There's a good 19-page piece written by Robert Winkler for the Ludwig-Maximilans University, which talks to the connection between the Red Army Faction (of Germany) and the Black Panther group of the US. I'd recommend a read of the whole report.
Winkler points out something that most people miss....the Black Panther organization was around before the Red Army Faction.
At some point, the Black Panthers went to a platform/agenda (9 points). Later, the RAF adapted the same basic points.
So the platform for the Black Panathers?
1. Simple basic freedom....although it's never specified to what degree or how it'd be different from Constitutional rights of the 1966 timeframe.
2. Full employment for blacks. Basically, if you didn't have real employment, the government would just create a job and give it to you. Along with this....a guaranteed income level was inserted....so it wouldn't matter if you dug ditches, or fixed transmission....you got paid 'X'. If you had zero training or education? Doesn't matter....the government was still responsible for finding you a job.
3. 'Robbery by the capitalist system' had to be ended in the black community. This was never explained in any great detail. In a Marxist system....capitalism would not be allowed to exist in any fashion. In this case....a lot of things would just disappear because capitalism would not provide (drugs, weed, booze, beer, etc).
4. Decent housing. Along these lines....they wanted the government to simply provide it. Cooperatives would be created and each group would run their own area. Looking back to the Soviet model....it mostly failed.
5. Mandated education for blacks that 'exposes the true nature of the decadent American society'. Basically, everything up to modern times would either be dumped or told by their angle of view. Black kids would get black education. Everyone else would get 'non-black' education.
6. Blacks would be exempt from military service (remember this is 1966 we are talking about).
7. End of all police assaults and attacks on blacks. If you think about it....the only way to ensure this is to have townships where blacks stay in their zone, with only black police.
8. All blacks released from local, state and federal jails. New charges would be done, with blacks only on the jury.
9. So we come to this one odd agenda item....a UN-supervised effort to be mandated...to ensure blacks got 'land, bread, housing, education, clothing justice, and peace'. Who would be on this UN commission? Anyone's guess.
Remember, this was all Marxist doctrine, which the Black Panther crowd developed their program around, and the current BLM seem to be on the same path today.
Friday, 26 June 2020
NASCAR
To be kinda honest, I've never watched a NASCAR race, or attended one. Yes, I did grow up in the south, and will admit that demolition derbys did interest me....but that's my 'limit'.
So I look at the current chatter of NASCAR and I predict five things:
1. Once the Confederate flag business is written up, and fans told not to display the flag at races, or cars to have any such 'art' on them.....about one-third of the racing fan crowd will dissolve away in a matter of a couple of months.
2. NASCAR could still run with just two-third's of the fan base.....but ticket sales would lessen, and profits dwindle. Fewer teams would participate.
3. NASCAR would probably disappear within three years out of the Talledega area of Alabama.
4. Finding companies to sponsor teams will become a problem.
5. Most of the NASCAR authorities (employees) would freshen their resumes by the end of 2021, and be looking for a new challenge in life.
So I look at the current chatter of NASCAR and I predict five things:
1. Once the Confederate flag business is written up, and fans told not to display the flag at races, or cars to have any such 'art' on them.....about one-third of the racing fan crowd will dissolve away in a matter of a couple of months.
2. NASCAR could still run with just two-third's of the fan base.....but ticket sales would lessen, and profits dwindle. Fewer teams would participate.
3. NASCAR would probably disappear within three years out of the Talledega area of Alabama.
4. Finding companies to sponsor teams will become a problem.
5. Most of the NASCAR authorities (employees) would freshen their resumes by the end of 2021, and be looking for a new challenge in life.
Just Observations
1. I noticed in the news that Melanie Gates (wife of Bill) wants the Covid-19 vaccine, when done, to be administered to minority people....primarily blacks, first.
It's a bit comical how she explained this, but I'm in full agreement. Most engineers and chemists would always suggest that the first version of something is usually 'crap', and as you learn from your mistakes....you get to a safer version. So yeah....I got no problem in letting some 'other' folks getting into the line ahead of me.
