so much in the news to cover ...so little time...

the subprime bleedout continues despite the fed's increasing efforts at staunching the many deep wounds ;



in iraq, the 6 months of ceasefire between the Us ,its puppet al maliki and moktada al sadr's al medhi army dissolved as al maliki ,on his own --with absolutely no prodding from dick cheney who visited iraq two weeks ago-- decided to take on al sadr's army .

if you believe al maliki decided to do this by himself with no imput by the Us as bush is saying --i have swampland in florida and a bridge in brooklyn you might want to buy and if you are a woman , i promise i won't cum in your mouth either.

what this new fighting shows is al maliki and the iraqi army can't cut it --they are already begging to be bailed out by american air power and american armor on the ground . there have been reports of iraqi police and army units stripping off their uniforms and running away rather than face al sadr's medhi army . this fighting also reveals the Us double dealing that is the source behind the "calm" in iraq and the "success" of the surge.

not long ago , the iraqi insurgency that was killing about three american soldiers a day was largely sunni. about 5 percent was "foreign" jihadis-- misnamed "al qaeda" by the Us propaganda machine to build support for the war among the most brainwashed americans at home.

the bush administration dispatched to iraq ambassador john negroponte , veteran cia spook who made his fame in central america during the reagan-bush administration . negroponte has been labeled as the architect of central american counter insurgency death squads that neutralized the guerrilla movement there in the 80s.

not long after negroponte's arrival , death squads emerged in iraq . it was being commonly said that the death squads were mostly shia and largely recruited from moktada al sadr's al medhi army . this is when in the sunni triangle dozens of bodies began turning up everyday, most killed execution style.

the insurgency against the Us occupation was eventually upstaged by sectarian fighting and took a back seat as sunni and shia differences and old grievances were successfully exploited by "someone" and ethnic cleansing of sunnis from shia areas and vice versa took place and the balkanization of iraq began in earnest.

the sunnis were getting the worst of all this when their sheiks and tribal leaders made a deal with the Us. temporarily allying with the Us , they turned on the "foreign" jihadis-- that no one in iraq liked very much anyway and resented their interference (so much for the bush lies about saddam/ bin laden connections--but the media didn't seem to notice ).

to do this , the Us first had to agree to pay the young sunni fighters --many, members of the insurgency --and also the Us had to make a deal with the sunni sheiks that the shia death squads would be put in check .

the Us cut a deal --a ceasefire with al sadr's al medhi army. al sadr to a large degree, kept his part of the bargain ,the sectarian violence decreased. the sunnis kept their part of the bargain --"al qaeda in iraq"--even by Us estimates, never very numerous in the first place-- got shot up , run out and killed off by the Us with sunni help.

bush proclaimed the surge worked. iraq seemed pacified --but then al maliki decided all on his own --of course--to go after al sadr's al medhi army , but is not doing very well at the task.

basra , iraq

if you're keeping score the Us :

1.was getting blown up daily by the sunni insurgency

2. used its puppet "al qaeda in iraq" abu musab al zarqawi type idiots to car and truck bomb the shias --assassinate shia leaders stirring up the shia urges for revenge

3. created and armed the shia police militias and death squads as a counterweight

4..quietly promoted sectarian violence between sunni and shia --the Us was guarding the golden domed mosque when it was blown up--initiating shia-sunni sectarian violence in earnest

5. waited until the sectarian violence and ethnic cleansing reached the sunni breaking point

6. cut a deal with the sunnis to turn on the hated "al qaeda in iraq" puppets who had connected themselves to what was an iraqi insurgency

7. cut a deal with moktada al sadr's medhi army to rein in the shia death squads

8. then stabbed al sadr in the back by using al maliki and his puppet iraqi army to eliminate al sadr's medhi army --they tried anyway

9. the Us will probably have to finish the job of crushing al sadr's 60,000 man army --at some possible cost to its own forces

10. now remember back fifteen months ago to when they hung old saddam ? remember what the hangmen were chanting when saddam laughed at them ? was it "moktada al sadr"?

think about it , the iraqi puppet government would not hang saddam without the nod first from washington , so now we see a likely part of how the deal unfolded.

