thelibertybeacon--2020-06-25--BET Founder says ‘black people laugh at white people’ toppling statues

( TLB ) ed : Pew Research Center says 46 percent of BLM Protestors are white .
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[ Black Entertainment Television ] BET founder Robert Johnson during a Wednesday interview with Fox News described people toppling statues as “ borderline anarchists ” and pushed back against the idea that black people support such behavior , suggesting instead that they “ laugh ” at those who knock down the statues .
“ You know black people , in my opinion , black people laugh at white people who do this , the same way we laugh @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to take off the TV shows , ” he said mentioning the “ Dukes of Hazard , ” a decades-old television program that has come under fire for featuring a car emblazoned with a Confederate flag graphic .
He pointed out that knocking over a statue will not “ close the wealth gap , ” “ give a kid whose parent ’ s can ’ t afford a college money to go to college , ” “ close the labor gap between what white workers are paid and what black workers are paid @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or food stamps.
” Johnson said that whites who seek to “ assuage guilt by doing things that make them feel good ” would be much more reluctant to support payments for blacks .
Referring to actions such as “ changing names , toppling statues , [ and ] firing professors because they said all lives matter , ” Johnson explained that “ it just shows to me that white America is continually … incapable of recognizing that black people have their own ideas and thought about what ’ s in their best @ @ @ @ @ @ @ should be consulted before people take actions like tearing down statues or firing someone for a comment they have made .
“ Give us the belief that you respect our opinion .
You go out and do something and destroy something , fire somebody because you think it hurts us .
Why don ’ t you ask us first if it hurts us before you go and say ‘ Oh , I got ta do something for the negroes to make them feel better.
’ Well ask us if we want you to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , ” he said .
Johnson likened white people ’ s actions attempting to make black people “ feel good ” to “ rearranging the deck chairs on a racial Titanic .
It absolutely means nothing , ” he said .
Johnson ’ s comments come as debates rage across the country in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd—in some cases protestors have defaced and toppled statues .
President Trump has come out against changing the names of military installations named after Confederate leaders .
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BET Founder says ‘black people laugh at white people’ toppling statues
His comments come as statues have been toppled recently around the country
By Alex Nitzberg
[Black Entertainment Television] BET founder Robert Johnson during a Wednesday interview with Fox News described people toppling statues as “borderline anarchists” and pushed back against the idea that black people support such behavior, suggesting instead that they “laugh” at those who knock down the statues.
“You know black people, in my opinion, black people laugh at white people who do this, the same way we laugh at white people who say we got to take off the TV shows,” he said mentioning the “Dukes of Hazard,” a decades-old television program that has come under fire for featuring a car emblazoned with a Confederate flag graphic.
He pointed out that knocking over a statue will not “close the wealth gap,” “give a kid whose parent’s can’t afford a college money to go to college,” “close the labor gap between what white workers are paid and what black workers are paid” or “take people off welfare or food stamps.”
Johnson said that whites who seek to “assuage guilt by doing things that make them feel good” would be much more reluctant to support payments for blacks.
Referring to actions such as “changing names, toppling statues, [and] firing professors because they said all lives matter,” Johnson explained that “it just shows to me that white America is continually … incapable of recognizing that black people have their own ideas and thought about what’s in their best interests.”
He suggested that black people should be consulted before people take actions like tearing down statues or firing someone for a comment they have made.
“Give us the belief that you respect our opinion. You go out and do something and destroy something, fire somebody because you think it hurts us. Why don’t you ask us first if it hurts us before you go and say ‘Oh, I gotta do something for the negroes to make them feel better.’ Well ask us if we want you to do that to make us feel better,” he said.
Johnson likened white people’s actions attempting to make black people “feel good” to “rearranging the deck chairs on a racial Titanic. It absolutely means nothing,” he said.
Johnson’s comments come as debates rage across the country in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd—in some cases protestors have defaced and toppled statues. President Trump has come out against changing the names of military installations named after Confederate leaders.
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Picture credit: BET founder Robert Johnson in May 2018 (Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)
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thelibertybeacon--2020-06-25--Seattle CHOP Leaders Claim “Success”, Urge Protesters To Go Home

( TLB ) ed : More Seattle news below , “ Local businesses sue Seattle for ‘ enabling ’ chaotic CHAZ encampment that led to ‘ rampant violence ’ ” Protesters at Seattle ’ s “ Capitol Hill Organized Protest ” ( CHOP ) zone are being encouraged by community leaders and an activist whose brother was fatally shot by city police in 2016 to leave the “ occupied ” protest zone .
A Twitter account , which claims to be the “ official account ” for CHOP , posted a statement on Wednesday addressed to “ comrades in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the area that was established earlier this month in the wake of Black American George Floyd ’ s death in police custody .
“ The CHOP project is now concluded , ” the message said .
It is unclear who runs the Twitter account , however , the statement was signed as from “ the Capitol Hill Solidarity Committee.
” “ Last night , Solidarity Committee received notice from some of our trusted partners that persons in the park were in danger .
We immediately implemented our emergency relocation plan , successfully evacuating @ @ @ @ @ @ @ no danger materialized .
However , we are now left with the reality that very few people remain in our beloved CHOP , ” the message continued .
It called on protestors occupying the zone to “ continue the struggle ” through social media platforms such as Twitter , Facebook , Instagram , and Snapchat , adding : “ We have held city officials accountable and can continue to do so in a way that is safe for everyone.
” The message then called on supporters to vote for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Jay Inslee ( D ) , and Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan ( D ) .
It comes after Durkan announced on Monday that officials were working to dismantle the blocks-long span of city streets that President Donald Trump asserted was run by “ anarchists , ” after a shooting left one person dead over the weekend .
Three other shootings have been reported in the area in recent days .
Durkan said at a news conference that the violence was distracting from changes sought by thousands of peaceful protesters seeking to address @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of protestors , however , are reportedly refusing to budge despite increasing calls to do so .
They say their demands to slash police budget by 50 percent and distribute funds to community efforts have not been met .
“ Our demands aren ’ t met , ” one man who had set up his tent outside the Seattle Police Department ’ s abandoned East Precinct building told The Seattle Times .
“ Why would we leave ?
” Durkan on Wednesday submitted a “ Budget Rebalancing ” document ( pdf ) that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the city ’ s police department budget in a bid to address a series of challenges that include “ a movement to demand anti-racist action , to divest and rethink policing , and end institutional racism.
” The mayor ’ s proposal for a $ 20 million cut amounts to a 5 percent cut , according to The Seattle Times .
The earliest scheduled vote on the rebalancing legislation and amendments is on July 1 , according to an official committee meeting schedule .
“ Not This Time ” founder Andre Taylor , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Seattle police four years ago , said the violence in the occupied zone distracts from key messages about racial injustice .
Last year , the local county prosecutor overseeing Taylor ’ s case said that charges against the police officers who opened fire on Taylor would not be filed after a majority of jurors said they believed the officers thought Taylor posed a “ threat of death or serious bodily injury.
” Andre argued that he believes the officers internalized their fear in the lead up to the confrontation as they observed Taylor @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s “ official ” Twitter account said they were told that the zone would be dismantled “ no later than early next week.
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Seattle CHOP Leaders Claim “Success”, Urge Protesters To Go Home
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Post, Tyler Durden | Author, Isabel van Brugen via The Epoch Times
Protesters at Seattle’s “Capitol Hill Organized Protest” (CHOP) zone are being encouraged by community leaders and an activist whose brother was fatally shot by city police in 2016 to leave the “occupied” protest zone.
A Twitter account, which claims to be the “official account” for CHOP, posted a statement on Wednesday addressed to “comrades in the struggle,” encouraging protesters to leave the area that was established earlier this month in the wake of Black American George Floyd’s death in police custody.
“The CHOP project is now concluded,” the message said.
“While we expect a very small handful of holdouts may try to remain in the CHOP, no further organizing will be occurring to support this presence and the number on-site will be too small to be more than an annoyance for pedestrians rather than a zonal blockade.”
It is unclear who runs the Twitter account, however, the statement was signed as from “the Capitol Hill Solidarity Committee.”
