The Secret Code of GOP Political Double-Speak

Nori Lamphere - [VIDEO] Immigrants! Don't Vote for What You Fled

Laura Mary - it is a lesson for liberals too...as they escape states
with burdensome taxes and regulations that they voted in...

Andy Cain - They are ruining Virginia and working on NC.

Francis Godici - Excellent point!

Familia Jiménez - There is a Spanish version that I posted here a few
weeks back. I suggest anyone and everyone with Hispanic
friends/acquaintances to share with them.

+ - People from Latin-Americas grow up being
indoctrinated by the left. So they get convinced the left is not wrong,
is just the CANDIDATE who is wrong, not the ideas. They keep voting for
anyone who tells them he's honest not realizing that the system
attracts the already corrupt or corrupt those who are not.

Doug Gray - Reminds me of the exodus from California to Nevada and
Arizona in the 90s. Both states are now more liberal than ever and
quickly becoming California 2.0.

Brenda Van Cleave Sanford - Spot on!

Muhammad Rasheed - The GOP is actively creating a One-Party Rule empire
using their Social Policy Network (SPN) and the ALEC mega-conglomerate
policy creating system. This involves a 'socialism for the rich'
scheme. Judging from the way the Trumpster is filling his Cabinet
seats, I don't think they necessarily want a "bigger" gov, but they
certainly want a more controlling, intrusive one into the lives of the
working class and the poor.

Nori Lamphere - So . . . because you don't like Trump you haven't read
his executive order requiring a reduction in regulation nor his
executive order requesting an audit to determine which agencies and
programs can be pared back to reduce the size of gov't in an attempt to
get gov't only doing what the constitution says it should do.
You don't like Trump so you're second guessing his cabinet choices,
people who know how to husband money and work efficiently and negotiate
to get things done . . . aka NOT politicians who say one thing and do
another. You're judging his chosen cabinet because they have money
earned by rising to the top of their field which they managed based on
their work ethic and talent.

Your sentiment is not the brightest thing I've heard today, but if it
works for you, run with it. Hopefully your ignorance will cushion you
from the shock of reality.

Muhammad Rasheed - You're very insulting, Nori. I notice that instead
of being direct and just asking me to prove the points I brought up,
you danced around the points, created straw man effigies, and attacked
my intellect. Is this how you were taught how to debate back in school?
Or did they not have debate classes available, only HTML code?

Muhammad Rasheed - 1) When the wealthy say they want a "smaller
government" it means they want you to stop trying to keep their
companies from polluting the air, water, earth and poisoning the people
in the surrounding areas of their toxic run-offs. It means they want
you to turn the other way instead of putting protections in place that
keep predatory financial entities from taking advantage of the poor's
desperation & low money IQ. It means they want the gov to help them
form monopolies and cartels that benefit them alone, instead of using
gov power to protect the free open markets from economy destroying
mega-corporate partnerships.

In other words, it never means anything good for the USA when the
wealthy regurgitate that "smaller gov" talking point. It's just code
for "Shut up and give me more money, peasant!!"

2) The Trumpster's cabinet choices all have histories of undermining
all of our American values to stuff their personal wealth coffers at
the poorer average citizen's expense. Your admiration for these slimy
people is telling, Nori. Like their POTUS, none of them are at the "top
of their fields" but are spolied selfish heirs to legacy fortunes, and
collude together in order to protect their clique lifestyle. BetsyDevos,

for example, is not only the double-heiress to the AmWay and

Prince Corp. fortunes, but she also has a history of working with known
criminal embezzlers to try and force the working class tax payer to
foot the bill for her network of private schools for wealthy brats.

BTW all of the Trumpster's Cabinet choices are members of the Koch Bro
funded SPN mentioned earlier -- the diobolical partnership of political
& corporate interests -- and every single one of them, and all of their
friends are absolutely well-practiced in "say one thing and do
another."

Nori Lamphere - @Muhammad Rasheed... *sigh* You've been listening to
the liberal media again. Picture me, the teacher, whacking you on the
hand with my ruler.

Nori Lamphere - @Muhammad Rasheed... *sigh* Yup, I can tell you didn't
read the executive orders. I even told you they were out there! *sigh*

Muhammad Rasheed - I would rather picture you responding with a well-
thought out counter-argument using logic, reason & wit. Watching you
dance around the points and toss weak potshots that only tickle
Trumpamania funnybones is tiresome.

Are you going to fight, or dance?

Muhammad Rasheed - You "told me" a lot of stuff that was
inconsequential to anything. Now I'm telling you to level up and show
off your intellect.

Do it.

Nori Lamphere - I'm going to ignore you, little man. When someone uses
illogic in an attempt to prove logic, ignore is always the best option.

Muhammad Rasheed - I win.



Muhammad Rasheed - If you had a counter-argument you would have
provided it.

Peace.

Muhammad Rasheed - Perhaps one of these 43 that 'Liked' your link will
take up my challenge since you are so woefully out of your league, eh?

How about it, folks? IS THERE ANYONE ELSE?!?



Graz Czerwinski - you are delusional . Te opposite is true

Muhammad Rasheed - "True" is based on facts, which can be supported by
evidence.

Since you are so convinced that "Ze opposite is true, Comrade" then
surely you can post up some links that definitively prove your point?

Do it.

Steven Campbell - What evidence am I to disprove? I see no evidence, just conjecture. What "facts"? The Trumpster's cabinet choices all have histories of undermining all of our American values to stuff their personal wealth coffers at the poorer average citizen's expense. Your admiration for these slimy people is telling, Nori. Like their POTUS,...See More These are not Facts, just what you think. Why do you know what American Values are? How did they take your money? Mine? Slimy people, Fact? no, opinion, there are no facts sir, none.

Nori Lamphere - @Steven Campbell... Spot on.

Muhammad Rasheed - @Stephen... Then don't tell me that my evidence is unfounded, show me by revealing the proof that backs your position.

Show me if you're able.

Muhammad Rasheed - Why do you assume that I used incomplete information to form my argument points?

Steven Campbell - Because there is no proof, just your opinion on an opinion. ok, we get it, you don't like Trump or his crew. Fine, go work and get someone else elected. I suggest you work first on Congress or maybe even your locals...Then base your vote on policy, what you believe in and then what your fav. believes in, if they match, go for that one. Meanwhile, if you think that your opinions are fact, then I can't refute that.

Muhammad Rasheed - Why do you believe there is no proof that all of Trump's cabinet picks have histories of undermining our american values?

Why are you so sure that there is no proof of this? Seriously, that info is still bubbling at the top of the national conversation. So why do you keep saying that?

Muhammad Rasheed - Wait... is this part of you all's "alternate facts" rhetoric speak?

It is, isn't it? Awww...

Steven Campbell - There are no facts, so mine cannot be alternate facts, I have presented no facts to dispute your non-facts, there is no point in disputing something built in the belief and mind of the presenter. Fact: Trump is President. The Electoral College voted him President. Discussion over. You can wish, hope, conjecture, believe, or whatever but you can't dispute my fact.

Muhammad Rasheed - It's a fact that the GOP used voter suppression tactics to fraudulently throw away millions of minority/Democrat ballots and they cheated, which of course undermines our American values. This isn't a "non-fact/alternate fact,' it is verifiably true. So your desire to hurry past the "Trump is president/Electoral College voted him President... Discussion OVER!" part smacks of deliberate deception and intellectual dishonesty.

It's also a fact that Devos is in cahoots with a documented criminal embezzler to force her dream of getting tax payers to fund her private school network/empire dream.

How do you counter the voter suppression fact and the Trumpster's Education Cabinet pick is a slimeball fact? Will you again hollowly duck the challenge by cowardly proclaiming that these are just 'non-facts/alternate facts' that are only in my head or whatever, or will you present evidence that actually proves them wrong?

Nori Lamphere - @Steven Campbell... Truly, you expected an informed adult response? You're wasting your time. He's baiting to see if he can get to the limit for cutoff of comments. His comments are not backed by any intellect at all, just inflamed liberal rhetoric.

Muhammad Rasheed - I've actually challenged him to prove two of the facts I've listed -- the two that he said I didn't have mind you -- were false. Yet here I find both you and him pretending that you don't see anything at all.