hanging saddam was a plum given to al sadr's crew as part of the deal for the eventual truce the Us would soon broker .

today , al sadr , even after being attacked by both the iraqi army and the Us military is still proclaiming the truce is in effect and has given orders for his army not to fight unless attacked first.

bush, on the other hand in a meeting with the new australian leader--a Us ally in iraq -- called the attack, "a defining moment in the history of iraq", lol .

can you guess what message is he sending ? if the fighting continues , will bush eventually demand al sadr's army surrender its weapons too --or be destroyed ?

use one side to put the other side in check and then turn on the side that you just used. cut a deal with the side you just put in check to help you put the other side in check too.

the sunnis are in general sitting back watching --after the shia death squads and the highly publicized hanging by shias of sunni saddam --will the sunnis lift a finger to save al sadr ? even i have to admit --after a very shaky start , the bushites recovered and played this one like a guitar---but being who they are,and where they are ,they can still easily fuck it all up .

by Us election time we may see an unrecognizable iraq , with the kurds in the north already autonomous and peacefully eating out of the Us hand .

in the sunni triangle in the middle , the 80,000 sunnis insurgents now on the Us payroll of $10 a day, manning neighborhood checkpoints and relatively calm before the potential storm .

in the south , if moktada al sadr and the medhi army are decimated and put out of commission, that leaves down there in the last man standing role, the badr brigade--the military wing of the shia's supreme islamic council in iraq --an organization which is more than minimally tied to iran and excepting for a secondary role played in manning the anti-sunni death squads , content to play and win at electoral politics (allegedly on instructions from iran) --ahmed chalabi must be somewhere laughing up his sleeve at all the sides --while working out his next banking swindle --that clown might even make his predictions come true and one day end up president of iraq after all--although that's a very very long shot requiring a very pacified iraq.
chalabi meets ayatollah in iran

but anyway , the bush administration is making good in iraq on the strategy of "use them all and then throw them all away" --it's an old game but is still played because it still works so well --divide and conquer--winnow away your enemies .

hillary under fire

and back here in the Us news , a senator and presidential candidate recently snared by the media clearly in a lie, blames "sleep deprivation" and having "misspoke" when she listed among her vast experience with foreign policy as having landed while under "sniperfire" in bosnia during the meltdown of the former yugoslavia . did she get that one from bill ? did he tell hillary he had those affairs when he "mis-poked" those women because of sleep deprivation ? ha ha ha !

40 years later forensics experts says impossible that sirhan is rfk's killer- 13 gunshots from an 8 shot pistol

meanwhile the mainstream Us media FINALLY, after 40 years of eyewitness accounts and testimony of experts constantly put in the media's face by so-called "conspiracy theorists" , reports that scientific evidence points to a second gunman at work in the 1968 assassination of senator robert kennedy--a young, eloquent candidate for the democratic nomination for the presidency , highly popular with young voters , who campaigned on promises to end the vietnam war , bring the troops home, work to end poverty in the Us--and also reopen the investigation into his own brother's assassination ;


robert mugabe

at the same time now, in zimbabwe ,southern africa , octogenerian robert mugabe runs for yet another term for president in a nation devastated by hyperinflation-generating sanctions and broken promises by england to make a smoother transition from economic apartheid by paying white farmers--a tiny demographic minority-- to peacefully relinquish the overwhelming majority of the best farmland --lands their english fathers took by force from black farmers back in the days when the british ruled "rhodesia" the same way the dutch afrikanners ruled apartheid south africa.

mugabe again faces continuous political opposition from main rival morgan tsvangirai --caught on video in previous interviews openly discussing how he had aligned himself financially and politically with western interests plotting to install him as president of zimbabwe through violent coup d'etat .
morgan tsvangirai

the fact that tsvangirai is not in prison for life or already executed for treason, indicates that mugabe ,until under constant attack and threat of violent overthrow-like so many african leaders before him-- may not have been as tyrranical and despotic as the western media claims --but 28 years as president is too much time even for jesus --mugabe should have stepped down long ago.

those who lead the liberation struggles against colonialism and imperialism in the name of the people, have a bad habit of not trusting that the beliefs and principles that carried the nation to independence are not sufficiently instilled in the people--who made the victory possible in the first place .

