Neoliberalism Exposed

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Neoliberalism ExposedNeoliberalism is one of the biggest threats in the world today. It is a nefarious economic system thatdivides nations, influences wars, and grows economic inequality. In order to fully understandneoliberalism, a definition of Neoliberalism must be shown. Neoliberalism is a modern political andeconomic philosophy that believes in massive deregulation, privatization, tax cuts(especially for the super wealthy), excessive free markets, free trade, globalization, andother reactionary actions in the world. Neoliberal economic policies have harmed nations inRussia, Argentina, the Eurozone, South Africa, the UK, and of course America. Neoliberalism contributed

to the economic recession in the 21stcentury. It is a shame that corporate interests want to

use imperialism for the sake of advancing free enterprise and they curse anyone whoadvocate just the general welfare (or advance social justice) to be advanced for thepoor and the oppressed in the world. Some folks ignore how the poor catchinexcusable suffering day in and day out.

The Federal Reserve being exposed for its corruption and nefarious policies are a great thing to do. TheBank of Israel's Governor Stanley Fisher is nominated as the Federal Reserve Vice Chairman. It isobvious when you have select central banks controlling an inordinate influence in the world, then that is

wrong and problems will occur. When the governments of countries in the world aredependent for money on the bankers, then the government leaders can nevertotally handle the affairs of their own nations.Many financiers in real life have no loyalty topatriotism or decency. The Federal Reserve just commemorated 100 years of financial terrorism. In mid-December, President Barack Obama nominated Stanley Fischer as the Federal Reserve vice chairman. Ifshe will be confirmed, he will replace Janet Yellen. Yellen will soon be the first woman to be the Chair ofthe Federal Board of Governors. She will replace Ben Bernanke. She will become the Fed Chairman inthe end of January. From January 2005 through June 30, 2013, Fischer was Bank of Israel governor. Heholds dual US/Israeli citizenship. He was involved earlier with the Bank of Israel. In 1980, he was avisiting scholar. In 1985, he was Reagan administration advisor to Israels economic stabilizationprogram. During that time, neoliberalism just grew. Knesset members amended the Bank of Israel Law. Itprohibited it form printing money for industrialization, full employment, and immigrant absorption. Israelembraced transformative change for the worst. Power began shifting from various government agenciesto the Finance Ministry and Bank of Israel. Its similar to how America was financially dealt with. In 1985,Israeli policy included budget deficits reduced to near balance. Inflation was dampened the wrong way.Wages, public pensions, and other social benefits were cut. The shekel was debased. Unions lost powerand workers were exploited. The Arrangements Law established an emergency Economic StabilizationPlan. Doing so sidestepped normal legislative procedures. Knesset members were prevented from


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debating its socially destructive provisions. A race to the bottom followed. It continuedthroughout the 1990s. It did so under Fisher. It does so today. In Israel and America wehave mass privatizations. We have welfare and social benefits cuts. There is wealthdisproportionately shifted from ordinary Israelis to corporate interests and super richelites as well as other so-called structural adjustments. Fischer studied in England andAmerica. He was an University of Chicago associate professor. He became an U.S. citizen in 1976. He

worked in the IMF before. He was in the Group of Thirty by late 2001. We see neoliberalism aspart of much of U.S. economy policy. Israel today gets billions of dollars in annual aid, the latest weaponsand technology, unrestricted US market access, benefits afforded no other nations, and much more. Itdoes so in violation of the 1961 US Foreign Assistance Act. He supports regime change in Syria. Heworked to arrange the 2008 bailout of Citigroup. QE reduced the money supply. It did so by sucking upthe collateral needed by the shadow banking system to create credit, said Ellen Brown. Its an assetswap. Assets for cash reserves never leave bank balance sheets, she said. Doing so iscounterproductive. Its self-defeating. It constrains economic growth. It doesnt create jobs. It benefits WallStreet. It does it at the expense of Main Street. When you have money used wisely in the economy, thengrowth can come. The QE policy benefits the banks not the workers or most Americansstruggling at all. We need true economic populism without neoliberalism.

Economic Inequality

Economic inequality is a serious problem and it has been growing for decades. These are the followingfacts of the evils of economic inequality (according to a new Study from Oxfam):

*The world's 85 richest people own as much as the poorest 50 percent of humanity.

