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June 30, 2009

5 Year Old Black Child Molested and Pimped by Adoptive Gay Couple!

This is what happens when a community can't take care of its own. Read the following article, Duke University Employee Offers His 5 Year Old Child for Sex. I find it interesting that major media outlets are providing very little coverage of this story.

June 14, 2009

Global Land Grab!

Around 1920, African Americans owned around 15 million acres of farmland. As of the year 2000, African Americans own less than 2 million acres. With the falling value of the dollar, Saudi Arabia, China, and Kuwait are now using their holdings of depreciating U.S. dollars to buy up tangible assets such as farmland. Once this wealth transfer is complete, the American people in general, as well as African Americans will be renters in their own country. Meaning, that most Americans will never again have access to the education, capital investment, or the opportunity to purchase land. These nations are buying up large tracts of land for two reason:

1. Each nation needs a means to feed their growing populations. America still has large tracts of farm land at low prices. Once this land is purchase by foreign entities, it will never be available for sale again.

2. The surplus food crops can also be sold in the world commodities market to the highest bidder. This means Americans will struggle to find food to buy, and if they do locate it, they will pay much more for it. 

Read Peak Soil Investment: This Quiet Land Grab is Just Beginning

November 17, 2008

Clinging to a Crumbling Matrix

What is reality? Reality is defined as “the state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them.” America prides itself on being a nation of realists, people that strive for truth, justice etc… Yet when I talk to many Americans they have no idea what’s going on in the world around them. But it seems that everyone has plugged into their own private matrix of reality. A simple definition of a matrix is defined as something that constitutes the place or point from which something else originates, takes form, or develops. A better definition of American reality is a blend of phenomenological reality and consensus reality. Phenomenological reality is life as seen or experienced by one individual, thus shaping their unique idea of what reality is or as they see it.[1] They have formed their own definition of how the world works and in that, their own idea of truth.  Now when a group of people find some commonality in their phenomenological realities, and they then verbally or non-verbally agree to a common idea of truth or what is truth as they have seen it or experienced, they have at that moment created a consensus reality, hence the formation of our matrix we call American Democracy.

 

The founding fathers had a consensus view of truth and freedom void of the idea of fairness which is defined as being free from bias, dishonesty, or injustice. These are men who accepted reality as it was fed to them by their environment, family, and larger culture.  They were unable or unwilling to critically assess reality with an unbiased and analytical mindset to get to the truth of a matter. And even if they did see or feel some sense of hypocrisy or injustice they complied with injustice for their own self preservation and advantage.  This mindset that so easily acquiesced to the commonly held belief that some people beings are more human than others also created our traditional consensus reality (history) which is the backbone of our current matrix which we call the United States of America and representative democracy.  For America to see itself in context other than its traditional consensus reality means America has a deep seated conflict with its true identity, with its true self.

The American or rather human inability to deal with reality comes across in an article by Sherwood Ross entitled, "Has America Become Fascist?" in which he cites recent signals of fascism under the Bush administration.  He also cites Naomi Wolf on several occasions in her new book, "The End of America." Both Ross and Wolf both work from the largely Eurocentric assumption that America was ever anything other than a fascist nation. Their phenomenological reality alters their ability to assess America’s historical pattern due the Eurocentric position they were born into in America and their own personal inability to impartially analyze their own assumptions. Every race in America has its own unique GUI (graphic user interface).  Both Ross and Wolf are waking up to reality, waking up from the traditional America GUI  framed within the prospective of being born white into the American Matrix called the American Dream.  

The American ethos of the pursuit of happiness, the right to free speech, and the right to bear arms, the tenants of “Democracy” that Americans hold faith in versus the dark governmental policies that have historically made America work is something we cannot seem to reconcile within ourselves.  Americans don’t want to see the code behind the American GUI; the worker bees in the kitchens of fine restaurants, the hotel cleaning person, the poor soldiers coming home in caskets, or young men and women in uniform with arms and legs blown off.  They don’t want to know the details of the Chiquita Banana War, and the plethora of small wars carried out by government contracted corporate mercenaries.

America loves its Phenomenological reality.  Take for instance drug use, Americans are the biggest consumers of illegal drugs in the world.  But we don’t want to see the damage to third world countries, urban ghettos, and rural trailer parks with their meth labs and crack houses. Americans simply want to get high, real high; all they want to see is a nice little bag of powdered cocaine, heroine, or meth with no thought of the human cost that went into its production.

