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8.17.2021

IMO: Afghanistan, Haiti, Cuomo, President Biden, Among other issues


By Gloria DULAN-Wilson

Hello All:





I just love the Monday Morning quarterbacking being bandied about on TV and the media that are saying that the  President's handling of the US troup withdrawal from Afghanistan was botched or messed up, without a clue in how to do it right, and what it takes to be insipid.  None of the commentators - including yours truly - have the right, capacity, expertise or ability to do this particular job.  The only thing President Biden could do under the circumstances - given the principals involved, the Taliban and the Afghanistan, was to pull the bandaid of quickly. 

The warning had already been given  by president Bident - the US is pulling out ALL TROOPS from Afghanistan by the end of August, giving ample time on their part to get visas, make arrangements  to leave - relocate, or reconcile - but when August came about, it was as much the responsibility of the Afghans, as any one else, to be ready with a plan to not be there.  They probably had been accustomed to previous presidents relenting, changing their minds and expanding the number of troops, instead of making good on the threat.  Not doing so was the fault of the Afganis - not the US - and certainly not President  Biden.
 


I have long had a strong objection to weaponizing primitive cultures.  These cultures have existed from Biblical days - they have never come into the 20th century, let alone the 21st, and their feudal wars are centuries old - not just the span of decades.  They are taking age old superstitions and weaponizing them, using their etnic angst to override any sense of restraint; any semblance of humaintarianism - a word that does not even enter the vocabulary of those who see each other as non-human, and whose concept of victory is complete annihilation and destruction of the other tribe.  These people hate each other from a visceral level.  These people are looking for total subjugation - a/k/a slvery - one of the other.  The Afghans would do the same if the shoes were on the other foot.

This was not a "civil" war.  This is an internecine war. (destruction on both sides) - there is no winner; there is no education, there is no food; there are no homes; there are no hospitals, there is not kum-bah-yah moment for either of the two sides.  All the US has been doing is truly delaying the inevitable.  The best we can really do for all concerned is take all the weapons from both sides, and make them duke it out with sticks, knives, and rocks - which is totally appropriate for people not ready for the 21st century.  If, in the interim, principles of humanity,  liberty, equality, fraternity, (stuff Americans and others are still learning, by the way) as well as how to use technology for the benefit of all concerned - along with a basic education (which should include history about both cultures) could be taught to both Adult and Children, perhaps this could have turned around this insipid conflagration everyone is talking about on the news.

So stop saying President Biden did a terrible job. Or that he could have controlled the outcome.  WTFU y'all!  America has more than fulfilled her commitment to the Afghans.  Unless you want us to spend an additional 20 years there, it's time to regroup and focus on things needed here in the US.  In addition to that, the controversy about where to relocate those  people who were instrumental in working for the US is still workable. Whether or not to relocate them all to the US, is not the best idea, and  is something that needs to be given more consideration.  Perhaps relocation to some of the Territories under the US would be a better option.  Stop trying to make America look like the bad guy just because we don't have the capacity to absorb thousands of people from other cultures into the US.  Possibly, shared asylums with other allies might well a positive solution  so we don't have to assume the brunt of the burden. 

At this point the only thing we can really do is pray for the Afghan people - for the Taliban - for the country (such as it is) - for peace - but stand back and let them either figure it out, or wipe each other out in the process.

In the interim, right here in the US, some pretty violent, egregious stuff is going on right under our very noses - the evisceration of our Voting Rights by racist, renegade, backwards governors; the media's denigration of President Biden on a regular basis by the ersatz news media, while pretending to criticize the ersatz former president; the egregious renegade governors getting away with desecration of our constitutional rights with impunity; while one governor who has been the backbone of the party has been kicked to the curb by his own party instead, of being rallied around and given an opportunity to have his say.  These incongruent actions are getting to the subconscious minds of many voters who wonder if the Dems know how to win and then how to maintain a win.  
 