* 70 percent of the world's people live in a country where income inequality hasincreased in the past three decades.

* In the U.S., where the gap between rich and poor has grown at a faster rate thanany other developed country, the top 1 percent captured 95 percent of postrecession growth (since 2009), while 90 percent of Americans became poorer.


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Important History

I do not agree with Austrian Economics as you can tell. So, I wanted to show their real history that manyfolks dont know about as a means to expose Austrian Economics in general. The Mont Pelerin Societyhas been a strong reactionary entity in that it is under the control of the establishment. It was created in1947 in Mont Pelerin, Switzerland by Friedrich von Hayek. Hayek was clear on his intensions. He wantedlaissez faire capitalism and the free market to not be unencumbered by government regulation. Otherfounders of the Mont Pelerin were Otto von Hapsburg or the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, andother oligarchs. So, the elitist aristocrats aided von Hayek not the masses of the common people. VonHayek wrote, "The Road to Serfdom" was a defense of laissez fair free market capitalism as a reaction tothe New Deal. He wanted laissez faire capitalism and the free market to rule in society. The Mont PelerinSociety included journalists, economists, Nobel Prize recipients, and others. Friedrich von Hayek heavily

influenced the modern libertarian movement and the Austrian school. Ludwig worked in CountCoundenhove Kalegri's Pan Europe movement in 1943. This movement wanted an united Europe.University of Chicago Professor Milton Friedman was president of the Mont Pelerin Society from 1970 to1972. Milton Friedman was a leader of the University of Chicagos Chicago School of Economics whichoverturned Keynesian economic theory with the Austrian School economic philosophy of laissez faire,free market capitalism. Even the Federal Reserve is a privately owned bank not a government entity perse, which refutes the lie that the Federal Reserve is totally a public entity. The MPS worked with theHeritage Foundation, the CNP, and other reactionaries to advance their agenda. Many founders of theMont Pelerin Society were prominent members of eugenics societies, etc. Sir Antony Fisher, a member ofthe Fabian Society, founded the Manhattan Institute in 1977 with Friedrich von Hayek. In 1994,Manhattan Institute scholar Charles Murray co-authored The Bell Curve, a landmark publicationadvancing the theory of intellectual inferiority of black human beings (which is a lie). Another foundingmember of the Mont Pelerin Society was Ralph Harris, a leader of the British Eugenics Society which

had earlier helped draft Hitlers race laws. The Austrian School of Economics was launched to preachand teach the doctrine of laissez faire, free market economics. Unfettered by government regulation, themarket place would regulate itself, the new preachers exhorted their students, and the central bankswould oversee the economic and financial reorganization of the world.


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Ludwig von Mises and and Count Coundenhove-Kalergi loved this free market doctrine.Pure unregulated, unbridled capitalism is wrong, because it can remove the safeguardsnecessary to prevent pollution, civil liberty abuses, and other human rights. There has tobe a way to prevent the existence of monopolies polluting the environment, to preventthose from having unwarranted greed, to prevent some from robbing our nation of ourresources, and to stop other evils in the name of creating "sound money." The wealthytaking away the public benefits from citizens is folly. Each human has the right to have an education, tohave healthcare, to drink clean water, and to breathe clean air. To provide education to human beings, toprotect our environment, to help those in need, and to promote our vital interests has nothing to do withviolating personal freedom (if these actions are done correctly). It has to do with showing humancompassion and human dignity. Wealth should never be totally privatized into select hands of a fewcentral banks (in the headquarters of the BIS in Switzerland). We also see that in essence capitalismseeks to replace competition and real boundaries in the market and seek to replace these things withmonopolies and oligopolies. Wealth has been increasingly centralized into a few financiers. Also, the IMFhas been overseeing the U.S. economy in an unjust way. The late Franklin Delano Roosevelt made the

profound point of: In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking

for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down asone people...

The IMF as we know has been involved in harming the political, economic, and human rights of many

nations of the world (especially Third world nations and nations of color). The IMF has a wicked history

then and now. We do not need anarchy to take over the nation or the world. We need righteousness to

take over society.

*True liberty is about doing things to advance righteousness, morality, and truthnot to advance materialism, greed, and selfishness. Real liberty is about restraining evilas a means to establish justice, tranquility, and providing the general welfareplus defense of humanity. That is why we should have a watchful eye and a real

hand on the wealthy who covet money. When the schemes of the wealthy try to harm

the poor, then we have the right to speak up for the poor. So, we should have justicefor humanity including the poor.


