Planet Tokyo: 16th September

Planet Tokyo It seems I've got a magic body clock that snaps back to normal by itself.  For the first time in ages it's come good.  It's semi-normal.  Keep telling myself I must get outside and do 'things', but I don't have a desire to.  I like it here looking at things, a heap more than the outdoors ... or everyday reality.  LOL Instead of doing something practical, like I was thinking I ought to maybe do for a change, I jumped straight online and looked at some news material of interest to me.  But I can only handle small doses of what's going on in Europe and the media propaganda that's waged against the European public. Snuck in a couple of cigarettes indoors with my (now) cold coffee, with window open and fan running, in hope that I can cover my 'evil doing' tracks.  LOL Trawled Google images for a while, entertaining myself as the wax pot has been plugged in for heating.  Too lazy to bother plucking my untidy eyebrows that were sort of half done yesterday ... so I'm resorting to waxing.  Hoping I don't clumsily wax off my eyelashes this time around, like I did last time. At the rate I'm going, about the only practical thing I'll get done is eyebrow waxing. Checked out what day it was. On this day: BLACK WEDNESDAY 1992 – Black Wednesday British pound forced out of European Exchange Rate Mechanism by currency speculators forced to devalue against German mark. months in advance of Black Wednesday George Soros, currency market speculator / Quantum Fund built up a huge short position in pounds sterling aim: immense profit if the pound fell below the lower band of the ERM. George Soros made over £1 billion in profit by short selling sterling. £3.3 billion - loss to British taxpayers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wednesday SABRA & SHATILA MASSACRE (LEBANON) 1982 – Lebanon War: The Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon refugee camp Killed:  762 to 3,500 civilians, mostly Palestinians and Lebanese Shiites by militia associated with:  Kataeb Party Kataeb Party (Lebanese Phalanges Party) Christian Democratic political party in Lebanon ideology:  primacy of preserving the Lebanese nation, but with a 'Phoenician' identity versus Arab, Muslim anticommunist and anti-Palestinian considers Lebanese sometimes a Phoenician and sometimes a Syriac people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kataeb_Party Kataeb Party / Phalanges allies to the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) ordered by the IDF to clear out Sabra and Shatila from Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) fighters part of the IDF manoeuvring into West Beirut IDF received reports of some of the Phalanges atrocities in Sabra and Shatila but failed to stop them massacre presented as retaliation for assassination of newly elected Lebanese president Bachir Gemayel, leader of the Lebanese Kataeb Party wrongly assumed Palestinian militants had carried out the assassination direct perpetrators of the killings reportedly the "Young Men" / gang recruited by Elie Hobeika, a prominent figure in the Phalanges Elie Hobeika, Lebanese Forces intelligence chief + liaison officer with Mossad recruits:  men who expelled from the Lebanese Forces for insubordination or criminal activities killings believed to have been on Hobeika orders Hobeika family murdered by Palestinian militia & Lebanese allies:  Damour massacre 1976 Damour massacre, response to: 1976 Karantina massacre of Palestinians and Lebanese Muslims by Christian militants Hobeika later elected to parliament 1986 coup against Hobeika Hobeika killed in car-bomb detonated near home, 2002 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabra_and_Shatila_massacre SABRA & SHATILA MASSACRE (LEBANON) Up to 2,000 Palestinians killed on Sept. 16-17, 1982 Israeli military allowed a Christian militia to attack the camp then-Defence Minister Ariel Sharon was forced to resign after special Israeli investigative panel declared him to be "personally responsible" for the massacre NOAM CHOMSKY: Lebanese Christian terrorist force, allied with Israel. The soldiers watched as they illuminated it. They helped them enter. They watched for several days while they murdered, not 45 people, but somewhere—Israel claims 800, other analyses go up to several thousand. That’s the Sabra-Shatila massacre. The idea that Sharon had indirect—the tsar, incidentally, was bitterly condemned internationally for direct responsibility. That’s, in fact, one of the events that set off the huge flow of refugees from Eastern Europe, including my father, among others. But—so this was a kind of a replica, except far more brutal and vicious. And Sharon escaped more than a mild censure. It’s true that he was removed as defense minister, but it wasn’t long before he came back. And that’s one of a number of extremely shocking incidents in his career. http://www.democracynow.org/2014/1/13/noam_chomsky_sabra_shatila_massacre_that SABRA & SHATILA MASSACRE (LEBANON) Kahan commission was established by the Israeli government to investigate and found out that Israeli military personnel were involved and were aware that a massacre was in progress without taking steps to put a stop to it. And so it regarded Israel to be indirectly responsible for the massacre and held Ariel Sharon responsible for disregarding the act of massive bloodshed and not taking preventive measures. However, this did not cause any lasting damage to his image as Sharon was elected the Prime Minister of Israel in 2001. http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_1967to1991_sabra_shatila.php SABRA & SHATILA MASSACRE (LEBANON) Ariel Sharon and the Horrors of the Sabra and Shatilla Massacre http://www.globalresearch.ca/ariel-sharon-and-the-horrors-of-the-sabra-and-shatilla-massacre/5364681 LINK Post / Comment re Article Whatever I've read about Soros, Black Wednesday and short selling, I've already forgotten.  