“Last night, Solidarity Committee received notice from some of our trusted partners that persons in the park were in danger. We immediately implemented our emergency relocation plan, successfully evacuating most of the park. Thankfully, no danger materialized. However, we are now left with the reality that very few people remain in our beloved CHOP,” the message continued.
Better angle of the police station. Huge sign says “This space is now property of the Seattle people.” pic.twitter.com/MTvEMqt7Zf — Bowen Xiao (@BowenXiao_) June 12, 2020
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It called on protestors occupying the zone to “continue the struggle” through social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat, adding: “We have held city officials accountable and can continue to do so in a way that is safe for everyone.”
The message then called on supporters to vote for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, to reelect Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D), and Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan (D).
It comes after Durkan announced on Monday that officials were working to dismantle the blocks-long span of city streets that President Donald Trump asserted was run by “anarchists,” after a shooting left one person dead over the weekend. Three other shootings have been reported in the area in recent days.
I spent nearly 1 week inside #CHAZ interviewing different people and documenting what I saw. Here’s what I found: https://t.co/TqnaXyxZbR — Bowen Xiao (@BowenXiao_) June 17, 2020
Durkan said at a news conference that the violence was distracting from changes sought by thousands of peaceful protesters seeking to address racial inequity and police brutality.
“The cumulative impacts of the gatherings and protests and the nighttime atmosphere and violence has led to increasingly difficult circumstances for our businesses and residents,” she said. “The impacts have increased and the safety has decreased.”
Dozens of protestors, however, are reportedly refusing to budge despite increasing calls to do so. They say their demands to slash police budget by 50 percent and distribute funds to community efforts have not been met.
“Our demands aren’t met,” one man who had set up his tent outside the Seattle Police Department’s abandoned East Precinct building told The Seattle Times. “Why would we leave?”
As part of the 2020 and 2021 budget, we will be looking at @SeattlePD‘s culture and budget. Police should not always be first people on the scene to deal with every call for help. Not every 9-1-1 call requires someone with a firearm to show up. — Mayor Jenny Durkan (@MayorJenny) June 23, 2020
Durkan on Wednesday submitted a “Budget Rebalancing” document (pdf) that seeks to cut $20 million from the city’s police department budget in a bid to address a series of challenges that include “a movement to demand anti-racist action, to divest and rethink policing, and end institutional racism.”
The mayor’s proposal for a $20 million cut amounts to a 5 percent cut, according to The Seattle Times.
The earliest scheduled vote on the rebalancing legislation and amendments is on July 1, according to an official committee meeting schedule.
“Not This Time” founder Andre Taylor, whose brother Che Taylor was shot by Seattle police four years ago, said the violence in the occupied zone distracts from key messages about racial injustice.
“If there was no violence, you should’ve stood there for as [long as] you wanted to stay there, but the violence creates a different narrative where the people in authority have to look at it differently,” he told KING-TV. “Our community does not support the violence,” he added.
Last year, the local county prosecutor overseeing Taylor’s case said that charges against the police officers who opened fire on Taylor would not be filed after a majority of jurors said they believed the officers thought Taylor posed a “threat of death or serious bodily injury.” Andre argued that he believes the officers internalized their fear in the lead up to the confrontation as they observed Taylor from afar.
The statement from CHOP’s “official” Twitter account said they were told that the zone would be dismantled “no later than early next week.”
“[It] will be preceded by the removal of barriers and the reopening of streets to traffic,” the statement said.
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thelibertybeacon--2020-06-25--The Black Lives Matter Movement is … the Enemy of African-Americans

The Black Lives Matter Movement is the Enemy of African-Americans The first thing that I have to say is that I am an African-American man living in the Minneapolis area .
I have to state this now ; otherwise , I would probably be called a racist .
Most people think Black Lives Matter is a grassroots , black-created , black-run organization dedicated to fighting racism .
It most certainly is not .
The Black Lives Matter movement is the creation of a group of a few very wealthy individuals , non-profit corporations , and the corporate media .
( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ media is controlled by only six corporations . )
The official Black Lives Matter website , BlackLivesMatter.com , states that Black Lives Matter is a global network foundation that is active in the U.S. , the U.K. , and Canada .
A global network !
Who funds Black Lives Matter ?
It ’ s funded by billionaires George Soros ( Open Society Foundation ) , Rob McKay ( Taco Bell heir ) , the Ford Foundation , the Borealis Philanthropy , the Democracy Alliance , and many others .
Not exactly what I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ If these facts alone don ’ t cause you to rethink the whole Black Lives Matter thing , then you just aren ’ t paying attention .
Check out the links here and here .
Black Lives Matter began in 2013 when the media suddenly started focusing a tremendous amount of attention on what they portrayed as the rise of unjustified , racially motivated killings of African-American men by white police officers .
That ’ s the way that the media portrayed it , but the facts say otherwise .
Are police shootings @ @ @ @ @ @ @ No , they are not .
In fact , they are on the decline .
According to the Juvenile and Criminal Justice Report , the rate of police killings of African-Americans has fallen by 70 % over the last 40–50 years .
Are white racist police the biggest murderers of African-Americans ?
No , far from it .
The Black Lives Matter–media cabal is demonizing the police and portraying them as our number-one foe , but the facts once again say otherwise .
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Report , 2,925 African-Americans @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of them ( 2,600 ) were murdered by other African-Americans .
That same year , 209 African-Americans ( 7 % ) were killed by the police ( justified or otherwise ) .
So let ’ s do the math here : 2,600 African-Americans killed by other African-Americans and 209 killed by the police ( justified or otherwise ) .
So who is killing African-Americans ?
Other African-Americans .
But whom do the media put all of their focus on ?
The “ white racist ” police .
This media-produced false narrative reached its @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The media have practically deified him .
He ’ s in nationwide TV commercials , online ads , public service announcements .
He ’ s on billboards .
( We are talking millions of dollars in advertising .
Who ’ s paying for this ? )
His image is graffitied on buildings , businesses , and walls from coast to coast .
He ’ s on national magazine covers .
This list goes on and on .
Hundreds attended his memorial service and funeral , which included Al Sharpton ( surprise !
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ the mayor of Minneapolis , and many big-name celebrities .
So who is this George Floyd ?
Is he some great civil rights leader ?
No — he was a violent career criminal with a long criminal record .
George Floyd was released from prison in Houston , Texas in 2014 following an arrest for aggravated robbery .
He had been in jail at least five other times .
His arrest record included theft , drug possession , and criminal trespass .
He was also the leader of a home invasion ring .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and Floyd threatened to kill her by pointing a gun at her stomach while they ransacked the place looking for drugs and money .
( Check out the link to his criminal record . )
Nice guy , huh ?
And this is the one that the Black Lives Matter–media cabal is using as its international poster boy .
A violent career criminal .
Well , at least you can ’ t say they don ’ t have a sense of humor .
The Black Lives Matter–media cabal is not what it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is a wolf in sheep ’ s clothing .
They pretend to be the liberal friends of African-Americans , but in reality , they are their mortal enemies .
The policies that they so aggressively push cause nothing but more damage to the African-American community .
Under the guise of eliminating racism , they push a policy to “ Defund the Police.
” This is right on the front of the Black Lives Matter website .
Under the guise of eliminating racism , they push a policy that they call “ Stop The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that promotes the release of prison inmates before their time is up and putting them back on the street .
Under the guise of eliminating racism , they push for the decriminalization of drug offenses and the immediate pardon of all of them existing , with reparations paid to those convicted .
So sum this up .
In the African-American community , where there is the highest crime rate and the biggest problems with drug abuse , they push to release the inmates from prison and put them back on the streets , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and then take away the police .
What do you think the outcome of these policies will produce ?
More crime and drug abuse in the African-American community .
High crime and drug areas minus police equals hell — easy math .
Policies that promote more crime and drug abuse in the black community are what I call anti-black policies .
These guys make the KKK look like angels by comparison .
The Liberty Beacon Project is now expanding at a near exponential rate , and for this we are grateful and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ practical .
