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(Editor\u2019s note<\/strong>: Throughout much of this tape, Jim Jones misidentifies the prime minister of Jamaica as Norman Manley. Norman Manley did, in fact, hold the top leadership position in Jamaica from 1955 to 1962, but it was his son, Michael Manley, who was the Prime Minister in 1978 when this tape was recorded.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Jones: <\/strong>Good morning. Good day news on this beautiful windy day. How much I enjoy (unintelligible word under radio) News of the day. Mourn the death of the prime minister-to-be of the Soviet Union, who died of a heart attack. Kalikov [phonetic]. Prime Minister [Forbes] Burnham of Guyana sent condolences on behalf of the Guyanese people, made a news statement that was a great loss to the world.<\/p>\n

Guyana, under the new socialist mandate from its referendum, is opening a nursery school for 1000 children.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister [Michael] Manley is invited to China and is drawing closer and closer in his relationship to China. He is the Prime Minister of Jamaica.<\/p>\n

Guyana praised for the offering of 39 youth leaders from former commonwealth countries to be trained in youth leadership in socio-economics to bring answers to unemployment in the Caribbean region. Thirty-nine free posts in the beautiful University of Guyana have been offered to students in Belize, the Bahamas, Jamaica, Antigua, Grenada \u2013 that beautiful island that we all love so much where [Eric Gairy] the Prime Minister was quite friendly to us there \u2013 Trinidad. They\u2019ll be trained in all the concepts, social concepts to eliminate poverty and unemployment.<\/p>\n

As I said, Prime Minister Burnham sent condolences to Brez\u2013 [Leonid] Brezhnev on the death of Kulikov. Politburo likely to succeed Brezhnev as the General Secretary. One less personality as the Soviet Union is attempting to move away from strong personality figures.<\/p>\n

Nursery education, as I said, has established 1000 new places for children. The Guyana go\u2013 government has done so, with charged person over placement is Agnes Jones, who visited here and saw our project. The beginning age will be three months\u2013 three years. Three years of age on up.<\/p>\n

One of the chief clerks of the Guyana Stock Feeds is charged with false entries, which he obligedly\u2013 allegedly collected under false pretenses from the Belayda workers, and he\u2019s out on 500 dollar bail, and not yet been tried. Guyana tends to have very fair treatment of people arrested. Very few long jail sentences and very few that are not given opportunity to make restitution, when it\u2019s a matter of thievery.<\/p>\n

Third woman murdered in Berbice in a matter of days. Unusual amount of violence in Guyana. This woman was partially decapitated with a cutlass. There have been several murders in the Northwest District. One person traveling through from Switzerland was decapitated in the Northwest District. Theft was the reason. So always keep that in mind, that we do not travel alone, we travel in groups when we have purpose and work to do. This is not common, but it is growing, due to unemployment, that sort of thing, the economic dearth that US imperialism is causing all over the world, \u2018cause capitalism is in a start of disarray, and these countries that are non-aligned suffer naturally while the economic market of capitalism is in such an upheaval, and it will remain so until its collapse.<\/p>\n

One hundred students from the Amsterdam work study will be touring various projects. They got certificates for outstanding work and for demonstrating high socialist principles.<\/p>\n

Norman [Michael] Manley, as I said, is drawing his country Jamaica closer to China, 25-member party now in Jamaica under the Deputy Prime Minister of China, will arrive in Guyana tomorrow to offer aid to this beleaguered country that is still maintaining a non-aligned course. Cabinet Minister Men\u2013 [Vibert] Mingo, one of the high government officials that meet with our people weekly, (unintelligible phrase) person, said the USSR was unable to come through significantly due to its prior commitment to [Cheddi] Jagan and the opposition Peoples Progressive Party, that the USA is an opportunist nation that will give nothing without trying to get a stranglehold on the country, so Guyana does not want to get under USA, but China has offered significant econem\u2013 economic aid and assistance with no strings attached. As I said, the Cabinet Minister Mingo said it may be that China feels her need for friends, as she lost Albania, and China yesterday moved out all of her technical advisers and all personnel that was assisting in Albania, because Albania has moved from a very strong pro-China course to now a very strong pro-Soviet course.<\/p>\n

Trinidad. A massive fire through an industrial state has caused great damage. It is not known whether it is sabotage by left elements unpleased [displeased] with the capitalist government of Trinidad.<\/p>\n

The Egyptian-Israeli-US talks in the medieval castle of Leeds, 30 miles from London in Kent, is in the second and final day of discussions. Mediation was attempted by USA, US hosted the cost and expense. There will be further talks continuing. The last six-hour session, the Egyptians have declared nothing has happened, and they say \u2013 the Egyptians \u2013 that there will be no indication on their part given because of this waste to indicate that there will be any further talks, so the Israel-Egyptian-Near East situation, the pot is still boiling.<\/p>\n

Syrian armed forces are still on war footing in Lebanon. <\/p>\n

At this time, Egypt got none of its requirements, USA had put demands on Israel, but Israel has the bomb, which is a dangerous element for world peace. Israel was supposed to give the West Bank back to Jordan, and the Gaza Strip to Egypt, and withdraw from Lebanon, and turn over its conquered territory to the Lebanon people through the United Nations peace-keeping forces under the black general [Emmanuel] Erskine from Ghana, on the west coast of Africa.<\/p>\n

