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Profiles in Courage
By: AGelbert Date: October 19, 2013, 5:11 pm
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Michael
Ruppert:
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Truth-Telling Cop who claims CIA enables drug-trafficing. On
November 15, 1996, then Director of Central Intelligence John
Deutch visited Los Angeles' Locke High School for a town hall
meeting. At the meeting, Ruppert publicly confronted Deutch,
saying that in his experience as an LAPD narcotics officer he
had seen evidence of CIA complicity in drug dealing.[11]
Ruppert went on to become an investigator and journalist,[12]
and established the publication From The Wilderness, a watchdog
publication that exposed governmental corruption, including his
experience with CIA drug dealing activities.[13]
Ruppert is the author of Crossing The Rubicon: The Decline of
the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil,[14] published
in September 2004. Crossing The Rubicon claims that Vice
President Dick Cheney, the US government, and Wall Street had a
well-developed awareness of and colluded with the perpetrators
of 9/11.
Ruppert appears in the documentary films The 911 Report You
Never Saw - The Great Conspiracy, Peak Oil - Imposed by
Nature,[15] Zeitgeist: Moving Forward, The End of Suburbia,
American Drug War: The Last White Hope and Collapse.
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Re: Profiles in Courage
By: Surly1 Date: October 20, 2013, 10:41 am
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On it. Have been aware of his work for some time.
Excellent.
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Re: Profiles in Courage
By: AGelbert Date: October 20, 2013, 3:31 pm
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Kyle Childress
[quote]There’s a line in the old King James, that says the
prayers of a faithful person ‘availeth much.’ One person, one
small community, acting in faithfulness, can bring
[size=18pt]healing, hope, change.” [/size][/quote]
Meet the Churchgoers Helping Lead an Uprising Against Big Oil in
Texas
Activists in Texas are connecting the fight against the Keystone
pipeline with the struggle for environmental justice
Snippet 1:
Since the blockaders began showing up at his church, Childress
told me as we drank coffee on his back porch the next morning,
people have noticed a change in his preaching. “There’s an
urgency that maybe I didn’t have before. They’re reminding us
that climate change is not something we’re going to
fiddle-faddle around with. I mean, you’ve got to step up now.”
But there’s more to it, Childress continued: “I’m preaching to
young people who are putting their lives on the line. They
didn’t come down here driving a Mercedes Benz, sitting around
under a shade tree eating grapes. They hitchhiked. They rode
buses. And they get arrested, they get pepper-sprayed, they get
some stiff penalties thrown against them.” (In January, Tar
Sands Blockade and allied groups settled a lawsuit brought by
TransCanada seeking $5 million in damages for construction
delays, forcing them to stay off the pipeline easement and any
TransCanada property.)
Childress noted that some of the blockaders, especially the
Occupy veterans, refer to the corporate capitalist system as
“the Machine.” “And they’re exactly right, using that kind of
language,” he said. “They’re going up against the Machine in a
real, clearly defined way. Not subtle—really upfront. And I’m
trying to help them realize what it’s going to take to sustain
the struggle.”
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Snippet 2:
]The prophet Amos, Childress told us, was called to be a fierce
advocate—among the Bible’s fiercest—on behalf of justice for the
poor and oppressed. “Amos’s strong preaching was hard then, and
it’s hard today,” Childress said. Just as in Amos’s day, when
the wealthy trampled on the poor while worshiping piously in the
temples, so today our “programs of care for the poor and needy”
are dismantled “with a religious zeal.” Meanwhile, “giant
corporations get a free ride. They can diminish people, destroy
the earth, pour out climate-changing carbon, all in the interest
of short-term profit, and no one can do anything about it.” But
Amos knew, Childress assured us, that God is the spring of
justice—and that without God, “we are unable to keep up the
struggle for justice and goodness and love over the long haul.”
“God calls us to justice, to be a people who embody justice,”
said Childress, himself a longtime activist on issues of race,
poverty and peace. And yet, as King and all those who fought for
civil rights knew, “serving and battling for justice is a
long-haul kind of calling.”
Childress—deeply influenced by the likes of Wendell Berry, the
late Will D. Campbell and, of course, King—is not a
Bible-thumper. He doesn’t shout. Heavyset and ruddy-faced, with
a whitening, close-cropped beard, he speaks with a soft, flat
West Texas accent. But his voice carries real power and
conviction.
