THE DECOY AND THE SYMBOL: BAITING AND SWITCHING, YOU CAN'T SEE THE HOAX?
By Fahim A. Knight-EL
This writer is baffled and a little perplexed about all the talk of how going green will facilitate in making America move more toward clean energy (renewable and safe fuel), lessening the United States energy dependency on foreign oil and simultaneously reestablishing America as an economic powerhouse. Thus, all these so-called neo-initiatives are idealistic in scope and at best lacks pragmatism.
The Bilderberger group met last month in Greece (May 14-17, 2009) and I am quite sure that these low level operatives were setting the agenda (pursuant to the orders of the hidden masters) and laying out the world’s political, economic and social discourse for the next ten years. They always meet in secret and their agenda is never revealed to the public and most ordinary citizens do not even know that this most powerful and influential organization exist.
This writer is quite sure that their convening had in depth discussions about the green economy relative to fine tuning their methods of oppression and determining the next step in the global depression, as far as either continuing the economic meltdown or give the appearance of economic recovery and stabilization. The former and the latter are within their power, but the latter will only be setting us up for a future letdown unlike any other crisis in world history. This global economic crisis that we are presently experiencing in 2009 is just a tease; the real deal is coming your way soon.
The Bilderberger membership list reads like a who’s who in politics, business, media—kings, heads of states, billionaires, fraternal heads, etc. However, the real action is not even determined by this powerful august body of men and women, but there is a hidden Elitist brain trust which has Dynastic family roots and they are ones that determine the agenda and decide the global course of humanity.
Adam Abrams is a British-American blogger, currently working as an intern at Haaretz.com authored an article titled, “Are the people who 'really run the world' meeting this weekend? He stated: “There is no official list of who's who in Bilderberg and there are no press conferences about the meetings. This is because the group operates under the "Chatham House Rule," and no details of what goes on inside are released to the press.” “This secrecy has led to many claims that the Bilderberg Group are the world's real "kingmakers," and, some even suggest, behind the global financial crisis.” “There are also rumors concerning Bilderberg's 2008 conference in Virginia, claiming that the recent U.S. presidential election was decided upon in a secret meeting between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, courtesy of Bilderberg.”
However, to many, president Barack Obama sounds like he has a plan or is he just using politically correct language to appease the masses which to further relax us while he leads us into this new era of economic slavery, as the International Bankers continues to set the noose around our necks for next one hundred (100) years under the slogan green economy. But this writer has concluded that beneath his nicely spoken rhetoric there is no real substance, as far as resolving the short and long term economic crisis of the United States and the globe. (Reference: Alex Jones; "Endgame: Blueprint for Global Enslavement”--DVD).
Thus, creating green jobs sounds good and gives way to environmental expediency. It is the same capitalist vipers who created this ecological imbalance, which was rooted in greed and now these invariably ruthless culprits are using environmentalist groups, eco-activist and politicians to swing the political pendulum in their favor to be in the best future position; which to continually economically exploit as we move into this new frontier (they even possess the ability to induce natural disasters and create environmental phenomenon—to move us toward various panic stages in order to manipulate the flow of money and resources). These type chessboard moves will place them at the frontend of this green economy trend in order to continually making money hand over fist. While the ignorant gullible masses are led to believe that we are in race to save the planet from global warming meltdown.
For example, how can you trust a billionaire named T. Boone Pickens, an oil tycoon to lead us into a more energy and environmental friendly era and for decades this low level operative has made billions off of offshore oil drilling and polluting the environment and wrecking the ecological system? Pickens with his wind and solar (also includes clean coal and natural gas) energy initiatives is well aware of the prediction that Middle Eastern oil in less than thirty-five (35) to fifty (50) years will be dried up and alternative energy sources is a matter of United States national security and for that matter world security.
Pickens who’s over eighty years of age, but he is laying the future financial foundation for his great grandchildren and he sees a viable and vital market and this visionary is looking to be front and center, which to capitalize off where energy is headed. We are continually eroding the ozone layer in spite of scientific warnings and mother earth according to the geo-physicist and geologist is heating up at a small but astronomical rate that will have catastrophic implications on the survival of humanity and the planet, if we do not act and make the proper changes. The science is, what it is, but the Sovereign Rulers do not give a damn about the overall welfare of the people or the planet—for the love of money, we all are expendable. (Reference: T. Boone Pickens; "The First Billion Is the Hardest: Reflections on a Life of Comebacks and America's Energy Future").
This writer thinks President Barack Obama is trying to place the best face on a devastating crisis and phenomena that was induced by the International Bankers, which functions as one of the greatest criminal cartels in history of humanity. They decide the worlds economic, political, and social paradigm shifts and they drive humanity in every direction conceivable and inconceivable in order to accomplish their goals and objectives. (Reference: Ellen Hodgson Brown; "Web of Debt: The Shocking Truth About Our Money System and How We Can Break Free").
The International Bankers have always been behind all the worlds philosophical and economic concepts and even the trend of going green, is really their idea and no doubt, they will be the ultimate beneficiaries. They systematically uses the media as a propaganda ploy, as well as talking heads (who are members of the Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission and Bilderberger agents) to sensitize the ignorant masses into accepting their agenda under the auspices that it is their own agenda and most are unaware that our thoughts have been co-opted by a powerful and influential body of Sovereign Rulers.
The so-called going green and creating green jobs is nothing, but a sophisticated money making hoax and scheme being led by Money Changers to further enslave us (by divvying up labor and resources amongst this wealthy ten percent) and defining the new enslavement terms. The new arrangement between wealth-labor-resources is geared towards decreasing humanities ability to possess anything tangible or have value therein. (Reference: Daniel Estulin: "The True Story of the Bilderberg Group).
Thus, have you noticed that the Money Changers (Rothschilds agents) are literally buying up all the gold and in urban America and rural America (and in Canada and European countries) there are shops everywhere with signs stating, "we buy gold in exchange for cash”. The Rothschild agents are even putting on lavish gold buying conventions in four and five star hotels (advertising by infomercial) and they are steadily luring the masses into relinquishing their precious metals for the valueless currency in return—United States Dollar (USD) and unknowing to the ignorant is that they are giving up hardcore currency that will have value even after they dismantle the monetary system as we know it (they have determined that gold will remain as a viable commodity and as a medium of exchange that will not be effected by the new economic arrangement). The Money Changers are going to declare all U.S. Currency as being valueless and unredeemable (fools gold).
Perhaps this will give you a much clear perspective on why the Thirteenth Tribe is buying up all the gold trinkets and do not mind paying what appears to be comparable USD for all the gold that one can muster up for sale. They are baiting and switching and once they can get most of the minuscule gold (or other precious metals) from the masses, they are going flip the script (institute the Amero) and declare the U.S. Dollar as a worthless piece of paper, as well as other world currencies—you will possess the worthless paper (unredeemable currency) and they will have acquired all the gold, which in essence is the real money. Perhaps you might not know this, there are only three real currencies that have value—Oil, Dope, and Gold/Silver.
The International Bankers operates in concerted efforts and each link is connected to insure financial supremacy and global control over humanity's monetary system, which is the life blood of a nation to maintain stability—those that determine the flow of money holds the guardianship and key to a nation's political success and failure. The Rothschild's sons have spread their tentacles around all seven (7) continents and are behind every economic blunder the world-over. (Reference: Fritz Springmeier; "Bloodlines of the Illuminati")
They will continue to dupe us into believing that we should become more environmentally friendly (of course this sounds reasonable and practical) and many naturalist, New Age Thinkers, radical environmentalist groups, etc., (gophers) are pushing a political agenda which is really a disguised economic agenda (the Invisible Rulers operates off sheer greed and profit motive incentives) shrouded in the sanctity of possessing aspirations of saving mother earth, which appears to be in tune with saving humanity and all other vital life forms.
But many of these advocates do not have a clue about this small powerful invisible minority who are behind wrecking the United States and the world economy. President Barack Obama is just a puppet on a string and he is just doing as he is being ordered and is no way involved in the process of the real decision makers (they do not grant this privilege to their low-level operatives) this status is reserved for a select Elite that has Dynastic Family lineage. (Reference: Webster Griffin Tarpley; "Barack H. Obama: The Unauthorized Biography").
The United States has become a dependent nation. For example, there are very few products that are stamped with the trademark made in the United States of America (USA) in which this reality alone has created over 80% of America's economic woes (this is not rocket science). We (United States) presently produce and manufacture very little of what we consume as a nation and our government who has been manipulated by the wickedly wise, actually sold the economic interest of its people ninety-six years ago.
They have altered the U.S. labor dynamic by enticing illegal immigrants from Mexico (neo-slaves) as the new labor force and wage earners which has systematically dismantled and worked to compromise the American labor force and capitulated corporate interest to unreasonable heights. The ability of labor to impose consequences is no longer perceived as a bargaining chip to slow corporate induced reactionary momentum (the new slaves were happy with their status and was not going to do anything to jeopardize this master to slave relationship). The Sovereign Rulers understood best that these people coming from Developing Nations would not contest U.S. slave wages in comparison to the below poverty and the economic depressed conditions they left in the developing nations of their origin.
The 21st Century immigrants (in particular those from Central and South America) have been used as cannon fodder and in many respects they weaken U.S labor and compromised labor's ability to negotiate the best deal in the interest of wages and working conditions for the least of these. The new "Third World" slaves were no match for their corporate Elitist Masters and this depression is evident of the betrayal.
The Elitist even double crossed the American people, he was having his cake and eating it too; thus, he found an even better and more profitable arrangement (outsourcing)—external slaves in the Far East and in Central and South America (they signed up for the ball and chain on the lands of their own countries of origin) where it was not required to immigrate to the United States for their servitude assignment.
The outsourcing and the downsizing of American jobs found a labor market without boundaries where cheap labor was plentiful (the Elitist made huge profits in these poor foreign nations they could advert the U.S. regulatory rules, laws, standards, etc.). Yet, they are blaming the subprime housing collapse and the global economic depression on us peasants, as though we factored into this crisis and some of us are dumb enough to believe that our little low level financial action contributed to this fiasco. The gross negligence rest on the shoulders of Dynastic Families propensity for greed and they induced this crisis to further reach their long arms into our pockets. They (the powers-that-be) also knew and understood many years prior to implementation that this trend would have tremendous long standing adverse effects on the United States economy and its people. Moreover, where we are today was well thought out and anticipated by this den of thieves.
This writer can remember studying basic economics some years ago on the university level and he could never totally grasp the logic of why the United States Government and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) would financially compensate U.S. farmers as an incentive not to grow certain cash crops. It was even more disturbing to find out that, if the U.S. accumulated an agriculture surplus, it would dispose eatable food commodities by dumping it in the bottom of the ocean (shrewd way of controlling the market).
President Obama knows that his green plan of utilizing solar, wind, coal, etc., to re-stimulate the U.S. economy is a long term solution and in reality, we might not see any tangible results relative to the Green Economy for next twenty-five years. The only ones who can truly solve this present day economic depression are the Sovereign Rulers because they are behind inducing this money crunch and they are the masters over the money game. Obama and Bernanke (I put more credence in the Federal Reserve Chairman because on some level he understands the duping, but the president signed on out of ego and the perceived lust for power)) are deceptive decoys and they fully understand that they have no power to ignite money and resolve the world's economic crisis.
We are such a gullible people that this pawn is attempting to use the same language and strategy that President Franklin D. Roosevelt introduced over seventy-five years ago under his New Deal plan, which so-called elevated and rescued America from the Great Depression of 1929 (this crisis was also induced by the International Bankers). This is a different America than the one Roosevelt inherited in 1932 and the old solutions that President Obama is trying to infuse will prove to be economically and politically futile and have no real merit in the 2009 worldview.
The economy has become highly technological and digital and most of all, it does not resemble anything like the world we left behind under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The building and construction of roads and bridges are not the ultimate answers to reestablishing the United States economic prowess. Obama is not going to tell the American people, that America has been for sale for a longtime and the economic interest of our nation is no longer in the hands of the American people or the elected bureaucrats. Why does not President Obama put Americans back to work by giving TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program) money to American entrepreneurs who establishes manufacturing businesses inside the country?
This is the only economic solution that will truly put America back on a positive economic course. The entire Green Economy having one of its essential components being relieving the U.S. of its dependency on foreign oil this does not begin to scratch the surface of the web of deception. They do not tell you that the International Bankers control all the Oil Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). Therefore, it is not Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Morocco, Nigeria, Venezuela, Libya, Equatorial Africa, etc., that determines the foreign exchange for a barrel of crude. The leaders of these oil wealth nations are powerless, as far as determining the wealth beneath their feet. OPEC takes its marching orders from the Rothschilds—banking family extraordinaire. (Reference: Carroll Quigley; "Tragedy and Hope").
But the Sovereign Rulers at a whisper and at the stroke of a pen can infuse the money back into the global financial reserves and no president or so-called sovereign world leader has it within their so-called realm of power to determine the money dilemma. This level of sophistication is beyond the capability of Heads of States to intellectually conceive (they are to busy being driven by the perception of power) this reality because of the level of machination and complexities of the tentacles of power, it is unattainable for them to be able see the symbol and the decoy. (Reference: Jim Marrs; "The Rise of the Fourth Reich).
This global economic crisis is not about a shortage of currency because with the exception of China and the Kremlin, the majority of the global currencies are valueless—they are kept afloat based on U.S. and European financial markets giving the perception of strength, durability, stability, etc., in particular recently having created a false reality (possessing more bark than bite).
The International Bankers, the International Monetary Fund, and World Bank were more interested in controlling supply and demand (there was never any concern about hunger and poverty, this has always been the least of their concerns) but in particular always creating variables whereas our demand for goods and services exceeded our supply (the slave to master relationship and sheep herding at its best).
This dynamic has allowed the ruthless International Bankers to leverage their influence (exert power and possessing no fear of consequences) to serve as sovereign dictators over determining the value of currency and at the same time manipulate resources and money by driving inflation and creating burgeon interest rates—they often translate this variable into panic and fear, if humanity shows any opposition or resistance other than being good obedient slaves (they possess the tools of whopping us into shape). The destroying of surplus food commodities is a sure indication of controlling the profit margin—moneymaking is above allowing the market to be saturated on the supply end and as well as not giving the masses low cost and cost efficient products, of course this type of thinking benefits the long arm of their criminal cartel.
The United States at its peak was at one time the number one creditor nation in the world and in less than forty (40) years, we have descended to become one of the number one debtor nations of the world. The last eight presidents or better yet since 1913, America sold its soul to the devil (the International Bankers) in which the United States President Woodrow Wilson and the U.S. Congress allowed the International Bankers to put the U.S. citizens and the globe in a stranglehold and sadly to say, there is no escaping their power and influence (the Bible says who can make war with the beast other than God Himself). (Reference: G. Edward Griffin;”The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve").
The U.S. financial markets bailout was a stickup by a shrewd gangster called the Federal Reserve, a consortium of twelve (12) privately owned Central Banks and they function without legal boundaries and they are financially choking the American taxpayers to death. The deceived ignorant desire to dismiss this truth by convincing the other ignorant masses that this type research is conspiracy theory and holds no validity. Yet, President Obama and the U.S. Congress have no legal authority or lawful jurisdiction over the Federal Reserve (fact or fiction?)—the printing of money and interest rates are in the hands of the Rothschilds and their sovereignty is all powerful. How in the hell is this conspiracy theory when this writer always cite sources where my readers can verify the truth for themselves? (Reference: Eustace Mullins; "The Secrets of the Federal Reserve")
This writer does not have a post graduate degree in finance and/or economics, but in the short term, he could solve this economic crisis that the United States is faced with by bringing manufacturing and factories back to the U.S. as a first step and allow them to once again aid us in becoming a key player in the major means of production and distribution. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), North American Treaty (NAT), etc., not only have negated the United States, Canada and Mexico sovereignty, but it altered the balance of economic power forever. (Reference: Lou Dobbs; "Exporting America: Why Corporate Greed Is Shipping American Jobs Overseas").
If this present economic crisis doesn’t wake us up and begin to see the handwriting on the wall, I do not think nothing else will—many have lost their jobs and unemployment continues soar, their homes have been foreclosure on, many have lost their pension plan benefits, lost health insurance benefits, etc., and see no way out of this covert entrapment. But have never had the intestinal fortitude to ask the question, how did we get into this predicament?
William Cooper (author “Behold the Pale Horse”), David Icke (author “The Biggest Secret”), John Coleman (author “The Story of the Committee of 300”), John L. King (author “Chaos in America”), William Guy Carr (author "Pawns In The Game"), Gary Allen and Larry Abraham ( authors “None Dare Call it Conspiracy”), etc. Yes, this writer is thoroughly convinced that these above cited writers and social scientist have provided us with the knowledge to answer the question of, how did we get into this predicament? Through meticulously and tedious research they have unraveled the web of deception and put names, persons, and places in there proper historical and schematic perspective, which places us on the board of players, not as ignorant gophers. But have the ability to wisely use and defend our position and maneuver and yell out CHECKMATE.
Fahim A. Knight-EL Chief Researcher for KEEPING IT REAL THINK TANK located in Durham, NC; our mission is to inform African Americans and all people of goodwill, of the pending dangers that lie ahead; as well as decode the symbolisms and reinterpreted the hidden meanings behind those who operate as invisible forces, but covertly rules the world. We are of the belief that an enlightened world will be better prepared to throw off the shackles of ignorance and not be willing participants for the slaughter. Our MOTTO is speaking truth to power. Fahim A. Knight-EL can be reached at fahimknight@yahoo.com.
