Obama special statement - Osama bin Laden 'dead'...

[WhiteBear]

This is looking like a master plan to create a group of people that are ridiculed by anyone with half a brain and then have them take on the legitimate issue of OBL questionable recent demise, thereby associating the question of OBL's assassination with fringe lunacy.

I think you may be right on that, Gonzo.

_http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/05/08/60minutes/main20060876_page9.shtml?tag=contentMain;contentBody

May 8, 2011
President Obama on the raid that killed bin Laden
The president talks to "60 Minutes" in his first interview since the killing of terrorist leader Osama bin Laden

President Barack Obama talks about our allies in Pakistan, why he chose not to tell them about the mission, and where we go from here now that Osama bin Laden is dead. Steve Kroft reports.

(CBS News) KROFT: In some ways, this is the end of a chapter. And I want to ask you a little bit about where we go from here. There are people in Congress, influential people now on both sides of the aisle, who were saying that this is an opportunity for us to cut our commitment to Afghanistan and hasten our withdrawals. What's your response to that?

OBAMA: Well, first of all, remember that when I came in, I said we're gonna end the war in Iraq. So that we can refocus attention on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the border region there where al Qaeda was focused. We've now removed 100,000 troops from Iraq. We did increase our troops levels in Afghanistan so that we could blunt the momentum of the Taliban and create platforms that would allow us to go after al Qaeda directly.

We've denigrated al Qaeda significantly even before we got bin Laden and I think it's important for everybody to understand that the work that's been done in Afghanistan helped to prepare us for being able to take bin Laden out. Now, I've already committed to a transition starting in July where we're gonna begin drawing out our troops in Afghanistan. But it's important to understand that our job's not yet finished.

And that we've gotta make sure that we leave an Afghanistan that can secure itself, that does not, again, become a safe haven for terrorist activity. But I think that that can be accomplished on the timeline that I've already set out.

KROFT: You seem to think that it might hasten our withdrawal.

OBAMA: Well keep in mind what has happened on Sunday, I think, reconfirms that we can focus on al Qaeda, focus on the threats to our homeland, train Afghans, in a way that allows them to stabilize their country. But we don't need to have a perpetual footprint of the size that we have now.

KROFT: Do you think this improves the chances for some kind of a negotiated settlement in Afghanistan?

OBAMA: I think what it does is it sends a signal to those who might have been affiliated with terrorist organizations, that might have had a favorable view towards al Qaeda, that they're gonna be on the losing side of this proposition. And it may make some of those local power brokers, those local Taliban leaders have second thoughts. And say maybe it makes more sense for us to figure out how to participate in a political process as opposed to engaging in a war with folks who I think we've shown don't give up.

We wanted to know what kind of awards and decorations the president had in mind for the U.S. Special Forces who participated in the assault on bin Laden's compound.

OBAMA: They'll pretty much get whatever they want. But these guys are so low key. So focused on just doing their job that, you know, they get embarrassed, I think, if they get too much attention.

On Friday, the president got a chance to thank them personally during a visit to Fort Campbell, Ky., where the helicopter pilots were based. He reportedly met them behind closed doors along with the NAVY SEALs who carried out the assault. It's unlikely you will ever see the faces, or learn the names of those who avenged 9/11 and finally disposed of its mastermind. Their identities are classified and likely to remain so.

KROFT: Is this the first time that you've ever ordered someone killed?

OBAMA: Well, keep in mind that every time I make a decision about launching a missile, every time I make a decision about sending troops into battle, I understand that this will result in people being killed. And that is a sobering fact. But it is one that comes with the job.

KROFT: This was one man. This is somebody who has cast a shadow, has been cast a shadow in this place, in the White House for almost...a decade.

OBAMA: As nervous as I was about this whole process, the one thing I didn't lose sleep over was the possibility of taking bin Laden out. Justice was done. And I think that anyone who would question that the perpetrator of mass murder on American soil didn't deserve what he got needs to have their head examined.

So, it's crazy to think it might be a good idea to take him alive for questioning and a trial?

 

[Don Genaro]

From http://www.sott.net/articles/show/228077-White-House-Struggles-to-Get-Story-Right-on-Raid

Killing Osama bin Laden was a big victory for the U.S., but how exactly the raid went down is another story - and another, and another.