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Profiles in Courage: Eleanor Roosevelt
By: AGelbert Date: October 27, 2013, 3:21 pm
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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Oct 21, 2013 video archive from C-SPAN 2 hours, 1 minute
[move]Don't miss this historical information and video clips of
this courageous woman.[/move]
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt
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American HISTORY you may not know about.
Eleanor Roosevelt was both the most loved by the people and the
most hated First Lady by the elites in American History because
of her courageous activities.
J. Edgar Hoover led an effort to have Eleanor Roosevelt declared
a negro, be stripped of her citizenship and deported to Liberia!
Eleanor Roosevelt has the largest FBI file of any First Lady.
The Republican Campaign button for the 1936 election had, "We
don't like Eleanor either." on it. IOW, every bigot out there
hated her guts. She was often depicted with "coal dust" on her
face in satirical newspaper cartoons. No, it wasn't because she
was friendly with coal miners and supported unions for them...
The Daughters of the American Revolution DID NOT LIKE HER AT
ALL. Why? Because she supported unions and defended the civil
rights of African Americans. She made these High society ladies
uncomfortable with all this "boat rocking". LOL!
And that's WHY J. Edgar Hoover, one of the greatest fascist
Racist Police State Pigs in American History, targeted her. Even
with all her high society white family credentials, the INSTANT
she moved to support a democratic USA with equal rights for all,
the propaganda machine of dedicated fascist racist assholes
declared her a N_____R Lover.
When that didn't work, they decided to go all out and to rebrand
her genetics in order to DESTROY her credibility.
The Klu Klux Klan placed the highest price on her head (reward
for assassinating her) that that pack of cowardly murdering
racists had ever placed on anyone on its list of "Enemies of
Amerika".
Despite many assasination threats and attempts (she carried a
gun), she refused secret service protection until her death in
1962.
Eleanor Roosevelt's Wartime Prayer
Dear Lord,
Lest I continue
My complacent way,
Help me to remember that somewhere,
Somehow out there
A man died for me today.
As long as there be war,
I then must
Ask and answer
Am I worth dying for?
When Eleanor informs Truman of her husband's death:
ER: Harry, He's dead.
HT: Oh Mrs. Roosevelt, I'm so sorry. Is there anything I can do
for you?
ER: That's the wrong question because you are the one in trouble
now.
Historians discuss all the above and much more including the
1918 Lucy Mercer affair with FDR that caused Eleanor to,
henceforth, have her own bedroom, how FDR's mother told him that
if he divorced Eleanor to marry Lucy, she would cut him off from
the family money and how, despite all this, in 1921 when FDR got
polio, Eleanor was the one who willingly gave him a daily enema,
inserted a glass tube in his member to extract urine (because of
his paralysis) and gave him the support in the political arena
to win the presidency over a decade later. ] He could not have
done it without her.
[move]The elitist, greedy, anti-democratic, racist, predatory
capitalists from EVERY political party have been out to undo
everything SHE and FDR accomplished for human decency ever
since. 😡[/move]
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Re: Profiles in Courage
By: AGelbert Date: November 3, 2013, 8:20 pm
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Harry Schwartz: A Great Man who founded the Torch Commando Part
1
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Harry Heinz Schwarz (13 May 1924 – 5 February 2010) was a South
African lawyer, statesman and long-time political opposition
leader against apartheid, who eventually served as the South
African ambassador to the United States during the country’s
transition to representative democracy.
Schwarz rose from the childhood poverty he experienced as a
German Jewish refugee to become a lawyer and a member of the
Transvaal Provincial Council, where from 1963 to 1974, he was
Leader of the Opposition.
In the 1964 Rivonia Trial he was a defence lawyer. Advocating a
more aggressive political opposition to the National Party's
racial policies in the 1960s and 1970s, as Leader of the United
Party in Transvaal and leader of the liberal "Young Turks", he
clashed with the United Party establishment.
He championed the cause of non-violent resistance to apartheid
and in 1974 signed the Mahlabatini Declaration of Faith with
Mangosuthu Buthelezi for a non-racial democratic society in
South Africa. He was in the opposition for over 40 years and was
a founding member of the Democratic Party.
In light of his record, his appointment as South African
Ambassador to the United States in 1990 was widely heralded as
symbolic of the government's commitment to ending apartheid,
[1] and played a significant role in renewing the nation's image
as the new democratic South Africa.[2][3][4]
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The Torch Commando was born out of the work of the Springbok
Legion, a South African organisation of World War II veterans,
founded in 1941 during the second world war by progressive
anti-fascist servicemen, and the War Veterans Action Committee
established with the involvement of Springbok Legionaires to
appeal to a broader base of ex-servicemen.
