I love riding my bike to work whenever I get the chance to do so.

Big ups to the homie from the RFC for being on the lookout for a bike for sale.

Todos Somo Gaza

A message from the EZLN by Subcomandante Marcos on Gaza
خطابه بالرابع من الشهر في المهرجان العالمي للغضب الكريم
Discurso del Subcomandante Marcos sobre Gaza, en el festival Mundial de la Digna Rabia, 4 de enero de 2009




Translated:
Two days ago, the same day we discussed violence, the ineffable Condoleezza Rice, a US official, declared that what was happening in Gaza was the Palestinians' fault, due to their violent nature.

The underground rivers that crisscross the world can change their geography, but they sing the same song.

And the one we hear now is one of war and pain.

Not far from here, in a place called Gaza, in Palestine, in the Middle East, right here next to us, the Israeli government's heavily trained and armed military continues its march of death and destruction.

The steps it has taken are those of a classic military war of conquest: first an intense mass bombing in order to destroy "strategic" military points (that's how the military manuals put it) and to "soften" the resistance's reinforcements; next a fierce control over information: everything that is heard and seen "in the outside world," that is, outside the theater of operations, must be selected with military criteria; now intense artillery fire against the enemy infantry to protect the advance of troop to new positions; then there will be a siege to weaken the enemy garrison; then the assault that conquers the position and annihilates the enemy, then the "cleaning out" of the probable "nests of resistance."

The military manual of modern war, with a few variations and additions, is being followed step-by-step by the invading military forces.

We don't know a lot about this, and there are surely specialists in the so-called "conflict in the Middle East," but from this corner we have something to say:

According to the news photos, the "strategic" points destroyed by the Israeli government's air force are houses, shacks, civilian buildings. We haven't seen a single bunker, nor a barracks, nor a military airport, nor cannons, amongst the rubble. So--and please excuse our ignorance--we think that either the planes' guns have bad aim, or in Gaza such "strategic" military points don't exist.

We have never had the honor of visiting Palestine, but we suppose that people, men, women, children, and the elderly--not soldiers--lived in those houses, shacks, and buildings.

We also haven't seen the resistance's reinforcements, just rubble.

We have seen, however, the futile efforts of the information siege, and the world governments trying to decide between ignoring or applauding the invasion, and the UN, which has been useless for quite some time, sending out tepid press releases.

But wait. It just occurred to us that perhaps to the Israeli government those men, women, children, and elderly people are enemy soldiers, and as such, the shacks, houses, and buildings that they inhabited are barracks that need to be destroyed.

So surely the hail of bullets that fell on Gaza this morning were in order to protect the Israeli infantry's advance from those men, women, children, and elderly people.

And the enemy garrison that they want to weaken with the siege that is spread out all over Gaza is the Palestinian population that lives there. And the assault will seek to annihilate that population. And whichever man, woman, child, or elderly person that manages to escape or hide from the predictably bloody assault will later be "hunted" so that the cleansing is complete and the commanders in charge of the operation can report to their superiors: "We've completed the mission."

Again, pardon our ignorance, maybe what we're saying is beside the point. And instead of condemning the ongoing crime, being the indigenous and warriors that we are, we should be discussing and taking a position in the discussion about if it's "zionism" or "antisemitism," or if Hamas' bombs started it.

Maybe our thinking is very simple, and we're lacking the nuances and annotations that are always so necessary in analyses, but to the Zapatistas it looks like there's a professional army murdering a defenseless population.

Who from below and to the left can remain silent?

Is it useful to say something? Do our cries stop even one bomb? Does our word save the life of even one Palestinian?

We think that yes, it is useful. Maybe we don't stop a bomb and our word won't turn into an armored shield so that that 5.56 mm or 9 mm caliber bullet with the letters "IMI" or "Israeli Military Industry" etched into the base of the cartridge won't hit the chest of a girl or boy, but perhaps our word can manage to join forces with others in Mexico and the world and perhaps first it's heard as a murmur, then out loud, and then a scream that they hear in Gaza.

We don't know about you, but we Zapatistas from the EZLN, we know how important it is, in the middle of destruction and death, to hear some words of encouragement.

I don't know how to explain it, but it turns out that yes, words from afar might not stop a bomb, but it's as if a crack were opened in the black room of death and a tiny ray of light slips in.

As for everything else, what will happen will happen. The Israeli government will declare that it dealt a severe blow to terrorism, it will hide the magnitude of the massacre from its people, the large weapons manufacturers will have obtained economic support to face the crisis, and "the global public opinion," that malleable entity that is always in fashion, will turn away.