There is such a thing as being too nice, too diplomatic, too patient, too lenient when you are dealing with vipers in your own government.  While I don't agree with what's happening between the Afghans and the Taliban, they at least know who their adversary is, and know when things have reached the point of being non-negotiable.   When you have the winning hand, YOU HOLD ALL THE ACES - YOU PLAY THEM RIGHT THEN, OTHERWISE, YOU SLOW YOU BLOW; YOU SNOOZE YOU LOSE - THE POINT OF NEGOTIATION PASSED - TIME TO MAKE IT HAPPEN - NOW

So, let the Afgans and the Talibans duke it out! or get over their inbred ethnic tribal hatred, and figure out a way to live together and build something beautiful. 

Let's take care of our business right here in the USA, lest we end up with similar circumstances ourselves. 

The tragedy is that there are far too many inborn tribal problems across many othe cultures that appear to continue to linger to the detriment of their country and culture.  Sadly, thus far the caucasoid tribes appear to be the only ones that have successfully reigned in their intratribal differences and consolidated their efforts, talents and have successfully built modern day empires.  A nod to them  for that. 

We are now dealing with some of their renegades (operating under the guise of congressmen, senators, governors, news commentators, commercial sales reps, and just plain old subversives) who are trying to deprive us of our rights and abilities to do the same by passing predatory laws, by hosting mediocre TV media reports, and by sabotaging those very principles that are due us that they have accorded to themselves.  Ironically and unfortunately, the tribe that is supposed to be in our corner appears to have some major divisions of their own, and we are having difficulty dealing with who is really working our behalf.   
 
Sadly, the current political system is in dire need of an enema - possibly a high colonic.  Like the Taliban, the adversarial system of the right wing nut side of this tribe is determine to destroy everyone, and has utilized every negative means in their power to make it happen.  The guise of civility was seriously and scurriously breached on January 6, 2021 when, under the instigation of the ersatz predator in chief, they assaulted the Nation's Capitol.   Their underhanded tactics have been given more than neccessary coverage via the meanstream media,  where the bogus "analyses" have sufficiently given the rightwingnuts more free publicity than they deserve (it's called programming the subconscious mind of the voters by keeping the negative news before them to the exclusion or diminution of the others.  They further exacerbated the problem by making sure they dominated the news, used the methodology of the big like to garner attention, and host hostile events that are violent and ignorant in nature.  Slick way to steal the midterm and putting back under the heel of the Repuglycons.  




Now that their gloves are off, and their underbelly has been revealed, this is no time for playing nice, extensive bogus negotiation, or letting this slide.  The leader for our tribe has the power of the pen - a mighty weapon that he can wield mightily if he uses his gut, his common sense, and follows in the foot steps of predecessors who made bold moves when the adversaries were licking their chops looking for a defeat. I.E. USE THE EXECUTIVE ORDER - IT'S YOUR BEST WEAPON AND BEST DEFENSE AGAINST THE NEFARIOUS SEDITIOUS, TREACHEROUS MACHINATIONS OF THE REPUBLICAN/REPUGLYCON MISCREANTS!

What is our role and responsibility in this?  To stay the course, to advance our influence, to teach and train, to practice power, to educate our base, to expose mediocre media propaganda (b.s. news) messages as faux news, and to become our own central power.   We have to make sure they don't undo all we've done and to triply expand all that we need to do to further secure our rights and enhance our lives.

I'm closing this out by saying following:
 

 
Governor Andrew Cuomo should/must rescind his resignation and force a hearing.  It's ironic that they could force him out of office, but not deal with the egregious blatant overreach of racism on the part of elected officials, clearly and flagrantly in violation of the constitution of the US - who daily heap on some new atrocity in defiance of the law.  Why isn't anyone arresting them?  Why aren't they being forced to step down? Why aren't they arrested and forced out like Cuomo?

God Bless the People of Afghanistan, the people of the US, Africa, and our beloved Diaspora.  
 