Stay Awake Until We Meet Again,
Fahim A. Knight-EL
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
CUBA HAS WITHSTOOD THE STORM OF AMERICAN IMPERIALISM
CUBA HAS WITHSTOOD THE STORM OF AMERICAN IMPERIALISM
By Fahim A. Knight-EL
The United States for almost five decades has been on the wrong side of history relative to Cuba and the recent political initiatives that President Barack Obama and the United States Government have implemented toward this island nation shouldn’t just be viewed as a gesture of America's good humanity to its neighbor to the south, which sits just ninety (90) miles off the coast of Florida. However, the uplifting of some of the travel restrictions and ability to transfer some U.S. currency to Cuba; still does not resolve the long standing sanctions and embargoes that have served as an economic blockade for almost five decades and are still in tact as I write this article—this is the real issue impeding U.S. and Cuban relations. So lets not completely fool ourselves over President Obama’s so-called olive branch toward Cuba.
But nevertheless, the U.S. Government has come to the realization that, if the United States is to survive as a capitalist empire in the 21st Century, it can no longer afford to continue practicing isolationism toward Cuba and no other nation that possess exploitable markets. President Obama is slowly trying to reverse the backwards foreign policy axiom of his predecessor George Bush who labeled certain nations as part of what he called the "Axis of Evil" and the "Rogue Nations" paradigm. This was the foreign policy mindset that capitulated the Bush theory—either you were with us or against us, which resembled the old Cold War political era and President Obama is working to create more of a diplomatic atmosphere of international tolerance. (Reference: Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Damien Cave; On-line article titled, "Obama Opens Door to Cuba, but Only a Crack;" New York Times; April 14, 2009: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/15/world/...)/
The United States is a declining nation and it is economically bankrupt and the Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Shalom Bernanke and U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner (look at who is running the money system of our nation, do I need to say anymore) understand that capitalism will not survive, if it can not continue to expand and produce. Cuba can no longer be viewed as being politically and economically expendable because as the United States dollar continues to weaken and decline and our international debt continues to mount with Europe, China, and other Eastern bloc nations. It is requiring that the U.S. become more economically and politically innovative. (Reference: William Greider; “Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country”).
The U.S. has no other choice but to economically engage and work to create new markets that must prove to be economically sustainable in order for our nation to survive beyond 2009 and into the near future. For example, the United States automobile industry is suffering and the Cubans have been forced since the early 1960s to import European and Asian automobiles due to the trade embargoes. Thus, when you travel to Havana and you will see all these antique and classic automobiles of the 1950s and early 1960s models being driven by the Cuban citizens. This is not necessarily an indication that the Cuban people love old vintage classic U.S. made automobiles, but it is a visual indication of the political effects of a Cold War where Cuba was not allowed to import/export United States goods and services for almost fifty years due to the United States imposed economic sanctions and embargoes.
This could have been a viable automobile market (as well as a potential market for other tradable goods and services) for the United States for the last fifty (50) years—United States based General Motors, Chrysler, Ford, etc. Perhaps this small market could have allowed the U.S. to export thousands of U.S. automobiles to our Latin American neighbor and know telling what the auto industry residual effect this would have had on the spin off market of the automobile industry (automobile parts and technology).
The Cuban Government and the Cuban people have been resilient and great improvisers, simultaneously in order to have withstood United States aggression and the gamut of propaganda spewed by the western media against Cuba. President Barack Obama and the United States Government have made more of a business decision than a political decision to slowly bring Cuba back into the full diplomatic community. This is not to suggest that many of the United States staunch European and Asian allies did not ignore the imposed U.S. Embargoes and continued to trade and do international business with Cuba for over forty years, in spite of the political antagonistic relationship between the U.S. and Cuba.
Western European Governments recognized a long time ago that Cuba had economic markets and based on its long diplomatic relations with the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)possessed tradable commodities, pesos and other viable currencies which to purchase goods and services (the Europeans have always kept the Cuban Tourism industry afloat during these lean embargo years). Most of the United States, European Allies in private viewed the U.S. sanctions and embargoes against Cuba as reactionary, senseless and nonproductive. The United States Government in reality had no legitimate gripe with Cuba, other than they chose to live as a Socialist Government because in all reality, Cuba hadn't committed any crimes against the United States. What are they guilty of other than their right to exercise self-determination?
Many Americans even in 2009 do not have a clue what socialism is and/or is not. The ignorant will say that the Cubans had aligned themselves with the Communist USSR for close to forty years (yet at the same time the United States was trading with the "good communist" and still yet, what crime did Cuba commit?) and perhaps would arrogantly state “we could not have this type of military threat in our backdoor”; in particular the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis incident, which was perceived by the United States as a compromise of international law and a threat to U.S. national security and stability. The United States has controlled foreign nations intervention into the Caribbean Sea and region based on the signing of the 1823 Monroe Doctrine which prohibits foreign powers and authorities of having any military jurisdiction in this vital and strategic region. (Reference: Don Munton and David A. Welch;”The Cuban Missile Crisis: A Concise History").
The Soviet Union so-called collapsed in 1989, which brought an abrupt end to Russian style communism and Cold War politics which had divided the world into two camps Warsaw Pact Nations and NATO for close to fifty years. But President Fidel Castro and the Cuban people had internalized true socialist principles and did not budge, although its biggest political and economic supporter the Soviet Union stood up before the world announcing its betrayal of Socialism. (Reference: Stephen A. Resnick; "Class Theory and History: Capitalism and Communism in the USSR").
Castro and the Cuban people did not embrace the socialist ideology because they were following the former USSR; they weighed the scientific principles based on Cuban history, world history, other modes of economic systems and they saw the human contradictions in capitalism based on it being a vicious system of exploitation that gave way to classism and this served as an antagonistic contradiction in human development. Castro and Cuba in 1989 came to understand that the USSR was always a capitalist nation who had disguised its reactionary political and economic ideological principles in Socialist theories and at the same time betraying many of its Warsaw Pact Nations allies in pursuit of capitalist interest. Many pundits and political scientist expected Cuba too politically and economically collapse after the former Soviet Union deceptions was exposed, which proved they were enemies of Socialism. (Reference: Ernesto Guevara; "Che Guevara, Cuba, and the Road to Socialism").
Castro taught the people to embrace the revolution and to inculcate the principles in their lives (the revolution was not based on any perfect socialist model nor was it rooted in charismatic style leadership) and this is why twenty years later Cuba has been able to withstand a powerful Capitalist country like the United States and even overcome Russia's deception. However, after Cuba's abandonment by the former Soviet Union in 1989 they were left with many strategic challenges—politically, economically and socially, but their courage, determination and optimism have proven greater than the betrayal of their chief political and economic ally. This writer has been saying this for over thirty years that the Cuban people had the right to self-determination and that included the right to choose socialism or communism as their form of government. Why has this right kept the United States from having constructive and normalize relations with the Cuban Government for so long? Reference: Ariana Hernandez-Reguant; "Cuba in the Special Period: Culture and Ideology in the 1990s (New Concepts in Latino American Cultures)’ “.
The United States government has imposed unjustified sanctions and embargoes against Cuba since the early 1960s and former President Fidel Castro has been the target of many Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) covert plots and assassination attempts because he refused to bow to American imperialism. His legacy has to be considered as one of defiance and longevity and his tenure has outlasted at least eight United States Presidents. President Castro should have received a Nobel Peace Prize for his revolutionary work and Cuba’s ability to politically, economically, and socially sustain itself against one the world’s foremost superpowers—the United States.
This writer has always respected President Fidel Castro and Cuba for opening up its country to so many revolutionaries and political prisoners and most all their commitment in supporting revolutionary struggles around the world. Cuba stood with the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) under the leadership of the late Yasser Arafat; Cuba stood with the Irish Republican Army (IRA); Cuba stood with the freedom fighters of the South West Africa People’s Organization (SWAPO) in Namibia, Africa who had been fighting for centuries for their freedom and independence from the vicious racist regime of the South African Government; Cuba stood with Steven Biko and Nelson Mandela and African National Congress (ANC) and their fight against the white Afrikaner Government and Apartheid regime of South Africa (Azania) who had been vicious and oppressive since the Dutch arrive 1652.
Cuba stood in the early 1980s with the tiny Caribbean nation of Grenada and its Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and the New Jewel Movement who was later betrayed by one of his top lieutenants Bernard Coard; Cuba stood with Colonel Muammar Qaddafi and the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya and their quest for a United States of Africa ; Cuba stood in the 1980s with Nicaraguan Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) and its controversial leader Daniel Ortega; Cuba in the 1970s stood with Angola, Africa and their struggle for independence from the Portuguese; Cuba and President Fidel Castro in the early 1960s visited Harlem, New York and stood in solidarity with the Nation of Islam and Minister Malcolm X. (Reference: Fidel Castro; "Fidel Castro Speeches 1984-85; three volumes).
Perhaps one of the most controversial positions Cuba has taken was granting political asylum to a United States prisoner of war named Assata Shakur formally known as Joanne Chesimard of the Black Liberation Army (BLA). She was accused and convicted of killing a New Jersey State Trooper on the New Jersey Turnpike in the early 1970s and was sentenced to life in prison without parole within the U.S. Federal Prison system. But after serving five years in FCI Morgantown, West Virginia; Shakur escaped to Cuba where she received political asylum from the Cuban Government. Shakur is still considered a fugitive of justice on the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Most Wanted List and on the U.S. Marshal's Most Wanted List (there is now a million dollar bounty over her head) and I am quite sure she has been upgraded to the Homeland Security top criminals priority listing. (Reference: Assata Shakur; "Assata: An Autobiography").
Shakur has now lived in Cuba for over three decades in which many rightwing U.S. politicians over the years have tried to issue extradition warrants (of course these actions were non-binding) and in an attempt to pressure Cuba to releasing her into United States custody. But Cuba has refused to capitulate to U.S. pressure and this also has been a thorn in the side of U.S. and Cuba relations. Cuba and the U.S. do not have an agreed extradition treaty. Many believe to this day that Assata Shakur was innocent of all charges and was a mere a victim of the former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover and his counter intelligence program called Cointelpro which was aimed at radical militant and not so radical black leadership during the 1960s and 1970s. (Reference: Assata Shakur; "Assata: An Autobiography").
Hoover used a gamut of dirty tricks to destabilize, neutralize, assassinate, incarcerate, imposed illegal wiretapping, spied, sent paid informants to disrupt progressive black organizations, placed agent provocateurs in strategic leadership positions within some of the most militant black organizations in America, etc., which to closely monitor the leadership and the organizations. Shakur has maintained her innocence and she outlined her legal case and personal history in her autobiography titled, "Assata" and chronicled her side of the story relative to the events that led to a N.J. State Trooper being murdered on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1973. (Reference: Elaine Brown; "A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story").
The United States Judicial system has not always provided its political prisoners with a fair and impartial legal process—this was seen in cases of Black Panther Party members such as George Jackson, Geronimo Pratt, Mumia Abu Jamal, Huey P. Newton, Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin etc., so from that perspective Assata Shakur presents a credible argument relative to how she was treated within the U.S. judicial system, as well as within the penal institutions of America. This writer believes that she could never receive a fair trial within the United States based on racism and the case being a high profile case of killing a white police officer. Now! If President Barack Obama wants to do something honorable and noble, why do not he commute Assata Shakur's criminal sentence and issue her a presidential pardon? What would be the difference in lieu of President Bill Clinton issuing a presidential pardon to a criminal like Marc Rich? (Reference: Dhoruba Bin Wahad, Assata Shakur, and Mumia Abu-Jamal; "Still Black, Still Strong").
This writer believes that the Cuban Government was right in granting Shakur political asylum and they too believe that she was a United States political prisoner and met the international legal criteria to be considered as a political prisoner. This new so-called goodwill political approach that President Obama is offering in U.S. and Cuban relations, it essentially has to be viewed as a good step and will prove to be a positive refreshing new era in the area of U.S./Cuba international diplomacy. In spite of it being a politically opportunistic maneuver on behalf of the United States (Cuba needs the United States and United States needs Cuba).
The political awkwardness between the two nations could be partially blamed on the petite bourgeoisie Cubans who left Cuba in 1959 as a class of self-imposed exiles after Fulgencio Batista y ZaldÃvar was deposed and setup a defacto exile Cuban Government in Miami, Florida—acculturated and assimilated somewhat into American life—this wealthy and well educated class of Cubans who once lived privilege lives in Havana worked to create strong and effective Cuban-American political lobby groups inside the boarders of the U.S. and for fifty (50) years have garnished their influence to shape public policy and direct U.S. Foreign relations relative to Cuba. (Reference: Martha Harnecker; "Fidel Castro's Political Strategy").
Thus, U.S. politicians often took their lead from the Miami based Cuban-American community who had become very thrifty business people; in particular in the areas of finance and banking. Cuban-Americans were politically savvy enough to leverage their economic prosperity, which to make large financial contributions to the Republican Party and the Democratic Party (they had learned and master the political game). So American policy makers did not make any decisions on Cuba without being in direct consultation with the Cuban-Americans on all matters concerning their homeland and carried out the political aspirations of these well financed and organized Cuban-American political action groups. (Reference: Patrick Haney and Walt Vanderbush; "Cuban Embargo: Domestic Politics of American Foreign Policy").
The Cuban-American position toward President Fidel Castro often made the case for reactionary and racist U.S. politicians such as the former Republican Senator of North Carolina Jesse Helms (a tobacco chewing redneck that constantly spewed rightwing propaganda against President Castro and the nation of Cuba) this made room for strange bedfellows because the United States reactionary foreign policy toward Cuba was being driven by the Miami Cuban-Americans and United States Politicians had their biggest ally, which to justify demonizing Castro and isolating Cuba. (Reference: Jeffrey Elliot; "Nothing Can Stop the Course of History").
The Cuban-Americans have been relentless in their uncompromising and unwillingness to pursue a calmer and gentler political strategy with Castro for the greater good of both sides. This writer believes after almost fifty (50) years they have finally come to their senses and to the realization that it benefits both sides by working to ease the political tension and suspicion. Thus, by the U.S. uplifting of some of the travel restrictions, if nothing else allows Cuban-American family members to visit their relatives in Cuba which has to be considered a positive step in the right direction. This common sense approach will benefit the spirit and booster the psychological morale of both nations.
This writer must say the Cuban-Americans for many years sold—shaped and molded the American polity that the Cubans who left Cuba on poorly built rafts and fishing boats were so-called escaping political persecution (the minute they illegally left Cuba and entered international waters they were deemed political prisoners) at the hands of a repressive Cuban dictator and this made them entitled to U.S. political asylum, as well as other diplomatic status.
Yet, also many have argued for years that the Haitians were escaping political tyranny from Port-au-Prince, but they were met with hostility and political opposition from the United States Government and were denied the diplomatic status of political asylum which was often granted unconditionally to the so-called fleeing Cuban refugees. There were no goodwill ambassador and open arms policy shown to the Haitian refugees. Many of the Haitian refugees were criminalized and placed in federal detention camps and were eventually deported back to Haiti. (Reference: Randall Robinson; "Quitting America: Departure of a Black Man From His Native Land").
Perhaps this was an example of the influence and the political power that the Cuban-Americans had in swaying the U.S. Judicial system and manipulating U.S. extradition laws and deportation policies to their benefit. This immediately put the Cuban refugees on track to become United States citizens and the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) granted them rights and privilege and resources. But others argued that the Haitians were black and African in which at the root of the Haitian refugee issue was American style racism and this was the driving force behind this political double standard. No doubt the Haitian community in the United States did not have the political clout and the financial wither all, which to influence United States foreign policy like their Caribbean counterparts the Cubans. (Reference: Carol Bohmer and Amy Shuman; "Rejecting Refugees: Political Asylum in the 21st Century").
Haiti is considered the poorest nation in the western hemisphere and essentially is a powerless people in comparison to the Cuban-Americans. This writer believes that the Europeans are still punishing Haiti for the historical events of 1803 where Haiti became the first independent black nation in the western hemisphere due to Toussaint L'Overture defeating the powerful French military that was led by Napoleon Bonaparte. These events have haunted the island nation of Haiti for over two hundred years. (Reference: Paul Farmer; "The Use of Haiti").
However, in 1999 a little Cuban boy refugee named Elian Gonzalez was rescued off the coast of Florida by some deep sea fishermen and Elian Gonzales relatives in Miami declared the boy was a political refugee escaping the tyranny of a Castro led government. The Cuban-American lobbies had immediately turned this incident into a political football; hoping to further exposed President Fidel Castro as a ruthless and repressive dictator and this innocent little boy and others (Elian mother was one of the fleeing Cubans to lose her life in this allege escape attempt) would risk their lives to escape to freedom by any means necessary. They thought they had the right political ammunition by using Elian Gonzalez as the poster child to contest international human brutality coming out of Cuba. However, this strategy and tactic would later backfire in their faces. (Reference: Michael John; "Betrayal of Elian Gonzalez").
Elian Gonzalez's father traveled to the United States and legally declared parental rights to his son and petitioned the United States Courts and lawmakers to declare him the right to take his minor child back to Cuba where he was a citizen. The State Department eventually sided with Mr. Gonzalez—he was granted the legal right to take his son from U.S. soil back to Cuba. This legal decision devastated the powerful Cuban-American lobby in Miami and even after the legal decision was rendered the American Gonzalez family and Cuban-Americans refused to relinquish the little boy back to his father. But the United States Attorney General Janet Reno and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Marshals, INS, ATF, etc., with power and force and in no uncertain terms demonstrated to the Cuban-Americans that they were not above reproach and the law. The United States Government could not allow any arm group inside the U.S. to dictate their own law and to publically defy a U.S. Court order to relinquish Elian Gonzalez. If they hadn't respond the way that they did, perhaps this would have sent the wrong message to other political renegades. (Reference: Michael John; "Betrayal of Elian Gonzalez").
