“Another One Bites the Dust”☻ Resignations & Slayings
The Britons are falling, the Britons are falling!
Humpty Dumpties sat on their wall. Oops, Dem UK and US donkeys had a shit fall!
“Machine guns ready to go…
Are you hanging on the edge of your seat?…
You took me for everything that I had
And kicked me out on my own…
There are plenty of ways that you can hurt a man
And bring him to the ground…
And another one gone, and another one gone
Another one bites the dust…”
– Queen
“Oh, how the mighty have fallen.” World has recently borne witness to a long list of rulers exiting their palaces: US, Brazil, Mauritius, Lebanon, Kosovo, Estonia, Netherlands, Chad, Haiti, Sri Lanka, Japan, Britain…
Macron, Trudeau, Biden….it appears lightening can strike more than twice!
Consider Japan: If a country where access to firearms is prohibited, and yet……….. imagine those in the West who see it as their “God given right.”
Joe, you speak of climate change being an “existential threat” and a “clear and present danger.” Better ‘pick your poison.’ CLEAR – Corruption at all City and State levels. PRESENT – Lead contaminated water system in several cities in Michigan. And what of the other 49 States?
You know your numbers are low Joe. Still, I don’t imagine you consider resigning. Perhaps what ya need is an Influencer. Wish to Quench Your Thirst? Jump Into the Sweet “Fountain of Youth”
Jo, you may not be responsible for all the plastic in the oceans but when it comes to lead in US city water systems doesn’t the buck stop with you? Do you not see toxic “bottle neck” is squeezing people to their limits where they’re at a point where they’ve got nothing to lose?
When a father dies in line begging for fuel and a mother cries along with her babies of hunger, what does the rest of their family and friends have to live for?
Death and famine has magnified in these last two years. It seems that for the first time, the West has finally been forced to confront its contempt, looking into the deadly “eye of the storm.”
Europeans and Americans, hear now the cries of your own “mouths of babes” for baby formula? Forced to decide between food, fuel or medicine? Will it soon be you and your children on the streets photographed for the cover of National Geographic instead of African deserts and South American jungles?
Like their political counterparts, CEOs and COOs too have taken the plunge and left their position as chief: Pinduoduo, Apollo Global Management, Amazon, Girls Who Code, Facebook………………….
Unlike politicians who are best left forgotten but for a few dirty lines in history books marking their tragic demise, Corporate Executives will forever linger in a vast cloud of unseen pages on the internet.
And live in the minds of those whose forced labor brought them blinding light of disillusionment working in American factories and darkness mining strategic minerals to power tech electronics.
Mark our words, you cannot hide behind a “chair.” You will forever remain in the ‘hot seat’ being associated with job entrapments, enslavement and culprits of human trafficking.
Personal gain or simple corruption? We remind you, Revolt comes in many forms and dimensions. Your sick mendacity has consequences.
“But I’m ready, yes, I’m ready for you
I’m standing on my own two feet…
Hey, I’m gonna get you, too
Another one bites the dust”
“Wretched of the Earth”
What say countries still “developing” all thanks to their rulers? Behold, you’ll find revulsion in the eyes of peoples of islands of paradise and beloved countries in southern hemispheres. The beauty of what was once their people and land is no more. Who are they and what have they become?
“What are we? Since that’s your question, I’m going to answer you. We’re this country, and it wouldn’t be a thing without us, nothing at all. Who does the planting? Who does the watering? Who does the harvesting? Coffee, cotton, rice, sugar cane, caco, corn, bananas, vegetables, and all the fruits, who’s going to grow them if we don’t? Yet with all that, we’re poor, that’s true. We’re out of luck, that’s true. We’re miserable, that’s true. But do you know why, brother? Because of our ignorance.” — Jacques Roumain, Gouverneurs de la Rosée
But no more. Two men familiar with France, poverty, and entrapment in the Caribbean Sea are Aimé Césaire and Frantz Fanon. Both are from Martinique, Haiti’s not so distant neighbor.
In 1955, Césaire stated, “at the present time the barbarism of Western Europe has reached an incredibly high level, being only surpassed – far surpassed, it is true – by the barbarism of the United States.”
Césaire did not mince words or hypothesize; he lived these words, embraced them and passionately versed the cries of the “wretched of the earth.”
“Exactly; but if I turn my attention from man to nations, I note that here too there is great danger; that colonial enterprise is to the modern world what Roman imperialism was to the ancient world: the prelude to Disaster and the forerunner of Catastrophe. Come, now! The Indians massacred, the Moslem world drained of itself, the Chinese world defiled and perverted for a good century; the Negro world disqualified; mighty voices stilled forever;…”
Who better to speak of the “Wretched of the Earth” than Frantz Fanon whose book bears this title. Fanon makes clear that “Seen through its eyes [national middle class] its mission has nothing to do with transforming nations….which today put on the mask of neo-colonialism.” I take this to mean that there is a hidden agenda, which capitalizes on a country’s resources while feigning peace and friendship.
Fanon adds, “The national economy, formerly protected, is today literally controlled.” Decades later, what has changed? Transnational Corporations TNCs continue to have a hold on susceptible countries as do paid contractors and mercenaries masking themselves as sponsors, supporters and donors.
Rise “Masters of the Dew!”
Rise “Masters of the Dew!” Haiti, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, India, Africa, South America, Libya……
“We don’t know yet what a force we are, what a single force – all the peasants, all the Negroes of the plain and hill, all united. Some day, when we get wise to that, we’ll rise up from one end of the country to the other. Then we’ll call a General Assembly of the Masters of the Dew, a great big coumbite of farmers and we’ll clear out poverty and plant a new life.”
— Jacques Roumain, Gouverneurs de la Rosée
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“Another One Bites the Dust”
Song by Queen
Source: Lyrics.com