All I know is he made a heap of money speculating on currency, but I can't remember the ins and outs of it. The Sabra and Shatilla Massacre I've read a little about before, but I've only got a sketchy idea of what happened.  Might read that Global Research article carefully.  I find their articles very good.  The Democracy Now article also looks interesting, but not sure I'm up for all that reading just now.  Brain is in slow-function mode.  In other news on this day: Aussie TV first transmitted from Sydney TV station in 1956. F.B.I.  / B.O.I. WALL STREET BOMBING 1920 1920 – The Wall Street bombing: Killed more than: 1910 bombing of the Los Angeles Times then the deadliest act of terrorism on US soil bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building New York City killing 38 (injuring 400) 45 kg dynamite + 230 kg cast iron sash weights, timer-set detonation trading at New York Stock Exchange suspended to prevent panic selling Justice Dept. forerunner of FBI, the BOI (Bureau of Investigation) - investigates investigations focus on: Bolsheviks, anarchists, communists, or militant socialists The Washington Post refers to bombing as an "act of war" stimulated renewed efforts by police and federal investigators to surveil activities and movements of foreign radicals led to an expanded role for the U.S. Justice Department's Bureau of Investigation including the General Intelligence Division of the BOI headed by J. Edgar Hoover looks as though there is only speculation as to who committed the Wall Street bombing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_bombing Wonder if the 1920 Wall Street bombing was an American capitalist agent insider job, aimed at expanding the surveillance and political police control of ruling American capitalists? I'm never going to take all of this in.  After I read the Global Research article, I think I'll need a break and some playing with images, for relief. LOL

Filthy American Capitalists Holding Journalist Stitched Up by FBI Prisoner

CORRUPT AMERICAN CAPITALIST STATE FRAMES JOURNALIST Filthy American Capitalists Holding Journalist Stitched Up by FBI Prisoner https://wikileaks.org/Assange-statement-on-the.html Assange: "The son of a bitch is me" - statement on the sentencing hearing of US journalist Barrett Brown Wednesday December 17, 15:00 GMT 17 December 2014     “How corrupt can we be? Let us take Barrett Brown campaigning against Fox’s calls to assassinate Julian Assange, and flip that to say he’s campaigning for the assassination of FBI agents and use that to put him away for a decade. And then, if he tries to talk about this abuse in order to re-establish the true context, we’ll gag him!” Nothing so well describes the surreal universe that has enveloped the United States as yesterday’s sentencing hearing of Barrett Brown. Barrett has been jailed without trial for over two years now. He faces eight and a half more years. His next sentencing hearing is due in January 2015. The situation also involves me personally and the work of WikiLeaks. Barrett Brown’s Hunter S Thompson style, his public lampooning of the US security state and his defence of WikiLeaks and Anonymous did not win him friends in the US administration and soon enough the FBI was looking for any excuse to take him down. The case against Barrett Brown can be broken down into two parts. Two charges against him occur as a direct result of his journalistic work on our Stratfor materials (anonymizing his sources and discussing, with others, the material they provided to him). These charges are at odds with national and international protections for the press and freedom of expression. The third charge concerns his speech acts after the FBI threatened to charge his mother unless he handed over his source material. There are no other charges. The FBI showed up at his mother’s home on March 6, 2012. His mother hid Barrett’s journalistic notebooks among her pots and pans; an action any son could be proud of. Barrett didn’t co-operate and so the FBI made good on its threat. His mother was charged, convicted and eventually placed on six months probation—for obstructing the course of justice. “My better judgement was clouded by my maternal instinct” she wryly told the judge. Barrett reacted to this injustice inflicted on his mother like any son would. He became ill-tempered. But, being an American from generation Y, his anger was expressed on social media. Barrett, a journalist as well as a son, said he was going to “ruin” the FBI officer concerned by investigating his connections—including those of his adult children. Not a complete fool, he stated, in the same sentence, that this was not a threat of violence, but rather the equalisation of a double standard: doing what the Bank of America did against WikiLeaks when it asked US intelligence contractor Aaron Barr to map out WikiLeaks’ relationships, including, specifically, with