dr ivan van sertima has gone on to the ancestors --rest in peace --ashe ashe

dr van sertima, historian from guyana,and professor at rutgers university in the Us, was best known for his book about the early african presence in the americas, "they came before columbus"


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dr. van sertia is referring to the "ta seti" artifacts found in nubia that show that the building blocks of pharonic egypt were well established and in place in nubia before the dynastic period of egypt began. these cultural and physical building blocks were long established south of egypt by the blacks of nubia, thus refuting forever the european and asian claims that egyptian civilization was anything other than black african in origins. no evidence of any of these cultural and physical building blocks are found in europe or western asia, thus proving the source of egypt's civilization was black, african, and directly from the south. the western archeologist who recovered the ta seti artifacts buried them in the university archives for 17 years saying nothing of this discovery trying to hide our history. it was upon his death that one of his students finally brought the ta seti artifacts to light.

why would an archeologist cover up a discovery that would have made him famous in his field? racism in a "scientific" field that has sought to erase black history from world history promoted by a culture that has sought to physically marginalize and erase black people from the world, is the only realistic answer.

to physically erase a people you must also erase their history. from ancient times to modern, this is what has and is being done to black people. the global life and death struggle to save us all will be that much harder without dr. ivan van sertima.

"when one of our enemies dies, two more step forward to take his place. when one of us dies, there is a gap left in our ranks and a sorrow in our hearts." - chiksika the brother of tecumseh the shawnee warrior and leader of the united indian resistance circa 1800

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what i'd intend to spend my taxpayer bailout bonus on

now if i could just get a job as an AIG exec, plunk down from my undeserved bonus about $600,000 in taxpayers' hard earned dollars for this ocean worthy "Africat" luxury catamaran and then sail off into the sunset...AIG not hiring right now? guess i'll just have to get one the old fashioned way --and earn it!

some contracts more 'sacred' than others: auto workers' contract wages cut, yet AIG execs get bonuses

The Sanctity of AIG's Contracts
By Glenn Greenwald

March 16, 2009 "Salon" --- Larry Summers, Sunday, on AIG's payment of executive bonuses:

We are a country of law. There are contracts. The government cannot just abrogate contracts. Every legal step possible to limit those bonuses is being taken by Secretary Geithner and by the Federal Reserve system.

Associated Press, February 18, 2009:

The United Auto Workers' deal with Detroit's three automakers limits overtime, changes work rules, cuts lump-sum cash bonuses and gets rid of cost-of-living pay raises to help reduce the companies' labor costs, people briefed on the agreement said today.

The UAW announced Tuesday that it reached the tentative agreement with General Motors Corp., Chrysler LLC and Ford Motor Co. over contract concessions, as GM and Chrysler sent plans to the Treasury Department asking for a total of $39 billion in government financing to help them survive.

Concessions with the union are a condition of the $17.4 billion in government loans that the automakers have received so far.

Apparently, the supreme sanctity of employment contracts applies only to some types of employees but not others. Either way, the Obama administration's claim that nothing could be done about the AIG bonuses because AIG has solid, sacred contractual commitments to pay them is, for so many reasons, absurd on its face.

As any lawyer knows, there are few things more common - or easier -- than finding legal arguments that call into question the meaning and validity of contracts. Every day, commercial courts are filled with litigations between parties to seemingly clear-cut agreements. Particularly in circumstances as extreme as these, there are a litany of arguments and legal strategies that any lawyer would immediately recognize to bestow AIG with leverage either to be able to avoid these sleazy payments or force substantial concessions.

Since the contracts are secret and we're apparently just supposed to rely on the claims of AIG and Treasury Department lawyers, it's impossible to identify these arguments specifically. But there are almost certainly viable claims to be asserted that the contracts were induced via fraud or that the bonus-demanding executives themselves violated their contracts. Independently, it's inconceivable that there aren't substantial counterclaims that AIG could assert against any executives suing to obtain these bonuses, a threat which, by itself, provides substantial leverage to compel meaningful concessions. Many of these executives were, after all, the very ones responsible for the cataclysmic losses.

The only way a company like AIG throws up its hands from the start and announces that there is simply nothing to be done is if they are eager to make these payments. One might expect AIG to do so -- they haven't exactly proven themselves to be paragons of business ethics -- but the fact that Obama officials are also insisting that nothing can be done (even while symbolically and pointlessly pretending to join in the populist outrage over these publicly-funded "retention payments") is what is most notable here.

