burn me
as Rasta
roots rock
reggae
and ash

play sum
Bob Marley
Linton Kwesi
and bone breakin’
true dub

i and i
evah
for word
upright
Heavenward

bury i
as Rasta
take i
to the water
as Babylon burns

Last edited by JahHannibal on 29 April 2012 at 10:23 pm
published by b.medusa on 13 May 2012 at 6:46 pm

eric james/JahHannibal Abba-Ra
New World Artist
1953-2012

[Let no one feel guilty
for the choices i have made
it is my decision
for this path to a restful grave
feel happy with me -
rejoice, and celebrate!]
/\/\/\/\
Dance to the Music

What better day
than the 7th of May

no He or She,
do not use those terms if you eulogize me: ALL FORCES CAN ONLY BE DEFINED AS THE GODLY SPIRIT, THE GREAT SPIRIT
OR JAH –
no mortal personification

“Our Jah, which art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy Name.
Thy Kingdom come.
Thy will be done in earth,
As it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
As we forgive them that trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation,
But deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
The power, and the glory,
For ever and ever.
Amen Ra”

Amos 9:7

Last edited by JahHannibal on 6 May 2012 at 8:08 pm
piblished by b. medusa on 13 May 2012 at 6:59 pm

everyone
and every thing
is a world,
and worlds end
everyday
as new worlds
come into play

hands
hearts
toward healing
hands
toward
healing
hearts toward
healing
help me
help you
help me
toward
healing

i used
to dance
in the woods
sleep, make love
by a
flowing stream
became lost
in the reality
of dreams

i used
to farm
grow food
work and play
make music to the air
relentless in the love
of Creation

seeing my separateness
as a threat
to Oneness
revealed a dichotomy
of an extensive history
in the torn fabric
of humanity
but we must see
that healer and patient
are united through
a common destiny

i strayed
as i prayed
became consumed
by consumption
became doomed
in sickness
overwhelmed
by corruption
and death
thought my strengths
were weakness
my harmony
absorbed
into the lives
of constant war

this is a time
of great revolution –
a cyclic completion
of social disruption
and earthly convulsions –
a time when we must end
for a new Spirituality to begin

i had
to come here
to death’s valley
to face a final fear

now
the electric lady
is all the beauty
of memory

my drum
to be silenced
with every
broken heart

no matter what
the “other” sees
there is value
in my love for humanity

for what purpose
is the Church
if it never heals
what always hurts?

all of our work
for
everyone hated
everything violated

war after war
religion becomes a joke –
a political whore
with a leash around her throat

who
would turn our hearts
into
pain and rot?

maybe final justice and peace will be created
when it is mandated:
everyone hated
everything violated
and we share a fair Creation
of an equal Armageddon
all things
Sacred and One
beneath the umbrage of bloodshed and bombs

“You go see the things them do, you go hear the things them say
You go see the corruption
You go see the inflation
You go see the suffering
Suffering of the people
Ahh, lo ri si ri si”
-Seun Anikulapo Kuti (“Many Things”)

is evil
in the infinite Nature
of all things –
or is this a question
that only humans
must ponder
forever?

hold to your gods
of compassion and war
hypocrisy and immorality
worship of money
slaughter and slavery –
live with them
and die with them

i look to
the forces of hearts
harmony and humanity
vestiges of Spirituality –
a higher reality

the peace
you have come to know
is depression, starvation, and oppression
by the rich to keep you controlled and poor –

this is what we get –
a peace of shit

take your gods, wars
and traditions
your pimps, whores
and extraordinary renditions
into your racist havens
and
your fascist heaven

stop clouding
my visions
stop polluting
pure wisdom

you know nothing
of true liberation
you show nothing
of freedom

struggling
struggling
tugging
tugging

this is what we get –
a peace of shit!

