Some free music for the people.
Dysposable Heroes - “Genius vs Genius”- A dope blend of Ray Charles samples and the GZA vocals. Beats are on some classic Wu shit.
Castor Pollux and Ariano - "In The Name Of The Father"- Check this project out. Featuring 2mex, Life Rexall, Lost Art, and Oddity.
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
The New World Election
So the traitor George W. Bush is gone in less than 2 months and America has made history. We have erased some of the racial boundaries that have hindered and corrupted our nation since it's conception. The election was ordained a victory at exactly 333 electoral votes. But we are in the midst of an economic apocalypse. In the last eight years our freedoms and liberties have been chained, raped and executed. The Federal Reserve has wrapped its festering wounds around our lives and our vision is blinded by the blue lights of the television telling us what we need and what we want are one in the same.
Now our government is switching hands from right to left and now we must face the questions. Will we reshape our republic and restore our rights or will we continue, inebriated off the fumes of ignorance, doing a hundred mph on the highway to hell? So the questions: What is next? Will real change come? Will the drug war be stopped? How about the war in Iraq and Afghanistan? Will the Patriot Act and The Military Commissions Act be repealed? Will we continue to torture people? Will black and brown people, and poor people in general, still make up the majority of occupants in our prison system? Will the constitution be put back together? Will the surveillance society continue to thrive, track our every action and build files to be used against us? Will truth prevail or will tyranny reign supreme?
I do not have the answers to these questions yet but President Elect Barack Obama has hand picked his chief of staff, who will be highest ranking member of his cabinet. He has selected man by the name of Rahm Emanuel. Who is Congressman Rahm Emanuel? What does he believe in? What do we know about him? We know his father Benjamin M. Emanuel was born in Jerusalem and was a member of the Irgun, a militant Zionist group which operated during the British Mandate of Palestine and is considered a terrorist group by the British and the New York Times because of their brutal attacks on civilians. Emanuel is a supporter of Bush’s invasion of Iraq. He voted to extend and expand the Patriot Act. We know he wrote in his book The Plan: Big Ideas for America he has ideas on how to “fight against the spread of evil and totalitarianism.” Emanuel suggests “we must protect our homeland and civil liberties by creating a new domestic counterterrorism force like Britain’s MI5.” His answer to evil is a compulsory service for all Americans ages 18 to 25. The following excerpt is from pages 61-62 of the 2006 book:
"The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities."
-Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era, 1970.
He is also quoted saying "This regionalization is in keeping with the TriLateral Plan which calls for a gradual convergence of East and West, ultimately leading toward the goal of one world government. National sovereignty is no longer a viable concept." --- Zbignew Brzezinski
With friends like these who needs enemies. After all it was a defeat in WW1, a shattered and weak economy and a false-flag terrorist attack that led to the rise of Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers' Party aka the Nazi's. It was this environment of fear that caused people to vote against freedom and trade liberty for security. And it was banks, people and corporations like GE, Ford, IBM, US senator Prescott Bush (President Bush's Grandfather), the Rockefeller owned Standard Oil (Exxon Mobil), Kodak, the Vatican, DuPont, Shell Oil, J.P. Morgan Chase , Citibank etc that funded the rise of Fascism. My point here is that we are living in a similar environment and these corporations are still around and are still very powerful. We need to open our eyes and read between the lines and not let fear dictate our decisions.
This election will inspire millions of people, all colors and creeds, and I'm definitely happy that a majority of Americans are starting to shed the scales of racism and are beginning to see that any type of racism is retarded. During this election the mantra was Change. Is change coming? If Obama wants to bring change he must bring in new blood into his circle and not just the same Washington gatekeepers that have been in power for years and that represent the same totalitarian dreams of a one world system where the super elite rule with an eco-friendly iron fist. I hope this is the case and I'm not trying to take away from this historic time but I know the system a little to well to be disillusioned by a new face on an old body.
