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Making Imperialism
Sound Like Righteousness
By Junious Ricardo Stanton
Do not terrorize people for if you
do, God will punish you accordingly. If anyone lives by such
means, God will take bread from his or her mouth. If one says I
shall be rich by such means, she will eventually have to say, my
means have entrapped me. If one says I will rob another, he will
end up being robbed himself. The plans of men and women do not
always come to pass for in the end it is the will of God which
prevails. Therefore, one should live in peace with others and
they will come and willingly give gifts which another would take
away from them through fear.—The Book of Ptah-Hotep, saying III
Ancient African wisdom and ethical text 4,500 years old
There is something
very strange and troubling when the world's foremost military
power; the only nation to possess thousands of nuclear bombs,
nuclear weaponry, missiles; the only nation to have actually
used atomic bombs on a civilian population, demands the total
disarmament of a small, devastated nation under threat of
pulverizing that nation into total submission and regime change.
Incredibly, this threat includes the possible use of nuclear
weapons to deal with the possibility that the other nation might
have some nuclear capability—Alwyn Moss
Op-Ed piece
I watched George W. Bush's (I still can't
bring myself to call him the President) State of the Union
Address. It was an obviously staged event for the media and the
AmeriKKKan public. His Republican Party cohorts, cabinet members
and even some Democrats jumped up to applaud him every few
minutes on cue. Bush managed to read his speech under the
watchful gazes of Cheney, Rumsfeld and Powell who were making
sure he gave the right message to the sheep, I mean people,
without making himself look too insane. The media has given Bush
a free pass since day one when the Republican Party nominated
him as their candidate for the 2000 election.
They gloss over his malapropisms, they ignore
his obvious ignorance of right and wrong, they wink at his past,
one that would have been a constant source of nitpicking
and exposure if he were anyone else; such as his being AWOL from
the Air National Guard, his family's ruthless business dealings
etc. Nevertheless AmeriKKKa sat watching as Bush talked about a
myriad of issues , the economy, tax cuts, aid to Africa
and the Caribbean to supposedly stem the spread of AIDS (which
we all know was created in US government laboratories) and
disarming Saddam Hussein.
Listening to him I wondered when a small
child was going to innocently point out the Emperor was naked;
really the whole thing was that pathetic. No one in their right
mind believes Bush when he says the issue with Iraq is their
threat of Weapons of Mass Destruction. If that were the case why
aren't they moving on North Korea, India, Pakistan or Israel?
Bush said nothing about India or Pakistan who were on the brink
of war two years ago and who both have nuclear weapons?! What
about Israel and their nuclear capabilities especially in light
of their aggression in the West Bank? My question is why
is Bush using diplomatic channels in North Korea but ready to
invade Iraq which has been subjected to ongoing devastating,
bombing and strafing raids as well as crippling economic
sanctions for twelve years?
Is it because like most bullies the Bush
cabal isn't about to pick a fight it isn't absolutely sure it
can easily win, so it's easier to pick on the weak, the infirm
and the beatable like Iraq and Afghanistan? The AmeriKKKan
public has been under a relentless psychological campaign ever
since 9-11 to convince the masses AmeriKKKa is under attack from
a rag muffin billionaire living in a cave (while suffering from
kidney failure) in Afghanistan and a madman in Baghdad who were
propped up by the CIA in the first place. Notice Bush said
nothing about Osama bin Laden in his speech? Whatever
happened to the boogey-man terrorist with the huge bounty on his
head?
Has AmeriKKKa gone insane? Are we going to
allow madmen on both sides of the aisle (Biden and Lieberman are
just as fascist as Bush) to push humanity into the abyss of
global conflict? The European cultural matrix/paradigm of
intrigue, war, disease, looting, pillage and plunder continues,
only this time brazenly for all the world to see.
Sadly Bush does not understand nor take heed
to the wisdom of our ancient African ancestors which says,
"If you are a man who leads, a man who controls the affairs
of many, then seek the most perfect way of performing your
responsibility so that your conduct will be blameless. Great is
Maat (Truth, justice and righteousness) ..." -The teachings
of Ptah-Hotep.
Bush and his gang with their love or war,
their insatiable greed are set to unleash negative Karma upon
this nation and like Nazi Germany the people will go along with
it. Woe to them that call evil, good, war, peace, who create
widows and make orphans in the name of justice!
posted 31 January 2003
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The Benefit and The Burden: Tax Reform
Why We Need It and What It Will Take
By Bruce Bartlett
The United States Tax Code has undergone no serious reform since 1986. Since then, loopholes, exemptions, credits, and deductions have distorted its clarity, increased its inequity, and frustrated our ability to govern ourselves. At its core, any tax system is in place to raise the revenue needed to pay the government’s bills. But where that revenue should come from raises crucial questions: Should our tax code be progressive, with the wealthier paying more than the poor, and if so, to what extent? Should we tax income or consumption or both? Of the various ideas proposed by economists and politicians—from tax increases to tax cuts, from a VAT to a Fair Tax—what will work and won’t? By tracing the history of our own tax system and by assessing the way other countries have solved similar problems, Bartlett explores the surprising answers to all of these questions, giving a sense of the tax code’s many benefits—and its inevitable burdens. |
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Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War
By Tony Horwitz
Plotted in secret, launched in the dark, John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was a pivotal moment in U.S. history. But few Americans know the true story of the men and women who launched a desperate strike at the slaveholding South. Now, Midnight Rising portrays Brown's uprising in vivid color, revealing a country on the brink of explosive conflict. Brown, the descendant of New England Puritans, saw slavery as a sin against America's founding principles. Unlike most abolitionists, he was willing to take up arms, and in 1859 he prepared for battle at a hideout in Maryland, joined by his teenage daughter, three of his sons, and a guerrilla band that included former slaves and a dashing spy. On October 17, the raiders seized Harpers Ferry, stunning the nation and prompting a counterattack led by Robert E. Lee. After Brown's capture, his defiant eloquence galvanized the North and appalled the South, which considered Brown a terrorist. The raid also helped elect Abraham Lincoln, who later began to fulfill Brown's dream with the Emancipation Proclamation, a measure he called "a John Brown raid, on a gigantic scale."
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