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The War on Poverty

The War on Poverty is now over 50 Years Old now. A lot of changes in the world came about since then.Some of the changes that we see today are good and some of the changes are bad. We all want thesame goal of fighting and ending poverty completely. Many of us disagree with some of the ways to get tothat goal though. President Lyndon Baines Johnson delivered his speech on wanting to end poverty,

joblessness, and hunger in America during his first State of the Union Address on January 8, 1964.This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty inAmerica, Johnson said in the speech, delivered not quite seven weeks after the assassination of hispredecessor, John Kennedy. Many of the programs that Congress and the President enacted in thisperiod were part of the Great Society. These programs included: the Social Security Act of 1965 creatingMedicare and Medicaid, which respectively provided health insurance to the elderly and introducedfederal health care coverage for the disabled and poor; the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which was the firstsignificant legislation addressing institutional racism since the era of Reconstruction nearly a centuryearlier; and a number of job training, urban development, educational, and nutritional governmentagencies and initiatives, including the pre-kindergarten educational program Head Start and the FoodStamp program. The War on Poverty was a test of U.S. capitalism and economic policies. The verdict isin. The War on Poverty made some improvements in society, while there is a long way to go. Some ofJohnson's programs included tax cuts for the rich and the funding of the American war machine. The U.S.

economy grew in the 1960's.

Soon, there came the decline of U.S. industry. Tax cuts came under Johnson. The United StatesRevenue Act of 1964 reduced the top marginal tax rate from 91 percent to 70 percent, handing over 30percent of the aggregate tax cut to the top 2 percent of tax filers. Corporate taxes were also reduced. Thelogic was that these tax cuts would inspire industries to grow jobs. This didn't work. Corporate profits grewby 65 percent over the decade. Yes, the corporations and wealthy stockholders increasingly divertedresources overseasindustrial investment by US corporations abroad increased by 500 percent in the1960sand toward financial speculation, in what historian Alfred Chandler has called the mergers andacquisitions binge of 1965-1969. The tradition of long-term and stable ownership of stocks was steadily


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replaced by a purchase strategy that centered on short-term profits. High military spending harmeddomestic services too.

That is why Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was right to say that

the US spent $500,000 to kill each enemy soldier, while we spendonly fifty-three dollars for each person classified as poor.By the end of the 1960s, one in every ten jobs in the US was tied to the Defense Department budget. Wehave experienced the liberal reformism of the Great Society. There were wage strikes of the 1970's, andthe decline of Western capitalism later on. Today, the ruling class views any government expenditure onsocial programs as intolerable, which is extremist thinking to say the least. The War on Poverty washeavily impacted negativity by the Vietnam War and other issues. Even today, the poor is being regularlyscapegoated, demonized, and disrespected by ignorant narrow minded human beings. Much of the poorare poor by no fault of their own. It has been a perverted past time for some of the Western elites todemonize the poor in an unfair fashion. It is a shame.

The poverty rate was cut in half from 1960 to 1970, but we still have a long way to go inending poverty (because of the recession and some human beings giving up findingjobs. Underemployment represents a serious problem). In the years between 1965 and1973, poverty rates plummeted, and especially in urban areas, by about 38 percent. Manyof the Great Society problems were cut or eliminated by the mid 1970's. We haven't wonthe war on poverty, because of unjust wars, economic regressive actions, massiveausterity cuts, and massive giveaways to the super rich (and other reasons). Billions ofdollars can be spent for imperialism and the military industrial complex, but now we seeno serious effort to address poverty in the world. Our social safety net is ever threatenedby reactionaries.