the journalist Glenn Greenwald. Barrett’s angry comments to his friends was at odds with the times. Twitter is a police interview that never ends. Facebook has all your friends wearing a wire. Youtube has you in the dock talking to the judge. Every social media user creates a vast library of statements that may be taken out of context by vengeful or ambitious officials. Users should be displayed their Miranda rights each time they log on. The most serious claim against Barrett Brown is that six months after the March 6, 2012 FBI raid on his mother’s address he tweeted “illegally shoot the son of a bitch”. It sounds bad. It is a clear incitement to murder. The FBI claim that the “son of a bitch” Barrett was referring to was one of their agents. That is false. The “son of a bitch” is me—and the person who called for my assassination was not Barrett Brown. Barrett’s full retweet was “dead men can’t leak stuff… illegally shoot the son of a bitch”. The quote is from Fox news host Bob Beckel, who called for my assassination—an injustice that Barrett was trying to draw attention to. Here is the video proof. The FBI took no action against Bob Beckel or the numerous other senior figures calling for my assassination. A bill was put before Congress to declare WikiLeaks staff “enemy combatants” in order to make our assassination legal. It did not pass, but the FBI still refused to act. Two days after Barrett retweeted the Bob Beckel statement, the FBI arrested not Bob Beckel, but Barrett Brown. He has been in jail ever since. The Barrett Brown case is such an obvious injustice that a public campaign by his lawyers to place the Beckel statement back into its proper context would be an obvious step for his defence team. Indeed, after being publicly monstered by the FBI’s decontextualisation effort, Barrett Brown and his lawyers fought to place the quote back into its proper context. As a result he and his legal team were gagged. “Brown has shown his intent to continue to manipulate the public through press and social media comments,” the government claimed to the court on August 8, 2013. Public commentary “made by or condoned by the defense will ‘undermine a fair trial.’” As a result, the court ruled it was necessary“ to restrain Counsel and Defendant from making prejudicial statements to the press and media.” How fine, how noble, how egalitarian. Fair trial rights for the government as well as the defence! Neither the defence nor the government can state their case to the public while Barrett Brown rots in jail awaiting his sentence—except to repeat the formal charges made by the government. Neither the greatest King nor the most destitute beggar may sleep in a box on the street. Fair’s fair! https://wikileaks.org/Assange-statement-on-the.html COMMENT Read about this before but the ins and outs of it didn't sink in properly ... and I've sort of forgotten Barrett Brown in the meantime.  Oops, sorry, Barrett Brown.   Maybe I'm going senile, but I thought I'd read he was coming out soon.  Nope, it doesn't look like it (and, yep, I'm losing my mind): In January 2015, Brown was sentenced to 63 months in prison. He was also ordered to pay $890,250 in fines and restitution.  [wikipedia] This is unbelievable.  A journalist has been stitched up by the FBI and slung in prison, and he is not permitted to defend himself.  The capitalist state political police have charged his mother, who was convicted ... AND they demand an obscene amount of money from Barrett Brown - which is extortion.    The capitalist government is criminal. The rule by American capitalist oligarchy is truly f*cked. Uh-oh, I might be f*cked as well.  I keep asking Putin to nuke the capitalists, on Blogger. The request appears fully justified, Comrade Putin.  Please nuke the corrupt filthy capitalists.    Support Barrett Brown https://freebarrettbrown.org/ PS ... I did see a release mentioned somewhere, which means I'm not losing the plot (but maybe I can't count) .... LOL Release date confirmed: 29th November 2016. Barrett Brown ought to move to Russia when he's out of the clutches of the American oligarchy's political detention. https://justice4assange.com/

Modern American History (Brief)

Modern American History (in Brief) ----------------/\/\/---------------- [all info from Wikipedia, unless otherwise marked] The New Yorker American magazine published by Condé Nast established 1925 by:  Jane Grant & husband Harold Ross (journalist) with backing of:  yeast heir Raoul Fleischmann ----------------/\/\/---------------- Peter F. Fleischmann former president & chairman of THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE died.  1993, age 71 served as officer of THE NEW YORKER for 32 years his father:  Raoul H. Fleischmann Jewish immigrant to US, from Austria founded Fleischmann yeast company the financial backer who co-founded TNY & its first president, chairman & publisher editorial independence (ie business vs. editorial functions) claimed 1985 - control of The New Yorker sold to:  Advance Publications (Samuel I Newhouse) http://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/18/obituaries/peter-fleischmann-71-who-led-the-new-yorker-into-the-1980-s.html " ... Raoul Fleischmann, "urbane, Jewish, rich", who happened to be bankrolling a new magazine, the New Yorker." https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/jan/28/featuresreviews.guardianreview9 ----------------/\/\/---------------- The New Yorker in addition to focus on cultural life of NYC, covers: topical material provides on pop culture publishes literary reviews covers politics and 'social issues' Harold Ross, US journalist-editor b. 1892 reportedly of Scots-Irish heritage due to collapse of price in silver:  family moved - Colorado to Utah as a high schooler, stringer for The Salt Lake Tribune at 13 dropped out of school & ran away to Denver worked for The Denver Post later returned to Utah:  job at Salt Lake Telegram, small daily at 25 years, had worked for 7 different newspapers Georgia:  covered trial of Leo Frank murder WWI:  enlisted engineers railway regiment France:  edited regimental journal & worked for Stars & Stripes edited every issue of The New Yorker from the first until his death (1925-1951) Jane Grant (wife), NYC journalist co-founder of:  The New Yorker with Harold Ross (husband) b. Joplin, Missouri raised:  Girard, Kansas NYC at 16 to pursing singing but joined staff to:  THE NEW YORK TIMES 'society department' close friends with critic:  Alexander Woollcott covered: 'women's issues' questioned public figures re status of women interviewed women working in traditional male professions wrote for the Times for 15 years WWI:  joined troopship to France with YMCA as singer/dancer joined American Red Cross entertained soldiers, Paris & camps Woollcott introduced her to 'Vicious Circle' members in France later 'Vicious Circle' became:  Algonquin Round Table married Harold Ross 1920 WWII, Jane Grant produced special overseas issue of The New Yorker for US armed forces WWII, Jane Grant wrote for several magazines Jane Grant  produced 'feminist' essays, discussing 'discriminatory' laws & practices active in feminist causes reactivated the Lucy Stone League, expanding purpose active in 'women's rights' into 1960s advocating Equal Rights Amendment 1921, Jane Grant co-ounded Lucy Stone League,  with Ruth Hale Ruth Hale, feminist, journalist, born Tennessee feature writer:  The New York Times, Vogue, Vanity Fair 1917, married Heywood Broun, journalist & founder of The Newspaper Guild Heywood Broun Brooklyn-born champion of underdog & writer on 'social issues' believed journalists could correct wrongs, esp. social ills 1930, Broun ran for Congress as a Socialist (lost) a member of:   Algonquin Round Table close friend of the Marx Brothers Ruth Hale 1921, took stand against US STATE DEPARTMENT demanding she be issued a passport as 'Ruth Hale' (not 'Mrs Heywood Broun') USG refused / married women were not given passports in maiden name eventually USG issued passport: 'Ruth Hale, aka Mrs Heywood Broun' Ruth Hale & her husband made a show then cancelling their trip to France 1921, first woman to be issued with a real estate deed in her own name for apartment house Upper West Side long-time friend of Newman Levy, writer & lawyer, NY District DA Newman Levy socialized with New York's literary elite appointed as president of the Lucy Stone League Rose Falls Bres to serve as legal counsel Bres became president of National Association of Women Lawyers Bres was Hale's lawyer during melodrama with State Dept. Heywood Broun indulged his wife Lucy Stone League: - Jane Grant, wife of Harold Ross, The New Yorker - Ruth Hale, wife of Heywood Broun - Rose Falls Bres, legal counsel - Beatrice Kaufman, wife of playwright George S. Kaufman Ruth Hale 1927, leading role in protest of execution of - anarchists - accused murderers:  Sacco & Vanzetti - 1920s & 1930s, wrote & worked as a theatrical press agent. - Ruth Hale leading figure in NY literary circles - associate of the Algonquin Round Table Algonquin Round Table New York intelligentsia initially gathered as 'The Vicious Circle' for lunch each day at:  Alogonquin Hotel 1919 to 1929 their 'witty' table talk was then disseminated by national US press as members had regular newspaper columns bringing Round Tablers widely into the public consciousness PRESS WAS ALWAYS BITCHY: Groucho Marx, brother of Round Table associate, Harpo Marx: "The price of admission is a serpent's tongue and a half-concealed stiletto." INTELLIGENTSIA WAS ALWAYS FULL OF CRAP:  Dorothy Parker: "The Round Table was just a lot of people telling jokes and telling each other how good they were." ----------------/\/\/---------------- But their cocktails sound OK ... The Algonquin     1 1/2 ounces Rye Whiskey     3/4 ounces Dry Vermouth     3/4 ounces pineapple juice Stir the rye, dry vermouth and pineapple juice together with ice. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass and add two to three drops of orange bitters. [source] ----------------/\/\/---------------- The Vicious Circle initial lunch proposed by theatrical press agent: John Peter Toohey (as joke) annoyed that Alexander Woollcott refused to promote a client lunch was staged as a welcome-back from WWI to Woollcott lunch was like a 'roast' & Woollcott was target of humour Woollcott enjoyed joke & being centre of attention prompted JOHN PETER TOOHEY to suggest daily Algonquin lunch first gatherings:  Pergola Room (later 'Oak Room') later moved to Rose Room with round table Group initially called selves 'The Board' & lunches were 'Board meetings' members of Round Table:  journalism crossed with entertainment ----------------/\/\/---------------- Stars & Stripes established 1861 during American Civil War in Bloomfield Missouri what data remains is associated with