For 7 years we have not asked for any donations , and have built this project with our own funds as we grew .
We are now experiencing ever increasing growing pains due to the large number of websites and projects we represent .
So we have just installed donation buttons on our websites and ask that you consider this when you visit them .
Nothing is too small .
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The Black Lives Matter Movement is the Enemy of African-Americans
By: Leslie Taha
The first thing that I have to say is that I am an African-American man living in the Minneapolis area. I have to state this now; otherwise, I would probably be called a racist.
Most people think Black Lives Matter is a grassroots, black-created, black-run organization dedicated to fighting racism. It most certainly is not. The Black Lives Matter movement is the creation of a group of a few very wealthy individuals, non-profit corporations, and the corporate media. (Incidentally, 90% of the U.S. media is controlled by only six corporations.)
The official Black Lives Matter website, BlackLivesMatter.com, states that Black Lives Matter is a global network foundation that is active in the U.S., the U.K., and Canada. A global network!
Who funds Black Lives Matter? It’s funded by billionaires George Soros (Open Society Foundation), Rob McKay (Taco Bell heir), the Ford Foundation, the Borealis Philanthropy, the Democracy Alliance, and many others. Not exactly what I would call a black-run grassroots organization. If these facts alone don’t cause you to rethink the whole Black Lives Matter thing, then you just aren’t paying attention. Check out the links here and here.
Black Lives Matter began in 2013 when the media suddenly started focusing a tremendous amount of attention on what they portrayed as the rise of unjustified, racially motivated killings of African-American men by white police officers. That’s the way that the media portrayed it, but the facts say otherwise.
Are police shootings of African-American men on the rise? No, they are not. In fact, they are on the decline. According to the Juvenile and Criminal Justice Report, the rate of police killings of African-Americans has fallen by 70% over the last 40–50 years.
Are white racist police the biggest murderers of African-Americans? No, far from it. The Black Lives Matter–media cabal is demonizing the police and portraying them as our number-one foe, but the facts once again say otherwise.
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Report, 2,925 African-Americans were murdered in 2018. Eighty-nine percent of them (2,600) were murdered by other African-Americans. That same year, 209 African-Americans (7%) were killed by the police (justified or otherwise).
So let’s do the math here: 2,600 African-Americans killed by other African-Americans and 209 killed by the police (justified or otherwise). So who is killing African-Americans? Other African-Americans. But whom do the media put all of their focus on? The “white racist” police.
This media-produced false narrative reached its pinnacle with the death of George Floyd. The media have practically deified him. He’s in nationwide TV commercials, online ads, public service announcements. He’s on billboards. (We are talking millions of dollars in advertising. Who’s paying for this?) His image is graffitied on buildings, businesses, and walls from coast to coast. He’s on national magazine covers. This list goes on and on. Hundreds attended his memorial service and funeral, which included Al Sharpton (surprise!), the governor of Minnesota, the mayor of Minneapolis, and many big-name celebrities.
So who is this George Floyd? Is he some great civil rights leader? No — he was a violent career criminal with a long criminal record.
George Floyd was released from prison in Houston, Texas in 2014 following an arrest for aggravated robbery. He had been in jail at least five other times. His arrest record included theft, drug possession, and criminal trespass. He was also the leader of a home invasion ring. They entered a woman’s home, and Floyd threatened to kill her by pointing a gun at her stomach while they ransacked the place looking for drugs and money. (Check out the link to his criminal record.)
Nice guy, huh? And this is the one that the Black Lives Matter–media cabal is using as its international poster boy. A violent career criminal. Well, at least you can’t say they don’t have a sense of humor.
The Black Lives Matter–media cabal is not what it makes itself out to be. It is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. They pretend to be the liberal friends of African-Americans, but in reality, they are their mortal enemies. The policies that they so aggressively push cause nothing but more damage to the African-American community.
Under the guise of eliminating racism, they push a policy to “Defund the Police.” This is right on the front of the Black Lives Matter website.
Under the guise of eliminating racism, they push a policy that they call “Stop The Mass Incarcerations.” This is a policy that promotes the release of prison inmates before their time is up and putting them back on the street.
Under the guise of eliminating racism, they push for the decriminalization of drug offenses and the immediate pardon of all of them existing, with reparations paid to those convicted.
So sum this up. In the African-American community, where there is the highest crime rate and the biggest problems with drug abuse, they push to release the inmates from prison and put them back on the streets, let drug use and drug-dealing run wild, and then take away the police. What do you think the outcome of these policies will produce? More crime and drug abuse in the African-American community. High crime and drug areas minus police equals hell — easy math. Policies that promote more crime and drug abuse in the black community are what I call anti-black policies. These guys make the KKK look like angels by comparison.
What we are seeing happening in the world right now under the guise of “eliminating racism” — the destabilization of society, the protest, rioting, looting, burning, and killing — is not a mass of spontaneous grassroots events. It’s all thoroughly coordinated by those at the top of the Black Lives Matter–media cabal. They are indeed the enemy of African-Americans, but they are actually the enemy of us all. African-Americans are just being used as cannon fodder in their game of global domination.
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About the Author: Leslie Taha is an African-American writer, author, artist, and former guest columnist for the Tacoma Tribune. He is the author of the book The Architects of Rap, and he runs the website, “New Africa Radio” … email: [email protected]
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thelibertybeacon--2020-06-26--KEN’S CORNER: 23 Faces of Haunting Memory

Taken from my diary from 1973 to 2005 Our memories fade , and what we once perceived as truth are redefined as we mature… and so will it again in the future .
This is why I take pictures , and keep a diary .
It is a record of a reality we had , something we held as truth… but , as time moved on , a frosted lens is placed over our memories , and at times , we might think it has been completely forgotten .
It is a mechanism to keep our sanity on a conscious @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on a subconscious level .
Nothing is forgotten , though it might be sealed from conscious view for a reason… .
However , what we are ( our reality ) ( our perceptions ) consciously might not have nearly as much influence as what we are subconsciously , as every moment in our lives is recorded .
These lost and misplaced memories promote us to react to life in a certain ( unconscious ) way .
Seemingly unreasoned fears , suspicions and self-doubts , inhibition and shyness , are all results of what @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or not… and going back to those forgotten memories may open doors to a more lucid , and truthful future .
The following are excerpts from my diaries , from 1973 to 2005 .
Paragraphs describing people I knew who had died , and I ’ m sure there are hundreds more… Here are 23 .
A fishing partner was a friend of a friend .
He had a good job , responsible , and well respected .
He lived in a good home , with giant indigenous fish aquariums , a cigar @ @ @ @ @ @ @ guns and fishing rods , a beautiful wife and three wonderful kids .
One night at supper , she confided in my wife that he was abusive , on drugs , and was never home because of hunting and fishing .
One year later , I got a phone call from our mutual friend to tell me he had killed his wife and himself in a argument over divorce papers .
He had put the three children in a locked room while they argued , and in a rage shot her three times @ @ @ @ @ @ @ she ran out of the house .
He then took a shotgun and shot her in the head as she tried to crawl away on the front lawn .
He wrote a note on one of the first computers ever made , and shot himself as the police came in the front door .
That note was never released .
It was determined later in an autopsy that he was strung-out on cocaine .
Both grandparents fought for custody of those kids , and the wife ’ s family finally won .
Pain @ @ @ @ @ @ @ still to this very day .
About a year later I got a phone call from our mutual buddy around midnight .
I could tell he was drinking .
He told me that he had taken the boat out all the way to Chandelier Islands we used to fish , and in the fog he saw George .
George told him he was sorry for what he had done , and was paying for it .
She came into the emergency room on a stretcher saying “ I passed out again ?
Am @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and found a tumor in her brain .
It was Friday , and they were going to operate on Monday morning .
Sunday afternoon we were called stat .
I stood in the corner and saw seven doctors and nurses try to revive her with CPR and electricity stimulation .
The doctors said “ Clear !
” four times and she would jump , almost sitting upright once , but she was gone .
I remember the sound of the monitor ; one long D minor until clicked off .
I remember the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ trying to save her .