A Summary of the issue of Detroit:

Detroit is going through a lot. Detroit has lost democratic power with unelected officials controlling muchof the city. The financial elite want to restructure the city in bankruptcy court via austerity measures.Activists accurately mention that the deep debt in Detroit is found in the misguided and racist decisionsmade by Wall Street bankers and regional corporate elites (while the poor and mostly Black citizens areforced to pay). The states of Michigan disenfranchised the people of Detroit. They caused bankruptcylawyer Kevyn Orr to be the emergency financial leader. The corporate elites have exploiting Detroit too.The bankruptcy court has been used a cover for predatory capitalist policies to continue in Detroit whilereal democracy has been restricted. Detroit is not even allowed to have its own lawyer, but it isrepresented instead by the corporate firm Jones Day. Jones Day represented many of Detroits corporatecreditors. Jones Days lawyer answers to Kevyn Orr not the people of Detroit. Orr is the scapegoat of themulti decade damage to Detroit done by oligarchy. Orr was placed by the state government. There aremany human beings courageously fighting back. One grassroots organization is D-REM or DetroitersResisting Emergency Management. Another group is called Moratorium Now! Coalition. They will go onrecord before Judge Steven Rhodes bankruptcy court on April with their objections to Kevyn Orrrs plansto settle accounts with the citys creditors. Thousands of Detroit pensioners have flooded the courtselectronic filing system with objections to Orrs proposed pension cuts. The activists dont want to paymoney to predatory banks that depopulated the city via home foreclosures (and caused Detroit toexperience fraudulent financing schemes). The Emergency Managers plan, says D-REM: Will not fix thefinancial problems facing Detroit; benefits wealthy Wall Street bankers and bondholders, while strippingvaluable public assets, cutting services, and gutting union contracts; is used primarily against African


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American communities; and removes from power 75% of the elected African American officials inMichigan. We know that Detroits economic crisis was caused by decades of redlining, housingdiscrimination, and deindustrialization. Activists want Judge Rhodes to appoint a trustee to look after thecitys interests (as they feel that Kevin Orr and Jones Day lawyers cant be trusted). Many corporateleaders want land to be privatized as a means for more profit to come for select interests. They wantJudge Rhodes to halt Kevyn Orrs efforts to regionalize or privatize Detroits water treatment facilities which have long been coveted by corporations. And, the activists emphasize that public transportation iskey to the citys revitalization. D-REM wants democracy for Detroit. As D-REM has written: Detroitsrebirth will be the result of the Peoples unrelenting demand for democratic self-governance and equalaccess to and management of the natural and economic resources of the city. They have formed aPeoples Plan to help the city. Detroit is being harmed by Wall Street interests and other parts of BigCapital. We need revolutionary solutions.

*One very important point to remember:

The poor are the convenient scapegoats for the ills of society. They have been made thescapegoats for many problems collectively among the timespan of centuries and thousands ofyears. The poor serfs stood up to the czars. The poor peasants in Europe stood up to the

monarchs in various fights. Poor black people then and now have been standing up againsteconomic oppression and discrimination too. Many are right that we have to correct injustices asa means to solve this issue. There is nothing wrong with hard work. We should all work hard inlife. Yet, nothing massively changes unless discrimination, racism, and oppression areeliminated in the world. We have to do both. We have to address racism and we have theresponsibility to advocate morality in our communities too. I disagree with folks that believe thatonly hard work can end the cancer of racism. Our ancestors were slaves. They worked hardevery day, but they were not free until people fought to end overt slavery in the States. So, wehave every right to demand justice in the world.

People have the right to vote for whom they want, but facts will not lie. The fact is that manyRepublicans have not stood up to the extremists in the GOP. Black people have the right to

reject the GOPs ideologies. African Americans have a great cooperative tradition (asdocumented in the book entitled, Collective Courage: A History of African AmericanCooperative Economic Thought and Practice." The Sister Jessica Gordon Nembhard is theauthor of the fascinating, excellent book). Also, the GOP must either change and berevolutionary or expect a small percentage of African Americans voting for them continuously.Insanity is when you try to do the same thing over and over again and expect a different result.The Republicans have done insanity for years and that has not worked. Society is enrichedwhen we have equal pay, an end to voter suppression laws, an end to injustices found in thecriminal justice system, when healthcare is expanded in various states, and when economic

justice is advanced. These ideologies have a basis in truth. We just have to promote the generalwelfare in society. No one is an island. We all have a stake in improving the parameters of theworld.

