My beloved New York is now ruled by people who stood silent in the face of AIDS, crack and environmental racism found in Harlem, the land of the disempowerment zone.
New York is now controlled by men who are still silent on 80 election districts with ZERO votes for Obama, some of those districts in Harlem.
We are being legislated to death. It's up to us to save ourselves because the poverty pimps have been given the keys to the safe.
Bend over or stand up and fight. Wisdom says, stand up and fight.
Monday, March 24, 2008
The Assassination of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer
Monday, March 10, 2008
I'm Shocked - Governor Spitzer is Corrupt!!!
Lori Price From Citizens For Legitimate Government http://www.legitgov.org/ wrote:
"Breaking: Spitzer's Sex Life Is Weapon of Mass Distraction for Bunch of Bad News for Bush 10 Mar 2008 By Lori Price On Monday, we learned: The Iraq war will top 3 trillion dollars; a former Pentagon official has written a book attacking the CIA and other US officials over the US-led Iraq war; 5 US soldiers were killed in a Baghdad blast; an Iraqi tribal leader - the head of an 'Awakening Council' - and three others were killed in a Diyala province suicide bombing; CIA torture will continue, per Bush; the House Judiciary Committee has filed suit to force two White House officials to provide information about the firing of U.S. attorneys; oil has soared to $108 per barrel; gas prices have reached a new record; a lawsuit has been filed claiming that the Fish and Wildlife Service is now in breach of its own mandate; an AP investigation has revealed that a vast array of pharmaceuticals are in the US water supply. But, here is the mainstream media's headline: Spitzer Is Linked to Prostitution Ring."
Lori, http://www.legitgov.org/ thanks for your great insight. Good catch. As I watch the news of the New York governor, I'm seeing scenes from Casablanca 'I'm shocked, there's gambling going on here...Here's your winnings sir...Thanks.'
Weapon of mass distraction is an understatement. Only fools are shocked that the governor of New York is corrupt. How else could there be 80 precincts, some in Harlem, with zero votes for Obama in this year's primary election and nobody in government says anything.
"Unofficial Tallies in City Understated Obama Vote -http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/16/nyregion/16vote.html
Black voters are heavily represented in the 94th Election District in Harlem’s 70th Assembly District. Yet according to the unofficial results from the New York Democratic primary last week, not a single vote in the district was cast for Senator Barack Obama.
Counting the Results
That anomaly was not unique. In fact, a review by The New York Times of the unofficial results reported on primary night found about 80 election districts among the city’s 6,106 where Mr. Obama supposedly did not receive even one vote, including cases where he ran a respectable race in a nearby district."
The only real headline is
NY GETS IT'S FIRST BLACK GOVERNOR
but it will take a bit for folks to realize that.
Text From a 1989 New York Times Letter To The Editor Article
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE3DC173FF930A35754C0A96F948260
Still Waiting for That First Black Governor
Published: July 3, 1989LEAD: To the Editor:
To the Editor:
The article describing the opposition to the Bush Administration's nomination of William Lucas to head the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division errs in one respect (news story, May 10): You reported that ''Mr. Lucas, a Republican . . . would have become the nation's first black governor since Reconstruction had he won his 1986 campaign in Michigan.''
During Reconstruction, the decade between 1867 and 1877, the Federal Government, as a result of the passage of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution and other civil rights legislation, took steps to enfranchise former slaves for their participation in the nation's electoral process.
Blacks sought elective offices in local, county, state and Federal Governments. Blacks were elected to important positions and served as lieutenant governor, secretary of state, state auditor, speaker of the house, justice of the state supreme court, state superintendent of education and state senators and representatives by the hundreds. Between 1870, when Joseph H. Rainey was elected to the 41st Congress from South Carolina, and 1901, when George H. White, a North Carolina attorney, ended his second term in the 50th House, 22 black men served in the Congress.
But no black has ever been elected to a state governership in the en-tire history of the United States.
During Reconstruction, one black man came close. P. B. S. Pinchback was elected lieutenant governor of Louisiana in 1872 and served as acting governor when Gov. Henry Warmouth was debarred from his office during impeachment proceedings. Pinchback aspired to the governorship and had a chance at the nomination as the Republican Party split into two conventions. But instead the Legislature elected Pinchback to the United States Senate. However, his election was disputed and he was never seated. STANLEY TURKEL New York,
June 12, 1989
"Breaking: Spitzer's Sex Life Is Weapon of Mass Distraction for Bunch of Bad News for Bush 10 Mar 2008 By Lori Price On Monday, we learned: The Iraq war will top 3 trillion dollars; a former Pentagon official has written a book attacking the CIA and other US officials over the US-led Iraq war; 5 US soldiers were killed in a Baghdad blast; an Iraqi tribal leader - the head of an 'Awakening Council' - and three others were killed in a Diyala province suicide bombing; CIA torture will continue, per Bush; the House Judiciary Committee has filed suit to force two White House officials to provide information about the firing of U.S. attorneys; oil has soared to $108 per barrel; gas prices have reached a new record; a lawsuit has been filed claiming that the Fish and Wildlife Service is now in breach of its own mandate; an AP investigation has revealed that a vast array of pharmaceuticals are in the US water supply. But, here is the mainstream media's headline: Spitzer Is Linked to Prostitution Ring."
Lori, http://www.legitgov.org/ thanks for your great insight. Good catch. As I watch the news of the New York governor, I'm seeing scenes from Casablanca 'I'm shocked, there's gambling going on here...Here's your winnings sir...Thanks.'
Weapon of mass distraction is an understatement. Only fools are shocked that the governor of New York is corrupt. How else could there be 80 precincts, some in Harlem, with zero votes for Obama in this year's primary election and nobody in government says anything.
"Unofficial Tallies in City Understated Obama Vote -http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/16/nyregion/16vote.html
Black voters are heavily represented in the 94th Election District in Harlem’s 70th Assembly District. Yet according to the unofficial results from the New York Democratic primary last week, not a single vote in the district was cast for Senator Barack Obama.
Counting the Results
That anomaly was not unique. In fact, a review by The New York Times of the unofficial results reported on primary night found about 80 election districts among the city’s 6,106 where Mr. Obama supposedly did not receive even one vote, including cases where he ran a respectable race in a nearby district."
The only real headline is
NY GETS IT'S FIRST BLACK GOVERNOR
but it will take a bit for folks to realize that.
Text From a 1989 New York Times Letter To The Editor Article
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE3DC173FF930A35754C0A96F948260
Still Waiting for That First Black Governor
Published: July 3, 1989LEAD: To the Editor:
To the Editor:
The article describing the opposition to the Bush Administration's nomination of William Lucas to head the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division errs in one respect (news story, May 10): You reported that ''Mr. Lucas, a Republican . . . would have become the nation's first black governor since Reconstruction had he won his 1986 campaign in Michigan.''
During Reconstruction, the decade between 1867 and 1877, the Federal Government, as a result of the passage of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution and other civil rights legislation, took steps to enfranchise former slaves for their participation in the nation's electoral process.
Blacks sought elective offices in local, county, state and Federal Governments. Blacks were elected to important positions and served as lieutenant governor, secretary of state, state auditor, speaker of the house, justice of the state supreme court, state superintendent of education and state senators and representatives by the hundreds. Between 1870, when Joseph H. Rainey was elected to the 41st Congress from South Carolina, and 1901, when George H. White, a North Carolina attorney, ended his second term in the 50th House, 22 black men served in the Congress.
But no black has ever been elected to a state governership in the en-tire history of the United States.
During Reconstruction, one black man came close. P. B. S. Pinchback was elected lieutenant governor of Louisiana in 1872 and served as acting governor when Gov. Henry Warmouth was debarred from his office during impeachment proceedings. Pinchback aspired to the governorship and had a chance at the nomination as the Republican Party split into two conventions. But instead the Legislature elected Pinchback to the United States Senate. However, his election was disputed and he was never seated. STANLEY TURKEL New York,
June 12, 1989
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
VIVA OBAMA 2008
There is one race. Human.
Don't believe the fuckry of a divide between Latinos and Blacks and Asians and Whites. That's just some Agricultural/Industrial Age divide and conquer drama.
Viva Obama 2008!!!
Viva the unity of the human race.
Monday, March 03, 2008
I Support Barack Obama As The Sixth Black President of the USA
We've already had 5 Black United States presidents which would make Barack Obama the sixth Black president of the United States according to Dr. Leroy Vaughn in his groundbreaking book BLACK PEOPLE AND THEIR PLACE IN WORLD HISTORY.
I support Barack Obama because he has clearly demonstrated the ability to bridge America into the best nation she can be. Networking all races, economic groups and religious styles is a powerful way to create constructive change.
We, the human race, are overcoming now. We have the answers to our problems, we just need the courage, the balls to implement what we know we must do in this, the information age when we are limited only by our imaginations, which are awesome.
Vote Obama '08. I am.
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Nobody Voted For Obama In Harlem - Liars
"Unofficial Tallies in City Understated Obama Vote
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/16/nyregion/16vote.html?_r=1&ex=1360818000&en=cba4d3b30464e951&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin
Black voters are heavily represented in the 94th Election District in Harlem's 70th Assembly District. Yet according to the unofficial results from the New York Democratic primary last week, not a single vote in the district was cast for Senator Barack Obama.
That anomaly was not unique. In fact, a review by The New York Times of the unofficial results reported on primary night found about 80 election districts among the city's 6,106 where Mr. Obama supposedly did not receive even one vote, including cases where he ran a respectable race in a nearby district.
City election officials this week said that their formal review of the results, which will not be completed for weeks, had confirmed some major discrepancies between the vote totals reported publicly — and unofficially — on primary night and the actual tally on hundreds of voting machines across the city.
In the Harlem district, for instance, where the primary night returns suggested a 141 to 0 sweep by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, the vote now stands at 261 to 136. In an even more heavily black district in Brooklyn — where the vote on primary night was recorded as 118 to 0 for Mrs. Clinton — she now barely leads, 118 to 116.
The history of New York elections has been punctuated by episodes of confusion, incompetence and even occasional corruption. And election officials and lawyers for both Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton agree that it is not uncommon for mistakes to be made by weary inspectors rushing on election night to transcribe columns of numbers that are delivered first to the police and then to the news media.
That said, in a presidential campaign in which every vote at the Democratic National Convention may count, a swing of even a couple of hundred votes in New York might help Mr. Obama gain a few additional delegates.
City election officials said they were convinced that there was nothing sinister to account for the inaccurate initial counts, and The Times's review found a handful of election districts in the city where Mrs. Clinton received zero votes in the initial results.
"It looked like a lot of the numbers were wrong, probably the result of human error," said Marcus Cederqvist, who was named executive director of the Board of Elections last month. He said such discrepancies between the unofficial and final count rarely affected the raw vote outcome because "they're not usually that big."
On primary night, Mrs. Clinton was leading with 57 percent to Mr. Obama's 40 percent in New York State, which meant she stood to win 139 delegates to Mr. Obama's 93, with 49 others known as superdelegates going to the national convention unaffiliated.
Jerome A. Koenig, a former chief of staff to the State Assembly's election law committee and a lawyer for the Obama campaign, suggested that some of the discrepancy resulted from the design of the ballot.