museum/library in Bloomfield but there is no connection between this Stars & Stripes publication & the one of same name today Current Stars and Stripes publication is authorized by Congress & US Department of Defence daily military news & info is distributed at U.S. military installations in Europe, Middle-east & East Asia only partially subsidized by the Department of Defence large portion of operating costs are obtained through: - sale of advertising - sale of subscriptions Stars & Stripes (unique among military publications) operates as a First Amendment newspaper is part of NEWLY FORMED DEFENCE MEDIA ACTIVITY ('DMA') other entities involved in today's Stars & Stripes include: the DOD News Channel Armed Forces Radio & Television Service ----------------/\/\/---------------- Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) amendment to US constitution to grant equal rights to women ORIGINALLY WRITTEN BY: ALICE PAUL (Quaker origins) & CRYSTAL EASTMAN Alice Paul - major role in adding protection to women in CIVIL RIGHTS ACT (1964) - prohibition on sex discrimination added by Virginia Democrat, Howard W. Smith - Equal Rights Amendment SPONSORED FOR TWENTY (20) YEARS by Howard W. Smith ----------------/\/\/---------------- THE RAPIST OF GERMAN INTERESTS (& THEREFORE OF EUROPEAN INTERESTS) ... IS A 'FEMINIST' - Howard W. Smith - b. Virginia 1883 - segregationist (ie white/black) - public schools & BETHEL MILITARY ACADEMY, VIRGINIA - law at University Virginia, Charlottesville - practised in ALEXANDRIA VIRGINIA - WWI, assistant general counsel to:  Federal Alien Property Custodian - Fed. Alien Property Custodian office in USG WWI & WWII - a custodian of ENEMY PROPERTY belonging to enemies of US - first appointment by Woodrow Wilson, WWI - seizure, administration, sometimes sale of enemy property in USA - governed by TRADING WITH THE ENEMY ACT - first appointee:  A. Mitchell Palmer, law & banking background - EMPLOYED HUNDREDS OF US GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS - by late 1918, managing almost 30,000 trusts with assets of HALF A BILLION DOLLARS 1918, Mitchell Palmer testifies at US Senate Overman Committee - that United States Brewers Association hearing - & REST OF OVERWHELMINGLY GERMAN LIQUOR INDUSTRY - were pro-German & had attempted to buy a newspaper to:     - 'control the government of State & Nation'     - were 'unpatriotic'     - had 'pro-German sympathies' AMERICAN CAPITALIST APPROPRIATION OF EUROPEAN ASSETS Mitchell Palmer:  campaigned successfully to have his powers to dispose of assets by sale TO:   counter Germany's long-term plan to 'conquer' world by industrial expansion post WWI * auctions rigged by withholding information from all participants * even after Germany WWI surrender, Palmer insisted on continuing his campaign to rid USA industry of German investment * resulted in, eg:  1919 major sales in the metals industry ----------------/\/\/---------------- No limits, eh? ... Oh, the Hypocrisy Mitchell Palmer: "The war power is of necessity an inherent power in every sovereign nation. It is the power of self-reservation and that power has no limits other than the extent of the emergency." ----------------/\/\/---------------- US CAPITALIST THIEVES USG also sold off assets of German Bayer chemical company by auction and stripped it of its US patent for Asprin WWII, 1942 Franklin D Roosevelt EO9095 establishes OFFICE OF THE ALIEN PROPERTY CUSTODIAN ('APC') as independent agency under direct presidential authority appointed:  LEO CROWLEY, former banker & chair of FED. DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORP APC amassed VAST PORTFOLIO OF ENEMY PROPERTY, incl: real estate business enterprises ships intellectual property (trademarks, copyrights, patents & incl. pending) As APC only abolished 1966, under Lyndon B. Johnson, JUST IMAGINE THE SIZE OF THE ASSETS THAT THE AMERICAN CAPITALISTS STOLE A. Mitchell Palmer US Attorney General 1919-1921 overseer of 'Palmer Raids':  Red Scare 1919-20 aligned with progressive wing of Democratic Party advocated lower tariffs, despite popularity of tariffs in home district & state principal author:  detailed tariff schedules Mitchell Palmer argued: tariffs profited business and had no benefit for workers *denounced by Republican as:  MOST RADICAL DEPARTURE IN DIRECTION OF FREE TRADE THAT HAS BEEN PROPOSED IN 70 YEARS Mitchell Palmer continued to lower tariffs in protected economic sectors (eg wool industry) contributed to:  Underwood Tariff Act of 1913 key role in holding Pennsylvania Democratic delegation together in voting for Woodrow Wilson offered offered Secretary of War position in Woodrow cabinet MITCHELL DECLINED:  CITING QUAKER BELIEFS & HERITAGE ----------------/\/\/---------------- Quakers ... the Ultimate American Cucks? Christian Cucks of Yesteryear -------------------- Quakers believed all people, including women, were equal before a non-existent deity IMMIGRATION ACT OF 1918 - expanded definition of aliens that could be deported ----------------/\/\/---------------- 'Red Scare'   = term re fear of & reaction against communist radicals in USA immediately after WWI:  strikes, race riots in over 30 cities - two sets of bombings 1919 - bombs x2 on Mitchell Palmer's home - linked to anarchists, associated with Luigi Galleani - miraculously both attacks on Mitchell Palmer failed - either anarchists are incompetent or this is bullsh*t - 1919 saw 36 