2. Nike is reporting a $790-million loss....forty-six percent downward trend in the US. For the remainder of 2020? I'd expect that trend to continue for them.
3. Some news story floating around LA....a BLM white-protest dude....apparently got hit by rubber bullets fired by the cops. Took one to the balls....and doctors were unable to save that one ball. If you ask me....there are 10,000 reasons to avoid riots and demonstrations and this is just one of them. Based on the picture....he's over 40, and probably should have been at work. From this point on.....work associates will remember him by 'one-ball Larry'.
4. Bubba Wallace did write up a noose apology of sorts. Maybe it'd solve his problems with 5-percent of the public. The rest are just sitting there and laughing over the hoax.
5. How many Confederate officials were involved in riot operations over the past month? Can you name any?
6. Just odd....the same people who hype up on burning the Confederate flag....are the same ones who'd likely burn the US flag.
7. Just who manufactures the Confederate flags you see? Well...Chinese folks. And frankly, they don't know anything about the flag, except it makes a pile of cash for them.
8. Go to a college kid or college graduate (from 20 years ago) and ask them....define Emancipators, and Abolitionists. I'll wager you that fewer than 10-percent can give you a decent two-line explanation of either. Why? Ask the same kid....if there is any difference between the two (there shouldn't be).
9. Ever looked around for someone who fled capitalism for communism? The only example that most can give? Lee Harvey Oswald, except he didn't stay long, and he got shot by someone (ask people to name the shooter over Oswald....80-percent can't do it).
10. The 'Dixie Chicks' gave up 'Dixie' in their name. So, just 'Chicks'? Isn't that sexist?
It's a bit comical how she explained this, but I'm in full agreement. Most engineers and chemists would always suggest that the first version of something is usually 'crap', and as you learn from your mistakes....you get to a safer version. So yeah....I got no problem in letting some 'other' folks getting into the line ahead of me.
2. Nike is reporting a $790-million loss....forty-six percent downward trend in the US. For the remainder of 2020? I'd expect that trend to continue for them.
3. Some news story floating around LA....a BLM white-protest dude....apparently got hit by rubber bullets fired by the cops. Took one to the balls....and doctors were unable to save that one ball. If you ask me....there are 10,000 reasons to avoid riots and demonstrations and this is just one of them. Based on the picture....he's over 40, and probably should have been at work. From this point on.....work associates will remember him by 'one-ball Larry'.
4. Bubba Wallace did write up a noose apology of sorts. Maybe it'd solve his problems with 5-percent of the public. The rest are just sitting there and laughing over the hoax.
5. How many Confederate officials were involved in riot operations over the past month? Can you name any?
6. Just odd....the same people who hype up on burning the Confederate flag....are the same ones who'd likely burn the US flag.
7. Just who manufactures the Confederate flags you see? Well...Chinese folks. And frankly, they don't know anything about the flag, except it makes a pile of cash for them.
8. Go to a college kid or college graduate (from 20 years ago) and ask them....define Emancipators, and Abolitionists. I'll wager you that fewer than 10-percent can give you a decent two-line explanation of either. Why? Ask the same kid....if there is any difference between the two (there shouldn't be).
9. Ever looked around for someone who fled capitalism for communism? The only example that most can give? Lee Harvey Oswald, except he didn't stay long, and he got shot by someone (ask people to name the shooter over Oswald....80-percent can't do it).
10. The 'Dixie Chicks' gave up 'Dixie' in their name. So, just 'Chicks'? Isn't that sexist?
Military Chatter
I noticed this morning a note on Defense Secretary Mark Esper. He came out and said "Today I'm creating a new, internal Defense Board on Diversity and Inclusion in the Military."
Basically he wants a 6-month research project to establish recommendations to increase racial diversity and equal opportunity across all levels (including the officers).
I sat and pondered upon this.
Basically, since the 1970s, it's been a volunteer force. Their enticement (which I figured out in the six months before joining the Air Force in 1977)....was college education, tuition assistance, and job-training. Nothing much has changed since that era.