Candidates were listed from left to right in an order selected by drawing lots. Mrs. Clinton was first, followed by Gov. Bill Richardson and Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., who in most election districts received zero votes, and by John Edwards, who got relatively few. Mr. Obama was fifth, just before Representative Dennis J. Kucinich.
Mr. Koenig said he seriously doubted that anything underhanded was at work because local politicians care more about elections that matter specifically to them.
"They steal votes for elections like Assembly District leader, where people have a personal stake," he said.
A number of political leaders also scoffed at the possibility that local politicians, even if they considered it vital that Mr. Obama or Mrs. Clinton prevail in the primary, were capable of even trying to hijack such a contest.
Still, for those inclined to consider conspiracy theories, the figures provided plenty of grist.
The 94th Election District in Harlem, for instance, sits within the Congressional district represented by Charles B. Rangel, an original supporter of Mrs. Clinton.
Assemblyman Keith L. T. Wright, a Clinton supporter who represents the same area, said he was confident that there was an innocent explanation for the original count giving Mr. Obama zero votes.
"I'm sure it's a clerical error of some sort," Mr. Wright said. "Being around elections for the last 25 years, no candidate receives zero votes."
But Gordon J. Davis, a former New York City parks commissioner and an Obama poll watcher in the district, remained skeptical, even after being informed of the corrected count.
"First it was reported at 141 to 0, now it's 261 to 136 in an Assembly district that went 12,000 to 8,000 for Barack," Mr. Davis said on Friday.
"I was watching like a hawk, but how did I know the machine had a mind of its own?" he added. "And I speak as one who grew up on the South Side of Chicago where we delivered the margin of victory for John F. Kennedy at 4 in the morning."
At the sprawling Riverside Park Community apartments at Broadway and 135th Street, Alician D. Barksdale said she had voted for Mr. Obama and her daughter had, too, by absentee ballot.
"Everyone around here voted for him," she said.
The 53rd Assembly District, in Brooklyn, is represented by the borough's Democratic chairman, Assemblyman Vito P. Lopez, another Clinton supporter. He said the party faithful have produced lopsided margins of as much as 160 to 4 and that on Primary Day he fielded election captains in every district to galvanize Hispanic voters for Mrs. Clinton.
"We ran it the old-fashioned way," he said. Still, he said, the 118 to 0 vote "has to be a mistake."
At the Archive, a cafe and video store on the border of Bushwick and East Williamsburg, the manager, Brad Lee, agreed. "There were Obama posters in everyone's windows," he said. "There was even Obama graffiti."
Most election-night anomalies are later reconciled by the official canvass of the machines and in the formal count of absentee returns and of paper affidavit ballots issued on Primary Day, to people who do not appear to be eligible but demand the right to vote, and later validated.
On Feb. 5, Mrs. Clinton carried 61 of the state's 62 counties but won Brooklyn by a margin of less than 2 percent. Because delegates are awarded proportionately on the basis of the primary vote in each Congressional district, Obama supporters expressed hope that if the official count continued in their favor, they might gain an additional delegate or two.
Kate Hammer and Robin Stein contributed reporting."
END ARTICLE - ADDITIONAL THOUGHTS
Surprise, another stolen election in Harlem.
When I was working with Albert Davis who ran against Charles Rangel in the 90's, I truly believed we had the confidence of the people from street campaigning. Folks in Harlem were tired of being sold out, endangered and flat out lied to by the Wrangler and his crew of poverty pimps.
During the street fight level campaign, Albert and his friend Erling Rohde had rigged up the top of a van that we stood on with a bullhorn going up, down and across the streets of Harlem talking about the horrors of Harlem under the Wrangler's rule. It was rickety and our prayers were answered that nobody fell off or that we were right that the police don't care about the safety of the people, only getting paid.
What we heard back was a cry from the people who were/are tired of being scammed.
Riverbank State Park still has children exercising and playing over an open sewer, North River. Harlem, much of which is below sea level with open ends at either river, is unprotected when the ice caps melt and the ocean rises.
Without Harlem's poverty pimps electing themselves over and over again, they would have spoken out about AIDS, crack, lack of computerization, environmental and economic problems, job and small business opportunities unlike the Clinton/Rangel disempowerment zones of the '90's. The list is long of the harmful results of stolen elections in Harlem.
The dead have been outvoting the living in Harlem since at least the Wrangler stole the congressional seat from Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Kitchen table petitions, broken machines, thrown out votes, data entry folks hired based on political affiliation rather than can they type - disqualifying voters at the polls, the list is long of the examples of the rape of the American vote, especially in Harlem. When Albert pulled together a team of citizens to audit the Board of Elections they ended up shutting down the machines we found so many typographical errors in their computers compared to the voter registration cards.
The media was silent when we shared our results with them. Like now, with the exception of the then new NY1, the media blackout on alternative candidates held.
Harlem is full of poverty pimps who need poverty to pimp to keep their jobs. Hillary Clinton understands this and enjoys the support of Harlem's "elected and appointed officials."
Like in New Hampshire
New Hampshire Primary - Sham of Custody
http://youtube.com/watch?v=PKQEQ7qHvgM
and other places that say the people who want change want the industrial/military/congressional complex candidates, Clinton and McCain, let's me know that a stolen election is a stolen election, be it Harlem, New Hampshire, Ohio, etc.
The question is how to clean it up in time for the general election. From what I see, no matter how many votes are stolen now, they can't stuff the ballot boxes fast enough to turn this situation around in their favor.
1. We need to give the vote the value of a dollar and track it down to the penny. Verification of how a person voted should be available for the citizen to access to assure the accuracy of their votes should be traceable at up to 100 points from the vote to who got credit for it.
2. Hire competent people at the various Board of Elections who can accurately type the information from a voter's reg card to the system. Use a two typist system plus scan if necessary to cross check the accuracy.
3. Make on line voting available like absentee ballots for everyone. Do a video vote back-up and upload it if needed. A vote is worth more than a dollar and if the web has the free space to show a dog pissing, it can hold a voters vote.
4. Like picture booths, receipts at the election polling places can be printed out like photos at an arcade.
5. Audit past elections and remove folks who did not win in reality, like Congressman Charles Rangel, who, based on this report of NO ballots for Obama in Harlem, just got caught with his hands in the cookie jar. President Bush didn't win the last two elections either.
Without integrity in voting, we have no democracy.
One man one vote. Anything else is just more BS.
Where's the votes?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/16/nyregion/16vote.html?_r=1&ex=1360818000&en=cba4d3b30464e951&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin
Black voters are heavily represented in the 94th Election District in Harlem's 70th Assembly District. Yet according to the unofficial results from the New York Democratic primary last week, not a single vote in the district was cast for Senator Barack Obama.
That anomaly was not unique. In fact, a review by The New York Times of the unofficial results reported on primary night found about 80 election districts among the city's 6,106 where Mr. Obama supposedly did not receive even one vote, including cases where he ran a respectable race in a nearby district.
City election officials this week said that their formal review of the results, which will not be completed for weeks, had confirmed some major discrepancies between the vote totals reported publicly — and unofficially — on primary night and the actual tally on hundreds of voting machines across the city.
In the Harlem district, for instance, where the primary night returns suggested a 141 to 0 sweep by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, the vote now stands at 261 to 136. In an even more heavily black district in Brooklyn — where the vote on primary night was recorded as 118 to 0 for Mrs. Clinton — she now barely leads, 118 to 116.
The history of New York elections has been punctuated by episodes of confusion, incompetence and even occasional corruption. And election officials and lawyers for both Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton agree that it is not uncommon for mistakes to be made by weary inspectors rushing on election night to transcribe columns of numbers that are delivered first to the police and then to the news media.
That said, in a presidential campaign in which every vote at the Democratic National Convention may count, a swing of even a couple of hundred votes in New York might help Mr. Obama gain a few additional delegates.
City election officials said they were convinced that there was nothing sinister to account for the inaccurate initial counts, and The Times's review found a handful of election districts in the city where Mrs. Clinton received zero votes in the initial results.
"It looked like a lot of the numbers were wrong, probably the result of human error," said Marcus Cederqvist, who was named executive director of the Board of Elections last month. He said such discrepancies between the unofficial and final count rarely affected the raw vote outcome because "they're not usually that big."
On primary night, Mrs. Clinton was leading with 57 percent to Mr. Obama's 40 percent in New York State, which meant she stood to win 139 delegates to Mr. Obama's 93, with 49 others known as superdelegates going to the national convention unaffiliated.
Jerome A. Koenig, a former chief of staff to the State Assembly's election law committee and a lawyer for the Obama campaign, suggested that some of the discrepancy resulted from the design of the ballot.
Candidates were listed from left to right in an order selected by drawing lots. Mrs. Clinton was first, followed by Gov. Bill Richardson and Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., who in most election districts received zero votes, and by John Edwards, who got relatively few. Mr. Obama was fifth, just before Representative Dennis J. Kucinich.
Mr. Koenig said he seriously doubted that anything underhanded was at work because local politicians care more about elections that matter specifically to them.
"They steal votes for elections like Assembly District leader, where people have a personal stake," he said.
A number of political leaders also scoffed at the possibility that local politicians, even if they considered it vital that Mr. Obama or Mrs. Clinton prevail in the primary, were capable of even trying to hijack such a contest.
Still, for those inclined to consider conspiracy theories, the figures provided plenty of grist.
The 94th Election District in Harlem, for instance, sits within the Congressional district represented by Charles B. Rangel, an original supporter of Mrs. Clinton.
Assemblyman Keith L. T. Wright, a Clinton supporter who represents the same area, said he was confident that there was an innocent explanation for the original count giving Mr. Obama zero votes.
"I'm sure it's a clerical error of some sort," Mr. Wright said. "Being around elections for the last 25 years, no candidate receives zero votes."
But Gordon J. Davis, a former New York City parks commissioner and an Obama poll watcher in the district, remained skeptical, even after being informed of the corrected count.
"First it was reported at 141 to 0, now it's 261 to 136 in an Assembly district that went 12,000 to 8,000 for Barack," Mr. Davis said on Friday.
"I was watching like a hawk, but how did I know the machine had a mind of its own?" he added. "And I speak as one who grew up on the South Side of Chicago where we delivered the margin of victory for John F. Kennedy at 4 in the morning."
At the sprawling Riverside Park Community apartments at Broadway and 135th Street, Alician D. Barksdale said she had voted for Mr. Obama and her daughter had, too, by absentee ballot.
"Everyone around here voted for him," she said.
The 53rd Assembly District, in Brooklyn, is represented by the borough's Democratic chairman, Assemblyman Vito P. Lopez, another Clinton supporter. He said the party faithful have produced lopsided margins of as much as 160 to 4 and that on Primary Day he fielded election captains in every district to galvanize Hispanic voters for Mrs. Clinton.
"We ran it the old-fashioned way," he said. Still, he said, the 118 to 0 vote "has to be a mistake."
At the Archive, a cafe and video store on the border of Bushwick and East Williamsburg, the manager, Brad Lee, agreed. "There were Obama posters in everyone's windows," he said. "There was even Obama graffiti."
Most election-night anomalies are later reconciled by the official canvass of the machines and in the formal count of absentee returns and of paper affidavit ballots issued on Primary Day, to people who do not appear to be eligible but demand the right to vote, and later validated.
