Stock Market

!-- TradingView Widget BEGIN -->

Thursday, November 10, 2011

SENS. BEGICH, MURRAY, TESTER, BROWN & STABENOW HOLD CALL WITH VETERANS(L. BRADFORD)TO DISCUSS VOW TO HIRE HEROES ACT

TBR--Washington, D.C.
United States Senate Democratic
Steering and Outreach Committee
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE




WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Mark Begich (D-Alaska), Chairman of the Senate Democratic Steering and Outreach Committee, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Chair of the U.S. Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee, U.S. Senator Jon Tester (D-Mont.), U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Wash.) joined veterans and veterans’ service organizations from around the country on a conference call to discuss the VOW to Hire Heroes Act of 2011. The bill, which offers a tax credit for companies that hire unemployed veterans and provides job training skills for all service members transitioning to civilian life, is fully paid for.

“Fully honoring our commitment to our veterans means both while they are serving abroad and when they return home – and putting our veterans back to work is a critical part of that promise,” said Senator Begich. “Helping small businesses hire unemployed veterans is just common sense. It eases our veterans’ transition back to civilian life, helps our small businesses, and grows our economy and that why I’m pleased to see so much support for this program.”

“For too long, at the end of their career we patted our veterans on the back for their service and then pushed them out into the job market alone,” said Senator Murray. “The VOW to Hire Heroes Act will give our veterans the job skills to get their foot in the door and incentivize employers to make sure that door is open to them.”

“Veterans risked their lives for this country and it’s our responsibility to make sure they have access to jobs and quality health care when they come home,” said Senator Tester. “It’s our responsibility to make that transition as seamless as possible by connecting veterans with businesses. This bill goes a long way in fulfilling that responsibility and I look forward to the jobs it will create for America’s veterans.”

“Today, the unemployment rate for young veterans is nearly 22 percent—which is simply unacceptable,” said Senator Brown. “Our commitment to our service members shouldn’t end when they return home as skilled, experienced civilians. From leadership experience to technical and scientific skills, veterans are critical to our nation’s economic competitiveness.”

“No veteran should stand at the back of any unemployment line. When we say ‘support our troops’ that can't just be lip-service, we must support them through action,” said Senator Stabenow. “Congress shouldn’t just pass a resolution honoring Veterans Day this week—it should take real action to help America’s one million unemployed veterans get back to work.”

The discussion emphasized Democrats’ commitment to create jobs for veterans and ensure a seamless transition from service in the military to meaningful employment at home.

The unemployment rate for veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan has risen to 12.1% over the last year, representing a quarter of a million veterans. Of those, two thirds are younger than 35 years old. Additionally, it is the youngest group of veterans having the hardest time finding work. In 2010, young male veterans who served during the Gulf War-era II had an unemployment rate of 21.9%.

The VOW to Hire Heroes Act would boost employment opportunities for veterans and help address these issues. Key provisions include:

• Tax credit of up to $5,600 for hiring veterans who have been looking for a job for more than six months, as well as a $2,400 credit for veterans who are unemployed for more than 4 weeks, but less than 6 months.

• Tax credit of up to $9,600 for hiring veterans with service-connected disabilities who have been looking for a job for more than six months.

• Makes the Transition Assistance Program (TAP)—an interagency workshop coordinated by Departments of Defense, Labor and Veterans Affairs—mandatory for service members moving on to civilian life to help them secure 21st Century jobs through resume writing workshops and career counseling.

• Expands education and training opportunities for older veterans by providing 100,000 unemployed veterans of past eras and wars with up to 1-year of additional Montgomery GI benefits for education or training programs at community colleges or technical schools.

• Provides disabled veterans up to 1-year of additional Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment Benefits.

• Allows service members to begin the federal employment process prior to separation in order to facilitate a truly seamless transition from the military to jobs at VA, Homeland Security, or the many other federal agencies in need of our veterans.

For more information on the VOW to Hire Heroes Act of 2011, visit http://democrats.senate.gov/news/.

About the Senate Democratic Steering & Outreach Committee

The Senate Democratic Steering and Outreach Committee is dedicated to fostering dialogue between Senate Democrats and community leaders from across the nation. Each year, the Steering Committee hosts several meetings with advocates, policy experts, and elected officials to discuss key priorities and enlist their help in the development of the Democratic agenda in the Senate. We are committed to serving as a liaison between Senate Democratic offices and advocacy groups and intergovernmental organizations. The Steering Committee is one of three Democratic Leadership Committees in the Senate. The Steering Committee is chaired by Senator Mark Begich (AK) and vice chaired by Senator Daniel K. Akaka (HI).
CONTACTS:


Begich: Julie Hasquet, (907) 258-9304

Murray: Matt McAlvanah, (202) 224-2939

Tester: Andrea Helling, (202) 228-0371

Brown: Meghan Dubyak, (202) 224-3978

Stabenow: Cullen Schwarz, (202) 379-6775

DSOC: Betsy McManus, (202) 228-1805

###

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Giant Webb Space Telescope Model to "Land" in Baltimore







 
 
TBR-NASA Press Release-Baltimore, MD
Baltimore's Maryland Science Center is going to be the "landing site" for the full-scale model of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, and it's free for all to see.

The Webb telescope life-sized model is as big as a tennis court, and it's coming to the Maryland Science Center at Baltimore's Inner Harbor from October 14 through 26, 2011. It's a chance for young and old to get a close-up look at the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope in the same size it will be launched into space.

The real James Webb Space Telescope is currently being built, but this model will be constructed in a couple of days. The real Webb will be the largest space telescope ever built. Once in orbit, the Webb telescope will look back in time more than 13 billion years to help us understand the formation of galaxies, stars, and planets.

Experts will be on hand to discuss the Webb telescope's deep-space mission, how it will observe distant galaxies and nearby stars and planets, and the progress made to date in building the observatory. Spokespeople will also be available starting at 10 a.m. EDT and throughout the model exhibition. There will also be educational activities and an "Ask the Scientist" booth in front of the model during the daytime. The Maryland Science Center is located at 601 Light Street, Baltimore, Md. 21230. For directions and more information, call the center at 410-685-5225.

The full-scale model of the Webb telescope was built by NASA's prime contractor to provide a better understanding of the size, scale, and complexity of the observatory. The model is constructed mainly of aluminum and steel, weighs 12,000 pounds, and is approximately 80 feet long, 40 feet wide, and 40 feet tall. The model requires two trucks to ship it, and assembly takes a crew of 12 approximately four days.

The Webb telescope will add to observations by earlier space telescopes, and stretch the frontiers of science with its discoveries. The model's size shows the telescope's complexity and how the observatory will enable the Webb telescope's unique mission.

For more images and video, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/nasalife/features/webb-balto.html

For more information about the James Webb Space Telescope, visit:

http://webbtelescope.org/webb_telescope

http://www.jwst.nasa.gov

For a sped-up video of the construction of the Webb full-scale model, visit:

http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010500/a010570/index.html

View on You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbCBeq2Rz9Q

CONTACT

Dwayne Brown/Trent Perrotto
NASA Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1726 / 202-358-0321
dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov / trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov

Lynn Chandler
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
301-286-2806
lynn.chandler-1@nasa.gov


Ray Villard / Cheryl Gundy
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md.
410-338-4514 / 410-338-4707
villard@stsci.edu / gundy@stsci.edu




Saturday, September 17, 2011

Imago Dei--Moors, Berbers, Axum and Mestizos

TBR--Leighton Bradford Editor-in-Chief
 The first ascertainable African state to attain power was the ancient empire of Ethiopia, Axum, Abyssinia, etc... For over five thousand years from military conquest and intermarrying, Ethiopia and Kemet (Egypt) established the foundation and the heritage associated with Blacks within the African Diaspora! Carter G. Woodson would have handled this synopsis better than I. All of humanity has contributed to the greatness of this earth! It becomes duly important to shore up past inequalities suspended within a euro-centric reality.