The Cuban-Americans felt betrayed by Reno and the Clinton administration and perhaps in the 2000 U.S. presidential election, it would be Florida after much political confusion and debate that would decide the United States presidency for the Republican candidate George W. Bush. This writer used to work in the field of international commodity trading and import/export and were in talks with Cuban officials over ten years ago relative to the U.S. and Cuba import/export markets; I believe under the Clinton administration and later under President George W. Bush, Black farmers in the United States had convinced the U.S. State Department in allowing them to export some of their agriculture products to Cuba and not be penalized or effected by the sanctions and embargoes laws and policies.
Kwesi Mfume, the former president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) led a U.S. Delegation of mainly African Americans to Cuba to explore this new economic open door policy created by the Clinton and Bush administrations. Cuba was prepared to engage the African American farmers in an import agriculture agreement, but Mfume and the other Black intelligentsia were out of their league and none of them had any real expertise in import/export business procedures and we witness a golden opportunity end in blunder. (Reference: Zamgba J. Browne; "U.S. Black farmers to supply Cuba" on-line http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-79492632... New York Amsterdam News; November 27, 2002).
This was ashame and yet the group this writer was associated with had the expertise and knowledge to consummate the deal, but due to politics and the crabs in the barrel mentality; these high level talks seven years ago never amounted to anything. U.S. Black Farmers have been discriminated against and many of the their farms are being foreclosed on—they are the last to receive governmental subsidies, as far as low interest loans and grants and they do not receive the assistance from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) as their white counterparts. (Reference: John Boyd Link National Black Farmers Association http://www.blackfarmers.org/ (click icon that says media).
Some of the Black Farmers activists have filed federal law suits against the U.S. Government. These small farmers have legitimate legal grips and yet there is a double standard where the large commercial farms are constantly receiving bailout money and USDA incentives, but the small U.S. black farmers are in a fight for their economic survival. This is why this writer views Mfume and the Black leadership with contempt and disgust because they are part cause of the predicament black farmers are in 2009.
Many have yearned for this day when United States citizens could freely travel and engage Cuba in its rich social and cultural history. However, many Americans have been traveling to Cuba in spite of the U.S. Embargoes by way of Mexico and Canada and the Mexican/Cuban Customs Officials understood the political complexity of U.S. and Cuban relations; they often took the liberty not to officially stamp U.S. Passports and not documenting U.S. citizens travel to Cuba based on the prior travel restrictions and economic sanctions and embargoes imposed on Cuba. This non-passport action also protected United States citizens from being legally prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney's office; (Reference: Helen Osieja; "Economic Sanctions As an Instrument of U.S. Foreign Policy: The Case of the U.S. Embargo Against Cuba").
But others found loopholes in the policy and laws outlined by the United States Treasury Department relative to U.S. citizens traveling to Havana. They often brought back firsthand accounts relative to the political, economic, and social condition of the people on this Caribbean Island nation. But this only furthered my curiosity and it was difficult for me to reason that because these people were Socialist, it led the United States toward a policy of isolationism for almost fifty years toward Cuba. Our foreign policy toward Cuba even to date just does not make any sense.
The United States once served as a colonial master of Cuba and Cuba was once a lucrative slave port where African slaves (Cuba in the 1920s was ninety percent black) were brought into work the massive sugar plantations from the 15th Century to 19th Century known as the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The Spanish and the British exploited Cuba—raping and robbing the land and the indigenous people of their wealth and resources for European economic gain. (Reference: Eric Williams; Capitalism and Slavery").
This was a great criminal act and it created a system of economic, political and social inequality and classism that has haunted this nation until 1959 when Fidel Castro overthrew the repressive regime of Fulgencio Batista y ZaldÃvar. Batista had turned Cuba into a den of inequity—gambling casinos, prostitution houses, drugs, organized crime, etc., it was the play island for wealthy Europeans who looked to bathe in the Caribbean sun and all rules were negotiable. This writer has always agreed with Comrade Fidel Castro and the political positions he took against the United States. He nationalized the Cuban sugar industry which gave the Cuban people more economic control over this and other cash crops commodities. Bloodsucking capitalist companies such as ConAgra, Archer Daniel Midland, Cargill. etc., have also played a huge part in United States and Cuban relations because Cuba would not allow them to exploit its people and resources.
The citizens of the United States should demand that President Barack Obama and the United States Congress rescind and overturn all the embargoes and economic sanctions against Cuba and work to reverse this devastating foreign policy that has created so much political tension for the last fifty years. Perhaps President Obama will seize the moment and not be swayed by the politics of yesteryear and work to completely change U.S. relations toward Cuba for the better. We know the blockades and embargoes have been ineffective and this writer believes that the people on both sides will welcome normalize relations between the two sovereign governments. The time is now.
Fahim A. Knight-EL Chief Researcher for KEEPING IT REAL THINK TANK located in Durham, NC; our mission is to inform African Americans and all people of goodwill, of the pending dangers that lie ahead; as well as decode the symbolisms and reinterpreted the hidden meanings behind those who operate as invisible forces, but covertly rules the world. We are of the belief that an enlightened world will be better prepared to throw off the shackles of ignorance and not be willing participants for the slaughter. Our MOTTO is speaking truth to power. Fahim A. Knight-EL can be reached at fahimknight@yahoo.com.
Stay Awake Until We Meet Again,
Fahim A. Knight-EL
By Fahim A. Knight-EL
The United States for almost five decades has been on the wrong side of history relative to Cuba and the recent political initiatives that President Barack Obama and the United States Government have implemented toward this island nation shouldn’t just be viewed as a gesture of America's good humanity to its neighbor to the south, which sits just ninety (90) miles off the coast of Florida. However, the uplifting of some of the travel restrictions and ability to transfer some U.S. currency to Cuba; still does not resolve the long standing sanctions and embargoes that have served as an economic blockade for almost five decades and are still in tact as I write this article—this is the real issue impeding U.S. and Cuban relations. So lets not completely fool ourselves over President Obama’s so-called olive branch toward Cuba.
But nevertheless, the U.S. Government has come to the realization that, if the United States is to survive as a capitalist empire in the 21st Century, it can no longer afford to continue practicing isolationism toward Cuba and no other nation that possess exploitable markets. President Obama is slowly trying to reverse the backwards foreign policy axiom of his predecessor George Bush who labeled certain nations as part of what he called the "Axis of Evil" and the "Rogue Nations" paradigm. This was the foreign policy mindset that capitulated the Bush theory—either you were with us or against us, which resembled the old Cold War political era and President Obama is working to create more of a diplomatic atmosphere of international tolerance. (Reference: Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Damien Cave; On-line article titled, "Obama Opens Door to Cuba, but Only a Crack;" New York Times; April 14, 2009: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/15/world/...)/
The United States is a declining nation and it is economically bankrupt and the Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Shalom Bernanke and U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner (look at who is running the money system of our nation, do I need to say anymore) understand that capitalism will not survive, if it can not continue to expand and produce. Cuba can no longer be viewed as being politically and economically expendable because as the United States dollar continues to weaken and decline and our international debt continues to mount with Europe, China, and other Eastern bloc nations. It is requiring that the U.S. become more economically and politically innovative. (Reference: William Greider; “Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country”).
The U.S. has no other choice but to economically engage and work to create new markets that must prove to be economically sustainable in order for our nation to survive beyond 2009 and into the near future. For example, the United States automobile industry is suffering and the Cubans have been forced since the early 1960s to import European and Asian automobiles due to the trade embargoes. Thus, when you travel to Havana and you will see all these antique and classic automobiles of the 1950s and early 1960s models being driven by the Cuban citizens. This is not necessarily an indication that the Cuban people love old vintage classic U.S. made automobiles, but it is a visual indication of the political effects of a Cold War where Cuba was not allowed to import/export United States goods and services for almost fifty years due to the United States imposed economic sanctions and embargoes.
This could have been a viable automobile market (as well as a potential market for other tradable goods and services) for the United States for the last fifty (50) years—United States based General Motors, Chrysler, Ford, etc. Perhaps this small market could have allowed the U.S. to export thousands of U.S. automobiles to our Latin American neighbor and know telling what the auto industry residual effect this would have had on the spin off market of the automobile industry (automobile parts and technology).
The Cuban Government and the Cuban people have been resilient and great improvisers, simultaneously in order to have withstood United States aggression and the gamut of propaganda spewed by the western media against Cuba. President Barack Obama and the United States Government have made more of a business decision than a political decision to slowly bring Cuba back into the full diplomatic community. This is not to suggest that many of the United States staunch European and Asian allies did not ignore the imposed U.S. Embargoes and continued to trade and do international business with Cuba for over forty years, in spite of the political antagonistic relationship between the U.S. and Cuba.
Western European Governments recognized a long time ago that Cuba had economic markets and based on its long diplomatic relations with the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)possessed tradable commodities, pesos and other viable currencies which to purchase goods and services (the Europeans have always kept the Cuban Tourism industry afloat during these lean embargo years). Most of the United States, European Allies in private viewed the U.S. sanctions and embargoes against Cuba as reactionary, senseless and nonproductive. The United States Government in reality had no legitimate gripe with Cuba, other than they chose to live as a Socialist Government because in all reality, Cuba hadn't committed any crimes against the United States. What are they guilty of other than their right to exercise self-determination?
Many Americans even in 2009 do not have a clue what socialism is and/or is not. The ignorant will say that the Cubans had aligned themselves with the Communist USSR for close to forty years (yet at the same time the United States was trading with the "good communist" and still yet, what crime did Cuba commit?) and perhaps would arrogantly state “we could not have this type of military threat in our backdoor”; in particular the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis incident, which was perceived by the United States as a compromise of international law and a threat to U.S. national security and stability. The United States has controlled foreign nations intervention into the Caribbean Sea and region based on the signing of the 1823 Monroe Doctrine which prohibits foreign powers and authorities of having any military jurisdiction in this vital and strategic region. (Reference: Don Munton and David A. Welch;”The Cuban Missile Crisis: A Concise History").
The Soviet Union so-called collapsed in 1989, which brought an abrupt end to Russian style communism and Cold War politics which had divided the world into two camps Warsaw Pact Nations and NATO for close to fifty years. But President Fidel Castro and the Cuban people had internalized true socialist principles and did not budge, although its biggest political and economic supporter the Soviet Union stood up before the world announcing its betrayal of Socialism. (Reference: Stephen A. Resnick; "Class Theory and History: Capitalism and Communism in the USSR").
Castro and the Cuban people did not embrace the socialist ideology because they were following the former USSR; they weighed the scientific principles based on Cuban history, world history, other modes of economic systems and they saw the human contradictions in capitalism based on it being a vicious system of exploitation that gave way to classism and this served as an antagonistic contradiction in human development. Castro and Cuba in 1989 came to understand that the USSR was always a capitalist nation who had disguised its reactionary political and economic ideological principles in Socialist theories and at the same time betraying many of its Warsaw Pact Nations allies in pursuit of capitalist interest. Many pundits and political scientist expected Cuba too politically and economically collapse after the former Soviet Union deceptions was exposed, which proved they were enemies of Socialism. (Reference: Ernesto Guevara; "Che Guevara, Cuba, and the Road to Socialism").
Castro taught the people to embrace the revolution and to inculcate the principles in their lives (the revolution was not based on any perfect socialist model nor was it rooted in charismatic style leadership) and this is why twenty years later Cuba has been able to withstand a powerful Capitalist country like the United States and even overcome Russia's deception. However, after Cuba's abandonment by the former Soviet Union in 1989 they were left with many strategic challenges—politically, economically and socially, but their courage, determination and optimism have proven greater than the betrayal of their chief political and economic ally. This writer has been saying this for over thirty years that the Cuban people had the right to self-determination and that included the right to choose socialism or communism as their form of government. Why has this right kept the United States from having constructive and normalize relations with the Cuban Government for so long? Reference: Ariana Hernandez-Reguant; "Cuba in the Special Period: Culture and Ideology in the 1990s (New Concepts in Latino American Cultures)’ “.
The United States government has imposed unjustified sanctions and embargoes against Cuba since the early 1960s and former President Fidel Castro has been the target of many Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) covert plots and assassination attempts because he refused to bow to American imperialism. His legacy has to be considered as one of defiance and longevity and his tenure has outlasted at least eight United States Presidents. President Castro should have received a Nobel Peace Prize for his revolutionary work and Cuba’s ability to politically, economically, and socially sustain itself against one the world’s foremost superpowers—the United States.
This writer has always respected President Fidel Castro and Cuba for opening up its country to so many revolutionaries and political prisoners and most all their commitment in supporting revolutionary struggles around the world. Cuba stood with the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) under the leadership of the late Yasser Arafat; Cuba stood with the Irish Republican Army (IRA); Cuba stood with the freedom fighters of the South West Africa People’s Organization (SWAPO) in Namibia, Africa who had been fighting for centuries for their freedom and independence from the vicious racist regime of the South African Government; Cuba stood with Steven Biko and Nelson Mandela and African National Congress (ANC) and their fight against the white Afrikaner Government and Apartheid regime of South Africa (Azania) who had been vicious and oppressive since the Dutch arrive 1652.
Cuba stood in the early 1980s with the tiny Caribbean nation of Grenada and its Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and the New Jewel Movement who was later betrayed by one of his top lieutenants Bernard Coard; Cuba stood with Colonel Muammar Qaddafi and the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya and their quest for a United States of Africa ; Cuba stood in the 1980s with Nicaraguan Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) and its controversial leader Daniel Ortega; Cuba in the 1970s stood with Angola, Africa and their struggle for independence from the Portuguese; Cuba and President Fidel Castro in the early 1960s visited Harlem, New York and stood in solidarity with the Nation of Islam and Minister Malcolm X. (Reference: Fidel Castro; "Fidel Castro Speeches 1984-85; three volumes).
Perhaps one of the most controversial positions Cuba has taken was granting political asylum to a United States prisoner of war named Assata Shakur formally known as Joanne Chesimard of the Black Liberation Army (BLA). She was accused and convicted of killing a New Jersey State Trooper on the New Jersey Turnpike in the early 1970s and was sentenced to life in prison without parole within the U.S. Federal Prison system. But after serving five years in FCI Morgantown, West Virginia; Shakur escaped to Cuba where she received political asylum from the Cuban Government. Shakur is still considered a fugitive of justice on the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Most Wanted List and on the U.S. Marshal's Most Wanted List (there is now a million dollar bounty over her head) and I am quite sure she has been upgraded to the Homeland Security top criminals priority listing. (Reference: Assata Shakur; "Assata: An Autobiography").
Shakur has now lived in Cuba for over three decades in which many rightwing U.S. politicians over the years have tried to issue extradition warrants (of course these actions were non-binding) and in an attempt to pressure Cuba to releasing her into United States custody. But Cuba has refused to capitulate to U.S. pressure and this also has been a thorn in the side of U.S. and Cuba relations. Cuba and the U.S. do not have an agreed extradition treaty. Many believe to this day that Assata Shakur was innocent of all charges and was a mere a victim of the former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover and his counter intelligence program called Cointelpro which was aimed at radical militant and not so radical black leadership during the 1960s and 1970s. (Reference: Assata Shakur; "Assata: An Autobiography").
Hoover used a gamut of dirty tricks to destabilize, neutralize, assassinate, incarcerate, imposed illegal wiretapping, spied, sent paid informants to disrupt progressive black organizations, placed agent provocateurs in strategic leadership positions within some of the most militant black organizations in America, etc., which to closely monitor the leadership and the organizations. Shakur has maintained her innocence and she outlined her legal case and personal history in her autobiography titled, "Assata" and chronicled her side of the story relative to the events that led to a N.J. State Trooper being murdered on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1973. (Reference: Elaine Brown; "A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story").
The United States Judicial system has not always provided its political prisoners with a fair and impartial legal process—this was seen in cases of Black Panther Party members such as George Jackson, Geronimo Pratt, Mumia Abu Jamal, Huey P. Newton, Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin etc., so from that perspective Assata Shakur presents a credible argument relative to how she was treated within the U.S. judicial system, as well as within the penal institutions of America. This writer believes that she could never receive a fair trial within the United States based on racism and the case being a high profile case of killing a white police officer. Now! If President Barack Obama wants to do something honorable and noble, why do not he commute Assata Shakur's criminal sentence and issue her a presidential pardon? What would be the difference in lieu of President Bill Clinton issuing a presidential pardon to a criminal like Marc Rich? (Reference: Dhoruba Bin Wahad, Assata Shakur, and Mumia Abu-Jamal; "Still Black, Still Strong").
This writer believes that the Cuban Government was right in granting Shakur political asylum and they too believe that she was a United States political prisoner and met the international legal criteria to be considered as a political prisoner. This new so-called goodwill political approach that President Obama is offering in U.S. and Cuban relations, it essentially has to be viewed as a good step and will prove to be a positive refreshing new era in the area of U.S./Cuba international diplomacy. In spite of it being a politically opportunistic maneuver on behalf of the United States (Cuba needs the United States and United States needs Cuba).
The political awkwardness between the two nations could be partially blamed on the petite bourgeoisie Cubans who left Cuba in 1959 as a class of self-imposed exiles after Fulgencio Batista y ZaldÃvar was deposed and setup a defacto exile Cuban Government in Miami, Florida—acculturated and assimilated somewhat into American life—this wealthy and well educated class of Cubans who once lived privilege lives in Havana worked to create strong and effective Cuban-American political lobby groups inside the boarders of the U.S. and for fifty (50) years have garnished their influence to shape public policy and direct U.S. Foreign relations relative to Cuba. (Reference: Martha Harnecker; "Fidel Castro's Political Strategy").