“Deep Shit”
-Kruder &Dorfmeister/G-Stoned (Instrumental)

“Whoever is God–
the bread must still be made
and the doorsill swept.
The Lord may kill the children tomorrow,
but today they must be bathed and fed.”
-Kristine Batey (“Lot’s Wife”)

is it safe
to be dead
with worlds unseen
and words unsaid?

let the empire crumble
in the mind and hands
of those never humble
who created it
to tumble

their Councils of Foreign Racists
their seen and unseen costs
their full plates of the fat of us who suffer
does not disturb my love for my sisters and brothers
does not disturb
my words
my destiny to capture
the ignored, the unheard

i am no more
and no less
than anyone
cursed or blessed

my only entitlement
is my experience
my sacred life
my sacred truth to document

to be
ignored
is not
to be dead,
ever

for
the ignorant
are
the everliving
dead

all is reflected in the cosmic mirror
all is directed by inevitable karma
all to be judged in what is good and pure
all to be recycled through the ancient and future
all, everything and everyone,
are but infinite children in the eyes of Nature

the greatest lesson
to be learned from sickness is
you have no choice but to be humble –
you do not have to surrender, but you must submit

romance
your own historical evidence
au contraire
the more to compare
the more for truthful measurements

freedom of religion
and freedom from religion
works best
north, east,
south, or west

in your life,
in every aspect
there is someone or something
taking from your pocket

you have to
get around
by keeping
the number of parasites down

no more runnin’
from the bully and the barbarian
no more turnin’ the otha cheek
to become slaughtered workin’ for peace

that which we speak
is bigga than dem
who think they are so clever and sleek
smartest folks in the capitalist prison
who look at our world as something to defeat

“Oh
The rules have changed today
I have no place to stay
I’m thinking about the subway
My love has flown away
My tears have come and gone
Oh my Lord, I have to roam
I have no home
I have no home”
-The Chambers Brothers (Time Has Come Today)

“Lord, Help Me to Be”
-John Coltrane/Alice Coltrane
“Reverend King”
-John Coltrane/Alice Coltrane
(instrumentals from “Cosmic Music”)

that which feeds
on your dreams
can sometimes deepen
your nightmares

people thinking
beats
boats sinking

many of us
are already born
with so much baggage
that it may take
lifetimes
to get rid of it

already born
in a hole
so to speak

but if freedom
is something you fear
then you are already doomed
to be a slave –
submissive and weak

when all good
collides with all evil –
that will be the day
of a transcendent people

The 14 Defining Characteristics of Fascism–IT’S HERE!!!!

1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism
Catchy slogans, pride in the military, and demands for unity are common themes in expressing this nationalism.
2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights
hrough clever use of propaganda, the population was brought to accept these human rights abuses by marginalizing, even demonizing, those being targeted. When abuse was egregious, the tactic was to use secrecy, denial, and disinformation.
3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause
Often the regimes would incite ‘spontaneous’ acts against the target scapegoats, usually communists, socialists, liberals, Jews, ethnic and racial minorities, traditional national enemies, members of other religions, secularists, homosexuals, and ‘terrorists.’ Active opponents of these regimes were inevitably labeled as terrorists and dealt with accordingly.
4. Supremacy of the Military
A disproportionate share of national resources is allocated to the military, even when domestic needs were acute. The military is seen as an expression of nationalism, and was used whenever possible to assert national goals, intimidate other nations, and increase the power and prestige of the ruling elite.
5. Rampant Sexism
These attitudes were usually codified in Draconian laws that enjoyed strong support by the orthodox religion of the country, thus lending the regime cover for its abuses.
6. Controlled Mass Media
The result was usually success in keeping the general public unaware of the regimes’ excesses.
7. Obsession with National Security
It was usually an instrument of oppression, operating in secret and beyond any constraints. Its actions were justified under the rubric of protecting ‘national security,’ and questioning its activities was portrayed as unpatriotic or even treasonous.
8. Religion and Government are Intertwined
Most of the regimes attach themselves to the predominant religion of the country and chose to portray themselves as militant defenders of that religion. The fact that the ruling elite’s behavior was incompatible with the precepts of the religion was generally swept under the rug.
9. Corporate Power is Protected
The ruling elite see the corporate structure as a way to not only ensure military production (in developed states), but also as an additional means of social control. Members of the economic elite are often pampered by the political elite to ensure a continued mutuality of interests, especially in the repression of ‘have-not’ citizens.
10. Labor Power is Suppressed
Since organized labor is seen as the one power center that could challenge the political hegemony of the ruling elite and its corporate allies, it was inevitably crushed or made powerless. The poor formed an underclass, viewed with suspicion or outright contempt.
11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts
Universities are tightly controlled; politically unreliable faculty harassed or eliminated. Unorthodox ideas or expressions of dissent were strongly attacked, silenced, or crushed.
12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment
Most of these regimes maintained Draconian systems of criminal justice with huge prison populations. The police were often glorified and had almost unchecked power, leading to rampant abuse. ‘Normal’ and political crime were often merged into trumped-up criminal charges and sometimes used against political opponents of the regime. Fear, and hatred, of criminals or ‘traitors’ was often promoted among the population as an excuse for more police power.
13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption
Members of the power elite were in a position to obtain vast wealth from other sources as well: for example, by stealing national resources. With the national security apparatus under control and the media muzzled, this corruption was largely unconstrained and not well understood by the general population.
14. Fraudulent Elections
Common methods included maintaining control of the election machinery, intimidating and disenfranchising opposition voters, destroying or disallowing legal votes, and, as a last resort, turning to a judiciary beholden to the power elite.
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Why the Wars Will Not End
How the New American Empire Really Works
by PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