The term Moor when translated from Greek refers to, Mauro's-meaning dark or tanned.  Moors originated from Northern Africa, came to conquer and rule the Iberian [Spain & Portugal] peninsula for 800 years! Was Hannibal Black? I argue he was at least tanned or a light skin brother. There are rumors Vin Diesel or Denzel Washington; may star in upcoming roles, depicting the military genius. Young impressionable individuals of African descent; should see their image in what Hollywood depicts. "Indeed, in Spain (Iberia) and Portugal the indigenous pop. had been ruled until the fifteenth century by the Moors who were both darker skinned and more educated than the natives," Race and Racism, Pierre L. van den Berghe. When the Spaniards came to the America's they had to be of an admixture; moreover, possessed elements of African ancestry! Mestizo refers to a Spanish, African and Indigenous admixture. We interpret the term Mestizos as Mexican. We may have time to discuss Creole, French, Indigenous, and African. Creole culture is a pivotal aspect of not only New Orleans, but around the world.


 The Moors territory of rule stretched from Mali and Niger to present day Spain. Their conquest and existence pre-dates Islam, i.e. The Numidian Kingdom of Maure 3rd century BCE!  Al Andulas a reference used to identify the aforementioned conquered lands of the Iberian Peninsula. I argue that descendants from Al Andulas or the Iberian Peninsula, have elements of Black within them! The conquistadors leading the diaspora of the America's had possible Moorish eugenics scheme. Moors, Berber, and Nubian are interchangeable humanistic, or of African descent distinctions. Let's transition towards an epic scholar Dr Ivan Van Sertima*.


Photo: Dr. Ivan Van Sertima
"Contrary to widespread misinformation, the history of black Americans does not begin with their arrival in the New World on slave ships!" Ebony Pictorial History

Dr. Ivan Van Sertima [*was born in Guyana, South America.  He was educated at the School of Oriental and African Studies (London University) and the Rutgers Graduate School and holds degrees in African Studies and Anthropology.  From 1957-1959 he served as a Press and Broadcasting Officer in the Guyana Information Services.  During the decade of the 1960s he broadcast weekly from Britain to Africa and the Caribbean. ] http://www.journalofafricancivilizations.com/page/9048 

Dr. Van Sertima [*He also appeared before a Congressional Committee on July 7, 1987, to challenge the Columbus myth. This landmark presentation before Congress was illuminating and brilliantly presented in the name of all peoples of color across the world.]:

July 7, 1987, Van Sertima Before Congress - Challenging the Columbus Myth

*“If we are to have a commemoration, let us take this opportunity not to consolidate a myth, but to open a new window upon the universe of peoples. Let us take full cognizance of other civilizations here in a true cross-cultural fashion so we can really speak of ourselves as true Americans, New World people, because that is what the New World means...the bringing together of all these old-world elements into a new world.”

— Ivan Van Sertima

*Dr. Van Sertima appeared, on July 7, 1987, before Congress to discuss the Christopher Columbus Quincentenary Jubilee Act. Van Sertima, single-handedly, presented evidence to prove that Africans made contact with native Americans long before Columbus, and that Columbus did not “discover”.

 It becomes critically important, within an identity of an altruistic interpretation of blackness, to define our anthropological existence.  It thwarts dehumanizing attributes. The Moors derived from an area within and adjacent to Carthage, i.e., Hannibal conqueror of Rome! Libya, Morocco, and Algeria where near or a part of the territory of Carthage.

Some of the oldest human settlements have been unearthed in Tanzania. The oldest human fossils were found in and around Olduvai Gorge (Oldupai) in northern Tanzania, an area referred to as "The Cradle of Mankind". It is believed to be the birthplace of humanity. Fossils found in this area include Paranthropus bones thought to be over 2 million years old, and the oldest known footprints of the immediate ancestors of humans, the Laetoli footprints, estimated to be about 3.6 million years old. About 10,000 years ago, Tanzania was populated by hunter-gatherer communities who spoke Khoisan. They were joined by Cushitic-speaking people who came from the north about 5000 years ago.

[Berbers (Berber: Imazighen / Imaziɣen) are the indigenous peoples of North Africa west of the Nile Valley. They are continuously distributed from the Atlantic to the Siwa oasis, in Egypt, and from the Mediterranean to the Niger River. Historically they spoke the Berber language or varieties of it, which together form a branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family. Today, varieties of Maghreb's colloquial Arabic are spoken by a large portion of Berbers besides the Berber language itself]. wikipedia 


[Many Louisiana creole families arrived in Louisiana during the Colonial Period following the Slave Uprising led by Toussaint Breda (later called L'Ouverture) in 1791 in Ste. Dominique, later called Haiti. Protesting French Colonial rule - and winning the fight with the assistance, in part of the mosquito, as the French plantation owners most holding land grants from Louis XVI (farming primarily sugar) were succumbing to yellow fever. The slave army of L'Ouverture originally in alliance with the French to exile Spanish and English eventually helped evict them too creating a free Haiti]. Wikipedia

Establishing a cultural identity is crucial to a valued self-esteem! Detractors know and understand, without it, you are subjected to the dehumanizing effect, of social genocide. Anthropology is as much a part of the civil rights struggle or equality, as sitting at a lunch counter in the sixties! This is what I often refer to as, Imago Dei, Latin for Image of God. Translated further, all human beings were created in the image or likeness of God! European history must acknowledge the aforementioned ideals. Moors are individuals of African descent.




Tuesday, August 30, 2011

A Critical Analysis Of Politics Within Mississippi.‏

TBR--MS  Leighton Bradford  Editor-in-Chief
"I don't give a damn about you being in the military, or being a veteran," MS State Senator, Merle Flowers in a twangy, condescending, nasal voice! Further; after he was told he was acting like a slum lord, refusing to fix several of his properties, and evicting a 8 month pregnant African-American tenant! This was an omen of political things to come, within the great state of MS.? Oppression is camouflaged by the certain niceties of modern living. Meaning, there are still southern Europeans who feel their superior to Blacks and minorities[this includes exploited illegals]. The Clinton /Gore campaign countered this notion. It catches you off guard when your confronted with this nonsense! "You aren't from around these parts," said Merle Flowers, when I spoke to him about a business matter. It was a cliche' message you expected to hear from some relic of the Jim Crow south. He was appointed to an ethics committee within the district he represents. Ironically many of his tenants would beg to differ? TBR recovered a document of a former tenant filing an EEOC complaint against the Senator. A reliable source asks why The Department Of Justice, Civil Rights Division, has not applied the Color Of Law statue? The Desoto Times Tribune reported his opposition to federally mandated re-apportionment, further dis-enfranchising some of the people he represents, The Poor and Blacks!


"Sen. Doug Davis, R-Hernando, said under the plan, his district loses about 21,000 people and District 19, currently represented by Sen. Merle Flowers, R-Olive Branch, loses about 25,000 people in order to meet federal one-man, one-person requirements under the 2010 U.S. Census." Desoto Times Tribune Senate unveils remap, By ROBERT LEE LONG, Community Editor Published: Tuesday, March 8, 2011 1:06 AM CST.


The Desoto County Democratic Party, under the leadership of Samuel William's and Mike Smith, could not save the congressional seat Travis Childers once held. The Blue Dog Democrat took his core constituency for granted, attempting to woo conservative Mississippians, with an ill advised fiscal tough guy approach. He tried to have his cake and eat it to. I remember talking to a staffer of Rep. Nunlee, wondering why no one under 45 years of age, held any distinction, within the Desoto Dem's? The Hip Hop generation and Gen X are severely mis-represented. Nunlee's twenty-something staffer was sharp! My question to the Desoto Democratic Party is simple. WHERE ARE THE DEMOCRATIC VICTORIES? William's a Booker T. Washington alumnus, and retired police officer, left the Memphis Police Association under duress.  Is the GOP happy with the numbers Smith and William's have produced?  Kelly Jacobs, the wild card within this organization, flanks the aforementioned leadership at every turn. A native Californian, once ask to leave the aarp, Ms. Jacobs, lacks the academic or staffer experience, a common trait of Desoto County Democratic officials, but is not afraid to mix it up. She was called a "nigger lover" at a political event! She might be somewhat reactionary in her views? Ms. Jacobs is a walking PR quagmire for the desoto Dem's!