So stoic , so full of care , so guarded from the pain of the moment .
She had an embolism , so I remember , and it was all thought : if only that operation would have been earlier .
One of us said it was because of the Sunday Saint ’ s game , and another told him to shut up .
After it was over I looked into her face , into piercing blue eyes full of tears , just as a hand closed them @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to use the phone .
I was the Mud Engineer and night company man on a rig off the coast of Mexico .
I said , “ Sure !
” He dialed the number and said , “ Oh , thank God .
Thank God !
” After he hung up I asked him if everything was alright at home .
“ Oh yes , ” he said , “ My wife ’ s checkup says she does not have cancer.
” He was a red-headed man with a red face , nervous @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cigarette after another .
He wore a large gold crucifix on a thick silver chain , and every morning he would make his own bed and put his bible on his pillow .
One night , soon after , I was awakened by the cook saying he got a call that the mud logger had collapsed in his lab .
I dressed quickly and ran to his unit located right under the rig floor .
I asked several men outside what had happened but they gestured to the open door , not speaking @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and he got a pulse back twice , but it would not stay .
We kept working and time stood still .
I remember his face , and the face of all of us , even my own , as we all decided to stop .
We actually decided to stop .
It took two days before the proper boat came for his body .
We had him wrapped in a large plastic bag , and put him in the cooler with the milk , eggs , and vegetables .
I ate none @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that refrigerator I ’ ll never forget… My best friend since St. Raphael called me a week before he died .
He was 51 .
He told me he wished he had listened to me to quit smoking , and that he would not see his grand-child grow up .
I didn ’ t recognize his face , seven years fighting Renal Cell Carcinoma , and he looked to be the oldest man on earth after the radiation .
I went back to his coffin three times , and was one of six @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The casket was so heavy , and I struggled not to drop him .
I was just as strong as any one of those men , but my side dipped down as I struggled to push it up , and it just didn ’ t make sense .
Several other men wanted to help me , but I wouldn ’ t let them , finally able to get it steady and then up on its carrier .
I remember his face from far back in my life , third grade .
I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we fought in the school- yard , and I choked him to win .
…by sixth grade , we were skipping out of church together on Sunday , and he became my greatest partner .
The next day I was so sore I could barely walk , and was told that adrenaline does that .
All of those faces have come to me in certain times of my life .
I see them melt into the faces of everyone around me , strangers and loved ones alike .
Sometimes , possibly in line @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a young girl so unhappy , so cold , so uncaring , and I see the face of the little black boy dying in Africa with his whole life stretched out in a moment .
I see the tears of a grandmother telling me her granddaughter begged to live , on a man standing on an intersection with a card that reads , “ Hungry and homeless.
” I see them in irresponsibility , in wasted moments , and wasted lives , like men in the chain gang cutting the grass on Camellia @ @ @ @ @ @ @ shaving , my eyes looking back , in both the pain and joy this life can bring , and they have , each and every one , taught me who I am .
From the Author , Ken La Rive – We in the Liberty movement have been fighting to take back this country for less than a decade , peacefully and with the love of God and country in our hearts .
Our banner has been trampled on and displaced by a multitude of distractions , further eroding our nation and the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as we are pulled by forces we can not fathom , powerful entities with unlimited resources stolen from our future , unaccountable trillions printed out of thin air and put on our backs as debt , we must formulate the most pitiful of all questions any patriot might ask in the final hour : Are we going to fight for our master ’ s tyranny , or are we going to demand the return of our civil liberties and Constitution ?
Are we going to choose The Banner of Liberty , or the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be a war for corporate profit , or a war to regain our ability to self govern , as the blood and toil of our forefathers presented to us , their children , as a gift ?
I fear that decision is emanate .
I fear that any decision will be a hard one , but my greatest fear of all is that the decision has already been made for us .

KEN’S CORNER: 23 Faces of Haunting Memory
Taken from my diary from 1973 to 2005
Commentary by TLB Contributing Writer: Ken LaRive
Our memories fade, and what we once perceived as truth are redefined as we mature… and so will it again in the future. This is why I take pictures, and keep a diary. It is a record of a reality we had, something we held as truth… but, as time moved on, a frosted lens is placed over our memories, and at times, we might think it has been completely forgotten. It is a mechanism to keep our sanity on a conscious level, but everything is still there on a subconscious level. Nothing is forgotten, though it might be sealed from conscious view for a reason….
However, what we are (our reality – our perceptions) consciously might not have nearly as much influence as what we are subconsciously, as every moment in our lives is recorded. These lost and misplaced memories promote us to react to life in a certain (unconscious) way. Seemingly unreasoned fears, suspicions and self-doubts, inhibition and shyness, are all results of what we have experienced, whether consciously remembered or not… and going back to those forgotten memories may open doors to a more lucid, and truthful future.
The following are excerpts from my diaries, from 1973 to 2005. Paragraphs describing people I knew who had died, and I’m sure there are hundreds more… Here are 23.
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23 faces of haunting memory
One- Mr. Rickey… We were told by the old man across the street to take all of the fruit we could carry from his narrow property. We climbed his ancient trees, gnarly and twisted to survive, and filled paper bags. He sold my father all of his tools, and was found soon after, alone in his one-room shack, estimated to have been dead for a week. He told me once I was a good boy, and called me “Cowboy,” because I wore a Roy Rodger’s pistol. All of those tools now belong to me. I wondered about him for a long time, dying alone in a one room shack. As an adult I went back to that property, and it was only about 20 feet wide. It seemed immense to a seven-year-old cowboy…
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Two- Jimmy the Bucket… He stole money from his mother, my mother’s great aunt, and was a troubled boy and man. He cursed too much, drank too much, could not hold a job, but always smiled when he saw me. He was fast, and mean, and had been in trouble with the police for many bar fights… He shot himself at 27 while being stopped for a simple traffic violation. I suppose it was just the icing on the cake. He told me once that working in a gas station was not something I should never want to do. I never did. I remember he put his cigarette out on the palm of his hand, to show me his calluses for working… I saw men do that several times in my life. I never could.
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Three- Kenny… His first name was the same as mine, and he called me Kenny Boy. He was the son of my mother’s boss, who sold Sara Coventry jewelry. He would deliver the jewelry to my mother and had a young son and a wife who wore beautiful embroidered blouses, that she did herself. I thought she was beautiful. He woke me up once, on a Saturday morning, by jumping on my bed. It scaring me badly, but his laughter was infectious. I was told by my mother on another Saturday morning, soon after I woke up, that he had been in an accident, and had died. I’ll never forget that feeling when I found out he had been decapitated while closing a service elevator door, and I played that in my mind for years…
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Four- George… A fishing partner was a friend of a friend. He had a good job, responsible, and well respected. He lived in a good home, with giant indigenous fish aquariums, a cigar speed-boat, fast cars, hundreds of guns and fishing rods, a beautiful wife and three wonderful kids. One night at supper, she confided in my wife that he was abusive, on drugs, and was never home because of hunting and fishing. One year later, I got a phone call from our mutual friend to tell me he had killed his wife and himself in a argument over divorce papers. He had put the three children in a locked room while they argued, and in a rage shot her three times at close range in the back as she ran out of the house. He then took a shotgun and shot her in the head as she tried to crawl away on the front lawn. He wrote a note on one of the first computers ever made, and shot himself as the police came in the front door. That note was never released. It was determined later in an autopsy that he was strung-out on cocaine. Both grandparents fought for custody of those kids, and the wife’s family finally won. Pain and accusations divided that family, and still to this very day. About a year later I got a phone call from our mutual buddy around midnight. I could tell he was drinking. He told me that he had taken the boat out all the way to Chandelier Islands we used to fish, and in the fog he saw George. George told him he was sorry for what he had done, and was paying for it.