But that's not all. The Palestinian people will also resist and survive and continue struggling and will continue to have sympathy from below for their cause.

And perhaps a boy or girl from Gaza will survive, too. Perhaps they'll grow, and with them, their nerve, indignation, and rage. Perhaps they'll become soldiers or militiamen for one of the groups that struggle in Palestine. Perhaps they'll find themselves in combat with Israel. Perhaps they'll do it firing a gun. Perhaps sacrificing themselves with a belt of dynamite around their waists.

And then, from up there above, they will write about the Palestinians' violent nature and they'll make declarations condemning that violence and they'll get back to discussing if it's zionism or anti-semitism.

And no one will ask who planted that which is being harvested.

For the men, women, children, and elderly of the Zapatista National Liberation Army,

-Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos
Mexico, January 4, 2009.

Nas - Nigger

01. Queens Get The Money
02. You Can’t Stop Us Now (Feat. Eban Thomas Of The Stylistics & The Last Poets)
03. Breathe
04. Make The World Go Round (Feat. Chris Brown & The Game)
05. Hero (Feat. Keri Hilson)
06. America
07. Sly Fox
08. Testify
09. N.I.G.G.E.R. (The Slave And The Master)
10. Louis Farrakhan
11. Fried Chicken (Feat. Busta Rhymes)
12. Project Roach (Feat. The Last Poets)
13. Y'All My Niggas
14. We’re Not Alone (Feat. Mykel)
15. Black President (Feat. Johnny Polygon)

Download Link:
http://www.mediafire.com/?mifzndmyjtw


When I heard about this album I was a bit skeptic of Nas because I felt like he kind of fell off when he dropped "Hip Hop is Dead". This album right here though is what I've been waiting to hear from him. His flow and lyrics are better than most in the game. True Lyricist to the core. The album touches on several political issues. I still listen to this and I'm sure it'll be in the deck for a while.


Nas - N.I.G.G.E.R. (The Slave And The Master)

Classik

Turn the Volume Up...

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

“The Ascendancy of Obama…and the Continued Need for Resistance and Liberation: A Dialogue Between Cornel West and Carl Dix”

Toggle the fullscreen.

On July 14, 2009, an extremely important and successful program, featuring Cornel West, one of America’s most provocative public intellectuals, and Carl Dix, a long-time revolutionary and a founding member of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, took place at Aaron Davis Hall in Harlem, New York.


[Via Revolution]

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Wow!! I've had this blog for a while and didn't have a Malcolm X post.

The Autobiography of Malcolm X was the very first book I had ever read for leisure. Well I read the Goosebumps books also but I was in elementary school.

This book changed my life forever. I'll re-read it by the end of this year.

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"Sometimes I'm inclined to believe that many of our people are using this word "revolution" loosely, without taking careful consideration of what this word actually means, and what its historic characteristics are. When you study the historic nature of revolutions, the motive of a revolution, the objective of a revolution, the result of a revolution, and the methods used in a revolution, you may change words. You may devise another program, you may change your goal and you may change your mind.

Look at the American Revolution in 1776. That revolution was for what? For land. Why did they want land? Independence. How was it carried out? Bloodshed. Number one, it was based on land, the basis of independence. And the only way they could get it was bloodshed. The French Revolution...what was it based on? The landless against the landlord. What was it for? Land. How did they get it?

Bloodshed. Was no love lost, was no compromise, was no negotiation. I'm telling you...you don't know what a revolution is. Because when you find out what it is, you'll get back in the alley, you'll get out of the way.

The Russian Revolution...what was it based on? Land; the landless against the landlord. How did they bring it about? Bloodshed. You haven't got a revolution that doesn't involve bloodshed. And you're afraid to bleed.

I said, you're afraid to bleed.

As long as the white man sent you to Korea, you bled. He sent you to Germany, you bled. He sent you to the South Pacific to fight the Japanese, you bled. You bleed for white people, but when it comes to seeing your own churches being bombed and little black girls murdered, you haven't got any blood. You bleed when the white man says bleed; you bite when the white man says bite; and you bark when the white man says bark. I hate to say this about us, but it's true. How are you going to be nonviolent in Mississippi, as violent as you were in Korea? How can you justify being nonviolent in Mississippi and Alabama, when your churches are being bombed, and your little girls are being murdered, and at the same time you are going to get violent with Hitler, and Tojo, and somebody else you don't even know?

If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country." — Malcolm X, 1964

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Malcolm X Speaks about the 2nd Amendment


Bonus:
FBI agents visit the office of Malcolm X after his suspension from the Nation Of Islam, with the intent of coercing him to provide information about his Black Muslim group. Employing one of the FBI's own covert tactics, Malcolm secretly recorded the conversation with a tape recorder hidden under his couch.

