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Boycott Money and Save Your Soul - Launching the Goodwill Revolution
by Michael I Phillips

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Not just a book but an invitation to join the Goodwill Revolution against an unfair, unjust and deceptive system that keeps the world poor and without hope. Find out how you can do this, quit the rat race, and achieve a happier more meaningful life for yourself and others through goodwill to all  
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OBAMA WATCHDOG
"We’ve got your back, Barack."

Hot Calaloo has endorsed Barack Obama for president of the USA. But that is not enough. It is not enough when we know that the Republican dirty tricks machine will use their full arsenal of lies, distortions, all sorts of deceit against him. For example:

  • Smear - They used "Swift Boat ad paid for by the likes of famous oil millionaire T. Boone Pickens to smear presidential contender John Kerry’s war record.
  • Disenfranchisement of blacks - In Florida they hired a company to expel legitimate black voters from the list by claiming unjustly that they were felons.
  • Voter suppression - In Ohio they used the voter suppression tactic of forcing primarily black voters in densely populated areas to wait in line for as long as 10 hours by deliberately providing too few voting machines.
  • The use of suspect voting machines without a verifiable paper trail
  • Biased media – Fox News is the prime example, dishing up a barrage of distorted anti-Obama Republican propaganda as legitimate news.

We cannot depend on the media to expose these dirty democracy-defeating tricks. Hot Calaloo’s OBAMA WATCHDOG will and invites other Caribbean organizations,  similar media and even our readers to do likewise. We are small but together, let us form an information phalanx to bring their wicked deeds to light and keep things fair. And we will keep shining that purging light so that as our brave warrior Barack Obama leads on against rich, powerful, and devious adversaries, so that we we can say to him, "We’ve got your back, Barack".

Note: (Check out this whole new OBAMA WATCHDOG section  daily for more on Obama and the latest dirty tricks because this OBAMA WATCHDOG section  is updated as they happen, not monthly as Hot Calaloo)

 

Hot Calaloo endorsement of Obama

Hot Calaloo has already gone on record for endorsing Obama for president of the United States. But let me make it clear, Hot Calaloo did not endorse him because he is black. Hot Calaloo endorsed Obama because:

He will end the immoral illegal Iraq war ….and McCain won’t!

He will end torture ….and McCain won’t!

He will bring respect back to America ….and McCain won’t!

He will work for people, not corporations ….and McCain won’t!

He will work to make universal healthcare a reality ….and McCain won’t!

He will lead the fight against global warming ….and McCain won’t!

He will stop the assault on our civil liberties ….and McCain won’t!

And finally in the words of a great American poet, Langston Hughes, He will "let America be America again" ….and McCain won’t!

 


Republicans smear and demonize Obama

Instead of discussing the real issues plaguing Americans, McCain and Palin have turned to fear-mongering and race-baiting, stoking the prejudices of their supporters. The situation has become so critical that we've teamed up with Color of Change to put an end to these dangerous mob scenes.

Watch the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5mdIPNB8t8

 

Hillary Voters

(Sept 15, 2008) The greatest beneficiary of the civil rights movement are not blacks but white women. A recent poll claimed that 60% of Hillary voters are voting for anti-choice McCain over Obama. A vote for McCain is a vote for the glass ceiling, so 60% of Hillary voters are voting for the glass ceiling rather than for  Obama. As a strong supporter of women's rights all these years, I feel a deep sense of betrayal by these voters.


Hot from my email!. It is so good I had to pass it on

I'm a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight.... .

  • If you grow up in Hawaii , raised by your grandparents, you're "exotic, different."

  • Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, a quintessential American story.

  • If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.

  • Name your kids Willow , Trig and Track, you're a maverick.

  • * Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.

  • * Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you're well grounded.

  • * If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you don't have any real leadership experience.

  • * If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you're qualified to become the country's second highest ranking executive.

  • * If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a real Christian.

  • * If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a Christian.

  • * If you teach responsible, age-appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.

  • * If , while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state's school system while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you're very responsible.

  • * If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family's values don't represent America 's.

  • * If you're husband is nicknamed "First Dude," has at least one DWI conviction and no college education, didn't register to vote until age 25, and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the the USA, your family is extremely admirable.

OK, much clearer now.

 

Exposing Fox News

Recently I was sitting in a Jamaican restaurant newly opened with much fanfare. I almost choked on my golden-crusted pattie when I realized that the big wide-screen TV on the wall was assailing me with the anti-Obama Fox News.

(From movie producer Robert Greenwald)

(Sept 5, 2008) Did you see Barack Obama go on The O'Reilly Factor last night-right into the belly of the beast? While we didn't want Obama to appear on FOX initially, he wisely chose the same night John McCain delivered his RNC speech (the same night FOX received some of its highest ratings) to make an appearance. Talk about stealing the GOP's thunder!Obama was no doubt trying to appeal to conservative voters, since 88% of FOX viewers voted Republican in 2004. But FOX won't let their conservative base go without a fight. That's why O'Reilly needled and interrupted Obama, trying to get him to simplify many of his answers-a far cry from the softballs O'Reilly lobbed at many prominent Republicans like Rudy Giuliani in the past. And that's why FOX has been attacking Obama with the same relentless smear tactics that they used against John Kerry four years ago. Watch them use the exact same attacks.
Watch the video
and spread it to everyone you know.


