Robert Nesta "Bob" Marley (February 6, 1945 – May 11, 1981) was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician. He was the lead singer, songwriter and guitarist for the ska, rocksteady and reggae bands The Wailers (1964–1974) and Bob Marley & The Wailers (1974–1981). Marley remains the most widely known and revered performer of reggae music, and is credited for helping spread both Jamaican music and the Rastafari movement to a worldwide audience.

Marley's best known hits include "I Shot the Sheriff", "No Woman, No Cry", "Could You Be Loved", "Stir It Up", "Jamming", "Redemption Song", "One Love" and, together with The Wailers, "Three Little Birds", as well as the posthumous releases "Buffalo Soldier" and "Iron Lion Zion". The compilation album, Legend (1984), released three years after his death, is reggae's best-selling album, being 10 times Platinum (Diamond) in the U.S., and selling 20 million copies worldwide.
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I was excited about Bob Marley’s birthday, as I am every year. I have to say there are some artists/singers that are prophets with microphones. When I listen to Bob Marley, Al Green, and Sade or even right on down to our sister Jill Scott, I realize that some people have a gift with music that is straight from the mouth of God.

I could not believe the headlines when I read that Jamaica was canceling the tribute concert to Bob Marley that has been held every year there since 1992. The tribute is held all around the world. I thought to myself that I am not going to Jamaica until they respect Bob Marley for his contributions to a ghetto that is now considered a beautiful island because of his connection to it. The powers-that-be use his name and likeness to sell the vacation of a lifetime to tourists. Come on, you saw the commercials. I would not have ever wanted to visit this place had Bob Marley not sang about it. They cancelled the concert over a noise ordinance. Isn’t it funny how whenever Africans are doing something, celebrating us and having fun, the powers-that-be always make it out to be something negative. The OZ fest and those tired Grateful Dead concerts can be held anywhere and no one says anything. I know Africans can’t get Bob Marley to play loud enough for satisfaction no matter how powerful the sound system is, so who was complaining?

It would not be fair for me not to mention my favorite Bob Marley song and say I am writing a tribute. But to try and come up with a favorite song is just not fair to my readers or me. I love everything Bob Marley sings. My Grandmother use to say, “Al Green could sing anything and she would by it.” I feel the same way about Bob Marley music. I don’t have a favorite, but certain songs play in my head all the time, like, “Africa Unite” and “Black Survivors“. They say every hero needs a theme song, so if I were a hero, I would definitely want “Black Survivors” to be my anthem. I hear certain lyrics from him all the time, like “How long shall they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look? Some say it’s just a part of it, we have to fulfill the book.”

I think about Jamaica and how I was so disappointed when I got there. When I stepped off the plane, the first thing I saw was a big ass ‘stamp’ proclaiming Christopher Columbus as the founder. I thought to myself, you have got to be kidding me! This devil done stole the planet. I don’t know who really discovered America or Jamaica but I know if it wasn’t for Bob Marley I would not have been there. I dreamed of moving to Atlanta as a kid because I knew that’s where Black folks were. I then I matured and dreamed of going to Jamaica because it seemed like the closest thing to Africa for a cheap price. I got there and no one had locks and I quickly realized the powers-that-be just use Bob Marley’s name to attract tourists. The island is ran by Indians, not Native Americans, real Indians from India and of course the British and French are getting their pockets fat off of the island. I didn’t see not one Rasta and when I asked about them, I was told “They are up in the mountains and you don’t want to go there because the people are bad.”

I immediately thought about the south side of Chicago, where I am from, and how people would say the same thing about us. If you look at WGN, which is shown all over the country, you will think that to the people of Chicago, gang banging is their religion and the only jobs people respect is drug dealing. I have to say that, that is definitely not true. I have participated in both and I can tell you 99% percent of the people who actually do it would rather be doing something productive. I  immediately put together a team to get me up in those mountains to see my people. I got up there and all the Rasta’s had bald heads and they treated me like I was the one who was special. I couldn’t believe it because some Rasta’s in the states act like you are committing a crime if you growing locks and you are not Rasta. So to see them with bald heads looking like monks and being truly righteous, I was blown away. I realized how poor the natives lived and how they catered to Europeans all day begging for American dollars.