India. Flooding continues from the monsoons. Hundreds of thousands of people will die. Rescued victims. With all boats available through nations surrounding southeast Asia have been called to give assistance, the flooding may well affect one million people before it\u2019s finished, and 100,000 to 200,000 can die. One million will definitely\u2013 over one million will be homeless. [It] Seems that this beleaguered nation of India is always plagued with flooding or famine or something. A nation\u2013 it\u2019s the next largest in the world. China is over a billion, and India is approaching a billion. So, one-half of the world\u2019s population is in China and India.<\/p>\n

Japan. The Red Army radicals blocked their new airport again. Eight thousand injured, six killed, as riot police shoot and fire into the crowds. Airport had to be guarded by 7000 riot police in total wartime security, as Japan rocks and reels with the power\u2013 uh, force of the Red Army organizing farmers and other working class elements to bring down the government of Japan. Japan is a major capitalist power. If it were to fall, you could depend that capitalism would fall all over the entire world. So I\u2019m sure that the USA in time will beef that force up. Japan has not made yet a call for assistance, because she is a capitalist nation that distrusts other capitalist nations, because she\u2019s Asiatic and she has been following protectionist policies, which she says\u2013 says that she will abandon only if the USA will stop importing so much oil so that her dollar will be strengthened, and Japan will not have to bail US dollars out so much in the future.<\/p>\n

Bolivian elections July 9. Meddling was done by the army and the president. The left president [Hernan Siles] that would have won, is on a hunger strike in a foreign embassy. He said he will maintain his hunger strike, so that the whole world can know that Bolivia is under the hands of imperialists. He was defeated in the elections, president \u201956 and in \u201960. But he was defeated in what was considered a likely opportunity for the Bolivian left to get a government, at least moderately representative of the people, but the military interfered. Know where Bolivia is, it\u2019s on the South American continent.<\/p>\n

Ecuador, a strange and miraculous breakthrough, allowed the socialist and communist candidate of the left [Jaime Roldos Aguilera] to be in the runoff. He got votes only next to the Republican conservative president [Alfredo Poveda], who had ruled Ecuador for many years, that party, under the military. But this is a radical, backed by the communist parties and socialist parties of Ecuador, and he\u2019ll be in the runoff elections in a few weeks. Let\u2019s see if the military will interfere again, and the CIA and US imperialism, like they have in Bolivia, Chile, and elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Argentina. In spite of the brave Argentina workers threatened with treason, subversion, which they can be killed by the state, jailed for 20 years, the general strike continues, and slowdown in all other areas of work where there has not been a general strike. The military fascist government has cruelly tortured people for months, the people have disappeared by the cloak-and-dagger operations of that military government brought in power by the CIA. Nonetheless, the workers are resisting, and the South American continent is boiling for change.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister [Pierre] Trudeau announced in the closing minutes of the summit\u2013 economic summit being held in West Germany at Bonn that he wants to remove his dependency on the USA, and develop relations with the various countries of Europe, because he feels it is unjust and unfair for Canada to be so dependent on the USA. We\u2019re glad for that brave public statement of Prime Minister Trudeau, who was openly, years ago, socialist. He started the first trade with China, a grain trade, and opened up the first major negotiations with the Soviet Union for exchange of cultural, educational and trade programs.<\/p>\n

International terrorism has been strongly indicted, as you know, by the countries cooperating, with seven major capitalist [nations]. Any country that assists terrorists, they put strong indications that South Yemen has, the Democratic Peoples Republic, East German socialist nations and others of the socialist bloc, and the Arab independent socialists, non-aligned socialists, but any country cooperating will be made to pay a significant price, was the announcement of the leading capitalist nations, trying to save their capitalistic system in a summit meeting in West Germany in Bonn. There will be no air flights allowed in or out of any nation cooperating with what they call terrorist, or those who are seeking, by armed struggle, to free their nations or their people. There will also be economic sanctions and boycotts placed against any nation that cooperates in any way with terrorists, because they feel that those who advocate armed struggle are now beginning to endanger capitalism\u2019s balance and make a real inroad into its stability.<\/p>\n

Over 2000 casualties have been reported by the Cuban Radio to have occurred in recent battles defending Argentina and Angola against the CIA and the imperialists from USA and her lackeys, who have tried to bring down the free governments. The Cuban radio \u2013 the only voice of socialist freedom in the Caribbean Sea \u2013\u00a0has said that there is no backlash from the people of Cuba. We are willing to put our lives on the line in defense of liberation everywhere.<\/p>\n

State Department protests the conviction of reporters. New York Times<\/em> reporter [Craig R. Whitney] and The Baltimore Sun<\/em>, [Harold D. Piper] who were convicted of slander and libel against the Soviet television network, by accusing them and the government of the USSR of cooperating, using coercive\u2013 coercive methods to get a false confession out of [Zviad Gamsakhurdia] someone that admitted their guilt, that was from the Ukraine, admitted their guilt in doing acts of subversion against the Soviet state. The protest has taken more significant form and more dangerous form. President [Jimmy] Carter has ordered the closing of Tass news agency in San Francisco. Tass gentleman there had been kindly to our people. All news agencies will be closed in the San Francisco area. The Soviet Union is also promising to take action if such does occur, if it is finally carried out. As of this early morning hour, it is not clear whether they have been ordered out. Tass is the news services of the Soviet Union, but that was what was stated by Carter would be done.<\/p>\n