Fascism is defined as a system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.  The only part I will add to this definition is the merging of corporate interest with governmental policy and control, typically referred to in doublespeak as a public/private partnership.

From the perspective of a person of color, America has always been a fascist nation.  America in the context of empire and hegemony, did everything right; killing and subjugating the indigenous people originally on the land, developing a free labor class of black slaves to work the land, and a largely white and uneducated proletariat to manage the empire’s daily affairs and fight its wars. This was all done through the co-mingling of corporate interest with governmental policy and funding. This is the definition of fascism.  This was done while also espousing an American mythology/ideology of patriotism and Christianity that reinforced the idea that America was the divine manifestation of Eurocentric Christian values. It then set about industrializing the nation using its vast national resources by exploiting cheap European immigrant labor in unsafe conditions, whom when they organized and protested, were squelched by government intervention when prodded by corporations under the guise of protecting free market capitalism. In the American south, Jim Crow maintained a cheap and compliant agriculturally-based labor force.  Complicit in this development was America’s burgeoning middle class (Quigley’s Petty Bourgeoisie) who were instrumental in the maintaining of fascism better known as the “American Way of Life.” In 1966, Historian Carroll Quigley wrote this about America’s petty bourgeoisie fascist leanings:

The second most numerous group in the United States is the petty bourgeoisie, including millions of persons who regard themselves as middle class and are under all the middle-class anxieties and pressures, but often earn less money than unionized laborers. As a result of these things, they are often very insecure, envious, filled with hatred, and are generally the chief recruits of the radical right, Fascist, or hate campaigns against any group that is different or which refuses to conform to middle-class values. Made up of clerks, shopkeepers, and vast numbers of office workers in business, government, finance, and education, these tend to regard their white-collar status as the chief value of life, and live in an atmosphere of envy, pettiness, insecurity, and frustration. They form the major portion of the Republican Party’s supporters in the towns of America, as they did for the Nazis in Germany thirty years ago. (Tragedy and Hope, page 1243-1244)

Even so, facing up to the real America behind the GUI would mean the end of reality as we know it: nail shops, sushi bars, lattes; the normal benign normalcy of strip malls, pop culture, gadgets, movies, and reality television.  But deep in our collective subconscious we know the party is over. We are afraid to face a future that each of us helped to create. Peak Oil, Climate Change, Economic collapse, we have all played a part in creating the factors that will eventually lead to our demise as a nation.  Our matrix is crumbling around us, yet we want the illusion that things don’t change, that today was just like yesterday and tomorrow will probably be the same as today.

But America’s problems are beyond its control with massive trade and federal deficits; multiple wars, social dysfunction, and a growing underclass.  The US government is borrowing money from foreigners with all the added value of a crack addicted whore offering toothless blowjobs in exchange for her next high.  Meanwhile Wall Street hustlers who made unfunded bets on which way the economy will go to the order of trillions of dollars beg for and get handouts.  The American mantra has always been that America goes down on no one, everyone goes down on America. Well America the reality is that in the future many citizens better be ready to get on their knees.

 

Obama also represents to most people a hope that things can get back to normal, yet at the same time does represent a certain amount of change to the matrix, and in that I mean the variables of color and patriarchy.  The American matrix mandates that life is suppose to operate in one way.  This faith in popular consensus consists of ideas of history, class, race, and power has been shaken of late.  Massive deficits, war, social dysfunction, and economic decline are frightening those who formally could not conceive of an American reality other than the GUI of supremacy.

Yet Obama does hit a psychosexual component of the matrix; that of the diminishing white male patriarchy. Obama was born of a white woman and sired by an African man. The deep-seated psychosexual component is the fear that the white male patriarchy will decline or die out.  His mother being white American female broke a cardinal rule of the matrix to not reproduce with inferiors, yet Obama is by no means an inferior person, which adds another layer to the variable, if Obama is not inferior, but not of pure European ancestry, what does that say about the necessity and superiority of the white patriarchy? 

