Bed and Breakfast in Harlem, New York

We Americans love to say,"It's a free country."As if somehow our freedom is dependant on someone else.On a superficial level,certainly if you can't be sure that the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are being respected by our government, it is diminished.But true freedom is something else and if we can find this freedom the other will come automatically.

True freedom surely comes from the truth and what could be more simple than the truth?There is only one other choice and that of course is a lie.Where do we find this truth?The truth is inside all of us.It is not buried deep if we can just allow ourselves to look we will find it.Therefore we must know ourselves.This means that we should know what our relationship with the world is,the world of ideas and people and personal relationships with your neighbors,with nature and with the things we possess.

How are we to be aware of anything?We see the birds and the trees and there is a response to a stimulus,we observe this ordinary process,and we don't need to study any books to see what takes place.Through identification you can have pleasure and pain.Our "capacity" is this concern with pleasure and pain,so long as we are looking to this "capacity" we will fail,because the understanding of ourselves does not depend on capacity.This is not a technique that you develop,but it can be tested by the way you talk and the way you behave.Watch yourself without any identification or comparison or condemnation.Most of our activities are unconscious and now you will be aware of these actions but without guilt or blame.

When I condemn something I do not understand it,so be aware with no sense of justification. We begin to understand ourselves,not just the superficial layers of our consciousness,but the motives,our hidden,confused demands,anxieties and fears.

However it is important not to accumulate the experience which awareness brings.It is important to be aware from moment to moment.We cannot approach a problem of relationship which is always new with an old pattern.

This passive awareness does not come from any form of discipline or any practice.It is just to be aware from moment to moment of our thinking and feeling and not only when we are awake but in our dreams.Thus we open the door into the hidden which becomes the known,and we must go beyond the door into the unknown.Reality is not a thing which is knowable by the mind because the mind is the result of the known,of the past and therefore the mind must understand itself and its functioning,its truth,and only then is it possible for the unknown to be.

Many thanks Krishnamurti for your words of wisdom.

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Everyone is a conspiracy theorist.It just depends which conspiracy you choose to believe.According to my understanding you are considered a conspiracy theorist if you don't believe the governments conspiracy theories,which may actually put you in the majority.

These organizations and programs listed below are not theoretical,they are real.So don't make excuses.Be a conspiracy theorist and wear the label with pride,there may come a time when you have to hide what you think,but that time has not yet arrived.


The Bilderberg Group , Council on Foreign Relations , The Trilateral Commission,
Skull and Bones, New World Order, Opus Dei, Knights Templar,
Project for a New American Century, Bohemian Grove

MKULTRA , Area51 , Operation Mockingbird, Operation Phoenix , Cointelpro ,
JFK MLK CIA Operation Garden Plot, Iran-Contra, Loose Change 911

9/11truth , Fema, The Military Commissions Act , Martial Law, HJR 192 ,

Trading with the Enemy Act, Internment Camps , Blackwater, The Carlyle Group,

Prison Industial Complex, Government Agents Immune from Prosecution


Livestock, Meat, Meatrix, Poultry, Corn, Monsanto, Cargill,

Orlando Bosch, and Luis Possada, Whitewater,

Reagan,Bush and Clinton and a small place in western Arkansas called Mena,


The Creature of Jekyl Island, The Money Masters, Fractional Reserve Banking,
Peak Oil, Zeitgeist, Passports, RFID, Family Jewels, Marijuana Tax Act,

Here at home in Harlem, GuineaPigKids,

Or just for fun watch this

And remember,you can always fight back
UCC 3-603, People's Rights, Statute of Limitations, Jurisdictionary, Cracking the Code,


Think on these things:

Ambition

“As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there's a twilight where everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such twilight that we must be aware of change in the air, however slight, lest we become victims of the darkness.”

