As IF Times

link Marc Lamont Hill: NBA impasse: Owners & the help – Philly.com.

Hill’s right.   Maybe it’s about time that legions of “black and brown” skinned men he refers to, those that have been taken advantage of from very early ages, should revolt.  It’s long overdue for  the slaves to push back against generations of oppressive treatment.  How this kind of blatant discrimination and selective servitude can exist in this modern time is a disgrace.

As we all know, from a very early age,  games such as basketball  and football are introduced to young blacks much as drugs are offered to teenagers.  By doing so, young minorities are lured away from the easier path of academic study or the more exciting life of a technical education.  They can only look wistfully at their non minority friends as they pursue the glamorous fields of accounting, finance and motorcycle mechanics.

The oppression usually continues right through the college years as they are regularly bombarded with big ticket professional contracts, preferential treatment, cars, lucrative ad deals and of course the never ending adulation of fans and the media.  Their luckier academic counterparts meanwhile are living cushy lives, studying in anonymity and working at menial jobs.

Once the athletes are roped into the life of professional sports, their lives really take a turn for the worse.  They are forced to sign long term playing contracts guaranteeing them wheelbarrows of money stretching into infinity without being allowed to assume any risk for starting a team, building a stadium, marketing or any other organizational risk available only to the white slave masters.  As of the last proposal offered by these rapacious NBA owners, the players were offered only a measly 50% of revenues.  Why Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, the ACLU, PETA, Michael Moore etc aren’t expressing more outrage about this is a mystery.   Of course, most of us assuage our guilt by paying hundreds and in some cases, thousands of dollars for tickets just to help out these poor athletes.  If only Jerry Lewis wasn’t so old, he’d be spearheading an annual telethon for them.

To put some perspective on the compensation paid to professional slaves, er athletes, the average salary paid to an NBA player is just over $5 million dollars per year.  Of course averages are misleading since an outstanding star can be paid many times that amount.  This of course excludes endorsements and sponsorships.  For a more thorough view of sports salaries, see http://www.nba.com/2011/news/features/steve_aschburner/08/19/average-salary/index.html

From this website, here are some numbers for player salaries:

NBA: $5.15 million (2010-11)

MLB: $3.34 million (2010)

NHL: $2.4 million (2010-11)

NFL: $1.9 million (2010)

As we can see, the NBA is definitely the most oppressive.

Surely in this inclusive, modern era, we should be able to make professional sports less about oppressing visible minorities.  There should be avenues for young minorities to escape the prison  that is professional sports.  At the very least,  they should be paid more than the scraps that are offered to them today.  If not, one day, someone will get the bright idea of starting their own league.  That’ll teach the owners.   After all, the reservoir of talented ball players is limited.  It’s not as if there are hundreds of thousands of people vying for spots on the plantation.

link U.S. interests leveraging Vancouvers civic politics.

While not shocking, I am duly impressed by the fact that an article such as this can appear in a Vancouver paper.  Years of marketing propaganda have managed to manufacture Vancouver’s reputation as the ‘greenest’ city in the world, whatever that means.  While there’s no doubt that the geography has much to do with this, the absence of any industry beyond selling real estate has certainly contributed as well.

Residents here are manipulated to think green by recycling bottles, paper, trees, cars, computers, coffee grounds, food waste, virtually anything that we use in everyday living.  And to make sure people comply, surcharges are added to many and most consumer items.  You can’t buy a computer, a car battery or tires without paying an extra fee for disposal costs….whatever that is.  It’s gotten so ludicrous that the phone company will charge you $2 on your monthly bill if you insist on having a paper notice.

Sure these things are perhaps nickel and dime items, but they do add up to some real money.   When the push was on to make transportation ‘greener’, transit trains were introduced to get people out of cars.  To encourage people to use transit, the cost of driving became more and more prohibitive.  The combination of insurance costs, gasoline taxes and associated green surcharges thereon, parking and now tolls for bridge usage wear away at people’s abilities to drive, forcing them on to public transit.   Somehow, transit still loses money regularly, so ironically, they will tax automobile drivers even more.

For those hardier types, bicycles were the way to go and before you knew it, bicycle-only lanes appeared in the downtown core causing congestion and disruption to the downtown streets.  Some government official must have returned from China and thought having thousands of bicyles on the streets was a good idea.  Luckily, since cyclists don’t pay any kind of consumption tax or licensing fee,  the cost to them is zero.  Unluckily for drivers of automobiles, owners of businesses and the average citizen, they get to subsidize these lucky few cyclists.

This article finally makes it clear that all of these ‘green initiatives’ were not spontaneous groundswell demands by citizens.  In fact, it appears as if they are the result of very sly marketing and persuasion techniques by green groups over time to make it appear as if everyone was onside with all the green propaganda.

The other recent prick in this balloon of illusion was the occupy protest.  As we can now obviously see, this activity was hardly the manifestation of a groundswell of discontent among the “99%”.  The 99% are actually working for a living to pay green taxes and so don’t have time to play 60’s hippy in public spaces.   The conspicuous reluctance of Gregor the Green to clean up the site has more to do with appeasing the sensibilities of his sponsors than it does to the overwhelming majority of citizens who prefer the site to be cleaned up.

In other cities in North America, the citizens are also finally fed up with the ‘spontaneous and democratic’ gatherings of anarchists and street people.  These gatherings were about as spontaneous as a Kardashian wedding.  They are all being cleared up as well.  Try as they might, the mainstream media’s attempted characterization of the occupiers as peaceful average folk were foiled somewhat by such inconvenient occurrences as rapes, fights, thefts, drug use, public defecation and deaths at the sites.  Like many house parties, it’s all fun in the beginning but eventually, you want the late attendees, many of whom were uninvited to just go.

Maybe these revelations will cause people to finally push back against all the politically correct dogma that’s pushed into their lives.  From observation of recent events, it looks like the “99%” are really the 1%.  It’s about time the real majority was heard.