I once did a radio call on a show in which a gentleman told me a story of his grandmother witnessed in 1940s Arkansas. He spoke of a white foreman who essentially raped the wife of one of his field hands on a daily basis.  When the field hands would go home for lunch, this man would find the white foreman’s horse tie up outside of his shack.  The black man had to wait until the white foreman was done screwing his wife before he could enter his own house.  If he killed that white man which he probably felt like doing, the town would have colluded to kill the man and release the white man (with federal, state, and local blessings) under the guise of self defense.  This shameful truth about what has occurred in America is what quantifies Michelle Obama’s statement about being proud of her country for the first time. This also feeds into the psychosexual elements inflamed by the McCain campaign; the fear of payback, of a new alpha male patriarchy which conflicts with the historic American matrix.

It's November now, and traditionally hog killing time. On the plantation, hog killing time took place in November or December, depending on the cold needed to cool the freshly killed hogs.  The slaves would kill, scald, and gut the pigs in mass for winter meat. The choicest piece of the pig, the pork loin went to the master of the house. The choicest pieces always went to the master.  The slaves got the guts or intestines, the chittlings, the scraps their masters didn’t want. Soul food is really based on making the best of circumstances beyond one’s control.  To slaves, fresh chittlings were seen as a delicacy, and still are to this day in many parts of the south. This adds a symbolic element to Obama’s campaign and presidency, in that the true owners of this country have already divided up the hog and he’s being handed a fresh bucket of warm stinking, fecal filled chittlings, the leftovers of America, where the choicest parts of America’s wealth, value, and usefulness have been picked clean and devoured.

 

THE FIGHT TO MAINTAIN THE AMERICAN GUI

 

"The Matrix is a system, and that system is our enemy. When you are inside it, you look around and what do you see? Businessmen, Teachers, Lawyers, Carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are part of that system and that makes them our enemies. You have to understand that most of these people are not ready to be `unplugged`. And many are so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will fight to defend it." Morpheus, The Matrix

 

When Obamaniacs came to my door, they were typically middle age white men and women, campaigning for "Change."  I usually blew them off. They seemed surprised that I'm not thrilled that a black man is close to being president of the United States, but I say it wouldn't mean anything if America had simply upheld the values it espoused.  At that response I was typically met with silence.

 

Now we have “In Obama we trust,” and in him America now clings to the matrix by her finger tips, hoping for a form of "change" that is not so radical as reality calls for, but “change” that will allow us to return to the selfish, self absorbed, narcissistic people we've always been. This is hope in Obama, that at the end of the day his “Change” will only amount to a few tweaks which equated to a crying toddler’s pleadings of “fix it” to a parent so they the child can get over this traumatic inconvenience and back to a life of play.

 

It's about maintaining the status quo, it's about not having to look behind the GUI, and remaining plugged into the matrix, plugged in to the giant pyramid scheme where some slick guy at the top convinces the bottom of the pyramid to believe in his system, his matrix, and with time, effort, and energy they will each get the chance to be at the top of his or her own pyramid. Think about the big three automakers, Big Pharma, Big Agriculture, Insurance, Banking, etc. They all essentially decided to gobble up market share to suppress competition and innovation. By maintaining a large consumer base that perpetually spends it money on a myriad of industries run by small elite cartel corporations they insure that no one really climbs up the pyramid.

 

The American consensus reality, the GUI of the matrix, formally known as the American dream, of suburbs, easy credit, racism, sexism, feminism, multiculturalism, political correctness, and classism are all programs designed to artificially supports the idea that we are all special and autonomous individuals when in actuality we are all dependent upon the  matrix for that very sense of autonomy. People now live in their own virtual pods of independence and autonomy.  It’s a form of virtual existentialism in which the matrix preoccupies us with contrived obstacles, challenges, thrills (bungee cord jumping, skydiving, swimming with sharks, illegal drug use, sex addiction) to provide us with a sense of significance to our lives.

 

But the fear that conjures up America’s hope in Obama is really a fear of change. It’s akin to the angst techies feel when they are forced to leave Windows 2003 behind for the upgrade to Windows 2007.  They worry about the bugs in the system and functionality. Rather than change, they’d prefer what they already know, Windows 2003 with a few patches.  They want the economy back on track. They want family values, the return of high home values, 401ks, mutual funds, $1 beers, condom free sex, cheap porn, plentiful drugs, EZ credit financing of RVs, second homes, boats, and timeshares.