Great empires, such as the Roman and British, were extractive. The empires succeeded, because the value of the resources and wealth extracted from conquered lands exceeded the value of conquest and governance. The reason Rome did not extend its empire east into Germany was not the military prowess of Germanic tribes but Rome’s calculation that the cost of conquest exceeded the value of extractable resources.

The Roman empire failed, because Romans exhausted manpower and resources in civil wars fighting amongst themselves for power. The British empire failed, because the British exhausted themselves fighting Germany in two world wars.

In his book, The Rule of Empires (2010), Timothy H. Parsons replaces the myth of the civilizing empire with the truth of the extractive empire. He describes the successes of the Romans, the Umayyad Caliphate, the Spanish in Peru, Napoleon in Italy, and the British in India and Kenya in extracting resources.

Parsons does not examine the American empire, but in his introduction to the book he wonders whether America’s empire is really an empire as the Americans don’t seem to get any extractive benefits from it. After eight years of war and attempted occupation of Iraq, all Washington has for its efforts is several trillion dollars of additional debt and no Iraqi oil. After ten years of trillion dollar struggle against the Taliban in Afghanistan, Washington has nothing to show for it except possibly some part of the drug trade that can be used to fund covert CIA operations.

America’s wars are very expensive. Bush and Obama have doubled the national debt, and the American people have no benefits from it. No riches, no bread and circuses flow to Americans from Washington’s wars. So what is it all about?

The answer is that Washington’s empire extracts resources from the American people for the benefit of the few powerful interest groups that rule America. The military-security complex, Wall Street, agri-business and the Israel Lobby use the government to extract resources from Americans to serve their profits and power. The US Constitution has been extracted in the interests of the Security State, and Americans’ incomes have been redirected to the pockets of the 1 percent. That is how the American Empire functions.

The New Empire is different. It happens without achieving conquest. The American military did not conquer Iraq and has been forced out politically by the government that Washington established. There is no victory in Afghanistan, and after a decade the American military does not control the country.

In the New Empire success at war no longer matters. The extraction takes place by being at war. Huge sums of American taxpayers’ money have flowed into the American armaments industries and huge amounts of power into Homeland Security. The American empire works by stripping Americans of wealth and liberty.

“dad in his war suit
shot off a tank in the snow
spring never came”
-Robert Brown (“war haiku”)

it’s all
wrapped up
like
MOVE –
Osage Avenue,
Philly
Branch Davidians –
Waco, Texas
Timothy McVeigh
D.C. Snipers
Hurricane Katrina
Saddam
Osama
Muammar
deep water
horizon

move on
to the next corpse
to feed upon

always makin’ sure
we always at war
with sumthin’

thank you,
Sam Hamill
for reminding us
of the ill to kill –
the
war weary world
and the duty
of true poetry

here,
black meat
seems to be a major target
of beasts

there is such
a daily diet
of our bodies
the world –
numb,
no longer a place
of compassion

my brothers
of war
gave to everyone
but me
never offered
anything –
not even
a birthday card

following
orders
of oppressors
dreaming
of being
nigga-rich –
they, along
with their masters
have driven us
into a ditch
a deadly
domestic vortex

war after
war
after war after
war
and the
devil
still lives
and
grows
stronger