Legal strategies aside, just as a business matter, one of the first things which every compnay in severe distress does is go to its creditors, explain that it cannot make the required payments, and force re-negotiations of the terms. That's as basic as it gets. To see how that works, just look at what GM and other automakers did with their union contracts - what they were forced by the Government to do as a condition for their bailout. Obviously, if a company goes into bankruptcy, then contracts to pay executive bonuses are immediately nullified, but the threat of bankruptcy or serious financial distress is, for obvious reasons, very compelling leverage to force substantial concessions. And the idea that, in this economy, AIG executives (of all people) will be able simply to leave and go seek employment elsewhere unless they receive their "retention bonuses" (even assuming that's an undesirable outcome) is nothing short of ludicrous.

There may be other reasons why the Treasury Department decided it wanted AIG to pay these bonuses (Marcy Wheeler considers some of those reasons here), but this claim from Larry Summers that the sanctity of contracts precludes any alternatives is not just false, but insultingly so. It's difficult to recall anything quite so vile as watching hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer money flow to AIG executives. One would expect the Obama administration to do everything possible to prevent that from happening. Instead, they seem to be doing the opposite

1000 year war revisited

i found this pic of a painting on an old etruscan piece of pottery . circa end of the 4th century bc and beginning of the 3rd. it is a depiction of the greek hero achilles killing a trojan prisoner. the funny looking guy with the hammer is supposed to be charun the etruscan death demon. note the afro and wide nose of the trojan being executed by achilles. (click for hopefully larger image)

who were the etruscans?

they were the people who civilized the romans .

much of what is roman is actually etruscan. according to their own legends they arrived in ships to the italian pennisula from asia minor ( now turkey) fleeing an invasion of barbaric greek tribes who destroyed the etruscan cities in turkey.

being a civilized, seafaring, commercial people they fled the wild, death-crazy, highly warlike greeks (see the movie '300' about the spartans for a view of the warlike character of these people )

after settling in italy, the etruscans taught agriculture, architecture--in particular the "roman" arch, aqueducts, road building, and the building of WALLED CITIES ,as well as "greek" writing, government ship building , military organization etc etc--the arts of civilization to the latin-speaking peasants of the italian peninsula.

the latins would one day violently turn on their benefactors and the etruscans , like the trojans, phonecians and lastly the cartheginians--failing to present a united front in the face of genocide--would disappear from history.

when athens went to war against carthage over the commercially strategic island of sicily--a carthiginian commercial outpost, the etruscans allied themselves with the cartheginians against the athenian greeks.

in their artwork the etruscans depict themselves as a mixed black people --similar to minoans of crete-- believed to be "europe's" oldest civilization.

why would the etruscans ally themselves with the north african civilization and commercial empire of carthage against the european greeks of athens? probably because they were relatives of the africans.

was one of the etruscan cities destroyed by the warlike greeks in turkey --the ancient city of troy?

the european oral tradition says that after troy was destroyed, a contingent of trojan refugees led by prince aeneas fled in ships landing eventually in carthage. carthage was a phonecian city ruled at the time by queen dido who supposedly fell in love with aeneas and asked him to stay and rule the city with her.

according to the legends, when his destiny was reveald that he would leave dido and build civilization in italy, prince aeneas was "supervising" infrastructure projects in carthage--also a walled seaport, commercial city.

so if he is supervising infrastructure projects then carthage and troy--both walled ,commercial, seaport cities--must have been on similar technological footing?

all this is to say what?

the minoans,trojans, cartheginians and etruscans have too much in common not to be related. they are part of the mixed african extended family of the mediterranean. the first civilization built in what is now europe.the northern side of what was once an african dominated mediterranean basin.

they appear to be branchs of the phonecians--the cousins of the egyptians who maintained ties and loyalties to egypt and serving as eypt's seafarers mixed their blood with the caucasians they came in contact with as they civilized and set up commercial outpost cities throughout the mediterranean.

the nile flows south to north and empties into the mediterranean serving in ancient times as the commercial highway for egypt--as the gulf of mexico and the mississippi river serves the Us today .

the oral and later written traditions of both the greeks and romans attribute being taught the arts of civilization by the phonecians- in the case of the greeks, and later the etruscans-- in the case of the romans.

both greeks and romans would violently turn upon their benefactors and in long wars of annihilation defeat and eventually erase the civilizations of their benefactors and take control of the mediterranean basin and its enormously lucrative commerce.