The Springbok Legion was initially formed by members of the 9th
Recce Battalion of the South African Tank Corps, the Soldiers
Interests Committee formed by members of the First South African
Brigade in Addas Ababa, and the Union of Soldiers formed by the
same brigade in Egypt.
The aims and objectives of the Springbok Legion were enunciated
in its 'Soldiers Manifesto'. The Springbok Legion was open to
all servicemen regardless of race or gender and was avowedly
anti-fascist and anti-racist. Amongst its leading members were
servicemen such as Joe Slovo, Lionel Bernstein, Wolfie Kodesh,
Jack Hodgson and Fred Carneson who all later joined the African
National Congress and its military wing Umkhonto we Sizwe under
the command of Nelson Mandela.
Others such as Harry Schwarz, a later well known anti-apartheid
political leader, lawyer and ambassador to the United States
during the government on national unity was one of the
organizations founders.
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Torch Commando in action
The Torch Commando was founded in 1951 during the Coloured vote
constitutional crisis, in protest against the South African
government's plan to remove coloureds from the voters roll in
the Cape.
At a time when the Springbok Legion's numbers were diminishing,
the Torch Commando strategy gave a new lease of life to the aims
and objectives of the Springbok Legion, perceived as being too
left wing by some, and gave a home to whites in other liberal
formations including liberals in the United Party, who
identified with black grievances.
The wartime fighter ace Group Captain Adolph Malan became the
president of the 'Torch Commando'. The commando's main
activities were torchlight marches, from which they took their
name. The largest march attracted 75,000 protesters.
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Torch Commando in action
The Torch Commando existed for more than five years, and at its
height had 250,000 members.
The government was alarmed by the number of judges, public
servants and military officers joining the organisation, and a
new law was passed to ban anyone in public service or the
military from joining.
Subsequently the National Party did everything to purge the
memory of the Springbok Legion, Torch Commando and men such as
'Sailor' Malan, who have appeal with white Afrikaner youth.
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While Harry Shwartz was busy trying to move South Africa to
become a non-racist representative republic, the
multimillionaire gold mining tycoon Charles W. Englehard Jr.[img
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/>was doing all he could to SUPPORT Apartheid South Africa. >:(
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"[quote]The policy of South Africa as expressed by the new Prime
Minister [John Vorster] is as much in the interests of South
Africa as anything I can think of or suggest. I am not a South
African, but there is nothing I would do better or differently."
--U.S. multinational businessman Charles W. Engelhard, 1967
[/quote]
[quote] More than any other American, Charles Engelhard gave
direct political support to the Nationalist government.
Engelhard sat on the boards of Witwatersrand Native Labor
Association and Native Recruiting Agency, two South African
government agencies which recruit cheap African labor to work in
the mines.
Engelhard also served as a leading officer of the South African
Foundation, a South African government businessmen's public
relations front on which no other American would agree to serve.
This foundation was set up in the words of its leaders "because
there is a systematic, well-organized, well-financed attack on
South Africa, conducted on a world scale by a number of
organizations supported by Afro-Asian and Communist interests."
;)
And while Engelhard was busy telling American detractors that
U.S. corporate involvement could play a constructive role in
helping bring South Africa's black majority toward full
political participation,
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at
"in regard to overall direction, white hegemony is to prevail."
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[quote]By far the largest of Engelhard's stakes, however, was in
the South African gold mining industry, which for decades has
mined sub-economic gold by employing Africans at wages half the
poverty datum level. Largely through his chairmanship and stock
holdings in Rand Mines, Engelhard's interests controlled an
estimated 15 per cent of South African gold mining industry
during the '60s. Indeed, it was through his entry into the South
African gold industry during the early '50s that Engelhard first
started to turn his father's relatively modest metals business
into a global powerhouse.
Setting himself up as a bullion dealer in South Africa,
Engelhard beat restrictions on the export of newly mined gold by
manufacturing solid gold art items--solid gold pulpit tops,
dishes, bracelets. Once legally exported in this manner, they
would be melted down into bullion again. [/quote]
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on
in the USA again.
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That certainly would explain the LOVE of ART in the form of
golden statues of animals by certain people that ADMIRE
Engelhard, don't you think? It's like a massive private joke
about making money from slave labor AND bypassing export laws
designed to force South Africa to treat its blacks better.
DOUBLE
PROFITS!
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It must be hilarious to a certain strain of gold bug...
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[quote]But while the Cabots may now be hundreds of years removed
from the wealth they earned in the slave trade, the Engelhard
family South African connection lives on, albeit without Charles
W.
