"AWAKENING??" Race in the 21st Century

The "Obama Effect" on the Planet

As we get closer to the 2012 election, even the more established "talking heads" are openly acknowledging "race and religion" as driving factors in the ultimate choice that will be made in November.  A fleeting knowledge of world history will tell you that these two forces have a unique impact on the Americas.  As the move from indentured servitude for debt "progressed" toward chattel slavery linked to biology, skin color, and African linkage, so did the unique nature of life in the Americas, for everyone; to include Central America and the Caribbean, bear the heaviest impact. 

 Born in the bowels of the Christian Religion (Roman version), the Spanish approach  to race contrasted somewhat from that of the English, but both concentrated heavily on skin color as they pursued wealth from the "New World". (Re-read "Paint" my, April, 2011 blog).

Fast-forward to the 21st century; take a close look as what's really happening in the "Obama Phenom", and you might see that this could be an opening for All Americans, regardless of skin shade, to escape this curse.  The "throw-backss" (Repoobs and their funders and supporters) are doubling down on all of their efforts to take final control; and to  re-fashion our Constitution and Democracy to suit their purposes.  Those who want to really put an end to the madness may have their last chance to put them in the dust-bin of history and finally "get free".

How?  Stop playing the game(s)!  In all of its manifestations!  (1)White women must stop playing their unique advantages of being white and using their recent freedoms to oppress non-whites while getting even with men. (2) Non-whites, regardless of the amount of "African" or "Indian" lineage must reject the government's forcing identification of all citizens into five OMB boxes. (3) Whites and non-whites ("all" genders) must stop running from any lineage that strays outside "white" bounds.  (Any fool knows there has been an incredible amount of "bed-swapping" in the Americas over the past 500 years). (4) Politicians and Religions have to stop "pimping" race to get and hold supporters.  (5)  Religious citizens have to stop brain-washing their babies on race (they still are "getting the message" before they"re five years old).  (6) Corporations and businesses have to "get serious" about employing and fairly rewarding all talent, regardless of gender, race, and sexual orientation before its too late; and only the idiots will be running the country and our economy.

This half-dozen steps could work wonders for the Americas and for the planet.  What is the alternative?

A world led by Repoobs!  Listen to their drivel!!  Read a few history books!!  If you think the struggle is between which religion should reign, you're being Mushroomed!  If you think "He's Not One Of Us!" is the proper bumper sticker for this election, you're heading for a Dark Age of severe poverty and social unrest. (Read About The Thirties).

Lets "Make Lemonade while the Sun still shines!"  Make this an Awakening!  Take this to YOUR Church. 

"PRIVATIZATION", is there a LIMIT TO "MARKETS"??

What Happens when we Run Out of "Natural Markets"?

As a retired Marketing Director for a Blue Chip corporation, I know a few things about Markets and Marketing.  I was taught Marketing and Finance by Peter Drucker, twenty-five years ago.

Some things, like groceries, that require wide distribution are "naturals" for markets and marketing.  Other things, like the water we drink and the air we breathe, ARE NOT!  This country achieved greatness partly because we expanded education, mostly for free, and to the public (only for the whites, initially).

But watch out: We're entering the period of widespread "Artificial Markets" in which people who control large sums of money "create markets" by cornering substances like food and water; substances the buyer can't "live" without (Literally!).   Then, they limit availability to  only those who can pay their price.  Sound familiar?

Google:    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechtel and you can read the story of the "privatization" of water in Bolivia and it's consequences for the citizens who couldn"t pay the prices.  This source shows that even the water that fell from the heavens onto Bolivian roofs belonged to Bechtel.

Listen carefully, and you will hear Mitt and the Repoobs pushing for the privatization of our K-12 education system.  If you think K-12 education can't get any worse, you're wrong.

I'm old enough to remember when insurance companies sold insurance (life, death, property, etc.) and stayed the hell out of health care.  Health transactions were between patient and doctor or hospital.  In places where I grew up, the patient had to find a medical care provider of the same skin color, or had to go without or died; whether you could pay for it or not!

There is healthy and trustworthy market making, and then there are the more sinister players.  Its time to remind U.S. Citizens that "Caveat Emptor" or "Buyer Beware!" has never been more critical than it is today.  That goes for politics, health care, and perhaps, your food and water.

"BLAME-DUCK" SESSION?

"Blame really must be Left for God and Small Children"

Funny, the way Repoobs beat their chests about "not putting off" facing our debt problems, while pushing draconian cuts off until after the 2012 election.  This is designed, I'm sure, to permit maximum opportunity for them to cause "failure" for this President; who had the temerity of taking on the jobs of stopping the free-fall of this economy, stopping the hemorrhaging of jobs, and to begin to restore the damage they caused.  Their's is clearly a tactic taken by small children.

Small and Greedy children, it turns out.  We've been on this sorry path as a nation since Mad Ronnie ushered in the age of Greed in 1980.  There are at least two things that Greed cannot abide; one is Good Government and the other is Scientific Reason.  Both of these are pillars of Western Culture and the "reason" this nation has served as a beacon for the rest of the world.