Over two days, the White House has offered contradictory versions of events, including misidentifying which of bin Laden's sons was killed and wrongly saying bin Laden's wife died in gunfire, as it tries to sort through what the president's press secretary called the "fog of combat" and produce an accurate account.

Press Secretary Jay Carney said Tuesday that officials were trying to get information out as quickly as possible about the complex event witnessed by just a handful of people, and the story line was being corrected.

"We provided a great deal of information with great haste in order to inform you. ... And obviously some of the information was, came in piece by piece and is being reviewed and updated and elaborated on," Carney said.

Make me think of this hypothesis: Obama and the crew around him is not alone at the handling. Agenda imposed by 4D in the background?

I had to laugh despite the circumstances that here they are basically confessing to "manipulating the facts"- considering that "form" is another word for "shape" the words "in order to "inform" you" takes on a new meaning. Even the structuring of the sentence was very "Bushlike" :(

The other major effect of this announcement is that it has blown the Japan nuclear issue off the front pages.

I was listening to the James McCanney show for Thursday May 5th and he basically said the same thing. Interestingly/unfortunately in spite of the work he has done in explaining the cosmic effect of earth changes, he seems to be buying into the HAARP story and claimed that the Japanese earthquakes were manmade and caused by HAARP! He also doesn't sound very healthy- it reminded me of all the reporters who spontaneously start talking nonsense on air...

 

[Kolnikov]

FWIW

How can we deal with this?
_https://members.humaneventsonline.com/visitor.php?offer=2370

 

[anart]

FWIW

How can we deal with this?
_https://members.humaneventsonline.com/visitor.php?offer=2370

What do you mean 'deal with this'? It's a book advertisement filled to the brim with pathological paranoia and lies about Islam in America. There are many, many, many such things out there - mostly written as COINTELPRO. I did not finish listening to it, however, due to the fact that the first minute and a half gave me a headache. Is there something specific said later in the recording that you wanted to address?

 

[Laurentien2]

FWIW

How can we deal with this?
_https://members.humaneventsonline.com/visitor.php?offer=2370

Xenophobia propaganda from the PTB. You deal with it with knowledge but, so few know this.

It look like a promotion of the book: The Terrorist Next Door, Erick Stakelbeck reveals:

Promoting division and finger pointing is a well know tool of the sts control system and this disinformation book is to perpetrate this. False flag attack use to induce fear of your neighbor explained in this book totally free for you. Won't you grab one and know how to protect yourself.

Posté par: anart

I did not finish listening to it, however, due to the fact that the first minute and a half gave me a headache.

Same here.

 

[Social Flu]

Big "terror act" in Pakistan. What a surprise... How people cannot see how this is put together is really bad.

 

[knowledge_of_self]

Big "terror act" in Pakistan. What a surprise... How people cannot see how this is put together is really bad.

Yup... here is the relevant article.

Explosions Kill 70 in North West Pakistan

At least 70 people have been killed and 80 others injured in twin blasts at a military training center in Pakistan's northwestern city of Charsadda.

The explosions took place at about 6:10 a.m. local time Friday morning at the Frontier Constabulary training site, AFP reported.

"Seventy people have been killed," said the police chief of the northwestern Charsadda district, Nisar Khan Marwat.

"Sixty-five of them are from the paramilitary police. Five dead bodies of civilians were taken to Shabqadar hospital," the police chief added.

The death toll is still expected to rise since the injured are reported to be in critical condition and medical items at the city's hospital are in short supply.

Marwat said the attacks occurred when newly-trained cadets, wearing civilian clothes, were getting into buses to go on a 10-day leave after the end of their training course.

This is the bloodiest attack since May 2, when al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was allegedly killed by US special forces in Abbottabad.

The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the assault. It had vowed earlier to avenge the death of bin Laden by attacking government buildings as well as official figures.

"This was the first revenge for Osama's martyrdom. Wait for bigger attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan," Pakistani Taliban spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan told AFP by telephone from an undisclosed location."

Pakistani authorities say they will review anti-militancy cooperation with the US as the "unauthorized" attack on an alleged bin Laden compound has spawned severe criticisms from Pakistani people.

According to the AFP report, over 4,300 people have been killed in bomb attacks across Pakistan in the past four years.