It is a strong reaction that we\u2019re seeing, strange reaction, over-reaction, overkill, that endangers world peace. As I said, the San Francisco offices of Soviet news agencies are ordered to be closed, and in retaliation, the USSR, the main correspondent for Tass said, it was unfair to send the Soviet news representatives home from San Francisco. Russians have only expelled two men for breaking specific Soviet laws, and the same consideration should be given to Soviet journalists, that they are safe and free to move about, to do their work of reporting of the news, unless they break USA\u2019s laws. Tass said there is bound to be repercussions that will be felt around the world, if the president of the United States carries out this action. (Pause)<\/p>\n

Continuing with the news. Senator [Edward] Brooke, trying to get uh, back in the good graces of the ruling class of USA, and right wing Senator Doyle [Bob Dole], said publicly to the Senate body and in a nationwide interview on television before the apathetic and gullible public of USA, that USA should stop all strategic arms limitation talks, all trade and commerce. Senator Brooke is a man who was recently found guilty of perjury, because he was black, it was made public, smear in magazines and newspapers throughout the USA, thus, according to all pollsters, affecting his opportunity of being re-elected\u2013 very strongly affecting his opportunity of being re-elected this fall. But now he\u2019s appealing for the strong Jewish community, the right wing community in Massachusetts, by taking a very strong right wing posture and being cosponsor to a bill that is likely to pass, which is madness, to hinge world peace, control of nuclear weapons, disarmament, treaties to stop the spread of nuclear weapons\u2013 weapons, which we call nuclear proliferation. It is insanity of a highes\u2013 highest degree, to hitch all of these important things for the peace of USA, where US citizens, over half of them to three-fourths of them would be dead in 20 minutes in a nuclear war, it is madness of the first magnitude to hinge such important talks on the fate of two individuals in the Soviet Union who the Soviets say were spies, and USA say, they\u2019re so concerned about their human rights, but we still don\u2019t hear Senator Brooke, light-skinned black, say one damn word about the tens of thousands of blacks and Indians and poor whites whose human rights have been destroyed in prisons in USA, whose dignity has been violated, who live as prisoners in ghettoes of every city in USA.<\/p>\n

Senator [Wendell] Anderson entertains resolution before the Senate this morning to ban the Olympics from Moscow. What a megalomania, that the Senate of the United States thinks that it can cause all the nations of the world to stop the international Olympics, which is participated by all nations, socialist and capitalist alike. These are dangerous signs of people in the last days of an overextension of power and expansionism and confidence which is not warranted in the freaky period, the dangerous period of a nuclear age.<\/p>\n

Senator [Robert] Byrd, majority leader of the Senate, is still demanding in radio interview after radio vie\u2013 interview for the dismissal of Andrew Young, the only real black person in Cabinet, the young ambassador to the United Nations. Andrew Young, demanded to be resign. Floods of mail coming into the Congress and the president, de\u2013 asking for his dismissal or his impeachment.<\/p>\n

Bishop Abel Muzorewa, one of the three black sell-outs, the only three that are in the white regime of fascist Ian Smith in Rhodesia, spent Tuesday on Capitol Hill, in a city that\u2019s all-black \u2013 strange that he can get around without any interference \u2013 urging the Senators to lift economic sanctions, restore military trade. Blacks, he said, when they finally do get power, which Ian Smith is fraudulently claiming they\u2019ll have representative power next year, Uncle Tom sell-out Bishop Abel Muzorewa, head of the Methodist Church, said that that government would inherit economic disabilities and liabilities that would make it impossible for it to continue. Bishop Mu\u2013 Muzorewa said that Carter is afraid of the office\u2013 Organization for African Unity. He made charges of Carter. He\u2019s\u2013 The Anglo-American peace proposal that says that the Pa\u2013 Patriotic Liberation Front must be included, he said is unacceptable. But at the same time, Ian Smith, the racist leader of Rhodesia, or Zimbabwe, accused the big three Uncle Tom sell-outs, including Bishop Muzorewa, of not doing anything to bring about a ceasefire, and of destroying the likelihood of any peace coming for the transitial [transition] or the interim government in Rhodesia. Muzorewa, when asked about Andrew Young\u2019s speech, said that uh, (Pause) where Young had mentioned that Ian Smith was responsible for the massacres of the children and the villagers there \u2013 Andrew Young had made that statement \u2013 Bishop Muzorewa said I hope you don\u2019t believe that<\/em> fellow, or take that<\/em> fellow Young seriously. It came at a very poor time, when a black so-called respected religious leader attacked Andrew Young, when he\u2019s already under fire from every quarter. I mean, every quarter. The Miami Herald<\/em> has called for his impeachment, said anyone saying the presence of Cubans stabilize Africa is capable of supporting the worst enemies and terrorists who throw bombs even against the USA. Miami Herald<\/em> has been considered a reasonable liberal paper.<\/p>\n

Another paper\u2013 Well, it\u2013 it named so many papers, I couldn\u2019t keep up with them. The Washington Post<\/em> said Andrew Young said no one is in jail for criticizing\u2013 they said\u2013 The Washington Post<\/em> said no one is in jail for criticizing the US government. But perhaps there are those there because of being poor. It accused Young of threatening world peace and affecting the national security. The end-product of a totalitarian state. Young should know better, that all anti-government sentiment is not allowed by totalitarians, and Young was knowingly \u2013 it was the mildest critic \u2013 Young is knowingly or unknowingly aiding our enemies. The New York Times<\/em> and St. Louis Dispatch<\/em> both condemn him. His condemnations were strong. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/em> said he is an enemy of the government and the people of the USA. Louisville Courier-Journal<\/em> attacked him in the most vicious terms. There\u2019s really a smear and press campaign whipping up, always the US use of capitalist press, newspapers and television, they\u2019re armed to destroy people. They always sic them on first, like they did with Andrew Young, like they did uh, with uh, uh\u2013 they\u2019re doing with Andrew Young now like they did with Huey Newton, like they did with Synanon, and of course, we know as Peoples Temple.<\/p>\n

