Volume 4 Issue 37…Dedicated to the Dialogue on Race…September 21, 2001

Note: The DISH is based on themes from T.H.I.N.C. (Teaching Humanity In New Consciousness): The Chrysalis of Evolution. According to the President's Initiative on Race, "The issues that this book brings to the forefront are important in our efforts to achieve the goals set forth by the President for the Initiative. This work will serve as a solid resource for us as we begin to examine these critical issues." For your copy of T.H.I.N.C., The DISH or to submit comments, contact ICIM, Inc. at (404) 244-6023. The DISH © 2001

by Yohannes Sharriff Smith

War comes

Riding like the four horsemen.

Its approach is swift!

Restless, anxious to consume this nation.

The same grim tales repeated on the evening news.

The Blues are the only Fruits our seeds reap,

while we watch uncles,

Tom and Sam, crumble.

Under this overwhelming stress,

politicians emanate the festering stench of rotting flesh.

Throughout time this end has been prophesied,

And, now it is here.

Listen...listen...listen carefully to what is said.

Hear the anger and confusion in our voices.

See the sadness and oppression in faces first seen as a race.

Feel the pain that reigns from the slums to Sugar Hill.

All searching for the same thing,

a better way to exist.

Then, become aware of the wretched lies this country willfully rests upon.

This foundation of inadequacy and male insecurity steadily dissipates

under the pressure of common sense.

Replacing mass ignorance,

Intelligence soon to reveal its deadly weapon,

drafting the constitution of revolution in red ink.

(Revised and reprinted from THINC, 1997)

 News You Use

by Boyd E. Graves, J.D

 "We must let nature determine the finish line, not man. We are greater than any federal virus program; we are the human race." Dr. Boyd E. Graves, U.S. Supreme Court Case No. 00-9587 (boyded2001@yahoo.com ).

In April 1984, Dr. Robert Gallo filed a United States patent application for his invention, the HIV/AIDS Virus. Normally when a patent is filed and approved, anyone who uses the invention owes a royalty payment to the inventor. Thus, holding the intellectual property laws to their fullest interpretations, one must wonder why Dr. Gallo has yet to file a lawsuit seeking to recover damages from the usage of his invention?

Scientific evidence indicates the AIDS Virus is a designer by-product of the U.S. Special Virus program that persisted in the United States from 1962 until 1978. The U.S. Special Virus was added as 'compliment' to vaccine inoculations in Africa and Manhattan. Shortly thereafter the world was overwhelmed with mass infections of a human retrovirus that differed from any known human disease, it was highly contagious and more important, it could kill.

The Special Virus Program Flow Chart and its 15 progress reports are irrefutable evidence of the United States' secret plan to cull world populations via the unleashing of a stealth biological microorganism that would 'waste' humanity. Between 1964 and 1978, the secret federal virus program spent $550 million of taxpayer money to invent AIDS. It is now necessary to spend whatever it takes to dismantle an invention that has led to the greatest crime against humanity in the history of the world. See http://www.boydgraves.com

In 1970, medical doctor Salvador Allende became the first democratically elected socialist president. Signaling hope for Chile's impoverished masses, Allende campaigned on a platform of social reform. In office, he nationalized industries and utilities and stepped up land reforms begun prior to his election.

Under Richard M. Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, the US blocked financial aid to Chile and other Third World countries that nationalized industries. Anaconda and Kennecott mining companies and International Telephone and Telegraph (ITT) were among the American enterprises with property in Chile (http:///www.tni.org/letelier/docs/thenation.htm ).

The IMF ceased to aid Chile. Its people suffered, amplifying internal divisions. Industrialists and landowners frustrated reform. Factory and farm workers protested the slow pace of the new programs. Others blamed Allende's reforms for the high rate of inflation.

US-backed forces trained at the School of the Americas (SOA) overthrew Chile's government and killed Allende (9-11-73) (http://www-personal.uwich.edu/~lormand/soa/chile.htm). The coup brought the suspension of constitutional government. Under General Augusto Pinochet, in a few months, the junta arrested, tortured and killed more than 30,000 Chileans (Http://www.gisp.ucsb.edu/lais/case4.htm).

On September 26, 1973, SOA graduates killed Allende's exiled foreign minister Orlando Letelier and his aide, Ronnie Moffitt, a few blocks from the White House in Washington, D.C. It was the most sensational foreign-led act of terrorism in the US capitol until 9-11- 2001 (http://www.censa.net/).