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We know what we must do. We have to gather as much accurate information on the conditionsin our community (both the good and the bad) and we should create revolutionary solutions.Many in this generation have talked about cooperatives. I do believe that cooperatives (oreconomic independent systems used to benefit the common people) are one solution out ofmany to address such things. We should form more community based solutions dealing witheducation, health, etc. We should attack poverty. If we dont attack and try to end poverty, then

we will not see true liberation. The reason is that many Brothers and Sisters now still suffer inpoverty and even homelessness. There should not only be an increase in the minimum wage,but we should break up the big central banks causing much of the recession in the first place(with its evil QE and pro-bailout policies). Corporate international banks involved in criminalactivities have to be prosecuted too. Evil Wall Street bankers should be tried and go into jailafter they have been proven to conduct criminal actions. In its replacement, state and localizedbanks can assist the common people more. Ending the war on terror and taxing the super-richfairly (including ending the Bush tax cuts for the top 2 percent) can get resources necessary tofund our infrastructure. There should be an ECONOMIC BILL OF RIGHTS (that will address theneed for economic justice as the late Dr. King advocated), end unfair corporate tax loopholes,even place a special fee on Wall Street corporations, end tax breaks & subsidies for big oil, gas,including oil companies, end wasteful spending from the military industrial complex, end

imperialism, and even institute an annual guaranteed income to assist the poor. We have toaddress the environment, health, our family issues, and massive economic inequality as ameans to improve the black community & the rest of the human race.

The solution is not a one size fit all approach though. Every level of government and a wide spectrum ofhuman beings should be part of the solution to assist the poor, to give human beings JOBS, to fightcrime, to grow our education, and to see human beings to have a radical, revolutionary improvement oftheir standard of living (via INVESTMENTS, INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT, ETC.). WE HAVE TOTAKE A MORE HOLISTIC APPROACH WHEN DEALING WITH FIGHTING POVERTY. Classism,

Racism and Sexism are inextricably linked to our issues as well. We have to address the structuralproblems involving poverty. We have to address economic inequality and vast wealth transferred to thetop of society. Poverty and social depravation harm workers, the youth, the poor, people of color, women,etc. Our heroes realized that we can never solve this problem without getting to the root causes ofpoverty. We have to fundamentally restructure the economic and social system under which people live.When you have the wealth horded by a small percentage of the population must be taken (since thatwealth has been stolen from the people for a long time) and redistributed to the masses of the people.There are human beings who want a guaranteed annual income. I have no issue with this. There shouldbe programs and other solutions to provide adequate healthcare, food, clothing, housing, and education.

To eradicate poverty, there should be radical, revolutionary policies.


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Educational Justice

The movement for educational justice is real and it continues. Studies have documented that smallerclass sizes will develop into better education for children. Yet, the powers that be still want large classsizes. Now, in Portland, people are fighting for smaller class size. School officials want another agenda.Since 2007, Portland Public Schools (PPS) has spent over $2.5 million on this employee trainingprogram, and the district has plans to spend another $1 million a year to fund its own equity office based

largely around these ideas. About half of $2.5 million has gone directly to PEG--the rest was spent ontravel and related costs for teachers and administrators to attend conferences in San Antonio, Texas, andSan Francisco. The issue is that the PEG and the PPS must deal with institutional biases and class sizemore adequately. There should be alternative ways to address inequality in Portland schools. There is thebattle between PPS and the Portland Association of Teachers or the PAT. There is the teachers strikelooming on February 20 over the union's demands for a contract that addresses not only their workingconditions, but the learning conditions for all of their students. MULTIPLE STUDIES (here and here, forexample) have shown that while reducing class size has a positive effect on all students in every way thatcan be measured--including improved grades, improved attendance and higher test scores--it has adisproportionately positive effect on minority and low-income students.

One Princeton University study concluded that class size reduction is "one of very few educationalinterventions that have been proven to narrow the achievement gap." For example, the Princetonresearchers found that attending what they classified as small-sized classes, compared to regular-sizedclasses: "...raises the likelihood that Black students take the ACT or SAT college entrance exam from31.8 to 41.3 percent, and raises the likelihood that white students take one of the exams from 44.7 to 46.4percent. As a consequence, if all students were assigned to a small class, the Black-white gap in taking acollege entrance exam would fall by an estimated 60 percent..." More students found that reduced classsize for minority students extend beyond academic achievement like improved reading and math testscores. The studies prove that black teenage males who attended small-sized classes were 40 percentless likely to become fathers at a young age, compared to their peers in regular-sized classes. One issueis that we have to do more than to legitimately allow minorities to experience smaller class sizes. Weshould address the roots of racial disparity in student experience, etc. There are institutional biases in the


