Hardcore fuckin' Current mood: frustrated Category:
Religion and PhilosophySo here I go again (O.K. so it is a fucking Whitesnake reference!)
ranting and raving about whatever I feel like.
Today it is a batch of frustrations that really lead nowhere.... Now that the warning is out there, here we go....
Re; Music
It is not really a discouragement, it is just that I know that this isn'tanyone's priority, I want to get the ball rolling on this because I believe that the music that we make is very good.Thus far the lethargy surrounding this pseudo-band is frustrating and buildsfrustration within me, so in some sense I want to record what we have and be on with something new. Work with people who have the desire to play live shows, work with people who WANT to work instead of feeling like half the people involved are only involved because I am forcing them to be.I want this stuff recorded before Omar is ejected from this country. We have had some of this stuff written for two years now. It is in danger of being so stale that the interest in even getting anything done with it is nearlynonexistent. That is where I am coming from. I know that Greg's song isn't ready yet, but I had hoped that giving it a deadline would motivate us allto work to try and pull it all together... I guess I also wasn't counting onhaving to build a fucking patio and rearrange my entire fucking house either, so I am to blame as well.
Katrina:
(credit must be given to KRS-One and Immortal Technique for their insights. I took the articles from Technique's webpage because he had them consolidated...)
If we are truly interested in helping the people affected by Hurricane Katrina we must get specific in our help. We must target OUR help toward those that specifically need what we have to offer. Everyone does not need everything. Our community needs specific things to feel normal. The things that an average person growing up in the south needs in order to piece his/her life back together may not be what the Federal government is offering because the Federal Government is known for huge, large spanning operations that focus more upon the preservation of the State than upon any individual person or interest. Therefore, even if the congress approves 100 billion dollars to restore the “State” of New Orleans and the “State” of Mississippi that money will go toward the restoration of the “State” not the rehabilitation of the “People”. No government can fulfill your purpose. No amount of money can help you forget the loss of a loved one.
I think what we need is leadership and action. MoveOn has done a bed drive for people affected by this. In it you can allow the victims to stay with you until they can get on their feet. I like action like this. I think there should be better ways to do things for yourself.
I for one do not trust FEMA, Bonfils, or really any of the "charities" that are accepting donations. Here are a few reasons.
They refused to take people clothes & food donations. Instead they just asked for money. They wanted money, for their timely response they wanted to be rewarded with paper. Like a drug addicted with fresh track marks on his/her arm that promises he will buy a meal with what you give him. But you know where they are taking that change that you give them...
By Paul Joseph Watson & Alex JonesSeptember 1 2005
As the aftermath of hurricane Katrina continues to wreak mayhem and havoc amid reports of mass looting, shooting at rescue helicopters, rapes and murders, establishment media organs are promoting the Red Cross as a worthy organization to give donations to.
The biggest website in the world, Yahoo.com, displays a Red Cross donation link prominently on its front page.
Every time there is a major catastrophe the Red Cross and similar organizations like United Way are given all the media attention while other charities are left in the shadows. This is not to say that the vast majority of Red Cross workers are not decent people who simply want to help those in need.
But what the media fails consistently to remember in their promotion of the organization is that the Red Cross have been caught time and time again withholding money in the wake of horrible disasters that require immediate release of funds.
The Red Cross, under the Liberty Fund, collected $564 million in donations after 9/11. Months after the event, the Red Cross had distributed only $154 million.
The Red Cross' explanation for keeping the majority of the money was that it would be used to help 'fight the war on terror'. To the victims, this meant that the money was going towards bombing broken backed third world countries like Afghanistan and setting up surveillance cameras and expanding the police state in US cities, and not towards helping them rebuild their lives.
Then Red Cross President Dr. Bernadine Healy arrogantly responded when questioned about the withholding of funds by stating, "The Liberty Fund is a war fund. It has evolved into a war fund."
Despite the family members of victims of 9/11 complaining bitterly to a House Energy and Commerce Committee's oversight panel, the issue seemed to be brushed under the carpet and the mud didn't stick.
The Red Cross' scandalous activities reach back far before 9/11.
After the devastating San Francisco earthquake in 1989, the Red Cross passed on only $10 million of the $50 million that had been raised, and banked the rest.
Similar donations after the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 and the Red River flooding in 1997 were also greedily withheld.
Smaller charities that were involved with the 2004 Tsunami relief project went public to say that large charities like Red Cross and United Way were engaged in secret backroom negotiations with each other that meant a large portion of the donation money was purposefully restricted from reaching the most needy areas affected by the disaster.
The history is clear, the Red Cross and other large so-called charities are in actual fact front group collection agencies for the military industrial complex.
Many informed historians have even alleged that the Red Cross was used as a Skull and Bones cover to overthrow The Russian Czar and pave the way for the rise of the Bolsheviks.
