[cia-drugs] The DISH Vol. 8 No 33
Dot's Information Service Hotline "Unbossed and unbought news and information you can use" Visit The DISH online at www.thedish.org Vol. 8 No 33...Dedicated to the Dialogue on Race... 08-19-05 Table of Contents 1. Bit of History...Rudolph Diesel (1858-1913) 2. Comments from the Bat Cave 3. The Road to Ruin...By John Burl Smith 4. News You Use...DeKalb Bond Referendum 5. Politics Y2K5...DeKalb: A Tax Grab...By John Burl Smith 6. Disgruntled 7. Hood Notes...Pump Pain 8. Mailbox *** Bit of History Rudolph Diesel (1858 - 1913) "The diesel engine can be fed with vegetable oils and would help considerably in the development of agriculture of the countries which use itThe use of vegetable oils for engine fuels may seem insignificant today. But such oils may become in course of time as important as petroleum and the coal tar products of the present time." German inventor Rudolf Diesel was born in Paris, France on March 18, 1858. Diesel set up his first shop-laboratory in Paris (1885) and began work on creating an alternative to the oversized, expensive and inefficient steam engine. Diesel received a patent for his engine on February 23, 1892. He began working at the Augsburg Machine-Works in 1893 to develop a prototype. An eminent thermal engineer, connoisseur of the arts, linguist and social theorist, Diesel published "The Theory and Construction of a Rational Heat Engine" (1893), which described the pressure-ignited heat engine. On August 10, 1893, Diesel's prime model, a single 10-foot iron cylinder with a flywheel at its base, ran on its own power for the first time. In early 1897, he built a functional prototype that would bear his name. Within a few years, Diesel's design became the standard of the world for that type of engine. Although commercial manufacture begun slowly, by 1898, Diesel was a millionaire from international franchise fees. In 1898, the first diesel was built in the United States by Busch-Zulzer Brothers Diesel Engine Co. Diesel engines were used to power pipelines, electric and water plants, automobiles and trucks, and marine craft, and soon after were used in applications including mines, oil fields, factories, and transoceanic shipping. Diesel expected his engine to be powered by vegetable oils (including hemp) and seed oils. A visionary, he saw his engine as a solution to the inefficient, highly polluting engines of his time. At the 1900 World's Fair, Diesel ran his engines on peanut oil. Diesel died under mysterious circumstances; his death might have been suicide, accidental or an assassination. On September 29, 1913, Diesel boarded the SS Dresden from Antwerp for a short trip across the English Channel to attend the opening of a new Carels factory in Ipswich, England. Diesel never showed up for the meeting; his body was discovered days later. Apparently, Diesel was broke. Some believe the inventor may have committed suicide as a consequence of his economic situation. His family believes that Diesel was thrown overboard and his invention ideas were stolen. Another motive for his death may well have been the threat his engine posed to monopoly oil profits. Diesel's engine offered consumers an economical choice powered by environmentally friendly fuels, such as vegetable oils. Unfortunately, Diesel's alternative energy ideas died with him. After his death, his engine was designed to only run on fossil fuel, as the oil industry produced cheap diesel. (Sources: www.uh.edu, www.energyquest.ca.gov, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Diesel) Comments from the Bat Cave The Dark Knight-Batman/White Ninja/Zorro got off to an excellent start on Monday, the first day of school. According to his brief description of the day's activities, he and his classmates spent the day learning the school's rules, i.e., no fighting, drugs, foul language or reveling attire, including pants below the derriere and tops above the belly button, etc. Asked how he envisioned the school year unfolding, the Dark One/Ninja/Zorro confidently exclaimed, "No sweat!" The Road to Ruin By John Burl Smith Republicans have always claimed they would govern the US better than Democrats, because they would be more fiscally responsible. Pressing their case, Republicans labeled Democrats "tax and spend liberals." Under the leadership of George W. Bush, Republicans have thrown away their mantra of fiscal conservatism. Now big spenders, passage of the $286.4 billion Transportation Equity Act (TEA) is a role reversal. According to Keith Ashdown, Vice President of Taxpayers for Common Sense, "This bill is by far the most expensive, wasteful highway bill in the nation's history. It is filled with 6,371 pork projects costing $24 billion dollars. With Republicans in control of the White House, House and Senate, such wasteful legislation, leads the nation down the road to fiscal ruin." Democrat