In a symbolic sense, Obama may be America’s Morpheus, albeit a bit coquettish, but he has to be given that he now must lead  a nation of 300 million Neos’ contently asleep in high-fructose corn syrup filled embryonic sacks, oblivious to reality, intravenously fed mass media and virtual experiences through multiple umbilical cords.  We can no longer support this artificially high standard called American life based on the consumption of imported goods bought with imported debt.Whether we like it or not, America is now in the slow process of a collective unplugging. We no longer have the choice between the red or the blue pill.  But I think the American people and Obama have vastly different ideas of what change means.  Yet we collectively pin our hopes on Obama’s ability to maintain the matrix with a few social programming tweaks. His ideas of inclusiveness are simply feel good rhetoric that espouses expanding the matrix, by making the American GUI more user-friendly to a large base of people that simply came too late to the party, and those that thought the party would never end.

The social contract that has existed between the Power Elite and middle class is now null and void. Those that control the matrix no longer need the faith or the energy of humanity to maintain the matrix, making most of us, and the matrix that we so precariously cling to, unnecessary. Our GUI is being dismantled and upgraded without our permission, and we don’t like it.  We don’t want a future reality of deprivation, sacrifice, future-preference, and abstention. Obama, whether we know it or not, may be our guide into a new world, into an unwanted paradigm shift of our consensus reality to a “reality” that does not encompass ease, convenience, and plenty. It is similar to the moment when Neo is yanked from his pod and like a newborn baby he opens his eyes and the first thing he sees is Morpheus who says, “Welcome to the real world.”  



[1] Wikipedia contributors, "Reality," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reality&oldid=248459475 (accessed October 30, 2008).

October 30, 2008

Trailer Parks, Projects, and Section 8: The Foundation of America's New Beige Underclass

Recently I had the opportunity to meet Deer Hunting with Jesus author, Joe Bageant and some really nice Sociology professors at Virginia Commonwealth University. After reading Joe's book, I find myself in disbelief at the parallels between the permanent poor white underclass, black Americans, and Hispanics. Below is a list of parallel issues:

1. Strong anti-intellectualism - Learning  is seen as elitist or of little use among groups that spring from America's historic manual labor caste. This pride in lower socioeconomic identity is strongly attached to physicality of various types such as toughness, athleticism, and violence.

2. Deep-seated narcissistic personality disorder which is a fragile and deep seated inferiority complex masked as over-confidence or bravado. (See Source) Among poor white, black, and Hispanic men lies the common need to gain or maintain one's reputation at the slightest sign of disrespect. Among poor white men, the hard-bitten redneck ethos is common. Among Hispanic men it is called "Machismo, and among Black men is it called "Respect." Violence among all three groups is the normal means to protect an individual's self image.

3. Dysfunctional family structure with the similar pathologies that will effect successive generations:

  • A growing number of out-of-wedlock births:  25% for White females, 50% for Hispanic females, and 70% for Black females and a subsequent increase in the number of single parent households
  • Heavy alcohol and illegal drug abuse 
  • High rates of domestic violence
  • Low-emphasis on education and high drop-out rates

There is an observable increase in the  number of unmarried mixed-race couples from the lower socio-economic spectrum that share a common culture of social dysfunction, narcissism, and anti-intellectualism.  The merging of these three groups is laying the foundation for a new permanent underclass of beige people with a common, yet destructive culture of dysfunction that is guaranteed to keep them economically and socially disenfranchised.

October 13, 2008

The Economic Collapse of America and the North American Union

Here is an overview of why the markets are helter skelter.

1. Banks created billions in new mortgages which were chopped up and repackaged into CDO (collateralized debt obligations) and then resold to various domestic and international investors. These mortgages have gone bad. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were bailed out by the Fed for about 5 trillion dollars, which is half of the US mortgage industry.

2. Credit Default Swaps and Derivatives (see source) amount to about 500 trillion in unfunded bet/insurance on the volatility of sub-prime mortgages and various commodities. Banks and corporations made these bets off their books. No one is really sure who and how much individuals owe to one another causing interbank lending to freeze up.

3. To resuscitate interbank lending the Fed is printing and lending billions of dollars to retail, commercial, and investment banks to jump start the system. It isn't working. The banks are borrowing cheap money and and sitting on it to cover the off-the-books losses from credit default swaps and derivatives. The Fed's endless printing and lending of cheap money is going to create hyperinflation.

