he's a personal friend ('token' might sadly be more accurate) of a lot of wealthy people -- no rightwatch site seems to have much on him thus far -- and very interesting as a case study of the situation right now (indicative of 'what' exactly, i'll let you decide). he's young and a snazzy dresser and heads up Glenn Beck's black leadership amongst the Tea Party, and is the frontman for the NAACPC (a bizarre 'organization' that exists expressly to piss off the NAACP, and paying off black leaders like relatives of MLK to say very daft and disrespectful things: visit their website for a good laugh).
they are having some influence on discourse in the rural areas and suburbs of some major cities (i heard my first "the eighteenth century were the Golden Years" comment from a white small business owner just the other day while out campaigning for Defend Ohio -- yeesh!). i'd not heard of Kebreau until a few church leaders here in Cincy, working in solidarity with social justice activists, worked to ban him from speaking at a local church, so he moved on to giving a talk to largely wealthy suburban Tea Party church-members and ROTC and vet black students at Cincy State community college. i had to work and so couldn't attend, but the topic was how the civil rights movement has been misread by communist college professors and should be seen as firmly under the wing of the grassroots movement that-is-not-one carried on by the TP/right-libertarians/constitution party peeps, and how slavery really wasn't all that bad (Beck uses this line often as part of his shock-'em-then-wow-them-with-banal-slander rhetorical strategy).
i find this all far more entertaining than the Wire or any fake news
pandora
On 18 January 2011 14:44, Chuck Grimes <c123grimes at att.net> wrote:
>
> He also spent some time reporting on the drug war in Mexico. Here's an
> interview:
>
> http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/06/03/int06008.html Joanna
>
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> I read through the interview and was struck by its parallel with the US
> government and its relationship to Wall Street and in particular the banking
> and finance system. The parallel is built in the equivalence between drugs
> and money and the interdependence between government institutions and the
> economies of both worlds---which at the end of the trail are pretty much the
> same, squirlling away vast amounts of money in off shore accounts where the
> money gets laundered and put back into circulation. In this parallel the
> drug cartels are just the low life family branch to the bank and finance
> elites. About the only difference I can see is the drug kingpins have
> trouble getting appointed as secretary of the US Treasury.
>
> You can for example watch a similar process between the upper levels of the
> drug trade and the housing bubble built by mortage securitization. Then
> follow the foreclosure system with the courts with fraudulant paperwork,
> rubber stamp kangaroo courts, judges with investments in the system, city
> government's budgets dependence on the same systems, etc, etc.
>
> There is the obvious more direct interconnection example of Karzi.
>
> I was thinking just yesterday, who encouraged Baby Doc to come back to
> Haiti? What on earth is that story about? It is probably rich families who
> control Haiti and own a lot of the land where tourism and restorts are build
> and now threatened with displaced squatters going back to live on the land.
> Then there is viceroy Clinton, with his direct channel to the US State Dept.
> and the implicit connection to the CIA.
>
> Then there is the Tunis story where evidently the whole government and the
> primary economic `leaders' are all members of the same family.
>
> Maybe it's just a mood developed from watching three straight hours of The
> Wire's first season on the drug trade in the projects.
>
> CG
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