On Feb. 5, Mrs. Clinton carried 61 of the state's 62 counties but won Brooklyn by a margin of less than 2 percent. Because delegates are awarded proportionately on the basis of the primary vote in each Congressional district, Obama supporters expressed hope that if the official count continued in their favor, they might gain an additional delegate or two.
Kate Hammer and Robin Stein contributed reporting."
END ARTICLE - ADDITIONAL THOUGHTS
Surprise, another stolen election in Harlem.
When I was working with Albert Davis who ran against Charles Rangel in the 90's, I truly believed we had the confidence of the people from street campaigning. Folks in Harlem were tired of being sold out, endangered and flat out lied to by the Wrangler and his crew of poverty pimps.
During the street fight level campaign, Albert and his friend Erling Rohde had rigged up the top of a van that we stood on with a bullhorn going up, down and across the streets of Harlem talking about the horrors of Harlem under the Wrangler's rule. It was rickety and our prayers were answered that nobody fell off or that we were right that the police don't care about the safety of the people, only getting paid.
What we heard back was a cry from the people who were/are tired of being scammed.
Riverbank State Park still has children exercising and playing over an open sewer, North River. Harlem, much of which is below sea level with open ends at either river, is unprotected when the ice caps melt and the ocean rises.
Without Harlem's poverty pimps electing themselves over and over again, they would have spoken out about AIDS, crack, lack of computerization, environmental and economic problems, job and small business opportunities unlike the Clinton/Rangel disempowerment zones of the '90's. The list is long of the harmful results of stolen elections in Harlem.
The dead have been outvoting the living in Harlem since at least the Wrangler stole the congressional seat from Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Kitchen table petitions, broken machines, thrown out votes, data entry folks hired based on political affiliation rather than can they type - disqualifying voters at the polls, the list is long of the examples of the rape of the American vote, especially in Harlem. When Albert pulled together a team of citizens to audit the Board of Elections they ended up shutting down the machines we found so many typographical errors in their computers compared to the voter registration cards.
The media was silent when we shared our results with them. Like now, with the exception of the then new NY1, the media blackout on alternative candidates held.
Harlem is full of poverty pimps who need poverty to pimp to keep their jobs. Hillary Clinton understands this and enjoys the support of Harlem's "elected and appointed officials."
Like in New Hampshire
New Hampshire Primary - Sham of Custody
http://youtube.com/watch?v=PKQEQ7qHvgM
and other places that say the people who want change want the industrial/military/congressional complex candidates, Clinton and McCain, let's me know that a stolen election is a stolen election, be it Harlem, New Hampshire, Ohio, etc.
The question is how to clean it up in time for the general election. From what I see, no matter how many votes are stolen now, they can't stuff the ballot boxes fast enough to turn this situation around in their favor.
1. We need to give the vote the value of a dollar and track it down to the penny. Verification of how a person voted should be available for the citizen to access to assure the accuracy of their votes should be traceable at up to 100 points from the vote to who got credit for it.
2. Hire competent people at the various Board of Elections who can accurately type the information from a voter's reg card to the system. Use a two typist system plus scan if necessary to cross check the accuracy.
3. Make on line voting available like absentee ballots for everyone. Do a video vote back-up and upload it if needed. A vote is worth more than a dollar and if the web has the free space to show a dog pissing, it can hold a voters vote.
4. Like picture booths, receipts at the election polling places can be printed out like photos at an arcade.
5. Audit past elections and remove folks who did not win in reality, like Congressman Charles Rangel, who, based on this report of NO ballots for Obama in Harlem, just got caught with his hands in the cookie jar. President Bush didn't win the last two elections either.
Without integrity in voting, we have no democracy.
One man one vote. Anything else is just more BS.
Where's the votes?
Friday, February 01, 2008
Thank you Reverend James David Manning
Reverend James David Manning
Thank you for your heroic stand against Harlem's biggest poverty pimp, Congressman Charles Rangel, HNIC, Harlem. The Wrangler has got to go.
After working on Albert Davis's campaign in the early 90's, helping train over 3,000 folks as the Computer Underground Railroad in the mid 90's, and doing extensive environmental research throughout, I left Harlem in '98 with the understanding that there was no way to get him out of office at the time.
Like Josephine Baker said, the times they are a changin'.
Under Congressman Rangel, Harlem lost her hope. He was in charge when the CIA targeted the best and the brightest under Iran Contra and let crack raid the streets of Harlem, where there are no poppy fields. His silence was the ticket needed to infect the population with hopelessness.
Despite his note to you that reveals that in 2007 he was not yet computer literate, he is making no positive economic, educational and politcal contibutions to anything other than himself and those he serves. Harlem is rotting under his leadership and the poverty pimps he has set up to take over, have no grander plans than he. Their concept of a good idea is to build more tall buildings on the earthquake fault line known as 125th Street, below sea level at the beginning of global warming, rather than build sea walls for the projected ocean level rising. Instead, he's still jail not jobs for the people of Harlem.
With leadership like you, Rev. Manning, Harlem can be restored to the land of hope, just outside of midtown.
Are Bill Clinton and Congressman Charles Rangel Senile?
I've asked this question about Congressman Charles Rangel before and now I have to ask it about Bill Clinton too. Both men are leaders in Harlem and neither seems to have a clue about what's really going on.
Is it the air from the 5 open sewers around Harlem* that is causing them to live in illusion rather than deal with the real issues of life like cancer rates, cloned foods - dirty water, failing highway system, global warming, economic and political corruption, war, educational crisis, doomed social security system, etc. Or is it just greed and ego?
Their participation in a system that has legislated us to death is legendary and shameful. Yet stolen election after stolen election, like what happened in the New Hampshire primary in January, 2008 is still the order of the day.
These men stay in power while America is on her death bed, guilty of torture, murder and pollution under their leadership, current and past. Global warming is in process and America's coastal cities are just waiting for something to happen, rather than take a pro-active stand.
Congressman Rangel, rather than just legalize hemp and tax it at 20%, has a tax plan that's difficult to understand, adding more stress to daily life. Rather than shift to hemp biofuel for energy, he supports the draft. War is not the answer my brother Charles. It's like he wants all of America to be like the disempowerment zone he created in the 90's in Harlem.
But Congressman Rangel has been out done by Bill Clinton who still says that 9/11 happened because of Osama bin Laden and 19 folks from Saudi Arabia.
See, the problem with being senile, or flat out telling a lie, is that it's tough to remember the details when called upon.
Call me what you want, but the truth is the truth. WTC 1, 2 and 7 did not fall down, burn up nor were knocked over. The flames did not get hot enough to do that. All recorded sound is of explosions, not falling. Material was pulverized, not crushed.
The Mayor was paid in a software contract with Homeland Security. The owner of the buildings was paid in a large insurance settlement.
When the head of the EPA lied and said there was no danger in the dust from the exploded buildings, neither Charles Rangel, Bill Clinton nor his wife Senator Hillary Clinton said a word about the danger in public. They just all led us in a process of national prayer for the victims, without saying that the victims were not limited to that day.
I'm an old woman in the middle of the Mohave Desert and I was screaming to get those people out of there. I was told they couldn't leave because the city was on lock down. If any one of them had said anything, the people in Manhattan could have been spared days of exposure to the toxic dust.
So I ask, are they senile? It takes senility or worse to believe that a dialysis patient with 19 friends picked the right moment when the military was on a scheduled exercise to run the story the way it went. They were even smart enough to fly a plane with pinpoint accuracy into the Pentagon and not leave a trace of the plane on the grounds.
Look you yourself and research "9/11 Truth", or "9/11 was an inside job".
My oh my.
Here's the information on the 5 sewers. I left Harlem in 1998 after I went to North River and Ward's Island sewers and saw how little attention was being paid to the process and the danger it posed to the community.
When I met with Congressman Rangel at a 'disempowerment zone' meeting to talk about this and other environmental issues his eyes glazed over. From what I read on the web, though they put in machines to control the funk at North River, the dangers of air borne mutating virus and voc's are still there.
*5 open sewers around Harlem
North River, Wards Island, Tallmans Island, Hunts Point and Bowery Bay Water Pollution Control Plants:
The two most obvious, North River (135th & Hudson River, 10027) and Wards Island (Wards Island, NYC 10035) Water Pollution Control Plants (Sewage Treatment Plants) are on the west side of Harlem and in the river off of the east side respectively.
In great part due to the open windows at all ends of the North River Water Pollution Control Plant, and outdoor tanks at Wards Island, Harlem is breathing, daily, volatile organic compounds (VOC's -airborne living organisms) from these sewage tanks.
Across the river on the east side, Harlem is also close to Hunts Point Water Pollution Control Plant, Tallmans Island Water Pollution Control Plant, and Bowery Bay Water Pollution Control Plant. Click right to see a list of the NYC sewer system
What the folks in charge were failing to do is cover the secondary tanks. They keep the conversation on odor and flow, which are not killing anybody. What they need to be studying is what is going on with mutating virus kept at warm.
Is it the air from the 5 open sewers around Harlem* that is causing them to live in illusion rather than deal with the real issues of life like cancer rates, cloned foods - dirty water, failing highway system, global warming, economic and political corruption, war, educational crisis, doomed social security system, etc. Or is it just greed and ego?
Their participation in a system that has legislated us to death is legendary and shameful. Yet stolen election after stolen election, like what happened in the New Hampshire primary in January, 2008 is still the order of the day.
These men stay in power while America is on her death bed, guilty of torture, murder and pollution under their leadership, current and past. Global warming is in process and America's coastal cities are just waiting for something to happen, rather than take a pro-active stand.
Congressman Rangel, rather than just legalize hemp and tax it at 20%, has a tax plan that's difficult to understand, adding more stress to daily life. Rather than shift to hemp biofuel for energy, he supports the draft. War is not the answer my brother Charles. It's like he wants all of America to be like the disempowerment zone he created in the 90's in Harlem.
But Congressman Rangel has been out done by Bill Clinton who still says that 9/11 happened because of Osama bin Laden and 19 folks from Saudi Arabia.
See, the problem with being senile, or flat out telling a lie, is that it's tough to remember the details when called upon.
Call me what you want, but the truth is the truth. WTC 1, 2 and 7 did not fall down, burn up nor were knocked over. The flames did not get hot enough to do that. All recorded sound is of explosions, not falling. Material was pulverized, not crushed.
The Mayor was paid in a software contract with Homeland Security. The owner of the buildings was paid in a large insurance settlement.
When the head of the EPA lied and said there was no danger in the dust from the exploded buildings, neither Charles Rangel, Bill Clinton nor his wife Senator Hillary Clinton said a word about the danger in public. They just all led us in a process of national prayer for the victims, without saying that the victims were not limited to that day.
I'm an old woman in the middle of the Mohave Desert and I was screaming to get those people out of there. I was told they couldn't leave because the city was on lock down. If any one of them had said anything, the people in Manhattan could have been spared days of exposure to the toxic dust.
So I ask, are they senile? It takes senility or worse to believe that a dialysis patient with 19 friends picked the right moment when the military was on a scheduled exercise to run the story the way it went. They were even smart enough to fly a plane with pinpoint accuracy into the Pentagon and not leave a trace of the plane on the grounds.
Look you yourself and research "9/11 Truth", or "9/11 was an inside job".
My oh my.
Here's the information on the 5 sewers. I left Harlem in 1998 after I went to North River and Ward's Island sewers and saw how little attention was being paid to the process and the danger it posed to the community.