There is even political upheaval within law enforcement. It seems some law enforcement officials scoff at the constitution, and revel in the usurping of individual rights. Dr. Ivan Van Sertima stated, "Every human being has a common ancestor"!


Here is an interesting exchange between Mike Smith Desoto Co. Democratic V.P.  The dynamic duo maintains their status by performing a rushed parliamentary process, without the media or public being aware of it even occurring. Mike Smith , Samuel Williams, and  Jason Harper are always aware of the circumstance. Smith likes to walk up on you, trying to crowd you. During Kelli's redistricting meeting William tried to encourage me to do the number crunching. I told him the extent of the work required compensation, that was the end of that?


From: Leighton Bradford


To: Mike Smith ; Jared turner ; Jason Harper

Sent: Sun, April 18, 2010 5:42:25 PM

Subject: RE: The executive committee replacement was illegal and a non-parlimentary procedure

The ultimate barometer within any field of endeavor is success! Excuse me while I respectfully take off presumed political gloves. Discourse and debate must exist within any august and excellent body such as the Democratic Party. My people have been a part of the great state of Mississippi since before the civil war. I am a fourth generation veteran of a foreign war. For the first time since 1948 a democratic president took the state of Arizona; moreover, as press avail coordinator and co-coordinator for veterans for Clinton/Gore I was associated with this history. To no avail, Mr. Smith has made several unsuccessful attempts to SUCCEED at public office! I am not necessarily suggesting failure, but qualifying his statement of "Ineptness"! I believe it’s important to have more than $410 in the party treasury. Within my critique I never mentioned names or individuals.

He called my home early Thursday morning requesting my presence at a "Tea Party", I supported his request. A cell phone notification was required by Mr. Smith, who stated he would be in attendance, I never saw him. I want whomever reads this to notice the energy wasted in responding to acts that don't elect Democrats, beyond a few within Desoto county and the great state of MS. Honest hardworking people are not being considered? How many candidates have been elected under Mr. Smith's tenure. A democracy means including the multitude within the decision making process, devoid of your own personal hidden agenda of political Success!


Job creation, increasing the wages of labor, creating an infrastructure that supports a descent quality of living, adjusting a right to work state laws, attracting RF and high tech industry. Be it Dubois or Washington, Clinton or Limbaugh, Obama or McConnell, political activity involves ideas that best support a democratic ideal.   The 2nd vice was on a Caribbean cruise, while the Desoto county chairman attended an OFA sponsored event. When at the eleventh hour I deferred a business associate helping the OFA facilitator. The young man should not have been placed in this position to begin with.  Half of the aforementioned leadership was either not in attendance or was selected, beyond reaching outside of a clique. I respect Mr. Smith's vast knowledge within a specified orifice of the human anatomy, but having a matriculated stance within Political Science, and selected to successfully elect William Jefferson Clinton, is summarily an altogether another beast. I have no political aspirations beyond making this a descent place to live, and leaving my kid a future beyond menial labor. My generation will have a voice! Here we come sir, aka brother!


"This week’s feature is on a bill John Mayo wrote and introduced last year, HB 821. John Mayo apparently didn’t think gas prices are high enough in Mississippi, so he proposed raising the gas tax by another five cents!" Ya'll Politics Website

 
There is still a good ole boy network in existence. Oppression is camouflaged by fronting procedural application, to give the perception of concern and remedy. The Desoto Justice Center, EEOC, MS. Office of Attorney General (Jeff Clark) etc... And then there is the dynamic duo of Mike Smith and Samuel William's. If your job is to elect democratic officials, how have they performed? William's comes across as though he is a jovial uncle, but is intimidated by credentialed personnel, and can't relate to empirical political inquiry. The thing about a redistricting learning curve, is you have every ten years of  census reporting to get it right! Jason Harper, MS. Democratic field representative, has some unique qualities about himself, especially when he hung up abruptly, when TBR tried to ask general questions about the party. He has not mastered the concept of the coordinated campaign, and acts as though your bothering him, when fielding political questions. When I helped to develop the coordinated campaign, it relied heavily on experience and expertise within journalism! When Melodee Jackson brought me into the Clinton/Gore campaign, I transferred a degree from the USAF Air University, and was a Political Science Senior at ASU. They implemented a campaign reaching out to every feasible demographic. We brought Danny Devito in to speak and raised $35,000 in one night! The GOP leadership is chillin on a bass boat somewhere, laughing and praising the in-effectual leadership that ensues.  MS State Democratic Party Representative Jared Turner adopted a mass e-mail increasing voter turn out by ten fold! It really helped MS. Governor candidate Mr. Johnny Dupree.  The Desoto County Democratic Party leadership failed to properly endorse Mr. Dupree.



Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Introducing "Soul Solace" excerpt from the e-book



TBR - Leighton Bradford Editor-in-Chief
All that is seen is their eloquent silhouette in the darkness placed before us. Black love no doubt.  Intimacy bonds the heart and souls of an endearing relationship.  If soul mates could borrow from these delicate moments and save it for the trying effects brought to us in life. There would be nothing a relationship could not handle.  Human nature is afforded companionship, a union of one presumably. It's  use becomes the issue.  Sier uses it to the best of his purpose, and advantage, that is to say love. 

 He gently touches the tight curves of her flesh bound anatomy, thanking God for this Nubian Queen that lies before him.  Eyes meet, souls connect, so smooth is the night, so smooth.  They advance towards places keen, yet considerate.  The sheets adjoins there feeling, thoughts, and deepest sympathies.  Ain’t no tossin’ and turnin’! Just da makin of sweet love.  He places his hand on the nape of her neck, bringing her towards his presence.  A heart felt passion, an intimate reflection, a justified sensuality.  “Every time I touch you, my being becomes transformed Mandee.”  “Each and every time I look into your eyes my soul is pampered.”  The candle clings onto its illumination--a refracted light emerges from the darkness.

  Each is motivated to please the other.  At no time within this piece, are we to understand anything but love.  All of the tension and pressure released, if for just one moment. Naturally displayed so much relief from the on going tensions of a given day.  And then the lady whispers, “How oh lord, would I have ever managed without him?”  The interplay of treasured moments, indicative of the profound beauty, found within Black love.  He says aloud, “Mandee I love you”, “I just love you.” [The Intellectual Property of Leighton Bradford (BE)]

Monday, May 30, 2011

The U.S. needs to lobby for Moldova, Ukraine, & Georgia inclusion within the EU, Creating opportunities for U.S. aviation entities such as (BE), etc..


TBR--Leighton Bradford Editor-in-Chief
США повинні лобіювати Молдови, України, Грузії і включення в ЄС, створюючи можливості для осіб США авіації, таких як (BE), і т.д.

The EU consists of 27 nations, and boast nearly 500 million residents, within its populated scope. With a still recovering U.S. economy, American aviation would benefit from the new markets created by including Moldova, Ukraine, and Georgia into the EU. EU international aviation relations goals as of 2008; expressed by Gilles Gantelet, gave the following synopsis:

"However, airlines still have less commercial freedom when flying to countries outside the EU, and passengers have less choice. International aviation has traditionally been governed by bilateral agreements between individual countries, restricting the number of airlines on the routes concerned, the number of flights and the possible destinations.

To overcome these limitations, the EU is extending its aviation policy beyond its borders. First, any bilateral agreements that are not in line with the freedom of operation deriving from the single market need to be revised to ensure legal certainty and to put all EU airlines on an equal footing for flights to countries outside the EU"(Gilles Gantelet,EU Aviation Rep.).

