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Weapons of Mass Distraction

Dec 13, 2008
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That’s exactly what I consider the US media. Every day, every time we turn on the television, the radio or browse the Internet, there’s another weapon being “fired” to take our attention away from more important and pressing matters. It gets so that I feel a deep disgust for anyone who claims themselves to be part of this mass madness movement.

What’s amazing, yet appalling at the same time, is the fact that the “leaders”—for lack of a better term—can’t get Amerikka right, but they can be all up in the business of other countries. You could swear there were no poor, malnourished, diseased people living right here in Amerikka, much of whose afflictions are due to the corrupt US pharmaceutical mafia aka Big Pharma that has been given free reign by masquerading agents of acronym agencies who pretend to care about public health.

And then these same low lifes—the acronyms and those calling themselves leaders—turn around and speak of democracy. As if they really know what that means, when they’d honestly give anything to be able to freely go back to stepping on the necks of certain people. But, don’t for a minute believe they’re not still stepping. They’re just using other, more stealth methods to do so.

Ask anybody who’s just lost a job or been earnestly searching for one for the past year; who’s been evicted or is facing eviction; who checked their 401(k), only to find out it was empty. For that matter, talk to the employees of KB Toys, AT&T, Bank of America, City of Atlanta and all these other companies that are dropping workers like Raid drops flies. If that’s not neck stepping, I don’t know what is. Everybody gets a bailout, but the very people whose money is being used to bail out sharks. What a spectacular example of democracy at work!

Surprisingly, there are those of us who really believe that Obama will be able to change all this around. By his lonesome, he’s going to make a country that as long as it’s been called Amerikka has been imperfect, perfect. I hate to sound pessimistic, but it ain’t gonna happen. Equality is a concept foreign to those running this country and they will do everything to ensure there are degrees of separation between the haves and the have nots.

My money that was involuntarily taken from my paycheck was involuntarily given to banks and other companies who wouldn’t give me a loan if my life depended on it. They didn’t want to give them to me before, and they sure as hell ain’t gonna do it now, but because of the ruthless, criminal enterprises the PEOPLE have “s”elected as representatives, we get no say so. And like everybody else paying taxes in this corrupt country, I didn’t receive so much as a letter of thanks for allowing this country to make a damn fool out of me, while they shoved their financial burden off on me and my future generations.

Do I sound a wee bit upset? It’s because it’s about principle, people. Of which this country is sorely lacking. That and the aptitude to admit that this country is run by muttbrained fu**ups. whew! it felt good to get that off my chest—now for the finale*

My suggestion is that we bear down and get ready to weather one of the worst storms to transpire during our lifetime—just keep in mind that you cannot do that if you allow yourself to get sucked away in the media’s arsenal of mass distractions.

W.O.W. Violence

Dec 18, 2007
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The minute we turn on the television or the radio, there's news about, yet, another black-on-black episode. I've gotten to the point where I can no longer just sigh, because sighing has become bad for my health.

So, instead of sighing, I began thinking: What can we do to prevent these occurrences? What is the stimulus for these occurrences? Is it really true that black-on-black violence happens more frequently than, say, dominican-on-dominican, indian-on-indian, mexican-on-mexican or white-on-white? Are we truly more violent than any other race?

Or is it more highly visible in media, because it tends to sway us from the true issues regarding why this violence occurs in the first place? Or is it so because the media wish us to have a darkened perspective of who we are?

So, when I began thinking these things, I decided to take a few days to scour the media for instances of white-on-white violence. Why W.O.W.? Glad you asked. You see, it's because the majority of media are owned lock, stock and smoking barrel BY whites, so it's only natural it would portray events that affect them most, right?

Ahh, but that's where we go wrong in our thinking. How are they going to maintain domination, if they air their dirty laundry for the world to see without making you think it's totally your dirty laundry?

History shows that crimes are usually a direct result of the societal influence. Crime fits the environment, in other words. Since these folks have placed themselves in charge (and we've left them there, despite their inability to lead), wouldn't what we see be a direct reflection of how others are expected to react when caged in the yard of a negligent owner?

It's like caging a dog. Let him out after a period of neglect, and he's not the same dog you caged. He's vicious, he's ferocious, he's vindictive, he'll even tear his cellmate apart. Yep, sounds like Amerikkan criminality to me.

With all the negativity filling the airwaves about one group of people, in particular, I felt it only right to give another group of people (Amerikka's self-imposed leaders) an avenue to air their instances of violence. I mean, why should we be alone in this?

Below are just a few W.O.W. moments, as I do my best to offer a more balanced view of the propaganda that is leaked so freely in Amerikkan media: