From MLK to Obama, Bronx

Hey Bronx, what you say with the descent in leadership from Martin Luther King, down to the low-lying

Pres. Obama?  It's a mess, plus that Hurricane Irene too.  When does the electricity get back on

Connecticut?  Here's another reason to Occupy Wall St. NYC, NY Sat. Sept. 17th, and to admit that

Larouche was right all along.

REP. JOHN LEWIS: "WHAT WOULD KING SAY TO OBAMA?"


In an op-ed in Sunday's Washington Post, Rep.

John Lewis, the last surviving speaker from the 1963 March on

Washington (where Martin Luther King gave his "I have a dream"

speech), asks "What would King Say to Obama?" Unfortunately,

Lewis does not tell the truth: that Dr. King would tell the

traitor to pack his bags and get out of the White House. But at

least he makes clear that King would have to tell the President

of all the things he should be doing, which he clearly is not.

Lewis says King's message was about much more than race, but

about "building a society based on simple justice that values the

dignity and the worth of every human being." In that regard,

"his message would still be essentially the same. It is

troubling that unemployment is so high -- indeed, far higher than

it was in 1963 -- and that we are so caught up in details of

deficits and debt ceilings that we question whether government

has any moral duty to serve the poor, help feed the hungry and

assist the sick."

As to Obama, Lewis notes that "Dr. King recognized the power

of one man to transform a nation." So what has Obama done? "Dr.

King would tell this young leader that it is his moral obligation

to use his power and influence to help those who have been left

out and left behind. He would encourage him to get out of

Washington, to break away from handlers and advisers and go visit

the people where they live," the working people and the poor -- a

clear reference to Obama's "jobs tour" which avoided all the

inner cities.

Lewis added: "Dr. King would say that a Nobel Peace Prize

winner can and must find a way to demonstrate that he is a man of

peace, a man of love and non-violence. He would say it is time

to bring an end to war and get our young men and women out of

harm's way. Dr. King would assert without hesitation that war is

obsolete, that it destroys the very soul of a nation, that it

wastes human lives and natural resources."

Hurricanes, Flooding and the Bronx NY

Hurricane Irene seemed pretty good until I got the reports that there is flooding in Elmsford NY.  That is near the hotel that we are staying at, so it may block are route back to the Bronx NY.  Also I was listening to the news and there is also flooding on the Major Deegan Expressway by exit 10 for West 230th St. in the boogie down Bronx.

Bronx Dudes, There's a Big Crisis

Hey Bronx dudes, let's look at the world beyond the shores of Orchard Beach.

We're in an existential crisis, in which the happy sounds of


what happened to all these species that were killed, 98% of the

known, living species, once-living species in this Solar System,

and beyond, were wiped out because they became obsolete. And

only mankind, to the best of our knowledge, has ever beaten that

rap! And we are determined to beat that rap. I'm confident we

can do it.


And others here can speak to that effect. We had a joke,

which is not a joke, the joke of the concept of creativity, and

that really is our subject. But we had a case of we're sitting

down with someone, who's an influential figure in his own right,

and associated with other influential figures in our society, and

we spoke in terms, which signify, like Riemann's conception of

creativity: When you leave the domain of ordinary thought, you

enter a domain of creativity, creativity per se. And you're

gripped by it. We were gripped by it! Sky and I were

particularly gripped by it. We had a similar reaction.

We are a key part, with other people, in this country and in

other countries, of significant people who are committed to real

creative productivity. And it was a highly spiritual quality of

experience, to share that discussion. We went from a "nice"

discussion, a nice, practical discussion, a nice scientific

discussion, to a more quietly impassioned view of the mission

before us, more than just simply, a typical Riemann account. No,

we have a leadership. Alicia knows a good deal of this, we have

other people who are not here in the room presently, who also

know a good deal about this, which we discussed this afternoon.

And you'll get more of it, in the course of the evening, as

we discuss things, it'll come out.

Wall St. NY Could Blow, Bronx

Hey Bronx, wake up to the fact that Wall St. could blow, banks and all.  The Guardian and Wall Street

Journal both warned, today, that the European interbank market has frozen up,

with banks panic-hoarding their cash in fear that one or more

major European banks are about to go under. The Journal reported

that banks are turning to the U.S. for overnight lending from the

Fed's discount windows, further confirming reports that President

Obama had assured German Chancellor Angela Merkel last month that

the U.S. would continue to be the ``lender of last resort'' for

the European Monetary Union.

The reality is that the entire trans-Atlantic banking system

is in a meltdown right at this moment. One senior U.S.

intelligence source reported this morning that the ``Big Six''

too-big-to-fail Wall Street banks have between $1-1.5 trillion in

exposure in Spain and Italy alone, and that it is no longer

possible to separate out the banking collapse in the United

States from that in Europe. The same source confirmed the

freeze-up of interbank lending, blaming the freeze, in large

measure, on the belief that the Spanish banks, led by Santander,

are in the greatest danger of immediate default.

Bernanke and Geithner know, the source concluded, that they

have to go for QE3 right away, but they don't even dare raise it

at next week's FOMC meeting, because the opposition is so fierce.

There are one million new foreclosures already in the pipeline,

delayed by the scandals. All told, there are 4.5 million more

foreclosures coming; the banks cannot make up for these losses

by charging exorbitant fees to their depositors. We have reached

a break point, he concluded.