SHORTLY before his death, Engelhard, in a complicated series of
transactions, sold off much of his South African interests to
Anglo-American and other companies. The current Engelhard family
parent corporation, Engelhard Minerals and Chemicals, still has
diversified holdings in South Africa, but in the recent climate
of intensified criticism of U.S. operations there, the Engelhard
company has refused to disclose the extent of the assets and
activities of its privately held South African subsidiary.
In October, 1976, the company refused to cooperate with Sen.
Dick Clark's committee studying U.S. investments in Southern
Africa.
Meanwhile, the Engelhard family has shifted much of its formerly
South African capital into the manufacture of pollution control
devices. somehow it doesn't seem to make their money much
cleaner.
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[quote]Engelhard stabled race horses in North Carolina, England
and South Africa, $15 million worth of race horses -- about the
same amount that the Engelhard Foundation has in assets. He
needed three private jets and a helicopter to transport him to
his international business and pleasure appointments.[/quote]
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[quote]"The key to the misery of these people is to let them get
enough to eat, enough clothes, a car and some financial
stability. I don't care what the college professors say, I know
this is what the black people of Africa want." --Charles W.
Engelhard, 1966
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Englehard died in 1971 [i]but Engelhard mining and minerals
continued to live down to its Apartheid defending legacy with a
clever dirty trick. [/I]
Please note the DATE, October, 1976, the company refused to
cooperate with Sen. Dick Clark's committee studying U.S.
investments in Southern Africa. That is the year they claimed
they "tested" the market for a type of bullion sale and withdrew
it.
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Senator Cark was breathing down their necks so they waited a
year and went ahead with the scam. [i]Read on.
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The American public was souring on South Africa and those nifty
Gold Krugerrand sales were dropping. The American public were
being educated by people like Shwartz on how Black Africans were
treated and didn't like it one bit (except for our racists, of
course!).
So Engelhard Enterprises of SA came up with a clever plan to
fool Americans into buying his golld and silver rounds to take
advantage of the slump in Krugerrand sales.
They sweetend the deal by making Engelhard rounds slightly purer
(24 karat instead 22 karat) to make sure anybody that discovered
the ORIGIN of the metal in the coins would not have a
"consciense" attack (with goldbugs, karats talk a lot louder
than a consciense does!).
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June 12, 1977 Newspaper report on Engelhard Enterprises of SA's
new "coins".
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I had never heard of these coins before but I imagine the
goldbugs know about them. Engelhard must have made a tidy profit
from this "gold art work" importing scam (that the corporation
added a new clever twist to after his death with the bullion
coins) because he was REALLY loaded when he died. That coin,
because of this, certainly deserves to bear the name "Englehard"
embossed on that symbol of greed and African slave labor.
Don't you just love how these mining firms operate? Such
INTEGRITY, eh? Apartheid, YES! Con the American coin buyer, YES!
Refuse to cooperate with a U.S senatorial committee, YES!
Engelhard Enterprises of SA was (probably still is) convinced
that he who has the gold, makes the rules. It's a wonderful
life!
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I do admit that when you tag the word, "American(s)" on to
something, Americans fall for it hook, line and sinker. I guess
that is why all those fascist Koch echo chamber un-think tanks
always make sure the handle starts with "Americans" for this,
that and the other!
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Harry Schwartz: A Great Man who founded the Torch Commando Part
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Re: Profiles in Courage
By: AGelbert Date: November 3, 2013, 9:00 pm
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Harry Schwartz: A Great Man who founded the Torch Commando Part
2
After rich people die you ALWAYS learn of the "Foundation" (a
tradition of tax dodging shenanigans founded by Rockefeller) and
the goody two shoes things it is doing in the old reptile's
name.
But this bit of philanthropy had a racist bent to it worthy of
the old reptile himself.
The path to Engelhard's "sainthood" (naming a library in HAHVAHD
for him) while simultaneously accompanied mysteriously by the
demotion of the Department of Afro-American Studies to committee
status.
[quote]"...the library in the new building will be named the
Charles Engelhart Public Affairs Library, in recognition of a
gift of one million dollars from the Charles Engelhard
Foundation." --JFK School of Government Spring 1978 Bulletin.
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No, I can't prove the two were connected but the timing and the
MONEY to HAHVAHD tells the story. At any rate, the money
"donated" to Harvard by the Engelhard foundation SHOULD HAVE
BEEN PUT IN A TRUST FOR SOUTH AFRICAN MINERS or at least sent to
Harry Shwartz to help in his and Nelson Mandela's anti-apartheid
struggle, not used for some God Damned library.