When I met with Congressman Rangel at a 'disempowerment zone' meeting to talk about this and other environmental issues his eyes glazed over. From what I read on the web, though they put in machines to control the funk at North River, the dangers of air borne mutating virus and voc's are still there.
*5 open sewers around Harlem
North River, Wards Island, Tallmans Island, Hunts Point and Bowery Bay Water Pollution Control Plants:
The two most obvious, North River (135th & Hudson River, 10027) and Wards Island (Wards Island, NYC 10035) Water Pollution Control Plants (Sewage Treatment Plants) are on the west side of Harlem and in the river off of the east side respectively.
In great part due to the open windows at all ends of the North River Water Pollution Control Plant, and outdoor tanks at Wards Island, Harlem is breathing, daily, volatile organic compounds (VOC's -airborne living organisms) from these sewage tanks.
Across the river on the east side, Harlem is also close to Hunts Point Water Pollution Control Plant, Tallmans Island Water Pollution Control Plant, and Bowery Bay Water Pollution Control Plant. Click right to see a list of the NYC sewer system
What the folks in charge were failing to do is cover the secondary tanks. They keep the conversation on odor and flow, which are not killing anybody. What they need to be studying is what is going on with mutating virus kept at warm.
Monday, November 26, 2007
Riverbank State Park Is Over An Open Sewer
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/html/harbor_water/northri.shtml
One of the reasons I did not return to Harlem in '98 was after walking under Riverbank State Park for the second time, I was clear that I did not want to live breathing in sewer air.
Those in charge were content to keep the conversation on odor and flow rather than the germs and toxins from the open sewer, North River.
I heard the smell problem is gone, which got me worried. I hope they did not just add more chemicals to the process, which the people will be breathing.
So I went to the City's page on North River.
Here's how they solved the problem, by putting sodium hydrochloride and sodium hydroxide (lye).
"Odor control
To improve the control of odors from the plant, New York City has recently spent an additional $55 million beyond the cost of construction of the original odor control facilities. North River’s odor control facilities are among the most elaborate in the country.
During the odor control process, plant air is pumped into a large tank and scrubbed clean with a mixture of two chemicals, sodium hydrochloride and sodium hydroxide (lye). The air is then funneled through activated carbon filters, which absorb odors and chemicals and remove the remaining odor-producing particles. The air is then released through 100-foot ventilation stacks on the plant roof."
If you're still in Harlem, check to see if the filters are working properly.
One of the reasons I did not return to Harlem in '98 was after walking under Riverbank State Park for the second time, I was clear that I did not want to live breathing in sewer air.
Those in charge were content to keep the conversation on odor and flow rather than the germs and toxins from the open sewer, North River.
I heard the smell problem is gone, which got me worried. I hope they did not just add more chemicals to the process, which the people will be breathing.
So I went to the City's page on North River.
Here's how they solved the problem, by putting sodium hydrochloride and sodium hydroxide (lye).
"Odor control
To improve the control of odors from the plant, New York City has recently spent an additional $55 million beyond the cost of construction of the original odor control facilities. North River’s odor control facilities are among the most elaborate in the country.
During the odor control process, plant air is pumped into a large tank and scrubbed clean with a mixture of two chemicals, sodium hydrochloride and sodium hydroxide (lye). The air is then funneled through activated carbon filters, which absorb odors and chemicals and remove the remaining odor-producing particles. The air is then released through 100-foot ventilation stacks on the plant roof."
If you're still in Harlem, check to see if the filters are working properly.
Saturday, November 24, 2007
ALEX JONES -Police Caught Posing as Violent Protesters
Beware of this police tactic of acting like a protester to start violence, and justify hurting folks.
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Harlem's Surrounded By 5 Open Sewers
I pray that in the almost ten years since I left Harlem, this situation has changed, but I can find no evidence that it has. If you have any, please share.
Harlem is surrounded by 5 open sewers, North River Water Pollution Control Plant, Wards Island, Tallmans Island Water Pollution Control Plant, Hunts Point and Bowery Bay Water Pollution Control Plants.
The two most obvious, North River (135th & Hudson River, 10027) and Wards Island (Wards Island, NYC 10035) Water Pollution Control Plants (Sewage Treatment Plants) are on the west side of Harlem and in the river off of the east side respectively.
In great part due to the open windows at all ends of the North River Water Pollution Control Plant, and outdoor tanks at Wards Island, Harlem is breathing, daily, volatile organic compounds (VOC's -airborne living organisms) from these sewage tanks.
I've posted some pictures I took of North River shortly before I left Harlem.
http://www.geocities.com/cureworks/Envirphotos.htm
Across the river on the east side, Harlem is also close to Hunts Point Water Pollution Control Plant, Tallmans Island Water Pollution Control Plant, and Bowery Bay Water Pollution Control Plant. The bottom line is if folks are smelling it, they are breathing it, the city's sewage and all airborne elements it produces. And by the way, there is relatively new technology that removes the smell, but the question is what about the toxins?
Politics and common sense need to merge in Harlem. Her best park, Riverbank State Park, is located over the North River plant and has people, among them children and seniors, exercising over an open sewer…not healthy.
The NYC EPA says “The roof of the building is the home of Riverbank State Park, a popular recreational facility with three swimming pools, an amphitheater, an athletic center, a skating rink, a restaurant and sports fields - and, of the two New York State park facilities in the City, the only one built on top of a water pollution control plant.” It’s won many awards while placing Harlem residents in danger of toxic chemicals, methane gas and mutating germs.
Established Harlem leadership had decided to put a Hudson River mall just south of the sewer.
Don't they think that the funk from the sewer may affect the quality of the meal or are they confident in the new equipment?
Environmentalists are being honored in Harlem who keep the conversation about odor and flow rather than toxins and germs coming off the sewers.
Sewer System As A Source of Germ Disbursement: “The greatest danger…in breathing of sewer air is that of inhaling with it the living particles (bacilli, etc.) contained or developed in the excrement of diseased persons.” {Roger S. Tracy, Handbook Of Sanitary Information For Households, NY Appleton, 1895}
Sick people from all over the world come to New York City to benefit from her extraordinary medical system. Though hospital waste is handled separately from the general sewer system, during the time before sick people check into the hospital, and, if they remain in the city, after they leave, they are using the general sewer facilities.
In this time of terrorism, toxic materials (both medical and chemical that could cause illness and death) can be dropped into the sewer system and a large portion of the population could be impacted days after the event.
Floating material http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/dep/html/float.html could contain harmful elements and the results, devastating. This is because many, if not all of the NYC sewer plants, are not covered and in some cases could be easily contaminated from street or building levels without the culprit being noticed.
At North River, the large windows by the tanks are open. At Ward’s Island, the tanks are outside. Though we are encouraged to take comfort in the fact that chlorine kills 85-95% of the germs in the sewer, the more relevant question is what is in the other 5-15% that is strong enough to survive chlorine, food additives, genetically altered foods, human growth hormone, antibiotics, etc. Consider what happens when those strong germs and toxic chemicals get together in North River’s secondary tanks, with their steam wafting off the tanks next to open windows.
The additional chlorine put into the environment via tap water and flushed into the river can have a seepage effect on the land it comes in contact with, further empowering mutating bacteria.
The water in North River’s secondary tanks frequently has steam coming off them, which lifts some germs and they become air borne. Harlem's infant morality rate in the year after the North River Plant went into operation was 2.5 times higher than the rest of the City. Yet the discussion is limited to odor and flow, which haven’t killed anybody.
When you connect the dots between when the North River plant was open and rises and falls in her infant mortality rates over the years, you’ll see a direct correlation.
North River Plant and Infant Mortality Rates in NYC & Harlem 1984-1993
Year - NYC - Harlem
1984 - Plant Construction - 13.6 - 16.0
1985 - Plant built - 13.4 -23.3
1986 - 12.8 - 27.6
1987 - 13.1 - 20.9
1988 - 13.4 - 22.0
1989 - 13.3 - 23.4
1990 - 7.6 - 27.7
1991 - Primary Tanks Covered - 11.4 - 19.2
1992 - 10.2 - 15.9
1993 - Crack in tank - 10.2 - 25.
I failed at getting the people in charge to see the direct connection between actions taken at the sewer and the area's infant mortality rate.
I see a radical jump in the infant mortality rate the year the plant was built, a higher than normal rate during the early years of the plants operation, a drop in 1991, the year they covered the primary tanks. There was another radical jump the year there was a reported crack in the tank (I don't know if it was a crack in the tank or the cover, but it resulted in a higher release of toxins into the area.) Public information after that point was not longer available at community meetings between '93 and '98, when I left.
What needs to happen to correct the problem?
First, the windows need to be covered or at least the tanks sealed, like what was in the original plans. Hemp makes a good bullet proof plastic out of Hemp Stone that could be a cost effective solution. The glass needs to be bullet proof because the sewer is next to the river, which is an estuary, at the edge of the ocean, at the beginning of global warming. The plant is just above the river level and subject to danger in case of a radical tidal wave.
“The problem with covering and air treating the secondary tanks is one of expense … NYCDEP’s rough estimate for subjecting the secondary tanks in a similar odor control system as that for the primary tank is in excess of $100 million.” From “The Smell of Success? An assessment of Odor Control Measures at the North River Water Pollution Control Plant” (June, 1994)
Where are they shopping? Tiffany’s?
We need to honestly evaluate the situation at hand. Consider using sealed aircraft aluminum covers for the secondary tanks and using a NYC labor pool, featuring Harlem residents trained for the job.
Community residents will be motivated to do a good job because they and their families are breathing the air.
Second, regular testing of the sewer's contents and airborne materials need to be done and the results published. The people have a right to know what's in the air, water and land. As we remove or control the cause of the problem, the effects, what we experience as reality, will diminish like what happened in 1991 when the primary tanks were covered.
Asthma attack: Harlem's toxic trucks targeted - truckers fined!
Somebody please tell me they are kidding!!!
"UNDER ASTHMA ATTACK
HARLEM'S 'TOXIC' TRUCKERS TARGETED
By DOUGLAS MONTERO and SAMUEL GOLDSMITH
November 17, 2007 -- Smoke-belching truck tearing through Harlem are being ticketed with heavy fines for leaving a trail of toxic dust that has elevated the area's asthma rates to alarming levels, authorities said yesterday.
Over the past two weeks, 110 trucks have been slapped with fines that start at $750 for first offenders, and $1,300 for those caught a second time."
They're kidding right about the problem being the toxic trucks?
It is not the truckers who should be fined. It is the fools in charge who had created a toxic environment and are trying to blame the working people for the problem. If these are the folks making deliveries in this underserved area, what message is that sending?
If we had been using hemp biofuel or magnetic energy, there would be no air pollution from trucks. Our government has made clean burning hemp biofuel illegal and starved Bruce DePalma's invention, the N Machine that works with a Faraday Motor to create clean, free, sustainable energy. Instead they keep us on toxic energy and decide which will be the next war project.
I left Harlem screaming in '98 because the poverty pimps, no matter how many times I spoke with them, how many street corners I stood on for hours at a time giving out flyers, or rallies at Riverside Park, the leadership was/is stuck on stupid, evil or both if they are blaming the truckers for Harlem's asthma problem.