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system that must be eliminated as a means to handle resources. We know about the schools in theJefferson cluster located in Portland's historically Black North Portland area. It has the only majority blackhigh school in the school. 75 percent of the students are on free or reduced lunch, but it has beenunderfunded all of the time, closed down, or restructured via market based strategies based on the ideaof "school choice." For the last 10 years, the Jefferson cluster has seen more schools closed than the restof the PPS clusters combined. The cluster's students and families have disproportionately suffereddisruptions to their educational experiences. Schools in the cluster are systematically underfunded. Thisleads to a downward cycle: Transfer policies allow families who can manage to do so to put their childrenin other schools, which leads the district to pull more money out of the "failing" schools as enrollmentgoes down. The students left behind often attend classes with over 40 students--or in other cases, can'tget into the classes they need to graduate after teacher positions and entire programs are slashed. So,reasonable people want smaller class sizes, an end to stop and frisk, and an end to mass incarceration(which is related to the school to prison pipeline). Michelle Alexander described this situation in amazingterms via her following words (in an interview on January 2012 with Amy Goodman and RandallRobinson):

..Although our rules and laws are now officially colorblind, they operate to discriminate in agrossly disproportionate fashion. Through the war on drugs and the "get tough" movement,millions of poor people, overwhelmingly poor people of color, have been swept into our nationsprisons and jails, branded criminals and felons, primarily for nonviolent and drug-relatedcrimesthe very sorts of crimes that occur with roughly equal frequency in middle-class whiteneighborhoods and on college campuses but go largely ignoredbranded criminals and felons,and then are ushered into a permanent second-class status, where theyre stripped of themany rights supposedly won in the civil rights movement, like the right to vote, the right toserve on juries, and the right to be free of legal discrimination in employment, housing,access to education and public benefits

So, the PPS including Carole Smith should spend money on resources and programs that deal withminorities and low income students in the classroom. The PPS can fund programs in the arts, music,theater, and P.E. including advanced courses. That can cause students to grow and be challenged in theworld. Health programs food programs, qualified counselors, and Head Start is key solutions too. Trueeducational justice is about when that we fight corporate interests that want public education to benefit

them (or when the powers that be deal with consulting firms, money sent to private charter schools, etc.).Communities in Portland, Medford, and other cities in America are standing behind real teachers, and realstudents who want better conditions in the educational field.


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In life, we have to learn more. Regardless, we are in a struggle for liberation. Now, we should be carefulto not follow counterrevolutionary agenda. We are revolutionaries. We believe in workers rights andhuman rights in general. We should not only build up real infrastructure, but we should advance moreradical politics. The oppression back in the early 20th century was terrible like today. Even Booker T.Washington by the end of his life began to speak out in more direct terms against Jim Crow, lynching, andD.W. Griffith historically inaccurate film of 1915 called The Birth of a Nation. In the early 20th century,black people were lynched all of the time. We have to reject xenophobia and chauvinism. Manycounterrevolutionaries today love to cut welfare and social services as a means to advance self-improvement and economic independence, but such actions only hurt human beings, especially thepoor. We have to have a class and racial analysis on why things are in the first place. Malcolm X was alsoright to advocate equality between the sexes. In other words, we have to reject fascism in all of itdimensions. Human beings should not only learn STEM fields. Human beings have the right to supportthe arts too including any form of culturally excellent subjects. We must agitate for solutions. The war onorganized labor continues. A proletarian rebellion is rejected by the ruling class. So, the ruling classsupports reactionary groups as a means to divide up humanity into warring factions and to allow folks tolove the capitalist system. We know that capitalism has done wickedness. Chattel slavery was based on aplantation economy and accumulated capital via unfreed fixed labor. Even in the North during Jim Crow,black people were economically exploited. Still, the black proletariat and other black human beings havea tremendous impact on the evolution of the class struggle. C.L.R. James has argued that if it were notfor the masses of black people in the South via the Underground Railroad and other slave revolts beforethe Civil War, the northern bourgeoisie and the Southern plantation owners would have compromised.C.L.R. James was right that Malcolm X wanted African American self-organization, but he did not want anew African American capitalist state. Malcolm X wanted equal rights for African Americans, but not

