Chinese and African Art in Harlem, Djibril Ngawa

This is from the closing of the art show collaboration between Africa and China.... African Artist Mr. Ba Djibril Ngawa worked with a Chinese scholar to draw paintings around Chinese calligraphy.  Djibril, who is from Mauritania in Northern Africa, perhaps wanted to express his joy that China has been making increasing investments in infrastructure in many parts of the African continent, also known as the One Belt One Road project.

Djibril's bright colors have created a sort of orange and black musical instrument... and perhaps the figure behind it is playing it, around a Chinese letter of calligraphy.  In this very abstract work, you can make your own stories up.  Show just closed at the Dwyer Art center in Harlem, NY, entrance on West 123rd Street, around the corner from St Nicholas and Frederick Douglas Boulevard.

Come to the MLK concert April 9 in NYC

#mlk #mlk50 http://ffrcc.org   come to the event Apr 9 at St Barts  Martin Luther KING memorial and commemmoration

Come to my event in NEW YORK to Commemorating MLK at St Barts April 9 music and speeches

Non Violence Concert and MLK, post latest school shootings- April 9 NYC

Time for a new student non-violence movement, Harlem and Bronx dudes, especially in the wake of the Parkland Fla mass school shooting.  Dangerous times indeed, time for a new SNCC-- student non violent coordinating committee.

On Monday, April 9, at 7 p.m., The Foundation for the Revival of Classical Culture will present a commemoration of the life of Martin Luther King with music and speeches at St. Bartholomew’s Church, 325 Park Avenue, NYC. Artists from the Harlem Opera Company, and the New York City Schiller Institute chorus will perform.  Headline artists are Simon Estes, operatic bass-baritone, Roland Carter, composer, and Ed Asner, actor. Performances include: Recitations from the speeches of Martin Luther King, Spirituals, sections of Beethoven's Mass in C Major, and the Lacrimosa from Mozart's Requiem.  Roland Carter will conduct his own arrangements.

    Bernard Lafayette, the keynote speaker, was a founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC),  and a leading organizer of marches in Selma, Alabama and the March on Washington, DC. He has been a school principal, and taught the principles of non-violence in many settings in the USA and internationally.

In April 9, 1968, 50 years ago, Bernard Lafayette was also at the funeral of Martin Luther King in Atlanta Georgia. This concert is dedicated to celebrating the triumph of Martin Luther King's stand against injustice, even at the cost of his life. “Either we go up together, or we go down together.”

In the words of King,“Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land!”

For more information and to purchase reserve seats tickets call: 718-709-8722 or visit www.ffrcc.org.  Reservations recommended. Tickets: $15 reserved seats; $10 suggested donation at door.

Russia has a message, does Harlem get it??

I hope Harlem and Bronx NY dudes get the message.... Putin of Russia is not playing around at all...



The West Has Been Outwitted, But the Warmongers Are Panicked and Pushing for War: The West has been 'sleepwalking, in their arrogance,' said Helga Zepp-LaRouche this weekend, first missing the boat on China's New Silk Road, and now outflanked by Vladimir Putin's dramatic announcement on March 1 that Russia has successfully developed weapon systems based on new physical principles...



Hypersonic weapons....

possibly Laser anti-missile weapons???

Larouchepac says get Trump to Build infrastructure

Fireside Chat with Mike Billington, February 22, 2018, 9pm EST: The past week's developments brought us the aged British gruel of Mueller's so-called Russiagate indictment, the FBI's outrageous dereliction of duty in the Florida shootings, followed by major dangerous escalations by the Anglo-Americans in Ukraine and Syria -- Obama's flashpoints for his New Cold War with Russia and China.

All of this is one coherent picture: The coup in the U.S. must be preserved, even if its chief claims are now recognized as preposterous and absurd. The FBI, turned into an informant factory by Robert Mueller and absorbed by running stings against the hapless, has lost the ability to recognize a public danger even when it is tipped about it repeatedly. The Anglo-Americans, slaves to the paradigm of the Anglo-Dutch Empire, which Lyndon LaRouche identified as the real sickness, the real danger, are simply incapable of the creativity required to take mankind to the next stage of its progressive development. They are only capable of manipulations of a population which they have collapsed into a New Dark Age.

How do we mobilize those in our society who now yearn for the deeper, truer voice of actual humankind? How do we educate the passions toward a realization which benefits the whole of humanity, so that we find that voice, 'capable of communicating and receiving intense and impassioned conceptions respecting man and nature?' How do we become Shelley's poets... 'the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not, but moves... the unacknowledged legislators of the world?'

Join us for tonight's discussion.

Can Trump Get Chinese Money?

