[Peace-discuss] [OccupyCU] [sftalk] Re: Fwd: Democracy Now!'s Tribute to Bayard Rustin
Stephen Francis
stephenf1113 at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 14 11:08:22 UTC 2013
What is NFU?
Good question.
To begin see attached graphic. This is part of a traffic report by Godaddy.com. I don't pay much attention to it because the data is so generalized it is not of much use other than to see some broad visitor statistics. Godaddy.com stopped offering detailed site reports well over a year ago and this report is dated in April of this.
It does confirm there are about 20,000 pages requested every 7 days, and almost 3 million since the inception of the site (these are averages, occasionally it spikes way up and summers are usually much slower). I could also describe it as getting over 27 million hits in its life, but that's a distorted view because this number reflects each graphic on a page as a hit, so requesting 1 page with 10 graphics on it would count as 11 hits.
Other reports I have seen show that about 5000 visitors spend about 600 hours on the site per month. This is consistent with the report in the graphic. To put this in perspective, Yahoo probably gets these kinds of statistics every second of its life. NFU was created in 2002.
NFU is ranked presently in Alexa about 2.5 to 3 million out of about 175,000,000 active web sites. There are close to 1 billion domain names. NFU has been ranked close to the 1,000,000 mark, but that was over a year ago. I don't actually add to NFU anymore. It is extremely difficult to start a website and get any where near these numbers without the backing of a large organization with a lot of money. I'm the only person that has ever worked on it and unfortunately, it has many structural problems too big for me to fix, but I think that this effort is more effective than standing on a street corner with a protest sign, but I do that occasionally just because it feels good.
One of the marks of its success (if you can call it that) is the name NewsFollowUp itself. No matter how you type in the combination of words in a Google search 'news' 'follow' 'up' or even just 'news' 'follow' NFU is #1 or #3 ... the concept of following up on the news is pretty fundamental. Just this is probably worth a few thousand hits per week no matter what the subject. Some major news organization would probably love to control the domain name.
Now, with that out of the way, What is NewsFollowUp.com?
I was a highly active anti-war protester as a member of the US Army in 1969, ...was even jailed and charged with disobeying the direct orders of commissioned and non-commissioned officers on Veterans Day 1969 during an antiwar demonstration at a compound for hundreds of AWOL (and other dastardly deeds) troops (There were tens of thousands of AWOLs every year during that period). I eventually got out of the service with an 'other than honorable' discharge (DD214 available on req.), of which I'm very proud of now as an active antiwar activist.
I didn't do anything with this antiwar fervor again until Bush and others started the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Then came NFU. It is just a journal of my effort to find out what and who was behind it. I remembered my Vietnam war days when I was convinced (after volunteering for the draft at the age of 18...sheesh) then that that war was just a criminal act to protect US and French imperialistic business practices in Vietnam (even oil back then). Luckily I didn't turn into a homeless statistic (as we all know, a large percentage of homeless are Vietnam war vets). I was stationed at Ft.Hood, Texas and bunked in old WWII style barracks with Vietnam returnees. The Gulf of Tonkin hoax is now well established as the false flag event that started that war. (see McNamara book)
My journey with NFU has led me to the conclusion that 9/11 was the 'false flag' event that was executed by certain US / British / Saudi Arabians and Zionist individuals. If you Google 'Rothschild timeline', NFU is about #12 and if you Google Obama or Bush body count, death list...etc NFU is in the top 5 and was #1 for years. These are the top pages of NFU and reflect on the war criminals that are a disease on civilization. Just my opinion...thus NFU ...just one small place on the internet where thousands go to research the 9/11 false flag event that I and many believe was the event that triggered the Patriot Act, NSA, TSA, NDAA...it was all planned.
There is a mountain of evidence about 9/11 that could put these perpetrators in jail. This is the only deed that its exposure actually threatens them. All other issues they can handle with ease.>
Thank you.
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From: "ewj at pigsqq.org" <ewj at pigsqq.org>
To: Stephen Francis <stephenf1113 at yahoo.com>; "Roediger, David R" <droedige at illinois.edu>; "sftalk at yahoogroups.com" <sftalk at yahoogroups.com>; "Brussel, Morton K" <brussel at illinois.edu>
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Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 5:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] [OccupyCU] [sftalk] Re: Fwd: Democracy Now!'s Tribute to Bayard Rustin
What does the NFU abbreviation mean?