assimilation into the white establishment capitalist society. He said this after his Hajj into Mecca. Hebelieved in equality in his following words from February of 1965: "...I believe in a society in which peoplecan live like human beings on the basis of equality..." Malcolm X was a revolutionary and allied with theanti-colonial and anti-imperialist movements of the world. At the time of his assassination, Malcolm X wasa great revolutionary. He would be even a greater leader if he was around today. Also, we have toacknowledge the leadership role of women who fought in the liberation struggle of humanity. Ella Baker,Fannie Lou Hamer, Septima Clark (who created a network of Citizenship Schools that taught poor Blackmen and Black women to read, to write, and to register to vote), Rosa Parks, Charlayne Hunter-Gault,and Dorothy Height are some of the many heroes who stood up for truth plus justice.


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We have to focus on human rights as Malcolm X said in 1965:

...And one of our first programs is to take our problem out of the civil rights context and place itat the international level, of human rights, so that the entire world can have a voice in our

struggle. If we keep it at civil rights, then the only place we can turn for allies is within thedomestic confines of America. But when you make it a human rights struggle, it becomesinternational, and then you can open the door for all types of advice and support from ourbrothers in Africa, Latin America, Asia, and elsewhere. So it's very, very important -- that's ourinternational aim, that's our external aim

It is all about the people at the end of the day.

The Issues found in Chicago

As I am getting older, I do not view a solution (to the violence in Chicago) as solely monolithic. Dr. Kinghad it right. As he said, we must synthetize plans and advance a combination of solutions as a means forus to solve issues. In this situation, the people should do both. There should be an improvement ofmorality in the homes and in the families of the communities. I have no issue with local empowerment.For the record, there are grassroots, independent organizations in Chicago now that are fighting crime,poverty, and other evils. Their work should never be minimized at all. Also, we have the right to demand

accountability from our elected officials. We pay their salaries and they should have personalresponsibility too. There are no excuses for unjust violence or evil crime at all. Criminals should beblamed for criminal activities not all black people collectively. It is not an either or proposition with me. Weshould do both improve our communities morally and fight for economic justice (since imperfections arefound in the system. The fallible system must change since widening income inequality, discrimination,racism, etc. are evils in the world just like violence crime is evil. There must be more investments inschools, after school problems, other forms of urban reconstruction, etc.). Social change and politicalchange are necessary. Of course, it is a human rights issue. There must be a combination of communityimprovement and a radical reconstruction plan in Chicago. People should be able to walk down the


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streets in communities without being in risk of being killed by bullets. No one real is making excuses forunjust violence or murders. People have the right to demand changes and individuals have the right to bepart of the solution. There ought to be a radical redistribution of economic and political power.

We see that economic problems are big factors on why Chicago has this epidemic of violence and

murder. Chicago was once a huge center of meatpacking, steel, trucking, railroad, and other industries.Working class people struggles for decades to improve its living standards from the 1930s to the 1970s.We see the Great Society programs and other events transpire. In the past 32 years, deindustrializationhave harmed Chicago not just Detroit. Hundreds of thousands of manufacturing, transportation, healthcare and other relatively decent-paying jobs have been eliminated since the late 1970s, with 22 percent ofmanufacturing jobs lost in the city in the early 2000s alone. That is the problem. The latest Census datashow that 14.5 percent of Chicago area residents live in official poverty, defined as a $24,000 annualincome for a family of four. The city has the third highest rate of extreme poverty (defined as less thanhalf the official poverty rate) in the nation, behind Phoenix and Philadelphia. Another 21.5 percent of thecitys population (573,258 people) is categorized as low income, earning between one and two times thefederal poverty level. Even the centrist President Clinton gutted federal welfare programs and dismantledpublic housing. Many houses were gone. Mayor Rahm Emanuel is a neoliberal and he has closed downover 120 Chicago public schools. In the final analysis, we have to fight poverty in order for Chicagos

crime rate to radically go down (not only deal with drug and drug trafficking). The lack of lack of resourcesand opportunities put pressure on poor and working class. We have to advance affordable, decenthousing, political representation, jobs, and anti-police brutality measures.

There should be both improvements in our families (and our ethics), and there has to be economic justicetoo. Illegal gun trafficking and drug trafficking have to be addressed.


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A nation that spends more money on military defense rather on socialprograms of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.