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Here's a little background on the war at Harvard and how the bad
guys won it.
Why do I say this? Didn't south Africa get a Representative
Republic and didn't it end Apartheid?
Yes, but about 10 years LATER than it should have BECAUSE of
Engelhard's money.
Harvard was KEY to telling the world that South Africa was out
of line and had to end Apartheid. Several members of congress
were prevailing on Harvard to divest of its investments in South
Africa and ALONG comes the Engelhard Foundation and drops a
million bucks in their lap!
Sure, Sophie Engelhard wanted her dadddy to look good but there
was MORE TO IT THAN THAT. Read on. Sophie must have been quite
friendly with Bok but maybe I am just imagining all these
amazing coincidences that clipped Harvard's wings and allowed
Apartheid to continue OVER TEN MORE YEARS.
Sure, Reagan was a big fan of Apartheid too but IF Harvard
hadn't received that "donation" in 1977 and HAD DIVESTED THEN of
all South African investments publicly on the world stage, SA
Apartheid could have ended BEFORE Bush stole the presidency for
Reagan in 1980.
If Carter had been able to broker an anti-Apartheid new
government in 1979, the subsequent boost in his popularity might
have well been enough to prevent Bush's skullduggery with Iran
from getting Reagan elected. :o
THAT's what blood money from a racist predatory capitalist can
do to a country and to a university that started out as a
college based on MORAL behavior. The bad guys won. Sorry.
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[quote]Throughout the 1970s, the University was engulfed in an
intense debate over the moral implications of its financial
investments in apartheid South Africa.
In 1979, protests also erupted over the dedication of a library
at the Kennedy School of Governmen to an apartheid supporter and
the rumored demotion of the Department of Afro-American Studies
to committee status.
The unrest prompted the University to weigh the symbolic impact
of pulling Harvard capital out of South Africa with possible
financial losses. Some argued that Harvard ought to use its
international stature to take an ethical position against
apartheid and questioned the moral validity of the Harvard
Corporation’s investment policy at the time.[/quote]
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[quote]By the end of 1978, though, the University evaluated
corporations for investments based on the benefits they provided
nonwhite employees. This policy was proposed by the Advisory
Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR)—a committee
formed in 1973 to advise the Corporation on ethical issues.
Amid this turmoil over Harvard’s South African investments, the
Kennedy School announced it would name its library after Charles
W. Engelhard, an industrialist whose political and financial
participation in South Africa reputedly supported the apartheid
regime. In their protests for divestment, some students
denounced the naming of the library after Engelhard.
The controversy reached a national scale when seven members of
Congress wrote a letter to Bok on Dec. 15, made public on Jan.
3, expressing their concern over the library’s name.
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“We fear that the recognition of Engelhard at this particular
time may be interpreted by the South African government and its
supporters as an indication of official acceptance—or at least
tolerance—of apartheid by major American institutions,”
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the legislators wrote.
University officials eventually compromised with protesters by
putting a plaque saying that the funds were given in Engelhard’s
memory rather than naming the library after Engelhard. ;)
The fight over the dedication of the Engelhard library was not
the only development in the protests of the 1978-1979 school
year. >:(
In 1979, some students coupled rumors circulating of a possible
demotion of the Af-Am department to an interdisciplinary
committee with calls for divestment as grounds for protest.
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[b]The credentialed assholes at Harvard fought the students AND
the credentialed principled faculty on the issue of divestment.
You have heard these arguments before and have even heard them
here from people that believe morality and money aren't related.
Of course that is a pretense. It's just greed in action with
some erudite cover speech.
Watch Bok
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[quote]The debate over Harvard’s investment even reached members
of Congress. Rep.-elect William R. Ratchford, D-Conn., told The
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[color=green][size=12pt]In late spring, the Faculty circulated a
letter that endorsed a gradual, five-step policy to force
corporations to pull out of South Africa. The letter, signed by
over 100 professors, urged Harvard to stop investing in
corporations operating in South Africa, and to support or
initiate shareholder resolutions calling for corporate
withdrawal. According to this letter, if these efforts fail,
Harvard should adopt a policy of selective divestment.
MONEY AND MORALS
Bok was reluctant to yield to student and Faculty pressure. He
wrote two letters addressing divestment from South Africa in
which he explained his support for University policy.