 
 
God please help our Haitian Brothers and Sisters to help themselves in the rebuilding of a powerful nation (without the interference of caucasoids); and curses to all who would thwart our efforts to retain our rights regardless of who they are or where they are.



Stay Blessed &
ECLECTICALLY BLACK 

NOW THAT YOU KNOW
WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?





Gloria DULAN-WILSON
STAY BLESSED
 

6.13.2015

EMERGENCY RED ALERT: NEW YORK CITY RENT LAWS EXPIRE IN 3 DAYS - TENANT EMERGENCY!

By Gloria Dulan-Wilson

Hello All:

I just received an announcement from my brother/friend Zach Husser about an upcoming vigil to save the Rent Laws in New York - if they are allowed to expire the already greedy landlords will absolutely run amok and jack up everybody's rents; violate rights with impunity, and push those people who are low and moderate income families into the street.  While these rent laws, such as they are, are a joke, they are still necessary to keep wolves and vampires at bay - lest they really destroy New York.  It really is a matter of separating the needy from the greedy.  But until and unless there are laws that really consider and honor New Yorkers who live, love and work for this City every day, as much as they do those with mega-bucks; this is little more than arranging deck chairs on the Titanic - at some point New York is going to fall by the weight of its own stupidity, rigidity, inhumanity and greed.

This is my response to Zach's message.  The announcement follows.  


Hi Zach:
Thanks for the heads up.  I will pass it on - but please understand that this makes absolutely no sense - in a city where there are so many millions of people who are adversely affected by the actions of a handful of greedy owners; in a city where they depend on our rents just as much as we depend on their property; in a city where they have gone completely ape-shit crazy with rental rates that no regular New Yorker can afford, or should be paying - why are we still having this bogus, dog and pony, phoney negotiation every year? 

It makes no sense! 
When I first moved back to New York from California in 1984, it seemed that people had more power, understood their power, and wielded it - there were rent strikes all over New York back then; but especially in Harlem and Washington Heights (where I lived) against slumlords who were not providing the goods and services that people needed in order to live safely and comfortably in their homes.  It used to be that if you didn't have heat and hot water, you could take the landlord to court and get your rent reduced, or a rebate on the portion of time you were without services, for which you had paid your rent.  But no more.  And I'm curious as to how that came to pass!

Somewhere along the line we have allowed the greedy to vamp on the needy - eating away at their rent control rights; destroying their rent stabilization by pushing the rents beyond the margins into decontrol - and all people do is go to the so called rent leveling board - on which there are no tenants, just landlords, and watch them jack the rents up 2% to 4% or higher each year.

I think that instead of just having demonstrations, there be a massive strike across NYC with the funds going into a special escrow - and then make the legislators do the jobs they were elected to do - provide for the people who live in the city that never sleeps so that they continue living there, secure in the knowledge that some smug landlords don't hold the power of life and death over their heads by threatening the roofs over their heads.

Make Darryl Towns and Andrew Cuomo do their jobs and take care of the people, not the greedy slumlords - stop gentrification; make the "projects" decent, safe places to live.  New York is so "rent" oriented, people never think of owning their own homes - and end up in an ongoing spiral of haranguing with a remote owner who lives out on Long Island, and manipulates their lives from remote control.  Or worse yet, lives out of the country, after having purchased their properties wholesale through mortgage backed securities, and could care less one way or another, as long as their notes are paid and their investments continue to grow.

When rents approach $2000 a month, and a person's salary is  a little over $1500/mo - it's a formula for disaster.  If you've never done it, go into a landlord tenant court in Manhattan and look at who the majority of the people are who are facing eviction because the rents are unconscionable - who are hanging on by a thread practically selling their life's blood in order to stay in an apartment that is no bigger than 250 square feet, but for which they are having to pay some ridiculous sum of money.