Thus, U.S. politicians often took their lead from the Miami based Cuban-American community who had become very thrifty business people; in particular in the areas of finance and banking. Cuban-Americans were politically savvy enough to leverage their economic prosperity, which to make large financial contributions to the Republican Party and the Democratic Party (they had learned and master the political game). So American policy makers did not make any decisions on Cuba without being in direct consultation with the Cuban-Americans on all matters concerning their homeland and carried out the political aspirations of these well financed and organized Cuban-American political action groups. (Reference: Patrick Haney and Walt Vanderbush; "Cuban Embargo: Domestic Politics of American Foreign Policy").
The Cuban-American position toward President Fidel Castro often made the case for reactionary and racist U.S. politicians such as the former Republican Senator of North Carolina Jesse Helms (a tobacco chewing redneck that constantly spewed rightwing propaganda against President Castro and the nation of Cuba) this made room for strange bedfellows because the United States reactionary foreign policy toward Cuba was being driven by the Miami Cuban-Americans and United States Politicians had their biggest ally, which to justify demonizing Castro and isolating Cuba. (Reference: Jeffrey Elliot; "Nothing Can Stop the Course of History").
The Cuban-Americans have been relentless in their uncompromising and unwillingness to pursue a calmer and gentler political strategy with Castro for the greater good of both sides. This writer believes after almost fifty (50) years they have finally come to their senses and to the realization that it benefits both sides by working to ease the political tension and suspicion. Thus, by the U.S. uplifting of some of the travel restrictions, if nothing else allows Cuban-American family members to visit their relatives in Cuba which has to be considered a positive step in the right direction. This common sense approach will benefit the spirit and booster the psychological morale of both nations.
This writer must say the Cuban-Americans for many years sold—shaped and molded the American polity that the Cubans who left Cuba on poorly built rafts and fishing boats were so-called escaping political persecution (the minute they illegally left Cuba and entered international waters they were deemed political prisoners) at the hands of a repressive Cuban dictator and this made them entitled to U.S. political asylum, as well as other diplomatic status.
Yet, also many have argued for years that the Haitians were escaping political tyranny from Port-au-Prince, but they were met with hostility and political opposition from the United States Government and were denied the diplomatic status of political asylum which was often granted unconditionally to the so-called fleeing Cuban refugees. There were no goodwill ambassador and open arms policy shown to the Haitian refugees. Many of the Haitian refugees were criminalized and placed in federal detention camps and were eventually deported back to Haiti. (Reference: Randall Robinson; "Quitting America: Departure of a Black Man From His Native Land").
Perhaps this was an example of the influence and the political power that the Cuban-Americans had in swaying the U.S. Judicial system and manipulating U.S. extradition laws and deportation policies to their benefit. This immediately put the Cuban refugees on track to become United States citizens and the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) granted them rights and privilege and resources. But others argued that the Haitians were black and African in which at the root of the Haitian refugee issue was American style racism and this was the driving force behind this political double standard. No doubt the Haitian community in the United States did not have the political clout and the financial wither all, which to influence United States foreign policy like their Caribbean counterparts the Cubans. (Reference: Carol Bohmer and Amy Shuman; "Rejecting Refugees: Political Asylum in the 21st Century").
Haiti is considered the poorest nation in the western hemisphere and essentially is a powerless people in comparison to the Cuban-Americans. This writer believes that the Europeans are still punishing Haiti for the historical events of 1803 where Haiti became the first independent black nation in the western hemisphere due to Toussaint L'Overture defeating the powerful French military that was led by Napoleon Bonaparte. These events have haunted the island nation of Haiti for over two hundred years. (Reference: Paul Farmer; "The Use of Haiti").
However, in 1999 a little Cuban boy refugee named Elian Gonzalez was rescued off the coast of Florida by some deep sea fishermen and Elian Gonzales relatives in Miami declared the boy was a political refugee escaping the tyranny of a Castro led government. The Cuban-American lobbies had immediately turned this incident into a political football; hoping to further exposed President Fidel Castro as a ruthless and repressive dictator and this innocent little boy and others (Elian mother was one of the fleeing Cubans to lose her life in this allege escape attempt) would risk their lives to escape to freedom by any means necessary. They thought they had the right political ammunition by using Elian Gonzalez as the poster child to contest international human brutality coming out of Cuba. However, this strategy and tactic would later backfire in their faces. (Reference: Michael John; "Betrayal of Elian Gonzalez").
Elian Gonzalez's father traveled to the United States and legally declared parental rights to his son and petitioned the United States Courts and lawmakers to declare him the right to take his minor child back to Cuba where he was a citizen. The State Department eventually sided with Mr. Gonzalez—he was granted the legal right to take his son from U.S. soil back to Cuba. This legal decision devastated the powerful Cuban-American lobby in Miami and even after the legal decision was rendered the American Gonzalez family and Cuban-Americans refused to relinquish the little boy back to his father. But the United States Attorney General Janet Reno and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Marshals, INS, ATF, etc., with power and force and in no uncertain terms demonstrated to the Cuban-Americans that they were not above reproach and the law. The United States Government could not allow any arm group inside the U.S. to dictate their own law and to publically defy a U.S. Court order to relinquish Elian Gonzalez. If they hadn't respond the way that they did, perhaps this would have sent the wrong message to other political renegades. (Reference: Michael John; "Betrayal of Elian Gonzalez").
The Cuban-Americans felt betrayed by Reno and the Clinton administration and perhaps in the 2000 U.S. presidential election, it would be Florida after much political confusion and debate that would decide the United States presidency for the Republican candidate George W. Bush. This writer used to work in the field of international commodity trading and import/export and were in talks with Cuban officials over ten years ago relative to the U.S. and Cuba import/export markets; I believe under the Clinton administration and later under President George W. Bush, Black farmers in the United States had convinced the U.S. State Department in allowing them to export some of their agriculture products to Cuba and not be penalized or effected by the sanctions and embargoes laws and policies.
Kwesi Mfume, the former president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) led a U.S. Delegation of mainly African Americans to Cuba to explore this new economic open door policy created by the Clinton and Bush administrations. Cuba was prepared to engage the African American farmers in an import agriculture agreement, but Mfume and the other Black intelligentsia were out of their league and none of them had any real expertise in import/export business procedures and we witness a golden opportunity end in blunder. (Reference: Zamgba J. Browne; "U.S. Black farmers to supply Cuba" on-line http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-79492632... New York Amsterdam News; November 27, 2002).
This was ashame and yet the group this writer was associated with had the expertise and knowledge to consummate the deal, but due to politics and the crabs in the barrel mentality; these high level talks seven years ago never amounted to anything. U.S. Black Farmers have been discriminated against and many of the their farms are being foreclosed on—they are the last to receive governmental subsidies, as far as low interest loans and grants and they do not receive the assistance from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) as their white counterparts. (Reference: John Boyd Link National Black Farmers Association http://www.blackfarmers.org/ (click icon that says media).
Some of the Black Farmers activists have filed federal law suits against the U.S. Government. These small farmers have legitimate legal grips and yet there is a double standard where the large commercial farms are constantly receiving bailout money and USDA incentives, but the small U.S. black farmers are in a fight for their economic survival. This is why this writer views Mfume and the Black leadership with contempt and disgust because they are part cause of the predicament black farmers are in 2009.
Many have yearned for this day when United States citizens could freely travel and engage Cuba in its rich social and cultural history. However, many Americans have been traveling to Cuba in spite of the U.S. Embargoes by way of Mexico and Canada and the Mexican/Cuban Customs Officials understood the political complexity of U.S. and Cuban relations; they often took the liberty not to officially stamp U.S. Passports and not documenting U.S. citizens travel to Cuba based on the prior travel restrictions and economic sanctions and embargoes imposed on Cuba. This non-passport action also protected United States citizens from being legally prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney's office; (Reference: Helen Osieja; "Economic Sanctions As an Instrument of U.S. Foreign Policy: The Case of the U.S. Embargo Against Cuba").
But others found loopholes in the policy and laws outlined by the United States Treasury Department relative to U.S. citizens traveling to Havana. They often brought back firsthand accounts relative to the political, economic, and social condition of the people on this Caribbean Island nation. But this only furthered my curiosity and it was difficult for me to reason that because these people were Socialist, it led the United States toward a policy of isolationism for almost fifty years toward Cuba. Our foreign policy toward Cuba even to date just does not make any sense.
The United States once served as a colonial master of Cuba and Cuba was once a lucrative slave port where African slaves (Cuba in the 1920s was ninety percent black) were brought into work the massive sugar plantations from the 15th Century to 19th Century known as the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The Spanish and the British exploited Cuba—raping and robbing the land and the indigenous people of their wealth and resources for European economic gain. (Reference: Eric Williams; Capitalism and Slavery").
This was a great criminal act and it created a system of economic, political and social inequality and classism that has haunted this nation until 1959 when Fidel Castro overthrew the repressive regime of Fulgencio Batista y ZaldÃvar. Batista had turned Cuba into a den of inequity—gambling casinos, prostitution houses, drugs, organized crime, etc., it was the play island for wealthy Europeans who looked to bathe in the Caribbean sun and all rules were negotiable. This writer has always agreed with Comrade Fidel Castro and the political positions he took against the United States. He nationalized the Cuban sugar industry which gave the Cuban people more economic control over this and other cash crops commodities. Bloodsucking capitalist companies such as ConAgra, Archer Daniel Midland, Cargill. etc., have also played a huge part in United States and Cuban relations because Cuba would not allow them to exploit its people and resources.
The citizens of the United States should demand that President Barack Obama and the United States Congress rescind and overturn all the embargoes and economic sanctions against Cuba and work to reverse this devastating foreign policy that has created so much political tension for the last fifty years. Perhaps President Obama will seize the moment and not be swayed by the politics of yesteryear and work to completely change U.S. relations toward Cuba for the better. We know the blockades and embargoes have been ineffective and this writer believes that the people on both sides will welcome normalize relations between the two sovereign governments. The time is now.
Fahim A. Knight-EL Chief Researcher for KEEPING IT REAL THINK TANK located in Durham, NC; our mission is to inform African Americans and all people of goodwill, of the pending dangers that lie ahead; as well as decode the symbolisms and reinterpreted the hidden meanings behind those who operate as invisible forces, but covertly rules the world. We are of the belief that an enlightened world will be better prepared to throw off the shackles of ignorance and not be willing participants for the slaughter. Our MOTTO is speaking truth to power. Fahim A. Knight-EL can be reached at fahimknight@yahoo.com.
Stay Awake Until We Meet Again,
Fahim A. Knight-EL
Thursday, April 30, 2009
RUSH LIMBAUGH: TALKING LOUD AND SAYING NOTHING
RUSH LIMBAUGH: TALKING LOUD AND SAYING NOTHING
By Fahim A. Knight-EL
This writer about a month ago was turning his television channels and just happened to turned to C-Span where the syndicated radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh was giving a public talk. This writer has never heard Limbaugh give a complete public presentation because often the media gives us sound bites and snippets of information. However, this is often done for the ignorant and dumbfound masses by the media to systematically shape and mold public opinion and formulating a perception of a person and/or event for them without presenting them with all the facts which to make an intelligent assessment or evaluation. I had somewhat dismissed Rush Limbaugh a long time ago, as just some loudmouth rightwing conservative who was good at manipulating the fears of poor and middle class whites in order to hustle and pimp them to the bank.
But I must admit, I am guilty of judging Limbaugh from those same sound bites and in actuality had drew my opinions and conclusions of him from the mass corporate control media (this can be a dangerous trend for any free thinking human being). Thus, this is something that I often do not do, but most of his public comments after assessing them closer were reactionary, but like all Talking Heads their minds and tongues are controlled and their political views do not necessarily reflect any real political departure from the status quo (they are the first line of defense for the Invisible Rulers because they carryout the Art of Propaganda).
The majority of your Talking Heads are only agents of the Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission and the Bilderberger, which these groups control all discussion (both pro and con). This writer suspects Limbaugh to be an agent of these groups. They pay him to socially and politically agitate and to appeal to the dissatisfied in order create pressure from the bottom and pressure from the top. Limbaugh uses his syndicated radio broadcast where he speaks to over forty (40) million people everyday giving his listening base the Gospel according to this self-proclaimed and self-righteous radio prophet who mixes a pure form of nationalism and a message of good ole American patriotism in his often contradictory diatribe of espousing conservative values.
People have bought into this idea that we have political ideological options within the United States based on our Democracy mainly being of a two party system—Democrat and Republican; this so-called affords us two ideological views or choices that are supposedly of different poles on the political spectrum. However, those that control and manipulate national and international debate always give the appearance to the ignorant masses that there are contradictory viewpoints being espoused (and to falsely lead you into believing that you have political choices). But in reality, according to Allen and Abraham in their monumental book titled, "None Dare call it Conspiracy" there is one debate and it is always carefully crafted to benefit the interest of the Invisible Rulers and the Dynastic Families. So whatever Rush Limbaugh says can not be viewed outside of this context and it does not matter how extreme his views may be; he serves one Master (in reality we all are servants of this small minority of Masters) and they have the money, power and influence to make the likes of Limbaugh a rising star. Who controls the media and what is their objective?
Some have deduced Limbaugh down to a mere entertainer in order to minimize his credibility and dismiss him as having no substance, as far as formulating and shaping public policy. This writer thinks a more appropriate and applicable label when referencing Rush Limbaugh should be pawn. But very few understand the chessboard game that is being played on the lives of humanity. Limbaugh is only a low-level sheep herder and he works in the interest of the Invisible Rulers. This writer considers all media talking heads as mere public entertainers even the ones that most people would deem as being serious and competent reporters such as: George Stepenolopous, Anderson Cooper, Charlie Gibson, Larry King, Barbara Waters, Mike Wallace, Roland Martin, Campbell Brown, Wolf Blitzer, William Bennett, Don Lemon, Kate Snow, Bill Maher, etc., they do not report independent of the agenda and script—they are more of entertainers than Rush Limbaugh (they put on great performances in front of the cameras).
These low level operatives are masters of luring the public to sleep by presenting media distractions and constantly dumbing down America. We should not just be asked to dismiss Limbaugh because of being labled and referred to as an entertainer, but we should be able to see that all these high profile talking heads are mere entertainers as well (the media talking heads put on good performances every night as anchor men and women so-called reporting the “news”). Limbaugh is not the defacto leader of the Republican Party, he is the leader and he is one of the few Republicans who have remained theoretically true to so-called conservative values and right about now, the party is looking for anyone to give direction to a divided and fragmented organization. Limbaugh has a big bully pulpit and there are many who look to him to shape the conservative argument and to talk the code language of white privilege and class espoused best in covert conservative racist ideology, but without directly engaging in political incorrect race baiting (he is really good at this). Thus, often the likes of a Limbaugh it is not what's being said that you need to pay attention, but it is often what aren't be saying that you must pay even closer attention.
Here is the dilemma that the present day Republican Party finds itself after eight years under Bush; President George Bush had an agenda, which he accepted as a low level operative to carryout, the hidden agenda of the Invisible Rulers in which this group do not have any loyalty to low-level party affiliations (conservatives or liberals). They had one objective which was ushering in a New World Order and a One World Government and he turned the conservative core values topsy turvy. We witness the national debt climb from five trillion dollars in 2000 when he took office to over ten trillion dollars when he left office in 2008. There was no fiscal responsibility and no fiscal restraints the hallmark signature of past Republican conservative Congresses and Republican Presidents.
Big government exploded under President George Bush, a Republican who's father George Herbert Walker Bush served as partner in crime with conservative maestro President Ronald Wilson Reagan, but none of this mattered because beginning in 2000 unknowing to the masses the world was being restructured and realigned under the leadership of George W. Bush; this would take precedent over all philosophical and political party motives. The Invisible Rulers made every available resource at George W. Bush disposal which to get all the strategic pieces in place relative to Homeland Security, Patriot Act, new military initiatives or powers, nationalization of banking and finance, revamping the U.S. Jurisprudence system, the massive monetary cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, etc.
Bush gave the appearance of betraying all the fundamental principles that have traditionally represented the philosophy and ideals of the Republican Party. He represented big government at least in theory, a sharp departure from past Republican led governments. Bush perhaps had an assigned mission unlike any other commander-in-chief and most who belong to his political party were oblivious to the goal and objectives because even in the Council of Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission, Milner Group, Carlyle Group, etc., there are layers, a circle, within circle. The external (the outer layer) members who belongs to these powerful organizations are not privy to its most secret inner workings (the hidden decision makers that are insulated and desire to be invisible). The likes of George Bush had a greater loyalty to these masters than he had to the Grand Old Party and this is what Rush Limbaugh does not understand or perhaps he does understand and is just part of the duping. His orders could have been to give the appearance that he is presenting the political anti-thesis (he is just part of the controlled argument equation).
Limbaugh at times appears to be a strict constitutional constructionist and he gives these passionate commentaries about the meaning and original intent of this great document and no doubt this resonate with the Second Amendment advocates who are not willing to give up their firearms. The United States Government uses distractions to corral the ignorant masses by constantly bombarding them with gun control propaganda, but the ultimate objective is to disarm the people and this is far removed from good public policy. Rush Limbaugh does understand that a weaken United States Constitution does not serve the interest of those who understand how vitally important it is for us to hold on to the Bill of Rights and fight for our constitution.