In an open letter in March,[/color] Bok wrote that the purpose
of a university is not “to reform society in specific ways,” but
to transmit knowledge and protect its financial stability. In
his second letter in April, Bok doubted the effectiveness of
divestment in promoting the end of apartheid, and supported the
Corporation’s position that the best way for Harvard to
influence corporate behavior was “to vote as a shareholder.”
Bok’s open letters played an important role in the debate on
Harvard’s South Africa-related investments.
According to Morton Keller, co-author of Making Harvard Modern,
Bok was well aware of the moral implications of Harvard’s
investments, but he also felt it his duty to protect the
financial stability of the University.
“Derek Bok was very much double-minded about it,” Keller says.
“Part of him responded favorably to the idea that there should
be a moral dimension [to Harvard’s investment policy.”
“Part of him opposed it in the sense that his primary
responsibility was to see that the University was affluent and
solvent,” Keller continues.
“And to get into the business of deciding what was moral and
what was immoral in the way of investments was going down a
dangerous road.”
The Corporation never launched full and immediate divestment,
though it sold stocks in companies that did not contribute to
anti-apartheid efforts, which included protesting to the
government and training or promoting black employees.
“I don’t think it is correct to say that the Corporation changed
its mind,”
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Bok, who led the Corporation in the late 1970s, writes in an
e-mail. “We were asked to sell all of the stock of all the
scores of companies which did any business in South Africa. We
never agreed to that demand.
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We did decide to sell a few stocks, amounting, I would guess, to
only half a dozen companies or so.”
Mansfield says that the University did realize its moral
responsibility in its financial investments.
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“They ended up accepting the premise of divestment advocates,
namely that the University had a moral responsibility not to
invest in companies that were complicit in apartheid,” Mansfield
says.
“It certainly made our investment managers aware that they could
be confronted with moral objections. I imagine that has
remained,” Mansfield adds.[/size][/quote]
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June 9, 2004
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So it goes. A lot of noise and the credentialed assholes just
pretended they were going along until the noise died down. I
disagree with Mansfield or at least whatever morality Harvard
supposedly espoused didn't last.
The fact that Dershowitz teaches there is testament to that!
>:(
Of course it hasn't ended. As we speak there is a huge and
ongoing scandal of many top universities, including Harvard,
participating in the African corporate land grab. But that's a
subject for another day.
So it goes.
Thank God this world has men like Harry Heinz Schwarz to counter
the greed and calloused predatory capitalism of people like
Engelhard and the corporate predators he left behind.
Do your part, tell somebody that
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whenever
you get a chance.
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And remember Harry Schwartz, an example of honorable, prejudice
free behavior for all of us to follow.
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If you missed Part 1 of this article on a courageous man, click
below: 8)
Harry Schwarts: Founder of the Torch Commando Part 1
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Profiles in Courage: Chris Hedges
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Chris Hedges
"As a Socialist I Have No Voice in the Main Stream Media."
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The MYTH OF HUMAN PROGRESS...
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Profiles in Courage: Senator Bernie Sanders
By: AGelbert Date: November 27, 2013, 6:36 pm
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Senator Bernie Sanders
[i]Senator Bernie Sanders says he doesn't wake up dreaming to be
president, but if the current ranges crises facing the nation
and the planet aren't addressed by other candidates, he says, a
presidential candidate he may be. (Credit: AP/Rich
Pedroncelli)[/I]
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"We are in a situation where we have not been since the late
1920s, before the Depression, where the top 1 percent owns 38
percent of the financial wealth of America, while the bottom 60
– six zero – percent owns 2.3 percent of the wealth in America.
That is obscene beyond belief."
Published on Wednesday, November 27, 2013 by Common Dreams
Bernie Sanders: To Defeat Oligarchy, I Would Run for President
Latest interview with senator from Vermont shows that his
reluctance to run would be outweighed by the scale of
unaddressed crises and ignored issues
- Jon Queally, staff writer
Senator Bernie Sanders, for the second time in as many weeks, is
indicating serious contemplation for a presidential run in 2016
if none of the potential Democratic candidates show the proper
urgency when it comes to addressing a key set of issues that he
thinks now face the country and the world.
Stressing the overarching crisis of out-of-control income and
wealth inequality coupled with the planetary emergencies of
global warming and climate change, Sanders' message has been
that unless these problems are put at the forefront of the
domestic policy agenda he will feel compelled to run.
In an extended interview with Salon journalist Josh Eidelson
published Wednesday, Sanders admitted he does not "wake up every
morning with a huge desire to be president of the United
States... I don’t."