> -------Original Message-------
> From: Stephen Francis <stephenf1113 at yahoo.com>
> To: Roediger, David R <droedige at illinois.edu>, sftalk at yahoogroups.com <sftalk at yahoogroups.com>, Brussel, Morton K <brussel at illinois.edu>
> Cc: <peace-discuss at anti-war.net> <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>, ocCUpy <occupyCU at lists.chambana.net>
> Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] [OccupyCU] [sftalk] Re: Fwd: Democracy Now!'s Tribute to Bayard Rustin
> Sent: Aug 14 '13 01:04
>
> CORRECTION
> After re-reading my response to Mr. Roediger's comments, I discovered some
> typo errors of mine that I thought I would correct, especially after
> reading Mr. Roediger's entry in [LINK:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Roediger] Wikipedia. I need some
> grammar lessons. Here's the correction:
>
>
> "I had to read Mr. Roediger's response about six times to figure out
what
> he was saying before I picked out a couple of clues the third time through
> that led me to believe that I think I agree with his premise. I may be just
> reading into it what I want it to say. There're two things I came away
> with in his response: (1) If you divide the world up between the 1% and the
> 99%, you'll find that the 1% is capable of, willing to and continually
> engaged in influencing the message of those opposed to them. Obama's
> election is the prime example of their craft and the best example of how
> good they are at deceiving people. I believe he is a creation of the 1%.
> (2) There may be an identity class all by itself of highly intelligent
> academic people who are so unintelligible that they are completely ignored
> and rejected no matter how 'right' (whatever that means)
they are. They
> should be on the street corners with protest signs that say: 'If you read
> this sign six times you'll understand it.' As the cars go by they are
> grumbling under their beards that nobody cares about them....(no matter how
> 'right' they may be)." I wish that I didn't have to work so hard to
> understand them, because they seem so intelligent.
>
>
> Steve Francis, NFU
>
>
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> FROM: "Roediger, David R" <droedige at illinois.edu>
> TO: "sftalk at yahoogroups.com" <sftalk at yahoogroups.com>; "Brussel, Morton K"
> <brussel at illinois.edu>
> CC: "<peace-discuss at anti-war.net>" <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>; ocCUpy
> <occupyCU at lists.chambana.net>
> SENT: Monday, August 12, 2013 11:38 PM
> SUBJECT: Re: [OccupyCU] [sftalk] Re: [Peace-discuss] Fwd: Democracy Now!'s
> Tribute to Bayard Rustin
>
>
> 40 years ago? So it was then the period right before 1973 that liberals
> gloriously supported class struggles? And then somebody (Who was that
in
> this fantasy? Got to think in terms of timing that George McGovern looks to
> be a likely culprit) tricked them into instead pursuing the supposedly
> completely different, indeed opposing, ideas of being against white
> supremacy, male supremacy, and homophobia.
>
> I'm old but I can't remember that inspiring stretch of pure-and-simple
> class agitation by liberals. What would be some of the most outstanding
> examples from those years, say from 1963-73? I keep coming up with
> struggles for jobs and freedom now, with the uncompromising stance taken by
> working-class queers at Stonewall, and with important opposition to a
> racist and imperialist war. But surely these were on your view just the
> thin, plotting edge of the nefarious identity politics wedge, diverting us
> from real
deal.
>
> I'm also blanking on the important liberal working class leaders who were
> then resisting taking the identity politics bait and laying down a class
> line uninfected by "identity politics"--one that could have won against
> neoliberalism. Was that what Walter Reuther was doing in keeping the
> skilled trades in auto overwhelmingly white? Or maybe, as the increasingly
> misguided late-career Bayard Rustin whom you rightly join in denouncing had
> it, the class warriors were George Meany and Albert Shanker (those great
> practitioners of white identity politics), united in their opposition to
> considering race whether the issue was integrating the building trades,
> keeping Vietnam from being incinerated, or engaging other than hysterically
> with community control of schools in minority
neighborhoods.