It is even sadder because very few high level Republican leaders have come out and said that former President Bush is the blame for the party being fragmented and in disarray and in the public eyes it cost the Republican party the 2008 election at least on the surface; Bush has not been characterized as a Benedict Arnold, perhaps the top level agents was well aware of his mission. Thus, during the 2008 presidential elections you would have thought he had the bubonic plague and Presidential Republican nominee John McCain did everything in his power to keep himself arms lengths away from former President George W. Bush because he was deemed a political liability. Bush could not stump for Senator McCain and he went through the motion as a lame duck.
There has been little political evaluation and criticism of Bush's none role in the 2008 election; it was like he did not exist and the political bagged he carried out weighed the possibility of any good he could have done to assist his party. This was a cold and calculated risk made by the New World Order proponents (let me assure you Bush's presidency was not a failure and within the grand scheme of things—Mission Accomplished). If nothing else they understand whoever is in the U.S. presidential big chair they win regardless. Limbaugh at least give the public impression that he is concerned about the political direction of the Republican Party and has enough emotional rhetoric to rally the troops back to the so-called clarion call of conservative ideals. Limbaugh has never held a public office, but he is in a position to be a flamethrower and wields tremendous political influence over elected officials.
This Talking Head has a loyal following base and not many today's Republicans command the ability to move and sway the party base like this low-level operative. Limbaugh understands you must give the people what they want and right now his base wants fire and brimstone. Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana was supposed to be the new rising star of the Republican Party, but how can you trust a man who has refused to publically acknowledge his East Indian heritage and culture. He is also a Council on Foreign Relations, Bilderberger, and Trilateral Commission member. They sent him out as a gofer to rebuttal President Barack Obama's State of the Union address and his performance left a lot to be desired.
The Republicans just refused to lay the nation's blame on President Bush and this lack of critical assessment has left them with no defense and they appear politically disorientated. Rush Limbaugh is the only Republican pundit with a platform and they would not admit to this, but the state of Republican Party rest in the direction he will take it or may be I should say, the direction his hidden paymasters will order him to take the GOP. Limbaugh was quoted as saying he hopes President Obama fails; this writer also hopes he fails, but let me clarify this statement; he was selected to further the New World Order and the One World Government agenda. Therefore, this writer can not in good conscious laud his success because his success marks the total demise of global humanity. The G-20 Summit was held recently in Europe, which was billed as a convening of twenty (20) of the most powerful governments on earth; their hidden objective was to tweak and continue to work out the kinks relative to the One World Government initiatives.
These summits are led by the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Oppenheimers, etc., in which the international financial crisis is being driven by this hidden invisible Elite. This really has never been about the conservative versus liberal, it was more about a paradigm shift, in which none of the old arguments would factor into the minds nor influence this unstoppable trend of globalization. Thus, perhaps you have not notice, but nothing would resemble the world that we are rapidly leaving behind. Limbaugh knows this appeals to the raw emotions of the political right—their fears and their patriotism.
The last administration trampled all over the core values and principles which has traditionally glued this party together with such reckless abandonment, it created a leadership vacuum. Limbaugh recognizes this better than any other so-called conservative voice in America and he is forever seizing the moment to give political and philosophical direction to a party that is struggling for an identity. They truly yearn for yesteryear and Limbaugh has the ability to create a nostalgic fervor like no other present day conservative personality.
The appointment of Michael Steele as the first African American to head the GOP National Committee and perhaps the appointment was a counter to the Democratic Party nominating and electing President Barack Obama as our first African American Commander-in-Chief. But even in 2009 Steele does not have the right skin color to mend a Republican Party whose ideology is historically steeped in southern Confederacy, which is a reflection of a collective conscious. This statement in no way implies that the Democratic Party has differed in their policy initiatives toward African Americans; nevertheless, let us not digress to race and lose focus of the real issues which operates outside of the parameters of race. This is the trump card that the real enemy uses to keep humanity divided and has the ability to shrewdly manipulate the unsolved emotional history of race relations in the United States for their diabolic benefits.
These manipulators have plenty of use for the likes of a Rush Limbaugh. They uses him to appeal to the deep seated and unresolved emotions of a society which created racial havoc for over 310 years. Limbaugh reasons and secure their psychological guilt by making the victims appear as the criminals and the criminals appear as the victims, but this is all done by strategic design. No one is listening to the Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele (I know for sure African Americans aren't listen to him) and the majority of his white constituency do not trust him as the man with the master plan which to once again return the Republican Party into a formidable political machine.
The party has lost its political swagger and the leadership void has further propelled Limbaugh as the man of the hour. Steele a couple of months ago tried to write Limbaugh off as a mere entertainer and he would later come back to make a public apology. Limbaugh as the big Republican political cheese put him on blast, as to say, "the power rest with me and not with you." This induce economic crisis has render politics as usual as being obsolete because the rules of the game has changed. Walter Fauntroy an old confidante of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, use to say good politics was being in the room when the money was being divided. I guess Limbaugh would like to blame America's economic depression on the poor and 'have nots' and use them as the scapegoats for America's economic woes. I wonder has he read the "Protocols of the Learnt Elders of Zion" and I wonder, how would he be perceived if he attacked American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and the Zionist with same fervor that he attacks blacks and Latinos?
Limbaugh knows and understands that it is easy to ridicule a powerless people and know the political repercussion would be minimum at best. Moreover, just think about this, two United States Presidents (Bush and Obama) have given the world's corporate Elite over 161 billion dollars of the taxpayers money which automatically represents the enslavement of five unborn American generations (it is called passing the debt on). Limbaugh even during this economic depression is dependent upon advertisement dollars--
JPMorgan $25 billion; Citigroup $25 billion; Wells Fargo $25 billion; Bank of America $15 billion;
Merrill Lynch $10 billion; (NOTE) Goldman Sachs $10 billion; Morgan Stanley $10 billion;
Bank of New York Mellon $3 billion; State Street Corp $2 billion; Bank of Commerce $17 million;
First Financial Svcs $16 million; UCBH Holdings Inc $299 million; Northern Trust Corp $1.6 billion;
SunTrust Banks $3.5 billion; Broadway Financial Corp $9 million; Washington Federal $200 million;
BB&T Corp $3.1 billion; Provident Bancshares Corp $151 million; Umpqua Holdings Corp $214 million;
Comerica $2.3 billion Regions Financial $3.5 billion Capital One Financial $3.6 billion;
First Horizon National $866 million; Huntington Bancshares $1.4 billion; KeyCorp $2.5 billion;
Valley National Bancorp $300 million; Zions Bancorp $1.4 billion; Marshall & Ilsley Corp $1.7 billion;
US Bancorp $6.6 billion; TCF Financial $361 million; First Niagara Financial $184 million;
HF Financial Corp $25 million; Centerstate Banks Fla. $28 million; First Community Bancshares, Inc. $42 million;
Western Alliance Bancorp. $140 million; Webster Financial $400 million; Pacific Capital Bancorp. $181 million;
Heritage Commerce Corp. $40 million; Ameris Bancorp. $52 million; Porter Bancorp $35 million;
Banner Corp $124 million; Cascade Financial $39 million; Columbia Banking $77 million;
Heritage Financial Corp. $24 million; First PacTrust Bancorp. $19 million Severn Bancorp, Inc. $23 million;
Boston Private $154 million; Associated Banc-Corp $525 million; Trustmark Corp $215 million;
First Community Corp. $11 million Taylor Capital $105 million; Nara Bancorp, Inc. $67 million.
Limbaugh suffers from diarrhea of the of the mouth and he is constantly blaming the "liberals" for the economic, political and social troubles of the United States (this allows the real troublemaker to continue to hide and carry out their deceptive acts against all humanity). This pawn wouldn't dare tell the public that Henry Kissinger wields more power and control over the affairs of America and the world than President Barack Obama. He does not possess the intestinal fortitude to tell his gullible listening audience that the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Oppenheimer, etc., the international bankers have induced this economic depression and credit crunch to further place that noose around our necks, chain and ball around the minds of their modern slaves. There is truly no honor amongst thieves and if the talking heads were to tell the people the truth their careers and the financial crumbs would dry up like stagnated water in a sizzling hot desert.
Limbaugh perhaps knows that someone possess the power and authority to call the debt-in, which is outside the framework of the Democratic process and is not bind by the U.S. Constitutional legal framework (this group functions outside of all sovereign and legal jurisdictions the world over). This writer predicts that Limbaugh influence will only increase because of the desperation and the hopelessness that has been created inside of the United States. People are looking for someone to lead them and provide them with guidance--the government has failed them and at the same time enriched the international bankers and their Dynastic families at the expense of the ignorant.
Limbaugh knows how far to go and he will not cross certain lines and he will never lay blame upon the real culprits. He is atypical of how western media functions; journalism is censored and it is highly controlled—they systematically feed us government propaganda in order to keep us confused and dumbfound. Limbaugh and no other western Talking Head can be trusted; they are the gatekeepers of our enslavement because they feed our minds sublimely with decoded messages designed to keep us politically ignorant and misinformed while they silently rule over all humanity without any real opposition.
Fahim A. Knight-EL Chief Researcher for KEEPING IT REAL THINK TANK located in Durham, NC; our mission is to inform African Americans and all people of goodwill, of the pending dangers that lie ahead; as well as decode the symbolisms and reinterpreted the hidden meanings behind those who operate as invisible forces, but covertly rules the world. We are of the belief that an enlightened world will be better prepared to throw off the shackles of ignorance and not be willing participants for the slaughter. Our MOTTO is speaking truth to power. Fahim A. Knight-EL can be reached at fahimknight@yahoo.com.
Stay Awake Until We Meet Again,
Fahim A. Knight-EL
By Fahim A. Knight-EL
This writer about a month ago was turning his television channels and just happened to turned to C-Span where the syndicated radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh was giving a public talk. This writer has never heard Limbaugh give a complete public presentation because often the media gives us sound bites and snippets of information. However, this is often done for the ignorant and dumbfound masses by the media to systematically shape and mold public opinion and formulating a perception of a person and/or event for them without presenting them with all the facts which to make an intelligent assessment or evaluation. I had somewhat dismissed Rush Limbaugh a long time ago, as just some loudmouth rightwing conservative who was good at manipulating the fears of poor and middle class whites in order to hustle and pimp them to the bank.
But I must admit, I am guilty of judging Limbaugh from those same sound bites and in actuality had drew my opinions and conclusions of him from the mass corporate control media (this can be a dangerous trend for any free thinking human being). Thus, this is something that I often do not do, but most of his public comments after assessing them closer were reactionary, but like all Talking Heads their minds and tongues are controlled and their political views do not necessarily reflect any real political departure from the status quo (they are the first line of defense for the Invisible Rulers because they carryout the Art of Propaganda).
The majority of your Talking Heads are only agents of the Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission and the Bilderberger, which these groups control all discussion (both pro and con). This writer suspects Limbaugh to be an agent of these groups. They pay him to socially and politically agitate and to appeal to the dissatisfied in order create pressure from the bottom and pressure from the top. Limbaugh uses his syndicated radio broadcast where he speaks to over forty (40) million people everyday giving his listening base the Gospel according to this self-proclaimed and self-righteous radio prophet who mixes a pure form of nationalism and a message of good ole American patriotism in his often contradictory diatribe of espousing conservative values.
People have bought into this idea that we have political ideological options within the United States based on our Democracy mainly being of a two party system—Democrat and Republican; this so-called affords us two ideological views or choices that are supposedly of different poles on the political spectrum. However, those that control and manipulate national and international debate always give the appearance to the ignorant masses that there are contradictory viewpoints being espoused (and to falsely lead you into believing that you have political choices). But in reality, according to Allen and Abraham in their monumental book titled, "None Dare call it Conspiracy" there is one debate and it is always carefully crafted to benefit the interest of the Invisible Rulers and the Dynastic Families. So whatever Rush Limbaugh says can not be viewed outside of this context and it does not matter how extreme his views may be; he serves one Master (in reality we all are servants of this small minority of Masters) and they have the money, power and influence to make the likes of Limbaugh a rising star. Who controls the media and what is their objective?
Some have deduced Limbaugh down to a mere entertainer in order to minimize his credibility and dismiss him as having no substance, as far as formulating and shaping public policy. This writer thinks a more appropriate and applicable label when referencing Rush Limbaugh should be pawn. But very few understand the chessboard game that is being played on the lives of humanity. Limbaugh is only a low-level sheep herder and he works in the interest of the Invisible Rulers. This writer considers all media talking heads as mere public entertainers even the ones that most people would deem as being serious and competent reporters such as: George Stepenolopous, Anderson Cooper, Charlie Gibson, Larry King, Barbara Waters, Mike Wallace, Roland Martin, Campbell Brown, Wolf Blitzer, William Bennett, Don Lemon, Kate Snow, Bill Maher, etc., they do not report independent of the agenda and script—they are more of entertainers than Rush Limbaugh (they put on great performances in front of the cameras).
These low level operatives are masters of luring the public to sleep by presenting media distractions and constantly dumbing down America. We should not just be asked to dismiss Limbaugh because of being labled and referred to as an entertainer, but we should be able to see that all these high profile talking heads are mere entertainers as well (the media talking heads put on good performances every night as anchor men and women so-called reporting the “news”). Limbaugh is not the defacto leader of the Republican Party, he is the leader and he is one of the few Republicans who have remained theoretically true to so-called conservative values and right about now, the party is looking for anyone to give direction to a divided and fragmented organization. Limbaugh has a big bully pulpit and there are many who look to him to shape the conservative argument and to talk the code language of white privilege and class espoused best in covert conservative racist ideology, but without directly engaging in political incorrect race baiting (he is really good at this). Thus, often the likes of a Limbaugh it is not what's being said that you need to pay attention, but it is often what aren't be saying that you must pay even closer attention.
Here is the dilemma that the present day Republican Party finds itself after eight years under Bush; President George Bush had an agenda, which he accepted as a low level operative to carryout, the hidden agenda of the Invisible Rulers in which this group do not have any loyalty to low-level party affiliations (conservatives or liberals). They had one objective which was ushering in a New World Order and a One World Government and he turned the conservative core values topsy turvy. We witness the national debt climb from five trillion dollars in 2000 when he took office to over ten trillion dollars when he left office in 2008. There was no fiscal responsibility and no fiscal restraints the hallmark signature of past Republican conservative Congresses and Republican Presidents.
Big government exploded under President George Bush, a Republican who's father George Herbert Walker Bush served as partner in crime with conservative maestro President Ronald Wilson Reagan, but none of this mattered because beginning in 2000 unknowing to the masses the world was being restructured and realigned under the leadership of George W. Bush; this would take precedent over all philosophical and political party motives. The Invisible Rulers made every available resource at George W. Bush disposal which to get all the strategic pieces in place relative to Homeland Security, Patriot Act, new military initiatives or powers, nationalization of banking and finance, revamping the U.S. Jurisprudence system, the massive monetary cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, etc.
Bush gave the appearance of betraying all the fundamental principles that have traditionally represented the philosophy and ideals of the Republican Party. He represented big government at least in theory, a sharp departure from past Republican led governments. Bush perhaps had an assigned mission unlike any other commander-in-chief and most who belong to his political party were oblivious to the goal and objectives because even in the Council of Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission, Milner Group, Carlyle Group, etc., there are layers, a circle, within circle. The external (the outer layer) members who belongs to these powerful organizations are not privy to its most secret inner workings (the hidden decision makers that are insulated and desire to be invisible). The likes of George Bush had a greater loyalty to these masters than he had to the Grand Old Party and this is what Rush Limbaugh does not understand or perhaps he does understand and is just part of the duping. His orders could have been to give the appearance that he is presenting the political anti-thesis (he is just part of the controlled argument equation).
Limbaugh at times appears to be a strict constitutional constructionist and he gives these passionate commentaries about the meaning and original intent of this great document and no doubt this resonate with the Second Amendment advocates who are not willing to give up their firearms. The United States Government uses distractions to corral the ignorant masses by constantly bombarding them with gun control propaganda, but the ultimate objective is to disarm the people and this is far removed from good public policy. Rush Limbaugh does understand that a weaken United States Constitution does not serve the interest of those who understand how vitally important it is for us to hold on to the Bill of Rights and fight for our constitution.
It is even sadder because very few high level Republican leaders have come out and said that former President Bush is the blame for the party being fragmented and in disarray and in the public eyes it cost the Republican party the 2008 election at least on the surface; Bush has not been characterized as a Benedict Arnold, perhaps the top level agents was well aware of his mission. Thus, during the 2008 presidential elections you would have thought he had the bubonic plague and Presidential Republican nominee John McCain did everything in his power to keep himself arms lengths away from former President George W. Bush because he was deemed a political liability. Bush could not stump for Senator McCain and he went through the motion as a lame duck.
There has been little political evaluation and criticism of Bush's none role in the 2008 election; it was like he did not exist and the political bagged he carried out weighed the possibility of any good he could have done to assist his party. This was a cold and calculated risk made by the New World Order proponents (let me assure you Bush's presidency was not a failure and within the grand scheme of things—Mission Accomplished). If nothing else they understand whoever is in the U.S. presidential big chair they win regardless. Limbaugh at least give the public impression that he is concerned about the political direction of the Republican Party and has enough emotional rhetoric to rally the troops back to the so-called clarion call of conservative ideals. Limbaugh has never held a public office, but he is in a position to be a flamethrower and wields tremendous political influence over elected officials.
This Talking Head has a loyal following base and not many today's Republicans command the ability to move and sway the party base like this low-level operative. Limbaugh understands you must give the people what they want and right now his base wants fire and brimstone. Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana was supposed to be the new rising star of the Republican Party, but how can you trust a man who has refused to publically acknowledge his East Indian heritage and culture. He is also a Council on Foreign Relations, Bilderberger, and Trilateral Commission member. They sent him out as a gofer to rebuttal President Barack Obama's State of the Union address and his performance left a lot to be desired.