"What distresses me enormously is that there is very little
discussion about [our] major crises, and even less discussion
about ideas that can resolve these issues."
However, he continued, "I do wake up believing is that this
country is facing more serious crises than we have faced since
the Great Depression. And if you include the planetary crisis of
global warming, the situation today may even be worse. And given
that reality, what distresses me enormously is that there is
very little discussion about these major crises, and even less
discussion about ideas that can resolve these issues."
In an interview ten days ago with a local Vermont paper, the
Independent senator for the first time indicated he would be
willing to run if it seemed necessary.
“These are not normal times," he told the Burlington Free Press.
"The United States right now is in the middle of a severe crisis
and you have to call it what it is.”
As John Nichols reported for The Nation recently, a run by the
Vermont senator would pit the populism that is bubbling up from
the progressive base of the Democratic Party and among
independents against what the Sanders plainly terms the forces
of "oligarchy."
"That’s what oligarchy is. Oligarchy is when a small number of
people control the economic and political life of the country."
A "small handful of multi-billionaires control the economics of
this country," Sanders told Nichols. "Economically, they
clearly have an enormous amount of power. And, now, especially
with Citizens United, these very same people are now investing
in politics. That’s what oligarchy is. Oligarchy is when a small
number of people control the economic and political life of the
country—certainly including the media—and we are rapidly moving
toward an oligarchic form of society.”
According to Nichols, Sanders would enjoy a run again the
oligarchs and the system that insulates them from the
displeasure and will of the public. In their exchange, Sanders
asked Nichols to imagine a presidential candidate who said to
voters:[quote]
“I am going to stand with you. And I am going to take these guys
on. And I understand that they’re going to be throwing
thirty-second ads at me every minute. They’re going to do
everything they can to undermine my agenda. But I believe that
if we stand together, we can defeat them.”
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[quote]“If you had a President who said: ‘Nobody in America is
going to make less than $12 or $14 an hour,’ what do you think
that would do?
If you had a President who said: ‘You know what, everybody in
this country is going to get free primary health care within a
year,’ what do you think that would do?
If you had a President say, ‘Every kid in this country is going
to go to college regardless of their income,’ what do you think
that would do?
If you had a President say, ‘I stand here today and guarantee
you that we are not going to cut a nickel in Social Security; in
fact we’re going to improve the Social Security program,’ what
do you think that would do?
If you had a president who said, ‘Global warming is the great
planetary crisis of our time, I’m going to create millions jobs
as we transform our energy system.[I] I know the oil companies
don’t like it. I know the coal companies don’t like it.
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[/I] we’re going to lead the world in that direction. We’re
going to transform the energy system across this planet—and
create millions of jobs while we do that.’
If you had a President say that, what kind of excitement would
you generate from young people all over this world?”:[/quote]
On the political/media landscape and income inequality
[quote]The great moral and economic and political crisis facing
this country, which gets relatively little discussion, is the
growing disparity in income and wealth that exists in America.
We are in a situation where we have not been since the late
1920s, before the Depression, where the top 1 percent owns 38
percent of the financial wealth of America, while the bottom 60
– six zero – percent owns 2.3 percent of the wealth in America.
That is obscene beyond belief. The worst wealth inequality in
the entire — of any major country in the world. And in terms of
income, the last statistics we have seen from 2009 to 2012 tell
us that 95 percent of all new income in this country went to the
top 1 percent.
"So what you have there is obviously [a] horrendous economic
situation, but it is very dangerous to our political system.
Because big money interests are putting huge amounts of money
into the political process through Citizens United. And these
are issues that have got to be addressed, or else in my view the
United States will move very rapidly toward an oligarchic form
of society when our economic and political life is controlled by
a handful of billionaires.
"I see this as a huge moral issue, an economic issue, a
political issue. There is virtually no discussion about that,
virtually none. I don’t know how we can be a serious nation when
this issue is not front and center, and there are not real ideas
out there on how we address it."[/quote]
On the crisis of unemployment
[quote]"Real unemployment is not 7.2 percent — it’s close to 14
percent, including those people who have given up looking for
work, and who are working part-time. Youth unemployment, youth
unemployment is close to 20 percent. African-American youth
unemployment is close to 40 percent. These are crises. And yet
day after day, we hear about the deficit — which is a serious
issue — and we hear almost nothing about the unemployment issue,
which among other things is having a horrendous impact on the
current young generation, the kids who have graduated high
school and college."[/quote]
On climate change and global warming
[quote]"It is beyond comprehension — although the scientific
community is almost unanimous in telling us that global warming
is man-made, that it is already causing disastrous problems, and
that those problems will only get worse in years to come — that
we have almost no movement at all, virtually no movement in
Congress on this planetary crisis."