I thought to myself of how Bob Marley asking someone when the last time they have been to Jamaica, would be like asking someone when the last time they have been to Haiti before the earthquake. I love the fact that the Marley family is making some money off of Bob Marley’s name because the devils that run the economy on that island certainly are making a killing. When ever I go to these islands, like Jamaica or Mexico, I am amazed at how Europeans create playgrounds in the middle of other people’s misery. If you walk outside your hotel in Negril, Jamaica or Cancun, Mexico, and go into the city, you will quickly realize how the natives are thrown to the out skirts and the powers-that-be party and make all the money while the people as Bob would say “suffer and suffer in every way.” I look at the moving of Africans out of the inner city in every major city in America from New York (Harlem) to Chicago, where they have moved all of the African people to the suburbs and all of the Europeans back into the city and I think to myself, ‘Can this be what’s going on with all the taking over of the major cities? Will we all live on the out skirts in poverty while Europeans enjoy the access to the city and the right to vote for mayors and city officials because they are in the city?’ If you live outside of certain areas, you can’t vote for the Mayor of another city. People in College Park, GA found this out during this year’s mayoral election when they couldn’t vote for Kasim Reed over candidate Mary Norwood.

I woke up on Wednesday morning and the autopsy for Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah, the Imam killed in Detroit, was completed and it stated that he had been shot 20 times and was also handcuffed when agents finally got to the scene to investigate. I thought of my brother Fred Hampton Sr. from Chicago who was killed in his sleep by authorities that shot him over 20 times. Then I thought of Bob’s words, “How long shall they kill our Prophets while we stand aside and look? Some say it is just a part of it, we have to fulfill the book.” I don’t know about the rest of the world, but I am ready for a new book and the first chapter should be about with whom we are spending our money and the second chapter should be about whom we are banning for exploiting our Prophets, Messengers and Messiahs. From Abraham to Jesus all the way down to Muhammad. I will be the first to say to all Rastas and people whom just love Bob Marley ban Jamaica until they respect the man who introduced the world to Jamaica and Rastafarianism. Until truth prevails my eyes will be watching.


Autopsy: Detroit imam shot 20 times during FBI raid - MLIVE.com

No 'Jamming' in Jamaica: Police call off annual Bob Marley birthday bash By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Google News

Bob Marley on Wikipedia.org

Bob Marley Website
 
Photo Christopher Columbus statue

History of Christopher Columbus

Photo Bob Marley

Photo of Luqman Ameen Abdullah - Racewire.com

The government of the United States of America has a track record of deporting or refusing the entry of nations with Black people. When it comes to Cuba, Haiti or Brazil the Black citizens are always sent packing or turned around on a tube or what ever they sailed here on.

The problem is clearly racial when you look at Cuba. Just go to Miami, you will not find many Black Cubans. Was it a coincidence that the Dominican Republic, a European colonized island, has enjoyed financial support from America and great trade agreements while Haiti, its neighbor, has not?

The hatred of Black people didn’t start in the U.S. and it is not contained to just these borders. The racism Blacks face in America is something Blacks all over the world experience and America has openly supported these countries that oppress Blacks. If you look at South Africa, the U.S. government supported Apartheid and F.W. de Klerk to the end. My proudest moment of Nelson Mandela being free was when President Clinton told him he couldn’t associate with Moammar Kadafi. President Mandela said “When you were supporting my enemies in apartheid, he supported me, so don’t try to tell me who I can associate with.” I stood proud with him on that day but then he dissed Winnie and that’s another story. Back to the Haitians, where are they going to go?