The Republicans just refused to lay the nation's blame on President Bush and this lack of critical assessment has left them with no defense and they appear politically disorientated. Rush Limbaugh is the only Republican pundit with a platform and they would not admit to this, but the state of Republican Party rest in the direction he will take it or may be I should say, the direction his hidden paymasters will order him to take the GOP. Limbaugh was quoted as saying he hopes President Obama fails; this writer also hopes he fails, but let me clarify this statement; he was selected to further the New World Order and the One World Government agenda. Therefore, this writer can not in good conscious laud his success because his success marks the total demise of global humanity. The G-20 Summit was held recently in Europe, which was billed as a convening of twenty (20) of the most powerful governments on earth; their hidden objective was to tweak and continue to work out the kinks relative to the One World Government initiatives.
These summits are led by the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Oppenheimers, etc., in which the international financial crisis is being driven by this hidden invisible Elite. This really has never been about the conservative versus liberal, it was more about a paradigm shift, in which none of the old arguments would factor into the minds nor influence this unstoppable trend of globalization. Thus, perhaps you have not notice, but nothing would resemble the world that we are rapidly leaving behind. Limbaugh knows this appeals to the raw emotions of the political right—their fears and their patriotism.
The last administration trampled all over the core values and principles which has traditionally glued this party together with such reckless abandonment, it created a leadership vacuum. Limbaugh recognizes this better than any other so-called conservative voice in America and he is forever seizing the moment to give political and philosophical direction to a party that is struggling for an identity. They truly yearn for yesteryear and Limbaugh has the ability to create a nostalgic fervor like no other present day conservative personality.
The appointment of Michael Steele as the first African American to head the GOP National Committee and perhaps the appointment was a counter to the Democratic Party nominating and electing President Barack Obama as our first African American Commander-in-Chief. But even in 2009 Steele does not have the right skin color to mend a Republican Party whose ideology is historically steeped in southern Confederacy, which is a reflection of a collective conscious. This statement in no way implies that the Democratic Party has differed in their policy initiatives toward African Americans; nevertheless, let us not digress to race and lose focus of the real issues which operates outside of the parameters of race. This is the trump card that the real enemy uses to keep humanity divided and has the ability to shrewdly manipulate the unsolved emotional history of race relations in the United States for their diabolic benefits.
These manipulators have plenty of use for the likes of a Rush Limbaugh. They uses him to appeal to the deep seated and unresolved emotions of a society which created racial havoc for over 310 years. Limbaugh reasons and secure their psychological guilt by making the victims appear as the criminals and the criminals appear as the victims, but this is all done by strategic design. No one is listening to the Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele (I know for sure African Americans aren't listen to him) and the majority of his white constituency do not trust him as the man with the master plan which to once again return the Republican Party into a formidable political machine.
The party has lost its political swagger and the leadership void has further propelled Limbaugh as the man of the hour. Steele a couple of months ago tried to write Limbaugh off as a mere entertainer and he would later come back to make a public apology. Limbaugh as the big Republican political cheese put him on blast, as to say, "the power rest with me and not with you." This induce economic crisis has render politics as usual as being obsolete because the rules of the game has changed. Walter Fauntroy an old confidante of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, use to say good politics was being in the room when the money was being divided. I guess Limbaugh would like to blame America's economic depression on the poor and 'have nots' and use them as the scapegoats for America's economic woes. I wonder has he read the "Protocols of the Learnt Elders of Zion" and I wonder, how would he be perceived if he attacked American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and the Zionist with same fervor that he attacks blacks and Latinos?
Limbaugh knows and understands that it is easy to ridicule a powerless people and know the political repercussion would be minimum at best. Moreover, just think about this, two United States Presidents (Bush and Obama) have given the world's corporate Elite over 161 billion dollars of the taxpayers money which automatically represents the enslavement of five unborn American generations (it is called passing the debt on). Limbaugh even during this economic depression is dependent upon advertisement dollars--
JPMorgan $25 billion; Citigroup $25 billion; Wells Fargo $25 billion; Bank of America $15 billion;
Merrill Lynch $10 billion; (NOTE) Goldman Sachs $10 billion; Morgan Stanley $10 billion;
Bank of New York Mellon $3 billion; State Street Corp $2 billion; Bank of Commerce $17 million;
First Financial Svcs $16 million; UCBH Holdings Inc $299 million; Northern Trust Corp $1.6 billion;
SunTrust Banks $3.5 billion; Broadway Financial Corp $9 million; Washington Federal $200 million;
BB&T Corp $3.1 billion; Provident Bancshares Corp $151 million; Umpqua Holdings Corp $214 million;
Comerica $2.3 billion Regions Financial $3.5 billion Capital One Financial $3.6 billion;
First Horizon National $866 million; Huntington Bancshares $1.4 billion; KeyCorp $2.5 billion;
Valley National Bancorp $300 million; Zions Bancorp $1.4 billion; Marshall & Ilsley Corp $1.7 billion;
US Bancorp $6.6 billion; TCF Financial $361 million; First Niagara Financial $184 million;
HF Financial Corp $25 million; Centerstate Banks Fla. $28 million; First Community Bancshares, Inc. $42 million;
Western Alliance Bancorp. $140 million; Webster Financial $400 million; Pacific Capital Bancorp. $181 million;
Heritage Commerce Corp. $40 million; Ameris Bancorp. $52 million; Porter Bancorp $35 million;
Banner Corp $124 million; Cascade Financial $39 million; Columbia Banking $77 million;
Heritage Financial Corp. $24 million; First PacTrust Bancorp. $19 million Severn Bancorp, Inc. $23 million;
Boston Private $154 million; Associated Banc-Corp $525 million; Trustmark Corp $215 million;
First Community Corp. $11 million Taylor Capital $105 million; Nara Bancorp, Inc. $67 million.
Limbaugh suffers from diarrhea of the of the mouth and he is constantly blaming the "liberals" for the economic, political and social troubles of the United States (this allows the real troublemaker to continue to hide and carry out their deceptive acts against all humanity). This pawn wouldn't dare tell the public that Henry Kissinger wields more power and control over the affairs of America and the world than President Barack Obama. He does not possess the intestinal fortitude to tell his gullible listening audience that the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Oppenheimer, etc., the international bankers have induced this economic depression and credit crunch to further place that noose around our necks, chain and ball around the minds of their modern slaves. There is truly no honor amongst thieves and if the talking heads were to tell the people the truth their careers and the financial crumbs would dry up like stagnated water in a sizzling hot desert.
Limbaugh perhaps knows that someone possess the power and authority to call the debt-in, which is outside the framework of the Democratic process and is not bind by the U.S. Constitutional legal framework (this group functions outside of all sovereign and legal jurisdictions the world over). This writer predicts that Limbaugh influence will only increase because of the desperation and the hopelessness that has been created inside of the United States. People are looking for someone to lead them and provide them with guidance--the government has failed them and at the same time enriched the international bankers and their Dynastic families at the expense of the ignorant.
Limbaugh knows how far to go and he will not cross certain lines and he will never lay blame upon the real culprits. He is atypical of how western media functions; journalism is censored and it is highly controlled—they systematically feed us government propaganda in order to keep us confused and dumbfound. Limbaugh and no other western Talking Head can be trusted; they are the gatekeepers of our enslavement because they feed our minds sublimely with decoded messages designed to keep us politically ignorant and misinformed while they silently rule over all humanity without any real opposition.
Fahim A. Knight-EL Chief Researcher for KEEPING IT REAL THINK TANK located in Durham, NC; our mission is to inform African Americans and all people of goodwill, of the pending dangers that lie ahead; as well as decode the symbolisms and reinterpreted the hidden meanings behind those who operate as invisible forces, but covertly rules the world. We are of the belief that an enlightened world will be better prepared to throw off the shackles of ignorance and not be willing participants for the slaughter. Our MOTTO is speaking truth to power. Fahim A. Knight-EL can be reached at fahimknight@yahoo.com.
Stay Awake Until We Meet Again,
Fahim A. Knight-EL
Friday, March 27, 2009
FREEMASONRY: THE AMERICAN DILEMMA; POWER AND MYSTERY
Freemasonry: The American Dilemma; Power and Mystery
By Fahim A. Knight-EL
Who is running the United States Government and the world? This writer briefly wrote about the Freemasonic connection to the White House and the United States Capitol (edifice, architecture, art, geometric lay out, etc.) in the last half of his article titled, "The Domino Effect: Don't Believe the Hype".
This writer constantly receives queries about whether or not he knew if President Barack Obama belongs to the Order. Thus, ordinarily inquirers have a predetermined suspicion based on President Obama’s ascension to "power" that he might be an Oath Taker, but this notion is inconclusive and it is shrouded in nonfactual conjecture but at least they have the sense to seek some external independent source for validation. This writer has no independent and/or substantiated evidence proving that President Obama was raised (meaning initiated in the ancient Masonic ritual of symbolically being brought from a dead level to a living perpendicular on the square) in Masonic Lodge.
No United States Grand Masonic Lodge of either of the two most prominent Masonic bodies—Ancient Free and Accepted Masons (AF&AM) or perhaps the most influential body of Masons relative to African Americans who called themselves Prince Hall Masons of the Free and Accepted Masons (F&AM) body have issued any public documentation confirming and/or denying whether President Obama is a member of a Freemasonic Order. But he is a member of three of the most powerful and influential organizations the world over—Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission and the Bilderberger these three organizations functions on the same lines of Freemasonry and often the network is interwoven into Freemasonry and in that sense, it is difficult to view these three powerful groups separate and apart from High Degree Freemasonry because they at times share a cross membership.(Reference: Gary Allen and Larry Abraham; "None Dare Call it Conspiracy").
However, this writer does not think President Obama would have opted to be Masonic initiated by some clandestine group (a Masonic group that is not duly chartered and does not have a legal Masonic Dispensation to function as body of Freemasons). The label of "irregular" or better yet "clandestine" has even been applied to the predominately African American Prince Hall Masons. Although, their founder, a free slave named Prince Hall received a legitimate charter from the Grand Lodge of England in 1784 recognizing the Black Masons as a duly constituted lodge. There are eleven (11) southern states that are part of the Ancient Free and Accepted (AF&AM) Masonic Order who still in 2009 do not recognize nor accept the Black Prince Hall Masons as legitimate Masons. (Reference: Paul M. Bessel and Alton G. Roundtree, “Out of the Shadows: The Emergency of Prince Hall Freemasonry in America").
This writer authored an article titled, "There is No Brotherly Love Between Black Masons and White Masons" and he submitted his thesis to both AF&AM (white Masons) and F&AM (black Masons). This writer challenged the racist hypocrisy and took them both the task on the principles of Masonry. This writer has personally met the North Carolina Prince Hall Grand Master Milton "Toby" Fitch who is a prominent Superior Court Judge on the State bench in North Carolina. Thus, up until November 2008 with all his civic and professional awards and educational achievements he would have been denied Masonic entry into the white body AF&AM within state of North Carolina because of race and skin color. (Reference: Joseph Walkes, Jr,: Black Square and Compass 200 Hundred Years of Prince Hall Freemasonry").
However, I wrote the article titled,” There was No Brotherly Love Between Black Masons and White Masons" sub-titled, "Let There be Light" perhaps last years early 2008 with an objective to socially agitate. The article was written because after having many conversations with Prince Hall Masons who were dismayed with how the AF&AM body was treating them. But many of them were unwilling to openly challenge AF&AM un-Masonic conduct and did not have the intestinal fortitude to confront the wrongs of Caucasian Masonry in the United States. It was at that point that I had truly committed myself to becoming a student of Masonry and allowing myself to go far beyond the established reading list in order to research and study the historical and philosophical principles of Freemasonry. I saw hypocrisy and racism as being in contradiction to the tenets of Freemasonry. (Reference: Fahim A. Knight-EL;"Let There Be Light: There Is No Brotherly Love Between White Masons and Black Masons").
Thus, many Masons that I had converse with was satisfied and had become complacent after being raised to the Sublime Degree of Master Mason (third and final degree in Masonry) and thought at that point they had arrived to some great place within the Divine Scheme of things and there was no need to continue the search for knowledge. It is this type of ignorance that is so pervasive amongst Masons (high degree Masons and Master Masons) that has led to intellectual stagnation. Many do not have a clue that historically the United States Government polity structure was built on Freemasonic ideological premises and the outward Masonic symbolism is not coincidental, but it still remains the guiding force and the language of communication amongst our world decision makers. This writer understands that all acquired Masonic knowledge had a root much deeper than the symbolic introduction that most Freemasons received in their Masonic training.
This writer had read the works of great Caucasian scholars such as Albert Churchward, Gerald Massey, Sir Godfrey Higgins, George Frazer, etc., who pointed to Kemet (Egypt) as being the cradle of civilization from which all knowledge sprung. I had also, read a book written in 1954 by George G.M. James titled, "Stolen Legacy" in which James attributes Greek Mythology as being stolen Egyptian philosophy and since Freemasonry is built on these scientific and mathematical principles this led me to investigate Kemet (Egypt) further and this is where I found the root of all Masonic teachings in Kemet (Egypt). (Reference: George G.M. James; "Stolen Legacy").
Manly P. Hall and Albert G. Mackey and all the great Masonic writers pointed us to Kemet (Egypt) where this great craft received its origin. On the walls of the great pyramids it was inscribed "Man Know Thyself" and as a people of African descendant we had been made blind to the knowledge of self and Freemasonry or Speculative (philosophical) Masonry had enough in its teachings to verify that this society had an ancient origin that went much further back than 1717. The origin gave us a Nubian African reality and all the Masonic schools of thought came from African people. (Reference: Ra Un Nefer Amen; “Metu Neter: The Great Oracle of Tehuti and the Egyptian System of Spiritual Cultivation”).
Most of your United States Presidents from George Washington forward were Freemasons (over 20 United States Presidents were Freemasons) and the early architect and the symbolism from the statues on the Mall—the Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, White House and the Capitol architect being spoken beyond the naked eye were Masonic in its symbolism without a doubt. Masons communicate and recognize each other by a Word, Sign, and/or Token (handshake grip) and the Washington DC is full of these unrecognizable symbols. Some historians maintain that the Mall is arranged geometrically to how the pyramids are setup in Kemet (Egypt). (Reference: David Barton; "The Question of Freemasonry and the Founding Fathers”).
This writer does not have any independent or verifiable information that President Barack Obama is a Prince Hall Freemasonry, but I believe that he might belong to a sister group called the Black Boule where some of the most powerful and influential Blacks and mostly 33rd degree Masons are members and some argue that the Black Boule was founded by Prince Masons as an elitist group. (Reference: Charles H. Wesley; “History of Sigma Pi Phi, first of the Negro-American Greek-letter fraternities”).
If we started from that premises of what the Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught, which was that Freemasonry was for Caucasians and not the Asiatic Black man. He taught of all the knowledge one could acquire; thus there was none greater than attaining theknowledge of self. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad then stated my teachings can be summed up in six words "accept your own and be yourself." The African Nubians are the true originators of the knowledge based on the Egyptian Mystery Schools—architect, mathematics, medicine, and the Seven Liberal Arts originated in Kemet (Egypt). The Black man was robbed of the knowledge of self and he doesn't even know, he is from the East and when he answers that Masonic question from a standpoint of "which way you are traveling?" (east to west) his answer reflects historical ignorance. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad stated: "of all our studies, history is the most attractive and best qualified to reward our research, as it develops the springs and motives of human actions and displays the consequences of circumstances which operates most powerfully on the destinies of human beings” (Reference: Elijah Muhammad; “The Secret Teachings of Freemasonry”)
Muhammad equated this hitting in the head (the Hiram Abiff myth) with the European Nations of France, England and America who robbed and kidnapped the original man from his land. So the first three degrees is a reenactment of the Caucasian man's history. Elijah Muhammad stated we allowed him to come amongst us, but when he started causing confusing; we ran him out of the Holy Land 2,200 miles across the hot Arabian Desert (Turkey would be the Islamic Nation responsible for keeping him in the hills and cave sides of Europe; take a close look at the national flag of Turkey and look at symbol of the Mystic Shrine). The Shrine ritual talks about the hot burning sands and how difficult it is to cross. Also, most of your college fraternities and sororities make reference to the hot burning sands. Thus, for him he did traveled from East to West and when people of African descendent join the Lodge, it is his history and culture that we adopt. In all reality, Masonry was not meant for Asiatic black man. We are the originators of the knowledge. This writer abhors racism and has fought against racism for all his adult life. So he went on a personal crusade which to heighten the contradiction and agitate this good ole boy Masonic fraternity who had after two hundred (200) year was still practicing racism in 2008 and even to this very day. (Zachary P. Gremillion; "African Origins of Freemasonry").
Does Freemasonry possess an inordinate amount of power and influence over the governments, politicians, policy makers and do they determine the political, economic, and social course of humanity? Yes they do; because the Power Elite set up Freemasonry as an Order that would shield their inner workings (power, greed and their teachings of Godhood status). The Dynastic Families and Invisible Emperors were themselves inspired and magnetized by the principles and teachings of harmony, justice, equilibrium, reciprocity , etc., that were offered by the Ancients. Most of the greatest Masonic writers such as Manly P. Hall, Albert Mackey, Albert Pike, Albert Churchward, Sir Godfey Higgins, etc., had tapped into a body of esoteric and occult wisdom and knowledge that have been around since the ancient of days. (Reference: Nesta H. Webster; “Secret Societies and Subversive Movements”).