 4. The Fed and the Treasury are working overtime to convince foreign lenders to rollover government debt. China, our biggest lender has stated that it will buy less US debt from here on out.  The US public only sees 11 trillion in outstanding debt. America's true outstanding debt is around 55 trillion.  America has no way of paying this money back.

5. When America can no longer refinance, it will default on its debt. The dollar will collapse.  Couple this with China, Russia, and Middle Eastern nations selling their US dollars and treasury bonds, and you very quickly have America at third world status. Most Americans will fall into deep poverty.

6. If and when America is instructed to restructure its debt obligations, it will be in a new currency called the Amero, and under a new economic entity (encompassing Canada, America, and Mexico) called the (NAU) North American Union. America as we know it will no longer exist.

September 29, 2008

RESIDENT OF A SMALL SOUTHERN TOWN

Found your website, great stuff.  As 58 year old black male,  I found your assessments of black America to be accurate and depressing as hell,  but accurate. I have long suspected America would end up as a  dangerous third world  country.  As a longtime resident of small southern rural town,  Isee not only America's decline, but black America`s as well. The black population is down to about 20 people, with the youngest being in their 40s. Most are elderly and the black church has 10 regulars.  As someone who is self educated; I read a lot of books, I found it impossible to find a black working class female who shared my interests in reading, jazz, blues, art, and left-wing politics. The few black middle class females I met were not interested in me as I was not rolling  in a Benz. Of course all that doesn't matter now that I am old. Even in this small town one can see the downward spiral of the white working class. Young high school graduates angrily working at the rest home. God help you if end in one these places.  You see people daily at the free clothing stores. Small town buildings look grimy and old. Crime  has increased. Schools are terrible. The future looks bleak. The rise of high gas prices mean small towns like mine are doomed. Poor and working class blacks will be forced out of urban areas. The American economy will  collapse no matter who is elected.  Anti-intellectualism was quite common amongst the white working and middle class I worked with .

Eran's reply:

Sir,

In a paragraph you summarized everything in my book. You assessment of America's decline and that of Black America's decline are correct. When I see Black relationships there is always the struggle between the couple for control and material gain. We're at the point that most black men and black women are incompatible. Sadly, people are into "bling" rather than substance. But isn't that the American mantra, "style over substance."  When I was a child, I use to see old black people with class, not people with money, nice houses, and cars.  People that had integrity, people that would help you out in pinch. They'd treat every kid like he or she was their own. They'd all get together in December and help each other slaughter hogs, then sit around and sip liquor and talk about sports, politics, and old times.  They're was the old man who would ride his lawn mower over with a 5th of gin to whittle away the evening on the porch in good conversation. These people where African Americans who had a sense of self not manufactured by mass media. Most of them are gone now. My wife's grandparents are the only one's left and they've stopped talking. It's like their preparing to die. My grandfather was like that before he died. He gave us all the knowledge he had, the rest was up to use and we've pissed it all away. The mistake that America has made is to equate class with consumption.  Meaning that if you can afford the most crap, that your earning potential automatically puts you in higher social class. Many black middle class folks don't realize it yet, but they're what I call "Paper Proletariat," people with education who must trade their knowledge and labor in office environments for wages. Mark my words, in a few years this black middle class will no longer exist.  The poor whites your mentioned  also suffer from the same problem, but for a different reason. Because they are white they believed their fates were intertwined with wealthy whites rather than poor blacks. It was essentially a racial bait and switch that is no longer necessary.  I realize that in some ways those old people that you and I are talking about had it all figured out. They realized that even if the larger world holds its own perception of you and controls your freedom, that they cannot control your internal sense of self unless you let them.  That's what the old people understood, neither man or a system can't take your soul, unless you give it to him.  Modern Black America gave away its collective soul for McMansions and rims.


Your Brother,

Eran

September 20, 2008

Poll: Racial views steer some white Dems away from Obama

A Stanford University poll finds that 40% of all white Americans have negative views toward black Americans. Below is a list of adjectives used in the poll to rate white Americans perception of black Americans.