dynamite-filled bombs mailed to leading figures - incl. justice officials, newspaper editors & businessmen, plus John D. Rockefeller - Mitchell Palmer recruited:   J. Edgar Hoover, law graduate, DOJ Enemy Alien Bureau - Michael Palmer report to USG re:  anarchist and Bolshevik threat to USG - over half report documented RADICALISM OF US BLACKS - black open defiance, advocated in response to racial violence & rioting Red Summer (1919) HUNDREDS OF DEATHS & CASUALTIES ACROSS USA - RACE RIOTS THREE DOZEN CITIES:  whites attacked blacks mostly blacks fought back - Chicago notable result of post WWI demobilisation & number of social tensions in era of labour unrest, where industrialists USED BLACKS AS STRIKEBREAKERS increasing resentment riots extensively documented in press US federal govt feared SOCIALIST & COMMUNIST influence on BLACK CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT following Bolshevik Revolution (Russia) US capitalist-serving government feared foreign anarchists, who had bombed homes & businesses of US oligarchy & govt leaders WWI mobilisation & cessation of immigration from Europe US industrial cities = SEVERE LABOUR SHORTAGES (north & midwest) NORTHERN MANUFACTURERS RECRUITED FROM SOUTH EXODUS ENSUED 1919 EST. 500,000 BLACKS EMIGRATED FROM SOUTHERN USA in first wave of GREAT MIGRATION that continued to 1940 blacks filled new positions in growing industries:     - eg. railroads plus jobs formerly held by whites blacks hired as strikebreakers in some cities, exp. strikes of 1917 white working-class resentment post WWI demobilisation & removal of price controls = resulted in UNEMPLOYMENT + INFLATION, increasing job competition 38 separate riots in widely scattered cities, in which whites attacked blacks - unlike earlier US race riots, 1919 first in which blacks in number rested white attacks - 1919, white mobs lynched at least 43 blacks     - mainly shot     - 16 hanged     - 08 burned at stake - Charleston, South Carolina:  martial law imposed - US Navy sailors (black) led race riot:  all killed - misc. black and white killed & injured - various deaths etc. listed 1919-20 - after Russian Revolution anti-Bolshevik sentiment in USA reportedly quickly replaced anti-German sentiment of war years - US govt officials - capitalist American press whipped up fear of overthrow of US government to create a Soviet-modelled regime - black advocacy of racial equality & labour rights & mob victim right to defend /  viewed with alarm Woodrow Wilson:   "the American Negro returning from abroad would be our greatest medium in conveying Bolshevism to America." Dr. George E. Haynes Negro Economics for the U.S. Department of Labor "The return of the Negro soldier to civil life is one of the most delicate and difficult questions confronting the Nation, north and south." black WWI veteran, Chicago, advocating that the demobilised US blacks require only instruction and leadership to fulfil their potential American Pogroms Dr. George Edmund Haynes 1919 report, published New York Times & other major press Haynes noted lynchings were a national problem Woodrow Wilson:  1889–1918 over 3,000 lynched (2,472 black) white men had been lynched in the North, as well lynchings connected to widespread riots of 1919 Connection between blacks and Bolshevism media dispersal: Wall Street Journal: "Race riots seem to have for their genesis a Bolshevist, a Negro, and a gun." USG provided the Times with evidence of Bolshevist propaganda appealing to America's black communities Times described newspapers, magazines, and "so-called 'negro betterment' organizations" as avenue for propaganda aimed at blacks re:  "doctrines of Lenin and Trotzky" Times cited a call for unionisation (article above): "Negroes must form cotton workers' unions. Southern white capitalists know that the Negroes can bring the white bourbon South to its knees."   New York Times, 1919 headline:  "Trouble Traced to Socialist Agitators" J Edgar Hoover was Chief of Radical Division in US Dept. of Justice {J EDGAR HOOVER founded the American political police:  Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) & was head of its precursor, Dept. of Justice, Bureau of Investigations} DOJ informs press that during Chicago riot:   IWW and Bolsheviks were "spreading propaganda to breed race hated" ----------------/\/\/---------------- IWW = Industrial Workers of the World - here INTERNATIONAL LABOUR UNION  HQ Chicago members:  known as 'Wobblies' ties to both SOCIALIST & ANARCHIST labour movements promotes ONE BIG UNION  contends all workers should be united together AS A CLASS to supplant capitalism 1924 schism, from which no full recovery [bet it was USG-engineered] IWW achieved many short-term goals, esp. US mid-west membership declined during US govt crackdown FBI agents filed reports that leftist views winning converts in black community J Edgar Hoover blamed July Washington, D.C., riots on "numerous assaults committed by Negroes upon white women." J Edgar Hoover accused socialists of feeding propaganda to black-owned magazines J Edgar Hoover authorized the hiring of black undercover agents to spy on black orgs & publications in Harlem COMMENT:  I'm going to guess that the American capitalist controlled political police probably WHIPPED UP tensions between whites & blacks, WHIPPED UP violence, infiltrated, probably actively 'radicalised' blacks themselves, & WHIPPED UP black unionism, planted materials etc, to then blame unionism on the INHERENT PROBLEMS OF (A) USA SOCIETY & (B) CAPITALISM:  on SOCIALISM, and thereby conveniently destroy chance of rise of socialism or socialist policy in America, so that the CAPITALIST can gorge on PROFITS off the backs working Americans, unchallenged in any significant way.  