Interestingly, a bill is being passed in US to give the President full war powers. That means he can do whatever he wants wherever he wants, in response to "terror attacks". Which goes hand in hand with what's happening in Pakistan right now, osit.

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/228482-US-Bill-to-Expand-Presidents-War-Powers-

'US Bill to Expand Presidents' War Powers'

The US Congress has introduced a resolution that would give the US president wide latitude of powers to wage war on other countries as part of the "war on terror."

The fiscal 2012 Defense Authorization bill, sponsored by Howard P. "Buck" McKeon, the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee will expand the legal basis for the war on terror and is moving through Congress amid harsh criticism from civil liberties groups, The Washington Times reported on Wednesday.

The proposed legislation clearly states that "the president has the authority to use all necessary and appropriate force during the current armed conflict with al Qaeda, the Taliban, and associated forces pursuant to the authorization for use of military force."

The resolution, known as the Authorization for the Use of Military Force, comes less than two weeks after the US Navy SEAL commandos reportedly killed al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in his compound in the city of Abbottabad in Pakistan.

It is expected to replace legislation endorsed by the US Congress on Sept. 14, 2001 that authorized war on the people and groups that planned and carried out the September 11 attacks on the twin World Trade Center buildings in New York.

The provision was basically used by US lawmakers as a legal basis for expansion of the US administration's powers to detain suspected terrorists without a fair trial and to authorize non-UN-sanctioned drone attacks as well as other clandestine military operations in countries where the US is not formally at war, the report says.

Meanwhile, many civil liberties groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union have seethed at the bill, saying the move will give any American president the unprecedented power to take US to wars wherever, whenever and however he or she wishes.

The American Civil Liberties Union says the proposed bill is problematic as it does not specify an end date to the so-called war on terror, adding that the legislation is widely viewed as a frantic attempt to find the end to the escalating conflicts and abuses of power in the name of fighting terrorism.

When will people wake up... :(

 

[Jeremy F Kreuz]

Meanwhile, many civil liberties groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union have seethed at the bill, saying the move will give any American president the unprecedented power to take US to wars wherever, whenever and however he or she wishes.

Correct me if I am wrong but I think this power to take the US to wars has been around already for a century. It is one of the key principles of the protocols that it should not be the people of nations (through Parliament or congress) to declare war, but that this power should be given to their (puppet) president, whom is in firm control by the real power. Granted false flags have been used to facilitate this ´taking to war´ but as far as I know, for the last hundreds years it was presidents that could and did make the decision. This seems also to be confirmed by Douglas Reed in the Controversy of Zion.

The fact that those civil liberties Union is crying wolf seems therefore to me a mere show, one of those many framed dissidents that are willingly or unwillingly play the cards they are supposed to play. By claiming that this is new, helps the PTB to continue the Old game. Same with Congress passing this bill: as far as the PTB (according to the protocols) this is mere dressing and they don't need a bill to make sure the president will decide and do what they want him to do. This seems all like throwing tomatoes at each other, without never asking who is providing the tomatoes. FWIW

 

[meta-agnostic]

_http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/jan-june11/mcconnell_05-12.html

In this interview yesterday with Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) that was mainly to discuss the current budget negotiations, toward the end just before the 12 minute mark Jim Lehrer asks him (twice) if he has seen the [alleged] OBL photos. McConnell basically says, "I don't care to comment on it and I'm not going to discuss it with you and we've said too much already" with almost a "how dare you" vibe. At least a few members of the MSM, even if they can't quite overtly call it into question themselves, know that there are still enough questions to make the whole thing fishy. If this is truly the event where one miscalculation is all that's needed to reveal the man behind the curtain, all that may be needed is the right question at the right time to the likes of the more-psychopathic-than-most McConnell and his cohorts.

Even with the above in mind, I know Jim Lehrer has mostly played ball with the PTB for his career as one of the top "straight men" in news. Coincidentally or not, he also announced his (mostly) retirement on the same broadcast yesterday.

[edit - typo]

 

[meta-agnostic]

Along the same lines of MSM hinting at something but not going so far as to come right out and say it, this is the last article in the New Yorker's May 16 issue "Talk of the Town" section:

THE MYTH
ALREADY DEAD
by Dexter Filkins

Thirteen years ago, after the spectacular attacks on a pair of American Embassies, Osama became the most popular name in the maternity wards of Pakistan's northwest frontier. Shop owners renamed their stores. Osama Optical appeared, along with the Osama Poultry Farm, Osama Watchmaker, Osama Medicines, and Osama Knife Center. At the time, Saleem Khan, cradling his newborn son, explained why. "Osama is fighting against the cruelty of the West," he said.