Moldova has elected Vlad Filat, a pro-western leader. The U.S. & EU should support a christian-democratic ideal. American aviation must look for new markets! Moldova has a common Romanian ancestry, a GNI@ca pita of 1,590 USD, a population of approx. 3.6 million. Georgia and Ukraine's inclusion would help to stabilize the former soviet bloc countries, thwarting NBC (Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical) development and use.

The nine declared EU FAB (Functional Airspace Block)introduces initiatives that contain cost, and facilitate optimum safety, within aviation. A U.S. aviation company(BE) Bradford Enterprises, would assist developing nations secure there role within the EU, by implementing the deming approach. "Monetary rewards are not a substitute for intrinsic motivation" Deming. The aforementioned nation of Moldova, and its EU inclusion, along with companies such as Raytheon, American Airlines, (BE)Bradford Enterprises https://sites.google.com/site/maatbe/home, will help to create jobs in not only the U.S. but the world! (BE) and its research and development(R/D) visionaries could provide R/D for the further development of composites, and their effect on an aircraft's co-efficient of drag. APU's and eco-jet fuels, can be integrated within the cruising speed of an aircraft at altitude, allowing for optimum performance, decreasing fuel consumption. Further details would infringe on a future patented idea. Composites will provide an alternative to aviation grade aluminum.  Sum mum Bonum or greatest good within aviation, would rely heavily on integrated technologies and their optimum use!

If the brilliant President Woodrow Wilson hesitated and embraced isolationism, which is argued not to be the best foreign policy. President Obama's small business initiative lends itself to a better goal. The untapped resources of the African diaspora would ultimately bolster trade! Why should the U.S. accept a trade and global marketing policy that is akin to a hamstrung global isolation aviation agenda?

Sunday, May 15, 2011

Трактат про бідність


TBR Лейтон Бредфорд редактор головний
Вам не потрібно звернутися до високих ідеалів мовою при описі болів і страждань, пов'язаних з бідністю. Розкіш та нео-дарвінізму є переважаючою атрибути декадентського суспільства. Холодної блага ринкових сил, не повинні диктувати чи найманий працівник, може чи не може забезпечити для своєї сім'ї. У людини повинні бути надані гідні Житлова заробітної плати. Житлова гідної заробітної плати нагороди важка робота, але дозволяє недоторканність людської гідності. Адміністрація Буша нахилився до підриву різної соціального захисту та нормативних обмежень.

Американська мрія повинна бути найпопулярнішим мети. Критики не повинні по всій видимості, саме праведним чи цинічним. Середній американський громадянин має право на успіх. Успіх не повинен співпадати з расизмом, нео-дарвінізму, чи консерватизм. Що ви збереження? Приміщення або ідеал, виправдовуючи нерівновага між імущими і незаможними.

Громадські лідери отримують можливість, з ресурсами, пропонованими сім'ї, зі створенням походження Житлова заробітної плати. Я вважаю, пряма кореляція між стабільністю платити більше і, зниження пов'язаних з економічними злочинами. Збереження американській сім'ї недоторканими повинні бути пріоритетними. Опора на благо філантроп або корпоративних капітан соромно. Є цілий ряд людей, які будуть просочуватися. Збільшення заробітної плати не буде перешкоджати компаній нижнього рядка. Реалізація цього плану може зміцнити образ життя працівника. Значення, більше грошей у кишеню окремих осіб, таким чином, більше деталей споживається. Це забезпечило б каталізатором для натурального господарства. Економіки зміцнення до фінансової відповідальності стабілізації середнього будинку сімей.

Останній день издольщина з права на працю держави, перешкоджає прогресу середнього класу. За бажанням зайнятості стала анти-теза союзів і профспілок. Сліпий жадібності обраних, за тіні неявній необхідність стримування особи, від повороту прибутку будь-якою ціною. Останній ділового клімату відображає згадане вище заяву. Як ми прийшли, щоб наші корпоративні львів Ca RTE Бланш, як воно відноситься до вільного підприємництва? Ці передбачається баронів промисловості задоволенням платять в середньому працівник нічого або майже нічого, тим самим, що виходить глобалізації. Наша бізнес-модель не може конкурувати з соціалізовані бізнесу, таких як Китай або Мексика. Сер Томас Гоббс Левіафан, може допомогти нам зберегти це реально, коли справа доходить до влади і грошей. Деякі з них можуть відчувати його тіло працює на суспільство залишається цинічним (Гоббс). Реальність цього цинізму визнає помилковість чоловік. Вірте чи ні, ми іноді не праві. Гоббс намагався попередити нас про не-прив'язав агресії в людство, і необхідність обмежень або контролю. Нео-дарвінізм і його двоюрідний брат, консерватизм, заохочує расову та економічного відділу, поряд з класової боротьби. Ви часто бачимо політиків і журналіста приймаючи удари один на одного по телебаченню, словесні лицарські, "багато що належить зробити ні про що!" Я напевно, що в один момент часу, працівників засобів масової інформації приділяли менше уваги своєї слави, і більшою мірою на отримання історії права.

Працюючих бідних повинно відчувати себе обмеженим, коли є менш привілейованих синів і те і дочка, відправляються в бій ворогові, повертається, щоб заробити мінімальну заробітну плату. Чому бізнесмен відчуваю себе так загрожує платити своїм працівникам гідну заробітну плату Житлова? Людина повинна бути відділений від звіра! Людина має право на існування, він би і ні? Як щодо платоспроможності світло Білл!

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Downed Helicopter at Bin Laden Compound - A Cornucopia of Secrets

TBR--RF Cafe contributor



Tail section of U.S. Helicopter during bin-laden raid-Reuters



When I heard about the helicopter that went down during the raid at the bin Laden compound, my first concern after the safety of the crew was that now a high technology aircraft would be available to the enemy for inspection. Even after learning that the craft was "blown in place," I was still worried that unless some high temperature incendiary material like white phosphorous was used prior to the explosion, the pieces remaining would be intact enough to glean useful info. My worst fears were confirmed with the release of photos by Reuters (always sure to post images that could harm the U.S.) showing not just this large section of the tail boom and rotor, but also smiling kids walking around with scrounged parts of airframe and electronics gear. As an engineer who spent many years tearing down other company's designs to figure out how they designed and implemented leading edge circuits (and also checking for patent infringements), I can tell you that a circuit or system does not have to be in full functioning order to yield critical information. Material samples are now available for the stealth skin composition, lamination and attachment methods, and facet angles. Super quiet airfoil and blade shape data is available. Metallurgical studies will no doubt be carried out in Russia and China on the transmission and bearing assemblies. Even fuel and lubrication samples will get a thorough examination. Have you seen the photos of how the FAA reassembles aircraft in a hangar when an accident occurs? Some of our best communications gear is also being reassembled like a jigsaw puzzle. Über top secret circuits will be studied and replicated using information from multi-layer substrate construction, component attachment, and special microelectronics devices formulated and built in über top secret facilities to provide our elite fighters with the world's best equipment (some of which, reportedly, mysteriously blacked out for 25 minutes during the actual raid). Samples of proprietary software and firmware will be reverse engineered as well. Imagine the delight on the faces of Red Army engineers sitting in their labs when they inspect the flight controller system and see all those microcontrollers with "Made in China" stamped on them!.


[Intellectual property Rfcafe-Photo Reuters]
















Thursday, April 28, 2011

Governor Barbour declared a State of Emergency in 39 counties. Biological Haz. Ventura Co. CA, US


Casino employees prepare for 100 year flood!
 TBR -- MS
 L. Bradford Editor-in-Chief
The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency has received initial reports of damage from 48 counties across the state and the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians. Governor Barbour declared a State of Emergency in 39 counties. and Entergy reports over 20,000 customers were without power Wednesday night. There are 11 confirmed storm related deaths and more than 40 injuries reported in the Magnolia State.