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These are the major points that I gather from this poll:

1. White Americans have deep-seated racial stereotypes that they will not relinquish. They are quite comfortable with their racial perceptions and therefore have subconsciously passed it on to successive generations. The poll also suggest that racial prejudice of whites toward blacks may be even higher stating that more than half of white Americans may have negative views of blacks.

2. At the root of this racial prejudice is a collective narcissistic personality disorder among a significant percentage of the white American population. The Mayo Clinic defines narcissism as a mental disorder in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance and a deep need for admiration. They believe that they're superior to others and have little regard for other people's feelings. But behind this mask of ultra-confidence lies a fragile self-esteem, vulnerable to the slightest criticism.

3. This narcissistic personality disorder has left much of middle class, blue collar, and white trash America with the illusion that because they are white that their fates are intertwined with the white captains of industry who are currently destroying America. This inflated sense of self importance is based simply on being white. They still don't understand that simply being white is no longer enough.

4. Obama even with his education and accomplishments cannot escape the racial perceptions America has built over its two hundred years of history. Nor can white Americans understand Michelle Obama's statement, "That for the first time she is proud of her country." Many white Americans reacted with hyper-sensitivity to this criticism. But is displays white America's refusal to look at or have regard for other peoples history and feelings which is a classic symptom of this collective narcissistic personality disorder. It also proves that white America has a very fragile self image which explains the backlash to her statement. 

5. What does this mean? It means that America has not come as far as it would like to believe. Obama no matter what he does, will not be accepted by this voting population. It also means that America's resistance to true assimilation of its minority population unless in the context of white America's racist perceptions will end up being a major reason for America's inevitable collapse as a nation-state.   

September 13, 2008

SARAH PALIN: SAVIOR OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY

Just in the nick of time Sarah Palin has revived the GOP. With her stunning good looks, quick-wit, and down to earth charm, blue collar voters now feel they have a true advocate in the white house. Sarah Palin is the savior that will draw the redneck vote back to the GOP.

The redneck vote is very important to this election. These are the people that traditionally work in the factories, farms, and trades, people seen traditionally as the backbone of America. So I write in awe of the genius that it took to pick Sarah Palin as a vice-presidential candidate.  Mark my words, Sarah Palin is the person the GOP needed to convince redneck America to again vote against its own self interest.  

Now taking into account the color fear that is evident in this race, I have to reference Hillary Clinton's comments during her campaign for the democratic nomination.  In an article published May 5th, 2008, Hillary Clinton stated: "I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article "that found how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me." 

Senator Clinton boldly played up color fear in this statement.  Obama can't get support among the redneck population, and without that large segment of the population he will not win. The redneck population simply does not trust Senator Obama's ability to run this country. Much of this unspoken distrust is based simply on his color. Nor does he fit the parameters of blackness such as the placating Clarence Thomas/ Uncle Tom or the common image of the thug in handcuffs on the latest episode of Cops. This inability to pigeon hole him makes much of redneck America nervous.

Another fear is that Obama appears smarter than the average white American. With the appearance of superior intelligence, Obama is breaking a rule of white supremacy by appearing uppity, or rather out of his place. On September 5, 2008 Representative Westmoreland of Georgia referred to Barrack and Michelle Obama as 'uppity.'

In the Hill Newspaper, Westmoreland was asked to compare Sarah Palin with Michelle Obama. He stated: "Just from what little I’ve seen of her and Mr. Obama, Sen. Obama, they're a member of an elitist-class individual that thinks that they're uppity," Westmoreland said.

He's educated, polished, well-spoken, and very intelligent; he's everything a black male is not suppose to be. But at the end of the day he's black and in America the connotations of low intelligence, violence, and irresponsibility still persist. But Obama taps into a much deeper problem in America,  and what he really represents to the redneck population.

Obama stirs up their internal fears of inferiority. Obama is an accomplished man. A graduate of Columbia and Harvard, an author, and a politician. In the mind of the redneck, this inferiority complex brings up thoughts of what's wrong with me, a white man or white women in America. They question themselves with thoughts of why haven't I been able to achieve as much as Obama. Their only logical answer to absolve themselves of these feelings of inferiority is to assume that Senator Obama is an affirmative action Negro who through government mandated preferential treatment has been allowed to steal opportunities from more deserving white Americans.