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On the social safety net and the middle class
[quote]]"I would say that while the American people feel very
strongly — and this is, by the way, across the board, Democrats,
Republicans and independents — in opposition to cuts in Social
Security, Medicare and Medicaid, inside the Beltway, the
political establishments,
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there is support for
cuts to those terribly important programs. [...]
"We have a middle class that is disappearing, and somebody has
got to be speaking strongly to defend our middle class
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On the value of a presidential run
[quote]"The nature of media is that presidential campaigns and
candidates are a means, to some degree at least, of getting
these issues out there. And I think that you can give all the
speeches you want on the floor of the Senate, that’s great, but
I think being involved in debates and being out there around the
country allows — gives you the opportunity to talk about these
issues in a way that you otherwise could not."[/quote]
On Elizabeth Warren
[quote]"Elizabeth Warren is [...] clearly one of the smartest
people in the Senate. She is a true progressive. [...] She is
doing a great job, and understands fully the issues facing the
middle class and working class in this country. She is a very
strong proponent in defending the working families in this
country."[/quote]
On Hillary Clinton
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On socialism
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On Walmart
[quote]"Now what is particularly outrageous about the Wal-Mart
business model is that the Walton family that owns Wal-Mart is
the wealthiest family in this country … The six heirs of Sam
Walton are worth about, I believe, over $100 billion. Which is
more wealth than the bottom 40 percent of the American people,
interestingly. And what is quite amazing is that one of the
reasons this family has become so wealthy is that the taxpayers
of the United States provide more welfare to the Walton family
than any family in America. So that — when you have workers in
Wal-Mart who in order to feed their families have got to go on
food stamps, have got to go on Medicaid to get their healthcare,
have got to live in government-subsidized affordable housing in
order to have a roof over their heads — what that dynamic is,
essentially, is that the United States, that the taxpayers of
this country are in partnership with the Walton family. The
Walton family makes all of the money – the wealthiest family in
America – [i]while the taxpayers have to subsidize the low-paid
employees. And that to me is totally absurd.[/I]
"The Wal-Mart family, the wealthiest family in this country,
should be paying their workers a living wage, not starvation
wages."[/quote]
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He's got my vote! ;D
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Profiles in Courage: Adam Falkner
By: AGelbert Date: November 28, 2013, 3:37 pm
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Adam Falkner
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The Option of Silence is the MARK of Privilege.
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My Father's Family
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Nelson Mandela
Some Nelson Mandela quotes which we don't expect to read in the
corporate media's obituaries:
1."A critical, independent and investigative press is the
lifeblood of any democracy. The press must be free from state
interference. It must have the economic strength to stand up to
the blandishments of government officials. It must have
sufficient independence from vested interests to be bold and
inquiring without fear or favor. It must enjoy the protection of
the constitution, so that it can protect our rights as
citizens."
2."If there is a country that has committed unspeakable
atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.
They don't care for human beings."
3."The current world financial crisis also starkly reminds us
that many of the concepts that guided our sense of how the world
and its affairs are best ordered, have suddenly been shown to be
wanting.”
4."Gandhi rejects the Adam Smith notion of human nature as
motivated by self-interest and brute needs and returns us to our
spiritual dimension with its impulses for nonviolence, justice
and equality. He exposes the fallacy of the claim that everyone
can be rich and successful provided they work hard. He points to
the millions who work themselves to the bone and still remain
hungry."
5."There is no doubt that the United States now feels that they
are the only superpower in the world and they can do what they
like."
6.“It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has
been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it
treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.”
7.“Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of
justice. Like Slavery and Apartheid, poverty is not natural. It
is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions
of human beings. Sometimes it falls on a generation to be great.
YOU can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom.”
8.“We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the
freedom of the Palestinians.”
9.“No single person can liberate a country. You can only
liberate a country if you act as a collective.”
10."If the United States of America or Britain is having
elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from
Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers."
11.“When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes
in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.”
12.On Gandhi: "From his understanding of wealth and poverty came
his understanding of labor and capital, which led him to the
solution of trusteeship based on the belief that there is no
private ownership of capital; it is given in trust for
redistribution and equalization. Similarly, while recognizing
differential aptitudes and talents, he holds that these are
gifts from God to be used for the collective good."
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Nelson Mandela was truly a great man BECAUSE he allowed God to
guide his thoughts, words and deeds.
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