> Please fill in some details.
>
> In championing Walter Benn Michaels' socialism of fools--the view that a
> narrow class politics can by itself transform a social order predicated on
> multiple intersecting axes of oppression and that hidden plotters keep that
> from happening--you are advocating not just a poorly defended position but
> one that operates increasingly as a soundbite article of faith not really
> subject to evidence. Or in the conspiratorially inclined rhetoric Benn
> Michaels favors, maybe the neoliberals invented Benn Michaels and
> Estabrook. They certainly did fund and forward the similar, and hegemonic,
> Clinton, Obama, and Democratic Leadership Council arguments along the same
> lines, holding that it is only permissible for "progressives" to talk
about
> allegedly unifying and hopelessly tepid economic issues, and not about
> justice.
> freedom now, dave roediger
> ________________________________________
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> ________________________________________
> From: [LINK: mailto:sftalk at yahoogroups.com] sftalk at yahoogroups.com [[LINK:
> mailto:sftalk at yahoogroups.com] sftalk at yahoogroups.com] on behalf of C. G.
> Estabrook [[LINK: mailto:carl at newsfromneptune.com]
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> Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 9:09 PM
> To: Brussel, Morton K
> Cc: <[LINK: mailto:peace-discuss at anti-war.net] peace-discuss at anti-war.net>;
> [LINK: mailto:sftalk at yahoogroups.com] sftalk at yahoogroups.com; ocCUpy
> Subject: [sftalk] Re: [Peace-discuss] Fwd: Democracy Now!'s Tribute to
> Bayard Rustin
>
> It's the bane of identity politics, which American liberalism substituted
> for
class politics 40 years ago, in its timorous response to the assault of
> neoliberalism. ("OK, if we can't have socialism, and we have to have
> imperialism, let's just see what color the rich kids are...!")
>
> --CGE
>
> On Aug 12, 2013, at 8:52 PM, "Brussel, Morton K" <[LINK:
> mailto:brussel at illinois.edu] brussel at illinois.edu> wrote:
>
> > Not infrequently Democracy Now! runs off the rails. I can remember well
> how disgusted I was with Bayard Rustin and his support of the Vietnam war
> by the U.S. .
> > It is a disgrace that those actions of his are unmentioned in the
> Democracy Now! piece.
>
>
> > --mkb
> >
> > On Aug 12, 2013, at 10:32 AM, Carl G. Estabrook wrote:
> >
> >> Begin forwarded message:
> >>
> >>> From: <[LINK: mailto:turbulo at aol.com] turbulo at aol.com>
> >>> Subject: Democracy Now!'s Tribute to Bayard Rustin
> >>> Date: August 12, 2013
> >>>
> >>> I sent the following e-mail to Democracy Now! in response to a tribute
> to Bayard Rustin they did this morning. The occasion was a posthumous award
> >>> Rustin is about to receive at the White House.
> >>>
> >>>> While rightly lauding the courage and commitment of
Bayard Rustin as
> a founder and organizer of the civil rights movement, this morning’s
> tribute left out a less stellar side of his political career. By the mid
> 1960s,Rustin had sold his soul to Lyndon Johnson and the Democratic Party,
> acting to keep the civil rights and anti-war movements within the political
> bounds prescribed by the administration, and to red bait and exclude all
> elements deemed too radical by the cold warriors. He used his considerable
> influence to undermine the first big march against the Vietnam War in 1965
> because its organizers refused to bar the participation of communists and
> other left-wing radicals. He opposed MLK’s 1967 Riverside Church address
> condemning the war. In his view, silence in the face of the wholesale
> slaughter of a people fighting for its independence
was not too high a
> price to pay for remaining within the good graces of the slaughter’s
> chief perpetrator, in hopes that Johnson might do more for civil rights. It
> was Rustin’s role as a policeman for the White House that sullied his
> name in the eyes of the radical activists of that era, of which I was one.
> His posthumous accolade from Barack Obama comes as no surprise. In his
> older years he was a shining example the kind of housebroken
> “radical”that the president would no doubt like to see followed today.
> Rustin’s early role as a fighter deserves to be remembered. So do his
> later accommodations to power. --Jim Creegan
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