Curious.

Muhammad Rasheed - Hey, is this weirdly selective "alternative-fact sight" phenomenon related to the "I'm colorblind! I don't see race at all!" rhetoric speak, too? Asking for a friend.

Steven Campbell - @Muhammad Rasheed... Not how it works, if you present what you call a fact then you must prove that fact, I don't have the obligation to prove or disprove something which has not been show to be true. Show me the documentation, the proof and then we will have something to go on other than you telling me that it is fact.

Steven Campbell - @Nori Lamphere... I know, I was bored and decided to refute his arguments, what a waste of time but hey, it's 5 in the morning and what else can an insomniac do but argue with the deranged.

Muhammad Rasheed - Trump's Voter Suppression

Muhammad Rasheed - Betsy Devos working with convicted embezzler Scott Jensen to further her agenda

Muhammad Rasheed - Your move, Steven. Go.

Steven Campbell - No, Mohammad, left wing hit pieces are not proof, nor do they need my comment. I've wasted enough time for one day with you.

Muhammad Rasheed - lol You know, somehow I had a feeling you were going to perform more of your colossal lack of integrity and double-down on that "I don't see nuthin'!" stance. What do you think? Am I psychic?

Muhammad Rasheed - That in fact "says it all."  ;)

You may have your thread back, Nori.

[Steven Campbell has now either deleted all of his comments, or blocked me from viewing them]

Carson, Immigrants, and the "Irish Slave" Myth

Tony Steed - FACT: Slavery was forced upon Africans.
Alternative fact: Slavery just means Involuntary immigration.
I can't believe people vote Republican...
Involuntary immigration = Kidnapping, fucktard.
#bencarsonis an idiot

Shy Pearce - My Irish ancestors were slaves

Tony Steed -There's a reason why the Irish and the English didn't get along for centuries.

Muhammad Rasheed - Ireland's forgotten mixed-race child abuse victims

Muhammad Rasheed - Black people suffer the most racism in Ireland, report finds

Muhammad Rasheed - Two years of the ‘Irish slaves’ myth: racism, reductionism and the tradition of diminishing the transatlantic slave trade

Muhammad Rasheed - The Irish and the Atlantic slave trade

Muhammad Rasheed - [BOOK REVIEW] ‘The Green and the Gray’ by David T. Gleeson

Muhammad Rasheed - Links to slave trade evident across Ireland

Shy Pearce - I think you've made your point, racist.

Muhammad Rasheed - But I thought we were all posting completely irrelevant info in response to Tony's comment?  I'M HELPING!   :(

The Black Action Agenda

The political parties have general agendas, and several high-profile special interest groups  particularly on the liberal side have equally high-profile sub-agendas under that umbrella, but oddly, the African-American ethnic group is the only special interest that doesn't have a dedicated political lobby focused only on achieving, sustaining, and protecting their domestic policy issues. The checklist below represents those items the African-American ethnic group needs implemented in order to be fully included in Western society as US citizens, finally freed from the race-based discriminatory practices of the nation's historical legacy.

"What will become of the Negro in another five hundred years if he does not organize now to develop and to protect himself? The answer is that he will be exterminated for the purpose of making room for the other races that will be strong enough to hold their own!" ~Marcus Garvey, Universal Negro Improvement Association (Founder)

The consequences for not having a dedicated organization ever vigilant over our rights, is that some of the hard won items listed above were effectively repealed or neutralized by our political opponents, and must be reclaimed.

The closest Black-focused lobby my search could find was the African-American lobby on foreign policy, originally formed to send resources to the Freedmen colonists of Liberia, today they send aid to Africa in general. The international flavor of the Congressional Black Caucus' pet projects seems to be partnered with these efforts as well (though recent pressure from younger, more urgent  Black activist groups has appeared to get the CBC to make at least some token effort to present Black-focused domestic demands to the Trump Administration). The other thing I found while searching for "black" + "politics" was the vast number of articles, videos, and passionate rants from frustrated Black Republicans asking why do Blacks vote Democrat in such numbers since the party doesn't do anything for them. Or what do Blacks receive that justifies such party loyalty. The fact that there is no dedicated, high-level, pro-Black American organization fiercely fighting for our pet issues (by us, for us!), means that these Black GOP members are actually asking the wrong question. The real question should be:

Why aren't African-American Democrats fully involved in the political machine, taking advantage of their voting strength, and making the party work for them?

Why aren't Black Democrats mimicking the success models of rival Democrat special interests and making sure their concerns are addressed to satisfactory completion by flexing their political and economic muscle within the formal political process, so that they too will receive the grease their squeaky wheel demands?

Obviously sitting outside of the formal process -- complaining as we watch the individualistic, lone and impotent Black politicians fail at trying to move policy in directions we need/desire as a special interest group -- has been woefully ineffective and frustrating. Blaming these frustrations on the party itself lacks common sense though. Usually the Black GOP rants that ask us that wrong question are also soliciting for Blacks to abandon ship and join them in the Republican Party, but what will that achieve? The root cause of our perceived problems in the Democratic Party rests solely on the fact that we aren't "telling our political representatives what to do," to paraphrase from President Obama's victory speech. There is a formal process in place to get the political machine to do what you need it to do, one that every special interest group is taking full advantage of except us, but we think the party itself is just supposed to magically do these things for us based on the force of our expressed voter loyalty alone (and presumably our sad, puppy dog eyes).

Literally nothing works that way. Not in the adult world. If you want to see the African-American ethnic group finally get their just due in this United States of America that we helped build, then we're going to have to make it happen. Period. The nation is composed of, and run by, the citizens. We are a component of the US citizenry, so what do we look like sitting around complaining because the other components, who have all taken the time to learn how to make the machine work for them, aren't themselves handing us our needs by doing all of our work for us? It looks crazy, and it's embarrassing. so if that's what you are doing on the Blue side of the aisle, what do you think will happen if you lose your minds the rest of the way and actually join the GOP? The issues you complain about now are primarily the fault of you not putting in the work required, not from any particularly inherent hostility from the other Democrats. They very well may be irritated at the fact that you expect your rival Democrat groups to do both their work AND yours though. But you can best believe that the GOP is full of people that absolutely hate you. Whatever the Republican Party USED to be way back during their slave era origins, they certainly aren't like that today.

Today, all White Supremacists, neo-Nazis, and other groups actively hostile towards Blacks and their unique interests have all joined the GOP; it is now the party of White Identity Politics. In that party, there is a clear hostility towards you as a Black American if you should dare to go against their diabolical faux "colorblind" agenda and instead support the concept of different ethnic or racial groups in fair competition with Whites. As a member of the GOP, you will be expected to downplay your own unique identity as a special interest group, to support the White Identity Politics of that party's core ideology. The GOP is currently trying to pass laws that neutralize the idea of "racism," rendering it impotent and inadmissible as a legitimate charge against a race-based attack. They are currently pushing to pass various interconnected laws that will eventually lead to the justification for legally returning you to chains as a private prison slave. However unpleasant you imagine the Democratic Party to be to you, the GOP would be the very real version of that nightmare you imagined.

We've already spent decades building up party loyalty/identity with our votes as Democrats, so the next logical step is to organize into a sub-party political umbrella group that fights for, organizes, supports and funds the activist cellular groups that are even now dedicated to achieving the ten items listed of this Black Action Agenda. This should be our foundational effort in finally freeing ourselves from the shadows of our country's greatest shame, and achieving the full US citizenship our forefathers prematurely rejoiced over back in 1865.

As we begin this work, we have an advantage in that there are already many dedicated and courageous Black organizations, activist groups, and think tanks in place determined to achieve each of the ten checklist items. Besides their pretty much across the board under-funding, and the enormous hurdle of low to zero political support, their other obvious weakness is that they separate, with few pooled areas of support to unite them. Functioning as lonely islands, they struggle to fund drastically needed endeavors, and lack physical security from hostile local government entities. A proper Black Action Agenda would organize them all in a coordinated effort to achieve, sustain and protect the African-American's rightfully earned part of the Pie, leaving behind the long hardships of our disenfranchisement legacy. The secret to Black survival of the worst time period in US history was our ability to come together and support one another. Perhaps it is not coincidence that we were also far more politically savvy as a group as well. Somewhere along the way of the last half century we lost both.