These greedy children have chosen Religion and Race as their major weapons; and to great effect over the past 30 years.  Now, not only this great "experiment in Democracy" is threatened, but the future of Western Culture itself.  The voters of this nation have a somber task ahead of them this Fall.

I have spent just about all of my military career in government research laboratories and testing centers, over a period spanning 1962 to 1982.  I have personally known the thanklessness of performing "dirty missions".  Two of those missions were in the underground testing of nuclear weapons, and one was to break a mutiny and direct the vulnerability testing of the B-52 to EMP.  It is sad to see what "private industry" has done with the technology break-throughs we produced.  Incidentally, WE won the Cold War; not Mad Ronnie!

Check out the spending numbers and compare the amount spent when the Repoobs had control of both houses of Congress, the White House, a "black stopper" on the Supreme Court, and a Latino "top-cop".  Add to these two "auxiliaries"  Condi and Colin, and the entire regime has produced mostly "chagrin".

Add to these facts the tendency of their so-called-leaders to tout "Exceptionalism";  a euphemism for white male control, and you can see the racism.  Where were these "leaders" when the crap hit the fan?  Hiding from responsibility.

The Yin-Yang Media is high on "Opinion".  They push for  " Two prevailing Opinions" on just about every subject.  If we as voters continue to allow "Opinion" to trump "Fact", we can kiss our Democracy goodbye!

RAPE OF THE "SKINNY PIGS"

Mushrooming Minorities and the Poor about "Small Business"

I'm back from San Francisco. A wonderful trip!  Before leaving the Bay Area I visited Menlo Park and had a picture taken in front of the Facebook sign (with Sun MicroSystems on the back side).

I woke up this morning to some slick guy on C-Span who was a former worker in the Cheney/Bush Debacle.  He was shilling for Romney/Rubio and offering small business advice to Latinos.  I heard calls from mostly whites, some poor, one poor black male, but no Latinos.  Most of the callers could see through the "mushroom" treatment he was speiling.  He was also hyping a book, as so many talking heads on the Yin-Yang Media do these days.

Hype about small business is everywhere it seems.  I guess most citizens are getting over their denial about the disappearance of jobs and are thinking they can always start a business.  They can.  But the emphasis should be on the word "start".  More than 80% of small businesses in the United States fail within the first two years of operation.  But the mushroomers don't tell you that.  Also, if you didn't like working for other people, you're probably going to hate working for yourself.  Be prepared to work 18-hour days for 7 days a week.  Oh, and by the way, be prepared to hock everything you own, and tap your relatives and friends to get started.  Bet they don't tell you any of this either.

All of this is because the people out their pushing you to start a business are, more than likely, Money Boys; or their shills -- most likely book-sellers, or politicians.  Why do they do what they do?  MONEY, honey!  Worse yet, it's probably poor people's money that they "lend".   

Drucker taught that Money Boys know money, and very little else.  They need others to provide ideas, inventions, business concepts.  They will not "lend" money to "skinny pigs" (minorities and poor whites) unless you have all of your money on the table and you sign over some or all of your rights and interests to the business, on condition of getting the loan.  They have to protect their "collateral".

There are variations of this game for people of all colors, classes, and income levels.  Witness the fall-out from last Friday's IPO.  There are a great deal of things to learn about making a business successful.  Most, who start small businesses, need a mentor who concentrates only on his or her problems and will be available 24/7.

What to do?  Before you take money or advice from anyone, look hard at any business they have owned and taken full responsibility for.  Second, check out the source of the money they "lend".  Fat pigs rape skinny pigs; or, Sharks eat smaller fish, if you like a gentler analogy.

I would be interested in any comments or experiences you would care to share.  Gmail: willigl.george@gmail.com. 



4th AMENDMENT IN SHREDS?

"Handi-work of  the Repoobs, the Supreme's and the WAR on Drugs"

I am writing this from San Francisco.  I've taken a week of vacation here to celebrate the 50th year since my graduation from San Francisco State.  This city, the "Old Girl with the Dirty Skirts", still has her charms; even if this older body, weakened by war wounds, has trouble bounding up the hills as in the old days.  Revisiting the campus, I find the Science Building now bears the name of  my mentor and physics professor, Dr. Robert Thornton.  Experts on campus provided useful advice for my blog. 

I'm also reading Michelle Alexander's new book, The New Jim Crow.  All patriots, and those who care deeply for the future of this country should read this book carefully.  Michelle, an attorney, carefully documents the rise and progress of the War on Drugs and its corrosive impact on our Bill of Rights.  Especially the Fourth Amendment, designed by the Founders to make us safe in our persons and our privacy, as well as safe from unreasonable searches and seizures.  It's ironic that I'm writing this on the day of the Facebook IPO.  Facebook opens new chapters into how we will live in a future where privacy is de-valued.

As I read the book, I see the War on Drugs as the "3rd Face" of slavery; following the familiar chattel slavery and the less-recognized Jim Crow or Peonage system that prevailed  for more than 80 years, from the end of Reconstruction in this country until the end of Segregation; as a result  of the Civil Rights Movement.