The Communist government of East Germany was con\u2013 were condemned by USA for interference in the airways with freedom of movement. It appears that the East German Communists are becoming nervous about infiltration, said USA government over Voice of America. But strong and stringent measures will be taken \u2013 for whatever provocation, I don\u2019t know that East Germany now is supposed to have done \u2013 US is threatening in strong terms the East German nation. (Pause)<\/p>\n

<\/a>I suspect, the middle of all this hell, we\u2019ll have an earthquake before too long, maybe even this month, in California. Maybe San Francisco will feel that.<\/p>\n

Carter refuses already agreed-upon c\u2013 computers that\u2019ve been bought by the Soviet Union for the sole purpose of peace and news reporting. They have been banned, in retaliation for Soviet so-called treatment of their dissidents. They\u2019re trying to dirty the Soviet Union like they dirtied our image. We had been known as a help\u2013 helping hand for all liberation causes, so you remember how they had to make us look like we were wicked and denied rights, of human rights to our own people, that we had to beat people and torture people and so forth. They\u2019ve got the same line for individuals or nations. So Peoples Temple should feel honored. We rate highly<\/em>. They\u2019ve put us on the same level of attack as a\u2013 the greatest socialist nation in the world, because now the USA is trying to dirty the image of the Soviet Union, because they know the Soviet Union has won an image in Africa as being on the right side of every liberation cause, the freedom of black people struggling [for] so many generations to have their own continent that belonged to them, that was their place of birth, and the Soviet Union was getting too good a name in the eyes of the world, and maybe even the eyes of black US youth, so they\u2019re dirtying her name every minute on the radio.<\/p>\n

Part one of Carter\u2019s five-part energy program failed to get through the Senate. A bad sign, now that the USA\u2019s going to have to restrict oil imports, and there\u2019ll be no oil for all that pleasure driving, and even oil to keep people from freezing to death in the winter, there\u2019re already people freeze from lack of heat, I wonder how the public\u2019s\u2013 uh, the Senate\u2019s going to react to these<\/em> new proposals.<\/p>\n

All who want to trade with Russia in oil, technical equipment, now, says the Carter Administration, will need export licenses and, according to the BBC and the Voice of America, they will not be granted. Should sale of the\u2013 any areas of scientific technology, computers, be attempted, it will be considered an act of subversion. So I guess USA\u2019s going for an all-out trade war, an all-out trade war. I hope they know what the hell they\u2019re doing. They don\u2019t, of course, that\u2019s\u2013 (short laugh) someday they\u2019re going to go too far, and the shit is going to hit the fan, and there\u2019ll be nuclear war that will melt the cities of USA to a fervent heat.<\/p>\n

Congress now has voted down Carter\u2019s proposals to guarantee people the right of hospital care. Congress voted down\u2013 instead passed a watered-down version, saying\u2013 asking hospitals to voluntarily \u2013 that\u2019s like\u2013 asking like a fox to voluntarily give up a rabbit \u2013 that hospitals are being asked to voluntarily control the rates. Even the Health and Education Cabinet head in USA, [Joseph] Califano, sa\u2013 called it an sham and a fro\u2013 an affront to the American people. They will be still be unable\u2013 over half the American population will be unable to go to a hospital to get good care in their hour of need, said the Health and Education and Welfare Department of the US government.<\/p>\n

State Department opposes Congress\u2019 resolution, headed by Senator [Jesse] Helms, to put a ban against trade\u2013 to lift the ban, rather\u2013 against trade with Rhodesia, which the Uncle Tom Bishop Muzorewa is apparently about to achieve by visiting all the Senators on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. But the State Department said this will absolutely discredit the USA in the eyes of the off\u2013 Organization for African Unity, and all the African nations, whether they\u2019re capitalist or socialist, will have no respect for USA, and not trust her again, if she goes along with Senator Helms\u2019 proposal to lift the ban of military hardware going into the fascist regime of Ian Smith in Rhodesia.<\/p>\n

Being that we talked about Jamaica and its pro-China turn, Prime Minister Manley, Norman [Michael] Manley, socialist, is going to be going to China for an extensive visit and establishment of trade agreements.Perhaps China and all nations look after their own interests, are taking the advantage that US is quite pre-occupied with Africa, to move in and make footholds in the Caribbean. She established firm trade agreements with Trinidad, as you\u2019ve been hearing in the last few days of news.<\/p>\n

Where is Jamaica? It\u2019s an island in the central Caribbean, 500 miles south of Miami, Florida, 90 miles south of Cuba. It tried very hard to go pro-Cuban, and had many Cuban educators and doctors in Jamaica, but there\u2019s been a great deal of resistance, because the one thing that Guyana has an advantage, under Prime Minister Burnham, they nationalized 90 percent of their means of production and distribution, all their major factories, but Jamaica never got that done.<\/p>\n