The ancient writings in the Kabala trace this knowledge back to Kemet (ancient Egypt ) and all other ancient wisdom seekers have traced the origin of this knowledge and principles back to Kemet. However, we must understand this knowledge represented a source of energy and the embracing of the principles led ordinary men to do extraordinary deeds. Thus, for the most part both the Scottish Rite and the York Rite Masonic bodies corrupted those pristine ancient lessons that were originally taught in the Egyptian Mystery School; this is how the writers of the Kabala describe that school of thought this way:
“From old Egypt have come the fundamental esoteric and occult teachings which have so strongly influenced the philosophies of all races, nations and peoples, for several thousand years. Egypt , the home of the Pyramids and the Sphinx, was the birthplace of the Hidden Wisdom and Mystic Teachings. From her Secret Doctrine all nations have borrowed. India, Persia, Chaldea, Medea, China, Japan, Assyria, ancient Greece and Rome, and other ancient countries partook liberally at the feast of knowledge which the Hierophants and Masters of the Land of Isis so freely provided for those who came prepared to partake of the great store of Mystic and Occult Lore which the masterminds of that ancient land had gathered together.” (Reference: By Three Initiates; “The Kybalion: A Study of Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece” pg 15-16).
The Kabala continued: "In ancient Egypt dwelt the great Adepts and Masters who have never been surpassed, and who seldom have been equaled, during the centuries that have taken their processional flight since the days of the Great Hermes. In Egypt was located the Great Lodge of Lodges of the Mystics. At the doors of her Temples entered the N neophytes who afterward, as Hierophants, Adepts, and Masters, traveled to the four corners of the earth, carrying with them the precious knowledge which they were ready, anxious, and willing to pass on to those who were ready to receive the same. All students of the Occult recognize the debt that they owe to these venerable Masters of that ancient land. (Reference: By Three Initiates; “The Kybalion: A Study of Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece” pg 16-17).
These modern philosophers tried to convey in words what the ancient Sages and Scribes conveyed in symbolic ritual and resonated spiritually with its neophytes, which went far beyond the external lessons that were being dispensed and it enlightened and illuminated the internal spiritual soul of man, which allowed him to transcend the mundane external confinements of the physical world. (H.P. Blavatsky; "Isis Unveiled").
The ancient masters of Kemet ( Egypt ) in one sense had evolved to the point that they did not see themselves separate from "God" in fact they accepted and understood that they were "God". This view had very little correlation to western thought; it was not based on a duping or used in an imperialistic manner to create an imbalance in the natural order of things, but just the opposite, it served as a model of human potential. Western Freemasonry without doubt, perhaps could not exist with the mythological and the mystic teachings that evolved out of Kemet ( Egypt ) and the Freemasonic ascension over other schools of thought and Orders is a direct result of someone tapping into occult and esoteric wisdom of Kemet (Egypt). They borrowed the ancient symbols and have even incorporated the ancient language in their modern Masonic rituals. The blind, deaf and dumb has no idea that as they move about in this physical world that what is driving the direction of the national and global political, economic and social orders is high degree Freemasonry (now lets not be foolish this writer is not referring to those who are raised in the Blue Lodge nor those who have ascended up the York Rite and Scottish Rite ladder) in which there are orders that functions separate and apart from these visible Masonic Orders. (Reference: Manly P. Hall; "The Secret Teachings of all Ages").
This writer had the opportunity in 1990 and 1991 to visited the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angles and was blown away by the overt Kemetic symbolism that has been adopted by western Masonic Orders; thus every direction I turned in the auditorium there were Egyptian architecture, art, statues, relics and various inscriptions, perhaps designed to make every attempt to connect Speculative Masonry to a mystique Ancient Order where knowledge flowed as readily as the Blue and White Nile. President George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and founding fathers built a philosophical and political system that would be rooted in the Ancient esoteric wisdom of ancient Kemet. They took a portion of what Akhenaton, Imhotep, Ramasee, etc., taught and simultaneously built two governmental societies side by side—one would function as a visible entity and other would be cloaked in secrecy and possessing much more power than the latter. (Reference: Anthony Browder; "The Nile Valley Contribution to Civilization").
The majority of your United States presidents were initiated into the Scottish Rites and/or York Rite Freemasonry and they understood that signs and symbols provided them with a tool and knowledge base that had the power to transcend religion and politics (this led them to embracing the metaphysical). The Europeans were both intrigued and fascinated by the lessons the mystics left us in the realm of symbolism. Although, they corrupted the lessons that were being taught in the Egyptian Mystery Schools—Buddha, Confucius, Zoroaster, Jesus, Muhammad, etc., were able to create universal movements because they too had tapped into that higher power and embraced the lessons in what the Rosicrusicans called mental alchemy. How could one be traveling from East to West in search of more light in Masonry and fail to pay homage to Kemet? The West borrowed their light (wisdom and knowledge) from the East. But England, France and the United States became the citadels of learning because unlike other European societies Freemasonry was allowed to flourish, which the Elite and aristocrat even before 1717 had come in contact with the ancient writings of Kemet (Egypt). (Reference: Ralph M. Lewis; "Mental Alchemy").
Thus, even the African Moors under Tarik Ibn Zaid in 711 A.D had come in contact with the ancient knowledge of Kemet (Egypt). For example, maritime science, cartography, architecture, philosophy, engineering (electrical and mechanical), etc. were first taught in Kemet (Egypt). Although, Alexander in 333 BCE had pillaged and destroyed the libraries at Alexandra (which stood as the true citadel of learning and education), it was still remnants of knowledge that remained in tact because the pyramids led the seekers to the power of Amen Ra and Osiris. (Reference: Edward W. Blyden: "Christianity, Islam, and the Negro Race").
Most historians like to focus on the Moors and their relationship to Islam and make every attempt to elevate Saudi Arabia and Prophet Muhammad Ibn Abdullah (pbuh) as an enlighten society above Kemet, where political, social and economic progress sprouted in Africa, Asia, and Europe was a so-called direct relations to these societies involvement with Islam. No, doubt Islam as religion and political institution was able to flex its muscles from the 8th Century to the 15th Century (conquered all of North Africa, part of the Asian Pacific, West Africa and even made its way to the boarders of Southern France). The Moors took what they had learned in Egypt (Kemet) and civilized Spain (You can still see the Moorish Islamic influence in Spanish cities such as Cordova, Seville, Barcelona, Madrid, etc.) and led to a renaissance in Europe; lifting Europe out of the Dark Ages. (Reference: John G. Jackson & Willis N. Huggins; "A Guide to Studies in African History).
I have been presented with this question over and over again by Muslims of all persuasions relative to how Islam and Freemasonry (Mystic Shrine Masonry) differ. This writer always points out that Islam is a religion (or a way of life) and it is a serious faith tradition beginning with Prophet Muhammad 570-632 AD (PBUH) and the revelation of the Qur'an, and there is no compulsion in Islam. Islam does not have a "secret" theology and it is open to all who desire to investigate this faith tradition and to become a Muslim it only requires a prospective believer to take the Shahadah and by bearing witness "there is no God, But Allah and Muhammad Ibn Abdullah is his Messenger". There is no elaborate rituals like you would find associated with Masonry. (Reference: Muhammad Husayn Haykak; "The Life of Muhammad").
But I believe that Muslims have distorted and mis-characterize Freemasonry as being a "secret society" and in my estimation, they have a tendency of mixing truth with falsehood. Freemasonry is not a "secret society" but it is an organization that possesses secrets and there lie the difference. The other misnomer is that Freemasonry claim to be a religion; it is a fraternity, brotherhood and function separate and apart from religion; yet religion is used to explain and exemplify ethical and moral lessons. (Reference: E.M. Storms; "Should A Christian Be A Mason).
However, Muslims believe that Freemasonry teachings are anti-Islamic and the organization is Zionist inspired aimed at destroying Islam and it teachings are heretic. I have met many Sunni, Shia, and of course some Nation of Islam members who are active Prince Hall Masons and we have had some engaging conversations relative to Islam and their involvement into Freemasonry. There are good arguments on both sides and how Muslims view Freemasonry varies, but many do not take the time to the research they only echo what the Imam or cleric may have stated. There are few who do a complete study course and research in order to determine whether or not becoming a Mason would compromise one's Islamic beliefs. I can assure you this, Islam like all three major world religions (Abrahamic faiths) are accepted into the philosophical the body of Freemasonry. (Mustafa El-Amin; "African-American Freemasons: Why They Should Accept AI-Islam").
There is overwhelming evidence that perhaps suggest that Prophet Noble Drew Ali, leader and founder of the Moorish Science Temple of America in 1913. The first organized Islamic group founded in America; He was a Prince Hall Mason and was elevated to the Mystic Shrine 32nd degree (pseudo Islam organization). Now! this is where it gets a little sticky; the full name of the Shrine is the Ancient Egyptian Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. You can kind of discern from that name that at least in theory somebody was perhaps working with some real knowledge. The Black Shriners were formulated in 1893 and in most jurisdictions until recently black Masons and White Masons still had separate and apart Masonic lodges. So you can assume that Prophet Noble Drew Ali was initiated in an African American Shrine Temple based on the segregation and racism during that volatile period in American history. He was born around 1886 and was murdered around 1929 in Chicago, Illinois. (Reference: Peter Lamborn Wilson; "Sacred Drifts: Essays on the Margins of Islam").
There is no doubt that the Shriners taught a generic form of Islam and was it perhaps this teachings that inspired Prophet Drew Ali to search for greater truths after coming in contact with the Masonic teachings. But the Shriners used the Holy Qur'an, make references to Islam, and make a lot of mention of Prophet Muhammad Ibn Abdullah (PBUH) in their body of liturgy and was this Ali's first subtle orientation to Islam (the origin of Shia Islam rest on the controversy posed by Caliph Ali ibn Talib ).(Reference: Charles Eric Lincoln; "The Black Muslims in America").
Some rightly argue, that the Moors history goes back to the 8th century in North Africa and these black men had one of the greatest and significant reins ever recorded in human history, relative to Tarik Ibn Zaid and how the Moors enlightened all of Europe and brought a high civilization and culture. Some historians maintain that Prophet Drew Ali worked on the railroad and met perhaps Ahmadiyyah Muslims while working on the train and they began to expose him to an oriental Islam and others believe that he traveled to North Africa; in particular Morocco and Egypt and was initiated in the Egyptian Mystery Schools; where he learned the esoteric sciences and Islam and was given instructions to come back to North America and teach the lost-found Asiatic black man and woman in America Islam. But those of us who study Speculative Masonry can trace Masonry back to the Egyptian Mystery Schools and in recent times back to the date of 644 A.D. to the linage of Muhammad's (PBUH) son-in-law Ali Ibn Talib (may Allah be please with him). (Reference: Mustafa El-Amin; "Freemasonry: Ancient Egypt and the Islamic Destiny").
Yes. Newton, Galilee, Copernicus, René Descartes, etc., great European thinkers and theoretician were only standing on principles that were being taught in Kemet (Egypt) long before these theoreticians would make their mark on humanity. The Moors built magnificent structures based on Eastern architect and later European Freemasonry would erect Masonic lodges resembling the Islamic Moorish architect styles. The Freemasons were able transcend religion and saw the secular value in the Qur'an, Bible, Vedas, etc., which the compass and square took on a universal meaning and any "Holy Book" could serve as the Great Light on the alter, it would be depended upon the nation and the faith tradition of the land. This allowed Freemasonry to attract men from various religious, social, political, and educational status—they believed that it is "a beautiful system of morality veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols". For example, this notion of being a "system of morality" has undergirded the intellectual and jurisprudence basis of the United States being raised from the rubbish heat over 200 years ago to become one of the greatest modern world powers of all time. (Reference: Robert Lomas; "Freemasonry and the Birth of Modern Science").
The United States greatness can not be viewed outside of its relationship to the Masonic worldview and almost at every turn in American history there is Freemasonry. Its philosophy and ideology gave the U.S. Government teachings that would alter the world's power dynamic and create a paradigm shift that has been in existences for over two centuries. Thus, for the most part, until perhaps the last twenty years historians and social scientist have ignored the Masonic influence in shaping our democracy. Yes, as I stated above some of the early Masonic writers had documented this reality, but oftentimes their research were dismissed as mere conspiracy theory and this further allowed Freemasonry to cloak it-self and remain under the radar. But let’s be clear those that embraced Freemasonry have stood shoulders above their uninitiated brothers. (Reference: Nicholas Haggar; "The Secret Founding of America").
Fahim A. Knight-EL Chief Researcher for KEEPING IT REAL THINK TANK located in Durham, NC; our mission is to inform African Americans and all people of goodwill, of the pending dangers that lie ahead; as well as decode the symbolisms and reinterpreted the hidden meanings behind those who operate as invisible forces, but covertly rules the world. We are of the belief that an enlightened world will be better prepared to throw off the shackles of ignorance and not be willing participants for the slaughter. Our MOTTO is speaking truth to power. Fahim A. Knight-EL can be reached at fahimknight@yahoo.com.
Stay Awake Until We Meet Again,
Fahim A. Knight-EL
By Fahim A. Knight-EL
Who is running the United States Government and the world? This writer briefly wrote about the Freemasonic connection to the White House and the United States Capitol (edifice, architecture, art, geometric lay out, etc.) in the last half of his article titled, "The Domino Effect: Don't Believe the Hype".
This writer constantly receives queries about whether or not he knew if President Barack Obama belongs to the Order. Thus, ordinarily inquirers have a predetermined suspicion based on President Obama’s ascension to "power" that he might be an Oath Taker, but this notion is inconclusive and it is shrouded in nonfactual conjecture but at least they have the sense to seek some external independent source for validation. This writer has no independent and/or substantiated evidence proving that President Obama was raised (meaning initiated in the ancient Masonic ritual of symbolically being brought from a dead level to a living perpendicular on the square) in Masonic Lodge.
No United States Grand Masonic Lodge of either of the two most prominent Masonic bodies—Ancient Free and Accepted Masons (AF&AM) or perhaps the most influential body of Masons relative to African Americans who called themselves Prince Hall Masons of the Free and Accepted Masons (F&AM) body have issued any public documentation confirming and/or denying whether President Obama is a member of a Freemasonic Order. But he is a member of three of the most powerful and influential organizations the world over—Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission and the Bilderberger these three organizations functions on the same lines of Freemasonry and often the network is interwoven into Freemasonry and in that sense, it is difficult to view these three powerful groups separate and apart from High Degree Freemasonry because they at times share a cross membership.(Reference: Gary Allen and Larry Abraham; "None Dare Call it Conspiracy").
However, this writer does not think President Obama would have opted to be Masonic initiated by some clandestine group (a Masonic group that is not duly chartered and does not have a legal Masonic Dispensation to function as body of Freemasons). The label of "irregular" or better yet "clandestine" has even been applied to the predominately African American Prince Hall Masons. Although, their founder, a free slave named Prince Hall received a legitimate charter from the Grand Lodge of England in 1784 recognizing the Black Masons as a duly constituted lodge. There are eleven (11) southern states that are part of the Ancient Free and Accepted (AF&AM) Masonic Order who still in 2009 do not recognize nor accept the Black Prince Hall Masons as legitimate Masons. (Reference: Paul M. Bessel and Alton G. Roundtree, “Out of the Shadows: The Emergency of Prince Hall Freemasonry in America").
This writer authored an article titled, "There is No Brotherly Love Between Black Masons and White Masons" and he submitted his thesis to both AF&AM (white Masons) and F&AM (black Masons). This writer challenged the racist hypocrisy and took them both the task on the principles of Masonry. This writer has personally met the North Carolina Prince Hall Grand Master Milton "Toby" Fitch who is a prominent Superior Court Judge on the State bench in North Carolina. Thus, up until November 2008 with all his civic and professional awards and educational achievements he would have been denied Masonic entry into the white body AF&AM within state of North Carolina because of race and skin color. (Reference: Joseph Walkes, Jr,: Black Square and Compass 200 Hundred Years of Prince Hall Freemasonry").
However, I wrote the article titled,” There was No Brotherly Love Between Black Masons and White Masons" sub-titled, "Let There be Light" perhaps last years early 2008 with an objective to socially agitate. The article was written because after having many conversations with Prince Hall Masons who were dismayed with how the AF&AM body was treating them. But many of them were unwilling to openly challenge AF&AM un-Masonic conduct and did not have the intestinal fortitude to confront the wrongs of Caucasian Masonry in the United States. It was at that point that I had truly committed myself to becoming a student of Masonry and allowing myself to go far beyond the established reading list in order to research and study the historical and philosophical principles of Freemasonry. I saw hypocrisy and racism as being in contradiction to the tenets of Freemasonry. (Reference: Fahim A. Knight-EL;"Let There Be Light: There Is No Brotherly Love Between White Masons and Black Masons").
Thus, many Masons that I had converse with was satisfied and had become complacent after being raised to the Sublime Degree of Master Mason (third and final degree in Masonry) and thought at that point they had arrived to some great place within the Divine Scheme of things and there was no need to continue the search for knowledge. It is this type of ignorance that is so pervasive amongst Masons (high degree Masons and Master Masons) that has led to intellectual stagnation. Many do not have a clue that historically the United States Government polity structure was built on Freemasonic ideological premises and the outward Masonic symbolism is not coincidental, but it still remains the guiding force and the language of communication amongst our world decision makers. This writer understands that all acquired Masonic knowledge had a root much deeper than the symbolic introduction that most Freemasons received in their Masonic training.
This writer had read the works of great Caucasian scholars such as Albert Churchward, Gerald Massey, Sir Godfrey Higgins, George Frazer, etc., who pointed to Kemet (Egypt) as being the cradle of civilization from which all knowledge sprung. I had also, read a book written in 1954 by George G.M. James titled, "Stolen Legacy" in which James attributes Greek Mythology as being stolen Egyptian philosophy and since Freemasonry is built on these scientific and mathematical principles this led me to investigate Kemet (Egypt) further and this is where I found the root of all Masonic teachings in Kemet (Egypt). (Reference: George G.M. James; "Stolen Legacy").