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Five- The murderer… He talked to me every day as I picked up my new wife from work at the Orleans Levee Board. I never once thought him a murdered, but he always looked sleepy. He was arrested for the murder of a 12 year old black girl. He raped and then strangled her, then stuffed her in his stereo system all night. Police actually checked his apartment but found nothing, but she was in the console where the records went. He slept with his wife in the very next room… She was found weeks later in a swamp, tied in a black trash bag, with the same twine and tape found in his trunk, and his DNA. He confessed. I saw his wife every day after that, but she no longer looked around, too intent on the inside…
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Six- The Black Boy… Integration has everybody nuts, and our world is falling apart with hatred and violence in New Orleans. Crime escalates along with violence, and we were forced to accept what we considered inferior, ignorant, and violent black people infiltrating our turf… I remember the black boy running and falling over a string of trash cans, and over fifty white boys kicking him to death. I remember his two friends running away, getting away, but never saw his face as he melted under a sea of bluejeans, in fronts of the Old Court House, hood territory. I was in that category. The face of the boys kicking however, I still remember. They didn’t mean to kill him, (they said in court) but each wanted one kick, some two, and five of my brothers did life for the murder. It was one kick too many, and five lives for the price of one was an incalculable loss. Life in prison, I was told.
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Seven- my Mawmaws and a PawPaws… All of my grandparents, one at a time, died. Though they could hardly speak English, all to the last could say I love you. Their faces were kind, and filled me with such joy, and they all seemed to just float away without fear. They lived in the country, and I was a city boy. My regret is not knowing them better, but what can a child do? Wish I would have tried harder…
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Eight- LeRoy and Billy… My parents died in Katrina. Six weeks to find their bodies, and another six to ID them. Thoughts of them are a vortex of emotion, feelings of frustration and inadequacy without understanding. I loved them, as they did me, but we could find little solace together when alive. So hard to fathom even now, even after all these years… and the complexity of their faces still boggles my mind…
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Nine- Sarge… I remember the face of a police officer after Katrina, and his uncontrolled tears as he told me two officers had committed suicide, and the bodies he has seen. I later tried to find him, but no one knew his face.
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Ten-Terry… He was a big boy with a big heart. He played with my little daughter in the yard, flew kites with us, photographed the night sky with me, and was incorporated into my family as an asset and friend. While in college he contracted Mononucleosis. After three days of operations, he bled to death on the operating table. He was 21. We were so close his father called me to find his brother at UL to and tell him his brother had died. I remember his face too. His parents were strong-willed people, but their faces seemed to melt with tears…
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Eleven-Jim… He was my best friend as an adult, and though significantly older than me, and far more worldly, we connected. He died from complications from an infection and a blood thinner given by a childhood playmate, now a seasoned doctor. I didn’t find out about his death for months, so never got to say goodbye, but there is no need for that in true friendship. Some things are just cemented in our hearts…
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Twelve-John… A boy in my senior class crashed into another car in the fog, killing his girlfriend. She went through the windshield and had her throat cut. They found him in the woods hours later screaming. He was never the same, and later disappeared. I saw his dark eyes, his white face, his pain, months later when he returned to school. He had no tears left, nothing left… I thought he was just an empty shell. He had been speeding.
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Thirteen- Rodney… A boy I worked with at Sears could not stop. His brakes were worn, and he plowed into the side of a train in Gentilly. We went to the scene and saw how he had desperately tried to stop, pumping his breaks making black skid marks for blocks. He was going too fast. At the funeral his father was crying saying he knew the brakes were bad.
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Forteen- Charlie… At our Boy Scout Patrol meeting I first met his father. He had a yellow plaid shirt and smoked a pipe that smelled like cherry. He would go on the camping trips with us and play cards with the other men, and once snuck out fried chicken from the mess-hall to several of us saying we were hungry outside. His lawnmower exploded on his front yard while he was inside getting a drink of water. He told us he was now living on borrowed time. The next week he was found sitting in his favorite chair dead of a massive heart attack. We all went to his funeral dressed in our Boy Scout uniforms, and stood at attention as he was lowered into the grave. I remember the crying. Forty of us crying. At attention you are not supposed to look right or left, but I looked down that line and saw their faces.
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Fifteen- Mark… One of our scouts had muscular dystrophy. His father would carry him everywhere; a strong man with a loving heart. I pushed him to a class in high school, and watched him slowly weaken, so that he could barley use a pencil. He knew, his father and brother knew, and his mother, that he would die soon. He died while I was in Vietnam, a senior in college on the dean’s list. His brother died soon after. They found him in the morning in front of the TV, and before I got back from San Diego all of them had died. I just couldn’t believe it. Still can’t.
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Sixteen- Mrs. Mary Beth… I remember the old lady across the street telling me about the day her granddaughter died. She had a fever from her illness, and knew she was going to die that day. She begged her mother to do something, that she did not want to die, over and over again. He grandmother listened in the hall. The way she told me has remained in my mind and heart for thirty years. Though I never met her, I saw her face reflected in her grandmother’s eyes… She was fifteen.
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Seventeen- Clay… He lay on clean white sheets in Africa, on a hospital bed for the dying. I couldn’t tell how old he was; so emasculated from AIDS. He had turned blind days before, and his mother held his hand. The Sisters put a cool cloth on his head, and the light went out of his eyes. It was like tunnel vision, as the screaming of his mother defined the moment. In that hospital, this scene repeated five times a day. Children dying, and on the street of Malabo, I was the only white man, and the oldest by a decade. I remember the Love of the Sister of Christian Charity, French nuns, and they were to me angles of mercy.
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Eighteen- the trash man… Jogging I came across a man running down a trail waving his arms. He said “My friend’s head got caught in his dump truck. We need to call the police. He is dead!” I ran down to the site and found a trash truck on a plastic and dust filled road, in the middle of a dump. It smelled like sour fruit and burned plastic. He was lying in the middle of black plastic bags of leaves, and his head was crushed flat. His eyes I will never forget, as they had popped out of the socket… He had been trying to clear some debris from the crack between the cab, and it slipped. His eyes were protruding, and they looked to be looking at me, and for just a moment I thought he was alive. Way in the distance, I could hear his friend sobbing. “Oh sweet Jesus! Oh sweet Jesus!” over and over again. I felt an electricity in me, like an electoral shock, and a low gurgling sound, and I realized that sound was mine.
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Nineteen-Mrs. Blue… She came into the emergency room on a stretcher saying “I passed out again? Am I okay?” We x-rayed her and found a tumor in her brain. It was Friday, and they were going to operate on Monday morning. Sunday afternoon we were called stat. I stood in the corner and saw seven doctors and nurses try to revive her with CPR and electricity stimulation. The doctors said “Clear!” four times and she would jump, almost sitting upright once, but she was gone. I remember the sound of the monitor; one long D minor until clicked off. I remember the faces of every one of those people trying to save her. So stoic, so full of care, so guarded from the pain of the moment. She had an embolism, so I remember, and it was all thought: if only that operation would have been earlier. One of us said it was because of the Sunday Saint’s game, and another told him to shut up. After it was over I looked into her face, into piercing blue eyes full of tears, just as a hand closed them.
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Twenty- Timothy… He came into my office several times, on the USS Kitty Hawk. He was guarded by a Marine once, a Captain’s Mast for disobeying an order. He had eyes like a trapped dear. I wasn’t privy as to why he got into trouble. They found his shoes on top of his folded clothes, his ID and socks in his shoes. It is speculated he jumped naked into the prop on the after-braw late in the night, hundreds of miles into the Tonkin gulf. I went out there the next night, long after midnight. It was a full moon, and the wash glowed a phosphor iridescent in a straight line all the way to the horizon. I did this to see the last thing he might have seen, alone, with a decision to make. I still wonder how on earth it could get so bad… I was the Captain’s yeoman, and he wrote the letter to his folks, but he would not let us read it.