As in, create BIG DRAMA & then blame deaths, bombings etc on socialism .... but it was probably all false flags of the capitalists' US political police.  I don't know this, but I am guessing this would have happened.  LOL J Edgar Hoover headed, DOJ General Intelligence Division (GID) storehouse of info on radicals in USA had infiltrated many orgs 1919 & 1920 raids conducted - thousands arrested & interrogated publications & records seized GID officials told Mitchell Palmer radicals were planning to overthrow US govt on May Day 1920 with J Edgar Hoover's backing, Mitchell Palmer then warns the public to expect:  assassinations, bombings, general strikes said domestic US radicals in direct connection & unison with European counterparts police forces and militias mobilised in cities/states New York City 11,000-man police force worked for 32 hours straight Boston police mounted machine guns on vehicles & positioned them around Boston CIVIL RIGHTS ACT 1964 Fast-forward to 1964:  described as:  burning national issue was civil rights for blacks Liberals argued that 1964 was 'the Negro's hour' & said women should wait their turn, but National Woman's Party found a way to include gender protection into legislation ------------  info above from Wikipedia (unless otherwise marked), incl: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Hale_%28feminist%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heywood_Broun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Hale_%28feminist%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newman_Levy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algonquin_Round_Table https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Paul https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_W._Smith https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._Mitchell_Palmer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Alien_Property_Custodian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Summer_%281919%29 COMMENT Any challengers of American CAPITALIST power can expect:  merciless state force against challengers by US militarised police, on behalf of CAPITALIST OWNERS OF US GOVERNMENT. Just look at what they were capable of doing at the turn of last century. A. Mitchell Palmer sounds like a capitalist puppet of his day.  The American capitalist oligarchy and their suppression of the masses sound like what they'd point to as:   Czarist Russian oppression. This summary isn't complete.  There's annoying loose ends.  It's just what I looked at today.   But now I've been interrupted and my equilibrium and concentration has been disturbed, so this is it for a slice of modern America. Amazing I even got this far. Feeling really depressed today. *Having trouble with the word: 'Algonquin' Algonquin Canadian French, from Maliseet (indigenous Wabanaki Confederacy) elakómkwik, they are our relatives. Note, it is not:  "they are our diversity."

US Republicans & FBI Exploit Orlando Mass Shooting

US Republicans & FBI Exploit Orlando Mass Shooting http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-22/us-senate-likely-to-pass-fbi-spying-bill-after-orlando-shooting/7534988 US Senate likely to pass FBI spying bill after Orlando shooting 23/06/2016 The US Senate on is likely to pass a Republican-backed proposal to expand the Federal Bureau of Investigation's secretive surveillance powers after the mass shooting at an Orlando gay nightclub. Key points: Laws would broaden the phone and internet records available to the FBI without a warrant The bill has been criticised by privacy and civil liberty advocates The bill would allow for the permanent surveillance of "lone wolf" suspects The spying bill is the Republican response to the massacre after a push for gun-control measures sponsored by both major US parties failed earlier this week. The legislation would broaden the type of telephone and internet records the FBI could request from telecommunications companies without a warrant. The proposal met opposition from critics who said it threatened civil liberties and did little to improve national security. The bill, which the Obama administration has sought for years, "will allow the FBI to collect the dots so they can connect the dots, and that's been the biggest problem that they've had in identifying these homegrown, radicalised terrorists," Republican Senator John Cornyn said. The vote also represents a bi-partisan drift away from policy positions that favouring digital privacy, which had taken hold in the three years since former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden revealed the breadth of government surveillance programs. The post-Snowden moves included the most substantial reforms to the US intelligence community since the terror attacks of September 11 2001, and a refusal to heed the FBI's call for laws that would undermine encryption. Critics say proposed laws 'exploit' the Orlando shooting The legislation before the Senate, filed as an amendment to a criminal justice funding bill, would widen the FBI's authority to use so-called National Security