A remastered version of Future By Design’s “New Plateau” initially released back in 1998. This is a Drum ‘n’ Bass oddity, a trippy, slightly trancey ‘old-skool’ drum ‘n’ bass track with a funky slap bass guitar in it. Soothingly warm and elevating, rinsing the urban blues away. Listen and download this release from your favourite digital music platform here: https://social.tunecore.com/linkShare?linkid=eMKxt31yvZupwQwPkcB6BA
a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,
Ecclesiastes 3:4
I find that listening to music can bring a kind of healing, but it is temporary. Time to figure out what heals us permanently.
Musk owns Grok (AI chatbot), Starlink (consumer internet) and Starshield (military internet infrastructure).
I was disgusted to hear about Elon Musk’s Grok and its ability to create explicit “deepfake” images of people. Let’s get this straight, you’re probably the most wealthy man on the planet, a significant player in the technology, and you create an AI that generates nudes? Why? Doesn’t the internet have enough of this stuff already, isn’t their enough filth already there for those who want to look for it? I hear the deepfake feature has been turned off, but why the hell was it created in the first place? For some reason this whole episode reminded me of this scripture:
Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbors, pouring it from the wineskin until they are drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness!
Habakkuk 2:15
People have been made drunk by literal drink, intoxicated and confused by drugs, deceived by teachings of all kinds; Mr Musk is bringing to life his vision of using technology to deceive the masses and we must be very wary of this. In fact we should avoid it.
Why is it that right about now some of the most useless people who appear to have reached a new low in having no morals are significant players in world events? Having a person like Musk own civilian and military infrastructure right across the planet is alarming. The guy is amoral, racist, yes the exact qualities of a white supremacist walking disaster. It is right on so many measures that South Africa has refused his company Starlink, the right to operate in South Africa. I hope more governments will take note of this and follow suit.
I’ve watched a few videos now featuring Chris Grandison aka “Xenogenesis”. He is a evolutionary psychologist with a Masters degree in his chosen field and he speaks with clarity on these issues. His background and approach don’t 100% align with my views as I get the impression he is an atheist, whereas I am a believer and follower of The Way. Many people haven’t closely read the bible and understood it on anything more than a superficial level, which sadly is the level at which most teaching of the bible within religious circles and hence the resulting understanding of our faith in wider society sits. The bible is more than a book about faith, it is about economies, politics, family and much more.
However, what I wanted to point out about Xenogenesis, is that his breadth of reading accomplished shows that a wealth of material exists that we should be reviewing to understand how to critically and systematically undermine and overcome the systems created by colonisers to keep Africa dependent, under performing and exploited. This is the kind of material that should be studied by every person of African descent, and should be taught in all African schools. There needs to be a continent wide focus on “African Empowerment & Liberation” in education. We don’t need to learn in such a way that makes us mere parrots of European thought and systems that keep us permanently lagging. We need to establish our own thought and systems that reflect our values to empower us and bring real, lasting change.
I’ve taken a little time to pray and consider what is going on in the situation where the USA has invaded Venezuela. The mainstream coverage I saw on the news didn’t seem to capture how widespread the attacks were, and strangely the YouTube channels seemed more informed about that – or perhaps not so strangely, as the mainstream media is so heavily in bed with the powers that drive the “status quo”.
A band called The Thievery Corporation wrote a song called Vampires – you know those mythical creatures that drink the blood of their victims. It seems capitalism too is a type of vampire, that drinks the lifeblood of nations, making them weak, in order to overpower them. This is what we have seen in Venezuela just recently, as years of US sanctions have made rationing, scarcity and unrest widespread in that country, putting its political leadership (Nicolás Maduro) in a weakened, virtually untenable position.
Behind some of the inanely stupid posts I have seen demeaning the Venezuelan people, some showing Trump as a victorious pirate, we must remember Venezuela has the worlds largest proven oil reserves, dwarfing some other nations well known for their stature in oil. Far from it being a funny thing, or something only the Central and South America really need worry about, we must understand what lies beneath these violent and unlawful actions and how this impacts the whole world beyond the obvious breaking of American Federal and International Law. But then, this isn’t the first time is it?
The US stays rich by keeping the world hooked on oil because oil must be traded in dollars. America’s economy is therefore largely driven by the “Petrodollar”. Every nation needs oil so every nation needs dollars or at least to trade in them to buy it. This is why Trump befriended Elon Musk, used him for his efficiency drive, and then dumped him and his dreams of electric cars being the future for America. Instead Trump took the tried and tested “American way”, of destroying other countries in order to loot their mineral resources. America doesn’t have the market in rare earth minerals cornered or even have significant leverage, so it is not interested in a dollar based lithium trading scheme because it wouldn’t be able to sustain its currency strength and demand with that.
Given that the USA benefits from the petrodollar system, their stealing of Venezuela’s oil both boosts their financial power and “their” oil reserves – and is also kick in the shins to BRICS. Venezuela’s oil reserves will be used to produce revenue to fund the American military’s war machine that may soon be coming to a country near you. Perhaps the American war machine may even visit where you live when the American’s decide they want yet more of another sovereign countries resources, to fund their apparently oh so rich, yet at the same time oh so in need of violence to sustain it, vampiric country.
America is truly a vampire-like beast. To kill “the beast“, you have to starve it. So please, no jokes when it has just found a massive meal.
This is a great video, although quite long, that goes into some of the great Pan African thinkers and their important literary works. I believe within these books and from our amassed knowledge as a people, we do have the blueprint to implement drastic change in Africa and break free from the European shackles. What we need first is peace, which isn’t easy. In an environment often dominated by conflict, manipulation and greed, we will always grow slowly.
It’s never ceases to amaze me what a moral cesspit the American administration is, but given America is a nation formed on the back of the genocide of native people, I guess no one should be surprised about their thirst for bloodshed and death. “If the root is bad, the fruit will be bad”, as a wise man once said.
Let’s face facts here, for the last 400 years Europeans have had the world shaped according to their desires. They colonised, they evangelised, their languages became prominent, and they set up the systems of trade and monetary movement. With all that said, why is it that these European systems still rely on war and violence in various guises to maintain their empires and “strategic interests”?
Taking a look at approach to sustaining a society, from a birds eye view, it seems that it isn’t sustainable and far from these colonising nations being endowed with true wealth, their prosperity is slipping away and the outward display of riches is based on debt.
Also these nations are now suffering low birth rates, and this from those so advanced in medical practices, apparently with the most healthy and clean lifestyles. How can this be happening, even after they plotted to reduce the populations of many African nations. This is what the Kissinger report states, and what many black musicians have been telling us for some time. I remember Public Enemies “Fear of a Black Planet” from 1989. White people fear being made insignificant by black people, and their unnatural fear has manifested in population control, not just in Africa, but in all the places they have colonised or invaded. But still their population is in decline? How, why?
“I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”
Genesis 12:3
We will never be defeated! They will try, and become more devious, but the one who watches over is will prevail, while we endure.