It's time to get them back, sooner rather than later. Let's look at a high-level summary of what each checklist item entails.

#1 - ECONOMIC INCLUSION
This goal involves unobstructed African-American access to the open markets, access to capital, and the ability to compete equally in industry as a group, as companies, and/or as individuals. The economically included ethnic group is both strong as a unit... self-sustaining in interconnected industries, political bodies, and in businesses, all self-owned and self-directed... as well as a vital, willing contributor into the greater mainstream economy.

Its opposite is 'economic exclusion,' and is embodied by deliberate disenfranchisement by powerful monopolies/cartels (in partnership with government), that hoard a society's wealth and power for only one, or a few selfish groups.

The fight for Economic Inclusion is no less than the goal of meritorious fairness, and necessarily requires the federal government's commitment to use its force to prevent and/or dissolve unethical collusion, mergers, monopolies and cartels from stifling all markets or opportunities, and actively fighting to keep competition -- the lifeblood of the capitalist system -- open for any who wish to enter them with the spirit of innovation, invention, and growth.

This is not an easy fight, since the dominant powers of Western society owe the practice of materialistic hoarding monopoly thanks for all of its successes in the last five centuries. The unprecedented enormous profits generated from the literal enslavement of their competition on the world stage proved so addictive and irresistible, that the desperate desire to return to those conditions accurately describes ALL business and political decisions made ever since the reluctant formal abolishment of slavery. Locking Blacks out of opportunities from the lion's share of the economic table at every level, is a century's old normalized practice of the West's privileged class, and the entire Military Industrial Complex is dedicated to preserving it. The African-American activist soldiers dedicated to achieving Economic Inclusion will require great courage, fortitude and exceptional skill and resource to meet mission.

#2 - CIVIL RIGHTS LAW ENFORCEMENT/MAINTENANCE
The laws put in place with the various Civil Right Acts, which include anti-discrimination, voting rights, and the right to be recognized as a free person under God's divine law, needed continuous protection by a vigilant former slave, for reasons that should be obvious. The insatiable lust for the massive wealth and fantastically privileged lifestyle provided to the dominant class by the centuries of enslavement and exploitation of Black people should not be underestimated. It absolutely guaranteed immediate efforts to counter the Civil Right Act gains. Fighting to gt the laws passed, celebrating, and then turning your back on the enemy as if he would just let the loss of that wealth go was a grave mistake. As voter suppression tactics have returned to the enemy's tool kit, the activist soldiers fighting to enforce and maintain the existing Civil Rights laws will also find themselves resurrecting and reclaiming many we thought we didn't have to worry about any more.

#3 - WEALTH BUILDING
This goal involves indoctrinating every African-American in the ownership of all tools and techniques of building legacy wealth, with the goal of leaving behind poverty forever. From tried & true stock market investment strategies, to land ownership, to entrepreneurship, to the mastering of difficult skills the world will always pay top dollar for, once done it can never be undone. This package of skills will be passed along to every generation as a MINDSET, and a way of life, to be entrenched in the Black American psyche until it becomes synonymous with who we are as a people, and only the professional historian will know that we used to be known for our poverty in the distant past.

#4 - EDUCATION
As both Carter Godwin Woodson and Edward W. Blyden concluded in each of their great works, it did the African-American no good to be brainwashed with Eurocentrism while they were being educated in the Western school systems. Being told that they are inherently an inferior being by the one doing the teaching is an assault, molestation, and as great an evil as it is a lie. From our current hindsight it is easier to see that such "education" served only to condition our people for the various levels of exploitation we were introduced to pretty much from our first meeting, but even if we pretend that the effort really was purely from a good and altruistic place, it still caused incredible damage.

Education for Black Americans should involve mastery of the hard sciences (which will not only include mathematics, technology, etc., but also knowledge of law and systems), total knowledge of who they are, and who they are in the global picture. Education for Black Americans should include the Black/Moorish origins of all major concepts (precession of the equinoxes, calculus, etc., etc.,) that the Western mainstream institutions have carefully and fraudulently indoctrinated the masses into believing were originated within White European minds. This will be all they will need to tap into that legendary creativity and genius to develop their own literature, their own standards, and bring that juggernaut spirit of competition to create whole new industries, styles, genres and flavors that the entire world will struggle to copy. In order to have that they need freedom... the freedom to explore, the freedom to blaze their own American path without exploitative constraints. This will require the ability to custom curriculum that fit them in every way they need to truly flourish.

#5 - COUNTERING SYSTEMIC RACISM
Centuries of legal, normalized exploitation and oppression of the African-American ethnic group created a lopsided, race-based class hierarchy built into the fabric of the country. All efforts to reverse that racist evil were promptly and aggressively countered by the oppressor class, while official policy was to pretend that the disenfranchised class were winning. Today, legions of GOP-influenced, household name mega-corporations all partner together with influential politicians to ensure the massive wealth from the evil economic systems of old that birthed America continue to keep the money streams flowing. In order to meet this goal, the activists will need to be master strategists, in both the courtroom and the board rooms, and able to make major power moves that beat back the diabolical efforts of the enemy who is actively working to return Black people to chattel in their private for-profit prisons.

#6 - REPARATIONS
When people associate the reparatory compensation with slavery alone, it is either from a disingenuous position, or a foolish one. The African-American was oppressed in chattel slavery, domestic terrorism, forced into an anti-Black racial caste system, stripped of their family unity, property, businesses and communities, and preyed upon by for profit prisons and more in a nigh unbroken streak all the way up into the present day. Reparations are without doubt owed for certainly more than just the slavery era horrors. They should pay for the implementation of every single item on this Black Action Agenda checklist for starters. A major share in the wealth generated from slavery, as well as all the anti-Black exploitative systems put in place since, not to mention all the investment wealth generated from the slave money seeded endowments, rightfully belongs to the African-American. A fair reparatory compensation would begin with a complete annihilation of poverty in the Black communities.

Using Byron Allen's brave and dynamic example, Black Reparations can only be claimed through an aggressive law suit directed against the federal government (and friends) fueled by righteous anger. From the 'CrossCheck' voter suppression scam, to the documented ill effects of the so-called 'War on Drugs,' to deliberate economic exclusion due to mega-corporate mergers in collusion with political entities, there is PLENTY of evidence readily available to support such a suit. We just need a brave, sharp legal team, our will, and the Lord Almighty to take over when we reach the end of our mortal limitations.

The goal is a massive endowment into a Black Reparations foundation fund, one that will pay out a yearly, tax-free grant to all African-Americans, as well as provide 100% free healthcare for each of them and their families. Serious measures must be taken to guard the program from the inevitable "five-dollar Indian" grifter schemes of the usual suspect.

#7 - FAMILY NURTURING
Our families are our greatest strength as a community, enabling us to survive, and even thrive, during the worst aspects of our challenging history in America. It shouldn't be much of a surprise that mysterious steps and policies were put in place 50+ years ago, shortly after our last Civil Rights Act victories, that methodically broke our families apart and became our horrifying new normal. The Prison Industrial Complex claims more Black males than were counted as slaves in 1850, and considering mass incarceration generates enormous profits for the usual suspects that enjoyed them centuries ago, its clear that the devastated African-American family is actually a tool, not an outcome. The activists fighting for this goal have the duty of deprogramming our communities, and teaching them to love and sustain the family unit once again, and never let it go.

#8 - COMMUNITY ORGANIZING
Providing the members of the African-American community the skills and know-how to enable them to pool resources into a strong voice more potent than any single individual is vital towards maximizing every single aspect of their lives. This includes using it as the foundational muscle to get hand-picked Black Action Agenda politicians in effective & strategic government seats, getting local businesses to conform to the communities needs/desires instead of preying upon Blacks in their traditional, post-Integration Era model. Community Organizing when driven by a fully-awakened love of our people, with a firm but patient fortitude of the championship-minded team player, will serve us all as a primary leadership development tool that will keep us winning in every endeavor we set our minds to, especially the most worthy one of total Black Empowerment.