Visitors are no longer able to visit the Tunica, River Park, nor ride the Tunica Queen. 
  All across the Mississippi Wednesday night residents are picking up the pieces from that severe weather system that moved through. The driver of an 18-wheeler died near Oxford Wednesday morning after his truck hit a tree that had fallen across Highway 30. Serious damage was left by the severe weather that blew through Oxford. Buildings lost roofs and debris is scattered for miles. Emergency crews began assessing the extent of the damage Wednesday night. The body of a 66-year-old man has been located after an intense search in Marshall County. Authorities said the man went missing early Wednesday morning after driving his vehicle into flood waters. The man's car was found hours later, but he was not inside. Emergency responders located the man's body shortly after 4:00 p.m. off Highway 7, north of Holly Springs. And those same flood waters led to the Marshall County Sheriff's Department having to rescue some residents. They helped people get out of their homes and reach drier areas. Meanwhile, flood waters are raging in Tunica. neighborhoods have been overtaken by water and now the rising Mississippi River is causing casinos there to close. The area's 9 casinos are on staggered closing over the next several days as the water rises.

An AT&T tower was knocked out too, so cell phone use was hampered, leading to the injury of a deputy. As severe weather made its way through Rankin County early Wednesday morning it knocked down huge oak trees. Several casino's within Tunica Co. have hired teams to repel the raging waters of the MS. The Fitz has set up an alternate location, but power is still on and the mighty MS. has not entered the building.  Tunica cut off has been evacuated! As of 5-1-11; MS. waters are expected to crest to potentially 45 ft, flooding levels, adjacent to Memphis, TN; Desoto Co.; MS and Tunica Co., MS.  An Illinois casino worker informed a tunica casino representative; to prepare for the worse, they received several inches of rain! TBR







Wednesday, April 27, 2011

The Resurgent Uncle Tom and E. Franklin Frazier's Black Bourgeise

TBR Leighton Bradford Editor-in-Chief
If you think European, Asian, Hispanic ice is colder than Black-ice, you are probably not going to like this article.  We tend to romanticize the civil rights struggle or movement. The leaders of this period run the gambit of skill and ability. Angela Davis, Dr. King, Malcolm X, Medger Evers, Kwame Toure, Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, Fred Hampton, Eldridge Cleaver, Betty Shabazz, Dr. Benjamin Hooks, Thurgood Marshall etc...  Dr. Dubois mentioned within the text of his book, "The primary concerns in Black Folk "Is the way the "veil" stands in the way of Blacks need to gain skills, employment, and property."   Bigots tend to reward individuals of African descent, who present the path of least resistance, towards empowerment and opportunity. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote a book entitled "Uncle Tom's Cabin", I am quite certain there are readers squirming in their seats as we speak. 

Man I might even provide a list of persons so removed from their culture; it can only be described as a sickness.  With the feminizing of specifically Black males and our daughters' bodies being exploited for economic gain, it all adds up. The last statement was in reference to an accepted behavior. E. Franklin Frazier gave a poignant look into the world of a bourgeoisie black. This group is rewarded for basically not making any waves, and dancing a jig for racism.  Getting along with other cultures is not the definition of a culturally challenged individual.

The Pan Hellenic association is one of the most intriguing entities I have ever witnessed. They seem to think they corner the market in regard to leadership.  They only involve their own members jobs and opportunities, moreover, benefiting a select group of elitist and separatist's.  When I attended college, I use to watch the buffoonery and spectacle of most of these cats. Some graduate, other's find it difficult to rely on the sisterhood or brotherhood, when things get tough! Dr. King was a alpha, if I am not mistaken, but the pronounced way they separate the well-educated, from the rest of their culture, is as suspect as twitter being located in San Francisco.  Whatever happened to 'Burk" on Grey's anatomy?  If you internalize self-hate to the degree of applying the social law of diminishing returns, that's you!  It's amazing how society embraces comfortable stereotypes and forces them upon our Psyche. It is my opinion, racism and oppression, drives a number of African Americans insane. Maybe one day we will diagnose oppression and its effects within a category of illness. I dedicate this piece to the culturally challenged hata's.

Sunday, April 17, 2011

America spends more money incarcerating its citizens than educating them! Mr. Jealous, President NAACP

NAACP
TBR Washington D.C. , press release.... special to TBR
Ben Todd Jealous,
President and CEO

America spends more money incarcerating its citizens than educating them.

That's not an exaggeration. It's a fact.

The NAACP's new report, Misplaced Priorities, shows how much money states spend on their criminal justice system compared to their education system -- and what that means for our communities.

The results are astounding. Over the past 20 years, for example, state spending on prisons grew at six times the rate of spending on higher education. Our country is home to just five percent of the world's population, but we make up a staggering twenty-five percent of the world's prisoners.

You can do something about this crisis. That's why the NAACP has launched a petition asking all 50 state governors to get their priorities straight and fix this problem with a set of smart reforms to keep our communities safe. Add your name now, and make sure your voice is heard in your state capital:
 

http://action.naacp.org/MisplacedPriorities

In 2009, as the nation plummeted into the deepest recession in 30 years, funding for K-12 and higher education declined. But for prisons, the reverse was true. That year, 33 states spent more discretionary dollars on prisons than in 2008.

 










As our children fail to get the education they deserve, our prisons are filling up at an alarming rate. And, as usual, those most affected are communities of color. We know drug treatment is a smart alternative for non-violent offenders. It is also significantly cheaper. Educational opportunities are also cost-effective, and lead to a marked reduction in neighborhood crime. Relatively minor investments in treatment for those suffering mental illness mean fewer people in jail and more contributing members to society. There's no denying the irrational increase in prison spending, and its impact on state budgets and our nation's children. But there is something you can do about it. 

Sign our petition to tell America's governors to support the NAACP's reforms that will focus on making sure we invest in schools, not prisons.  Thank you for taking the time to help us speak out to America's governors, and show the strength of our resolve to change our country's misplaced priorities.

It's time we stop over incarcerating and under educating.



Best,

Ben



Benjamin Todd Jealous

President and CEO

NAACP



Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Hvala za branje pregled. Naj živi Slovenija! Editor-in-Chief Leighton Bradford

Možni zunanje sodelovanja v političnem procesu

Hvala za branje pregled. Naj živi Slovenija! Editor-in-Chief Leighton Bradford

Justin Ruben (Moveon.org) - ustreza (TBR) eksplozivne novo poročilo pravkar prišel ven in kaže, da tuje družbe, so sredstva nekaj $ 75000000 Ameriške gospodarske zbornice, je poraba za poraz demokratov teh volitvah cycle.1

Funnelling denarja iz tujih interesov na ameriških volitvah je zvezni zločin. In če bomo imeli vero v naših volitvah, moramo vedeti, da niso bile kupljene s strani tujih korporacij.

Toda večina volilnih preiskav traja dolgo časa, ki bi lahko pustite na volitvah leta 2010 v okviru oblak za let. Zato smo vložili uradno zahtevo, da ministrstvo za pravosodje, da razišče, vendar moramo pokazati podporo širše javnosti za takojšnje ukrepe za zaustavitev senata uporabljati denarja, ki predstavlja tujci interese vplivajo ameriški senat elections.The trdi, da je internih sistemov, da denarja ločeno, vendar poročilo kaže, da tuje družbe darovati neposredno na splošno sklada zbornice, ki je, če sredstev za financiranje svojih političnih napadov prihaja. To bi predstavljalo šokantno neupoštevanja dolgoletne ameriške zakonodaje financiranje kampanje, vse za napredek podjetja, desničarski dnevni red outsourcing delovnih mest in daje veliko davčnih olajšav za večnacionalno corporations.2


Glede na poročilo senata je domnevno zbiranje denarja iz podjetij v "Kitajska, Indija, Egipt, Saudska Arabija, Brazilija, Rusija, in mnogih drugih mestih." Tudi ruskih bank in podjetij v državni lasti nafte v Abu Dhabiju je morda prispevala.


Zbornica porabi več kot katera koli druga skupina za nazaj desno krilo republikancev in napad progressives na volitvah. Smo vložil uradno pritožbo na ministrstvo za pravosodje, vendar moramo jim takoj umaknejo, ali pa bomo kmalu prepozno.