Do not give any money to the Red Cross unless you support the expansion of empire abroad and police state at home. Find a smaller trustworthy organization in the local area of New Orleans and make your donation to them.
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Don't Give your Hurricane Katrina Relief Donations to the Red Cross
http://www.infowars.com/articles/us/katrina_no_red_cross.htmCOMMENT:The Red Cross has a long history of thieving and stealing cash donations intended for disaster relief. Even as far back as the Korean War the Red Cross was plundering soldiers' mail and care packages. Some veterans have informed us that they would buy cigarettes from the Red Cross and find a twenty dollar bill or a note from a soldier's mother tucked into the pack.
More recent examples are plentiful. Families of September 11th victims were prevented from receiving half of the donations sent by well meaning citizens to the Red Cross for their aid. The recent Tsunami also was a great money-making opportunity for the Red Cross which was very clear in its calls for donations of only cash which would be much easier for the organization to funnel and launder and steal. Only recently have tsunami survivors begun to see a dime of the money collected on their behalf by the Red Cross.
The Red Cross is very adept at stealing money and looting mail. They have been caught inumberable times but always allowed to get away with their schemes because the organisation is so tightly linked to the establishment. Libby Dole, wife of Senator and powerbroker Bob Dole, was for a long time the head of the outfit. It is an organization by and for the elite insiders designed to gather intelligence and steal from those who need aid.
The International Organization of the Red Cross is a secret intelligence agency that has acted as an arm of the British Intelligence Services since its inception.
If you want to help survivors of Katrina, do a little research and find organizations that you can trust or better yet, use available resources and work together with neighbors.
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Red Cross Pocketed Half Of 9/11 Donations
CNN January 3 2005
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Charities swung into action after the September 11 terrorist attacks, raising more than $1 billion. But questions are being raised about where and how and how much of that money is being distributed.
Bearing the brunt Tuesday during a hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee's oversight panel was outgoing Red Cross President Dr. Bernadine Healy.
The Red Cross has raised more than $564 million for the Liberty Fund, which was set up in response to the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
While the agency states on its Web site that it is spending more than any other relief agency responding to the terrorist attacks, it has distributed only $154 million.
Healy was hammered by one New York official for the Red Cross' decision to put aside nearly half of the money raised for future needs that may include terrorist attacks.
"I see the Red Cross, which has raised hundreds of millions of dollars that was intended by the donating public to be used for the victims of September 11 -- I see those funds being sequestered into long-term plans for an organization," testified New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.
Healy later told CNN the Red Cross was a service organization and that previous donations had prepared the agency to deal with September 11.
"We had planned for a weapon of mass destruction attack," she said. "We knew our obligations under the congressional charter. We knew it involved victim assistance and sheltering. We knew that it involved with dealing with rescue workers. We knew that it involved blood."
She also noted that some of the new funding went toward helping communities learn how to deal with other threats, such as anthrax.
The hearing was contentious, with panel members trying to get at the issue of donor intent and whether the Red Cross misled donors.
"What's at issue here is that a special fund was established for these families. It was specially funded for this event, September 11," said Rep. Billy Tauzin, R-Louisiana.
"And it is being closed now because we are told enough money's been raised in it, but we're also being told, by the way, we're going to give two-thirds of it away to other Red Cross needs."
The subcommittee asked Healy and her agency to provide the exact language of all of its television and newspaper appeals for donations.
Healy said what the agency has learned is it needs to explain to the public the mission of the Red Cross.
"Don't confuse us with the 9/11 Fund in New York. Don't confuse us with Habitat for Humanity. Don't confuse us with the scholarship in New York for the victims. We have to get that out," she said.
Controversy over the Liberty Fund was one reason Healy decided to resign at year's end. But she defended the agency's decision of how to use the money.
"The Liberty Fund is a war fund. It has evolved into a war fund," shesaid."We must have blood readiness. We must have the ability to help our troops if we go into a ground war. We must have the ability to help the victims of tomorrow."
A widow who lost her husband in the World Trade Center attack also complained to the panel that what money was available from various charities was tied up in red tape and confusion.
"Why then haven't these charities been able to get together and agree on one uniform application? Why haven't they been able to get together and develop a quicker way for families to receive these funds?" asked Elizabeth McLaughlin of Pelham, New York.
"We all have the missing persons reports, death certificates, and any other proof needed to avoid fraud. But the charities are not sharing these documents and information with each other," she testified in tears.
She told the panel that she had to construct an 18-page spreadsheet to try to keep track of all the requirements of various aid groups.
McLaughlin received a $27,000 check from the Red Cross but fears she may still lose her house without additional aid.