Slavery, originally indentured servitude driven by debt for persons of all colors, "morphed"  into a more comprehensive and perpetual servitude system designed for non-whites.  After the trans-Atlantic phase of slavery was outlawed, the "Colonial" form continued it outside our shores.  Slavery in the Modern age comprised the most lucrative generator of wealth known to mankind.  The Repoobs have labored long to bring it back; the War on Drugs is the mechanism they have chosen. 

Black and brown, mostly male, youth are their target of choice.  Trayvon Martin  comes to mind as an example of the type of target this War pursues.  The stalking and killing of Trayvon should serve to awaken our citizenry to the plight of similar youth in our country today.  Michelle's book portrays the virtual "army" of individuals trained and equipped to do what Zimmerman did.  The Government role (at all levels) in this movement centers mostly in the Judiciary and in Law Enforcement.  Congress plays a great role also in the laws it has placed on the books (Byrne laws) to spur the growth of the movement dubbed "The War on Drugs".

What's a concerned ciitzen to do?  Get and read the book, then VOTE to insure that no Repoob escapes the wrath of a concerned public.

'"MR BACKLASH" on STEROIDS?

The Results of Hooliganism in Government?

My 1972 Master's Thesis documented the early days of "Backlash",  made famous by Nina Simone's great tune.  Those were the days when Nixon, our first backlash president, was busy ushering the Dixiecrats into the Republican Party and bringing on the Repoobs.  They succeeded in "bumping off" Senator Lugar a few days ago; perhaps eliminating their last claim to "civility".

For those of you too young to remember, "backlash" was the term for the hostile reaction to early racial integration efforts; taking place mostly in the schools, but also in the military.  Every destructive tactic under the sun was employed in states around the country over the past several decades since the 1954 Supreme Court decision outlawing school segregation.  The past half century or more of government hooliganism has succeeded in destroying K-12 education, forcing us to go outside the country to find the brain power we need to operate our "knowledge-based-economy".

The reports have been released showing the 2010 data on foreign-born members of the United States population (two-thirds of which is "legal").   Check it out; the graphs are stunning!

After more than two hundred years of legal and social actions to make this a white nation, led in the early years by the Exterminator-In-Chief, President Andrew Jackson, we're now more and more dependent on "brains" located in non-white heads.  The challenge is to gain access without respecting the owner or paying for the output.  Hiring discrimination is strong among non-white immigrants.
Surprised?

The hooligans are currently all in a lather over "The Mexicans"; but immigration from Mexico is down sharply, replaced by immigration from China and India.  God must be having a great belly-laugh!!  After all that rape and murder and slaughter of natives; after ushering in any white face that was not diseased, WITH NO REQUIREMENTS FOR VISAS, the whites are heading for minority status in this country.

What's a hooligan to do??  VOTE, seems to be their answer.  But for whom?  The hooligans scared hell out of themselves when they got full control for six years and wrecked the place economically.  So much so, some of them might have even voted for the first Black President.  It seems he was the only one on the scene when the crap hit the fan who had a plan and was willing to try to save the country.

Now, they think they've found their Great White Hope.  He's a Financier of the Hedge Fund type, posing as a "Business Man".  You believe that, and we're headed for the final slide to Hell.

ARE YOU A "TRUST BABY"?

INHERITANCE: Where Race Intersects Class

What sets this country apart, many would argue, is the fact that, since its inception, inheritance has been the key to advancement and "success".  How can that be, you ask; didn't the early European settlers come here escaping poverty and religious persecution? 

De Tocqueville observed the three races that inhabited the United States in 1830.  He observed also the differences in their 'inheritances' or their fates: death by extinction for the native, and death by protracted labor for the Negro.  Both under the laws and by the hand of the whites.  We now have a fourth group, the Hispanic or Mestizo, formed from mixture of the three.  The Chinese, brought here to work on the nation's railroads were allowed to work in the gold fields, but any gold they found could be confiscated under the "Supreme's" ruling that no non-white held rights to anything a white man wanted to own. Hence the historic phrase "Chinaman's Chance".

Fast forward to the 21st Century: The Big Casino!  Global stock markets, derivatives and related trading "opportunities"; and you find the same pattern, largely, in inheritance by grouping.  Trust Babies,  almost exclusively white males, who "day trade" stocks and other investment instruments to extend their inheritances, and everyone else, mostly minorities, who have no inheritance to "invest", except for job-related "savings", managed by others.

What to do?  Well, for starters, minorities should read David Copperfield and diligently "save" ten percent of every dime that crosses their palm.  Then they should learn how to grow that saving by investment.  Technology (computers, especially) makes it possible and even easy today.  And, best of all, you can hide your holdings among all those trillions of other "bytes" and MANAGE THEM YOURSELF!  

All of those "bytes" look the same, and you can keep them!  Unless!!; you fall prey to the traps set by Congress to tie your money up in the hands of others (most white males) until you're fifty-nine and one-half!  Therein lies their ability to take your money when investment bubbles "bust".  (why the one-half? go figure!)

So, get busy and make sure your children and grand-children also have "inheritances".  But you had better put some smarts "between their ears" so they know how to avoid the multiplicity of scams that make our casino economy run today.  Remember, our economy depends on "a sucker born every minute".