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Twenty-one- Halloween… Early one foggy Louisiana morning in October, I was trying to make it to the landing in Cameron to catch a boat to my offshore rig. The fog was so thick I could only see three lines in front of me, but only when I stuck my head out. Suddenly I saw a light ahead and as I pulled up to a Cop with a flashlight waved me to stop in front of an eighteen wheeler truck. A man in a pickup truck, on his way home, had run into the back of this eighteen wheeler, and was told not to look, that his head had been torn off. It was covered with a blanket, but the faces flashing red and blue standing around the sight I remembered. I pulled off the road soon after and fell into a deep sleep, deeper than I can ever remember. It was the only time in my 27 years a a fluid engineer that I was late for work…
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Twenty-two… Mr. Red…He came to me asking to use the phone. I was the Mud Engineer and night company man on a rig off the coast of Mexico. I said, “Sure!” He dialed the number and said, “Oh, thank God. Thank God!” After he hung up I asked him if everything was alright at home. “Oh yes,” he said, “My wife’s checkup says she does not have cancer.” He was a red-headed man with a red face, nervous and fidgety, and he smoked one cigarette after another. He wore a large gold crucifix on a thick silver chain, and every morning he would make his own bed and put his bible on his pillow. One night, soon after, I was awakened by the cook saying he got a call that the mud logger had collapsed in his lab. I dressed quickly and ran to his unit located right under the rig floor. I asked several men outside what had happened but they gestured to the open door, not speaking English. Several of us did CPR and he got a pulse back twice, but it would not stay. We kept working and time stood still. I remember his face, and the face of all of us, even my own, as we all decided to stop. We actually decided to stop. It took two days before the proper boat came for his body. We had him wrapped in a large plastic bag, and put him in the cooler with the milk, eggs, and vegetables. I ate none of it, and the smell of that refrigerator I’ll never forget…
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Twenty-three-Pookie… My best friend since St. Raphael called me a week before he died. He was 51. He told me he wished he had listened to me to quit smoking, and that he would not see his grand-child grow up. I didn’t recognize his face, seven years fighting Renal Cell Carcinoma, and he looked to be the oldest man on earth after the radiation. I went back to his coffin three times, and was one of six others that carried him to the cemetery. The casket was so heavy, and I struggled not to drop him. I was just as strong as any one of those men, but my side dipped down as I struggled to push it up, and it just didn’t make sense. Several other men wanted to help me, but I wouldn’t let them, finally able to get it steady and then up on its carrier. I remember his face from far back in my life, third grade. I had called him four eyes, and we fought in the school- yard, and I choked him to win. …by sixth grade, we were skipping out of church together on Sunday, and he became my greatest partner. The next day I was so sore I could barely walk, and was told that adrenaline does that.
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All of those faces have come to me in certain times of my life. I see them melt into the faces of everyone around me, strangers and loved ones alike. Sometimes, possibly in line at a check out, I see a young girl so unhappy, so cold, so uncaring, and I see the face of the little black boy dying in Africa with his whole life stretched out in a moment. I see the tears of a grandmother telling me her granddaughter begged to live, on a man standing on an intersection with a card that reads, “Hungry and homeless.” I see them in irresponsibility, in wasted moments, and wasted lives, like men in the chain gang cutting the grass on Camellia. I see them in my mirror shaving, my eyes looking back, in both the pain and joy this life can bring, and they have, each and every one, taught me who I am.
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thelibertybeacon--2020-06-26--America’s Color Revolution Led By Major Foundations Using BLM as a Front

Color Revolution is the term used to describe a series of remarkably effective , CIA-led regime change operations using techniques developed by the RAND Corporation , “ democracy ” NGOs and other groups since the 1980 ’ s .
They were used in crude form to bring down the Polish communist regime in the late 1980s .
From there the techniques were refined and used , along with heavy bribes , to topple the Gorbachev regime in the Soviet Union .
For anyone who has studied those models closely , it is clear that the protests against police violence led @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Lives Matter or Antifa are more than purely spontaneous moral outrage .
Hundreds of thousands of young Americans are being used as a battering ram to not only topple a US President , but in the process , the very structures of the US Constitutional order .
If we step back from the immediate issue of videos showing a white Minneapolis policeman pressing his knee on the neck of a black man , George Floyd , and look at what has taken place across the nation since then , it is clear that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ instrumentalize the horrific event for their own agenda .
The protests since May 25 have often begun peacefully , only to be taken over by well-trained violent actors .
Two organizations have appeared regularly in connection with the violent protests—Black Lives Matter and Antifa ( USA ) .
Videos show well-equipped protesters dressed uniformly in black and masked ( not for the coronavirus to be sure ) , vandalizing police cars , burning police stations , smashing store windows with pipes or baseball bats .
Use of Twitter and other social media to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ protest mobs is evident .
What has unfolded since the Minneapolis trigger event has been compared to the wave of primarily black ghetto protest riots in 1968 .
I lived through those events in 1968 , and what is unfolding today is far different .
It is better likened to the Yugoslav color revolution that toppled Milosevic in 2000 .
In the year 2000 , the US State Department , aided by its National Endowment for Democracy ( NED ) and select CIA operatives , began secretly training a group of Belgrade university @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was called Otpor !
( Resistance ! )
( logo pictured ) .
The NED and its various offshoots was created in the 1980 ’ s by CIA head Bill Casey as a covert CIA tool to overthrow specific regimes around the world under the cover of a human rights NGO .
In fact , they get their money from Congress and from USAID .
In the Serb Otpor !
destabilization of 2000 , the NED and US Ambassador Richard Miles in Belgrade selected and trained a group of several dozen students , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ handbook , From Dictatorship to Democracy , translated into Serbian , of the late Gene Sharp and his Albert Einstein Institution .
In a post mortem on the Serb events , the Washington Post wrote , Trained squads of activists were deployed in protests to take over city blocks with the aid of ‘ intelligence helmet ’ video screens that give them an instantaneous overview of their environment .
Bands of youth , converging on targeted intersections in constant dialogue on cell phones , would then overwhelm police .
The US government spent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Student groups were secretly trained in the Sharp handbook techniques of staging protests that mocked the authority of the ruling police , showing them to be clumsy and impotent against the youthful protesters .
Professionals from the CIA and US State Department guided them behind the scenes .
The Color Revolution Otpor !
model was refined and deployed in 2004 as the Ukraine Orange Revolution with logo and color theme scarves , and in 2003 in Georgia as the Rose Revolution .
Later Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used the template to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cases , the NED was involved with other NGOs , including the Soros Foundations .
After defeating Milosevic , Popovic went on to establish a global color revolution training center , CANVAS , a kind of for-profit business consultancy for revolution , and was personally present in New York working reportedly with Antifa during the Occupy Wall Street , where also Soros money was reported .
The protests , riots , violent and non-violent actions sweeping across the United States since May 25 , including an assault on the gates of the White @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we understand the CIA ’ s Color Revolution playbook .
The impact of the protests would not be possible were it not for a network of local and state political officials inside the Democratic Party lending support to the protesters , even to the point the Democrat Mayor of Seattle ordered police to abandon several blocks in the heart of downtown to occupation by protesters .
In recent years , major portions of the Democratic Party across the US have been quietly taken over by what one could call radical left candidates .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ organizations such as Democratic Socialists of America or Freedom Road Socialist Organizations .
In the US House of Representatives , the vocal quarter of new representatives around Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ( D-NY ) , Rashida Tlaib and Minneapolis Representative Ilhan Omar are all members or close to Democratic Socialists of America .
Clearly , without sympathetic Democrat local officials in key cities , the street protests of organizations such as Black Lives Matter and Antifa would not have such a dramatic impact .
To get a better grasp of how serious the present protest @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who has been pouring millions into BLM .
The Antifa is more difficult owing to its explicit anonymous organizational form .
However , their online Handbook openly recommends that local Antifa “ cells ” join up with BLM chapters .
BLM began in 2013 when three activist friends created the # BlackLivesMatter hashtag to protest the allegations of shooting of an unarmed black teenager , Trayvon Martin , by a white Hispanic block watchman , George Zimmermann .
Alicia Garza , Patrisse Cullors , and Opal Tometi ( pictured below in sequence ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ financed by , front groups tied to something called Freedom Road Socialist Organization , one of the four largest radical left organizations in the United States formed out of something called New Communist Movement that dissolved in the 1980s .
In short , the protests over the alleged police killing of a black man in Minnesota are now being used to call for a revolution against capitalism .
FRSO is an umbrella for dozens of amorphous groups including Black Lives Matter or BLM .