I met all kinds of folks over the decades, who came from mostly working-class, or poverty-class situations.....with their chief aim to be....a trail to a better life or education achievement. At one point, I worked with a NCO who'd written down a 15-year goal....going from high-school level....to a PhD. The Air Force basically paid 75-percent of all tuition costs. In those days, there was no shortage of funding, and you could go and spend $6k of their money a year easily (in 1980s/1990s money). At the 20th year, this NCO retired out and had a $100k job in a matter of two weeks.
So I look at Esper's idea....he thinks they need more diversity. The Pew folks in 2019 did a study, and it has interesting numbers.
On women in the military....16-percent of the force are women.
Blacks make up 16-percent of the force.
Latinos make up 16-percent of the force.
Asians make up 4-percent of the force.
Trying to rig open a door for gays? Well...the door already exist, including inclusion for gay marriage.
So it's hard to see what extra inclusion he might be talking about.
You see there is there are these two other components of the force which rarely get discussed.
Once you walk in the door, it's kinda explain a simple way.....your job in some way, is to dispatch enemies of the nation in some way. Either they give up their 'evil' ways, or you dispatch them to heaven in some way.
The second thing explained in lesser talk....the military really doesn't want to be a full-time baby-sitter, or continually dealing with mentally unbalanced people. If you are a commander of a 200-man unit and spending a quarter of your yearly time dealing with mental nut-cases or people who won't comprehend orders....then you've become a baby-sitter. In a stressful war environment.....you'd better off to leave the 'kids' home and just take the non-problem people into the war-zone.
If Esper is successful....basically in five years, you will have 10,000 characters in the military....often referred to as 'Esper's kids' and deemed as mental issue folks.
Perhaps we should start another study....how to find future Secretaries of Defense, who meet remarkable levels of stupidity and have an IQ below 75.
Basically he wants a 6-month research project to establish recommendations to increase racial diversity and equal opportunity across all levels (including the officers).
I sat and pondered upon this.
Basically, since the 1970s, it's been a volunteer force. Their enticement (which I figured out in the six months before joining the Air Force in 1977)....was college education, tuition assistance, and job-training. Nothing much has changed since that era.
I met all kinds of folks over the decades, who came from mostly working-class, or poverty-class situations.....with their chief aim to be....a trail to a better life or education achievement. At one point, I worked with a NCO who'd written down a 15-year goal....going from high-school level....to a PhD. The Air Force basically paid 75-percent of all tuition costs. In those days, there was no shortage of funding, and you could go and spend $6k of their money a year easily (in 1980s/1990s money). At the 20th year, this NCO retired out and had a $100k job in a matter of two weeks.
So I look at Esper's idea....he thinks they need more diversity. The Pew folks in 2019 did a study, and it has interesting numbers.
On women in the military....16-percent of the force are women.
Blacks make up 16-percent of the force.
Latinos make up 16-percent of the force.
Asians make up 4-percent of the force.
Trying to rig open a door for gays? Well...the door already exist, including inclusion for gay marriage.
So it's hard to see what extra inclusion he might be talking about.
You see there is there are these two other components of the force which rarely get discussed.
Once you walk in the door, it's kinda explain a simple way.....your job in some way, is to dispatch enemies of the nation in some way. Either they give up their 'evil' ways, or you dispatch them to heaven in some way.
The second thing explained in lesser talk....the military really doesn't want to be a full-time baby-sitter, or continually dealing with mentally unbalanced people. If you are a commander of a 200-man unit and spending a quarter of your yearly time dealing with mental nut-cases or people who won't comprehend orders....then you've become a baby-sitter. In a stressful war environment.....you'd better off to leave the 'kids' home and just take the non-problem people into the war-zone.
If Esper is successful....basically in five years, you will have 10,000 characters in the military....often referred to as 'Esper's kids' and deemed as mental issue folks.
Perhaps we should start another study....how to find future Secretaries of Defense, who meet remarkable levels of stupidity and have an IQ below 75.
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