-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The 2014 World Economic Forum in Davos

Many corporate criminals and billionaires are starting their World Economic Forum in Davos. This is the44th annual World Economic Forum (WEF). There are over 2,000 corporate executives, major investors,government leaders, central bankers, and celebrities there. Davos is where it has a Swiss Alpine resort.The whole deal is the annual celebration of wealth and avarice. This comes when the world's super richhave record profits in 2013. There are stock prices and corporate profits surged to new record highs.There has the swelling of the bank accounts and portfolios of the financial elite, even as austeritymeasures, wage cutting, and layoffs slashed living standards and threw tens of millions more people intopoverty. On the eve of the forum, the British charity Oxfam released a study. It documented thestaggering growth of social inequality. Oxfam reported that the richest 85 individuals possess more wealththan the poorest 50 percent of the world population or 3.5 billion people. The Davos Conferenceembodies the emergence of a new global financial aristocracy. The meeting has 80 billionaires andhundreds of millionaires. The general tone of the opening day deals with "fragile optimism" according to a

survey of attendees. There is the expectation of more discussions about the recession now. There havebeen festivities there. The plundering of society still existed by the elites represented in Davos. Theconference goes from January 22 to the 25th. It officially adopted the title "The Reshaping of the World:Consequences for Society, Politics and Business. It will draw 1,500 business executives, 48 primeministers and presidents, and the heads of twenty central banks. US attendees include Secretary of StateJohn Kerry, Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew and EnvironmentalProtection Agency head Gina McCarthy. Panel discussions on topics such as Regulating Innovation,Closing Europes Competitiveness Gap, Higher EducationInvestment or Waste? and ImmigrationWelcome or Not? are sandwiched between galas and parties for the rich and powerful. As theWashington Post quipped, After absorbing so much info during the day, evenings are your usual party


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scene, devoted to celebrity-spotting, night skiing and such, and apparently a fair amount of alcoholconsumption. The Davos' prestigious Belvedere Hotel alone has ordered 1,594 bottles of champagneand Prosecco, as well as 3,088 bottles of red and white wine according to the BBC. This is done tofacilitate the 320 parties in five days, its 126 rooms crammed with chief executives, prime ministers andpresidents.

The attendees are celebrating for many reasons. The wealthiest 300 people in the world saw their networth grow by $524 billion over the last year according to the Bloomberg News. The Bloomberg article,

entitled Davos Billionaires See Wealth Gains on 2014 Stocks Rally, noted that Bill Gates was last yearsbiggest gainer, having increased his fortune by $15.8 billion to $78.5 billion, recapturing the position ofworlds richest person. The conference was created in 1971. It was created by the German businessprofessor Klaus Schwab, who invited hundreds of corporate executives all over the Europe. He called thegroup "European Management Forum." The event changed its name to the World Economic Forum in1987. Under Reagan and under Thatcher, the era of political reaction caused the WEF to grow. Therehas been the redistribution of wealth from the bottom to the top. Many hundreds of executives are atDavos. Many of them are from banks whose speculative and fraudulent actions triggered the 2008financial crisis. Goldman Sachs sent eight delegates (including CEO Lloyd Blankfein), Citigroup andHSBC sent seven apiece, and JPMorgan Chase sent six, including CEO Jamie Dimon. Panelists at aWednesday forum entitled Is the International Financial System Safer Now than it was Five Years Ago?included HSBC Chairman Douglas Flint and Barclays CEO Anthony Jenkins. Barclays paid regulators$450 million in 2012 to settle charges that it illegally manipulated the worlds main interest rate, the

London Interbank Lending Rate, or Libor. HSBC paid $500 million to regulators to settle similarallegations and hundreds of millions more to settle charges of drug money laundering. They are trying totalk about income inequality. We all know that income inequality threatens the poor and the rest ofhumanity. It is a serious threat that must be fought against. They are not proposing radical socialsolutions to stop the plight of the working class or redistribute wealth downwards from the top. Workersshould have their protections.

We fight for the Creator and for humanity too (Peace be upon the names of all the prophets). Theenvironment must be addressed and human life is superior to corporate profit. We have record lowtaxation in the States in some cases and massive austerity globally. So, some want to continue in cutting


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regulations and cutting taxes alone and these actions will never grow the economy totally at all. I will notback down from my core convictions at all.

By Timothy

Peace for now

I aint going nowhere.

Blessings to you All

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