Osama bin Laden was an icon for the wretched of the Muslim world, a Kalashnikov-toting rebel prince, or so it seemed back then. It was as if, in striking the United States, bin Laden, the son of a Saudi billionaire, were giving voice to all the unhappy young men who lived between Morocco and Indonesia, whose lives were stunted by failed hopes. Another thing: whenever the United States tried to hit bin Laden, it seemed to fail pitifully, tripping over itself in a part of the world it did not understand. In 1998, after bin Laden's men carried out the attacks on the Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, President Clinton ordered the firing of cruise missiles to kill him. They missed. Seventy-five missiles, costing about a million dollars each. The next morning, young men poured into the streets of Peshawar to celebrate. Posters went on sale in the bazaar, showing the hero on a white stallion, bombs bursting overhead. "I LOVE OSAMA BIN LADEN," the posters said.

A little more than three years later, on the evening of November 30, 2001, a dozen Arab men rode on horseback into the Afghan village of Khan-i-Merajuddin, inside a larger area known as Tora Bora. One of the men, the villagers said, was Osama bin Laden. The Battle of Tora Bora was under way; American jets were streaking across the sky. Bin Laden had come to see a friend. He had dinner, mounted his horse, and at about midnight, galloped away. Or so the rumor went. About four hours later, American bombs fell on Khan-i-Merajuddin, exploding the place into splinters and ash. When I visited, a few weeks later, I found, beside the rubble, forty-six graves, each marked by a plank of wood. "Everything is finished," a villager named Sahar Gul muttered. Six members of Gul's family had been killed.

Khan-i-Merajuddin stood as a metaphor for the wars that followed: the fury with which the Americans sometimes acted, the ignorance that seemed to doom even their best-intentioned efforts. There was a dispiriting ritual for reporters in Pakistan and Afghanistan: You'd sit down with a diplomat or a military officer, and he could talk about anything, until you asked about bin Laden. Then, usually, you got a blank stare.

Over the past decade, Osama's glow began to fade. Maybe it was the suicide bombings, carried out by his revered acolytes, of the Shiite mosques in Iraq. Or maybe it was that the woebegone young men between Morocco and Indonesia found a more hopeful and empowering path. Earlier this year, I sat in a seaside café just down the coast from Aden Harbor, in Yemen, not far from where Al Qaeda suicide bombers attacked the U.S.S. Cole, a year before 9/11. The café was in the Mercure Hotel, which is owned by the bin Laden family. In Aden that day, and on the forty-two more days I spent in Yemen, bin Laden's name didn't come up in conversation once -- not even when I was asking about the local Al Qaeda chapter. What I heard instead, in conversation with many Yemenis trying to make a revolution, was talk about democracy and human rights. "We want to be a normal country," a young Yemeni said. Bin Laden, it seemed, was already dead. In the end, it was only we in the West for whom he still lived.

 

[Kolnikov]

FWIW

How can we deal with this?
_https://members.humaneventsonline.com/visitor.php?offer=2370

What do you mean 'deal with this'? It's a book advertisement filled to the brim with pathological paranoia and lies about Islam in America. There are many, many, many such things out there - mostly written as COINTELPRO. I did not finish listening to it, however, due to the fact that the first minute and a half gave me a headache. Is there something specific said later in the recording that you wanted to address?

Excuse me, some misunderstanding here...

I received this mail from a Spanish list, and started reading/listening... Well, -and I'm not ashamed to say that- at first, it sounds credible to me,-but some "ring" sounds at the end- So It take me a while and a re-reading until I "smelt the rat" and became aware that really was disinfo. So, mi thought was... It mislead me,(theoretically aware of such things) so how many more people can this kind of "vision" mislead? How many disinfo is being spread?.
You already answered,...MANY and That´s is what disturb me.

My purpose to send this here was somehow ask if some can be done "deal/manage.... excuse English" with the disinfo, and perhaps also how learn to separate real info away from this one.

Laurentien: Thanks for remember the (now) obvious.

