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vil·lain
[vil-uhn]

noun
1. a cruelly malicious person who is involved in or devoted to wickedness or crime; scoundrel.

2. a character in a play, novel, or the like, who constitutes an important evil agency in the plot.

3. villein.


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Origin: 1275–1325; Middle English vilein, vilain < Middle French < Late Latin villānus a farm servant. See villa, -an

Related forms
sub·vil·lain, noun

un·der·vil·lain, noun


Can be confused: villain, villein.


Synonyms
1. knave, rascal, rapscallion, rogue, scamp.



"...No man shall ever cause me to turn my back upon my race. With it i will sink or swim."-John S.Rock, the first first black man to plead a case before the US Supreme Court.


Last night i saw upon the stair,
a little man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today,
oh gee,i wish he'd go away!

"Virttue is so praiseworthy that wicked people practise it from self interest."- Vauvenargues

"While the best men are well guided by love, most men need to
be goaded by fear."-St Augustine

"...I say he's a loudmouth. He makes a bunch of noise. He says i'm a Tom, that
I don't stand up for the Black man...what does he know about hard times?He had
it easy in boxing. A White man in his corner, those rich plantation owners to back him
and a White lawyer to keep him out of jail and he's going to 'Uncle Tom' me?
I have a Black man in my corner, my manager and both Black and White people
backing me."-Joe Frazier on Muhammad Ali

"An Atheist is a man with no invisible means of support."-John Buchan

"Never explain-your friends don't need it and your enemies will not
believe you anyway."-Elbert Hubbard

"He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing."-Oscar Wilde

"You should not attempt to outwit a woman."-Alexander Dumas

"No human folly can surpass the conceit of ignorance."-Charles Victor Roman

"There is no future for people who deny their past."-Adam Clayton Powell

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and
conscientious stupidity."Martin Luther King Jr.

"When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of he always declares
that it is his duty."-George Bernard Shaw

"It seems almost incredible that the advocates of liberty should conceive the idea
of selling a fellow creature into slavery."-James Forten

"One cannot give to a person that which he already possesses."-Francois-Dominique
Toussaint L'overture

"It is a sin peculiar to man to hate his victim."-Tacitus

"Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."-Franklin P Jones


"A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth."-Michael Kinsley

"For sweetest things turn sour by their deeds; lilies fester smell worse than
weeds."-William Shakespeare

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We Wear The Mask

We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,
The debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
And mourn with myriad subtleties.

Why should the world be over-wise,
in counting all our tears and sighs?
Nay.let them only see us,while
We wear the mask.

We smile,but,O great christ,our cries
To thee from tortured souls arise.
We sing,but oh the clay is vile
Beneath our feet and long the mile;
But let the world dream otherwise
We wear the mask!
-Paul Laurence Dunbar





Throughout the history of this nation Blacks seeking improvements
in status were committed to achieving civil rights as a priority. Irrespective
of their origins, there was a dedicated use of minds,bodies, education,money,
organizations, political skills, legal talent, scientific capability, intellectual proficiency,
artistic genius, social thought and military propensity. These and more were applied
to loosen the White racist choke-hold gripping the Black population.
-W H McClendon



I AM THE QUOTE WHORE...

"I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind- that its
modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more overcome
by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking."- H. L. Mencken

"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stomping on a human face-
forever."- George Orwell

"Mass media politics has reduced us to manipulated spectators, incapable
of effective intervention or even clear self awareness."-David L Smith

"Long is the way and hard,that out of Hell leads up into light."-John Milton

"When people are least sure,they are often most dogmatic."-J K Galbraith

"Oppression makes a wise person mad."-Frederick Douglass


"People that cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of society."-Agnes Repplier

"In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which does not threaten us."-David Mamet

"Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and abundant today as sexual perversion and they are nowise different from one another."-Edward Dahlberg

"A nigger is a black man who doesn't know who he is."-Richard Wright

"Ah,make the most of what we yet may spend, before we
too into the dust descend."-Omar Khayyam

"A word to the wise ain't necessary-it's the stupid that need the advice."-Bill Cosby

"Everything we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see."-Martin Luther King Jr

"I've never had a humble opinion in my life. If you're going to have
one, why bother to be humble about it?"-Joan Baez

PROOF OF THE IMPORTANCE OF THINKING BEFORE SPEAKING:

"We know there are known knowns: there are things we know we know.
We also know there are known unknowns: that is to say we know there are
things we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns- the ones
we don't know we don't know." -Donald Rumsfeld

"In every society, the definition of marriage has not ever, to my knowledge, included
homosexuality. That's not to pick on homosexuality. It's not, you know, man on child,
man on dog or whatever the case may be. It is one thing. And when you destroy that
you have a dramatic impact on the quality..." -Rick Santorum

Funk
Blaxploitation Era Soul
Neo Soul
Reggae
Classic Rock
Dancehall
Blues
Thin Lizzy
Classic R&B;
70's Punk Rock
Real Jazz

How To Make It In America
Frontline
The Wire
Law And Order
Wilfred
Dexter
Adult Swim

Pirates Of The Caribbean 1-4
Gosford Park
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
Lust, Caution
Glenngary Glen Ross
Friday
Being John Malkovich
The Assassination Of Jesse James
By The Coward Robert Ford
Morning Glory
There Will Be Blood
V For Vendetta
Fear And Laothing In Las Vegas