Peace,
Oddity
Now our government is switching hands from right to left and now we must face the questions. Will we reshape our republic and restore our rights or will we continue, inebriated off the fumes of ignorance, doing a hundred mph on the highway to hell? So the questions: What is next? Will real change come? Will the drug war be stopped? How about the war in Iraq and Afghanistan? Will the Patriot Act and The Military Commissions Act be repealed? Will we continue to torture people? Will black and brown people, and poor people in general, still make up the majority of occupants in our prison system? Will the constitution be put back together? Will the surveillance society continue to thrive, track our every action and build files to be used against us? Will truth prevail or will tyranny reign supreme?
I do not have the answers to these questions yet but President Elect Barack Obama has hand picked his chief of staff, who will be highest ranking member of his cabinet. He has selected man by the name of Rahm Emanuel. Who is Congressman Rahm Emanuel? What does he believe in? What do we know about him? We know his father Benjamin M. Emanuel was born in Jerusalem and was a member of the Irgun, a militant Zionist group which operated during the British Mandate of Palestine and is considered a terrorist group by the British and the New York Times because of their brutal attacks on civilians. Emanuel is a supporter of Bush’s invasion of Iraq. He voted to extend and expand the Patriot Act. We know he wrote in his book The Plan: Big Ideas for America he has ideas on how to “fight against the spread of evil and totalitarianism.” Emanuel suggests “we must protect our homeland and civil liberties by creating a new domestic counterterrorism force like Britain’s MI5.” His answer to evil is a compulsory service for all Americans ages 18 to 25. The following excerpt is from pages 61-62 of the 2006 book:
Can anyone say stasi? This echoes one of Obama's other advisers Zbigniew Brzezinski (He helped create The CFR and The Trilateral Commission with David Rockefeller) who saidIt’s time for a real Patriot Act that brings out the patriot in all of us. We propose universal civilian service for every young American. Under this plan, All Americans between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five will be asked to serve their country by going through three months of basic training, civil defense preparation and community service. …
Here’s how it would work. Young people will know that between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five, the nation will enlist them for three months of civilian service. They’ll be asked to report for three months of basic civil defense training in their state or community, where they will learn what to do in the event of biochemical, nuclear or conventional attack; how to assist others in an evacuation; how to respond when a levee breaks or we’re hit by a natural disaster. These young people will be available to address their communities’ most pressing needs.
"The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities."
-Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era, 1970.
He is also quoted saying "This regionalization is in keeping with the TriLateral Plan which calls for a gradual convergence of East and West, ultimately leading toward the goal of one world government. National sovereignty is no longer a viable concept." --- Zbignew Brzezinski
With friends like these who needs enemies. After all it was a defeat in WW1, a shattered and weak economy and a false-flag terrorist attack that led to the rise of Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers' Party aka the Nazi's. It was this environment of fear that caused people to vote against freedom and trade liberty for security. And it was banks, people and corporations like GE, Ford, IBM, US senator Prescott Bush (President Bush's Grandfather), the Rockefeller owned Standard Oil (Exxon Mobil), Kodak, the Vatican, DuPont, Shell Oil, J.P. Morgan Chase , Citibank etc that funded the rise of Fascism. My point here is that we are living in a similar environment and these corporations are still around and are still very powerful. We need to open our eyes and read between the lines and not let fear dictate our decisions.
This election will inspire millions of people, all colors and creeds, and I'm definitely happy that a majority of Americans are starting to shed the scales of racism and are beginning to see that any type of racism is retarded. During this election the mantra was Change. Is change coming? If Obama wants to bring change he must bring in new blood into his circle and not just the same Washington gatekeepers that have been in power for years and that represent the same totalitarian dreams of a one world system where the super elite rule with an eco-friendly iron fist. I hope this is the case and I'm not trying to take away from this historic time but I know the system a little to well to be disillusioned by a new face on an old body.
Peace,
Oddity
Saturday, November 1, 2008
NEW VIDEO FROM EVOCAL SHOW - BIG UPS TO FREEDLANDER FOR THE POST ON YOUTUBE!!!
WATCH JEN RAYE KILL THE 2ND VERSE ON "STAND YOUR GROUND" - WOOOO!!!
BIG UPS TO CAS FOR KILLIN IT AS ALWAYS..
A PERSONAL FAVORITE OF MINE, WATCH ODDITY RIP APART "PARANOID"
BIG UPS TO GEORGE CASTILLO, EVOCAL, AND COSTA MESA STAND UP!!!!