According to an Interview on Democracy Now when asked, ’What can be done?’  IRA KURZBAN: A number of things. First of all, we think they should bring many more people from Haiti, including all those people who had approved petitions by family members. We can do that. It’s about 70,000 people. Previously, we brought over 250,000 Cubans into the United States. We can certainly do that for Haitians here now.

I listened to the President’s State of the Union Address Wednesday, January 27, 2010 and for a moment I thought he wasn’t even going to mention the earthquake at all. I sat with my mouth wide open for at least an hour like, ’When is he going to take a moment of silence for the people of Haiti?’ He then finally mentioned Haiti, but from a stand point like America has done great things by this country in the last couple of weeks. He was giving kudos to everybody and talking about the work the troops are doing. What?

I thought about if a tragedy hit this country and everybody had to leave, where would African Americans go? What is the homeland of African Americans? I think this is why we have to be careful when we distance our selves from Africa and embrace America so strongly. I don’t feel like we need to go back to Africa because I don’t think it is the home of all of us now but it is the throne of all African people. Until we can have import and export with Africa, we will not be recognized as a nation and until Africa builds with its children abroad, we will all stay stuck under the foot of the European rulers that we serve today.

There is an organization called I.C.E. (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) that regulates what is going to happen to people who are detained for deportation purposes. This organization is not regulated by anyone and is handing out pink slips to all those employees that come to this country to work and try to make a better life for themselves and their family. If you committed any felony of any kind or have two or more misdemeanors, you can be deported without question.

The war on drugs not only affected Africans in America but also those who come from other countries with African descent. I cringe when I talk about this war because the main culprits became heroes and the rest of them ended up in jail. Ronald Reagan and Oliver North are heroes to the right wing and President Obama seems to be carrying the torch with the policies he is setting and the cabinet he is building. I would like to take a moment of silence for all my Brothers locked up behind that foolishness and I would like to take a moment to salute at least one person that was able to change his life around and make a difference in this country only to be threatened with deportation after he paid his debt to society.

According to ”Democracy Now”  A prominent Haitian New York community activist has been released after being jailed for three weeks by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Jean Montrevil was arrested last month for a twenty-year-old drug conviction for which he had already served eleven years. He hasn’t broken any law since.

Montrevil married an American citizen. He’s the father of four children who are US citizens. He’s a longtime community leader in New York City and active in a number of immigrant rights groups, including Families for Freedom and the New York City New Sanctuary Movement, as well as Detention Watch Network.

I love President Obama but I recognize we are not the same. I know most Black Americans will disagree with me but my bloodline is not connected to George Bush and Dick Cheney. The President’s Father is African and his mother is European. He is not like many Africans in America whose ancestral tree has roots of at least four generations of slaves and dehumanized ancestors. Some may say, “What does that have to do with anything because Blacks sell each other out?” I say if you are spiritual and understand we are spiritual beings, having a physical experience, you then start to live differently.

I know from my title, people expect me to have the answer but the question is more profound to me. The question really is, “What can we do for our own people after all the progress we have made and the election of a Black skinned man? What can we now do for self?” Until truth prevails, my eyes will be watching.

Democracy Now.org       

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

Nelson Mandela Site

Nelson Mandela on FW de Klerk

LA Times Article - U.S. suspends deportation of Haitians 1-14-10

The Seattle Times – US Halts Deportation of Haitians for Now 1-13-10

Photo 1 - Obama State of the Union - from www.guardian.co.uk

Photo 2 Photo: MGN Online - From The Final Call Online



I asked this question to my Brother Malik Shabazz and he said, “Brother if this devil can do that then we might as well just sit down and not even talk about fighting him because it would be hopeless.”

Is the HAARP project real? Does our government have a machine that they can use to manipulate the weather? These are questions being asked by plenty of citizens who had watched what happened in New Orleans with Katrina and now with the earthquake in Haiti.

HAARP is the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program and is real and the government doesn’t deny that they have it. They do deny that it can be used to manipulate the weather and be used as a weapon.