#9 - SECURITY/PROTECTION
The enemy has never been afraid to use extreme violence and domestic terrorism tactics like lynching and torture to keep us subjugated in an exploitative state so that we won't reach our potential and compete directly with him on the national and world stages. The sole secret to his success is the institutionalized materialistic hoarding monopoly of all industries and systems for himself -- keeping the lion's share of all profits for his use alone --and he will do anything to competing ethnic groups who dare try to share in the global wealth that belongs to us all. The numerous race-based massacres that he used to terrorize us, steal our property, and force us into second class citizen status, from the Tulsa Race 'Riots' to the Rosewood Massacre, and hundreds in between and since, prove this is so. It also involved making random examples of individual Blacks to 'season' us with the spirit of fear as part of the subjugation.

This ninth goal of the Black Action Agenda is all about physical self defense in battle. Our history with our ideological enemy is one of warfare, and we must prepare our minds now for the absolute certainty that success along the Black Action Agenda path of finally taking our lives into our own hands will cause him to pull out the KKK hoods again. The job of this goal's activists will be as soldiers and master trainers. Every Black man and Black woman needs to start off this Black Action Agenda education as a basically-trained warrior in the most literal sense of the word. We're going to have to fight to defend our honor, dreams, and lives as we work to build up our legacy the way it was always meant to be. You need to fix your mind now on the fact that your enemy hates that idea, and will attack you for it.

#10 - BLACK-OWNED MEDIA
One of the most efficient tactics of the enemy is to tell you whatever, from his artificial perch of authority, and you will believe him because of the height of his status. Even when you know better, you will eventually start believing him, because you keep hearing his toxic message of White Supremacist brainwashing. No good will come from us receiving all of our information about the world filtered through his lens. The very idea of that is absurd. We need our Black-owned media –controlled by us at literally every single level – as a foundational tool of our own survival. Your dedicated enemy's media is designed to hide the empowering truths you need to be set free from his perpetual subjugation efforts.

As an example, note how he was always making fun of President Barack Obama's background as a community organizer, despite how important that tool is in empowering a people? Despite the fact that elite Whites perform the exact same community organizing strategic tools to put together their multi-million dollar 'think tank' networks? They are fully aware of how important that tool is to creating TRUE change, yet the poisonous message from White-owned media is it's something to make fun of, and unworthy of a 'real' President of the United States. Stop listening to him.

The Black Action Agenda activists on this goal are dedicated to gathering facts, and analyzing them through their fully-awakened African-American eyes, and getting the information to our communities. They do this using the self-owned technology, channels, networks, etc., available, and even work to innovate new ones.


See Also:

Black Agenda | American Descendants of Slavery (ADOS)

Black Americans versus Politics

Notes While Observing #8: The 1972 Gary Convention

A Harmless Encounter Between Special Interests

afrokai - Again I ask can white people be reformed. Do white people even know what reformed versions of themselves look like?

Jeanne Z Gervais ‏- I think so, tho I myself am white, so may be biased. I do think everyone needs to stop catering to our collective fragility.

Black. Queer. God. - I think so.

Dr. Inyourfeels - Yes, but no matter how "woke" or reformed we white folk are/become the one constant: we will fail & let you down

Muhammad Rasheed ‏- Considering they're doing the same shit they did in 1870?

They enjoy living in La-La Land. So no.

Dr. Inyourfeels ‏- fair...I literally can't disavow you of that opinion because it's true. Same shit, just different methods/tools.

Muhammad Rasheed - They're the same methods.  They're the same tools.

Muhammad Rasheed - The exact same mentality, for the exact same reasons.

Muhammad Rasheed ‏- The fury they conjured over the Black POTUS' 2-terms, was the same as the fury kindled over the 8-10 yrs of Reconstruction.

Muhammad Rasheed - When people say, "How can this happen in 2017?!" I wonder what has happened since 1870 to make you confused about this?  What has happened to make you think racism had been cured at some point?

NOTHING has changed.



Muhammad Rasheed ‏- There were always good, altruistic, well-meaning, helpful Whites working alongside of Blacks within the last 500 yrs.  They aided us in the Underground Railroad, donated generous sums to Booker T. Washington's efforts, helped the former slaves learn to read, marched with Dr. King, etc., but the presence of that tiny minority didn't keep the worst from happening at all.

Muhammad Rasheed ‏- So it is foolish to believe that the presence of "good White folk" in the midst of the White Supremacist Machine is some kind of proof that the group can be reformed. It just means that among every group there is an outsider fringe.

afrokai - which is why I ask what a reformed white person would look like.

Muhammad Rasheed - Like a poorly-written fairy tale based on a real-life Black criminal turned militant Black activist.

albert e. wallace - a single reformed person can occur, but as a whole? no. not a chance.

Muhammad Rasheed ‏- At most the 'reform" will look like a cowardly death bed confession.

afrokai - What do white people believe that their change away from the identity of whiteness will entail?

Muhammad Rasheed - They believe it will entail the karmic payback of power reversal that they fear more than ANYTHING.

Black. Queer. God. - Can cishet Black men who are homophobes be reformed? Transphobes? Misogynists? I've seen us rally around them.

Black. Queer. God. ‏- That is why I answered the original question with "I think so." If someone can be reformed from one ism, then....

afrokai - THANK YOU! I'm trying to balance my own priviliges (cis het black man) against whiteness

afrokai - I've learned (and am still learning) what those identities mean and how they are used to harm others.

Muhammad Rasheed - Do Black men receive the socio-economically empowering equivalent of 'Whiteness' for holding onto homophobia? Do they get to maintain a secular all-powerful rule in which they alone benefit from supporting homophobia?

Muhammad Rasheed - If a Black man reforms from homophobia, does he have a deep fear that his 500 yr empire will be taken from him?

Black. Queer. God. - See, just as I suspected, some #RaceFirst bullshit. Deliberately twisting and turning. NOTE: When he talks about white ppl, he mentions white privilege, but when he mentions Blk cishet ppl, he does NOT mention cishet privilege. Niggas get on that Kellyanne tip when it comes to this convo. Hunty, I'm still watching your hands even though your feet are tapdancing.

Muhammad Rasheed - It's just a question. My opinion on the issue is flexible, and not chiseled in granite like my belief in God. I'm 100% not trying to pick a fight with you; I'm genuinely interested in your insight on the topic.

Black Queer God. - No, you're not. Have a good night.

Muhammad Rasheed - Have a good night.

Black. Queer. God. - *sprays hotep-repellent*

Muhammad Rasheed - hahahahaha

afrokai - um, yeah. We straights have been holding onto hetero normativity FOREVER!

Muhammad Rasheed - I have zero fear that if I support gay rights, that I will be socio-economically excluded from society by homosexuals. Holding onto a mentality because of empty tradition is different than deliberately holding people back to maintain an empire. There's zero risk in Black males reforming from homophobia. There's 100% risk in Whites reforming from systemic racism.

Muhammad Rasheed - Whites pissed themselves when Obama was elected because they assumed it meant that Blacks were now about to fairly compete with them and have the opportunity to reverse the power block in our direction. They feared the idea of revenge.

No Black male has the equivalent fear of the concept of a gay POTUS. Why would he?

afrokai - please don't derail the conversation like this? Black. Queer. God. is pointing out a nuance that matters right now

Muhammad Rasheed ‏- I'm not trying to derail it, just following the thread she's fleshing out. I think my questions are connecting both.

afrokai - @Black. Queer. God... that was...horribly predictable. Sorry for wasted your time on him.

Black. Queer. God. - I'm now going to change my answer and say that no, none of the above can be reformed. So we should permanently cancel anyone for ANY ism.

Muhammad Rasheed - I disagree. Black males can be reformed from homophobia because there is nothing tethering them to it stronger than empty traditions. The number one tool Whites use to maintain their racist empire is MONOPOLY of wealth/power. Enslaving/destroying their competition is how they built their empire, so they have zero incentive to reform. Reforming for them means giving up their hoarded power, and sharing with people they fear will take revenge.

Black. Queer. God. - I said good night sir.

Muhammad Rasheed - Okay! I was just sayin'...

Muhammad Rasheed - Plus I was hoping to draw someone more game into the discussion since you threw a rock at me and ran.

Black. Queer. God. - You weren't asking to learn. You were asking to dismiss. So I refused to engage.