it was a bloody and determined long range struggle beginning with the trojan war in 1200 bc and ending with the roman destruction of carthage about 200 bc --the 1000 year war.

the alphabet used to type this post is called the "phonetic" alphabet. the europeans themselves say that the alphabet we use today came from the romans who borrowed it from the greeks.

but, cadmus the phonecian prince is credited by greek oral tradition with teaching the greeks writing --the phonecian alphabet--borrowed and adapted from the phonecian's egyptian cousins' writing systems.

the roman oral tradition, confirmed by modern historians, says the etruscans taught the romans writing --and the modern historians hide the origins of this writing by saying the etruscans taught the romans "greek" writing. but we know the greeks did not invent "their" alphabet --it is the "phonetic"--as in "phonecian" alphabet.

and if the etruscans arrived in italy after fleeing an invasion of greek barbarians who destroyed their cities and civilization in turkey (the location of the ancient city of troy) does it make any sense that a higher civilization like the etruscans would learn writing from a much less civilized people --the greeks --who are sacking and burning every city in sight?

the etruscans taught the romans the phonecian writing because likely they themselves were a branch of the phonecian civilization-- a commercial empire of walled city-state seaport outposts that dominated the commerce of the mediterranean basin --acting as seafarers for their cousins, the egyptians --of north eastern africa.

as a result of the 1000 year struggle of the greeks and then romans to gain control over the mediterranean basin and the commerce of northern africa and access to trade with the once black civilizations of the "middle east" , europe and the europeans would be vastly changed.

they would be lifted from relative poverty and technological backwardness and worldly ignorance into great wealth, education and eventual world dominance.

possibly the greatest change was in the mindset and character of the europeans who sought by the most ruthless of means to eliminate ,erase and replace the very people who were the source of europe's civilization. "and we want no more kings of troy" said neoptolemus the son of achilles as he threw the infant heir to the throne, from the walls of troy to his death.


in 300 bc the europeans through alexander the great--who memorized the illiad--the story of the trojan war and believed himself a direct descendant of achilles and neoptolemus, made war against and conquered the old phonecian cities , as well as the empires of persia and egypt --- and later around 200bc through the roman empire--that would totally destroy carthage and later through conquest, end 3000 years of egyptian dynasties--the europeans gain the wealth and technology they would need to build european civilization and the blueprint and disposition and desire for global conquest that would reemerge after the renaissance and finally succeed as a resut of the discovery of the americas in 1492.

this new phase of "modern european civilization" would begin 1000 years after the fall of rome , fueled by the violent destruction of west african civilization--the songhai empire and the violent destruction of native american civilizations--the aztec , incan and choctaw empires.

it would result in the death and enslavement of millions of africans and native americans whose blood and bones would be used as the water and fertilizer to grow the world we live in today.

"profits from the atlantic slave trade financed the industrial revolution."

response to tavis smiley--what does obama becoming president mean to you?

Tavis Smiley is listed as one of my Blackplanet friends, so i was notified by e-mail that he has updated his blog at black planet. He asked readers to give a response to the inauguration and obama being the new president. i had written a response last wednesday --the day after the event but had not bothered to post it. so i penned this comment to tavis' request.

"While a part of me was for the first time proud to say I live in America, another part of me was saddened back into reality knowing that some of the same old devils who created this economic mess for obama to clean up are in his cabinet.
How much can he really do with these millstones tied around his neck? Joe biden is owned by the banks and credit card companies. hillary clinton ---is who she is .

Neither hill ,or her husband , the drug dealing , servant of daddy bush, bill clinton, are friends of black people.

Personally i think one of the reasons Ted kennedy backed Obama instead of hillary in the primaries was because of bill's role as president in allowing the death of John kennedy junior to be blamed on "pilot error" when his flight instructors said kennedy was a capable, experienced and very careful pilot who had passed the written and performance tests for instrument certification--and only needed to log sufficient hours at the controls while being observed by another instrument certified pilot , to get fully credentialed for instruments.

And less than 15 miles from the airport, a plane that Kennedy bought because it had extra safety features and could coast for miles to a soft landing-- in the event that the engine failed --radioed the control tower and then moments later, suddenly went into a nose dive and crashed into the ocean-- on a clear summer night-- for no identifiable reason.

kennedy junior's death ended any speculations of him running for elected office, or any investigations he and his magazine were planning into the murders of his father and uncle --and the trail in at least the murder of jfk sr, appears to point directly to daddy bush as one of the "bay of pigs" culprits involved.