It was eight years ago when former Congressman Edolphus ED Towns called a meeting of HUD and the Secretary of Housing to Brooklyn to stop the evisceration of Starrett City - one of the largest Michell-Lama properties in the state.  They're term was coming to an end, and they were getting ready to sell the entire property, which housed some 16,000 low and moderate income families, to a private developer for approximately $20 Million!!  
Towns stepped in and called everybody on the carpet! By the time he got through, the repuglycon appointed Secretary of HUD had resigned, and Towns had gotten the extension of Mitchell-Lama expanded for another 25 years.  He had the legislation passed after hearing testimony after testimony from tenants whose leases were not being renewed; who were being told that they had X-days/weeks/months to vacate.  The private developers were going to push those families out to who knows where, and turn the property into exclusive, private condominiums.  They already had the blueprints, and had had the audacity to even advertise in advance of the sale that this condominium was pretty much a done deal - with even modest studios going for $300,000.  Apparently, no one in the New York legislative body saw anything wrong with - they were too busy counting dollars in pockets to care.  Towns pulled the former head of HPD, Sean Donovan, in to the hearing, as well as the head of New York State DHCR, and other local housing administrators; and put them on notice that it would never happen under his watch.  He got the law passed, and it remains in effect - at least for now!

However, with three days before the end of Rent Laws, we now are in a crisis mode!  And, while I'm happy to say that Laurie Cumbo, Keith Wright, Annette Robinson, Letitia James, Charles Barron and others have demonstrated in Albany, and been arrested in behalf of the citizens - that kind of moxy on the part of our congressional representatives has not been forthcoming.  And it's going to take that to get the point across.


There is nothing  more ridiculous than an ersatz judge sitting in a landlord tenant kangaroo court, pretending to  "negotiate" this whole thing; who at the same time is probably one of the property owners or investors in the very home this person is trying to defend.  They pretend to be egalitarian, but the real truth is they could care less and are being paid - making a profit off of their plight through shadow investments. 

I've seen it in Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx - same stuff, different day.  Mostly BLACK people in the courts, white/Jewish judges on the bench - white/Jewish lawyers - in collusion with each other - while the hapless person, who is either working two jobs, or on welfare with a job on the side; or on social security or some other meagre fixed income being buffeted around in this sham proceeding, which is going to eventually end up with the on the streets, living with relatives or neighbors; or for those with the options, moving completely out of the city/state to a locale where they can better afford to live.  I watched a judge turn out a 75 year old widow from her apartment in Brooklyn - she had been living there for 50 years, since the day she was married - the property should have been under rent control, but somehow the landlord was able to circumvent that.  The poor lady went from paying a small manageable amount to more than $1700. per month! Outrageous - and when she couldn't handle it, that judge told her she had to vacate by the following morning, if she could not come up with the balance; and the marshalls who had been stayed by another judge, would be there to move her out!  
By the way, these draconian, blood sucking rents are in the "DownState" area, not the rest of New York State - we're basically talking Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, Westchester, Long Island.  In the mean time, in these same areas, properties are being warehoused, withheld from the markets, allowed to fall to wreck and ruin, decay and dilapidation until the price goes up - or the value goes so far down they can get permission to bull doze it and put some overpriced construction in its place.  

There are days when we can say "I love New York!" but New York doesn't love us back - at least not under the current circumstances.

Unless this demonstration to save the Rent Laws (such as they are)  is going to be replicated on the steps of City Hall, The State Capitol in Albany, and yes, on the front lawns of some of these property owners, the governor and other people who have decision making responsibilities  - it's only going to be a front page flash in the pan item for the meanstream media.  

There are enough New Yorkers to get their point across - take that same energy and converge on Albany and camp out on the Governor's front lawn and let him know that you are prepared to move in with him, unless he rolls back rent in New York by 20 to 30% immediately if not sooner.  Everything else is just an exercise in futility. 

The embarrassment of this nation is that we call ourselves the leader of the free world - but the truth is that the people who built it can't afford to live in it.  New York is considered the "greatest" city in the world, but her people are being decimated.  Where is the "great" and the "leadership" in that? 

