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Another insanely Orwellian titled piece of legislation will soon be presented to the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate for a vote. It is a bill to ban organic farming.

Organic farming produces fruits and vegetables without pesticides or other harmful chemicals.

The House the proposal, known by the innocuous title “Food Safety and Modernization Act” (Bill HR 875), not surprisingly has the support of Monsanto, a giant American chemical and engineering corporation.

More on this potentially dangerous law in another post.

We treasure the wisdom of the elders. We hold in high esteem their life experience; that is why we celebrate the life of the late John Hope Franklin who departed this existence on March 25, 2009. He was 94 years old.

The late John Hope Franklin was a chronicler of American history and a civil rights activist.

He was president of Phi Beta Kappa, the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the Southern Historical Association. He was Professor Emeritus of History at Duke University.

Franklin is probably best known for his work “From Slavery to Freedom”, first published in 1947, and regularly updated. This historic writing has sold an more than three million copies have been. In 1995, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. (more…)

Recently John Hope Franklin the American historian and activist died at the age of 94. His life and times are a reminder to all of the complete history of the United States of America.

John Hope Franklin recorded the American experience from the black perspective in order to give the world and its future generations the full story of this incredible nation.

“My specialty is the history of the south. That means I teach the history of blacks and whites.”~  in a 1990 interview, John Hope Franklin , historian

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John Hope Franklin a revered American academic, teacher and historian died last week at the age of 94.

Among his academic achievements and scholarly awards:

The first black man to deliver a paper to  Southern Historical Association. In 1970 he was elected president of the previously segregated organization.

The first black president of the American Historical Association.

He was instrumental in the opening of the first chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa “honor society” – a national organization which inspires academic excellence – at  historically black university, Fisk University, where Franklin began his own higher education.

In Britain, he held the Pitt professorship of American history and institutions at Cambridge University.

Franklin taught all over the world – in China, the Soviet Union, Australia and Zimbabwe. (more…)

Even before this massive economic fuster cluck became evident to the masses we were writing complaints about the system and well known banking companies like Skank of America.

The following is another in a continuing series to educate and inform visitors to this site-consumers,  about the banking/financial industry especially in America.

Today we are pleased to present Scott Bateman a political cartoonist of renown. We’re fans of Scott. We hope you will be joining us as we follow his political cartoons.

Here now Scott Bateman provides answers to a 1947 film that promotes the idea that all of us should be to going to the bank.

Recently we witnessed the interview by Jon Stewart, comedian and host of Comedy Central’s Daily Show, a basic cable service program known for its send up of the news; of Jim Cramer, CNBC’s Mad Money man, the guy in whom, according to the cable financial news network we should put our trust.

Firstly, that the serious interview can only come on a comedy news program is almost a tragedy and says loads about where we are in this country concerning money matters.

Secondly, that only on a comedy show, and on a basic cable comedy show,  is it being mentioned and even admitted this financial crisis was no accident but something those in the industry could see coming and have been building towards for more than 10 years, speaks to the deliberate ignorance and deceit in which the public is kept.

Thirdly, that these financial reporting experts, with their own financial experts not only knew what was going to happen, but planned it to happen, and then turned around and blamed the ordinary homeowners, the ordinary Americans who no one ever claimed or expected should be knowledgeable in finances–that’s why they trust experts–while taking none of the blame themselves, speaks of unmitigated gall, indecency and should arouse, but for some reason does not, true outrage.

The average American is so financially astute that there are many people who can not make correct change from a dollar when the item costs thirty-nine cents. There are unprecedented numbers of people who do not have a clue about the economy, or banking which is the way certain people in our society like it. (more…)

Read the latest about the pending marriage of Richard Williams to Lakeisha Graham. In case you didn’t know Richard is the father and coach of internationally known tennis sensations sisters Venus and Serena Williams.

There are many people who believe the idea of a Wal-Mart Bank is really scary.

There are several good reasons why a Wal-Mart Bank would work. The economic times have changed requiring radical solutions. A Wal-Mart Bank is one result of “thinking outside the box”. (more…)

Unconfirmed word on the Street–Wall Street, is that Bank Of America and CitiGroup may be removed from the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

The Dow or DJI is one of several stock market indicators, created by Wall Street Journal editor and Dow Jones & Company co-founder Charles Dow during the 1800s. It is a way of showing how certain stocks have traded.
Dow compiled the index to gauge the performance of the industrial sector of the American stock market. After the Dow Jones Transportation Average, which Dow also created it is the second-oldest U.S. market index.

You would think after taking as much of our money as both Skank of America and Shiti-Group have taken they could hold onto their positions as leading indicators of the U.S. economy…

From Jonathan Jarvis, a Los Angeles, California based designer, comes The Crisis of Credit Visualized. Jarvis has taken an extremely complex topic and in this animation provides the essence of the situation for those who are unfamiliar and uninitiated.
The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.