[cia-drugs] The DISH Vol. 8 No 28
Dot's Information Service Hotline "Unbossed and unbought news and information you can use" Visit The DISH online at www.thedish.org Vol. 8 No 28...Dedicated to the Dialogue on Race... 07-15-05 Table of Contents 1. Bit of History...Oscar Cicero Brown, Jr. (1926-2005) 2. Comments from the Bat Cave 3. Intuit's Vibe...People of Soul...By Oscar Brown, Jr. 4. News You Use...NBT Tribute to Oscar Brown, Jr. 5. Hood Notes...Venus: A Person of Soul 6. Politics Y2K5...Neo-Colonization of Africa 7. Disgruntled 8. Phantom Scribbler...Leaks and Speculation ** Bit of History Oscar Cicero Brown, Jr. (1926-2005) Born October 10, 1926 in Chicago, Illinois, Oscar Cicero Brown, Jr. was raised in a two-church household. Firstborn of Helen and Oscar C. Brown, Sr., a teacher and lawyer/real estate owner, Oscar's mother attended St. Edmond's Episcopal Church and his father was a member of and attorney for Pilgrim Baptist Church. Brown attended Willard Elementary and Englewood High Schools. As a young man, Brown performed in "Secret City," Studs Terkel's children radio series and apparently fell in love with the medium. Encouraged to pursue a career in law, Brown enrolled at the University of Wisconsin (1943). He also attended Lincoln University in Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan, where he excelled in creative writing. After college, Brown returned to Chicago radio, working on a program called "Negro Newsfront," where he became the "world's first Negro newscaster." Program director for the United Packinghouse Workers Union, Brown ran for the Illinois legislature on the Progressive Party ticket (1948), and for Congress as a Republican (1952). He left the Communist Party (1956), concluding he was "just too black to be red." From 1948 to 1950, he worked with Richard Durham's "Destination Freedom" Black Radio Days series. Brown served two years in the Army, after which he composed songs and sang in small local nightclubs. His big break came when Robert Nemiroff, Lorraine Hansberry's husband and neighbor of the Brown family, introduced his music to New York. This led to a contract with Columbia records and his classic debut album "Sin and Soul," which made Brown a national celebrity. Brown performed in a number of venues and toured with a host of artists. He composed lyrics for the Miles Davis classic "All Blues" and collaborated with Max Roach on "Freedom Now Suite," a civil rights song. In the early 1970s, Brown premiered the musical drama "Slave Song" and starred in "Evolution of the Blues." He was featured in a (CBS) WBBM-TV special, "Oscar Brown is Back" in Town" and hosted the PBS program "From Jump Street: The Story of Black Music." He was a regular on "Brewster Place," the television series starring Oprah Winfrey, and he appeared in several other roles, including on episodes of "Roc" and the PBS special "Zora Is My Name," written by Ruby Dee. In recent years, he appeared on the Tavis Smiley Show on PBS and Russell Simmons' Def Poetry Jam on HBO. He also revived his production of "Great Nitty Gritty," a show about gang violence originally staged with young residents of Cabrini Green, a Chicago housing project. Brown composed over a thousand songs and more than a dozen plays, mainly musicals with history lessons and healing messages. Artist-in-residence at Howard University in DC, Hunter College in New York and Malcolm X College in Chicago, Brown served as Regents Professor at the University of California, where in 2002 the state legislature honored him with a statewide "Oscar Brown, Jr. Day" tribute. His hometown of Chicago also honored him as "Senior of the Year" (2002). In 2004, Brown was inducted into the National Black Sports and Entertainment Hall of Fame. Actor, director, playwright, songwriter, lyricist, activist, essayist, and television host, Oscar Brown, Jr. died May 29, 2005. (Sources: www.oscarbrownjr.com and www.aaregistry.com) Comments from the Bat Cave The Dark Knight-Batman/White Ninja/Zorro recently had a life-altering experience. Rainfall from hurricane Dennis and a compromised root system led to a neighbor's tree landing on the roof right over his head. Sound asleep, he had to be awakened and informed of his potentially perilous predicament. When he crawled from his bed and saw the tree covering his shattered windows, the Dark One/Ninja/Zorro sleepily said, "That's a really big one!" Intuit's Vibe People of Soul (From the musical "Great Nitty Gritty") By Oscar Brown, Jr. To see clear through despair The way we've always done To be burdened with care And still find some fun And to make a way where There truly was none That's been the role That's been the role That's been the role Of the people of soul To be troubled in mind By the trials life can bring But to reach and to find Sweet reason to sing And to come from behind Just by doing our thing That's been the role
[cia-drugs] The DISH Vol. 8 No 30