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Who would you invite to dinner, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. or Malcolm X? Light Skin vs. Dark Skin an internal issue of race.

TBR 
Editor-in-Chief Leighton Bradford 
An esteemed relationship with a Black woman is the most coveted aspect of our race. There are men locked up right now flexing for a presumed Cleopatra. Displaced ambition is manipulated and leads to social degradation. Meaning; brothers will steal, deal, and kill to obtain a "rep" (reputation for Mandingo prowess), and the affection of said Nubian Queen aka Black woman.  Misogyny within the rap world is often young men voicing anger and frustration, with not being able to provide the traditional means for their woman. It is the responsibility of an identified race to police an industry, community, block, and race! If you purchase the music or attend the show calm yourself.  Ever since our anthropological ancestors or "Lucy" aka Australopithecus afarensis, females within a species seek out a male which will ensure her offspring safety, and promote the best genetic signature for the future. That's the first concept within this piece, you with me?

There is a letter or brochure from an English slave holder by the name of willie lynch which taught the finer points of divide and conquer, check this out:


. While Rome used cords of wood as crosses for standing human bodies along its highways in great numbers, you are here using the tree and the rope on occasions. I caught the whiff of a dead slave hanging from a tree, a couple miles back. You are not only losing valuable stock by hangings, you are having uprisings, slaves are running away, your crops are sometimes left in the fields too long for maximum profit, you suffer occasional fires, your animals are killed. Gentlemen, you know what your problems are; I do not need to elaborate. I am not here to enumerate your problems, I am here to introduce you to a method of solving them. In my bag here, I HAVE A FULL PROOF METHOD FOR CONTROLLING YOUR BLACK SLAVES. I guarantee every one of you that, if installed correctly, IT WILL CONTROL THE SLAVES FOR AT LEAST 300 HUNDREDS YEARS. My method is simple. Any member of your family or your overseer can use it. I HAVE OUTLINED A NUMBER OF DIFFERENCES AMONG THE SLAVES; AND I TAKE THESE DIFFERENCES AND MAKE THEM BIGGER. I USE FEAR, DISTRUST AND ENVY FOR CONTROL PURPOSES. These methods have worked on my modest plantation in the West Indies and it will work throughout the South. Take this simple little list of differences and think about them. On top of my list is “AGE,” but it’s there only because it starts with an “a.” The second is “COLOR” or shade. There is INTELLIGENCE, SIZE, SEX, SIZES OF PLANTATIONS, STATUS on plantations, ATTITUDEof owners, whether the slaves live in the valley, on a hill, East, West, North, South, have fine hair, course hair, or is tall or short. Now that you have a list of differences, I shall give you an outline of action, but before that, I shall assure you that DISTRUST IS STRONGER THAN TRUST AND ENVY STRONGER THAN ADULATION, RESPECT OR ADMIRATION. The Black slaves after receiving this indoctrination shall carry on and will become self-refueling and self-generating for HUNDREDS of years, maybe THOUSANDS. Don’t forget, you must pitch the OLD black male vs. the YOUNG black male, and the YOUNG black male against the OLD black male. You must use the DARK skin slaves vs. the LIGHT skin slaves, and the LIGHT skin slaves vs. the DARK skin slaves. You must use the FEMALE vs. the MALE, and the MALE vs. the FEMALE. You must also have white servants and overseers [who] distrust all Blacks. But it is NECESSARY THAT YOUR SLAVES TRUST AND DEPEND ON US. THEY MUST LOVE, RESPECT AND TRUST ONLY US. Gentlemen, these kits are your keys to control. Use them. Have your wives and children use them, never miss an opportunity.IF USED INTENSELY FOR ONE YEAR, THE SLAVES THEMSELVES WILL REMAIN PERPETUALLY DISTRUSTFUL. Thank you gentlemen.” This speech was delivered by Willie Lynch on the bank of the James River in the colony of Virginia in 1712.  Lynch was a British slave owner in the West Indies. He was invited to the colony of Virginia in 1712 to teach his methods to slave owners there. The term “lynching” is derived from his last name". 


The second concept is the most recent Light Skin vs. Dark Skin phenomenon. I was recently listening to a local radio station in Memphis, TN with the call sign 97.1FM, and the DJ's (Sometimes funny man Prescott) whatever the hell that really is; went on about a light skin brother day. If a Black woman prefers either a light skin or dark skin brother that's on her! Cats that perpetuate the myth, because they can't attract a female otherwise; moreover, their genetic makeup precludes normal procreation, really role up their sleeves on this one. Every African -American has a relative that runs the gambit in regards to color and hue. It becomes a sad joke for confused folk, perpetuating this tail, spun by one of the most diabolical minds, this side of Adolph Hitler. It seems a few individuals buy into this scheme, at the expense of reason and understanding. Angela Davis as opposed to Harriet Tubman; Malcolm X as oppose to Dr. King; Rosa Parks as oppose to Fannie Lou Hamer; President Barack Obama as oppose to Johnny Cochran. In a nut shell, we are all human beings that deserve equality and freedom, and a world devoid of self hate

The last concept is sons and daughters of Harriet Beecher Stowe. I am quite certain you recognize the aforementioned entity. Basically they will be out in public whispering to someone "Man that light skin nigga ain't shit"!


Saturday, April 2, 2011

European Commission US subsidies to Boeing are illegal, says WTO


TBR international Press Release[Please review, tbr associated piece, What the WTO held...]CIVIL AVIATION Brussels, 31 March 2011

EU wins key WTO case proving Boeing received billions in subsidies from United States

EU wins key WTO case proving Boeing received billions in subsidies from United States The European Commission welcomes the WTO Panel report published today which found that billions of dollars in US Federal and State subsidies granted to Boeing are illegal under WTO rules. This landmark ruling has clearly confirmed the EU’s position on all of its main claims, Notably that between 1989 and 2006 the US Federal and State governments granted WTO-incompatible subsidies to Boeing amounting to at least US$ 5.3 billion. Planned future subsidies are estimated to be worth between US$ 3 to 4 billion.

"This WTO Panel report clearly shows that Boeing has received huge subsidies in the past and continues to receive significant subsidies today. The US began this dispute in 2004 and now finds itself with a crystal clear ruling that exposes its long-running multi-billion dollar subsidisation of Boeing through Federal and State programmes as illegal.", said EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht. "These subsidies have resulted in substantial harm to EU interests, causing Airbus to lose sales, depress its aircraft prices and unfairly lose market share to Boeing. The detrimental costs to EU industry from this lengthy and onerous subsidisation run into billions of euro. We therefore welcome the WTO Panel's report and call on the US Government to take the appropriate steps that may assist to achieve a mutually agreed solution to this dispute.", Commissioner De Gucht added.

The report is supported by clear and solid findings from the Panel covering each of the main sources of subsidisation provided by the US, including: (i) R&D programmes funds granted by NASA and the US Department of Defense (DoD) to Boeing amounting to US$1.3 - 2 billion; (ii) NASA and DoD "general support" to the tune of US$ 1.5 billion; (iii) Foreign Sales Corporation (FSC) export subsidies – US$ 2.2 billion; and (iv) Washington State tax breaks to a value of up to US$ 4 billion for the period 2006-24.

All of these subsidies are in violation of WTO Rules since they constitute actionable subsidies which cause adverse effects to the interests of the EU and Airbus. The panel also confirmed that the federal FSC/ETI tax breaks for Boeing amount to prohibited subsidies, which according to WTO rules must be withdrawn by the US without delay.

These massive subsidies from multiple US Government sources have enabled Boeing to develop new aircraft, and in particular the 787 "Dreamliner", at much lower cost than would otherwise have been the case.