WATCH JEN RAYE KILL THE 2ND VERSE ON "STAND YOUR GROUND" - WOOOO!!!
BIG UPS TO CAS FOR KILLIN IT AS ALWAYS..
A PERSONAL FAVORITE OF MINE, WATCH ODDITY RIP APART "PARANOID"
BIG UPS TO GEORGE CASTILLO, EVOCAL, AND COSTA MESA STAND UP!!!!
Paulson's Swindle Revealed By William Greider - The Nation
Cited from The Nation
The swindle of American taxpayers is proceeding more or less in broad daylight, as the unwitting voters are preoccupied with the national election. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson agreed to invest $125 billion in the nine largest banks, including $10 billion for Goldman Sachs, his old firm. But, if you look more closely at Paulson's transaction, the taxpayers were taken for a ride--a very expensive ride. They paid $125 billion for bank stock that a private investor could purchase for $62.5 billion. That means half of the public's money was a straight-out gift to Wall Street, for which taxpayers got nothing in return.
United Steelworkers Union prez Leo Gerard cracks open the sweetheart deal that bailed out nine banks--and likely lined the Treasury Secretary's own pockets with billions of taxpayer dollars. Does anybody care?
These are dynamite facts that demand immediate action to halt the bailout deal and correct its giveaway terms. Stop payment on the Treasury checks before the bankers can cash them. Open an immediate Congressional investigation into how Paulson and his staff determined such a sweetheart deal for leading players in the financial sector and for their own former employer. Paulson's bailout staff is heavily populated with Goldman Sachs veterans and individuals from other Wall Street firms. Yet we do not know whether these financiers have fully divested their own Wall Street holdings. Were they perhaps enriching themselves as they engineered this generous distribution of public wealth to embattled private banks and their shareholders?
Leo W. Gerard, president of the United Steelworkers, raised these explosive questions in a stinging letter sent to Paulson this week. The union did what any private investor would do. Its finance experts vetted the terms of the bailout investment and calculated the real value of what Treasury bought with the public's money. In the case of Goldman Sachs, the analysis could conveniently rely on a comparable sale twenty days earlier. Billionaire Warren Buffett invested $5 billion in Goldman Sachs and bought the same types of securities--preferred stock and warrants to purchase common stock in the future. Only Buffett's preferred shares pay a 10 percent dividend, while the public gets only 5 percent. Dollar for dollar, Buffett "received at least seven and perhaps up to 14 times more warrants than Treasury did and his warrants have more favorable terms," Gerard pointed out.
"I am sure that someone at Treasury saw the terms of Buffett's investment," the union president wrote. "In fact, my suspicion is that you studied it pretty closely and knew exactly what you were doing. The 50-50 deal--50 percent invested and 50 percent as a gift--is quite consistent with the Republican version of spread-the-wealth-around philosophy."
The Steelworkers' close analysis was done by Ron W. Bloom, director of the union's corporate research and a Wall Street veteran himself who worked at Larzard Freres, the investment house. Bloom applied standard valuation techniques to establish the market price Buffett paid per share compared to Treasury's price. "The analysis is based on the assumption that Warren Buffett is an intelligent third party investor who paid no more for his investment than he had to," Bloom's report explained. "It also assumes that Gold Sachs' job is to protect its existing shareholders so that it extracted from Mr. Buffett the most that it could.... Further, it is assumed that Henry Paulson is likewise an intelligent man and that if he paid any more than Mr. Buffett--if he paid $1 for something for which Mr. Buffett would have paid 50 cents--that the difference is a gift from the taxpayers of the United States to the shareholders of Goldman Sachs."
The implications are staggering. Leo Gerard told Paulson: "If the result of our analysis is applied to the deals that you made at the other eight institutions--which on average most would view as being less well positioned than Goldman and therefore requiring an even greater rate of return--you paid a$125 billion for securities for which a disinterested party would have paid $62.5 billion. That means you gifted the other $62.5 billion to the shareholders of these nine institutions."
If the same rule of thumb is applied to Paulson's grand $700 billion bailout fund, Gerard said this will constitute a gift of $350 billion from the American taxpayers "to reward the institutions that have driven our nation and it now appears the whole world into its most serious economic crisis in 75 years."