do like mandela, lead for specific time and then step down ... if you have done your work , there will be others of the next generations who will be able to lead and give their interpretations of what you have striven to create. do your work correctly and they will hold true to the principles and ideals that you have worked and struggled for .

we do not need presidents for life. we need the principles that guided the various "nations" to independence understood clearly in the minds of the people so that even the youngest school child can express and articulate in their own terms what the struggle is for ,what goals are to be achieved and by what means the goals are to be arrived at and discern his or her own role and individual part to play in that macro-process .

for example : i am a soldier in the global struggle of the children of africa world wide for economic ,social, political and technological reempowerment. i make my own little contributions to the struggle for our global reempowerment in my writings, in my ideas, in my interactions with others, in how i live my life . in how i strive to inform, educate and treat others, and seek to uplift, enoble and bring out the best in us, i am a soldier for my people.

dr king was a soldier , malcolm x was a soldier, nelson mandela is a soldier , kwame toure was a soldier , huey and george were soldiers. rosa parks , corretta scot king , betty shabazz and fannie lou hamer were soldiers . queen nzinga was a soldier, harriet tubman was a soldier, all of the runaway slaves and maroons hiding in the quilambos and resisting the slave catchers were and are soldiers.

when bob marley sang his songs of freedom , when nina simone and aretha franklin sang for the children "to be young gifted and black is where it's at" , when james brown sang "say it loud i'm black and i'm proud", when curtis mayfield sang "we're a winner " and "people get ready because there's a train a coming", they were soldiers.

when muhammad ali refused the draft during the vietnam war, gave up millions of dollars , was stripped of the title , sentenced to five years in prison and still said "hell no i won't go ...the vietcong never called me n-----", he was a soldier.

being a soldier means being tuned in and having your life and goals so integrated into the the overall struggle of our people for our human rights, our dignity and respect,our mental reenlightment, our just economic rewards , that your own individual accomplishments dovetail directly into the needs and aspirations of the masses.

we can see a picture of ourselves and how we wish to be and where we wish to go in you and your accomplishments. drug slingers , wannabe pimps and gangsters do not do it for us because they destroy our peoples' lives rather than uplift and build our people up.

if i am a psychologist , i'm healing the wounded psyche of our people so they have the bulletproof self esteem needed to compete and succeed in a world that wipes its feet on black skin.

if i'm a realator i'm informing my people of the benefits and economic legacy of property ownership at the same time i'm schooling them to the necessary requirements and clearing a pathway AROUND predatory lenders--especially since the media is hinting that this subprime crisis is somehow our fault--"you people didn't read your contracts and didn't know your mortgage rates were due to reset... blah...blah...bs...bs..."

if i'm a computer programmer ,i'm doing more than just seeking a job at someone else's company , i'm networking with others like me-- building our own thing or helping others like us to build theirs--encouraging students to be their best and helping them get their feet in the door .

if i'm a student , i'm choosing my field of study from an informed position , making sure my skills are solid , my expertise cutting edge, my world view global instead parochial , using technology to reach out others like me , lending each other moral and tangible assistance and taking the greatest of care to ALWAYS avoid the "n-word-isms" of fratricide and the "crabs in a barrel" mentality which only makes losers of us all .

if i'm in a profession that places me in the public eye , i'm dignified without brattiness, regal without arrogance, of the everyday people without pettiness. my work celebrates ,showcases the best in us--points the way where we should strive to be--i seek to be someone any parent would want their child to emulate .

if i'm in a service profession , even if it's cooking fries at mc donalds , i'm making notes , studying the business model , determining what it is that makes so many people the world over willingly spend their money there. finding and discovering keys that i can use for my own dream someday and to make my own life and personal projects a success .

and whatever i am , whatever i do ,as a soldier for my people, i'm looking for ways that what i do and what i aspire to be will dovetail with the overarching goals of my peoples' global , economic, political, social and technological reempowerment.

this is not my idea , this is my interpretation of what i believe dr king meant when he said he was a "drum major" for peace , a drum major for justice , a drum major for equality --and is related to what i believe he intended what became his final work to be --his poor people's march.