They would take their own families to Riverbank Park to swim on top of an open sewer because it was politically correct to support the best park in Harlem. It was like the movie JAWS beach scene on the 4th of July weekend.
Federal, state and city policy has legislated Harlemites to death, literally.
1. Harlem is surrounded by 5 open sewers, North River, Wards Island,Tallmans Island, Hunts Point and Bowery Bay. Hunts Point is where they make the fertilizer.
At Riverbank, they have added a new $55 million air treatment process that removes the odors. Does it remove or empower the toxins?
I remember being in shock at the environmental poverty pimps working to keep the conversation on odor and flow rather than the mutating germs and other toxins released from the open windowed sewers. (More information posted next blog entry).
2. Harlem is surrounded by high traffic highways on 3 of 4 sides.
3. The Harlem valley is a sink for a lot of the toxins in the area.
4. There are large rat and roach problems that could help cause asthma.
5. Some of those building are over 100 years old with mold, lead and other toxins.
6. World Trade Center dust was not cleaned up in Manhattan anywhere but in the hole. That toxic dust has to be impacting by now since the incubation time is 5-15 years, though the first person to die from WTC Illness passed in February, 2002.
7. Plus increased stress after the greatest inside job ever, 9/11, and they want to blame the trucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think they should check out the above list before giving the truckers grief.
Or maybe the fines are about greed. Like the environmental disaster could have been about the genocide necessary for clearing Harlem out to make way for modern times.
"UNDER ASTHMA ATTACK
HARLEM'S 'TOXIC' TRUCKERS TARGETED
By DOUGLAS MONTERO and SAMUEL GOLDSMITH
November 17, 2007 -- Smoke-belching truck tearing through Harlem are being ticketed with heavy fines for leaving a trail of toxic dust that has elevated the area's asthma rates to alarming levels, authorities said yesterday.
Over the past two weeks, 110 trucks have been slapped with fines that start at $750 for first offenders, and $1,300 for those caught a second time."
They're kidding right about the problem being the toxic trucks?
It is not the truckers who should be fined. It is the fools in charge who had created a toxic environment and are trying to blame the working people for the problem. If these are the folks making deliveries in this underserved area, what message is that sending?
If we had been using hemp biofuel or magnetic energy, there would be no air pollution from trucks. Our government has made clean burning hemp biofuel illegal and starved Bruce DePalma's invention, the N Machine that works with a Faraday Motor to create clean, free, sustainable energy. Instead they keep us on toxic energy and decide which will be the next war project.
I left Harlem screaming in '98 because the poverty pimps, no matter how many times I spoke with them, how many street corners I stood on for hours at a time giving out flyers, or rallies at Riverside Park, the leadership was/is stuck on stupid, evil or both if they are blaming the truckers for Harlem's asthma problem.
They would take their own families to Riverbank Park to swim on top of an open sewer because it was politically correct to support the best park in Harlem. It was like the movie JAWS beach scene on the 4th of July weekend.
Federal, state and city policy has legislated Harlemites to death, literally.
1. Harlem is surrounded by 5 open sewers, North River, Wards Island,Tallmans Island, Hunts Point and Bowery Bay. Hunts Point is where they make the fertilizer.
At Riverbank, they have added a new $55 million air treatment process that removes the odors. Does it remove or empower the toxins?
I remember being in shock at the environmental poverty pimps working to keep the conversation on odor and flow rather than the mutating germs and other toxins released from the open windowed sewers. (More information posted next blog entry).
2. Harlem is surrounded by high traffic highways on 3 of 4 sides.
3. The Harlem valley is a sink for a lot of the toxins in the area.
4. There are large rat and roach problems that could help cause asthma.
5. Some of those building are over 100 years old with mold, lead and other toxins.
6. World Trade Center dust was not cleaned up in Manhattan anywhere but in the hole. That toxic dust has to be impacting by now since the incubation time is 5-15 years, though the first person to die from WTC Illness passed in February, 2002.
7. Plus increased stress after the greatest inside job ever, 9/11, and they want to blame the trucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think they should check out the above list before giving the truckers grief.
Or maybe the fines are about greed. Like the environmental disaster could have been about the genocide necessary for clearing Harlem out to make way for modern times.
Monday, October 22, 2007
How To Shoot A Cop!!!
Please hear this idea out.
The police in Harlem apparently still treating her citizens like cattle.
People do what they think they can get away with and the police have gotten away with killing innocent people for almost a hundred years in Harlem.
Technology is a great way to use the healing power of truth.
By now there should be more than enough cameras in Harlem to shoot video of the police and their customers 24/7.
That's got to have a positive impact on crime reduction both from the criminals and the police standpoint.
There is a reason they can't answer questions. There are design problems in the police rotation system that needs to be fixed. There are better ways to flush out corruption than break community bonds for a schedule.
I can't imagine a better video leader than this young man who is telling the truthful results of poverty pimp policies.
I'm looking to Cliffy Barz as a leader in this evolution of Harlem's policy. It's way past time for Harlem to replace her industrial age poverty pimp lack of leadership with tech savy kids like Cliffy who are not ashamed to show the need for healing.
Truth of video has a way of showing the good and evil, empowering wise decision making.
Maybe because of this video, one policeperson will pause before executing the wrong person, knowing their decision is on tape. One can't know where all the camera are in such a small area.
To all good people keeping truth first, please keep up the great work.
The truth is setting us free.
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Harlem's Senator Clinton
Has anybody asked
Senator Hillary Clinton
about this yet?
(do a video search for "Peter Paul" "Hillary Clinton"
for more information - it's a puzzlement)
Peter Paul has Senator Clinton on tape talking about money.
Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
I pray that's not what's going on here.
Looking for her side of the story.
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Cliffy Barz Interviews Mack 10 (Compton California)
I give thanks and praise for Harlem's youth.
Cliffy Barz is a Harlem "videologist" who's telling the truth about art, crime and community.
Note Mack 10's wisdom of the need to take time when developing art. Living in such an instant society, where we are taught to create in schools with time boxes, this may help an artist you know or are.
Enjoy.
Sunday, October 07, 2007
Senator Clinton
The US Senator representing Harlem, New York is running for president. I remember when she came on the scene in the early 90's talking about fixing the health care system and making children/education a priority.
It's now 2007. She has grown in political stature, but education and health care are worse off than ever with Medicine, Inc. as the leading cause of death.
I could be wrong and am researching additional information. Yet Senator Clinton's loyalty seems to have an Industrial (pro big medicine and industry) – Military (pro war against people who havenever hurt us) – Congressional complex base going way back.
Here's some of my concerns with Senator Clinton:
EDUCATION
Though I'm sure she's pro education, when the Clinton family came to Washington they were faced with upgrading the public school system in Washington D.C. or sending their daughter to private school. Guess which won.
Even though she didn't send her daughter to public school, what did she do to champion public schools who were not worthy of Chelsea? As the current Senator representing Harlem too, how have the public schools improved since she became senator? I've always found it strange that the strongest building in Harlem is not a school where the children are kept, but the police station.
Based on results, what Senator Clinton did was not sufficient for the problem of education, though she had access to the resources.
Like Harlem, the Washington DC's inner city schools are still in trouble.
It's like we're training inner city youth for careers in radio tubes at the dawn of the computer chip. It's tough to find a computer super store in the inner city. STAPLES, bless their hearts, is a stationary store, not a computer super store.
Talk about second hand information in the information age.
If then First Lady Clinton had just acted regarding computerization in the Information Age (like Lady Bird Johnson did regarding the environment in the 1960's with her Keep America Beautiful program), and told her husband (or brokered herself) to make a deal with corporations to donate older computers to local schools for a tax deduction, the problem would have been solved.
I still suspect that some of the thugs we have running the streets today would better interact with the rest of society if they spent more of their time at a computer screen where they could vent their rage in a safer environment. It's tough to have a gun and a keyboard going at the same time, though I admit, not impossible.
HEALTH CARE - HEALTH SOLUTIONS
When Senator Clinton's husband had to have his heart operation just before the last presidential election, she expressed gratitude for their health care package. I wonder if any children died during that time as a result of not having or not having enough health care. Would she know their names? In this case Senator Clinton accepted the privilege extended to her family while tens of millions go uninsured every day. What a racket!
Maybe I missed her standing up to EPA's Whitman on 9/13/01 and saying the air WAS NOT safe to breathe, nor the water safe to drink, nor the building materials with the exploded bodies, asbestos, benzene and other toxic chemicals NOT able to be effectively cleaned. Asbestos does not clean out of fabric.
When the news was released about the breach in trust, THAT THE WHITE HOUSE TOLD THE EPA TO ALTER THE SAFETY REPORT, AND THEY COMPLIED, coordinated with a big power black out, I expected her in the White House parking lot ready to kick ass because people in her state had their lives ripped from them based on a lie.
I probably missed the story where she is suing the federal government for altering the WTC toxins safety report on behalf of those exposed. She's a lawyer,right? How much is she going for?
ALL EXPOSED TO WTC TOXINS SHOULD BE GETTING REPARATIONS AND HEALTH SUPPORT CHECKS, BIG ONES, NOW. Finance it with a recreational hemp tax if there is no money left from the war.
It was government negligence that put the city on lock down and lied about the test results. For years they denied there was even a problem.
Senator Clinton was in a position of power on 9/11. What's her position on 9/11 as an inside job? Has she said anything constructive on the issue or is she still talking that Osama bull shit?
Over the last few years Senator Clinton started to shift on the World Trade Center issue, but it's too little too late. The time to deal with it was at the beginning.
SENATOR CLINTON, YOU ARE NO HARRIET TUBMAN
Harriet Tubman never lost a passenger on her train runs. Nope. Not never. She put the Lord first. Tubman put her life on the line to fight for those in her care.
Harriet Tubman was a war nurse and a military general in the Civil War, not a spectator in the hospital seeing what a nurse does all day. Did Senator Clinton clean out any bed pans or wipe up any puke during her recent photo op?
If not, I don't know how she can say she took the tour to understand a day in the life of a nurse.
When Sen. Clinton announced with pride about how she worked to award Harriet Tubman $10,000 in back military pay, about 90 years after Tubman's death, it seemed like a joke at first, then an insult.
Is that what The General was worth? Tubman was of greater value on the auction block, though not to herself or her people.
In retrospect, if Harriet Tubman, with all she did, was only worth $10,000......
If we are to grow as a nation, we must restore sanity to government and stop making the same stupid mistakes, putting the same selfish families in office again, and again, and possibly again.
I'm voting for the department of peace, no more torture for people or cruelty to animals, hemp legalization, restoring the Bill of Rights, common sense economics, repairing the damage this country has done, health solutions at both the cause and effect levels, empowering computerization, and a government managed from a uniting spirit, with the highest good for all concerned as its guiding principle.
I am voting Kucinich in '08.
It's now 2007. She has grown in political stature, but education and health care are worse off than ever with Medicine, Inc. as the leading cause of death.
I could be wrong and am researching additional information. Yet Senator Clinton's loyalty seems to have an Industrial (pro big medicine and industry) – Military (pro war against people who havenever hurt us) – Congressional complex base going way back.
Here's some of my concerns with Senator Clinton:
EDUCATION
Though I'm sure she's pro education, when the Clinton family came to Washington they were faced with upgrading the public school system in Washington D.C. or sending their daughter to private school. Guess which won.