Alarmed by the growing strength of its majority black population, South Africa turned to chemical and biological weapons in the early 1980s. It appointed Dr. Wouter Basson to lead its efforts at depopulation

Truth and Reconciliation Commission documents show Basson tried to develop bacteria to kill only blacks, vaccines to sterilize black women and substances that killed without leaving a trace. The evidence points to studies on illegal drugs like Ecstasy, THC and LSD. The apartheid scientists grew strains of anthrax, cholera and botulism and produced covert assassination weapons that included a syringe disguised as a screwdriver and a gun shaped like an umbrella and fired poisoned pellets. These death doctors drafted plans to distribute poisoned T-shirts to black townships and created poisoned beer, chocolate, cigarettes and envelope flaps. Ironically, when Nelson Mandela came to power in 1993, he disbanded the unit, but kept Basson on the payroll, ostensibly to keep his secrets out of the wrong hands.

Declassified in 1989, Henry Kissinger's report "Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for US Security & Overseas Interests," The White House National Security Council, Washington DC, December 10, 1974, came 10 years before the announced discovery of the HIV virus. He wrote, "Depopulation should be the highest priority of US foreign policy towards the Third World. Reduction of the rate of population in these states is a matter of vital US national security. The US economy will require large and increasing amounts of minerals from abroad, especially from less-developed countries. That fact gives the US enhanced interests in the political, economic and social stability of the supplying countries. Wherever a lessening of population can increase the prospects for such stability, population policy becomes relevant to resources, supplies and the economic interest of the United States."

Many unanswered questions surround AIDS. Scientists claim HIV entered the human population of Africa around 1975, just months after this top-secret report. Blood and tissue samples collected in Central Africa before 1975 show no evidence of HIV infection. The Roman Catholic Church is implicated in spreading the AIDS virus under its practice of re-using unsterilized needles during inoculations in missionary hospitals.

According to CIA files declassified in April 2001, the USA retained the services of Nazi scientists that carried out eugenics experiments on Jews under Adolph Hitler. Nazi scientists, such as Josef Mengele, were part of the CIA's biological weapons program during the Cold War. With America eagerly pursuing biological weapons, AIDS could well be the means Kissinger sought to reduce Third World populations.

By John Burl Smith

Rather than approaching the World Trade Center bombing with a war mentality, it should be viewed as a terrible disaster on the magnitude of Vesuvius' destruction of Pompeii 79 A. D. Devastating, there had to be a recovery period. Declaring war on volcanoes would not have helped Rome recover from the loss of such a vital economic hub. Resources were not squandered in a raid on the national treasury to fight phantoms. Looking at what seems a microcosm of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it is very easy for America's collective perception to be warped and contorted much like the Japanese. However, one can always get help to destroy oneself, but little assistance with real recovery.

A DISH reader poll shows 97% do not want America to start WWIII. 89% believe America's desire for war against Arabs and white people's willingness to paint all Arabs as terrorists are racial and reek religious intolerance. As in the case of the Japanese, 78% fear America would drop a nuclear bomb on an Arab nation.

On Middle East peace, 87% say, if Israel accepts its borders according to U N Resolution 242 and respects its neighbors' borders, peace can be achieved. 98% think massive attacks against an ill-defined enemy will only lead to more, rather than fewer, acts of terror. John 2001

by John Burl Smith

Individual perspective enables Homo sapiens to project or ascribe motives to others that suit their purposes. How humans relate to what they encounter determine their reaction. The World Trade Center bombing is an excellent example of how disasters are used to serve the political objectives of those in power. Americans are told this is the worst act of terrorism in USA history. A true statement only if one only counts white lives lost and discounts manifest destiny, which drove Native Americans to the brink of extinction, and dismisses the terror sponsored by the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) from 1900 to the 1960s on black Americans.

Specifically, blacks see Greenwood, Oklahoma (1921) and Rosewood, Florida (1923) as far more horrific for survivors, as well as, those who died. In both instances, white mobs, aided and abetted by local and state officials, killed thousands of black citizens in riots lasting several days. Armed white mobs roamed both townships. They burned homes and businesses, many with people inside, while looting, raping and terrorizing defenseless men, women and children.

Greenwood, outside Tulsa, is a special case. It is the only acknowledged case where the US Army Air Corp dropped bombs on American citizens in support of whites participating in a race riot. Although started as a slave camp for blacks that worked for whites in Tulsa, Greenwood attained the title "Black Wall Street." Whites, envious of black economic power, used state-sponsored terrorism to cover-up robbing black people of wealth accumulated since slavery. Denying Rosewood and Greenwood were terrorism, America refuses to accept responsibility for the carnage.

Refusing to pursue perpetrators or help victims with recovery, state and federal officials rewarded whites with the property of their black victims. They rounded up black survivors and held them in pens for days as if they were perpetrators. From the perspective of whites, killing and robbing blacks of their wealth were justified. They claimed black wealth came at the expense of whites, because blacks only spent money with blacks. Whites asserted, they acted to break blacks' stranglehold on white businesses. Officials declared they acted to stop a black political and economic takeover.