 According to Wikipedia:  “The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) is an investigation project jointly funded by the US Air Force, the US Navy, the University of Alaska, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Its purpose is to analyze the ionosphere and investigate the potential for developing ionospheric enhancement technology for communications and surveillance purposes. Started in 1993, the project is proposed to last for a period of twenty years. The system was designed and built by Advanced Power Technologies (APTI) and since 2003, by BAE Advanced Technologies.

The facility currently operates a VHF and UHF radar, a fluxgate magnetometer, a digisonde, and an induction magnetometer alongside the transmitter facilities. As of 2008, HAARP had incurred around $250 million in tax-funded construction and operating costs”.

The government doesn’t deny where the machines are located. In the United States, there are three ionospheric heating facilities: Fairbanks, Alaska and one at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. The European Incoherent Scatter Scientific Association (EISCAT) operates an ionospheric heating facility near Russia.

Before you start trying to call me a conspiracy theorist, I have to ask, why are we spending so much money building on these kinds of machines? As a citizen of America and a descendant of Africa I have to ask why no African nations are being given the chance to test this instrument? If you know the history of this country when it comes to experimenting on people who are African like the Tuskegee experiment, you have to be leery of everything this government is doing.  I think as people who have been targeted for extermination on so many levels from drugs being put into our community to the creation of Planned Parenthood targeted toward Africans and other minorities as forms of population control, you have to think we will be the first target if such a machine can be used as a weapon. With the current earthquake that just almost wiped out Haiti and didn’t even budge the Dominican Republic next door you have to wonder. The history of Haiti is important because the goal of those who tried to conquer it has always been to stop the advancement of the Africans who were left on that island and defeated the French to obtain their freedom when freedom for Africans wasn’t even a thought. A lot of people don’t’ understand how America and other European countries put embargos on Haiti for over sixty years after the revolution. Did you know Haiti was ordered to pay reparations to the families of the French that died in the war that they fought trying to obtain their freedom? What?! But when I talk about reparations for Africans enslaved and dehumanized in America, my own people look at me like I am crazy.

 “My decision to destroy the authority of the blacks in Saint Domingue (Haiti) is not so much based on considerations of commerce and money, as on the need to block for ever the march of the Blacks in the world.” - Napolean Bonaparte

It is said that the Reverend Nat Turner and many more were inspired by this Revolution and it is the belief of many that they have always been hated by, and targeted by, European nations because of their history.

I think as a people, we have to start creating think tanks to investigate everything being done by this government. Out of all people, we need to think of the most wicked thing that can be done to a people and remember this country has proven to us that there is no limit when it comes to trying to remove us from the planet. Many on the internet and television like Alex Jones and Governor Jesse Ventura have had specials on this subject. I know they won’t be called crazy or racist. They believe the government is into population control and will use this machine to wipe out more than eighty percent of the population. When I hear white men nervous and worried about being wiped out, you know my lil black self from the south side of Chicago is nervous as hell. The Russians also questioned this technology when America first showed up with it.

Potential for use as a weapon

The objectives of the HAARP project became the subject of controversy in the mid-1990s, following claims that the antennas could be used as a weapon. In August 2002, a critical mention of HAARP technology came from the State Duma (parliament) of Russia. The Duma issued a press release on the HAARP written by the international affairs and defense committees, signed by 90 deputies and presented to then President Vladimir Putin. The statement claimed:

The U.S. is creating new integral geophysical weapons that may influence the near-Earth medium with high-frequency radio waves ... The significance of this qualitative leap could be compared to the transition from cold steel to firearms, or from conventional weapons to nuclear weapons. This new type of weapons differs from previous types in that the near-Earth medium becomes at once an object of direct influence and its component.

This high level concern is paralleled in the April 1997 statement by the U.S. Secretary of Defense over the power of such electromagnetic weaponry. Russia owns and operates an ionospheric heater system as powerful as the HAARP, called 'Sura.'