Muhammad Rasheed - I'll admit that my 'voice' may have come across harsh/dismissive because I'm usually counter-trolling anti-Islam jackasses. But I SWEAR I was 100% asking because I genuinely wanted to read your insights into my questions.

If the 'hotep pepper spray' IS your insight, then that's fine. I'll scribe that into the ledger.

Black Queer God. - First, acknowledge male privilege, cis privilege, and hetero privilege.

Muhammad Rasheed - I admit these items freely as I recognize your complaints as societal truths. Of COURSE I hold privileges over other traditionally marginalized groups in the social hierarchy. And of COURSE it is unfair. I watch with interest as the LGBTQ community builds an effective political lobby to force policies into law that help change the socio-political landscape in their favor. Good for them. Sincerely.

Black. Queer. God. - Good night. I'm not going down this #RaceFirst road with you. Y'all say the same pathological shit.

Muhammad Rasheed - You do not agree?  The LGBTQ lobby seems stronger than any half-assed pro-Black lobby out there.

Black. Queer. God. - See?

Muhammad Rasheed - See, how am I going to see your view point if you keep spraying me in the eyes with that shit? lol

Muhammad Rasheed - Just tell me. From what I see, you're building what you need from the political side. What's the problem?

The LGBTQ lobby seems stronger than any half-assed pro-Black lobby out there.

You don't care to have that discussion? If you have evidence that proves my opinion wrong then let me see. I am open. I do not consider you my enemy. I'm NOT trying to pick a fight. I just want to talk about it. I don't have these conversations, so I probably DO have a bunch of stuff floating in my head that you've already debunked.

Muhammad Rasheed - Oh, and I do admit that the racism issue doesn't negate the fact that I DO hold societal privileges over you as a heterosexual.

Muhammad Rasheed - You poo-poo the political angle, but that is a conspicuously effective tool of your group. I admire it.

It wasn't lost on me that after afrokai started a specifically racism-themed topic you derailed it towards the LGBTQ issue packet, and then got mad at me for linking your inserted topic with the racism topic we were discussing. And then you promptly made it all about you with full indignation plumage, as if I was the one that derailed it.

Muhammad Rasheed ‏- It was very clever. Masterful, in fact. There is clear political craft-tools at work here. That's not a bad thing though.

I'm just acknowledging. Well done.



Muhammad Rasheed ‏- Today I noticed for the first time that there is a clear effort to supplant anti-racism activism from rival special interest groups.



Muhammad Rasheed ‏- Am I expected to take this at face value, and attack the equally marginalized groups, tricked by the true enemy's puppetry? I'd like to think I'm a bit too 'woke' to fall for that clear okie-doke designed only to support White Supremacy. Stop.

Defending Caliphs

Param - Koran was compiled in a similar fashion as Hadith

Muhammad Rasheed ‏- Meanwhile, it was compiled by Zayd with the prophet's supervision. *shrug*

Param ‏- *rolling eyes upward* Ras, you have a lot to learn

Muhammad Rasheed ‏- Muhammad (pbuh) definitely compiled the Book with Zayd's help.

Param - If Mo complied the Koran Why did Uthman have a process to verify the authenticity?

Muhammad Rasheed ‏- The problem is with the question you've asked, not the history of events. You have the history itself wrong.

Muhammad Rasheed ‏- There were tribes in the region that spoke different Arabic dialects than the Hejaz of the prophet.

Muhammad Rasheed ‏- The Hejaz dialect was actually of their version of the bourgeois class, with the Quraysh and other aristocratic tribes speaking it as a matter of pride. Uthman was himself sensitive & biased against those dialects of lesser prestige, of course, and even the IDEA of hearing the Qur'an recited using less than his beloved prophet’s own Hejaz was unthinkable to him. His entourage reflected his sentiment, and took it further with a paranoid angle: What if the different dialects led to the same eventual corruption the previous scriptures had?

All of this was enough to freak the caliph out, and he ordered all non-Hejaz books destroyed.

Param ‏- Know the vile book better than you Rasheed  :D

Muhammad Rasheed ‏- Don't be silly.

Param - Ras You have no clue of Arabic Yet claim to understand Islam Who is silly here? :D

Muhammad Rasheed ‏- Who told you that "learning Arabic" was one of the 5 Pillars of Islam? Hm? lol

Param ‏- Where did I mention learning arabic was one of the 5 pillars?

Muhammad Rasheed ‏- You keep insisting it's something Muslims HAVE to do, right? You think it's a Pillar.

Param ‏- BTW you were a marine? Heard somewhere of your claim

Muhammad Rasheed - Why do you care? That's a little off topic, yes? Do you think the Prophet was in the USMC, too? Lol

Deplorable Vet - YOU WERE NEVER A MARINE. You have no honor and no patriotism. You aren't worthy to lick their boots

Muhammad Rasheed ‏- White supremacists aren't qualified to say who is a patriot or not, DV. Stand down. Honor is alien to you.

Deplorable Vet - You have no concept of honor

Muhammad Rasheed ‏- [VIDEO] White Couple Adopted 2 Black Daughters To Kill Them

Deplorable Vet –

Muhammad Rasheed ‏- The real issue is a savage white supremacist believing he can instruct in "honor." Stand down.

Deplorable Vet - where was instruction?

Muhammad Rasheed ‏- Word semantics is your response to evil white supremacist christians adopting Black children & slaughtering them.

Deplorable Vet -

Muhammad Rasheed - So? Slavery has always existed, but it was never delegated to a specific racial phenotype, nor has a whole group been considered less than human to justify it, and exclude them from society as a 2nd class.

Deplorable Vet - YOU justified Muhammad saying to rape slaves was justified Bc you said they were 2nd class

Muhammad Rasheed ‏- "Slave" is a class all by itself, not a "2nd class." Any race or ethnic group can be in the slave class.

Deplorable Vet - Are you a second class citizen?

Muhammad Rasheed ‏- I'm deliberately excluded from the socio-economic mainstream of the society I helped build, DV. Of course I am.

Muhammad Rasheed ‏- I'm in a continuous 500 yr long war with the wealthy elite class of Western society fighting for equal opportunity.

Muhammad Rasheed ‏- Compare THIS and THIS…

…with these tactics.

Deplorable Vet - So stop crying about history and blaming the world for YOUR inadequacies. Do something to change your life

Muhammad Rasheed - I'm not blaming 'the world' for anything. I'm calling YOU out for your evil, scumball. You are a coward & a piece of shit for passing the responsibility. "Man up."

Muhammad Rasheed ‏- The vid clip and other links proves that you haven't changed since the 17th century. What would YOU know of 'honor,' creature?

Deplorable Vet -

Muhammad Rasheed - A GOP joke is your response to evil white supremacist christians adopting Black children & slaughtering them.

Deplorable Vet -

Muhammad Rasheed ‏-

Deplorable Vet - You are delusional

Muhammad Rasheed - You are a coward snowflake. "Man up."

Deplorable Vet - Everyone You make up races for ppl online in your head. Victim mentality is a pathetic impotent positions. Man up

Muhammad Rasheed ‏- Victim mentality is your response to evil white supremacist christians adopting Black children & slaughtering them.

Muhammad Rasheed ‏- But you think to tell ME about "honor," do you, creature?

Deplorable Vet - Who is responsible?

Muhammad Rasheed ‏- You.

You had the choice, long ago, to side WITH me against our common foe, but you sold us out.
The 30 pieces of silver you accepted was in the form of "Whiteness." The White identity politics that drives you. In exchange you became his slave takers, slave breakers, bounty hunters, overseers, and cops. And while you were abusing ME, he continued to hate your guts, and treat you like shit, and withhold the wealth. Even today he says that you aren't shit, never wanted shit, and will never be shit. He's the one that named you "cracker," remember? While he's manipulating you into holding me down, you're feeling angrier and angrier with every passing generation... and falsely directing it towards me. The REAL reason you hate Muslims, Blacks, Latinos, and everybody else... is because he’s using YOU, as always, to die in maintaining and protecting HIS wealth and property. While giving you the crumbs.

Muhammad Rasheed ‏- So don't tell me about "honor," asshole. Enjoy your empty "Whiteness" consolation prize.