Is anyone angry? Will anyone look into these very serious accusations? Congress is off campaigning. The financiers at Treasury probably assume any public outrage will be lost in the election returns. I hope they are mistaken.
The swindle of American taxpayers is proceeding more or less in broad daylight, as the unwitting voters are preoccupied with the national election. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson agreed to invest $125 billion in the nine largest banks, including $10 billion for Goldman Sachs, his old firm. But, if you look more closely at Paulson's transaction, the taxpayers were taken for a ride--a very expensive ride. They paid $125 billion for bank stock that a private investor could purchase for $62.5 billion. That means half of the public's money was a straight-out gift to Wall Street, for which taxpayers got nothing in return.
United Steelworkers Union prez Leo Gerard cracks open the sweetheart deal that bailed out nine banks--and likely lined the Treasury Secretary's own pockets with billions of taxpayer dollars. Does anybody care?
These are dynamite facts that demand immediate action to halt the bailout deal and correct its giveaway terms. Stop payment on the Treasury checks before the bankers can cash them. Open an immediate Congressional investigation into how Paulson and his staff determined such a sweetheart deal for leading players in the financial sector and for their own former employer. Paulson's bailout staff is heavily populated with Goldman Sachs veterans and individuals from other Wall Street firms. Yet we do not know whether these financiers have fully divested their own Wall Street holdings. Were they perhaps enriching themselves as they engineered this generous distribution of public wealth to embattled private banks and their shareholders?
Leo W. Gerard, president of the United Steelworkers, raised these explosive questions in a stinging letter sent to Paulson this week. The union did what any private investor would do. Its finance experts vetted the terms of the bailout investment and calculated the real value of what Treasury bought with the public's money. In the case of Goldman Sachs, the analysis could conveniently rely on a comparable sale twenty days earlier. Billionaire Warren Buffett invested $5 billion in Goldman Sachs and bought the same types of securities--preferred stock and warrants to purchase common stock in the future. Only Buffett's preferred shares pay a 10 percent dividend, while the public gets only 5 percent. Dollar for dollar, Buffett "received at least seven and perhaps up to 14 times more warrants than Treasury did and his warrants have more favorable terms," Gerard pointed out.
"I am sure that someone at Treasury saw the terms of Buffett's investment," the union president wrote. "In fact, my suspicion is that you studied it pretty closely and knew exactly what you were doing. The 50-50 deal--50 percent invested and 50 percent as a gift--is quite consistent with the Republican version of spread-the-wealth-around philosophy."
The Steelworkers' close analysis was done by Ron W. Bloom, director of the union's corporate research and a Wall Street veteran himself who worked at Larzard Freres, the investment house. Bloom applied standard valuation techniques to establish the market price Buffett paid per share compared to Treasury's price. "The analysis is based on the assumption that Warren Buffett is an intelligent third party investor who paid no more for his investment than he had to," Bloom's report explained. "It also assumes that Gold Sachs' job is to protect its existing shareholders so that it extracted from Mr. Buffett the most that it could.... Further, it is assumed that Henry Paulson is likewise an intelligent man and that if he paid any more than Mr. Buffett--if he paid $1 for something for which Mr. Buffett would have paid 50 cents--that the difference is a gift from the taxpayers of the United States to the shareholders of Goldman Sachs."
The implications are staggering. Leo Gerard told Paulson: "If the result of our analysis is applied to the deals that you made at the other eight institutions--which on average most would view as being less well positioned than Goldman and therefore requiring an even greater rate of return--you paid a$125 billion for securities for which a disinterested party would have paid $62.5 billion. That means you gifted the other $62.5 billion to the shareholders of these nine institutions."
If the same rule of thumb is applied to Paulson's grand $700 billion bailout fund, Gerard said this will constitute a gift of $350 billion from the American taxpayers "to reward the institutions that have driven our nation and it now appears the whole world into its most serious economic crisis in 75 years."
Is anyone angry? Will anyone look into these very serious accusations? Congress is off campaigning. The financiers at Treasury probably assume any public outrage will be lost in the election returns. I hope they are mistaken.
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