Stay Blessed &
ECLECTICALLY BLACK
Gloria

On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 6:25 PM, Zach Husser, Sr. <issuesandsports@aol.com> wrote:

Folks,

If you haven't read the below news, it's your interest to do so! Spread the word and see What your Church, Tenant Group, Business, and Family of Friends can do to make sure the Rent Laws don't Expire!

In the Interest of Working Together,

Brother Zach          



Subject: Fw: NY: 3 days until rent laws expire!





We are three days from the rent laws expiring.  Rent regulation is the largest source of affordable housing for low-income tenants. But over the last 20 years, weak rent laws have made it easier and more lucrative for landlords to evict residents. Weak rent laws have led to the gentrification of our neighborhoods.



Tenants have been asking for STRONGER rent laws for years. And now, the clock is ticking.  If our Governor allows for the rent laws to expire, he should call a state of emergency.

That’s right!  2.5 million New Yorkers will be at risk of displacement if the rent laws expire and are not strengthened. Click here to send a message to the Governor

Thousands of struggling tenants across New York are just a rent increase away from losing their homes. Tenants across the state need stronger rent laws to protect them, but the Governor is letting them expire.

Send a message to the Governor right now, or click here to tweet to the Governor.  Tell him if the rent laws are not strengthened and expire, there will be a #TenantEmergency.

Thanks for all that you do,


Renata Pumarol
Communications & Social Media Director
New York Communities for Change










  €Ε“The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. -€“ Thomas Paine


HEY NEW YORK CITY!  NOW THAT YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?  IF NO ONE ELSE WILL SAVE YOU, BAND TOGETHER AND SAVE YOURSELVES!

STAY BLESSED &
ECLECTICALLY BLACK
Gloria 
 




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3.13.2014

SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM CONGRESSMAN CHARLES RANGEL TO GAS EXPLOSION VICTIMS AND THE COMMUNITY OF EAST HARLEM






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March 12, 2014
Dear Friend,
I just arrived home after heading straight from the airport to visit the site of the massive explosion in East Harlem. While Congress is still in session, I could not possibly sleep in Washington knowing of the tragic loss of life and injuries caused by the shocking explosion that occurred in the heart of our District. As we continue to pray for the families of those killed or injured in today's catastrophic explosion, my staff and I are taking immediate action to help the displaced and those in need. Many thanks go out to the outstanding rescue workers and first responders who have been on the scene saving lives, controlling the fire, and dealing with the aftermath of the explosion. We are closely monitoring the situation, and we are in constant communications with our federal, state and local partners as events unfold.

I have spoken to Gov. Cuomo and will work with him to secure assistance for the victims, families and small business owners. I thank Mayor de Blasio for his quick response to provide expedient assistance to the community and Assemblyman Robert Rodriguez who came down from Albany to help as well.  Together with the Governor, we will keep the President apprised of the situation as we follow up with the NTBS (National Transportation Safety Board) team's investigation.

My staff and I are also working with clergy and other community leaders, including Matthew Washington of Community Board 11 to assist in the relief efforts. They are collecting donations of food and clothing only. All monetary donations should go to the Red Cross, which has set-up a Reception Center at P.S. 57, located at 176 East 115th Street (between Lexington Avenue and 3rd Avenue). I am thankful to the Red Cross personnel who have provided medical and mental health services as well as meals. Residents seeking information on loved ones who may have been affected by today’s tragic events are urged to call 311 or my office at 212-663-3900.

I am proud to represent a District where people have opened up their homes and offered hands to help their neighbors in any way. I know that we are a resilient community and hope for a swift recovery for all those affected by this tragic unexpected event.
Please visit my website at www.Rangel.house.gov for frequent updates. I value your feedback, so please leave me your comments. It's always a great honor serving you.
Best regards,

Charles Rangel

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