again for a gross disinformation campaign, I hold no ill regard towards the misinformed on this subject.  In fact, the enlightened are so few and far between, it is a comfort to meet any at all.  However, those who receive a clear, fact based, well structured analysis via lecture, DVD, essay, or book, yet still refuse to open their eyes to truth . . to me, are lost.


So much quality research has been done by so many great Americans that I will leave the hard core intelligence and science to those who've already spent the time.  I will keep it quite simple and direct with just a few points.


Commercial Jet fuel, even if it were raining from the sky, even if the Trade Center was flooding with it, ablaze, would never burn hot enough to melt the core of a steel framed skyscraper.  It never had before, it never will again.  Building 7.  Sound familiar?  If not, don't feel left out, it didn't appear anywhere in the "official 9/11 report" either.  Why?  Because much like it's larger, older, brothers, World Trade tower 7 collapsed into it's own "footprint" late that tragic afternoon.  Yet unlike its fallen comrades, was not hit by an airplane.  It had two small fires separated by many floors, no excuse for its demise from the powers that be.  Do yourself a favor and find out just who held offices in Building 7.  You'll find the results quite interesting, especially in light of the agencies involved in investigating, reporting, and running war game exercises on and around that day.  Finally, you remember the grounding order given late that morning for all planes over American soil, right?  Well here's the kicker, the real kicker; that afternoon, the only plane other than Air Force One allowed to fly was a personal jet, departing Washington Dulles to the Middle East containing the father, and brother, of one Osama Bin Laden.  Both gentlemen had been enjoying breakfast earlier that day at at a Carlyle Group function including former CIA director, Vice President & later President; George Herbert Walker Bush.


I'd say I'm sorry to rain on your parade, but the parade has been raining on me for too long.  I'm not sure what the first sign of progress will be, but believe me, you will be the first to know when it shows itself.  The first step to freedom is the recognition of it's absence.  I implore you to take this opportunity, eight years removed, to recognise the true nature of the attacks of 9/11, why they were committed, and who was responsible.  The act of being a patriot has been twisted since that day.  Patriots stand up for what is right, they support the greatest common good, and work towards progress and peace.  Backing each and everything your government does is the opposite.  Only through evolution of thinking can our society discover the righteous path.