If everybody is questioning the use of this technology, trust me we are not crazy for thinking the same thoughts. What happens to us too much is we let race relations put us to sleep. We want to be friends with our open enemies more than we want to be family with our African brothers and sisters around the world. We are all still African no matter where we were left. Malcolm X once asked “If a cat has kittens in an oven, does that make them biscuits?”

The most Honored Elijah Muhammad teaches us that when the bible speaks of the destruction of the world it is actually speaking of a system being destroyed. He said in the book “The Fall of America” that the U.S would put together its best weapons in its war against God. He said this would be allowed so that God would be able to prove his power to the people and bring about the destruction of the devils as we know them today. So I say to my brother Malik and others who would allow fear to make them bow down, Allah (the all in all including us) is more powerful than the devil could ever be and if we continue to stick together and fight with God against this open enemy we possibly can be saved. Until Truth Prevails My Eyes will be watching

Video on Experiment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR6O3kJTqaI&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/v/xhJfkh0e3l0&hl=en_US&fs=1&

HAARP Alaska Site

HAARP Photo Gallery

EISCAT Site

HAARP Arecibo Site

Wikipedia Info on HAARP 

Michel Chossudovsky is a Professor of Economics at the University of Ottawa and an editor at the Centre for Research on Globalization, www.globalresearch.ca  - Weather Warfare article  - http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/haarpecologist.pdf

A Haiti Disaster Relief Scenario Was Envisaged by the US Military One Day Before the Earthquake  - http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17122

Project Stormfury - http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hrd_sub/stormfury_era.html

Details on Government Satellites - http://www.cdi.org/terrorism/satellites-pr.cfm

China rolls out the big guns, aiming for a dry Olympics  - http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-06-29-china-rain_x.htm

HOW SCIENTISTS PRODUCE RAIN - China's state news agency, Xinhua, says government rainmakers flew 3,000 cloud seeding flights from 2000 to 2005 and triggered rainfalls that dumped 275 billion cubic yards. That's enough rain to fill the country's second-largest river, the Yellow River, four times over.

Photo 1 - From the MindControlForums.com Site

Photo 2 - HAARP Alaska Site

Photo 3 - National Space Weather Program Image Info - "Image taken by the Spin-Scan Auroral Imaging instrument on board Dynamics Explorer - 1. Courtesy L. Frank, the University of Iowa, and NASA."

 ATLANTA FOR HAITI — As you can imagine, Wednesday starts one of the MOST DIFFICULT moments in Haiti’s history. In the process of cleaning up and helping families relocate, aid workers are going to need several items.

Over the next few days members Atlanta’s Urban Entertainment Community (some who have family in Haiti) will be collecting the following:

Water – preferably in cases

Medicine – ie, pain killers (Tylenol, Advil), allergy medicine, bandages, insulin, antibiotics, etc.

Clothing

Diapers , Wipes & Formula

Feminine Products

Shoes

Non-perishable goods

Think of everything you would need in the event that your home was completely destroyed. We will have more details over the next few days about drop off locations throughout the metro-Atlanta area, as well as a mailing address for those wishing to send in their donations from elsewhere.

You can also make financial donations directly to the Haitian Alliance via their website www.TransformHaiti.Org.

Updates are available via Facebook | ATLANTA FOR HAITI – Earthquake Relief Initiative.

Follow TaiSaintBoogie on twitter for Atlanta updates.  Use hashtag #ATL4Haiti when tweeting. For national news and relief efforts, follow Wyclef Jean @wyclef or visit www.yele.org

 ATTENTION: The Haitian Alliance is meeting tonight in Atlanta @ 7pm at Fishermen Missionary Church, 300 Merchants Dr, Norcross 30091 (404-324-1199); Please attend to find out what you can do to help; they will be sending a group of people to Haiti.

You can also text Haiti 90999 to donte $10,

"YELE" TO 501501 TO DONATE $5

You can also call 888-407-4747/800-257-7575

I hear and see so many articles and stories where people are debating whether or not the government had anything to do with the terrorist attacks on 9/11. I have heard scenarios about the government knowing what was going to happen and just allowed it to happen in order to create fear within the American public. Now why would the government want their citizens to be afraid? I have a lot of ideas myself but the question itself is more important than my ideas. Why have we been fed fear in everything from children fairytales, school books, to religion?