Manly P. Hall and Albert G. Mackey and all the great Masonic writers pointed us to Kemet (Egypt) where this great craft received its origin. On the walls of the great pyramids it was inscribed "Man Know Thyself" and as a people of African descendant we had been made blind to the knowledge of self and Freemasonry or Speculative (philosophical) Masonry had enough in its teachings to verify that this society had an ancient origin that went much further back than 1717. The origin gave us a Nubian African reality and all the Masonic schools of thought came from African people. (Reference: Ra Un Nefer Amen; “Metu Neter: The Great Oracle of Tehuti and the Egyptian System of Spiritual Cultivation”).
Most of your United States Presidents from George Washington forward were Freemasons (over 20 United States Presidents were Freemasons) and the early architect and the symbolism from the statues on the Mall—the Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, White House and the Capitol architect being spoken beyond the naked eye were Masonic in its symbolism without a doubt. Masons communicate and recognize each other by a Word, Sign, and/or Token (handshake grip) and the Washington DC is full of these unrecognizable symbols. Some historians maintain that the Mall is arranged geometrically to how the pyramids are setup in Kemet (Egypt). (Reference: David Barton; "The Question of Freemasonry and the Founding Fathers”).
This writer does not have any independent or verifiable information that President Barack Obama is a Prince Hall Freemasonry, but I believe that he might belong to a sister group called the Black Boule where some of the most powerful and influential Blacks and mostly 33rd degree Masons are members and some argue that the Black Boule was founded by Prince Masons as an elitist group. (Reference: Charles H. Wesley; “History of Sigma Pi Phi, first of the Negro-American Greek-letter fraternities”).
If we started from that premises of what the Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught, which was that Freemasonry was for Caucasians and not the Asiatic Black man. He taught of all the knowledge one could acquire; thus there was none greater than attaining theknowledge of self. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad then stated my teachings can be summed up in six words "accept your own and be yourself." The African Nubians are the true originators of the knowledge based on the Egyptian Mystery Schools—architect, mathematics, medicine, and the Seven Liberal Arts originated in Kemet (Egypt). The Black man was robbed of the knowledge of self and he doesn't even know, he is from the East and when he answers that Masonic question from a standpoint of "which way you are traveling?" (east to west) his answer reflects historical ignorance. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad stated: "of all our studies, history is the most attractive and best qualified to reward our research, as it develops the springs and motives of human actions and displays the consequences of circumstances which operates most powerfully on the destinies of human beings” (Reference: Elijah Muhammad; “The Secret Teachings of Freemasonry”)
Muhammad equated this hitting in the head (the Hiram Abiff myth) with the European Nations of France, England and America who robbed and kidnapped the original man from his land. So the first three degrees is a reenactment of the Caucasian man's history. Elijah Muhammad stated we allowed him to come amongst us, but when he started causing confusing; we ran him out of the Holy Land 2,200 miles across the hot Arabian Desert (Turkey would be the Islamic Nation responsible for keeping him in the hills and cave sides of Europe; take a close look at the national flag of Turkey and look at symbol of the Mystic Shrine). The Shrine ritual talks about the hot burning sands and how difficult it is to cross. Also, most of your college fraternities and sororities make reference to the hot burning sands. Thus, for him he did traveled from East to West and when people of African descendent join the Lodge, it is his history and culture that we adopt. In all reality, Masonry was not meant for Asiatic black man. We are the originators of the knowledge. This writer abhors racism and has fought against racism for all his adult life. So he went on a personal crusade which to heighten the contradiction and agitate this good ole boy Masonic fraternity who had after two hundred (200) year was still practicing racism in 2008 and even to this very day. (Zachary P. Gremillion; "African Origins of Freemasonry").
Does Freemasonry possess an inordinate amount of power and influence over the governments, politicians, policy makers and do they determine the political, economic, and social course of humanity? Yes they do; because the Power Elite set up Freemasonry as an Order that would shield their inner workings (power, greed and their teachings of Godhood status). The Dynastic Families and Invisible Emperors were themselves inspired and magnetized by the principles and teachings of harmony, justice, equilibrium, reciprocity , etc., that were offered by the Ancients. Most of the greatest Masonic writers such as Manly P. Hall, Albert Mackey, Albert Pike, Albert Churchward, Sir Godfey Higgins, etc., had tapped into a body of esoteric and occult wisdom and knowledge that have been around since the ancient of days. (Reference: Nesta H. Webster; “Secret Societies and Subversive Movements”).
The ancient writings in the Kabala trace this knowledge back to Kemet (ancient Egypt ) and all other ancient wisdom seekers have traced the origin of this knowledge and principles back to Kemet. However, we must understand this knowledge represented a source of energy and the embracing of the principles led ordinary men to do extraordinary deeds. Thus, for the most part both the Scottish Rite and the York Rite Masonic bodies corrupted those pristine ancient lessons that were originally taught in the Egyptian Mystery School; this is how the writers of the Kabala describe that school of thought this way:
“From old Egypt have come the fundamental esoteric and occult teachings which have so strongly influenced the philosophies of all races, nations and peoples, for several thousand years. Egypt , the home of the Pyramids and the Sphinx, was the birthplace of the Hidden Wisdom and Mystic Teachings. From her Secret Doctrine all nations have borrowed. India, Persia, Chaldea, Medea, China, Japan, Assyria, ancient Greece and Rome, and other ancient countries partook liberally at the feast of knowledge which the Hierophants and Masters of the Land of Isis so freely provided for those who came prepared to partake of the great store of Mystic and Occult Lore which the masterminds of that ancient land had gathered together.” (Reference: By Three Initiates; “The Kybalion: A Study of Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece” pg 15-16).
The Kabala continued: "In ancient Egypt dwelt the great Adepts and Masters who have never been surpassed, and who seldom have been equaled, during the centuries that have taken their processional flight since the days of the Great Hermes. In Egypt was located the Great Lodge of Lodges of the Mystics. At the doors of her Temples entered the N neophytes who afterward, as Hierophants, Adepts, and Masters, traveled to the four corners of the earth, carrying with them the precious knowledge which they were ready, anxious, and willing to pass on to those who were ready to receive the same. All students of the Occult recognize the debt that they owe to these venerable Masters of that ancient land. (Reference: By Three Initiates; “The Kybalion: A Study of Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece” pg 16-17).
These modern philosophers tried to convey in words what the ancient Sages and Scribes conveyed in symbolic ritual and resonated spiritually with its neophytes, which went far beyond the external lessons that were being dispensed and it enlightened and illuminated the internal spiritual soul of man, which allowed him to transcend the mundane external confinements of the physical world. (H.P. Blavatsky; "Isis Unveiled").
The ancient masters of Kemet ( Egypt ) in one sense had evolved to the point that they did not see themselves separate from "God" in fact they accepted and understood that they were "God". This view had very little correlation to western thought; it was not based on a duping or used in an imperialistic manner to create an imbalance in the natural order of things, but just the opposite, it served as a model of human potential. Western Freemasonry without doubt, perhaps could not exist with the mythological and the mystic teachings that evolved out of Kemet ( Egypt ) and the Freemasonic ascension over other schools of thought and Orders is a direct result of someone tapping into occult and esoteric wisdom of Kemet (Egypt). They borrowed the ancient symbols and have even incorporated the ancient language in their modern Masonic rituals. The blind, deaf and dumb has no idea that as they move about in this physical world that what is driving the direction of the national and global political, economic and social orders is high degree Freemasonry (now lets not be foolish this writer is not referring to those who are raised in the Blue Lodge nor those who have ascended up the York Rite and Scottish Rite ladder) in which there are orders that functions separate and apart from these visible Masonic Orders. (Reference: Manly P. Hall; "The Secret Teachings of all Ages").
This writer had the opportunity in 1990 and 1991 to visited the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angles and was blown away by the overt Kemetic symbolism that has been adopted by western Masonic Orders; thus every direction I turned in the auditorium there were Egyptian architecture, art, statues, relics and various inscriptions, perhaps designed to make every attempt to connect Speculative Masonry to a mystique Ancient Order where knowledge flowed as readily as the Blue and White Nile. President George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and founding fathers built a philosophical and political system that would be rooted in the Ancient esoteric wisdom of ancient Kemet. They took a portion of what Akhenaton, Imhotep, Ramasee, etc., taught and simultaneously built two governmental societies side by side—one would function as a visible entity and other would be cloaked in secrecy and possessing much more power than the latter. (Reference: Anthony Browder; "The Nile Valley Contribution to Civilization").
The majority of your United States presidents were initiated into the Scottish Rites and/or York Rite Freemasonry and they understood that signs and symbols provided them with a tool and knowledge base that had the power to transcend religion and politics (this led them to embracing the metaphysical). The Europeans were both intrigued and fascinated by the lessons the mystics left us in the realm of symbolism. Although, they corrupted the lessons that were being taught in the Egyptian Mystery Schools—Buddha, Confucius, Zoroaster, Jesus, Muhammad, etc., were able to create universal movements because they too had tapped into that higher power and embraced the lessons in what the Rosicrusicans called mental alchemy. How could one be traveling from East to West in search of more light in Masonry and fail to pay homage to Kemet? The West borrowed their light (wisdom and knowledge) from the East. But England, France and the United States became the citadels of learning because unlike other European societies Freemasonry was allowed to flourish, which the Elite and aristocrat even before 1717 had come in contact with the ancient writings of Kemet (Egypt). (Reference: Ralph M. Lewis; "Mental Alchemy").
Thus, even the African Moors under Tarik Ibn Zaid in 711 A.D had come in contact with the ancient knowledge of Kemet (Egypt). For example, maritime science, cartography, architecture, philosophy, engineering (electrical and mechanical), etc. were first taught in Kemet (Egypt). Although, Alexander in 333 BCE had pillaged and destroyed the libraries at Alexandra (which stood as the true citadel of learning and education), it was still remnants of knowledge that remained in tact because the pyramids led the seekers to the power of Amen Ra and Osiris. (Reference: Edward W. Blyden: "Christianity, Islam, and the Negro Race").
Most historians like to focus on the Moors and their relationship to Islam and make every attempt to elevate Saudi Arabia and Prophet Muhammad Ibn Abdullah (pbuh) as an enlighten society above Kemet, where political, social and economic progress sprouted in Africa, Asia, and Europe was a so-called direct relations to these societies involvement with Islam. No, doubt Islam as religion and political institution was able to flex its muscles from the 8th Century to the 15th Century (conquered all of North Africa, part of the Asian Pacific, West Africa and even made its way to the boarders of Southern France). The Moors took what they had learned in Egypt (Kemet) and civilized Spain (You can still see the Moorish Islamic influence in Spanish cities such as Cordova, Seville, Barcelona, Madrid, etc.) and led to a renaissance in Europe; lifting Europe out of the Dark Ages. (Reference: John G. Jackson & Willis N. Huggins; "A Guide to Studies in African History).
I have been presented with this question over and over again by Muslims of all persuasions relative to how Islam and Freemasonry (Mystic Shrine Masonry) differ. This writer always points out that Islam is a religion (or a way of life) and it is a serious faith tradition beginning with Prophet Muhammad 570-632 AD (PBUH) and the revelation of the Qur'an, and there is no compulsion in Islam. Islam does not have a "secret" theology and it is open to all who desire to investigate this faith tradition and to become a Muslim it only requires a prospective believer to take the Shahadah and by bearing witness "there is no God, But Allah and Muhammad Ibn Abdullah is his Messenger". There is no elaborate rituals like you would find associated with Masonry. (Reference: Muhammad Husayn Haykak; "The Life of Muhammad").
But I believe that Muslims have distorted and mis-characterize Freemasonry as being a "secret society" and in my estimation, they have a tendency of mixing truth with falsehood. Freemasonry is not a "secret society" but it is an organization that possesses secrets and there lie the difference. The other misnomer is that Freemasonry claim to be a religion; it is a fraternity, brotherhood and function separate and apart from religion; yet religion is used to explain and exemplify ethical and moral lessons. (Reference: E.M. Storms; "Should A Christian Be A Mason).
However, Muslims believe that Freemasonry teachings are anti-Islamic and the organization is Zionist inspired aimed at destroying Islam and it teachings are heretic. I have met many Sunni, Shia, and of course some Nation of Islam members who are active Prince Hall Masons and we have had some engaging conversations relative to Islam and their involvement into Freemasonry. There are good arguments on both sides and how Muslims view Freemasonry varies, but many do not take the time to the research they only echo what the Imam or cleric may have stated. There are few who do a complete study course and research in order to determine whether or not becoming a Mason would compromise one's Islamic beliefs. I can assure you this, Islam like all three major world religions (Abrahamic faiths) are accepted into the philosophical the body of Freemasonry. (Mustafa El-Amin; "African-American Freemasons: Why They Should Accept AI-Islam").
There is overwhelming evidence that perhaps suggest that Prophet Noble Drew Ali, leader and founder of the Moorish Science Temple of America in 1913. The first organized Islamic group founded in America; He was a Prince Hall Mason and was elevated to the Mystic Shrine 32nd degree (pseudo Islam organization). Now! this is where it gets a little sticky; the full name of the Shrine is the Ancient Egyptian Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. You can kind of discern from that name that at least in theory somebody was perhaps working with some real knowledge. The Black Shriners were formulated in 1893 and in most jurisdictions until recently black Masons and White Masons still had separate and apart Masonic lodges. So you can assume that Prophet Noble Drew Ali was initiated in an African American Shrine Temple based on the segregation and racism during that volatile period in American history. He was born around 1886 and was murdered around 1929 in Chicago, Illinois. (Reference: Peter Lamborn Wilson; "Sacred Drifts: Essays on the Margins of Islam").
There is no doubt that the Shriners taught a generic form of Islam and was it perhaps this teachings that inspired Prophet Drew Ali to search for greater truths after coming in contact with the Masonic teachings. But the Shriners used the Holy Qur'an, make references to Islam, and make a lot of mention of Prophet Muhammad Ibn Abdullah (PBUH) in their body of liturgy and was this Ali's first subtle orientation to Islam (the origin of Shia Islam rest on the controversy posed by Caliph Ali ibn Talib ).(Reference: Charles Eric Lincoln; "The Black Muslims in America").
Some rightly argue, that the Moors history goes back to the 8th century in North Africa and these black men had one of the greatest and significant reins ever recorded in human history, relative to Tarik Ibn Zaid and how the Moors enlightened all of Europe and brought a high civilization and culture. Some historians maintain that Prophet Drew Ali worked on the railroad and met perhaps Ahmadiyyah Muslims while working on the train and they began to expose him to an oriental Islam and others believe that he traveled to North Africa; in particular Morocco and Egypt and was initiated in the Egyptian Mystery Schools; where he learned the esoteric sciences and Islam and was given instructions to come back to North America and teach the lost-found Asiatic black man and woman in America Islam. But those of us who study Speculative Masonry can trace Masonry back to the Egyptian Mystery Schools and in recent times back to the date of 644 A.D. to the linage of Muhammad's (PBUH) son-in-law Ali Ibn Talib (may Allah be please with him). (Reference: Mustafa El-Amin; "Freemasonry: Ancient Egypt and the Islamic Destiny").
Yes. Newton, Galilee, Copernicus, René Descartes, etc., great European thinkers and theoretician were only standing on principles that were being taught in Kemet (Egypt) long before these theoreticians would make their mark on humanity. The Moors built magnificent structures based on Eastern architect and later European Freemasonry would erect Masonic lodges resembling the Islamic Moorish architect styles. The Freemasons were able transcend religion and saw the secular value in the Qur'an, Bible, Vedas, etc., which the compass and square took on a universal meaning and any "Holy Book" could serve as the Great Light on the alter, it would be depended upon the nation and the faith tradition of the land. This allowed Freemasonry to attract men from various religious, social, political, and educational status—they believed that it is "a beautiful system of morality veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols". For example, this notion of being a "system of morality" has undergirded the intellectual and jurisprudence basis of the United States being raised from the rubbish heat over 200 years ago to become one of the greatest modern world powers of all time. (Reference: Robert Lomas; "Freemasonry and the Birth of Modern Science").
The United States greatness can not be viewed outside of its relationship to the Masonic worldview and almost at every turn in American history there is Freemasonry. Its philosophy and ideology gave the U.S. Government teachings that would alter the world's power dynamic and create a paradigm shift that has been in existences for over two centuries. Thus, for the most part, until perhaps the last twenty years historians and social scientist have ignored the Masonic influence in shaping our democracy. Yes, as I stated above some of the early Masonic writers had documented this reality, but oftentimes their research were dismissed as mere conspiracy theory and this further allowed Freemasonry to cloak it-self and remain under the radar. But let’s be clear those that embraced Freemasonry have stood shoulders above their uninitiated brothers. (Reference: Nicholas Haggar; "The Secret Founding of America").
Fahim A. Knight-EL Chief Researcher for KEEPING IT REAL THINK TANK located in Durham, NC; our mission is to inform African Americans and all people of goodwill, of the pending dangers that lie ahead; as well as decode the symbolisms and reinterpreted the hidden meanings behind those who operate as invisible forces, but covertly rules the world. We are of the belief that an enlightened world will be better prepared to throw off the shackles of ignorance and not be willing participants for the slaughter. Our MOTTO is speaking truth to power. Fahim A. Knight-EL can be reached at fahimknight@yahoo.com.
Stay Awake Until We Meet Again,
Fahim A. Knight-EL
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