What is interesting about the self-described Marxist-Leninist roots of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) is not so much their left politics as much as their very establishment funding by a group of well-endowed tax-exempt foundations .
Alicia Garza of BLM is also a board member or executive of five different Freedom Road front groups , including 2011 Board chair of Right to the City Alliance , Board member of School of Unity and Liberation ( SOUL ) , of People Organized to Win Employment Rights ( POWER ) , Forward Together and Special Projects director of National Domestic Workers Alliance .
The Right to the City @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and 2014 from a number of very established tax-exempt foundations including the Ford Foundation ( $ 1.9 million ) , from both of George Soros ’ s major tax-exempts–Open Society Foundations , and the Foundation to Promote Open Society for $ 1.3 million .
Also the cornflake-tied Kellogg Foundation $ 250,000 , and curiously , Ben & Jerry ’ s Foundation ( ice cream ) for $ 30,000 .
Garza also got major foundation money as Executive Director of the FRSO front , POWER , where Obama former “ green jobs czar ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” and “ rowdy black nationalist , ” now with CNN , was on the board .
Alicia Garza also chaired the Right to the City Alliance , a network of activist groups opposing urban gentrification .
That front since 2009 received $ 1.3 million from the Ford Foundation , as well as $ 600,000 from the Soros foundations and , again , Ben & Jerry ’ s ( $ 50,000 ) .
And Garza ’ s SOUL , which claimed to have trained 712 “ organizers ” in 2014 , when she @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 210,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation and another $ 255,000 from the Heinz Foundation ( ketchup and John Kerry family ) among others .
With the Forward Together of FRSO , Garza sat on the board of a “ multi-racial organization that works with community leaders and organizations to transform culture and policy to catalyze social change.
” It officially got $ 4 million in 2014 revenues and from 2012 and 2014 , the organization received a total of $ 2.9 million from Ford Foundation ( $ 655,000 ) and other major foundations .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ from the network of FRSO .
Tometi headed the FRSO ’ s Black Alliance for Just Immigration .
Curiously , with a “ staff ” of two it got money from major foundations including the Kellogg Foundation for $ 75,000 and Soros foundations for $ 100,000 , and , again , Ben & Jerry ’ s ( $ 10,000 ) .
Tometi got $ 60,000 in 2014 to direct the group .
The Freedom Road Socialist Organization , that is now openly calling for a revolution against capitalism in the wake of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , The Advancement Project , which describes itself as “ a next generation , multi-racial civil rights organization.
” Its board includes a former Obama US Department of Education Director of Community Outreach and a former Bill Clinton Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights .
The FRSO Advancement Project in 2013 got millions from major US tax-exempt foundations , including Ford ( $ 8.5 million ) , Kellogg ( $ 3 million ) , Hewlett Foundation of HP defense industry founder ( $ 2.5 million ) , Rockefeller Foundation ( $ 2.5 million @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 8.6 million ) .
By 2016 , the presidential election year where Hillary Clinton was challenging Donald Trump , Black Lives Matter had established itself as a well-organized network .
That year the Ford Foundation and Borealis Philanthropy announced the formation of the Black-Led Movement Fund ( BLMF ) , “ a six-year pooled donor campaign aimed at raising $ 100 million for the Movement for Black Lives coalition ” in which BLM was a central part .
By then , Soros foundations had already given some $ 33 million in grants to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was serious foundation money .
The BLMF identified itself as being created by top foundations , including in addition to the Ford Foundation , the Kellogg Foundation and the Soros Open Society Foundations .
They described their role : The Movement for Black Lives Coalition ( M4BL ) , which includes Black Lives Matter , already in 2016 called for “ defunding police departments , race-based reparations , voting rights for illegal immigrants , fossil-fuel divestment , an end to private education and charter schools , a universal basic income , and free @ @ @ @ @ @ @ when we click on the website of M4BL , under their donate button we learn that the donations will go to something called ActBlue Charities .
ActBlue facilitates donations to “ democrats and progressives.
” As of May 21 , ActBlue had given $ 119 million to the campaign of Joe Biden .
That was before the May 25 BLM worldwide protests .
Now major corporations such as Apple , Disney , Nike and hundreds others may be pouring untold and unaccounted millions into ActBlue under the name of Black Lives Matter , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fund the election of a Democrat President Biden .
Perhaps this is the real reason the Biden campaign has been so confident of support from black voters .
What is clear from only this account of the crucial role of big money foundations behind protest groups such as Black lives Matter is that there is a far more complex agenda driving the protests now destabilizing cities across America .
The role of tax-exempt foundations tied to the fortunes of the greatest industrial and financial companies such as Rockefeller , Ford , Kellogg , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a far deeper and far more sinister agenda to current disturbances than spontaneous outrage would suggest .
F. William Engdahl is strategic risk consultant and lecturer , he holds a degree in politics from Princeton University and is a best-selling author on oil and geopolitics , exclusively for the online magazine “ New Eastern Outlook.
” Published to The Liberty Beacon from EuropeReloaded.com

Color Revolution is the term used to describe a series of remarkably effective, CIA-led regime change operations using techniques developed by the RAND Corporation, “democracy” NGOs and other groups since the 1980’s.
They were used in crude form to bring down the Polish communist regime in the late 1980s. From there the techniques were refined and used, along with heavy bribes, to topple the Gorbachev regime in the Soviet Union. For anyone who has studied those models closely, it is clear that the protests against police violence led by amorphous organizations with names like Black Lives Matter or Antifa are more than purely spontaneous moral outrage. Hundreds of thousands of young Americans are being used as a battering ram to not only topple a US President, but in the process, the very structures of the US Constitutional order.
If we step back from the immediate issue of videos showing a white Minneapolis policeman pressing his knee on the neck of a black man, George Floyd, and look at what has taken place across the nation since then, it is clear that certain organizations or groups were well-prepared to instrumentalize the horrific event for their own agenda.
The protests since May 25 have often begun peacefully, only to be taken over by well-trained violent actors. Two organizations have appeared regularly in connection with the violent protests—Black Lives Matter and Antifa (USA). Videos show well-equipped protesters dressed uniformly in black and masked (not for the coronavirus to be sure), vandalizing police cars, burning police stations, smashing store windows with pipes or baseball bats. Use of Twitter and other social media to coordinate “hit-and-run” swarming strikes of protest mobs is evident.
What has unfolded since the Minneapolis trigger event has been compared to the wave of primarily black ghetto protest riots in 1968. I lived through those events in 1968, and what is unfolding today is far different. It is better likened to the Yugoslav color revolution that toppled Milosevic in 2000.
Gene Sharp: Template for Regime Overthrow
In the year 2000, the US State Department, aided by its National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and select CIA operatives, began secretly training a group of Belgrade university students led by a student group that was called Otpor! (Resistance!) (logo pictured). The NED and its various offshoots was created in the 1980’s by CIA head Bill Casey as a covert CIA tool to overthrow specific regimes around the world under the cover of a human rights NGO. In fact, they get their money from Congress and from USAID.
In the Serb Otpor! destabilization of 2000, the NED and US Ambassador Richard Miles in Belgrade selected and trained a group of several dozen students, led by Srđa Popović, using the handbook, From Dictatorship to Democracy, translated into Serbian, of the late Gene Sharp and his Albert Einstein Institution. In a post mortem on the Serb events, the Washington Post wrote,
“US-funded consultants played a crucial role behind the scenes in virtually every facet of the anti-drive, running tracking polls, training thousands of opposition activists and helping to organize a vitally important parallel vote count. US taxpayers paid for 5,000 cans of spray paint used by student activists to scrawl anti-Milošević graffiti on walls across Serbia.”
Trained squads of activists were deployed in protests to take over city blocks with the aid of ‘intelligence helmet’ video screens that give them an instantaneous overview of their environment. Bands of youth, converging on targeted intersections in constant dialogue on cell phones, would then overwhelm police. The US government spent some $41 million on the operation. Student groups were secretly trained in the Sharp handbook techniques of staging protests that mocked the authority of the ruling police, showing them to be clumsy and impotent against the youthful protesters. Professionals from the CIA and US State Department guided them behind the scenes.