Even though she didn't send her daughter to public school, what did she do to champion public schools who were not worthy of Chelsea? As the current Senator representing Harlem too, how have the public schools improved since she became senator? I've always found it strange that the strongest building in Harlem is not a school where the children are kept, but the police station.
Based on results, what Senator Clinton did was not sufficient for the problem of education, though she had access to the resources.
Like Harlem, the Washington DC's inner city schools are still in trouble.
The D.C. school system that was shunned has new "standards" for education... http://www.k12.dc.us/dcps/Standards/General/StandardsBackground.pdf...
where the word computer is not mentioned. They are still talking about teaching children out of text books when everybody knows thatebooks can offer a greater variety of learning material than printed books, and at least pre-K-14 - national standard (Massachusetts) -should be on line for free.
It's like we're training inner city youth for careers in radio tubes at the dawn of the computer chip. It's tough to find a computer super store in the inner city. STAPLES, bless their hearts, is a stationary store, not a computer super store.
Talk about second hand information in the information age.
If then First Lady Clinton had just acted regarding computerization in the Information Age (like Lady Bird Johnson did regarding the environment in the 1960's with her Keep America Beautiful program), and told her husband (or brokered herself) to make a deal with corporations to donate older computers to local schools for a tax deduction, the problem would have been solved.
I still suspect that some of the thugs we have running the streets today would better interact with the rest of society if they spent more of their time at a computer screen where they could vent their rage in a safer environment. It's tough to have a gun and a keyboard going at the same time, though I admit, not impossible.
HEALTH CARE - HEALTH SOLUTIONS
When Senator Clinton's husband had to have his heart operation just before the last presidential election, she expressed gratitude for their health care package. I wonder if any children died during that time as a result of not having or not having enough health care. Would she know their names? In this case Senator Clinton accepted the privilege extended to her family while tens of millions go uninsured every day. What a racket!
Maybe I missed her standing up to EPA's Whitman on 9/13/01 and saying the air WAS NOT safe to breathe, nor the water safe to drink, nor the building materials with the exploded bodies, asbestos, benzene and other toxic chemicals NOT able to be effectively cleaned. Asbestos does not clean out of fabric.
When the news was released about the breach in trust, THAT THE WHITE HOUSE TOLD THE EPA TO ALTER THE SAFETY REPORT, AND THEY COMPLIED, coordinated with a big power black out, I expected her in the White House parking lot ready to kick ass because people in her state had their lives ripped from them based on a lie.
I probably missed the story where she is suing the federal government for altering the WTC toxins safety report on behalf of those exposed. She's a lawyer,right? How much is she going for?
ALL EXPOSED TO WTC TOXINS SHOULD BE GETTING REPARATIONS AND HEALTH SUPPORT CHECKS, BIG ONES, NOW. Finance it with a recreational hemp tax if there is no money left from the war.
It was government negligence that put the city on lock down and lied about the test results. For years they denied there was even a problem.
Senator Clinton was in a position of power on 9/11. What's her position on 9/11 as an inside job? Has she said anything constructive on the issue or is she still talking that Osama bull shit?
Over the last few years Senator Clinton started to shift on the World Trade Center issue, but it's too little too late. The time to deal with it was at the beginning.
SENATOR CLINTON, YOU ARE NO HARRIET TUBMAN
Harriet Tubman never lost a passenger on her train runs. Nope. Not never. She put the Lord first. Tubman put her life on the line to fight for those in her care.
Harriet Tubman was a war nurse and a military general in the Civil War, not a spectator in the hospital seeing what a nurse does all day. Did Senator Clinton clean out any bed pans or wipe up any puke during her recent photo op?
If not, I don't know how she can say she took the tour to understand a day in the life of a nurse.
When Sen. Clinton announced with pride about how she worked to award Harriet Tubman $10,000 in back military pay, about 90 years after Tubman's death, it seemed like a joke at first, then an insult.
Is that what The General was worth? Tubman was of greater value on the auction block, though not to herself or her people.
In retrospect, if Harriet Tubman, with all she did, was only worth $10,000......
If we are to grow as a nation, we must restore sanity to government and stop making the same stupid mistakes, putting the same selfish families in office again, and again, and possibly again.
I'm voting for the department of peace, no more torture for people or cruelty to animals, hemp legalization, restoring the Bill of Rights, common sense economics, repairing the damage this country has done, health solutions at both the cause and effect levels, empowering computerization, and a government managed from a uniting spirit, with the highest good for all concerned as its guiding principle.
I am voting Kucinich in '08.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
World Trade Center Illness Manifested
USA Today Reports:
Today her name was added to the list of those who died as a result of exposure to World Trade Center dust. She is not the only one as the list of folks who have died from WTC dust is unknown.
What we are now calling “World Trade Center Illness” (or syndrome or cough) - sickness that results from exposure to the toxic dust of the WTC - can manifest as squamous cell cancer (SCC) or mesothelioma asbestos lung or stomach CANCER and other diseases resulting from the toxic synergy resting from exposure to many known toxic substances.
Get ready to heal a whole new crop of diseases.
Most of what I've looked at over the years has been information on known cancers from exposure to the chemicals on the list of toxins.
Both cancers, squamous and mesothelioma, result from chronic chemical, petroleum by-products or asbestos exposure. Exposure increases risk, and folks have been exposed to large quantities of toxic material for years now.
We have to stop pretending not to know. Since September 11, 2001, folks in parts of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut have been breathing, eating and drinking the dust from the World Trade Center.
The toxic soup contained transformer oil contaminated with PCB's, polyvinyl, chloride, copper, furans, polybrominated diphenyl ethers, dioxins, asbestos, mercury from the computers and lights, thousands of gallons of jet fuel, and what the National Resources Defense Council - NRDC also defined as “small hazardous waste generating entities.” Add to that an estimated 50,000 personal computers with four pounds of lead each, pulverized, and that is 200,000 pounds of lead released into the atmosphere.
Chronic asbestos and petroleum by-products’ exposure can cause cancer.
Folks have been exposed to known carcinogens, and we need to deal with this situation now.
People in New York were told “We need you strong.” Rather than evacuate the area, the city was put on lock down, and the EPA report was manipulated by the White House to reflect minimal danger in the dust. There was no choice but to consume the toxins.
From WTC Volunteer Albert Davis’ book (As told to Terri Suess ) on his experience, GETTING TO GROUND ZERO:
“The bottom line was there was a shortage of masks. I was able to get one box of matching masks and filters and delivered them to where they were needed, near the “Hole”.
They were gone in an instant.
I thought of asking rescue workers for their masks when they came out of the site to take a break so the next rescue worker could use it. No one else thought that idea would work so I abandoned it.”
Here’s more supporting documentation for my concerns.
SQUAMOUS CELL CANCER Health Central reports about SCC: “Other risks include genetic predisposition… chemical pollution, and overexposure to X-rays or other forms of radiation.”
From Skincancer.org “Squamous cell carcinomas may also occur where skin has suffered certain kinds of injury: burns, scars, long-standing sores, sites previously exposed to X-rays or certain chemicals (such as arsenic and petroleum by-products).”
SCC can happen internally due to breathing petroleum by-products. I am dealing with this on a personal level now, which is the catalyst for these observations.
My mother-in-love, Edith Akuna, 69, worked for General Motors in Van Nuys, CA in the 1980’s. Her job on the finishing line was to put the stickers on new cars, approving the engine worked. She also pumped gas into the cars for part of her time there. To do her job, Edith breathed the chemicals off the new, 'starting for the first time' cars for years. After developing respiratory problems, she was put on complete disability about 12 years ago. Edith, who was otherwise healthy, died of SCC, the kind that results from chemical exposure.
SCC is usually a skin cancer. Because she breathed the chemicals, the SCC was on her internal organs. She had a mass that went from the top of her neck down her right lung, a second tumor lower on her lungs and one on each kidney.
As the doctors were explaining the nature of squamous cell cancer I thought, ‘chemicals, like what the folks consumed on 9/11?' I made the connection between WTC Illness and SCC because the transformer oil and the thousands of gallons of jet fuel, plus the pulverized plastics (petroleum by-products and other chemicals) are what folks in at least part of the tri state area have been consuming, like Edith did at her job.
We know based on Edith's job description and interviews with co-workers that petroleum by-products are on the list. Of course they have not released the list. They said they'll get back to her son. That was two years ago.
The problem of WTC Illness is not just SCC.
MESOTHELIOMA ASBESTOS LUNG & STOMACH CANCER
Another dangerous element from the dust is the asbestos. Asbestos inhalation increases ones risk for Mesothelioma Asbestos Lung Cancer.
There was, as estimated by the NRDC, between 300-400 tons of asbestos released into the air, pulverized, when the buildings fell. From the mesothelioma-net.org site:“ Pleural mesothelioma or cancer of the lung lining is the most common form of mesothelioma cancer. Peritoneal mesothelioma is stomach lining cancer and is the next most common form of mesothelioma.”
“Asbestos fibers are found in nature and float easily.
Nearly everyone is exposed to asbestos at some time in their lives. It becomes a health concern when asbestos fibers are breathed in at high concentrations over a long time period. As a person’s exposure to fibers increases, either by breathing more fibers or by breathing fibers for a longer time, that person’s risk of disease also increases. It can take anywhere from 10 to 40 years for someone to develop a specific illness after their exposure. Disease is very unlikely to result from a single, high-level exposure, or from a short period of exposure to lower levels.”
But the asbestos was blown into buildings, into fabrics that people interact with, and though the WTC area has been cleaned up, much of the surrounding area has not and the dusty material was transported in open trucks.
More from the CDC on September 13, 2001. “What are some things that can be done to limit exposure? For the general public, the further an individual is from the site of dust generation, the less exposure there will be to high levels of asbestos. The best advice is to avoid or limit dust exposure as much as possible.”
People were told that the dust was limited to lower Manhattan. That was just not true. Paper was found from the WTC as far east as Long Island. If a piece of paper could travel that far, imagine how far the dust traveled, based on prevailing winds.”
CONCLUSION George Carlin told a joke about how what use to be called “shell shock” is now “post traumatic stress disorder.” His point was adding more words to describe a situation is not always a good thing. We need to call the next phase of world trade center illness what it is - C A N C E R or toxic synergy.
Regular cancer screening and treatment needs to be available at no cost for all exposed.
Research needs to be done on how to effectively deal with these cancers. Consider “Sharks Don't Get Cancer : How Shark Cartilage Could Save Your Life” by William I. Lane and Linda Comac.
Also look at hydrotherapy, medical marijuana, stress reduction and the need for a healthy diet.
I am not a medical professional. I am a tough minded optimist. I lived in New York from ’72-98. I live in Arizona now. I LOVE NEW YORK ETERNALLY (and the tri-state area –it’s a total package).
Caroline Myss in her book “Anatomy of the Spirit : The Seven Stages of Power and Healing” has a concept “Wisdom Erases Karma.” It’s time to wise up on this issue. Please let me know what you think and share this information with those who can help address the upcoming WTC cancer and other health issues crisis.
Sunday, July 29, 2007
The Militarization of Our Police
There was a time, at the beginning of the last century, when the police were our friends.
Welcome to modern times.
Thursday, May 03, 2007
9/11 Was An Inside Job
In case you were not told, 9/11 was an inside job, pulled off by folks in the government who needed to create a New Pearl Harbor to get folks in line with the Nazi plan of extermination.