Hitch
The Player
Apocalypse Now
Black Swan
A Soldier's Story
Glory
Inception
Blow Out
North By Northwest
Moon
Clockers
Time Bandits
12 Monkeys
The Conversation
Midnight Cowboy
Memento
Q & A
Santa Sangre
Tetro
Ocean's 11-13
Manchurian Candidate
Cape Fear

Project Censored's Most Censored News Yearbooks
Desperation

The Untold History Of The United States
Behold A Pale Horse
Pulp
Top Secret America
You Are Being Lied To
Journey To Ixtlan
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
The Dark Fields
From Superman To Man
Hell
Glitz
Anarchaos
All novels by Donald E Westlake
Strange Justice
Women
Everything You Know Is Wrong

"I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a
member of this country's most agile miltary force,the Marine Corps. I served
in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major General. And during
that period, I spent most of my time being a HIGH CLASS MUSCLEMAN FOR
BIG BUSINESS for WALL STREET and for the BANKERS. In short, i was a
RACKETEER, a GANGSTER for CAPITALISM.
I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for AMERICAN OIL INTERESTS
in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the NATIONAL CITY BANK
boys to COLLECT REVENUES IN. I helped the RAPING of half a dozen Central
American republics for the BENEFIT OF WALL STREET. The record of
RACKETEERING IS LONG. I helped purify Nicaragua for the INTERNATIONAL
BANKING HOUSE OF BROWN BROTHERS in 1909-1912. I brought light to the
Dominican Republic for AMERICAN SUGAR INTERESTS in 1916. In China I
helped to see to it that STANDARD OIL went it's way unmolested...During those
years, I had, as the BOYS IN THE BACKROOM would say, A SWELL RACKET.
Looking back on it, I feel that I COULD HAVE GIVEN AL CAPONE A FEW HINTS.
The best he could do was operate his racket in three districts. I OPERATED ON
THREE CONTINENTS."-Gen. Smedley Butler
"Voices Of A People's History Of The United States." Howard Zinn and Anthony Armove p251-252




"When I became Chairman of the FDIC in 1981, the FDIC's financial statement
showed a balance at the U.S. Treasury of some $11 billion... I decided it would
be a real treat to see all of that money, so I placed a call to [then] Treasury
Secretary Don Regan."

Issac: Don, I'd like to come over to look at the money.

Regan:What money?

Issac:You know... the $11 billion the FDIC has in the vault
at the Treasury.

Regan: Uh, well you see, Bill, ah, that's a bit of a problem.

Isaac: I know you're busy. I don't need to do it right away.

Regan: Well... it's not a question of timing... I don't quite know
how to put this, but we don't have the money.

Isaac: Right...ha ha.

Regan: No, really. The banks have been paying money to the FDIC,
the FDIC has been turning the money over to the Treasury,
and the Treasury has been spending it on missles, school lunches,
water projects, and the like. The money's gone.

Isaac: But it says right here on this financial statement that we have
over $11 billion at the Treasury.

Regan: In a sense, you do. You see,we owe that money to the FDIC,
and we pay interest on it.

ISAAC: I know this might sound pretty far-fetched, but what would happen
if we should need a few billion to handle a bank failure?

Regan: That's easy- we'd go right out and borrow it. You'd have the
money in no time... same day service most days.

Isaac: Let me see if i've got this straight. The money the banks thought
they were storing up for the last half century - sort of saving for a rainy
day - is gone. If a storm begins brewing and we need the money,
Treasury will have to borrow it. Is that about it?

Regan: Yep.

Isaac: Just one more thing, while i've got you. Why do we bother pretending
there's a fund?

Regan: I'm sorry, Bill, but the President's on the other line. I'll have to get
back to you on that.

-William M. Isaac, "The Mythical FDIC Fund." 2008

"Why do we bother to pretend there's a fund? The answer is
obvious. Modern economics, i.e. central banking is a shell game
where bankers with the aid of governments have foisted a highly
lucrative fraud on society; and while the fraud of the FDIC fund is
egregious, it is no more egregious than the fraud of the Fed or the
economy itself."-Daryl Robert Schoon
"How To Survive The Crisis And Prosper In The Process."


"It is well enough that the people of the nation do not understand
our banking and monetary system for, if they did, I believe there
would be a revolution tomorrow morning."-Henry Ford



"When the Fed prints the money or clicks the mouse, they have
no money themselves. They are just creating it out of thin air. They just
print it, or send it digitally. And then they charge interest on the money
they lent the Treasury. A hundred-dollar bill costs $0.04 to print. But the
interest is charged on the $100. Go ahead: read it again; the words
won't change."-Bruce Wiseman

"I care not what puppet is placed upon the throne of England to rule the
empire on which the sun never sets. The man who controls Britain's money
supply controls the British Empire, and I control the British money supply.
-Amschel Mayer Rothschild

"There is a clear, yet subliminal, message being transmitted that the cops, if they are to
remain on the payroll, had better obey. The overclass- mostly white, well-off, educated,
suburban, and voting- wants the underclass- frequently minority, homeless, jobless,uneducated,
and excluded- controlled and, preferably, kept out of sight. Property rights are more sacred
than human lives. And some lives are more precious than others." -Fmr Bronx Police Commander
Anthony V. Bouza