Whites across America agreed blacks should never be allowed to develop economic and political power, which challenged white control. America used terror against blacks to prevent them from developing political and economic power during the terror-ridden days of slavery and the practice continues as institutionalized racism. September 11 was a dark day in America, but it was not the worst act of terrorism. John 2001

Disgruntled says: Remember, war is economic! Called the family that preys together, the Bush clan roves wherever their economic interests carry them. Bush's chief of staff, Carl Rove, not known as a direct relation, still personifies the clan's tendency to further personal interests. These include all things military-industrial from pharmaceutical and eugenics to mining and energy.

Disgruntled feels: Ending terrorism is a noble cause best viewed like charity, which begins at home, then spreads abroad. Before unleashing its war hawks, America should look within to end terrorism.

Disgruntled wants to know: Separation of church and state took a hit when Bush pledged war from the national pulpit. Christians are peaceful and love thy neighbors, but on Sunday church pews were packed with people praying for retribution and promising retaliation against our attackers. Jesus said, "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God." Can we be Christians and pray for war? Are we still searching for missing intern Chandra Levy?

Fusing music and theater, Aqiyl Thomas and Yohannes Smith take Atl's poetry scene to the next level with The Block: Poetic Asylum. This experimental play blends live music, dance and performances by some of Atl's hottest spoken word artists. Following the groundbreaking works You're Tripping, I am not the Descendant of Slaves and A Troubled World, Aqiyl and Yohannes want to expand the concept of spoken word.

Veterans in the Atlanta Vibe, this dynamic duo has reached a plateau. To get to the next level, artists must create it. Nurtured in Atlanta's free flowing and very supportive vibe of mostly artists, a treasure chest of skills and knowledge is being acquired to make the transition from five minute open mic poets to self-sufficient performance artists with creative control over the presentation and interpretation of their work.

Their message of change and healing through self-actualization is poised to assume a prominent place at the forefront of the spiritual movement sweeping the globe. Atlanta is ground zero. And, like the Harlem renaissance, it is the collaborative spirit and shared vision of artists driving this cultural phenomenon. Aqiyl and Yohannes invite you to be a part of the Atl Renaissance. The Block: Poetic Asylum is a great place to start, Sept. 28 @ Davage Auditorium in the Atlanta University Center (AUC). For more information, log on to or call (404) 896-4260.

911 is emergency code. When we say, call 911, there is an adrenaline rush increasing the blood flow preparing us to meet or flee whatever disaster might unfold. On 9-11, a day that lives in infamy, the worst disaster of the new millennium struck fear in the hearts of Americans, shattering forever our sense of security. 911 calls on 9-11 flooded emergency centers in the wake of the havoc wreaked by kamikaze airplane hijackers crashing into the Pentagon and World Trade Center.

Miles from ground zero I watched the horror unfold on television. Surreal, at times, it seemed like an action movie with a bad plot, only the carnage is real. Yet, there is still make believe in the midst of this real disaster. If you did not follow the 24/7 breaking news, you missed the rescue of five firefighters trapped in an SUV. News reports included footage of a firefighter who sounded like a town crier, spreading news of those survivors pulled from the rubble. It never happened!

Since 9-11, rumors have been reported as news, often accompanied by pictures. According to Internet sources, cheering Palestinian crowd scenes after the 9-11 disaster were footage from 1991. Stop the madness!

Reminiscent of Election 2000, American media keep breaking the news wrong. It was gut wrenching for family members and friends anxious for news of loved ones to learn no one had been rescued. The death and destruction are now sideshows for every politician taking advantage of endless global news coverage, which has replaced everything from missing intern Chandra Levy and Congressman Gary Condit's affair to breaking into the Social Security lockbox to avoid deficit spending.

Effectively, 9-11 takes everything off the table, including Bush's shady energy policy. The nation is at war! Everyone must rally around the leader. Sounds familiar? It should, because a similar scene is in The Pelican Brief. Check the chief of staff encouraging a not-so-bright president to wear a sweater at a news conference following the assassination of two Supreme Court Justices. "It is time to rally around the president," he says, which is what Americans do in a national crisis. No second-guessing the president, even when his lack of gravitas leaves us breathless with the make-believe of statements like "wanted dead or alive." His Wild, Wild West mentality is the real emergency. Please call 911!

Recalling scenes from The Long Kiss Goodnight, I would not be surprised if the Bush CIA or other arm of the US military-industrial complex staged these disasters as fund-raisers. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, the FBI and the CIA have unlimited access to the US treasury; 9-11 mission accomplished!

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