Your elected and appointed officials helped.
Your elected and appointed officials helped.
Saturday, April 14, 2007
OEM ENCOURAGES NEW YORKERS TO PREPARE FOR A NOR'EASTER
In the 90's I tried to tell Harlem's lack of leadership, guided by Congressman Rangel, that she was at the edge of the ocean at the beginning of global warming and we needed to build water walls or some way to manage a surge from the ocean. I was one of many ignored, inconvenient truths.
Fast forward 20 years. I thank the mayor for having an evacuation plan. I hope it works.
To see the danger you are in, in the event of a "freak" storm surge off the ocean, to go google earth and search for Harlem, New York (it's true for New York City too). At the bottom of the view is the sea level, posted for the area. Some parts of Harlem and the Upper East Side are as low as 10' above sea level. So you know what a real wave up the rivers will do.
Please pay attention to the weather and good luck in the storm.
Here's the posting from the City of New York about tomorrow's storm.
Here's the posting from the City of New York about tomorrow's storm.
From NYC.gov : Emergency Preparedness, Notifications and Alerts
The National Weather Services has issued a Coastal Flood Watch and a Wind Advisory for New York City beginning on Sunday, April 15. A large storm is headed toward the city, and may cause dangerous winds, heavy precipitation, and flooding.
New Yorkers should prepare their homes and cars before the storm hits, and remember their neighbors with special needs who may require extra support.
Read the press release
Learn more about nor'easters
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Longevity
"Our thoughts create our reality."
I've always thought that I want to be 100 years old when I grow up.
I'm going for 100 plus and I'm more than half way there, with The Lord's Grace. It doesn't matter if I die now or reach my goal because there are such wonderful moments in the mix.
Mindset seems to be important to longevity. Not the absolute, which is the Lord. But an influence.
I was teaching folks in Harlem how to use a computer when Tupac was murdered. Tupac was known for "knowing" he was going to die at 25. Many of the young people at the time shared with me that they also held that feeling.
I had classes of seniors from the A. Philip Randolph Senior Center and Minisink Townhouse and after school classes of young people at Minisink. So I told the seniors, who had clearly mastered basic survival skills by being here, what was going on with the children and asked what advice I could give the young people who don't think they would make it past 25.
The seniors unanimously agreed that the first step in getting old is seeing yourself old. Don't allow death/fear thoughts to get in the way of living.
Bryant Gumbel when he first went on the Today Show interviewed a man who was 113 years old. Bryant asked him how did he get to be 113. The man said there were only 3 things that he could think of that he did. Prayed every day. Made sure he went to bed every night and made sure he woke up every morning. He told Bryant that if he would do just those three things on that schedule, Bryant would look up an be 113 one day too. That prescription reads to me like "the divine plan for mortal survival."
Age is an illusion. We've got life, now, in this form.
"Nothing Real Can Be Threatened.
Nothing Unreal Can Exist.
Herein Lies The Peace Of God! "
(A Course In Miracles, T, 1, 2.2)
J O Y!!!
I've always thought that I want to be 100 years old when I grow up.
I'm going for 100 plus and I'm more than half way there, with The Lord's Grace. It doesn't matter if I die now or reach my goal because there are such wonderful moments in the mix.
Mindset seems to be important to longevity. Not the absolute, which is the Lord. But an influence.
I was teaching folks in Harlem how to use a computer when Tupac was murdered. Tupac was known for "knowing" he was going to die at 25. Many of the young people at the time shared with me that they also held that feeling.
I had classes of seniors from the A. Philip Randolph Senior Center and Minisink Townhouse and after school classes of young people at Minisink. So I told the seniors, who had clearly mastered basic survival skills by being here, what was going on with the children and asked what advice I could give the young people who don't think they would make it past 25.
The seniors unanimously agreed that the first step in getting old is seeing yourself old. Don't allow death/fear thoughts to get in the way of living.
Bryant Gumbel when he first went on the Today Show interviewed a man who was 113 years old. Bryant asked him how did he get to be 113. The man said there were only 3 things that he could think of that he did. Prayed every day. Made sure he went to bed every night and made sure he woke up every morning. He told Bryant that if he would do just those three things on that schedule, Bryant would look up an be 113 one day too. That prescription reads to me like "the divine plan for mortal survival."
Age is an illusion. We've got life, now, in this form.
"Nothing Real Can Be Threatened.
Nothing Unreal Can Exist.
Herein Lies The Peace Of God! "
(A Course In Miracles, T, 1, 2.2)
J O Y!!!
Saturday, January 20, 2007
Virginia Montague - One Step Up for a Familiar Face - News
One Step Up for a Familiar Face - News: "One Step Up for a Familiar Face
By David Greenhouse
Spectator Staff Writer
Issue date: 3/3/05 Section: News"
"“What’s unlimited is that you can be an advocate,” she said."
Virginia M. Montague is an inspiration and further proof that the elections in Harlem must be rigged, with the dead sometimes outvoting the living. She is an extraordinary innovator, a true Harlem Hero who has consistently put the good of the community ahead of her own interests.
“Most of the young people coming out of jail didn’t have any skills at all,” she said of that experience. “We tried to place them, but they didn’t have the discipline or mental skills to succeed in a job environment.”
In part, Montague attributed her decision to run a third time to an observation that many areas of the district are experiencing economic and social stagnation.
Since 1997, “the conditions I see in my community haven’t changed,” she said.
Montague talked about improving constituent service as a way of jump-starting social progress and bringing fringe areas more fully into the district."
If Montague had been elected to City Council in 1997, the whole future of New York would have been radically better. Her hope chest is full with constructive possibilities. Her political commitment is to the Lord's Highest Good For All Concerned. I can't imagine her as a cut throat politician, what I'm told it takes to succeed. I hope she runs until she wins again, and again, and again.
I pray the rest of Harlem is as proud of Virginia M. Montague as I am, and will, like in the production THE WIZ, throw off Evillene and dance in the light of healing ideas Montague and other positive community folks are trying to implement to make our lives, and that of future generations, better.
Thank you Virginia Montague and all the other Harlem Heroes fighting to make this world a better place.
Go forward!
By David Greenhouse
Spectator Staff Writer
Issue date: 3/3/05 Section: News"
"“What’s unlimited is that you can be an advocate,” she said."
Virginia M. Montague is an inspiration and further proof that the elections in Harlem must be rigged, with the dead sometimes outvoting the living. She is an extraordinary innovator, a true Harlem Hero who has consistently put the good of the community ahead of her own interests.
"Since Montague came to New York in the 1970s from North Carolina, she has been active in working with the city’s at-risk populations. She was a caseworker in the welfare system and later became a probation officer before embarking on a Pennsylvania program that sought to help released prisoners find jobs.
“Most of the young people coming out of jail didn’t have any skills at all,” she said of that experience. “We tried to place them, but they didn’t have the discipline or mental skills to succeed in a job environment.”
In part, Montague attributed her decision to run a third time to an observation that many areas of the district are experiencing economic and social stagnation.
Since 1997, “the conditions I see in my community haven’t changed,” she said.
Montague talked about improving constituent service as a way of jump-starting social progress and bringing fringe areas more fully into the district."
I hope she writes a book on the importance of having elected and appointed officials who actually care about the community, like she does. What the elected folks have allowed to happen in Harlem post dis-empowerment zone era (1997) is a shame before God.
Harlem stands at the beginning of Global Warming, unprotected, below sea level, with elected officials who did nothing to build dikes or water walls to protect 125th Street in the event of a rise in the sea level. They were warned and did nothing.
To understand, in the spring from either end of 125th Street you can see the river elevated. It's a thin line to flood the valley, Central Harlem.
Instead, some of the elected and appointed officials propose a restaurant/mall down wind from the stinking, uncovered sewer tanks at North River, lying under Riverbank State Park, where people come to exercise and play.
If Montague had been elected to City Council in 1997, the whole future of New York would have been radically better. Her hope chest is full with constructive possibilities. Her political commitment is to the Lord's Highest Good For All Concerned. I can't imagine her as a cut throat politician, what I'm told it takes to succeed. I hope she runs until she wins again, and again, and again.
I pray the rest of Harlem is as proud of Virginia M. Montague as I am, and will, like in the production THE WIZ, throw off Evillene and dance in the light of healing ideas Montague and other positive community folks are trying to implement to make our lives, and that of future generations, better.
Thank you Virginia Montague and all the other Harlem Heroes fighting to make this world a better place.
Go forward!
Monday, January 01, 2007
Is Congressman Rangel Senile?
I mean no disrespect in my question but the man makes no sense. 9/11, global warming, racism, failing educational system, government corruption, loss of freedom, war, etc. are issues that need to be addressed through the House Ways and Means Committee, which he chairs.
I ask because the Congressman Charles Rangel continues to propose totally unworkable solutions to problems, like re-instituting the draft.
"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Rep. Charles Rangel introduced a bill in Congress to reinstate the military draft, saying fighting forces should more closely reflect the economic makeup of the nation. " Wednesday, January 8, 2003
War is an ineffective solution and yet, he continues to advocate it as a strategy. Could it be Mad Cow? Just dumb?
When I first sat down to write this piece I thought I was the only one who thinks that the forever evil congressman has turned senile (when crack and AIDS came to Harlem he did NOTHING effective, if anything). A Yahoo web search returned the results "...about 382 for "Charles Rangel" "senile"
I don't think the man ever got elected...just another in a series of stolen elections. Kitchen table petitioning, voter fraud, corruption so thick that a McDonalds opened in Harlem Hospital, and the eternal cycle of money and programs in place before elections, snatched away within a week of the election, stand as testimony.
Just look at how he took Harlem from the land of hope and dreams in the 70's that Congressman Adam Clayton Powell helped create, to the depths of despair, doing his best to keep Harlem out of the Information Age.
Harlem under his watch has became an environmental disaster area.
I told Congressman Rangel in the mid 90's that in between 10-15 years global warming would kick in. I explained that Harlem needed to build water walls at either end of 125th street, because when the ocean rises, since 125th street is below sea level, it could flood and a lot of life and property could be lost. Did he even care? No! His eyes just glazed over like he didn't have a clue what I was talking about, even though I had a topographical map that demonstrated what I was talking about.
Harlem is infested with industrial age thinking in the information age. The congressman is at the helm of stupidity.
For example. Industrial age thinking says it's fine for folks to starve and freeze if they can't afford food or fuel. No problem, just the American way.
Charles Rangel dissed Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez who is giving oil to poor folks in America who can't afford traditional heating bills. The congressman is an embarrassment.
"Congressman Charles B. Rangel was the principal author of the five billion-dollar Federal Empowerment Zone and Enterprise Community demonstration project to revitalize urban neighborhoods throughout America. "
This author of the dis-empowerment zone trashed many good souls working in the 90's to make Harlem a better place, build our businesses and give back to the community.
Given what Congressman Rangel has done for Harlem, and what he is proposing for our young people, it's foolish to think that he would not do the same to the rest of America.
IT'S TIME TO STOP LIVING BY THE DICTATES OF EVIL, SENILE, GREEDY PEOPLE INCLUDING CONGRESSMAN RANGEL. HE SHOULD BE REPLACED BY COMPETENT LEADERSHIP THAT FACTORS IN THE HIGHEST GOOD FOR ALL CONCERNED.