Dot's Information Service Hotline "Unbossed and unbought news and information you can use" Visit The DISH online at www.thedish.org Vol. 8 No 30...Dedicated to the Dialogue on Race... 07-29-05 Table of Contents 1. News You Use...Beyond Treason 2. Intuit's Vibe...Atomic Skies Falling...By Carah Ong 3. Bit of History...Nuclear Storm: August 1945 4. Phantom Scribbler...The Plot Thickens 5. Politics Y2K5...Military Recruitment Targets Dummies 6. Comments from the Bat Cave 7. Disgruntled 8. Hood Notes...Voting Rights Act (VRA) Re-Authorization ** News You Use Beyond Treason Modern nuclear warfare includes munitions hardened with depleted uranium. Some believe the array of illnesses known as Gulf War Syndrome is caused by exposure to depleted uranium munitions used on the battlefield during Desert Storm and the current wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, where birth defects and cancers among children and adults have increased significantly. Others believe chemical and biological exposures are culprits in Gulf War Syndrome. An even larger group of veterans, their families and supporters believe experimental vaccines given to troops, without their knowledge or consent, may have led to the deaths of many of our soldiers. In reality, a combination of overlapping exposures to depleted uranium, chemical and biological agents and experimental vaccinations could cause Gulf War Syndrome. The US Veterans Administration (VA) has determined that 250,000 troops are now permanently disabled, 15,000 troops are dead and more than 425,000 are ill and slowly dying from what the Department of Defense (DOD) still calls a "mystery disease." As they await answers from their respective governments, ailing Gulf War veterans from all twenty-seven (27) coalition countries slowly die of "unknown causes." While the military establishment has provided neither satisfying nor credible answers, two decades of records point to negligence and even culpability on the part of DOD and its "disposable army" mentality. A growing number of scientists and respected experts in their fields have come forward to share their research and first-hand knowledge of official betrayal. Their testimony and evidence is included in the film "Beyond Treason: The US Government's Long History of Experimenting on Military Troops...and Their Own Documents That Prove It." The film and its accompanying CD-Rom, which contains thousands of pages of documentation, present comprehensive and compelling evidence from US government archives that point to a massive cover-up lasting more than two generations. For more about this film and the plight of Gulf War veterans, visit www.gulfwarvets.com. Intuit's Vibe Atomic Skies Falling By Carah Ong With Hiroshima eyes I weep for a world self-destructing, never learning lessons from the atomic apocalypse of skies falling. With Nagasaki ears I listen to the woeful cries of more and more victims, each one muted by preemptive Destruction. With Bikini and Moruroa lips I mourn so many stories unheard, untold a legacy of catastrophe buried by atolls of coral. With Nevada skin I burn to tell a Truth obstructed of desolate Earth and People united by a cataclysmic obsolescence. With Lop Nor legs I run to find a secret crevice where I lie hidden from a home on the brink of nuclear precipice. With Novaya Zemlya and Chernobyl arms I reach to embrace an untainted vision, a reality not beholden since before the Trinity explosion. Unlike Pokhran and Chagai, I can not celebrate a new era of annihilation concealed in formidable disguise justifying my security by threatening our demise. Bit of History Nuclear Storm: August 1945 Deriving its energy from nuclear fission, the atomic bomb is a weapon of mass destruction. On July 16, 1945, the first weapon of this type was detonated at Alamogordo, New Mexico, USA. On August 6, 1945, the B-29 bomber Enola Gay, flying high above the industrial city of Hiroshima, Japan, dropped a similar bomb fashioned with uranium-235. At 8:15 A.M., Japanese time, the bomb exploded with a blinding flash, a great rush of air and a loud rumble. The initial blast fell buildings, sparked fires and a great cloud of dust and smoke darkened the city. The powerful explosion, the equivalent of 22,000 tons of TNT, instantly killed 66,000 people and injured more. Hiroshima's city center suffered almost complete destruction; casualties in un-reinforced buildings were almost 100%. Fires, which sprang up simultaneously all over Hiroshima, combined in an immense "firestorm" (high winds blowing inwards toward the center of a large conflagration), burning almost everything that had not already been incinerated in a roughly circular area of 4.4 square miles radius around the point of the explosion. On the day after the Hiroshima strike, the US War Department began a propaganda campaign against the Japanese Empire. The