(August 14, 2008)
The FOX smears are continuing and we need to stop them from spreading to the rest of the media. Watch FOX's laughably inaccurate distortions, as they smear Barack Obama on everything from the economy to race to patriotism to flag pins. In the coming weeks, FOX will escalate its gross misrepresentations of Obama, and we know from painful past experience that some in the corporate media will spread FOX's canards by presenting them as fact. We must stop the spread.
Watch the video and sign the petition.


Caribbean US citizens rally behind Obama

There is passionate support among Caribbean citizens of the US for Barack Obama. Hot Calaloo is delighted to join in that support and enthusiastically endorses him for president. I'm enthusiastic about Obama, because this time there will be a real choice. I am tired of compromise presidential candidates. Ferraro and Lieberman were once our VP nominees for God's sake! I like Obama's emphasis on 'good judgement'. That is key, and not because I stress that in my book ("Boycott Money and Save your Soul"). If Democrats used good judgment we would never have invaded Iraq.

Obviously Ferraro does not have good judgment and dares to stick by her atrocious statements. She charges that Obama got 90% of the black Mississippi vote because he is black and he would not get such support if he were white. One of Obama's greatest strength has been his ability to blur the line between races and that has been critical to his success. This was a deliberate racial tactic by Ferraro to undermine that unity and highlight that blurred line. If Hillary was a black woman, would she have gotten 75% of the white vote in Mississippi?  My apologies for even posing the Ferraro-like question, but only to make the point of how ridiculous Ferraro is.

The complete results of EVERYBODY'S, the Caribbean-American magazine, presidential survey conducted between February 21 and March 1 is on www.everybodysmag.com. Here are some findings:

  • 78.6% of Caribbean-Americans want Senator Barack Obama to win the Democratic Party nomination for president of the U.S.  
  • 21.4% of Caribbean-Americans want Senator Hillary Clinton to win the Democratic Party nomination for president of the U.S.   
  • 90% of Caribbean-Americans will likely vote the Democratic ticket, if the U.S. presidential election on November 4th was held today.

Sparrow and Coca Tea produce Barack songs

Even calypso icon, the Mighty Sparrow and Jamaica's reggae artist Cocoa Tea have songs in support of Obama. Check them out! Listen to them right here below.
Barack the Magnificient, by the Mighty Sparrow

Barack Obama, by Cocoa Tea

 

Obama speech at biggest rally yet in Philly

It is time to hear the actual words by Hot Calaloo-endorsed US presidential candidate, Barack Obama. Notice the message of hope which even political cynics like me are encouraged. Look at the composition of the crowd, full of young people that up until the Obama revolution was missing from politics.

http://my.barackobama.com/CometoPA

But, there is one thing that fills me with apprehension. Will the empire strike back because Obama has shunned corporate money? This is so admirable and truly revolutionary for American politics, and could herald a loss of corporate domination of American politics.

But, as I contend in my book, "Boycott Money and Save Your Soul - Launching the Goodwill Revolution", Dr. Martin Luther King was not killed by racists. He was not killed by James Earl Ray. (that is official although many knowledgeable people do not know that).He was not killed because of his opposition to the Vietnam war. My book contends that he was killed because he was on the verge of empowering people to challenge corporations by a national boycott.

Barack, by his successful candidacy, is challenging and empowering people to take back their democracy from corporations. I hope he does not suffer the same consequence as Dr. Martin Luther King. but like myself, many fear he could be assassinated. Looking back I have to wonder if Jesus Christ himself was not crucified because he threw the moneylenders out of the temple.

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Republican congressman calls Obama ‘boy"

It’s not been making the TV talk show circuit nor getting thousands of hits on the net. In fact, it has hardly made the news. I wonder why. I am talking about Kentucky Republican Congressman Goeff Davis’s comments about Senator Obama, as he spoke at a Republican Party dinner recently.  He referred to him as a "a snake oil salesman" and further stated  "I’m going to tell you something.  That BOY’s finger does not need to be on the button.  He could not make a decision in that simulation that related to a nuclear threat to this country." The Republican audience hailed the comment with laughter and applause. Boy is one of the traditional American racist derogative term for an adult black male.

He subsequently sent Obama a letter of apology but as we say in Jamaica ‘first word go to law’.

(And they unjustly demonize Rev Jeremiah Wright for telling the truth - See Undiluted Vol 13)


Interviewer Picks The Wrong Obama Supporter to Try To Railroad

The Economist writes:

ONE of the most interesting political videos on YouTube features a young Obama supporter, Derrick Ashong. A camera-wielding interviewer collars Mr Ashong in the street and starts to pepper him with questions. The interviewer assumes that his victim's casual appearance - he is wearing a baseball hat, a shell necklace and is chewing gum - betokens an equally casual approach to politics.
"Do you have any specifics?" he demands aggressively. "What are their policies?" Mr. Ashong delivers a series of carefully argued replies that could form the basis of an editorial in a serious newspaper. The interviewer is increasingly abashed

Attached are two clips that you must take the time to view:

  • The 1st clip is the interview with the anti-Obama reporter.
  • In the 2nd clip the young man explains in depth his response to the reporter

CLIP #1
http://thinkonthesethings.wordpress.com/2008/02/06/video-interviewer-picks-the-wrong-obama-supporter-to-try-to-railroad/

CLIP #2
http://thinkonthesethings.wordpress.com/2008/02/12/video-obama-supporter-derrick-responds-to-his-video/

 

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