This redneck inferiority complex is the root of the problem that Obama is contending against. Yet the genius of Sarah Palin's nomination reaffirms their belief that the average white or redneck American still has a chance in this country. Sarah Palin's very presence reestablishes redneck faith in the GOP as the party of white America, and if you have talent and you work hard, any white American can move up.

But it is this naive faith that is going to bite the average white American in the ass. McCain and Palin are status quo candidates dedicated to continued war and the expansion of the military-industrial complex. Yet, at the same time, Obama's agenda of change is simply to increase spending on social programs. So you have McCain who will borrow money to expand the military-industrial complex and Obama who will borrow money to expand social programs. Neither agenda is feasible because the U.S. government if fundamentally bankrupt. 

Personally, I liked Ron Paul, but the Republican party ostracized him because of his strict constitutional agenda. Nor did the average white American or redneck really pay any attention to his campaign.

Actually, I'd be happy if Obama lost. For one, no one can fix the problems that currently plague America. If major economic problems were to occur on Obama's watch, many a voter will think or whisper, or yell in similar company, "This is what happens when you put a nigger in charge."

Well, we'll see what happens in November, but I can already see that the average white American is going to vote for the GOP, they're going to vote for the illusion of Sarah Palin, the illusion that America still cares about its average white voters, that they still have a coveted place in America's traditional racial caste system. What it all boils down to with rednecks is a twisted racial identification with white owned corporations that have convinced them that the corporation and the average American redneck have the same agenda, to keep America white and Christian. Sadly this is not the agenda of Corporate leadership, who broke unions, outsourced labor, and pushed through NAFTA under Bill Clinton.

The average redneck doesn't realize it, but a white middle class is no longer necessary. I have a sad hunch that McCain and Palin will win this election, due to the stupidity of America's rednecks. Even when they stand homeless under an overpass and they see America flooded with foreign businesses buying up American-owned assets they still won't understand. 

They'll blame blacks, Hispanics, Jews, democrats, and a plethora of other scapegoats to maintain the illusion of white supremacy. They will say that it was those 'other people' that fucked them over. They'll never look at themselves. They will never understand that the only color corporations care about is the color green. If McCain and Palin win, it will prove that the American redneck is his own worst enemy, and in the end the American redneck will get exactly what they voted for.


 

August 17, 2008

FAST FOOD ON CREDIT

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America is in the beginnings of an economic collapse. America has transitioned from the largest creditor nation in the late 1970s to the largest debtor nation as of 2008. In this transition we have managed to mishandle anything of value, even our ability to finance our own economic expansion. Many people that I come across who love cheap products from Wal-Mart, Costco, and a myriad of other big box chain stores have no concept of how products get to the shelf. Nor do they understand the financial drawbacks as they gleefully whip out their credit cards to finance giant plasma televisions, DVD players, or bad meals at a nationally known fast food franchises. When I explain it I use this analog.

Say you manufacture a widget in your home based business. You have cash in the bank and plenty of materials for making your widgets. Your neighbor down the street hears about your low cost widget and asks to buy in bulk. Your neighbor plans to sell widgets at the local flea market or church fund raiser on a regular basis. She will need x number of a widgets from week to week. You think great, I now have a regular customer for my widgets and you agree to a fair price. But your neighbor doesn't get paid until the 15th, but today is the 7th. Your neighbor doesn't have much cash on her and her credit card is maxed out. She ask to put down 10% in cash if you agree to extend credit to her on a recurring basis.  You figure she's good for it, she has the biggest house and the best lawn in the development. She owns multiple cars, an RV, a boat, and a 50 inch plasma screen TV.

So you say o.k., the rest of the neighbors extend her credit so she should be good for it. Well this works for while, and she makes timely payments with interest on the outstanding balance. You're making decent money, plus receiving interest on top of the purchase price. Suddenly the neighbor wants to double the number of widgets she buys from you. But again her money is tied up. But she's been good for it so far, so you agree to roll over the outstanding debt into a larger debt so that she  can expand her business and buy your widgets. Well two weeks later, she makes a partial payment but needs even more widgets. Again, she's never been late, so you say ok. You roll over her debt from two weeks earlier into a larger note and continue to manufacture her widget orders.