[cia-drugs] The DISH Vol. 8 No 27
Dot's Information Service Hotline "Unbossed and unbought news and information you can use" Visit The DISH online at www.thedish.org Vol. 8 No 27...Dedicated to the Dialogue on Race... 07-08-05 Table of Contents 1. A Bit of History...Sissieretta Jones (1869-1933) 2. Comments from the Bat Cave 3. Minstrels, Blackface and Movies...By John Burl Smith 4. Hood Notes...The Drama in Drama 5. News You Use...Blaxploitation Films 6. Venue for an Artist...40 Acres and a Mule...By Oscar Brown, Jr. 7. Intuit's Vibe..."Love Doctor"...By Tiy-E Muhammad 8. DISHing It Up Hot!...On Tiy-E...By John Burl Smith ** A Bit of History Sissieretta Jones (1869-1933) Born January 5, 1869 in Portsmouth, Virginia to African Methodist Episcopal minister Jeremiah Malachi Joyner and Henrietta Beale Joyner, Matilda Sissieretta Joyner became American's leading prima donna. In 1876, her family moved to Providence, Rhode Island, where she attended the Meeting Street and Thayer Schools. At age fourteen (14), Sissieretta married David Jones, a news dealer and hotel bellman. A soprano, she began formal music training with Ada Baroness Lacombe at the Providence Academy of Music in1883. At age 18, she attended the New England Conservatory in Boston and studied with Flora Batson, the leading singer of the Bergen Star Company. While performing at the Music Hall in 1887, concert managers Abbey, Schoffel and Grau saw Sissieretta and brought her to New York, where she successfully debuted at the Wallack Theater in 1888. The manager of famed Italian operatic star Adelina Patti recommended she tour with the Tennessee Jubilee Singers of Fisk University. While touring with the Fisk University Singers, she received the first of many medals she wore during her performances at home and abroad. Sissieretta performed for three presidents at the White House and before the Prince of Wales. She toured South America and Europe, appearing at the Wintergarten in Berlin and Covent Garden, England. She appeared with Antonín Dvorák and was the first black to perform at Carnegie Concert Hall. After her appearance in the "Grand African Jubilee" at Madison Square Garden in New York (1892), Sissieretta drew international acclaim. Stunned by the New York Clipper's theatrical critic racially categorizing her as "the Black Patti" - referring to Italian soprano Adelina Patti- Sissieretta insisted on being called "Madame Jones." Her many gifts from admirers included a medal from President Hippolyte of Haiti, a bar of diamonds and emeralds from the citizens of St. Thomas, an emerald shamrock from the Irish people of Providence, and a diamond tiara from the governor-general in the West Indies. She often wore 17 medals across her chest during performances. Following her European tour, Sissieretta noticed she encountered far less racial prejudice there than in the United States. "It matters not to them the color of an artist's skin. If a man or a woman is a great actor, musician or singer, they will extend a warm welcome. It is the soul they see, not the color of the skin." Although Sissieretta signed a contract with Major J.B. Pond, manager of well-known singers and lecturers, that raised her fees to as high as $2,000 for a week's appearance at the Pittsburgh Exposition, the highest ever paid to a Black artist, her compensation did not compare to Adelina Patti's $4,000 a night. Racism controlled black success. The Metropolitan Opera considered her for a leading role but rejected her because of her skin color. Frustrated that racism limited venues for black artists, Sissieretta formed a troupe known as the Black Patti Troubadours. It combined vaudeville, minstrel, musical review and grand opera. For almost 20 years, Sissieretta performed excerpts from such operas as Lucia, Il Trovatore, Martha, Faust, and El Capitan. Sissieretta became ill in 1913 and retired to Providence, where she devoted her later years to church work and caring for homeless children and her ailing mother. She died on June 24, 1933 at age 74 in Rhode Island. (Source: www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/jone-sis.htm) Comments from the Bat Cave The Dark Knight-Batman/White Ninja/Zorro is experiencing the joys of summer with a twist. He is working on Saturdays with a family member. When asked for comments, the Dark One/Ninja/Zorro, who normally avoids work like the plague, remarked, "It's work! But, a man needs money is his pockets!" Minstrels, Blackface and Movies By John Burl Smith History shows American theater began aboard slave ships that brought Africans to the Americas. Those "performances" were compulsory. Slavers forced blacks to dance and sing while crossing the "Middle Passage." Such notables as James Weldon Johnson and W.E.B. Du Bois believed that minstrelsy "constituted the 'only completely original contribution' of America to the theater." Minstrel shows developed during the 19th