How was it created? Part of an ancient mountain chain. Original settlers were the Arawak \u2013 A-r-a-w-a-k \u2013 Indians. Later completely massacred by the Spanish, the whites who came to the island, searching for gold, not long after it was discovered by Columbus, Christopher Columbus that we were always told to love by the whitewashing, brainwashing of USA\u2019s schools, press, and all of the representatives of its filthy government. The Spanish were driven out by the British, a whole\u2013 ma\u2013 Imagine, a whole people were wiped out, completely<\/em> slaughtered, all of the inhabitants, the original Arawak Indians, the original ha\u2013 inhabitants of Jamaica were completely<\/em> massacred, slaughtered. Genocide has always been the role of the white man, the Christian, the oppressor. The Spanish were driven out by the British, the white British, in 1655, after a series of battles in the mid-seventeenth century. So\u2013 When you say seventeenth century, you mean the 1600s.<\/p>\n

What is the size of Jamaica? Only 4,244 square miles. You can see how much larger Guyana is. Guyana is twenty times larger than Jamaica, with much less population.<\/p>\n

What is the population, in that small area, 20 miles\u2013 40 times, rather\u2013 20 times smaller than Guyana? Is over two million, and in this beautiful country, that has all fertile soil, there\u2019s less than one million. Only 800,000. Of the two million in Jamaica, 76.8 percent are African, 14.6 percent are mulatto \u2013 white and black, Afro-European mixture \u2013 only eight-tenths of one percent are white, mostly European, six-tenths of one percent are Chinese. Other races, 7.2 percent. Nineteen point eight percent belong to Anglican Church \u2013 the Episcopalian or the Church of England \u2013 19 percent are Baptist, 11.9 percent are that ridiculous racist Pentecostal Church of God out of Cleveland, Tennesee, 7.2 percent are Roman Catholic, 6.7 percent are Methodist, 5.1 percent are Presbyterian, 17 percent \u2013 socialists \u2013 believe in no religion at all, or God. And there\u2019s 13.3 percent that belong to an ancient religion, the name of which slips my mind, animism, that goes back to African roots and its whole move\u2013 its whole purpose is a back-to-Africa concept. It\u2019s out of the great doctrines of Marcus Garvey. He was of course deposed [deported] to Jamaica and had to spend his last days there, because the ruling class circles of USA, white circles, came down on him with smears in their newspapers and finally arrested him, charged him with crimes, convicted him in kangaroo courts, and made him live out the remaining days of his life in Jamaica, separated from his family.<\/p>\n

Who rules? The island operates under a British-type parliamentary system with a two-chamber legislature. There are 60 elected members in the House and 21 members in the Senate, 13 of whom are appointed by the Governor-General on the advice of the prime minister, while the remaining eight are appointed on the advice of the leaders of the opposition.<\/p>\n

But, gently, who really rules in Jamaica, that makes the socialist government of Jamaica and Prime Minister Manley in great danger. The major aluminum producers really rule, who own and operate Jamaica\u2019s rich bauxite mines. Here, the bauxite mines are owned by the government, the people. But these rich owners of the industries there, including Alcan \u2013 A-l-c-a-n \u2013 Kaiser Aluminum, Alcoa, Reynolds, Revere \u2013 R-e-v-e-r-e \u2013 and Anaconda \u2013 A-n-a-c-o-n-d-a. Also, the United Brands Company, white capitalist, which although it no longer directly owns Jamaica banana plantation, buys in quantity from the island\u2019s growers, thus controlling prices and production. So even though it has a socialist government, its likelihood of succeeding is about that of Chile, because the land, the major means of production, the bauxite mines, the means of distribution, are owned by the multi-nationalist capitals\u2013 capitalists, the monopoly capitalists in Washington, D.C., coming out of USA and Britain, her lackey.<\/p>\n

Jamaica\u2019s economy is in great trouble. Tourism has decreased, because of a number of people in the back-to-Africa movement who take (short laugh) violent stands every now and then against white tourists, and prices for many food exports have stayed relatively low, while the prices for imported manufactured goods, oil, and foodstuffs, have soared way out of control. Again, Guyana has had a (unintelligible word) major protecting themselves that way, under the wisdom of the Prime Minister, Burnham. He has controlled imports. Certain things don\u2019t come here. We have to produce them, so that the dollar flow of Guyanese money wealth does not flow out.<\/p>\n

With more than 90 percent of the population of African or mixed, white-black descent, the social divisions tend to follow economic rather than color lines, although some status attaches to being lighter than average in skin color. Prime Minister Manley is a very light black, for instance. The dual standards that exist in wages, public services, work facilities, personal relationships, and criminal justice, are leveled mainly at the poorer sectors. The middle class is small, and the vast bulk of the population is poor. There is a minimum of 30 percent unemployment, due to the manipulations of the big multinational monopoly capitalists. There is vast urban poverty, and the cities are ringed with sum\u2013 with slums, scuffling\u2013 It\u2019s called scuffing, local term. S-c-u-f-f-l-i-n-g. Scuffling, local term in Jamaica for scrounging, a living is an accepted way of life among the poor, who rely on their extreme\u2013 or extensive family connections to get by. There\u2019s a strong sense of family in Jamaica. The rural power\u2013 poor frequently have a little plot of land, possibly shared with another family or relations, which may provide a bare subsistence living or a small income.<\/p>\n