"Welcome 2 My Anti-amerikkkan Thesis...

..I'll murder devils with badges and curse @ white jesus."





Bill Maher asks questions about current religion's practiced around the globe.

Pretty touchy subject for some, I guess.

Religion has been used as a mass propaganda tool and has enslaved a lot of minds over the course of it's run. Countries have waged wars over religion and land, obviously, just take a look at the U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.



It's funny how these soldiers and other people alike are such hypocrites. They can't even follow the most simple teachings of their "savior". Doesn't it say in the 10 commandments "Though Shall Not Kill" but I guess the revised wikipedia we can change shit so it says what is beneficial to us doesn't involve Muslims or Indigenous Americans, right.

Tupac talks about churches here...

Religion is the biggest money maker ever..

Watch the complete Documentary here...

The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene

Description:
The 48 Laws of Power is a 1998 book by Robert Greene. The book shares thematic elements with Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince and has been compared to Sun-Tzu's classic treatise The Art of War.

Learn what THEY learn and use it against them or just to know what to look out for and never fall into the trap.

Here's a preview of the first 5 laws.

The Laws

* Law 1 Never Outshine the Master!
* Law 2 Never put too Much Trust in Friends, Learn how to use Enemies
* Law 3 Conceal your Intentions
* Law 4 Always Say Less than Necessary
* Law 5 So Much Depends on Reputation. Guard it with your Life

It goes into detail of each law and gives several historical examples of how each law was used.

I've uploaded a .rar file which you'll have to unzip.
It includes The 48 Laws of Power Audio Book and the book in a pdf file.

Download link:
http://www.mediafire.com/?ljloytzfmto

Khemikal Ali - The Destruction of ECKS (2007)

This is the 1st cd/mixtape I ever created that I was confident enough of the material put together. It was material recorded from 2004-2007. I put the songs that I thought described my personally at the time. I call it a cd/mixtape because a good 35% of the instrumentals I used were mainstream or not original. I feel like I've grown so much as an artist and a human being since I put it out 2 years ago(2007) but you can still hear the maturity in the lyrics and also some childish shit too. I was growing up to be the person I am now and feel like there's a lot of emotion and plus it was a very personal album to me.



Track Listing:

01. My Introduction
02. Words Are So Hard
03. Lost Tomorrow
04. Brown Militant
05. The Mob
06. Revolution
07. Terrorist
08. The 40 Days
09. Runaway
10. Tomorrow
11. Dreams & Memories
12. Hold You Down
13. Hustler Muzik
14. Hang On
15. Take Away This Pain
16. Letting Go
17. I Aint Mad At Cha
18. When I'm Gone
19. No Apologies (Bonus)
20. Hard To Find (Bonus)
21. One Night (Bonus)
22. My People (Bonus)
23. Not Every Tear (Bonus)
24. Thugs Mansion (Bonus)
25. Goodbye! (Dedicated 2 My Mother)

Runtime: 79 Minutes

Download it and give it a listen...


http://www.mediafire.com/?cyzdkengom3

There are some hidden gems in there..

This is the 1st video I've made so give me some feedback and it'll be greatly appreciated..



Life After Immigration is still on the way..

Muzik Fiend

Muzik Fiend
goes to my other blog about Muzik..

I'll try to keep it updated as much as possible..

It's still brand new..

-Escaped slave from Louisiana, 1863.

Frederick Douglass:
What to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?

"What to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?

"I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.

"To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy-a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.

"There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of these United States, at this very hour.

"Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the Old World, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival."

- Frederick Douglass, a former slave and a leader in the fight
against slavery, 1852

[via Libros Revolución]

I'm marked for death so please don't stand near me

What the fuck are you doing? Is the question
Living your life under oppression, distracted by the recession
Aint no second guessing church got you in confession
The blind leading the deaf with glorious misdirection
You wannna know what I think of your life and your profession?
To me, you were a waste of a muthafuckin' erection
They're scared of my words and they'd rather not discover
That the government's arresting all my black and brown brothers
They wanna throw us in prison, look at how you livin'
And I dont support murderers, so FUCK THANKSGIVING
Sometimes it feels like my mind dwells in a cell
And if there is a god why the fuck you leave us in this hell?
We're so impressionable that we speak without knowing
I'm higher than a 757 boeing
I know where I'm going
These verses are doors to my soul and I want you to know it
Exit Khemikal Ali, this is X the poet