I also do not expect from Obama any new investigation into the 9-11 attacks --although no one has adequately explained how six to ten trillion dollars worth of taxpayers money spent on defenses since the cold war era began --all failed at the same time ,on that same day --including any anti-aircraft batteries surrounding the pentagon and dedicated solely to its protection.

not one official lost his or her job , or even received a reprimand for the worst breakdown in security in modern history ? it's hard to believe, isn't it ,Tavis?

you know, Tavis, Breszhev , Khurschev and Stalin must be turning over and over in their graves to discover that all the old Soviet union really needed to have done to knock out the pentagon and defeat america all those decades of the cold war, was send in to do the job, a bunch of , vodka swilling, cocaine snorting, lap dance buying, lousy piloting , islamic FUNDAMENTALISTS with boxcutters from Walmart.

will obama reopen the investigation into 9-11 ? will bush and daddy bush be at least investigated for their numerous war crimes and crimes against humanity? will the election thefts in 2000 and 2004 be honestly looked into? at least so it doesn't happen again?

Will the scoundrels who created this sub-prime mess be investigated ?
will there be sufficient oversight to keep an eye on these same criminals who have their hands out for more bailout money from the taxpayers ?

and isn't it ironic that we taxpayers, who have been told since ronald reagan --not to expect any help from government, are being asked to foot the bill in bailing out these same advocates of reagonmics ? The side who did every thing they could to gut our social safety nets. Now they are screaming for us to break their fall and catch them .

will they be investigated and prosecuted by obama for their greed , lies and irresponsibility?

looking at the bunch of criminals surrounding him --i seriously doubt it. What do you think , Tavis. ? "

october surprise time again ...

" The October Surprise conspiracy was an alleged plot that claimed representatives of the 1980 Ronald Reagan presidential campaign had conspired with Islamic Republic of Iran to delay the release of 52 Americans held hostage in Tehran until after the 1980 U.S. Presidential election. In exchange for their cooperation, the United States would supply weapons to Iran as well as unfreeze Iran's monetary assets being held by the US government.

Jimmy Carter had been attempting to deal with the Iran hostage crisis and the hostile regime of the Ayatollah Khomeini for nearly a year. Those who assert that a deal had been made allege that certain Republicans with CIA connections, including George H. W. Bush, arranged to have the hostages held through October until Reagan could defeat Carter in early November and then be released, thereby preventing an “October surprise” from the Carter administration. The hostages were released the day of Reagan's inauguration, twenty minutes after his inaugural address.

After twelve years of news reports looking into the alleged conspiracy, both houses of the US Congress held separate inquiries into the issue, and journalists from sources such as Newsweek and The New Republic looked into the charges. Both Congressional inquires, as well as the majority of investigative reports, found that the charges were groundless. Nevertheless, several individuals — most notably former Iranian President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr and former Reagan-Bush campaign and White House staffer Barbara Honegger — continue to claim otherwise."




reportedly a photo of vera baker

the tv news talking heads were busy at work this morning analyzing the presidential campaign. Karl "turd-blossom" Rove, that great political genius --at dirty underhanded tricks -- was on fox doing exactly what i thought the republicans would do . but still to see it in action, it was eerie, even for one as jaded by Us politics as i.


when the polls reported that obama began to clearly pull farther ahead, after the third debate and the economic meltdown, and the sarah palin alaskan ice follies all took their toll on john mcCain's campaign, i figured the republican strategy would be to to publicly repudiate the polls .


all morning long beginning with turd-blossom rove on fox and repeated from program to program and channel to channel, the republicans and neo-con pundits, almost like a collective mantra, began discounting and scoffing at the accuracy of the polls.

the republicans and neo-cons couldn't deny that mcCain was dragging along in the polls --they couldn't deny the obama lead with only 9 days left in the campaign .

they couldn't deny that according to all of those tv newshow maps that obama was leading in enough states so that if the election were held today, obama would have over 300 electoral votes --needing only 270 to win.

according to those tv news show maps, even if mcCain were to somehow grab up all the electoral votes from the states that were still too close to call a leader in , their combined total would still leave mcCain falling noticibly short of the 270 mark.