Deplorable Vet - you have equal opportunity
You choose to shackle yourself to a victim mentality and follow a racist prophet. The only thing you are a victim of is your attitude and abilities.

Muhammad Rasheed ‏- I know you didn't bother to look at the reality of those voter suppression links. I didn't really expect you to.

Muhammad Rasheed - I am in an active war with someone continuously trying to return me to chains so he can get richer.

Muhammad Rasheed ‏- As I fight back and demand my inalienable, God-given rights, his pet pit bull keeps tells me nothing is wrong and I'm just "playing victim."

Muhammad Rasheed ‏- I told you that you're not strong enough in The Force to keep me in The Matrix with your will alone, DV.

Muhammad Rasheed ‏- I WILL defend myself when you inevitably accept that fact, and y'all start putting those hoods on again.

Muhammad Rasheed ‏- SEMPER FI, motherfucker.

BATTLE MODE: Duel with the 'Alt-Right'

Kurt Eichenwald - Trump insulted or undermined our allies in Australia, Germany, Britain & Mexico. So far.

But that Mr. Putin fellow? He looks mah-velous.

Steve Wilkinson - Probably because Putin (despite all his faults) is actually making more sense these days.

Kurt Eichenwald ‏- Putin murdered babies this weekend. Potential opponents arrested & killed. Our spies having their covers blown. This makes sense?

Steve Wilkinson - How many children (& other innocents) have died in Libya, Syria, etc? Did I hear you complaining about Obama & Hillary?

nfb11 - how many innocent ppl died in Quebec, thanks to your party's hatred, Steve? "Christian" my eye!

Steve Wilkinson - My Party??? Here's what I endorse...  Report on Ministry in Atlanta, Memphis, and Dallas, as Well as Response to Attacks Upon the Ministry 

Steve Wilkinson - Holy fright, these leftists are insane!

nfb11 - yes. I'm a leftist bc I don't support spewing enuf hatred about Muslims to incite ppl to shoot them while they pray. So radical

Right wing Christians are the problem. Not leftists. Not even centrists like myself, you nutter.

Steve Wilkinson - So... looking at your twitter stream, you think you're centrist? Heh. I'd be scared to see a real leftist then. :)

nfb11 - yes. Go support Kellie Leitch and get some more innocents killed, eh?

Steve Wilkinson - Huh?

Black Girl Justice - @Steve… You are no Christian apologist.

Steve Wilkinson - How so?

Black Girl Justice - Christianity needs no apologists.

Steve Wilkinson - Or theologians, or historians, etc? :) LOL (Do you even know what that is? tip: Google might know.)

Black Girl Justice - Since you being condescending I'm done. Misogyny, sexism don't set well with me.

Steve Wilkinson - Condescending (misogyny, sexism)??? If you know what Christian apologetics is, then why your comments?

Black Girl Justice - Why is it white men on here always assume lack of knowledge when someone disagrees. That was your 1st thought...

Steve Wilkinson - And, it's a bit inconsiderate to assume I identify as male, and treat me that way because of my skin color, don't you think?

((CHURCHLADY320)) - It's not your color, it's your mind and attitudes that are objectionable.

Steve Wilkinson ‏- Example?

((CHURCHLADY320)) - Your snotty reaction to her. It was patronizing. That's where I jumped in. Enough already.

Steve Wilkinson - Maybe you missed her initial posts to me?

((CHURCHLADY320)) - I did. Don't need to see those to see what you said and how you said it.

Steve Wilkinson ‏- Contextually challenged, I see. Racism/sexism blinders in place. Full speed ahead.

((CHURCHLADY320)) - See? Your default position when critiqued. Since I'm white, it makes no sense. So puff your privilege alone. I'm done.

Steve Wilkinson - You said that I'm no Christian apologist, and Christianity needs no apologists. Please defend either point. U can read my work.

Black Girl Justice - 2 Timothy 2:14

Steve Wilkinson - That's re: quarreling WITHIN THE BODY about meaningless issues.

Steve Wilkinson - Black Girl Justice wrote: “Why is it white men on here always assume lack of knowledge when someone disagrees.”

Because what you said made no sense. Why bring race/sex into this? What has that to do with anything? Do you have an agenda?

Muhammad Rasheed ‏- @Steve... Your support of several known "PUA" and "alt-right" concepts on your wall demonstrate race/sex are very relevant here.

Steve Wilkinson - Like?

Muhammad Rasheed - hahahahahaha Stop, Steve.

Muhammad Rasheed ‏- Don't be fake.  Just own your stuff and the discussion will be more fruitful. Being fake only reveals your own agenda. 

Muhammad Rasheed - Steve, the record shows you making clear racist/misogynistic potshots towards Black Girl Justice in typical PUA/alt-right ways.

Steve Wilkinson ‏- Example? (Note: I don't subscribe to the silly idea that only white males can be racist/sexist.)

Muhammad Rasheed - Please note that I don't take straw man arguments at face value. I'm not interested in playing your games as I am busy.

Steve Wilkinson ‏- Clearly. ;)

Muhammad Rasheed - Oh, look... Steve has a folder full of racist lynch reference effigies. Raise your hand if you're shocked.

Steve Wilkinson - If you've got something particular in mind, I'll be happy to discuss.

Muhammad Rasheed ‏- After catching you red-handed doing it, what makes you think I'd trust you to have a civil discussion without more fake?

Muhammad Rasheed  -  I'm aware it is part of alt-right practices to pretend to be otherwise. Again, you don't have to be fake. You are seen.

Steve Wilkinson - I could care less about alt-right. Labeling someone as something as a tactic to think you've won, is also pretending.

Muhammad Rasheed ‏- Labeling someone according to their clear Twitter posting/retweeting record is: "Elementary, my dear." It's not hard.

Steve Wilkinson - Maybe because I've demonstrated a civil conversation (unlike many of those responding). Example? U'r making accusation

Muhammad Rasheed ‏- Please note that I don't consider your documented history of racist/sexist potshots to be "civil conversation."

Muhammad Rasheed - Just the opposite in fact. You are seen and thus outed, sir.  Please perform actual civil conversation.  Thank you.

Steve Wilkinson - Thus says M. Rasheed.   ;)

Muhammad Rasheed - Indeed.  Take careful notes.

Steve Wilkinson - Sorry, I'll know better next time. Thanks for your wisdom.

Muhammad Rasheed - Once I clear my plate I'm coming to start an argument with you. I hope I find your A-Game.

Muhammad Rasheed - Feel free to use the 'Dial-A-Friend' option. 

When You Bring a Logical Fallacy to a Gun Fight

Muhammad Rasheed -  #ThanksTrump

America’s Looming War with Iran: What You’re Not Being Told

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s grandiose U.N. speech in 2015 claiming Iran was moments away from making nuclear weapons was contradicted by his own intelligence agencies, who stated Iran was “not performing the activity necessary to produce nuclear weapons.”

Still, regime change in Iran and Syria has always been the ultimate goal of Israel, even in the face of this intelligence. In 2013, Israel’s ambassador to the U.S., Michael Oren, told the Jerusalem Post:

“The initial message about the Syrian issue was that we always wanted [President] Bashar Assad to go, we always preferred the bad guys who weren’t backed by Iran to the bad guys who were backed by Iran.”

According to the Post, Oren said this was the case even if the other “bad guys” were affiliated to al-Qaeda.

What does this mean? Exactly what it says: Israel prefers al-Qaeda – the group allegedly responsible for 9/11 – to the current governments of Iran and Syria.

Iran’s support for the designated terror group Hezbollah has all but been confirmed, but bear in mind that Hezbollah is one of the ground forces currently battling ISIS – the terror group that Trump singled out as his highest priority.

Even so, the United States Congress is currently debating a bill that would “authorize the use of the United States Armed Forces to achieve the goal of preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.” Congress might actually pass a law that will directly allow the U.S. military to strike Iran, even before there is any evidence that they pose a threat.

In a further attempt to provoke Iran, Trump’s travel ban list includes Iran, a country whose citizens have never once attacked the United States. The list excludes Saudi Arabia, the country that produced almost all of the 9/11 hijackers. Even Forbes admitted that since 1975, no Americans have been killed in terrorist attacks in the U.S. by citizens of the countries included in the ban.