I remember when President Bush was asked why he thought we were being attacked. I thought he was going to say something really technical. I was ready, I had my pen and pad and I was going to investigate everything he said. But I was short changed like every American out there. I had hopes of making this my big story and becoming like the next Ed Gordon (ok maybe that didn’t make sense) but neither did the President’s reasons for the attacks. I was thinking to myself “Because of our wealth and prosperity?” I felt like the cat on Tom and Jerry when he realized he was just played like a sucker. I had the whole moment where I felt my body turned into an actual sucker and my face was all round and dumb looking. Wait, wait…that actually is how the President looked trying to explain how two planes crashed into the World Trade Center without being shot down before they hit their targets.

The craziest thing about terrorist talk is we have not gone after the leaders of any of these groups. I know some people will say “Well we did get Sadaam Hussein.” We have to ask though, if he worked for our government and then realized they were going to double cross him and enslave his people, even more than he had already done, does that make him a terrorist? I don’t think so. I don’t think Bin Laden is a terrorist either. I think he still works for the CIA and is somewhere vacationing with Sadaam, the Bushes and the Obamas. They all probably in Hawaii right now figuring out what next celebrity scandal to feed to the public so we don’t realize we are being controlled and enslaved by the same people who are claiming to be protecting us from the boogeyman, sorry, I meant terrorist.

When I was a kid, President Reagan was telling the people we were broke but that he was creating this whole Star Wars program that would keep nuclear weapons from ever hitting our borders. This concern of being attacked by people that, supposedly, we have never done anything to has allowed the government to do whatever they want to do. He told people about his war on drugs and how he was going to rid the country of cocaine and heroin. I thought the future would be so bright we would all be flying around like the Jetsons and riding Jet packs like they were motorcycles. The present, of course is nothing like that. We came to learn he actually helped bring cocaine into Black communities. He enslaved the poor with new drug laws that would lead us to where we are now with over 50% of Black folks locked up for selling something they still don’t know where it came from. I know somewhere the real Ricky Ross is shaking his head saying, “Wow what a price to pay to be a pawn.” I know Manuel Noriega is shaking his head at how stupid the American public can be.

When I heard President Bush call Reagan a great President, I knew then we were in trouble and in a flash – the country was back to being broke and we were back into Reaganomics and the goal of the government was to scare the public. People, we are all afraid of an army of terrorist that don’t exist. Like Bradley Birkenfield when he blew the whistle on all the rich folks hiding money in Swiss bank accounts and is going to jail. He is going to jail and none of the billionaires or millionaires he testified against are going to jail, even though they committed felonies by checking a particular box on their taxes. The government even protected their identity and will not expose them. The government is sending a message to anyone who is shining a light on the boogeyman -You will go to jail if you tell on the real terrorist.

President Obama just released his counter terrorism review (view it on the Media and Video Posts page on this site) on the 12/25/09 terrorist attack and in it he was really trying to understand how we had so much information and still allowed this man to get on a plane. I am sure he has to be asking himself why we didn’t move on the Doctor in Texas at the army base when they had years of history of him talking and acting like a nut. Why would America allow planes to just fly into the twin towers? Why are we made to be so afraid? If the President doesn’t know the answers to these questions, how should you? I do know this, if you read a book called “The Fall of America” or “Behold the Pale Horse” you will understand me, terrorism, and the use of fear a whole lot better. Until Truth Prevails my eyes will be watching.

Democracy Now! - The War and Peace Report site

Ronald Reagan's "Star Wars" Speech (Complete Text) March 23, 1983

Whistleblowers.org - More on Bradley Birkenfield

The Fall of America book

Behold A Pale Horse

(Photo 1 - Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images North America (Zimbio.com), 2)&3) Photos by Richard Shabazz)