William O. Douglas

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Once again the Dept. of Justice and the Prison Industrial Complex has been taking advantage of the most vulnerable in our community.Yes, low income teenagers of color suffering from mental disorders due to trauma.I guess if you wanted to reach any lower than that you would have to have an all out attack on babies.
GEMS is a Harlem-based nonprofit organization that offers transitional programs to teenagers and young adults working in the sex industry.In New York City, low-income young women of color are most affected by sexual exploitation and are rarely seen as victims, but rather criminalized for their victimization.The vast majority of young women served by GEMS have histories of extreme trauma prior to exploitation.
Current laws penalize minors arrested for prostitution. If a 14-year-old female is alleged to have consenting sex with a man over 18, the man is charged with rape. If the man pays the 14-year-old for sex,instead of treating the teenager as a victim,the teenager is held criminally responsible.Many teenage prostitutes are sent to juvenile detention centers. Others are often sent to prisons for adults.
For more than a decade, teen-age girls have been the fastest growing segment of the juvenile justice population. While there has been a steady decline in juvenile crime over the past decade, the number of female juvenile arrests has increased by 20% in New York City over the same period.
Once in detention, these teenagers fear the use of make-shift weapons, the chaos that often occurs when girls with mental health needs are inadequately supervised, physical abuse by staff and peers, and their risk of sexual assault when supervised by male counselors. Human Rights Watch researchers reported that many girls experience excessively forceful physical restraints and are subject to multiple forms of sexual abuse. There is a lack of prenatal care and comprehensive health services for pregnant girls. Among the issues pregnant girls report are difficulty in getting enough food, inability to rest, and lack of counseling.
I think most people would be alarmed to learn that our system of justice targets low income teenagers of color many suffering from mental illness due to trauma.Do you think it would be any consolation to these girls to know that slavery was abolished 150 years ago?Can anyone offer a reason why this system is so locked in place that we cannot untangle ourselves from it?We can take thousands of our troops halfway across the world to take on some tyrant that we armed and supported for a decade,but we can't take on our own tyranny right here at home.

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During the Nixon administration,the War on Drugs began and every year since, U.S illegal drug use has gone up, and more and more people are sent to jail.We now have the largest percentage of the population, of any country in the world, that are incarcerated.Most of these inmates are black and many are from inner city areas like Harlem,even as statistics show that whites take far more drugs than blacks.These are old statistics taken 10 years ago, by the Department of Health and Human Services but show a clear picture of real numbers.
"With respect to absolute numbers, most current illicit drug users are white. There were an estimated 9.9 million whites (72 percent of all users), 2.0 million blacks (15 percent), and 1.4 million Hispanics (10 percent) who were current illicit drug users in 1998"
There seems to be an abundance of evidence of CIA involvement in both the heroin and cocaine trade since the 1950's.The growth of the Golden Triangle's heroin trade was revealed inadvertently, by the Agency itself when it leaked a classified report on the Southeast Asian opium traffic to the New York Times. The CIA analysis identified twenty-one opium refineries in the tri-border area where Burma, Thailand, and Laos converge and reported that seven were capable of producing 90 to 99 percent pure No. 4 heroin. Of these seven heroin refineries, the most important were located in the areas around Tachilek, Burma; Ban Houei Sai and Nam Keung in Laos; and Mae Salong in Thailand. Many of those refineries were located in areas totally controlled by paramilitary groups closely identified with American military operations in the Golden Triangle.
Soon after the war ended in Vietnam in the mid 70's,the Soviets invaded Afghanistan and opium production rose though the 1980's.By 1986 a Department of State report describes Afghanistan and the bordering tribal areas of Pakistan as “the world's leading source of illicit heroin exports to the US and Europe. The sale of this opium played an important part in the finances of the CIA-backed Afghan rebels,as reported in the New York Times 6/20/86.
On the other side of the world, cocaine was used to finance the war in Nicaragua, in support of the Contras,Ronald Reagan's "freedom fighters".This story was documented in Gary Webb's book Dark Alliance.The story makes the allegation that beyond selling drugs in America in the 1980's, the U.S.-backed Contra rebels, fighting a Cuban-backed Nicaraguan regime, were largely responsible for introducing crack-cocaine into the U.S. This issue raised interest to the point that a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence had hearings on it. It stated, "There are some serious questions as to whether or not U.S. officials involved in Central America failed to address the drug issue for fear of jeopardizing the war effort against Nicaragua."
George Herbert Walker Bush served as Gerald Ford’s Director of Central Intelligence from November 1975 to January 1977. He was the first CIA outsider to hold the agency's top position. During his tenure he maintained a policy of disinformation and secrecy, despite a public show of cooperation with congressional investigations of CIA abuses such as assassination plots using Mafia hit men. In September 1976, Chilean dissident leader Orlando Letelier was assassinated in Washington D.C. by agents of DINA, Chile’s secret police. The CIA knew of such plots, and the two assassins entered the U.S. using fake Paraguayan passports. But the FBI was kept in the dark about this information.
After Ronald Reagan won the presidency and chose Bush as his vice president, Bush cast three tie-breaking votes to renew chemical weapons production, supported sale of missiles to terrorist Iran and the illegal arming of the Nicaraguan contras and other paramilitary groups.This would appear to put Bush front and center of the Iran Contra scandal but somehow he mysteriously and successfully managed to put himself "out of the loop".
In 1988 Bush became president.On Dec. 20, 1989, in what was probably the most destructive and expensive manhunt in history, George Bush launched a full-scale invasion of, Panama. 4000 Panamanians were killed during this illegal invasion. General Noriega had been an asset of the CIA, the National Security Agency and other government agencies for 20 some years.
Noriega had a role in covert U.S. operations. He was an important player in the training and resupply of the Nicaraguan rebels. An earlier investigation into Noriega's gunrunning was discouraged by Washington, primarily because of former White House aide Oliver North's involvement and rumors of drug running by CIA pilots to pay for contra guns.
Defense lawyers,for Noriega tried behind the closed doors of U.S. District Court Judge William Hoeveler's ninth-floor chambers in Miami to win the release of classified documents. . Noriega had dealt with drug traffickers as part of a Washington- sanctioned arrangement. Many of the crimes General Noriega committed, he did for and on behalf of the U.S. government,but many of the texts already made available hardly proved revealing. Censors had taken a giant white-out brush to entire pages on Noriega's dealings with Bush, North and the late CIA Director William Casey.
In July 1994, in the Arkansas Crime Inc. paper, an editorial linked Clinton to Iran-Contra. Shortly afterwards evidence started to surface that documented Clinton’s link to Iran-Contra. People alleged under sworn statements that Clinton profited from an operation at Mena Arkansas by laundering money through the newly created Arkansas Development Finance Authority. That was just the tip of the iceberg regarding what was really going on at Mena. A larger number of people testified under oath that the airplanes returning from Central America were loaded with cocaine, which was then dropped over Arkansas for distribution to larger U.S. cities.
In July 2000, more than a year before the United States knocked it out of power, the Taliban banned the cultivation of opium, leading to a sharp decline in production.In 2001 a 12-member team from the U.N. Drug Control Program spent two weeks searching most of the nation's largest opium-producing areas and found so few poppies that they did not expect any opium to come out of Afghanistan for that year.
The Drug Enforcement Administration declined to comment.
Since the invasion of Afghanistan in the fall of 2001,the illicit trade soared despite the injection of hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign aid to fight the drug over the past two years. While many analysts and political experts attribute the increase in the cultivation and trade of opium to the U.S.occupation of Afghanistan, Western media blames the ousted Taliban regime and warlords for the illicit trade.
While the Bush administration repeatedly claims that it is committed to curbing the Afghan drug trade, statistics prove that the U.S. occupation has served to restore rather than eradicate the drug trade.
Drug production has soared since the U.S. occupied the country in 2001. 61,000 hectares of poppy had been cultivated during the crop season in 2003 compared with 30,750 in 2002, according to White House figures released in November 2003.
A Virginia-based research group,Global Advisory Services,stated,"To build these alliances, unfortunately, we've had to make some arrangements, compromises with people who, frankly, may have some history of involvement with the drug trade and may be even currently protecting the drug trade". Once again it's the CIA that is in control of the drug trade in the region and we see two things. First, the world has seen an explosion of heroin from the region. Second, the cash flows from the smuggling are now being directed through U.S. banks and stocks. That is what the CIA does best.