In contrast to the Panel in the Airbus case, this Panel quantified the amount of WTO-incompatible subsidies granted to Boeing. Support to Boeing has been and continues to be in the form of non-repayable grants or free access to government facilities, as opposed to that in the Airbus case where the most important instrument, Repayable Launch Investment (RLI), was considered to be WTO-compatible in principle, with the subsidy element being, for certain cases, solely the difference in conditions provided in comparison to other repayable commercial financing.
Background to the WTO Aircraft Cases
Since October 2004, the EU and US have been contesting at the WTO their Governments' respective support to their aerospace industries. Both WTO challenges relate to alleged illegal WTO support to respectively Airbus and Boeing over a 20 to 30 year period.

Prior to these WTO challenges, US and EU government support to their aircraft producers had been regulated by the so-called "Bilateral EU-US Agreement on Trade in Large Civil Aircraft". This agreement, concluded in 1992, allowed each party to provide a certain level of support to their respective aircraft industry. In the case of the EU, the agreement permitted granting of so-called "Repayable Launch Investment" to Airbus i.e. loans repaid with interest under terms specified in the Agreement. In the case of the US, it allowed a certain level of government financed R&D support to the US aerospace producer, Boeing. In order to monitor compliance with the terms of the bilateral agreement, annual meetings and regular exchanges of information took place.

On the 6 October 2004, the United States quite unexpectedly and unilaterally announced its withdrawal from the 1992 Agreement and immediately filed a challenge at the WTO of all EU support ever granted to Airbus, even though the US had previously agreed to this support.
In turn, the EU was left with little option than to respond itself immediately with a parallel WTO challenge of US government support to US aerospace industry (i.e. Boeing) by Federal, State and local authorities, including benefits to Boeing under the so-called US Foreign Sales Corporation Scheme, which the US government had continued to provide to Boeing, despite these subsidies having repeatedly been found to violate WTO rules.

These two parallel WTO challenges, the "Airbus case" (DS 316: the US challenge of EU support for Airbus) and the "Boeing case" (DS 353: the EU challenge of US support to Boeing), despite having been initiated on the same day (6 October 2004), have followed different timetables due to a number of delays at the WTO. In the "Airbus case", the WTO panel made its report public on 30 June 2010 whereas in the "Boeing case", the panel only issued its final public report on 31 March 2011.

As a result of the delays of the DS 353 panel, there is now close to a year's gap between the two WTO proceedings, a fact which the EU has continuously expressed its dissatisfaction with. On 23 July 2010 the EU appealed the panel's findings in DS316 and these proceedings are expected to be completed in the first half of 2011.
For further information

Friday, February 25, 2011

Ascertaining a new level of Black Consciousness!


TBR - Leighton Bradford, Editor-in-Chief
The argument for divine revelation, no matter the position with Jesus, moved his 
spirit and commentary to a different level of consciousness. A spirit that is akin to a righteous awakening. Biblical text described a true minister at the height of Greco-Roman decadence. To be aware of your culture or heritage is important in combating prejudice. You may draw similarities in regards to the contemporary issues that ensue.

 The bible enables every human beings existence. Another item of concern is the desire to not support homosexuality, predicated on a Christian belief.  “If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable.  They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads” (Leviticus, 20:15).  The more recent ban on same sex marriage by California; rescinds individuals with alternative life styles. The act seemingly aligns a cause with Black Consciousness. The feminizing of a young Black male becomes tragic. Heterosexual values must be protected.  The Black family structure is under attack, thus, an alignment with this burgeoning lifestyle is not productive.

Tavis Smiley mentions accountability within his broadcast. A light went off in my head! Tavis should hold PBS accountable; and we should hold Mr. Smiley accountable. Entrenched elitism and the lack of opportunities, allow for subtle oppression.  E. Franklin Frazier described these cats as the ultimate illusionist; their God is materialism, opportunity, and social status, once removed from their Blackness.  As long as there are enough crumbs, their cool like that. Education without the opportunity is useless.   If you noticed how awkward Clarence Thomas appeared during the inauguration.  It would seem that safe African-Americans benefit from the peaceful warriors and thinkers of their presumed race ;moreover, not having achieved the same ideal in kind.

 I offer the reader African-Americans who have sacrificed for Blacks and humanity in general; Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, Ida B. Wells, so forth and so on.  Ida B. Wells published a newspaper denouncing the lynchings of that particular period. Several individuals have attempted to keep resources scarce.  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. did not sacrifice his life so we could buy a “SUV”.  The African bourgeoisie must elevate their political activity.

 Europeans have sacrificed their lives and freedom for our benefit.  Wilber Force utilized discourse to influence a powerful British empire, eventually ending slavery.  A number of protestant denominations assisted African-Americans within the Underground Railroad. Various European led faiths such as the Presbyterian, Quakers, Rev. John Brown (Harper’s Ferry) and the like.   Many Europeans have died in an effort to promote the rights of individuals of African descent.   The civil war was fought to end chattel servitude.  The south must be resurrected from its past. Recognizing all aspects of humanity, becomes a crucial evolutionary step towards parity.

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

“Hegemonic Destabilization”


TBR - Leighton Bradford, Editor-in-Chief
The United Nations, along with Russia, France, and China had reservations about the war in Iraq. Diplomacy is an art reluctantly used by certain leaders. It requires patience, and the acquired skill of social responsibility. Meaning, leaders must be held accountable for their ideals and principles, which affect the lives of so many people. Society can no longer afford to isolate their place within the global community. Human misery and strife are just an internet away. Former President Carter’s visit to Cuba set the tone for political conciliation. President Carter, one of my heroes, understood the need to push an agenda responsive to at least, a bilateral agreement. Some criticized Carter for visiting a country deemed our enemy. Even jazz great Wynton Marsalis, understands the need to separate humane gestures, from politics.

Open dialogue diffuses a potentially volatile situation, but it does not remove displaced anger completely. It gives an entity time to reflect, on presumed points of contention. We now live in a world shaped by the ensuing N.B.C.’s (Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical). The issue is forced; with these terrible threats, looming large within our society. We must not usurp our Constitutional Rights, in an effort to provide security to a nation. None of this was implemented during the Oklahoma City federal building bombing. U.S. Attorney General, Eric Holder, should identify the Klan as a domestic terrorist sponsoring entity as well. Discerning and logical debate promote human expression, stifled by indifferent isolationism. A world power must concede the ultimate threat, when chosen to govern and lead a group of individuals. Our borders (United States of America) should be defended with the greatest of resolve! Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and California, have a constitutional right to defend themselves against an opposing threat.

The ever-humane benefit of the doubt focuses on the humility of a methodic politician. When seeking the truth, irrefutable evidence should be confirmed, not mere conjecture or supremacist tactics. Politics aside, the preservation of human life should be of the utmost of importance. Each point of contention should be managed, as though a corporation. A referential leader will attempt to exhaust every ethical means of conflict resolution. If flanked by an obvious actual threat, the severity of the act, along with discerning, who was involved, allows for closure in a given situation. This minimizes the resentment of reactionary policies. The term “Hegemonic Destabilization” refers to a powerful nation treating his global neighbors in a condescending manner. Our fellow human beings should never be taken for granted. We must defend our borders within the framework of the constitution. As a veteran of “Desert Storm” I understand the horrors of war. Further, I understand there are no victors within a nuclear war! Nations identified as rogue states, constitute a need for awareness, but not a reactionary effort. Who are we to be chastising countries, as though they are children? We are not a paternal entity responsible for our global offspring. “Hegemonic Destabilization” confounds an already volatile situation. Open dialogue diffuses an ultimately deadly scenario. Peace and prosperity should be the general legacy left to our children. A bit of irony must be attributed to a presumed democracy not embracing democracy, in an effort to resolve a matter. [Relative commentary reflective of Bush administration]

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Introducing the Hip Hop Generation! “If we don’t keep going, rap will continue to be drafted into the capitalist world, the crack world, the prison industrial complex.”