The Rastafarian sect \u2013 that\u2019s the sect I was speaking about \u2013 is a uniquely Janamaican [Jamaican] group of black nationalists. They are over 13, nearly 14 percent of the population, who desire a return to Africa, and who refuse to involve themselves with Jamaican society. They will not beg, preferring to be self-employed or unemployed, rather than take charity from Jamaicans. They never cut their hair, but twist it into long banks [dreadlocks]. They have believed in the divinity of black leadership. For instance, they regarded Haile Selassie \u2013 strange twist as it is, because the Rastafarians are socialist in much of their concept \u2013 but they considered Hal\u2013 Haile Selassie, who was deposed in Ethiopia by the socialists, to be a form of divinity, from whom\u2013 to\u2013 whose title, Rastafari\u2013 Taa\u2013 T-a-f-r-a-i \u2013 comes their name. Many smoke ganga, mari\u2013 marijuana, for religious purposes. Marijuana is Jamaica\u2019s third largest export (small laugh) after bauxite and bananas, even though it\u2019s illegal. The capitalists deal in anything. Plots of it are cultivated in the mountains by whole villages, but it also grows wild all over the island. And a beautiful climate that island is, but its misery and slums. You\u2019d know how beautiful Guyanese cities are, if you saw the slums of Jamaica. Cutbacks in Mexican exports have increased Jamaica\u2019s production of marijuana.<\/p>\n

Thus ends the reading and commentary of the news for today. Know Jamaica, it\u2019s coming into the news. I thought I would give you something of Japan, but it is possible that you\u2019ve had enough probably. It\u2019s about uh, 35 minutes of news, so we\u2019ll leave that for today. I like to bring things in to account when you can (sighs) relate to them in the news.<\/p>\n

I think I will go ahead, for some of it might be interested in Japan, because there the Red Army, the militant form of socialists, have an upper hand today, as they block the international airports, and are willing to put their lives on the line. You know where Japan is located, of course. Another word for it is Nippon, N-i-p-p-o-n, or Nihon, N-i-h-o-n. Is an island chain of about 500 islands that forms an arc along the coast of east Asia. The southern end of Japan is 125 miles from the southern tip of Korea. Japan\u2019s northern most island is less than 30 miles south of the island of Sakhalin \u2013 S-a-k-h-a-l-i-n \u2013 now a part of the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n

How created. Official legends of imperial Japan claim that Jimmu \u2013 J-i-m-m-u \u2013 Tenno \u2013 T-e-n-n-o \u2013 a descendant of the sun goddess, established the Japanese nation in 660 years before Christ. Nevertheless, his supposed descendants, members of the house of Yamato \u2013 Y-a-m-a-t-o \u2013 unified the islands at about 200 years after the death of Jesus. The current emperor, Hirohito \u2013 H-i-r-o-h-i-t-o \u2013 descends directly from that dynasty, and they believe that Emperor Hirohito was the Sun God until World War II, and that was required that he be deposed as a person of worship, but all Japanese worshipped him. They\u2019d been very prejudiced, by the way, against the Koreans in the past. They\u2019re an Asiatic people that consider themselves better than other Asiastics. In 1192, a shotgun [shogun] military governor seized power from the Yamato dynasty. By the way I might say the Red Army though includes Koreans, Japanese and Chinese. They are not prejudiced. Well, as I said, 1192, a shotgun military governor seized power from the Yamato dynasty, establishing a feudal system which lasted for nearly 700 years. Japan was able to avoid conquest by Mongol \u2013 M-o-n-g-o-l \u2013 emperor Ku\u2013 Kublai Khan \u2013 K-u-b-l-a-i, capital K-h-a-n \u2013 as you know, who swept all Asia and Europe in the thirteenth century. When a typhoon destroyed his armada, Japan was able to avoid conquest, or Japan too would have fell under Khan, the great Chinese Mongol who swept his civilization all over Europe by force. In 1542, the first European traders, who were Portuguese, landed in Japan. To prevent European domination in 1637, the Tokugawa \u2013 T-o-k-u-g-a-w-a \u2013 shogunate \u2013 s-h-o-g-u-n-a-t-e \u2013 barred trade and contact with the outside world. That\u2019s really the only thing that ever saved the Japanese, their pride and their good image of themselves from be\u2013 ever being ever a real tool of the white imperialists. But the long isolated regime of the Tokugawas could not withstand the European onslaught, and exposure to modern civilization stimulated a social revolution in Japan. In 1867 through 1867\u2013 uh, \u201968, Mutsohito \u2013 M-u-t-s-o-h-i-t-o \u2013 a member of the house of Yamato, regained power as emperor, and assumed the name of Meigi \u2013 M-e-i-g-i \u2013 meaning, enlightened government. In 1871, he abolished Japan\u2019s feudal system. In 1889, he and his supporters created a modern constitutional government. The early rule of the Meigi, known as the Meigi Restoration, marked the birth of the modern Japanese nation. In 1894 and 1895, Japan defeated China in the Sino-Japanese war, annexing Formosa, now Taiwan, the Pescadores \u2013 P-e-s-c-a-d-o-r-e-s \u2013 Islands and the Liaotung \u2013 L-i-a-o-t-u-n-g \u2013 Peninsula in southern Manchuria, which is now Korea. In 1904 and 1905, Japan defeated Russia, the great nation of Russia \u2013 that was of course before Russia became communist \u2013 but that small island chain defeated Russia in the Russo\u2013 Russo- Japanese war, stimulating a near revolution in tsarist Russia and winning Teddy Roosevelt the Nobel Peace Prize. Japan annexed half the island of Sakhalin \u2013 S-a-k-h-a-l-i-n \u2013 on its northern border which has now been taken back by the Soviet Union, and won control over Russian concessions in China. In 1910, Japan annexed Korea, and in 1931, it seized Manchuria from China, establishing the puppet state of Manchukuo \u2013 by the way, Manchuria and Korea are separate, Manchuria used to have part of Korea, but they are two separate areas. Manchuria is now absorbed into China \u2013 establishing, as I said, the puppet state of Manchukuo \u2013 M-a-n-c-h-u-k-u-o \u2013 in Manchuria. Throughout the 1930s, Japan waged an undeclared war against China, seizing much of the Chinese coast, but never winning control over the interior, due to Mao Tse-Tung, who was beginning his revolutionary communist forces. In 1940, Japan joined the Axis alliance of Adolf Hitler, Nazi Germany, and fascist Italy\u2019s Benito Mussolini. While Germany occupied France, Japan moved into French Indochina\u2013 Indochina, Southeast Asia. At its peak, the Japanese empire included the Philippines, the Dutch East Indies, Indochina, Malaya, Burma, Thailand as a collaborator \u2013 (Pause) Thailand was a collaborator \u2013 and a number of Pacific islands. In 1944, the USA, allied with England, Australia, and indigenous Asian liberation movements, began to drive the Japanese back. As a result of losing World War II, Japan lost all of its recently-acquired possessions, and kept only the home islands. (Pause)<\/p>\n

