They also write books

It is true I do not know a thing about rules of journalism. That is easy to admit and I bear no shame.

I do know when journalism offends me by trying to make me hate something against my will. That I do know and again, I bear no shame.

A great deal of journalism today is badgering me to hate Libyan Pres. Muammar Gadaffi. That I can not do. I have seen the techniques used far more times I care to remember and especially when people of color are the issue.

It is my understanding the Chinese and Russian delegations to the U.N. Security Counsel feel they can not make judgments on the Gadaffi regime due to lack of credible evidence. The delegations are perhaps seeing and hearing what I am hearing and seeing.

I am seeing and hearing journalist reporting in the most vile and pedestrian manner what they ‘heard’ is occurring on the streets of Libya. They tell you on full camera with their cameraman only feet away:

“Just about five minutes ago, right over there, 15 protester were shot dead at point blank range. Oh my God, it has horrible! There are no witnesses who want to come forth and be on camera. Now that shows you how crazy Gadaffi is and how much the people fear him!”

or

“It has been reported the sky just fell on hundreds of anti-Gadaffi protesters who were peaceably protesting in Tenneman Square here in Uzbekistan! That shows you what Gadaffi will do to his own people and how crazy he is! They say he has to go!”

When conducting interviews, they feed leading and negative questions to the interviewee who, amazingly enough just so happens to know how to play the hate game with appropriate feedback. I find the whole process disgusting! These people also write books on politics.

I must admit rarely witnessing this shenanigans occurring on BBC or the Al Jazerra channel.

Fighting for the dignity of my Ancestors,
God bless Bill Gates, WPFW, C-SPAN and the spirits of the unborn for the help,
BB
P.S. I note nobody ever showing the Black Egyptians or Libyan and record what they have to say. And I wonder how that ‘Democracy’ thingy is working for the liberated people of Iraq? I hear there is grumbling.

Did Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi successfully herd cats?

The metaphor centers on facts these two Presidents were able to coalesce the different tribes in their countries into one unified unit, as fragile as the relationships may have been.

They did it and their countries were recognized and accepted in the world community. Each country, Iraq and Libya, made meaningful contributions on the world stage until elements came in with deliberate and diabolical mandates to disable the inter-relationships between the tribes for whatever reasons, mainly through racial and religious means.

I am ever mindful how racial and religious riffs were successfully engineered in Iraq. The people kept pleading, “Please don‘t do that! We are all Iraqis! We are one people!” and them came the twice bombing of the Golden Dome Temple. The second time was with the presence of U.N. troops 'guarding' the temple against further damages.

Both Presidents Saddam and Gaddafi have been demonized as being crazy as we have all been advised of the impossibilities of herding cats.

Saddam Hussein was President of Iraq from 1979 to 2003 and Pres. Gaddafi has ruled Libya for over forty years herding cats, if you will.

What is so hard for America to understand is these leaders loved their country and all its citizenry, hence effort were sustained against breath-taking odds to keep their herd together.

In my opinion, to unify the different tribes in each country was no small feat and I am mindful how it relates to certain states in America with present desires and threats to secede from the Union due to the fact we have a Black President, Barack Hussein Obama and yes, he is herding cats due to the people he himself employed. One could argue ‘self inflecting wounds’.

Fighting for the dignity of my Ancestors,
God bless Bill Gates, WPFW, C-SPAN and the spirits of the unborn for the help,
BB
P.S. So far, racial and religious wedges can not be used in Afghanistan. (Cross fingers)

Herding Cats
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCB7RqGS684

There are always dirty dishes in my little kitchen sink

Rahm Emanuel is now Mayor of Chicago. When I saw his challenger Carol Moseley-Braun debating him the other night, I noted Ms. Braun wearing her eye glasses down on her nose. In my opinion, wearing eye glasses adorning the tip of your nose when addressing an audience does not say the things you want it to say about you. It becomes a major part of your body language. Ms. Braun lost her race for Mayor of Chicago. Enough said.
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Last month, I saw a young lady playing the piano in a solo competition. She was wearing long ear rings. The composition she was playing had one key signature and her ear rings another.
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The other night, white rapper Eminem won two awards for performing music invented by Blacks.
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Today, Pres. Gaddafi of Libya asked his subjects why were they destroying their own country and who do they want to rule them? I think he was saying, “Be careful what you wish for”. I have heard people in Iraq expressing buyers’ remorse regarding things they have to now pay for. I heard the same from Russians after the Soviet break-up. I saw soup lines.
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I am mindful reading just before the Iraq invasion that Israel wanted America to deal with three countries on their behalf: Iraq, Iran and Syria. They were saying to America, ‘You start the conflict in those countries and we can take over from there’. (Wink)

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My son-in-law came by today. He is a political junkie like I am. In his youthful excitement, he sometimes tries to talk over me. I find his bravery admirable.
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As always,
BB

Genocide in Libya?

I just heard the U.N. Deputy Ambassador for Libya accusing his own President of committing genocide.

Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group.[1]
Read more at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide

In todays’ world, genocide is used to mean killing of Jews. If memory serves me correctly, Pres. Saddam Hussein was hanged for the crime of genocide and not for being a bad leader of his country.

If the genocide label sticks with Libyan Pres. Moamer Kadhafi, he does not have a prayer in hell trying to hold onto his country.

I remember hearing Pres. Amadenijad saying the uprising in his country a few years back was engineered by a small group of Jews. If Iran explodes, chances are he also will be charged with genocide.

As always,
BB

Libya has ‘….mercenaries from Africa?’ (Correction)

I have heard this all day long. I thought by now one of the mercenaries would have been captured, shown on TV via YouTube confessing all manner of allegations and singing like a canary for his life.

Instead, and in my opinion, all we are getting are conversations from the likes of Ahmed Chalabi who is closely associated with the Iraq ‘Weapons of Mass Destruction’ saga.

Did the African mercenaries enter Libya un-detected by land or sea armed with their African made weapons?

It is hard to imagine the Egyptian populace not knowing where those African mercenaries are residing, sleeping and eating and how at least one of them has not been captured.

We are hearing there are thousands of Egyptian protesters out in the streets. Why is it an African mercenary has not be captured and interrogated? Isn't Egypt on the African continent? This I does not understand, "...mercenaries from Africa" killing Egyptians.

I could, however, understand, ‘Mercenaries from other African countries…’ coming into Libya but for me, there would still be that land or sea intrigue.
As always,
BB

(Correction) HT to Dkos diarist Scott Matheina
-The man who was the basis for the WMD lies is Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi known as "Curveball," he has said "I had the chance to fabricate something to topple the regime. I and my sons are proud of that."-
Read more at:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/02/21/947943/-WMD-Lies-Led-To-Iraq-War