TBR -- Courtesy The Black Commentator 
{content is intellectual property of The Black Commentator}
We need a national agenda to make sure that our community has more than music and style. We can’t continue to do bootleg activism. We’ve got to do institutional activism, creating media outlets that will push our propaganda.
 – Jeff Johnson, America Votes youth coordinator and commentator for BET’s “Rap City”
“We’re all activists. The question is, what are we active for? Are we active to forward a rightwing agenda in America, or are we active for liberation?”
 – Rosa Clemente, co-founder, National Hip Hop Political Convention (NHHPC)
“Just as the Christian Coalition tapped into an existing infrastructure of conservative churches, we as a hip hop generation are tapping into an existing infrastructure that has been created by the hip hop movement.”
 – Bakari Kitwana, author and co-founder, NHHPC
American capitalism markets everything it can package and discards or mangles the rest. As a result, most “information” found in the marketplace is, by definition, disinformation – a “product” molded to suit a transaction, containing no reliable connection to the truth.
In the absence of a mass Black political movement, the generation born after 1965 has been named for the culture it created, rather than – as with the preceding generation – the political goals for which they fought. Hip hop culture, the miraculous invention of Black and Latino youth, is now marketed to the world by five multinational corporations. The social “reality” and political worldview of an entire generation (now going on two generations) has been packaged for sale to both its creators and the larger market: the planet.
Having been commercially defined as a raw demographic – a cohort of customers and product-modelers – the hip hop generation stares into a mirror that has been purposely cracked and deformed for somebody else’s profit. Its activists, as brilliant as any produced at any time or place in history – and intent, like all healthy young humans, on changing the world – find that they must first confront the marketed version of themselves.
The 3,000 young people who attended the National Hip Hop Political Convention in Newark, New Jersey, June 16-20, were determined to define themselvesthrough a politics of struggle – to begin to redraw the map of the world through the prisms of their own experience.
“We are here today as young people under the hip hop umbrella,” said Ras Baraka, the 34-year-old Deputy Mayor of Newark, New Jersey, and one of the organizers of the event. “Politics is about the seizure of power,” Baraka told the crowd.  “Some of us don’t understand what that means. Our kids think that seizing power is standing on a corner and doing the things they usually do.” Each of the 500 official delegates from 17 states had registered 50 voters to earn the right to represent their generation.
Baraka, who is also an assistant public school principal, doesn’t show up on the Right’s short list of hip hop generation “leaders.” By cynically misinterpreting polling data that show Black youth to be increasingly estranged from the Democratic Party (see November 21, 2002), and through relentless national media exposure of young, corporate-sponsored Black politicians, the Right attempts to package the hip hop generation as essentially more “conservative” than its elders. The darlings of the Right include Tennessee Congressman Harold Ford, 34, the Democratic Leadership Council’s most prominent voice in the Congressional Black Caucus, and Cory Booker, the 35-year-old former Newark Councilman who, with the backing of the national conservative political and funding network, nearly captured City Hall in 2002.
What the conservatives prove is that the current younger generation contains its share of opportunists – just as did the last generation, and the one before that. But opportunists only show up when they get paid, and represent nothing but the finances of their sugar daddies. The National Hip Hop Political Convention had no deep-pocket sponsors, yet it succeeded on the strength of the organizers’ peer credibility, and the near-universal desire among Black youth to overturn the status quo.
Continuity of struggle
So vacuous has American political discourse become, that corporate spin-makers posing as journalists find it possible to produced 24-hour news cycles that reveal nothing at all except the political preferences of media owners. The mass marketing of attitudes and styles in place of issues and substance, seeks to drain the language, itself, of the capacity to resist power. A generation of Black youth that is imprisoned in astronomical numbers is simultaneously deployed as lifestyle models for the privileged, prison-immune classes – mass-produced insanity on its face. Yet in the continuity of Black struggle, people and truths “crushed to earth” inevitably rise again to confront oppression.
“I believe that we are in this room because some slave willedus here,” said Rev. Osagyefo Sekou, the 30-something Executive Director of New York Common Ground, and a mover-and-shaker of the convention. “We need a living wage for everyone. I call that a moral question.”
Moral people seek to end injustice, mass media’s truly taboo topic. Only by relentless avoidance of the continuity ofinjustices against Black people can the media create the impression of vast chasms between Black generations.
“Get the foot of oppression off our necks.” From the hip hop perspective, 54-year-old Rev. Calvin Butts, of Harlem’s Abyssinian Baptist Church, qualifies as an elder. Yet his irreducible demand, delivered at a Town Hall meeting on the first full day of the convention, was identical to that of his hip hop audience. Many were aware of Butts’ history of broad brush criticism of hip hop culture.  However, in the context of a shared struggle against historical oppression, differences shrink. “Organizing must be done around a moral core. That moral core must respect all of us – our women, our children, our elders,” said the preacher. “Without a moral core, the revolution is wiped out.”
Who would argue with that?
Rich corporations mass-market immorality (after all, they are the only ones who can), and then label their products as authentic representations of hip hop generation morals. Righteously, the organizers of the Newark convention gave primacy to the morality of struggle – to the chapter and verse of resistance.
A secular elder, Ron Daniels, currently Executive Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights and a prime mover in over three decades of Black political conventions, showed the seamless connections between culture, morality, and politics. “Art must be functional and committed,” said Daniels. “This generation must come to the forefront and lead us to change America.” Nevertheless, “We cannot, in the name of ‘realness,’ denigrate ourselves.”
“Denigration” was the last thing on these young people’s minds. At the core of the convention were perhaps a thousand committed activists – ranging from seasoned, 30-something veterans to promising neophytes – who have the potential to do great damage to the powers-that-be.
Fight the Power
In what now seems the Golden Age of socially conscious hip hop, Public Enemy’s Chuck D demanded that his audiences “fight the powers that be.” Born in 1960, Chuck D and his peers, the inventors of the culture, are the political and chronological links between the so-called “Black Power” and hip hop generations. Currently a host on radio’s Air America network, Chuck D recalled the suppression of hip hop. “From 1979 to 1992, there was a sheer abandonment [of hip hop music by Black radio programmers],” he said. They banned it.”
During that period, hip hop broke out of the neighborhoods and fueled the founding of a host of independent (mostly white-owned) record labels – an explosion of musical creativityand social commentary of all kinds. But not until the early Nineties, after mega-corporations moved to swallow up the genre, did Black-programmed radio embrace the music of Black youth. Programmers ponderously intoned that hip hop fans were too young to attract advertisers, that they were not a valuable demographic – an amazing claim, since the R & B music that carried Black radio to new heights in the Sixties was also the music of youth. But many in the hip hop industry understood the real deal: Black programmers were afraid of projecting a street “image.” Essentially, hip hop had an intra-Black, class problem. Don Cornelius wouldn’t touch it, even though his “Soul Train” TV audience skewed to the younger demos.
In one of the great ironies of African American cultural history, Black radio finally embraced hip hop in the early Nineties – precisely when the huge corporate record labels shifted to gangsta rap. Industry researchers discovered that hip hop’s most “active” consumer base was composed of 12- and 13-year-olds – tweens – a cohort that is drawn to repetitive profanity and, not having reached the sexual pairing-off stage of development, revels in misogyny.  Artists and recordings (A & R) executives put great pressure on rap acts to become more “real” – a word that became a euphemism for egregiously profane and abusive language. In no time at all, the industry began churning out music geared primarily to younger juveniles. Black radio, which had had such a problem with hip hop before the corporate-guided ascendance of gangsta rap, dived into the cesspool with wild enthusiasm. The airwaves became filled with edits, bleeps and audio interruptions that did nothing to hide the “denigrating” content.
Black middle-class propriety was trumped by the servile imperative to follow the (white) corporate leader. No one can measure the accumulated arrested development afflicting youngsters raised on a profane corporate formula designed for tweens.
New Times, New Tasks
However, the music industry’s version of “real” hasn’t blotted out reality for the entirety of the hip hop generation. Mutulu, of Dead Prez, sees the world, clearly. “We gotta keep going,” he urged the Newark convention. “If we don’t keep going, rap will continue to be drafted into the capitalist world, the crack world, the prison industrial complex.”