A couple of weeks pass, and while talking over cookies and punch at your housing development board meeting you hear that your neighbor is having money troubles. Each of your neighbors have a story of how she's has been buying products from each of their home based businesses for her flea market business and has lines of credit with all of them.  You get scared, because she's into you for 5K as it is, and she just placed a new order. When you tell your neighbors how much she owes you, they all drop their cookies. Everyone quickly runs home and calls her at the same time for payments.  She says everything is find, yes, my truck just got repossess and I missed a couple of mortgage payments on my house, but I'm still good for it . Well the neighbors don't believe her. Some demand large payments, others say they will no longer extend her credit for purchases. Your widget business expanded because of her purchases, but you don't think she'll make good on what she already owes you. Well ,she comes by the next day, hat in hand, begging for a credit extension, but you can't do it. She owes you 5K, but you've also lent her 4500 of that 5K to begin with. You tell her, I can't do it, your debt level is too high.  I need cash or hard assets. Do you have any antique furniture, guns, artwork, or vehicles? She says now she doesn't. She'd pawned all that stuff already. Well you tell her she needs to pay down her debt and you will no longer manufacture and finance her widget purchases until she does.

At the next housing development board meeting, you're all talking about your neighbor's foreclosure. She lost everything. No one would sell products to her or lend her money. All the neighbors leveled default notices on her and took everything she had of value to cover some of her outstanding debt. One neighbor got her riding law mower, one got her jet ski, one got her bass boat, one got her horse trailer, another got her V-8 truck, another go her RV, her time share, the plasma screen tv, and George Foreman grill also went. Last you all heard, she was living in a cardboard box under an overpass on the edge of town. Later she upgraded to flea bag motel near the overpass. She's still trying to get on her feet. She runs around town in a tattered business suit  pitching ideas to drum up new capital for new business ventures, but no one trust her. Plus, the neighbors found they could make and sell products to one another  and turn a tidy profit with out her, America, the consumer of last resort.

This analog roughly explains America's current predicament. Foreign companies have both been the manufacturer and financier for of goods to American consumers. This scheme of revolving credit is based on their faith in the U.S. dollar and America's perceived ability to one day pay off their ever increasing debt. This is now impossible and as a result,  America will fall into economic chaos in the coming years. America has been buying fast food on credit for too long and the bill is coming due.

If you don't like the little kid analogy check out this article by Peter Schiff, The Strong US Dollar Illusion.

August 13, 2008

Census report sees minorities becoming majority by 2042

The U.S. Census Bureau has reassessed its date for a minority majority from 2050 to 2042. The article predicts that America's white population will drop from 66 percent to 46 percent. The Hispanic population will triple from 46.7 million today to 133 million by 2050. The Black American population is predicted to increase by a mere 2 percent from 41 million today to 65 million by 2050. Here are a few points to consider:

1. Increased economic instability as America's unfunded liabilities in the form of Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security will bankrupt America. These problems alone will render America unable to provide basic social programs to most of it population. Furthermore, America's economy is contracting with fewer well paying jobs available for this growing population. America is currently in a wealth transfer, with China, Russia, and many Middle Eastern nations buying up American companies, natural resources, and public infrastructure. This sale of assets will hinder America's ability to pay off its debts.

2. Increasing rates of HIV infections among Hispanics and African Americans will curtail population growth among both groups. Nor does the report factor in the high rate of abortion among African American women coupled with low birthrates. Though this report does hint to this end with its anemic projection of 2 percent growth in the Black American population over the next thirty years.

3. Most of American's future minority majority will be trapped in a permanent underclass with little if any upward mobility. Using Black Americans as the canary in the coal mine, most educated Black Americans are not reproducing, and the ones that do are not transferring wealth to future generations. Another factor is that Black Americans and Hispanic Americans do not value education in large enough numbers to develop a wealth base to foster strong economic growth in the future. They will learn too late that they can no longer trade low skill manual labor for a living wage.

4. The white population that can afford it, will withdraw into  gated communities and private schools. They will  close ranks in wealthy enclaves while the general public flounders in poverty that is on par with most third world countries.  They will abandon the nationalist idea of America as a white country and become world citizens by conducting business using the emerging virtual infrastructure (telecommuting) that allows business to be conducted from any location in the world. Though their population will decrease, their wealth will provide both the power and geopolitical influence necessary to participate and thrive in a global economy.

Preparing For Economic Collapse

June 2009

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