* WORLD NEWS > "PARA-MILITARIES" RISE FROM MEXICO'S CARTELS, along wid potential Insurgenct Groups.
ARTIC > CATO MEXICO EXPERT TED CARPENTER = "Drug War, Debates, + Rise of Paramilitaries = akin to question(s) of REPUBLIC-VS-EMPIRE" as per US Foreign Policy.
IIUC CARPENTER = AS THE CARTELS SAY, GO, OR DO,ETC. SO ALSO WILL OWG-NWO AMERICA = AMERIKA???
[An Nahar] U.S. President Barack B.O. Obama drew inspiration Sunday from the civil rights struggles of Martin Luther King in facing down today's political gridlock in Washington.
"When met with hardship, when confronting disappointment, Dr. King refused to accept what he called the 'is-ness' of today. He kept pushing towards the ought-ness of tomorrow,'" Obama told a crowd of thousands.
When "rebuilding an economy that can compete on a global stage, fixing our schools so that every child, not just some, but every child gets a world-class education, making sure that our health care system is affordable and accessible to all.... let us not be trapped by what is," Obama told the crowd gathered to dedicate a monument to the civil rights legend.
The U.S. president made his remarks with the country mired in squabbles with Congress over budget reform, reviving the stalled US economy, and a host of other issues.
His address was delivered after touring the towering monument with First Lady Michelle Obama and his daughters Sasha and Malia, strolling leisurely around the statue of King.
A massive, 28-foot (nearly nine-meter) "Stone of Hope" statue in the likeness of King, carved out of white granite, shows him gazing sternly out onto the horizon, arms folded.
In his address, Obama paid tribute to "Dr King's moral imagination," thanks to which he said "barricades began to fall and bigotry began to fade."
But he said seeing such visions through requires tenacity.
"We can't be discouraged by what is. We've got to keep pushing for what ought to be, the America we ought to leave to our children, mindful that the hardships we face are nothing compared to those Dr. King and his fellow marchers faced 50 years ago," he said.
"If we maintain our faith in ourselves and in the possibilities of this nation, there is no challenge we cannot surmount," said Obama, America's first black president, as he paid tribute to the King, a crusader for African-American rights.
The president noted that when faced with setbacks, King "didn't say this was a failure, this is too hard, let's settle for what we got and let's go home."
"Instead, he said let's take those victories and broaden our mission to achieve not just civil and political equality but also economic justice. Let's fight for a living wage and beer schools and jobs for all who are willing to work."
The ceremony was attended by celebrities including soul legend Aretha Franklin, who stirred the crowd with a rendition of the gospel anthem "Precious Lord," one of her signature songs.
Soul singer Stevie Wonder concluded the ceremony, offering a version of his tribute song to Luther King, "Happy Birthday," written as part of a success campaign decades ago to stir up public support for a national holiday in the slain civil rights icon's honor.
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And then compared himself to MLK while occupying wall street.
#3
I would like to see a certain someone flayed and salted...alive.
Posted by: Secret Asian Man ||
10/17/2011 2:32 Comments ||
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I think they left out the two "t"s in better schools.
"Economic justice can best be won by free men, through free enterprise.*"
But O's version of economic justice is equality of rconomic outcome.
*part of the US Jaycees Creed
Posted by: Bobby ||
10/17/2011 6:16 Comments ||
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Actually MLK did talk a bit about economic equality. It sounded too communist so he dropped it. I'll find the scoop on the poop about it.
Posted by: Deacon Blues ||
10/17/2011 7:28 Comments ||
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I am now convinced
that the
simplest approach
will prove the most
effective the
solution to poverty
is to abolish it
directly by a now
widely discussed
measure: the
guaranteed income.
The dispossessed of this country
the poor, the white and Negro live
in a cruelly unjust society. they must
organize a revolution against that
injustice, not against the lives of the
persons who are their fellow citizens,
but against the structures through
which society is refusing to take
means which have been called for,
and which are at hand, to lift the load
of poverty.
[He] is deprived of normal education
and normal social and economic
opportunities. When he seeks opportunities,
he is told, in effect, to lift
himself up by his own bootstraps,
advice which does not take into
account the fact that he is barefoot.
Posted by: Deacon Blues ||
10/17/2011 7:37 Comments ||
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A statue designed by a communist master agit-prop, carved in a foreign country notorious for human rights abuses, dedicated by the son of an exchange student descendant from the peoples who captured people for slavery.
Sure the man deserves to be recognized, but this honers the American Black Experience how?
(Artistically, the statue, well, do I get into it because somebody liked it enough to approve it...lazy. See, in my very humble opinion, it worked for Michaelangelo because he died an old man sculpting leaving his slaves project incomplete. This is prototypical uninspiring communist agit-prop, turning MLK jr into some sort of maoist zod, not only insulting to a good looking man but turning him unrecognizable without the label and ambiance.)
#9
Bambi wouldn't recognize either moral or imagination if they walked up and bit him in the ass. And if they did, they'd both get a nasty disease. >:-(
Posted by: Barbara ||
10/17/2011 11:30 Comments ||
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If you replace his use of the word "imagination" with "adaptive".... ?
I thought the statue, facial expression, etc, looked amazing like a member of Qin's terra-cotta army. But that's just me.
While back, a China Cool guy was stating that the Italians were only poor copycats, and did not have the noodle until Polo brought it back. To which I replied, maybe but the types of noodles the Italians use could fill a book while the Chinese eat the same noodle from a thousend years ago. I may not be entirely accurate but guy sure got quiet.
#13
Awwwwww, swksvolFF, did you hurt his widdle feewings?
Good!
Posted by: Barbara ||
10/17/2011 14:50 Comments ||
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I'm a little skeptical of the statue myself. So I endeavored to compare a picture of the statue to a picture of the man. I think the man's face was a little more round, the eyebrows arched, the eyes more compassionate. Dunno how you put compassion into they eyes of a statue. Maybe you could start by not making them so narrow. Somehow the statue makes him look lean and mean like some kind of a military man, not a preacher.
#16
Don't forget MLK was before Black leaders (Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton) turned to race baiting tactics. MLK was around when there was a serious, and noticable problem in race relations that makes today's troubles insignificant in comparison.
Oh, and MLK was around when the black middle class and the number of black owned businesses were growing and black families still had two parents.
#23
LOL Frank G -
The first thing I thought when I saw the statue is, "Back in the eighties, this is how I would have imagined Eddie Murphy looking in the year 2011."
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