The Red Cross said it has helped 25,000 families with food and temporary shelter, counseling and cash assistance.
[According to Bush, cash is all they want you to donate... see bottom of page to learn what agency is now going to oversee your charity money]
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FEMA Directing Donations to Pat RobertsonSeptember 2 2005
http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.net/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=96484FEMA is directing Katrina donations to none other than the Rev. Pat Robertson.
Millions of Americans and people around the world have rushed to donate money to the victims of Hurricane Katrina, which is shaping up to be one of the worst U.S. disasters in history, if not the worst.
FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, is the lead federal agency in the rescue & recovery operation at work in New Orleans and the Mississippi gulf coast.
FEMA has released to the media and on its Web site a list of suggested charities to help the storm's hundreds of thousands of victims. The Red Cross is first on the list.
The Rev. Pat Robertson's "Operation Blessing" is next on the list.
"It's an outrage," said privacy watchdog Bill Scannell, who alerted Sploid to the FEMA / Robertson scam. "Operation f***ing Blessing? And it's right underneath the Red Cross link!"
FEMA also supports sending money to B'nai B'rith International.
http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=18473*****
How You Can Help Hurricane Katrina Survivors & Victims
http://www.infowars.com/articles/us/katrina_austin_area_help.htmInfowars September 1, 2005
For Infowars readers, listeners and viewers in the Austn area you can help give aid to the survivors of Katrina by contributing donations of food to the Capital Area Food Bank.
The Food Bank is collecting supplies for the victims and will get them to thosemost in need. They are not asking for cash, but actual supplies that they can transport to the Gulf Coast and actually give to those in need
The top 5 items needed are:
1. DIAPERS2. BOTTLED WATER3. PEANUT BUTTER4. TUNA5. GRANOLA/CEREAL BARS
These items can be taken to the food bank directly and even to some participating HEBs.Catastrophic Hurricane Katrina - YOU CAN HELP!CAFB and HEB will be collecting your donations Friday, Sept. 2, 8 AM - 6 PM.Specific items are needed: diapers, bottled water, peanut butter in plastic containers, canned meats with ring-pull lids and granola/cereal bars.
HEB STORES TAKING DONATIONS
1000 E. 41st St. at Red River (Hancock Ctr.) 512.459.651312400 Hwy 71 West 512.263.0528500 Canyon Ridge Dr. 512.973.814311521 N. FM 620 512.249.0558You can also donate at the Food Bank. Click Here for a map-
http://www.austinfoodbank.org/about.php?page=contactAnd as for the Black Associated Charities I spoke about earlier. Here are some of them listed for you that are not in America and yet have more truth and strength in you than the federal govt.
BlackAmericaWeb.com Relief FundPO Box 803209Dallas, TX 75240OR you can make an online donation by going to www.blackamericaweb.com/reliefThis fund has been set up by nationally syndicated radio personality TOM JOYNERNAACP Disaster Relief EffortsThe NAACP is setting up command centers in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama as part of its disaster relief efforts. NAACP units across the nation have begun collecting resources that will be placed on trucks and sent directly into the disaster areas. Also, the NAACP has established a disaster relief fund to accept monetary donations to aid in the relief effort. Checks can be sent to the NAACP payable toNAACP Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund4805 Mt. Hope DriveBaltimore, MD 21215Donations can also be made online at www.naacp.org/disaster/contribute.phpFYI, the NAACP, founded in 1909, is America's oldest civil rights organizationwww.teamrescueone.comSet up by native New Orleans rapper Master P and his wife Sonya MillerYou can mail or ship non perishable items to these following locations, which we have confirmed are REALLY delivering services to folks in need....Center for LIFE Outreach Center121 Saint Landry StreetLafayette, LA 70506atten.: Minister Pamela Robinson337-504-5374Mohammad Mosque 652600 Plank RoadBaton Rouge, LA 70805atten.: Minister Andrew Muhammad225-923-1400225-357-3079Lewis Temple CME Church272 Medgar Evers StreetGrambling, LA 71245atten.: Rev. Dr. Ricky Helton318-247-3793St. Luke Community United Methodist Churchc/o Hurricane Katrina Victims5710 East R.L. Thornton FreewayDallas, TX 75223atten.: Pastor Tom Waitschies214-821-2970S.H.A.P.E. Community Center3815 Live OakHouston, Texas 77004atten.: Deloyd Parker713-521-0641Alternative media outlets where you can get a more accurate and balanced presentation of the New Orleans catastrophe....
www.diversityinc.comwww.alternet.orgwww.blackelectorate.comwww.npr.orgwww.daveyd.comwww.slate.comwww.bet.comwww.allhiphop.comwww.democracynow.orgwww.blackamericaweb.comThanks again for the support you have been giving out there.
I hope this thing gets better fast.