We must demand integrity in elections so people like Congressman Rangel can stop killing the rest of us.
I ask because the Congressman Charles Rangel continues to propose totally unworkable solutions to problems, like re-instituting the draft.
"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Rep. Charles Rangel introduced a bill in Congress to reinstate the military draft, saying fighting forces should more closely reflect the economic makeup of the nation. " Wednesday, January 8, 2003
War is an ineffective solution and yet, he continues to advocate it as a strategy. Could it be Mad Cow? Just dumb?
When I first sat down to write this piece I thought I was the only one who thinks that the forever evil congressman has turned senile (when crack and AIDS came to Harlem he did NOTHING effective, if anything). A Yahoo web search returned the results "...about 382 for "Charles Rangel" "senile"
I don't think the man ever got elected...just another in a series of stolen elections. Kitchen table petitioning, voter fraud, corruption so thick that a McDonalds opened in Harlem Hospital, and the eternal cycle of money and programs in place before elections, snatched away within a week of the election, stand as testimony.
Just look at how he took Harlem from the land of hope and dreams in the 70's that Congressman Adam Clayton Powell helped create, to the depths of despair, doing his best to keep Harlem out of the Information Age.
Harlem under his watch has became an environmental disaster area.
I told Congressman Rangel in the mid 90's that in between 10-15 years global warming would kick in. I explained that Harlem needed to build water walls at either end of 125th street, because when the ocean rises, since 125th street is below sea level, it could flood and a lot of life and property could be lost. Did he even care? No! His eyes just glazed over like he didn't have a clue what I was talking about, even though I had a topographical map that demonstrated what I was talking about.
Harlem is infested with industrial age thinking in the information age. The congressman is at the helm of stupidity.
For example. Industrial age thinking says it's fine for folks to starve and freeze if they can't afford food or fuel. No problem, just the American way.
Charles Rangel dissed Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez who is giving oil to poor folks in America who can't afford traditional heating bills. The congressman is an embarrassment.
"Congressman Charles B. Rangel was the principal author of the five billion-dollar Federal Empowerment Zone and Enterprise Community demonstration project to revitalize urban neighborhoods throughout America. "
This author of the dis-empowerment zone trashed many good souls working in the 90's to make Harlem a better place, build our businesses and give back to the community.
Given what Congressman Rangel has done for Harlem, and what he is proposing for our young people, it's foolish to think that he would not do the same to the rest of America.
IT'S TIME TO STOP LIVING BY THE DICTATES OF EVIL, SENILE, GREEDY PEOPLE INCLUDING CONGRESSMAN RANGEL. HE SHOULD BE REPLACED BY COMPETENT LEADERSHIP THAT FACTORS IN THE HIGHEST GOOD FOR ALL CONCERNED.
We must demand integrity in elections so people like Congressman Rangel can stop killing the rest of us.
Saturday, September 09, 2006
WTC Health Guidelines - Was Harlem Exposed?
"Can I have your attention please:
Jesus was Black.
[Middle Eastern - Woolly Hair]
Ronald Reagan was the devil.
[AIDS – Crack (Iran Contra) Policies]
And the government is lying about 9/11"
Boondocks
Jesus was Black.
[Middle Eastern - Woolly Hair]
Ronald Reagan was the devil.
[AIDS – Crack (Iran Contra) Policies]
And the government is lying about 9/11"
Boondocks
Despite what the government is saying, the toxic dust from the WTC did not stay in Lower Manhattan. The wind carried it much further than New York City. Remember the initial estimates that said 25,000 to 30,000 folks killed on 9/11. By the time World Trade Center Illness runs its course, initial death toll numbers could be accurate. I say that because the City reports that hundreds of thousands of people were exposed.
The toxic soup that made up the dust from the WTC contained transformer oil contaminated with PCB's, polyvinyl, chloride, copper, furans, polybrominated diphenyl ethers, dioxins, asbestos, mercury from the computers and lights, thousands of gallons of jet fuel, and what the National Resources Defense Council - NRDC defined as “small hazardous waste generating entities.” Add to that an estimated 50,000 personal computers with four pounds of lead each, pulverized, and that is 200,000 pounds of lead released into the atmosphere."
It's way past time to tell the truth about the government's decision to put New York on lock down when World Trade Center 1, 2 & 7 were exploded. I write exploded because there was thermite found in the dust and all three structures were pulverized, not fallen or burned. As was the case in New Orleans during Katrina, the word "explosions" was used by people who were present at the events.
It is not just the first responders who are suffering and dying. Living, working, visiting for a spell folks were exposed.
Did the toxic dust travel as far as Harlem? Of course it did. Common sense says the wind would carry the dust to many places, including Harlem.
- Was there any testing done to see if asbestos and other toxic material traveled into Harlem?
- What about folks who live in Harlem and volunteered at Ground Zero, i.e. Albert Davis or worked downtown either on or after 9/11 i.e. Robert Ponce'?
- Given the dynamics of insurance, do those exposed have health options if they are among the 40 million or so uninsured in America?
- Is Harlem's health care system ready to deal with community folks exposed to the toxic dust?
- What have Harlem's elected and appointed officials done to test the area for toxic material from the WTC over the last 5 years?
Chronic exposure to toxic material can cause squamous cell cancer and other medical conditions. It takes 5-15 years to manifest and the reports of people dying are flooding in. There are many ways the problem of World Trade Center Illness is manifesting. Squamous cell cancer is just one.
After 5 years of "studying" the problem, in August, 2006, the City of New York released guidelines to the medical community for how to deal with WTC Illness. The report is from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene titled CLINICAL GUIDELINES FOR ADULTS EXPOSED TO THE WORLD TRADE CENTER DISASTER.
While the EPA and the City of New York are bantering blame about who was responsible for letting people be chronically exposed to a multitude of toxic substances, the result is no less devastating.
The guidelines, whose published section does not include footnotes, paints a grim picture:
Page 47:
"The World Trade Center (WTC) terrorist attack and its aftermath exposed hundreds of thousands of people to debris, dust, smoke, and fumes. Studies conducted after September 11, 2001, among rescue and clean-up workers,1-4 office workers, 5 building evacuees,6 and residents of lower Manhattan 7-9 showed an increase in respiratory and other physical and mental health problems, including post-traumatic stress disorder.
Many New Yorkers have health problems that could be associated with – or made worse by – exposure to the attack and its aftermath. Primary care physicians need to know how to identify, evaluate, treat, and if necessary, refer these individuals to expert care."
Page 48
"EXPOSURES AND POTENTIAL HEALTH EFFECTS
Physical Exposures
The collapse and burning of the WTC and neighboring buildings released a complex mixture of irritant dust, smoke, and gaseous materials. Pulverized concrete, glass, plastic, paper, and wood produced alkaline dust. The dust cloud also contained heavy metals, as well as asbestos and other substances that may be carcinogenic. In addition, smoke released from the persistent fires in the months that followed also contained hazardous and potentially carcinogenic substances.
Environmental test results showed that the composition of dust and smoke released into the air and deposited on indoor and outdoor surfaces varied by date and location.10 Individual exposure to contaminants was determined by duration, site, activities, and use of appropriate protective equipment. Health effects related to these exposures may also vary, depending on the intensity and duration of exposure as well as on underlying medical conditions, tobacco use, and individual susceptibility.
Although heavy metals were detected in the air and dust, clinical tests performed on specimens from more than 10,000 firefighters showed no clinically significant concentrations of mercury, lead, or beryllium.11 Heavy metals are usually cleared from the blood and urine within months of exposure."
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Table 2. Potentially WTC-Associated Conditions
Inhalation or ingestion of WTC dust and fumes affected the mucous membranes of the nose, sinuses, pharynx, gastrointestinal (GI) tract, and respiratory tract.
The symptoms and signs of these conditions include:
• Sinus, nasal, and postnasal congestion
• Heartburn, hoarseness, and throat irritation
• Shortness of breath and wheezing
• Chronic cough
Some clinicians have described a syndrome consisting of a triad that is typified by:
• Upper airway cough syndrome (postnasal drip syndrome)
• Asthma/reactive airways dysfunction syndrome(RADS)
• Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)/laryngopharyngeal reflux disease (LPRD)
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"Other Possibly Associated Pulmonary Conditions
Consult a WTC Medical Monitoring and Treatment Center (Resources) for further information about these and other medical problems currently under evaluation:
• Interstitial lung diseases
• Chronic bronchitis/non-asthmatic eosinophilic bronchitis
• Rare reports of pulmonary eosinophilic infiltrates,26 granulomatous pneumonitis,27 and bronchiolitis obliterans28
• Other lung diseases
Patients may also present with other as yet unexplained conditions that require additional diagnostic evaluation. Although the dust cloud contained heavy metals, there is no recognized need to perform blood or urine testing for heavy metals in the absence of specific indicative symptoms."
The guidelines are basically a shopping list for drugs that they disclaim in size 8 type, i.e.:
"Use of brand names is for informational purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene."
These 'guidelines' fall far short of what needs to be done now. They speak of managing symptoms rather than how to heal.
Here's my short list of what needs to be done now.
1. Demand unconditional screening and health care for all affected plus disability pay to cover living expenses. Many have lost their jobs over the last five years, are sick and without insurance. (#3 is how to pay for it).
2. Empower folks to use meditation, work with their Healer Within, hydrotherapy and/or medical hemp (marijuana) to manage and heal if possible. The only good news I found in the guidelines is that in the post 9/11 era, marijuana use is up. Since the problem is toxic material in one's body, cleaning out as much as possible (hydrotherapy - for drinking consider distilled water), reducing stress (meditation, Healer Within and medical hemp). It's going to take a miracle to turn this situation around, but as most Harlemites know, miracles happen every day.
3. Legalize hemp, tax it at 20% to raise revenue to pay for the health care and other social problems. Since the hemp plant scrubbs the air when growing, it can be an effective tool for helping folks by reducing pollutants in the air.
4. Bring to justice those responsible for altering the EPA report that told people that the air was safe to breathe and the water safe to drink. It was not safe, the city was put on lock down with a military compliment, and people are dying as a result of both the City of New York and the U.S. government’s failed policy of lie and hope it gets better. Demand to see the original, unaltered 9/11 air quality report from the EPA and other sources like the sewer air monitors at North River, Newton Creek, Red Hook, Owls Head and Port Richmond. They are suppose to be testing the air because the sewers are uncovered and in case someone throws something toxic into the sewers, we need to know.
5. Establish evacuation procedures that everyone knows about in the event of another emergency situation like the Christmas Tsunami of '04 (the politicians failed to protect Harlem's low lying areas from floods), or Katrina.
6. Work with and demand action from your elected and appointed officials. Even though the elections are rigged so that it's almost impossible to vote them out, there is still room to make them do the right thing and change the law to provide for WTC victims.
7. PRAY! if so inclined.
When I was teaching folks HOW TO COMPUTE in Harlem in the 90's I would tell them how, in the event of a disaster, the helicopters would not be coming to Harlem, but downtown where the money folks are. Sadly, Katrina demonstrated that I was correct.
I close with this last observation. There was no mention of Harlem, or mid-town or New Jersey in the guidelines. The people impacted by this health crisis must look within for answers because the government and the medical community barely have a clue what to do. Their industrial age solutions do not work well in this, the information age.
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