To top things off, at the end of January, the U.K. and the U.S. will take part in operation “Unified Trident,” a joint exercise in the Persian Gulf that will simulate a military confrontation with Iran.

Before taking office, Trump stated he would dismantle the nuclear agreement with Tehran. Trump’s vow to wholeheartedly support Israel raises the possibility of granting Israel the confidence to attack Iran without any prior approval, thereby forcing the U.S. to come to Israel’s aid once the fight escalates.

Stephen Wilkinson - this makes no sense and ignores the fact that WWIII ( the Cold War) has already ended and we are in WW IV ( The Cyber / Economic Wars )

Muhammad Rasheed - That was Cold War I.

Stephen Wilkinson - lol

Muhammad Rasheed - Why do you say it makes no sense?

Stephen Wilkinson - The premise in the preview is bullshit.  The article itself is bullshit, makes claims outright and in passing that are not factual, and the site is a bullshit, FAKE NEWS SITE.

Jesus fucking christ man ... "Antimedia" does ANYTHING not SCREAM "fake news" to you?

smfh.  :(

Muhammad Rasheed - My problem with your post is that it conflicts with that fact that every main point the article makes is linked to a "pro media" legit source, on items we've already been tracking for years. None of this stuff is new, we're just dot-connecting for analysis. Your casual dismissal based on the web address without even checking that brings your own credibility in question, and based on a classic genetic fallacy at that. Lazy.

I appreciate your role of professional skeptic, but you have to try harder. Your annual performance review is coming up shortly anyway.

Stephen Wilkinson - @Muhammad Rasheed… wrong - the site is a non purveyor of fake news, bullshit, and malware.

The link to legitimate sites true, but do so making claims that are either not supported at ALL by the site(s) they link to, are taken out of context or are irrelevant.

By doing so, they add an indicator of authenticity to their work which is not deserved.

Conspiracy based fake news has long been created for the consumption of the gullible right wing, now they are crafting it for the likes of you as well

Muhammad Rasheed - Are you trying to bluff me? Can you tell, based on your own report sheet, that the website in question is NOT aligning with the "blacklist/malware" tags? The chink in your armor, Amigo, is a pride-ego problem. Let it go. Genetic fallacies do not win arguments. Go away.

You lost points on your annual appraisal btw.

Stephen Wilkinson - they are hosted by the same dedicated server and all route through the same name server. Sorry if I did not make it clear.

The sites are designed to be shared by the gullible and, when enough critical mass is reached, used to launch and distribute malware among other things

Keep trying grasshopper, but your critical skills are not up to snuff

Muhammad Rasheed - What does routing through the same server have to do with content of the different sites that use that server?

You're not REALLY trying to make the argument that all like kinds only use the same server types, are you?  >:(

Muhammad Rasheed - You cannot win an argument with the genetic fallacy. It's a logical fallacy for a reason, sport.

Dig into the site, and prove your claims using the content itself if you want your annual appraisal report to NOT have a D- on it.

Muhammad Rasheed - Go.

Stephen Wilkinson - gtfo with Genetic fallacy bullshit - you are using "Cheap Fallacy Terms 101" to debate with! LOL

Lets start off with the web development / hosting knowledge you obviously dont have and which clearly has you at a disadvantage in participating.

1. Shared server
2. Dedicated server.

On a shared server account, GoDaddy, 1and1 etc, you generally have THOUSANDS of sites hosted on the same server, each getting a little slice of memory and cpu and are totally out of your control.

On a DEDICATED server, you have a machine (or VMS) DEDICATED for your use, and you have ROOT access to configure the server,and run any apps or sites you want.

Many times ( and I discussed this with you last year) you may determine who runs an otherwise secret site by finding the other sites running on the dedicated server and looking for information disclosure on THOSE sites.

In any event, after our free school lesson, the finding is that "antimedia.org" is but one of several bullshit sites configured on the same primary dedicated server, designed to create articles that trigger sympathetic emotions in gullible idiots thus promoting social media sharing

Muhammad Rasheed - lol I'm pointing out the formal term of the fallacy you are actually performing. I'm not going back and forth with you over a genetic fallacy, Stephen. According to your own chart, antimedia is NOT a blacklist/malware site. So stop it. You lost that argument the second you showed me that graphic.

Get into the site, and make your argument for why the political tensions currently on the table will NOT lead to war on Iran and thus another World War.

Go.

Stephen Wilkinson - 1 + 0 = 10 ... "prove it doesnt" lol

Good luck with your fool's errands  :P

not how war works, not at all.

the article has all the bait needed to hook YOU it seems  :):)

Muhammad Rasheed - "Not how war works" doesn't compute. Russia and China are protecting Iran, and Israel WANTS to attack them. If they pull another "Six-Day War" type of sneak attack on Iran, Trump will definitely help them, and we will defacto be at war with Russia and China at that point who will come to defend.

What about that scenario makes it "wacko" and "out of left field?" Trump's or Israel's behavior/history thus far? You're not making a lick of sense right now.

Stephen Wilkinson - ^ your article is not proof of a #*@#@ hypothetical

Muhammad Rasheed – How would you know?  You're not even trying right now because you're too busy trying to prop up your nonsense genetic fallacy.

Go away, Steve-O. You get an "F." You officially suck at debate.

Stephen Wilkinson - lol

.. A friend is typing a comment...

^ ( its gonna be bullshit )

:P

Muhammad Rasheed - lol Bye!!

Stephen Wilkinson - I was right!  *thumb up*

An Equal Opportunity Satirist

CITATION

Rasheed, Muhammad. "Remo's Bipartisan Admonition." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 02 Feb 2017. Brush & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.

Muhammad Rasheed - The Destroyer novels used to have the reputation for an equal, merciless satirizing of both conservatives AND liberals, this being the reason a person like me could be a fan in the first place. That didn't stop until William Patrick Murray left the books in the late '90s, and then shortly there after the properties took a dramatic Right-leaning, exclusively pro-GOP focus. The difference was equally sudden and dramatic for me.

I'll admit that the way they are now disappoints me, and in my own TALES OF SINANJU: THE DESTROYER comics, I made sure to return the stories to their roots with the equal "both political sides get it" format.

Chris Ivanovich - I noticed the transition. I figured it would swing back and forth based on who was in office, but it didn't necessarily seem to go that way. I'm a HUGE fan for 3 decades now. I powered through "the dark times" (you guys know the stories). But one I couldn't power through was the novella "Number Two". That was leaned so hard to the right all of the humor fizzled and it was, essentially, a political scree. Politics is secondary in a Destroyer book (at least for me). First is always the relationship between Remo and Chuin.

Muhammad Rasheed - Agreed. Politics is the background of the novels as filtered through CURE and the Legend of Sinanju. It should never overpower the latter two, which are the heart & soul of the Destroyer-verse.

Todd Pack - Agreed on both counts.

Max Warden - I agree. I'm a left wing weenie but had no problem with the 70s and 80s swipes, they were funny and made me laugh. I also think P.J. O'Rourke is funny but not Dennis Miller.

William Patrick Murray - Warren told me that we were equal opportunity offenders... I followed that dictum religiously....

Muhammad Rasheed - I certainly appreciated it.

William Patrick Murray - Satire to be valid must not have any blind spots...

William Patrick Murray - Most importantly, we were entertainers first. Turning off readers of any stripe was tantamount to suicide, especially in a series that was aging....

William Patrick Murray - I also noted from reader comments that many readers were oblivious to some of the politics.

Todd Pack - I started reading in the early/mid '80's when I was in my early/mid teens. I noticed and enjoyed the "both political sides get it" format early on.

Randolph John Carter, Author - Probably depends on when you came in. That vision colored the view from that point forward and backward.

I think you'll like 152 then. :)

Joel Yohn - @Muhammad... thanks for bringing this up. It has been bothering me for a while now too. Nice to know I'm not alone.

Dennis C Patterson Jr - This is something I just consciously noticed in the most recent Legacy novel.

Victor Donald Smith - I tend not to write aboujt current events, but right now there is incredible material for satire coming from both sides.