The Color Revolution Otpor! model was refined and deployed in 2004 as the Ukraine Orange Revolution with logo and color theme scarves, and in 2003 in Georgia as the Rose Revolution. Later Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used the template to launch the Arab Spring. In all cases, the NED was involved with other NGOs, including the Soros Foundations.
After defeating Milosevic, Popovic went on to establish a global color revolution training center, CANVAS, a kind of for-profit business consultancy for revolution, and was personally present in New York working reportedly with Antifa during the Occupy Wall Street, where also Soros money was reported.
Antifa and BLM
The protests, riots, violent and non-violent actions sweeping across the United States since May 25, including an assault on the gates of the White House, begin to make sense when we understand the CIA’s Color Revolution playbook.
The impact of the protests would not be possible were it not for a network of local and state political officials inside the Democratic Party lending support to the protesters, even to the point the Democrat Mayor of Seattle ordered police to abandon several blocks in the heart of downtown to occupation by protesters.
In recent years, major portions of the Democratic Party across the US have been quietly taken over by what one could call radical left candidates. Often they win with active backing of organizations such as Democratic Socialists of America or Freedom Road Socialist Organizations. In the US House of Representatives, the vocal quarter of new representatives around Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Rashida Tlaib and Minneapolis Representative Ilhan Omar are all members or close to Democratic Socialists of America. Clearly, without sympathetic Democrat local officials in key cities, the street protests of organizations such as Black Lives Matter and Antifa would not have such a dramatic impact.
To get a better grasp of how serious the present protest movement is, we should look at who has been pouring millions into BLM. The Antifa is more difficult owing to its explicit anonymous organizational form. However, their online Handbook openly recommends that local Antifa “cells” join up with BLM chapters.
FRSO: Follow the Money
BLM began in 2013 when three activist friends created the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag to protest the allegations of shooting of an unarmed black teenager, Trayvon Martin, by a white Hispanic block watchman, George Zimmermann. Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi (pictured below in sequence) were all were connected to, and financed by, front groups tied to something called Freedom Road Socialist Organization, one of the four largest radical left organizations in the United States formed out of something called New Communist Movement that dissolved in the 1980s.
On June 12, 2020 the Freedom Road Socialist Organization webpage states,
“The time is now to join a revolutionary organization! Join Freedom Road Socialist Organization…If you have been out in the streets this past few weeks, the odds are good that you’ve been thinking about the difference between the kind of change this system has to offer, and the kind of change this country needs. Capitalism is a failed system that thrives on exploitation, inequality and oppression. The reactionary and racist Trump administration has made the pandemic worse. The unfolding economic crisis we are experiencing is the worst since the 1930s. Monopoly capitalism is a dying system and we need to help finish it off. And that is exactly what Freedom Road Socialist Organization is working for.”
In short, the protests over the alleged police killing of a black man in Minnesota are now being used to call for a revolution against capitalism. FRSO is an umbrella for dozens of amorphous groups including Black Lives Matter or BLM. What is interesting about the self-described Marxist-Leninist roots of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) is not so much their left politics as much as their very establishment funding by a group of well-endowed tax-exempt foundations.
Alicia Garza of BLM is also a board member or executive of five different Freedom Road front groups, including 2011 Board chair of Right to the City Alliance, Board member of School of Unity and Liberation (SOUL), of People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER), Forward Together and Special Projects director of National Domestic Workers Alliance.
The Right to the City Alliance got $6.5 million between 2011 and 2014 from a number of very established tax-exempt foundations including the Ford Foundation ($1.9 million), from both of George Soros’s major tax-exempts–Open Society Foundations, and the Foundation to Promote Open Society for $1.3 million. Also the cornflake-tied Kellogg Foundation $250,000, and curiously, Ben & Jerry’s Foundation (ice cream) for $30,000.
Garza also got major foundation money as Executive Director of the FRSO front, POWER, where Obama former “green jobs czar” Van Jones, a self-described “communist” and “rowdy black nationalist,” now with CNN, was on the board. Alicia Garza also chaired the Right to the City Alliance, a network of activist groups opposing urban gentrification. That front since 2009 received $1.3 million from the Ford Foundation, as well as $600,000 from the Soros foundations and, again, Ben & Jerry’s ($50,000). And Garza’s SOUL, which claimed to have trained 712 “organizers” in 2014, when she co-founded Black Lives Matter, got $210,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation and another $255,000 from the Heinz Foundation (ketchup and John Kerry family) among others. With the Forward Together of FRSO, Garza sat on the board of a “multi-racial organization that works with community leaders and organizations to transform culture and policy to catalyze social change.” It officially got $4 million in 2014 revenues and from 2012 and 2014, the organization received a total of $2.9 million from Ford Foundation ($655,000) and other major foundations.
Nigeria-born BLM co-founder Opal Tometi likewise comes from the network of FRSO. Tometi headed the FRSO’s Black Alliance for Just Immigration. Curiously, with a “staff” of two it got money from major foundations including the Kellogg Foundation for $75,000 and Soros foundations for $100,000, and, again, Ben & Jerry’s ($10,000). Tometi got $60,000 in 2014 to direct the group.
The Freedom Road Socialist Organization, that is now openly calling for a revolution against capitalism in the wake of the Floyd George killing, has another arm, The Advancement Project, which describes itself as “a next generation, multi-racial civil rights organization.” Its board includes a former Obama US Department of Education Director of Community Outreach and a former Bill Clinton Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. The FRSO Advancement Project in 2013 got millions from major US tax-exempt foundations, including Ford ($8.5 million), Kellogg ($3 million), Hewlett Foundation of HP defense industry founder ($2.5 million), Rockefeller Foundation ($2.5 million), and Soros foundations ($8.6 million).
Major Money and ActBlue
By 2016, the presidential election year where Hillary Clinton was challenging Donald Trump, Black Lives Matter had established itself as a well-organized network. That year the Ford Foundation and Borealis Philanthropy announced the formation of the Black-Led Movement Fund (BLMF), “a six-year pooled donor campaign aimed at raising $100 million for the Movement for Black Lives coalition” in which BLM was a central part. By then, Soros foundations had already given some $33 million in grants to the Black Lives Matter movement. This was serious foundation money.
The BLMF identified itself as being created by top foundations, including in addition to the Ford Foundation, the Kellogg Foundation and the Soros Open Society Foundations. They described their role:
“The BLMF provides grants, movement building resources, and technical assistance to organizations working advance the leadership and vision of young, Black, queer, feminists and immigrant leaders who are shaping and leading a national conversation about criminalization, policing and race in America.”
The Movement for Black Lives Coalition (M4BL), which includes Black Lives Matter, already in 2016 called for “defunding police departments, race-based reparations, voting rights for illegal immigrants, fossil-fuel divestment, an end to private education and charter schools, a universal basic income, and free college for blacks .”
Notably, when we click on the website of M4BL, under their donate button we learn that the donations will go to something called ActBlue Charities. ActBlue facilitates donations to “democrats and progressives.” As of May 21, ActBlue had given $119 million to the campaign of Joe Biden.
That was before the May 25 BLM worldwide protests.
Now major corporations such as Apple, Disney, Nike and hundreds others may be pouring untold and unaccounted millions into ActBlue under the name of Black Lives Matter, funds that in fact can go to fund the election of a Democrat President Biden.
Perhaps this is the real reason the Biden campaign has been so confident of support from black voters.
What is clear from only this account of the crucial role of big money foundations behind protest groups such as Black lives Matter is that there is a far more complex agenda driving the protests now destabilizing cities across America. The role of tax-exempt foundations tied to the fortunes of the greatest industrial and financial companies such as Rockefeller, Ford, Kellogg, Hewlett and Soros says that there is a far deeper and far more sinister agenda to current disturbances than spontaneous outrage would suggest.
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F. William Engdahl is strategic risk consultant and lecturer, he holds a degree in politics from Princeton University and is a best-selling author on oil and geopolitics, exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook.”
Published to The Liberty Beacon from EuropeReloaded.com