What is the size of all those islands? 143,818 square miles, barely one-and-a-half times larger than Guyana. How many people are crowded on them? A hundred and twelve, 113 times of that Guyana. There\u2019s 112 million people on that small number of islands. Of that, Japanese are 99.4 percent, Korean are less than a half percent, Chinese Ainu \u2013 A-i-n-u \u2013 and others are only one percent. Over 80 percent of the people of Japan are Buddhist, B-u-d-d-h-i-s-t. Over 80 percent are also Shintoist, a kind of a mixture of the\u2013 of the two \u2013 S-h-i-n-t-o-i–<\/strong>s-t \u2013 and most are both. Less than one percent are Christian. In spite of all the Western attempts after World War II, Christianity did not take hold. (Pause) The most Christian city was b\u2013 blown up in the atomic war. Nagasaki. So Christianity was discredited after World War II, and lost even more of its candidates.<\/p>\n

Who rules?<\/p>\n

Yes, American atomic bombs, [Harry S] Truman bombed the Christian city. That\u2019s how little they won\u2013 the white Christians care about their Asian Christian brothers and sisters.<\/p>\n

Who really rules? Japan is a constitutional monarchy \u2013 we\u2019re better than half done \u2013 headed by Emperor Hirohito since 1926. Hirohito renounced his divinity by mandate to the US conquerors following World War II. Under the supervision of American occupation forces, the Japanese adopted their current constitution in 1947. Japan has a bicameral parliamentary form of government. The House of Representatives, the 491-member lower house of the Diet \u2013 D-i-e-t \u2013 has the power to overrule the 252-member House of Councillors.<\/p>\n

Who really rules? Since it was formed from smaller parties in the mid-50s, the Liberal Democratic Party, LDP, has governed Japan. Changes of government have been the result of disputes within the party. Despite its name, the LDP is basically conservative, horribly monopoly capitalistic, and is the political voice of Japanese big business. Big monopoly businessmen openly dominate the government through the party and through a network of advisory boards from the lowest bureaucratic level to the top of the cabinet. And those big monopoly capitalists of Japan, as [Karl] Marx has predicted, are in contradiction with the white capitalists in USA and Europe, and those contradictions of capitalist fighting capitalist as it was an\u2013 indicated \u2013 World War II was capitalist fighting capitalist. They set up Hitler to kill off the communists in the Soviet Union, and it took the Soviet Union to wipe out Hitler\u2019s capitalism, his high capitalism that went into fascism. And now we\u2019re having a subtler form of war, trade war, between the capitalists of Europe, Asia and USA. The business community itself is dominated by Zaikai \u2013 Z-a-a\u2013 Z-a-i-k-a-i \u2013 a finan\u2013 financial capitalist elite that dominates both business and politics. The Zaikai work through the elite Sanken \u2013 S-a-n-k-e-n \u2013 Industrial Problem Study Council, and the broader Keidanren \u2013 T\u2013 K-e-i-d-a-n-r-e-n \u2013 Federation of Economic Organizations. The prime minister of the Zaikai is Kazutaka \u2013 K-a-z-u-t-a-k-a \u2013 Kikawada \u2013 K-i-k-a-w-a-d-a \u2013 the chairman of Sanken, and the Japanese Committee for Economic Development and the president of Tokyo Electrical Power, the world\u2019s largest power company.<\/p>\n

The Japanese tradition of loyalty goes beyond nation, emperor and family. It also includes employers. Japanese corporations maintain a paternal system of industrial relations. They provide (Pause) company dormitories for unmarried employees, and sometimes they provide housing projects for families. Workers at many companies sing company hymns in unison. They have a sense of capitalistic pride. Capitalists are clever. Grow Matsushita \u2013 M-a-t-s-u-s-h-i-t-a \u2013 grow, grow, grow, before beginning work each day. They sing songs of praise to the large Japanese corporations.<\/p>\n