"if you can't beat 'em , cheat 'em" has been the neo-con game plan inherited from the days of nixon and the watergate plumbers . from south carolina and florida in 2000, to the swiftboat campaign and ohio in 2004--it's been one dirty trick after another by the repugnantcans. that it has worked for them in a so-called democracy made up of an educated and literate population, is the most surprising thing.



my immediate feeling was that it's the political version of football's 2 minute drill. here's what it looks like :

1. spread the lie on tv news shows that the widening gap between obama and mcCain in the polls is an exaggeration. obama's not up by 13 points. he's not up 10 points. he's not up by 8 or even 5 points--according to karl rove , those polls, even though there are more than one third more of them being used now than in 2004-- "the polls are all wrong."

2. after attempting to create and keep the public perception that mcCain is still within striking distance of obama, bring on more of the "let freedom ring" type ads- the "swiftboat" ads of 2008-- that accuse obama of helping to cause the economic meltdown and then linking the fannie mae and freddie mac management to obama's campaign and claim he benefitted politically from them and the economic collapse.

3. spread to the "overseas press" the unsubstantiated rumors that even the Us media won't touch, that obama had an affair with a young and beautiful campaign worker in his 2004 senate race --enter the afore-mentioned vera baker -- then also spread the rumor that michelle obama had the woman "exiled to the carribean" to keep her away from barack--then add the rumor that hustler and penthouse magazines are vying to pay millions for her story and to do a "photo-spread" of her in their publications.

4.rely on the circulating scandals and negative "swiftboat" ads and labels like "liberal", "leftlane" , and "socialist" to creat enough doubt among voters so that the "latest" polls the neo-cons commission can claim the gap between the candidates has narrowed to where it is only 1 to 3 points-- within the margin of error for polls

5. then at this point, using the election rigging software the repugnantcans commissioned back in 2000, described by clint curtis, and used in previous elections ,will guarantee a 51% to 49% come back victory for mcCain and his ditzy palin. the polls the evening of election day in 2004 indicated bush would lose by a landslide --when told this by some of his own staff, bush laughed it off --he knew the fix was in. the next day the headlines read bush 51 kerry 49.

on election day 2008 i hope we don't end up this time reminded of the immortal words of yogi berra "it looks like deja vu all over again"

who should madonna date next ?

maybe this guy ...especially "if he did it" ...

Who Should Madonna Date Next?Today 1:37 PM PDT


Kevin Mazur/Getty Images Yeah, yeah, we know. That question might feel kinda sudden considering it's only been a day since Madonna and Guy Ritchie announced their split, but we can't help it. Obsessing over such things is what we do around here.

While all the rumors out there suggest that Madge and Alex Rodriguez are a hot item, that doesn't necessarily mean we think she should be with the Yankee slugger. Nothing against the guy, but the pop icon should keep her options open.

Maybe she needs a creative multihyphenate type, say, George Clooney, or someone who will make her laugh, like Vince Vaughn, or even a fellow musician. Kanye West, perhaps?

Well, those are some of our suggestions. Now it's your turn. Let us know who would make for a good Madonna matchup in the comments section below.

Comments

Corbo Thu, Oct 16, 2008, 1:43 PM
Madonna should date Antibiotics....lots of them.


sillyboi Thu, Oct 16, 2008, 1:45 PM
tom welling. Hot babies


madonna Thu, Oct 16, 2008, 1:56 PM
Satan


Huh? Thu, Oct 16, 2008, 1:56 PM
She should date Pee Wee Herman...they were made for each other.




Chowder Thu, Oct 16, 2008, 2:06 PM

Someone her own age. hmmmm, King Tut maybe..


Tranny Thu, Oct 16, 2008, 2:14 PM

Yuck. She looks like a transvestite troll.


Grip Thu, Oct 16, 2008, 2:15 PM
Lindsay Lohan


JG25 Thu, Oct 16, 2008, 2:16 PM

The question should be, Who hasn't she dated?


Kate Thu, Oct 16, 2008, 2:16 PM

A mortician. She looks like she needs one. Ick! Guy is free! Run, Guy, RUN!!! Free, free, FREE AT LAST! I'm so sick of hearing about this woman. She's nothing but a b with an itch and a saggy one at that.

the look of loss-- more faces in meltdown

ruppert murdoch leaving wallstreet
tokyo's nikkei plunges stunning 10%


wallstreet trader
indonesia

japan

the look of loss--faces in meltdown