Hey Harlem and Bronx dudes, time to get some Chinese money for Trump's infrastructure plan.... we can do it, they say at CGTN, Chinese TV. China has US Treasury notes, remember dudes??

Opinion: Make America Great Again – with Chinese money!

OPINIONS

Guest commentary by Dr. John Gong

2018-02-14 13:50 GMT+8

Updated 2018-02-14 17:21 GMT+8

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This is not an investment fundraising prospectus. 

But let me be honest with you, I do smell money. A lot of money. I am talking about US President Donald Trump’s upcoming plan to spend 1.5 trillion US dollars on infrastructure, announced in the State of the Union address two weeks ago. With the success of the latest tax cut legislation behind him, Trump is now serious about making America great again, or “gleaming” again to be more precise. 

Trump: Getting 1.5 trillion US dollars in infrastructure spending is "up to Congress" on Capitol Hill in Washington, Feb 28, 2017 /The Canadian Press

“We will build gleaming new roads, bridges, highways, railways and waterways all across our land. And we will do it with American heart, American hands and American grit,” he proudly proclaimed in the State of the Union address. 

Thank goodness he did not say with American money!

We all know America is broke. Terribly broke. 

Its total debt level stands at 70 trillion US dollars, averaging 0.83 million US dollars per family. Today’s Republican leadership has entirely trashed the fiscal accountability banner, while the Democrats continue to be perennial spenders. According to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB), which is a nonpartisan, non-profit organization committed to educating the public on issues of fiscal policy, the latest budget agreement hatched between the two parties would add 11 trillion US dollars of new debt over the next 10 years. No one on Capitol Hill cares anymore that this debt is going to mount up for future generations.

United States Capital Building /VCG Photo

Nevertheless, Trump is absolutely right that America’s crippled bridges, potholed highways, and crooked railways cannot wait any longer. America needs to be great again. The only question is, where is the money coming from?

Well, being a shrewd real estate mogul, Trump certainly has a few financing tricks in his tool box. The details of the administration’s infrastructure plan can be found in a six-page leaked document recently published by Axios. I have a PDF copy on my desk, and I cannot help marveling at Trump’s genius after going through all its details. 

According to the plan, he is only going to spend 200 billion US dollars of federal grant money to leverage off the rest of the 1.5 trillion US dollars for investments by states, localities and private firms with public sector sponsors. Grant awards would be capped at 20 percent of a project’s total cost.

Now it is still not clear where that 200 billion US dollars is going to come from. Trump said he is going to squeeze money from budget cuts in other areas. 

US dollars /VCG Photo 

What is more brilliant about the plan is that funding priority is basically based on the ability of the local government to bring money to the table. Take as an example the Infrastructure Incentives Initiative, which is the largest program in the plan, accounting for 50 percent of total appropriations. Let’s look at its criteria of how grants are awarded. 

Fifty percent of the weighted criteria would be based on evidence of how an applicant can provide “new, non-federal revenue to create sustainable, long-term funding.” Another 20 percent would be based on the extent an applicant will be able to secure and commit non-federal revenue for operations, maintenance and rehabilitation. The rest of the weights – accounting for new technology, efficiency in project delivery and operations, and spurring economic and social returns on investment – only add up to 30 percent. 

In other words, in Trump’s world, not surprisingly, money counts. 

Well, if that is the case, I have a great idea. Bank of China and other major banks from China are now flush with dollar cash and other dollar-denominated liquid assets, totaling over $3 trillion US dollars, mostly in the form of holdings in US treasury bills and bonds. This money can be readily used for Chinese investors to participate in America’s infrastructure boom. By that I mean Chinese investors can participate in those infrastructure projects as active equity investors, and maybe contractors or suppliers at the same time. 

A Bank of China employee displays US dollars /VCG Photo

Call it the Belt and Road. Call it America-belt-America-road. I don’t care, as long as China’s current account trade surplus can be somehow transformed into a capital account stock, in the form of money invested in America as permanent equity shareholders, and more importantly permanent stakeholders of a stable and prosperous Sino-US economic relationship. This could be a win-win mode for both countries.

(Dr. John Gong is a professor at the University of International Business and Economics. The article reflects the author's opinion, and not necessarily the views of CGTN.) 

Trump and the Stock Market Crash

Hmmm Politico.com is crying over British agent Christopher Steele.... how amusing.... screech screech.  What a joke.

Hey Harlem and Bronx dudes... crash, correction, it is all related... A choppy wall st... but does it make a difference... :?  Are they freakin out that Trump loyalists Devin Nunes and Sen. Grassley are fighting back.... Of course the British are in a total freakout, but what else is new.....  Return Chris Steele to his MI6 owners.... time to make him talk.  But they won't let him talk in London, cause MI6 "Mother" and the British Foreign office are watching the trials there...