Women in Japanese culture have been traditionally subservient to men. Before World War II, women had no property rights. Most married Japanese women still call their husbands Shujin\u2013 S-h-u-j-i\u2013 j-i-n \u2013 that is, master, and young girls still attend bridal schools to learn wifely skills. Though traditionally Japanese marriages have been arranged by families, love matches now make up 60 per\u2013 63 percent of all marriages, as things are changing, as we obviously see from the Red B\u2013 Red Army in Japan, which has been felt\u2013 It\u2019s offered some of its uh, troops to ai\u2013 aid the Palestine Liberation Front. They\u2019re everywhere. The Japanese army is very strong, the radical Red uh, Army is very strong \u2013 Red Guard \u2013 in China. I mean, in Japan.<\/p>\n

In 1945, the Soviet Union, having defeated Nazi Germany, prepared to enter the Pacific War. Before the Soviets could commit many troops to the Asian theater, the USA had dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, destroying those cities and hastening Japanese surrender. Admittedly, Washington had dropped the atomic bombs that killed a third of a million people, just to keep the Soviets from getting in with their forces and humanely liberating Japan. That\u2019s another admission of the horror of US capitalism. The atomic bombs essentially kept the Soviets out of Japan and established American capitalistic postwar militor\u2013 military superiority over the Soviet Union in that area. American troops occupied Japan following the war, not returning sovereignty until 1952. The peace treaty which established Japanese sovereignty did not call for the removal of American troops, however. Instead, the two governments negotiated a mutual security pact, known as AMPO \u2013 A-M-P-O \u2013 providing for US bases in Japan. So, Japan militarily in some respects is an extension of USA. (Struggles for words in next sentence) But instead of just asking if Japan has certainly gone its own capitalist road. Despite anti-AMPO demonstrations, the two governments renewed the treaty in 1960, and since 1970, they have agreed to let the 1960 treaty remain in force, though it\u2019s protested all<\/em> the time by Red Army and other socialist and communist elements. Under the terms of AMPO, the USA has had as many as 186,000 troops stationed on Japanese soil in 1953, at the conclusion of the Korean War. Today the USA has only 18,000 troops in Japan, not including however a large concentration of US armed forces on Okinawa \u2013 O-k-i-n-a-w-a.<\/p>\n

Rapid industrial development in Japan\u2019s small area has brought severe environmental problems, including air and water pollution, urban congestion, and housing shortages. They at times in Tokyo\u2013 people have to wear gas masks. That\u2019s how bad it is. Unlike other nations, Japan\u2019s environmental movement has been led by the poor. When, in the late 1950s, several people died from eating mercury-polluted fish by capitalist fish industry, 1500 fisherman invaded the polluting factory. Four people have led fights to halt industrial expansion. Even though Japan is just out of the monarchal, feudalistic stage, they have more [of] the working class willingness to fight the capitalist than you see in USA, at\u2013 there\u2019s just no comparison. Poor people have led many fights to halt industrial expansion, and popular movements have opposed the use of nuclear energy. The Japanese at least remember Hiroshim\u2013 Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They have not forgot those two cities that were bombed to hell and destroyed, destroyed utterly by the dreaded, dreaded US imperialists.<\/p>\n

The last point of news. The Luckhoo, our lawyer, Sir Lionel Luckhoo, who\u2019s never lost a murder case, he\u2019s our (unintelligible word) representative, our legal counsel, our lawyer, on matters of custody when people try to come in and take people back from here, he\u2019s heading an\u2013 an inquiry commission for the government into sabotage and waste and misuse of public companies, such as the electrical company. He found that the electric plant damage\u2013 It\u2019s been written off as not due to sabotage, but due to carelessness of the operator, though there\u2019s strong suspicion that sabotage from the PPP had caused the main damage in the electrical power plant, that uh\u2013 exposure that occurred months ago. It\u2019s even thought that CIA\u2013 (unintelligible word) that CIA may have funded PPP elements to do it. But it has been now decided that it was carelessness of the operator. But there was a similar damage, done uh, just exactly the same way a few years before. 250,000 dollars\u2019 worth of damage was due to negligence. Low level of oil allowed in the engine at the time. In 1972, the exact same situation occurred, it was considered sabotage then.<\/p>\n

Albion magistrate, man charged with setting fires to a factory, has been given a\u2013 time off uh, and time to res\u2013 make restitution. Guyana has a very humane approach to most people before its courts. School teacher in the adult education division charged with 15 counts of fraud, five counts each of forgery, collected from Guyana Cooperative Bank. On one occasion alone, a fraudulent check, payment of 2500 dollars, only received a fine by the court of 3000 dollars. The judge said, consider yourself lucky, because it would be difficult to send you to jail, because the defendant is pregnant, said the judge. He did not want to cause misery to an unborn child. It\u2019s a humanitarian consciousness in Guyana that I can\u2019t help but admire. You don\u2019t see that kind of consciousness in USA. They send mothers to jail, and let the child be stigmatized. They\u2019ve sent mothers to the electric chair. That\u2019s<\/em> been done.<\/p>\n

So that give you a little understanding of the Guyanese culture.<\/p>\n

In the end of the news, sorry went so long, but some may be more interested in Japan because of the Red Army, some may have more interest in Jamaica, but get all<\/em> of it down, so you\u2019ll be the most knowledgeable people on earth, and that will impress Guyana and help us in fitting in to this economy, culture, and so forth.<\/p>\n

Much love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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