Edited: correcting grammar as far as possible

 

[GRiM]

Translated video of the neighbor eye-witness that saw the raid:
/http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=h0vo-L3VACs

This is a translation of the video linked at the bottom and was translated by my friend Khan Taashk. THANK YOU my dear friend. I wish there were a way for ALL Americans to read this translation.

Anchor: Welcome back, Mohammad Bashir is a resident of Abboottabad's Bilal Town. Muhammad Bashir might seem an ordinary guy but he is no ordinary guy. Muhammad Bashir lives in front of Osama Ben Laden's house in Bilal Town Abbottabad. On 2nd of May, Muhammad Bashir was present on his rooftop from where he saw the whole American operation against Osama Ben Laden with his own eyes. Yesterday when our team was present In Bilal Town, Abbottabad, near Osama Ben Laden's hose, Muhammad Bashir came to us and said, "Sister, I need to tell you something, something that is a burden on my heart and soul", just listen to what he said.

Bashir: I am going to share something about the Abbottabad operation which till this day nobody else has told you.

Anchor: But Muhammad Bashir was a little afraid too, while talking to me he telephoned hia reletive, Vice President of Jummat-e-Islami, Abdur Razzaq Abasi, watch it

Reporter: Tell me your name and tell me whare do you live

Bashir: Let me first, Let me talk to him one minute, i will give you full interview, full or half?

Reporter: Full Full

Bashir: Let me first talk to him

Reporter: To whom? To abbasi?

Bashir: yes, to Abbasi

Anchor: Muhammad Bashir told us something that no one said before. So we checked his identity card, we also confirmed that he really lives there, we asked from the senior fellows about him. We were very astonished by his story just see and listen what he said.

Bashir: We were awake, not asleep, a helicopter came, some men came down from that, into that house, then that helicopter went away

Reporter: How many men?

Bashir: 10-12, then that helicopter took rounds of those rear hills, then he came bac...k and when he came bach, two more helicopters arrived, one from the west and other from the north, there was a blast in the first helicopter and it was on fire, we immediately came out, when we reached there, the helicopter was burning, then after about 20 minutes the army and police arrived, they pushed us back, now we are asking that if oama was here then who took him to america because all those men that came in the helicopter died in the blast, now if Osama was in that helicopter he must have died and got burnt in that helicopter too, then how they took him? this is a question of serious concern. America claims they they killed him and picked him up. How they picked him up? This is what we are thinking

reporter: Was there only one helicopter?

Bashir? Yes the other that came flew away to Mansehra, there was only one that landed the men and came back to pick them but as he was picking them up, it blew away and caught fire.

Reporter: Then were in it when it blew?

Bashir: Yes They were.

Reporeter : How you know?

Bashir: We saw it with our own eyes

Reporter: You saw dead man?

Bashir: Yes, dead men,

Reporter: How many?

Bashir: I couldnt count them because then the compound was on fire. The gate was open, we went in, the army and police hadnt arrived then, there were some people but they werent stopping them. The whole neighbourhood has seen that but they are silent now.

Bashir: We saw the helicopter burning, we saw the dead bodies, then everything was removed and now there is nothing

Reporter: How many dead bodies you saw?

Bashir: We couldnt count them because they were blown into pieces.

Khan Taashk:

(Arrrrgh...... Loadshedding! power went out. Cant access the computer. But i have noted down all remaining points. I will explain them, not word to word as i cant access the video right now, but in my own words. I am from cell phone.)


Here is ...the remaining part, the reporter asked Bashir to narrate the story again.



Bashir said we could see the faces of those men but they were speaking pashto. I dont know whether they were Pakistani or American army or people of agencies, as you know that agency people can speak many languages.

May be they were speaking pashto so that we consider them Pakistani.

They knocked and banged at our doors and told us not to come out.

I laid down on my rooftop and was watching them.

My kids were calling me, I told them to go to their rooms and let me check whats going on.


The reporter asks Bashir, that when he saw that the helicopter was American what was he thinking then?

Bashir said that he got afraid. He didn't had in his mind that they will attack that house. He thought that they might have come to attack the Pakistan Army.



The reporter asked so when was your cousin Shamraiz taken away?