Letters, which do not require a warrant and whose very existence is usually a secret. Such letters can currently compel a company to hand over a user's phone billing records, but under the Senate's change they could also demand time stamps of emails, the emails' senders and recipients, in addition to some information about the websites a person visits. How the shooting unfolded We've put together a timeline of how a gunman killed 50 people and injured 53 others at a crowded nightclub in Orlando. The legislation would also permanently allow the intelligence community to conduct surveillance on "lone wolf" suspects who do not have confirmed ties to a foreign terrorist group. It is unclear if the House would pass the Senate proposal, given its alliance between libertarian-leaning Republicans and tech-friendly Democrats that has blocked past efforts to expand surveillance. Privacy groups and civil liberties advocates accused Republicans this week of exploiting the Orlando shooting to build support for unrelated legislation. Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, criticised Senate Republicans for "pushing fake, knee-jerk solutions that will do nothing to prevent mass shootings or terrorist attacks". Though Republicans invoked the Orlando shooting in support of the bill, FBI Director James Comey has said shooter Omar Mateen's transactional records were fully reviewed by authorities who investigated him twice for possible extremist ties. Mr Comey said there was "no indication" Mateen belonged to any extremist group and that it was unlikely authorities could have done anything differently to prevent the attack. Reuters http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-22/us-senate-likely-to-pass-fbi-spying-bill-after-orlando-shooting/7534988 COMMENT This appears to be a typical government power-grab strategy in all Western countries. The US and the West are already surveillance states, so this is just another nail in the coffin of civil liberties and another step toward totalitarianism. Note also:  the FBI Director admits they could not have done anything to prevent the shooting.

United Snakes: Mongrel Capitalist Criminals Claim Global Jurisdiction

United Snakes:  Mongrel Capitalist Criminals Claim Global Jurisdiction SOURCE | New York Times Justice Department Opens Investigation Into Russian Doping Scandal By REBECCA R. RUIZ MAY 17, 2016 The United States Department of Justice has opened an investigation into state-sponsored doping by dozens of Russia’s top athletes, two people familiar with the case said. The inquiry escalates what has been a roiling sports controversy into a federal criminal case involving foreign officials. The United States attorney’s office for the Eastern District of New York is scrutinizing Russian government officials, athletes, coaches, antidoping authorities and anyone who might have benefited unfairly from a doping regime, according to the people, who did not have authorization to speak about the inquiry publicly. Prosecutors are believed to be pursuing conspiracy and fraud charges. Federal courts have allowed prosecutors to bring cases against foreigners living abroad if there is some connection to the United States. That connection can be limited, such as the use of an American bank. [ ... ] The inquiry, which originated with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, would have to clear several hurdles before charges could be filed. Even if prosecutors are able to establish jurisdiction, securing the cooperation of Russian authorities in pursuing evidence and witnesses — and in ultimately delivering any charged defendants to the United States — would be all but impossible. It is rare for the United States government to take on sports doping cases. In February 2012, the United States attorney in Los Angeles, André Birotte Jr., dropped a two-year criminal investigation into Lance Armstrong and his Postal Service cycling team that had explored whether Mr. Armstrong and others defrauded sponsors by operating a doping program. [ ...] SOURCE | New York Times http://archive.is/G4egZ COMMENT Crooks.  Seriously.  These mongrel assh*les are criminals. Nuke 'em, Russia.  Please!!!!!!!!!!

Ward Churchill on: FBI & CIA

America's FBI & CIA FBI According to Ward Churchill, FBI: ADEPT AT FRAMING dissenters (incl. anarchists, communists, black panthers) has dissenters assassinated in bed or state executed combats child abuse by burning babies alive (Waco) fabricates evidence against petty criminals has a long, slimy history & FBI was & continues to be a: NATIONAL POLITICAL POLICE FORCE Expect FBI to destroy what rights & liberties are left post 9/11 CIA CIA (aka 'The Company') 250,000 intelligence assets feeding it info in Vietnam 1968 *but could not predict 'Tet Offensive' despite god knows how many Reagan 'Cold War' spies *was caught flatfooted by collapse of Soviet Union conducted 'Operation Phoenix' - Vietnam along with allied elite military 'neutralising' Vietnamese targets of CIA's legion of snitches *over 40,000 Vietnamese (mostly bystanders) were murdered by Operation Phoenix hit squads *yet Vietnamese guerrillas stronger than ever ran USA & USA collaborators out of Vietnam ... so are these CIA guys likely to save the day? with their 'counter-terrorism' activity? https://cryptome.wikileaks.org/ward-churchill.htm -------/\/\/ ---------------------- ---------------------- Related:  LINK | Post