Victor Donald Smith - You have raised an interesting question. I have been thinking about it. And of course I am handicapped, as my books are in storage away from here.

My wife is planning on moving later this year, of course when, and to where except for a general location, in Arizona, I have no idea what that will be. As I am much dieabled, my role is saying “Yes Dear,”

So I only have memory at this time. But in the time frame you mentioned, the books were mainly written by writers not much connected with the series origins. Following the formula. More or less, the greater use of liberals as targets of satire, might have been the idea of the writers, or it may have been the editors ideas who you had to pay attention too, or even the preferred bias of the publisher.

Then again there were fewer books, which would not help highlight the anti-liberal bias. I know that downturn, it caused me to begin my fan fiction to a large part.

I know there were targets from both sides, but I cannot verify how many and who.

Of course the far fewer volumes the past few years didn’t help either.

Then current events often spawned ideas throughout the series. And the last 8 years the US has been under democratic rule, so it makes for obvious targets for books to use.

Unfortunately I do not have more to go on. I tend to read the books and then shelve them for later years review. I don’t keep notes on them from initial readings.

That is the best I can offer at this time.

Joseph Patrick - Almost every medium is liberal...we get AM radio and a book series. Deal with it. LOL

Muhammad Rasheed - lol I'll deal with the GOP's appropriation of my beloved Destroyer stories by fighting it, Joseph. This doesn't make the books better for them to be written that way, to make Rush Limbaugh's opinions to be the focus of the series. That by default makes the stories garbage.

Joseph Patrick - That's your opinion. My opinion is that anything liberal is trash.

Muhammad Rasheed - You don't believe that. The fact that most of your demographic is on welfare/food stamps and really needs the "safety net for the poor" item of the liberal agenda, means you would be a self-hater to really think that way.

The problem is that you've been brainwashed to believe that the GOP ideas should be pursued, and liberal ideas should be vilified, no matter what. No matter whether it conflicts with common sense, or your own people's self interest.

Joseph Patrick - It's a known fact that most people on welfare are Caucasian... It's also a known fact that 300 people have been shot in liberal stronghold Chicago in the first 30 days of 2017. Most blacks in prison were illiterate high school drop-outs when they entered prison. I could keep going if you want to do a tit-for-tat race thing. But it's ugly, and I don't like it. Pointing out liberal idiocy all day to a liberal who embraces the trash they do kinda wrecks my Friday vibe.

Muhammad Rasheed - 1.) The Prison Industrial Complex, and the 'War on Drugs' laws and policies that are its life blood, were mostly put into place by conservatives, and capped off by Bill Clinton, who was doing his "tough on crime!" impression of the conservatives at the time. These same decades old policies and the multi-connected industries that build wealth from them, are responsible for the increases in poverty, class warfare, revolving door school-to-prison-pipeline and the resulting violence that comes with them. This has nothing to do with the liberal agenda and everything to do with the wealth & power hoarding agenda of the conservative side.

2.) Most Blacks are in prison because of unfair laws and policies that target them in order to feed the Prison Industrial Complex. Lighter sentences for cocaine possession compared to crack possession was a hallmark of this Black-targeted unfairness that even Newt Gingrich acknowledged. Your belief that all those Blacks are in there because they can't read is an ignorant one. To say the least.

3.) You're not equipped for a "tit-for-tat race thing" with me because the facts of history are on my side in such a debate. You prefer to be indoctrinated with GOP ideology because you enjoy the low-level White Identity Politics aspects of it. That's all.

Joseph Patrick - Sorry... I fell asleep after something about prison pipe-line. All I heard was, "Wah-wah-wah...I'm a victim." LOL

Muhammad Rasheed - That's adorable since your demographic is the one currently cowering behind guns & walls, while also the one MOST dependent upon the government free money teat.

No one bitches and whines more than you lot. That was the background noise of Trump's campaign, remember?

Michael Sa - Personally, I don't want a political diatribe, monologue or theorizing on current politics in the series at all... I don't read fiction to think about reality; I want to go on a wild ride with Gerald Welch, Randolph John Carter - Author, Warren William Patrick Murray, and any of our other beloved authors involved and see what happens to my favorite characters. If it adds to the book, great; if it adds a chuckle, even better, but if the book gets too politicized, I just smile, nod and move on.

Todd Pack - Well said. Like Mr. Rashid pointed out, politics might be the backdrop, but it's about the characters. Which are some of the best ever in my opinion.

Todd Pack - My apologies, Mohammed Rasheed, for spelling your last name wrong........

Joseph Patrick - What I like about the conservative slant is that the book's hands aren't tied by politically correct namby-pamby limp-wristed bed-wetting bleeding- heart tripe.

Max Warden - Harold Smith was always a little uncomfortable with working outside the Constitution. He never voted for a President but served the country. I always liked him as a moral compass.

Muhammad Rasheed - The conservatives have their own version of "PC" that they've always operated under; they only pretend to celebrate limitless free speech. As usual, they believe in it until it checks their behavior, then they have a namby-pamby, limp-wristed, bed-wetting tantrum.

Michael Sa - Politically correct? Uhm... We're talking about Remo; his job is to assassinate with a smile.

William Patrick Murray - If you're reading a novel and find yourself on the receiving end of a lecture, whether or not you agree with the lecture, you are reading the work of either an amateur or a crank...

Michael Sa - How about Ayn Rand: Atlas Shrugged?

William Patrick Murray - Both

Michael Sa - Amateur and Crank? Ayn Rand... ouch! :(

Bryan Hassenpflug - As a confirmed Liberal Democrat I actually loved them, started reading them when they first came out, and was lucky enough to have short story published in the New Blood book. the equal irreverence of the books was one of the main drawing points.

John Nielson - leftist thinking was always something Remo despised (for the obvious reasons), to not have noticed this for all these years is as odd as not grasping what 'obvious reasons' means

Muhammad Rasheed - The established opinion of the individual characters is different from the tone of the series itself. The longest running Destroyer novel ghost writer admitted in this thread that Warren instructed him to be an "equal opportunity offender." Recently the series took a different turn, alienating many in the fan base. That's not right, nor is it good business practice. Continuing to satirize both sides of the aisle when politics comes up is the best way to write these books.

William Patrick Murray - Longest-running and most prolific. 40 books, most solo....No one else comes close....

Muhammad Rasheed - The way Will wrote the series IS the Destroyer as we know it. It doesn't make sense to not use his approach as the template to how it should be done, as I have with my comics. To force the series into a radical, strictly partisan direction will deliberately cut the Destroyer property's throat. At that point the larger fan base can only hope that Shane Black's film version would be able to return it to an intelligent and fairly balanced center to rekindle the readership to new heights.

William Patrick Murray - The way Dick & Warren wrote the series is the template. But the audience for these books was changing and I wrote consciously for the 2nd generation of new readers...the ones who few up on Rock & Roll & Marvel Comics. My generation. I was 20 years younger than the creators and I had to hold onto the old readers as well as capture new ones. Hence my promoting the series in venues for comic book readers and in the pages of Starlog magazine....

Remo Williams - As is only correct!

John Grace - I think if you can read Mugger Blood and still stick with the series, you can handle any direction the series takes without being offended. But I don't care for the politics of either side being blatant in the books. I prefer re-reading the Pinnacle run because of their brevity, and I'm too young to know the politics of the era, so that stuff is easily ignored. It also doesn't get in the way of the action, humor, sex and myth; the elements that drew me to the series when I was 13. I noticed the sex was seemingly non-existent in many of the post-Pinnacle books. Maybe they noticed all the young readers?

Muhammad Rasheed - For me the negative aspects are easily ignored when the series' writers stick to the "equal opportunity offenders" of it's roots. It only becomes out of line when the series is usurped by Rush Limbaugh mouth pieces in an unprecedented one-party partisan direction.

Victor Donald Smith - Having lived through the era, they skewered everyone equally, and often it could be perceived as offensive, I just saw it as satire. For myself though I don't choose to use much social satire, not my skill.

Muhammad Rasheed - As long as the "equal skewering" fairness is maintained, any offense is easily dismissed.

Joseph Patrick - The 8 years Obama was in office, did CURE disband? I'm not that far along in the series.

Muhammad Rasheed - No spoilers! Grow up.