Bashir : Shamrez was at our home, as the helicopter exploded, me and many others went out of our homes to see what happened. Shamrez also came out and the gate of the compound was open, we went in, every thing was lying scattered, as it is a huge compound, some body parts were lying here, some there, legs, arms, heads, broken and torn body parts, during that time some part of the helicopter inside, may be the engine or other fuel related part had an explosion so we rushed out. During that time Shamrez was taken away, he is in his home now, but no one is allowed to meet him and i couldn't get a chance to talk to him later.


Then the anchor says that they had vegetations inside the compound and Shamrez was their gardener. We know that two men Arshad and Tariq used to live there. They had good relations with the neighbours, they used to buy things from the local store. Sometimes imported dates and used to send many things to their neighbours.


Then the reporter is at Abdullah Ben Zubair Mosque, which is the nearest to compound of Osama.

She asks a guy: do you think people would have been glad and happy if they would have ever met osama?

The guy : Yes, possibly. Because he was a muslim and he believed in God.



This is the whole story! Every aspect and point translated. :)



Another translation from my dear friend Saba Quraishi, and thank you!!:

Saba Quraishi



Yes jeff The two translations are the same as mine. no need to repeat. I will send it to you privately if you wish. The gentleman being interviewed lives across from the compound. His cousin Sahab Jamrez Khan used to grow vegetables in the compound. He was taken away in all the hullabaloo on tape @10.29 Bashir says he did not see when they wisked his cousin away.


Interviewer asks "Have you spoken to your cousin?"



Bashir "No, I have not seen him yet he in in the house. "They will not let him get out" "They will not let me get in."



2 other men Arshad Sahib and Tariq Sahib used to go to market to shop for that compound and bought international brand items. Dates, dried meat found in compound. Also food used to come from compound to Bashir's house Kabulu Pilau and things like that used to be presented to Bashir. They will follow up with more information. In the end the lady is standing in front of Abdullah Bin Zubair mosque. The mosque was with in walking distance of the compound. She asks people if Osama did attend this mosque people would have be happy? The one answered maybe. The other said Osama did "not" live here but he was muslim and believed in God. Interview ends.



Another thing to note is that Bashir mentioned that we are very "sharif" meaning law abiding honest people. His town was a peaceful place no excitement no murders, fights, and he is unhappy how they have made his town so frightful with all this news. One thing is very clear in this video. Two helicopters hovered never landed. One landed dropped Pashto speaking poeple on the roof 10-12 of them Helicopter left fo 20 minutes returned to load people in and small blast engine failure fire helicopter parts all over. Body parts arms, legs, head, all over. Pakistani Army/Police came in dispersed crowd. The whole scene is cleaned up totally now. No evidence left to examine.

 

[Thomas Alan]

In an article about the supposed raid in the local paper, there was an odd line. It said that the Pakistanis were going to return the tail of the "helicopter that crashed" to US authorities.

I haven't read all the reports of the mission but this is the first report I saw with anything about a helicopter that crashed. And no questions about it. Like "What helicopter crashed?" "Who was aboard the helicopter?" "Were there any US casualties?" "Did other helicopters land?"

The absolute arrogance of the PTB on this is stunning. They put out this story, loaded with contradictions and false information apparently confident that few will challenge any of it.

Mac

 

[blindpsychic]

Yeah there were reports of a helicopter crash almost immediately. In fact there are pictures of some of the remains of the aircraft that indicate it was a newer blackhawk that had never been seen before.

 

[Ca.]

Dedicated to the recent passing of Gil Scott Herion, and the "Seekers of Truth"

Gil Scott-Heron: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Scott_Heron
Born on 1 st April 1949 and died on 27 May 2011 , is a musician , poet and novelist America.
Recognized for its performance (in musical influences jazz , soul and funk ) of chants - spoken word - in the late 1960's and 1970's , some consider him one of the fathers of rap 1 . His lyrics feed, among other things, the reality of the street, "his" street, political and social problems which he himself suffers daily. He established himself as champion of the black American in the late 1960's by describing the misery, violence and drugs plaguing the ghettos, in criticizing U.S. policy (including the government of Nixon ), and extend his remarks the denunciation of apartheid .
Gil Scott-Heron is famous for his "song-poems" The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (The Revolution Will Not Be Televised) , The Bottle and Angel Dust .

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS3QOtbW4m0

Remember
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