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................I think therefore, I think I am.

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There is a large doctor's office on East 65th st.Anytime you go, there are crowds of people.The 2 main doctor's there Yaffe and Ruden are rarely seen.They are men,but most of the other doctor's are women.I hardly ever go to a doctor but I got lime disease twice last summer so I needed to take antibiotics.I never went for a follow up the last time I was treated.I hate doctor's.Then this December I felt what seemed to be an infected mole on my back,but I couldn't see it.I waited for it to go away on it's own.But it stuck around like an unwelcome in law.
Towards the end of January I was on the beach with my son and as we walked along the shore line,I asked my son to look at my back.The way he described it made me think of lime disease.I thought, maybe the last treatment had not worked, so now I was really worried.The thought of the rest of my life in pain was not a happy one and over the week-end I totally convinced myself that it was lime disease.
Monday morning when I got back,I called the doctor and made an appointment and arrived about 1 hour late, which turned out to be exactly on time.The doctor took one look and discounted my diagnosis by reassuring me that it was not lime but an infected mole and I probably had cancer.
Wow! What a relief that was.I was not going to spend the next 30-40 years of my life in pain,it would be over and done with, in a matter of months.They gave me antibiotics for the infected mole and on a return visit the next week,after twisting my arm, gave me a complete check-up and removed the mole for a biopsy making sure to mention the "cancer word" about 3 times.I ignored the doctor's remarks.I was told that I would hear from them within a week or so and I left making sure not to make an appointment for "that very important colonoscopy".If I already got cancer ,what would be the point?
About a week later the doctor. calls about the check up business and tries to tell me that my liver results look a little suspect, but that could be to do with the antibiotics that I am on, and I should make another appointment to do another check up.
Two weeks have passed and I am still waiting to hear whether I have cancer or not.

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